The Russian army fought a battle with the Qing army and lost seventy-nine people, which was close to one-tenth of the number of the expeditionary force. Originally www.biquge.info the Russian army had only more than 900 people in the Far East, and lost 79 people, plus the soldiers who died of illness, soil and water adaptation, and other reasons, the Russian army in the Far East only had less than 800 troops.

The plundering of the Heilongjiang River did not have the expected effect, and the food looted was not enough to be used by the more than 700 Russian troops in the Yaksa Castle.

The Russian army could only dig through the ice to fish, go into the mountains to hunt, and obtain some food to barely meet the needs of the city. Even so, the Russian army in the city was still seriously short of food, and just when the Ming army had enjoyed enough New Year's goods, the Russian army starved in Yaksa for a long time. Although the Russians are no more than the Chinese Spring Festival, they can't eat enough, and this day is not a good taste.

In the commandant's office at Yaksa Castle, Fyodor was writing a letter to the Tsar with a quill pen. In the letter, he wrote: "Your Majesty, our expedition to the Far East has encountered some difficulties. According to the diary of Tolbuzin (that is, Turbuqing, who was once captured by the Ming army), they had discovered the sea.

Your Majesty, you have always longed for the Russian Empire to have an outlet to the sea, but it is a pity that Tolbuzin, after discovering the outlet to the sea, gave up the exploration of the sea for various reasons. Later, because of Tolbuzin's defeat in the war with the Tatars (in fact, he secretly cooperated with the Ming army), he resigned and returned to Ukraine! Those Ukrainians are still not credible! All they have in their eyes is money! Only we, the Russians, can really think about the interests of the Russian Empire!

Your Majesty, I have explored the Amur River (the Russian name for the Heilongjiang River) downstream, and found that the inhabitants have built a number of fortified strongholds that stretch all the way to the mouth of the river, blocking our access to the sea! The local inhabitants, who seemed to be helped by the Tatars, had muskets, rifles, and even cannons!

However, the Tatars in other places were somewhat vulnerable, and they led people to engage in field battles with the Tatars in the field, killing more than 1,000 Tatars and suffering 79 casualties among our troops. But the series of castles blocking the entrance to the sea, I was helpless! It is hoped that His Majesty will send more troops to the Far East, and at least 10,000 men will be needed to open up the sea to the sea......

In fact, if the Russian army really wants to send 10,000 people to the Far East, it can still do it. In order to gain access to the sea, Tsar Alexei can be said to have spared no effort to wage war, having fought with Poland, Sweden, and Turkey.

Just as Fyodor was writing a letter to the Tsar, a soldier came to report: "Sir! A well-armed army has appeared outside the castle! This army sent people up with white flags and said they wanted to negotiate with us! ”

"The army? What kind of army is it? Fyodor asked.

The soldier replied, "It looks like the army of the Orientals, but their equipment is no different from that of the armies of Europe!" ”

"Let's go, let's go up and have a look!" Fyodor stood up.

Fyodor walked out of his office, stood on top of the castle, picked up his binoculars and looked at the army that appeared outside the castle, and looked through the binoculars, and saw that the army was unusually well armoured, the soldiers were wearing red uniforms, and the outside were covered with fine plate armor, and the sparkling helmets on their heads, and muskets on their shoulders, and swords around their waists, and each man rode a tall horse, and behind him there was a team of horses, pulling a strange kind of vehicle. Most of the vehicles were loaded with cargo, and two of them had two artillery guns on them.

It can be seen from the appearance of this army that this is a strong army no less than any European army.

Fyodor was amazed: "This army does not seem to be the army of the Tatars, the army of the Tatars does not have such good weapons and equipment, and it does not have such a neat appearance!" Although the Tatars had bright armor, their formations were chaotic and their weapons were backward, and their combat effectiveness was not worth mentioning at all. ”

"Sir, someone approached with a white flag, saying that they were negotiating with us, do you want him to come in?" The Russian soldier asked.

Fyodor nodded: "Let him come in first!" ”

The Russian soldiers at the head of the city shouted to the Ming soldier with a white flag under the city: "You come in alone!" Others waited outside the range of the muskets! ”

The Ming soldier who was the messenger walked up, put down a hanging basket at the head of the city, and pulled the messenger up.

The envoy ascended to the top of the city and asked in stiff Russian: "I am a messenger sent by the Ming Dynasty to see your commander!" ”

"Da Ming?" Fyodor paused for a moment, "Didn't you Ming be defeated by the Tatars?" You have such a powerful army, and you will be defeated by the Tatars? ”

The messenger replied: "Who said that our Ming Dynasty was defeated by the Tatars? In the past, we failed temporarily because of a little problem. Now our army is on the Northern Expedition! In the near future, we will defeat the Tatars! ”

Fyodor asked: "Go all the way down the Amur River, and the castle along the river is yours?" ”

The messenger replied: "Yes! We built it! From the Heilongjiang River downstream, all the way to the mouth of the sea, we used to be our Ming slaves! The locals here are all the people of His Majesty the Ming Emperor! Of course we want to protect them! So we built a castle along the river! ”

Fyodor said angrily: "The locals here are a bunch of barbarians who have not entered civilized society, they have no country of their own!" Whoever has the strength to occupy the land here belongs to whom! How can you say it's yours? If you Ming are really strong, how can you be defeated by the Tatars? Even if you can temporarily control the access to the sea, our Russian Empire has the most elite army in the world! We can send 100,000 troops to the Far East at any time! As soon as our 100,000 troops arrive, the mouth of the sea will definitely belong to us! ”

The envoy thought to himself: The capital of the Rakshasa Kingdom is tens of thousands of miles away from here, and a hundred thousand troops are dispatched? Bragging, right? However, it is still possible for the Rakshasa Kingdom to really send one or two thousand people. But our castle on Temple Street, even if it is besieged by 20,000 or 30,000 troops, we can't even think of taking it! Thinking of this, the messenger said: "Sir, we have an extremely strong castle defense at the mouth of the sea, if you don't believe it, you can go and have a look!" ”

Fyodor asked, "What is the purpose of your coming here?" ”

"We're here to talk about cooperation!" The messenger said.

Anyway, it's temporary cooperation, and it would be best if the Russian army could be used to deal with the Qing army. If the Russians are not cooperative, then when the weather warms up, you might as well fight them! In short, it is to prevent them from cooperating with the Qing army.

Even if the Russians are unwilling to cooperate to fight the Qing army together, then as long as they are dragged to the Eight Banners outside the pass and enter the pass, Zheng Xi's troops will have the strength to drive all the Russian troops back.