At the same time, in the "imperial palace" of the Manchu Qing Dynasty not far away, Tan Shaoguang, commander of the Eighth Infantry Division of the Chinese Imperial Capture Army, He Lu, commander of the Ninth Division, and Liang Peiyou, commander of the Beiyang Fleet, gathered in front of a map, chatting and discussing the next military strategy.

"Commander Liang, the biggest credit this time is your Beiyang Fleet. The combined credit of our two infantry divisions is less than half of your Beiyang Fleet. I knew that the younger brother would have chosen the water master at the beginning. Tan Shaoguang said half-jokingly and half-enviously.

He Lu also agreed: "Yes, no wonder Your Majesty said at the beginning that the future is the world of the navy." ”

Liang Peiyou was praised and smiled: "Okay, how many feats have you infantry made in the past few years?" Now it's my turn to go back to the Beiyang Fleet, and I'll talk about it. Okay, no nonsense, I will leave ten captured foreign warships and transport ships for you to transport supplies, and the rest will be received by my Beiyang Fleet. ”

After speaking, he pointed to a distant place on the map and said, "After occupying this Heilongjiang City, the Manchu Qing Dynasty will be completely finished." Now even the Manchu thief chieftain has committed suicide, and the Manchu soldiers have been completely annihilated, and the rest is no longer to be feared. However, His Majesty and the General Staff have specially explained that this place called Kamchatka Peninsula must be seized as soon as possible, where there is a castle and port built by foreigners, which is another base of this Siberian fleet, what is Petropaplovsk, if I had not been repeating it, I would not have been able to pronounce such a long name. I heard that this is the only stronghold on this peninsula, although the number is not large, only more than 1,000 people, but the castle is strong, and there are still a few foreign strongholds on the northern coast that need to be occupied, so the 9th Infantry Division still sent three regiments of troops to follow us and attack the city together. As for the rest, it's all over to your infantry division. ”

"Division Commander He, your Ninth Division is short of troops, so you simply worked with the Beiyang Naval Division to go down the Heilongjiang River and capture the foreign strongholds and castles downstream, as well as the Sakhalin Island, and Your Majesty has also explained that you will also set up a stronghold of our Chinese Empire to occupy it." The infantry is convenient, headed by Tan Shaoguang, so he is not humble and directly suggests: "Our Eighth Infantry Division has captured thousands of horses, plus marching west along the Heilongjiang River, all the way to the Yaksa, Nebuchu and other areas of the Outer Khingan Mountains, to Lake Baikal, and conquer the largest Russian stronghold here, Erkou City (Irkutsk). By the way, I almost forgot, Yakutsk in the north is not far from that peninsula, and Commander He, that castle will also be handed over to you. ”

"No problem! So be it. Commander Liang, the prisoners and captured property will be handed over to your department! By the way, the most regrettable thing is that the Manchu emperor was not captured alive. Fortunately, there are still three foreign leaders, and they can be regarded as having an explanation for Your Majesty! ”

The three of them quickly finished deliberating. The next day, the entire Heilongjiang City quickly moved and divided their troops into battle.

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More than half a month later, in the distant Mongolian steppe, outside the north-central castle of Uriya Sutai, a cavalry force of nearly 10,000 people tightly surrounded Kulun. The leader was none other than Chen Tianshi, the commander of the Seventh Division, who was originally an infantryman.

Starting from Shengjing, he changed the original marching mode. Let everyone in the infantry in the army learn to ride horses, after mixing up the Manchu and Mongolian war horses, one man and two horses rode all the way, carrying only gunpowder and a small amount of grain and grass, and began to crisscross Mongolia, killing those Mongol tribes who supported the Manchu prince's subordinates. Now as soon as spring begins, he has led the 7th Infantry Division to plunge into the grassland once again. This time, however, the goal was clear, and that was to flee to the former Manchu Xi'an general Zarafin in the city of Kulen in the Tushetu Khan region.

I have to say that this Xi'an general Zaraphin is a slippery head. On the one hand, he declared his allegiance to the Manchu Emperor Yixun to occupy the righteousness, but on the other hand, he stationed in Kulen and never left, and he led 3,000 Manchu soldiers to control all the princes and nobles of Kulen, and became the controller of the Tushetu Khan. But he didn't expect that as soon as spring began, before he could collect the cattle, sheep, horses and other belongings of the surrounding Mongolian tribes, he was attacked by a horse team of more than 10,000 people.

He also tried to attack the enemy at night with the help of familiar terrain with the help of the 4,000 cavalry of the Mongol tribe, but he was defeated in two consecutive attacks, and with heavy casualties, he had to stick to Kulen Castle.

Chen Tianshi was also a little helpless, although the Cullen Castle was short, the Seventh Division did not carry any artillery, and it was really difficult to conquer the city for a while with the muskets. In addition, there are grasslands for hundreds of miles around, and even simple siege equipment cannot be made, thinking that a hard siege will cause great losses, so Chen Tianshi can only surround the city in groups, and then send people to dig the crypt while making siege wood from a forest more than 100 miles away.

On this day, Chen Tianshi was arranging the siege of the city, the crypt had been excavated under the city wall, and the collision of wood was almost completed, thinking that in two days, he would be able to completely pacify Kulun City, Chen Tianshi was looking forward to it.

