On July 22, 1788, the fourth day of July in the fifty-third year of Qianlong's reign, three regiments of the Northern Navy, which had rested in Heilongjiang City for nearly two weeks, arrived in two batches at the mouth of the Humar River, 320 miles away.
When they saw the small riverside island that had been captured by Tsarist Russia and was now in ruins, and then learned about the resistance deeds of the Tibetan leader from the mouth of the guide Zamusu, everyone in the Northern Navy was filled with indignation. As for the remains of the Ewenki co-leader Tibet and other Qing soldiers and border residents who died in the battle, Zhao Xin also sent people to find and gather them on the island, repackage them with thick pine boards, and bury them on the island. At the foot of Heilazi Mountain.
This move of the Northern Navy surprised the Daur, Oroqen and Sauron people who followed the north to help. In their view, these rebels under the banner of the Han people did not exclude the border residents and treated all ethnic groups equally. Moreover, the Northern Navy had occupied Heilongjiang City for a month and never mentioned the payment of a poll tax. The border residents are really not used to it.
In the past, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties used poll taxes to control the population of various tribes of border residents, and then used large amounts of material rewards to stabilize people's hearts, so that each tribe could send people to work as soldiers for the Manchu Qing court and guard the border.
The problem is that the military and political system in Beihai Town is different from all feudal regimes in this time and space. Zhao Xinxuan owns several large-scale gold and silver associated mines, and has nowhere to spend the money; the various factories in Beihai Town now produce mountains of materials, and they cannot be consumed by the purchases of the border tribes in the lower reaches of Heilongjiang.
I don’t want your head tax or tribute. If you want daily necessities, it’s no problem. Just go to the trading company to buy furs and handicrafts in exchange for money. The quality is high and the price is low. Children and elders can’t be bullied.
Are you good at archery and horseback riding? Do you want to be a soldier? Welcome with applause. But first go to the recruit camp in Heilongjiang City for three months of training, and you also have to learn Chinese and Chinese characters. The last two items alone stumped many illiterate people. These people were all very good at holding bows and reins, but when they picked up books and pencils, they were all dumbfounded.
In order to delay the actions of the Northern Navy and create time for the completion of the fortifications, the Tsarist Russian army in the direction of Yaksa City continuously dropped wooden platoons into the river starting from the line of Guigudar City. Many wooden rafts had just been cut with wood on their front legs, and then hastily tied together with their back legs and thrown into the river. They began to fall apart after floating for a short distance, resulting in thick logs everywhere on the river, which was extremely harmful to the Northern Navy's fleet. . In the end, the fleet had to turn to the Huma River to stay and escape.
In addition, the Russian army sent a large number of Cossack cavalry and chasseurs from Chita. According to Suvorov's order, these people were divided into small groups, with dozens of people in teams, cooperating with each other to harass and block the reconnaissance team sent by the North Navy.
The hunters sent by the Russian army were all hunters and were very familiar with the mountain and forest terrain. More than a dozen of them would shoot at them every now and then. The reconnaissance team was either a target or not.
The most terrible thing is that drones are completely useless in the dense virgin forest, and it is almost difficult to spot the small groups of Russian troops wearing green military uniforms.
Although the reconnaissance team is equipped with automatic weapons and homemade grenades, the amount of ammunition they carry is limited after all, and the killing effectiveness of weapons in dense forest terrain is also significantly reduced. Even if the entire Russian squad is wiped out in this one, there will be another one ahead, endlessly.
Faced with this situation, after Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng discussed it, they immediately changed their tactics and adopted a layer-by-layer relay strategy to transport ammunition and materials along the river.
Liu Sheng and Fan Tong led a regiment, and with the cooperation of several flat-bottomed wooden boats loaded with ammunition and supplies and moving along the river bank, they arranged the troops to move forward in platoon units in coordination with the reconnaissance team. As long as the Tsarist Russian Chasseur Squad is discovered, it will be directly suppressed by firepower. The dense rain of bullets will first hit the opponent unable to lift his head, and then outflank it from both sides and annihilate it in one fell swoop.
