Needless to say, the peace talks with the Russian envoy did not really want to negotiate peace with the Xia Dynasty, they just wanted to delay time.

When the emperor and his courtiers heard that the Russian envoy asked the Xia army to withdraw to its pre-war position, and the two sides re-planned the conditions of the territory of the two countries, the ministers immediately exploded, and even the war-resisting faction who refused to start a war with Tsarist Russia on all fronts was furious.

Ma Guozhu, the head of the household, almost rushed out on the spot and scolded the arrogant and rude Russian envoy, but he still restrained himself, remembering his majesty as a second-rank official, and just glared angrily at those Russian envoys with other ministers.

Su Yan was also a little annoyed, although he expected in advance that Tsarist Russia would not eat this deflated so easily and sincerely negotiate peace, but he still underestimated the brazenness of Tsarist Russia, and someone actually put forward such a condition when his own side was losing and retreating?

Before Su Yan could attack, some ministers below couldn't help but jump out and angrily reprimand the Tsarist Mission, although the words they said were not understood by the Tsarist Mission, their expressions, movements and tone all showed their anger.

Seeing that he had offended the anger of the public, Rao is tall Sergei couldn't help but feel weak, but he still held on, and let out cruel words in a fierce manner, hoping that the emperor could properly consider the conditions they proposed, and not let the war escalate, if the Xia army continued to attack, it would not be long before the Tsarist army would be killed from the west.

If this is put on other emperors, he may be frightened by the cruel words of the Russian envoy, but Su Yan will not fall for him, he knows very well that the current Tsarist Russia has no ability to mobilize troops from the West to support Siberia, even in World War II, the Soviet Union still needs to rely on the railway across Siberia.

Therefore, Su Yan didn't bother to talk nonsense with the other party, and directly waved his hand, ordered someone to blast the mission out of the palace, and ordered Jiang Qingyan, the editor of the Hanlin Academy, to write a letter of state again, and handed it to the mission for him to pass it on to their tsar.

Subsequently, the embassy with the letter of the Xia Dynasty was escorted all the way out by the cavalry, and Sergei knew from the beginning that his mission had failed, so even if he was expelled, he did not have much emotional change, and could only hope that he would not be punished when he returned.

After the expulsion of the mission, the courtiers were resentful of the enemy, believing that they had not yet opened up the Rakshasas, so they dared to rap in the palace, and they all asked the emperor to send more troops to the front line and completely seize the vast land north of the North Sea from the Rakshasas.

The emperor did not grant their request, and now that the Xia army is progressing smoothly in Mobei, there is no need to transfer troops and horses to participate in the war, rather than sending more people north to waste food, it is better to allocate some artillery in the treasury to the front line to increase the Xia army's ability to attack fortifications.

And he did the same, with a military order from the Governor's Office, the Hongyi cannon, Franc machine gun and other artillery that were reorganized and retired from the army and sealed into the arsenal were sent to the team to the north, as long as these artillery pieces successfully fell into the hands of the Xia army on the front line, it would greatly increase the Xia army's ability to attack fortifications.

Soon after the artillery was transferred to the north, the information from the northwest ignited the court again, making the civil and military officials boil, this information was delivered before Li Daotai's note, and the ministers of the DPRK and China did not dare to fully confirm the authenticity of this information spying on Jinyiwei at first, but after Li Daotai's report arrived, they no longer doubted it.

Su Yan had long been mentally prepared for war in the northwest, so he did not react much, and calmly dispatched the third town stationed in Shaanxi to reinforce Gansu through the governor's office, the general army of the third town was originally Su Dingyuan, but after Su Dingyuan was crowned the king of the county, he no longer held the power of the army, so the court needed to assign another general to command.

After some fierce debate, the imperial court finally decided to appoint Liu Shixun, the governor of the Governor's Office, as the general commander of the third town, and named the general of Zhengxi, and ordered Wuchang Hou Ma Jinzhong and Xingshan Boma Weixing to lead the Fifth Cavalry Brigade and the Sixth Cavalry Brigade formed at the end of last year to accompany the expedition, and named the two as deputy generals of Zhengxi.

Before Liu Shixun went north to take over the third town, Daniel Zhang, the chief soldier of Gansu, commanded the border army to resist the attack of the Yarkand Khanate, and the border army only needed to be responsible for the defense, and the attack was handed over to the third town and the 5th and 6th cavalry brigades accompanying the expedition.

Liu Shixun didn't think about it

Until he was able to command a town alone one day, before that, he had always fought with the army as the deputy general of Zhang Mingzhen, the Duke of Dingguo, and the first time he commanded a town alone, which made him both moved and nervous.

I was moved by the emperor's trust in him so much and gave him the opportunity to make contributions, and nervous because I was afraid that I would go wrong and live up to the emperor's trust.

No matter what Liu Shixun thinks, the holy decree has been issued, he can only say goodbye to his wife and children at home, kiss the forehead of his grandson who has just completed the moon, and then embark on the journey to Shaanxi.

On the twenty-eighth day of October in the seventh year of Wu'an, the army of the Yarkand Khanate pressed the border and stationed troops outside the Jiayu Pass.

