Khristenko finally agreed to Lieutenant General Vladimir's suggestion.
Maybe he would be held accountable if he went back, but now the enemy was cutting off his escape route. Rather than going back to accept punishment, he didn't want to be killed or captured by the enemy.
Smart people are always more afraid of death.
But retreat is also a problem.
In the early morning, the first ray of sunshine shines on Ulan-Ude. It gradually dissipates the cold air at night. Even in summer, the night in Ulan-Ude is very cold.
The huge temperature difference made everything exposed outside covered with dew. The air was also full of chill.
Taking advantage of the new sunshine, the sentries of the Renaissance Army stood on the observation deck on the city wall and observed the distance.
On the position outside, some large scavenging birds fell and were pecking at the corpses of Tsarist Russian soldiers.
"The enemy has withdrawn!" the sentry shouted to his commander.
The positions outside and even the Russian camps further away were empty.
The Russian army retreated in a hurry. In order to avoid alerting the Renaissance troops in the city, these Russians retreated very carefully, not even burying the bodies of their companions.
After hearing the news, Lu Guoyi ran to the top of the city.
There was indeed no human habitation outside the city. At the Tsarist camp in the distance, he even discovered a small beast that had not appeared for a long time.
Animals in the wild are very alert, and they will definitely not appear in places with many people.
But now, these little beasts have come back, saying that the Russian army had been moved in the middle of the night.
"Commander Ye, send someone to investigate and see in which direction the enemy has moved." Lu Guoyi didn't panic at all.
The enemy's retreat was expected. His mission did not include monitoring the enemy's retreat. He now sent people to investigate, just to have an idea.
Maybe Lin Wei will take them with him in the subsequent encirclement and suppression work.
In the past ten days of defensive missions, they had accomplished an outstanding job, even annihilating four to five thousand enemy troops, while only suffering a few hundred casualties on their own side. It was considered a successful defensive operation.
Soon, the scouts who went out to investigate came back, and the enemy retreated along the same route.
This is Khristenko's best choice. If they move north, they will all be in plateau and hilly areas, the roads will be difficult to travel, and there will be no Tsarist Russian strongholds along the way.
Of course, if they go to the north, they can join up with the Northern Route Army.
The benefits of returning the same way are even greater. After passing the Elkou and further to the west is the Angala River, a tributary of the Yenieshe River. Here there are a large number of strongholds of Tsarist Russia.
Once there, Khristenko can switch from offense to defense and tangle with the Renaissance Army.
However, there is no final conclusion as to whether this road is a way of life or a road of death.
Tangnu Ulianghai.
After Gao Yun went north, he followed the advice of shopkeeper Kuisun Dasheng and headed northeast first.
A hundred kilometers north of the Ulianghai Banner in Kemuzik there is an important commercial city in Tsarist Russia and an important river port.
This city is Amukhabaishang, which the Russians called Abakan.
This is an important city in Tsarist Russia on the upper reaches of the Yenieshe River, located on the left bank of the Abakan River.
The guys at Dashengkui are very familiar with this place.
Because they trade with the Russians here every year.
Every summer, after the river ice melts, a large number of ships will come up from the lower reaches. They collect a large amount of furs from the hunters and indigenous peoples downstream, many of which are fur taxes collected by Tsarist Russia and the people downstream. This is actually
This is an act of plundering the indigenous people.
These Siberian specialties are brought to this city via merchants’ wooden ships.
In the past, Dashengkui would bring tea, silk, tobacco and other commodities there to exchange for furs, honey and other Siberian specialties.
After listening to Dashengkui's introduction, Gao Yun felt that this city was very good. By occupying it, he could gradually control the entire lower reaches of the Yenieshe River.
The original intention of destroying it turned into occupying it.
I believe those who indulge in the capital can also see the value of this city.
This place is right next to Tangnu Ulianghai, it is not too remote, and occupying it will not bring much burden to the Renaissance Army.
This does not have much impact on China's strategic deployment in North Asia.
The army marched for five days and arrived at the outskirts of Amuha Baishang.
There are about a thousand Tsarist Russian troops stationed in this city. There are about five to six thousand residents in the city, most of whom are businessmen, as well as some service industry workers and farmers who reclaim land around the city.
Outside the city, large areas of farmland and forests have been opened up.
During their march, Gao Yun and others encountered several logging camps owned by Tsarist Russia. Most of these logging camps were built along the river.
