Since 1784, Zhao Xin has fought with island countries, Qing Dynasty and Tsarist Russia for six years. Although he has always achieved the goal of winning with less and winning with more with excellent training and advanced equipment, he has never faced so many enemies at once.

There are more than 60,000 Russian troops on the plain north of the Belaya River, and more than 20,000 Russian troops around the "Zaimka Fortress" located more than 30 kilometers away in a straight line, and there are still 10,000 people in Cheremhovo.

The old saying goes, tens of thousands of people are boundless, and hundreds of thousands of people are connected to the sky and the earth. In the entire East and West Siberia, the total number of the North Navy is only more than 17,000. If Zhao Xin is not nervous at all, that is absolutely lies.

For this battle, he carefully planned for nearly two years. D30-122 alone prepared more than 100 pieces, and the artillery shells were prepared for 100,000 pieces; Beihai Town also accumulated more than 100 pieces, and the artillery shells were more than 10,000 pieces, and the artillery shells were more than 10,000 pieces. As for other types of ammunition and shells, he also hoarded a lot, such as rifle bullets, and 100,000 mortar shells, and countless other types of military supplies. Compared with these, those 152-caliber cannons are nothing.

In order to prevent Russian spies from discovering the transportation of weapons and equipment of the North Navy, many of the equipment were transported by Zhao Xin, just like an ant moving, quietly transported it to the secret warehouse in Irkutsk one by one.

It seems that they are well prepared, but in fact they are not much. The more advanced the weapon, the faster the firing rate and the higher the fire density, the more the bullets consumed in a battle will become astronomical. AK is very satisfying, right? When recruits are on the battlefield, they often shoot more than a dozen bullets in one stroke, and they can't hit anything. Even if they have a semi-automatic rifle, it's a blink of an eye to pull ten triggers and shoot ten bullets. At present, only some veterans qualified as squad leader in the North Navy will equip AK to supplement the firepower of the infantry squad.

On the Western Front battlefield in the early morning, as the Russian right-wing infantry column advanced at double pace, the artillery was quickly left behind by them. After the current observation room discovered this situation and obtained Zhao Xin's consent, they immediately notified the twenty-four 82mm mortars assigned to the rear of the main position to open fire and bomb the Russian artillery.

The first thing that fired was the reference cannon. The first rapid whistling sound passed through the air. With a bang, the shell exploded ten meters north of a unicorn cannon. The splashing shrapnel killed three Russian gunners and injured five people.

Speaking of howitzers or cannons, since the bullet body lands diagonally when it lands, and the shells are spindle-shaped, there are more fragments on the side of the bullet body and few fragments on the front and rear, so the range of fragments is roughly a rectangle that is wide horizontally and narrow vertically. For example, the injury boundary of the 122 grenade is a radial range of 60 meters wide and 20 meters deep.

The ballistics of the mortar shell are high parabolas, and the bullet body lands almost vertically, so its fragmented killing realm is similar to a circle, and the shrapnel is evenly spread around. The killing realm of the 82mm mortar high-explosion bomb is a circle with a diameter of 36 meters, and the area of ​​the killing realm is only more than 100 square meters less than the 122 grenade.

Boom! The gray-black soil fell on the heads of the Russian artillery like raindrops. But before they could detect the loss, the first explosion smoke had not yet dissipated, and the second roar came again. This time the shell landed five meters in front of the unicorn cannon, killing and injuring more than a dozen people on the spot. A unicorn cannon with a capacity of more than 800 kilograms was overturned to the ground.

The face of the Russian artillery captain who was in charge of the command suddenly became a little pale. He hurriedly greeted his subordinates: "Guys! Retreat immediately!"

At this time, a gunner who had just gotten up from the ground shouted: "Captain, the driver is gone! We can't pull the cannon!"

The captain ignored him and shouted, "I don't want it anymore! Retreat quickly!"

In history, European troops had a serious problem that hindered artillery field mobility until the early 19th century. Due to the existence of the "regiment leader agent" system, artillery horse pulling was always provided by private contractors, and the drivers responsible for driving the horse were not soldiers. Some troops even had to drag them until the war started before signing a horse supply agreement and hired drivers. So when the battle started, the contractors would try their best to take the horse pulling to the rear to prevent them from suffering from enemy fire and causing irreparable losses, and the drivers would try their best to stay away from the front line.

