The spring breeze blows, the warmth melts, the ice and snow melt, everything recovers, at this time in previous years, the city of Novosibirsk has been very lively, the Tsarist Russian traders from all over the European continent will choose to come to Siberia at this time to buy leather goods, sell grain, because after half a year of ice, the grain storage of each household will basically be consumed, and the herdsmen in Siberia are eager to exchange leather goods for food.

However, in the late spring of the fifteenth year of the Ming Empire, the city of Novosibirsk was deserted, except for the sparse patrol soldiers, there was almost no trace of vendors on the street, because everyone knew that the Ming Empire was about to fight, and to do business at this time was basically to seek death!

The Siberian governor's palace was also deserted, and the petty nobles and explorers who had come to pull relations in previous years were also gone, and even the soldiers standing guard had cold and serious faces.

In the conference room of the Governor's Palace, Golovin, Franzbekov, and Kopelov sat at the front of the conference table, staring at the map on the table, frowning and not saying a word.

The Ming army was too cautious, the ice and snow had completely melted, but there was no sign of attacking at all, just sending scouts to investigate everywhere, which was annoying.

They have already found several excellent ambush points, and even the ambush soldiers are already in place, just to take advantage of the Ming army to besiege the fortress to give them a ruthless blow.

Like Pan Feng's group of Ming army scouts, they encountered their ambushes, but in fact, there were not only 2,000 cavalry hidden behind that mound, but 100,000 troops!

The 2,000 cavalry were only hidden in the dense forest behind the mound to clear the Ming army scouts, and there were also 100,000 Tsarist Russian troops hidden in the hills and ravines behind the dense forest.

With the number of dense fortresses on the southeast and southeast lines, even if the Ming army only attacks the outer fortresses, each fortress can arrange tens of thousands of people to attack at most, and if the Ming army runs into the distant fortresses, they will see the opportunity and surprise them to attack from behind.

100,000 horses, plus the defenders in the fortress, internal and external attacks, it is not a problem to clean up tens of thousands of Ming troops, as long as such an ambush is done a few more times, even if the number of Ming troops is large, it will be slowly consumed by them.

This tactic is good, if the Ming army follows the normal routine, it is indeed possible to be attacked by them, the problem is that the Ming army has not moved at all now, Golovin, who is sitting on the main seat, looked at the map, and couldn't help but say with annoyance: "What do you mean by saying that the army?" “

When Franzbekov heard this, he still frowned and said silently, but Koperov said cautiously: "They won't be frightened by the number of our fortresses and don't dare to attack, right?" Lord Rozov is wise, and he frightened the Ming army with one move of the fortress everywhere! “

Sycophant, this thing is just that mouth, if you want to talk about fighting, he is not even a fart, Golovin rolled his eyes, and said angrily: "The Ming army will be scared?" You don't know how fierce they are, but they can't be frightened by such a little bastion, they are definitely preparing or plotting something. “

What he said did make some sense, it was indeed impossible for the Ming army to be frightened by such a fortress, and the reason why Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting had not launched it was mainly because they were waiting for the emperor's will.

Zhu Cijiong's first order was to order Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng to go all out to investigate the intelligence of the Siberian Tsarist garrison, especially the number and specific location of the fortresses.

After receiving the will, Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting immediately intensified their investigations, and Sun Chuanting sent scouts to almost all over the southern part of the Siberian Plain, while Lu Xiangsheng, with the cooperation of the North Sea Fleet and the East China Sea Fleet, carried out detailed reconnaissance of northern Siberia through the Yeni River and the Ob River.

At this time, Golovin, Franzbekov and Kopelov were all busy, and the whole of Siberia was almost everywhere with Ming army scouts, and the Ming navy also began to clear the Russian ships in the Yeni River valley and the Ob River valley.

In the early days of Tsarist colonization, the main land expansion was the mainstay, and the navy was still in its infancy at this time, and their main warships were still gunboats similar to the Fuchuan warships, and the number was not much, only a few dozen, and the others were sailing oars similar to bluffs, and the number was quite a lot, and I am afraid that there were not thousands.

These gunboats and sailboats are more than enough to bully and bully the nomadic tribes, but they are scum in front of the super battleships of the Ming Navy, and even Zheng Ming and Shi Daxuan, who are following behind the North Sea Fleet and the East China Sea Fleet, can use the Fuchuan warships to beat them so that they can't find the north.

For a time, the waterways of the entire Yeni River Basin and the Ob River Basin were staged everywhere in the pursuit of super battleships chasing big ships, big ships chasing small boats, the super battleships of the Ming Navy and the Fuchuan warships of the Ming Royal Shipping Company were simply overwhelming, and the chasing Tsarist Russian sailors had nowhere to hide, and the entire Siberian waterways became the world of the Ming army.

As the Ming army continued to deepen, a detailed map of Siberia slowly appeared in front of Zhu Cijiong, and the locations of each fortress were accurately marked, and the number soon exceeded a hundred.

In the face of so many fortresses, even Zhu Cijiong has a headache, it takes time to break through, a fortress, from waving the army to encircle the city to prepare siege equipment to artillery attack and then to siege the city, it takes at least half a month, a hundred fortresses is fifty months, even if Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting attack at the same time in two ways, it will take twenty-five months, and the time that Siberia is really suitable for fighting is less than six months a year, that is, it will take at least five years to take the whole of Siberia!

Five years, Zhu Cijiong really can't afford to wait, because the British, French, Dutch and other powers are developing rapidly, if they are allowed to develop unrestrained for five years, then the combat power does not know how terrifying it will be, and I don't know if the Ming Dynasty can do it at that time.

By next year at the latest, the fighting in Siberia must be ended, and Zhu Cijiong knew that he could not delay any longer, and if he delayed any longer and let Britain, France and the Netherlands grow stronger, it would be troublesome.

He also has a secret weapon, that is, the most primitive tank or armored vehicle, but the project leader Sun Yuanhua has been busy raising food, grass and baggage for the front-line soldiers during this time, and he has no time to develop tanks.

If it goes on like this, it will definitely not work, Zhu Cijiong was ruthless, and directly ordered Bi Maokang, Wang Zheng, and Song Yingxing to stop all the R&D projects in their hands, and fully assist Sun Yuanhua in developing tanks, and mass production must be achieved before the end of the year.

As long as there are tanks, even if they are primitive tanks, conquering the fortress will become extremely fast, as long as each legion is equipped with a hundred tanks, it is not too easy to attack the fortress, basically as soon as the tank arrives, it will directly go up and bombard the city wall, and the infantry will definitely rush up in a wave!