At the end of July, the Novokhabarovsk fortress was finally overcome, after another 2,000 Wehrmacht troops were killed.

Except for a few of the 3,000 defenders who escaped alive, the rest were either killed in battle, or were brutally stabbed to death with bayonets after being captured, leaving not a single one behind.

Deng Yun and his soldiers hated these people to death.

In order to take a new Khabarovsk, they not only consumed twice the time they had planned, tens of millions of military rations, but also paid more than 5,000 casualties. Among them, more than half of the dead soldiers were killed, and a large number of the wounded and sick who were transported to the rear by sea also died of wounds. Deng Yunsheng ate the hearts of the defenders here.

After taking Novokhabarovsk, the thousands of Russian Qing defenders who were captured were dragged by them to the stele forest outside the fortress where the remains of the Wehrmacht martyrs were buried, and they were executed one by one.

Deng Yun would not have admired the commander of the fortress, if it were not for the fact that the Russian colonel Vyacheslav Volodin, who commanded the Novokhabarovsk fortress, had been killed in battle, he would have chopped it into a thousand knives.

But time was delayed.

The troops used for the offensive in the Northeast Military Region are all teams with +2 and +3 cold resistance attributes that have been honed over the years, but Lao Maozi's cold resistance attribute is at least +5. In August, and even September, the Wehrmacht can continue to attack, but after October, it will be difficult to ensure large-scale military operations.

The Aldan Mountains are not the Western Siberian Plain, nor are they the Kazakh steppes.

Deng Yun only has two months now, and what can he do in these two months to stir up the complex terrain of the Aldan Mountain Plains?

Therefore, although he conquered Novokhabarovsk, Deng Yun's face did not improve much, and he was still as serious as a cold marble statue.

But in the eyes of the commander-in-chief Huang Jie, Deng Yun took Novokhabarovsk and opened a gap, which is a really good thing. Even if the war drags on until next year, the overall situation of the war has already been settled.

There was rejoicing in the general headquarters.

This year, the grain harvest in the northeast and the outer northeast has been bumper again, and the results of the development of the northeast have initially appeared, and the entire grain output has not only helped to ensure the supply of combat troops, but also provided sufficient fodder for the hundreds of thousands of military horses and cattle mobilized before and after.

China has enough capital to drag it down, but I don't know what will happen to the Qing-Russian coalition army in the coming winter.

The area between Kamchatka and the south of the Chersky Mountains and north of the Djugjur Mountains, which is the most densely populated Russian country in Eastern Siberia, was destroyed by the Wehrmacht, and not only the means of production and subsistence were destroyed, but a large number of people were driven south. This has undoubtedly increased the grain burden of the Russian Qing Dynasty this winter.

Although I don't know how much the specific grain reserves of the Russian Qing are, they can always have a great impact on them.

Everything is fine here for Chen Han, and the remnants of the Qing Dynasty and Le Puning in the Aldan Mountain Plains are naturally gloomy and bleak. Since Chen Han rebelled, the Manchu Qing side has encountered such a panicked and bleak atmosphere many times, so this time, is the 'Qing Empire' really at the last moment of fate?

Yonghui sat in the dimly lit 'main hall', his expression a little numb, listening to his 'ministers' report the latest news of the battle situation, but he didn't say a word.

Novokhabarovsk has been in a hurry to ask for help, but they still have reinforcements to send there, and there are no rockets that Novokhabarovsk desperately needs, and most of the latter are in the hands of the Russians. However, if Novokhabarovsk really falls, the consequences are clear to everyone.

When the low voice was over, the hall fell silent. Colonel Vyacheslav Volodin, who was stationed in Novokhabarovsk, once again cried out for help, but the Russians sent the distress letter to Yonghui, who was watching the last bit of the Praetorian Guard in Yonghui's hands. Everyone didn't know what to say, and even if someone wanted to say a few words of encouragement, they didn't know how to say it for a while.

Even before the Sino-Russian war broke out again, they knew that the outcome would be inevitable – at least here in Eastern Siberia. In the years before that, many Manchu nobles sent their sons and possessions to Europe, and St. Petersburg was one of their chosen places of residence, as was London, Paris, and Madrid.

But that doesn't mean they don't expect miracles. For example, the battle in Novokhabarovsk, doesn't it give them hope in their hearts? But now Novokhabarovsk is in a critical situation, which makes their inner 'hope' not only deeply shattered, but also even more depressed. Now they can only pray that Novokhabarovsk will survive until the onset of winter, or that some pessimistic people are already praying that they will continue to escape life at the last moment. After all, these people have tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of pounds or even more property in private, and even if they go to Europe, they can spend the rest of their lives without food and clothing, so why bother to go to the Han people to be shot.

