Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 347 You need to prepare to fire a cannon
The Northward Fleet of the Northern Navy had a miserable journey. In addition to avoiding the fishing boats and canoes on the river, the two catamaran passenger ships almost ran into the shallows several times because of the spring flood and the river was full of water.

The hydrological experience of the Hezhe people is completely useless here in the Beihai Navy. Where small flat-bottomed boats and fast horse boats can pass, the large ships of the Beihai Navy may not be able to pass.

The three guides that Zhao Xin found in Boli Township only went as far as Kubutlin (now Chaoyang Town, Jiayin County, Yichun City), and they went there in canoes made of birch bark. The waterways are not familiar at all.So the fleet only sailed during the day after passing Kubutlin, and found a place to stop at night, and set off at dawn the next day.Along the way, the water depth and current velocity should be measured, and the locations of villages and Karen along the river should be recorded, so as to provide hydrological data for later ships.

In the [-]th century when a large number of measurement sensors could not be deployed, if you want to obtain hydrological data suitable for the passage of Northern Navy ships, you can only rely on manual collection; It is simply impossible.Such as precipitation, evaporation, runoff water level, flow, flow velocity, sediment content, water quality, etc., are very complicated.

The hydrological data of the Qing Dynasty were not available, and Zhao Xin had no time to dig through the pile of old papers.And if we rely on hydrological data from another time and space to confirm the ancient times, it is purely self-defeating; after all, the topography and river course have changed a lot after 200 years, so it is completely inapplicable.

When the fleet arrived at the Tuolierfeng Hetaoshui Camp, [-] miles south of Heilongjiang City, it exchanged fire with the left-behind troops stationed in the Navy Camp.

Based on the principle that there is no need to kill innocent people indiscriminately, Zhao Xin said nicely at first that he was going north to fight Rakshasa, but the Qing army who stopped him didn't believe it at all, so he bravely shot two arrows at the patrol boat of the Northern Navy.

Then stop talking nonsense, machine guns teach you how to behave, and the two M2HBs on the patrol boat only fired a few bursts, scaring the Qing troops on several riverboats and fleeing.

But then there were more disgusting things along the way.I don’t know who came up with the bad idea. After the fleet of the Northern Navy passed the Tuolier Peak Hetaoshui Camp, there were Hezhe, Oroqen, and Daur people in twos and threes driving flat-bottomed boats to block the river, refusing to let go. The Beihai Navy went there, and it was useless to let Sahalian and others talk about it.

If the soft ones are not enough, then only the hard ones can be used.Zhao Xin asked Wukanbei to warn the border residents loudly through the horn of the patrol boat, and at the same time ordered the Beihai Navy on the patrol boat to shoot near the small boats, which scared the border residents away.

But after one wave, another wave came in a short time. The dozens of miles of waterway was delayed for half a day just because of this group of people, otherwise the battle at Karen Mountain would have caught up with the North Navy.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the Tsarist Russian troops who approached the old city of Aihui five miles away, as well as the soldiers and civilians defending the city of Aihui, all discovered a strange thing.From the southern sky suddenly flew two strange things, and at the same time they made a buzzing sound, like a swarm of wasps or locusts flying overhead.

After hearing the news, Bogaevsky and other officers who came to check held up the binoculars and saw that the monster in the sky was about 1.5 desinthes long, with a khaki-yellow appearance, thick at the front and thin at the back, and there seemed to be blades on the top that were flying rapidly. Rotate; the length of the blade must be about three argentines long, but it can only be approximated because of the rapid rotation.There is also a black square box hanging under the monster. Under the box, there is a thing like a telescope barrel that is inclined to the ground, and it can turn back and forth, left and right.

"what is this?"

The Cossack officers present were greatly puzzled by the strange object in the sky, they had never seen anything like it before.

"Whatever it is, shoot it down!"

Following the command of the colonel, the Cossack soldiers on the ground raised their guns and shot at the monster in the sky.But that thing flew extremely fast, and after a gunshot, it flew towards the artillery position on the hill behind.

A few minutes later, Major General Aleksandrov and Chief of Staff Fisher, who led the reserve offensive force, also saw the monster hovering over the artillery position of Karen Mountain.The shocked two pointed to the air and asked Lieutenant Aixin, "Is this a Qing weapon?"

Ai Xin was also shocked, and he quickly denied: "I've never heard of such a thing in Qing Dynasty!"

Colonel Fisher then ordered the surrounding soldiers: "Shoot that thing down!"

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

So starting from the evening of June 6, from the mouth of the Zeya River to the city of Heilongjiang in the south, tens of thousands of people in the Qing and Russian countries were disturbed by these two monsters in the sky, and they were restless all night.

