Duan Fei didn't know about Shenyang until the end of the Battle of Yaquesa that he was leading his men and walking on the Songhua River on an inland transport ship built by the Jilin Shipyard. It was May, even in the extreme north, and now it was bright sunshine, with green trees, but it was not hot, so it was a great time to send troops.

Duan Fei led 5,000 people from Jilin and headed north along the Songhua River. He met He Luo, who was injected into the Songhua River, in the later Fuyuan County of Heilongjiang. Then he advanced west along the Heilongjiang River and arrived in Yaquesa City on June 14th, which was considered to be a formal meeting with the Russians.

At this time, Russia occupied the city of Yaquesa and Nibchu in the Far East. Nibchu was the main city, with 1,000 troops stationed. Yaquesa was just a small castle of five or six hundred people, the exterior walls were only made of wooden, and there were only more than 200 soldiers.

At first, the Russians were very curious about this army that flowed from Heilongjiang. It was obvious that the equipment of this army was not the natives in the Far East, nor the cannons that were able to equip them.

When the Russians in the city saw the Ming army, they immediately sent an envoy to ask what the army was doing? This is the territory of the Russian Empire.

But the Russians' hot face was cold-blooded. Duan Fei was not a reasonable civil servant. The order he received was to kill all these foreigners, so he naturally didn't want to tell any reason to the dead.

After the Ming army landed, the formation was immediately unfolded. The army's six-pound cannons slammed into the wooden fence of Yaquesa. The city of Yaquesa is not the kind of stone building that thirty years later. The Russians have just arrived less than ten years ago. The entire Yaquesa except the church is full of wooden structures.

The wooden wall was quickly blown down under the powerful firepower of the Ming army. The first group of cavalry rushed in were the Oroqen people. This Oroqen people came from the Lu tribe not far away. In recent years, the Russians have bullied local ethnic minorities, and many small tribes have been exterminated by the Russians, so the Oroqen people have a deep hatred towards the Russians.

After Duan Fei's Ming army entered the city, except for a dozen Russians in Yaquesa, all of them were killed by Oroqen, leaving only a dozen Russian women.

Duan Fei looked at the dozen yellow-haired Russian women and secretly scolded him for being a human being, isn't this a monkey? Duan Fei also lost interest when he saw the Russian woman's virtue. However, when he interrogated the prisoners, Duan Fei learned that this Yaksa was just an outpost for the Russians. It was in the upper reaches of the Ergun River, more than 600 miles away from here, and there was a Russian main city called Nibchu.

Duan Fei, who received the news, decided to take this opportunity to eliminate the Russians in one fell swoop, so after staying in Jaquesar for three days, the army set off again, but this place was already in the upper reaches of Heilongjiang, and the large ships like the inland fleet could no longer leave. Now the logistics supply can only rely on that kind of wooden raft.

After losing the city of Yakshasa, the only Russian stronghold in the Far East was the city of Nibchu. There were 1,000 troops and 500 Cossack cavalry in Nibchu. The person responsible for the defense of Nibchu was Bashkov, the Governor of the Far East. He was responsible for the affairs of the entire Russia in the Far East, which was actually equivalent to Russia's agent in the Far East.

After learning that the city of Yaksa fell, Bashkov, in addition to sending Franzbekov, the governor of Yakutsk, thousands of miles away, to collect all the Russians around him into the city, and at the same time distributed weapons to the adult men in the city, preparing to fight against the Ming army by force.

In this way, Bashkov organized an armed force of 2,500 people, but only about 1,000 of them were equipped with muskets, and about 300 were coercion guns. Most of the other flintlock guns were old-fashioned wheel-fired flintlock guns. Because although the Russians are brave and good at fighting now, their overall national strength is not strong, and their economy and culture are still very backward, and their manufacturing technology is not high. Therefore, although the Russian army has also moved towards modern military, the weapons used are still very backward, and the fewer muskets used are lagging behind the advanced European countries. The way of combat is still the traditional cold weapon tactics.

During this preparation period, the Ming army was constantly inquiring about the situation of the Russian army, but the Russian army was also inquiring about the situation of the Ming army and China. Because the Russians had some trade and trade with Mongolian tribes in northern Moon, they also found out more or less about the current situation of China. The Russians knew that China had just undergone dynasties and China's overseas trade was also very good. Bashkov had heard some of these situations when he set out from Moscow, but Bashkov only regarded it as anecdotes and did not care much about it. Of course, what Bashkov was concerned about was not these, but the actual combat effectiveness of the Chinese army.

By escaping back, Bashkov learned the combat effectiveness of the Ming army. It turned out that the muskets used by the Tatars and artillery that were not inferior to his side. Bashkov did not dare to attack Yaksa easily, because the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was somewhat beyond Bashkov's expectations, so he decided to set foot on defending the city of Nibchu.

