When the Northern Navy launched a general offensive on the western front, the two regiments on the eastern front responsible for attacking the "Zaimka Fortress" also began to dispatch.
Five large flat-bottomed boats sailing down the river from Usolye, each carrying a 75mm gun, cooperated with the mortars of the Northern Navy ground forces and launched a continuous bombardment on the Russian defense line two kilometers away. The Angara River was filled with smoke, and high-explosive bombs of different calibers rained down on the Russian fortress like raindrops. Where they landed, masonry, tiles, and wood flew all over the sky, causing heavy damage to nearby buildings and personnel.
The Russian army had no choice but to order the cannons and unicorn cannons on the horn forts and multi-faceted forts to fire back. However, the poor range of the smoothbore cannons could not reach the gunboats of the Northern Navy at all. Unless the officers dared to move the cannon forward against the bombardment of the Northern Navy, the more than one hundred cannons could only be fired empty. The continuous rumbling sound of artillery was deafening. Unlike the buzzing whistle of solid bullets, the whistle of the North Navy's artillery shells was like a sharp whistle. Each sound made the Russian troops inside and outside the fortress tremble.
boom! boom! When two 75mm artillery shells landed among several cannons, they immediately overturned an ammunition cart and the horse pulling the cart. Burnt wood chips and rags were scattered on the ground. A dozen solid bullets weighing nearly three kilograms were scattered on the ground. The explosion flew everywhere, beating the horses carrying the spare gun mounts to a bloody pulp, and let out a long and shrill roar.
The biggest threat to the North Navy gunboats was several seven-pound howitzers mounted on the forts. They fired at an elevation angle of almost 20 degrees. The nearest one landed directly in front of the first gunboat more than 100 meters away. superior.
The Russian cavalry and infantry tried to get close to the river bank to fight back, so the machine guns mounted on the flat-bottomed boats began to spit out tongues of fire. There were even some North Korean navy carrying several rocket launchers, firing the white smoke rockets one after another. Entering the crowd of cavalry, the explosion caused the Russian cavalry to flip over.
There were gunshots and cannons everywhere, and people shouting and screaming. Zhou Heichuang, commander of the Second Battalion of the Third Regiment, led his orderlies to a newly conquered horn fort, which was still far away from the Zaimka Fortress. One kilometer away.
"There is a battlefield in front of Jiuli Mountain~~The shepherd boy found an old knife and gun. The water of Wujiang River was blown by the favorable wind~~It was like Yu Concubine bidding farewell to the overlord."
At this time, the sun in the sky was shining brightly, and the slanted light fell on Monk Zhou's face. He hummed the arias from "Six Joys of the Mountain Gate" in his mouth, put his hand on his forehead and looked at Russia in the distance. The military fortress, however, the billowing smoke obscured everything on the opposite side, and the flashes of shell explosions and Russian artillery fire flashed from time to time.
Neither advance nor retreat improved or changed the miserable situation of the Russian army. Thousands of people were running around in the hail of bullets. However, as soon as these people left the space where the artillery shells and bullets were flying, the commander stationed at the rear immediately sent people to form a team to force them to obey discipline, and then sent them to the front where the artillery fire was heavy. . However, out of fear of death, the infantry quickly lost discipline again, and the originally tight formation soon became chaotic again.
At 8:40 in the morning, Lu Shoushan led all the soldiers of the regiment to board the ship at the dock in Usolye. Their mission was to go north along the Angara River and occupy Bratsko-Os, 470 kilometers away. Troznoye village, and then march 140 kilometers northeast to capture the fortress of Ilimsk on the north bank of the Ilim River, block the transportation routes to Yakutsk, and force the Tsarist Russian strongholds east of the Lena River to surrender .
Never mention the Ural Mountains as the boundary. The entire Sakhalin region east of the Lena River alone covers an area of more than three million square kilometers, exceeding the territory of Argentina in another time and space. Not to mention that the area east of the Yenisei River was larger than China under the Qing Dynasty.
However, the Sakhalin region in these days was a paradise only for fur traders, and a bitter hell for other settlers. Even if Beihai Town has a million residents under its control, there may not be many people who would dare to settle here. And if Zhao Xin doesn’t bring cold-resistant crop seeds and cultivation methods from another time and space, he won’t be able to grow any crops!
