Just as Bogaevsky was preparing to launch the final attack on Humaer City, a group of Hezhe people from the middle and lower reaches of Heilongjiang River and Daur border residents from the upper reaches of Huma River gathered to help.
Armed with harpoons, bows and arrows, spears and knives, these border people drove canoes and fast-horse boats, like moths to a flame, braving the hail of bullets and whizzing artillery fire, they launched an attack on the Rakshasa invaders.
Standing behind the fence of the island, Aihunzuo led Tubote to see the scene of help coming from all directions. He was very energetic at first, but when he saw the Hezhe people going up to confront the Rakshasa regardless, he became anxious.
"Let those people go ashore quickly! Hurry! They can't withstand Rakshasa's artillery and muskets, so they will die in vain!"
After hearing this, several subordinates and border leaders hurried to the shore, stood in the river and shouted loudly.
The sound of gunfire drowned out the shouts on the shore, and the Hezhe people tried one after another to get close to the Rakshasa warship, but the dense rain of bullets caused them to be shot and fell into the river one after another. The canoe made of birch bark could not bear the weight of ten kilograms. Iron bullets and dense shotguns.
It didn't take long for the surviving Hezhe fishermen to row their boats to the small island where Humar City was located amidst the bullets. When these people climbed onto the river bank, only about fifty people survived. The soldiers and civilians of Humar City had no time to pay homage to those who died in the battle, so they helped the reinforcements who climbed onto the shore and entered the walled city to take shelter.
From this moment on, there will be several fishing boats coming from the south of Heilongjiang from time to time. When there were few people, they would anchor a few hundred meters away from the Tsarist Russian fleet, waiting for opportunities to make a sneak attack; when there were many people, they would make a lot of noise and move forward. Later, Bogaevsky had to dedicate two warships to deal with these troublesome "barbarians".
At this time, a burst of cheers suddenly came from Humar City. The gunpowder and shotgun bullets shipped from Ulusumudan finally arrived. Along with the gunpowder, there were actually more than 200 border residents who came from Murususu. This is undoubtedly a powerful new force for the current Humar City.
Tibet looked at the dozen or so soldiers who were out of breath from exhaustion and asked eagerly: "What happened on the road?"
The leader of the team said: "Sir, there is not enough gunpowder in Ulusumudan. I also took people to search in Karen and several villages in the south, and finally I got this little."
After that, he struggled to pick up a set of items wrapped in sapphire blue furoshiki from the carriage. When Tibet opened it, he saw that it was a set of golden chain mail that could only be worn by deputy governors.
Nazuo led the way: "Sir, this is sent to you by a special person from the Vice-President. I happened to meet them in Gobugar, so I collected it for you. There is a letter in the bag, and there is also something in this box. There are two thousand taels of silver.”
Upon hearing this, Tibet hurriedly opened his bag, took out the letter and read it without saying a word.
In this letter, in order to encourage Tibet, Eledimbu, the deputy commander of Heilongjiang City, offered his armor as a reward, and stated that he would later petition the court for merit for Tibet and his soldiers and civilians, and reward his descendants. Eldemubu told Tibet that according to the news from Commander Heng, thousands of reinforcements from Hulunbuir had crossed the Teni River and were on their way. The day the army arrived in Heilongjiang City was the time for Rakshasa to confer his head.
Seeing the white money in the box, Tubot smiled bitterly and was speechless. He doesn't even plan to take his life, so what's the use of this money?
Taking advantage of the break when the Rakshasa stopped shelling, Tubot, who was wearing chainmail, pointed to the silver in the box and shouted to his subordinates: "Here are two thousand taels of silver. I don't take a penny, and I share it all with everyone. Fifty taels per person!”
Neither the soldiers nor the border residents had ever seen so much silver. Most of their daily use was in making money. At first, a few people from around came to take away a few ingots of silver and put them into their arms. Later, Tibet simply asked people to carry the box and distribute the silver to everyone.
Since it was rewarded by the official, why not take it!
