Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 366 Battle of Yaksa ([-])
The Russian army was in disarray, and the troops on the outskirts of Yaksa City were retreating to the first trench, and the living could no longer care about their dead companions.They fled in panic as soon as the fire was exchanged.It's not that they don't want to be brave, but that the Cossack and Buryat soldiers only have fear in their hearts when facing an enemy that can't be hit by muskets or cannons.

The order to retreat was issued by the officer closest to the soldiers in the ranks, without consulting not only Suvorov, but also the commanders of the regiments.Soldiers now have no time to fear punishment for disobeying orders or acting without authorization, nothing is more precious than their own lives.

Some people had to run back to be saved, and some felt that they could be saved by running north. The soldiers all acted according to their momentary mood.In fact, no matter which direction it is in, the situation of the Cossacks cannot be improved. A dozen machine guns of the Northern Navy are a fan.The Cossacks were scurrying in the hail of bullets, or stood on the mud steps and shot randomly at the alternately advancing enemies.

The officers stationed in the city tried to rectify the fleeing troops and force the defeated soldiers to obey discipline.However, this so-called discipline just pushes them to the front of the gunfire again. Out of the fear of death, they lose discipline again, and because facing death, their emotions run wild again.

The closer the Beihai Navy got to the city of Yaksa, the more fierce the offensive was, like a shell that was about to hit the ground after being unloaded, unstoppable.Behind it are thousands of miles of white mountains and black waters full of hatred, and in front of it is only more than 200 miles away from the Ergun River, which divides the border.Every soldier in the Northern Navy felt that the dawn of victory in this battle had dawned.

"Admiral, the enemy's small force has attacked Gucheng Island!"

"Admiral, the bastion of Gucheng Island was bombed by the enemy's heavy artillery. We really don't understand why their heavy artillery moves so fast!"

"Admiral, our soldiers in the second-line trenches are being slaughtered!"

A major general approached Suvorov and suggested to him that the Jaegers in the city should go into battle.Major General Alexei, who was standing beside Suvorov, exchanged glances with the others, and smiled wryly at the general's meaningless suggestion.

Suvorov's entire facial expression at this time appeared calm and tense. He was silent for a long time before he said: "I can no longer let my soldiers die. Order the troops outside the city to retreat to the first trench."

He dusted the ribbon on his chest, as if dust had settled on it.Then he said to his opponent with a calm face: "Gentlemen, raise the white flag and send someone to contact the Qing people on the opposite side, so that this senseless massacre will stop as soon as possible."

After hearing this, many Russian officers present were relieved.It is now 8:[-] in the morning, and it has only been three and a half hours since the battle started. The Russian army has been beaten and has no power to fight back. There are only two hundred cavalry left, and the four infantry regiments have lost more than half.They all know that there is no more fighting now, only continuous massacres
On the artillery position of the Beihai Navy, Li Yansheng wore a red sound-proof earmuff and stood 50 meters behind the artillery position to watch the excitement. Every time the D30 fired a cannon, the muscles on his face could not stop trembling.

As a former artillery co-leader of the Qing Army, the 16-jin cast-iron cannon in red is already the largest artillery he has ever seen, and the [-]-jin shell ([-] pounds) can hit three miles from the top of the city. Li Yansheng thinks the most powerful cannon But that's all.

But it wasn't until yesterday that he finally saw the cannons of the Beihai Navy.When he saw the cannon barrel, which was more than ten feet long and only as thick as a calf, and heard that the cannon had a maximum range of forty miles, Li Yansheng lost his ability.So when the Northern Navy launched an attack in the early hours of this morning, he had to come over to watch the cannon fire.

At first he was very close, trying to see how the breech block was closed through close observation, but he couldn't do it for a long time.The first test shot made him feel that the sound was acceptable, but Li Yansheng couldn't bear it when the five cannons fired five rounds in a hurry. The taste was really "sour"; especially the two The calf, every time the gun was fired, it was as if someone had palpated it with a stick.

When the five artillery pieces of the Beihai Navy were fired, all gunners had to obey the command of the gunner. Every time they shouted "Ready--let!" Shock waves can damage hearing.The dust was flying around the cannon position, and the mouth and nose were so choked that it was almost impossible to breathe.After staying for a long time, Li Yansheng felt that his heart was about to jump out of the shock.

There is such a cannon in this world? !The imperial court is still playing a fart, hurry up and make peace, the Beihai Navy will sweep the world sooner or later!
Li Yansheng felt that all the strongholds of the Qing Dynasty were scum in front of such cannons, and he was extremely grateful for his decision to join the Beihai Navy.He kept watching it like this, until the Rakshasa cavalry launched an attack, and his attention turned to the direction of the anti-aircraft battery.And when he finished watching the massacre of the Rakshasa cavalry by the Northern Navy, Li Yansheng's face turned pale with shock. There were nearly a thousand cavalry, and it was over in a blink of an eye.