In this way, the artillery soldiers had no choice but to drag the cannons themselves if necessary, or they could only throw them down and escape and leave them to the enemy.

However, it was too late for the Russian army to retreat. When the North Navy's forward observation center quickly feedback the shelling situation, the other twenty-three mortars opened fire immediately, and the artillery positions on the frontier of the Russian left wing immediately fell into a hell of blood and fire.

With only two rounds of shooting, more than forty high-explosion bombs ravaged the Russian artillery positions with gunpowder power far beyond this era. Only two more than 100 Russian gunners survived. However, this was just an inconspicuous wave in the boundless sea of ​​people on the battlefield. After a moment of tumbling, it was then destroyed.

The light cavalry around the artillery position, who was in charge of the alert, returned to the rear in a hurry and reported the situation. General Borcons, who was commanding the left wing legion, was a little surprised when he heard the news. He finally understood the horror of the enemy cannon described by Suvorov.

Should we send a messenger to retreat in infantry and cavalry?

However, this thought flashed through his mind, and then he ordered his officers to go to the headquarters and requested that more artillery be dispatched.

"Tell the Commander-in-Chief that I need at least forty unicorn cannons."

At this time, the infantry of the Russian left-wing group had quickly advanced to more than 400 meters outside the North Navy position, facing the sparse rain of bullets shot from the opposite side. However, whether it was an officer or a soldier, they all took a breath of coldness when they saw a shiny and endless barbed wire lined across the distance.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The light cavalry responsible for reconnaissance in the front came back to report that the barbed wire was 1.5 Russian feet (one Russian feet is 0.71 meters), with a depth of more than four Russian feet, and the east and west stretched for about three Russian miles, both ends reaching the Belaya River. This news shocked several team leaders, who were leading the team, were all shocked. Even if the horses accelerated, they could not leap over.

"The Tatars are crazy! They actually made these things with good steel!"

In the 18th century, iron was one of Tsarist Russia's main export commodities. By 1790, the Tsarist Russian Empire's annual steel production exceeded 160,000 tons, and its export volume exceeded 65,000 tons, ranking first in Europe. However, in this era, the greatest use of steel was to make weapons, and no one would have made precious steel into barbed wire and used it to block the enemy on the battlefield.

Although there are many passages on the barbed wire fortifications of the Northern Navy, for the tens of thousands of Russian troops in a tight formation, if they pass through the gap that only allows two or three people to pass through, it will inevitably disrupt the formation of five people in a row.

What should I do? The Russian commander had no time to hesitate. Behind his regiment were three light cavalrymen. Once they hesitated, the rhythm of the entire left-wing offensive would be completely disrupted.

At this time, the insignificant bullets shot from the North Navy's positions were still harvesting the lives of soldiers, and people were shot and fell to the ground from time to time in the front line. Although some injured Russian soldiers wailed, the soldiers who took the bench from the back line to the front just stood silently, and no one would bend down to rescue them.

This is the case in the era of line warfare. When someone in the queue fell down, he could not get timely rescue on the battlefield. In order to maintain the strict formation, the injured could only wait for the team to pass and then clean up the people who followed behind.

"Destroy these barbed wires! Send someone to find some wooden boards behind!"

It is better to have orders than not, even bad orders. With the command of the regiment commander, the battalion commanders of each column immediately asked the tall and large grenades under his command to break the wire with grenades.

The headgear of the grenadier was different from that of ordinary musketeers. They all wore a somewhat funny brass front bevel hat that looked like a bishop's hat, which was easy to distinguish in the queue. Dozens of grenadiers first took out the "slow match" similar to the fire skewers from the brass tube on the shoulder straps, blew it hard a few times, and waited for the fire head to light up, then took out a pomegranate-sized grenade from the diagonal bag behind them, and lit the fuse made of black beech-dripped black gunpowder on it.

Boom! Boom...

The smoke of gunpowder filled the air, and dozens of iron ball grenades exploded near the first barbed wire mesh. The empty cans hanging on it and the glass bottles were beaten to the sound of the bell. However, when the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, the Russian army realized that their grenade had no effect on the barbed wire mesh.

The officers were helpless, so they issued a second order to the soldiers: "Dig out all the wooden stakes!"

