Li Zicheng's prudence is not unreasonable.

Sending a large number of people to such ghost places is not simple.

There are at least three conditions required.

First: The national strength is not small, and without sufficient national strength, it cannot afford such consumption.

Second: Ambitions and great ambitions. Of course, you can also regard this ambition as ambitious. This is a problem of both sides. After all, it is not enough to have national strength. The national strength of the Northern Song Dynasty is actually not weak, but the courage to recover Yan Yun may not be able to be able to prepare for wars. However, the Han and Tang dynasties fought against Dayuan and Persia...

Third: it is to advocate force. You can’t achieve the national strength and the ambitions of the upper class. You also need to have an atmosphere of advocating force. Otherwise, except for throwing the sects and exiled people into such a place to guard, you can’t let a group of elite soldiers come here to fight against the snow and ice.

Zhang Xianzhong said: "Call it first."

Li Zicheng nodded, agreeing with Zhang Xianzhong's approach.

When encountering such unknown enemies, empty talk is useless. Although you have a preliminary estimate of them, if you don’t try it, you will never be able to adjust your own combat methods in a targeted manner.

I can only play first.

So Li Zicheng said: "I will supervise the battle with you personally, let's take a look first."

On that day, the refugee army arrived and took the lead in siege.

However, such a siege is actually quite dull.

The gunpowder of the refugee army is actually not enough. After all, it is too difficult to replenish supplies, and they are alone, so there is a lot of gunpowder they can carry.

Fortunately, everyone can use local materials to make stone throwing cars, and while sending people to wander around the outside world, organize a strong team of troops to attack directly.

The Tsarist horses in the supply station seemed to realize that the visitor was not the remnants of the Khanate. After being attacked suddenly, the sound of gunfire was heard.

Whether it was the Tsarist people on the high walls or the people under the city, they all used muskets.

However, the effect is not good, because here is icy and snowy, especially for the Tsarist Russians, gunpowder is prone to moisture. In the end, most of the attacks are still accompanied by bows and arrows.

But Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's men are actually not much better.

In this era, firearms are actually technical troops, and the demand for baggage and supplies is extremely high, which leads to the fact that it is impossible to use firearms on a large scale without a stable logistics.

Moreover, those bandits who were originally not used to using firearms.

Even the Donglin Army can only use the powerful firearm through repeated practices, countless indoctrination of the principles of firearms, and large-scale training of technical backbones in the army.

Therefore, this fierce battle on the snowfield ended up with a duel of cold weapons.

They took out rock-drawing cars, while the defense side was equipped with a large number of bows and arrows.

Occasionally, cavalrymen would attack while Li Zicheng's men were stationed and rested.

Li Zicheng's old camp team is definitely not weak. They have a large number of war horses and their weapons are also very good. They pick up swords made of steel and then board the horse to meet the enemy.

Every time they fought each other, after discarding some of the corpses, they seemed to notice the other party's hard stubbornness and immediately retracted.

For Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, they did not feel nervous. Although casualties occur from time to time, and the other party is like a hedgehog that is huddled, this just caters to the thoughts of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong.

You know, these two are both experienced old coaches!

The enemies in front of them are only three or five hundred, and they are not fatal to their expeditions. Even if there are occasional losses, they can still afford them.

However, when fighting each other, the greatest gain is to constantly observe the opponent's firepower equipment, weapons, military training, cavalry skills, and even the tactics adopted by the opponent after different situations occur.

It can even be said that a mere supply station is nothing.

But the people in the supply station actually became the experience package of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong.

After a few days, they finally understood the other party's background.

Their cavalry was very well-deserved, and like herders, there were almost very few people willing to retreat during battles, and they generally did not retreat easily before they received orders.

But unlike the Mongols who ride and shoot, they are better at rushing, their war horses are very explosive and cold-resistant.

However, their infantry was obviously far from the cavalry, and they were more like farmers with temporary signs.

These "farmers" seem to be good at using firearms, but in this climate, firearms are not very useful, so their combat effectiveness is very doubtful. Therefore, most of the time, their infantry is more like the auxiliary soldiers of cavalry.

These people are very brave and even if they encounter many sieges, they still have the determination to stick to it.

Their military officers seem to be of good quality. They can still seize various fighter opportunities and choose tactics reasonably at a disadvantage.