At this time, Zhao Xin had learned that the white flag had been raised over the city of Yaksa, but his attack on Gucheng Island had not stopped.

Liu Sheng and Fan Tong have already led Huji's Sixth Regiment to board the ship by the river. Now the Russian forts on the east side of Gucheng Island and the west side of Yaksa City have been suppressed by the artillery fire of the North Navy. Opening the pontoon bridge of the Russian army, Liu Sheng will lead the fleet straight to Irkutsk, completely sealing the gate of Tsarist Russia into the Far East.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, with several huge explosions, the pontoon bridges erected by the Russian army on Gucheng Island and Heilongjiang were shattered into pieces. At 9:15, Liu Sheng's fleet crossed Paiwai Island under the clearing of two dark gray patrol boats.When the fleet crossed the river section of the pontoon bridge that was blown up, it ran into the Russian fleet that was waiting in full battle.

Under the cover of the intensive rain of bullets from the two patrol boats, dozens of RPG-7V2 rockets were sprayed out from the two catamaran passenger ships following the patrol boat, and dense explosions suddenly sounded on the river.Because the effective range of this thing is only 200 meters, since Zhao Xin bought it the year before last, he has not used it in actual combat except for training, and he finally used it today.

After firing more than 100 rockets, the Russian fleet was basically disabled.So stunned by the thousands of Russian troops at the head of the city of Yaksa, the fleet of the North Navy quickly passed through the wooden boats that were emitting black smoke and ignited raging fires, and soon disappeared on the river.

When Suvorov heard the news, his expression changed drastically, and he instantly aged a little.He understood what the enemy's fleet was doing. Once the enemy went up the Heilongjiang River to Irkutsk on the west bank of Lake Baikal, the entire Irkutsk province would be over; Hotzke and even Kamchatka will run out of food, and there will be no need to send troops at that time, and these two coastal strongholds will soon perish.And once the empire's eastern seaport is lost, the fur trade routes of the Aleutian Islands and even Alaska will also be interrupted.

The loss was too great for Suvorov to bear.He had no time to think about how the Empress of St. Petersburg would punish him, but ordered his Major General Alexei to fly the white flag to discuss surrender with the Northern Navy.

At 12:[-] noon, Zhao Xin learned that Liu Sheng's fleet had arrived at the Ergun River and was about to enter Tsarist Russia.Only then did he order the ministries to stop firing and stand ready.By this time, the Russian army on Gucheng Island had been wiped out; and the Russian army outside Yaksa City had all retreated into the city.

When Major General Alexei finally saw Zhao Xin, who spoke fluent Russian, he realized that this was not the Qing army at all, but the legendary armed forces that had been fighting against the Qing Empire.

Zhao Xin's conditions are very simple, lay down your arms and surrender unconditionally.

"I will only give you one hour. After one hour, if the gate of Yaksa City is not opened and you do not come out and disarm, we will continue to bombard the castle."

Major General Alexei said very sincerely: "Your Excellency, I have no objection to your conditions. But isn't the time a little harsh? We hope to restrain the compatriots who died in battle and bury them."

Zhao Xin said: "Major General, this is not a conflict, you can send someone to collect the body now. Go and tell your general my conditions. I will wait for his arrival here in four or ten minutes."

When Suvorov led his officers out of the east gate of Yaksa City and passed through the trenches carefully dug by the Russian army, they saw a large number of corpses of their own soldiers.

Regardless of whether they were officers or soldiers, they lay or lay down, either in the trenches, or in the open space between the trenches, or in the bomb craters, in different postures, most of them were very ugly and terrible.The wet ground near the corpse was trampled into thick mud, and there were footprints and deep ruts left by the gun carriages everywhere.

The Russian army walked through the pile of dead bodies, and the entire battlefield was filled with the pungent smell of blood and gunpowder smoke.

"You rakshasa, look at what you've done, is it still human affairs? After killing others, now you will be punished."

A soldier of the Northern Navy with a gun looked at Suvorov and the others without fear, cursing in a low voice in Mandarin, which the Tsarist Russians could not understand, and the entire Russian army knew without a translator that there must be no good words in the other party's mouth.

Suvorov ordered his men to stop advancing. He took a few steps alone, took off his military appearance, and carefully looked at the soldiers and officers who died in battle, trying to remember their appearance.When he walked silently to the third trench, he looked for a long time at a captain whose face was still clearly identifiable after his death.

