Sun Fumin looked at the situation of the two battlefields before and after, and his heart settled down. It seems that the reformulated strategy is correct, and the previous idea that the firecrackers can dominate the world has been shattered after encountering the Cossack cavalry, and the joint operation of the various branches of the army is the effective method.

The battle continued, and the Cossacks, for unknown reasons this time, did not flee in a bad situation, and still fought to the death with the Ming army. Sun Fumin thought about it for a while and understood that having lost this fortress, the Cossacks had no way to survive without food.

As time passed, Bausak saw the Cossack cavalry fall off their horses one by one, and understood that there was no way to defeat the Ming army today, and if they retreated, the troops without food would not be able to pass through this vast wilderness and reach the next fortress more than 500 miles away.

However, it is a little difficult to make him choose to surrender, because the Rakshasa promised to give freedom to the Cossacks, and the Rakshasa is strong, and the consequences of betraying the Rakshasa will be very serious. Even if the Ming Dynasty is strong in force, but the Cossack settlement is close to the Rakshasa country but far away from the Ming Dynasty, and the Rakshasa country can kill the Cossacks at any time, and the Ming Dynasty is only a distant threat after all.

Unwilling to surrender, Bausak had no choice but to flee, he found a gap, shouted, and ran with the rest of the Cossack cavalry. And this gap was left to the Cossacks at the request of Sun Fumin, who believed that opening the net would weaken the Cossacks' desire to fight, lest they fall into a situation where they would be trapped and fighting.

Seeing that the Cossacks were beginning to flee, Crete whistled and followed the Cossacks far behind with the Mongol cavalry, ready to chase them with bows and arrows. Some of the musketeers also loaded their ammunition, mounted their horses, and followed behind the Mongol cavalry.

Sun Fumin ordered to start cleaning the battlefield, at this time there were no soldiers in the fortress, Artei volunteered to bring people into the fortress, Sun Fumin told him to be careful and then asked him to lead an infantry division to investigate, and the others began to clean the battlefield.

After a while, Atari sent someone to report that the entire fortress was empty, and that the people who had been stationed there should have fled through the gate on the other side. The food inside the fort was not burned, and it lasted about two months for the entire battalion.

This made Sun Fumin feel very good, and the results of the battlefield cleaning soon came out, killing more than 350 Cossacks, no prisoners, and capturing more than 230 usable horses, while the Ming army lost 42 infantry and 23 firecrackers.

Such a battle loss ratio can be regarded as normal, in fact, a large part of the Cossacks were killed or wounded by artillery and firearms, although the two armies fought fiercely when they met, but in fact did not kill many enemies, and the Cossacks did not have firearms, of course, such a battle loss ratio would appear.

Sun Fumin ordered the troops to enter the city, the city was well equipped, and the whole battalion did not feel supported when they lived down, and the quartermaster first inspected the warehouse, and after careful counting, he found that the amount of food in it was more than the infantry reported, and more than 2,000 people could eat it for more than three months.

There are also a large number of leather goods piled up in the warehouse, these are the best skins, because the Ming army already has everyone has leather clothes and down jackets, so these skins will be handed over as captured, and thirty percent of them will become the rewards of the soldiers, stored in the form of silver coins in the account of the battalion headquarters.

The men began to cook, and soon the pursuing troops returned, and Crete brought back fifty-four heads and more than forty horses, while the musketeers, mainly to prevent the Cossacks from counterattacking, did not receive a single head. Of course, when calculating military exploits, one-third of them will be counted on their heads.

The military magistrates began to take credit, and all the dead soldiers, in addition to the imperial pension, were to be credited to all the soldiers who had been captured this time, and the living soldiers were divided into the other half. This reward method was the result of consultations between Cao Wenzhao and the Military Department and the General Staff Headquarters after he sent a letter to the emperor. Zhu Youxiao believed that in this case, a heavy reward would allow the soldiers to fight bravely and fight for the imperial court in this harsh environment.

Sun Fumin quickly wrote the battle report, and then sent a messenger back to Shuanghe City. After receiving the battle report, Cao Wenzhao sent people to the capital on the one hand, and sent a battalion to the fortress occupied by Sun Fumin on the other.

There are more than 1,000 miles from Shuanghe City to the fortress occupied by Sun Fumin, and there are also more than 1,000 miles from Shuanghe City to Beihai, and the train can only go to Beihai now, and the immigrants from Shuanghe City have only arrived recently, and there is no guarantee of food self-sufficiency here, so Lu Xiangsheng ignored Zhu Youxiao's eagerness to occupy the whole of Siberia, and ordered the temporary large army to advance to Sun Fumin's location, establish a stronghold first, and wait until enough food and other materials have been stored before continuing to advance to the northwest.

Taking into account the wishes of His Majesty the Emperor, the General Staff did not restrict the exploration of a small unit within the bureau. Lu Xiangsheng wrote a letter to Cao Wenzhao, conveying to him the emperor's eagerness to occupy more land, hoping that he could organize some small detachments to carry out preliminary explorations first.

As for the composition of the squad, Lu Xiangsheng hoped that the Mongol cavalry could be the mainstay, but the captain of the squad must use Han Chinese, and the Han people who participated in the squad must choose people with better riding skills to reduce unnecessary losses.

Zhu Youxiao is now very dissatisfied with the speed of the advance in the northwest direction, but he also understands the truth that when the army is dispatched, the grain and grass go first. And in the absence of trains, relying on the transportation of horses to supply military rations will indeed put great pressure on logistics. Feeding the enemy is an extremely useful strategy, but it hardly works here, because the enemy is small in number, and correspondingly has little food reserves, and it is extremely difficult to implement the idea of trying to feed the enemy in places where there may be no people for hundreds of miles.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao had to agree to Lu Xiangsheng's proposal to use a small army to explore, and at the same time he began to urge the Ministry of Railways, asking them to make the construction of the railway in the northwest the top priority, and first build the railway to Tomsk.

Mao Yuanyi transferred 50 percent of the resources of the Ministry of Railways to Beihai, while Zhu Youxiao believed that 80 percent of the resources could be transferred to Beihai, and the construction of domestic railways could be suspended. However, the Ministry of Railways has already formulated a plan for the construction of three domestic railways, namely the two Beijing lines, the Beijing-Guangzhou line, and the Jingxi line, and each line has begun to be built.

Therefore, the emperor's idea of transferring more resources to Beihai was collectively resisted by the cabinet and the Ministry of Railways, and the Ministry of War and the General Staff also believed that domestic instability would have a very bad impact on the war in the northwest, and they would rather slow down and maintain domestic stability first.

The ministers did not understand the urgency of His Majesty the Emperor, and according to the news reported by Cao Wenzhao, the troops of the Rakshasa Kingdom in the east of the Ural Mountains were not very large, and some of the troops were not sent in the name of the Rakshasa Kingdom, but only bodyguards invited by the merchants. The Ming Dynasty now has so many troops in the Beihai area, but the emperor still wants to speed up the expedition, and even cause instability among the people in the country.