Since ancient times, what has dared to attract adventurers to places with harsh environments has never been crops and land, but gold and gems. The problem is that although the Sakhalin region is extremely rich in gold and diamond resources, there are very few mineral veins suitable for open-pit mining.
Although the mineral and timber resources on this land will provide strong support for the future construction of an industrialized country, don't even think about it until the railway tracks are extended here. In another history, the Sakhalin region was not really developed until the 1950s.
In Zhao Xin's view, if we want to occupy and hold this land and make it belong to China forever, it will be difficult to become a fait accompli within fifty years. For such a large piece of land and the income brought by the fur trade, he estimated that from now on, successive tsars would fight to the death with the Northern Navy.
The Russian troops retreated in panic as far as the village of Cheremhovo, and the violent killings caused by the Northern Navy's artillery gradually stopped. A dozen kilometers away to the east, the countdown to the fall of Zaimka Fortress also entered.
In order to cooperate with the retreat, Rumyantsev ordered the four regiments stationed in the village of Cheremkhovo to take charge of the rear, and ordered them to stop the pursuing Northern Navy at all costs. At the same time, he asked another regiment to pile all the baggage that could not be transported away in the future. On the post road, prepare to use fire to block the pursuit of the Northern Navy.
At this time, the Russian army had lost more than one-third of its strength due to casualties and stragglers. The wounded were visible throughout the village of Cheremhovo, lying on the ground inside and outside the houses. However, the army doctors with a few civilians as assistants could not treat so many wounded people. Some of these people were missing arms and legs, or were knocked unconscious by the North Navy's artillery.
At nine o'clock in the morning, when Zhao Xin received a report from the front and learned that the village of Mikhailovka had been captured by the North Navy, he ordered the attacking troops in the front to stop advancing, rest on the spot, and build simple fortifications. Then the artillerymen of the two regiments were ordered to set off immediately with light equipment, escorted by the 1st Battalion of the Northern Navy Cavalry, and ride on carriages towards the village of Mikhailovka.
Under the strict guard of the guards, he gathered around the artillery position in a concealed manner, and then set off with the guard battalion.
Although the artillerymen of the Northern Navy sitting on the carriage were very tired, they were still in a state of excitement. It’s so enjoyable, so enjoyable! The shell casings shot this morning have piled up into a hill, enough to last a lifetime with my wife and children. However, some people are confused by the current actions.
"Squad leader, what are we doing? Can't we all be charged as infantry?"
Facing the questions from his subordinates, Li Yansheng was also confused. However, the carriages were moving rapidly, and he had no chance to ask the company commander. Suddenly, he heard deafening roars coming from behind, and the carriage beneath him began to tremble.
Li Yansheng and other artillerymen turned around and looked curiously, and saw about two dozen grass-green "monsters" with flat fronts not far behind them, speeding towards them.
"Armored vehicle?!" Li Yansheng was stunned for a moment, and it took him a while to remember its name. He had seen this thing in the military camp and visited it once, but he had never seen what it looked like when driven. What surprised him was that it actually ran faster than a war horse.
Twenty-four armored vehicles drove side by side in groups of two on the endless wilderness, forming a green torrent of steel. The wide tracks rolled up smoke and dust, causing the hundreds of artillerymen and escorting cavalry on the carriages to roar. Cheers.
"Squad leader, this is too majestic! With this, no red-haired ghost can escape!"
"Yeah! So domineering!" Just as Li Yansheng was admiring in admiration, he accidentally caught a glimpse of the roof hatch of an armored vehicle in the third column being opened, and then a man wearing a green helmet emerged from it and rushed towards him. He waved his hands at people like him.
Because he was too far away and the convoy was moving faster than him, Li Yansheng only saw a profile of the man's face. He always felt that he looked familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before, but he couldn't remember it for a while.
In fact, that person was none other than the boss of the Beihai Navy, Zhao Xin.
Outsiders may find it fascinating to see armored vehicles galloping around, but in fact the environment in the vehicle is really not that good. Not only is it noisy, but the bumps are also very severe. Without a helmet, you will definitely be injured.
More than twenty armored vehicles may seem like a lot, but in fact they can only hold more than two hundred people. Although this thing can be mastered by driving in two or three months, it will be more difficult to repair once the track is broken.
