"Ula! Ula! Ula..."
The sound of gunfire suddenly fell silent, and then earth-shattering shouts rang out.
It was the Nerchinsk defenders commanded by Urasov who shouted for a decisive attack! As the defenders of the city, they should have been sitting quietly in the castle, waiting for the barbaric Tatars to flock to the Nerchinsk Fortress to die.
But now they have to bite the bullet and leave the city, because if they don't leave the city for a decisive battle, they will not even have a chance to break out and escape...
Before, Urasov dared to promise Stroganov, of course he was somewhat confident - the current Nerchinsk city was built two years ago, and when it was built, it was a simple bastion of civil structure. After Urasov took office as the governor of Irkutsk, he concentrated manpower and material resources on strengthening the Nerchinsk Fortress.
After the reinforcement project was completed, the defensive capabilities of Nerchinsk Fortress were significantly improved. Not to mention the desolate Eastern Siberia where there are only "barbarians" around, even in the western frontier areas of the Rakshasa Kingdom facing Poland, Sweden, and the Ottomans, there are few fortresses stronger than Nerchinsk City.
There are about 1,500 Cossacks and shooters in Nerchinsk. If fully mobilized, the number of defenders could be increased by 1,000 more.
In addition, the equipment of the Nerchinsk garrison was also good, with twenty or thirty light artillery pieces, three hundred flintlock muskets, more than a thousand matchlocks, hundreds of war horses, a large number of cold weapons, and some Cossacks. The warriors also brought their own bows and arrows.
So when Peter Andropov brought back the news that "the Tatars possess large mortars and artillery" and the number of people exceeded 10,000, Urasov still insisted on taking the main battle and rejected the proposals put forward by Obai and Yue Le. Surrender request - If you want to capture a strong bastion like Nerchinsk, it is useless to have large mortars and 12-pound and 18-pound cannons. Unless the siege party has sufficiently skilled engineers who can guide the infantry to dig parallel siege trenches and serpentine communication trenches around the bastion, and place mortars and 12-pound and 18-pound cannons in the correct positions... for For the Tatars along the Heilongjiang River, this requirement is too high.
As far as Urasov knows, the Ming army and the Jungar army fighting against the Rakshasa Kingdom in Central Asia are not that high level, let alone these Tatars from the Heilongjiang River Basin!
But when the armies of Obai and Yue Le came in parallel by water and arrived at Nerchinsk City, Urasov realized that he was wrong, and very wrong.
Because what he met now was not ordinary Tatars, but a group of new-style Tatars who were knowledgeable, cultured and good at mathematics and physics!
Today's Tatars are not only ferocious, but they are also literate. They are also capable of learning mathematics, physics, and chemistry, and are not afraid of the Tatars when they travel all over the world...Does this still allow the idiots of Nerchinsk to live?
Of course, the literate Tatars are neither Obai nor Yuele - it's not that they are illiterate, but that the knowledge they master is lagging behind. Ao Bai is an old man who has risen to prominence since the Huang Taiji era. He is over sixty years old this year and has never learned any new knowledge. Yue Le is a little younger, but he is still in his forties and almost fifty. The Tatars of his generation have not learned anything new.
However, influenced by "Zi Lun Ge Wu Pian", among the children of the Eight Banner nobles who were born after the early years of Shunzhi, there were a group of new Tatars who were proficient in new learning.
The representative figures among them are the two great monks of the Sengge, the Three Jewels Lama and the Pearl Lama! There are also such characters in the Heilongjiang and Anton armies. The more outstanding ones are Daishan's grandson Jin Jieshu and Fei Yanggu, whose surname is Dong E. Both of them were born in the second year of Shunzhi (1645) and received a half-new and half-old education since they were young. When the Qing Dynasty disappeared, they were both in their teens. They all shed tears and vowed to study for the revival of the Qing Dynasty, and they became even more energetic.
