In the early morning of Chumikan, the fog cleared, and a flash of morning light lit up the horizon.

Li Weiguo got up very early today, came to the bank of the Wudi River alone, stood on a reef, and looked at the opposite bank.

The Udi River is the territorial boundary between China and Russia, from the Outer Khingan Mountains from west to east directly into the North Sea (now the Sea of Okhotsk), the opposite bank is the Russian territory, you can clearly see rows of formal wooden houses, cooking smoke, at least hundreds of households, and a small Russian fortress, in which at least more than 2,000 Russian troops.

Compared with the Russian residents on the other side, Li Weiguo turned around and looked behind him, but there were less than 50 families left in the huge town of Chumikan.

It has been burned, killed and looted by the Russians across the border for a long time, and it has been ten rooms and nine empty.

As soon as his shoulders warmed, Li Weiguo turned his head to look, but it was Su Sanniang who put another mink cloak on him.

Su Sanniang, who is the queen of the West Palace, still insisted on following Li Weiguo on his expedition to the east and took care of him along the way.

"What do you want to be so engrossed?"

Li Weiguo stretched out his hand to hold Su Sanniang in his arms and said, "The Russians on the other side of the river have Chinese blood on their hands, and I am thinking about how to take revenge on them!" ”

Su Sanniang glanced at the flag man house behind her, and said with a smile: "I hope the flag man will receive your love!" ”

Li Weiguo said: "Whether they appreciate it or not, they are all Chinese citizens now, how can I, the emperor, not stand up for them?" ”

Su Sanniang said: "The Russian minister died in Heilongjiang City, Russia will definitely not give up, and it will have to fight!" ”

"That's right!" Li Weiguo agreed: "If we don't fight with the Russians, they always think that we are easy to bully." Besides, the Russians are very untrustworthy, the Udi River is the area to be discussed in the Treaty of Nebuchu, and neither side is allowed to garrison troops, and now they have built all the fortresses. ”

Su Sanniang frowned slightly, and asked a little puzzled: "It's cold here, the population is sparse, and it's almost a barren land." Why did the Russians go so far as to occupy this place? ”

Li Weiguo smiled slightly, the general worldview of people in this era has limitations, and they don't see the long-term enough. On the contrary, the Russians and Americans are very strong in this regard, the Russians annexed the Greater Siberian region, and after a hundred years, the earth will warm, the temperature will be hot, and it will become more and more unsuitable for human life. And when the glaciers melted, the Arctic Ocean glaciers melted and became navigable, Siberia would become the last paradise of mankind, and the vision of the Russians would reward them in a hundred years. Buying the barren land of Alaska with the Americans has become a beautiful conversation a hundred years later.

Of course, the current Alaska has been bought by Li Weiguo first, but he also has ambitions for Siberia.

At this time, a patrol suddenly walked out of the outer Khing'an Mountains and appeared by the river not far away.

The officer at the head saw Li Weiguo and hurriedly came to greet him.

"Report to Your Majesty, the Ninth Patrol of the Outer Khing'an Mountains salutes you! Captain Chang Xin! ”

"Please take a break!"

Li Weiguo nodded and asked, "You just came out of Waixinganling, how is the situation over there?" ”

The reconnaissance in the outer Xing'an Mountains area was deployed in accordance with Li Weiguo's request a few days ago. It mainly reconnoiters the deployment and movement of Russian troops in the Outer Khingan Mountains, and at the same time checks whether the Sino-Russian border has been invaded, because the Outer Khingan Mountains is officially one of the northern demarcation lines stipulated in the Sino-Russian Nebuchu Treaty.

"Report to Your Majesty that there are several fortresses built by the Russian army on the Outer Khingan Mountains. There are 500 to 3,000 Russian soldiers stationed there, and most of the patrols that were built in the past have been destroyed, and the Russian army is constantly encroaching on our land. ”

Patrol Obo. Name implies. Obo, Mongolian Ao Bao, that is, the meaning of heaps. The place of Manchu sacrifice. At the time of the Sino-Russian Treaty of Nebuchu. The Qing court decided to engrave stone boundary monuments in Manchu, Chinese, Russian, Mongolian, and Latin characters at the mouth of the Gelbiqi River and the mouth of the Ergun River, and in Manchu, Russian, and Mongolian characters on the mountains of the Outer Khing'an Mountains, so as to perpetuate them. In addition, officers and soldiers were stationed in the cities of Morgan and Heilongjiang and a system of regular border inspections was established, with annual patrols and patrols every three years.

So the patrol Obo, that is, the patrol of boundary monuments, is equivalent to the patrol of the border in later generations.

Destroying Obo and constantly encroaching on territory is the same as the methods of Vietnam, Southeast Asia and other countries in later generations!

Damn, I'm not used to this!

Li Weiguo snorted coldly and ordered the patrol to continue patrolling, while he returned to Xingyuan and summoned the camp officials to discuss countermeasures.

