When the North Navy launched the general offensive on the Western Front, the two regiments responsible for attacking the "Zaimka Fortress" on the Eastern Front also began to be dispatched.

Five large flatbed ships that were flowing downstream from Usolier each carried a 75mm gun and cooperated with the mortars of the Northern Navy ground forces to launch continuous shelling of the Russian defense line two kilometers away. The smoke of gunpowders filled the Angara River, and high-explosive bombs of different caliber were like raindrops on the Russian fortress. The bricks, stones, tiles and wood were flying everywhere at the landing point, causing heavy damage to nearby buildings and personnel.

In desperation, the Russian army had to order cannons and unicorn cannons on various horned forts and faceted forts to fire and fight back. However, the pitiful range of the smoothbore cannon could not hit the North Navy's gunship at all. Unless the officers dared to move the cannon forward against the North Navy's bombing, the more than one hundred cannons could only be set off empty space. The constant rumbling sound of cannons was deafening, unlike the buzzing whistle of solid bombs, the North Navy's artillery shells roared like sharp whistle, and each sound made the Russian army inside and outside the fort tremble.

Boom! Boom! When two 75mm shells landed in the middle of several cannons, an ammunition truck and a horse pulling the cart were overturned. The burnt pieces of wood and shattered all over the ground. More than a dozen solid bullets of nearly three kilograms flew around in the explosion, hitting the horses carrying the spare cannon stand behind them to the bloody and letting out a shrill long roar.

The most threatening to the Northern Navy gunship was the several seven-pound howitzers set on the turret. They fired at an elevation angle of about 20 degrees, and the nearest one fell directly to more than 100 meters in front of the first gunship.

The Russian cavalry and infantry tried to approach the river bank to counterattack, so the machine guns on the flatbed began to spit out their flames. The Northern Navy even carried several rocket launchers, and one after another, shot rockets with white smoke into the cavalry crowd, and the bombing of Russian cavalrymen overturned their horses.

There were gunfire everywhere, and people were shouting and neighing everywhere. Zhou Heichuang, the battalion commander of the 2nd Battalion of the Third Regiment, took his orderly soldiers to a newly conquered Fort, which was one kilometer away from Zaimka Fort.

"What a battlefield to do in front of Jiuli Mountain~~ The shepherd boy picked up an old knife and gun. The wind blew the water of Wujiang River~~ It was like Yu Ji farewell to the overlord."

At this time, the sun in the space was already shining brightly, and the tilted light sprinkled on the face of Monk Zhou. He hummed the song "Six Happiness in the Mountain Gate" vaguely, put his hand on his forehead and looked at the Russian fortress in the distance. However, the rolling smoke blocked everything on the opposite side, and the explosion of shells and the flames of Russian artillery flashed from time to time.

Advancing or retreating did not improve or change the miserable situation of the Russian army. Thousands of people ran around in the rain of bullets. However, as soon as these people left the space where shells and bullets flew across, the commander stationed behind immediately sent people to a team to force them to obey discipline, and then sent them to the battlefield with artillery fire in front. However, out of the horror of death, the infantry quickly lost discipline, and the originally strict formation soon became chaotic again.

At 8:40 in the morning, Lushoushan led all the soldiers of a regiment to board the ship at the dock of Usolier. Their mission was to go north along the Angara River, occupy the village of Bratsko-Ostrozinoye 470 kilometers away, and then travel 140 kilometers northeast to capture the fortress Ilimsk on the north bank of the Ilim River, block the transportation route to Yakutsk, and force the Tsarist Russian stronghold east of the Lena River to surrender.

Don’t say that the Ural Mountains are bounded by the boundary. The entire Sakhalin area east of the Lena River alone has 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 is larger than China under the Qing Dynasty.

However, in this year, the Sakhalin area was only a paradise for fur merchants, and for other settlers it was a bitter and cold hell. Even if Beihai Town had millions of residents under its jurisdiction, there were probably not many people who dared to settle here. Moreover, if Zhao Xin did not use the seeds and cultivation methods of cold-resistant crops from another time and space, no crop could be planted alive!

