"These savage infidels! May God forgive them! ”

There are no Orthodox churches in this land, so Prince Konstantin can only hold his Bible tightly and say to the officers beside him: "We must conquer them not only with the sword, but also with our Bible and the cross." ”

It turned out that in the planning of Prince Konstantin, the Russian army would have Orthodox clergy and chapels built as soon as they entered the country, but in fact it turned out that all these ideas were too optimistic.

From the twelfth day onwards, the combat operations of the entire Russian army have always encountered large and small obstacles, although they have nearly 40,000 men, and the Qing army is only a few soldiers of the Eight Banners, but the problem is that the northeast is too vast.

In the 1850s, the entire Northeast had a population of more than 3 million, which had a lot to do with the Manchu Qing's long-term policy of banning land reclamation, and with the arrival of the crisis of Tsarist Russia's invasion of China in the future, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was finally forced to open up the border, and by 13 years, this number had skyrocketed to 6 million, and then the population of the entire Northeast increased at an astonishing rate, and by the end of the Anti-Japanese War, the Northeast had a population of 45 million, that is, in less than 100 years, the population of the Northeast had skyrocketed by as much as 15 times.

Even with a population of only three million, the small number of Russian troops found it very difficult to deal with, and their opponents were barbarians with longbows, broadswords, and arquebuses, and most of them were old men and children, but the bitter cold outside the border made it the most intact tradition of mounted archery of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, let alone their homeland.

In the case of defending their homeland, the Manchurian Eight Banners often had more will to fight than ordinary Green Battalion soldiers. In several battles, the Russian army had to step through layers of corpses, and paid a certain amount of casualties themselves.

Up to now, Prince Constantine alone is preparing to attack the main force of Shengjing and Jinzhou. Hundreds of soldiers were killed and wounded in battle, and in order to take care of the wounded soldiers, no more personnel were to be occupied.

Stepping in such a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. Prince Konstantin still holds the cross in his hand, and in the midst of brutal Tsarist Russia, he was a symbol of mercy and care, and every time Tsarist Russia needed to implement a policy of compromise with Russian Poland, he sent Prince Konstantin to Poland, and when he was replaced with a butcher's knife, he transferred this tender prince back to Moscow.

Now Konstantin put down the Bible in his hand, and he cordially shook hands with each wounded soldier: "Russia, God is with you. You have been wounded in battle with the infidels, and I am glorified for you! ”

Such concern was rare among the Russian royal family, and the tsar cared very little for these ordinary soldiers who were like mules, so these soldiers shed tears and were willing to die for Russia and His Royal Highness.

After shaking hands with every wounded soldier, Prince Konstantin asked the Governor of Muravyoch beside him: "Your Excellency, we are leaving Shengjing." It's getting farther and farther away from Jinzhou! ”

It is indeed a difficult fact to fight in such a strange country, so Prince Konstantin said to Muravyoch: "Moscow has already spent too much capital on this war, and if it were to gamble any more, then our entire country's finances would be bankrupt as a result......"

"That's my opinion too!" Muravyyoch cautiously said: "The plan of the Yellow Russia is too risky. It's so adventurous! Now every time you make a bet, it's the blood and tears of Mother Russia! ”

Although this is an army of less than 40,000 people, which is not comparable to the decisive battle of hundreds of thousands of troops on the Russian-Turkish front, for Russia, the Far East is too far away from Guanwai, so far away that it costs tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of rubles to fight every day. …,

What's worse is that, according to the current progress, although there is an absolute superiority in troops, there is also the possibility that the entire Russian expeditionary force will be trapped in the unfrozen soil of the Far East, at least for now, it will take at least two or three months to quickly conquer the entire northeast region.

According to intelligence, the rebels in North China have already begun to operate, and they have sent two powerful corps to sweep the government forces in North China, and may cross the Great Wall at any time to start an unexpected decisive battle with the Russian expeditionary force.

Both Prince Konstantin and Governor Muravyov have absolute confidence in the combat effectiveness of this Russian army, which can be said to be the best army in Russia, far superior to the small expeditionary force that was frustrated in Shanghai, and stronger than the Russian army that was hit hard in the Crimean War.

But the problem is that if this war turns into a long-term quagmire war, and there may even be a situation where the elite infantry units of the Rainbow Army have entered Shengjing before the Russian expeditionary force attacks Shengjing, then the whole of Russia cannot afford such losses.