After more than three months of mobilization, the Yarkand Khanate gathered most of its troops, and Abdurraha Khan led an army of 100,000 troops to appear outside the Jiayu Pass, eyeing the thousand-year-old Xiongguan standing on the Gobi Desert.

Of course, these 100,000 troops are just claims to the outside world, in fact, there are only nearly 30,000 real soldiers in the army, and the rest are auxiliary soldiers provided by the people and various ethnic groups, even if you add those logistics personnel who do not participate in the war, there are only 60,000 or 70,000 people.

With the strength of the Yarkand Khanate, it is obviously impossible to gather 100,000 people in such a short period of time, and these 60,000 or 70,000 are already the limit, which can also be seen from this Abdurraha Khan's determination to occupy Gansu.

The Yarkand army quickly set up a camp for several miles outside Jiayu Pass, and their number was so huge that the Xia army and border troops on the tower of Jiayu Pass could not see the end at a glance, and these veterans who had guarded the border pass for most of their lives looked at each other, and they all saw a thick grimness in each other's eyes.

The general who guarded Jiayu Pass was named Zhang Yue, and although he was Daniel Zhang's cousin, he was brave and good at fighting and superior in force, making him a good archery and won the support of the generals and soldiers in the army.

The young general walked up to the castle tower surrounded by guards, looking at the enemy camp that seemed to have no borders, and he couldn't help but feel a little frightened in his heart, he subconsciously put his hand on the weather-beaten wall tiles, felt the coldness in his hand, and was silent for a long time before he said:

"Hurry to the Suzhou Acropolis, report the situation here to the commander-in-chief, and at the same time increase the patrol batch every night to prevent the enemy from attacking the city overnight."

After speaking, he paused, looked at the border soldiers around him seriously, and said: "Jiayu Pass is the gateway to Gansu, the stakes are very high, if Jiayu Pass is lost from our hands, our wives and children will be ravaged by Xiyi, from today on, the city is in the people, and the city is dead!"

"The city is in the people, and the city is dead!"

The soldiers in the Guannai echoed loudly, and their roar spread with the west wind and spread into the Yarkand army, and Abdul Raha Khan, who knew a little Chinese, bowed his head slightly when he heard it, and Wu Yingzhi, who was in the military tent, heard it, and had mixed feelings, as if he remembered something.

The road from Jiayu Pass to the Suzhou Acropolis is not far, knowing that the Yarkand army is pressing, although Daniel Zhang sent additional defenders to Jiayu Pass in advance, but he was still a little worried, he climbed the wall of the Suzhou Acropolis, looked to the west, in the yellow sand, he seemed to be able to vaguely see the overwhelming Yarkand battle flag.

The next day, Abdullah Khan ordered the first siege of Jiayu Pass.

In the long and dull sound of the bull's horn, the Yarkand army in black and white robes carried the siege equipment they had brought from the country and rushed towards the tall Jiayu Pass, which was desolate and lacked trees, so they could only build it in the country in advance, which was convenient for them to attack the city directly after setting up their camp.

The sound of the bull's horn was accompanied by the shouts of the Yarkand soldiers and the roar of artillery and trebuchets, and there were still a small number of trebuchets in the Yarkand army, but they were all brought here and exported to Jiayu Guancheng with their junior bronze artillery.

The siege equipment used by the Yarkand army was the traditional battering rams, siege towers and ladder trucks, and the siege towers that were higher than Jiayu Pass City slowly approached the city wall under the pull of the oxen, and the archers deployed at the top of the siege towers continued to shoot at the Xia army on the city wall after entering the firing range.

The Xia army could only brave the firepower of the Yarkand army, relying on the cover of the wall to vent fire on the enemy within the firing range, and the weapons and equipment of the Gansu border army were not replaced with Type II rifles, so they mainly used the dog-lock flintlock flintlock slip that had been eliminated by Type II rifles

Rifles, which were replaced by the main armament of the Bird Gun after being eliminated by the Field Corps, were rotated into their hands.

In addition to the dog-lock flintlock muskets, they also kept a small number of bird guns and crossbows, and these long-range weapons together formed a dense network of firepower, which, together with the city fire cannons erected on the city walls, inflicted a large number of casualties on the besieging Yarkand army.

The means of the Xia army are not only these, they also hoarded a lot of defensive equipment in the city in advance, such as rolling stones and thunder, etc., after the Yarkand army braved the fire to rush to the bottom of the city wall, the Xia army smashed the heavy stones and rolling logs downward, and all the soldiers who were hit were bleeding and their brains bursting.

The enemy hiding inside the siege tower was a little more tricky than the enemy army that was directly exposed, and the Xia army could only bombard the siege tower with artillery, hoping to destroy the siege tower before it approached the city wall.

However, the Yarkand army had a large number of siege towers, and in the end there were still many siege towers approaching the city wall, and in the midst of shouts, the drawbridge of the siege tower was lowered heavily, and the soldiers hiding in the towers rushed out with their shields.

Almost at the moment when they came up, the Xia soldiers on the city wall neatly fired a volley, and the projectiles fired directly penetrated the cover of the shield and shot the Yarkand soldiers behind.