Later, the two went to Vladivostok together and studied at the Vladivostok Official School (actually an army school) run by Dodo. Later, they joined Donny's army and fought with the Ming army. After Donny's defeat, the two He followed Shang Keai (who was in charge of Vladivostok at the time) to submit to the Ming Dynasty, and was recommended by Shang Keai to go to Tianjin Taixue. After graduating from Tianjin Taixue, the two of them went to work for Ao Bai and Yue Le. They both held the same position, serving as the director of the engineering department of the Duhu Mansion, that is, the official responsible for engineering construction-in the past ten years Over the years, Heilongjiang and Andong have carried out many engineering and construction projects, including building cities, building roads, building bridges, and building ports. Most of them are civil engineering projects.
Jin Jieshu and Fei Yanggu studied a little bit of engineering (engineer courses) at the official school in Vladivostok, and later laid a solid foundation in mathematics and gezhixue at Tianjin Taixue, and then worked in engineering for so many years while studying. Can the level of construction be any worse? As for bastions of the level of Nerchinsk City, they have built at least 30 or 40 bastions over the years... and if they can build bastions, they usually also know how to break them!
Moreover, the imaginary enemies of Heilongjiang and Andong towns have always been the Ming army, which has strong offensive capabilities. Therefore, Jin Jieshu and Fei Yanggu have been studying the Ming army's siege tactics for more than ten years. What is the level of these two people? , one can imagine.
Under the command of the two of them, 2,000 "Pseudo Rakshasa Army" and 2,000 naval officers and soldiers came ashore, carrying large amounts of firewood and fort baskets (wicker baskets filled with earth, used to build breastworks to resist the firepower of the fortress) , drove to the east and north of Nerchinsk Bastion, three miles away, and at the same time began to dig close trenches. It only took one day and one night to advance nearly two miles using the approach trench, and also completed a parallel trench only one mile away from the fort.
Because the project was very well organized and the protective parapet was formed by using baskets and sandbags, there were no casualties among the Ao Bai and Yue Le troops on the first day of construction.
Afterwards, the troops of Aobai and Yue Le relied on the first parallel trench to continue digging towards the Nerchinsk Fortress. Excavation and cover were carried out alternately, and the organization was very clever. They first used a zigzag communication trench that was three steps wide (for artillery to pass) to advance half a mile, and then dug a second parallel trench half a mile away from the castle. During the construction process, large groups of "pseudo Rakshasa infantry" and cavalry were on standby, and cannons were also set up to continuously bombard the Nerchinsk fortress to hinder the Rakshasa army's counterattack.
On the fourth day after the siege of Nerchinsk began, the second parallel trench was completed. That night, the mortar troops of Obai and Yue Le began to enter the second parallel trench. 24 kilograms of explosive shells began to be continuously thrown into the small city of Nerchinsk!
In fact, when Obai and Yuele's troops completed the excavation of the first parallel trench, Ulasov already knew that something was wrong. I must have met an engineer Tatar... Judging from the level of construction of trench digging, their leader America studied in France!
Knowing that the Nerchinsk Fortress could not be defended, Urasov immediately proposed a breakout to Stroganov!
But how easy is it to break through? The city of Nerchinsk was built at the intersection of the Shilka River and one of its tributaries. There were rivers on both sides to the southwest. The Rakshasa army had no navy and it was impossible to break through the rivers. The north and east sides of Nerchinsk City were blocked by the enemy's parallel trenches and parapets.
Therefore, Stroganov could not make up his mind to break through for a while, but after he hesitated for three or four days, the enemy's second parallel trench was completed, and then 12 24-pound mortars were moved into the parallel trench. They began to fire 24 kilograms of explosive shells into the city of Nerchinsk day and night.
By this time, Stroganov, Urasov, and all the Rakshasa people in Nerchinsk City knew that they could not wait to die.
So on the sixth day after the siege of Nerchinsk began, the Rakshasa army defending the city had to start risking their lives to break out of the siege!
But how could they possibly break through the defenses of the "pseudo Rakshasa Army" consisting of parapets, parallel trenches, and communication trenches?
