The North Navy's northbound fleet was suffering from the journey. In addition to avoiding the fishing boats and canoes on the river, the river was rising, and the two catamaran passenger ships almost hit the shallows several times.

Hezheren's hydrological experience was completely useless when the Northern Navy was completely useless. Where the flat-bottomed boats and fast horse ships could pass, the Northern Navy's large ships might not be able to pass.

The three guides Zhao Xin found in Boli Township were only at Kubutrin (now Chaoyang Town, Jiayin County, Yichun City), and they drove a canoe made of birch bark, and were not familiar with the hundreds of miles of waterways behind. So the fleet had only walked during the day since the Kubutrin, and found a place to stop the boat at night, and set off the next day. Along the way, they had to measure the depth and flow rate, and record the villages and Karen locations along the river to provide hydrological data for later ships.

In the 18th century when a large number of measurement sensors could not be arranged, if you want to obtain hydrological data suitable for the passage of North Navy ships, you can only rely on manual collection; this is an extremely time-consuming and laborious project, and it is impossible to figure it out by sailing alone. For example, precipitation, evaporation, runoff water level, flow rate, sediment content, water quality, etc., is very complicated.

If the hydrological data of the Qing Dynasty cannot be obtained, Zhao Xin has no time to read the old paper piles. If the hydrological data from another time and space are used to confirm the ancient times, it is purely self-infant; after all, the terrain and river direction have changed a lot after two hundred years and are completely inapplicable.

When the fleet arrived at the Toulier Peak Hetao Water Camp, 70 miles south of Heilongjiang City, it had a fire with the left-behind troops stationed in this naval camp.

Based on the principle of no need to kill innocent people, Zhao Xin said at first that he was going north to attack Rakshasa, but the Qing army, who stopped him, did not believe it at all, and plucked up the courage to shoot two arrows at the patrol boat of the North Navy.

Then stop talking nonsense. The machine guns teach people. The two M2HBs on the patrol boat only shot a few points, which scared the Qing army on several river boats and fled in panic.

However, there were more disgusting things along the way. I don’t know who came up with the bad idea. After the Northern Navy’s fleet passed the Toulil Peak River Camp, there were Hezhe people, Oroqen people and Daur people driving flatbeds on the river, and they refused to let the Northern Navy go over. It was useless to let Sahalian and others talk.

If it is too soft, then you can only be hard. Zhao Xin asked Ukampbe to loudly warn these border residents through the patrol boat's horn, and at the same time ordered the Northern Navy on the patrol boat to shoot near these small boats, which scared the border residents away.

But after walking, another wave came soon. The dozens of miles of waterways were delayed for half a day because of these people, otherwise the Northern Navy would have caught up with the battle on Mount Karen.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the Tsarist Russian troops who were approaching five miles away from the old city of Aihui and the soldiers and civilians who were defending in Aihui City discovered a strange thing. Two strange things suddenly flew from the south sky, and at the same time, they made a buzzing sound, like a group of hornets or locusts flying overhead.

Bogaevsky and other officers who came to check after hearing the news held a monocular lens and saw that the monster in the sky was about 1.5 feet long, with a yellowish surface, thick in front and thin in the back, and there seemed to be leaves rotating rapidly on the top; the length of the leaves was about three feet long, but because it was too fast, it could only be roughly estimated. There was a black square box hanging below the monster, and there was a diagonal ground below the box, which was like a telescope tube, which could still rotate back and forth.

"What's this?"

The strange objects in the sky puzzled the Cossack officers present, and they had never seen anything like this before.

"Whatever it is, shoot it down!"

With the command of the colonel commander, the Cossack soldiers on the ground raised their guns and shot at the monsters in the sky. But the thing flew very fast. After a burst of gunfire, they flew towards the artillery positions on the hill behind.

A few minutes later, Major General Alexandrov, Chief of Staff Fisher and others who led the reserve attacking troops, also saw the monster hovering over the artillery position of Mount Karen. The two of them pointed to the air and asked Lieutenant Aisin, "Is this a weapon of the Qing Dynasty?"

Aisin was also shocked, and he quickly denied: "I have never heard of such things as Qing Dynasty!"

Colonel Fisher then ordered the soldiers around him, "Catch that thing down!"

The Tsarist Russians fired without hesitation. The soldiers and civilians in Aihui's old city were frightened by the monsters passing by above their heads. Many people didn't even care about the Rakshasa outside the city and climbed onto the roofs and walls to look around. The monsters idled around the old city of Aihui, and then flew towards the Heilongjiang City to the south.

So from the dusk on June 1st, from the mouth of the Jieya River to the Heilongjiang City to the south, tens of thousands of people from the Qing and Russia were panicked by the two monsters in the sky and restless all night.