First, they guarded the city, and then sent a small group of cavalry from hundreds of people to the villages near the city of Yakssa, Zhuang Town to harass and robbed the Ming army, and also robbed some food, materials and money. Because Russia does not provide logistics supplements and military salaries to the army of Nebchu, everything can only be self-sufficient. Of course, the Russian army cannot open up land and farm in Nebchu. The best way is to rob it.

It took Duan Fei a month to arrive outside the city of Nibuchu. Although he had contact with the Cossack cavalry during this period, the Ming army had no cavalry. Oroqen and Ewenk cavalry fighting with the Cossacks. These ethnic minorities have strong combat effectiveness, but they can only fight some favorable battles. If the battle is defeated, these guys will run away immediately. Therefore, in the more than a month of battle, the Ming army won more than a few wins. However, the deaths were all Oroqen and Ewenk cavalry, and Duan Fei did not take it seriously.

The Ming army gathered 8,000 people, 3,000 musketeers, 2,000 auxiliary soldiers, and more than 3,000 cavalrymen of other tribes outside the city of Nebchu. The actual strength of the Ming army has exceeded that of three times the Russian army, so Duan Fei decided to take the initiative to attack the city of Nebchu.

Now, the city of Nebchu is Russia's only stronghold in the southeast. Once the city of Nebchu is captured, the Russian army will have no stronghold in the area east of Lake Baikal. China can basically ensure the security from Lake Baikal to the Greater Khingan Mountains and the southeast of Outer Khingan Mountains. Therefore, Duan Fei is determined to win this time when he sends troops to attack Nebchu City.

After the troops gathered together, the Chinese army attacked the city of Nebchu on July 25.

At the same time, after more than a month of small groups of troops in the Russian army, Bashkov basically figured out that the Ming army was indeed an advanced army with advanced weapons, well-trained and rich combat experience, and the Ming army far surpassed the Russian army in terms of military strength, so the Russian army's chances of winning in this battle are not high.

However, Russia was originally a nation with extremely fierce personality and warlike martial arts. Of course, it would not be passive and cowardly because it was at a disadvantage in its strength. In addition, through the battle of the previous month, Bashkov also found a little bit. The Russian army did not have any advantage over the Ming army, because the Russian cavalry was stronger than the Ming army, which was a major advantage of the Russian army. If used well, the Cossack cavalry could still play a great role. Therefore, if the cavalry could fully exert the advantages of the cavalry, there might not be no chance of victory.

Russian commander Bashkov finally decided to concentrate all the cavalry to take the initiative, first attack the Ming army's troops or supplies with a small group of cavalry. After dragging the Ming army's troops and horses exhausted, he would concentrate his forces and attack the main force of the Ming army, so as to strive to defeat the Ming army in one fell swoop.

After determining the plan for the battle, the Russian army immediately divided the work. Bashkov sent deputy general Colonel Bektov to lead 500 cavalry out of the city and ambushed outside the city. After the Ming army attacked, it found the right opportunity to attack the Ming army's flanks.

On July 25, the Ming army finished their meal early and lined up outside the city of Nebchu, preparing to attack the last Russian fortress in the Far East.

If Jaquessa is a wooden hamlet, Nibchu is a fortress made of stone. The main castle of Nibchu is not big, but it is completely in the style of European and American castle. Duan Fei had Spanish mercenaries in his army. Duan Fei turned his head to ask Sanchez, the Spanish officer behind him: "Old Sang, why are you European castles so small?"

Sanchez was a captain, so he was naturally much lower than the colonel Duan Fei. When Duan Fei called himself to stand at attention, he replied loudly: "Sir, these Slavs are all a bunch of illiterate and thieves. What kind of war will they fight? When the Daming soldiers arrive, they will open the city to surrender!"

Duan Fei curled his lips after hearing Sanchez flattering and said, "I said Lao Sang, you have been in China for more than ten years. Why haven't we learned the fine traditions of the Han people, but only learned to brag and flatter?"

When Sanchez heard Duan Fei say this, he laughed and said, "Sir, it's not that the officials look down on these Slavs. They have just been founded for decades. I heard that their kings can't speak Russian, and they can only talk in French and noble Spanish. What kind of war will such people fight?"

This is not that Sanchez looked down on the Russians. Although Spain is not the leader of Europe now, its national strength is countless times stronger than Russia. At the same time, Russians really can't speak Russian. Even the great Russian poet Pushkin did not speak Russian. Pushkin always spoke elegant French when attending banquets. Speaking Russian is a sign of inferiority.
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