Fifty taels of silver is a huge sum of money to everyone. It can buy dozens of pieces of cloth, hundreds of kilograms of grain, dozens of horses and cattle in Heilongjiang City...
Tibet did something stupid!
He thought that since he didn't get a penny, it was selfless to distribute the money; but he forgot that once people have thoughts, their thoughts are not so simple.
At 9:30 a.m., Colonel Bogaevsky, commander of the 1st Zaibelgar Fusilier Regiment, issued an attack order to all Tsarist Russian troops participating in the war, requiring that the city of Humar must be completely captured before 12 noon, and after the capture Quickly march towards Ulusumudan and Guobughar.
The Tsarist Russians were also anxious. When 9:30 arrived, all the 12-pounders and 24-pounders on the big ships opened fire together. The deafening roar frightened the border residents who came to support and turned around and left.
Rakshasa's firepower is too strong! The fighting spirit of the soldiers and civilians in Humar City gradually collapsed under the deterrence of the invaders' muskets and artillery. Carrying the silver rewarded by the imperial court, many people carried the wounded and retreated to Humarwoji Mountain. When the bombardment was over, Aihun's assistant leader Tibet discovered that there were only about twenty people left to fight with him.
When the Cossacks landed on the island by boat and approached the city of Humar, more than 20 Qing troops armed with spears and swords, led by Tibet wearing gold chainmail, launched a final charge against the enemy.
"Aim! Shoot!"
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Anyone else could leave, but since Tibet read that letter and put on that chainmail, he could only die fighting here.
On May 29 of the Gregorian calendar, the Tsarist Russian army arrived at the deserted Dongcheng and Murususu. At this time, they were less than a hundred miles away from Heilongjiang City.
In the 22nd year of Kangxi (1683), after the Qing government put down the San Francisco Rebellion and regained Taiwan, it sent Ningguta Deputy Governor Sabusu to lead the Qing army to Aihui, and built the new and old Aihui cities successively. Both cities are called "Heilongjiang City".
Since the Tsarist Russian army had mastered the Qing army's Karen troop deployment throughout the Heilongjiang General Mansion last year, they formulated corresponding military plans based on this information.
On May 30, according to Suvorov's order, the Russian Major General Alexandrov, who led the army from Nerchinsk, will serve as the commander of the offensive against Aihun, and the general of the Tsarist Russian East Route Army will Colonel Fisher of the staff served as the chief of staff of this offensive operation; Eshin, a Buryat man, was promoted to lieutenant due to merit. Because he was familiar with the situation in this area, he was transferred to the staff to assist in the work.
Facing the tightly defended Heilongjiang City, the Tsarist Russian army attached great importance to it. The day after they arrived in Dongcheng, they held a military meeting on the largest warship in the fleet. The meeting was attended by Major General Alexandrov, Chief of Staff Colonel Fischer, artillery commander, commanders of the 1st to 3rd Transbaikal Fusilier Regiments, commanders of the 1st and 2nd Buryat Regiments, and a small number of acting cavalry units. The captain of the guard.
At the meeting, Chief of Staff Colonel Fisher read out the troop allocation and attack orders for the Heilongjiang City operation on behalf of Major General Alexandrov. This time, Tsarist Russia's combat troops included 15 companies, 48 guns, and a cavalry company. In addition, Cossack Lieutenant Colonel Pechenkin was responsible for commanding 207 oarsmen, 80 boats, and 5 flat-bottomed barges.
The small conference room was packed with Tsarist Russian officers wearing green and red lapel military uniforms. Fisher read out the combat order under the light of the candlestick held by his assistant Essin.
"Order: Issued to the troops assembled outside Heilongjiang City, Eastern Front Army Staff Headquarters, May 30, 1788.
1. Our troops should cross the river to the right bank of the Amur River on the night of June 1, repel the enemy from the position of the Old City of Aihun, and occupy the Old City of Aihun.
2. Colonel Shverin led the Second Regiment, following Colonel Bogaevsky’s column, to land on the east bank near the old city of Aihun, and then continued to advance in the same direction. After crossing the river, a company was left on the high ground east of the old city of Aihun in order to observe and cover the rear of the combat troops.