This tactic of the Northern Navy was extremely effective, inflicting heavy losses on the Russian Chasseurs. If Suvorov had not strictly ordered them not to retreat, and those who violated the rules would be hanged, these Chasseurs would have fled long ago.
When Liu Sheng and the others arrived at the old site of Duojin City, thirty kilometers away from Yaksa City, the amount of wood dropped by the Russian army into the Heilongjiang River was finally reduced to negligible, and the fleet staying in the Huma River could move.
During the days when he was stranded in the Huma River, Zhao Xin felt that beating children on a rainy day was idle time, so after an inspection, he immediately issued an order, and thousands of people from the Northern Navy started to do it together. First, in Tsarist Russia that year The invaders built a military station on the site of the castle built by the invaders. Later, they built more than 30 wooden ridges at the foot of the mountain, dug wells, and set fire to the river banks.
The west side of the military station is adjacent to the Huma River. It is a cliff with a dangerous terrain. Moreover, the well dug by the Tsarist Russians is still there, and it only needs to be cleaned before it can be used. Unlike the Cossacks who laboriously dug trenches and burned bricks to fill the walls with earth, the Northern Navy built explosion-proof walls with reinforced concrete and two barbed wire fences. With this military station and the prototype of the village at the foot of the mountain, if hundreds of people come to open up wasteland and cultivate land on both sides of the river bank, the area around the mouth of the Huma River will be as peaceful as Mount Tai.
In fact, even if Zhao Xin did not relocate the Han population, with the protection of the Beihai Naval Station, the nearby Daur people would gather and settle in the villages at the foot of the mountain. Several Daur people who were traveling north took a fancy to this place. They would be fools if they didn't live in the free house!
Unlike the Oroqen, Hezhe or other nomadic peoples, the Daur people in the outer northeast have formed a village-style lifestyle since the Ming Dynasty. Agriculture and animal husbandry are relatively developed, and they are deeply influenced by the farming culture of the Central Plains.
After staying at the mouth of the Huma River for more than twenty days, Zhao Xin finally received news from the front troops, and the Northern Navy fleet set off again. Due to the unfamiliar hydrological conditions and the fact that they were carrying more than 20 wooden boats full of soldiers, it took them five or six days to reach them all after traveling more than 450 kilometers of waterways.
No one knows which dynasty and generation the old site of Duojin City was built in. Only some moats remain on the abandoned site, without any tiles. Zhao Xin speculates that this is a relic of either the Liao Dynasty or the Jin Dynasty.
Zhao Xin learned from several Russian prisoners captured by the reconnaissance team that there were two castles built by the Russian army in Yaksa, one big and one small. In addition to building a large four-sided star fort with a side length of one kilometer on the north bank of Heilongjiang, and building several semicircular trench positions outside the fort, they also built an ancient city island across the river in the south. A small bastion formed a defensive pattern in which the northern and southern cities supported each other.
The old castle site on the ancient city island was built when the Qing army attacked Yaksa. Due to the fierce artillery fire of the Russian army defending the city, in order to prevent the war from delaying into winter, the Qing army built a fortress protected by trenches. They formed a condescending attitude towards the city of Yaksa occupied by the Russian army and mobilized artillery to bombard it fiercely. Although the Qing army later failed to siege the city, the artillery strikes on the ancient city island caused a lot of damage to the Russian army in Yaksa. Even the Russian army leader Tolbuzin himself was killed with one shot. This made Suvorov read before reading. People were impressed when they took notes.
Unlike the failure a hundred years ago, Suvorov realized the seriousness of the situation two months ago. As the commander-in-chief appointed by Catherine II, he ordered the start of a military campaign throughout Siberia. Through conscription, a huge team of nearly 5,000 people was recruited from two battle line infantry regiments and a chasseur battalion.
