The Northern Navy's fleet heading north had a miserable journey. In addition to having to avoid fishing boats and canoes on the river, because it was the spring flood and the river was swollen, the two catamaran passenger ships almost hit the shoals several times.
The hydrology experience of the Hezhe people is completely useless here in the Beihai Navy. Where flat-bottomed small boats and fleet boats can pass, the large ships of the Beihai Navy may not be able to pass.
The three guides Zhao Xin found in Boli Township had only gone as far as Kubutlin (today's Chaoyang Town, Jiayin County, Yichun City), and they went there in canoes made of birch bark. They had no idea about the hundreds of people behind them. I’m not familiar with the waterway at all. So the fleet only sailed during the day since they passed Kubutlin, and found a place to park at night, and did not set off until dawn the next day. Along the way, the water depth and flow speed will also be measured, and the locations of villages and Karens along the river will be recorded to provide hydrological data for subsequent ships.
In the 18th century, when it was impossible to deploy a large number of measurement sensors, if you wanted to obtain hydrographic data suitable for the passage of Northern Navy ships, you could only rely on manual collection; this was an extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive project, and it was difficult to figure it out just by one voyage. It's simply impossible. For example, precipitation, evaporation, runoff water level, flow, velocity, sediment content, water quality, etc. are very complicated.
The hydrological data of the Manchu and Qing dynasties was unavailable, and Zhao Xin had no time to dig through old papers. And if you rely on hydrological data from another time and space to confirm ancient times, you are just asking for trouble; after all, the topography and river course have changed a lot over the past two hundred years, and it is completely inappropriate.
When the fleet arrived at the Tuolirfeng Hetao Water Camp, seventy miles south of Heilongjiang City, there was a firefight with the remaining troops stationed at the naval camp.
In line with the principle that there is no need to kill innocent people indiscriminately, Zhao Xin said nicely at first that he was going north to fight Rakshasa, but the Qing army who blocked him didn't believe it at all, and boldly shot two arrows at the patrol boat of the Northern Navy.
Then stop talking nonsense, teach yourself about machine guns. The two M2HBs on the patrol boat only fired a few bursts, scaring the Qing troops on several river boats and fled.
But there were more disgusting things along the way. I don’t know who had the bad idea. After the Northern Navy’s fleet passed the Tuolirfeng Hetao Water Camp, there were Hezhe, Oroqen and Daur people in twos and threes driving flat-bottomed boats to block the river, refusing to let them go. When the Beihai Navy went over, it was useless even if Saharian and others talked about it.
If the soft one doesn't work, then you can only use the hard one. Zhao Xin asked Ukanbe to loudly warn the border residents through the patrol boat's loudspeaker, and at the same time ordered the North Korean navy on the patrol boat to shoot near the boats, thus scaring the border residents away.
However, after a wave of walking, another wave came not long after, and the dozens of miles of waterways were delayed for half a day just because of this group of people, otherwise the battle in the old city of Aihui, the Northern Navy would have caught up.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, the Tsarist Russian troops approaching Aihun City and the soldiers and civilians defending inside Aihui City discovered a strange thing. Two strange things suddenly flew from the southern sky, making a buzzing sound at the same time, like a swarm of wasps or locusts flying overhead.
Bogaevsky and other officers who came to check after hearing the news held up their monocular binoculars and saw that the monster in the sky was almost 1.5 feet long. It had an earthy appearance, thick at the front and thin at the back. There seemed to be blades moving rapidly on the top. Rotate; the length of the blade must be almost three feet long, but because it rotates so fast, it can only be a rough estimate. There is a black square box hanging below the monster. Under the box, there is a thing that is tilted to the ground, like a telescope tube, and it can even rotate back and forth, left and right.
"What's this?"
The strange object in the sky puzzled the Cossack officers present. They had never seen anything like it before.
"Whatever it is, shoot it!"
Following the colonel's order, the Cossack soldiers on the ground raised their guns and shot at the monster in the sky. But the thing flew extremely fast, and after a burst of gunfire, it flew towards the artillery position on the hill behind.
A few minutes later, Major General Alexandrov, Chief of Staff Fisher and others who led the reserve offensive force also saw the monster hovering over the Karen Mountain artillery position. The frightened two people pointed to the air and asked Lieutenant Essin: "Is this a weapon of the Qing Dynasty?"
Esin was also shocked, and he quickly denied: "I have never heard of such a thing in the Qing Dynasty!"
Colonel Fisher then ordered the surrounding soldiers: "Knock that thing down!"
Tsarist Russia did not hesitate to shoot. The soldiers and civilians in the old city of Aihui were frightened by the monster passing above their heads. Many people did not even care about the Rakshasa outside the city and climbed to the roofs and walls to look around. . The monster circled in the air over Aihui Old City, and then flew towards Heilongjiang City on the other side of the river.
So starting from the dusk of June 1st, from the mouth of the Zeya River to the old city of Aihui in the south, and from the east bank to the west bank of the Heilongjiang River, tens of thousands of people in the Qing and Russian countries were frightened by these two monsters in the sky.
