By the seventh day of the eighth month of the sixth year of Tongzhi, the first round of the offensive of the Manchurian Army was basically over, and the progress of the various units was very smooth. Each army group also has its own artillery system, but it is not as strong as the strategic artillery group, but in the face of the Russian army, which has only a small number of Armstrong guns, it can still achieve a comprehensive advantage.

Bi Yuntao of the First Army Group has already taken Yaksa lightly and is swinging his army to the north, and the Russian army has no power to fight back and is completely fleeing towards Udiskoye. As long as Bi Yuntao captures Udiskoye, he can cross the Outer Khing'an Mountains and go to the far north. Actun of the Second Army Group, which also took Boli and Hongke, is advancing along the Ussuri River, and the remnants of the Russian army are stubbornly resisting on the front line of Tailun. The Russian army on the front line of Yaksa has limited troops, but the Boli front line is the focus of the Russian army's defense, and the advance speed of Acton is not as fast as Bi Yuntao, but the results are greater. The Second Army Group has already defeated four Cossack cavalry divisions of the Russian army and annihilated six regiments of the Russian army in formation.

Ji Ying of the Third Army Group, which was considered to be a relatively slow progress of all walks of life, captured Nebuchu very smoothly, but continued to advance to the northwest It was very difficult. The Russians are not really hairy bears, they are also people, and they can't stay in dry and bitter cold places, so there are thousands of kilometers of no-man's land between Nebuchu and Kilensk. There are only grasslands and animals in the no-man's land, not to mention roads, and even finding water is difficult. The commander of the Russian defenders in Nebuchu is also a talent, and after he escaped from Nebuchu, he quickly sorted out the remnants of the army and stabilized the troops. Then he took advantage of his familiarity with the neighborhood to start a guerrilla war with Ji Ying, and endlessly harassed the Third Army Group. Although most of the Russian attacks were suicidal, they also greatly affected the westward advance of the troops.

After receiving the telegram from Ji Ying's report in Hailan, Goxinga decided to abandon the attack on Kilensk, which is thousands of kilometers of no-man's land, and the burden on logistics and supply is really too great. Yu Wendao has already built four bridges across the river on the Heilongjiang River, which will be completed in ten or so days, so there is no need to rush. When the railway passes, it is not too late to study the westward expansion. Therefore, Goxinga sent a telegram to Jiying, asking him to abandon the advance to the northwest, move to the southwest, capture the line from Chita to Shangudinsk, and strive to join forces with Bozhtu in Irkutsk.

The detachment sent by the North Sea Fleet has also achieved its intended strategic purpose, and the Russian Pacific Fleet has been completely scrapped. The three ironclad battleships aided by the British escaped, but they did not even have a chance to escape back to Temple Street or Kamchatka, and were blocked in the military port of Sakhalin. At present, the North Sea Squadron is waiting for the Yellow Sea Fleet, which is carrying marines, with a view to landing on Sakhalin Island and then attacking the Kamchatka Peninsula.

The only one who has not yet achieved results in Mali is the Fifth Army Group of Bozhtu, who seems to have lost their way and has not heard from them at all. But this is not to blame Bozhtu, his road is really far. The distance from Kulen to Irkutsk is about 1,000 kilometers in a straight line, but the terrain of this generation is more complicated, there is a Baikal Lake in the middle, Bozhtu cannot go in a straight line, he has to march inside first, and then bypass from the west side of Irkutsk. Uriya Sutai had just come under the jurisdiction of North Manchuria, and although the railroad had been repaired, the work of the miscellaneous affairs section had not yet been perfected. The Irkutsk generation, which is far away from North Manchuria, naturally does not have much power in the miscellaneous department, so Bozhtu's intelligence is also very weak, so he can only follow his feelings.

Where is the border between Uriya Sutai and Russia is an unanswerable question. Because the Mongols had no concept at all, where there were steppes was their territory, the Russians occupied it roughly, and most of the places were empty, and it was difficult to say exactly where the borders of their occupied territories were. In short, this is a vast and sparsely populated place, and no one deliberately demarcates their own borders. The Russians went hunting in Uriya Sutai, and the Mongols went to graze near Lake Baikal, but no one cared about it, as long as they didn't get under each other's noses. In order to block the border, Goxinga made a border by himself, but his border line was mainly to block the trade routes, and some difficult sections were still not taken care of.

In this era of white supremacy, the whole world thinks that only white people can bully the yellow race, and the yellow race can resist at most, but it must not fight back. In the past, it was also the case that white people could invade the yellow country, and the yellow people were just resisting, and no yellow country had ever invaded the territory of the white country. The Great Powers took it for granted that the war between Goxinga and Russia was only a local war to settle the territorial dispute, and that Goxinga was indeed shouting the slogan of recovering its homeland every day. This led everyone to think that the war would be confined to the outer northeast corner and would not spread to some recognized Russian territory. Therefore, the Russian army did not have heavy fortifications on the border with Uriya Sutai, and they never thought that the Manchurian Army would fight from Uriya Sutai. Guo Xing'a didn't pay attention to any of the white people's rules, and naturally Bo Ritu was about to bring them a big surprise.

The Fifth Army Group first took a train, traveled to Tangnu Ulianghai, and then stepped on its own war horse. After leaving the country, Bozhtu ordered his troops to march covertly and quietly approached Irkutsk. But after walking for more than a day, Bozhtu found that he was completely wasting his expression, and his covert march was meaningless. The army has penetrated nearly 200 kilometers into the enemy's territory, but not to mention the enemy army, they have not even discovered a single Russian, they are simply playing with themselves. In order to be safe, Bozhtu ordered his troops to retreat, receive supplies close to the border, and sent elite cavalry and his only airship to conduct a comprehensive reconnaissance of Russian territory.

While the other armies were marching in high spirits, Bozhtu had been waiting for news on the border, and the situation in Russia was so strange that he did not dare to take risks. It's not a big deal to slow down the progress, and if you lose the battle if you are careless for a while, the gains outweigh the losses. The Mongolian fox Bozhtu can lose face, but he definitely does not take risks, and if he does not figure out the enemy's situation, he will not go into the enemy's territory stupidly.

Five days later, the cavalry returned, and within a radius of thousands of miles, there were only a few small strongholds of the Russian army, and there was no large army stationed at all. After waiting for two more days, the airship also returned, and the news they brought back was even more violent, the airship even found the scattered Mongolian tribes, and did not find a large-scale Russian army, and within a few thousand miles of Russia there was nothing except a few city strongholds.