Jiang Pai didn't expect that the matter of Liaodong would be resolved so quickly, so he sent Li Wei and Li Jing away, explained the matter of Liaodong to the officials and police sent by Yaogang, and left an army of infantry to assist in the governance of Liaodong.

There are two routes to the north, east and west, one is to the north, along the Azov River (Ussuri River) to the Heilongjiang River, to the Heilongjiang River along the Heilongjiang River to the mouth of the sea Nuergan. The other road follows the Huerhai River (Mudanjiang) to the Songhua River, and then along the Songhua River to the Heilongjiang River, heading upstream.

Jiang Hui chased all the way to the Yipin River (Suifen River), and caught up with the commander of the First Cavalry Army who took the lead all the way at the Mowen River Guard.

The march to Nuergan consisted of two cavalry corps and one infantry corps. This is a force that no one in this era can stop, and militarily there are no problems at all. In particular, the officials and soldiers sent here by the Qing Dynasty that they met along the way with Emperor Fulin's "Descending Books and Shun Table" basically surrendered, in fact, they didn't have the heart to fight anymore when they saw the team coming. The tribal leaders in the mountains and forests turned out to be hereditary officials who were enshrined by the Ming Dynasty, and they were oppressed by the officials sent by the Qing Dynasty for a long time and did not dare to speak, but now that the Ming Dynasty is back, of course they are very welcome. In particular, according to Zhang Zhimu's instructions, the Yaogang army brought a lot of "sugar bombs", such as the cloth in Yaogang, knives, bows and arrows and other hardware supplies used by hunters, and many kinds of life that they had not seen. The people here do not have much contact with the outside world, and it is easiest for them to directly bring benefits to them in the simplest way, and the effect is very good, and the officers and soldiers of the kiln gang quickly get closer to the locals. In particular, the caravan sent by Lu Chengxiang to follow up bought their various furs, mountain delicacies, ginseng, deer antler velvet and other products at reasonable prices, and brought them the goods they urgently needed at very reasonable prices, and also set up many fixed shops everywhere. The people here immediately felt that their lives had changed.

Hearing that Jiang Tie and they had arrived at Mowen Hewei (Grodekovo), Zhang Zhimu immediately sent a telegram to Jiang Pai, asking Jiang Pai to send people along the Yipin River (Suifen River) as soon as possible to advance towards Jianzhouwei, Shuangchengwei (Ussuriysk), and Muyangwei, with the goal of occupying Vladivostok. Moreover, Zhang Zhimu's order was very clear, at least one company of troops should be stationed in Vladivostok.

Yaogang did not have such a very specific order during this time, so Jiang Zhuo and the commander of the First Cavalry Army did not dare to delay when they received this order, and organized people to collect boats and rafts on Xingkai Lake, and prepared to advance along the Azov River (Ussuri River) to Heilongjiang River.

Since the road was not very easy to walk, four days after Zhang Zhimu's order was given, Zhang Zhimu, who was in the command center, received a telegram that the army had successfully occupied Vladivostok. After reading the telegram, Zhang Zhimu didn't say a word, came to the large map, pointed to Vladivostok with his finger, and his mood was difficult to calm down. In a previous life, Vladivostok was a place that made Chinese bleed when they thought about it.

However, Zhang Zhimu knew that since we had sent our troops here today, we would definitely not allow Vladivostok to be thrown out of our hands.

Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He also didn't understand why Zhang Zhimu was so concerned about this Vladivostok in the face of such a big place. A telegram from Vladivostok said that it was a small fish village, which was named because there were so many sea cucumbers in the sea.