There is no need for the enemy to use cannons to blow it up. Once the vehicle speed is too fast when there is a vehicle, the tracks may fall off as long as the vehicle brakes quickly. This is why Zhao Xin didn't dare to use it for battlefield pursuit.
At the same time, in the city of Irkutsk, which is more than 80 kilometers away from the Usolye battlefield, whether it is businessmen from the five major families, monks in the church in the city, or even every settler who comes here from the far west , many people stayed up all night, anxiously waiting for news from the battlefield ahead.
During the two years of Bei Haijun's rule, everything seemed calm. The massive amounts of tea and rhubarb provided by Zhao Xin also made the city's economy more prosperous. But all Cossacks and Russians know that these Chinese people do not believe in God, and they are not from the same group as themselves!
Although soldiers from the Northern Navy and the city's security police would also go to the monastery, they were going to count the number of monks in order to check whether there were any enemy spies hiding in the church.
Even the newly arrived immigrants with Oriental faces have never been to a church. Instead, they often go to worship in an ancestral hall they built themselves. According to a message circulating privately in the city, the newly arrived immigrants were sternly told by the security police that they were absolutely not allowed to go to church, and violators would be exiled to more desolate and remote places.
How could they not believe in God? You must know that only by being loyal to God can a person be honest; only by believing in God can he get guidance in life. To the confused individual, God is the morning star; to the corrupted soul, God is the savior. There has never been an eternal country or army in the world, only God is eternal.
But those Chinese people who call themselves "Serris people" actually say that "there has never been a savior in this world". This is simply blasphemous!
But for other people in the city, their hearts are conflicted. Since Beihai Town established a public medical institution in Irkutsk, those who were once said by the monks to be "God's punishment for the ungodly" are often easily cured by those wearing white coats. The bloodletting therapy most commonly used by monks was once discovered by doctors in Beihai Town, and they directly denounced the monks as killing people.
What's the point of this? Are these people actually sent by God to save themselves?
At this time, a strong Don horse was carrying a cloaked knight. After showing his pass to the checkpoint at the intersection, he quickly arrived at the three-story building on the embankment of the Angara River. in front of a white building.
Before the horse could stop, the man in cloak jumped off the horse, threw the reins into the hands of the servant at the door, and said urgently: "Alyoshka, where is the master?"
"In the study, go quickly, Denisov, he has been waiting for news from you since before dawn."
Denisov did not go through the main entrance, but pushed in through a small door on the left under the steps. This is the kitchen. He first asked the cook for a drink of water, and then took the stairs to the outside of the study on the second floor.
He tried to calm down his breathing, and when he was no longer out of breath, he knocked on the door.
"Come in."
Denisov gently opened the door, and then saw Sibyakov, the owner of the house.
"Why did you come back?" Sibyakov looked a little ugly. At this time, another door in the study room was opened, and Sibyakov's wife and son also walked in.
"Denisov, how are Zadunaisky's troops doing?" It was Sibyakov the Younger who spoke. The "Zadunaisky" he mentioned was the title awarded to Rumyantsev by the Queen, which means As the "Victor of the Danube".
"Unfortunately, our army lost, miserably." Denisov's lips began to tremble, and he carefully recounted everything he heard and saw in the village of Sosnovka. "Those Siris cannons are so fierce. I have never seen such artillery fire... I think the Commander-in-Chief suffered a serious defeat this time. It is estimated that more than 10,000 people died. "
The three Sibyakov family looked shocked and kept crossing themselves on their chests. "O God! O Lord of heaven, save them and bless them!"
After a while, old Sibyakov saw that Denisov was hesitant to speak, so he asked: "What else?"
"When I was in the village, I heard several soldiers from the Northern Navy mention a place name, and they all said it with excitement."
"Where is it?"
"Yenisesk."
Old Sibyakov's mouth slowly opened, and he could almost fit a duck egg in. The shock in his heart at this moment was incomparable to the avalanche in the Sayan Mountains and the earthquake in the Baikal Mountains.
"Father, what's wrong with you?"
"Denisov!" Old Sibyakov ignored his son and said hurriedly to his personal servant: "Hurry up and take a small road to Uginsk and notify the garrison there! If you are late, it will be too late! "
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