Karsakov watched in amazement as the first platoon crouching in front and the second platoon of Cossack soldiers standing behind fell like dry grass.

How can it be? How could this group of enemy muskets shoot so supportively, at least more than 300 yards away!

I don't have time to think about it. Because after the first two rows of the enemy opened fire, the neat line behind them continued to move forward, and the muskets continued to fire. The smoke was filled, and everywhere there was the sound of crackling gunfire and the sound of soldiers being shot and bullets entering flesh, mixed with screams and wails.

How can this be fought? For the first time, Karsakov fell into such a passive situation. However, after being on the battlefield for a long time, he immediately ordered the Cossack soldiers to charge, as long as they were within 150 yards, with the firepower of his own men, there was still hope, but the losses were greater.

At the sound of an order, the Cossack musketeers, who were not afraid of life and death, fearlessly charged forward. On the opposite front, there was no movement at all, only dense gunfire to greet them.

At this moment, dense gunfire also sounded on the east side, and the Heilongjiang City behind suddenly sounded an earth-shattering artillery bombardment. Karsakov was suspicious and hurriedly sent someone to investigate. For a time, the morale of the army on the battlefield was also turbulent.

Seeing the smoke of gunfire on the frontal battlefield, Karsakov realized that the situation was not right and was about to give the order to retreat. At this time, a sentry came to report: "Oh no, general, the enemy army is overwhelming, I am afraid that there are no less than tens of thousands, and the firepower is fierce, and we are all surrounded!" Even the Heilongjiang City behind him was breached! Let's get out of here. ”

"What!?" Karsakov was taken aback. Looking at the enemy soldiers in front of them, although the firepower is intensive, the number is not particularly large, and it is less than four or five thousand people, plus the enemy army in the southeast, it is at most 10,000 people, otherwise he would not have thought about defeating them at first.

"The enemy forces are not only so small, they are deliberately hiding their forces to draw us into a head-on battle. Moreover, a huge fleet of dozens of warships, several of which were hundreds of tons or nearly 1,000 tons, had been driven from the lower reaches of the Amur River (the Russian name for Heilongjiang) just now, and the naval guns were fierce, and two salvos smashed the city of Heilongjiang. ”

"A huge fleet? Dozens of warships? "Karsakov's eyes are going to fall out, how come, how can this be? When did the southern Chinese Empire have such a powerful naval force? And what about the Siberian fleet of the Russian Empire itself?

Karsakov thought that the Chinese fleet that the sentry said had dozens of warships, and that the castle behind him would collapse so quickly, and he couldn't help but believe it a little! The castle behind him, although not particularly large, is still very strong, the Qing people built it without a lot of effort, using solid rammed earth and stones, can be broken so quickly, the artillery fire of this fleet is really not ordinarily powerful.

In this way, Nikolaevsk (Temple Street), the base of the Siberian Fleet established by the Russian Empire in the Far East, an important town with nearly 1,000 people, and the seat of the Eastern Siberian Governor's Palace, must have also been breached by this fleet. I don't know what happened to the governor Muravyov.

However, at this moment, Karsakov didn't have time to worry about his boss, he was more concerned about the current situation of himself and his subordinates, and hurriedly found a direction to rush out!

Sadly, they were originally sailed down from the upper reaches of the Amur River, with only a few hundred horses. Damn it! If it weren't for the damn Crimean War, which mobilized all the horses of the steppe and buried a lot, he would not have abandoned the cavalry advantage that the Cossack soldiers were best at! Now it seems that he can only lead a small number of cronies to escape on horseback, and go to the city of Yaksa in the west. There are still hundreds of Russian troops stationed there, and a batch of war horses can be replaced. As long as he sends this astonishing news of the Far East back to Europe, his own responsibility will be reduced, anyway, even Muravyov has been defeated, and all the blame will be put on him, and he will only act on orders.

Thinking of this, Karsakov summoned his cronies and asked him to set them up, and then called a few Cossack officers to lead his men to charge the enemy. There's no way, although Karsakov doesn't know the old Chinese saying that the poor don't die, but the truth is the same. How did he rush out from the side and flee from the flanks without letting these stupid Cossack soldiers go and launch a fierce assault to attract enemy fire?

In Heilongjiang City, there are shouts of killing.

In the "Imperial Palace" of the Qing Dynasty in the center of the city, Yi Xun held the "Sword of the Son of Heaven" in his hand, and looked at the woman in front of him wearing a phoenix suit wearing gold and silver with red eyes, but it was the daughter of Gui Liang, the current queen of the Qing Dynasty.