These people were all Manchu hardcores, and the Han army captured the ordinary banner people, and they were able to bypass their lives and throw them into labor camps. But if you catch them, you're going to be killed.

With this in mind, these people did their best to resist Chen Han, but the general trend was difficult to disobey. That's all they have in their hands.

After receiving repeated urgent reports from Novokhabarovsk, Yonghui was still unwilling to put the last bit of capital in his hand into the Novokhabarovsk battlefield. But he could not remain indifferent in the face of the 'persecution' of the Russians, so he ordered all the bannermen on the farms, all men who were over 15 years old and up to 60 years old, to enlist in the army!

Similar to this order issued by the remnants of the Qing were the Russians, who had already mobilized. It's just that the number of the latter in this area is too small, and most of the 10,000 Russian troops in Lepnin's hands were transferred from the west, rather than being conscripted on the spot.

If it weren't for the fact that more and more banner people settled down in Eastern Siberia, developed one after another Eight Banner Farms, and planted potatoes, cabbage and other crops suitable for growing in cold areas, they would have been able to solve their own food needs and provide additional food supplies to the Russian army.

Outside the 'main hall' built of logs, there was a sudden sound of leather boots, which suddenly woke Yonghui from his 'self-lamentation'. He looked up and saw that it was the commander-in-chief of the Russian army in Eastern Siberia, General Lenicolai Vasilyevich Lepnin.

Yonghui hurriedly got up to greet him, and greeted him in Russian, which he was already quite proficient in: "Your Excellency, General, I am really glad to see you." We don't have to let anyone know in advance, so we'll welcome ......."

Lepnin shook his head, "Your Majesty, we don't have time for such pointless etiquette anymore. Your desire to revive the Qing Empire is about to be tested to the most brutal, and the interests of the Russian Empire will also suffer significant losses.

I will tell you very, very bad news, Novokhabarovsk has been captured by the Chinese. ”

"Ah......h He was well aware of the significance of Novokhabarovsk. Yonghui had always felt that Novokhabarovsk was very stable, and Volodin's continuous pleas for help were like a crying child begging for milk in his eyes, and it was not really at the end of the mountain. I really didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, Novokhabarovsk would really be taken by the Han army.

"I just received the news. Frankly speaking, the interests of both of us are now under the most serious threat, and at this critical moment, we must work together to perfectly unite all our forces and fight the evil Chinese until the last moment! Therefore, in order to give full play to our maximum combat effectiveness as much as possible, the armies on both sides of us need to be under unified command, and I need to obtain your permission to obtain the supreme command of the Qing army. ”

"I'm not dissatisfied with the Duke of Highlandza, but you should know that there is a gap between us on some emotional issues. Duke Highlancha, if you wish, can be said to be the deputy commander-in-chief of the coalition forces. In the use of your army, I will try to obtain the consent of the Duke of Highlancha as much as possible. ”

Repnin said it nicely, but now Hailanchak is not standing on this 'big hall'.

The expression on Yonghui's face became cloudy. As a traditional Oriental king, even after all these years, he has not completely lost his dignity. The remnants of the Qing needed the support of Russia, but Russia also needed the assistance of the remnants, only in the eastern Siberian acre of three points of land, after the remnants of the Eight Banners farms were established and began to produce grain, the form of relations with the Russians has changed from weak to strong.

They have already passed the most dangerous period.

Moreover, even at the moment before the situation changed, the Russians were also very close to the remnants of the Qing Dynasty, otherwise the impact of the deaths of Fokangan and Fararev would not have been suppressed so easily.

Regardless of whether he was in Nebuchu or somewhere else, Yonghui always held a Praetorian Guard in his hand to 'protect' himself.

His fate was always in his own hands.

But now Lepnin is asking him to put his fate in the hands of a Russian......

Of course, Repnin understood Yonghui's concerns, but he felt that Yonghui would eventually give in, because the remnants were really at the point of life and death.

Russian reinforcements may be available next year, but they will come to Western Siberia, not to the distant governorate of the Amur River. It's too far away from Moscow, it's too far from St. Petersburg.

In fact, at the beginning of the war, Lepnin received a personal letter from Catherine II. In the letter, the Russian tsarina bluntly told Lepnin that it would be difficult to send additional troops to the governorate of the Amur River.

Once the war began, Lepnin would be under great pressure, and the final outcome he faced would be very likely, defeat. At that time, Her Majesty hoped that Repnin would be able to maintain her health properly, because she knew that Repnin must have done her best.

