Although the Russians reacted quickly, the distance from Moscow to Siberia was long, and it took more than half a year to go back and forth at the earliest, and by the time Moscow's response was transmitted back to Siberia, the climate had gradually warmed up, and the Xia army was finally able to get rid of the cold restrictions and march north.

"Expedition!"

In Kulun City, the garrison of the Mobei Metropolitan Protectorate, Li Laiheng rode on the back of a tall Mongolian war horse, raised his sword, and shouted loudly.

As his words fell, the cavalry of the Xia army went north like a red torrent, and in the eyes of the Xia soldiers, the snow on the snow-capped peaks in the distance had not yet melted, reflecting dazzling spots of light under the illumination of the sun.

In 1660 A.D., in May of the seventh year of Xia Wu'an, after half a year of waiting, the Xia army's three-way army set out from Mobei Mongolia and killed various strongholds set up by Tsarist Russia in southern Siberia.

Although the Russian army got the news half a year in advance and made preparations for it, the Xia army was menacing, and all cavalry brigades were equipped with cavalry guns pulled by war horses.

In the first month of the outbreak of the war, the Mobei Xia army conquered the Russian city of Erkou, Kuznetsk and Irgensk.

In the Heilongjiang Dusi, although Wang Yi did not personally rush to the front line to command, he sat in the provincial capital to strategize, and dispatched Zhao Liangdong and Wang Jinbao to march to Nebuchu and Yakutsk respectively.

In the past six months, the Xia army scouts have carried out detailed explorations of the areas north of the Heilongjiang Prefecture and the Mobei Prefecture in spite of the severe cold, and have meticulously mapped the terrain in the north.

Thanks to the map drawn by the scouts, the Xia army in Heilongjiang avoided the embarrassing situation of getting lost, and Zhao Liangdong led the army along the Heilongjiang River all the way to the city of Nebuchu, dismantling the various strongholds set up by the Russian army along the Heilongjiang River along the way, and finally besieged the city of Nebuchu on the fifth day of June.

Nebuchu, standing on the north bank of the Heilongjiang River, its architectural style inherits the rough and simple habits of Lao Maozi, the whole castle is mainly made of wood, the city wall is a civil structure, the periphery is paved with a circle of thick logs, and the inside is solid frozen soil, even the 12-pounder infantry guns equipped with the fifth town are difficult to blast it open.

However, this time Zhao Liangdong's Xia army did not only have one infantry artillery battalion, but also an additional howitzer battalion from one standard to two standard Xia Army, which could cross the city wall and directly hit the Russian army and buildings in the city.

Even so, Zhao Liangdong did not rush to attack the city, but first sent an envoy close to the city wall to recruit the Russian army in the city to surrender - before the Xia army set out, he recruited those merchants who had been in contact with the Russian army as interpreters and guides.

The guide had the courage to approach the city wall, and the Russian army in the city of Yaksa was less than 300 people, and they were afraid of the Xia army, which was dozens of times their size outside the city, and did not dare to shoot easily, and watched the guide approach.

Afterwards, the guide shouted loudly in rapping Russian: "The soldiers of the Great Summer have arrived, as long as the soldiers and civilians in the city open the city to surrender, Wang Shi will allow Zhun Er and others to leave their weapons and return to their hometown!"

The guide's voice fell, and the Russian commander on the city wall immediately shouted to the soldiers around him: "Don't listen to his nonsense, the Tsar's reinforcements are coming, as long as you hold out for a while, the reinforcements will arrive, how can the people protected by God surrender to the infidels?"

Under the absolute difference in strength, the words of the Russian commander seemed so blank and thin, and the Russian soldiers in the city began to commotion, but they did not surrender easily, and the Russian soldiers who could appear in this bitter cold place were basically murderous ruffians and hooligans, and they would only have the idea of surrendering after being afraid.

The Russian army in the city resisted silently, and the guide saw that the Russian army had not reacted for a long time, and also knew their choice, so he turned around and returned to the army and reported to Zhao Liangdong.

After listening to the guide's words, Zhao Liangdong immediately ordered the artillery battalion to line up the artillery in front of the military formation and launch an artillery bombardment on the Russian castle.

Compared with Yaksa, Nebuchu's city wall has a cannon deployed at each of the four corners, they can counterattack the Xia army attacking from all sides, several gunners instantly entered the gun position, stuffed a solid bullet the size of their head into the barrel, and after some tinkering, took the lead in lighting the fuse and firing at the Xia army artillery outside.

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The roar of Russian artillery became the prelude to the battle of Nebuchu, but unfortunately, the two guns that opened the cannon did not hit the target, and fell on the open space outside the city, splashing a piece of dirt, and the Xia army then returned fire, 32 12-pounder infantry guns and 32 12-pounder infantry howitzers roared one after another, and the round shells roared and smashed towards the city of Nebuchu.

The first target of the experienced Xia artillery was the artillery placed in the two salients, and the flowering shells fired by the 12-pounder infantry howitzer flew through the arc in mid-air towards the city wall, and before they landed, the lead on the shell burned to the end, and the shell exploded, and the flying shrapnel instantly enveloped the Russian army below.

