Chapter 496 The end of Rumentsev
Before the 1870s, it was not qualified to be a doctor in Europe and not be able to bleed.
Since the Roman era in the 2nd century AD, European doctors believed that the treatment of fever patients was nothing more than the following methods: bloodletting, vomiting, blisters, laxatives, pain relief, etc., thus achieving a perfect balance of body fluids. If the patient's condition remains the same after a series of tossing, then repeat the above measures. In history, 67-year-old Washington was killed. It is said that in the 12 hours before his death, the doctor let him go about 2,300 milliliters of blood...
Rumentsev is 66 years old this year, and he is already a long life in this era. Just when the Northern Navy rushed into the city of Krasnoyarsk with red flags everywhere, the commander-in-chief had been inhumanely released more than a thousand milliliters of blood.
When a company commander named Peng from the North Navy and his subordinates passed by a courtyard, he actually heard a round and low chant faintly heard from inside through the wall. The sound sounded very solemn and solemn, which aroused his curiosity.
It's not hit by shells here, so lucky!
He wanted to catch someone from the street and ask... By the way, there were no one on the street. The civilians who survived the artillery fire either hid in the church or hid in the county library.
When Company Commander Peng and his men walked around to the closed front door, he felt that this place was definitely not a church. You should know that the Northern Navy fought thousands of miles west from Usoliya, and all kinds of churches mixed with wood, stone, and wood and stone were almost vomited. There were all "two horizontal and one vertical" crosses on the roofs of all churches, and many clergy in black or white robes were seen.
"Bang bang~~!"
"Open the door!"
After a while, the wide wooden door creaked and opened a narrow gap. An old man with gray hair and beard appeared in front of him, his eyes filled with hostility and contempt.
Several soldiers from the North Navy were furious, what kind of garlic should be pretending? The loser should look like a loser! Thinking of this, several people stepped forward and pushed the door open. The old man couldn't dodge and took two steps back and fell to the ground.
"Whose family is this? What are those people in the house doing?" Company Commander Peng has been in Irkutsk for two years. Although he speaks Russian inaccurate pronunciation, he still has no problem with his usual communication.
"Yes, someone is going to ascend to heaven, and the confessional ritual and the communion ritual are being held inside. Pity him! Don't disturb the confession of an old man before his death."
After hearing this, Company Commander Peng hesitated for a moment, and then stopped his subordinates from searching. He apologized to the old man, and then took the man away.
At this time, in a room with dim light and shadow on the second floor of the main building in the courtyard, more than a dozen people were whispering, their voices were interrupted. The movement at the gate before made these people feel like they were facing a great enemy, and some even took out pistols to fight. When the North Navy left, they breathed a sigh of relief and turned their sad and panic gazes to the door leading to the next dormitory.
After a moment, the door was gently opened, and the adjutant of Rumentsev appeared in front of everyone with a serious face and said softly: "Everyone, please come in."
Several generals present, the mayor of Krasnoyarsk and several remaining city councillors walked in one after another with panic, stepping on the soft carpet.
Rumentsev was lying on a large bed in the room, covering his waist with a quilt below his waist, and his broad and round forehead was meticulously combed with meticulous white hair. His originally rosy face had turned pale, with the gray air of a dying person.
Above his head was a portrait of the Virgin, with two fat hands stretching out from under the quilt and placed on both sides of his body. A candle was inserted between his thumb and index finger of his right hand, and a doctor knelt in front of the bed, holding the candle with his hands.
What is held at this time is the ritual of the dying people of the Orthodox Church.
Several clergymen in gorgeous dresses stood on both sides of the bedside. They held lit candles in their hands and prayed slowly and solemnly. The people who entered the house seemed to be in a church, with men and women standing on both sides of the bedside. Everyone remained silent and kept drawing crosses with their hands. Then, the monks prayed, the low singing of poems, the sound of moving footsteps and sighs in silence.
After all, Zhao Xin did not see the living Rumensev. Of course, he did not see him even though he died. He didn't even know that his opponent had been killed by a quack doctor.
Just as he rode his horse into the most important city in Tsarist Russia in Central Siberia with his guard battalion, Peter Alessandrovich Rumentsev finally took his last breath at the age of 66. The poor old man died of an infection after a high fever, but rather a severe shock caused by severe blood loss.
