Temple Street, the Russian regular regiments began to assemble, and the entire Amur Primorsky Province had a total of eight infantry battalions of more than 8,000 men and more than 5,200 Cossack cavalry. Because it took longer for the infantry to assemble, 3,200 of the first assembled cavalry under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel Msin had already attacked, while the remaining infantry regiments were led by Commander Kazakiewicz and waited for the build-up to be completed before attacking.

When the infantry battalions of several villages and towns of the Tsarist Russians began to assemble, Zheng Haitao had already taken people back to the garrison to rest for a day. The old scorpion's hidden knife did not rest, five hundred hidden knives plus a thousand foot cavalry, and five hundred logistics cavalry, and the front pointed at Boli, that is, the Russian Khabarovka, where the 13th Russian Siberian Frontier Battalion was stationed.

It took nearly four days to get here.

The infantry cavalry is not cavalry, but infantry on horseback, and in addition to the standard guns of the insurance team, there are twelve 60mm mortars, six of which are PP93 mortars provided by Wang Yi at the beginning, and the remaining six are Bao-1 mortars produced by the arsenal last year, with a range of about two thousand meters.

Boli's 13th Frontier Battalion had received the news that Yaksa and Duo Chen had been attacked, but it was not yet known whether the attackers were subordinates of General Heilongjiang or General Jilin on the other side of the river. But apart from them, Tsarist Russia does not seem to have any other enemies in the Far East.

In the past two years, Russian migration to the Far East has almost stagnated, and the old scorpion's village slaughter strategy has made the already small population of the Amur Primorsky Region even worse. Although the Russians often sent troops to surround and suppress these bandits, they had little effect. With less than a thousand cavalry, the old scorpion didn't care at all. In this era when the Cossack cavalry still played spears, broadswords, shouted Ula, and played charge, the Bao 1 carbine in the hands of the old scorpion was like an artifact, except for the occasional little problem, all the cavalry cherished the guns with fast and slow machines very much.

Lieutenant Colonel Gachenko was looking at the map, and several staff officers next to him were also frowning. The Empire's military power in the Far East was not strong, far from being comparable to that of Europe. And this group of armed forces that suddenly appeared obviously came to the territory of the Qing Kingdom, who are they?

"Damn it! A bunch of hit-and-run bastards! Gachenko scolded casually.

But at this moment, a guard suddenly ran in and said, "Lieutenant colonel, an unknown army has been found outside." ”

Before the guards could finish their words, a strange sound sounded in the sky, followed by a rapid explosion. When Gachenko ran out of the room, two improved Gatling guns deployed behind the barracks wall were attacked by the other side, one of which had been destroyed. The Russian soldiers began to fight back, but suddenly found that they were completely useless, and the opponent was far out of range. And the range of their strange artillery is completely beyond everyone's imagination.

"Cavalry sorties, infantry sorties, capture the opponent's artillery positions." Gachenko knew that he could not continue like this, and that if the heavy fire was destroyed, the other side would raze the place to the ground.

A quarter of an hour later, the Russians, with the cavalry in front and the infantry behind, rushed towards the mortar positions deployed by the old scorpion. It is a sparse grove with a thick layer of snow on the ground. Now the army of the old scorpions, with the exception of the cavalry, has entered the combat position.

The old scorpion used a telescope to observe the movements of the other party, one thousand meters, eight hundred meters, six hundred meters, four hundred meters!

"Fire!"

The insurance team stood in front of them a wall of fire, in which bullets flew everywhere, and the impact of more than 2,000 soldiers on the other side seemed to hit the flying blade. The flesh and blood of the body were blurred and shattered in an instant!

Gachenko suddenly understood that Khabarovka was finished.

But he's not the only one.

The question now before Commander Kazakiewicz on Temple Street is very serious, two days ago, Lieutenant Colonel Msin rushed to Suchuna with his cavalry, and his own infantry regiment has only now been assembled. I was going to go with them, but today I got the news that Boli had been captured.

"What should I do?"

He didn't know what to do, but when he arrived at Suchuna, he got the news that Bohelitun had been attacked. Bohe Litun is located between Suchuna and Lao Aihui City, and is only a few dozen kilometers away from Suchuna. He immediately decided to go to the rescue. I never thought that I was frantically blocked by the other party on the way.

