Just as Zhao Xin was on his way north, two companies of the Northern Navy that had arrived at Zigou were engaging in fierce exchanges of fire with the retreating enemy troops. In fact, it is not easy to stop the rout of thousands of troops with three 122-caliber howitzers and more than 200 people.
To explain this problem, we must understand the infantry organization of the Tsarist Russian army in this era.
Starting from the end of the 18th century, the Russian army was brewing a military revolution. The army was divided into two factions, one was the conservatives who tried to implement the Prussian system; the other was the fast-attack faction, led by Rumyantsev and Suvorov, who advocated column and skirmish line combat.
(As an aside, the wars Suvorov engaged in throughout his life were all unjust expansionist wars. The battlefields were all in the enemy's country. They often fought without rear areas, without the support of the people, and it was difficult to maintain morale, so they emphasized rapid and fierce attacks. )
Of course, since Her Majesty the Queen is a Prussian, it is still the conservatives who are currently leading the construction of the army.
Due to the backwardness of the military system, only a small number of people in the Tsarist Russian army were equipped with rifled guns at this time, and the vast majority of them still used smoothbore guns; even those hunting soldiers who were famous for their accurate shooting were the same.
A battle infantry regiment of the Russian army is roughly composed of 1,800 people, including 1,400 soldiers, 50 officers, 160 non-commissioned officers, 40 musicians, a dozen battlefield ambulances, auxiliary soldiers, and administrative personnel departments.
(Historically, the Russians did not change the name of the line infantry regiment to the musketeer regiment until 1796, and then to the infantry regiment after 1811. It was written that way for the convenience of understanding.)
Each regiment has two battalions, and each battalion consists of six companies. During combat, each company has 114 combat members, in addition to auxiliary soldiers, totaling around 150.
The ground offensive troops dispatched by Tsarist Russia included the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Cossack Infantry Regiments of Transbaikal, the 1st and 2nd Buryat Infantry Regiments, three artillery companies, a cavalry company, and a battalion of baggage. The total number of troops is 10,000.
In addition, there is also a ten-chaser commando team with a total of 600 people on the Heilongjiang fleet. They are stationed on each ship and are responsible for precise shooting of targets approaching the water surface.
The battle under Aihun City has continued until now. There are still more than 6,000 Tsarist Russian troops, and the commander Alexandrov is still alive. Therefore, after the Russian army retreated north of the old city of Daohun, the various departments gradually restored order. .
Facing such a huge force, whether it is the artillery at the back or the infantry at the front, it is quite difficult to completely eliminate it.
The North Navy only has three howitzers. No matter how hard they fire, the gunners can only fire six rounds per minute at most, and they cannot maintain this speed all the time. For the enemy troops whose assembly radius exceeds several kilometers, they cannot take care of the west when attacking the east.
Although the two companies responsible for the interception had more than a dozen machine guns, they could not fire at the same time. A third should always be left in reserve to maintain firepower while the other machine guns are being loaded.
Moreover, although the PKM machine gun used by the squad is sturdy, the bullets are a big problem. First of all, although Zhao Xin is issued a chain loader in each class, the efficiency of that thing is not high. Shaking the handle can only load one bullet, which requires a deputy to help load the bullet; and if Without a chain loader, it would be troublesome. Each bullet often requires 4 to 8 kilograms of force to be loaded on the chain link. The Beihai navy now uses a 100-round non-scattering chain.
A 7.62*54 bullet weighs 9.65 grams, and a metal ammunition box contains 440 bullets, which means that a box of bullets weighs 4.5 kilograms. Even if the ammunition hand's deputy is a mule, 10 boxes of bullets are enough; Don't forget, he still has to carry a chain loader.
Even if Zhao Xin could bring a large amount of supplies as a humanoid mobile warehouse, he would not be able to take care of all the battlefields.
When Zhao Xin and the others arrived at the line of defense originally set up by the Qing army north of the old city of Aihui, battalion commander Mi Shilang's request for artillery support kept coming over the walkie-talkie. The Russian army used only a dozen 8-pound guns and 4-pound guns to shell the blocking position desperately. More than 20 people in Michelang's two companies were killed.