The strategy against Tsarist Russia is obviously to attack from afar, and Tsarist Russia's territory is so large that it is destined to be the foundation of a strong country, and before it becomes a powerful Soviet Union, it is necessary to strangle its tentacles that reach into Asia.

Li Weiguo does not want his neighbor to have a strong Soviet Union in the future, because the Soviet Union is so terrible that he wants to use nuclear weapons against China several times, so Li Weiguo will never sit idly by, and strangulation in advance will become his inevitable choice.

"Your Majesty, on top of the basic national policy you have set, the next five-year plan is to use force against the British Royal Navy, expel the British Royal Navy from East Asia, and ensure the Imperial Navy's naval supremacy over the coastal waters of East Asia. If the Empire were to fight against Russia, and then conflict with Great Britain, it would be a great threat to the future of the Empire, because Britain and Russia would unite and make the Empire vulnerable on land and sea. ”

In the camp, Wang Kaitai, the secretary of the military department, raised his concerns.

"Lord Wang's worries are justified, and the possibility of Britain and Tsarist Russia being in a gully in the future cannot be ruled out." Li Weiguo nodded, for the future union of Britain and Russia will be inevitable, after all, the First World War Britain and Russia were allies.

Of course, the alliance between Britain and Russia was formed because of the confrontation with Germany, and at the same time, Britain and Russia made concessions and resolved their military conflicts in East Asia, West Asia, and Central Asia.

But now it is different, Britain and Russia are still hostile, and it is impossible for the two countries to form a real military alliance in the short term.

However, it is not excluded that the possibility of a temporary alliance between the two countries cannot be ruled out, for example, there is no actual conflict of interest between the two countries in East Asia, so in East Asian affairs, Britain and Russia may still form an alliance temporarily, just like Russia has just finished the Crimean War with Britain, but soon during the Second Epiphanya War in East Asia, it helped Britain, France and the United States to play cover, this is a temporary alliance, each taking what it needs. Once China offends both Britain and Russia, Britain and Russia can definitely join forces to attack China.

"But that's not a problem!" Li Weiguo changed his words and said: "Britain suffered heavy defeats in the two battles of Songhu, and it is impossible to send an army to China in a short period of time, the United States will involve Britain's energy, France and Prussia will not be able to help if they go to war, and no matter how strong the British navy is, it will not be able to pose a substantial threat to us." Therefore, Britain will not unite with Russia, and unless we are defeated by the Russian army on land, Britain will never go to war with us again in a short time. ”

"Your Majesty is very true!" Zhou Fu, who served as the left attendant of the Ministry of War, agreed: "After two fiascos, unless the empire takes the initiative to go to war with Britain and France, Britain and France will not easily start a war against the empire again." Therefore, there is only one strong enemy left on land, Tsarist Russia, and it is only necessary to defeat Tsarist Russia with all its might. ”

Li Weiguo turned to Wu Yong and asked, "What do you think of Wu Junji?" ”

Wu Yong, as the chief of the General Staff of the Imperial General Staff, is also one of the ministers of military aircraft of the Military Aircraft Department. He smiled slightly and said: "The minister agrees with Your Majesty and Lord Zhou's opinion, the British and French don't need to think about it for the time being, just concentrate on dealing with Tsarist Russia." His Majesty has just ascended the throne. New China had just been founded, and it was in ruins, defeating the Anglo-French alliance and temporarily resolving the maritime threat. There is only one strong enemy left on land, and as long as it wins another game against Tsarist Russia, it can boost the morale of the people. Ensure the peaceful and stable development of the empire for five years. ”

Wang Kaitai and the others immediately looked at Wu Yong and asked rhetorically: "Why did Wu Junji only say five years of peaceful development?" Tsarist Russia lost the Crimean War, but as a result, it was honest for ten years, and now it does not dare to go to war with Turkey again. As long as the empire fights a big victory and destroys more than 100,000 or 200,000 Russian troops, it can at least buy ten or even twenty years of peaceful development time for the empire without worrying about the attack of Tsarist Russia. ”

Wu Yong suddenly smiled and said: "What Lord Wang said is also reasonable, normally speaking, there is indeed this possibility." But Lord Wang seems to have forgotten that the traditional powers of Europe and the United States will not easily let New China rise, because they do not want another great power to carve up the world with them. And His Majesty has long formulated the future development direction of the navy, five years later will be the British Royal Navy completely expelled from the coastal waters of East Asia, the British will never sit idly by, five years later China and Britain will inevitably break out a large-scale naval war to determine the sea supremacy in the coastal waters of East Asia, at that time, no matter whether Tsarist Russia has the strength or not, he will not be idle, will definitely collude with the British, take advantage of the fire to rob. Even at that time, if the Franco-Prussian War ended, France might join the war if it won, and if it lost, it would inevitably join the war to make up for the lost interests on the Prussian side from the side of New China. ”

Hearing Wu Yong say this, everyone suddenly realized and nodded in agreement.