The Russian gunners on the two artillery positions were suddenly killed and wounded, and the Russian artillery was dumb under this first round of counterattack, and before the Russian commander sent someone to receive it, the solid bullets fired by the infantry artillery smashed around the city gate, and two of the shells hit the city gate, making two big holes in the city gate, and sawdust flew sideways, and several soldiers standing behind the city gate were also smashed into a puddle of minced meat by the shells that penetrated the city gate.

"Oh God! Why do those Chinese have such terrible firepower!"

The Russian army was deeply shocked by the Xia army's firepower, and they shouted while fleeing in all directions under the Xia army's shelling, and some shells flew over the city walls and into the castle, destroying many buildings in the city and burying those hiding in the buildings in the rubble.

Under the artillery bombardment of the Xia army, the Russian army's will to fight was quickly destroyed, and they pulled a white cloth out of nowhere under the leadership of the highest commander in the city, hung it on a spear, opened the city gate, and surrendered to the Xia army with a white flag.

Nebuchu then fell into the hands of the Xia army, who seized a small amount of gold and a large amount of fur in the castle's warehouse, and they felt disgusted that the sanitary conditions in the city were very poor, even in the far east, these rough old hairy people still dumped feces and urine at the door of their homes, so that the Xia army inevitably stepped on the heinous filth after entering the city.

Living in such an environment and not bathing all year round, the smell of the Russian army is naturally difficult to get into the nose, and as soon as the Xia soldiers approached them, they couldn't help frowning and retching.

"These barbarians, it's really shameless, my nephew in my hometown, who is not yet five years old, will not be so filthy and smelly." This is how a Xia soldier commented on the captured Russian prisoners of war.

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With full preparation, the Xia army's operations went very smoothly, and the Russian army had few troops in various strongholds and fortresses, with at least less than 100 people, and at most only three or four hundred, so under the attack of the Xia army with superior forces, the castle fell one after another.

It wasn't until July, the hottest month of the year in Siberia, that the mission from Moscow finally arrived late, and what they saw was a hopeless situation.

The two strongholds built by the Russian army on the banks of the Tomi River, Kuznetsk and Tomsk, were taken successively, Krasnoyarsk on the Yenisei River also fell, and the Xia army led by Fu Xinghua was besieging Rybinsk and Ilesheboshin in the middle reaches of the Yenisei River.

When attacking the western stronghold of the Russian army, Fu Xinghua considered that the stronghold of the Russian army was strong and the cavalry artillery was difficult to blast open, so he mobilized craftsmen to build a light siege tower, which moved in a flat posture in peacetime, with multiple pairs of wheels under it, pulled by three or four oxen, and pulled the tower body to stand up during the siege, and then pulled the artillery to the top with rollers mounted on the top, and bombarded the inside of the stronghold condescendingly.

Although this method still can't collapse the city wall, it can directly bombard the Russian army in the city with a condescending attitude, as long as the artillery deployed by the Russian army on the city wall is destroyed at the beginning, then the Russian army can only be passively bombed, and after a long time, the Russian army in the city can not bear it, so it can only choose to surrender.

The situation around Lake Baikal was also not optimistic, and after the Xia army captured the city of Erkou in the early stage, it successively uprooted the strongholds of Balagasti, Bargusimu and Tun, Irgensk, Ust-Kut, Verkhnoangarsk and Baont, and the Russian forces around Lake Baikal could only retreat to Ilimsk and Bratsk.

As for Yakutsk...... The largest stronghold in the east was so far away that the passage of communication had been cut off by the Xia army, so that the mission had no idea whether Yakutsk was still in the hands of the Russians.

After the arrival of the mission, in the face of such a desperate situation, hurried

Envoys were sent to ask Xia Jun for peace, and on the way to the mission, merchants who knew Chinese from the Far East were recruited to act as interpreters, so communication between them and Xia Jun was not a problem.

Fu Xinghua, who was the first to receive the news, did not dare to slack off when he learned that the Russian envoy was begging for peace, and he specially sent a cavalry to send the Russian delegation to Li Laiheng's temporary station, Baragansdi, and let the capital guard take charge of this matter.

In this way, after layers of reports, the Tsarist Russian mission finally got the permission of the emperor and was sent to Jiangning to negotiate peace with the imperial court, although the emperor agreed to open peace talks with the mission, he did not order a truce on the front, and the soldiers and horses on the front line were still attacking the Russian strongholds, no matter how the mission protested, it could not be changed.

Seeing that the Xia army did not have a truce, the Russian ambassador Sergei suddenly felt a chill in his heart, as an ambassador, he knew better than anyone that this envoy to the Xia Dynasty was just a delaying tactic to delay the army, even if peace was to be negotiated, it must be the Xia army withdrawn to the country, and the two countries maintained the pre-war territory.

At most, they recognized the Xia Dynasty's legitimate right to rule over Yaksa, and carried out the division of border boundaries between the two countries, so that the Xia Dynasty recognized Tsarist Russia's sovereignty over Lake Baikal and Siberia.

But this is obviously impossible, and Sergei can clearly see from his contacts with the Xia people that the Xia army is bound to Baikal and the territory to the north, and it is a fool's dream to make them spit out the areas they have occupied.

Therefore, Sergei could only secretly pray to God in his heart, praying that the envoys sent by the tsar to lobby the Mongol kings of Central Asia would complete the task, saying that the Mongol kings would declare war on the Xia Dynasty and relieve the pressure of the Russian army in Siberia.