The Russian 8-pounder cannon and 4-pounder cannon are both copper cannons. The range of the two cannons for firing solid bullets is 800 to 900 meters, while the range of the 8-pounder cannon is higher for shrapnel and cannon.
Zhao Xin turned off the walkie-talkie, took out his telescope and looked north. In his field of vision, he could already see the shadowy figures on the post road ahead and in the woods. The Russian army was only a few hundred meters away from them. Further north of the Russian army, gunfire and explosions sounded from time to time.
He was about to lay out the order when he saw someone coming from the corner of his eye. He turned around and saw a soldier from the guard company holding a guy wearing a roe deer hat walking over. If it wasn't that Sauron kid, who could it be?
Zhao Xin didn't have time to pay attention to it for the time being. He hurriedly arranged the task and asked Chen Jishan to take two platoons and two mortar squads to detour from the left wing of the woods and launch an attack on the enemy's left rear. He would also cooperate with him.
"Remember, never charge at the Russian army, even if they run eastward." Zhao Xin pointed to the position on the map and explained.
After using drones to conduct reconnaissance for so long, he has marked the entire terrain covering dozens of square kilometers on a simple map.
Chen Jishan looked at the map and said with suspicion: "Then what if they charge towards the blocking position in the north?"
"Then you just move north and don't let them enter Shaodazigou."
"I understand, sir, you are planning to drive all the Rakshasa to the riverside."
"Just understand and act now!"
After everyone dispersed and went about their own business, Zhao Xin walked up to the "roe deer head" and said seriously: "Didn't I tell you to go south? Why are you following me again? Where is your horse?"
"I'm eating grass in the woods to the west." Wulong lowered his head and rubbed the ground with his boots. After a while, he said: "I, I want to follow you to fight Rakshasa."
"Nonsense, how old are you? Be obedient and go back."
"Yes, how about you accept me as a Goshiha?"
Zhao Xin smiled, thinking that instead of letting this child run around, it would be better to fool him first and let him stay here honestly, so he said to Oolong: "You want to be a soldier for me? Don't you regret it?"
"I don't regret it! I, Amma, said that the people of Sauron are dedicated to serving as soldiers."
Zhao Xin was stunned, looking at Xiao Wulong's unhesitating expression, he didn't know what to say.
Chen Jishan led the team in a circuitous way from the west side of the woods, crawling and crawling, and finally arrived at the designated location after more than 20 minutes. He first notified Zhao Xin via walkie-talkie, and after the machine gunner and the two mortar squads found their positions and dug simple fortifications, he ordered the mortars to open fire.
"Boom!" A black column of smoke with flames exploded among the Russian troops, taking away more than a dozen lives in an instant.
Bogaevsky, who was organizing the retreat of the Russian army to attack the defense positions of the Northern Navy, was shocked. He heard that this explosion was completely different from the previous ones.
He quickly said to his sergeant: "Quickly tell your Excellency, Commander! The Qing people are coming with more artillery!"
Alexandrov's temporary headquarters was located in a natural shelter made of several huge rocks. After the Northern Navy launched a bombardment, Alexandrov, who was protected by his men, was unscathed, but his chief of staff, Fisher, was already dead.
When he braved artillery fire to gather his troops and retreated all the way here, the artillery of the "Qing people" actually caught up with him, which scared Alexandrov enough. After so many years in the army, he has never seen an artillery unit that moves so quickly. You must know that the artillery that can shoot such a distance is a giant artillery.
Qing reinforcements are coming!
At this time, all the officers of the Russian army from top to bottom thought so, but how many people from the other side came? Those among the officers pessimistically believed that the "Qing people" had arrived at least 10,000 people, but the intelligence at Alexandrov's hand showed that the Qing people's garrison in Qiqihar and Hulunbuir (Hulun Buir) together only amounted to more than 5,000 people. people.
Could it be that their emperor had no prophecies? Have you arranged your troops in Qiqihar in advance?
