The Ming army's advancement speed was amazing. With the support of the North Sea Fleet, the Ming army of the north and south were unstoppable. In less than two months, it occupied the Grassen River Basin.

Due to Golovin's avoidance of war, the Ming army did not suffer much casualties along the way, and almost no losses were made by each legion. However, the more this happened, the more worried Lu Xiangsheng felt. Both sides knew that fighting head-on and hard, just with Golovin's little force, he was no match for the Ming army at all. Only by cutting off the food route could he turn defeat into victory.

You can't underestimate the enemy for a moment and ruin the good situation.

Therefore, after the full occupation of the Grasseng River Basin, Lu Xiangsheng ordered all legions to temporarily stop advancing.

The Yeni River Basin is ahead. If the East China Sea Fleet has not arrived, if it rushes up, not only the food road, but also the cavalry of each legion will be in danger, because the enemy has water transport, it will be much more flexible. The Ming army has not had a single warship in the Yeni River Basin for the time being.

So, what is Golovin thinking now? Will he attack the food route or use the advantages of river transportation to clean up the cavalry scattered by the Ming army?

Gorowen was very angry now. He was so angry that he was chased by the Ming army along the way. He finally escaped to the Yeni River Basin and finally received news from the imperial capital. However, this news made him so angry that he almost bleed.

The military pay he paid last month was intercepted by the Ming army. In the following months, Rozov actually said that he didn't know the specific situation and would only pay it after negotiating with him!

I'm so fucked, I was chased like a dog, but I lost tens of thousands of people, but I didn't even make a fortune.

What's even more annoying is that reinforcements from the imperial capital only set out last month, and I don't know if they have crossed the Ob River Basin.

Fortunately, Rozov was not in front of him now, otherwise he would be afraid that he would not be able to help himself, so he rushed up and hooked the guy's chin with a pork hook.

Is there anyone who plays like this? You said you were the one who gave money, and you said you were the one who said there were reinforcements. Now I have been beaten by the Ming army, but I haven’t seen the money, and I haven’t seen the reinforcements!

In fact, Rozov cannot be blamed for money. He did give the money for the first month, but he just didn't give it. The money for the rest cannot be given randomly. It's not a little bit of money, but hundreds of thousands of taels.

You can't rush up and attack, and you lose tens of thousands of people, and then there is no more news. From then on, how can you give money?

As for the reinforcements, we cannot blame Rozov. It is indeed very simple to expand the army. Tsarist Russia has a population of tens of millions in the continent, and it is not difficult to recruit hundreds of thousands of new recruits. Rozov only took a month to expand the army near the imperial capital to 300,000, but you must have weapons.

He sent all the first batch of muskets supported by Britain and the Netherlands to Golovin. Tsarist Russia originally had only about 100,000 troops in the entire continent, and only tens of thousands of muskets. Now it has expanded to 300,000, and there are no muskets to be equipped.

If there were no muskets, what's the use of sending them here? Will you fight with the Ming army with a sword? That's purely seeking death!

He could only wait for Ying-Ho to send the muskets over. It would take time for Ying-Ho to build a gun. It would be impossible for them to build all the muskets of more than 200,000 people in one month.

Rozov urged him left and right, and he didn't urge him to get more than 200,000 muskets until early July, most of which were the muskets replaced by the French army.

You can't let this recruit who just got the musket go to the battlefield immediately. You have to learn how to fire the musket from the veterans first.

It took almost a month for this study, so it was not until the end of July that Rozov sent out 200,000 reinforcements.

Gorovin was angry, but he had not lost his mind yet. He was angry for a few days and found that he still had no courage to carry the pork hook to find Rozov. In the end, he had no choice but to take his men to find reinforcements.

As for finding the cavalry team of the Ming army that was left alone or cutting off the Ming army's food route, he didn't dare to think about it. The terrifying speed of the Ming army gathered last time really scared him. Even if he was lucky enough to encircle and annihilate a single Ming army cavalry, or dig a section of the railway without luck, he would probably be surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Ming troops. He would not do such a stupid thing as a martyr for a small victory.

He had figured it out that the tens of thousands of people under his command were really impossible. Only after joining with reinforcements could he truly cut off the Ming army's food route or defeat the Ming army one by one.

So, he chose to continue to retreat very poorly.

Retreatment in the Yeni River Basin is a very simple thing. He directly mobilized dozens of large ships and hundreds of small boats of various types, letting everyone squeeze on the boat and go down the river. In a few days, he floated to the main trunk of the Yeni River. Then he found a tributary extending westward and slowly paddled forward, and sent people to find the location of reinforcements while rowing, and sooner or later he would be able to join the reinforcements.

If he is really lucky, he will not be able to leave if he leaves a few days later.

Because when he was floating downstream to the main trunk of Yeni River, the East China Sea Fleet had already found the entrance to the Yeni River. After he took his men west for a few days, the East China Sea Fleet blocked the entire main trunk of Yeni River!

The Yeni River happens to be the boundary between the Siberian Plateau and the Siberian Plain. To the east of the main trunk is the Siberian Plateau and to the west of the main trunk is the Siberian Plain. The mission of the East China Sea Fleet in the first phase was not to occupy the entire Yeni River basin, but to contact the Ming army from the north and south to the east, and then assist them in quickly occupying the entire Siberian Plateau.

Therefore, after the East China Sea Fleet blocked the main trunk of Yeni River, all the Fu Ship warships went east to find Cao Wenzhao's northern army and Lu Xiangsheng's southern army, which happened to be staggered with Golowen's fleet.

Otherwise, if he is lucky, if he hesitates for a while and walks a few days late, he will likely be blocked by the East China Sea Fleet and cannot escape even if he runs away!

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng and Cao Wenzhao met at the interruption of the Tungus River, one of the largest tributaries of the Yeni River, to discuss the details of the next action.

Their current location is about three thousand miles away from the Manjing Guard. After the efforts of six legions of the vassal states and 100,000 Liaodong Tun Guards, the railway line has extended here.

After all the regular legions and vassal states arrived here, they did not continue to advance westward, but joined forces to build the city frantically.

Here, it is almost the center of the Siberian Plateau, and it happens to be the first intersection of the railway line and the Yeni River system. In the Ming army's promotion plan, a city with a population of about 500,000 will be established here to serve as a railway hub and a river transport hub port. Its name is Tungus City.

Once the city of Tungus is completed, the Ming army can transport food, grass and other materials here first through railways, and then transport them to the entire Yeni River Basin by using warships. In this way, no matter what the subsequent progress of the railway is, the Ming army will not have to worry about the supply of food, grass and food in the Yeni River Basin.
Chapter completed!