Qi Jiguang, who spent the winter in Kazakhstan, was much better than Dong Yiyuan and Wang Minghe.

The thick snow not only did not become a burden for him, but instead became a helper for him to study new tactics.

His biggest problem is nothing else, his army carried a large number of artillery. They had just passed through the desert using the method of dispersing pressure boards on the side-box trucks, and in a blink of an eye, they received news about the large swamps of the Siberian Khanate.

How did he pull the heavy artillery out of the swamp?

flying fish.

Bigger flying fish.

Flying fish that can carry thousands or even tens of thousands of kilograms of weight to the sky.

This ideal is too ambitious. After experimenting throughout the winter, Qi Jiguang gave up.

The thick snow allows the flying fish soldiers to fall freely from the sky, without having to jump off the flying fish when they are approaching the ground and fall. As long as the reinforced wooden railing is covered with two layers of quilts, the thick snow in the northern area of ​​Kazakhstan border with the Khanate can maximize the impact of landing.

However, their processing and manufacturing capabilities are more than the military weapons bureaus that were concentrated in the Ming Dynasty. The same production process makes the flying fish not strong enough, and even if it is larger, it is difficult to achieve the original performance.

Since its establishment, the troops led by Qi Jiguang and Dong Yiyuan have been a strategic mobile force aimed at grassland combat. Who knew that it would be difficult to escape the Siberian Khanate, which was far away from the border, to carry out the western expedition.

After the beginning of spring, hundreds of heavy artillery returned to the Yili Du Commander Office. The commander said that it was to strengthen the city defense and left light artillery to follow the army. Even if it encountered difficult places, the trouble was much smaller than the heavy artillery.

Speaking of which, this winter is not considered to be a useless task. At least Qi Jiguang's flying fish troops have more inferior flying fish available. Although the flying fish made in Siberia have not been improved in essence, it has broadened Qi Jiguang's thinking.

There are spears and shields in the world, and there are boats and cannons. Only the flying fish are uncontrollable. No matter what you do with it, you can be unique in the world.

For example, handing the telescope to Feiyu soldiers, unloading ammunition and loading fuel, conducting aerial exploration and mapping.

Seventy-six flying fish soldiers drove twenty-four flying fish, preparing for several days from the southern Ural Mountains, and finally waited for a good wind to set sail westward.

The twenty-four teams of 100 horses each brought spare horses to carry food and charcoal on the ground as logistics forces, and followed the shadow of the flying fish to the west.

As long as conditions permit, the flying fish lands two or three times a day, deliver the surrounding information to the ground and continue to set sail.

The surveying and mapping progress was extremely fast for a while... Not only was the flying fish condescending and efficient, but the terrain of this area was flat, except for the birch forest on the ground, it was the birch forest on the mountain.

There is really nothing to map.

However, as they marched, their vision gradually became wider, and traces of human activities finally appeared on the ground.

The flying fish soldiers found a way in the dense jungle. The weather did not blow them home. Following the road, they were found large areas of abandoned farmland and farmhouses that hoarded food.

Then, I saw the fortress.

Dong Yiyuan's Cossacks who made a living by telling stories were excited about this. The emergence of the fortress not only means that the Ming army did not go the wrong path, but also mainly means that they did not lie.

In fact, Qi Jiguang and Dong Yiyuan had about the information about all the fortresses between Yermak's Cossacks from Moscow to Iskell City. These people reviewed the process of giving them Siberian fur to the Tsar dozens of times during the boring winter of the Ming army.

But if you say it or not, it basically has no impact on the Ming army.

It was like Qi Jiguang told a Cossack, "The Ming Dynasty had a city called Gansu, another city in Xi'an, and Kaifeng, and the largest city was Beijing." If you say this, it would be equivalent to not saying it.

No one can tell where is.

What's more, these Cossacks are really ignorant. No one knows the distance between one fortress and another, no one knows the number of garrisons, no one knows the scale of garrisons, and all of them are heard from the inside.

If they were allowed to participate in the swearing competition, they would probably get the first place. Their swearing words have taught many Ming soldiers badly.

The discovery of the wooden fortress made the Ming army extremely informed. Zhu Yu, as the pioneer officer, said to Qi Jiguang excitedly: "Now we are in the match, General, we are getting closer and closer to dumpling filling."

The so-called dumpling filling is the nickname of the Ming army to Yermak's boss and the Stroganov family.

Their name is minced meat, which means meat filling. When the Ming army made dumplings, a Cossack prisoner pointed at the dumpling stuffing. Later, this family was called dumpling stuffing by the Ming army soldiers.

Qi Jiguang and other Ming generals and generals of the Ming Dynasty now have some understanding of Tsarist Russia's invasion of the East. If Tsarist Russia is compared to the Ming Dynasty, then Ivan IV will be Wanli. Yermak is like the most famous merchant group of merchants in the Eastern Military Palace, and then the dumpling filling is equivalent to Chen Mu.

So Qi Jiguang never took Yermak seriously, although this lucky guy did not die in the battle between the Ming army and later fled to the north and did not appear again, and no one cared about him.

After all, that's just a little person. As long as the dumpling filling family is over, even a hundred Yermarks appear is not worth mentioning.

Since Yermak invaded eastward, in addition to his 540 Cossacks under his command, the Dumpling Filling Family has provided him with thousands of mercenaries to support him; Ivan of Moscow also provided thousands of support and prepared two years of baggage.

Without these, Yermak had long been beaten to death by the Spiel Khanate.

Therefore, Qi Jiguang's purpose at the beginning was to remove the family standing behind Yermak. As long as the Ming army approached this area, they would naturally fight with him.

However, Qi Jiguang did not have Zhu Yu's joy on his face. On the contrary, he seemed very worried: "The most difficult time has come."

Zhu Yu and others nodded one after another when they heard this, saying, "It is easy to get close to the road, it is easy for the enemy to support it, but it is difficult for our army to replenish supplies. The most difficult time has come, and we must fight and decide quickly."

However, he didn't expect that this sentence made Qi Jiguang frown even deeper, and it was not his previous worry expression, but his deep confusion: "What are you thinking? The most difficult thing has nothing to do with war. What Qi is thinking about is how to allocate land to Meng Qingying's family."

What is the difficulty of attacking these fortresses? You don’t even need to fire artillery. Qi Jiguang was already confident and said, “It’s all Muying Village. Flying fish set fire from the sky with the night color. There is nothing that cannot be broken.”

No artillery is needed.

Falling from the sky, the consumption is less than the battle of siege, and the results are greater than that of the battle of siege. Not only can the enemy not fight back, but it may also regard this as a miracle, which directly leads to low morale and defeat.

At that time, Mongolian riders are preparing to capture people on the periphery of the fortress, and they will definitely win every battle.

The biggest problem is the family, these non-elite troops, Mongolian light cavalry, who are extremely enthusiastic about having children.
Chapter completed!