After two years of development, in addition to the three cavalry brigades directly under the Mobei Prefecture, there is also a Mongolian cavalry brigade composed entirely of Mongols, and the Mongolian cavalry brigade still uses traditional Mongolian bows and sabers, and is not equipped with guns.

After Li Laiheng's order was issued, the four cavalry brigades scattered in Mobei quickly assembled and assembled at the three main locations of Uriya Sutai, Kulen, and Chechen Khan's Banner.

At the same time, Li Laiheng also ordered someone to get the map drawn through various channels, and discussed the next battle matters with the two deputy capital protectors.

As mentioned above, Li Laiheng prepared to go north with the three-way army, and he would personally lead the 1st Cavalry Brigade, the 2nd Cavalry Brigade and the Mongol soldiers of the Saiyin Noyan Division to set out from Kulen to attack the various strongholds and fortresses built by the Russian army around the Beihai.

The 3rd Cavalry Brigade and the Mongol troops of the Zasaktu Khan set out from Uriya Sutai to attack the Russian strongholds between the Tomi River and the Yenisei River.

The 4th Mongolian Cavalry Brigade and its headquarters Tushetu Khan and the Mongolian cavalry of the Chechen Khan set out from the Chechen Khan's banner and went north to attack Irgensk.

In addition to storming the Russian fortress without heavy weapons, he also had to go deep into the unknown frozen ground, and now it is already October, the temperature in Eastern Siberia is about to drop below zero, and the Mongol cavalry has to brave the cold to carry out this grim task.

However, they did not have the idea of backing down, and out of loyalty to the emperor, Chahun Dorji did not hesitate to take on this task, and the next day rushed to the Chechen Khan's banner to gather two cavalry units into combat readiness.

Considering the approaching cold weather, all troops and horses were also required to wear heavy fur coats before heading north to withstand the severe cold and reduce non-combat attrition caused by the cold.

The actions of the Mobei Protectorate were not deliberately concealed, so the caravans of the two countries in Mobei without exception felt a sense of urgency of a black cloud pressing down on the city, and they hurriedly sold out the items in the team, and then hurried to a safe place.

The fur merchants of Tsarist Russia also fled to Erkou City, the southernmost stronghold of the Russian army on Lake Baikal, as soon as possible, to report the movements of the Chinese to the Russian commanders stationed there.

Soon, the news of Mobei's military mobilization was sent to the Russian commander in Erkou, who was shocked after listening to the report of the fur merchant, and hurriedly ordered someone to send the news to various bases in Siberia, and reported the matter to Moscow, hoping that the tsar could send reinforcements to defend the interests of Tsarist Russia in the eastern colonies.

The mobilization efficiency of the Xia army became low because of the wide land of the Mongolian Plateau, and it was impossible to complete the assembly in a short time, and when the Xia army was all assembled, the time had entered November, and the cold snap from Siberia went south from the north, and the temperature instantly turned below zero, and the Xia army could not resist the cold even if it was wearing multiple layers of fur coats, and dozens of people in the army actually froze to death and frostbitten dozens of people in one day.

After learning of this, Li Laiheng had to regretfully order the suspension of military operations against the Russian army, and ordered the assembled troops and horses to withdraw to the nearby assembly point to spend the cold and long winter first.

In the recital, Li Laiheng described in detail the cold of Mobei, explaining that the army could not leave the camp in such a cold climate, and continued to go north, praying for the imperial court's permission to wait for the temperature to warm up next year before marching north.

Su Yan came from later generations, naturally understood the cold level of Siberia, he agreed to Li Laiheng's request, and decided to take this opportunity to increase the strength of Mobei's army to guard against a possible counterattack by Tsarist Russia.

He ordered through the governor's office to form four cavalry brigades in Shaanxi, Shanxi and Hebei again, these four cavalry brigades were also composed of Cossack cavalry, and their war horses were uniformly transferred from Monan Mongolia, and the knights were all Han - in the current Xia army, firearms were only used by Han soldiers, and soldiers recruited by the Mongols and other ethnic groups could only continue to use cold weapons.

It is also ridiculous to say that in history, in order to prevent the Han people from mastering firearms to overthrow them, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty took every defense against the Han army

Allowing them to equip them with bird guns and not allowing them to equip too many heavy weapons is the opposite in Su Yan's case, but the alien race is treated differently.

After the Governor's Office issued a conscription order, the North began to fall into the hot conscription, and after two years of peace, the people everywhere saw that the war was about to break out again, but there was no resistance, and some families with more children even took the initiative to send their sons to join the army, encouraging them to make meritorious contributions and win glory for their families.