The buzzing above their heads continued for half the night, and the musket shooting continued until midnight; both the defenders inside the city and the Russian troops outside the city were tortured. Bonfires were lit all night long on the positions of the Tsarist Russian army, and in the old city of Aihun, in addition to clusters of bonfires, there were also hundreds of Kongming lanterns. Trying to light up the sky with sky lanterns.
When the Qing Dynasty saw that the monster did not attack them, but instead fired a lot of gunshots from the Rakshasa side, they thought it was sent by God to punish the Rakshasa; while the Tsarist Russia side thought it was the Qing's secret weapon. This further strengthened their ambition to seize the old city of Aihui.
In fact, before dark, the news of a strange fleet coming five miles south of the old city of Aihui had already reached the ears of Eldemubu. He also sent a small team of cavalry to investigate. The problem was that this fleet was The cavalry did not return until late at night. Now Eldemubu did not have many troops in his hands, so he could only shrink his troops and no longer dared to send troops abroad.
In fact, the Qing army had already planned to retreat from Aihui City. The defeat at the foot of Kalun Mountain left the deputy capital commander Eldemubu unable to fight anymore. After experiencing the battle during the day, he had realized that the city wall with pine wood and earth could not resist the Rakshasa's cannon; he planned to cross the river by boat at night and escape to Heilongjiang City. If Heilongjiang City cannot be defended, it will have no choice but to retreat to Qiqihar.
However, since Tsarist Russian warships patrolled the river all night long, and the surviving large and medium-sized Yaksa warships of the Qing army hid near the mouth of the Kun River south of Heilongjiang City, there are currently only some small river boats that can take advantage of the night to patrol the river. Shuttle back and forth to transport retreating troops to the other side is really a drop in the bucket. So Eldemubu ordered his two assistant leaders to lead the troops to stand outside Aihun City for two days, with the purpose of buying time for the soldiers and civilians in the city to retreat to the other side.
In the early morning of June 2, the Russian cavalry reconnaissance team discovered the deployment of the Qing army under the old city of Aihui. The Russian Army Staff judged based on the intelligence that the main force of the Qing people was concentrated in the woods 2 miles north of the old city of Aihui. Numerous holes were dug from Karen Mountain to the old city of Aihui. It seemed that the Qing people planned to Carry out a tenacious counterattack in this area.
In view of this situation, the Russian Chief of Staff Fischer drew up a combat deployment in the morning, and after approval by Major General Alexandrov, decided to launch an attack at 2 p.m.
The Russian army's plan was to have the cavalry company attack from the east of Aihui at 2 p.m., threatening the Qing army's left flank, and then outflank the Qing army to the south, cutting off the Qing army's retreat to the other side of the river.
Bogaevsky still led a regiment and the Buryat Musketeers regiment led by Polyakov dispatched at 2:15 pm to attack along the road from Karen Mountain to Aihun City, defeating the occupied road. After defending the Qing army, they continued southward to occupy the old city of Aihui.
The Second Regiment led by Colonel Shverin crossed the river two versts south of Heilongjiang City at 2:15 in the afternoon, cutting off the Qing army's retreat to Qiqihar.
The General Reserves set off at 2:30 and will also participate in the attack after Bogaevsky launches the attack; the entire army's baggage train will stay at the foot of Karen Mountain to wait for orders.
At 12 noon, the monster that had troubled both the Qing and Russia most of the night came buzzing again. But this time the two khaki monsters only stayed in the air for half an hour, and then turned around and flew back to the south.
It is said that Zhao Xin's men brought 600 people over this time, including 100 people in two patrol boats, 400 people in two catamaran passenger boats, and 100 people in two flat-bottomed boats. In addition, there are dozens of Hezhe hunters brought by Saharian.
According to the original plan, one week after the departure of the northbound detachment, Wu Siyu will lead a regiment of reinforcements, engineering personnel, medical teams, and administrative cadres to take the Beihai Town own ship under the guidance of the inland river official boat that once carried the "Skinny Horse" The built river sailing boats headed north. The problem is that Zhao Xin himself had such a hard time leaving, let alone Wu Siyu.
After landing yesterday afternoon, the reason why Zhao Xin did not launch an attack immediately was because he wanted to find suitable artillery positions on the hills south of Aihui City.
This isn't just about finding an open space and firing up a cannon. That's just nonsense!
The ground of the artillery position needs to be flat and compacted, otherwise the entire gun mount will sink into the soil after one shot. A defensive position for cross-fire must be set up around the artillery position.
In addition to continuously sending out drones for reconnaissance to draw topographic maps from Aihun City to Karen Mountain, he also sent out two three-person teams of scouts at night. One group set up an artillery observation post on a mountain one kilometer away from the left wing of the Tsarist Russian army, and the other group was responsible for monitoring the Tsarist Russian fleet on the river and providing bombardment directions.
