Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 365 Battle of Yaksa ([-])
At 8 o'clock in the morning on August 27, just as the sky began to turn from black to white, the artillery positions of the Northern Navy opened fire first. The target of the shelling was the artillery corner fort located in the third trench of the Russian army four kilometers away.There are five such artillery corner forts outside Yaksa City, each with 3 to 4 12-pound guns mounted on them.

In the era of line tactics, the shape of this kind of artillery corner fort was a two-meter-high triangular abutment, and on the outside of the abutment was a two-meter-deep trench connected with the trench. Attacking from any direction will receive condescending blows.The Russian infantry can also reach the inside of the corner fort from both sides of the trench, and step up the steps to attack the attacking infantry.

The problem is that the North Navy will not fight the Russian army like this.The reason why Zhao Xin chose this time to launch was to make the Russian army confused about their artillery positions.

"It's a pity!" In the headquarters of Yaksa City, Suvorov said lightly, with no expression on his face.In fact, he didn't expect the enemy on the opposite side to attack half an hour earlier than him.

"Order all the artillery on the third line of defense to shoot in the direction of the enemy, and the Siberian Jager Battalion launched a tentative attack on the enemy's left flank from the southeast. If my guess is correct, they have already dispatched. Inform Gucheng Island to pay attention to the enemy's fleet If there is any movement, report it in time.”

On the Russian defense line, there was a heavy shelling sound from the southernmost side, and the 24-pound shells spewed out of the muzzle with a flash of fire amidst the rumbling guns of the Northern Navy on the opposite side, and then disappeared.After a few minutes, the second and third bombardments on the Russian position shook the air one after another; from south to north, the fourth and fifth bombardments continued to roar.

The sound of the initial shelling hadn't disappeared completely, but the shelling sounds from other triangular fortresses sounded again.

The Beihai Navy's artillery fire was fired at the frequency of one test first, followed by five salvos, in order to knock down several triangular forts on the periphery of the Russian defense line one by one.

Behind the parapet of the second trench line of defense outside Yaksa City, there are soldiers with muskets in the trenches. The black smoke first appeared singly, and then flashed in groups; sometimes it was sparse, and sometimes it was dense, clusters of explosion flames expanded with the air mass, turbulently rolled, and merged into one piece.

At the starting position of the Beihai Navy, three kilometers away from the Russian army, whistles sounded one after another, and the position was half boiled like boiling water. Two battalions of infantry jumped out of the trenches and began to advance towards the right flank of the Russian army.

Relying on the three-three tactics, more than 1000 soldiers of the Beihai Navy set up a wide offensive pattern. They covered each other and crossed forward. This scene fell into the eyes of the Russian army on the opposite side, and it became a wave of waves. Wave after wave rushed towards them.

"God! How many people did they dispatch!"

"What a bunch of lunatics, how could they be so offensive!"

"Hurry up and hide!" The speaker was a veteran who had fought against the Beihai Navy. "Brothers, pay attention to concealment! The enemy's rifles have a long range."

In the open space before the two parapets of the third trench, two eight-pound guns were dragged into position by dozens of Russian soldiers.More than ten seconds later, with two sounds of "tom tom", two shells spewed out from the muzzle accompanied by flames. After gliding hundreds of meters in the air, they landed on the wilderness full of weeds and continued to bounce forward together, and finally disappeared powerlessly in the grass.

"No! The 8-pounder can't reach the enemy. Where is our 12-pounder?" the Russian gunner shouted.

The artillery warrant officer on the side sighed, his face was smoky with gunpowder.Not to mention the 12-pound infantry gun at this distance, the 24-pound infantry gun is useless, at least the 18-pound fortress gun can be obtained.

Twenty minutes after the Northern Navy launched its bombardment, about 20 Russian soldiers were carried out of the two triangular fortresses; except for one 12-pound gun that was blown up, the barrel was intact, and the other five guns were destroyed.

As the attacking North Navy entered a position more than 2000 meters away from the Russian position, the mortar group following behind also opened fire.The drones shuttled and stayed in the sky, and the observers in the camp kept reporting the distance and direction of the Russian firepower point to the mortar gun team ahead. The 4kg grenade fell scatteredly on the right flank of the third semicircular trench of the Russian army, and the shells flying from farther away made a sharp whistling sound.

"Admiral, the enemy's artillery fire is too fierce, and our artillery fortress in front has been completely lost."

"Have you found the enemy's artillery position?" Suvorov was secretly startled. He finally saw the ferocity of the North Navy's artillery, which was beyond his understanding of artillery.

