On February 24, in the northern part of the Western Front, Nebuchu (Nerchensk), a small city that had been completely Russified.

The Nercha River flows from its west and flows into the Shilka River more than ten miles to the south.

The Trans-Siberian Railway crosses the Nercia River and extends eastward through the city.

Since December last year, the Chinese Janissaries began to confront the Russian 5th Army along the line of the Nercha River, and the Russian 33rd and 41st Divisions occupied Nerchensk (Nebuchu) in Jiangdong, forming a salient centered on the town, due to the support of the railway line, the Russian army can quickly gather forces to the salient to launch a surprise attack on the Chinese army, even if it does not take an offensive posture, it can also threaten the flanks of the Chinese army on both sides of the salient in a defensive battle, therefore, at the beginning of the Battle of Chita, The first task of the Janissaries was to eliminate this salient.

A Brigadier General of the Praetorian Guard, in his early thirties, dressed in a pure black coat, with a Western saber wrapped in a white cloth around his waist, holding a pair of binoculars, on his right hand was the frozen Nercha River, and in front of him was the position of the 41st Division of the Russian Army, which was being ravaged by thousands of thunderbolts.

"Hmph, Nebuchu......"

The brigadier general muttered to himself, and the two sword eyebrows converged slightly inward.

In the past two months, a copy of the "Records of the Tsarist Invasion of the North" has been turned out of his hands, and in his mind, the place name Nebuchu is the clearest link between history and reality.

In the 11th year of the reign of Emperor Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty, in 1654, Russia sent Bektov to invade Chinese territory from Lake Baikal and forcibly occupy Nebuchu, but under the resistance of the local Chinese people, he soon left and turned eastward to disturb the Heilongjiang area.

The following year, the Russian tsarist government appointed Bashkov as the "Overseer of Heilongjiang", and in 1658 he again invaded the Chinese territory of Nebuchu.

In 1662, the first year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, the Russian government appointed Illarion Tolbuzin as the governor of Nebuchu, and officially included the surrounding areas of Nebuchu into the Russian jurisdiction.

In the sixth year of the reign of the Qing Emperor Kangxi (1667), the Sauron chieftain Ghentmul betrayed the motherland and fled to Nebuchu, begging for Russian asylum. Two years later, in 1669, Emperor Kangxi arrested the auxiliary minister Ao Bai and regained real power. In the winter of that year, the Chinese government sent Shaladai to Nebuchu to negotiate with Russia. The following year, Shaladai again went to Nebuchu to negotiate with Russia, and the Russian governor of Nebuchu sent Mirovanov to accompany Sharadai to Beijing. In his reply, Kangxi demanded that Russia repatriate Ghentmud and stop its aggression and provocations against Chinese territory. In 1771, the Chinese government sent Mengard to Nebuchu to urge the Russians to repatriate Ghentmul and stop border provocations. Subsequently, due to the rebellion of the three feudatories (1673-1681), the Qing government failed to take substantive action against further Russian aggression, but it never showed weakness in diplomacy and insisted on the above two demands, and the aggressive demands of the Russian envoys who arrived in Beijing in 1776 were also completely rejected by the Chinese side.

In the 19th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (1680), the Russian government established the Nebuchu Governor's Military Region, with Vojkov as the first overseer, and sent additional troops and built fortresses to prepare for further invasion of China.

In the twentieth year of Kangxi, the Qing government quelled the rebellion of the three feudatories, and then began to counterattack the Russian invasion, and after two battles of Yaksa, the Russian forces were expelled from the Heilongjiang River Valley, but due to the rebellion launched by Geldan of Dzungar and colluded with the Russian army to attack the Mongolian Khalkha and other departments, the entire northwest frontier of the Qing Empire suffered great pressure.

In the twenty-eighth year of the reign of Kangxi (1689), the diplomatic missions of China and Russia agreed to start negotiations in Nebuchu. At the first meeting between China and Russia, the chief representative of China, Suo Etu, pointed out that the Heilongjiang River basin and the area east of Lake Baikal have belonged to Chinese territory since ancient times, and proposed "taking the Lena River and Lake Baikal as the national border" (note!). ）。 However, the Russian representative Golovin unreasonably proposed that the Heilongjiang River should be bounded by the sea, but the Chinese representative resolutely refused.

At the second meeting, the Chinese representative Suo Etu made a major concession and proposed that Nebuchu be the boundary, and that Nebuchu belong to Russia, but the Russian representative Golovin refused. Later, in order to reach an agreement with Russia, China made major concessions and ceded to Russia Nebuchu and a large area east of Lake Baikal, at which time, in view of the development of the anti-Russian struggle of the Chinese people in Nebuchu and the area west of it, and in view of the fact that the Chinese side had agreed to cede vast and fertile land, it accepted the demarcation line proposed by the Chinese side and agreed to abandon the occupation of Yaksa. Just as the treaty was about to be signed, the Russian delegates made unreasonable demands on the demarcation line at the eastern end of the Trans-Khingan Mountains (Mount North), and repeatedly entangled them. The Chinese side made another concession and agreed that an area south of the Udi River would be left for later negotiation, and finally the Treaty of Nebuchu was signed, and the eastern section of the border between the two countries was decided to be bounded by the Erguna River, the Gul River (Gelbiqi River) and the Shida Khingan Mountains (Outer Khingan Mountains, known as the Stanov Mountains in Russian).