Suvorov noticed that some of these officers who died in battle were killed by bullets, but most were killed by shells.Obviously, the grenades of the Beihai Navy were very lethal. Many soldiers died piece by piece centered on the bombing point.

The young captain came to eat with him the day before yesterday and yesterday, but now he has no hat on his head, and he is lying on his back with his eyes open, his left hand pressed tightly to his chest, and his right arm stretched aside, from his waist. The blood oozing from the military uniform had turned black.

The corpse on his right lay face down, the sash on the back waist had come off, the linen military uniform was bulging on the back like a hump, and a strong leg with prominent veins was exposed. Short leather boots with slanted heels.There was no hat on his head, nor even the cap, which had been neatly chipped off by shell splinters; all around him was a circle of wet, empty skulls gleaming with dark red muddy water.

Behind him lay a short, stocky, faceless officer in an open tunic and ragged uniform, his chin leaning slantingly on his bare chest, and a patch of charred skin hanging from beneath his hair on a bright white narrow forehead Between the hard palate and the tip of the forehead are some bone fragments and a puddle of purple soup.A little further on was a haphazard pile of limbs and bits of uniform and a crushed leg twisted where the long head should have been.

A little farther off lay a corpse that was almost childlike, with full lips and a childlike oval face; four holes had been pierced through his chest by a row of machine-gun bullets.

"Is this war? How can war become so bloody and cruel?"

At this time, the militiamen who came out of Yaksa City to gather the wounded and dead soldiers were also shocked by the scene. Many people lay on the ground and began to vomit, crying and wailing began to echo in the wilderness superior.

Except for the soldiers of the Northern Navy, the Cossacks who went out of the city and stood on the city wall all drew the cross, and some even knelt on the city wall.Everyone remained silent and did not speak for a long time.

Kang Youcai, who was squatting on the edge of the trench, seemed unable to bear the oppressive atmosphere. He pointed at the Cossacks on the castle and scolded: "You guys are afraid now? Why did you go so early?! You beat Guigudar Why don’t you know how to be afraid when you hit Humar City? A group of beasts who don’t remember to eat!”

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Zhao Xin finally met the famous Tsarist Russian general in this time and space. Under the surprised gaze of the other party, he stretched out his right hand and shook Suvorov lightly, then released it.

"Sit down, General."

Suvorov sat down expressionlessly, stared at Zhao Xin for a long time, and then sighed: "I was wrong from the beginning. You are not the army of the Qing Dynasty."

"This statement is both correct and incorrect." Zhao Xin and other guards brought a pot of tea and poured water, and then continued: "Whether we are the army of the Qing Dynasty or not, we are also Chinese, and you have invaded our territory .As for the conflict between me and the Qing Dynasty, that is our own business."

"Then what should I call you? Young man. You are the first opponent to ask me to raise the white flag."

"My surname is Zhao. Your major general Alexandro, who was captured in Heilongjiang City, called me His Highness. And with the Qing emperor, I am a descendant of a former vassal king." Looking surprised, Zhao Xin put away his smile and said: "As for raising the white flag, general, as invaders, I should hang you all to death. This principle can be said wherever you go."

"Gallows? This is nothing. If your highness can let my men go back, I have no objection even if they are hanged."

"Hehe, go back, is there such a good thing in this world? If you can't beat it, bow your head and admit defeat, pat your ass and leave, just pretend nothing happened?"

"Then what do you want to do?"

"Put down your weapons, leave the city and surrender, and wait for your release. During this period, I allow you to collect the bodies of all the war dead. There is no need to dig the graves. I think the trenches you dug outside the city are fine."

As soon as this remark came out, except for Suvorov, the other Russian generals quit.

"Your Excellency, you will be punished by God for doing this. Blabla"

"Those soldiers and officers who died in battle are entitled to a gravestone of their own!"

Zhao Xin smiled and did not refute. He sipped the tea in his cup and listened quietly to these people's nonsense.

Suvorov suddenly raised his hand to stop everyone's chatter, looked at Zhao Xin and said, "Are you going to attack Irkutsk?"

"Yes," Zhao Xin showed his habitual smirk. "Since you always have ambitions for the Far East, then I will help you. From now on, we will use the Yenisei River as our boundary."

Suvorov was shocked: "Young man, you can't do this! Are you going to go to war with a huge empire?"

Zhao Xin immediately threw out a sentence, which immediately made all the Russian generals in the room shut their mouths in shock.

"General, what you said disappointed me so much. Well, then, I will send someone to contact the Ottoman Empire and carve up Ukraine with them. I think His Majesty the Sultan will be very happy for me to provide military assistance."

(End of this chapter)