After eating, the Ming army, under the leadership of middle-level officers, walked out of the large camp by the river and lined up five miles from the city of Nebuchu. The Russian troops in the city also went out of the city and leaned on the city wall, lined up in three columns, ready to fight the Ming army.

Duan Fei, the commander of the Ming army, stood at the back of the team on horseback, looked at the Russian troops lined up in columns and said, "Lao Sang, haven't you fought with the Russians in Europe?" ”

Hearing Duan Fei's question, Sánchez rolled his eyes and said, "Your Excellency General, Russia is in the far north, tens of thousands of miles away from Lisbon, and our Spanish Army has not fought against the Russians!" What's more, these slaves of the Slavs were not worthy of fighting with noble Spanish soldiers at all! ”

Spain is now the largest power in Europe, although it has just been beaten by the Netherlands and Britain, but after all, the skeleton is still there, so it naturally looks down on those Slavic slaves.

Duan Fei heard Sanchez say this and asked with a smile, "Oh? You are so noble, why were you still defeated by the Netherlands and England? ”

Hearing Duan Fei say this, Sanchez said angrily: "Your Excellency General, please don't insult the noble Spanish soldiers, those British pirates, those Dutch petty traders, they only use tricks, if we fight with our Spanish Armada in a dignified manner, we will definitely not lose!" ”

Duan Fei didn't ask when he heard that Sanchez was angry, after all, although Sanchez likes to brag, he is not bad, he has never been slippery in drinking and gambling, and he can be regarded as one of Duan Fei's friends.

"Okay, Lao San, I know that you Spanish soldiers are powerful, so let's do it! You see that the Russians on the other side are also decent, who do you say will win this battle? ”

Sánchez looked at the other side and said: "Your Excellency General, the Russians are inferior to our army in terms of numbers and weapons, naturally our army can win, but please be careful of the other party's cavalry, that Cossack cavalry is very powerful, now that the Russian army is out of the city, they have not come out, be careful that they are lying in ambush around and preparing for a sneak attack!" ”

Duan Fei nodded, this is to be careful, that Cossack cavalry is very powerful, but the group of Oroqen cavalry under his command is not bullshit, and he loses more and wins less against the Cossacks. Thinking of this, he turned his head and said to the deputy general He Luohui: "Lao He, you have to be careful of that group of Cossack cavalry when you start fighting for a while, and your Qing army was so powerful back then, why are these Oroqen people not like your relatives at all, and they will run away if the battle is slightly unsmooth, Lao He, don't be soft for a while, don't use the battle team to kill more than a dozen deserters!" ”

He Luohui naturally did not have the surname He, but now there is no way, people have to bow their heads under the eaves, He Luohui listened to Duan Fei and hurriedly promised: "Please rest assured, General, the last general will go to supervise those Oroqen people, and he will definitely ensure the flank of our army!" ”

Duan Fei picked up the binoculars and looked at the Russians opposite, and saw that those Russian soldiers were wearing all kinds of clothes, not even uniform uniforms, except that the weapons of these Russians were also very rudimentary, and half of the two thousand people outside the city still used cold weapons. Duan Fei pointed at the Russians on the opposite side and said contemptuously: "These poor Russian ghosts, even these soldiers dare to invade my Daming?" ”

In fact, Duan Fei doesn't know the situation of European armies, now the mainstream armies in Europe are a mixture of cold weapons and muskets, even the military power Sweden can't do all firearms troops, of course, it's not that these European countries don't have money, but now most of the European muskets are arquebuses, and the shooting accuracy is poor, not to mention the rate of fire is not fast, so equipping a certain amount of cold weapons is the right way, and Europe will not be able to equip all firearms until the Seven Years' War a hundred years later.

Duan Fei saw that the army on the opposite side and his expectations were very high, and he was not ready to look at it, Duan Fei said to the herald behind him: "Let's start, order the artillery to fire!" ”

Duan Fei's order passed down, the artillery opened fire first, and then the infantry began to march in a neat pace.

The artillery bombardment of the Ming army frightened the Russians, but they didn't expect that the Ming army on the opposite side had so many artillery pieces, and there were hundreds of guns, while the Russians only had less than 20 guns.

Seeing that his subordinates were unstable, the commander of the Russian army, Bashkov, who was standing at the head of the city, sighed and said: "I really didn't expect the Ming army to have so many artillery, send an order for Bektov to attack!" "Bashkov is a commander with rich combat experience, he knows that it is a little early to send Cossack cavalry, but he can't help it, if the Ming army holds on to such firepower for a while, his battle line will collapse, and he has no choice but to send ambushes in advance.

The Cossacks, who were lying in ambush in the woods, received an order, mounted their horses and rushed out of the woods and rushed towards the Ming line two miles away.

The Ming army was also prepared for a long time, and the Heilongjiang general He Luohui personally rushed over with two hundred Manchurian Eight Banners Bayala and fought with the Cossacks.

Duan Fei looked at the Oroqen cavalry, today these natives took out the strength to eat, probably their death order just now had an effect, and the flanks did not have to worry about Duan Fei starting to focus on the frontal battlefield.

The Ming army and the Russian army are now fundamentally two eras of the army, the Russian army is still in ancient cold weapons, and the training and equipment of the soldiers are not good, but the Ming army has basically reached the level of the modern army, and this battle is naturally nothing to see.