"Is it to stop this war?" Prince Konstantin was a benevolent nobleman who loved every inch of Russia: "In that case, we might as well build a fortress on the spot on the Heilongjiang River, where all the favorable conditions for building a fortress group can be built, and the Chinese will break their mouths in front of our strong fortress group, and now the loot is enough!" ”

That's right, now the Russians have enough loot from the Chinese, almost half the size of Europe, it's time to stop!

Konstantin put forward such an opinion, but Muraviviv disagreed: "This is impossible, we can only take the rebels in the field!" We can increase the bet more, but not by much. ”

What he knows, now stop and build a fortress group on the spot, it seems to be very good news, but tens of thousands of troops must stay in the fortress for a long time, and the rainbow army can choose the time point to launch an attack at any time, if it is a month or two, or three months is fine, but if the rainbow army adopts the tactics of fortress to fortress, it will completely drag the whole of Russia across.

"We're running out of chips!" Konstantin reluctantly admits this: "There are not enough chips!" ”

When the two of them were in a dilemma, someone outside reported: "Mr. Ge Mengjin is here." ”

"This damn traitor, what news did he bring?"

Originally, in the planning of the Russians, Ge Mengjin's more than 2,000 people should be able to play a great role, at least as the hunting dogs of the Russian army, but they did not expect that Ge Mengjin's army was much slower than the Russian army, and so far, although they have wasted a lot of gunpowder and lead, they have not achieved real results, but in terms of fighting for spoils, Ge Mengjin is really a good hand.

He even used several Russian companies in his own troops, and now it is not the Chinese auxiliary forces and the Russian troops fighting for the spoils, but the Russians and the Russians fighting for the spoils with the help of the Chinese, and they have taken a lot of things.

At the thought of this failed Ge Mengjin, Prince Konstantin and Muravyyochi had a headache, and they felt that they were eager to give this scourge a shot now, knowing that even several Russian companies sent to support Ge Mengjin were damaged by this guy.

"Your Royal Highness! And my Excellency the Governor! Ge Mengjin opened his hands as soon as he saw him, and enthusiastically took off his dogskin hat: "I'm here to report the good news to the two of you." ”

"What's the good news?"

"I need more prisoners and weapons, and gunpowder and bullets!" As soon as Ge Mengjin opened his mouth, he asked for more things: "And in the past few days, my team has increased by many soldiers, and their funds are not available at all. ”…,

"I'll think about it!" Although Prince Contenstine has a lot of headaches for Ge Mengjin, he is still a good person in essence: "I will inform the quartermaster and give you an additional supply tomorrow, but we are also in difficulty." ”

"As long as Shengjing is laid, it won't be difficult, right?" Ge Mengjin smiled and said, "Isn't that so?" ”

"What? Sheng Jing? Contenstine asked, "Do you have a way to enter Shengjing?" ”

"That's right, I have a way to enter Shengjing, without a single bullet, a barrel of gunpowder, a shell, and the life of a Russian soldier!"

"How is that possible?" Prince Konstantin knew that this Ge Mengjin had a strong ability to talk nonsense, but he didn't expect him to be so nonsense: "If you can be the first to rush into Shengjing, I will let Moscow give you a count!" ”

"Only an earl? That's stingy! Ge Mengjin immediately replied: "I do have a way to enter Shengjing, but the premise is that I must be on a par with His Excellency the Prince!" ”

When he said this, Muravyyoch almost picked up his cane and beat the madman, he thought he was somebody!

But the next moment, he clenched his cane again, and his whole breathing became not very smooth, how could this be?

How could he have a way to enter Shengjing, and he was the first to enter Shengjing, didn't he know that Shengjing was the ruling center of the entire region north of the Great Wall, where there were thousands of Eight Banner troops and their family troops, just with Ge Mengjin's messy army, how could he be the first to enter Shengjing.

In fact, even Muravyyoch himself did not know whether his expeditionary force could enter the Shengjing area before the Rainbow Army.

Contenstine was a straightforward man: "Do you have a way? Not only do I need to enter Shengjing, but I also need to enter Jinzhou first, and if you can help us conquer Yellow Russia, then I can make Moscow canonize you as the ruler of Yellow Russia, the true king! ”

Ge Mengjin proudly showed his yellow teeth, and he grinded his fists: "Okay, it's a word, I want some support now, at least ......"

"At least six Russian infantry companies, a cavalry company, and an artillery company, and a hundred thousand silver ......"

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