Some years can be forgotten by people at any time, including those that bring joy and happiness to people; but some years condensed with blood and tears are embedded in people's hearts like knives and axes, because they leave people with The scars are deep and difficult to heal.
May of 1788, when the spring cold refused to recede, was such a day filled with hatred.
This day is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.
Co-leader Tibet got up very early. He didn't sleep well last night and got up several times to inspect the city defenses.
The Rakshasa finally came. Tibet, with his soldiers and thousands of border people, had tried their best these days, and Humalmu City finally looked like something.
Even though Tibet is an Ewenki, he has read some books during his many years of fighting in the north and south. He admires the sages of the Han people in the books who sacrificed their lives for justice. Facing the vicious Rakshasa barbarians, he knows what justice is. However, his nation and conscience dominate his heart and actions.
Bullying the weak and fearing the strong is the logic of all bandits, even Bogaevsky, the leader of the First Transbaikal Fusiliers Regiment, is no exception. He underestimated the courage of the Qing border generals, and the surrender conditions he sent were rejected.
Faced with the threat of the Rakshasa messenger, Tibet said that he wanted to pass Humalkarun unless all the two thousand people here died in battle!
For Bogaevsky, an order from Nerchinsk City forced him to speed up the task of opening up Heilongjiang.
Yes, the commander-in-chief Suvorov appointed by Queen Catherine II has arrived in Nerchinsk. His request to the commanders of his regiments is to lay down a ground and firmly occupy it. At the same time, he believed that Bogaevsky's actions were too slow. He hoped that he could enter the Qing Dynasty's largest castle in Heilongjiang, Heilongjiang City, before May 30th. At that time, Suvorov will award Bogaevsky a medal at the Qing officials' office in Heilongjiang City.
Tibet walked to the wooden city wall, looked up into the river, and saw the big Rakshasa ship docked on the east bank of the Heilongjiang River. He knew that the Rakshasa on the boat was waiting for the large group of people behind.
In the past few days, the exact news of the fall of Guigudal City has reached Humar City. Except for the women and children rescued by Tibetan men, more than 2,000 border residents in the city were all killed in the battle. The Rakshasa’s butcher knife stained the city. The water of Heilongjiang turns red.
The orders coming from Aihui City and Black Dragon City required Tibet to hold on here for at least five days, so that the rear would have enough time to improve the city defense and summon border residents from surrounding villages to rush to support.
Not to mention that it was difficult for him here, even Heilongjiang General Hengxiu, who was in Qiqihar, was also seriously ill. Three days ago, news came from the Hulunbuir Deputy Dutong Yamen that another Rakshasa fleet entered from the lower reaches of the Zed River (Selenge River) on April 20, burning, killing and looting along the way; Khalkha The messenger sent by Tushetu Khan on the back road has arrived in Hulunbuir.
Because it is located in an important border area between China and Russia, the Hulunbuir Deputy Capital Office guards many waterways and has a strength of 3,800 troops. How can Hengxiu care about the life and death of the Mongolian tribes in the back of Khalkha? The most critical thing now is to defend Heilongjiang City and Aihui City. Once Rakshasa breaks through here, tens of thousands of lives will be destroyed. Rakshasa will no longer have any troops to control in the entire middle reaches of Heilongjiang, and its warships can reach the sea.
While Tibet was lost in thought, he saw several fast horses galloping from the north. When these Qing cavalry galloped to the gates of Humar City, the cavalry on horseback shouted loudly: "Sir! The Rakshasa's fleet is still thirty miles away from us, and will arrive in half an hour!"
After hearing this, Tibet immediately returned to his tent with his own soldiers and arranged defensive tasks for his military attaches and border leaders.
"The Rakshasa is coming. Is there anything you still don't understand about the plan you made earlier?"
Seeing that everyone was silent, Tibet continued to instruct: "Everyone must be careful, the Rakshasa's cannon is powerful, and you must pay attention to concealment when firing. When the time comes, we will let the Rakshasa in and give them a hard blow!" Remember, no one is allowed to attack without my orders!"
"I will obey your orders!"
Just as Aihun was leading the Tibetan army to prepare for war, the Northern Navy fleet led by Zhao Xin had crossed Laha Susu (today's Jiamusi Tongjiang area) where the Heilongjiang River and the Songhua River meet, and was speeding toward Heilongjiang City. .