Until now in this battle, neither Bogaevsky's regiment nor the reserve troops led by him have even seen the shadow of "Qing reinforcements", and they have already suffered heavy losses. Thousands of people are now trapped at the foot of Karen Mountain, and the damn "Qing people" are stuck halfway up the mountain. I had previously arranged for thousands of people to attack, but they were all beaten back by a dense rain of bullets.
After hearing the news from the first regiment, Alexandrov decided to change his tactics and use columns to break the "Qing people's" blocking defense line as soon as possible. Otherwise, when the "Qing people" behind him caught up, more than 5,000 of his men would be destroyed. Everyone has to answer here.
"Da da da... bang bang bang..."
Alexandrov suddenly raised his head, and he heard the unique sound of weapon firing from the "Qing reinforcements" coming from the southwest.
"To the southwest, are the Qing people catching up?"
"Reporting to your Excellency, Commander, there is a group of enemies catching up, but our scouts found that there are not many of them."
"Inform Polyakov to lead a regiment and destroy this enemy! We must enter that ravine before dark, otherwise none of us will be able to escape!"
"Yes! Your Excellency, Commander!"
With the sound of bugles and drums, the Cossacks who were sheltering from the bombardment at the foot of Karen Mountain began to gather.
Polyakov walked among the soldiers and shouted: "Brothers of the Third Regiment! Now a small group of enemy troops appears in the southwest, and we are ordered to destroy them!"
The accompanying officers saw that the Cossacks were cowering, so they roared angrily: "You idiots, didn't you hear what the lieutenant colonel said?! Everyone formed a battle formation! Each company formed a column and set off!"
The soldiers reluctantly walked out of the temporary bunker, and despite the occasional explosions, they lined up in the smoke and arrived one kilometer away from the battlefield in ten minutes.
After arriving, the ministries, under the leadership of the officers, quickly transformed the columns into horizontal formations. Each horizontal formation consists of five rows of soldiers, with 24 soldiers in each row. In each row of the square, the captain commanded the odd-numbered rows, the lieutenant commanded the even-numbered rows, and behind the square were four non-commissioned officers, the company commander (sub-battalion commander) and the musicians.
There are four such horizontal formations in total, forming a large rectangular formation. In the middle of the two phalanxes is the accompanying artillery company, which deploys several 4-pound guns and 8-pound gun carriages; the front and rear phalanxes are fifty feet apart, and the rear phalanx can provide support for the front phalanx at any time. , or used to outflank the enemy.
This is a standard Prussian infantry formation, with three rows of battle infantry and two rows of skirmishers in each square. The so-called skirmishers at the end of the 18th century were not scattered in small groups as imagined. The soldiers were allowed to shoot unorganized and self-centered, but they also had to line up.
From the late 18th to the early 19th century, skirmishing tactics were used in two basic ways. A common practice in the Prussian army was that each line infantry company formed its own unit of shooters, who would fight in two rows instead of three. These shooters hold the rank of sergeants, are equipped with rifled guns, and are selected to receive training in skirmishing tactics; the other type is still being explored and will shine with Napoleon in the future, which is to combine the entire line infantry company with Deploy as a skirmisher and be on the front line.
When the first two phalanxes were still 900 meters away from Chen Jishan and the others, the two 8-pound cannons opened fire first.
These two 8-pound cannons are already the only ones in the Russian army. The artillery company lost most of its cannons when it retreated, and it lost a lot more when it bombarded the Northern Navy position halfway up the mountain.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the Russian 8-pounder fired two shots, there was an explosion from behind the artillery team, and the splashed mud made the surrounding soldiers disgraced.
"No! Get out!" the artillery company commander shouted and ran away. There were two explosions near the two 8-pound cannons behind him, and the shock wave generated knocked him to the ground. Before he could react, there was another bigger explosion behind him, a huge fireball rose into the sky, and the gunpowder on the gun emplacement was ignited.
Not long after that, another burst of flames accompanied by dirt exploded in the infantry square. After the deafening roar, the soldiers in a square suddenly fell down like wheat.
Amidst the billowing smoke, there was the sound of whizzing bullets in the air, and sparks shot out from the overturned copper cannon. Seven or eight more Cossacks in front fell.