The body of the commander-in-chief was secretly restrained by his adjutant and several doctors, and then transported it out of the city by carriage on the night of the third day. When the news of Rumensev's death and the news of the Russian defeat reached St. Petersburg, it was already the end of October.
At this time, all the missions of the Northern Navy in the entire battle were nearing their end, leaving only the last target of the North-South Combination Attack, Yenisesk.
Zhao Xin had no time to delay. He ordered the Second Regiment and the First Cavalry Battalion to garrison Krasnoyarsk, and appointed Zhao Jiuzang to serve as the local military control committee director. Then he took the rest of the team to board the large and small ships he had plundered and directly rushed to the city more than 300 kilometers away.
If Irkutsk was an outpost of Sino-Russia trade in the 18th century, then Yenisesk was a commodity transit station for East-West trade. As the trading center of the Kolivan Province of the Tsarist Russian Empire, Yenisesk was in the most prosperous period in history at this time, with the permanent population in the city reaching more than 5,000.
Tea, rhubarb, silk, cotton, and even various goods shipped from East and West are sold here and shipped by water and land to all parts of the East and West.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Only by taking Krasnoyarsk and Yenisesk together can the Northern Navy control the entire Yenise River basin and can follow the Yenise River to enter the Sanyin Noyan tribe in Outer Mongolia to achieve east-west attacks on the six Khalkha Mongolia tribes, and then extend their tentacles into the area south of Mount Altai.
When a ship carrying a large number of soldiers appeared on the Yenisei River, it quickly aroused the alertness of the cargo fleet. However, it was too late. The Huji tribe who arrived early had already sailed across 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 quickly fell into a panic atmosphere. It was well known that "Zaduinesky" led a large army to fight. The local city council also specially raised a batch of materials and military expenses from the merchant group and provided manpower support. However, no one expected that the Russian army would be defeated so quickly and miserably. The rapid attack from both north and south directions caused Yenisesk to obtain external information to be cut off.
On the fifth day after Huji's troops arrived, Zhao Xin and the South Line troops appeared on September 30 on the river bank five kilometers southeast of the city.
At this moment, everyone in the city panicked. After urgent consultations, the city council sent representatives to negotiate with the North Navy.
Li Rui, who was in charge of negotiating, told the Russian negotiator that Krasnoyarsk had been conquered by us, and that the Russian troops of more than 80,000 people had been completely defeated by the North Navy. You are restricted to surrender unconditionally within 24 hours, otherwise a large-scale artillery will be launched.
"We allow local merchants and residents to leave on a boat with their belongings, and we have no interest in your personal wealth."
In fact, Jiuzang, who was guarding Krasnoyarsk, also ordered the expulsion of local Tsarist Russian residents. Due to the large-scale shelling, Zhao Xin did not want to leave behind a group of hostile people.
However, for the three negotiators, the saying that they did not plunder personal property is believed! Anyone who burned the war to other countries' territory in this year would use war to support the war, and obtain material supplies through the plunder of the occupying power.
The city councillor among the three protested loudly: "Your Excellency, it's unreasonable for you to do this! We are just a group of law-abiding businessmen and have never persecuted any Chinese."
Li Rui said lightly: "That's right. It is precisely because of this that we allow you to leave with your personal belongings."
After drawing a cross on his chest with the bishop of the region, he asked calmly: "We will not leave, this is the sacred territory given to us by God."
Li Rui said: "Father, I advise you to leave, no one of us believes in your God."
Another businessman said: "You are launching a war against the great Tsarist Russian Empire, and the queen will never forgive such behavior. Do you not consider the consequences?"
"Haha," Li Rui smiled and said indifferently: "Your queen should consider the consequences of today when she launched a war to invade Heilongjiang. According to our commander-in-chief, you are all asking for your own sake, and you deserve it."
The three representatives were so angry that their faces were blushed and their necks were thick-necked by Li Rui's words, but they were still begging, hoping to get peace. Not to mention where the family moved, the goods in the warehouse alone could not be transported away in a day or two.