Since there were too few men under his command, in order to deal a devastating blow to the Russian army, Zhao Xin issued two AKMs to each infantry squad. In this way, in addition to a PKM general-purpose machine gun operated by two people, each infantry squad also has two assault rifles and six SKS semi-automatic weapons, which are equivalent to the level of the 1970s in another time and space.
As for the dozens of Hezhe hunters brought by Saharian, Zhao Xin did not dare to shoot them. After all, these people had never even shot a shotgun. Zhao Xin gave them a 180-pound hunting crossbow, which has a firing speed of 67 meters per second and a killing range of 55 meters. The most important thing is that it is cheap, only $130 each.
After test-firing the crossbow arrows, the deerskin satchels were filled with 30 crossbow arrows issued by the Northern Navy. The hunters in Balk Village suddenly felt that they were extremely powerful.
After reconnaissance through drones at noon, Zhao Xin's attack plan also came out.
He asked two companies to lead the Hezhe Hunters to outflank the Tsarist Russian army's left wing one kilometer away from the right wing of Aihun City, capture the Russian army's position at the foot of Karen Mountain, and then quickly occupy Karen Mountain to block the enemy's southward escape. route.
On the west bank of the river, the other two companies of the Northern Navy moved to the southwest of Aihui City. After the troops in the north succeeded, they immediately launched an attack under the cover of artillery fire. The troops moved along the foot of Aihui City to the north of the city to pursue them.
As for Aihui City, let’s talk about it after defeating Tsarist Russia!
After assigning tasks to each company, Zhao Xin threw the pencil, looked at the map and said fiercely: "I have four companies, one in the south and one in the north. I will use cannons in the middle to kill you bastards!"
The attack time of the North Navy was set at 2:30 in the afternoon. However, when the observation post reported at 2:15 that the Russian cavalry troops and a group of musketeers had begun to dispatch, Zhao Xinxin couldn't tell and shouted "Holy crap!" Then three D30s were ordered to launch a bombardment, so the North Navy launched in advance in a hurry.
The effective range of the D30 is 15.4 kilometers, and it can reach 22 kilometers if a rocket-extended range projectile is used. Of course, Zhao Xin does not have rocket-extended range bombs, and 15 kilometers is enough for the current North Korean Navy.
With the sound of "Boom!!!", as the first test firing began, two minutes later, the artillery commander received the news from the forward observation post and immediately corrected the coordinates.
"Attention all artillery positions! Three rounds of rapid fire reload! Fire!"
Howling artillery shells passed over Aihui City one after another, passing through the Qing army's defense line, and slammed into the advancing Cossack column. The explosion mixed with fire enveloped a column composed of 150 Cossack musketeers, and the Cossack musketeers were killed. He picked up most of the column behind him. Tens of thousands of prefabricated fragments flew under the Karen Mountain, killing all life around the explosion point.
The thunderous explosion shook everyone.
The Qing troops on the front line were all stunned, and the commander in charge was completely dumbfounded. He thought to himself, "I haven't ordered the artillery fire yet. Who the hell did this?" The Qing gunners on the two main gun emplacements were completely petrified. The commander in charge turned his head and looked at the shells and medicine bags on the ox cart behind him, and then looked at the muskets on the ground. He was completely confused.
After a while, a fast horse galloped out from the south gate of Aihui City and followed the trail to the Qing army's position. When the sent soldier saw the leader, he quickly asked: "My lord, who fired the cannon?" !”
"We didn't fire the artillery? Rakshasa is still several miles away!" The confused Xie Ling saw that his own soldiers didn't believe it, so he quickly pulled him to the artillery position. "If you touch it, the barrel of the cannon is cold! Damn, if I had a cannon that could shoot several miles, I would have beaten away the Rakshasa yesterday!"
The soldiers were also confused. Eldemubu in Aihui City heard the explosion from the north and thought that Rakshasa was attacking. However, he sent someone to the top of the city to see that there was nothing wrong with the Qing army's position. He sent his own soldiers to ask about the situation.
As for the Tsarist Russian army, they were actually shocked from the first explosion. Many people thought it was a gunpowder truck of the rear artillery unit that exploded. But the subsequent violent explosions startled everyone in the headquarters. Even the cavalry company that set out earlier sent people back to ask what happened.
The first reaction of many people was that the gunpowder wagons of the baggage troops in the rear were attacked by the Qing army. However, when the black smoke pillars continued to rise in the south, the Tsarist Russians realized that it was not the baggage troops but the forward offensive troops that were attacked. Russian commander Alexandrov immediately ordered all units to stop advancing, the offensive plan was suspended, and the entire army shifted to on-site defense.
But when he heard Bogaevsky report that the troops had lost more than two hundred people in the sudden explosion, Alexandrov and Fisher almost jumped up in shock!
What kind of cannon did the Qing people use?
No! No, the hateful Qing people must have planted a lot of gunpowder on the road! This is so hateful!
Alexandrov roared: "Order the artillery to fire a mile away and detonate the gunpowder!"
Just as the commander and a group of staff were making random guesses, the guy who annoyed them so much and made a buzzing sound flew over again.
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