On August 25, 1790, Rumyantsev led an army of 10,000 troops to the village of Cheremhovo, thirty kilometers away from Usolye, and set it as his base camp.
The name of the place comes from the Buryat word "Sheremkhe", which means coal. In another time and space, this was one of the largest coal mining centers in Siberia.
He placed 10,000 reserve troops here in order to echo the Zaimka Fortress 16 kilometers away. Once the situation changes, it is very convenient to take the post road or the river.
From August 26 to 27, Rumyantsev rushed to the front line to inspect the positions. He spent almost all of these two days on horseback, either studying the terrain or studying the plans submitted by his generals, and issuing orders himself.
The Russian army is making intensive preparations, and the Northern Navy is not idle either. In order to monitor the Russian army's deployment and troop mobilization, Zhao Xin released all the drones on hand and took turns taking turns around the clock. For a time, the skies above the Irkutsk-Cheremkhovskaya plain were filled with various drones of the Northern Navy.
Big ones, small ones, black ones, white ones, expensive ones, cheap ones. The buzzing sound kept ringing above their heads all night long, making the Russians extremely nervous. Many regiment leaders had no choice but to let their troops hide in dense forests, where they were often bitten by mosquitoes. The problem is that they don't know that in order to facilitate night reconnaissance, many of Zhao Xin's drones are equipped with infrared thermal imaging cameras...
Fortunately, Suvorov had reminded his teacher before that this strange "Tatar force" had a magical device. He didn't know its specific use; but Suvorov guessed it was a reconnaissance method.
With the mentality of being careful and not making big mistakes, Rumyantsev organized dozens of hunters with good marksmanship in advance to hide in various places in the position, preparing to kill a few for study.
There will always be a blind cat that kills a mouse. Even Bei Haijun himself sometimes becomes careless because he is used to bullying others.
In order to see clearly the enemy cavalry in a dense forest, a reconnaissance team member operating a drone deliberately lowered his altitude. Unexpectedly, the Russian army was prepared but not prepared. More than 20 people who had been ambushing suddenly opened fire together. Seven or eight lead bullets hit the target, smashing the drone into pieces on the spot and falling to the ground.
After the subordinates excitedly showed the fragments to the commander-in-chief who inspected the front line, Rumyantsev and his generals were all confused.
Some of these fragments look like propellers, most of which are completely unknown. The most puzzling thing is, what kind of material is this thing made of? The texture is black and very light. It is neither gold nor wood, which is really confusing.
"Holy Mother! The Tatars are really a bunch of skilled craftsmen, they can actually make such precise things."
The person who spoke was an engineer in charge of artillery and firearms repair in the headquarters. He was holding a magnifying glass to study the camera under the fuselage that was damaged by lead bullets.
Rumyantsev listened and asked: "What is this?"
"Sir, I have only seen such a small lens on a microscope. This may really be an observation device."
"Observe? How can people on the ground see this thing flying in the sky?"
"I really don't know."
At this time, another officer found a clue on the wreckage. He pointed at something and shouted: "PHANTOM? Ghost? This is English. Could it be man-made by the British?"
When everyone heard this, they all gathered around and looked at the wreckage. Then a noble officer said: "It's very possible! I remember that Antony Leeuwenhoek, who invented the microscope, was a member of the Royal Society."
Sixty-seven years ago, in 1723, before his death at the age of 91, Leeuwenhoek sent the method of making microscopes, 26 of his best microscopes and hundreds of magnifying glasses to Britain. Royal Society. Historically, it was not until the 19th century that, with the development of technology, microscopic slide technology surpassed Leeuwenhoek's technical level.
Rumyantsev stood up and walked to the desk, picked up the remains, looked at it for a long time, and murmured: "PHANTOM...microscope...Gentlemen, this is really interesting. This way The Russian Empire must get the technology and equipment!”
At the same time, after Zhao Xin learned that he had lost one of the cheapest drones, he did not blame the scout who operated it, but used it to remind them not to think that "the boss of heaven and I are the second boss" in this world No one is smarter than anyone else, and future enemies will become more and more cunning.
After looking at the terrain, Rumyantsev and his generals discovered that due to the flow of the Belaya River, it was difficult for the Russian army to encircle the Northern Navy from both sides. The only way was to make a frontal assault in order to break through the enemy in a relatively narrow area. Line of defense.
