With a few loud bangs, the door of Governor Alexander Stroganov's office was knocked heavily, and then the angry voice of Stroganov's adjutant, Peter Andropov, came:

"Your Majesty the Governor, they are coming!"

Governor Stroganov and Governor Urasov, who were discussing whether to defend the city or run away, looked at each other. Governor Stroganov loudly said: "Peter, come in and talk."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the door being pushed open, and Andropov's face full of panic. This young nobleman had served as an officer in the shooting army, and had also served in Central Asia and Mongolia.

Anyone who has fought in a war has seen mountains of corpses and seas of blood. What on earth could have caused him to panic like this?

Governor Stroganov immediately asked: "Peter, what happened? Who is coming? Isn't it Obai?"

Andropov nodded in admiration: "Your Majesty the Governor, you are right! We have just received the report from Petrov Pass. The Tatar army is coming. At least 150 galleys are heading towards Nibu along the Shilka River.

Chucheng is coming..."

With a crash, Governor Stroganov stood up. Because he got up too quickly, he even pushed the chair under his butt half a step back, and he didn't know what he bumped into?

Urasov, the governor of Irkutsk who was confident just now, was also a little nervous: "How is this possible? The mud and floods have not passed yet, the roads are simply not suitable for the army to pass, and the water on the Shilka River is so fast...

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"Those Tatars have a very difficult river navy to deal with," said Governor Stroganov, who has been the governor of Yakutsk for many years and is very aware of Obai's strength. "They are very familiar with Heilongjiang and Shile."

With the conditions of the Ka River, it’s not surprising that boats can sail during the flood season.”

As he spoke, Stroganov's face suddenly dimmed, "Damn it, the road is too muddy now, it will be difficult for us to retreat from Nerchinsk City! Unless..."

There is no waterway from Nerchinsk to Lake Baikal, and the roads in Siberia will be too muddy for a period of time after the snowmelt season arrives, making it difficult to pass.

Of course, Governor Stroganov can still leave with a small number of people, but the thousands and hundreds of defenders and a similar number of Rakshasa merchants in Nerchinsk City cannot leave - a small number of people can be left alone.

Pick up a few horses, so that you can carry enough supplies to complete the journey of ten or twenty days and retreat to Baikal Fort on the south bank of Lake Baikal. But as more people retreat, the horses in Nerchinsk City will not be enough.

, we have to use horse-drawn carriages to transport supplies and materials... But the roads are turned into mud pits, how can the horse-drawn carriages pass through?

As Stroganov spoke, he cast an expectant look at Urasov - please quickly suggest that this governor transfer to Baikal Fort!

"Sir," Urasov said with a firm look on his face, stood up and gave a military salute, "I and the entire garrison of Nerchinsk Fortress will not let you down. We have a strong castle and well-trained garrison.

.....Even if 100,000 Tatars come to attack, it is impossible to capture our fortress!

As long as we are here, the land of Nerchinsk will always belong to Rakshasa and His Majesty the Tsar!"

Hearing what he said, Stroganov couldn't be so shameless as to propose a retreat - if he were to escape before the battle, he would be blamed!

If the Nerchinsk fortress is occupied by the Tatars, as long as Urasov can escape (judging from the current attitudes of Obai and Yue Le towards the Rakshasa Kingdom), even if Nerchinsk is captured, they will not go on a killing spree.

), the responsibility will definitely be passed on to the Governor of Yakutsk who fled the battle. After all, the Governor of Yakutsk is the highest military and political officer in Eastern Siberia. His desertion will definitely severely damage morale.

If Urasov holds the Nerchinsk fortress, then Stroganov will be even more unlucky... Troganov will be even more unlucky! Urasov becomes the defender of the Rakshasa territory and the Tsar

A hero, and he, Troganov, is a cowardly, cowardly, and downright sinner!

"Okay then!" Troganov suppressed the idea of ​​​​escape, "Let's guard Nerchinsk together... we must let the Tatars know how powerful we are!

But before the war begins, we should still send envoys to the Tatar army to give them a stern warning!"

He glanced at his adjutant and said, "Peter, take people to see Obai and ask his people to leave the territory of the Rakshasa Kingdom immediately! Otherwise, the Cossacks and Shooting Army will wipe them all out!"

...

Peter Andropov, the military envoy sent out to negotiate by Troganov, did not leave Nerchinsk City too far. He met him in front of the Petrov Pass that had just been occupied by Obey and Yuele's troops.

The Tatar army came ashore to rest.

The city of Nerchinsk is surrounded by a large basin, and the Petrov Pass is located at the eastern entrance of the basin. It is the choke point into the basin along the Shilka River. It is about a hundred meters away from the Nerchinsk Fortress.

Lilu. The Rakshasa people built a wooden fortress there according to the mountains, but there were not many defenders there. They could not stop the continuous flow of Aobai and Yuele soldiers. After a little resistance, the defenders gave up.

Escaped from the fort.

When Peter Andropov arrived, at least a hundred wooden boats were docked on the river bank under the wooden castle. Andropov was following a few "pseudo Rakshasa soldiers" walking on the mud to the wooden castle.

When I went there, I paid special attention to observe it.

He found that most of the wooden boats were empty, but there were also soldiers guarding some wooden boats... Andropov also found a chance to take a look with the telescope he carried and found one of the wooden boats.

It was impressively equipped with two large-caliber mortars, and a wooden boat was equipped with a large-looking cannon!

This group of barbarians actually came to Nerchinsk City with heavy artillery - can Nerchinsk City still be defended?

No, they are not barbarians... because their clothes look similar to the Rakshasa Shooting Army (Santa Claus Soldiers), and the muskets on their shoulders look a little stronger than the defenders in Nerchinsk City.

Woolen cloth!

Moreover, this group of Tatar soldiers who look similar to the Rakshasa "Santa Claus Soldiers" is very numerous. They are all over the mountains and plains, maybe more than 10,000 of them. They are cutting down trees and expanding the Petrov Checkpoint. It seems that they want to expand the checkpoint.

It was built into a wooden fort that could station a large army.

Peter Andropov thought to himself: It seems that this time the Battle of Nerchinsk is going to be a lot easier!

With an uneasy mood, this Rakshasa noble officer from Moscow finally met Obai and Yue Le in a large tent inside the checkpoint.

Both of them wore red robes and red hats similar to those of the "Santa Claus Soldiers". As Obai got older, his hair and beard turned white, and he looked like a real Santa Claus.

Because Obai's son Namofo has been stationed in Yaksa City for a long time, he has been dealing with the Russians, and he also took a Rakshasa girl as a concubine, so he can speak Rakshasa language. Today he is also in the big tent, serving as an interpreter.

He said to Andropov in Rakshasa: "My father Obasky and his ally Yuletov, because they were sabotaged by the Chinese emperor, now brought 20,000 troops to the city of Nerchinsk to surrender.

, from now on we will be the officials and lords of the Rakshasa Kingdom!"

Surrender?

Real or fake?

You are so confident in surrendering, what on earth are you Orientals thinking in your minds?

Andropov was still not sure, so he asked tentatively: "Will you really hand over the weapons to us? Is this what you meant by surrendering just now?"

"No, no..." Namofo shook his head repeatedly, "You misunderstood. Surrender means that you disarm, hand over your weapons and Nerchinsk Castle, retreat to the west of Lake Baikal, and then we will attack you again.

surrender!"

What does "surrender" mean in the East? Andropov was dumbfounded. What kind of logic is this? In the West, the party that surrenders its weapons and territory is usually the party that surrenders, and the party that gets the enemy's weapons
Chapter completed!