3. Lieutenant Colonel Polyakov crossed the river following the column of the 1st Fusilier Regiment, mopped up the enemy who reached Zigou, and then followed the right wing of the combat troops.
4. Pechenkin should correctly allocate the oarsmen and send the river boat to the left bank to return to the fleet after landing the troops.
5. The cavalry company crossed the river in the north of the old city of Shang Aihui at 1 o'clock in the middle of the night to reconnoiter the enemy's deployment. After the reconnaissance was completed, it concentrated on the right wing of the combat troops.
6. When Major General Alexandrov will lead the reserve troops to land near Aihui Old City, the artillery commander directs the artillery of each ship to destroy the enemy artillery set up on the banks of Aihui Old City and Heilongjiang City, and bombard Heilongjiang City with artillery fire. He Aihun's gunpowder depot in the old city would approach the left bank whenever the opportunity arose, waiting for an opportunity to land and use artillery fire to cut off the enemy's retreat to Qiqihar.
7. Pay attention to cover the fleet to avoid sudden attacks by the tribal people and the Qing army..."
After Colonel Fisher read out the combat deployment, the commander of the force, Major General Alexandrov, finally concluded to all the officers present: "Gentlemen, due to your incompetence, the Commander-in-Chief failed to enter Heilongjiang City as planned. An investiture ceremony was held, and his arrival date was rescheduled to June 10th. It goes without saying how important our offensive operation is this time, but please remember that Her Majesty the Queen is waiting for news of our victory! May the glory of God May we be invincible!"
On May 30, Ivan Yakobi, the governor of Irkutsk who had just crossed the border and arrived in Yaksa, couldn’t wait to issue an order to remove all stone tablets, boundary monuments and even monuments with Chinese characters on both sides of the border from the border to Humalkalun. Scrape off all the tombstones, and change all the names of mountains, places, and waters along the road that belong to the Qing Dynasty, so that there is no place on the map that has anything to do with the Qing Dynasty!
When Suvorov, the commander-in-chief of the Russian Eastern Route Army, saw the list of place names drawn up by Ivan Jacobi before setting off, he couldn't help but cursed "bastard!" because in addition to naming the place names after the Jacobi family's surname, first name, and father, the commander-in-chief of Tsarist Russia's Eastern Route Army, Even the names of his wife and relatives are listed, and even the last place name is marked with "This is my wife's pug!"
After reconnaissance by the leading troops of Tsarist Russia, it was found that the Qing army's positions were deployed from the highlands of Karen Mountain to the coast of Aihui Old City. At the same time, the main force of Heilongjiang City was not concentrated in the city, but in the woods four or five miles offshore. inside. The defense lines along the coast were only guard posts during the day, but at night there were continuous guerrillas.
At the same time, the Tsarist Russian General Staff believed that the confluence of the left bank of the Heilongjiang River and the right bank of the Zeya River was the most suitable place to land. There was only a small village with a few households (later known as Hailan Paotun), because the opposite side of the village was the entrance of the ravine, and you could get there In which the entire combat force is assembled. By advancing along this ditch, the Russian army can penetrate deep into the enemy's rear and right wing without anyone noticing.
In fact, due to insufficient troops, Eledimbu withdrew the Qing troops that had been deployed from the old city of Aihui to the Jieya River. There was only one army near Shaodazigou consisting of one assistant leader and two Xiaoqi assistant leaders. patrol. In addition to alerting and reporting, this team can also protect the left wing of the Qing army's defense line.
At three o'clock in the middle of the night on June 1, the musketeers led by Bogaevsky landed ashore in a small boat, and then launched an attack along the high ground on the left side of the ravine. At four o'clock in the morning, a ten-man patrol team of the Qing army discovered them, and the two sides immediately started a firefight. The Qing army, which only had bows and arrows and two shotguns, soon after the battle, most of them died in the battle, and only two people fled back to report the news. .