At first, like the other officers, Musin showed the courage to serve the Empire, charging at the enemy's ambush positions in the face of the enemy's bullets. But after he was suppressed by the dense bullets, the cavalry, who had not been discovered before, suddenly rushed from all directions. Mrsin finally realized that he had fallen into the trap of the enemy, but it was too late to escape.

After dealing with Mu Xin's 3,000 cavalry, Zheng Haitao and Zhang Quande took 4,000 cavalry, 3,000 infantry and 3,000 logistics troops and began to attack Su Chuna. After that, he reflexively came back to clean up the Hailan bubble, that is, Blagoveshchensk, and then Niu Man. Where they pass, as locusts pass through, there is no grass left.

After the old scorpion finished fighting Boli, he went south to attack Huaxin, and then returned to Boli to rest. Two days later, he had a round with Zheng Haitao, who had finished attacking Xu Ergu, and went north along the Heilongjiang River, first Hongke and then Tailun, and in less than two weeks, ransacked the cities along the Heilongjiang River.

Now the army of more than 10,000 people has now reached Miaotun, that is, the most important city of the Amur Primorsky Region of the Russians - Nikolaevsk.

In just a dozen days, Kazakievic felt like a year, his hair was a lot grayer, and the wrinkles on his face had increased significantly, like someone had quickened the wheel of time, making him twenty years old in an instant, and everywhere he went, he had a sense of decay that was about to die.

In the previous battle to aid Tailun, the number of soldiers in his hands was reduced by nearly 3,000, and there were 2,000 cavalry among them. But these sacrifices have no practical meaning other than to give Kazakevich a glimpse of the firepower of the insurance team.

Zheng Haitao once again did the barbarian work, slaughtering men and elderly women, while the young women were all taken away.

Kazakewicz lamented that nearly twenty years of painstaking operation of the empire in the Far East had been completely ruined. "These demons!" He thought in pieces like an old man. "God will punish them, and even burn churches and kill monks."

The battle on Temple Street began abruptly with the roar of heavy artillery, but after an accident, it ended abruptly!

Kazakievich died under heavy artillery bombardment, leaving more than 6,000 Russians to surrender. In this nightmare of more than ten days, the Tsarist Russians heard too many rumors about the troops in front of them, and this time Zheng Haitao did not go on a killing spree, of course, it was also at the behest of Wang Yi.

When Zheng Haitao left Temple Street with 6,000 captives, the old scorpion stayed, and then the hidden knife flew again, and Temple Street finally became the Chinese's own city again. After that, the old scorpion led people north, directly into the Chumikan at the mouth of the Wudi River, and then went all the way to the line along the Waixing'an territory, where was the original Qing patrol Obo! After that, he went south again and cleared all the villages and towns, leaving no chickens and dogs behind.

After Wang Yi got the battle report, he looked at the map and smiled, and said: "In the past ten days, more than 1.5 million silver dollars have been entered into our Dashang, but hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land have been returned. plus the six thousand captives who ate dry food. ”

Wu Xiao smiled at this time: "Captain, not only that, there are several small steam gunboats parked on Temple Street, all of which have been captured by us. ”

Wang Yi didn't seem to care at all, and said, "Is there a reply from Li Hongzhang?" Do they want these lands? ”

Wu Xiao shook his head and frowned: "No news!" ”

"I guess I don't have the courage to take this hot potato!"

"I think so!"

"It's okay, if Li Hongzhang doesn't send a message tomorrow, just tell them, if they don't want it, then I want it!"

"We?" Wu Xiao was taken aback.

"That's right, to establish a republic with the Qing Dynasty as the motherland, it will be called the Northeast Republic!" Wang Yi laughed and said: "That place, the north is the Great Khing'an Mountains, and the east is the sea, so you can come from the west." The question is how many people the Russians intend to send? It's not that the little master looks down on them, there is no railway, just robbing their logistics, we can grind them to death! Besides, they only finished the 10th Russo-Turkish war last year, and although they won, they were also greatly damaged. Although they won the war and forced the Ottoman Turks to sign the Treaty of San Stefano, they could not provoke the British Empire after all, and were rejected by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in a few words. ”

"I can't imagine that the Russian devils have such a time!" Wu Xiao smiled, and then talked about Wang Yi's mentions, and said, "Let the Russians come and talk to us, and see what they can do!" ”

"It's not good, it's the best! Let Zeng Jize talk about the problem of Xinjiang Yili, with Lord Zuo pressing the formation in the back, there should be no big difference. As for our side, it is to beat the drums and open another one, so that the Russians can come to the temple street to talk to us! If you don't accept it, you will fight! I think it's because they're tough, or if the little lady is bullish. ”

Wu Xiao laughed and nodded.