The fleet turned to the Heilongjiang River, and the river was full of Hezhe canoes, flat-bottomed boats and fast horses traveling upstream. When the patrol boat in front blew its whistle to let these ships get out of the way, the Hezhe people on the river saw this large fleet consisting of four strange ships without sails and oars and two flat-bottomed wooden boats (barges) towed behind. , with shock and confusion on their faces.
What surprised them was that there were several Hezhe hunters standing on the first strange boat. When the fleet passed quickly, they saw that the last two flat-bottomed wooden boats were all wearing leather or fish skin suits. Hezhe people.
After the fleet slowed down to avoid fishing boats, the Hezhe people on the river started asking loudly to the tribesmen on the flat-bottomed boats.
"Hi~~I said, where are you from?"
"Boligashan."
"What are you doing here?"
"We will follow Bei Haijun to fight Rakshasa! What about you?"
"So are we. I heard that those damned Rakshasas in the north are burning, killing, raping, and committing all kinds of evil. I must let them taste the taste of bows, arrows, and spears!"
"Hey, let's take a step first. We won't be able to defeat Rakshasa then, so don't cry. Hahaha!"
At this time, a young man from Hezhe on another flat-bottomed boat asked the caller: "Say, what does the Beihai Navy do? I only heard that there is a town in the south of Beihai, where you can exchange for many rare things."
The tribesman who shouted turned around and said: "You don't know, have you? Last time I asked you to go to Fuldan City with me, but you were unwilling to go because it was far away. Let me tell you, Beihai Town is more lively than Sanxing City, and all the people living there are The poor people from Guan Nei were led by a group of fairy-like figures to clear wasteland, cultivate land, open mountains and build roads."
The young Hezhe said in surprise, "Huh? Opening a mountain? That's not something only gods can do!"
"No! The old shaman said so too."
The young man hesitated: "But...but the court doesn't care?"
"The imperial court? Bogda Khan's tens of thousands of heavenly soldiers were beaten away!"
A few people on the boat here were chatting about the legend of Beihai Town. The Hezhe people on a few flat-bottomed boats over there said to the Beihai Navy fleet: "I said~~ you guys slow down and take us on board too. I will go to Daluo with you." brake!"
Zhao Xin, who was standing in the driver's cab of the patrol boat, smiled slightly as he listened to the translation by Saharian and others. He saw Wukanbei standing aside blankly, so he ordered: "Wukambei!"
"arrive!"
"Go to the deck and sing loudly the Imakam you sang in Khabarovsk, so that these Hezhe people know what we are going to do."
"yes!"
The speed of the fleet slowed down, and as the roar of the motors weakened, a majestic imakan song fell from the sky like a hurricane, echoing on the Heilongjiang River. After listening to it, the Hezhe people on the river gradually joined in, thousands of mountains and mountains together. Phew, the echo of ten thousand ridges!
"Alala Henina~~ Ima Kan has been here for thousands of years, where are the heroes of Hezhe? The green mountains are eternal and the rivers are rolling, and the heroic spirits fertilize the rivers with their fertile blood! Heilongjiang is thousands of miles long, with white mountains and black waters, my hometown. I step on the earth under the Yongning Monument, and the battle flag Lift it high to the rising sun.”
boom! boom!
On the river outside Humar City, howling shells ejected from the artillery on more than a dozen Russian warships, slamming into the wooden city of Humar. A ten-kilogram iron bullet flew over the city and lifted up the top of a thatched hut, causing the people guarding the city in the hut to scream. The shell bounced diagonally on the ground inside the wooden city, and then Smashed into a basket full of dirt. With a "crash", the soil basket shattered, and the black soil was scattered on the ground.
In order to prepare for the Rakshasa's bombardment, Tibet ordered people to place many earthen baskets and rag bags filled with soil in the wooden city. This move is really good. As long as Rakshasa's cannonball hits the soil basket and cloth bag, the violent kinetic energy will be absorbed by the soft soil.
This is already the third round of shelling that Humar City has suffered today.
In the first two rounds, after the careless Tsarist Russian army battered the wooden city with holes, they still sent the Buryat musketeers to land as usual. However, due to the underestimation of the enemy by the Tsarist Russian officers, the two Buryat musketeers landed one after another. The company was severely attacked by the soldiers and civilians of Humar City, suffering heavy casualties and hurriedly escaping back to the ship.
Since the Tsarist Russian army crossed the Ergun River and entered the territory of the Qing Dynasty, both the Cossacks and the Buryats felt that the prestigious Qing Empire was really like paper, and there was not even a decent fortress along the river.
