The Ming army took advantage of the great victory and had a strong morale. The Russian army was defeated and most of the main forces were wiped out. Now it is time to be empty. The front-line generals of the Ming army followed Macheng for many years and understood the strategic intentions of the Grand Commander.

, Taking advantage of his illness and taking his life, the overwhelming cavalry group roared away, surrounding the Russian army, whose main force was lost, among the strong cities.

The war was about to end, and the first phase of the Northern Expedition lasted for a year and a half, ending with the Ming army's victory.

During the war in northern Seychelles for a year and a half, the main forces of the Russian army, including the Cossacks and armed civilians, were wiped out by 100,000 armed forces in the Far East, and basically lost their resistance. The Ming army was not easy to fight, because of frostbite, war damage, and all

The accidental reduction of more than 50,000 people, almost one-quarter of the casualties, and a large number of disabled soldiers were resettled on the spot, becoming residents of Siberia.

The disabled troops were reorganized on the spot. When they were disabled, they were reorganized. The new troops were overtaken again, and there was another cycle of reincarnation.

In the tenth year of Chongzhen, in September.

Before winter arrived, the Ming army in northern Selangor welcomed replenishing forces. Sixty thousand northern children who had just walked out of the new recruit camp carried a large amount of supplies, drove from Jiangnan, Jiangbei, and Liaodong, crossed the Outer Mongolia grassland, crossed the Tanuwulianghai to Lake Baikal.

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In this way, the Ming army's strength in Siberia increased instead of decline.

As the front line grew, the Changming Army continued to increase its troops, and the additional 60,000 additional troops made up for the losses in combat. This was the magnificent battle of the Northern Expedition. The power of a province and a land alone could not support such a large amount.

The war of a large scale was mobilized throughout the north of the Ming Dynasty, and the troops were barely enough. There was still a large gap waiting for the Ming people to conquer it.

Relying on the army alone, Macheng asked himself that he could not conquer this land. More than 200,000 troops filled Siberia, and even a wave could not be turned up. It depends on the people to occupy this land, to open up the wisdom of the people, and to open up the military ban, so that they all can be young and powerful.

The people who hold the handgun and the bows and arrows can only occupy it.

At the same time, Moscow.

The palace was filled with depression and silence. The weak and sick Tsar Mikhail was lying in his bedroom. In front of him were the nobles in power and the auxiliary government. As the first Tsar of the Romanov dynasty, the Tsar's life was tragic.

, was exiled before the age of sixteen, and later selected as the Tsar by the nobles was just a decoration. The weak and sickly frustrated Tsar, whose power was lost, was in the hands of his father, Elder Phelalet, his elders, and his family,

It is the Romanov family that has maintained its rule for three hundred years.

After finally thirty years of hard work, all his elders were killed, but the Tsar, who was in power, was getting worse and worse, and he was very bad. The forty-six-year-old Tsar Mikhail is now bedridden

In fact, the one who was in power was his eldest son Alexei, an ambitious young prince, the second tsar of Tsarism Russia.

The war in the distant East failed, and the generals suffered losses, completely defeating the Tsar, paralyzed and hemiplegic.

In October of the ninth year of Chongzhen.

The first Tsar of the Romanov dynasty, Mikhail I, was paralyzed in bed, and his eldest son Alexei succeeded. As soon as the young and energetic Tsar Alexei succeeded, he could not accept the heavy defeat on the Eastern battlefield, and in front of him

A group of family elders and noble elders were furious and called the Stroganov family, who was in charge of the Eastern war, to the palace, from the governor to the general, and cursed them bloodily.

Russia is a feudal centralized country, aristocratic politics, which is comparable to the aristocratic politics of the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

The Stroganov family, who was defeated by the Ming army, lost power. The young tsar with weak ambitions began a series of actions to save the defeat. At this time, the tsar did not know that the Irkutsk Fortress had fallen.

He was also dispatching troops to transport troops to the front line, and dismissed the generals of the Stroganov family and replaced them with his confidant.

The irritable Tsar sent troops to the front line and recruited troops in densely populated areas in northern Russia with three rubles a year of military pay. While sending envoys to seek help from the Polish, Lithuanian and Swedish troops, he used the national treasury while using the national treasury while sending envoys to seek help from the army of Poland, Lithuania and Swedish.

The reserves bribed the Crimean Khanate, and the Cossacks were mercenaries, trying to form a powerful coalition in northern Russia.

As Ma Cheng worried, the Polish and Lithuanian Commonwealth had been in conflict with Russia for a long time, fighting harmony, but it was ultimately an Eastern European country with the same clan and origin. The powerful Poles once supported the son emperor in Russia, and the Russians were the younger brothers of the Poles.

When I was in trouble, I was forced to ask for it, so I was naturally obliged to accept the Russians' request and sent troops to the east.

Except for the Swedish emperor Gustav, the Cossacks and Crimeans all accepted the employment of the young tsar.

A powerful Eastern European coalition is gathering in northern Russia.

As for the chaotic southern Russia, the young and irritable tsar could not hire it for a while and lost as much as 40% of the treasury income of the Siberian hunting grounds, which was unacceptable to Russia. Losing the lucrative fur business east of the Ural Mountains, the Principal of Russia

He was defeated back to the prototype and became a third-rate European country, which the young tsar would never accept.

So, the irritable young tsar decided to organize a coalition in Moscow and personally fight. However, this young man never expected that a traitor among us Europeans, the Swedish emperor Gustav II, who had thick eyebrows and big eyes, would have

Being a traitor to the Europeans, no one could have thought that the Kingdom of Sweden and the Ming Empire had started to secretly contact each other a few years ago.

Therefore, all the movements of the Russians fell into the eyes of the Ming army in the Northern Expedition, and there was nowhere to hide.

October in the tenth year of Chongzhen.

Irkutsk city, the sound of cannons rumbled.

The Ming army cleared the streets, ruins, and moved the siege cannons into the city. After a long time of bombing, the Russian army guarding the barracks surrendered. Three thousand Russian army surrendered, and more than one hundred nobles still resisted stubbornly.

The army rushed in and stabbed the guns to death. The Irkutsk Fortress fell into the hands of the Ming army. After repairing and rebuilding, it became another supply station on the Ming army's westward road.

The whole city conquered, and Macheng set off from Hanhai City and went to the Irkutsk Fortress to reward the three armies. On the way, the messenger of Swedish Emperor Gustav was welcomed, one Pole, two Lithuanians, and one Swedish, and naturally

In the eyes of the Ming generals, these people were no different. The four messengers of Emperor Gustav brought the latest trends of the Russians.

Ma Cheng remained calm and went to the front line to reward the three armies, but there were four important figures from afar and were strictly protected among the personal soldiers.

Front, Irkutsk City.
Chapter completed!