The Guerjia clan also obviously knew what Yixun was going to do, and she cried in despair: "Your Majesty, does it have to be like this? Why don't we flee to a place where there is no one, hide far away, and be a pair of ordinary people? ”

Yixun's throat was hoarse, and he smiled bitterly: "Queen, it's too late!" If the city of Beijing is breached, I surrender as Prince Gong, not to mention the prince, at least I can be crowned a prince and marquis and enjoy all the wealth; Even if Shengjing City is breached, if we surrender or flee, we can still survive the rest of our lives; Nowadays, this is no longer possible. The traitor will never let me go, and he will not let my whole family go. ”

"You, so you're going to kill even a few of our children?"

"Hahahaha, not bad! At this point, it is better for me to help them free than to be caught and humiliated by the traitor! ”

Yixun was already crazy, as soon as he finished speaking, he raised his sword and stabbed straight over, Guerjia's instinctively wanted to hide, but he was a step too late, only to hear a snort, the sword entered his arms, and hit Guerjia's chest, and the blood stained her phoenix cloak red. The Guerjia clan screamed miserably, and looked at Yixun for the last time as if he was resentful, and then made no sound.

Yixun held his "Son of Heaven Sword", blood fell on his upper along the blade, he didn't care about it, and laughed wildly, but the voice was extremely poignant: "I can't imagine that I love Xinjue Luo Yixun to become the king of the Qing Dynasty, and what I can't imagine is that the sad experience of the former Ming Chongzhen at the beginning will be repeated in me!" It's a pity that I'm full of strategy, and I haven't had a chance to show it yet, and God will kill me! ”

The sword in his hand fell, and the sound disappeared.

At the same time, the dormitory was pushed away, and Hua Shantai led more than ten personal soldiers to rush in, and when he saw the scene in front of him, he knelt on the ground and cried......

"Bang bang bang......" Karsakov fell from his horse, and the huge wound on his thigh made his eyes black and he became delirious. Just half a minute ago, in the woods in front of him where he fled, a group of enemy soldiers in gray uniforms suddenly came out, and he knew that everything was over!

When he finally fell off his horse, he only had time to see the scene behind him, thousands of Cossack soldiers were besieged in a place of Caidian, and they were shot in smoke, and they seemed to hear the sudden sound of gunfire and the howls of those Cossack soldiers before they died.

By the time Karsakov woke up from the pain and opened his eyes again, the battle was over. Karsakov found himself tied with his hands tied behind his back, the wound on his thigh that had not been treated in any way, and the tearing pain was bursting through his heart, constantly reminding him that what had happened was not a nightmare, but that he had really been defeated and captured.

Karsakov quickly recognized that he was still being held somewhere in the city called Heilongjiang. However, as soon as he turned his head, the two people in front of him stunned him and couldn't help but shout: "Muravyov? Nevelskoy? You, why are you here? ”

"Karsakov, are you awake?" The Governor of Eastern Siberia, Muravyov, who was in his fifties, sat half-lying next to Karsakov, one of his arms broken, wrapped in a thick linen cloth wrapped around the wound, and he looked very weak. Another Rear Admiral Nevelskoy, the commander of the Siberian Fleet, was lying on the side like a dead body, and it was hard to believe that he was still alive with his wounds, if it weren't for the fact that his chest was still rising and falling.

"Count, why do you and the general look like this?" If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Karsakov couldn't believe that the miserable wounded old man in front of him would be the famous Governor General of Eastern Siberia of the Russian Empire, whom he was familiar with.

"Like you, defeated and captured!" Muravyov closed his eyes weakly, he didn't want to say more, but as soon as he closed his eyes, his mind was full of the scene from half a month ago, he was eager to talk, and now he couldn't say anything, he was no longer the earl and governor of Eastern Siberia who was made by the tsar! Now he is just a poor prisoner, just a prisoner.

"What the hell is going on?" At this moment, Karsakov forgot about the wound on his thigh, although judging from the fact that the enemy troops in Heilongjiang City were swimming upriver on warships, he had already guessed that the important town of Nikolaevsk must have been conquered by the enemy, but seeing the scene of his immediate boss Muravyov and the commander of the Siberian fleet, he still couldn't help but want to know the specific details.

"Alas! The Russian Empire lost the entire Far East! Totally lost! I, Muravyov, am a sinner for all of Russia, a sinner! Muravyov muttered: "I was still too careless. Failed to deploy a sufficiently strong military force as soon as possible. If only earlier I had suggested to His Majesty the creation of a powerful Siberian Navy and Far Eastern Infantry! Regret it! ”

"It's not that the strength of the Russian Empire in the Far East is not enough, it's that the military strength of the Chinese Empire is too strong. The Siberian fleet was not an adversary at all, and could not even escape, and was defeated in a battle. They are simply devils, much stronger than the combined Anglo-French Far Eastern Fleet, which came to attack Petropavlovsk during the Crimean War a few years ago. The commander of the Siberian Fleet, Rear Admiral Nevelskoy, who had been silent, suddenly opened his eyes and said with a bitter face.