Before the 1870s, if you wanted to be a doctor in Europe, you would be considered unqualified if you didn't know how to bleed.
Starting from the time of the Romans in the 2nd century AD, European doctors believed that the methods for treating fever patients were nothing more than the following: bloodletting, vomiting, blistering, laxatives, pain relief, etc., in order to achieve a perfect balance of body fluids. If the patient's condition remains unchanged after some troubles, repeat the measures used. Historically, the 67-year-old Washington was played to death in this way. It is said that in the 12 hours before his death, the doctor drained more than 2,300 ml of blood...
Rumyantsev is 66 years old this year, which is quite a long life in this era. At the moment when the Northern Navy rushed into the smoke-filled city of Krasnoyarsk with a red flag, the Commander-in-Chief had already been brutally drained of more than a thousand milliliters of blood.
When a company commander surnamed Peng of the Beihai Navy passed by a courtyard with his men, he heard a deep and deep singing faintly coming from inside through the courtyard wall. The voice sounded very solemn and solemn, which triggered His curiosity.
This place was not ravaged by artillery fire? Lucky enough!
He wanted to grab someone from the street and ask... By the way, there was no one on the street. The civilians who survived the bombardment were either hiding in churches or in the county library.
When Captain Peng and his men walked around to the closed main door, he felt that this was definitely not a church. You must know that the Northern Navy fought thousands of miles westward from Usolye. The various churches made of wood, stone, and a mixture of wood and stone were almost vomiting. There is a "two horizontal and one vertical" cross on the roof of all churches, and there are also many clergy wearing black or white robes.
"Boom~~!"
"Open the door!"
After a while, the large wooden door opened a narrow gap with a creak, and an old man with gray hair and beard appeared in front of him.
Several soldiers from the Northern Navy immediately became furious when they saw it. Why are you pretending? A loser should look like a loser! Thinking of this, several people stepped forward and pushed the door open. The old man couldn't dodge, took two steps back and fell to the ground.
"Whose house is this? What are the people in the house doing?" Captain Peng has been in Irkutsk for two years. Although his pronunciation of Russian is not accurate, he still has no problem communicating in daily life.
"Yes, someone is going to heaven, and confession and communion are being held inside. Have mercy on him! Don't disturb an old man's confession before his death."
After hearing this, Captain Peng thought for a moment and stopped his men from searching. He apologized to the old man and left with the others.
At this time, in a dimly lit room on the second floor of the main building in the courtyard, more than a dozen people were whispering, their voices intermittent and intermittent. The previous movement at the gate made these people feel like they were facing a formidable enemy. Some even took out their pistols and prepared to resist. When Bei Haijun left, they breathed a sigh of relief and turned their sad and frightened eyes to the door leading to the bedroom next door.
After a while, the door was gently opened, and Rumyantsev's adjutant appeared in front of everyone with a serious face, and said softly: "Everyone, please come in."
Several generals present, the mayor of Krasnoyarsk, and a few remaining city councilors walked in one after another on the soft carpet with fear and uneasiness.
Rumyantsev was lying on a big bed in the room at the moment, covered with a quilt from the waist down. His broad and round forehead was covered with meticulously combed white hair, and his originally rosy face had turned pale. Above his head is a picture of the Virgin, with two fat hands stretched out from under the quilt and placed on either side of the body. There is a candle between the thumb and forefinger of his right hand. A doctor kneels before the bed, holding the candle with his hand.
What is held at this time is the anointing ceremony of the dying person.
Several clergymen in gorgeous robes stood on both sides of the bed. They held lit candles in their hands and prayed slowly and solemnly. After entering the house, everyone felt as if they were in a church, with men and women standing on both sides of the bed. Everyone was silent and kept making signs of the cross with their hands. Then, the monks' chanting prayers, low singing, and the sound of moving footsteps and sighs in silence filled the room.
After all, Zhao Xin never saw Rumyantsev alive, and of course, he didn't see him dead either. He didn't even know that his opponent had been killed by quacks.
Just as he rode into this most important city of Tsarist Russia in Central Siberia with his guard battalion, Peter Alexandrovich Rumyantsev finally breathed his last breath at the age of 66. The poor old man died not so much from infection after high fever, but from severe shock caused by severe blood loss.