The humming overhead continued through the night, and the musket fire continued into the night.Bonfires were lit all night in the positions of the Tsarist Russian army, and in the old city of Aihui and Heilongjiang City, in addition to clusters of bonfires, there were even hundreds of Kongming lanterns.Trying to light up the sky with Kongming lanterns.

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

In fact, before dark, the news of a strange fleet coming five miles south of the old city of Aihui had already reached Eredmubu's ears, and he also sent a small team of cavalry to investigate. The problem is that this fleet The cavalry did not return until midnight.Now Eredmubu didn't have many troops, so he could only shrink his troops and never dared to send troops outside again.

In fact, the Qing army had already planned to retreat from Aihui City, and the defeat at the foot of Karen Mountain made the deputy capital commander Eredimbu unable to fight any more.After fighting during the day, he has realized that the city wall of pine wood and earth cannot resist the cannons of Rakshasa; he plans to flee to Qiqihar by boat at night.

However, since Tsarist Russian warships patrolled the river all night, and the surviving large and medium-sized Yaksa warships of the Qing army hid near the mouth of the Kun River in the south of Heilongjiang City, only some small river boats can take advantage of the night on the river. Shuttle back and forth on the ground is really a drop in the bucket for transferring troops.So Eredombu ordered his two co-leaders to lead the troops to stand outside the old city of Aihui for two days, in order to buy time for the soldiers and civilians in the city to retreat.

In the early morning of June 6, the cavalry reconnaissance team of the Russian army discovered the deployment of the Qing army outside the old city of Aihui.The Russian Army Staff Department judged based on intelligence that the main force of the Qing people was concentrated in the woods 2 versts north of the old city of Aihui, and countless pits were dug between Karen Mountain and the old city of Aihui. Make a tenacious counterattack in this area.

In view of this situation, Fisher, the chief of staff of the Russian army, drew up a combat deployment in the morning, and after approval by Major General Aleksandrov, he decided to launch an attack at 2 pm.

The plan of the Russian army was to let the cavalry company attack from the west of Aihui at 2 pm, threaten the left flank of the Qing army, and then outflank the Qing army to the south, cutting off the way for the Qing army to flee south.

Bogaevsky will lead a regiment and the Buryat Musketeers led by Polyakov will dispatch at 2:15 p.m. to attack along the road from Karen Mountain to Aihui City. After defending the Qing army, continue south to occupy the old city of Aihui.

At 2:15 p.m., under the cover of artillery fire from the fleet, the Second Regiment led by Colonel Shwerin marched south along the river bank in the east of Heilongjiang City, outflanked the right flank of the Qing army, and cut off the retreat of the Qing army to Qiqihar.

The general reserve team set off at 2:[-], following Bogaevsky's attack, and would also participate in the attack; the entire army's train team stayed at the foot of Karen Mountain to wait for orders.

At 12 o'clock at noon, the monster that tossed the Qing and Russia sides for most of the night came buzzing again.But this time the two khaki monsters only stayed in the air for half an hour, and then turned around and flew back to the south.

It is said that Zhao Xin’s subordinates brought 600 people here this time, 100 people on the two patrol boats, 400 people on the two catamaran passenger boats, and 100 people on the two flat-bottomed boats.In addition, there are dozens of Hezhe hunters brought by Sahalian.

According to the original plan, one week after the departure of the Northward Detachment, Wu Siyu will lead a regiment of reinforcements, engineering personnel, medical teams, and administrative cadres. Under the guidance of the inland river official boat that once carried the "skinny horse", take Beihai Town's own The inland river sailboat built went north.The problem is that Zhao Xin walked so hard by himself, let alone Wu Siyu.

After landing yesterday afternoon, the reason why Zhao Xin didn't launch an attack as soon as he came up was because he wanted to find a suitable artillery position on the hill south of Aihui City.

This is not to find an open space and start bombing with a cannon, that is pure nonsense!
The surface of the artillery position needs to be leveled and compacted, otherwise the entire gun mount will sink into the soil in one shot; at the same time, defensive positions with cross-firing power must be arranged around the position.

In addition to continuously sending out drones for reconnaissance to draw a topographic map from the old city of Aihui to Karen Mountain, he also sent two three-person scouts at night.One group set up an artillery observation post on the mountain one kilometer away from the right flank of the Russian army, and the other group was responsible for monitoring the Russian fleet on the river and providing artillery positions.

Due to the small number of men under his command, in order to deal a devastating blow to the Tsarist Russian army, Zhao Xin distributed two AKMs to each infantry squad.In this way, in addition to a PKM general-purpose machine gun operated by two people, each infantry squad has two assault rifles and six SKS semi-automatic weapons, which are at the level of another time and space in the 6s.

