Although the Wushan Mountains divide the Eurasian continent into two, the altitude is not very high, the northern part of the mountain range is the highest, but there is no more than 600 zhang high mountains, the middle and southern parts of the mountain range are even lower, even more than 400 zhang high mountains are very few, generally more than 300 zhang, some places are even less than 200 zhang, compared with the famous mountains and rivers in the Ming Dynasty, it is far behind.

The Wushan Mountain Range is not a continuous mountain range, but is divided into several sections, there is a huge gap between each section, and the passage is still relatively convenient, like the place where the South Road army led by Cao Wenzhao is now camped is the connection between the middle section of Wushan and the southern section of Wushan, the gap here is quite large, and there is even a big river in the middle that directly passes through the Wushan Mountain Range and enters the territory of the European continent.

The river next to the Ming army camp on the south road flows to the territory of Europe, and it is naturally not a tributary of the Ob River, and there are more than 200 miles away from the nearest tributary of the Ob River, so Lu Xiangsheng is not very fast.

Since the railway was not repaired, Lu Xiangsheng could only lead the Ming army of the East Road to the north from the Yeni River into the Arctic Ice Ocean, and then turn into the main trunk of the Ob River, go upstream, and rush to this side, the time on the boat alone will take more than ten days, and after getting off the boat from the nearest tributary of the Ob River, he will lead the army to walk more than 200 miles by land.

Therefore, Cao Wenzhao camped at the foot of Wushan for more than half a month before waiting for Lu Xiangsheng's army on the East Road, but at this time, Kopelov, the envoy of the Tsarist Russian peace talks, had just been pushed back by him for a few days, and perhaps he had not returned to the imperial capital of Tsarist Russia, so the question of peace talks was not very urgent.

Is Lu Xiangsheng here to preside over the peace talks? It doesn't seem like it, if he came to preside over the peace talks, he wouldn't have to bring all the 300,000 Ming troops on the East Road, and the first thing he said when he saw Cao Wenzhao was: "The emperor has a decree to quickly gather all the prisoners, build a railway that connects the tributaries of the Ob River to the first line of Wushan, and build Wushan City east of Wushan as the core of the entire Wushan defense line." “

This means that there is going to be peace talks, otherwise there is no need to establish the Osan defense line, and it will be just a matter of fighting it.

However, this peace talks are not in charge of Lu Xiangsheng, Zhu Cijiong has already arranged, Zheng Zhilong, the king of Zhennan, has been ordered to set off from Nanyang Xingcheng Port to preside over the peace talks, not that he does not believe in Lu Xiangsheng's ability, the main thing is that this time the Ming Dynasty will put forward an unprecedented huge compensation demand, he is afraid that Lu Xiangsheng will not be able to speak.

Lu Xiangsheng didn't know that the emperor wanted the lion to open his mouth at this time, he only knew that according to the emperor's will, Wushan City should be established as soon as possible.

To build a city, it naturally requires a lot of materials, and it is difficult to build a city in a place with inconvenient transportation, because it is very difficult to transport materials, so the first step is to build a railway from the tributaries of the Ob River to Wushan, so that the materials can be transported to the city of Rem through the Western Regions Railway, and then transported from the Rem River to the nearby tributaries of the Ob River, and then transported by rail to the foot of Wushan.

Repairing the railway is not a rare thing for the Ming army, most of the Ming soldiers have experience in repairing the railway, the railway of two hundred miles is just a piece of cake for 600,000 Ming soldiers, plus there is a mountain cart to open the mountain and gravel, the roadbed is quickly paved, the sleepers do not need to be cut now, and it can be poured directly with reinforced concrete, just wait for the materials of Rem City to arrive, this section of the railway can be completed soon.

However, the train is a problem, because this section of the railway is still a separate section for the time being, and it is not connected to other railways, so the train cannot be driven at all, so the train can only be dismantled into pieces and transported by boat.

Fortunately, Rem City is not very far from here, from the Rem River downstream, and then from the main trunk of the Ob River upstream into the nearest tributary here, it will not take ten days before and after, and now the southeast and southeast Ming armies are gathered here, that is to say, the two thousand Fu Ship warships of the Ming Royal Shipping Company are all nearby, and the capacity is quite sufficient.