Afterwards, the body of the Commander-in-Chief was secretly collected by his adjutants and several doctors, and then transported out of the city by carriage on the night of the third day. In fact, when the news of Rumyantsev's death and the Russian army's defeat reached St. Petersburg, it was already the end of October.
By this time, all the tasks of the North Navy in the entire battle were coming to an end, leaving only the last target of the combined North-South attack, Yeniseisk.
Zhao Xin had no time to delay. He ordered the Second Regiment and the First Cavalry Battalion to garrison Krasnoyarsk. At the same time, he appointed Zhao Jiuzang as the director of the local Military Control Commission. Then he led the rest of the team on the looted boats and went straight to the Third Army. That city more than a hundred kilometers away.
If Irkutsk was the outpost of Sino-Russian trade in the 18th century, then Yeniseisk was the commodity transit point for East-West trade. As the trading center of the Kolivan Province of the Tsarist Empire, Yeniseisk was in its most prosperous period in history, with a permanent population of more than 5,000 people.
Tea, rhubarb, silk, cotton, and even various goods shipped from Europe were concentrated here for sale and transported to various places in the east and west via waterways and land.
Only by capturing Krasnoyarsk and Yeniseysk together can the Northern Navy control the entire Yenisei River Basin and be able to follow the Yenisei River into the Sanyinnoyan Department of Outer Mongolia. In order to achieve an east-west pincer attack on the six Khalkha Mongolian tribes, it can also extend its tentacles into the area south of the Altay Mountains.
When a ship carrying a large number of soldiers appeared on the Yenisey River, it quickly aroused the alert of the cargo fleet. However, it was already too late at this time. The Huji troops who had arrived earlier had already passed the intersection of the Yenisei River and the Kemi River and built a position three kilometers northwest of the city.
Due to the sudden arrival of the uninvited guests, the whole city soon fell into an atmosphere of panic. It has long been known to everyone that "Zadunaisky" led an army to go on an expedition. For this purpose, the local city council specially raised a batch of materials and military expenses from business groups and provided manpower support. But no one expected that the Russian army would be defeated so quickly and miserably. The rapid flanking attacks from the north and the south cut off Yeniseisk's access to external information.
On the fifth day after the arrival of Huji's troops, Zhao Xin led the southern troops on September 30 and appeared on the river bank five kilometers southeast of the city.
At this time, everyone in the city panicked. After emergency consultations, the city council sent representatives to negotiate with the North Navy.
Li Rui, who was in charge of the negotiations, informed the Russian negotiators that Krasnoyarsk had been captured by our side, and the Russian army of more than 80,000 people had been completely defeated by the North Navy. You are given 24 hours to surrender unconditionally, otherwise a large-scale shelling will be launched.
"As a sign of mercy, we allow local merchants and residents to leave by boat with their belongings. We have no interest in your personal wealth."
In fact, Jiuzang who was guarding Krasnoyarsk also ordered the expulsion of the local Tsarist Russian residents. Because of the large-scale shelling, Zhao Xin did not want to leave a group of enemies behind.
However, for the three negotiators, it is hard to believe that they will not search for personal belongings! In these days, those who bring the flames of war to the territory of other countries are all using war to support war and obtain material supplies through plundering the occupying country.
The city councilor among the three protested loudly: "Sir, it is unreasonable for you to do this! We are just a group of businessmen who abide by the law and have never persecuted any Chinese."
Li Rui said calmly: "Yes. It is precisely because of this that we allow you to leave with your personal belongings."
The regional bishop who came with him crossed himself on his chest and asked calmly: "We will not leave. This is a sacred territory given to us by God."
Li Rui said: "Father, I advise you to leave. None of us believe in your God."
Another businessman said: "You are launching a war against the great Tsarist Empire. The Queen will never condone such behavior. Don't you think about the consequences?"
"Haha," Li Rui smiled and said with a nonchalant expression: "When your queen launched the war of aggression against Heilongjiang, she should have considered the consequences of today. According to our commander-in-chief, you are all asking for it. , purely deserved.”
The three representatives were so angry at Li Rui's words that they blushed, but they still begged, hoping to get peace. Not to mention where the family is moving to, the goods in the warehouse alone cannot be transported in a day or two.
Li Rui said: "Don't blame us for not saying it before. Beihai Town has to tax commercial transactions. The taxation system of your first, second and third guilds must be abolished!"