The discipline of these newly recruited soldiers was lax. Although Major General Alexei, who was in charge of leading the team, tried his best to restrain them, they were still slow to move and did not arrive at the twin cities of Yaksa until early August by boat.
So far, the Tsarist Russian Army has deployed up to 18,000 troops on the front line of Yaksa City, including four battle infantry regiments (7,200 people), a Chasseur Corps (3,828 people), and a newly recruited independent Chasseur Battalion (957 people). people), two cavalry regiments (1,000 people) and a logistics force composed of 5,000 militiamen.
"Ah! There are so many people. When we finish this battle, how many prisoners will we take?"
At a dinner table at the naval camp in the north of Duojin City, Zhao Xin, Liu Sheng and Wu Siyu who were sitting around all laughed when they heard Fan Tong suddenly say this.
Zhao Xin muttered while grabbing the rice: "Yes, I don't have so much food to feed them. In fact, what I am most concerned about is whether Suvorov is there. The tongue we caught before was too low-level."
Liu Sheng said: "Then let the reconnaissance team catch an officer with the rank of captain?"
Wu Siyu said: "I agree, you know yourself and your enemy."
A few people were chatting and talking animatedly while eating, but Li Yansheng, who was eating with his head down on the long table behind him, couldn't help but stop, with a look of astonishment on his face. He thought in his mind that more than 8,000 people were attacking the fortified city walled by 20,000 people. He didn't think about whether he could win, but he was actually worried about taking too many prisoners? Although the Northern Navy had previously surrounded and annihilated thousands of Russian troops under Aihui City, it was a sneak attack and caught Rakshasa off guard. What good things do these people have in mind?
The reason why this man was able to follow him was, first of all, that he wanted to join him, but the condition was that he would follow and see how the Northern Navy fought against Rakshasa; secondly, Zhao Xin wanted to use him as an example to the people of all ethnic groups in the outer Northeast. . It means don't look at me holding high the banner with the word "Ming" and calling myself His Highness. I can even take away the Han military flag and the Sauron tribe's small black dragon. All other flags, whether they are Sauron or whatever, come and join me!
So Zhao Xin asked Li Yansheng to follow Yin Bingwei, and follow the guards of the company every day to fight. In turn, he asked Yin Bingwei to monitor him. It was impossible to detach the army now.
Hearing Zhao Xin and the others say that they should continue to catch their tongues, Li Yansheng raised his head and said to Yin Bingwei on the opposite side: "Brother Yin, can I follow you and catch your tongues?"
Yin Bingwei raised his head and said: "This is all the matter of the reconnaissance team, not the guard company's turn."
Li Yansheng asked: "I always hear you talking about the reconnaissance team, who are they?"
Yin Bingwei said: "The reconnaissance team has done well before they can be selected to serve as guards for you."
"Oh? Then Brother Yin used to be a strong general in the reconnaissance team?"
Can Yin Bingwei tell the truth? All he could answer was silence.
He was originally selected as a guard by Zhao Xin because he was going to attack the Satsuma Domain, and there was one less person around him who knew how to sneak attack the island nation's samurai. Zhao Xin didn't want someone from the island country to suddenly perform an "Iai Slash" when he was talking to him, so he asked Yin Bingwei, who studied "Ono Itto Ryu", to follow him.
Li Yansheng thought that the other party was looking down on him, and thought to himself, what's so great about you, a barbarian from the Japanese country? You carry a broken sword on your back all the time, and one day I must let you experience the horse-cutting sword technique passed down by my family.
That night, the Northern Navy reconnaissance team that received the mission set out under the leadership of Serdan. This time their mission was to capture an officer who was at least a lieutenant or above. A group of thirty people did not take a boat, but rode horses along the dense forest on the south bank of the Heilongjiang River to the northwest, with the goal of Karen, the former Qing army at the mouth of the Emur River. It is across the river from the Russian fortresses of Yaksa City and the ancient island city. It is speculated that Tsarist Russia will station troops on the hills there.
