Duan Fei of Shenyang did not know until after the end of the Battle of Yaxa, when he was leading his men and horses on the Songhua River on an inland river transport ship manufactured by Jilin Shipyard. It was May, even in the far north, and the sun was shining and the trees were shady, but it was not hot, so it was a good time to send troops.

After Duan Fei led 5,000 people from Jilin, he traveled north along the Songhua River, and met with He Luohui at Xishenwei, where the Songhua River flows into Heilongjiang, that is, Fuyuan County in Heilongjiang in later generations. He then marched west along the Heilongjiang River, arriving at the city of Yaksa on June 14, where he officially met the Russians.

At this time, Russia occupied the cities of Yaksa and Nebuchu in the Far East, Nebuchu was the main city with a thousand troops, and Yaksa was just a small castle of five or six hundred people, the outer walls were only wooden, and there were only more than 200 soldiers.

At first, the Russians were very curious about this army flowing down from the Heilongjiang River, seeing that the equipment of this army was not those Far Eastern natives, or those cannons were not equipped by those natives.

When the Russians in the city saw the Ming army, they immediately sent an envoy to ask what this army was for? It was the territory of the Russian Empire.

But the hot face of the Russians sticks a cold fart * stock. Duan Fei was not a reasonable civil official, he received an order to kill all these foreigners, and naturally he didn't want to reason with the dead.

After the Ming army came ashore, they immediately began to form a formation, and the army's six-pounder guns bombarded the wooden fence of Yaxa, the current city of Yaksa is not the kind of stone building that it was thirty years later, the Russians have just arrived less than ten years, and the whole of Yaksa is a wooden structure except for the church.

The wooden wall was quickly blown down under the strong fire of the Ming army, and the first to rush in were the cavalry of the Oroqen people. In recent years, the Russians have bullied the local ethnic minorities, and many small tribes have been exterminated by the Russians, so the Oroqen people have a deep hatred for the Russians.

After Duan Fei's Ming army entered the city, all but a dozen of the Russians in Yaksa who had escaped, the others were all killed by Oroqen, leaving only a dozen Russian women.

Duan Fei looked at the dozen or so yellow-haired Russian women, and secretly scolded in his heart Is this still a human, isn't this a monkey? Seeing the virtue of a Russian woman, Duan Fei also lost interest. However, during the interrogation of the prisoners, Fei learned that this Yaksa was only an outpost of the Russians, and that in the upper reaches of the Ergun River, more than 600 miles away from here, there was also a main city of the Russians, called Nebuchu.

Duan Fei, who got the news, decided to take this opportunity to wipe out the Russians in one fell swoop, so after staying in Yaksa for three days, the army set off again, but this is already in the upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River, and the big ships of the river fleet can no longer go, and now the logistics supply can only rely on that kind of wooden platoon.

After the loss of the city of Yaksa, the only Russian stronghold in the Far East was the city of Nebuchu, which had an army of 1,000 men and 500 Cossack cavalry, and the governor of the Far East, Bashkov, who was in charge of the defense of the city of Nebuchu, was in charge of the affairs of the whole of Russia in the Far East, which was actually equivalent to the Russian agent in the Far East.

After learning of the fall of the city of Yaksa, Bashkov sent Franzbekov, the governor of Yakutsk, who was thousands of miles away, to ask for help, and gathered all the Russians in the surrounding area into the city, and at the same time issued weapons to the adult men in the city, preparing to fight the Ming army by force.

In this way, Bashkov organized the armament of 2,500 people, but only about 1,000 of them were equipped with muskets, and about 300 or so were arquebuses, and most of the remaining flintlock muskets were old-fashioned flintlock pistols, because although the Russians are brave and good at fighting, the overall national strength is not strong, and the economy and culture are still very backward, and the manufacturing technology is not high, so although the Russian army has also moved towards a modern army, the weapons used are still very backward, and the muskets used are a generation behind the advanced countries in Europe. The way of fighting is still the traditional cold weapon tactics.

During this period of preparation, the Ming army was constantly inquiring about the situation of the Russian army, but the same Russian army was also inquiring about the situation of the Ming army and China, because the Russians had some trade and trade with the Mobei Mongolian tribes, so they also more or less inquired about the current situation in China. The Russians knew that China had just undergone a dynastic change and that China's overseas trade was very good, and Bashkov had heard some of these things when he set out from Moscow, but Bashkov only took it as an anecdote at that time and did not pay much attention to it. Of course, Bashkov is not concerned with these, but about the actual combat effectiveness of the Chinese army.

By fleeing back to the rout, Bashkov learned about the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, the muskets that the Tatars also used, and the artillery that was not inferior to his own side. Bashkov did not dare to attack the city of Yaksa easily, because the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was also somewhat beyond Bashkov's expectations, so he decided to first base himself on holding the city of Nebuchu.

