The commander of the Primorsky provincial garrison, Karsakov, was also awakened long ago. After hearing the report from his subordinates, he also had a headache.

Although he didn't pay attention to these Orientals, whether they were Tatars or Han Chinese in the south, he was now his top boss - Count Muravyov, the governor of Eastern Siberia, who had told him to restrain his group of Cossack soldiers, establish good relations with the Manchus, and deal with the Chinese Imperial soldiers in the south.

After all, not long ago, in the city of Yaksa, Muravyov reached an agreement with the Manchu emperor on behalf of the Russian Empire, and the Qing dynasty submitted to Tsarist Russia and de jure ceding the Tangnu-Ulianghai and the western half of Uriya Sutai to Russia, in exchange, Karsakov led the garrison stationed in the Primorsky Province to assist the Manchus in reaching those Chinese imperial attacks. At the same time, the Governor of Eastern Siberia, Count Muravyov, had sent a protest to the Chinese Empire, claiming that the Manchus had become vassals of the Russian Empire, and that if the Chinese Empire attacked the Manchus again, it would declare war on Russia, and that it would bear all the consequences. It is precisely because of this that Karsakov dared to enter the city of Heilongjiang with a high arrogance, which would be Russian land. And those Han people in the East categorically did not dare to be enemies of the great Russian Empire.

Unexpectedly, something happened on the first night of entering the city. Although the ins and outs of the matter are still unclear, Karsakov knew in his heart that it must be those damned Cossack soldiers who were drunk and made trouble, and their combat effectiveness was still strong, and the steel knives and muskets in their hands were very sharp, how could those Eastern Manchus be enemies? Sure enough, when the small leader of his subordinates came to report that more than 60 Manchu soldiers had been killed by his own men and hundreds were injured, Karsakov did not take it to heart. Since the Manchus and Qing are all vassal states of Russia, it is nothing to accidentally hurt a few people. However, the ensuing fierce gunfire surprised Karsakov Ye. This is obviously not a mistake or something, but a straightforward engagement. He hurriedly came out of the room to see that a large group of Qing soldiers were raising torches and setting fire to his residence. I can't help but be angry, these oriental monkeys, how dare they make a move on themselves, haven't you heard of the bravery of the Cossack soldiers? Especially when he heard the report from his subordinates that hundreds of soldiers were burned to death in the room, he was even more distressed that his eyes were green, which was all his strength.

At that moment, he ignored Muravyov's advice, and directly ordered a counterattack, shooting all the Qing soldiers who dared to shoot at the Russian army, and then arresting the Qing Emperor and questioning: Since he was able to give himself so many treasures yesterday, there must be many more, and the Oriental women last night had a different taste, so they had to grab a few more and send them back to the Governor's Palace and Europe.

So, these Cossack soldiers immediately moved into action, concentrated their firepower and opened fire, where could the Manchu soldiers stop for a while? Before Yixun arrived, the two sides were already fighting each other, and they couldn't stop wanting to stop fighting.

By the time Shengbao and the general were sent by Yixin to find Karsakov, the Manchus had already suffered nearly 1,000 casualties, and more than 300 Russian soldiers had been killed or wounded.

Karsakov still agrees with Yixun's request for an armistice, and he will talk about it tomorrow during the day. He immediately ordered his men to restrain the soldiers and not to fight again. Within a quarter of an hour, however, the deputy commander of the infantry regiment outside the city reported to him that the infantry regiment stationed in a small village in the western part of the city had been attacked by a strong group of fire, and had suffered heavy casualties. He was immediately furious, believing that this must be a conspiracy of the Manchu emperor, and felt that he had been fooled.

was about to order revenge, concentrate troops to attack the "Imperial Palace", and blame the Manchu Emperor, who didn't want the Qing Emperor to be very courageous, and came directly to him in person, saying that he had ordered the Qing soldiers not to attack the Russian army, and those who attacked the Russian army outside the city at this moment must be the Han army in the south. In addition, the Manchu emperor also promised on the spot that he would pay a lot of compensation to the Russian soldiers who died due to the misunderstanding, and as long as Karsakov helped him repel the invading enemy troops, he was willing to give Karsakov a few castles personally.

Moved by his compromise and interests, Karsakov expressed his willingness to reconcile and the two sides to deal with the enemy forces outside the city.

At this time, the sky also brightened slightly. At this time, the two sides found out that because of the infighting, the losses on both sides were not small, the Cossack soldiers were killed and wounded four or five hundred, and the Qing army was killed and wounded nearly a thousand.

The battle outside the city intensified. Karsakov asked Yixin through the general to immediately send troops to fight a decisive battle with the Han people in the south, and not to retreat in the Heilongjiang castle to defend passively, and to unite the troops outside the city, otherwise they would only be broken by each of them. Yi Xun did not understand military affairs, and was busy asking his cronies Hua Shantai, Hua Shantai also thought that the foreigners were right, so Yi Xun ordered Hua Shantai to be the main general, Sheng Bao as the deputy general, and the two led the three thousand Qing soldiers in the city to fight to the death with the Russian army.