Li Rui said: "Don't blame us for not saying anything in front. Beihai Town needs to tax commercial transactions. Your tax system of the 1, 2, 3 guilds will definitely be abolished!"
"Well, how will you collect taxes?"
"Five percent of the single transaction volume, and all commodity transactions must be conducted in the trading yard established by us."
"What?! So many!" The three representatives immediately cursed in their hearts. This really made a group of robbers.
You should know that in the city of Yenisesk, there were more than 140 merchants in the first guild, and more than 1,200 merchants in the second guild. If taxes were imposed according to the transaction volume, it would be a huge sum of money.
"Three, go back and discuss with the others, whether to surrender unconditionally or prepare to resist stubbornly. You might as well tell you that tens of thousands of Russian troops were killed by us, and the few people in your city are not enough to be stuck in your teeth."
Later, when the three brought the conditions of the Northern Navy back to the city, the merchants of the city council were immediately furious. As the most influential figure among the local merchants, the fur merchant Mattvi Fedorovich Horoxich, who was the first guild, was so angry that he jumped straight and kept roaring and cursing the Chinese outside the city.
Taxes based on 5% of the transaction volume are tantamount to digging his life. But if you leave here and return to Tobolsk, it means that everything will start over. Over the past hundred decades, the hard development of several generations of the family will be gone.
"I don't believe that these Chinese people can defeat the invincible 'Zadunesky'. He has defeated all 150,000 Turks. What are the Chinese people!"
"What I mean is that even a hundred thousand pigs cannot be caught in a day or two. These Chinese must have been defeated by the commander-in-chief and wandered to us."
"But they have thousands of people! When we went to their military camp, the soldiers looked neat and murderous."
"Andrevich, you are blinded by the illusion they created!" After mocking the businessman, Matvey immediately said to a member of the congressman: "I propose to vote immediately, recruit soldiers in the city immediately, cooperate with the local garrison to completely eliminate those Chinese! We will never compromise!"
The world often has the richest voice, and Yenisesk is the same. Except for those Jewish merchants who do not support or oppose, other Russian merchants all supported Matvey's proposal after some trade-offs. Because the Northern Navy only gave 24 hours, someone proposed to launch a night sneak attack after the vote, and passed it again.
When the mayor saw that, let's get ready to fight. So martial law began to begin in the city, and adult men from various families were organized to collect weapons and ammunition, and organized into temporary infantry battalions.
At this time, the merchants and fishermen of the fishery guild also joined in preparing to carry out a fire attack on the North Navy's fleet from the water. Speaking of which, the fishing industry in the Yenisei River was also a big deal. In this year, there were many fish in various rivers in Siberia, which made it difficult for people in later generations to imagine. The fish in spring, summer and autumn were all yelling, and they could be scooped directly in a pot.
However, no matter how these people make trouble, the North Navy, which had already been prepared, let them understand what it means to "hit head-on to the iron plate" that night.
After more than an hour of fierce fighting, the Yenisesk military and civilians who launched a night attack killed and injured more than 1,000 people. The Northern Navy also launched an indiscriminate shelling of buildings in the city that night, causing hundreds of deaths and injuries and triggering a fire.
The next morning, the mayor who had counted the losses was completely destroyed. The city had a total population of only over 5,000, and one-third of the men lost overnight. That's all, it's a big deal. Just take the white flag and surrender.
So at noon that day, the Northern Navy lined up into Yenisesk amid the fear and hatred eyes of the Tsarist Russian people hiding behind the door. The local garrison commander handed the saber to Li Rui, who represented Zhao Xin, in front of the city council. Then Li Rui tasted the black bread and salt salt handed over by the mayor to show his obedience.
At this point, the Northern Navy's battle in 1790 finally concluded, and all three phases of combat goals set by Zhao Xin and the General Staff were achieved. The only thing that made Zhao Xin regretful was that it was not perfect for not capturing Rumentsev.
From the map alone, the area of Beihai Town, which has not yet entered the pass, has exceeded that of the Qing Dynasty, reaching tens of millions of square kilometers; it reaches the Yenisei River in the west, the East-West Siberian Sea in the north, the Okhotsk Sea in the east, and the Hunchun in the south.
Chapter completed!