All the above ethnic groups have a blood feud with the Cossacks!

Zhang Tingxun set off from Jianhe City by boat and rushed northwest for hundreds of miles until he arrived at the Cossack outpost castle Nizhny Shadrino. Because the troops were dispatched early and the dimensions here were high, the snow outside the castle had not yet melted.

When the Cossack defenders made an emergency defense, Zhang Tingxun said directly: "One battalion will stay and lead 500 tribal warriors to besiege the city, and the rest of the troops will continue marching!"

Including the auxiliary warriors, the total army of 4,000 people actually split up at the first enemy fort.

The defenders did not react at all, thinking that Zhang Tingxun was going to encircle them, and quickly dispatched troops to strengthen the troops in the northwest. However, they saw three-quarters of the Chinese fleet heading north without stopping, and then they understood what Zhang Tingxun wanted.

What to do.

But it was too late to report the news. The remaining fleet blocked the river!

Zhang Tingxun even took the time to march, and even stopped the entire army for two hours in the middle. He suddenly appeared outside the city of Nikulino the next night. This is the largest Cossack city in the north. Counting the surrounding Cossack villages, it is nearby.

After a few years of population growth, thousands of Cossacks settled here.

The generals who defended the city were unaware of it, because even if the Chinese army came to kill them, they would have to pass through Xia Shadrino first. This was not a frontline castle, and it was a thousand miles away from Zhang Tingxun's home base.

"Boom boom boom boom!"

In the dark, the sound of artillery fire suddenly sounded, and cannons were fired wildly from the east and south of the castle.

The Datong Army and tribal warriors had already circled to the north and west in advance. The moment the cannon sounded, they carried ladders and began to climb the outer fortifications of the bastion. Immediately afterwards, several hot air balloons rose up and dropped bombs frantically towards the buildings in the city.

, quickly ignited several wooden houses.

There were shelling and soldiers siege outside the city, and there was a fire inside the city. The Cossacks in the city were completely stunned. After waking up from their sleep, they were at a loss and didn't even know where to defend first.

It is true that there are thousands of Cossacks living in this area, but most of them are scattered in various villages. There are only a few hundred defenders and residents in the city.

The whole battle was devastating.

The next morning we went to the city to rest, and in the afternoon we divided our troops again and took boats to attack the surrounding Cossack villages. Those villages, which originally belonged to the indigenous people, were robbed by the Cossacks and used as settlements. The indigenous people either fled, were killed, or became

slave.

The Datong army was relatively well-disciplined, but the tribal warriors who accompanied the army had a blood feud with the Cossacks. They rushed into the Cossack villages and killed them. At the same time, they rescued the indigenous slaves and took the slaves with them to kill them.

The Cossacks in the village were mainly serfs who had escaped from Tsarist Russia. Very few of them owned muskets, and many did not even have serious weapons. Facing the butcher knives of the tribal warriors, the Cossack villagers had no ability to resist, and all those who ran slowly were shot.

Hack to death.

But the number of tribal warriors is increasing with each fight.

Some came from rescued slaves, and some came from local indigenous people. The local indigenous people were expelled from the river areas and hid in the dense forests. When they heard that someone was fighting Cossacks, they all came to join the group to help.

A month later, the number of tribal warriors under Zhang Tingxun reached an astonishing number of more than 8,000.

Immediately, he sent his troops westward, recruiting indigenous warriors along the way and raiding Cossack villages everywhere. The entire hinterland of the Tomsk Warlord District was turned into a pot of paste by Zhang Tingxun.

Until Zhang Tingxun led his army south to encircle Vartovsk, the retreat route of the main Cossack force was cut off, and the Tomsk Governor's Mansion became an isolated city.

In this battle, Zhang Tingxun only led 2,000 regular troops and 2,000 tribal auxiliary troops, but they fought thousands of miles within four months. They captured five Cossack castles, uprooted more than ten Cossack strongholds, and destroyed more than 80 Cossack villages. However, the Datong Army

The number of casualties was only single digits, and the tribal warriors only suffered casualties of more than 300.

Become famous in one battle!

Two years later, the "Sino-Russian Treaty of Tomsk" was signed, and Tsarist Russia's Tomsk Military District was divided into two, with China occupying the east and Tsarist Russia occupying the west.

The entire Siberian region north of Xinjiang is Chinese territory.
Chapter completed!