Of course, since the 50s of the 19th century, the Russians have trampled the Treaty of Nebuchu into the mud, and the initial demands of the Russian envoy Golovin two hundred years ago were fully fulfilled by his successors with foreign guns and cannons.

Now, the Chinese are trying to restore the treaty with their own foreign guns and cannons, but who can guarantee that as long as the situation allows, the Chinese will not use guns to fulfill the original demands of the Chinese envoy Soeni more than two hundred years ago?

As long as the "strength and quantity" are better than the other party, all the requirements are reasonable.

In the case of backward transportation conditions, conflicts far away from economic centers need to rely on the help of local and nearby forces, and in the period of great development of global transportation, it has to rise to the issue of global power competition......

Military strength is a part of the "strength of strength", although not all, but it is often the crux of the problem – both externally and externally.

Xu Soul clenched the saber on his belt.

Brigadier General Xu Soul, commander of the 1st Janissary Guard, is a legendary figure in the army with the nickname of "1,000 head beheadings"; if it is said that during the First Sino-Japanese War, his performance art of beheading thousands of people in Seoul in one day has lost its sensationality, but in the Battle of Beryozovka in September last year and the Battle of Vitino in Moscow in October, Xu Soul's superb command art and strong spiritual will have already attracted the attention of various insiders, including "Jifeng."

The so-called "extreme peak" is the implicit name of Liu Yun, the Duke of Wuwei, by the senior officers of the army, especially the Praetorian Guard.

In order to destroy the Nebuchu salient, the Praetorian Guard Headquarters ordered the 1st and 2nd Praetorian Divisions to concentrate the forces of five brigades to flank Nebuchu from five directions, of which the 1st Forbidden Brigade was ordered to launch an assault from the root of the north side of the salient, and advance opposite the 4th Forbidden Brigade that advanced from the root of the south side of the salient, so as to cut off the enemy's retreat in the salient and strive to encircle and annihilate the enemy.

At the same time, the other five brigades of the Praetorian Guard spread out from the line north of Nebuchu, crossed the Nercha River, and pressed several other divisions of the Russian 5th Army.

To the south and southwest of Nebuchu, two divisions of the Chinese Army's Second Field Army were crossing the frozen Shilka River and advancing towards the town of Shilka, 40 kilometers west of Nebuchu, preparing to outflank the Russian 5th Army.

Things outside the broader front, Xu Soul didn't want to pay much attention to it, on this day, the brigade under his command reinforced the cavalry regiment with the division headquarters, three divisional artillery battalions, and one divisional engineer battalion, and the division commander and army commander all had high hopes for him, and that "Jifeng" probably had similar thoughts......

The salvo of 36 105-mm cannons and 18 150-mm heavy howitzers shrouded a Russian high ground on the main attack point in a thick cloud of smoke and dust.

Xu Soul raised the binoculars.

The Russian artillery fire began to sweep the column of the Yunlong Regiment, and the loose column immediately turned into a skirmish line, and then into a straggler group, and the distance between individual soldiers expanded to five to ten meters......

"Buzz ......"

A few biplanes swept over his head like flies, slowly disappearing behind the clouds of smoke from Heights 271.

Then there were three huge combat airships, with cylindrical hulls, oval-shaped bows and sterns, streamlined three-section pods, and four propellers at the stern whirling like a dream, propelling the more fantastical airships with dazzling golden dragons painted on the surface to the rear of Heights 271. Xu Soul felt that these airships were more like turnips.

As a result, the artillery fire of the Russian army gradually thinned out.

Xu Soul knew that this was all the credit of those flies and turnips, and sometimes he really wanted to go around the sky, but it was not his turn, and the precedent for officers below the division commander to inspect or travel by plane was still zero so far.

"Adjutant Peng!"

"Here!"

"Dispatch the order to the brigade artillery and concentrate fire on the top of the mountain, where the enemy fires the fiercest!"

"Understood!"

In the high-powered telescope, you can see that the tongues of fire emitted from the top of the high slope are the most dense and frequent.

All eighteen 90-mm light howitzers of the brigade's artillery instantly covered the top of the slope with a rapid rate of fire of more than 90 rounds per minute, and at this time, the infantry of the Yunlong Regiment in white camouflage were already approaching the foot of the slope.

"Well done, not bad, let's go up in one go!"

A strange and familiar voice came from Xu Soul's ears.

Put down the binoculars and turn your head forty-five degrees to the left.

A man wearing a black big-brimmed hat of the Praetorian Guard and a fox fur coat was seen at the New Year party of the Front Army Headquarters, with many titles and only one name - Liu Yun.

"Wuwei Gong ......"

Surprised, and then surprised.

General Liang Tianhe, commander of the Second Army and Praetorian Guard, also came, and stood behind Liu Yun, solemnly and hopelessly respectful.

"You are a thousand heads, you really have a set, Liang Tianhe didn't talk to me about the cannon...... Haha......"

Liu Yun smiled, laughing too intimately, but Xu Soul was very useful.

Xu Soul turned his inquiring gaze to Liang Tianhe, and Liang Tianhe suddenly raised his hand to his chest: "Don't look at me, it's Wu Weigong himself who said he was coming, you kid...... Hey...... Why don't you tell Wu Weigong about the battle situation? ”

Xu Soul subconsciously straightened his chest, turned his body around, and held his feet very hard, and saluted.

"Report to His Excellency the Secretary of State for Defence......"

Liu Yun smiled, and smiled very simply.