The gate of Heilongjiang was opened, and Shengbao led more than 1,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners, as the vanguard, armed with sabers, shouldering bows and arrows, and rushed out of the city first, while the remaining more than 2,500 Cossack soldiers under the leadership of Karsakov also followed closely in addition to the city gate, and finally Huashantai led more than 2,000 elite soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Guardian Battalion and the Infantry Battalion, holding foreign guns purchased from the Russians earlier, and went straight to Xigangzitun, where the gunfire was the most dense on the southwest side of the city.

At the same time, with the order of the Qing soldiers, the elite of the 4,000-step military camp stationed in the north of Heilongjiang City was also assembled in the southwest under the leadership of Long Ketuo. The families of the Qing soldiers, except for the personal soldiers who guarded Yixun in Heilongjiang City and those wounded soldiers, totaling more than 1,000 people, the rest have already left the city. Maybe Yixun is also tired of the days of running all the way, and at the same time, there is really nowhere to escape, and further north, it is a primeval forest, so many soldiers, there is no way to make a living, unless they are primitive people in the jungle like their ancestors.

On the side of Xigangzitun, the Seventh Infantry Division led by Chen Tianshi had already left the horse team, half-squatting on the ground and methodically exchanging fire with the foreigners in front. Not far away, the Ninth Infantry Division led by He Lu was also fighting fiercely with the 5,000 Qing soldiers stationed in the south of the city. Above a large meadow overgrown with shrubs, bullets flew and the battle heated to the ground.

As Karsakov listened carefully, a bad premonition rose in his mind. The gunfire was too dense and in the wrong direction. They were all heard from the far southwest, and the brave Cossack soldiers under their own command in the near distance were only sporadic gunshots.

He was just about to find out what was going on, when suddenly there was a shout from ahead: "Retreat back to the city." I saw hundreds of Cossack soldiers shelling in his direction, and behind him, groups of black dots were chasing after him, and the shouts of killing shook the sky. But it turned out that the always heroic Cossack warriors were defeated.

"Impossible!" Karsakov is simply unbelievable! But the facts in front of him were too late to make him doubt and hesitate, and the enemy who was killed on the opposite side turned into a small black dot into a figure, and slowly the first face was clearly visible, and the enemy was closer.

He ordered the shooting of a dozen Russian soldiers who led the fleeing in the face of the retreat, but he still failed to stop the retreating Cossack soldiers, and the steppe warriors, who had never been afraid of death, fled from both sides of the line in panic as if they had seen a demon, which made Karsakov furious.

"Prepare for battle and take on the enemy!" Karsakov gave the order to personally lead his troops to stand still and aim the foreign guns in his hands in the direction from which the enemy was coming.

As there were some neat footsteps faintly heard in the midst of chaos, thousands of soldiers with eastern faces in gray cotton jackets appeared more than five hundred yards in front of them. Karsakov, who had been in the army for more than 20 years, knew very well that this was the peculiar momentum of a division of a hundred battles, and the enemy troops on the opposite side were all carrying muskets with flat ends and a long bayonet in the style of the French city of Bayonne, which was unusually dazzling in the morning sun.

Karsakov's face couldn't help but become solemn, he couldn't imagine that there was such an elite in the east, no wonder the Qing State was defeated so badly, no wonder the more than 2,000 Cossack infantry outside his city just now would be defeated and fled, this is troublesome. It seems that there are still a lot of enemy troops, and the equipment is all muskets, which is completely different from the bows and arrows and sabers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

The eastern soldiers on the opposite side still kept the rhythm and moved forward step by step, 400 yards, 350 yards...... Karsakov looked back and saw that his Cossack soldiers had already set up four dense formations, and the first two platoons were squatting and fighting, just waiting for the enemy to get closer, and he could open fire at the first order. With such a formation, the Cossacks have repelled countless tribes in the steppe, from Europe to Central Asia, and are always invincible.

Just get a little closer, and when you get within 150 yards, Karsakov will give the order to open fire. It's not within 100 yards of the most lethal power, but it's a good distance. Because Karsakov faintly had a bad feeling in his heart, he decided to strike first, even if it was a waste of some bullets, thinking of the batch of new firing smoothbore guns he had shipped from Europe this time, he had confidence in his heart, this batch of weapons, but different from the Suifa smoothbore guns sold to those Qing soldiers, the rate of fire was faster, and the firing range was a little farther, and it was precisely because of this batch of weapons that it was the guarantee of his confidence.

The calm Cossack soldiers also clenched their front-loading smoothbore guns in their hands, their eyes blood-red as they looked at the gray torrent that was still neatly lined up, and the soldiers patiently waited for the general's order. The breath was so oppressive that even Karsakov seemed to be able to hear his own heartbeat and heavy gasps.

Suddenly, the gray team on the opposite side roared, and the advancing ranks stopped, the rifles in the hands of the soldiers in the front row were leveled, and the smoke filled with a dense burst of gunfire.

"Damn it! What's going on? Karsakov exclaimed!