Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 491 Surrender is a Pretend

Zhao Xin was actually joking with Li Rui. Since ancient times, the victor has never rushed to negotiate with the defeated party.

But he was right in guessing that Rumyantsev just wanted to delay time through negotiations. Before he sent someone to deliver the letter to the Northern Navy, he had already ordered his scouts to find another shortcut to cross the Oka River.

No one is willing to be a prisoner, and the generals of the Russian army are no exception.What's more, as the field marshal of the Tsarist Russian Empire and the governor of Little Russia, Rumyantsev did not want to end up with Suvorov.

If Zhao Xin deployed [-] troops along the coast of Zima, Rumyantsev would definitely not do what he wanted.But unfortunately, the North Navy was short of troops, and the Russian army felt that it had a chance.

The Russian captain who came to deliver the letter returned to the Russian Army Command with an ultimatum from the Northern Navy.When the Russian generals who heard the news heard the conditions of the Beihai Navy, they were all worried and worried.

It is one o'clock in the afternoon, and the Russian army has only 26 hours left.

"Is there any news from the reconnaissance team?" Lieutenant General Timoxin spoke.

Everyone heard the words and looked up at a colonel in the headquarters. The man glanced at Rumyantsev and saw that the commander-in-chief was calm, so he said: "The water volume of the Oka River is not large now, and the shallows of the river can be crossed." There were several places, two of which our scouts found a small number of enemy guards. Here, and here, no enemy was found."

After that, he marked several locations on the map on the table.Everyone saw that the two shoals where no enemy troops were found were both located [-] kilometers north of Zima, and they were very close to Perewoz County.The problem was such a large-scale troop movement that enemy scouts would surely spot it.

Lieutenant General Bezukhov said: "Distance is not a problem, our army can operate at night."

At this time, someone asked: "How to deal with those green cannons? That thing can run faster than a war horse."

A group leader said: "You can set up obstacles, cut down the trees, and just lay them on the road."

Rumyantsev drooped his face and sat sideways at the table. Although his face was expressionless, his mind was constantly thinking.If his opponent was a Turk, he would not have to take such painstaking efforts.The problem is that those Chinese troops who call themselves "Seresians" really can't treat other opponents as equals. All kinds of powerful and strange equipment emerge in endlessly, and the frontline generals they engage in can't deal with them at all.

He thought and thought, so he stood up and said, "I really didn't expect the battle to be fought like this. However, the conditions given by the enemy are unacceptable! I have thought a lot. At present, our army needs to rely on the rapid maneuvering of the cavalry. Do your best to stretch the enemy's supply lines so that they eventually retreat. Some of you here may disagree with the decision I am going to make, but as Commander in Chief, I have decided to force the Oka River by virtue of the authority entrusted to me by Our Lady and the State .”

Before the various ministries of the Russian army were counted, there were still more than 7000 troops.Except for the two cavalry regiments that were lost on the left wing, the other cavalry regiments were relatively complete.Moreover, because a large number of wounded and chaotic infantry became prisoners of war, the overall mobility of the Russian army has improved a lot.

Now the troops are less than [-] kilometers away from Nizhny Uginsk. If they can cross the Oka River covertly and quickly, rely on several supply stations between Zima and Nizhny Uginsk, plus the Oya River and Uda If the river is blocked, he can escape back to Nizhny Uginsk no matter what.As long as it is delayed until October, the cold winter in Siberia will begin. No one can fight in this kind of weather. The cold weather will be the biggest helper for the Russian army.

As soon as this remark came out, the Russian generals present stood up one after another to take orders, and then left.Time is running out, and there are still many things they need to arrange.

However, even though the Russian army's preparations were done carefully, the scouts of the Beihai Navy still found anomalies through drones. After all, things like cutting down trees and setting up obstacles would not be fast if there were fewer people.

At around 02:30 in the afternoon, after receiving information from the scouts ahead, Zhao Xin understood that the Russian army was planning to run away.Let alone Rumyantsev, it would be the same for himself.With an army of more than 3 in hand, the opponent has only a few thousand people. Even if it is difficult to fight, they will not surrender easily.

However, Zhao Xin was not in a hurry. After a night of thinking, he felt that his previous plan to wipe out the Russian army east of the Oka River was not realistic.Thousands of people eat tens of thousands of people. This is a huge pot of raw food. If there is a slight misuse, it is very likely to support yourself to death.

That being the case, it is better to take advantage of our own speed and stick to the back of the Russian army to implement the "zero-knocking brown sugar" tactic, chasing and knocking until the enemy's strength advantage is wiped out.

