Chapter 349: Queueing to wait for shooting
The panicked Tsarist Russian troops began a large retreat. They left their accompanying artillery and baggage and ran wildly towards the foot of Karen Mountain. At this moment, they were thinking of retreating into Sakdazigou and then heading east to the river bank to board the ship.
But now, except for the 2nd Cossack Musketeer Regiment that was beaten on the river bank, the other Russian troops could not see the situation on the river.
On the left wing of the Russian army, the two companies and Hezhe hunters who were responsible for the interception had already rushed to the foot of Karen Mountain. After a short rest, they immediately launched a killing of the Russian army's baggage troops with only a small number of weapons.
Faced with the sudden attack, the Russian baggage team was knocked out; when they found that the road to the direction of Sedazigou was blocked, and even hiding behind the baggage of grain could not stop the bombs flying everywhere, they no longer carts with gunpowder and grain supplies, and turned around and retreated to the river bank along the foot of the mountain. The Hezhe hunters in Balk Village pursued these defeated soldiers and killed the civilians and soldiers who were behind with stimulant guns or crossbow arrows.
At this time, Zhao Xin received a report from the front observation post that the enemy reserve troops retreated too quickly and were approaching the foot of Karen Mountain. So he ordered three artillery guns to block the retreating enemy troops; at the same time, he ordered the two companies that had rushed to the hillside of Karen Mountain to move westward quickly to block the retreat of the Russian army to Sakdazigou.
The Tsarist Russian warships on the Heilongjiang River were sunk and caught fire. More than 20 warships that had escaped by chance had crossed the middle of the river and retreated in the direction of the Jieya River. After discovering this situation, Zhao Xin ordered two squads operating anti-aircraft guns and the guard company to quickly go down the mountain, and notified Monk Zhou to launch a charge against the Russian army on the river bank.
"Listen, I have no extra hands to watch over the prisoners!"
Monk Zhou understood it instantly and returned loudly at the walkie-talkie, "Yes! I understand!"
As a whistle sounded on the blocking position, the Northern Navy began to charge. A flag with a red and white five-pointed star suddenly rose from the ground, and the Cossacks on the opposite side finally saw who the enemy was on the opposite side.
A group of guys wearing colorful military uniforms, holding "muskets" on their heads, were suddenly seen at the foot of the mountain hundreds of meters away. They held "muskets" and divided into groups of three or three. Each group was 30 to 40 feet apart. The width of the scattered was as high as half a mile (a little over 500 meters, and one mile was 1.0688 kilometers.) They wrapped them towards the altar like a big net.
The Cossack officers were immediately overjoyed when they saw the enemy's charge in such a dispersed manner.
Not even a battle line? Who gives you the courage to look down on others so much?!
"Cossacks, line up! Let them taste our power!" With the loud orders of the officers, the officers of each platoon walked to the open space to fight. The other Cossacks also stood up and lined up three lines on the right side of the officers, 24 people in a row. In less than a few minutes, the three musket companies had completed the lineup, followed by the company commander, the flag-raising and the drum-beating.
This scene made the North Navy who were charging, stunned. They couldn't help but stop, thinking that they were not going to survive? Are they going to be shot in line?
The platoon leader of the North Navy who was rushing in front thought to himself, I'm here to fight such battles, and this is the first time I've encountered such a thing! The Qing army knew that they were bombed and ran away. Did these red hairs eat and get twisted at noon or get beaten up?
In fact, in ancient times, the biggest nightmare of infantry was the charge of cavalry. Infantry that did not form formations had almost no power to fight back against the cavalry. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, there were 15 cases of Jin cavalry driving 1,500 Song army infantry running everywhere.
In order to defend against cavalry, infantry must be equipped with spears or halberds in large quantities. When muskets appeared, they replaced the archer and spearmen. Later, after the reforms of Morris and Gustav, the square array became flatter and the proportion of musketeers became larger and larger. A hundred years ago, the French invented the sleeve bayonet, so the spearmen were completely eliminated. The square array was flattened into three rows, or even one row, achieving typical line infantry tactics.
Some people say that in the era of flintlock, can scattered attacks be used? As long as the soldiers are accurate, even if one is killed by two shots, will the infantry on the opposite line be finished? (In fact, many time travelers do this.)
I'll give you a word, stop dreaming!
Let me tell you a story. In the later period of Napoleon's expedition to Russia, the 9th and 18th Infantry Divisions of the Third Western Legion of the Russian Third Western Legion were ordered to block the retreating French army on the west bank of the Berezine River. The commander was Lieutenant General Ivan Vasilyevich Sabaneev, chief of staff of the Legion. This brother enjoyed the reputation of "straight war expert" in the Russian army.
Lieutenant General Sabaneev asked his veterans who had been in the Balkans and the mountains of the Caucasus to fully utilize their scattered warfare experience, causing considerable damage to the French Second Army, which was retreating across the river. Even if the Swiss archers came, they could not be as cruel as the Russians. Four Swiss regiments had a total of 1,300 people before the battle, and only 300 were beaten after the war; among them, the Swiss 2nd Infantry Regiment suffered the most heavy losses, and in the end only 2 officers and 12 soldiers survived.