The people's enthusiasm for joining the army really frightened the local government, they didn't expect the people to participate so enthusiastically, after all, the saying "a good man is not a soldier, a good iron is not a nail" is still deeply rooted in the hearts of many people.

In addition to conscription, the Governor's Office also ordered the transfer of the renewed Third Town to Shaanxi to strengthen the imperial court's military power in the northwest frontier.

Speaking of which, I have to mention that in the past two years, the imperial court has replenished and reorganized the existing towns, and Su Yan thought about reorganizing the first, second, third and fourth towns when forming the fifth town, adding them to the same troop establishment as the fifth town, and the weapons were also uniformly replaced with more advanced Type II rifles.

Four years after Wu'an, the imperial court entered a temporary period of peace, and Su Yan took this opportunity to carry out a drastic restructuring of the four towns, he canceled the establishment of sword and shield men, spearmen and archers, unified them into riflemen, and eliminated the active soldiers in the army, eliminating those soldiers who were not familiar with the use of rifles.

Under Su Yan's restructuring, it took only half a year for the four towns to be unified into a new establishment, and the army was also uniformly equipped with Type II rifles, and the armor on the soldiers was also replaced with light and short armor that did not hinder loading.

The only exceptions are the grenadiers and light infantry, the former who are responsible for assault and often get into hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, so they still retain cloth armor as standard armor, while light infantry is responsible for harassing enemy lines and performing long-range sniper missions, and the armor only slows down their movement speed, so they do not need to wear armor.

It can be said that after this restructuring, the Xia army has entered a new era, far more than any army in the same period, and even the Spanish phalanx, which dominates Europe, is not the opponent of the Xia army.

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Time flies, and four months later, the city of Moscow, the capital of Tsarist Russia.

In March 1660, the city of Moscow was still under the rule of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich (also known as Alexei I), the second monarch of the Romanov dynasty, who laid the foundation for the exploits of his son Peter the Great by formulating a new legal code, reorganizing the government, and carrying out military and religious reforms.

It can be said that without Tsar Alexei I, the exploits of Peter the Great would not have reached such a high level.

In 1660, when the war between Tsarist Russia and Poland was in full swing, Tsar Alexei focused all his attention on his old rival in the west, who devoted himself to the conquest of eastern Ukraine, but at the same time did not abandon the occupation of the resource-rich expanses of the Far East.

The revenue from the fur trade in Siberia accounted for one-third of the total revenue of the Russian government, and this money was constantly exchanged for guns and ammunition, which were used in the war against the Poles at the front.

Siberia was so important that when Tsar Alexei heard that a country called the Xia Dynasty in the Far East was preparing for war with him for the interests of Tsarist Russia in the Far East, he immediately flew into a rage and gathered his trusted nobles to prepare to send reinforcements to the Far East to defend the interests of the Far East.

However, his trusted nobles did not share his mind, and some of them believed that the empire was currently at war with the evil Poles, and should not be distracted by the far east, and the war with Poland was more important than that in Siberia.

The other part of the nobility was very profitable from the Siberian fur trade, so naturally they could not allow Siberia to be surrendered in this way, insisting that they should send troops to the Far East and expressing their willingness to personally lead an army to war against the greedy Chinese.

In the midst of the quarrel of the aristocracy, Alexei's teacher Morozov had a different idea, he insisted that the empire should protect its interests in Siberia, but at the moment the war with the Poles was at a critical stage,

Too many troops cannot be drawn to the East.

He proposed to send 2,500 troops to support the Far East first, and to hire more Cossack cavalry from the wandering Cossack tribes to Siberia to strengthen the empire's military power in the Far East.

At the same time, a delegation was formed from within Moscow to the Chinese capital to protest to the Chinese emperor against the war provoked by the other side without authorization, hoping to avoid this war with negotiations, so as to delay the attack of the squadron.

He made it clear that the empire could not engage the Poles and the Chinese directly at the same time, and if fighting with the Chinese could not be avoided, it could send emissaries to Central Asia to lobby the Mongol Khans there, promising gold and benefits to encourage the Mongol kings to go to war with the Chinese who had expelled them from the Central Plains.

The Russians were not ignorant of the history of the Far East, and they also knew that hundreds of years ago, the Mongols who had ruled China were expelled back to the steppe by the local population, and since then the Mongols have been entrenched on the periphery of China, fighting the Chinese who expelled their ancestors.

It has to be said that although Morozov made a number of big mistakes during his reign, which led to the outbreak of salt merchants in Moscow, his opinion was full of truth, and the tsar praised his wisdom and decided to take his suggestion, immediately set up a mission to China, and at the same time sent several envoys to the Central Asian countries to lobby.

Tsar Alexei was full of fighting spirit, but what he did not know was that in half a year his army would suffer heavy losses in the Battle of Chudenov......