On September 2, 1788, Evgeny, the messenger of Ivan Jacques, arrived in St. Petersburg.

As soon as he walked out of the carriage, the Queen's guard was already waiting for him. The guard saluted Yevgeny, who was covered in messy hair and bearded, and asked, "Are you a messenger?"

Yevgeny immediately replied, "Yes, I am the envoy of Governor Ivanjakbi."

"So, let's go to see His Royal Highness now. He and the Palace Supervisor are waiting for the good news you bring."

Yevgeni was hesitant when he saw the guard officer so impatient. He looked at his already torn dress, and the soldier's coat that had been covered with a big hole, thinking that it was too disheveled. So he said to the guard officer: "You always ask me to wash first, change some clothes to meet the grand duke, right?"

The guard smiled and said, "No, Your Highness, your Highness prefers people like you who return from the expedition and bring news of victory."

Victory? Yevgeny felt a little guilty. He didn't know if Grand Duke Paul would be furious after hearing the failure of Heilongjiang City. So he took the luxurious carriage sent by the war ministers with trepidation, and came all the way to the palace village to meet the crown prince Paul and the queen's secretary Herapovich.

When Paul I, the future, took the letter from Ivan Jacquebe and read that "the Chinese used powerful force to cause us to encounter a small setback in Heilongjiang City", the 34-year-old crown prince suddenly showed deep worries on his face. He frowned and said, "Do we need to be more cautious when we go to war with an Eastern Empire with an extremely large population that is no less than Russia and has an extremely large population?"

This Grand Duke Paul actually disagreed with Catherine II's policy of foreign expansion, and he hoped that Russia would be completely Prussian. He once implicitly criticized his mother in a military reform paper, and directly stated that he insisted on not interfering in European affairs. The Queen casually accepted it. She felt his threat to her rights from her son's article, and deepened her suspicion that Paul was planning to abdicate her and the forces against the Queen.

Catherine II never considered ruling Russia with him, and when Paul's son Alexander was born, Catherine II seemed to have discovered a better heir than Paul. She raised her eldest grandson Alexander into a human, and repeatedly planned to bypass Paul and succeeded directly to the throne by Alexander. She even brought this plan to the Privy Council for discussion, but she gave up after being opposed by most ministers.

There are no relatives in front of power, which is the same as the King Yingzu of Kangxi and Li Dynasty. Any monarch who combines power in history is instinctively resistant to those who can threaten their throne, but it is much better for the next generation.

The next morning, the Queen's secretary, Hrapovich, led Evgeny to meet Caterina II, and the head of the Foreign Affairs Committee (substantially Prime Minister) Besbroko.

Yevgeny kissed the back of the queen's hand in fear and fear, while Caterina II expressed his gratitude to the "heroes from afar" who occupied Amur.

"Where there is water, there will be water. God bless us and will punish us so that we will not be complacent. As long as we move forward bravely, things will improve greatly. I have no doubt that Suvorov will attack those Chinese under the city of Yaksa."

At this time, Besbroko asked Major General Alexandrov and others who were trapped in Heilongjiang City. Yekaterina II said without hesitation: "I will never refuse to save those who are loyal to me. You can send someone to Irkutsk to discuss with Jacquebi how to negotiate with the Chinese. If they do not agree, then we will use artillery fire to ignite the entire Heilongjiang."

As the monarch of a country, the queen, who is already fifty-nine this year, tasted the sweetness of victory in foreign wars, and then she went forward unstoppable until she fell into a craze for war and even became obsessed with it.

Historically, this woman created unparalleled glory for the Tsarist Russian Empire and became famous all over the world. There were at least ten films and TV series about her in later generations alone.

She plotted against Poland, extended Russia's territory south to Crimea, and even fantasized about occupying Greece, inserting the flag of the double-headed eagle into Constantinople.

What she missed about in the East was the estuary in the lower reaches of Heilongjiang, which opened up a frozen port for Russia in the North Pacific, and realized her super empire ambition across the Eurasian continent.

But she made little contribution to the lowest class of Tsarist Russia in this era. Although she tried to correct social injustice in her early years, her enthusiasm soon disappeared after the Pugachev uprising.

Pugachev, who claimed to be Peter III fifteen years ago, was not a good bird. On the one hand, he opposed the rule of Katerina II, but on the other hand, he copied this dominance model in his own team, even imitating the smallest external details.

