Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 362 Battle of Yaksa ([-])

1788年7月22日，即乾隆53年七月初四，在黑龙江城休整了近两周的北海军三个团分两批先后抵达了320里外的呼玛尔河口。

When they saw the small island by the river that had been captured by Tsarist Russia and now it was in ruins, and learned about the resistance deeds of the Tibetan leader from the mouth of the guide Zamusu, everyone in the Northern Navy was filled with righteous indignation.As for the remains of the Ewenki co-leader Tibet and other Qing soldiers and border residents who died in the battle, Zhao Xin also sent people to find them on the small island, packed them back with thick pine boards, and buried them at the foot of Xiaoheilazi Mountain.

This move by the Beihai Navy surprised those Daur, Oroqen and Sauron people who followed the north to help.In their view, these rebels under the banner of the Han people did not reject the border residents at all, regardless of the Manchu and Han ethnicities. Moreover, the Northern Navy has occupied Heilongjiang City for a month, and they have never mentioned the matter of poll tax. The border residents are really not used to it.

In the past, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties used poll taxes to control the population of various tribes of the border people, and then used a large amount of material rewards to stabilize the hearts of the people, so that each tribe could contribute their strength to serve as soldiers for the Manchu Qing court and guard the frontier.

The problem is that the military and political system of Beihai Town is different from all feudal regimes in this time and space.Zhao Xin holds several large-scale gold and silver associated mines, and there is nowhere to spend the money; the various factories in Beihai Town are now producing a mountain of materials, which can't be consumed by the purchases of the frontier tribes in the lower reaches of Heilongjiang.

I don't want your poll tax and tribute. If you want living supplies, it's okay. You can take fur game and handicrafts to the trading company for money and buy them. The quality is high and the price is cheap.

Are you good at archery and horseback riding like walking on horses? Want to be a soldier?Applause.But go to the new barracks in Heilongjiang City to train for three months before speaking, and you have to learn Chinese and Chinese characters.Just the last two things baffled many illiterates. These people were playing very well with their bows and reins, but when they picked up books and pencils and entered the classroom, they were all dull and demented after a class.

In order to delay the actions of the Northern Navy and create time for the completion of the bastion fortifications, the Tsarist Russian army in the direction of Yaksa City started to throw wooden rafts into the river from the front line of Guigudar City.Many wooden rafts had just finished cutting the wood on their front feet, and their back legs were hastily tied together and thrown into the river. After drifting for a long distance, they began to fall apart. .In the end, the fleet had to turn to the Huma River to stay for shelter.

In addition, the two battalions of hunters left by Suvorov's previous order were divided into small groups of dozens of people according to the order, and cooperated with each other to harass and block the reconnaissance team sent by the Northern Navy.

The hunters sent by the Russian army were all hunters, and they were very familiar with fighting in the mountains and forests. A dozen or so of them would shoot coldly every now and then, and then turned their heads and disappeared into the dense forest.This made it impossible for the reconnaissance team to chase, or not to chase.

The most terrible thing is that drones are completely useless in the dense virgin forest, and it is almost difficult to find those small groups of Russian troops.

Although the reconnaissance team is equipped with automatic weapons and self-made grenades, the ammunition they carry is limited after all, and the killing effectiveness of weapons in dense forest terrain has also dropped significantly.Even if the Russian team is completely wiped out in this one, there will be another one ahead, endlessly.

Faced with this situation, after discussing with Liu Sheng, Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng immediately changed their tactics, adopting a tactic of relaying layers of ammunition and supplies along the river.

Liu Sheng and Fan Tong led a regiment, with the cooperation of several flat-bottomed wooden boats full of ammunition and materials, advancing close to the river bank, and let the troops advance in platoons to cooperate with the reconnaissance team in rotation.As long as the Tsarist's hunting squad is found, it will be directly suppressed by firepower. The dense rain of bullets will first hit the opponent so that they cannot lift their heads, and then they will outflank them from both sides and annihilate them in one fell swoop.