"It seems to be on the north side of their camp, at least five kilometers away from us."

"What?!" Suvorov froze for a moment.

A few minutes later, hundreds of Russian troops in flaxen uniforms braved the bombing and smoke and passed through the trench. The captain raised his command knife and shouted: "Brothers! It's our turn! The hunters attack!"

Suddenly, the air blast from the explosion threw the captain into the edge of the ditch behind him. At this moment, balls of flames flashed in front of his eyes. The explosion and whistling almost tore his eardrums and made his ears buzzing. .

When he came to his senses and sat up with his hands on the ground, the hunters who were about to set off had already fallen down a large piece.Pieces of charred linen and weapons were strewn across the ground, and bullet craters filled with blood on the charred ground.A horse galloped past his eyes, dragging its broken shaft; the other lay on the ground, whining terribly.

In the headquarters of the Beihai Navy, Zhao Xin asked a staff officer, "Have you found the Russian cavalry?"

"Not yet, so far only a small number of cavalry have been found behind the second trench."

"Keep looking," Zhao Xin pondered for a while looking at the improvised map, then drew a circle with a pencil in a large forest in the northeast of Yaksa City, and said to the staff officer: "Let the No. search."

Liu Sheng on the side said: "It doesn't matter. Take down the third trench first, otherwise once the cavalry comes over, the second and third battalions may not be able to withstand it."

"Okay." Zhao Xin nodded, and said to another staff officer: "Notify the artillery position, all artillery positions will turn to the Russian army position at Emur to fire, and drive them all to Gucheng Island!"

Lieutenant Ivankov, who was bombed when he led the hunters, was frightened out of his soul. He was dragged into the trench by a few soldiers who escaped by chance, and then he felt that he had escaped from the horror of hell. Back to the world.

There was no sound of shooting from the artillery barracks not far away. He stood on the mud steps to check the movement outside the trench, and saw that the enemies in groups of twos and threes on the opposite side were less than 200 azhang away from him.

"Chirp! Chirp!" The bullet hit Captain Ivankov very close in front of him, splashing clusters of soil, causing him to shrink back quickly in fright.

"Brothers! Prepare to shoot, the enemy is coming!"

Hundreds of Russian Musketeers stood on the mud steps and began to prepare for shooting, but several of them were killed as soon as they emerged.

Seeing the enemy on the opposite side approaching constantly, Captain Ivankov remembered what the general said at this time, so he shouted: "Brothers! Don't stare at the enemy's eyes, but at their chest. Your bayonets To poke there!"

The muskets of the Russian army began to roar, and flames and white smoke spewed out on the trench. Just as the Russian army was busy reloading, a dozen black things suddenly appeared in the sky and fell into the trench one after another. In the trenches of the Russian army.

"Lie down!"

Before it was too late, explosions sounded one after another in the trench, and clouds of fire and mud erupted on the horizon.When Captain Ivankov propped up his body with his hands again and shook off the dirt on his body, a bright bayonet flashed past his eyes.

"kill!"

Captain Ivankov instinctively waved the saber in his hand, trying to block the bayonet, but both of them used too much force, and they collided immediately.They rolled and tore in the ditch, and the helmet of the North Navy soldier fell off. Both sides tried to grab each other's throat and pinch each other's eye sockets.

The sound of gunfire, killing, and shouting was chaotic in the trench, and the Russian army panicked. They didn't expect these Tatar-faced guys to be so fierce.

For several seconds, Captain Ivankov saw the strange face of his opponent.Looking at his opponent's fierce gaze, an instinctive fear came to his mind, and his right hand pinched the opponent's throat more and more tightly.Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his waist, and all the strength in his body was taken away along with the pain.

"Am I shot? Or am I going to be captured?" The thought only stayed for a moment, and Captain Ivankov's right hand was weakly released, and his eyes fell into darkness.

At this time, the sun had risen from the east, and the sunlight was divided into several streams by scattered clouds and gunpowder smoke, and fell on the Russian army's position.In the sun, everything on the ground is boiling.The ground was scarred by shells, and countless bloodthirsty steel fragments stayed in a pool of blood waiting to rust after completing their mission; the retreating Russian army was constantly overtaken by the bullets behind them, and fell to the ground.

Monk Zhou helped Kang Youcai, who was covered in mud and gasping for breath, half thankfully and half blamed, and said, "Kang Youcai, you are so fucking fierce! You have no bullets, so you have to fight the bayonet with Luo Sha? Xiaoqi will help you, I will burn paper money for you next year."

