The morale of the generals of the new army has been affected, which is understandable to Zhou Lang.

A character like Napoleon, despite all his shortcomings, has a very strong point, that is, he is extremely charismatic, and he seems to be born to attract others to follow and make others worship, which is the charm of heroes.

is like Zhu Yuanzhang, when he participated in the uprising, Tang He was already a thousand households, but he was willing to follow him as a junior brother.

These officers have been in France for so long, and it is normal for French officers to worship Napoleon, and even Gou Quan, a senior general who watched the battle by Napoleon's side, has great admiration for Napoleon's command, but such a person was defeated in Russia, how do they accept it, or a fiasco, more than 500,000 people were lost, and they almost returned to France alone.

Now they don't say anything, but everyone's mentality has been affected.

Zhou Lang boosted their morale, but knew that it might not be of any use, because being strong was not something to be said, it needed to be proven. After defeating Napoleon, the Russians dared to use their mouths to make China cede land and pay reparations, because the French army was already recognized as the strongest army in the world, and they defeated the French army and were qualified to make others fearful.

In fact, Zhou Lang can also choose to negotiate, the Russians just pay lip service, knowing in their hearts that they want to fight with China, cross the Gobi Desert, and cross Siberia, and it is impossible to mobilize too many troops.

But Zhou Lang still refused, because of this retreat, may no longer be able to muster up the morale to move forward, Zhou Lang stood in the perspective of France, laughed at Austria I don't know what to do, obviously I can't beat France, but I challenge again and again, but if I change the perspective of Austria, they fail again and again, but they dare to fight again and again, they have not lost this courage, so they will stand up in the end.

In war, there are losses and wins, but they dare not even fight, and there is no hope for this kind of country and nation. From this point of view, Li Hongzhang's group of people is indeed very smart, but it is also because there are too many such smart people that there is no hope for the country.

Zhou Lang went to war with Russia because he firmly believed that China's national strength was far superior to Russia's, and he had made sufficient preparations, and he could win the victory alone without the cooperation of other countries, so he never considered cooperating with France in his plan, because Napoleon could not cooperate with him.

So immediately after the beginning of spring, all military operations began as scheduled, but the plans changed slightly.

In view of the change in the mentality of the officers of the New Army, which had the strongest combat effectiveness, and the defeat of Napoleon in Moscow, Russia could concentrate its forces on the eastern theater, Zhou Lang decided to focus on defense.

The new army was ordered to hold on to the fortresses built by the Russian army in the Ishim and Irtysh river valleys, not requiring them to take the initiative, but asking them to defend to the death.

Then the old troops moved north to attack the center line, attacking from Irkutsk and capturing Russian cities in Siberia.

These veterans did not know much about Napoleon, but had no psychological burden, and many of them despised all the officers who were unscrupulous.

With absolute superiority in forces, the Russians, with their empty defenses, fell to Siberian cities and fortresses one after another.

Along the Russian trade routes, seize important cities, such as Krasnoyarsk, Tomsk, Omsk and other places where they must pass, and destroy the surrounding Russian fortresses directly. Attack all the way to Tobolsk, so that it will be connected to the Irtysh River in the Ili region and the Ishim River in Kazakhstan. Not only can you get the material supplies transported by Zhangku Avenue, but also the material supplies in the Ili area.

Hitting Tobolsk is the end, not far from the Tyumen fortress, the Russians have stationed heavy troops, and the time is also autumn, and the most important thing is to reserve supplies for the winter.

The most difficult thing in Siberia is winter, and the Russians can't stand it here, let alone the Chinese, who are less frost-resistant than the Russians.

Therefore, although the front line attacked Tobolsk, most of them had to retreat south to Wodong in the Ili region before the arrival of winter, and the next year they fought back along this river. The troops left behind were the Mongolian and Tibetan soldiers in Outer Mongolia and the Qinghai-Tibet region under the command of inland officers, and the people in these border areas were also very resistant to frost.

After a spring-summer military campaign, various supply channels were straightened out.

The Jin merchants played a great role, as the Jin merchants who were most familiar with the roads of Outer Mongolia, at the beginning the army hired those old camel riders as guides to help transport supplies. Later, they simply entrusted the transportation of grain, clothing and other materials to the Jin merchants, and the army was only responsible for the supply and transportation of the most important weapons and ammunition, which greatly reduced the pressure on the army to manage logistics.

The transportation management ability of the Jin merchants has long been exercised in the Sino-Russian trade for hundreds of years, and they have the ability to organize tens of thousands of camels to form caravans.

In the mainland, the Grand Canal is taken, and the sea route is taken, from the resources of Jiangnan and Fujian and Guangzhou, through the sea and land to Tianjin, and then take Zhangjiakou to enter Outer Mongolia, or take the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal directly to Beijing, and then take Zhangjiakou to enter Outer Mongolia. There is no doubt about the transportation capacity of the two main routes, and the Grand Canal alone is enough to support the daily supply of goods for one million people in Beijing, not to mention that there is a sea route with even more sufficient capacity.