This tactic of the North Navy was extremely effective, and it caused heavy losses to the Russian army's hunters. If Suvorov hadn't ordered them not to retreat, and those who violated it would be hanged, these hunters would have run away long ago.

When Liu Sheng and the others arrived at the former site of Duojin City, [-] kilometers away from Yaksa City, the amount of wood the Russian army put into the Heilongjiang River was finally reduced to negligible, and the fleet staying on the Huma River could move.

During the days when the Huma River was stranded, Zhao Xin felt that beating children on rainy days was also idleness, so after he inspected it, he immediately ordered thousands of people from the Beihai Navy to do it together, first in Tsarist Russia. A military depot was built on the former site of the castle built by the invaders, and then more than 30 wood-carved towers were built at the foot of the mountain, wells were dug, and fires were set on the river bank.

On the west side of the military station, on the side of the Huma River, there are cliffs, the terrain is dangerous, and the well dug by the Tsarist Russians is still there, and it can be used only by cleaning it.Unlike the Cossacks who were struggling to dig trenches and burn bricks to fill the walls, the Beihai Navy built a blast-proof wall with reinforced concrete and two barbed wires.With this military station and the prototype of the village at the foot of the mountain, in the future, hundreds of people will be recruited to open up wasteland and farmland on both sides of the river bank, and the area around the mouth of the Huma River will be as safe as Mount Tai.

In fact, even if Zhao Xin did not relocate the Han population here, with the protection of the Beihai Naval Station, the nearby Daur people would gather to settle in the villages below the mountain.The few Daur people who accompanied them to the north took a fancy to this place. It would be a fool to live in a house for nothing!
Unlike the Oroqen, Hezhe or other nomadic peoples, the Daur people in the outer northeast have formed a village-style way of life since the Ming Dynasty. Agriculture and animal husbandry are relatively developed, and they are deeply influenced by the farming culture of the Central Plains.

After staying at the mouth of the Huma River for more than 20 days, Zhao Xin finally received a message from the troops ahead, and the fleet of the Northern Navy set off again.Due to the unfamiliarity of the hydrological conditions, and more than 450 wooden boats full of soldiers, it took five or six days to arrive at the waterway of more than [-] kilometers.

No one knows which dynasty the old site of Duojin City was built in. There are only some moats left on the ruined site, and there are no tiles.Zhao Xin speculates that this is either the remains of the Liao Dynasty or the Jin Dynasty.

Zhao Xin learned from several Russian prisoners captured by the reconnaissance team that there were two castles built by the Russian army in Yaksa, one big and one small.In addition to building a large four-sided star fort with a side length of one kilometer on the north bank of Heilongjiang, and built several semicircular trench positions outside the bastion, they also built an ancient city island separated by a river to the south. A small bastion formed a defensive pattern in which the northern and southern cities supported each other.

The former site of the castle on Gucheng Island was built when the Qing army attacked Yaksa.Due to the fierce artillery fire of the Russian army at that time, in order to prevent the war from being delayed until winter, the Qing army built a fortress guarded by trenches on the ancient city island separated by a river, forming a condescending view of the Yaksa city occupied by the Russian army. With the momentum, the cannons were mobilized to bombard.Although the Qing army failed to attack the city later, the artillery attack on the ancient city island caused a lot of damage to the Russian army in the city of Yaksa, and even the leader of the Russian army Tolbuzin himself was killed by a single shot, which made Suvorov think before reading. I was impressed when I took notes.

Unlike the failure 100 years ago, Suvorov realized the seriousness of the situation two months ago. As the commander-in-chief appointed by Catherine II, he ordered the start of conscription in all Siberia , A total of two battle infantry regiments and a jaeger battalion were recruited with a huge team of nearly 5000 people.