This is the case with war, nothing remains static, and the combat plan must always be adjusted at any time according to the enemy's situation.Rumyantsev wanted to lengthen the supply line of the Northern Navy, so Zhao Xin destroyed the supply points of the Russian army along the way.

The Russian army is currently staying in the village of Zalari, from where it is 750 kilometers to Nizhny Uginsk, and it is more than 5 kilometers to Krasnoyarsk.No matter how fast the war horse runs, it only has four legs.Large-scale cavalry groups can move up to 6-[-] kilometers per hour, let alone infantry wearing boots.

Wouldn't it be ridiculous to want to compare the speed with the iron feet and armored vehicles of the Beihai Navy!
He imagined that the Russian generals must think that if the Beihai Navy wants to pursue a long-distance pursuit, the logistical supplies will be unsustainable.The problem is that in this time and space, except for a few of our own people, no one knows that Zhao Xin is a huge "logistics supply station". As long as he follows the marching team, the Beihai Navy will not worry about supplies at all.

Ever since, Zhao Xin ordered the armored convoy and two battalions of infantry to set off immediately and launch a tentative attack two kilometers away from the Russian army.At the same time, Pan Xiucheng was ordered to leave two battalions in Zima, and send a battalion of troops to Tulun, 120 kilometers away, to destroy all the supply stations set up by the Russian army along the way, and to take the opportunity to capture the town of Tulum.

Sure enough, at five o'clock in the afternoon, when the attacking force of the Beihai Navy launched a tentative attack on the enemy, the Russian army was furious, and these green iron monsters came again!
After Rumyantsev heard the news, he was keenly aware that his opponent had already known his plan to flee, so he immediately ordered the troops to move out immediately, and arranged for a regiment of chasseurs, a small number of unicorn cannons and A squadron of hussars was in charge of the rear.As I said before, "chaser cavalry" is actually dragoon cavalry, that is, mounted infantry, which is more mobile than ordinary infantry.

The Russian army has also learned now, and they do not fight in line with the North Navy. The infantry either hides behind the parapet fortifications, or hides in the cottages or in the dense forest on both sides of the road.As long as the opponent does not come within two hundred yards of their own side, they will not fire a shot, and anyway, they will not hit at all at a distance.The artillerymen also change positions after firing two shots. Now there are more wealthy war horses, and the unicorn cannon weighing more than 400 kilograms can go away as soon as they say it.

The two sides were exhausted until dark. After losing a battalion, the Russian army withdrew from the battle in the dark. Before leaving, they set a fire and burned the small village of Zalari to a white ground. .

On September 9, when Chen Jishan's reserve regiment arrived at Kutulik Village and took over all the remaining prisoners of war, Zhao Xin led a team of more than 4 people to set off.

At this time, after two days of rapid march, the Russian army had reached the opposite bank of Perevoz County and began to cross the river one after another.However, when they entered the county town on the other side of the river, they faced crying residents and supply points that had been reduced to ashes.

In Eastern Siberia in the eighteenth century, except for the big towns like Yeniseysk, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny Uginsk, Irkutsk, Yakutsk, and Kyakhta, the residents of other settlements did not Not many, a hundred households top the sky.Bullying and bullying Yakuts or Buryats with muskets is okay, but it is undoubtedly a ridiculous thing to deal with more than 500 North Navy.

The generals of the Russian army didn't care about the local residents anymore. They stopped in the small Perevoz County for a while, and after scavenging the few cattle, sheep and grain, they hurriedly headed for the next supply point.

The worst happened, and three other supply points on the way to Tulum were also destroyed over the next two days.Rumyantsev originally wanted the Northern Navy, who was chasing after him, to eat horse meat as rations, but he experienced it himself first.

Three days later, more and more soldiers were left behind in the exhausted Russian army.Sometimes they keep up with the advancing column, sometimes they lag behind, and they are constantly changing.On September 9, there were several false alarms in the ranks. The soldiers shot at the deserted fields on both sides of the road indiscriminately, ran blindly, and the infantry and cavalry collided with each other. Gathered while yelling, and then complained and cursed each other for this unreasonable fright.

Entering Siberia in September, the temperature at night becomes very cold.The situation on the battlefield at this time has become a little weird, and the actions of the Tsarist Russian and Northern Navy armies are like a cat-and-mouse game.The Northern Navy walking in the front kept ringing bells to attract provocations; while in the rear of the Russian army, Zhao Xin led a large force of the Northern Navy to stick to the Russian army in a leisurely manner. More than 20 armored vehicles were like driving animals. The whip of the animal, this "livestock" was scarred and scarred.

