"General, look!"

As soon as Wang Song finished speaking, the observer above his head suddenly shouted. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

He looked up and saw the gates of the city of Yaksa open in the distance, and several Russians came out with a white flag, still waving there.

"Surrender? Negotiation? ”

The captain beside him said blankly.

"Did we negotiate with them in our orders?"

Wang Song said.

"Nope."

The captain quickly shook his head.

"Is there any acceptance of their surrender in our order?"

Wang Song asked again.

"Nope!"

The captain quickly shook his head again.

"That's a! Fire! ”

Wang Song said speechlessly.

"Fire!"

The captain immediately shouted.

The two fifteen-pound rifled guns suddenly let out a roar, and the two shells roared across the wide river and smashed right between the Russians, and the two explosions flashed, and the latter disappeared in the flames in an instant, almost at the same time, the cannons on the river gunboats behind continued to let out a roar that resounded across the river one after another, and the fifteen-pound cannonballs filled with gunpowder smashed into the city of Yaksa with a piercing whistling sound, and almost in a blink of an eye, this small castle was flooded by the flames.

At the same time, the troop carriers laden with infantry began to rush to the shore beach.

These special inland river vessels are designed for Sichuan River navigation, the principle is to sail to Chongqing even in the dry season, the most important feature is that the draft is shallow enough, in fact, they are all within one meter two, the shallowest is even only one meter. But the tonnage is not low, basically more than five hundred, of course, five hundred by the Ming standard, that is, three hundred tons in Europe, such a draft can easily dock to the beach on the shore, and then the infantry loaded on it waded ashore, and at the same time used the boom to put the small boat with heavy rockets dragged to the shore by the infantry, and then carried the launch tube and shells ashore by human lifting, loaded with a special trailer, and dragged directly to the outside of Yaksa by horses.

As for the Russians in the city......

Dozens of cannons bombarded such a small castle, how could they have the ability to care about anything else.

This section of the river just formed a bend in the lower reaches of Yaksa City, and all twenty gunboats of the Ming army were lined up, outside the range of the artillery on the castle, leisurely and continuously bombarded, and forty fifteen-pound rifled guns took Yaksa City as a target, but the poor Russian army inside had no power to fight back.

At the same time, the soldiers who landed in the Ming army also dragged the heavy rocket to the outside of the city of Yaxa, and took advantage of the fierce artillery fire to push the trailer with shields, under the cover of dense rows of guns and special snipers, and rushed directly to less than 50 meters away from the city wall, and then aimed at the ignition and retreated, and the direct heavy rocket dragged a spectacular wake trail with the newly replaced eighty pounds of explosives inside, and crashed headlong into the wall of Yaxa.

Two-meter-high walls!

Eighty pounds of explosives!

After a loud bang, the city of Yaksa broke.

"It took a total of an hour?"

Wang Song looked at his pocket watch speechlessly and said.

In fact, the real siege time was less than ten minutes, mainly because the Ming army took too much time to land and march.

At this time, outside the city of Yaksa in front of him, a large number of Ming infantry were pouring in from the gap with rifles with bayonets, and the counterattack of the Russians was negligible, in fact, only a few minutes later, the Ming troops who rushed into the city began to drag out the Russians who were not dead. Then they were pushed to the bank of the river one by one, stabbed in the back with a bayonet and kicked into the river to feed the fish, the battle of Yaksa in the Ming Dynasty took a total of one hour and ten minutes, and when Wang Song's ship docked on the dock, several soldiers also dragged His Excellency the Governor, who was covered in blood, to him.

"You, without the honor of a soldier, we have raised the white flag!"

His Excellency the Governor said indignantly.

And he stood up very solemnly and tidied up his blackened military uniform.

"I, as a baron of the Russian Empire, ask for a duel with you!"

Then he said more solemnly.

"Okay!"

After listening to the translator's paraphrase, Wang Song agreed very happily.

In fact, duel is not uncommon in the Ming Dynasty, the official law does not explicitly prohibit private fighting, although the official law also clearly prohibits private fighting, but in fact, as long as both parties find a notary to sign a life and death certificate, it is a matter of what you are willing to do, as for the weapon, it is casual, fists and swords can be, even if you play the pistols of the Europeans and shoot each other, no one interferes, so Wang Song, who is familiar with the routine, took out his revolver very happily and checked it very carefully there.

But something seems wrong?

"Your Excellency, shouldn't you give me a gun?"

The Russian governor asked weakly.

"Why should I give you a gun?"

Wang Song asked with a pure face.

As he spoke, he turned his gun on the guy.

"What I'm asking for is a fair duel!"

The Russian governor again said indignantly.