It seems to be awesome, right? But then the French army taught this "expert". Marshal Ney, the French army seized the opportunity of the Russian army's loose formation and decisively commanded the 4,7,14th chest-clad cavalry regiments, a total of 400 people and about 700 people from the 2,7,15th Polish Lancer regiments, and launched a fierce attack under the unfavorable terrain. Finally, with the assistance of the French Second Army Infantry Army, more than a thousand French cavalry defeated two Russian infantry divisions. Not only captured more than 600 prisoners of war, but also eliminated the Russian threat to the French flanks and chased them for nearly four kilometers.
Monk Zhou took the orderly soldiers and ran behind the platoon leader who was in a daze, kicked the other party's butt, and cursed: "Kang Youcai! Why are you stupid?!"
The commander of a row, Kang Youcai, staggered and turned to Monk Zhou, saying, "Company Commander, are they planning to line up to die?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! "I don't care whether he dies! Your order is attack and destroy!" Zhou monk shouted angrily, and then ordered the machine gun team that followed: "Get hard on me. As long as there is still someone standing, you are not allowed to stop!"
After saying that, he acted in a very arrogant manner and fired at the Tsarist Russian infantry three hundred meters away with an assault rifle.
OK! The company commander has spoken, then let’s fight.
Under the cross firepower of nine machine guns, the Cossacks who were holding the musket with their chests raised and raised their heads were like targets. A stream of blood mist exploded in the Tsarist Russian infantry team along with their broken limbs, and other infantry squads surrounding them from both wings also opened fire fiercely at the enemy.
More than ten minutes later, when Zhao Xin's guard company caught up, twenty soldiers survived the Second Musketeer Regiment of Baikal, and none of the officers were spared.
Monk Zhou did not see Zhao Xin and Chen Jishan among the people in the guard company. So the guy explained to a platoon leader of the guard company and asked him to take his people to clean the battlefield. He led the team to chase north along the river bank.
Zhao Xin did not go down the mountain with the guard company, he only left a few personal guards such as Chen Jishan and Yin Weibing. After the rest of the guard company left, Zhao Xin asked Chen Jishan and the others to guard the situation, and then he went to the anti-aircraft gun position for a while, and then went down the mountain with his assault rifle.
This was the second time that Chen Jishan, Yin Bingwei and others followed Zhao Xin to fight. When they went down the mountain, they were extremely alert and protected Zhao Xin strictly, fearing that they would touch whatever they were knocked on.
In the eyes of these personal guards, Zhao Xin is no longer considered a human level, and he is the kind who will become an emperor in the future.
In fact, no one in the entire Beihai Town except for a former eunuch Chunlai and a few old eunuchs who were doing odd jobs in the gates. However, due to their serious dependence and excessive worship of imperial power, the emperors they found out from their mouths were not of the human level.
I wish I could open my mouth and speak here, and the flowers in the imperial garden would be able to bloom immediately; today I would like to ask God for rain, and tomorrow all over the world will be filled with rain.
As a true dragon emperor, what else can it be if it is not a reincarnation of a god? But Chen Jishan now feels that the Emperor Qianlong told him that Chunlai is not counting compared to the one behind him!
"Ah sneezing!..." Zhao Xin sneezed three times in a row, rubbed his nose, and thought to himself, "Who is talking about me?"
When he led his men to the foot of the mountain, the guards who had even finished cleaning the battlefield had already completed the work of cleaning up the battlefield. They implemented Zhao Xin's orders the most thoroughly. They did not leave a single prisoner, and they all stabbed them with bayonets when they died, whether they had pierced the intestines, those with broken stomachs, those with few legs, or those who were lying down and pretended to be dead.
Chen Jishan picked one of the most majestic among the few Cossacks and horses he had gathered, and led Zhao Xin to ask, "Sir, where are we going next?"
"If you don't ride a horse, let's go through Aihui City." After Zhao Xin finished speaking, he took two steps and stopped to order Chen Jishan: "Import the artillery positions and let them pay attention to the movements of the Qing army, so that they will not be caught by someone at that time."
Twenty minutes ago, the Qing army on the second line of defense north of Heilongjiang was about to retreat, but found that Rakshasa had turned around and left. At this time, even if the Qing army was stupid, they understood that this must have something to do with the constant explosions in the north.
"Where did the righteous people come from? The gunpowder depot of Rakshasa?" After receiving a report from his subordinates, the deputy commander Eledemubu said that he helped Hezheren beat more than 100 Rakshasa cavalry to death, and finally made his side get a big advantage, he became even more confused.
At this time, he felt that this must have something to do with the unknown fleet that came yesterday, but which Ge Shanda (the township chief) had such great appeal that he could actually summon thousands of philosophers? Yes, Eledemubu believed that without thousands of people, he would definitely not be able to fight such a big battle.