The buzzing sound above the head was tossing for the middle of the night, and musket shooting continued until midnight. The bonfires of the Russian army were brightly opened all night, and in the Old City of Aihui and Heilongjiang, there were also hundreds of Kongming lanterns in the Old City of Aihui and Heilongjiang. They tried to illuminate the sky through the Kongming lanterns.

When the Qing Dynasty saw that the monster did not attack him, he made the gunshots of Rakshasa on the other side, he thought that it was sent by God to punish Rakshasa; while the Tsarist Russia believed that it was the secret weapon of the Qing Dynasty, which further strengthened their ambition to seize the old city of Aihui.

In fact, before dark, news of a strange fleet coming five miles south of Aihui's old city had already reached Eredmubu's ears. He also sent a small team of cavalry to investigate. The problem was that this cavalry did not come back until the second half of the night. Now Eredmubu's hands were not much, so he could only shrink his troops and never dared to send troops out again.

In fact, the Qing army had already planned to retreat from Aihui City. The great defeat at the foot of Karen Mountain made the deputy commander Eledemubu no longer able to fight again. After the daytime battle, he had realized that the city walls with pine wood and soil could not resist the cannons of Rakshasa; he planned to take a boat to Qiqihar at night.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! However, since Tsarist Russian warships patrolled the river all night, and the large and medium-sized Yaksha warships of the Qing army hid near the mouth of the Kunhe River south of Heilongjiang City, only some small river ships can take advantage of the night to shuttle back and forth on the river, which is really a drop in the bucket for the transfer troops. So Eledemubu ordered two subordinates to lead the troops outside the old city of Aihui for two days, with the purpose of buying time for the retreat of the military and civilians in the city.

In the early morning of June 2, the Russian cavalry reconnaissance team discovered the deployment of the Qing army outside the old city of Aihui. Based on intelligence, the Russian General Staff judged that the main force of the Qing people was concentrated in the woods 2 miles north of the old city of Aihui. Countless pits were dug from Mount Karen to the old city of Aihui. It seemed that the Qing people planned to launch a stubborn counterattack in this area.

In view of this situation, the Russian Chief of Staff Fisher formulated a combat deployment in the morning. After approval by Major General Alexandrov, he decided to launch an attack at 2 pm.

The Russian army's plan was to let the cavalry company attack from the west of Aihui at 2 pm, threaten the left wing of the Qing army, and then encircle the south, cutting off the Qing army's way to escape south.

Bogaevsky will lead a regiment and the Buryat Musket regiment led by Polyakov at 2:15 pm and attack the road to Aihui City along Mount Karen. After defeating the Qing army that occupied the defense on the road, he will continue to occupy the old city of Aihui to the south.

At 2:15 pm, under the cover of artillery fire in the fleet, the Second Regiment led by Colonel Shiweilin advanced south along the river bank east of Heilongjiang City, and surrounded the right wing of the Qing army, cutting off the Qing army's retreat to Qiqihar.

The general reserve team set out at 2:30 and will also participate in the attack after Bogaevsky launched the attack; the entire army's baggage team stayed at the foot of Mount Karen waiting for orders.

At 12 noon, the monsters that had been struggling with the Qing and Russia for most of the night came again. However, this time, the two yellow monsters only stayed in the air for half an hour, and then turned around and flew back to the south.

Speaking of which, Zhao Xin's men brought 600 people this time, two patrol boats were 100 people, two catamaran passenger ships were 400 people, and two flatbed boats were 100 people. In addition, there were dozens of Hezhe hunters brought by Sahalian.

According to the original plan, one week after the Northbound Detachment set off, Wu Siyu will lead a regiment of reinforcements, engineers, medical teams, and administrative cadres, under the guidance of the inland river business boat that once carried a "slim horse", to head north on the inland river sailboat built by Beihai Town. The problem is that Zhao Xin himself has so much trouble, let alone Wu Siyu.

After landing yesterday afternoon, the reason why Zhao Xin did not launch an attack as soon as he came up was to find suitable artillery positions on the hills south of Aihui City.

This is not just finding an open space to start bombing the cannons, it’s just a fool!

The surface of the artillery position needs to be leveled and compacted, otherwise the complete artillery frame will be trapped in the ground with one shot; at the same time, a defensive position with cross-fire power must be laid around the position.

In addition to sending drones to continuously reconnaissance to draw the topographic map of the old city of Aihui to Mount Karen, he also sent two three-man teams of scouts at night. One group set up artillery observation posts on the mountain one kilometer away from the right wing of the Tsarist Russian army, and the other group was responsible for monitoring the Tsarist Russian fleet on the river surface and providing the artillery position.