The discipline of these newly recruited soldiers was lax. Although Major General Alexei, who was in charge of leading the team, tried his best to restrain them, he was still slow in action and did not arrive in the twin cities of Yaksa until early August.

So far, the Tsarist Russian Army has deployed up to 8000 troops on the front line of Yaksa City, including four battle infantry regiments (7200), a Jaeger Army (3828), and a newly recruited independent Jaeger Battalion (957 men). ), two cavalry regiments (1000 men) and a logistics force of [-] militiamen.

"Ah! There are so many people, how many prisoners will we have to capture after this battle is over?"

At a dining table in the northern naval camp in Duojin City, Zhao Xin, Liu Sheng, and Wu Siyu who were sitting around all laughed when Fan Tong suddenly said this.

Zhao Xin muttered while pawing at the rice: "Yes, now there are people working on the road. In fact, what I care most about is whether that Suvorov is there. The level of the tongue we caught before is too low. .”

Liu Sheng said: "Then let the reconnaissance team arrest a captain-level officer?"

Wu Siyu said: "I agree, you know yourself and your enemy."

A few people chatted and discussed very vigorously while eating, but Li Yansheng, who was eating with his head bowed on the long table behind him, couldn't help but stop, his face full of astonishment.He said in his heart that more than 8000 people attacked the fortified city wall occupied by 2 people. He didn't want to think whether he could win, but he was worried that there would be too many prisoners?Although the Northern Navy had encircled and wiped out thousands of Russian troops under the city of Aihui before, it was a sneak attack, and Luo Sha was caught off guard.

What a good thing to think about!

The reason why this man was able to follow was firstly that he proposed to seek refuge, but the condition was to follow to see how Bei Haijun fought against Rakshasa; secondly, Zhao Xin wanted to use him as an example for people from all ethnic groups in the outer Northeast. .It means that don’t look at me holding high the “Ming” flag and claiming to be Your Highness. I can even accept the Han army flag and the small oolongs of Sauron’s tribe. Whether it’s Sauron or what, all other flags come to seek refuge!
So Zhao Xin asked Li Yansheng to follow Yin Bingwei and fight with the guards every day. In turn, he also asked Yin Bingwei to monitor him. It is impossible to join the army now.

Hearing that Zhao Xin and the others said that they would continue to catch their tongues, Li Yansheng raised his head and said to Yin Bingwei who was opposite him: "Brother Yin, can I follow to catch my tongue?"

Yin Bingwei raised his head and said, "This is all the work of the reconnaissance team, it's not the guard's turn to do it."

Li Yansheng asked: "I always hear you talking about the reconnaissance team. Who are those people?"

Yin Bingwei said: "The reconnaissance team did a good job, so they can be selected as the guards for the adults."

"Oh? Brother Yin used to be a fierce general of the reconnaissance team?"

Can Yin Bingwei tell the truth?He could only answer with silence.

He was chosen by Zhao Xin as a bodyguard because he was going to attack Satsuma, and there was one less person around him who knew how to sneak attack by island warriors.Zhao Xin didn't want to talk to the islanders, and the other party suddenly came to "Ihe Slash", so Yin Bingwei, who was trained in the "Ono Ichidao Style", followed.

Li Yansheng thought that the other party looked down on him, and thought to himself that you are a barbarian from Japan, carrying a broken knife on your back all day long, and one day you will have to experience the horse-cutting sword method passed down by Lao Tzu.

That night, the North Navy reconnaissance team that received the mission set off under the leadership of Seldan. This time their mission was to capture an officer who was at least a lieutenant and above.A group of 30 people did not take a boat, but rode horses along the dense forest on the south bank of the Heilongjiang River to the northwest. The goal was the former Qing army Karen at the mouth of the Emur River.It is across the river from the Russian fortresses of Yaksa City and Gucheng Island City. It is speculated that Tsarist Russia will definitely station troops on the hills there.