Since ancient times, it has never been crops and land that dared to attract adventurers to harsh environments, but gold and gems. The problem is that although the Sakhalin area has extremely rich gold and diamond resources, there are very few ore veins suitable for open-pit mining.

Although the minerals and timber resources on this land can have a strong support for the future construction of industrialized countries, you can't even think about it before the railway tracks extend here. In the history of another time and space, the Sakhalin area was not truly developed until the 1950s.

In Zhao Xin's view, if he wants to occupy and defend this land and make it belong to the Chinese territory forever, it will be difficult to become a fait accompli without more than fifty years. For such a large piece of land and the income brought by fur trade, he estimated that from then on, all the tsars of the North Navy will fight to the death with the North Navy.

The Russian troops retreated in panic and retreated to the village of Cheremhovo, and the violent damage caused by the Northern Navy's artillery gradually stopped. More than ten kilometers to the east, the fall of Zaimka Fortress also entered the countdown.

In order to cooperate with the retreat, Rumentsev ordered the four regiments stationed in the village of Cheremhovo to be responsible for the rear of the temple, and ordered them to block the pursuit of the Northern Navy at all costs. At the same time, they also piled up all the supplies that another regiment could not transport away in the future on the post road, preparing to use a fire to block the pursuit of the Northern Navy.

At this time, the Russian army had lost more than one-third of its personnel due to casualties and falling behind. The wounded people inside and outside the entire Cheremhovo village were within sight, and the house was lying all over the floor. However, the military doctors who took several civilians to help them could not treat so many wounded people. These people were either missing arms and broken legs or were shocked by the cannons of the North Navy.

At nine o'clock in the morning, when Zhao Xin received a notice from the front, he learned that Mikhailovka village had been captured by the Northern Navy, so he ordered the attacking troops in front to stop advancing, rest on the spot, and build simple fortifications. Then he ordered the artillery of the two regiments to set off lightly and, under the escort of the First Battalion of the Northern Navy Cavalry, he took a carriage to advance towards Mikhailovka village.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! He himself, under the strict protection of the guards, concealed his eyes and gathered his weapons on the artillery position, and then set off with the guard battalion.

Although the North Navy artillery soldiers sitting in the carriage were exhausted, they were still in a state of excitement. It was so satisfying, so satisfying! The shell shells that were fired this morning were piled up into small hills, and they went back to brag about their wives and children for the rest of their lives. However, some people were confused by the current actions.

"Squad leader, what are we doing? Can we all be an infantryman to charge?"

Facing his subordinates' questions, Li Yansheng was also confused. However, the carriage was driving rapidly, and he had no chance to go to the company commander to ask. Suddenly, he heard a series of deafening roars from behind, and the carriage under him began to tremble.

Li Yansheng and the other artillery soldiers turned around curiously and saw that there were about twenty "monsters" with green grass and flat fronts of the car racing.

"Armored Car?!" Li Yansheng was stunned for a moment, thinking for a while before remembering its name. He had seen this thing in the military camp and visited it once, but he had never seen what it was like when driving. What surprised him was that it actually ran faster than a war horse.

Twenty-four armored vehicles drove side by side on the endless field, forming a green torrent of steel. The wide tracks rolled up smoke and dust, causing hundreds of artillery soldiers and escort cavalry on the carriage to cheer.

"Squad leader, this is so majestic! With this, no red-haired ghost can escape!"

"Yes! So domineering!" Li Yansheng was admiring with some envy, and accidentally saw the roof cover of an armored vehicle in the third row being opened, and then a man wearing a green helmet emerged from it and waved his hands at him and others.

Because he was too far away and the convoy was driving faster than him, Li Yansheng only saw one of the side faces of the man. He always felt familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere, but he couldn't remember it for a moment.

In fact, that person is nothing else, but Zhao Xin, the boss of the North Navy.

It is very exciting for outsiders to see the armored vehicles galloping across the board. In fact, the environment in the car is really not very good. Not to mention the noise, the bumpy ones are also very powerful. Without a helmet, it is definitely a bloody head.

