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Chapter 672 Thoroughly Solve the Northern Strategic Problem
The Battle of Yeniseysk, from a strategic point of view, in fact, the Chu army accelerated its march and killed Yeniseysk in September. More importantly, it also passed the Yenisei River and reached the west bank Rear.

The balance of victory has already tilted towards the Chu army.

Because in terms of hard power, the Yenisei dispatched army of the Chu army and the second brigade of the navy's small North Sea Fleet are far superior to the defenders in Yenisesk.

Not to mention the absolute firepower advantage formed by a large number of flintlock guns, artillery, and grenades, the military strength alone far exceeds the Russian army.

The army and navy of the Great Chu Empire gathered here are more than 5000 people, which is more than all the residents of Yeniseysk City, and even the total population of the surrounding villages...

This situation is the same as the second Zhungeer battle a few years ago. The Chu army marched from multiple directions at the same time.

If you add support staff and other personnel, it will be hundreds of thousands, which is larger than the total population of the Zhungeer Ministry and other dependent tribes under its control.

The Great Chu Empire likes to fight this kind of war where the more fight the less, and the strong bully!

It seems that the process is flat, there are no thrilling scenes, and there are no surprise attacks, such as shocking miracles such as winning more with less.

But... All kinds of surprise attacks, amazing tactical miracles, etc., often only appear in weak countries.

However, in powerful countries, so-called famous generals and miraculous battles are rarely seen... This is not to say that the commander's ability and the bravery of the soldiers are not enough, but that there is no such opportunity...

Think about it, when the so-called famous generals of weak countries take to the battlefield with scarce troops and poor weapons and equipment, they rack their brains and think of various ways to narrow the gap in strength between the two sides and create as much tension as possible in the situation. time of advantage.

The seemingly mediocre generals of the powerful countries, who are not well-known, are humming a little tune, and in a happy mood, they take the absolute superiority of troops and weapons to the battlefield. When they arrive at the place, they casually glance at the enemy and order their troops to wave casually... Then he turned around and went back to sleep.

When you wake up...the victory is at your fingertips.

This is basically the case in the wars of the Great Chu Empire, especially in the army, even in the later period of the domestic unification war.

Rarely play any messy tactics, that is to gather more troops, more guns, and more ammunition supplies to crush them all the way... So far, no enemy can withstand the crushing of the Great Chu Empire Army Pressure combat.

In the past, the Dongbao people, who were known as invincible, were brave enough...the senior generals among them are not bad, but despite their tricks, the soldiers fought bravely, and there were even countless times when they resisted with flesh and blood. A heroic example of the Chu Army's guns.

But how does this...

The Dongbang people have now disappeared into the long river of history as an ethnic group.

Zhungeer is strong enough. They have an extremely powerful cavalry unit. It can even be said to be the most powerful cavalry unit in Mongolia and Central Asia. They can pull out tens of thousands of fine cavalry every minute. Pull out 10,000+ cavalry.

Moreover, their cavalry is not the traditional cavalry that lags behind the times. In fact, the Zhungeer cavalry is very advanced with the times, and they are equipped with a large number of guns.

They used Thomas to carry a large number of small-caliber artillery for rapid maneuvering, and then carried out shelling operations after arriving at the place, and their cavalry were also equipped with a large number of matchlock guns.

The intensity of the overall firepower is second to none in Central Asia. The nomadic cavalry of the Kazakh Khanate next door are not worthy of carrying their shoes.

But when they met the Chu army, they were not crushed into powder. Now there are only a few remnants hiding in Tibet, lingering in the upper reaches of the Irtysh River, the eastern and northern areas of Yibohai (Lake Balkhash).

Today's Russians are no exception, despite their struggles, but when the Great Chu Empire got serious about launching the northern strategy, in fact the ownership of the central and eastern regions of Siberia had already been decided.

With the strength and population of the Russians in Siberia, how could they withstand the fierce offensive of the Great Chu Empire.

Even if the power projection and population of the Great Chu Empire in the northern region were smaller, it was still relatively speaking.