"By the way, send a message to Xiang Long and tell him, I'll give him those 20,000 people, but you can use it leisurely, don't run out of me! Also, before the war, let a few prisoners go to Shuangchengzi and let Vladivostok be lobbyists, it is best to be able to fight without blood, and at the same time tell them that we treat the prisoners preferentially. ”

Wu Xiao nodded.

Xiang Long had already led his troops to Dongning, which belonged to Jilin and was east of Ningguta, so it was named! He was the territory of the Jilin general who sat down as the deputy capital of Ningguta. However, when Wang Yi sent him the news, Xiang Longren had already entered Shuangchengzi. This is not a military fort in later generations, but an ordinary military cantonment, with two battalions and more than 4,000 people. The two sides fought against each other with artillery, and the 30 105mm howitzers and 60 75mm field guns of the Dashang exploded beyond recognition. All the artillery in Wang Yi's hands is now in Xiang Long's hands.

More than 1,000 people in the two border battalions of the garrison were directly blown to pieces, and the rest of the people were scattered and fled directly to Vladivostok. Xiang Long sent cavalry to chase and kill all the way, and only after dark did he collect his troops. In the end, those who can go to Vladivostok are afraid that there will be no one in ten!

Since Vladivostok was brought from the Qing court nearly 20 years ago, although the Russian side attaches great importance to it, it has no choice but to travel long distances and supplies poorly. Therefore, it was not until 1877 that the commander of the engineering forces of the Eastern Siberian Military District, Colonel P. F. Winterberg, began to plan the construction of fortifications in the most important port of the Far East, and his design was entrusted to Colonel V61P61 Shirokov for implementation. A year later, the initial coastal defense works were completed.

After that, the first commander of the engineering forces of the fortress, K*S. Chernoknizhnikov, strengthened the coastal artillery positions and built the first littoral permanent fortifications in the 90s of the 19th century. In 1899 Engineer Colonel Velicko devised a systematic scheme of land fortifications, on the basis of which Colonels Zhigarkovsky and S. F. Chizh began to construct several main fortresses of the fortress in 1900: fortresses Nos. 1, 2 and 3, multi-sided forts No. 4 and 5, as well as three spectacle ramparts, connected by moats protected by breastwork. In addition, the "Russian Fortress" and Fortress No. 4 were built in the Russian Mountains and on the Sapenny Peninsula, respectively, and these fortifications are similar to those built at the same time as the Arthur Fortress.

In 1904-1905, the Vladivostok fortress, which was initially completed, played an important role in preventing the Japanese army from capturing Vladivostok.

In 1910-1916, the General of the Engineer Corps, A. P. Fernand, proposed a new design for the fortress, which was strongly approved by the commander of the Engineer Corps of the Vladivostok Fortress, Major General A. P. Shosin. In the following years, fortresses No. 1-7 and fortresses A, E, ZH and Z were built on the southern shore of the Suifen River basin from Ussuriysk (Twin Cities) to the Amursky Bay, and fortresses Nos. 9-12 were built on the southern and eastern shores of Russky Island, as well as a series of infrastructure facilities such as coastal batteries and anti-landing covered passages. The new fortress drew on all the military engineering and technology of the time, including many well-set bunkers and underground passages.

After reading the above information, Wang Yi also knew that Vladivostok was now like a little beauty who was only wearing a thong, but exposed the above two points, and kept twisting her waist in front of her.

Of course, there is also the Russian Siberian Fleet, which in 1866 had 43 ships, including 3 cruisers, 13 gunboats, 4 transports, and 18 steamers. Wang Yi counted the Russian Navy in the 1860s with Sevastopol, Petropavlovsk, Pervinets and his sister ships - Netren Menya and Kremlin, Duke Pozharsky, Minin, Admiral, Duke of Edinburgh, and the only former dreadnought - Peter the Great. The ten battleships here, starting with the Pervinets, are ironclads. With the exception of Peter the Great, all were sail-steam mixed battleships.

Russia has a vast territory, not only the Siberian fleet, but also the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea and other sea areas that need to be patrolled. So before 1880, none of these warships could really reach the Far East. Besides, even if there are a few warships in Vladivostok, but now it's winter, and the sea is frozen in the port, where else can they run?