Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 2128 Naowen City and Hulunbeier ([-])

The geographical location of Naowen City is roughly near Qiqihar, Heilongjiang in later generations. It was one of the important strongholds for the Manchu government to control Heilongjiang. It was once a provincial capital, which shows its importance.

However, in this time and space at the end of the 17th century, North Manchuria was almost completely swallowed up by the people on the east coast. There was no so-called Heilongjiang Province in the Qing Dynasty, and Naowen City was not a provincial capital. It had almost degenerated into a pure military stronghold. On the one hand, the defensive portal of the Hulun Buir Grassland is also to properly contain the people on the east coast of Harbin and Model Fort, so that they have to curb their greed a little, and no longer rush south to encroach on various places in Jilin.However, after the people on the east bank found another way to insert into the Hulun Buir Grassland from the outside, northeast and south, after the fall of Ninggu Tower in the east and the surrender of Haixi Jurchen, Naowen City has become a glaring isolated stronghold, and its fate is basically doomed.

Naowen City is said to be a city, but it is actually just a bigger village.In the North Manchuria region, where the economy and culture are extremely backward, if you want to build a beautiful brick and stone city, the cost is very high.That is to say, the people on the east bank are relatively rich, and at the same time enjoy the convenience of water transportation, and the cost of firing bricks and tiles is also extremely low, which is worthy of building some forts, grain stations or Cities, but the scale is actually not very big, and it is really incomparable with the cities in Guanzhong.

Naowen City is generally in a square structure, facing the Nen River in the west and vast forests and fields in the east.The city walls of Naowen City are made of wood, covered with a thick layer of soil, which is used to absorb the kinetic energy of the shells, and also has the function of fire prevention.The city wall is boxy and has no special features. There is no increase in protrusions, nor does it reduce the folded line city wall in the bomb nest area. It is too traditional to be a traditional ancient city wall. What challenges exist—the artillery accompanying the army is drawn from Harbin Fort and Model Fort, with a total of 4 artillery companies and 32 artillery pieces of various types.

There are no fortresses outside the city to form a crossfire with the main city, which makes it easier for the besieging army to form formations.The only obstacle is that the terrain outside the city is too open and flat for the cavalry to drive.But these may be a problem for the army of the ancient Central Plains dynasty, but for the people on the east coast with a large number of cavalry, it is not a problem at all!They have mobilized a thousand well-trained cavalry for this trip!

Of course, people from the east bank brought more infantry, including 21 soldiers from the 2000st Infantry Regiment of the 1000th Division of the New Army, 3600 soldiers from the garrison teams in Harbin and Momo, and 6600 soldiers from the Pingan Road Township in North Korea. There are about 500 people.In addition, the people from the east bank also brought nearly 1000 artillery, 8500 cavalry, and some scouts, guards, and miscellaneous personnel of the command headquarters. The total force was close to [-], which was quite large.

And in order to prepare for such a large-scale "battle"-in the outer northeast, such a scale is enough to become a battle-the Manmeng Pioneering Team not only emptied their own family resources, but also borrowed a large amount of food from Denglai and Ningbo. materials to ensure that the battle can be carried out smoothly.Considering the time difference between the secondment of the materials and their actual arrival, the Manchurian side planned the battle at least a year in advance.After spending so much painstaking effort, spending so much money and food, and gathering so many troops, if we don't conquer Naowen City in one fell swoop, it will be unreasonable!

The number of Qing troops defending the city was quite a lot. At the peak, there were nearly 3000 people, all of whom were full of Mongolian Eight Banners, and their combat effectiveness was not bad.However, since Galdan’s high-profile attack on the Mongolian grassland, the defenders of Naowen City have been reduced again and again, and a large number of them have been transferred to other places to fight. The number of local garrison soldiers has dropped to about 800, and there is almost no threat. .