The question is that in those days, which infantrymen who went to the battlefield were still carrying tools, so the Russian soldiers had to remove daggers or bayonets from their waists and start digging holes under the wooden stakes.

The atmosphere on the battlefield became a little weird at this moment. The sporadic shooting of the North Navy opposite suddenly stopped, making the Russian army a little confused. The soldiers in the front row of the Russian column were all competing with the barbed wire. They finally paved the earth and stones under the wooden stakes and pulled them out with great force, but found that it was useless to just pull out the first wooden stake; because the second wooden stake and the first were arranged in an interlaced manner, just like the thorny vines on branches and vines.

Many Russian soldiers' hands were cut by butterfly-shaped blades on the barbed wire mesh, and they had no choice but to pull out one after another.

As time went by, the first barbed wire fortification was lined up with tens of thousands of troops from six regiments. The infantry were waiting anxiously for orders, while the war horses under the cavalry were also wandering around in uneasy.

Fortunately, there were many people and strong forces. After more than half an hour, this high pile of wire mesh with a length of 100 meters was finally removed. The uniforms of the Russian soldiers responsible for cleaning were broken, with blood on their faces and hands. The wire mesh piled together was like a huge monster covered with spikes, densely entangled in one place.

"These Tatars are really ruining good things! They use such tough iron wire to resist horses."

"Who said no! But we have tens of thousands of people. They want to stop us with this? Go dreaming!"

"Ula! Go forward!"

However, the joy only existed for a moment. The Russian hunters had just advanced a few meters before they were distraught and found that there was a low pile wire mesh with two Russian feet high and seven Russian feet deep, and the iron wire with blades was densely spread across the boards.

The Russian army suddenly felt rage. Can the vicious "Tartars" fight happily?!

A battalion commander ordered his hunting soldiers to stand in three rows and face the North Navy position 200 meters away with a scattered gun.

Unlike many modern people imagined, the method of firing infantry in the line-line row in the Flintlock era was not to shoot from the first column, but to shoot first by the third column, and after a period of time it was the second column, the first column... The purpose of this is to keep the rifles of the first column soldiers in the loading state so that they can deal with the enemy's cavalry at any time, or to use it at the most critical moment.

At the end of the 18th century, although there were certain differences in the caliber, tube length, barrel installation method, buttstock appearance, flintlock design and strips of the rifles of the army of European countries, there was not much difference in terms of firing rate and effective range.

A soldier who goes to the battlefield usually carries 50 to 60 rounds of bullets. The so-called bullet is a cylindrical paper roll, which contains a spherical lead bullet and gunpowder required to fire lead bullets. At the same time, the soldiers' shooting speed is not very fast. A soldier who is well-trained can shoot 5 live ammunitions per minute in a short period of time, but under normal circumstances, such a rate of fire cannot be achieved at all. The Russian army did not stipulate until the infantry decree in 1811 that soldiers must practice loading to reach the level of three shots per minute, which was previously entirely up to the regiment battalion commander.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, for various reasons, the rate of fire in actual combat is lower than the rate of fire stipulated in the doctrine, and it will continue to decrease during the battle. At the beginning of the battle, flint is brand new, the fire hole is also clean, and silence rarely occurs; but as the battle progresses, the rate of fire silence will become higher and higher. Another reason for the reduction in the rate of fire is that the gunpowder cannot be completely burned, and the residue will gradually accumulate on the inner wall of the gun chamber, making it very difficult to load lead bullets. The gun chamber must be completely cleaned after firing dozens of times. In addition, if you shoot dozens of times in a row at a faster speed, the barrel will become hot and untouchable. Finally, as time goes by, soldiers will also show signs of fatigue.

By the way, in a battle in Europe at the end of the 18th century, infantry consumed an average of 200 to 500 rounds of ammunition for every enemy killed by infantry.

The reason why the Northern Navy stopped shooting at enemy infantry was of course not to give the Russian army enough time to pass through the barbed wire. Zhao Xin's original plan was to let the Russian left-wing troops pass through the first barbed wire and then take action. The depth of one hundred meters in front of the formation was the Shura field he set up for the left-wing Russian army.

