Yermak was still working hard to raise food for his subordinates in the north, but suddenly his subordinates in the south came over on horseback and told him that he didn't have to find food anymore.

Iskell City is lost.

The spoon died outside the city, Mavit was defeated and captured. Before dawn that day, the Ming army had already entered the city following the gap that they had exploded when they captured Iskell City, and only fifty-three people escaped from the city.

After they met with Yermak, there were only 270 people left in Cossacks and suffered an unprecedented defeat. Now even Yermak had no choice.

Their priority is not to regain Iskell, but to find a place where they can hide from cold winter nights.

Following the survivors of Iskell City, the Ertzis River began to freeze from the north in November. The Cossacks drove small boats and marched quickly on both sides of the river, making them unable to play with their specialty.

What's more, the person who has the most ships on this land is not Yermak, but Dong Yiyuan from Iskell City.

He had 123 large and large oars, sailing boats, eight oars, and a square sail with a single mast, which could carry two small flags and part of the baggage; the small boat had two to four oars, which could transport half a small flag or a small flag to sail on the river.

It can transport 1,000 infantry or 400 fully armed Long Live Army horse-riding infantry at one time.

However, Dong Yiyuan did not intend to continue to pursue the Cossacks, and the winter in Siberia is coming.

Just as he told his subordinates in the past, even if a person has winter clothes made by the emperor, he will not be able to compete with God.

Thousands of people were stationed in the city, with guns standing on the walls, and the gap was temporarily blocked by the captured wooden cart walls. There was enough ammunition to fight another battle, and sufficient water and food could make them last for six months.

What else to worry about?

Let Yermak take Cossack to survive on the ice field.

They captured 183 prisoners in two battles outside the city, and finally twenty-one survived.

The reason why Dong Yiyuan did not execute the remaining prisoners was to feed them with food to relieve the soldiers.

The winter in Siberia is boring. The most important thing that any general needs to pay attention to when garrisoning troops is to prevent his subordinates from being bored, or not to let his subordinates be idle.

And for the Ming garrison in Iskell, they were not bored. Only by entering this city would they know what kind of things the Cossacks, who were enemies of them, were like a group.

The capital of the Siberian Khanate in the past has now become an unmanned city. Those who can escape have already escaped from the beginning of the war, while those who cannot escape have died here.

In the cellar, the streets were covered with frozen dead bodies, and some of them even had tooth marks that had been gnawed by people.

According to Cossacks who were captured at night outside the city, they had been out of food for a long time and had indeed eaten corpses. However, when asked if they had done such a thing, no one admitted it.

Since there is no one, there is naturally no need to worry about the idle soldiers who are doing nothing to harass the people. Dong Yiyuan can only arrange various entertainment activities for them.

In addition to the city guards who are on duty every day, others can choose to chat with prisoners, sign up for the first Han Meng wrestling conference in Iskell City, conduct shooting and fighting, hunting and other competitions.

All experienced scouts know that walking on the snow is very dangerous, and if you don’t pay attention, you will not be able to see things for several days.

Especially when using a telescope, it is most likely to stab the eyes.

To avoid this, they used almost everything they could think of.

The easiest way is to wrap a thin cloth on your face, so you can barely see the distance, but this cannot be completely prevented, so it is better to use black cloth.

But you still have to use a telescope to wrap the cloth, so you just apply a layer of resin on the lens, and accidentally brush the telescope.

So some boring scouts even developed their ability to use gum to make simple telescopes and glasses this winter.

Perhaps the materials are not up to standard, or the skills are not up to standard. Anyway, the telescope made from resin cannot see clearly and the imaging is weird, but there are gains and losses. The telescopes and glasses made from this can prevent snow blindness to a certain extent and are greatly loved by the soldiers of the Long Live Army.

Their entertainment activities add the item of snow appreciation.

If a man respects the heaven, the heaven will naturally be rewarded.

For example, the five hundred shooting troops who had traveled a long journey from Moscow across the Ural Mountains and took their baggage along the frozen river bank to the city of Iskell were sent to the city.

On a clear winter day in late November, standing at the top of Iskell, you can barely see three miles away from the west bank of the river with a resin telescope.

A few days ago, the sixteen-man hunting team sent out from Iskell City was wrapped in thick fur cloaks outside the armor, like wild beasts walking on the snow, carrying a load deep and shallow feet across the glacier, and sent back people to send carts out of the city.

They hunted two bears and some small animals that were scattered in the snow. After crossing the glacier, they really had no energy to get them into the city.

Ironically, hunting seems to be a means to increase food, but in fact no one will choose this when the troops are about to lose food.

Dong Yiyuan allowed soldiers to organize hunting teams to leave the city because they had enough food, not enough food.

Because fishing, hunting, and gathering are all extremely physically exhausting work, the physical energy they consume when they come back from hunting may even be greater than the harvest of their hunting and fishing.

For hungry people who are really out of food or encounter natural disasters, the usual choice is to lie down and stay still.

Their prey could make the city troops eat meat, but the precious bear skin was broken. The group used atypical hunting methods, arranged the bait and dug a hole in the tree trunk and put the tiger squat cannon in it. The soldiers used their grenades to turn the line and remote control of the line.

One shot hit the bear and turned a big shot in the snow.

It caused complaints from soldiers in the city that they had to pick the projectiles first when eating meat, so they could not beware of the stewed ones before it would hurt their teeth.

However, it was so bad that the teeth were so bad that the Qijun was very happy to eat it with two dishes. He set up a large pot on the street and started stewing it.

Shortly after the hunting team returned to the city, the aroma of canned sauerkraut and stewed meat spread throughout Iskell City, and the smoke and steam rose higher than the city wall.

The scouts of duty shouted loudly on the city: "General, someone is here, someone is coming from the west!"

When Dong Yiyuan climbed to the top of the city, what caught his eye was an army of nearly 450 people.

In fact, it is difficult to identify them as troops from their appearance. They are wearing cotton armored robes of the same color, with long axes and muskets, some people are leaning on flags painted with double-headed eagles in front, and more people are pulling them with sleds behind, pulling the unmovable troops and supplies.

Their cotton-armored robes looked so thin in the snow, they didn’t have many horses, dogs, but there were many sleds.

From their weak marching, Dong Yiyuan even guessed that they must have killed all the horses and dogs and eaten them.
Chapter completed!