In other places, the empire may gather a dozen or 20 troops at every turn, and mobilize millions of young and strong to support the war.

In the northern region, only tens of thousands of people can be mobilized to participate in the war, and there are only 10,000+ young people supporting the war in the rear.

However, this is still much stronger than the strength of the Russians in Siberia.

This huge strategic advantage brought about by this kind of national power, as long as the frontline generals of the Chu army do not make huge mistakes, then this war will be a sure win.

The only uncertainty is how to win!

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Regarding these huge strategic disadvantages, the high-level Russian authorities in Yeniseysk actually know that they have tried to improve this huge strategic disadvantage before, but how... hard power is so, not because they want to change it. able to change.

The only thing they can do now is to hold on stubbornly until winter comes, and then hope that when winter comes, the Chu army will take the initiative to retreat because of the lack of follow-up.

The whole idea is actually similar to that of the Russian army in the city of Yakutsk on the Lena River.

And the ending is pretty much the same...

The city of Yakutsk on the Lena River failed to hold, and the Russian army in Yeniseysk also failed to hold it.

On September [-], the second day after the Chu army crossed the river, more Chu army troops, artillery and ammunition crossed the river smoothly, and put them into the siege operation.

Among them, the temporary artillery unit of the navy is indispensable.

The navy has always had the tradition of moving the naval guns on the battleships to land, and then organizing them as temporary artillery units to support land operations. Even small and medium-caliber naval guns, especially large-caliber howitzers, were designed with temporary reinforcements in mind. The possibility of installing land gun mounts and going ashore for combat.

Although the whole process is cumbersome, and it is inconvenient to use the naval gun after changing the gun mount, it can provide powerful fire support for ground troops anyway.

After all, the navy's naval guns are far more powerful than the army's firepower.

On the army side, the 115mm field gun is already an important main support artillery at the division and military level. The 150mm howitzer is also used to limit the weight. They are all attached to the independent heavy artillery unit, and are rarely seen in ordinary field battles.

As for the Navy, the 115mm naval guns are considered small-caliber... Especially after the Navy adopted a unified large-caliber naval gun plan, all newly built warships, even inland river warships, are equipped with larger-caliber ships. gun.

The main inland river gunboat in the second brigade of the Small Beihai Fleet, namely the first-class northern-class inland river gunboat, has a full-load displacement of only more than 180 tons, but the main guns equipped are two 130mm medium-tube guns and two 130mm short-tube gunships gun.

A battleship of more than 180 tons is equipped with four 130mm naval guns... This is a very exaggerated figure, and it is very rare even among typical inland river battleships with small boats carrying cannons.

However, this is a typical phenomenon in the unified large-caliber naval gun plan of the Great Chu Empire Navy in recent years.

This time, the second brigade supporting the army's operations, in addition to letting a number of inland river gunboats risk close to the artillery, also installed more than 20 naval guns on temporary army gun mounts, and then pulled them ashore to participate in the artillery shelling, so as to directly support the army's operations .

Most of these more than 20 artillery pieces are 130mm caliber medium-barreled and short-barreled naval guns, and there are also many 150mm short-barreled naval guns.

These artillery will fire solid shells or grenades, and will undertake the main shelling mission.

Coupled with the army's own dozens of artillery pieces, this is another battle in which more than 100 artillery pieces shelled the Russian defenders!
Under such circumstances, starting from September [-]th, the rumbling explosions in Yeniseysk city have not stopped. From morning to evening, even at night, the Chu army moved towards Yenisei when they had nothing to do. Sky City fired several rounds of shelling...

After such intense bombardment lasted for three days, the city of Yenisesk was already in a mess, and the outermost fortifications did not collapse. Most of these fortifications were built to defend against solid shell bombardment, and the overall defensive performance is actually good... At least the large number of flowering bombs fired by the Chu army could not cause any damage to these strong fortifications.

But the problem is...these bastion fortifications themselves are fine, and it doesn't mean that the Russian soldiers stationed inside are fine.