It's just that all the supplies are concentrated from Zhangjiakou, which makes this inland pass extremely busy, which greatly accelerates the development of the place, and the war sometimes promotes development.

The recovery of the Ili logistics base is also going smoothly, and Jiaqing has lost his ambition to fight for the Central Plains, and retreating to the homeland of the Kokand Khanate is the back road he prepared several years ago. For this reason, most of the Han Chinese attracted from China were even reclaimed in the Ferghana Basin in preparation for future migration.

So Jiaqing cooperated very well with the Chinese army to take over the arsenal in Yili, and let his craftsmen continue to work here, of course, these people were eventually taken away, and it was only on the condition that China promised not to detain these craftsmen, Jiaqing agreed to let them stay and work.

Later, with the help of these craftsmen, not only did they quickly stabilize the production of gunpowder, but they also transferred skilled craftsmen from the interior to add machinery and equipment to expand the scale of production. The factory for making rifles and cannons was also not wasted, but instead a workshop for the repair of damaged weapons on the front line.

As for Jiaqing himself, he retreated to Kokand City as soon as possible, and he wanted to move his old troops to the Fergana Basin before the Chinese repented.

According to the agreement with China, he can take people who nominally voluntarily follow him. But in fact, Jiaqing wants to take away everyone who can be taken away. The Wuer and Han people in Hami and other places could not be taken away, because the Chinese army occupied this place, but the Eight Banners of the Hui Department in the south of the Hui Xinjiang could be taken away, and the Eight Banners of Mongolia in the north could also be taken away, at least some of the bannermen in the areas where the Chinese army did not enter the area.

The reason why he can take it away is very simple, the Eight Banners system has not collapsed, just like when he retreated to Ili, he could still recruit soldiers from the outer feudal Mongolia, because it was the deputy commanders, generals and generals who ruled everywhere, not the local tribes' Taiji and Wangye.

Now the situation is the same in these places, and it is better than the situation in the outer Mongolia, because the Chinese army did not enter here, and the whole system of eight banners was not destroyed, and at the first order, coupled with the urging of the army, both soldiers and civilians must abandon their homeland and move westward. The people here are mostly herdsmen, and there is a culture of escape when encountering danger, and the Han people who want to move more than the land are more willing to move, so the southern Huijiang was pumped into a vacuum in just one month. After all, the Eight Banners of Mongolia in the north have been too strict with them over the years, losing their nomadic habits, and being led by banner officials one by one, without their respective princes taking the lead, they can't resist at all.

After discovering these circumstances, China did not interfere, mainly because it did not want to cause trouble, and it was always uncomfortable to keep the forces loyal to Jiaqing in Ili.

Regardless of whether these people are gone, as for the vacancies left behind, a group of obedient tribes from Inner and Outer Mongolia and Qinghai-Tibet will be immediately transferred to them and a large area of pasture will be handed over to them. The cultivated land that has been reclaimed is taken over by the auxiliary soldiers who have already arrived, and the officers of these auxiliary soldiers are all the children of landlords, and the corresponding soldiers are all peasants, and farming is the old profession.

The land can be redeveloped if it is abandoned, but when the space is filled, it is difficult to squeeze it back in.

Jiaqing left with the Eight Banners, and if Zhou Lang did not occupy the space left, other forces would occupy it, either the nomadic tribes of the Bukhara Khanate would move in, or the tribes of the Kazakh Khanate would sneak in, and it was even possible that the horse thieves in the steppe would occupy this place to form new tribes and peoples.

Such a story has been staged on the grassland for thousands of years, and it has endured, and the script will never be changed, only the characters will be changed.

Due to the development of Jiaqing in the past ten years, the foundation here is good, whether it is a ranch or a grange, it is very complete, and even the houses are ready-made. As a result, after more than a million men were evacuated by Jiaqing, the Chinese army quickly took control of the area, and they were replaced by 400,000 auxiliaries from Tuntian and 80,000 nomadic Mongol brothers.

With the steady recovery and expansion of military, agricultural and animal husbandry production, the long distance between Yili and the Central Plains has not only ceased to be a burden, but Yili itself has become the largest logistics production base.

The war against Russia has become more emboldened.

At least there will not be Napoleon's dilemma of lack of support and shortage of supplies. It's just that Zhou Lang suddenly discovered that these measures are no different from Genghis Khan's nomadic herding around Samarkan with the entire tribe, that is, the entire production, life and military power are directly at the enemy's gate. You can play like this for as long as you want.

Zhou Lang did not agree to the negotiation conditions of the Russians, and decided to really continue, but someone interfered, and the British jumped out, hoping to mediate the war between China and Russia.

Because Britain's worst enemy, Napoleon, was still there, Britain needed the Russian army to fight France!