Zhang Zhimu couldn't explain too much, turned to Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He and said, "Vladivostok is a very important place, we want to build a large military port here, of course, it can also be civilian." ”

Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He both knew that Zhang Zhimu did a lot of things that they couldn't immediately understand why, but they would prove to be very correct afterwards. Chen Yufeng said: "When Mr. Lu organized the expedition, he should organize a team to do the planning and design of Vladivostok. ”

Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng, and Ouyang He studied the matter of Vladivostok in front of the map, and then looked at Xingkai Lake and the Azori River (Ussuri River). Ouyang He said: "Jiang Ji and they went along the Asu River (Ussuri River) to Heilongjiang, and they will be fast when they get to Nu'er!" When they arrived, they set up a temporary dock, and it didn't take long for our big boat to arrive. The second batch of big ships can also arrive before the freezing of Heilongjiang. ”

"It seems that before the freeze, we can occupy the main places on both sides of the Heilongjiang River!" Chen Yufeng is also optimistic, "It seems that everything is in our plan!" ”

Just when the three of them were happy, the staff officer hurriedly came in and sent another telegram, Ouyang He took the telegram and signed it, glanced at it, frowned, and handed the telegram to Chen Yufeng beside him. Chen Yufeng took the telegram and glanced at it, and couldn't help but say: "Russians? How did you get here? ”

Zhang Zhimu was shocked, and immediately took the telegram from Chen Yufeng's hand, hurriedly read it from beginning to end, and blurted out, "Lao Maozi won't reach out to this side so quickly, right?" ”

In Zhang Zhimu's impression, Russia should still be a principality now, they have been making small moves in the Western Regions, and they should not have come to Heilongjiang so soon.

The march of the western route was along the Huerhai River (Mudanjiang) to the Songhua River, and the troops on this road were mainly the troops of the Second Cavalry Army. When they arrived at Khurhaiwei (Yilan) at the mouth of the Songhua River along the Huerhai River (Mudanjiang), they learned from the officers and soldiers guarding it that the Russians had forcibly occupied the territory of Lafkai, the head of Daur in our country, and occupied Yaksa (Albakino on the left bank of the Heilongjiang River) this year. They constantly sent men out to attack the inhabitants of Daur, taking hostages, taking women, killing people and setting fires. Due to the fact that the Russians had muskets, the resistance of the local people was very difficult, and the losses were not small. And the Russians have the possibility of reinforcements again.

After reading the telegram, Chen Yufeng said to the staff officer, go and call Liu Yun. Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng, and Ouyang He focused their eyes on the map on the wall again.

Liu Yun came in and read the telegram, came to the map, pointed to Huer Haiwei (Yilan) and said: "They went here all the way because considering that they arrived in Heilongjiang, it was easy to provide them with supplies from Heilongjiang. Otherwise, it wouldn't have gone this way. ”

Ouyang He pointed to the map and said: "I see, let the Second Cavalry Army send a division of light cavalry, one man and two horses, along the Towen River (Tangwang River) to the north, through the Wuzhi Towensuo, Tunhewei (Yichun), Wudi Hansuo, Zhenhesuo, directly to Heilongjiang, and then along the Heilongjiang River to the north to Yaxa, to carry out a surprise attack on the Russians. I don't think you need heavy weapons to deal with them. Then develop to the surrounding areas according to the situation. After our ship arrived at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, we had to unload the tugboat barge as soon as possible, and quickly sail upriver with light loads, and send them to the foster care. During this time, their foster care can only be self-sustaining, and if it doesn't work, they will hunt to solve the food. Fortunately, the weather is okay, and the war horses can graze and graze. ”

Liu Yun said: "The cavalry is enough for one person and two horses to carry things, and it is enough not to engage in large-scale battles." ”

Zhang Zhimu and Chen Yufeng also agreed with this opinion, and Liu Yun asked, "Are the other armies still marching according to the original plan?" ”

"The plan remains the same!" Chen Yufeng said, "They continued along the Huerhai River (Mudanjiang) to the Songhua River and then to the Heilongjiang River. In this way, their provision is well settled. ”

Liu Yun went out to sort out the telegram. Zhang Zhimu and the three of them returned to the sofa and sat down, Zhang Zhimu said, "It seems! The Russians have long been in the north. They must have set up a base further north to the south, otherwise, few of them would not dare to leave Russia so far to invade and plunder the territory! ”

"Huh! Originally, I wanted to solve the problem of solving the problem of the Mongols in the north and solving the problem in the west. Chen Yufeng said with a smile, "It seems that the Russians in the north have to be driven away first." ”

"The map to the north of Nuergan is drawn according to the map of the Yuan Dynasty, and the situation is not very clear. But a few big rivers shouldn't be wrong. I saw that the Russians were driven west across the Yenisei River. Then, from the north to the south, we attacked from the north to the south, and completely solved the Mongols in Mobei. "Ouyang He looks more confident.