Therefore, the Russian army's final combat plan was to quickly conquer the North Navy's defense line with an overwhelming force, try to kill the opponent during the battle, and force the enemy to retreat to Transbaikal. According to this combat plan, the Russian army's combat formation was organized into four groups: right wing, center, left wing and reserve.
The troops of the right-wing group were commanded by Timokhin and were deployed in the direction from the village of Teturk to the village of Sredny. They included five regiments of light infantry and four regiments of light cavalry. The movement of the troops was supported by three regiments of Cossack hussars and three regiments of Chasseurs deployed in front of the infantry.
The central group was commanded by Bezukhov and was located from the village of Sredny to the village of Stepnoy. It consisted of six light infantry regiments and three heavy cavalry regiments.
The troops on the right and center were organized into the First Army, under the unified command of General Repnin. In the reserve of the army group, Repnin also arranged three light cavalry regiments and two hussars regiments concealed behind the right wing.
The left group was commanded by Bolkonsky and was deployed between the villages of Stepnoy and Novomaltinsk. It consisted of the 12th, 13th and 15th light infantry regiments and the 8th, 9th and 11th cavalry. The Second Corps consists of regiments. Because there were obviously not many troops on the left wing, Rumyantsev placed the five reserve regiments of the entire army behind the left wing, with six light infantry regiments and four light cavalry regiments under his jurisdiction.
The Russian artillery force has a total of 567 artillery pieces, most of which are howitzers and unicorn guns (mortars). Except for more than 200 artillery pieces, which are deployed on the artillery forts 2.5 kilometers from the right wing to the center group, the rest They are all placed in the reserve team behind the Central Group so that they can be deployed at any time after the war.
Commander-in-Chief Rumyantsev's headquarters is located in the village of Cheremhovo, while he himself is located in the village of Mikhailovka, which is only a dozen kilometers away from the front line.
On August 29, it was four o'clock in the morning and it was still dark. The Russian troops in the center group, reserves and right wing did not move out, but the infantry, cavalry and artillery columns on the left wing all got up from their bivouacs and took the lead in taking action.
They were to descend from the highlands and hills to the plains and attack the right wing of the Northern Navy. Their task was to draw enemy firepower, thereby buying time for the rapid advance of the right and center groups.
In order to move forward lightly, the Russian soldiers threw all kinds of unnecessary things into the bonfire, and the thick smoke irritated their eyes.
Because it rained last night, the weather was a bit cold at this time, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and there was heavy fog on the plains with dense grass.
It was pitch black all around. The officers hurriedly drank tea and ate breakfast; while the soldiers chewed dry bread and gathered around the campfire to keep warm. They threw the remaining cargo sheds, tables, chairs, wheels, barrels, anything they couldn't take with them and didn't need into the wood pile and burned them together.
Squads of light cavalry came and went between the infantry camps, conveying orders one after another. Whenever the regiment commanders and battalion commanders had enough to eat and drink, their troops began to move.
The soldiers left the campfire, gathered their belongings, picked up their muskets and began to line up. The junior officers buttoned up their uniforms, put on their triangular military hats, put on their sabers, picked up their backpacks, and patrolled the queue while shouting. The baggage soldiers and orderlies were all harnessing the carts, packing their bags, and haring the horses to the carts.
The commanders of each battalion mounted their war horses, crossed themselves on their chests, and issued final orders to the remaining baggage soldiers, entrusting them with various matters.
As the military drums were beaten, the footsteps of thousands of people began to sound in the forest, and the well-trained horses did not neigh. The Russian battalions formed a column of five people and slowly walked out of the camp under the guidance of two cavalry squadrons.
In fact, if a modern person came to the European army in the eighteenth century, he would definitely be completely stunned by the organization of the infantry. Fortunately, the Northern Navy had fought against the Russian army before and was able to figure out its troop structure.
European infantry tactical units in the eighteenth century were actually "battalions", organized into regiments for administrative and economic purposes. Each regiment consisted of two to three battalions, and each battalion consisted of four to six companies. What is more verbose is that the "company" is not a tactical unit, but a purely administrative unit. The stationing, training, and distribution of weapons, equipment, supplies, and salaries of soldiers are all completed on the basis of the company.