Kang Youcai looked at the muddy corpse on the ground with lingering fear, and said to Monk Zhou: "Company Commander, this is an official, I think, think, think."

"Get out! You are so courageous and stupid." Monk Zhou continued to scold, when he heard a "buzz", a solid iron ball passed over his head, Monk Zhou shrank his neck subconsciously, and looked at the people on the left and right. The soldier shouted: "Be careful and hide!"

On the two forts of the bastion of Yaksa City, the Russian 12-pound guns fired one after another, aiming at the third trench that had just been occupied.

Suvorov finally couldn't wait any longer. He found that the opponent's attack methods were far beyond his imagination, making all the experience he had accumulated in the previous decades of combat career worthless.If you continue to fight passively like this, the enemy will attack the city in a blink of an eye.

"Order the cavalry to attack, the target, the enemy's artillery positions. Tell them, they must destroy their artillery at all costs!"

Two cavalry regiments of the Russian army began to attack.However, because the northern side of Beihai Town's artillery position is densely covered with large and small puddles and swamps, the Russian cavalry cannot attack on a broad front. In some areas, the Russian cavalry can only charge in separate rows.Except for two companies that were left in reserve, the Cossack cavalry of the other companies had already thrown themselves into the attacking wave.

On the defensive position outside the Beihai Navy artillery position, the soldiers on several anti-aircraft artillery positions faintly heard the sound of killing: "Woo la la la ~ la la la ~ la ~ la!"

On the horizon, hundreds of Russian cavalry appeared, armed with spears, ready to launch a fatal blow to the Northern Navy.

"Fire!" From the morning until now, whether it is Zhao Xin or Liu Sheng, they have been waiting for this moment. After eliminating this cavalry, they can concentrate on dealing with Yaksa City.

The sound of drum-like firing sounded from various anti-aircraft artillery positions. Hundreds of shells whizzed through the puddles and swamps, exploding continuously among the Russian cavalry, and the originally neat charge formation instantly became chaotic.

More and more Cossack cavalry were knocked off their horses by the explosion, and the explosive grenades exploded on the ground like gorgeous fireworks in the early morning.

A Cossack who was pinned down by a dead horse shouted in horror: "Brothers! Don't leave me, help me!"

boom!
Da da da!Da da da!
Dozens of light and heavy machine guns on the North Navy's position also began to sound, firing bursts at the cavalry who escaped the artillery fire and continued to charge.

On the sandy land with a width of one kilometer, the artillery fire of the Northern Navy caused white smoke columns that exploded like whirlwinds to rise frequently from the attacking Russian cavalry, while the cavalry's attack wave was still raging.The shrapnel splashed from the center of the explosion was like a torrential rain, splashing on the attackers; the machine guns on the ground fired more ruthlessly and frantically, killing all the living things they could see.

The shock wave of the Russian cavalry was like the Heilongjiang water in the spring flood hitting the rocky shore and smashing it to pieces. They never broke through the first barbed wire.In just twenty minutes, more than 700 Russian cavalry were killed.

At Emulkaren, as the artillery fire from the North Navy continued to explode on the Russian defense line, the Russian army stationed here had already been bombed to pieces before seeing the enemy on the opposite side. , They yelled in panic, ignored the officer's order, fled in a hurry to the pontoon bridge, and retreated to the bastion on the ancient city island.

One kilometer away, the First Battalion of the Second Regiment of the Beihai Navy fired dozens of shells at the Russian camp with three mortars, and then launched a charge.

By 7 o'clock in the morning, the Russian army camp in Emur Karen had been completely captured by the North Navy.

At 7:10, after changing the coordinates, the inside and outside of the Russian bastion on Gucheng Island began to be baptized by the artillery of the North Navy. More than 2000 Russian troops had no way to go to the sky, and they had no way to enter the ground. They could only shrink under the fort wall Helplessly beseeching God.

Suvorov and his officers stared dumbfounded at everything in front of them. They didn't expect the "Qing people"'s offensive to be so violent, and they were so beaten that they had no power to fight back.

This was no longer the war he was familiar with.Compared with the enemies on the opposite side, Suvorov felt that the tactics and tactics he had learned since he was a child were completely outdated.Whether it is Alexander Macedonia or Hannibal, or even the contemporary masters of tactics such as Condé, Turenne, Prince Eugene Sava, and Rumyantsev, there is nothing they can do to face such an enemy.

This is no longer a battle, but a one-sided massacre!

　12磅步兵炮射程约1100米，18磅步兵炮射程约1300米，24磅是1500米。18磅要塞炮的射程能达到2400米，不过极为沉重。

　　
　
(End of this chapter)