The threat to Russia was a great headache for Her Majesty, and Sweden was not a good reason, but the Ottoman Empire was still a great enemy, and fortunately Russia still had Austria as a helper in the Ottoman Turkish battlefield. And the most worrying thing for Her Majesty is the East.

The Chinese, who occupied Lake Baikal, could easily cut off the connection between Eastern Siberia and the Western Siberian Plain, and it was undoubtedly impossible to win the final victory by relying only on the little power of Eastern Siberia. Even with the Tatars as helpers, it would be impossible.

What Catherine II needed Repnin to do was to contain the military strength of the Chinese as much as possible, consume their money, materials, and war strength.

What Yong Jue didn't know was that Repnin, who was standing in front of him, had a psychological plan to lead his troops to drill into the ravines and fight harassment with the Chinese after the defeat in the defense of Chita. But he knew that the loss of East Siberia and the entire Siberian Russia was far from the point of extinction. But the remnants of the Qing Dynasty are really about to destroy the country and the species......

But Yonghui also knew that the Russians really did not have many soldiers in Eastern Siberia. There are not even a few men of appropriate age, and if it were not for them, the Russians would not have been able to expand their military strength to 20,000 on the basis of a standing army of 10,000.

The Han Chinese often refer to the Russians as 'Lao Maozi', a contemptuous title that has now spread among the bannermen, because the Russians have very thick hair and beards.

It is said that this is the head of Chen Ming's rebel thief, and he also called the Russians polar bears.

And when these two titles are combined, 'hairy bear' becomes the third name of the Russians.

The tall and healthy Russians are indeed not weak in battle, but even if all the Russian men who can hold guns are mobilized, the 20,000-strong Russian army in East Siberia will be a fart in front of Chen Wei's Northeast Military Region and the Northern Frontier Army.

As far as Yonghui knows, Chen Wei's Northeast Military Region has 120,000 people, and the Northern Xinjiang Army also has 40,000 or 50,000 people, and the soldiers they put on the battlefield are five or ten times that of the Russians. Don't say that the Russians are not really hairy bears, even if they are real hairy bears, they will be stabbed into a sieve by the bayonets of the Han Chinese.

Lepnin got what he wanted, and left the 'main hall' with a handwritten letter from Yonghui. From this moment on, the remnants of the Qing military force really became cannon fodder for the Russians.

"Your Majesty, do you really want to hand over all your military power?" Qinggui saw the back of Repnin leaving, and asked Xiang Yonghui.

He is a figure promoted by Yonghui in the early days, and the fourth son of Yin Jishan.

Monarchs and ministers have been together for more than ten years, and the remnants of the Qing Dynasty have fallen to such a situation, so they are no longer just monarchs and ministers.

Yonghui waved his hand: "Surrender, a group of rabble." "Those people who were requisitioned in the Eight Banners Farm, facing Chen Han's army, Yonghui seemed to have no strength to fight at all. But this is also the last bit of power of the remnants, no matter if it is not used, it must be used, and if it is not used, it will all be finished. When the time comes, it will be okay for the remnants of their top leaders to flee to Europe on their own, and will they still be able to bring so many people to Moscow and St. Petersburg? It is better to die on the battlefield than to let them freeze to death and starve to death in Siberia, or to be senselessly captured by the Han army.

If the Russians want to use them as cannon fodder, they should be cannon fodder.

Qinggui sighed.

Although the emperor said something very frustrating, it was indeed this reason. Those children of the Eight Banners, where is it not a death?

Death on the battlefield is death, and no one will die when you enter a labor camp?

The labor camps of the Han people are vicious.

At the beginning, how many green battalion soldiers were forced by the labor camp to dare not surrender, which shows how powerful it is.

Turning back to the 'apse', Yonghui took out a letter from a small nanmu box, which he read and read, and spent the rest of the afternoon thinking about it.

Do you want to use the Lee clan as a banner in Korea to call on the Koreans to revolt and expel Chen Han?

As a country that has been established for thousands of years, North Korea has been influenced by Confucianism in all dynasties, and the Korean people also know loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness. Chen Han destroyed Korea, divided one into two provinces, and incorporated them into the territory, Yonghui did not believe that the Koreans were obedient to Nanjing.

If they were allowed to raise a banner in North Korea, would they be able to disrupt Chen Han's pace of war?

But Yonghui felt that there was little hope, because the power of the sticky pole in North Korea was too small and too small, and maybe he would be killed by the police of the prefecture and county before he raised the banner.

It also has no effect on tripping Chen Hanmao.

"Alas......"

The night had already shrouded the Aldan Mountain Plains, and Yonghui beckoned one of the guards beside him to order: "Send the order to the sticky pole and continue to lurk." ”