The frozen river surface has become a road for Subud's army. The war horses pulled sleds and cannons with sled gun mounts and flew on the ice, and the horse's hooves were wrapped in cotton cloth, so that the horses would not slip when walking on the ice.

When it got dark, the army left the river and entered the woods by the river to set up camp.

On the north bank of Heilongjiang, the temperature in winter can reach more than minus forty degrees Celsius. When camping in the wild at night, it feels cold to imagine the feeling of coldness.

However, these young Jurchen soldiers wore warm thermal underwear, put on a wool sweater, put on a cotton armor on the outside, and a thick down jacket on the outside. The cold-proof equipment on the whole body did not feel cold at all. The camp was surrounded by wooden fences, covered with felt to resist the wind and snow. The soldiers supported the tents, covered with sheepskin, and placed down sleeping bags on them. They lay inside to sleep and sleep peacefully.

It is precisely because of these cold-proof equipment that Subude can explore the hinterland of the extreme north, and wherever he goes, he has erected many stone tablets, making significant contributions to China's expansion of territory.

Of course, it is not ruled out that the Rakshasa people come to destroy the stone tablets, but Subud arranged people to patrol regularly. When they found the stone tablets, they would send scouts to find the Rakshasa people. After they found them, they immediately sent troops to conquer. In this way, Subud defended many territory for the Qing Dynasty. In fact, this was not only to defend the territory for the Qing Dynasty, nor to defend the territory for the Ming Dynasty, but to defend the territory for the descendants of China.

In the dark winter night of the Outer Xing'an Mountains, the cold wind blew, and from time to time, you could hear the shrill howls of wild wolves and the dull roar of brown bears from the forest in the distance. However, the bonfires were lit in the camp, and the beasts did not dare to approach.

The silly dogs in the snow and local dogs in the camp heard the barking of wild animals, and the dogs barked wildly.

But after a while, the howling of the wolf and the roar of the bear disappeared, and a low roar came from the depths of the jungle. When the roar was heard, all the dogs clamped their tails and fell to the ground in fear, not even dared to make a sound.

"The roar of the tiger, the tiger is worthy of being the king of the jungle. When the tiger is coming, the wolf and the bear are both frightened and the dog is scared." Subud walked out of his central army tent and said in the direction where the sound came.

An Oroqen warrior said: "In fact, when it comes to fighting, the big brown bear is not inferior to the tiger, but that thing is less courageous than the tiger. Bear is just a bear, so how can it be compared to a tiger."

In the winter outside Xing'an Mountains, it was very late. The next morning, Su Bude took out his pocket watch from his arms and took a look at the time. It was already six o'clock in the morning. He got out of his sleeping bag and woke up all the soldiers. His pocket watch was given to him by Li Guodong. With this pocket watch, it was much more convenient to calculate the time.

Many watch shops have emerged in the Ming Dynasty. In fact, as early as the Age of the Age, some people in the Ming Dynasty knew how to imitate watches from the West, but there were too few skilled craftsmen, and only high-ranking officials could afford luxury goods such as watches.

But since Li Guodong took over Guangdong and gained a large number of skilled craftsmen, imitating clocks is no longer a problem. Now, not only can you see clocks in the palace, but also in the homes of high-ranking officials and wealthy merchants, there are large clocks in many yamen, and officers of the barracks, thousands of generals, and more than a thousand households are equipped with pocket watches. A large number of clocks are also exported to the Qing Dynasty, earning a lot of money back.

It's still dark at six in the morning. It won't be dawn until at least nine in the morning, and there are still three hours left.

"Let the fire-headed soldiers bury the stove and cook, prepare, and set off at 8 o'clock." Subud gave the order.

The fire-headed soldiers buried the stove to make fire, knead the dough, and then made steaming pancakes. The frozen meat was already braised before departure. After braised, it was placed in a bag. Now it was hard as stone. Take out the frozen braised meat, put it in a pot, and then cut it with a knife, and hold it in the pancake with pickles and green onions, and then it becomes a delicious meat cake. Drink some steaming tofu egg flower soup, which is a very comfortable breakfast.

After dinner, Subud looked at the time and it was eight o'clock in the morning. It was not dawn, but it was time to set off. The snow was shining brightly and the visibility was very high.

The team set up camp and pulled up camp and walked along the shore. Because it was not dawn and I was afraid of danger when walking on the ice, the cautious Subud chose to walk along the shore. In fact, he was too cautious. In an extremely cold place, it was more than three feet of ice, so there was no need to worry about people and vehicles falling into the ice hole.

After nearly a month of march, this team of Rakshasa people finally arrived near Yaxa.

"Tatars! The Tatar army is here!" A Rakshasa soldier stumbled into the office of Semami Nigerioff and reported the bad news to him.

"Tartars? How many people did they come?" asked Semyon Nigerioff.

The Rakshasa soldier replied, "Nearly ten thousand people have come! There are many musketeers! It seems that there are cannons!"

"The Tatar army has muskets and cannons?" Xie Miao Nigerioff was shocked. He was not afraid of muskets, but when the cannons came, it would be a serious threat to his wooden castle.

Xie Miao Nigerioff walked to the top of the castle, holding a telescope, and looking into the Qing army outside the city of Yaquesa. He saw a large area of ​​darkness on the snow field were filled with Qing soldiers, and he could not see at first sight. The Qing army was about one mile away from the castle of Yaquesa, and there were still people fiddling with cannons in the formation.

The Qing army had a neat formation. Xie Miao Nigerioff knew that with the few people in the castle, he could not rush in front of him. He would be shot into a sieve by the musket on the opposite side and shot into a hedgehog by crossbow arrows.

Xie Miao Nigerioff knew that those powerful crossbows had a farther range than those of Russian heavy convex guns, but their accuracy was much higher. Using a convex gun to shoot against the crossbow may not be able to beat them, not to mention that the opponent also had a cannon!

"Defend the city well and don't go out easily! If the Tatars bombarded with cannons, we will attack with cannons from above!" Xie Miao Nigerioff gave the order.

However, the Qing army did not directly set up a bombardment, but instead sent auxiliary troops to start digging snow, put the dug out into sacks, and then carried the sacks and piled up sacks on an open field about one mile away from the Castle of Yaxa, about half a mile away, piled up sacks, piled up into a turret.

"Fire the gun! Bomb them!" Xie Miao Nigerioff discovered the intention of the Qing army, shouted, and asked the Rakshasa soldiers to shoot and bombard them.

At the top of the city of Jaquessa, a roar of cannons sounded, and flames spewed out from above the castle, and white smoke rose from above the castle. Countless black dots roared towards the turret built by the Qing army.

The shells hit the sack filled with snow. The scorching shells rubbed against the ice and snow. The high temperature caused the snow to melt, and the sacks quickly faded.

"Hahaha!" Xie Miao Nizhnioff laughed. "Silly Tatars, do they think that snow can make fortifications? Don't they know that the shells that were released from the bore are hot? They melt when they hit the snow."

The Rakshasa people's shells kept smashing up, and the snow quickly melted. However, the Qing soldiers seemed to be stupid, constantly piled up the snow on it, and were constantly melted by the shells.

The melting snow water met the snow and immediately formed a layer of ice. Sacks and wooden frames filled with snow were constantly thrown on it, and as the snow melted, a fortress made of ice and snow appeared outside the city of Jaquessa.

"So they built the fort with ice! We will do this!" Xie Miao Nigerioff sneered.

The Rakshasa people in the city boiled the pot and boiled snow water. After turning the snow into snow water, they poured it down from the top of the castle, which soon made the wooden castle as hard as the stone castle.
Chapter completed!