Lu Xiangsheng analyzed the current situation, and then sent a large number of orders through telegram:

ordered Mao Wenlong to lead the Dongjiang Army to take over all the fortresses and the defense of Rem City in the Yeni River Valley;

ordered Ma Xianglin to lead the Second Army of the Frontier Army to take over all the fortresses in the Ob River valley and strengthen the defense;

ordered Sun Chuanting to lead the Qin army to escort 200,000 captives from various countries in the Western Regions to converge;

Ling Mangui led the Liaodong Army to escort all the Russian prisoners scattered in various fortresses to converge and so on.

Now that the Ming army has taken the entire Siberian Plain, the Western Regions and the Yenihe line are no longer the first line of border defense, so Lu Xiangsheng moved the entire defense line forward to the Wushan line, so that the entire Wushan line has gathered nine regular army corps and three regular naval corps of the Ming army, even if the European continental powers come to attack with all their might, it will be useless.

In less than half a month, Sun Chuanting led the Qin army to escort 200,000 prisoners from various countries in the Western Regions, and also brought countless materials, some for building cities and railways.

The three marshals of the Ming Empire gathered again, and the construction of the railway and the city began at the same time, and the foot of Wushan suddenly became very lively.

Soon Man Gui also led the Liaodong Army to escort the Russian prisoners over, this time the number of prisoners was more, because the Ming army's weapons and equipment were too advanced, and the advanced ones were desperate, so the Russian defenders in the fortresses everywhere did not resist desperately, desperately dodging the shells and then surrendering accounted for the vast majority, so the captured Russian defenders reached a terrifying more than 300,000!

At this point, the Ming army had gathered 800,000 regular troops and 500,000 prisoners at the foot of Wushan, and even the camp exceeded 100 miles.

At this time, Kopelov came running again, at this time the envoys of the European continental powers have arrived, and the armies of various countries are also gathering in the northern European seas, so he is even more arrogant than last time, if you are not convinced, you will come to fight, he wants to tell the surnamed Cao, if you don't withdraw the army, you will really be killed.

However, he was frightened before he arrived at the camp of the Ming army, there was a city wall here, and it was a city wall that could not be seen at a glance, although the city wall was not completed, but the scale was scary enough, the Ming army actually wanted to build a big city here!

He looked at the dense figures on the city wall, and there were many people wearing Tsarist Russian uniforms, hell, the Ming army actually let the captives of Tsarist Russia build the city wall to deal with Tsarist Russia.

Due to the blockade of the Ming army, the spies of Tsarist Russia could not get close to the Ming army camp, and if he had not seen it with his own eyes, neither Tsarist Russia nor the European powers would have known that the Ming army was building a city here.

This is to make it clear that he will not withdraw the troops, especially the city wall with Tsarist Russian prisoners, Koperov felt that he could not bear it anymore, he came to the Ming army camp in a hurry, but he was taken aback again, the Ming army camp was expanded three or four times, how many Ming troops came here!

However, when he thought that there were five powers behind him, his arrogance came up again, after all, the Ming Empire was only one country, did he dare to start a war with six powers at the same time, and they didn't dare.

When he followed the translator of the Ming army into a partial tent arrogantly, he didn't make his nose crooked, the deputy marshal surnamed Cao did not sit in the main seat, but sat on the left side with a Ming army general who was also wearing a marshal uniform, and the Ming army general wearing a marshal uniform in the middle must be the generalissimo of the Ming Empire.

said that he would send someone to inform him after receiving instructions from his superiors, but now that his immediate boss has arrived, he is still in the dark, and he finally understands that this surnamed Cao has been perfunctory to him from beginning to end, and he didn't take him seriously at all!

He sat down angrily and asked very unceremoniously, "What do you mean by the Ming Empire?" “

Lu Xiangsheng is not Cao Wenzhao, although he is not responsible for peace talks, but he is the boss of the Ming Army, there are a bunch of generals under him, a small Tsarist general dares to talk to him in this tone, he unceremoniously asked: "What do you Tsarist Russia mean?" “

Koperov, with the support of the great powers, said arrogantly: "We mean that you should withdraw from the whole of Siberia at once." “

Lu Xiangsheng snorted and said coldly: "Dreaming." “

Koperov was so angry that he immediately threatened: "You have to think carefully, our allies of Tsarist Russia have begun to gather a large army, and you will face the Six-Nation Alliance." “

Lu Xiangsheng knows the combat strength of the Ming Army best, what about the Six-Nation Alliance, he said without changing his face: "Fight and fight, I'm afraid you won't succeed?" “