That afternoon, the Cossacks who were sent out of the city brought back a message that shocked everyone. The Tatars came!

Before they could prepare, the brigade of Tatar cavalry had arrived outside the city.

Faced with the Tatars at the city, Stroganov, the governor of Tomsk, was complex, and he was undoubtedly a typical Siberian official who had a desire for money more than anything else.

And now, facing so many Tatars, while he thought of money, he also thought of possible threats.

What made him frightened was that these "Tartars" actually had artillery.

cannon!

That is the magic weapon for Rakshasa to conquer Siberia!

Unexpectedly, these Tatars actually have artillery now!

The so-called Tatar artillery was actually a gift from Chen Zhekun and his team when they left Gulihe Guard. The commander of the guard station gave them two 9 jin field guns and two 9 jin mountain howitzers, plus the 2 9 jin mountain howitzers they carried. Along the way, they relied on these few to conquer the Cossacks' strongholds. Even though they seized a lot of Cossack artillery, they were still used to using their own guys when fighting.

"Damn, they actually have so many cannons!"

Stroganov said with gratitude again.

"Fortunately, our city wall is no longer a wooden wall!"

In order to resist the attack of the Tatars, the city wall was built as early as 1604 when the Cossacks built Tomsk. The first generation of city walls were actually log walls. In fact, most of the Cossack strongholds between Yakutsk and Tomsk were also such "city walls", which were fragile and vulnerable. However, as the Governor's Office, Tomsk, the city walls have also been improving in the past few decades. The original wooden castle was transformed into a earthen castle with stronger defensive power.

Seeing the "ten thousand Tatars" gathered outside the city, Stroganov immediately ordered the people he could mobilize were mobilized in a row. Not only did all the Cossacks go up to the city wall, but even the fur merchants carried muskets to the top of the city.

The cannons on the city were also pushed to the cannon position by the Cossacks. In Stroganov's view, the key to defending Tomsk was the word "drag". As long as he could hold the castle and drag the opponent until the ammunition and food were exhausted and until winter came, the "Tartars" under the city would definitely withdraw their troops.

If it was passed, Stroganov could drag the reinforcements to the arrival of the reinforcements, but now, at most, he can only look forward to the reinforcements of the nearby Tatar tribes that are friendly to the Rakshasa. As for Moscow, don't even think about it. Kazan has fallen. Can reinforcements fly over Kazan?

But even so, Stroganov was still full of confidence. He believed that he could defend this place. After all, Tomsk City was built according to the bastion drawings drawn by Dutch engineers.

The Tatars only had a few cannons!

But at the same time, he vaguely felt that the "Tartars" that were invaded this time seemed to be different from the Tatars in the past.

"Master, Master, the Tatars outside the city just shot a letter."

A mixed-race soldier ran over with an arrow tied with a cloth strip.

"letter?"

After untiing the cloth strip, Stroganov's face changed and he didn't say anything for a long time.

"Sir, what did they say in the letter?"

Peterev asked:

"Do you know? It's not the Tatars outside the city!"

"Not the Tatar?"

Peterev looked out of the city.

Those people are not Tatars or who?

It's clearly the Tatars!

In fact, the letter was written by Chen Zhekun himself to persuade surrender. In the past year, through the captured Cossacks, he learned Rakshasa and could simply write Rakshasa. Even in his army, there were some surrendered Cossacks.

For the Cossacks of this era, they had no loyalty. They were themselves a group of "free men" without a country. They worked for the Tsar for military pay of several rubles and to get Siberian fur. After being captured, they accepted Chen Zhekun's employment and not only could they survive, but they could also get one or two silver dollars a month as mercenaries! It was almost equivalent to two rubles. In other words, as members of the "exploration team", their military pay was several times higher than that of the past, so of course they were willing to work for their new master.

"They are clearly Tatars!"

"Tartars...you see what's written on it."

Stroganov handed the letter to Peterev.

After taking the letter, opening it and looking at it, Peterev said in surprise:

"Sir, are they Chinese?"

Of course, they are not unfamiliar with the Chinese. In fact, the driving force that drove the Rakshasa to expand east was to open up trade with the Chinese. As early as more than 20 years ago, their expedition team encountered the Chinese and was easily destroyed by...

The strength of the Chinese is indeed not unexpected.

So the barbaric and cannibalized Cossacks immediately became civilized. They did not dare to expand to the south anymore, but chose to contact the Chinese. In the past twenty years, they even opened border trade with Chinese merchants, selling fur to Chinese merchants in exchange for porcelain, tea, silk, rhubarb, tobacco and other commodities.

Even though the boundary with the Chinese was not determined, it did not hinder the trade between the two sides, he never thought that one day the Chinese would fight here.

"How could the Chinese fight here?"

"Only God knows. They have hit us anyway."

Stroganov said impatiently.

"The question now is how can we fight him back!"

Once again, Stroganov glanced at the letter and said to himself.

"They actually sent a nobleman to Tomsk. It seems that the Chinese must want to occupy Siberia!"

In Chen Zhekun's letter of persuasion to Stroganov, he did not hide his identity, but instead told the other party directly.

"Chen Zhekun, the son of the Duke of Kang of the Ming Dynasty and the commander of the Luo Wilderness Expedition Team, informed the Governor of Rakshasa Tomsk that your country has occupied the territory of the Ming Dynasty. Please ask your troops to evacuate Tomsk immediately. I will ensure the safety of your lives and property of all the Rakshasa people in the city."

In the letter, Chen Zhekun only gave himself a title like "Conqueror of Luo Wilderness, Liberator of the Deer Tribe..." and other titles. These self-proclaimed titles may be regarded as jokes in the Ming Dynasty, but in the eyes of Europe, they are all "titles". Moreover, Stroganov himself was born into a noble family, and this set was very effective for him. He even sorted out his clothes as soon as possible.

I was afraid that the other party would see his disheveled appearance in the telescope. This was not the demeanor of a nobleman.

"Shameless! What territory of the Ming Dynasty? This is the sacred and inviolable territory of His Majesty the Tsar. When did these Tatars become Ming people!"

A clerk and official next to him said in a frustration.

"Who knows? But we are facing a nobleman, not just a savage Tatar!"

Stroganov said.

"But sir, there are Tatars outside the city!"

Peterev reminded carefully.

"Those Tatars should be the mercenaries of the nobles, just like the Tatars who serve us. Since that's the case, I think we can negotiate!"

Stroganov thought for a moment, then said.

"We should negotiate with them, first to find out the truth and secondly, we can tell them that this belongs to Rakshasa and is not the territory of the Chinese!"

"Sir, I don't think negotiations make any sense."

Peterev shook his head and said.

"They will definitely not retreat because of the negotiations!"

"Then..."

Stroganov looked out of the city and said.

"Then fight, at least they are not savage Tatars!"

Thinking that even if he was defeated, he would not lose his life, Stroganov finally breathed a sigh of relief and said.
Chapter completed!