"That's right, Wu Junji's analysis is very reasonable!" Li Weiguo said in a timely manner: "Now the empire still has a piece of territory in Alaska, if we launch a surprise attack and attack the stronghold of Tsarist Russia in the Far East, Tsarist Russia will be caught off guard and inferior to us, and the Far East can be taken by us and connected with Alaska." ”

Zhou Fu immediately said: "The Russian army in the Far East only has a dozen strongholds, all of which are not strong and large fortresses, less than 20,000, and at present, our army has eight towns in Heilongjiang to assemble, and the Russian army can be easily eliminated." It's just that, in this way, if China and Russia go to war, the Russian army may not be able to send a large army to the Far East because it is too far away, but they can start a war in the Western Regions, where the imperial whip is beyond reach. ”

Zhou Fu's worries were not unreasonable, and everyone frowned one after another, and then thought of countermeasures.

Unexpectedly, Li Weiguo suddenly laughed and said: "I want Tsarist Russia to attack the Western Regions, if he doesn't attack the Western Regions, Tibet, Mongolia, Xinjiang and other places, when will we have an excuse to send troops in?" ”

Everyone suddenly realized that they were all smart people, and they naturally understood Li Weiguo's intentions.

Then he said in unison: "Your Majesty is wise, and the ministers will obey!" ”

Li Weiguo laughed again: "Okay, don't pat yourself!" Now that you've got it all figured out, I'll leave the rest to you. There are only tens of thousands of Russian troops, don't worry about me, you can deal with it yourself. I want to return to Beijing immediately and deploy a large army to enter the Western Regions, and this will be handed over to Wu Junji. ”

Wu Yong immediately stepped forward to receive the order: "Minister, Wu Yong is grateful!" Please rest assured that Your Majesty will return to Beijing, and the minister will live up to his holy order here! ”

Li Weiguo didn't say anything more, and ordered the Imperial Forest Army to prepare for returning to Beijing, and he was very relieved to hand it over to Wu Yong.

After Wu Yong sent Li Weiguo away, he immediately deployed the operation.

The well-trained Chinese Shence Army launched a military operation that night, and the troops were divided into six routes, attacking the Russian military camp on the other side of the Udi River and five Russian fortresses on the Trans-Khingan Mountains.

On the bank of the Wudi River, due to the warm spring flowers, the ice surface has become thinner, so the 12th Town Engineer Battalion of the Shence Army has laid several pontoon bridges on the ice, because of the support of the ice, the laying speed is extremely fast, and ten pontoon bridges have been erected in an hour.

In Heilongjiang, the Shence Army of the Eight Towns, because the 155 mm heavy howitzers were inconvenient to transport and could not be used to raid the Russian fortress on the Outer Xing'an Mountains, so all of them were transferred to the 12th Town Artillery Regiment, which made the 12th Artillery Regiment instantly angry, and an artillery regiment actually had 72 155 mm center howitzers, which was majestic for a time.

Seventy-two 155-mm heavy howitzers were deployed on the banks of the Udi River, lined up, and aimed at the Russian military camp three miles away on the opposite bank.

The movement of the Shence army naturally alarmed the Russian army on the other side, because the news that the Russian minister was killed in Heilongjiang City had been reported back to the barracks, and the commander of the Russian army, Major General Amoliev, had already sent someone back to St. Petersburg to deliver a letter, but the distance was too far, and the backward Russian army had not yet sent a telegram to the Far East, so it would take at least nine months to go back and forth, and before receiving an order from St. Petersburg, Amoliev did not dare to start a war against China, but this did not mean that he did not defend himself.

Amoryv is a Cossack soldier, actually commanding 10,000 Cossack cavalry regiments, nearly 30,000 Russian troops on the intelligence of the Shence Army, in fact, the remaining nearly 20,000 Russian troops are Russian immigrants and exiled criminals, because of the invasion of China, so St. Petersburg allowed Amoyiv to arm these people, so there is an army of nearly 30,000.

By this time, Amioev had already received a report that the Chinese troops on the other side of the Udi River were preparing to attack, so he immediately ordered the 3,000 Russian troops in the barracks to be put into a state of combat readiness.

It's just that Amoeiv never expected that the Chinese army on the other side of the river would have seventy-two 155mm heavy howitzers, and what made him even more devastated was that the destructive power of the Chinese army's heavy howitzers was very amazing.

Knock knock......

The cannon roared, breaking the silence of the night. Artillery fire shone brightly, lighting up the sky.

Boom Boom Boom ......

A 155-millimeter heavy grenade fell, exploded violently, and the huge destructive force of the explosion instantly leveled the entire Russian military camp, and the Russian soldiers hiding on the city wall were caught off guard, and they were swept away by the air wave and planted under the city, and they were immediately killed and injured.

"W-how is this possible?"

Amoeif was petrified in an instant, he had never seen such powerful artillery fire since he joined the army, and he couldn't believe what was happening in front of him. (To be continued.) )