The opponent's vigilance is much lower than Dong Yiyuan imagined.

The weather is getting colder and colder, and Dong Yiyuan is unwilling to follow Kuchukhan's footsteps, waiting for the Siberian troops, whose combat power is like a militia, to launch a siege next spring.

The rumors in the Siberian Khanate were seriously deviated from his own judgment.

It prompted him to decide to take the lead before the Ming army's armor could withstand the cold of November, and try to approach the banks of the Ertzis River in the south of Iskell City, and launch a prepared field encounter against the enemy to personally measure the combat capabilities of this group of Cossacks occupying the city.

On the sixth day of the 10th month of the eleventh year of Wanli, with the help of the severe cold in the wilderness, Dong Yiyuan's troops approached the Ertzis River without knowing it. His scouts could even vaguely see the broken city of Iskell on the other side of the river in the blowing snow fog.

On the south bank of the river, only ten miles away from Iskell City, Dong Yiyuan's thirteen households counted the number of people, a total of 123 Mongolian light cavalry, two Zhejiang army gunners fell behind during the march due to frostbite, and a Mongolian heavy cavalry's war horse broke its legs due to frozen soil, and the spare horse could not undertake the impact task, so he withdrew from the battle.

They will set up camps in the ruins of the village to the south to survive the whole winter. The nearest station is seventy miles away. Dong Yiyuan has already transferred military doctors to them from the rear, but the military doctors who are good at treating external trauma have limited effect on their situations.

The Mongolian light cavalry from the north of the desert swam on the south bank of the Ertse River for three days.

Even if the sheep were lost in the winter in the north of the desert in the past three days, they would not go out to find them. They braved the temperature of ice and the bone-thundering cold wind passing through the wilderness, and performed well just to explore the traces of enemy scouts.

In the past, they were helpless and worthless warriors on the grassland.

In three days, they were all nine-year-old Temujin who was driven out of the tribe's wandering grasslands, and had unparalleled tenacity and fighting spirit.

It was not Genghis Khan who shaped their fighting spirit, but their enemy, the Cossacks who seemed to be hiding in the dark.

The Ming army marched for 470 miles with the attitude of entering the enemy's territory. They completed the scout mission along the way with the most serious attitude, but the man in a sheepskin coat was so ashamed that he wanted to hit the wall with his head and they didn't even see a figure!

How is this possible? How could they not see an enemy when they are getting closer and closer to an occupied capital, shortening from a hundred miles to forty miles, or even twenty miles?

The enemy must hide in the dark and must find them.

It was precisely because of this belief that they could freeze people to death in a weather where there was little negligence, and Zhu Yu, who led his soldiers to dig trenches. They captured three lonely Cossacks at the Chuvash Fortress on the right bank.

Chuvash Fortress was a fortress built by the Siberian Khanate in the past. It was condescending and guarded the only passage on the Erthis River within a radius of 400 miles of Iskel City, not a bridge or a ship.

There are no decent bridges on the Ertzis River, which is more than a mile wide. There are only many ways to go to Iskel City.

Boat ferry, freeze in winter, build pontoon bridges, swim, and surfing. No matter what... there is no ready-made bridge.

People who make people fear will always survive in fear.

People who are in fear will expose their own weaknesses.

Until October 23 of the same year, a heavy snow had just happened and the whole world turned into silver.

The scouts on the south bank of the Ertzis River finally returned. There was movement in the city of Iskell. Under the cover of night, a unit of 200 people dragged a sloop on the snow with war horses and walked towards the river bank.
Chapter completed!