Grenades...in contemporary times, they are not used to attack the fortifications themselves, but to kill and injure the enemy's vital forces in large numbers.

Especially the air-burst bomb that the Chu army likes to use most, once it explodes on top of densely packed enemies, it can make a large area in minutes.

During the three days of fierce shelling, the Russian army defending the city suffered a large number of casualties, and their morale was extremely low, and a large number of deserters had begun to appear.

Unlike the Chu army outside the city, which are all professional soldiers, the Russian army inside the city actually has not many formal regular troops, just a thousand people, and more are actually mercenaries and temporary militiamen.

And among the above three, those militiamen and mercenaries are not very capable of withstanding a tragic war...

If there is nothing wrong, it’s okay if the overall casualties are not high, and it’s not a big problem to help defend the city, but once the casualties increase and the fighting becomes fierce, then it’s easy to flee or even collapse on a large scale.

Now the Russian army in Yeniseysk is on the verge of a major collapse.

The fourth day of the large-scale bombardment, September 21, felt the weather getting colder and colder, and the technical personnel accompanying the army and the local guides were all judging, based on the experience of previous years and the weather changes in the recent period , I am afraid that it will not take long for the local area to usher in a severe cooling and snowfall.

They can't accurately judge this time, but they can probably guess it. It is estimated that it will be in early October.

In other words, there is not much time left for the Chu army to attack the city of Yenisesk.

Optimistically, there are still ten days left, but if you are unlucky, it may only be five or six days or even three or four days.

Therefore, the Chu army on the front line did not hide, and launched a full-scale general offensive on the fourth day after the fierce shelling in the first three days.

They want to fight to end the battle before a large-scale snowfall, and then enter the city of Yeniseysk to spend the winter.

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When the Chu army launched a full-scale attack, a large number of infantry units began to participate, and under the cover of fierce artillery fire, they hit the city of Yenisesk like a tide.

Such a fierce offensive is simply not something the defenders in the city can resist.

On the first day of the full-scale offensive, because the Chu army's attention was mainly focused on the fortifications on the city defense and the fortification nodes outside the city, and also to avoid a large number of casualties, they fought relatively cautiously.

Therefore, although the Russian army suffered heavy casualties, more than 300 people were killed and injured in a day of fierce fighting, but it was still able to survive without a comprehensive collapse.

But on the second day, that is, on the 22nd, when the Chu army went through the test of the large-scale infantry attack on the first day, it launched a targeted fierce attack on several weak points of the Russian army's defense the next day, and used Grenadier commando.

When the Chu army dispatched elite infantry such as grenadier commandos, the battle situation often reached the point of victory and defeat, life and death.

More than 200 people are all over 1.8 meters tall, all of them are strong and strong, wearing heavy-duty bulletproof breastplates made of high-carbon steel, holding flintlock guns, two quick-fire pistols and several grenades pinned to their waists When the grenadiers began to attack the Russian army fiercely.

The already overwhelmed Russian army finally collapsed completely.

The remnants of the Russian army began to flee and surrender, but they no longer had the last ounce of determination to resist.

It's not that they are not brave, but that they are really unstoppable...

A few days ago, only when the Chu army was shelling, although they were bombarded to death by the artillery, at least the Chu army infantry did not launch a large-scale attack.

Yesterday, when the Chu army sent out infantry to attack, they were almost unable to hold on. However, in order to avoid too many casualties, the Chu army stopped fighting. Many times they would rather slow down the pace of attack than die There are too many people. After all, the infantry attack on the first day was still based on probing and scouting the deployment of the enemy's defensive forces and looking for weak links.

However, even so, the Russian army in the city was almost unstoppable.

If the Chu army hadn't retreated by itself in the end, Yeniseysk would have changed hands yesterday.

But until today, when the Chu army really launched a full-scale attack and dispatched elite infantry such as grenadiers, the resistance of the Russian army was even more unrealistic.

They did not flee or surrender collectively before the grenadiers of the Chu army rushed up, and barely resisted for about half an hour. This is already very worthy of their Russian tsar.

