Before the war in Goxinga, Tsarist Russia did not have much strength in the Far East, and it was basically based on battalions, with each battalion having about 900 troops. Specifically, under the command of Karsakov, Goshinga's opponent, there were a total of twenty-four battalions, eighty-four hundred-man troops, and three artillery batteries, and of course, the Cossack militia, the number of which even Karsakov himself did not know, with a total strength of about 150,000.

The total strength of the Russian army in the Far East is quite large, but it is mainly Cossack militia, and except for personal bravery, there is almost no formal military training, and it is basically these people who are brutally slaughtered by Bozhtu and crushed by the Manchurian army. Only in Irkutsk, Boli, Hailanpao, Temple Street and other places did there be the regular main force of the Russian army, but they all faced the encirclement and suppression of the Manchurian Army, which was absolutely superior, and all of them suffered very serious blows. The remaining main force of less than 20,000 was basically on Temple Street, and there were only two regiments around Karsakov in Udiskoye. Acton gnawed on Temple Street, and Bi Yuntao attacked Diskoye, the reason why it was so difficult was because this is where the real elite of the Russian army lies.

Before the start of the war, Karsakov reported to St. Petersburg about Goshinga's intention to move troops, so the tsarist government also sent reinforcements. The total number of regular troops in peacetime was 500,000, 360,000 infantry, 70,000 cavalry, and 90,000 artillery, excluding an indeterminate number of Cossacks. Excluding its main forces in Europe, the number of troops that can be mobilized in the East is about 150,000. However, the Russians, who had received the aid and intelligence of the British, did not dare to underestimate the Manchurian Army, so the tsar issued a mobilization order, and gathered 18 divisional units of various types, as well as more than 10 subordinate units, plus a group of Cossack cavalry, a total of 250,000 troops, rushed to the Far East to support Karsakov. Alexander II still attached great importance to Goxinga, a little friend of the East, so he sent his Minister of War Dmitry Alekseevich Milyutin to personally command the 250,000 troops who came to the aid, ready to teach this little fellow of the East a lesson.

The Russian army originally planned to march in the autumn, reach the Far East before the winter, spend the winter in the warm Amur River basin, and then go to Goshinga in the spring to let Gohinga know how powerful the Western powers were. It is a pity that Gohinga started much earlier than them, and by the time they walked along the Siberian post road to Tomsk, the semi-permanent fortifications built in Kharbara were almost complete. Kharbara is not the former mayor of Tomsk, more than 200,000 people are approaching, he will not be unaware that he is here to guard against Russian reinforcements.

As soon as the Russian army passed Narem, Halbara knew that the enemy had come to the door, and Halbara, who had the blood of the Mongols in his veins, would not obediently wait for the Russian army in Tomsk, and immediately ordered Li Qiao's cavalry brigade to go one hundred and fifty miles forward to meet them. Li Qiao, who was born as a horse bandit, is known as a gust of wind, and he can't do anything else, but he is a good hand at attacking and disturbing him.

The Russian army did not get the news of the fall of the hinterland of Eastern Siberia at all, and thought it was an internal march, and there was no defense at all. Li Qiao, who was greeted for hundreds of miles, found that the Russian army was so face-saving, of course, he couldn't waste the opportunity, and took advantage of the fact that the Russian army did not understand the situation, so he directly charged on horseback and raided an infantry regiment in the forward of the Russian army. Milyutin was also shocked when he suddenly found that his outpost had changed from a regiment to a battalion, but slow information was a common problem of the Russian army, and he didn't figure out what was going on. The troops were ordered to camp and rest, and a signal corps was sent to Tomsk to ask what was going on.

The Russian army in the vanguard has strengthened its vigilance, and Li Qiao, of course, will not gnaw hard bones. However, the Russian army has a total of 250,000 troops, and the uniformity of the movements is very average, and the Russian army camp in the rear is still defenseless, and the soldiers are still drinking vodka and dancing national dances. Li Qiao took the cavalry brigade around in a big circle, and ran behind the Russian army again, this time Li Qiao was robbing the camp. Under the cover of night, the soldiers of the cavalry brigade not only soaked their sabers with blood, but also burned the baggage of three divisions of the Russian army.

Miryutin, who was born as a front-line chief of staff and served as a minister of war for several years, has the potential of all famous generals, and immediately ordered the entire Russian army to enter a state of combat readiness, strictly defend to the death, and never give Li Qiao a chance to sneak attack again. Li Qiao, who could not make a large-scale sneak attack, adhered to the spirit of Guo Xing'a using all means to make the enemy uncomfortable, and launched a small-scale continuous attack. Shooting cold shots, throwing *, shouting near the camp in the middle of the night, and other means were all used, although there were no real results, and the Russian army was tossed enough.

"The nearby Mongol tribes must have rebelled, and they used us as a counterinsurgency army!" Milyutin, like the officials in Krasnoyarsk, regarded the Manchurian Army as a Mongol rebel, because they could not have imagined that the Manchurian Army would come here.

"It seems that the scale of this rebellion is very large, the rebels may have received weapons from the Manchurians, and even if Tomsk was not attacked, the roads near it were cut off by the rebels." The signal troops sent to Tomsk never returned like meat buns beating dogs, which gave Milyutin a hint of foreboding.

However, there was nothing to worry about, as he had 250,000 well-trained gray cattle under his command who had just received advanced weapons from the British, and quelling the rebellion was not a big problem. Milyutin sent three divisions of Cossack cavalry in one go, preparing to first catch the mosquitoes that came to disturb his sleep every day, and then wait until he entered Tomsk, and then slowly study the issue of counterinsurgency.

More than 10,000 cavalry surrounded him, and Li Qiao couldn't play hide and seek anymore, and was soon found out. Cossack cavalry divisions, each division had about 6,000 cavalry, equipped with about 9,000 horses, and ten artillery pieces, and the cavalry brigade of Li Qiao was stronger in strength and equipment than them. Because Goxinga did not have enough heads, the infantry and cavalry adopted a general formation, which means that the establishment of cavalry and infantry was the same, and the horses were not counted separately. So the infantry brigade has 7,000 men, the cavalry brigade also has 7,000 men, there should be a lot of artillery and machine guns, and there are almost 20,000 extra horses. If it is a single battle, Li Qiao's cavalry brigade will definitely have a surplus to pack up a Cossack cavalry division, but there are three divisions, and Li Qiao will not suffer this immediate loss.

After the two armies encountered, Li Qiao fired a few shots, and then turned around and ran, he didn't fight with these Cossack fools. The Cossack cavalry didn't do it, you wanted to run after two shots, where was there such a cheap thing, they chased after them brandishing their sabers. The cavalry brigade rode on improved Kwantung horses, which were faster and more endurance than the Don hippos, but Li Qiao was not in a hurry to get rid of the enemy, and occasionally deliberately slowed down his horses, like the Mongols back then, and turned back to the Cossacks to give two more shots to increase the casualties of the other side.

In this way, Li Qiao ran all the way, and the Cossack cavalry chased all the way, and the two sides ran at high speed to Tomsk. After receiving the news of the rout of the enemy cavalry, Milyutin was very happy, but he also smelled some strange smell, why did the enemy flee to Tomsk! Could it be that Tomsk has already fallen?