Because there were too few subordinates, in order to cause a devastating blow to the Tsarist Russian army, Zhao Xin issued two AKMs to each infantry squad. In this way, the weapons of each infantry squad were not only a PKM general machine gun operated by two people, but also two assault rifles and 6 SKS semi-automatic, which was exactly the same as the 1970s.

As for the dozens of Hezhe hunters brought by Sahalian, Zhao Xin did not dare to fire guns to them. After all, these people had never even shot bird guns. Zhao Xin gave them a 180-pound hunting crossbow, which has a firing rate of 67 meters per second and a killing distance of 55 meters. The most important thing is that the price is cheap, and each one costs only 130 US dollars.

After testing the crossbow arrows, the deer-skin bag was filled with 30 crossbow arrows issued by the North Navy, the hunters in Balk Village suddenly felt that they were extremely powerful.

After reconnaissance with a drone at noon, Zhao Xin's attack plan also came out.

He asked the two companies to lead Hezhe Hunter from the left wing of Aihui City to encircle the right wing of the Tsarist Russian army one kilometer away, capture the Russian position at the foot of Mount Karen, and then quickly occupy Mount Karen, blocking the enemy's route of fleeing south.

On the bank of the east road, two other companies of the North Navy moved to the southeast of Aihui City. After the troops in the north succeeded, they immediately launched an attack under the cover of artillery fire. The troops moved along the city of Aihui to pursue the north.

As for Aihui City, let’s talk about it after fighting Tsarist Russia!

After assigning tasks to each company, Zhao Xinyi threw a pencil and looked at the map and said viciously: "I have four companies in the south and north, and I will use a cannon in the middle to kill you bastards!"

The attack time of the Northern Navy was set at 2:30 pm. However, when the observation post reported to the Russian cavalry and a musketeer at 2:15, Zhao Xinxin said it was not good and shouted, "Damn it!" and then ordered the three D30s to launch artillery attacks. So the Northern Navy launched in advance in a hurry.

The effective range of the D30 is 15.4 kilometers, and if it is used to use a rocket extended range bomb, it can hit 22 kilometers. Of course, Zhao Xin does not have a rocket extended range bomb, and 15 kilometers is enough for the current North Navy.

With a "bang!!!", with the start of the first test launch, two minutes later, the artillery commander received a message from the observation post in front and immediately corrected the coordinates.

"Be careful with each gun position! Three rapid fires are loaded! Release!"

The whistling artillery shells flew through Aihui City one after another, passed through the Qing army's defense line, and smashed hard at the moving Cossack column. The explosion mixed with fire covered a column composed of 150 Cossack musketeers, and also brought most of the column behind. Tens of thousands of prefabricated fragments were flying under Mount Karen, slaughtering all the lives around the blasting point.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The thunderous explosion shocked everyone.

The Qing army on the front line was collectively stunned. The commander of the commander was completely stunned. He thought to himself that I had not ordered the firing of artillery yet. Who did this? The Qing army gunners on the female cannon positions of the two branches were completely petrified. The commander of the commander turned his head and looked at the shells and medicine bags on the ox cart behind him, and then looked at the sub-guns on the ground, and were confused.

After a while, a fast horse sped out from the south gate of Aihui City and followed the path to the Qing army's position. When the sent personal soldier saw the assistant leader, he hurriedly asked, "Sir, who fired the cannon?!"

"We didn't fire the cannon? Rakshasa is still several miles away!" Seeing that the personal soldiers didn't believe it, the leader hurriedly pulled him to the cannon position. "Touch it, the cannon body is cold! How could I have a cannon that could fire several miles, I would have killed Rakshasa away yesterday!"

The personal soldiers were also confused. When Eredmubu in Aihui City heard the explosion in the north, he thought that Rakshasa had attacked, but he sent someone to the top of the city to see that there was nothing wrong with the Qing army's positions, so he sent his personal soldiers to ask about the situation.

The Russian army in Tsarist Russia was actually shocked since the first explosion. Many people thought it was the gunpowder truck of the artillery troops in the rear. But the continuous violent explosions scared everyone in the headquarters. Even the cavalry companies that set out before sent people back to ask what was wrong.

Many people's first reaction was that the gunpowder trucks of the rear baggage troops were attacked by the Qing army. However, when black smoke pillars continued to rise in the south, the Tsarist Russians realized that it was not the baggage troops, but the attacking troops in the front. Russian commander Alessandrov immediately ordered the troops to stop advancing, the offensive plan was suspended, and the entire army turned to on-site defense.

But after he heard Bogaevsky report that the troops lost more than 200 people in this sudden explosion, Alessandrov and Fisher almost jumped up in shock!

What cannons did the Qing people use?

No! No, the abominable Qing people must have buried a lot of gunpowder on the road! This is so hateful!

Alessandrov roared: "Order the artillery troops to shoot at a distance of one Russia and detonate the gunpowder!"
Chapter completed!