If Mongolia had not already been a part of China, Lu Guoyi would now want to imitate Huo Qubing.

Find a mountain to seal it with. Anyway, the surrounding hilly and mountainous terrain is full of mountains without names.

But thinking about where to go later, he gave up the idea.

This is already considered the inland of China. Dong Shuheng said that the current territory of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is China's inherent territory.

He even took out a map from the Yuan Dynasty when teaching the officers.

Tell everyone that this will be their goal.

There is a big lake in the north,

That is the reflection cast by the moon on the earth,

Its lake is deep and clear,

It is a water jar dropped by the gods to the ground,

Zhuangzi traveled here,

Seeing how wide and wide it is,

It is called the North Sea,

Su Wu herded sheep by its bank,

Singing and crying!

Dong Shuheng told the officers that there is a large lake in the north. With it, the people of China can drink from inexhaustible sweet springs.

That big lake is so deep that you can't even reach the bottom with a long rope.

Dong Shuheng obviously wanted to portray this big lake as sacred. He felt that calling it the North Sea was unscientific and called it Lake Baikal, but Dong Shuheng was also reluctant.

Like a sesame seed pit, it’s not my real last name.

Dong Shuheng thought it would be good to call it Moon Lake.

The moon represents the cold side, so there is the Guanghan Palace on it.

This is very similar to the climate around the Great Lake. Maybe we can actually build a Guanghan Palace on an island in the lake in the future.

Maybe it will become a tourist attraction!

Dong Shuheng wanted to shape Moon Lake to be like our Yangtze River and Yellow River, deeply imprinting it in the hearts of the Chinese people.

Lu Guoyi thought that he might be able to reach the bank of Moon Lake this time when he went north.

A sense of pride arose in my heart.

Thinking in his mind, he unconsciously increased the frequency of urging his war horse.

The auxiliary soldiers behind drove the herds and the drivers pulled carts carrying tent supplies, struggling to follow the army in front.

Having just taken advantage of the great victory and lowered the yellow flag, Lu Guoyi's team expanded a bit.

This time, the brothers of the Second Regiment did not take any action at all, and directly relied on the auxiliary barracks to capture the garrison with the yellow flag. After all, Lu Guoyi did not have ammunition supplies, so he had to save some.

He was unwilling to use bullets when he could win with the lives of his auxiliary soldiers.

Only sacrifice can make these auxiliary soldiers more bloody.

Without Lu Guoyi's instructions, the auxiliary soldiers captured the nobles in the banner and tied them to the big pot where the mutton was boiling.

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The various ministries and banners on the Xilin Gol Prairie ahead are even more scattered.

Lu Guoyi wanted to sweep through them and defeat them individually before they could unite.

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The name Nerchinsk is familiar to Chinese people.

But very few people actually know where it is.

It was already August, and Dong Shuheng had received a victory report from the Second Regiment of the Taihang Column.

The instructions he gave back to the Second Regiment were: sweep across the Xilin Gol Prairie and leave no wool for the Manchus.

All these swept Mongolians will follow the Second Regiment to move north to enrich China's power in the upper reaches of Heilongjiang.

These people should have lived there, but they were too greedy for the warm climate in the south.

It was precisely because of their inertia that the Russians occupied the vast Northern Kingdom.

So now the second group will take them back to their original home.

Let them work with the Huai Navy to take back their original land from the Russians.

When Lu Guoyi massacred everyone in Xilin Gol.

The leading troops of the Heilongjiang Military Region have arrived at the original Nerchinsk.

Now this is a small Russian city called Nerchinsk.

It is said to be a small town, but it is actually a small town. The town is surrounded by a wall made of logs.

It is only more than 300 kilometers away from Chita, the important Russian town in the west.

The geological features here are very rich, with mountains, hills, plains, and forests intertwined. Affected by the large lake, Nerchinsk's summers are very cool.

Historically, this was a hunting ground for the Mongols. There is a record that in a small village here, 50 villagers caught 5,000 wild sheep in one day.

It can be seen that the resources here are very rich. Although it is remote, the Mongolian people who lived here did not have a hard time.

After the Russians came, all the Mongols here were expelled, and only a few hunters still lived hiding in the depths of the forest.

Tsarist Russia used this place as a penal colony, and a large number of criminals were sent here, gradually forming this town.

They also developed some farmland around the town to grow rye.

Before Chita, Nerchinsk had always been the most important stronghold of the Russian Empire in the upper reaches of Heilongjiang. It was only with the establishment of Chita that Nerchinsk gradually declined and became a small town.

There are about four to five thousand Tsarist Russian residents in the city, because Nerchinsk City has a history of hundreds of years.

Therefore, most of the people in the city have lived there for generations.

What arrived here this time was the second regiment of the Fourth Division and two gunboats of the Heilongjiang Navy.

Naturally, the men of the Second Regiment had no choice but to crowd into the gunboat, and a string of wooden boats followed behind the gunboat.

These ships were all troop carriers originally used by Muravyov.

Some of them were built here in Nerchinsk.

The fleet did not approach Nerchinsk City directly.

Huai Haijun had never set foot here, so now the regiment leader Teng Ziquan led the soldiers of the reconnaissance faction up to a hill in the east of the city.

The fleet stopped behind them a few kilometers away, on the Nerchinsk River in the upper reaches of Heilongjiang.

The mountains are covered with dense black pine forests, so Teng Zi doesn’t have to worry about his party being discovered by the Russians.

Through the telescope, Teng Ziquan could clearly see that most of the residents in the city were women, the elderly and children.

Those men should have been taken downstream by Muravyov.

They either died in battle under the gunfire of the Huai Navy, or they gloriously became prisoners of the Huai Navy.

Time is too tight, otherwise it would be great if Fujiko Quan and the others could find a few peasants and soldiers from Nerchinsk among the prisoners, and save themselves the trouble of feeding insects here.

It can be seen that the residents of this city still do not know the news of the failure of the front line.

The Heilongjiang River has been completely blocked by the Navy. Even if soldiers escape back, they will not be able to go across the river.

But it is not that easy to pass through the mountains and forests on both sides of the river.

There are no existing roads available on both sides of Heilongjiang.

To be honest, in Teng Ziquan's eyes, the scene in front of him was like a beautiful pastoral picture.

It is a small town with wooden walls, and the city is full of wooden spiers. If the exteriors of these houses were painted in different colors like later generations, it would be very beautiful.

Outside the city, there are large wheat fields on both sides of the river.

The small river flows out from the mountains in the distance and merges into the Nerchinsk River.

Far away from the river bank is a natural pasture, with grass growing as tall as half a man and swaying in the wind.

If these pastures are harvested, I don’t know how many livestock can survive the winter.

All those working in the fields now are Tsarist Russian women wearing linen clothes.

Compared with the men in Tsarist Russia, these women were much harder working.

Some guards armed with muskets can also be seen in the watchtowers on the city wall.

But the number is definitely not large, because they are only deployed at the city gates and watchtowers, and there is no one guarding the city walls.

Teng Ziquan silently calculated the number of these enemies in his mind. At the same time, he was also thinking about how he should capture this town.

If you want to build a permanent fortress and military city in the upper reaches of Heilongjiang, this is undoubtedly the best choice.
To be continued...