"Okay, how will you tax it?"
"Five percent of the single transaction amount. At the same time, all commodity transactions must be conducted in the trading venue established by us."
"What?! So many!" The three representatives suddenly cursed in their hearts. This was really a group of robbers.
You must know that in the city of Yeniseisk at this time, there are more than 140 merchants in the first guild, and more than 1,200 merchants in the second guild. If this tax is based on the transaction amount, that is What a huge sum of money.
"Three of you, please go back and discuss with the others whether you want to surrender unconditionally or prepare to resist stubbornly. I might as well tell you that we have killed tens of thousands of Russian soldiers and left them everywhere. The number of people in your city is not enough to fill your teeth. Sewn.”
Later, when the three men brought Bei Haijun's conditions back to the city, the businessmen in the city council immediately exploded. As the most influential figure among the local merchants, Matvey Fedorovich Horoshikh, a big fur merchant in the first guild, was so angry that he jumped to his feet and kept roaring and cursing the Chinese outside the city.
Charging a tax of 5% of the transaction amount is tantamount to poaching his lifeblood. But if you leave here and return to Tobolsk, it means that everything has to start again, and the hard work of generations of family members over the past century will be lost.
"I don't believe these Chinese can defeat the invincible 'Zadunayski'. He has defeated 150,000 Turks, so the Chinese are nothing!"
"What I'm saying is that even if there are 100,000 pigs, it can't be caught in a day or two. These Chinese must have been defeated by the commander-in-chief and fled to us."
"But there are thousands of them! When we went to their military camp, the soldiers looked neat and murderous."
"Andreevich, you were deceived by the illusion they created!" Matvey laughed at the businessman and then said to a member of the House of Representatives: "I propose to hold a vote immediately and recruit soldiers in the city immediately to cooperate. Garrison the local troops and completely wipe out those Chinese! We will never compromise!"
In matters in the world, whoever is richest often has the greatest say, and it is the same in Yeniseisk. Except for those Jewish businessmen who did not support or oppose it, other Russian businessmen all expressed support for Matvey's proposal after weighing it. Because the North Korean Navy only gave 24 hours, someone proposed launching a night sneak attack after the vote, which was unanimously approved again.
The mayor saw it and said, okay, then prepare to fight. So martial law began in the city, and adult males from each family were organized, received weapons and ammunition, and organized into temporary infantry battalions.
At this time, merchants and fishermen from the fishing guild also joined in, preparing to launch a fire attack on the Northern Navy's fleet from the water. It is said that the fishing industry in the Yenisei River is also a big business. The number of fish in various rivers in Siberia in these years is unimaginable to future generations. The fish schools in spring, summer and autumn are all clamoring. You can directly The kind that is scooped out of a basin.
However, no matter how noisy these people were, the Beihai Navy, which had been prepared for a long time, taught them what it meant to "hit their head against an iron plate" that night.
After more than an hour of fierce fighting, the Yeniseisk soldiers and civilians who launched the night attack suffered a total of more than a thousand casualties. The Northern Navy also launched an indiscriminate shelling of buildings in the city that night, causing hundreds more casualties and triggering a massacre. A fire.
By the next morning, after counting the losses, the mayor collapsed. The entire city had a total population of just over 5,000, but it lost one-third of its men in one night. This is nothing to resist. Just wave the white flag and surrender.
So at noon that day, the Northern Navy lined up and entered Yeniseisk under the fear and hatred of the Tsarist Russian people hiding behind the door. The local garrison commander handed a saber to Li Rui, who represented Zhao Xin, in front of the city council. Afterwards, Li Rui tasted the black bread and salt handed over by the mayor to show his acceptance of the other party's submission.
At this point, the Beihai Navy's battle in 1790 finally came to an end, and the three-stage combat objectives set by Zhao Xinhe's staff were all achieved. The only thing that Zhao Xin regrets is that he did not catch Rumyantsev, which is not perfect.
Just looking at the map, the area under the control of Beihai Town, which has not yet entered the customs, has exceeded that of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, reaching tens of millions of square kilometers; it extends to the Yenisey River in the west, the East Siberian Sea in the north, the Sea of Okhotsk in the east, and the Sea of Okhotsk in the south. To Hunchun.
However, whether such a vast area can be effectively ruled, Zhao Xin and his companions still have a lot to do.
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