After dinner, the Ming army walked out of the camp by the river led by the middle-level officers and lined up five miles from the city of Nebchu. The Russian army in the city also left the city and relied on the city wall and lined up in three columns to prepare to compete with the Ming army.

The commander of the Ming army, Duan Fei, was standing behind the team on a horse, and looked at the Russian army lined up in columns and said, "Lao Sang, have you ever fought with the Russians in Europe?"

Sanchez rolled his eyes when he heard Duan Fei's question, saying, "God General, Russia is in the far north, thousands of miles away from Lisbon. Our Spanish Army has not fought with the Russians! What's more, slaves like Slavic are not worthy of fighting against the noble Spanish soldiers at all!"

Spain is now the most powerful country in Europe. Although it has just been beaten by the Netherlands and Britain, its skeleton is still there, so naturally it is not as good as those Slavic slaves.

Duan Fei heard Sanchez say this and ask, "Oh? You are so noble, why are you defeated by the Netherlands and Britain?"

Sanchez said furiously when he heard Duan Fei say this: "Genius General, please do not insult the noble Spanish soldiers, the British pirates, and the Dutch small vendors, they only know how to use tricks. If we fight a war with our Spanish Invincible Armada in a dignified manner, we will never lose!"

Duan Fei was angry when he heard Sanchez was angry, so he didn't ask. After all, although Sanchez likes to brag, he is pretty good. He never plays tricks when drinking and gambling. He is one of Duan Fei's friends.

"Okay, Lao Sang, I know you Spanish soldiers are powerful, so that's OK! Look at the Russians on the other side, who can win this battle?"

Sanchez looked at the opposite side and said, "God General, the Russians are not as good as our army in terms of numbers and weapons. Naturally, our army can win. But please be careful of the other party's cavalry. The Cossack cavalry is very powerful. Now that the Russian army has left the city, they have not come out. Be careful that they are ambushing around and preparing to attack!"

Duan Fei nodded, you have to be careful when he was prepared. The Cossack cavalry was very powerful, but the group of Oroqen cavalry under his command was bullshit, and the loss is more than the winnings against the Cossacks. Thinking of this, Duan Fei turned his head and said to the deputy general He Luo: "Old He, you should be careful of that group of Cossack cavalry when you start fighting later. You should be so powerful in the Qing army back then. Why are these Oroqen people not like your relatives at all. If the battle is not smooth, run away. Lao He, don't be ruthless, use the supervision team to kill more than a dozen deserters!"

He Luohui naturally had no surname He, but now there is no way. He had to bow his head under the eaves. After hearing Duan Fei's words, He Luohui quickly promised: "Please rest assured, General, I will supervise the Oroqen people now, and I will definitely guarantee the flanks of our army!"

Duan Fei picked up the telescope and looked at the Russians opposite. He saw that the Russian soldiers were wearing all kinds of clothes, not even a unified military uniform. In addition to these Russians' weapons, half of the two thousand people outside the city used cold weapons. Duan Fei pointed to the Russians opposite and said contemptuously: "These Russian poor people, even these soldiers dare to invade our Ming Dynasty?"

In fact, Duan Fei did not understand the situation of the European army. Now the mainstream European army is mixed with cold weapons and muskets. Even the military power Sweden cannot achieve the full firearms troops. Of course, it is not that these European countries have no money. But most of the European muskets are now coercion guns. The shooting accuracy is not only the speed of fire is not fast, so equipping a certain amount of cold weapons is the right way. Europe needs to equip full firearms until a hundred years later in the seven-year war.

Duan Fei saw the army opposite and his expectations, and was not ready to continue watching. Duan Fei said to the messenger behind him: "Start and order the artillery to open fire!"

Duan Fei's order was passed down, and the artillery fired the artillery first, and then the infantry began to march in neat steps.

The Ming army's artillery shocked the Russians. Unexpectedly, the Ming army opposite had so many artillery, with hundreds of sounds, while the Russians only had less than twenty.

Seeing that his subordinates were unstable, the Russian commander-in-chief Bashkov, standing at the top of the city, sighed and said, "I really didn't expect that the Ming army would have so many artillery. I'll send orders to let Bektov attack!" Bashkov was a commander with rich combat experience. He knew it was too early to send Cossack cavalry now, but he had no choice but to do so. If the Ming army persisted with such firepower for a while, his front line would collapse. He had no choice but to send ambushers in advance.

Cossack, who was ambushing in the woods, received the order, rode his horse and rushed out of the woods, and rushed towards the Ming army front two miles away.

The Ming army was also prepared for a long time. Heilongjiang General He Luo would personally take Bayala, the Eight Banners of the Manchus, and rushed over and fight with the Cossacks.

Duan Fei looked at the Oroqen Cavalry. Today, these natives took out their strength. Perhaps their death order had effect just now. There was no need to worry about Duan Fei starting to focus on the frontal battlefield.

The Ming army and the Russian army are now troops of two eras. The Russian army is still in ancient cold weapons, and the training and equipment of soldiers are not good, but the Ming army has basically reached the level of modern army, so there is naturally nothing good about this battle.

