A month and a half later, in the third lunar month of the fifth year of Taisheng, the ice floes on the Heilongjiang River in the north had just melted, and the birds were already singing in the dense forest. The sun came out to shine on the earth, and some of the trees that were greedy for early spring had already sprouted a little bud; Between the primeval mountains and forests, a huge river flows happily to the east, a scene of vitality.

At this moment, Heilongjiang City, located on the south bank of the Heilongjiang River, is a depressing and panicked atmosphere.

In the palace of the deputy capital of Heilongjiang, at this moment, it has been changed to a temporary palace by the 9th emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Yixun is pacing back and forth in the mansion, anxious.

It's not that Yixun doesn't want to change it to a formal palace, but he really doesn't have the free time and ability at all. Since he was driven out of Shengjing, he has fled all the way, changing places for several months in fear, all the way to the north, if it weren't for being in the cold land of the north, blocking the pursuing southern army for him for two consecutive winters, I am afraid that he would not be able to live in this world now.

Even so, the day has finally come. He was cornered and retreated to the last territory of the Qing Dynasty, the only remaining city that could accommodate more than 3,000 people. If this Heilongjiang City can't be defended anymore, I'm afraid that I and the last bit of the Qing clan who follow me will really be exterminated. The only reliance is on those Rus' foreigners.

"Hua Aiqing, where are those foreign soldiers who support Rus? Where did those hateful Han thieves attack again? "Yixun never thought that one day he would expect foreigners to protect him, and he was once a Rakshasa who fought with the Holy Grandfather. Therefore, he deliberately did not follow the original Rakshasa name, and changed his name, which made him feel better.

"Long live the lord, those Rus rescuers went down the Heilongjiang River, and they had already arrived at Heihetun in the afternoon of the day before yesterday, only forty miles away, and they could arrive in one day. However, those hateful foreigners stayed in Heihetun, and not only that, but also ransacked two small tribes of the Daur people. Yesterday, Katsuho led three hundred guards to urge them to reach the outside of the city today, under the banner of greeting. Hua Shantai, who was the former minister of the imperial guard, replied, and between his words, he faintly revealed that he had some complaints about Yixun's request for help from the foreigners, but when he thought of the attacking captives in the south, he took this complaint against the foreigners back to the bottom of his heart, "As for the Han rebels, I heard seven or eight days ago that they were already besieging Morgan. It's just that there is no news from Mergen now, so it hasn't been broken yet? ”

"No news is the worst news! The small castle of Morgen may have been breached by the rebels a long time ago, and none of the soldiers in the city have been able to escape, so there will be no news coming. ”

Yi Xun sighed: "Alas! Now that we are facing life and death, we can't care so much, so let's take those Daur people to be loyal to us! Are all the gifts I gave you ready? Foreigners are greedy by nature, and I don't know if this gift will make them work for me wholeheartedly. ”

Hua Shantai's eyes darkened, and he cried on the ground: "It's all to blame for the incompetence of the minions, and they can't share the worries of the master!" ”

"That's it, that's it!" Yi Xun waved his hand, "Send someone to wait by the river outside the city, and the reinforcements will come to report to me as soon as they arrive." After saying that, he closed his eyes weakly. In fact, there are many details of the meeting with foreigners in Yaksa City, and he has no face to explain to his ministers, so he really has no face to say.

Until the afternoon of the next day, on the northwest bank of the river outside the city of Heilongjiang, wooden boats flying the tricolor flag appeared one after another, but it was the Russian reinforcements who arrived. Yixun, who learned the news, personally led the imperial guard minister Hua Shantai, the Shengjing general Long Ketuo and other generals out of the city to greet him.

At the riverside ferry outside the city of Heilongjiang, more than 100 wooden boats crowded the entire riverside, and thousands of Russian soldiers got off the boats, and occasionally a few soldiers pushed and escorted one or two unclothed women off the boat. The two of them, Shengbao, the cabinet scholar on the shore, and Hu Xunbu, the deputy commander of Heilongjiang, looked at this scene with a blue face, glanced at each other, shook their heads, and dejectedly stepped forward with the general to receive this group of reinforcements and lead them to the outside of Heilongjiang City.

Most of the Russian reinforcements were Cossack soldiers, and they were commanded by Karsakov, the commander of the Primorsky Provincial garrison under the Eastern Siberian Governorate. Half a year ago, Tsar Alexander II approved the establishment of a Primorsky Province centered on Temple Street (now Nikolaevsk, Russia) on the advice of the Governor of Eastern Siberia, and now, this group of soldiers is actually preparing to deploy the garrison at the mouth of the river from Kotuntun to the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River.