On September 9, the Russian light cavalry of the two regiments responsible for the pursuit mission finally caught up with the Northern Navy's sabotage force at a distance of 9 kilometers from Tulum. The frustrated Russian army immediately launched an attack .If there is no more supplies, many cavalry can only become infantry.

"Urla! . . . Brothers . . . kill the Tartars . . . "

The cavalry, whipping and leaping, charged forward along the road.Everyone didn't care about the formation anymore, they just wanted to eliminate the annoying enemy in front of them.

Soon, there was intense gunshots ahead, bullets flying in the air roared past, and then there was the characteristic explosion sound of the Beihai Navy's mortars.In the billowing smoke, the Cossacks fell from their horses one by one onto the wet ground.

The battle lasted for more than half an hour, and the mortar shells carried by the Beihai Navy were almost exhausted, so they withdrew from the battle under the cover of the hilly terrain.What was left, apart from the dead bodies and dead horses all over the place, were the wounded Russian soldiers who howled like dogs out of despair.At night, the following Russian troops could only eat roasted horse meat.

When the Russian army set off from Zalari, there were more than 500 carts transporting luggage and artillery, but now there are less than [-].In order to protect the few remaining military supplies, each regiment sent people to closely guard the supply convoy, but looting incidents still occurred from time to time.

On September 9, the Northern Navy's assault force that destroyed the supply station of the Russian army suddenly appeared on the east bank of the Iya River.Before the local residents could react, they quickly seized the ferry.

The name "Tulun" comes from the Yakut language, which means "valley".The local population is less than [-], which is considered a big town.Facing the sudden and murderous Northern Navy, the settlers and the left-behind infantrymen resisted hastily, but muskets and sabers could not resist the rifles and grenades of the Northern Navy after all.

An hour later, the Russian cavalry who had chased to the other side of the Oia River saw puffs of black smoke rising from the town of Tulum, which made the Cossack cavalry on the verge of collapse look ashamed.

Although it was impossible for the Northern Navy to completely cut off their retreat, there were always plenty of places to go around in the surrounding fields, and the dark night that stretched out could allow them to cross the Oia River.As long as the Russian army would rather die than surrender, it will be difficult for the Beihai Navy to capture them all.

However, for the unit led by Rumyantsev, it is actually not suitable.Many Russian infantrymen have discarded their guns and ammunition just to walk faster.Due to lack of supplies and adequate rest, the morale of the troops was seriously low, and everyone was exhausted.Counting from the day Zalari began his escape, hundreds of thousands of thinly clad men died on the hasty march and in the bivouac.At this time, the Russian army understood that whether they continued to flee or attacked Tulum, the only thing waiting for them was death, either freezing to death or starving to death.

This kind of tactics of the Northern Navy made the Russian army extremely uncomfortable. The assault force that had been rushing forward turned what they thought was the rear into the front line.The Russian army that fell behind was constantly divided and surrounded, and then annihilated.

At this time, Zhao Xin was like an experienced herdsman. He knew that it was best to frighten a running animal with a whip from behind instead of whipping it head-on.

On September 9, the 11 remnants of the Russian army tried their best to cross the Iya River in the chaos.At this moment, they no longer want to fight the North Navy. Many people just want to go home because they have a way out.

They threw away all the artillery and carriages, and jumped into the icy river desperately, unable to take care of themselves.Some cavalry even ran far north along the winding river bank to avoid encounters with the Northern Navy.

Facing the blinding artillery fire and bullets from the pursuers on the opposite side of the ferry and behind, the skinny horses and soldiers were in a mess on the river bank. Countless people died on the east bank of the Oia River, and many people drowned in the water , and finally drifted downstream into the Angara River, and many people surrendered.

But those who had crossed the river continued to flee westward.Rumyantsev and several of his generals, surrounded by a small number of subordinates, left his most trusted soldiers, took advantage of the night to detour through the forest, and left in a hurry.

On September 9, thousands of remnants of the Russian army stranded east of the Iya River, struggling to die, under the leadership of General Bolkonski, raised the white flag and surrendered unconditionally to the Northern Navy.

And two days ago, Lu Shoushan's troops conquered Ilimsk, an important military fortress in the northeast of the Angara River, after a difficult trek.

In this way, the strategic objectives of the Beihai Navy in the first and second stages of the entire battle were basically achieved.The next step is to attack the land and water from the north and the south, and approach the Yenisei River!
(End of this chapter)