As soon as the two armies came into contact with the Russian army, a large number of guns were killed, and the Russian army's grenade gun did not kill many Ming troops due to accuracy. After the Russian army lost, they immediately opened the city gate and retreated into the city, preparing to rely on the solid city wall to fight against the Ming army.

The Russian army hid in the city and did not come out, which left Duan Fei helpless. Duan Fei was not familiar with the European army and had no idea about this kind of European castle. Duan Fei thought that Nibchu was like Yaksha, so he did not bring any heavy artillery. Now Duan Fei has many artillery in his hand, with more than 100, but they are all light field guns.

This kind of artillery is naturally fine to deal with wooden houses like Jaxana, but there is no way to deal with the castle built by stone.

Duan Fei surrounded Nibchu and bombarded the cannons for a long time. In addition to knocking down some squadrons, the city wall was not damaged at all. On the contrary, Duan Fei suffered a loss because the field artillery was not as good as the heavy artillery that defended the city by Russia. Five of the field artillery were destroyed by the Russians.

Duan Fei was very angry when he saw Nibchu being in front of him but couldn't get in. He asked Sanchez: "Old Sang, you are European, what are you good ways?"

Sanchez had no good idea. Apart from using heavy artillery, the only way to deal with such European bastion is to siege and starve everyone in the city to death.

"Your Excellency General, if you don't have heavy artillery, you will only be surrounded!"

Duan Fei looked at the scale of the city of Nebchu. The army's twelve-pound cannons may not be able to do it. Only the navy's 18-pound cannons cannons. However, Nebchu is located in the inland area, and the navy's warships with thousands of tons cannot be entered, so he has no choice but to besiege them.

After Duan Fei made a decision, he immediately sent a request to Zhao Guodong in Chenyang, and told him about the actual situation. At the same time, he reported his decision to be besieged in Nibchu to Zhao Guodong, hoping that the Governor would approve it.

It was already mid-July when Duan Fei attacked Nibchu. The lunar calendar was used in the Ming Dynasty. According to the Gregorian calendar, it was already September. Nibchu was far away in the Greater Xing'anling area in the far north. It was already very cold here in September and it started to snow at night. Duan Fei organized his subordinates to build a city, and at the same time ordered the surrounding ethnic minority tribes to help the siege of the city, while waiting for Chenyang's orders.

Zhao Guodong only received Duan Fei's situation in September. Zhao Guodong is now cautious by the emperor. After receiving Duan Fei's news, he did not dare to make decisions. He quickly reported Duan Fei's situation to the Military Affairs Office. Let the emperor decide everything!

This order was sent to the Beijing Military Affairs Office for half a month. After Zhu Hongsan saw Duan Fei's situation, it was almost October. What else can I do? It was already heavy snow in October in the northeast, not to mention Nibchu further north. Zhu Hongsan sighed and ordered Duan Fei to siege Nibchu, and at the same time ordered Zhao Guodong to ensure Duan Fei's logistics supplies.

In this way, Duan Fei brought 5,000 people to spend the winter outside the city of Nebchu. Although Duan Fei had sufficient supplies and the help of the surrounding Northeast natives, most of Duan Fei's soldiers were from Guangdong and Zhejiang, and were not prepared for the harsh climate in the Northeast. In the coldest December, a large number of soldiers were killed by frostbite and more than 50 people were frozen to death.

Duan Fei finally spent the long winter in the Northeast. In May when spring is in full bloom, Duan Fei lost more than 300 soldiers this winter, which is even greater than the battle loss. Fortunately, the winter has passed, the Heilongjiang waterway has been unobstructed, and the first batch of supplies and reinforcements transported from Jilin have arrived. In addition to these, Zhao Guodong also used the power of nine oxen and two tigers to transport five siege mortars.

This big guy is different from the cannons used by the navy. This special heavy gun barrel is only one meter long, but the caliber is half a meter, and a shell weighs seventy kilograms. However, this big guy has a very close range, only five hundred meters.

As reinforcements arrived, Duan Fei was ready to fight, and this time he must take Nebchu down.

As time goes by June, the ground around Nibchu has been hardened, which can facilitate heavy artillery operations. At the same time, Duan Fei's fort outside Nibchu City has also been built, so Duan Fei decided to launch an attack on June 20th.

The arrival of the Ming reinforcements made the city of Nebchu feel sad. Although the cannon that had never been seen before, it was not good at first sight. At the same time, the reinforcements requested by the Russian commander Bashkov did not come at all. All they sent was a letter from Franzbekov, Governor of Yakutsk. Moscow was fighting with the Poles, and all the troops had been transferred back to the country. There was no reinforcement here except for the basic guards.

Governor Franzbekov said it very clearly in his letter that there were no reinforcements and if they could not defend, they could surrender.

After receiving the letter, Bashkov smiled bitterly. There are now less than a thousand troops in the city, and there are five thousand Ming troops opposite. In addition to the reinforcements and powerful cannons, Bashkov decided to surrender after careful consideration.
Chapter completed!