Moreover, after such a great victory, those Hezhe Yimin must have suffered heavy casualties.
If someone told Eledemubu that the group of gangsters in the south had come, he would definitely not believe it. It would take a month to get there even if he took a boat from Ningguta to get there. Moreover, there are tens of thousands of troops gathering in Ningguta now, and Zhao Ni wants to come to Heilongjiang City and the world is so ridiculous. He must first ask the general Ming Dynasty if he agrees.
(Bright raising his hand in a coma, no objection at all!)
Although Rakshasa retreated, Eledemubu did not order a pursuit because he had only a few soldiers in his hand, which was really unyielding. If the three thousand reinforcements from Hulunbuir arrived, he would definitely be the first to take people out.
So he took fifty Soren soldiers to pick up a big advantage and received an order again to provoke the north to find out the enemy's dynamics and reinforcements, and let the unknown Hezhe head come to Heilongjiang City to visit.
The fire in the old city of Aihui continues. The oldest military fortress on Heilongjiang was completely destroyed in the eighth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty.
In a yard where there was no fire, Chen Jishan and the others found two Mongolian horses with good saddles and gorgeous decorations, which surprised the people. The horses did not run away and were tied up well. Then the guards searched carefully in the yard and soon found a young and a half-old boy in the corner of a wing room.
When the child was discovered, he was holding a knife in his hand. When he saw Chen Jishan coming in, he suddenly jumped out from behind the firewood pile, and the sharp blade stabbed Chen Jishan in the chest.
Isn't this a joke about using a knife with a master from Chenjiagou? Chen Jishan's eyes were clear and his hands were quick to retreat, and when the other party used up his strength, he pushed his right hand on the boy's shoulder. So the half-baby took the knife and turned around on the ground a few times, then fell down. After he fell, he had not yet distinguished between the east, south, west and north, he was taken to the yard by Chen Jishan.
"Sir, I found such a child."
Zhao Xin looked at the child in front of him, although his clothes were dirty, the material was actually satin-like and a roe-head hat was on his head. He then asked with a smile: "Little guy, what are your names? Is this horse yours?"
When he heard Zhao Xin's extremely fluent Beijing film, the child was stunned. Only then did he see clearly that the people in the yard were not the Rakshasa with blue eyes and high noses, but the same yellow skin and dark hair as himself; but they had never seen their clothes and weapons.
Yin Bingwei, who was beside him, said in a deep voice: "Sir, why are you stunned?"
The child thought for a while and stumbling hard, "You, are you from Beijing??"
"Oh, I can actually understand what I said!" Zhao Xin was extremely surprised. He really didn't expect that there would be a child in such a remote place who could understand the official language.
"I, I'm with Ama, and I've been to the capital."
"Oh, what about you ama?"
The child's face darkened and said, "I went to fight Rakshasa yesterday and didn't come back."
Zhao Xin asked again: "What about the rest of your family?"
"My mother has long been gone. I got separated from my family last night."
"Is this horse yours?"
"Yes, I was taken out of the yard that was on fire. I, if I don't save them, I will be burned to death."
Zhao Xin kept looking at the child while he was talking. Seeing that he was strong and honest, there was no cunning look in his eyes when he spoke, he asked, "What's your name?"
"Oolong..."
"Oolong tea?" Zhao Xinxin said why are there anyone who has this name?
"Just, it's Oolong, there's no tea behind it."
"Hezheren?"
"Soren."
"What's your last name?"
"Dahur'erji."
Zhao Xin nodded and then said to Chen Jishan: "Give him a few compressed biscuits and let him hide in the south. The fire in the city has not yet been extinguished, it is too dangerous, so we have to leave."
"Yes, sir."
As soon as he finished speaking, Wulong looked up and asked Zhao Xin, "Are you an adult?"
"yes."
"Then where are you going?"
"Go to fight Tsarist Russia, oh, it's Rakshasa."
"Then, can I go with you?" Wulong said hurriedly after asking: "I can ride a horse, and I can shoot archery well."
Zhao Xin smiled: "Why? Where is your bow and arrow?"
Wulong turned around and ran into the wing room where he was hiding just now, and found his ebony bow and arrow pouch from behind the firewood.
Zhao Xin smiled and shook his head and said, "You can't do this. Rakshasa uses muskets and bows and arrows cannot reach them."
"Then, I'll lead you the horse." After saying that, he pointed to the two horses in the yard and said, "This horse will be given to you by your lord."
"Don't! The battlefield is dangerous, and the bullets are not eye-catching. Take the things and ride a horse and go to the south. Maybe you, Ama, are there too."
After Zhao Xin finished speaking, he walked out of the yard without looking back. Chen Jishan stuffed a few compressed biscuits into Wulong's hand and instructed: "Listen to the Lord, go quickly. The city is too dangerous, and the fire may burn at any time."
Chapter completed!