This day was August 18. In the early morning, the reconnaissance team arrived at a location twenty miles away from Emulkalun. Serdan's plan was to sleep in the morning and wait until dusk to take action. Unexpectedly, just two hours after he slept, the soldier in charge of sentry pushed him awake.
"A group of Rakshasa soldiers were found!"
Serdan opened his sleepy eyes and asked: "How many people?"
The sentry said: "Fifty on horseback and one hundred and fifty on foot. The leader seems to be a lieutenant."
The reconnaissance team has been fighting with the Russian army these days, not to mention the prisoners in Aihui Old City have also seen it. Now they are very familiar with the markings on their enemy's uniforms.
Tsarist Russian officers have a ribbon hanging from right to left on their shoulders, a three-cornered hat on their head, and a saber on their waist. The infantry of the Russian army all wear black fluffy hats, grass-green coats with blood-red cuffs and lapels, red trousers and black boots, with white belts, crossed on the left and right on the chest. The backpack straps of the soldiers are also all white; as for the cavalry, it is another story. Their uniforms are covered with dense buttons.
"Captain, do you want to beat up these guys?"
Serdan thought to himself that he encountered a Rakshasa team of two hundred people only twenty miles away. If he avoided this group and moved forward, he might encounter a big fish. Thinking of this, he asked his men to stay alert, prepare for battle, and not to alert the enemy for the time being.
He didn't want to fight here, but who knew that the Russian army was getting closer and closer to the reconnaissance team, and there was a Daur man in the patrol team who had taken refuge. Relying on the instinct of hunting in the jungle for many years, this guy keenly felt that there were people and horses ahead, and he immediately reported it to the lieutenant who led the team.
The Russian lieutenant immediately ordered his chasseurs to disperse, and the cavalry detoured to the flanks. Seeing that the enemy troops had set up an attack formation and were advancing step by step, Serdan had no choice but to order to fire.
"boom!"
With the sound of a gunshot, the sergeant holding a blue flag who was walking in the Russian army was knocked to the ground by a shot. Gunfire suddenly erupted on the reconnaissance team's position, and several Russian soldiers who were walking in the front were shot. They were shot to death one after another.
During the days of fighting against the Northern Navy, the Russian army also noticed the ultra-long shooting range of the Northern Navy's weapons, so they would rather fight in the dense forest than face the Northern Navy directly in the wilderness.
As soon as they heard the sound of gunfire, the Russian Chasseurs quickly fell to the ground or hid behind thick trees or rocks. Under the orders of the lieutenant, some of the chasseurs either ignited the cast iron bombs they carried with their bare hands, or threw bombs with hand-held mortars to confuse the Northern Navy's shooting field of view, while others attacked from the side to buy time for the cavalry.
The early handheld mortar was called "Hand Mortar". This thing was to change the front chamber of an ordinary smoothbore rifle into a large bullet chamber made of steel. The gun body was extremely short, like holding a big cup. Most of the calibers were At 50~60mm.
Didn't I say before that the Russian army is now learning from the Prussian army, so this early grenade was also introduced into the Jaeger unit.
In fact, this thing is extremely dangerous. The shooter needs to load the gun and add explosive powder. Before shooting, he must light the grenade fuse, then put the grenade into the muzzle of the mortar, and then fire at the enemy. So once the firing is delayed, the consequences can be imagined.
Moreover, due to poor iron casting technology and poor black powder, early grenades often only broke into a few relatively large pieces of broken iron when they exploded. Unless this thing hits the crowd, its lethality is really impressive.
After fighting for a long time, the brave and careful Russian lieutenant discovered that the opponent only shot at soldiers and not at himself. He suddenly understood that they wanted to capture him alive.
How the hell is this possible! So he immediately ordered a soldier to go back and shake people, preparing to annihilate this "Qing army".
As a result, a small-scale fight caused by tongue grabbing eventually became bigger and bigger, which was completely beyond the expectations of Zhao Xin and others.
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