There are more than 20 armored vehicles, but in fact they can only accommodate more than 200 people. Although this thing can be picked up in two or three months after mastering driving, it will be more difficult to fix it once the track is broken.

There is no need for the enemy to use cannons to blow it up. Sometimes, once the car speed is too fast, as long as the car is braked quickly, the tracks may fall off. This is why Zhao Xin didn't dare to take it out for battlefield pursuit.

At the same time, in the city of Irkutsk, more than 80 kilometers away from the battlefield of Usolier, whether it was the merchants of the five great masters, the monks in the churches in the city, or even every settler who came here from the far west, many of them were sleepless all night, and they were anxiously waiting for the news from the battlefield ahead.

During the two years of the Northern Navy rule, everything seemed calm, and the massive amount of tea and rhubarb provided by Zhao Xin also made the urban economy more prosperous. But all Cossacks and Russians knew that these Chinese people did not believe in God, and they were not the same as themselves!

Although the soldiers of the North Navy and the security police in the city also went to the monastery, they went to check the number of monks, in order to check whether there were spies hiding the enemy in the church.

Even those new immigrants with oriental faces never went to a church once, but often went to a ancestral hall they built themselves to worship. According to a private news circulating in the city, those new immigrants were solemnly informed by the security police that they would never be allowed to go to churches, and violators would be exiled to a more desolate and remote place.

How can they not believe in God? You must know that only by being loyal to God can a person be simple; only by believing in God can he get guidance in life. For confused individuals, God is the star of enlightenment; for corrupt souls, God is the savior. There has never been an eternal country and army in the world, but God is eternal.

But those Chinese who call themselves "Seris" actually say, "There has never been any savior in this world." This is simply blasphemy!

However, for another part of the city, their hearts are contradictory. Since Beihai Town established a public medical institution in Irkutsk, those who were once called "God's punishment for those who disrespect God" were often easily cured by those wearing white coats. The most commonly used bloodletting therapy for monks was discovered by doctors in Beihai Town, and they directly denounced the monks as killing people.

What is the reason for this? Could it be that these people were actually sent by God to save themselves?

At this time, a strong Don hippo carried a cloaked knight. After showing his pass to the checkpoint at the intersection, he quickly walked and soon arrived in front of the three-story white building located on the Angara River embankment.

Before the horse could stop, the man in the cloak jumped off the horse's back, threw the reins into the hand of the servant at the door, and said anxiously: "Aleshka, where is the master?"

"In the study, go quickly, Denisov, he has been waiting for your news since dawn."

Denisov did not walk through the main entrance, but pushed the door through a small door on the left side of the steps. This was the kitchen. He first asked the chef for a drink, and then walked the stairs to outside the study on the second floor.

He tried hard to smooth his breath, and when he was not so strong, he knocked on the door.

"Come in."

Denisov gently pushed open the door and saw Sibiakov, the owner of the house.

"Why did you come back?" Sibiakov's face looked a little ugly. At this time, another door in the study was opened, and Sibiakov's wife and son also walked in.

"Denisov, how are Zadounesky's troops fighting?" The person who spoke was Little Sibiakov. The "Zadounesky" he said was the title given by Rumentsev by the Queen, which means "Danube Winner".

"Unfortunately, our army lost, and it was very bad." Denisov's lips began to tremble. He carefully told everything he heard and saw in Sosnovka village. "The cannons of the Seris are so fierce. I have never seen such artillery fire strikes... I think the commander-in-chief defeated this time, and I guess there will be more than 10,000 dead."

The Sibiakov family of three looked shocked and kept drawing crosses on their chests. "O God! Lord of heaven, save them and bless them!"

After a moment, Old Sibiakov saw Denisov wanting to speak but stopped, and asked, "What else?"

"When I was in the village, I heard several North Navy soldiers mention a place name, and they were all excited when they said it."

“Where is it?”

"Yenisesk."

Old Sibiakov's mouth slowly opened, almost a duck egg could be stuffed into it. At this moment, his shock could not match the avalanche of the Sayan Mountains and the earthquake in the Baikal Mountains.

"Father, what's wrong with you?"
Chapter completed!