As for the dozens of Hezhen hunters brought by Sahalian, Zhao Xin did not dare to shoot them, after all, these people had never even shot a shotgun.Zhao Xin equipped them with a 180-pound hunting crossbow, which has a rate of fire of 67 meters per second and a killing distance of 55 meters.The most important thing is that it is cheap, only $130 each.

After trying to shoot crossbow bolts, the deerskin satchel was filled with 30 crossbow bolts issued by the North Navy, and the hunters in Balk Village suddenly felt that they were extremely powerful.

After reconnaissance with drones at noon, Zhao Xin's attack plan came out.

He ordered two companies of troops to lead the Hezhe Hunters to outflank the Russian army's right flank from the left wing of Aihui City one kilometer away, capture the Russian army's position at the foot of Karen Mountain, and then quickly occupy Karen Mountain to prevent the enemy from fleeing south. route.

In the direction of the river bank on the East Road, the other two companies of the Northern Navy moved to the southeast of Aihui City. After the northern troops succeeded, they immediately launched an attack under the cover of artillery fire.

As for the city of Aigun, let's talk about it after the war against Tsarist Russia!

After assigning tasks to each company, Zhao Xin threw a pencil, looked at the map and said viciously: "I have four companies, one in the south and one in the north, and I will bombard you bastards with cannons in the middle!"

The North Navy’s attack time was set at 2:2 p.m., but when the observation post reported at 15:30 that the cavalry unit and a musketeer of the Russian army had begun to dispatch, Zhao Xinxin couldn’t say it well, and yelled, “Damn it!”, Immediately, three D[-]s were ordered to start shelling, so the Beihai Navy launched it in advance in a haste.

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

With the sound of "Boom!!!", following the start of the first test firing, 2 minutes later, the artillery commander received the news from the observation post in front, and immediately corrected the coordinates.

"Attention all artillery positions! Three rapid fires and reloads! Release!"

The howling shells passed over Aihui City one after another, past the Qing army's defense line, and slammed into the advancing Cossack column. The explosion mixed with flames completely enveloped a column composed of 150 Cossack Musketeers, and returned Pick up most of the column behind.Tens of thousands of prefabricated fragments flew under Karen Mountain, killing all life around the explosion point.

A thunderous explosion shook everyone.

The Qing army on the front line was dumbfounded, and the co-leader in charge of the command was completely dumbfounded, thinking that I haven't ordered the firing yet, who the hell did this?The gunners of the Qing army on the two gun positions were completely petrified. The leader in charge turned his head to look at the shells and ammunition packs on the bullock cart behind him, and then at the guns on the ground. He was at a loss.

After a while, a fast horse galloped out from the south gate of Aihui City, followed the path to the Qing army's position, and when the sent soldier saw the co-leader, he quickly asked, "My lord, who fired the cannon? !"

"We didn't fire the cannon? Luocha is still several miles away!" Seeing that the soldiers didn't believe it, the co-leader quickly dragged him to the artillery position. "Touch it, the body of the cannon is cold! If I have a cannon that can shoot for several miles, I would have beaten Luo Sha away yesterday!"

The soldiers were also confused. Eredmubu in Aihui City heard the explosion from the north and thought that Luocha was attacking, but he sent someone to the top of the city to see that there was nothing wrong with the Qing army's position. He sent his own soldiers over to ask about the situation.

As for the Tsarist Russian army, they were actually shocked from the first explosion. Many people thought it was the gunpowder cart of the rear artillery unit that exploded.But then the continuous violent explosions startled everyone in the headquarters, and even the cavalry company that had set off before sent someone back to ask what happened.

Many people's first reaction was that the gunpowder carts of the rear logistics troops were attacked by the Qing army, but when the black smoke column continued to rise in the south, the Tsarist Russians knew that it was not the logistics troops, but the front offensive troops that had been attacked.The commander of the Russian army, Aleksandrov, immediately ordered the troops to stop advancing, the offensive plan was suspended, and the entire army turned to on-the-spot defense.

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

What kind of cannon did the Qing people use?
Do not!No, the hateful Qing people must have buried a lot of gunpowder on the road!This is so damn hateful!

Aleksandrov roared: "Order the artillery to shoot a mile away and detonate the powder!"

Just as the commander and a group of staff were guessing wildly, the buzzing guy who bored them so much flew over again.Bogaevsky looked up at the monster in the sky, and was so angry that he really wanted to shoot him down. He pointed at the "monster" and roared: "What the hell! Are you going to finish?!"

　The name of yesterday's chapter has been revised and some content has been added.

　　
　
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