Of course, it was only half an hour of resistance, and this half hour was actually the time for the Chu army to continue to advance... No matter how elite the Chu army's grenadiers are, they can't fly, they can only rely on two Legs keep propelling across the battlefield.

When the grenadiers advanced to the main defense line of Yenisesk City, the Russian army naturally collapsed.

As soon as the Chu army arrived, those who surrendered surrendered, and those who ran away...

At this time, the city of Yenisesk can already be declared conquered by the Chu army!
In the follow-up, the Chu army did not force these fleeing remnants too hard, let alone rush into the city to pursue them. Instead, they carefully controlled the main defense nodes along the city wall.

Then the grenadiers began to welcome a large number of ordinary infantry into the city.

After the ordinary infantry entered the city and formed an absolute advantage in strength, they began to gradually advance towards the city.

This kind of advance in the urban area is also very characteristic of the Chu army's combat, that is, advancing piece by piece... It doesn't mean running directly along the avenues in the city, running directly to the center of the city... but taking the area as the basis. The goal is to control one area and then advance to the next area.

This kind of control, in order to rule traffic arteries, important buildings, etc., aims to cut and disperse the remaining enemy forces that may exist in the city.

Prevent the remaining enemies in the city from organizing large-scale ambush operations.

After controlling these areas, the next step is to carry out a more detailed clean-up operation. The Chu army will enter every house, search everyone, and in the process kill any recalcitrant elements and arrest any suspicious elements.

At the same time, it was accompanied by the confiscation of various loot and so on.

Well, the link of copying and confiscating the loot is the most popular among the soldiers.

Everyone traveled all the way from China to this northern ice field to fight life and death. In addition to carrying out orders, serving the imperial court, and making contributions, they naturally also hoped to get some loot to make a small fortune.

During foreign wars, the Chu army generally dealt with spoils generously, except for weapons and ammunition, bulk supplies, a large amount of gold and silver in the treasury, and organized raids on the enemy's dignitaries.

When fighting on weekdays, the soldiers seized some private trophies on the battlefield, and the officials generally adopted a tacit attitude. Even the post office in the army would help the soldiers send the trophies home...

The same is true for the battle in Yeniseysk this time. Under the sweep of the army, the Chu army won a large number of official spoils, and many of the soldiers also had bulging pockets.

Some got gold and silver ornaments and utensils, and more got a lot of furs. These furs may be of average value in places like the Arctic Ice Field, but they are sent back to their native regions, especially North China, Northeast China and other northern provinces. Well, the price is high.

This campaign against the city of Yeniseysk is a carnival of spoils!

In order to avoid conflicts among the ministries over the loot issue, the dispatched army also specially ordered to delineate areas for each district in the city, and each unit was responsible for their own investigation. Even the navy personnel were assigned to a block to carry out the clearing operation.

In this way, all troops have the opportunity to eat a wave of spoils, and everyone is happy...

When the Chu army's purge operation in Yenisesk City lasted for three days and the purge operation was completely over, Yenisessk City finally ushered in the first wave of extreme cold this year!
Overnight, the temperature dropped sharply, and there was a lot of snow!
The arrival of this large-scale cold wave also announced that the series of military operations of the Great Chu Empire's northern strategy had pressed the pause button, and began to be busy for the winter, while also making active preparations!

Next year, the Great Chu Empire will plan to cover the Yenisei River Basin and the area east of it, and at the same time expand its troops westward to the Ob River Basin, starting the later stage of the northern strategy.

That is to capture the Ob River Basin and completely solve the problem of strategic security in the north.

And the upper reaches of the Ob River Basin, the upper reaches of the Irtysh River, is where the Jungar remnants occupy.

Therefore, in next year's northern strategy, in order to fully control the Ob River Basin, not only will it target the Russians, but it will also launch a new round of strikes against the remnants of the Zhungeer.

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There is an easter egg chapter at the back, and the northern strategic map is uploaded, you can take a look.

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