From Ravkai to Guigudal, all villages were built with logs and mud. Not only could they not withstand the power of the 12-pounder cannon, but they were all shot down with a single charge.
All of the above finally caused them to suffer a big loss under Humar City.
The bombardment lasted for more than a stick of incense, and the soldiers and civilians in the city knew that Rakshasa was about to send people to attack again.
"Sir! There is not much medicine left in the shotgun. It is only enough for two more rounds!"
Hearing his subordinates say that there was not enough shotgun ammunition, Tibet, who was having his head wound bandaged, asked, "Have the people sent to Ulusumudan to transport gunpowder come back?"
"Not yet. It's completely dark today, and I can't even see a shadow."
Tubot sighed and said: "I want to carry it with a bow, arrow and sword for a while. It's dark, and the Rakshasa has to rest. The gunpowder may arrive at night."
This carried it until dawn the next day, but the gunpowder carrier had not yet arrived.
At dawn, Tibet led people to inspect the city... Humar City can no longer be regarded as a city. All the wooden walls facing the east have been smashed. Although they were repaired overnight, most of the soldiers and civilians in the city were killed in the fierce battle for half a day yesterday. , everyone could only use the damaged wood in the city to erect a row of wooden fences.
But how can this lead to Rakshasa's attack?
At this time, on the Tsarist Russian sailing ship on one side of the river, a strong Cossack man was waving the whip in his hand and severely beating a Tsarist Russian officer. The leather whip mixed with ponytail mane hit the opponent's back, and each whip was a bloody mark.
"Seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty!" The Cossack who was in charge of the execution put away his whip, walked behind Bogaevsky and stood at attention: "Colonel, the execution is over."
Bogaevsky, who was having breakfast, wiped the corners of his mouth with a white handkerchief, signaled the orderly to remove the leftovers, put on his three-cornered hat, then stood up and walked to the tortured officer and said: "Because of you His stupidity caused us to lose two companies of soldiers! It took half a day to capture a small wooden city. What a waste!"
The surrounding Cossack officers all stood in silence, not daring to express their anger.
"Lieutenant General Suvorov ordered us to attack Heilongjiang City before May 30, but look at it, we are still hundreds of miles away from Heilongjiang City by water, and there are still seven village fortresses behind us that need to be conquered. You guys If you continue to be as lazy as yesterday, you will lose the glory of the Cossack Legion!"
Bogaevsky glanced sternly at the officers on the deck, pointed at the nearby city of Humar and shouted loudly: "I only give you two hours. If you still can't conquer this village, you will all be killed." Get rid of your job! Go become a horse driver!"
"For Her Majesty the Queen! For the glory of the Cossacks!"
Just as Tsarist Russia was preparing to launch an attack, on the river bank opposite Humar City, a group of unknown Hezhe hunters suddenly launched a sneak attack on the Buryat soldiers on guard on the river bank.
They hid in the grass and shrubs, shouting to attract the attention of the Rakshasa people, while others suddenly appeared and shot long arrows at the intruders with ebony bows. The Buryats who were caught off guard fled in panic to the big ship, and the Hezhen people immediately started to chase them. However, there was a dense roar of muskets from the big ship on the river, and the group of Hezhe hunters were beaten to death and wounded everywhere.
"Where did these guys come from?" The officer in charge looked suspicious. These barbarians wanted to attack the fleet with only bows, arrows and spears. They were obviously here to die!
"Woo~~Woo~~"
As the long conch whistle drifted across the Heilongjiang River, a Cossack officer on the deck hurried to the cabin and said to Bogaevsky: "Colonel, come out and take a look."
"What happened? Who is blowing the conch outside?"
"Colonel, I think you'd better go to the deck and take a look and you'll understand."
From the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River, hundreds of canoes, horse boats and flat-bottomed boats appeared on the southern horizon. On the opposite side, at the mouth of the Humar River, dozens of Daur fishing boats also appeared.
"This...where did they come from?!" Bogaevsky, who walked to the deck, looked at the scene in front of him and was stunned.
"Colonel, I think these people should be tribesmen living in the surrounding area." An officer holding a monocular for observation said and handed the telescope to Bogaevsky.
"You see, their weapons are all bows, arrows and spears, and none of them even hold matchlocks."
"Hmph! A group of ignorant primitive people!" Bogaevsky put away his telescope and ordered with disdain: "Notify all the soldiers on the ship to prepare for battle! Let us use blood and fire to teach these ignorant people a lesson. Barbarians who believe in God!”
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