After October, heavy snow began to fall in the northeast, and by mid-November, Heilongjiang had been frozen.

At this time, the army can walk by ice without using a boat.

Early in the morning, the sun rose, wearing cotton jackets, cotton shoes, and a sticky hat on the head. The soldiers in winter clothes, after a full meal, took muskets, pulled artillery, and began to cross the river with ice.

Gao Huan rode a horse and stood by the riverside, following the Ganchao civil and military officials, as well as the leaders of the Mongolian tribes.

At this time, Gao Huan was breathing in his mouth, looking at the team crossing the ice, and instructed in a deep voice: "After crossing the river, the New Eight Banners and Mongolian tribes are responsible for monitoring the fortress, and the Central Army departments are ready to face the enemy reinforcements!"

Gao Huan and Grand Duke Rekov, the Governor of Tsarist Russia's Far East, had frank exchanges on territorial issues. The two sides had fully exchanged views, but there were great differences. Rekov rejected Gao Huan's reasonable request, and Gan Chao could only express regrets about the negotiation results.

Since the negotiation cannot be reached, it can only be resolved through war.

Gao Huan deliberately angered Rekov, making him realize that there was no possibility of peace, so he could only send troops from all over the country to reinforce Jakarta.

The Far East is too far from Moscow, and Tsarist Russian reinforcements will not be able to come for a while, so Rekov can only draw elite troops from the Far East fortresses to come to the aid.

This means that as long as Gao Huan scored ten feet in Yaxa, he could eliminate Tsarist Russia's vital forces in the Far East, and take advantage of the empty Tsarist Russian troops in the Far East to recover the Outer Xing'an Mountains, and even let the Mongols take down the Beihai.

The leaders of the Mongolian tribes originally thought that Gao Huan wanted to use them as cannon fodder, but unexpectedly, after a few months, they didn't fight.

These days, Gao Huan has served them with good wine and meat, and has also sent them winter clothes and equipment.

Every day they follow His Majesty the Emperor to hunt, pointing to the Jurchen tribe to get rid of poverty and become rich, and then they teach ideological and moral classes.

For them, except for the one-hour course every night, the rest of the time is simply too comfortable, just like a public holiday or a study class.

The Mongolian leaders such as Hancha have now increased by ten kilograms of meat per capita, and they eat and drink like this. With the influence of ideological classes, everyone feels a little embarrassed, hoping to fight for the government for a hundred feet.

"Report to Your Majesty! I have not made any contribution since I became effective. I am willing to lead my troops to fight and serve Your Majesty!" Han Cha heard that he was only asked to monitor the enemies in the city without having to go into battle, so he couldn't help but ask for his orders.

A group of Manchu and Mongolian generals also agreed, intending to make contributions to the great efforts.

Gao Huan smiled and said, "Don't worry, everyone! Tsarist Russia borders me, and there are many conflicts in the future, and you will inevitably have the opportunity to make contributions. However, these Tsarist Russians have good combat power and you have no experience. You may not be their opponents. If you go to fight rashly, you will only suffer heavy losses. The Chinese family, you are also my people. I don't want you to sacrifice in vain!"

"Mr. Benevolent! Holy Lord!" Hancha and others were moved when they heard the words, "Your Majesty is really a Khan of Heaven!"

Gao Huan waved his hand and said seriously: "Okay! You all look at it carefully. The opportunity is rare. The Central Army can only demonstrate it once. You must learn something so that you can fight against the Tsarist Russian army in the future."

After hearing this, Han Cha and others turned red. Originally, His Majesty did not let them fight because he looked down on his strength. He asked the Central Army to demonstrate and teach on-site and give them the opportunity to learn.

After saying this, everyone was embarrassed to ask for a fight.

In the city of Yaksa, Grand Duke Rekov looked at the densely packed Chinese troops and crossed the river with a serious expression.