Speaking of Russian serfdom, the common people live a worse life than the Qing dynasty next door. Any peasant recorded in the name of the landlord becomes serfs, and the free man becomes a slave as long as he works for others for more than six months. Since Catherine II succeeded to the throne, the Russian serfdom has developed to the peak, with the court and state-owned peasants she gave to the nobles alone. The landlord bears full responsibility for his peasants in court and has the right to punish, impose punishment, and even sentence death in his territory. Peasants are not allowed to report their masters unless the landlord rebelled against the Tsar or the country.

In fact, the Tsarist Russian Empire was a Tatar regime with white skin. The cruel nomadic means of rule by the Mongols had long been sealed into the bones of this country with the rule of the Golden Horde.

To describe the Tsarist country in one sentence, it is: born as a Tatar, wanted to be a Roman, but unexpectedly everyone regards me as a barbarian.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! After sending Yevgeny away, Catherine II suddenly felt a little pain in her chest. She paused the next meeting, lay on the sofa, and said to her secretary Hrapovich: "Suvorov has defeated the Chinese, and Jakarsa has won. It is either today or tomorrow, I have a premonition."

As the Queen's secretary and palace chief, Hrapovich knew that the Queen was often deceived by premonitions and would get sick when she was anxious, especially before the war began. However, as long as she learned that the battle began, her heart would calm down. No matter what bad news was next, she was not afraid.

So he comforted, "Your Majesty, this is caused by the weather and has nothing to do with premonition. I will invite the doctor now."

"No, you don't understand. This time my premonition was accurate." The old lady talked for a long time, and finally took the medicine prescribed by the doctor, and then fell asleep in a daze.

The ambitious old lady didn't know that at this time, not only Suvorov became a prisoner of the Northern Navy, but the war had also burned into Tsarist Russia...

"Boom! Boom!"

"Da da da da!"

On the wall of the Nebchu Fortress, the whistling shells were like birds that were constantly diving towards the ground, and seemed to never stop. In more than ten minutes, several mortars of the North Navy had thrown dozens of shells at the wall next to the south gate of the castle. At this time, no one on the wall dared to stand up and shoot except for the corpses on the ground.

"God, who are these people?! Why are they attacking us!"

"Sir, the soldiers who ran back by chance didn't even see what the other party looked like. Their weapons are too powerful and it's hard for us to deal with them."

More than an hour ago, a huge fleet came from the lower reaches of the Neilcha River. The strange shapes attracted many people to watch the river bank. The locals thought this was a trade fleet from the upstream. Who knew that when the other party approached the dock, the two large black ships that were heading the fleet suddenly opened fire, smashing several Russian soldiers on the dock who were about to board the ship to death.

At this time, there were more than 2500 permanent residents inside and outside the city of Nebchu (the population from 1780 to 1792 was 2503 people.) These included the Cossack family who were exiled here, the priests who opposed the empress's confiscation of the church manor, hundreds of Buryats and a dozen Swedish exiles; and in the mountainous area about 300 kilometers southeast of the local area, there were hundreds of miners composed of peasants, recruits and a few exiles.

The defenders of Nebchu Castle rushed to fight. They first sent a team of fifty people, but were beaten and fled back less than ten people. This scared the local chief executive, and he ordered people to close the two open gates regardless of the matter.

The sudden battle has been fighting for more than an hour, and the defenders in the Nebuchu Fortress still do not know who the enemy is. Although some people saw that the enemies outside the city were all with oriental faces, the Northern Navy was different from the Qing army's outfit and confused the local defenders...

The gunshots woke up the peaceful town, and many residents living outside the city had no time to escape into the castle, so they either ran to the Assumption Cathedral outside the castle, or hid in their own houses and shivered.

As the smoke of gunpowder rolled, a North Navy soldier rushed to the south gate of the fortress with an explosive bag tied with a wooden rack, pressed the explosive bag tightly against the heavy city gate, and then pulled the fire tube on the fuse.

Unlike the ones performed in film and television dramas, a fire-pulling tube is installed on the real hair-pulling fuse. This thing is made of brass, with a fire-pulling wire and gunpowder inside. When the fire-pulling wire covered with glass powder is pulled, it rotates and rubs in the pulling gunpowder, causing the pulling gunpowder to get angry, and then ignites the fuse.

"boom!!!"

With a loud bang, a big hole was blown open. The Russian soldiers hiding behind the fortifications near the city had just gotten up from the ground to raise their guns and shoot when the whistling rain of bullets came from the gap in the city gate. Then, several wooden grenades of the North Navy were thrown in from the gap, and the continuous explosions caused more than a dozen Russian soldiers who had no time to hide from them.