At about the same time, just as dawn began, the Tsarist Russian fleet sailed past the intersection of the Zieya River and the Heilongjiang River, approaching the old city of Aihui. The Qing artillery on the river bank launched a bombardment. The flames of shotguns, two-man guns, double-shot muskets, and strange cannons swept across the river like lightning, and the scene was extremely spectacular. The residents of the old city of Aihui climbed to the top of the city and cheered loudly, but then the roaring shells of Rakshasa forced them to return. They all hid behind the city wall.
The roar of the Qing army's volleys was mixed with the rumble of artillery fire from both sides. The 24-pounder guns in the Tsarist Russian fleet also opened fire subsequently, and thick plumes of smoke soon rose from the Qing army's river bank positions. The Qing army's gunners suffered heavy casualties. Colonel Fisher, chief of staff of the army, estimated based on the firepower of the Qing army's defense line that the Qing army deployed at least 2,500 people here.
The exchange of fire between the Tsarist Russian fleet and the Qing army's artillery positions on the river bank diverted the attention of the defending Qing army, and the Tsarist Russian army's landing operation at the river mouth went very smoothly. However, when the Qing general in charge finally discovered what was going on, the Qing army had no choice but to step out of the defense line and take the initiative to fight.
At 6:45 in the morning, the Qing army sent out an army of 500 cavalry soldiers armed with bows, arrows and spears, and only two cannons; 15 minutes later, another army of 200 shotgun soldiers and A force of 1,000 armored soldiers carrying bows and arrows and holding spears, armed with ten muskets and two victory cannons, and 80 cavalrymen surrounded the Russian army in the ravine.
Bogaevsky sent two of his Cossack artillery batteries carrying six-pounders and eight-pounders to bombard the Qing army. Fifteen minutes later, he commanded his four battalions to launch an attack.
The ground battle between the Qing army and the Rakshasa started at 7:30 in the morning. The Qing army's two sub-cannons opened fire about a mile away from the opposite side of the Russian army. After firing one round of solid shells and two rounds of shotguns, the shotgun soldiers The volley fire began, and the armored soldiers and cavalry prepared to surround the right wing of the Russian army. On the left wing of the Russian army, a team of two to three hundred Oroqen hunters, under the cover of the woods, threw rain of arrows at the Rakshasa.
Because the shooting range of Qing artillery and shotguns was too far, the losses of the Tsarist Russian army were not great. Bogaevsky sent out a company and drove the Oroqen away; then he ordered two battalions to attack the cavalry and armored soldiers on the right wing, and the remaining troops launched a general attack on the Qing army directly ahead.
Facing the fierce bombardment of Tsarist Russian muskets and artillery, the Qing army could not help but retreat. At first, they could fire back normally. By noon, the remaining Qing troops began to retreat over the mountains towards Aihun. By one o'clock in the afternoon, the leading skirmishers of the Russian army had occupied the upper part of the ravine; two hours later, Lieutenant Colonel Polyakov led the 1st and 2nd Buryat Musketeers to advance towards the old city of Aihun.
At this time, the Qing army north of the old city of Aihui was almost completely eliminated by the Russian army. The deputy commander of Heilongjiang City, Eledmubu, was shot and injured and fled back to Aihui City.
As for the artillery battle on the Heilongjiang River, since all Tsarist Russian warships were river ships, there was no gun deck and all artillery was placed on the bow and midship. This led to the artillery battle in the morning. The Qing gunners in the old city of Aihui fired 12 rounds of artillery shells into the river with two sky cannons, destroying two 12-pound cannons and a 24-pound cannon in the Tsarist Russian fleet on the spot. 20 Cossack soldiers were killed.
In the afternoon, the Cossack cavalry faced the villages that were deserted and even the wells had been filled in. They viciously burned several villages outside the old city of Aihui. In the raging fire, the ignited wood made a crackling sound, and dozens of thick black smoke pillars rose in the wilderness. The soldiers and civilians guarding Heilongjiang City and Aihui Old City could only watch and speculate. His own unknown destiny.
In such a battle that was about to be lost, the Northern Navy's fleet finally arrived belatedly, and a red flag appeared on the river south of Heilongjiang City.
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