The battle continued, and the losses of the soldiers and horses of the Qing Dynasty, which were guarded by the city, were smaller, with only about 10,000 deaths per day, and the ammunition and materials consumed were still above the safety line.

The weather was improving, the temperature had risen to 10 degrees or more, the snow and ice began to melt, and the Russian attack suddenly became stronger, and in just a week the Russians broke through to the city three times, and the casualties on both sides began to increase.

It can be seen that almost all the Russians have reached the perimeter of the city, and from the highest point of the city, in the distance, the black pressure is full of Russian soldiers, horses and people, as well as the people who transport supplies.

With all kinds of flags and clothes worn, it can be seen that the Russians and their Western coalition troops have begun to move here.

After another week of fighting, the Russians and the Western coalition forces once slaughtered the city, and the two sides engaged in brutal street fighting in the streets, and death began to become commonplace, and now no one felt sorry for anything.

There were originally 1.5 million people in the city, but after a winter of freezing and starvation, 300,000 people were missing, and 200,000 people died in battle, and now there are only 1 million people in the Qing Dynasty, and one million people are covered by Russian artillery fire in this city, which is only 15 miles from east to west and three miles from north to south, so the casualties are not a little.

At the same time, because the Russians occupied some material warehouses, the materials and ammunition of the Great Qing Kingdom began to become extremely scarce, and it was very difficult to defend, but the enemy had two or three million troops and four or five million people.

The numbers representing the population and strength are declining day by day, with 1 million, 820,000, 750,000, and 660,000 people, and the two brigades of the Huaxia Army have also lost a lot, and the two brigades have already lost one brigade, and 6,000 people have frozen to death and died here.

The declining population meant that supplies were becoming more and more abundant, and after a counterattack expelled the Russians from the city, the Qing Dynasty never allowed the Russians to occupy the city again.

In June, when the weather rose to four or five degrees above zero, the field turned from snow white to pale yellow, and the Russians attacked more violently, and the reinforcements and civilians in the rear began to slowly drive over, but due to the Russians' resistance, it was impossible to meet here.

But a sudden spring chill made the situation weird.

The spring cold came suddenly, one night, suddenly snowfall, three consecutive days of heavy snow, followed by ten days of cloudy and snowy weather, the snow was small, but the temperature dropped quickly, two or three degrees above zero, at night it was more than ten degrees below zero, the next day, one or two degrees above zero, at night at minus 20 degrees, during the day at minus 10 degrees, at night minus 30 degrees, and finally, minus 40 degrees, has lasted for a week.

Suddenly more than 50 degrees below zero, the Russians outside the city were going to suffer, and they suddenly retreated, but the thick snow was buried around their waists, and the shallowest was also knee-high, so they could only stand still.

The middle of June passed, and when the second half came, both sides were sheltering from the cold, there was no war, and a few days before July, the weather improved, and the temperature rose quickly, and soon it was more than ten degrees above zero, although it was still a little cold, but it was already bearable.

The soldiers of the Great Qing Kingdom were sent out to reconnoitre, but they traveled all over the surrounding hundreds of miles, and there was not a single Russian, it should be said that every living Russian.

The cold caused almost all the Russians and civilians, adventurers, people, and serfs outside the city to freeze to death, and those who did not freeze to death hurriedly retreated.

In the middle of July, the statistics came out, 210,000 people in the city froze to death, 3,000 people died in battle, and the population dropped to 410,000, and the settlements outside the city, mainly 10,000 people in the distance, or only 30,000 people, and only a few settlements within a radius of 100 miles could resist the cold.

The Russians paid the price for their haste, 2,100,000 froze to death, died in battle, 350,000 were captured, the rest retreated, and the scout cavalry searched within a radius of 300 li, and found about 300,000 people and 300,000 soldiers and horses in several large settlements and cities.

"Fighting here, the cold is our main enemy," Qi Sansheng handed the data to Shu Wansi, and Shu Wansi sighed, "Our two brigades have thirteen thousand people, and now there are only a little more than five thousand people left, and it seems that we are still underprepared." ”

Qi Sansheng nodded slightly, "Yes, the Great Qing Kingdom and the Japanese who have fought a war here for ten years have not even thought of it, how can we think of it, in the future, we will immigrate here, and fight, we must think that if we occupy this place in the future, each settlement cannot have many people, at most five hundred people, and the big city will have a maximum of 30,000 people, otherwise there will be insufficient material reserves, and we will starve to death and freeze to death this winter." ”

Just as the two were talking, the personnel of the operation team following the Military Intelligence Department walked in, "Lord Admiral, there is bad information, the Japanese in Dongberia have been destroyed, millions of civilians and soldiers, all of them have been wiped out, and the Austro-Crarian Empire's men and horses have almost completely slaughtered Dongberia, and even the two million Goguryeo people and men and horses have been slaughtered there, and they have not resisted the attack of more than one million people of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. ”

Shu Wansi walked over, took the information and looked at it, and asked casually, "What's the matter, the Japanese won't be so unbearable, right?" If East Siberia is occupied by the Austro-Hungarians, then the general situation in Siberia will be unfavorable to the Qing State, and if it is not good for them, it will be bad for us, and what happened to the Merlin Fish, it is the strength of a field brigade. ”

"Merlin fish they don't have, and it just so happens that the emperor recruited them to go back, so they were in December, difficult to return, in January was blocked in the middle of the road, after the snow stopped, they continued to return, and now they have arrived in Heilongjiang to rest, some soldiers and horses have been damaged, more than 1,000 people have been killed and wounded, but the two hundred intelligence officers we sent there, the ability to contact, know that only 30 people are alive, this is where the intelligence agent sent the news."

"The people of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were also uncomfortable, the Japanese resistance caused them to lose 500,000 people, 500,000 soldiers and horses, the resistance of Goguryeo, so that they lost 110,000 soldiers and horses, after the beginning of spring, the remaining Japanese soldiers and horses in Chita and Vladivostok received the news, 300,000 remaining soldiers and horses in the starry night, with 300,000 Goguryeo soldiers and horses, 200,000 people, rushed to Eastern Siberia, recaptured the city of Omuir Minsk, and eliminated the 100,000 soldiers and horses of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian expeditionary forces stationed there.

There are 300,000 people, at the same time in a thousand kilometers of East Siberia looking for the Austro-Hungarian and Russian expeditionary forces, the rise of both sides to kill, the result of the spring cold came, neither side was ready, where is the cold in Dongberia better than here, more than 70 degrees below zero, as a result, when the Qing State stationed in the city of Omuir Minsk sent Mongolian cavalry to contact them, the two families all froze to death in the field, and only 20,000 or 30,000 people could be found. ”

"So the Japanese soldiers and horses are all wiped out, and there are not many people, so there are only Chita and Vladivostok generation left?" Shu Wansi said.

The humanitarian of the Ministry of Military Intelligence: "Almost, there were still 10,000 Japanese, 10,000 Goguryeo, 10,000 Qing garrisons, 30,000 civilians and men in the city of Omiu Minsk, and the rest died in the wilderness, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire was almost completely wiped out, only about 50,000 horses and 100,000 civilians returned to the current place of the Russians in Mebraia." ”

(End of chapter)