As soon as the two armies came into contact with the Russian army, a large number of them were killed by platoon guns, and the arquebuses of the Russian army did not kill a few Ming soldiers at all because of accuracy problems. Immediately after the defeat of the Russian army, the city gates were opened and retreated into the city, preparing to rely on the strong city walls to fight against the Ming army.

The Russian army hid in the city and didn't come out, which made Duan Fei helpless. Because Duan Fei was not familiar with European armies, he didn't know much about this kind of European castle. Duan Fei also thought that Nebuchu was a brick and wood structure like Yaxa, so he didn't bring a single heavy artillery, and now Duan Fei had a lot of artillery in his hands, more than a hundred, but they were all light field guns.

This kind of artillery is no problem against a wooden house like Yaksa, but there is no way to deal with a castle made of stone.

Duan Fei surrounded Nebuchu and bombarded it with artillery for a long time, except for knocking out some battlements, the city wall was not damaged at all. On the contrary, because the range and power of field artillery were not as good as the heavy artillery of the Russian defense of the city, Duan Fei suffered a loss of not much or small, and five field guns were destroyed by the Russians.

Duan Fei couldn't help but be very angry when he saw that Nebuchu was close in front of him but couldn't get in, and asked Sanchez: "Old San, you are a European, what good can you do?" ”

Sanchez had no good idea, and the only way to deal with this European fortress was to besiege and starve everyone in the city to death, except to use heavy artillery.

"Your Excellency General, without heavy artillery, there will only be a siege!"

Duan Fei looked at the scale of Nebuchu City, the army's twelve-pounder guns may not work, only the navy's eighteen-pounder guns can't do, but Nebuchu is located inland, and the navy's thousand-ton warships really can't enter, so they have no choice but to besiege it.

After Duan Fei made his decision, he immediately sent a request to Zhao Guodong in Shenyang, explaining the actual situation, and at the same time reporting his decision to besiege Nebuchu to Zhao Guodong, hoping that the governor would approve it.

When Duan Fei attacked Nebuchu, it was already mid-July, and the Ming Dynasty used the lunar calendar, and according to the Gregorian calendar, it was already September. Nebuchu is far away in the Khing'an Mountains of the extreme north, and it is already very cold here in September, and it starts to snow at night. Duan Fei organized his subordinates to build the city, and at the same time ordered the surrounding ethnic minority tribes to help besiege the city, while waiting for Shenyang's order.

Zhao Guodong only received Duan Fei's situation in September, Zhao Guodong was now made cautious by the emperor, and he didn't dare to make decisions after receiving Duan Fei's news, so he quickly reported Duan Fei's situation to the Military Aircraft Department, and let the emperor decide everything!

In this way, it took another half a month for the order to reach the Beijing Military Aircraft Department, and by the time Zhu Hongsan saw Duan Fei's situation, it was already almost October. What else can I do at this time? It was already snowing heavily in the northeast in October, not to mention Nebuchu further north, Zhu Hongsan sighed and ordered Duan Fei to besiege Nebuchu, and at the same time ordered Zhao Guodong to ensure Duan Fei's logistical supplies.

In this way, Duan Fei took 5,000 people to spend the winter outside the city of Nebuchu, although Duan Fei had sufficient supplies and the help of the surrounding natives in the northeast, but most of Duan Fei's soldiers were from Guangdong and Zhejiang, and they were not prepared for the harsh climate in the northeast, and in the coldest December, a large number of soldiers were reduced due to frostbite, and more than 50 people froze to death.

Duan Fei finally survived the long winter in the northeast, and in the warm spring of May, after statistics, Duan Fei lost more than 300 soldiers this winter, which was greater than the battle loss. But fortunately, the winter has passed, the Heilongjiang waterway has been unblocked, and the first batch of supplies and reinforcements from Jilin have also arrived.

This kind of big guy is different from the kind of cannon used by the navy, this special heavy artillery barrel is only one meter long, but the caliber is half a meter, and a shell weighs seventy pounds, but this kind of big guy has a very short range, only 500 meters.

Reinforcements arrived, and Duan Fei was ready to fight, and this time he must take down Nebuchu.

In June, the ground around Nebuchu had hardened enough to facilitate heavy artillery operations, and Duan Fei's fort outside Nebuchu had also been built, so Duan Fei decided to attack on June 20.

The arrival of the Ming army reinforcements made the city of Nebuchu gloomy, although the kind of cannon that had never been seen did not know how powerful it was, but it was not a good stubble at first glance. At the same time, the reinforcements requested by the Russian commander Bashkov did not come at all, only a letter from Franz Bekov, the governor of Yakutsk, that Moscow was fighting with the Poles, and all the troops had been transferred back to the country, and there was no reinforcement here in Yakutsk except for the basic guard troops.

Governor Franzbekov made it very clear in his letter that there were no reinforcements, and if they could not hold on, they could surrender.

Bashkov smiled bitterly after receiving the letter, now there are less than 1,000 troops in the city, but the Ming army on the opposite side has 5,000 people, plus the reinforcements that have just arrived, and the powerful cannon, so Bashkov decided to surrender after careful consideration.