"Quick! Block the door and they are about to rush in!"

The speaker was a warrant officer. With his orders, the people in the castle hurriedly pushed several carriages to the city gate, while the others were busy piled up everything they could find around them on the carriage. At this time, the sound of gunfire sounded from the gap in the city gate, and the soldiers and prisoners who were pushing carriages were knocked down, with heavy casualties.

"Kill!"

A platoon of Northern Navy rushed in, followed by more Northern Navy soldiers. As the sound of bean-like gunshots rang out quickly in the city, more than twenty minutes later, the defenders in the city finally gave up their resistance, and the largest "prison fortress" in the upper reaches of Heilongjiang fell.

On the dock at the northeast corner of the castle fortress, a company commander of the North Navy reported to Liu Shenghui: "Commander-in-chief, we found more than 30 sloop boats, but no large ships were found."

"Burn them all! None of them are left!" After Liu Sheng finished speaking, he turned to the guards and correspondents beside him and said, "Notify all troops and board the ship in two hours!"

After noon, when those who were hiding from the war in the church found that the sound of gunfire outside calmed down, someone climbed up to the church bell tower to check. On the riverside pier not far away, black smoke columns soared into the sky. Under the smoke column were dozens of fishing boats burning, and the crackling sound of wood burning was clearly audible. In the fortress to the north, whether it was the tall wooden tower or other buildings, there were thick smoke.

The fall of Nebchu's fortress was even more frightened by the inhabitants outside the city. In this era, the fall of a town often means the beginning of plundering civilians.

Even in later generations, except for one army, almost all the troops in the world would collect food from civilians in the occupied areas. Although each army arrogantly said that it would pay compensation or issue receipts to civilians, during the war, any bill was a piece of waste paper, and civilians were unwilling to distribute the food they stored to the army, whether it was an enemy country or their own country. Even if the armies of various countries tried their best to maintain military discipline, they would often become empty words as the war continued to deepen.

Fourteen-year-old Polya and her aunt hid in the cellar under the floor of their house since the explosions broke out from the castle. They didn't know what happened, and their aunt Natalia guessed whether there would be a riot in the prison prison.

Natalia gently patted the child in her arms, and her eyes looked at the entrance of the cellar with uneasyness; the loud explosion from the fortress before scared the two-year-old child to cry.

Sitting under them were two rye-filled bags, a bag of potatoes and half a bag of beets, which were their food rations for spending this winter. My uncle Igor followed the First Infantry Regiment of the Outer Baikal, and there has been no news for more than two months. There is no need for a strong labor force, and the family is maintained by only two women, one big and one small, and life is very difficult. This little food is not enough for three people to survive this winter.

"Natalia! Polya! Dear, are you at home?"

When he heard a familiar man's voice coming from above his head, Polia and her aunt's eyes suddenly widened. They covered their mouths in disbelief, and tears couldn't stop flowing down.

Polya stood up and walked towards the entrance of the cellar, shouting loudly, "Uncle, is it you?"

The wooden board pressed on the cellar was removed, and Igor's head was revealed. He looked at Polya with tears on his face and said anxiously: "I'm back! Thank God, are you all okay? I just went to the Church of the Ascension of the Virgin to find you, where is our little Ivan?"

After both women left the cellar, the family had a lot of sorrow and joy, Polya, who was standing beside her, noticed that the clothes on her uncle were no longer the standard military uniform with red cuffs, but were replaced with a spot-mixed and weird-style clothes. Her feet were no longer the original horse boots, but turned into a pair of black and shiny tight-mouthed short boots.

"Uncle, why did your clothes change?"

Natalia also looked at Igor and asked, "Dear, are you promoted?"

Igor wiped the tears from his face with his big hands and said with mixed joys and sorrows: "No, I am helping the Chinese people now. The good news is that we will never have to go hungry again, and there may be fifty acres of land in the future..."

"Chinese?" Both women were stunned for a moment, and they didn't listen to the words behind them.

At this time, someone's voice suddenly came from outside the small house of Ilgo's house, but neither Natalia nor Polia understood it.

"Igor, how are you doing? Have you found your family?"

Igor quickly turned around and pushed open the door, and said to the person outside the house in a weird and awkward tone: "Yes! oгpomhoecпacn6o, dear Fan!"

"Then pack up quickly, we're going to board the ship soon."

Looking for the voice of his speech, Polya leaned out of the house and saw a fat man with a Tatar face and a fair and clean face standing outside his yard. Behind him were a few people in the same outfit and carrying "muskets".
Chapter completed!