However, because of the Junggar Mongolian incident, the number of Mongolians who escaped the war and came to live in Naowen City has also increased recently.The veteran defender of the city, Sabusu, the governor of Naowen City, made a plan. He recruited some capable fighters from these Mongols. There were about 1000 people who joined the city defenders to fight against the Mongols. The offensive of the East Coasters.

At this time, some of these Mongols, about 800 people, have been arranged in an open space outside the city.Following the command of the commander, these Mongols in messy clothes, ordinary equipment and various weapons rushed towards the people on the east bank with a sudden push on their horses.

Major Bei Zhensheng, who commanded the army, stood on a temporary wooden high platform. After seeing these Mongols rushing through the binoculars, he laughed directly and said: "It seems that these Qing people have never absorbed pine nests. The lesson of the Battle of the People’s Liberation Army, they still want to use cavalry to charge the battle. I can’t believe that it’s already in the 90s, and there are still people using such a backward and boring style of play.”

Speaking of the battle of Songshuwozi during the previous conquest of Ningguta, the Qing army and the East Bank encountered in the wild.At that time, more than 2000 men from the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia attacked the east bank army that was in a hurry to form, but they were intercepted and slowed down by the east bank cavalry. The intensive firepower of the infantry on the east coast, which had been prepared, was suddenly beaten and fled.Afterwards, the situation became easy to understand. Two thousand Qing troops were flanked by infantry from the east bank, and lost more than half of them. Relying on their familiarity with the environment, the rest hurried back to Ninggu Tower, and were finally wiped out by the besieging army. It's over.

What is it that gave the Qing army in Naowen City such confidence that they dared to attack the army formation that the people on the east bank had already lined up?Aren't you afraid of encountering a broken head again?The course of the war over the years has repeatedly shown that the East Coast military formation in formation cannot be moved.One of the characteristics of a modern army is high training frequency, high intensity, good equipment, and high morale. It is completely different from the serf infantry in the Middle Ages. The Mongolian cavalry wants to defeat the enemy with cavalry as easily as their ancestors, but I am afraid it will not work. up.Although Sabusu is old-fashioned, he does not understand this principle. The reason why he did this is probably because he wanted to use these worthless Mongolian herdsmen who were recruited temporarily to test the quality of the people from the east coast who attacked. .

Sure enough, these Mongols were not very resolute at the beginning of their charge, and their hesitation and fear were so obvious that they only received hundreds of shells from the people on the east bank from a distance, lay down dozens of people, and then retreated in a hurry Team up to the rear.However, it is easy to come over, but it is not so simple to go back!No, part of the cavalry of the 7th Cavalry Regiment has been dispatched!They ride black water horses, which are fast and capable of sprinting. They are more suitable for charging than those short and slow Mongolian horses. Therefore, some Mongolian herdsmen who run slowly are quickly attached to them. Then encircle, divide and annihilate.The Qing army at the head of the city fired several artillery attacks, but to no avail.

Some of the retreating Mongolian herdsmen were eager to enter the city, while others simply went around the city and ran to the north. It seemed that they did not want to stay in the dead place of Naowen City to be buried with others.After seeing how weak the enemy was, Major Bei Zhensheng was no longer vague, and ordered the infantry to move forward to cover the artillery to set up positions.

Their next most important task is to use their artillery superiority to destroy a few small cannons on the enemy's wall, and at the same time blast away the wooden city walls of Naowen City, and finally use their own superior forces to enter the city and completely wipe out the enemy. This formed Qing army nailed to the land of Northern Manchuria.

There is no doubt that such an offensive method is very boring. To put it bluntly, it is to use the logistical advantages of the people on the east coast to smash the enemy to death with money.But at the same time, such tricks are also very difficult to break, at least Sabusu can't come up with any good solutions at present.In history, he led an army to besiege Yaksa Castle in Tsarist Russia, and he also dealt with the Russians in the same way. The only difference is that the cannon he brought was too powerful to blast through the city wall of Yaksa, allowing the Russians to persist until the end .However, the power of the cannons of the people on the east coast is not comparable to that of the Qing Dynasty during the Battle of Yaksa. Therefore, after a few rounds of bombardment, the outer soil layer of the city wall of Naowen City has been smashed and cracked, exposing the dark gray inside. logs.