This day was August 8. In the early morning, the reconnaissance team arrived at a position twenty miles away from Emur Karen.Seldan's plan was to sleep in the morning and act again at dusk. Unexpectedly, he had just slept for two hours when the guard in charge woke him up.

"Found a group of Rakshasa soldiers!"

Seldan opened his troubled eyes and asked, "How many people?"

The sentinel said: "Fifty on horseback, 150 on foot, the leader seems to be a lieutenant."

The reconnaissance team has been fighting the Russian army these days, not to mention the prisoners in the old city of Aihui have also seen it.Now they are very familiar with the logo on the enemy's uniform.

Tsarist Russian officers have a ribbon hanging from right to left on their shoulders, a three-cornered hat on their heads, and a saber on their waist.The infantry of the Russian army wears a black lambskin helmet with a yellow feathered hard brim helmet, a linen uniform jacket with red lapels on the neck and chest, and red cuffs on both sleeves, and a uniform of the same color. Knickerbockers, the belt is white, and the rucksack straps crossed on the left and right on the chest are also white; as for the cavalry, they have another look, their uniforms are covered with dense buttons.

"Captain, do you want to beat this group of people?"

Serdan thought to himself, just twenty miles away, he encountered Luo Sha's 200-man team, if he avoided this group of people and moved forward, he might meet a big fish.Thinking of this, he asked his subordinates to keep vigilant and prepare for battle, so as not to alarm the enemy for the time being.

He didn't want to fight here, but who knew that the Russian army was getting closer and closer to the reconnaissance team, and there was a Daurian who had taken refuge in the patrol team.Relying on his instincts of hunting in the jungle for many years, this guy keenly sensed that there was someone and horses ahead, and he immediately reported to the lieutenant who led the team.

The lieutenant of the Russian army immediately ordered his hunters to disperse, and the cavalry turned around to the flank.Seeing that the enemy army had set up an attack formation and was advancing step by step, Seldan had no choice but to order to open fire.

"boom!"

With a gunshot, the sergeant holding the blue flag walking in the Russian army was knocked to the ground by a single shot, and gunshots erupted in the reconnaissance team's position, and several Russian hunters walking in the front They were all shot dead.

During these days of fighting the North Navy, the Russian army also noticed the ultra-long range of the North Navy's weapons, so they would rather fight in the dense forest than face the North Navy in the wilderness.

As soon as they heard the gunshots, the Tsarist Russian hunters quickly lay down on the ground, or hid behind thick trees or rocks.Under the order of the lieutenant, some of the hunters either ignited the cast iron bombs they carried with their bare hands, or threw bombs with hand-held mortars to disrupt the shooting vision of the Northern Navy, while others attacked from the side to buy time for the cavalry.

The early hand-held mortar was called "Hand Mortar". It is 50~60mm.

Didn't I say before that the Russian army is now learning everything from the Prussian army, so this early grenadier was also introduced into the Jager army.

In fact, this thing is extremely dangerous. After the shooter needs to load the firearm and add propellant, he must first ignite the grenade fuze before shooting, then put the grenade into the muzzle of the mortar, and then fire at the enemy.So once the firing is delayed, the consequences can be imagined.

Moreover, due to poor cast iron technology and poor black powder, the early grenade was often only divided into a few relatively large broken iron lumps when it exploded.Unless this thing hits the crowd, its lethality is really touching.

After fighting for a long time, the bold and careful lieutenant of the Russian army found that the opponent only hit soldiers and didn't shoot at him very much. He suddenly understood that he was trying to capture him alive.

How can this be possible!He immediately ordered a soldier to go back and shake people, preparing to wipe out this "Qing army".

　The Daur people generally grow barley, oats, millet, buckwheat and peas, and even soybeans, garlic, cantaloupe, watermelon, cucumber and other vegetables and fruits; in addition, they also use hemp to extract oil.The Daur people who have been villaged raise a large number of livestock, including large herds of horses, cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry, and use cattle to plow the fields.

　　
　
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