It can be seen that the other party has a relatively effective training method.

A few days later, Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng showed up.

Since I have figured out the details, there is nothing to beat.

Because Zhang Xianzhong had already noticed that the other party was starting to kill.

This is obviously a food shortage.

Immediately, Zhang Xianzhong took a quick decision to bring some people and continued to move forward. Under the search and march, he found a grain team dozens of miles away.

After the decisive attack, the grain team quickly fell into the hands of Zhang Xianzhong.

And then, I'll watch the fun.

The people outside the supply station boldly set up a big iron pot and began to kill sheep.

The people in the supply station were crying and killed their horses.

Everyone has meat to eat, but they are obviously different in their moods.

The Tsarist Russians ate their own military horses, while Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and others ate their sheep.

After a month of siege, the food in the supply station was exhausted.

Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng did not attack, and the Tsarist Russians obviously no longer had the ability to break through.

It's like cutting flesh with a blunt knife. It doesn't hurt much at first, so it feels like you still have a chance. When the other party tightens the ropes and wants to struggle, it's too late.

Of course, verbal slap is inevitable.

What Li Zicheng does every day is to compile books to persuade surrender, and then the book of encouragement to surrender would be translated into Mongolian by the prisoners of the Siberian Khanate and sent in.

He knew that these Tsarist Russians knew Mongolian.

Immediately afterwards, the other party replied to the same book and scolded Li Zicheng for a long time, probably greeting the men and women of all Li Zicheng's families.

Li Zicheng was very patient and scolded him.

However, as time passed, the other party's aura of cursing began to gradually become unconfident.

At first, he still called Li Zicheng a barbarian from the East.

Later, he became your Excellency.

After that, another noble Lord was added.

Li Zicheng was not in a hurry. He was still trying to find ways to understand and contact each other through these.

Only by knowing oneself and one’s enemy can one win every battle.

Just like that, another half month passed.

The Tsarist Russians in the supply station made a breakthrough, but a pity... they had no chance.:.

The refugee army on the periphery divided it into pieces and surrounded it. Under the extremely heavy losses, it finally completely occupied the supply station. At the same time, it captured more than 200 people.

Li Zicheng did not make any embarrassment for these prisoners. After dismantling their weapons and war horses, plundering their supplies, they actually let them release their dry food for several days.

But within a few days, nearly half of the prisoners came back obediently.

In such a ghost place, staying in the wild is equivalent to dying.

And they obviously felt that these Oriental people did not kill heavily.

Therefore, the captives immediately judged that staying with these Orientals might be the safest.

Li Zicheng was undecided at this time.

Both him and Zhang Xianzhong seemed to have encountered a difficult problem.

"There are two benefits to release them. One is to dismantle the fighting will of these people and let them know that even if they lose, it is no big deal. As long as they are willing to surrender, they can naturally be let go back."

Li Zicheng pondered and said, "And in this ghost place, manpower is the most useless, but supply is the most important. Releasing more people and letting them return to the supply station in the rear is to consume their cattle, horses and food. The more they consume, the more beneficial it is to us. And these people stay by our side will consume our supplies. Brother Zhang, what do you think?"

Of course, Zhang Xianzhong knew Li Zicheng’s intentions.

To be honest, the two of them had rich experience in fighting the enemy during the long-term wandering in the pass. Zhang Xianzhong thought about it and suggested: "Of course, people cannot be kept. Otherwise, we will take the prisoners to continue the attack, and then find the opponent's stronghold and supply station before releasing the person?"

Li Zicheng looked at him, nodded, and finally sighed, "I have to do this. Let my brothers pay attention and tell them that everyone is suffering. These high-nosed guys cannot survive and will not be sent here to guard. If you can give me a bite of food, just don't make trouble."

So, the vast team continued to set off.

Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are now under tremendous pressure because... the Jiannu people have already advanced from another road and they must advance quickly. Otherwise, after the brothers suffered so much, they would be lonely after coming here for a long time.

Sure enough, seven or eight days later, a new stronghold was discovered.

According to the original plan, more than 200 prisoners were immediately released on the spot.

The Russian Tsarist officer in the lead was speechless and sent the person to the supply site. He had delicious food and drinks along the way, and finally sent the person back in person... It was incredible.
Chapter completed!