Time went back to more than half a month ago, when the mixed fleet of the Chinese Empire and the British expeditionary fleet were fighting fiercely in the Bay of Bengal, in the northwest border of the Chinese Empire, in a valley of the Obu River about 500 kilometers northwest of the Tangnu Wuliang Sea, 40,000 Cossack cavalry of the Tsarist Russian Empire besieged a fortress of the Chinese Empire, and the two engines were fighting fiercely.

The 30,000 Cossack cavalry, led by Muravyov, deputy commander of the Siberian Army, swept all the way across the Siberian Plain, galloped across the vast and sparsely populated wilderness, and recovered a territory of thousands of kilometers from west to east in half a month.

Muravyov was ordered by the Governor of Siberia, Alexander Dugamery, to lead the march, and the Cossack army similar to him had three, totaling 100,000 men, most of them mixed cavalry, and the one he led was the strongest, not only 40,000 troops, but also cavalry, and the soldiers were equipped with 1.4 horses per man, so the march was also the most rapid.

As soon as the governor of Siberia, Alexander Dugameli, returned from St. Petersburg in Europe, he immediately summoned all the Siberian generals and announced that Britain would send a large army to declare war on the Chinese Empire, and the Tsar had decided to join the British army in attacking the Chinese Empire from several places in the northwest and north at the same time. The goal, of course, was to weaken the increasingly powerful Eastern Empire and recover the Kazakh region, Siberia and the eastern part of the country that had been seized by the other side.

According to Muravyov's information, the scale of Britain's military dispatch this time is very large, the navy has dispatched nearly two-thirds of its naval strength, and the infantry seems to have more than 100,000 soldiers, which is almost equivalent to the scale of the war with Russia in Crimea a few years ago! Therefore, Muravyov guessed that the reason why the top authorities wanted to send troops this time must be that the Tsar's side had already concluded that the British army would definitely defeat the Chinese Empire this time. And it was precisely because of this that he hurriedly sent troops to him despite the hatred with the British, and did not hesitate to violate the armistice agreement signed with the Chinese Empire and sent troops to attack the Chinese Empire again. The fundamental purpose was naturally to take advantage of the fire and loot while the British army was sending troops, and naturally imagined that the Chinese Empire would be insufficient in strength, so that it would be easy to attack the Chinese Empire.

So, after discovering that there was a Chinese Empire settlement in a valley of the Obu River, where nearly 50,000 people lived, Muravyov led 40,000 Cossack cavalry to capture it. The Cossack cavalry, as it always did, did not carry much food supplies, and looted along the way.

Unexpectedly, before he arrived at the valley, he was discovered by a team of sentinels and lit the wolf smoke of the alarm, and after that, the immigration stronghold in the valley was immediately prepared, the piercing horn was blown, and the smoke and dust were billowing, obviously the cavalry around did not gather and rushed to the stronghold of the valley.

When Muravyov arrived at the stronghold in the valley with 40,000 troops, he found that the endless riverbanks and meadows around the colones' stronghold had been reclaimed into paddy and dry land, and some rice, wheat and other crops were planted, and many of the crops were about to ripen. And in the middle of that farmland, not far from the Obu River, on a high ground that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, stands a large fortress, made of stones on the bank of the river, which looks very strong, but the army of the Chinese Empire spent a huge amount of manpower and financial resources to build a large fortress in this immigration stronghold!

Not only that, but on the perimeter of the fortress there were two circles of excavated fortifications. It seems that the army of the Chinese Empire has long been ready for defense.

Muravyov immediately sent the Mongols, who were familiar with the Chinese dialect, to shout to the fortress, demanding that the defenders of the Chinese Empire surrender, surrender their weapons, and let the troops and civilians of the Chinese Empire leave these strongholds. Of course, if they did hand over their weapons, Muravyov would have sent some soldiers who "disobeyed the order" to slaughter and loot, and then they would not have a place to speak.

But what immediately angered Muravyov was that several of the Mongolian guides who shouted did not even get close to the outermost layer of fortifications, and were shot by the defenders hiding behind the fortifications almost a kilometer away.

In addition to being angry, Muravyov was even more frightened, he had long heard Mr. Governor General say that the new musket of the Chinese Imperial Army was very sophisticated, and the range and rate of fire were much better than the Russian rifles. Fortunately, this must be a special rifle specially configured for sharpshooters, similar to a small artillery. Muravyov is confident that there will certainly not be many such rifles.

The battle was fierce from the start!

Except for the 5,000 Cossack cavalry, who galloped back and forth to find weak spots around the fortress, the remaining 35,000 cavalrymen dismounted their horses, pulled out the horses and dragged the cannons from the horse team behind the army, and began to erect artillery to bombard the fortress. And the fortress had long since begun shelling the attacking Russian troops.

However, due to the small number of artillery in the fortress, although the power is huge, the killing effect is limited. And the number of artillery in Tsarist Russia was quite large, plus the fortifications and fortresses seemed to be built solidly, but on the river beach, after half a day of bombardment, the outermost fortifications were destroyed in several places, and even the walls of the fortress were collapsed by the artillery of the Cossack army several gaps.

Seeing this, Muravyov was overjoyed. He immediately ordered 2,000 Cossack cavalry to rush into the fortress through the gap on horseback, while the 10,000 infantry behind formed an assault death squad and swarmed up and followed through the gap into the fortress. Seeing that it was about to approach the gap, at this time, a dense burst of gunfire rang out, and there were many fist-sized explosive shells thrown over, which exploded one after another not far from the gap, and many Cossack cavalry who rushed to the front were immediately blown up.

And the Russian soldiers in the back also fired desperately, the double firepower was very strong, and the bullets were very dense. On the outer walls of the fortress, the gravel and sand that had been hit by bullets were like sandy beaches beaten by a torrential rain, and soon countless potholes and depressions appeared.

The Cossack assault team suffered staggering casualties, with the first 2,000 cavalrymen being shot and killed more than 1,200 in just ten minutes, while the 10,000 infantry death squads in the rear also left as many as 3,400 corpses in front of several gaps in the fortress.

Muravyov's heart sank to the bottom. Seeing this scene, he even regretted attacking this immigration stronghold, and if he knew it, he would have taken a detour directly. But now, the charge has been launched, and he has to keep fighting.