May of the 16th year of Tianqi.
Chief Secretary of Beishan.
Beishan Commander-in-Chief Mao Wenlong, on the orders of Zhu Youxiao, led more than a thousand Ming troops and began to advance towards Yakutsk, the easternmost city built by the Rakshasa Kingdom.
This area has extremely cold weather most of the year.
Especially in the coldest times, you can hear the sound of gas turning into ice slag even when you exhale.
Only during the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth months of the lunar calendar, the temperature is above freezing.
Therefore, Mao Wenlong had to lead his troops to set off in May, when the ice and snow began to melt, and then he had to end the war before October came.
Otherwise, his troops and horses will suffer heavy losses due to the severe cold.
At this time, the Rakshasa army stationed in Yakutsk has just begun to resume training and patrols due to the warming weather.
These Rakshasa soldiers wore boots made of natural leather and stepped on the snow that had not completely melted, making a crunching sound. At the same time, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who were walking towards them were also wearing boots made of natural leather. Military boots made of leather made a crunching sound when stepping on the snow.
The distance between the two sides is two miles away.
However, due to their lack of understanding of the surrounding countries and their pride in not encountering a strong enemy since their journey eastward, the Rakshasa soldiers did not notice that a Han army from the east was approaching them and attempted to occupy them. The new city built here disintegrated their ruling system here.
There are not many Rakshasa soldiers stationed here, only about five hundred.
Because the population of Rakshasa Kingdom is not very large, the total population is not as high as that of the Ming Dynasty, but the area is very large. Evenly spread out across all places, there are only a few hundred soldiers stationed in a city. Even if the invasion of other places is only a few hundred Human scale action.
Historically, the number of troops that invaded the Waixing'an Mountains from the south of the Rakshasa Kingdom was only a few hundred.
Mao Wenlong had already noticed this group of patrolling Rakshasa soldiers with his binoculars.
Therefore, Mao Wenlong waved his hand and instructed his army to use the cover of the woods to outflank the left and right wings. At the moment when the Rakshasa soldiers had completely entered their encirclement, Mao Wenlong immediately ordered: "Fight me!"
The firearms of the Ming Dynasty began to improve the firing device after the chemical technocrats of the Academy of Sciences developed mercury fulminates as flash caps, which are propellants. When the flash cap is struck, the acupuncture fulminate ignites the propellant. At the same time, the bullet becomes a pointed cylindrical projectile, which is loaded from the back and embedded in the rifled breech-loading percussion gun.
Now, the officers and soldiers led by Mao Wenlong use this kind of firearm. This kind of firearm has high shooting accuracy, long range, easier operation, and is convenient for individual soldiers to fight independently.
boom!
Following Mao Wenlong's order, gunshots began to ring out in the still-snowy wilderness.
The Rakshasa soldiers who were surrounded fell to the ground one after another.
Andre, the military attache of this Rakshasa army, was extremely horrified. He didn't understand why there were so many people wearing mandarin duck cloth armors and such sharp firearms around him. He just met them and was shot dead on his side. many people.
Andre had to immediately turn around and prepare to retreat into the city, but the artillery on the Ming army also began to show off its power at this time. Many shells came over, directly knocking Andre and the remaining soldiers around him to the ground.
When Andre stood up from the ground, he found that he was surrounded by these tall Ming soldiers.
The physique and height of an ethnic group are related to its level of economic development. At this time, the Han people had not experienced the three hundred years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty when they relied on sweet potatoes to feed themselves, which caused a serious decline in the national physique. In addition, the Ming Dynasty is now at its peak, so, The logistics supply is sufficient, and the physique of the soldiers is not inferior to that of the Rakshasa people.
"Kneel down and avoid death!"
The Ming soldiers surrounding him were shouting loudly to Andre.
But Andre couldn't understand.
It was only after the Jinyiwei interpreter who followed Mao Wenlong in advance ordered him to kneel down to avoid death that Andre understood what the other person meant and knelt down honestly.
Andrei felt extremely shocked because of this. He did not expect that these yellow-skinned people from the east had already prepared for his Rakshasa country in advance, and actually prepared interpreters, but he was unprepared.
Mao Wenlong picked up the muskets issued by the Rakshasa Kingdom on the ground at this time: "This is not much different from a gun! With such a musket, you dare to invade my Ming Dynasty's territory. I don't know who gave you barbarians the courage!" "
Mao Wenlong said to his Jinyiwei interpreter: "Ask him how many defenders there are in Yakutsk City."
The Jin Yiwei interpreter asked Andre.
In order to survive, Andre told the truth and did not dare to violate the Ming army's intentions.
When Mao Wenlong learned that there were only 300 defenders in the city of Yakutsk, he gained a little more confidence. However, soldiers are not afraid of deceit. Therefore, he did not directly lead his troops to attack the city of Yakutsk. Instead, he took advantage of the pride of the Rakshasa soldiers at this time. In order to underestimate the enemy, they only sent a hundred Ming troops as bait to the vicinity of Yakutsk to attract the attention of the defenders.
Not long after, the defenders of Yakutsk were indeed fooled. Under the leadership of their defense attache Pieck, they tried to detect the sudden appearance of the Ming army and asked why they suddenly appeared in their territory.
But when Pieck surrounded the Ming army, he suffered heavy casualties because of the more powerful weapons of the Ming army, and encountered a counter-siege.
In the end, Pieck was captured alive like Andre.
The city of Yakutsk was successfully captured by the Ming army.
"I want to ask, why did your Ming country invade Yakutsk?"
After Pieck was captured alive, he asked about Mao Wenlong through the Jin Yiwei interpreter.
Mao Wenlong raised his gun and put the muzzle of the gun to his head, then pulled the trigger and killed Pieck on the spot.
Andre couldn't help but tremble when he saw this.
At this time, Mao Wenlong really looked at Andre.
Andre had no desire to fight at all. At this time, all he could think about was fear, and liquid flowed out from under his body. When Mao Wenlong continued to hold the gun against his head.
"Tell him that they have opened up territories and invaded other people's residential areas without the permission of our Emperor, the Emperor of China. They have violated the Ming Empire's regulations on maintaining basic global order! That's why our Emperor, the Emperor of China, sent us to rescue them. The original residents here maintain the order here. In addition, in order to let their country know about this, they allow him to choose ten people to accompany him back and bring back the decree of His Majesty the Ming Emperor to their tsar, and also give us the instructions for sending troops. The reason was told to their tsar, and I hope that their tsar will know the right measure, take the initiative to withdraw his troops, and no longer invade rashly! Otherwise, the Chinese dynasty will surely perish and put him on trial!"
At this time, Mao Wenlong suddenly spoke to Interpreter Jin Yiwei.
When Andre understood what Mao Wenlong just meant from the Jinyiwei interpreter, he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.
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"The Chinese Empire? Violated the basic global order? This hateful Eastern Empire, why do they think we should abide by their laws!"
Tsar Michael's father, Patriarch Philalet, was very angry when he found out about this.
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