The Qing army on the top of the city couldn't bear it anymore, and they climbed down one after another.This bastard yellow-clothed thief did not know where to get the explosives, which are extremely powerful, and the shell casings are often blown into countless pieces. It killed many people just now, and even the nephew of Lord Sabusu was killed by a piece of shrapnel. He lifted his forehead and died on the spot.What's annoying is that the cannon I fired, the solid shell was fine, but the cracked shell was a nightmare. When the shell fell to the ground, the shell shell exploded in half, which made the artillerymen on the east coast laugh and panic.

When Sabsu saw the Qing army retreating from the top of the city, he was extremely angry, and immediately led his own soldiers forward, and drove the defenders back to the top of the city.At this time, the infantry on the east bank had already arrived at the city, and together with the North Korean musketeers, they fired intensively at the top of the city.The Qing army was forced to shoot at each other, but they couldn't hold back soon. The tragic casualties knocked out all their courage, and a group of people went down to the top of the city noisily again.

"Sabusu has also been stationed in Manchuria for half his life, is this level?" Major Bei Zhensheng put down the binoculars on his chest, and he no longer had the desire to continue watching. More than 1000 Qing troops were trapped in a small wooden city, surrounded by the east bank troops with superior strength and superior equipment, and their fate was basically doomed.Bei Zhensheng thought about it, and really couldn't think of any way for the Qing army to escape.

It is really the most stupid thing to fight against the people on the east coast in the outer northeast.Firstly, you don't have strong bastion-style fortresses, secondly, you don't have powerful defensive firepower (especially cannons), and thirdly, you don't have enough military talents who are familiar with modern warfare.The fourth thing is to defend a dead place where there is no chance, and there are no reinforcements outside. This is a big mistake in strategy, so destruction is not difficult to imagine.

Sabsu is also an experienced veteran, how could he be so confused and incompetent?For so many years, this man has also been the general of the Qing army who has fought more times with the army on the east bank in the land of North Manchuria.From Ningguta to Sanxing, from Naowen City to Hulunbeier, one of the characteristics of this man's military use is that he likes to set up an ambush half way, and then fight hand-to-hand with the people from the east bank, avoiding their disadvantage in firepower, and pull the people from the east bank into their place Among the familiar fighting methods.

It should be said that this is a pragmatic approach, but also a smart approach.The army on the east bank is well-trained, well-equipped, and has good morale. It is the least smart way to fight positional warfare and city defense with them, while encounters, ambushes, and even night attacks are the most likely to cause enough casualties to the people on the east coast. way of fighting.

It is a pity that Sabsu would be so unwise.It's not that he doesn't understand, but that he really can't retreat anymore.Once Naowen City is gone, and the surrounding tribes who love "My Great Qing" will be conquered one by one by the people on the east coast, there will basically be no need for the area under the jurisdiction of Naowen City.If that's the case, it is impossible for the court to get around him, there is no doubt about it.

Therefore, it's not that Sabusu is unwise, but that if the situation is like this, he has no choice but to fight to the death!

"Report, the North Korean soldiers sent out by the left wing to patrol captured several suspicious Russians, who may be envoys from the Nerchensk side. The purpose and destination are unknown. Intelligence officials are interrogating. This is the briefing, please check it out. "Just as he was lamenting the pedantry and incompetence of the last general of the Qing army in North Manchuria, a staff officer rushed over to report to him, and it was no surprise that this caught Bei Zhensheng's attention, so he immediately ordered those people to be brought here .As for the occupation in front of me, there is really no need to look at it, the result is already doomed!

(End of this chapter)