Previously, Rekov had always hoped that the Chinese would launch an attack. As long as the Chinese attacked Yaxa, they would first lose a group of losses when crossing the river, and a group of losses when siegeing the city.

In this way, the Russian army could rely on Heilongjiang and the bastion to kill and injure the Chinese. When the Chinese could not capture it, they could only withdraw their troops. As soon as China retreated, Tsarist Russia immediately gained hegemony in the Heilongjiang River Basin. When the Jurchen tribes saw the Chinese retreat, they could only honestly accept his rule, pay taxes and provide slaves.

Now he saw from the telescope that the Chinese army crossed the river, but he couldn't be happy.

The first is that after the Heilongjiang freezes, the Chinese army easily crosses the river, and the Russian army dare not go out of the city to block the attack. The second is that the Chinese army crosses the river is completely different from the Mongols and Jurchens he met before.

These Chinese troops were wearing standard military uniforms, holding muskets in their hands, square quilts behind their backs, kettles and ammunition boxes hanging around their waists, well-equipped, and mules and horses in the team pulled cannons.

Looking at the Chinese army with white breath and walking on the ice, Rekov must admit that the equipment of the Tsarist Russian army is far inferior to theirs, and perhaps only the Tsarist Imperial Guards in Moscow can compare with it.

There were only more than a thousand Russian troops in the Jaxa Fort. The soldiers stood on the castle and watched the dense army crossing the river, and were a little nervous.

"Governor General, there are so many Chinese troops and carry artillery. How should we defend?" Captain Pushkin saw at least more than 10,000 people crossing the river and was amazed at the strength of the Chinese.

"It's okay!" Grand Duke Rekov said in a deep voice: "Winter makes our city walls stronger. If the Chinese attack, we will rely on the castle to kill them. By then, when Nebchu's reinforcements arrive, we will attack both sides and will definitely be able to defeat the Chinese army. If they can capture their emperor, we will let the Chinese ced Liaoning to us and compensate us tens of millions of taels of silver!"

There are indeed interests and the defense of the castle in winter. As long as the Tsarist Russian soldiers pour water on the ground to freeze the ground under the city, the Chinese army will fall when walking under the city, so let alone siege the city.

Secondly, even if the Chinese army has artillery and shells smash the city wall, Tsarist Russian soldiers need to simply repair it and then water it, and the city wall will be as hard as iron the next day.

After hearing Rekov's words, the Russian officers regained their confidence. It was so stupid that the Chinese chose to attack in winter.

So, while the Chinese army crossed the river in the distance, Tsarist Russian soldiers quickly boiled water, sprinkled it under the city wall, and poured it on the city wall, making it difficult for the Chinese to stand and climb under the city.

While the Russian soldiers in Tsarist Russia were busy, Gao Huan led his troops to the north shore and ordered the New Eight Banners and Mongols to establish camps outside the range of the bastion artillery to surround the bastion.

Gao Huan led his subordinates to explore the northwest along the frozen river channel, looking for a battlefield to block the reinforcements of Tsarist Russians.

At this time, a soldier came from the west on the river more than 100 miles away from Jaquessa.

On the frozen river, the wind is cold and the climate is harsh. The wind blows on the face, just like cutting flesh with a sharp knife.

After the negotiations broke down, Grand Duke Rekov had a premonition that there would be a war with the Chinese. In order to repel the Chinese army, he ordered Nebchu and others to organize troops to rescue Yaksa.

Tsarist Russia had not many troops in the Far East, with a total of only six or seven thousand people. Nebchu spent three months to gather 4,000 troops and launched a counterattack in winter.

At this time, in the cold wind, Tsarist Russian reinforcements marched extremely slowly, stretching for two miles.

Russian soldiers shrank their necks, held muskets, lowered their heads, spit out fog, and walked forward in the wind and snow.

However, the Russian officers in the lead were very confident that if the Tsarist Russian soldiers could not bear such weather, it would probably be that more than half of the Chinese had frozen to death.

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