First of all, the city was guarded, and then a small force of 100 cavalry was constantly sent to the villages and villages near Yaksa City to harass and rob, test the actual combat effectiveness of the Ming army, and also rob some food, materials and money, because Russia does not provide logistical supplements and military salaries to the army in Nebuchu City, everything can only be self-sufficient, and of course it is impossible for the Russian army to open up wasteland and farm land in Nebuchu City, and the best way is to rob it.

Losing the transportation of ships, it took Duan Fei's men and horses a month to reach the outside of Nebuchu City, during which time although they had contact with the Cossack cavalry, the Ming army did not have cavalry, and the Oroqen and Evenk cavalry fought with the Cossacks. These minorities are very strong in combat, but they can only fight some tailwind battles, and if they lose the battle, these guys will run away immediately. Therefore, in the battle for more than a month, the Ming army lost more than victory. However, the dead were all Oroqen and Evenki, and Duan Fei didn't take it to heart.

The Ming army gathered 8,000 men outside the city of Nebuchu, 3,000 musketeers, 2,000 auxiliaries, and more than 3,000 cavalry of other tribes. The actual strength of the Ming army had already exceeded three times that of the Russian army, so Duan Fei decided to take the initiative to send troops to attack the city of Nebuchu.

Now the city of Nebuchu is the only stronghold of Russia in the southern region of the Far East, once the city of Nebuchu is conquered, then the Russian army has no stronghold in the area east of Lake Baikal, and China can basically guarantee the security from Lake Baikal to the Great Khingan Mountains, as well as the southeast of the Trans-Khingan Mountains, so this time to send troops to attack the city of Nebuchu, Duan Fei is also determined to win.

After the men and horses were assembled, the Chinese army launched an attack on the city of Nebuchu on 25 July.

At the same time, after more than a month of small groups of men and horses engaged in the Russian army, Bashkov basically figured out that the Ming army is indeed an army with advanced weapons, well-trained and experienced combat experience, and the Ming army far exceeds the Russian army in terms of strength, so the probability of the Russian army winning this battle is not great.

However, Russia is a very fierce character, and a warlike nation, of course, will not be passive and timid because of the disadvantage in strength, in addition, through the previous month's fighting, Bashkov also touched a little spectrum, the Russian army is not without advantages over the Ming army, because the Russian cavalry is more powerful than the Ming army, this is a major advantage of the Russian army, if used well, the Cossack cavalry can still play a great role, so in the battle against the Ming army, if you can fully wave the advantage of the cavalry, It is not necessarily that there is no chance of winning.

The commander of the Russian army, Bashkov, finally decided to concentrate all the cavalry to take the initiative, first attack the Ming army's men and horses or baggage with a small force of cavalry, and wait until the Ming soldiers and horses were tired, and then concentrate his forces to attack the main force of the Ming army, and strive to defeat the Ming army in one fell swoop.

After determining the battle plan, the Russian army also immediately divided the labor, and Bashkov sent the adjutant general Colonel Beketov with 500 cavalry out of the city, and ambushed outside the city, waiting for the Ming army to attack the flank of the Ming army after attacking.

On July 25, the Ming army finished their meal early and lined up outside the city of Nebuchu, preparing to attack the last Russian fortress in the Far East.

If Yaksa is a walled wooden city, Nebuchu is a fortress made entirely of stone. The main castle of Nebuchu is not large, but it is completely in the style of a fortress in Europe and the United States. There were Spanish mercenaries in Duan Fei's army, Duan Fei turned his head and asked Sanchez, the Spanish officer behind him: "Old Sang, why are your Europeans' castles so small?" ”

Sanchez's military rank is captain, naturally much lower than the colonel's Duan Fei, listening to Duan Fei tell himself to hurry upright, and then replied loudly: "Sir, these Slavs are a bunch of illiterate and thieves, what kind of battle will they fight, and they will open the city and surrender as soon as the soldiers arrive!" ”

Duan Fei pouted after hearing Sanchez pout after patting his ass: "I said Lao Sang, you have been in China for more than ten years, why haven't we learned the fine traditions of the Han people, and only learned to brag and pat the horses?" ”

Sanchez heard Duan Fei say this, and said with a smile: "My lord, it's not that the lower officials look down on these Slavs, they have just been founded for decades, and I heard that their king can't speak Russian, and he can only use French and noble Spanish to converse, what kind of war will this kind of person fight?" ”

It's not that Sanchez looks down on the Russians, although Spain is not the boss of Europe now, its national strength is countless times stronger than Russia. At the same time, Russians really don't speak Russian, and even the great Russian poet Pushkin doesn't speak Russian.

Duan Fei didn't know if what Sanchez said was true or not, but Duan Fei's concept of war was learned from Zhu Hongsan, that is, caliber is justice, there are no tactics, and it will be over with artillery bombardment.