In this era when orders were conveyed on the battlefield by shouting, the number of soldiers in a Russian battalion ranged from 700 to 1,000. If there are fewer people, the tactical mission cannot be achieved, and if there are too many people, orders cannot be quickly conveyed to every soldier.
Specifically, when marching and fighting, the Russian battalion must divide the formation into several equal parts. Usually it is divided into 8 or 10 units, which are called "platoons" and also called "half companies."
This is done because the platoons divided into a battalion in battle simply do not correspond to the companies. Take the Prussian army as an example. Its infantry battalion usually consists of 5 companies, but in wartime it is divided into 8 platoons, that is, 4 sub-battalions.
This was the case in the flintlock era. The basic organization of infantry was actually "corps". In order to ensure that the number of "corps" in each platoon was consistent, the company organization must be disrupted.
After the Russian army on the left wing walked out of the dense forest, thick fog still filled the plain. The battlefield is four kilometers away. According to the order of battle, artillery must go first.
It was only six o'clock in the morning, and the sky above had already brightened, and the fog filled the entire plain like a vast ocean. The bayonets on the Russian rifles shone slightly in the thick fog. The sun rising in the distance is like a large crimson hollow buoy, rippling in the milky white fog sea.
According to the previously formulated tactical essentials, each column of the Russian army consists of two battalions, and the columns used for impact are arranged in three rows. The purpose of this is to allow all soldiers in the queue to use weapons to fire.
After research, Rumyantsev and his generals believed that the frontal width of the column during the attack should not exceed one sub-battalion. The column used for the attack was not a solid column, and at least 3 steps must be left between the front and rear parts.
Since the firepower density of the North Navy is too strong, instead of using one large column, it is better to break it into several small columns and deploy a certain number of infantry fighting in a spread-out formation between the columns to allow these hunters to pass through the firepower Harass enemy troops and draw enemy fire towards them.
Column tactics of this era required soldiers to advance at double pace without firing a shot when attacking, accelerate to triple the pace after being 200 steps away from the enemy, and run directly to attack when they were 30 steps away from the enemy. If the troops participating in the assault successfully repulse the enemy's first line of troops, they should immediately expand them from columns to horizontal formations to prepare to repel the enemy's counterattack.
When the left-wing Russian army entered a distance of two kilometers from the northern naval position, the Russian troops on the right-wing and central positions were also ready to set off. Just waiting for the battle to the east to begin, the first to attack was Bezukhov's center. group.
After the left-wing Russian army arrived at a position 1.5 kilometers away from the Northern Navy position, the Unicorn Cannon opened fire first.
Hundreds of Russian gunners pushed twenty 10-inch Unicorn gun carts to the front of the formation. After adjusting the angle, the No. 1 gunner first packed the gunpowder into the thick barrel, and then the No. 2 gunner pierced it through the fire door. medicine bag and press your thumb on it. Then the No. 3 gunner put a thin round board into the gun barrel. At this time, the No. 1 gunner had already ignited the fuse of a round grenade weighing several kilograms and immediately put it into the gun barrel. The second gunner's finger left the fire door, and the third gunner thrust the lit fire fork in. Amidst bursts of roaring, more than twenty smoking grenades passed through the layers of fog and exploded one after another in the thick fog.
At this time, everyone on the Beihai Navy position was already ready for battle. When the Russian army began to move at four o'clock, Jiuzang already knew it. However, faced with the shelling of the Russian troops on his right wing, Jiuzang was not in a hurry to launch a counterattack. Zhao Xin asked him to wait until the Russian troops in the center and left were dispatched before he could start to counterattack. It is said that the barbed wire fortifications in front of the formation have been laid out for so long, and the enemy must have a taste of it.
After two rounds of artillery fire from the Russian left wing, the light infantry finally began to advance. More than twenty minutes later, when the soldiers who were under artillery bombardment could already see the shoulder straps and red epaulettes that were appearing and disappearing in the thick fog, several light machine guns set up in the second-line fortifications opened fire. A dozen people in the Russian column at the front fell instantly, and the sound of firing suddenly resounded throughout the wilderness.
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