"Yes! We want to settle the Mongols and then settle the matter further north, and it seems that we can't help it! Chen Yufeng said, "Let Liu Yun and them reformulate a detailed plan!" ”

"The Russians don't have too many people in the north," Zhang Zhimu said, "and I have recently found that there are not many people coming here, which means that they have not been established in the north for a long time." This is a tentative move south. But now that we've changed our battle plans. It is necessary to redeploy the military. I don't think our Eleventh Army will be withdrawn! Liaodong and Yalu River are two divisions, temporarily put one army, Nuergan and the north to put one army, and leave one cavalry division and two infantry divisions in the north. A cavalry corps, two cavalry divisions, and two infantry divisions were freed up to form a large net from east to west, sweeping the north bank of the Heilongjiang River to the Arctic Ocean, all the way to the Yenisei River. Catch all the Russians who come over. Our land is vast and sparsely populated, and we need labor. ”

"I think those Vietnamese prisoners, Zuo Liangyu's prisoners, and Korean prisoners, are all sent to the north." Ouyang He said, "The land over there is sparsely populated, and it is difficult to effectively manage it if the transportation is inconvenient. We should build the roads first, and then the railways. In that case, it will be easier to manage, and the timber and forest products in the deep forest there can be turned into income. Management can achieve the kind of virtuous circle that Mr. Zhang said! ”

The Russians, who were extraordinarily greedy for the land, did not know that the fate of these people who came to Siberia had already been decided by a few people in a place called Yaogang.

Russia is a small principality in Europe, which has gradually invaded and expanded abroad. In the fifth year of Chongzhen's reign (1632), after Russia expanded to the Lena River valley in eastern Siberia, it established the city of Yakutsk as the main base for its southward invasion of China. Since then, it has continuously sent armed men to invade China's Heilongjiang River basin. In the summer of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen's reign (1643), Golovin, the governor of Yakutsk, Russia, sent Boyakov to lead 136 troops to invade south along the Lena River, and crossed the Outer Khingan Mountains in the winter of that year and invaded Chinese territory. In November, when these invaders reached the territory of Doptiur, the head of the Daur in the middle reaches of the Jingqili River (Jieya River), they plundered and killed the Daur people in an exhumane manner, and became known as the "man-eating demons". At the beginning of the summer of the following year, after the Jingqili River (Jieya River) thawed, this gang of bandits broke into Heilongjiang, the largest inland river in northeast China, and was resisted by people of all ethnic groups along the way. In the nineteenth year of Chongzhen (1646), the failed invasion of Boyakov led the remnants to enter the Lena River through the Maya River and the Aldan River, and fled back to Yakutsk. After returning to Poyakov, he threatened that as long as he sent 300 troops and built three forts, he could conquer Heilongjiang. The information on the Heilongjiang valley brought back by Boyakov and his plan to invade the Heilongjiang valley by force aroused the attention and approval of the Tsarist authorities. In the twenty-second year of Chongzhen (1649), the governor of Yakutsk sent Khabarov to lead 70 troops from Yakutsk to invade Heilongjiang and forcibly occupy the jurisdiction of Lafkai, the head of Daur in China, including the Yaksa walled city (Albakino on the left bank of the Heilongjiang River), where Albaya, the head of Daur, was stationed, which was resisted by the local people. Khabarov handed over his accomplices to Stepanov and returned to Yakutsk himself for help.

Khabarov did not know that after he left, Stepanov and the people who remained would meet a group of nemesis called the Kiln Gangs. When he led the reinforcements to arrive, he would have been killed by the kiln men or taken prisoner, the most imprisoned prisoner for life, and died in the course of labor, just like his companions.

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New progress in "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty": the Battle of Yashan, the defeat of the Yuan army, the counterattack of the Song army, and the landing in Fuzhou.