However, the Russian left-wing troops did not intend to stay idle. While waiting for wooden boards to be transported from the rear, the regiment commanders ordered the 4-pound gun and 6-pound gun groups between the infantry and the cavalry to launch artillery bombardment on the positions of the Northern Navy from the two wings of the formation.

"Dou~~Doududududu!"

"Everyone should be careful!" On the positions of the North Navy, except for the soldiers hiding in hidden bunkers, the others in the trench were retracted into the anti-aircraft holes under the fortifications.

The two wings of the Russian army four hundred meters away roared. As the smoke rolled, more than a dozen solid bullets fell before and after the Northern Navy's fortifications. However, due to the blockage of a large number of sandbags arranged in front and behind the fortifications, the shells after landing did not bounce, but kept rotating and rolling around.

Some people may think that the solid bullets in the era of smoothbore guns can be safe as long as they are not wiped? To be honest, you are very wrong. You forgot the bomb shock wave!

According to real historical records, in the Russian-French War in 1812, a Russian artillery officer was cleaning the barrel. A solid bullet from the enemy flew over his head and behind. The officer was unconscious on the spot. His head, neck and back turned black and swollen. Although he woke up later, the power of the solid bullet shock wave was evident.

It was already 7:30 in the morning. In the command of the North Navy, Sheng Haizhou reported to Liu Sheng that the drone discovered that the Russian middle road and the right wing group had been dispatched, and the vanguard was still one kilometer away from our main position.

The North Hai Army had been enduring for so long, just waiting for this moment. Liu Sheng shouted to the walkie-talkie with excitement on his face: "Zhao Xin, the enemy has come out! You can start!"

On the North Navy artillery position located on the south bank of the Belaya River, more than 200 various artillery pieces have faded away, and the muzzles of more than 100 D30s stretched out from the bunker, pointing to the sky in a slanted manner.

At this time, the heavy fog on the northern field had been blown away by the wind, the sun had completely jumped out of the horizon, and then disappeared into a dark cloud above it. After a while, the sunlight tore through the edge of the dark cloud, and more than 200 cannons on the clearings in the forest were dyed with a layer of gold edge, with bright outlines.

As Zhao Xin issued the order to "start shooting", 36 benchmark guns from each artillery regiment were the first to fire.

Like infantry, the artillery of the North Navy also adopted the "three-three system" organization; one battalion had 18 guns, and one regiment had 54 guns. The benchmark guns were tested in companies, which means that Zhao Xin set off four regiments of artillery on the south bank of the Belaya River!

122 Howitzer squad requires 8 people, and 75mm guns each squad requires 3 people. The more than 2,000 people present have already accounted for two-thirds of the North Navy artillery. Fortunately, with Zhao Xin, there is not much need for transportation on the artillery position, so the staffing of each artillery regiment is reduced by more than half.

The artillery squad leader Li Yansheng has been struggling for more than a year for this day. Since he joined the North Navy artillery, in addition to daily military training, he has made the former Qing army artillery leader who has only been to private schools for a few years suffer.

Over the past year, Li Yansheng had wanted to give up countless times. If it weren't for the encouragement of his comrades and instructors, he would have given up. Just three months ago, after he passed the math exam that stumped countless people, the 32-year-old Li Yansheng couldn't help crying loudly.

With the rumbling of cannons on the position, after completing two test firings of the thirty-six benchmark guns, the company commanders who received the front-line observation post and drone reconnaissance data, immediately issued a shooting order.

"Full-shot! Target No. 106, enemy infantry group, instant grenade fuse, No. 3 loading. Ruler 6-00, direction 30-00.4 volley!"

Li Yansheng, who received the order, immediately found the correction amount of the fire-gathering direction from the "correction quantity calculated into table" based on the charge number, the meter scale, and the interval between the gun and the reference cannon, and corrected it in the direction of the reference cannon. When the sighting hand was quickly adjusted according to the correction amount, Li Yansheng shouted: "Let's fire!"

When the Northern Navy artillery on the south bank of the Belaya River launched violent artillery bombardment at the Russian divisions with a rush of overwhelming force, waves of artillery fire echoing through the sky came from the sky on the Irkutsk-Cheremkovskaya Plain. The shells sprayed out from the terrifying barrels, passing through the wet air and the clear sky. Accompanied by the trembling cold whistling sound, they continued to smash towards the Russian troops in the left, center and right directions.
Chapter completed!