At this time, a messenger came from the northeast to report: "Senior Commander Chen, I just received the news that the Heilongjiang City in the east has been broken by our captive army, the remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty have perished, and even the last emperor Yixun has committed suicide!" ”

Chen Tianshi was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly asked his subordinates to shoot the news into Kulun City. Sure enough, that night, a word came from the Mongol princes in the city, who were willing to act as an inner minister to open the city gate and bring the territory of the Shetu Khan tribe to surrender to the Chinese Empire.

So, in the early morning of the next day, the city gate was opened, and under the response of the Mongolian internal response, the soldiers of the captive army entered the city of Kulun in one fell swoop. Zaraphine was awakened from his sleep, and he tried to flee on horseback before he had time to put on his clothes, but he was cut by the rebels' own soldiers and captured in front of Chen Tianshi. The city of Kulen was breached by the captives, and the last of the Manchu forces were wiped out.

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In the northwest of the Tangnu-Ulianghai region of the Northwest Frontier, a border defense station of the Kmuzik Ulianghai Banner is actually just a slightly denser meadow, and in the center of the garrison is a bright and clear inner lake. However, at this moment, this originally lively and prosperous garrison has completely declined and is desolate with the escape of the Manchu soldiers and the head of the prince of the Kemuzik Ulianghai Banner.

Not far from the station, there is a patrol Obo, which is the default boundary monument erected by the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the Russian Empire, which was still called the Rakshasa State, but at this moment, a group of Tsarist Russian Cossack cavalry with a number of about 500 people came here, and as soon as the order was given, the boundary monument was dismantled and thrown into the lake.

Standing in front of the demolished boundary monument, Colonel Pirovsky, a colonel officer of the Irkutsk Governor's Palace, laughed: "General Uriya Sutai of the Qing Kingdom once set up eight patrol Obo on the northern border of the Tangnu-Uliang Sea, and this is already the fifth one we have demolished. As long as three more boundary markers are removed, this vast land will belong to the great Russian Empire, to our Irkutsk governor's domain! And I, Perovsky, like the Governor of Siberia, Muravyov, was destined to become a hero of the Russian Empire who opened up territory! ”

A person next to him said a little unnaturally: "Colonel, it seems a little ...... for us to enter this Tangnu Uliang Sea without declaring war like this, taking advantage of the civil strife in the Manchu Dynasty."

"Have you forgotten the traditions of our Russian Empire? Expansion, and expansion, only in this way can the Russian Empire overtake Great Britain. Pirovsky said with a proud face: "Besides, there is only a little remnant of the Qing country left, and it will perish sooner or later." And they have already signed an agreement with Muravyov, and this Donu-Ulianghai itself will be ceded to the Russian Empire, and we are just taking it over in advance, so why declare war if we can't talk about an invasion? Perhaps, Muravyov and the others have already sent an army together with the Qing Emperor to defeat the Chinese Imperial army and occupy a large area of land? We can't afford to be left behind. ”

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After the Ili River flows from the Tien Shan Mountains through the gorge of the Ircaitu Mountains, the river slows down and merges into a beautiful lake. Right next to this lake, an outpost with the Manchu Yellow Dragon Banner wafting in the warm spring breeze. However, the outpost had long been abandoned, and because of the lack of food, the Qing soldiers at the outpost had long since abandoned and fled.

At this moment, from the lower reaches of the Ili River, a long line is going up the riverbank, and I am afraid that there are no less than two or three thousand people, who are the Russian soldiers who came from the lower reaches of the Ili River to the middle reaches of the Ili River, or even close to Ili.

After a little investigation, the soldiers decided that it was suitable to build a sentry and a castle next to the lake. In the past two or three months, they have set out from the western shore of Lake Balkhash and marched eastward step by step, not only building a castle on the eastern shore of Lake Balkhash, but also approaching the Ili River, aiming at the most fertile Ili Plain.

They swarmed up and burned the Manchu Yellow Dragon Banner and demolished the small outpost by the lake and transformed it into a strong fortress.

Seeing the scene when the Russian soldiers began to build the castle, on the high mountain in the distance, a cavalry sentry retracted his binoculars and muttered: "The long-haired foreign devil is not slow, he has been building the castle steadily all the way, and he has reached the gorge of the Ircaitu Mountain, which is only six hundred miles away from Ili." It is necessary to report to the division commander of Ili, let the imperial court decide, it is time to declare war on it! After speaking, he didn't care about hiding his figure, stepped on his horse, and galloped east.

Two days later, in the city of Huiyuan on the Ili Plain, Liang Litai, commander of the Fourth Infantry Division and governor of Xinjiang, received a report from the front line and immediately sent people to Shengjing overnight.

After that, he reorganized his soldiers and carried out a mobilization of troops, and finally said: "The tsarist Russian foreigners are self-ambitious, encroaching and invading the territory of our empire step by step, and Liang, as the governor of Xinjiang, officially declared war on Tsarist Russia on behalf of the Chinese Empire!" Warriors of the Fourth Division of the Capture Army, follow me to kill the enemy! ”

"Declare war! Fight the enemy! The deafening roar resounded throughout Huiyuan City.