"General Karsakov, this is His Majesty the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty! He specially went out of the city to greet the general, and also brought many rare treasures for the general, and the most important meeting gift for the general to lead the troops to help. A big-nosed general with a drunken face greeted him, first introduced Yixun's identity to Karsakov, and then turned his head to introduce General Karsakov to Yixun: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, this is the commander of the reinforcements sent by Governor Muravyov to help you defend the city, Major General Karsakov, commander of the garrison of Primorsky Province. This time, the major general brought a total of 5,200 soldiers, and the military strength is strong, and His Majesty can rest assured. ”

Before Yixun could speak, Hua Shantai on the side said dissatisfiedly: "Why are you so much reinforcements, your governor boasted of Haikou at the beginning, and with your strength alone, you will kill those southern Han soldiers." ”

The big-nosed general glanced at Hua Shantai with disdain, and snorted coldly and said to Yixun: "Your Majesty the Emperor, are you also so skeptical?" After speaking, without waiting for Yixun to answer, he whispered in Karsakov's ear.

Hua Shantai was even more angry, and his eyes were about to burst into flames, if it weren't for Yi Xun, he was afraid that he would have had a seizure long ago. Sheng Bao, Hu Xunbu and others, who accompanied them on the side, were also angry, and they were very angry at the rudeness of foreigners, but seeing Yixun glaring at them made them stay restrained, and they felt even more sad. I think that at the beginning, the Holy Ancestor sent troops to beat these Rakshasa devils to the ground, and now his descendants have fallen to this point.

After a while, the big-nosed general came over and shouted: "Our General Karsakov said, how can the soldiers of the Russian Empire be so weak and incapable of fighting like you Tatars?" We can get ten for one. Unless your enemy has 50,000 heavily armed musketeers, they are not our opponents! Without further ado, lead the way and lead us into the city. The general said that he hadn't drunk well for a long time, and he had to get drunk today! ”

Yixun and the ministers were dumbfounded, Yixun didn't want the foreigners to enter the city, but thinking that the rebels who were already close at hand were likely to be not far outside the city of Heilongjiang, in case they came to attack the city tonight, and the foreigners would directly remain neutral outside the city regardless of the Yaksa agreement, but it would not be good, forget it, let the foreigners enter the city, and completely pull them into the water in this way, so that at least they will try their best.

However, Heilongjiang City is only a medium-sized castle in Mobei, which can only accommodate a few thousand people, unless Yixun gives up his "palace", otherwise, five or six thousand people are stationed in the city, and it has reached the limit. And at this moment, there are already 5,000 so-called royal forest soldiers and guards stationed in the city, how can there be more people? Is it possible to let his own soldiers go out of the city to make room for outsiders? So, Yixun only let Karsakov and a few hundred other leaders enter the city, and the foreigners just wanted to enter the city early to drink, so they agreed to come down.

But on the same night, 3,000 foreigners entered the city, drove out hundreds of military families from the city, and seized their houses, and, of course, women. These local military households are naturally not weak and deceitful, they are the combative and ferocious people of the Manchu and Daur tribes who were sent here to garrison the frontier, of course, they will not be captured, after a fierce resistance, the two sides fought fiercely, but these local military households with sabers, bows and arrows, after so many years of captivity by the Qing Dynasty, food and clothing after a worry-free life, where is there still much combat power, and finally after dozens of people died, these local military households were driven out and occupied by foreigners.

That night, Yixun paid a heavy price for his hasty decision. Those military idlers who were kicked out of their homes, through chaotic relationships, gathered thousands of Qing soldiers in the city to attack the drunken Russian soldiers, set fire to the entire military household camp, and some drunken foreign soldiers immediately returned fire, and the two sides once again engaged in fierce fighting. There were also hundreds of foreigners who had drunk too much and were burned alive in the camp.

Yixun didn't actually fall asleep at all. Originally, there were sporadic gunshots, but he just thought that the foreigners were trying to fire or misfire, and he barely managed to calm himself, and waited until tomorrow during the day, until the continuous gunshots rang out, and he realized that something was wrong.

The fire on the other side of the camp was so bright that he couldn't regret it, and he knew that he shouldn't have let foreigners enter the city.

At this time, Shengjing's general Longketuo came to report that a large number of enemy troops had been found several miles outside the city, and it was the southern Han soldiers who were pursuing all the way, the number is unknown, estimated to be more than 20,000, and they were attacking the guard camp and infantry camp stationed outside the city.

Yixun was taken aback, and then he understood why those southern thieves did not come to attack Heilongjiang after occupying Morgen City, but waited until the foreigners entered the city before they began to launch, and they must have expected that the foreigners would clash with their subordinates, and at this time, it was the most terrifying time for both sides, a scuffle in the dark, and the soldiers at the bottom who knew who was attacking themselves would fight back desperately, it was a scuffle.

Sent Ronkto to hurry to the front line to suppress the position, he immediately recruited Shengbao, but he didn't have time to find a general to explain, he directly asked Shengbao to take himself to the leader of the foreigners, Karsakov, at this time, it was even more necessary to unite the foreigners and deal with the Han people in the south.