"Bang!"

Suddenly there was a burst of gunfire.

Wang Song blew the muzzle of gunsmoke, looked at the fallen corpse and said, "Yes, but I am in charge of my territory, and this is the rule of my duel." ”

"Order, rest here for two days, and then move on, next stop, Nebuchu!"

Then he commanded.

His duty is to explore the navigation of this water, at least ten years, the Ming railway can not be built here, the future Heishui River shipping is the main means of transportation of the Ming in this area, theoretically this water transport line can extend from the northeast to Chita, and even from Chita to the west. Of course, large ships like these Chuanjiang gunboats can only reach the limit of Nebuchu, but they can be specially built with a smaller tonnage, in fact, the Chuanjiang gunboats with a displacement of more than 100 tons can reduce the draft to 0.7 meters, and even the Xinzhen built by Volkeng Shipyard has a displacement of 140 tons, but the draft is only 0.6 meters, and most of this draft can be entered by the river.

In the process of expanding into the Far East, Russia mainly relied on water transportation, and their expansion method was to gradually advance one river after another, the most terrifying record is on the Irtysh River, and even once sailed inland merchant ships directly to Burzin under the Altai Mountains in northwestern Xinjiang.

Yang Feng wants to really control this vast land, can only rely on these natural rivers, but don't think that the rivers can only be transported by water, in fact, even in winter, these rivers can also be used, the low temperature of minus 40 degrees will make these rivers completely frozen into ice mounds, just like an ice highway, horse-drawn ploughs can easily speed on these special highways. But first he had to find someone willing to live in these ghost places, and before any immigrants were willing to come, he would have to let his soldiers endure the harsh conditions.

In his plan, the first thing is to clean up the strongholds of the Russians, and most of this work has been completed because of the help of Yinchu, the main force of expansion in this area, those Cossacks and Russian exiled criminals, most of them have been attracted to Shanxi, and then become cannon fodder on the battlefield, and now only need to pull out the few remaining strongholds.

Then set up garrisons in these strongholds, and with these garrisons, there will naturally be merchants and even women who serve the soldiers, and by the way, do business with those chaotic peoples in this area, in fact, there are not only Russians, but also a certain number of natives, so that with these military strongholds as the core, cities will gradually form, and in some places with good environments such as Boli, Hailan Pao, Chita, and even real settlers will gradually appear.

Waiting for the Beihai Railway to be completed, and waiting for the Northeast Railway Network to be repaired, with the support of the railway, it will really enter the stage of large-scale development.

As for the attack on Russia......

He was never prepared to pass through this route, and he could only take the Central Asian route to attack Russia, relying on the Eurasian land bridge he planned as a strategic basis, and attacking Russia from Siberia was completely kicked in the head by a donkey, and he built the railway to the Caspian Sea, to the Black Sea, and then to the support of inland shipping, even if he hit St. Petersburg. The real core of Russia is in Eastern Europe and not Siberia, as long as the Eastern European part is taken, even if there is still a little Russian, it will be completely inappropriate to worry about Siberia, on the contrary, if you attack from the direction of Siberia, before you reach Eastern Europe, it is estimated that the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty will be exhausted to death on the seemingly endless ice field.

It is even more cost-effective to shoot the Ottomans and Persia to death first, and then attack Russia north from the southern front than to go through Siberia.

Just when the Ming army's inland river fleet sailed west along the Heishui River to Nebuchu, the battle on the battlefield of Goryeo finally ended, although Yang Feng's request was to block the Qing army in Goryeo to prevent them from meeting with Yinzhen, but the Ming army, which only had two brigades, could not block the vast mountains for more than 2,000 miles no matter what, and the Qing army, which was familiar with the terrain, still withdrew from Goryeo, but the rest was less than 5,000, and they had a total of 30,000 people to attack Goryeo, and finally escaped so much.

But they caused more than a third of the population to Goryeo.

Goryeo, with a population of 6 million before the war, lost a total of 2.3 million even the war death and famine plus those who were captured, and now there are less than 4 million left, especially in the north, which is the main tug-of-war battlefield.

Fortunately, the war finally ended, but fortunately, His Majesty the benevolent Emperor Ming was shocked by the tragic situation of Goryeo, and not only personally paid for the construction of orphanages in various places, adopted orphans caused by the war, provided them with free food, clothing, shelter and transportation, and also provided them with free education. In addition, although the battlefield in the northeast was still in the midst of fierce fighting, he still ordered the troops stationed in Goryeo to stop attacking the other side of the Yalu River, and stayed in Goryeo to help the Goryeo people rebuild their homes.

Of course, this is not enough. (To be continued.) )