With a buzz, the Cossacks of the Third Musketeer Regiment completely collapsed! They broke up and ran away, no longer caring about their formation. The bullets behind him were still whizzing. Unable to even reach a distance of 800 meters, the Third Musketeer Regiment was crippled.
As Lieutenant Colonel Polyakov retreated with the soldiers, listening to the sound of bullets in the air, he thought that the firing speed and hit rate of the enemy's muskets were too terrifying! The Prussians' rifled guns couldn't shoot so fast and so accurately. Is this still a human thing? !
At the same time, on the shore of Heilongjiang River north of the old city of Aihui.
The Russian 2nd Fusiliers Regiment that had retreated here saw all their warships running away. They were all dumbfounded. Are they planning to force us to swim across the river?
"Lieutenant colonel! The commander is organizing the troops to retreat in the direction of Shaodazigou. The enemy has blocked it. Their firepower is very fierce."
The battalion commander who took over the unit managed by Shverin had no idea for a moment. The sound of gunfire from the west could be clearly heard, and he did not want to run into it. But swimming across the river... He was born into a noble family and couldn't swim at all!
A dozen Cossacks stood on the river bank and shouted loudly to the fleet on the opposite side. However, the fleet had been completely frightened by the North Navy in the previous artillery battle and did not dare to cross the center line of the river.
At this time, the beaten Cossacks, who were in despair, could no longer care so much. Those who were good at water began to take off their clothes and walked into the water, preparing to swim over; those who did not know how to swim had no choice but to sit down. On the ground, looking at the vast Heilongjiang River, I lamented.
"The enemy is chasing us! The enemy in colorful clothes is chasing us!"
Everyone looked up and saw a sergeant in charge of the rear running over with his men sweating profusely.
A Cossack officer grabbed the noncommissioned officer and asked, "How far are they from us?"
The noncommissioned officer twisted the officer's hand away and shouted dissatisfied: "Hey! Sir, let go of me! I'm going to report the emergency military situation to the battalion commander! The enemy is moving very fast, I estimate it will only take ten minutes at most!" "
As soon as he said these words, the dozen or so Cossack soldiers around him immediately panicked. They looked at the village house in front of them that had long been reduced to ruins. It was hard to find a place to hide nearby.
The invaders finally understood that retribution was coming. If they had known about this, they should not have set fire to the house in the first place.
"Those damn cavalry! Why did they burn down all the good villages!"
"Oh my God! Those devils are coming, what are we going to do?"
"Magic! They all know magic. We can't win, we can't win..."
The battalion commander led his officers to the middle of the soldiers and roared loudly: "Get up! You cowards! Cowards! What's the use of just complaining! The Cossacks must get up and fight!"
A soldier said with a mournful face: "They all know magic, I don't want to die, I don't want to die!"
The battalion commander's hands were trembling, too, and he was nearby when Colonel Shverin fell from his horse. At that time, he rushed over to check the opponent's injuries, and was shocked to find that there was only a small hole in Shverin's forehead, but there was a hole as big as half a fist in the back of his head, and even the brains came out.
He had never heard of the weapons used by the "Qing" troops across the way. Could it be that reinforcements were sent by their emperor?
Don't talk about these soldiers now, he himself is scared.
The acting captain hesitated for a while and then quickly made a decision. He said to an officer beside him: "Captain, let's go over there and talk. There is a task that you need to perform."
When the Russian army was ready, two squads under Zhou Monk had arrived 400 meters away to observe the Russian army. When the tired and out of breath machine gunners arrived and were looking for the best shooting position, they saw Two men walked out of the Tsarist Russian army on the opposite side, holding a white flag in their hands.
After the complete defeat of the 3rd Fusiliers Regiment, most of the Russian army in the west was bombarded by more intense artillery fire again at dusk. The rumbling artillery bombardment completely collapsed the Tsarist Russian army, and even Alexandrov himself was stunned. Injured.
Seeing that the number of wounded soldiers under his command was increasing, but the "Qing army" halfway up the mountain was still holding on tenaciously. Commander Alexandrov could no longer stop a decent attack, so he sent his men to find half a dozen soldiers under white flags. The "Qing troops" on the mountainside came to discuss surrender.
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