It is probably to allow the felled wood to flow down the river for easy transportation.
A group of scouts sneaked on foot close to the Al-Muhaba merchants to investigate the situation in the city.
This is a city built along a river. The city gate on the east side along the river is very close to the pier on the river bank.
Most of the city's commercial facilities are in that location. There are two tall buildings in the city, also made of wood. They should be the homes of churches and administrative agencies. They are in the center of the city.
The city's gates are open and people are coming in and out, especially at the port.
"The chariot company and a dragoon company detoured to the north of the city and set up defenses along the river to intercept merchants escaping across the river."
"The others will join me in three groups and rush into the city. Anyone they see will be killed without mercy."
"The cavalry artillery company is divided into three parts, responsible for blasting open the city gate."
The scouts have already investigated and found that the city wall is made of earthen wood, that is, logs are used as the shell of the city wall, and the middle is filled with stones and soil, and then lime is added to make it hardened.
The city gate is also made of wood, and the mortars carried by the Renaissance Army should be able to blast it open.
After entering the city, tribal warriors led by Geser took the front stand.
Gao Yun made an agreement with them that he would not seal his sword for one day after entering the city, and he would give them half of everything he grabbed.
Gesl naturally knew that Gao Yun was going to let them do the dirty work.
But the warriors of the tribe are happy to do such dirty work. This is a commercial city, and there is plenty of oil and water in it!
As the rumble of horse hooves came, the defenders at Almohabai Mall saw a large army killing them from the woods.
No, there are three, and there are two large armies heading towards the other two city gates.
The alarm bell on the city wall rang immediately.
The city gate was closed with a bang. There were still Tsarist Russians outside the city who had not had time to enter the city. At this time, they could only escape outside the city towards the dock.
When the garrison commander in the city learned about the number of enemies, he quickly summoned the Tsarist Russian caravan in the city and tried to persuade them to send caravan guards to help defend the city.
But this only exacerbated the panic among the merchants in the city.
They all took their own portable money and flocked to the east gate.
When the city defenders at the east gate saw so many armed caravan guards coming, they were worried about provoking conflicts, so they could only open the city gate and let them escape from the city.
"Boom, boom, boom..." The other three city gates erupted with rumbling explosions.
The artillery on top of the city also began to fight back, but was immediately knocked out by the mortars of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade.
The city gate collapsed, and the dragoons fired continuously at the Tsarist Russian soldiers on the city wall, covering the rangers and soldiers from Tushetu Khan's tribe as they entered the city.
The destruction of the city was a huge blow to the Tsarist Russian soldiers on the city wall. Their families and children were all in the city!
More and more soldiers on the city walls went down to the city to try to intercept the cavalry entering the city, but after they got down to the ground, they could only be overwhelmed by the torrent of cavalry.
It couldn't stir up a single ripple at all.
After the city was broken, the city became even more chaotic. Gao Yun's troops were abundant, with four to five thousand tribal warriors plus four thousand rangers, which equaled eight thousand people.
In such a small town, almost every house can be assigned a team of soldiers.
Those tribal warriors received the order not to seal the sword and completely let go of their hands and feet.
The strongest soldiers in the city have been entangled by the dragoons.
They only need to deal with the people in the city.
With a "swish" sound, an arrow shot through the back of a Tsarist Russian man.
There was a "bang" sound and several tribal warriors knocked open the wooden door of a wooden house.
Then came the screams of men before they died, the screams of women struggling, and the harsh sounds of children crying.
Then the man's voice disappeared, the children's cries also disappeared, and only the sound of the woman's struggle continued.
War is always accompanied by evil. No one is the righteous party, only the winner and the loser.
Just like the Cossack cavalry that invaded Tangnu Ulianghai, what the warriors of these tribes were doing at this time was actually not much different from what they were doing.
The rangers did not stop, they fought all the way from the west gate to the dock at the east gate.
On the dock, the true nature of the merchants was exposed. In order to fight for the escaping ship, their own people started fighting with their own people.
In the end, of course, whose caravan guard is more powerful will be the first to make a boat and leave, followed by the rangers who come to kill them.
The final madness is also being performed on the pier.
One by one, the wooden boats left the shore at high speeds, driven by the people on board.
The rangers started shooting arrows from a distance.
The feather arrow was designed to make a thumping sound when it hit the wooden side of the ship, and when it hit the sailor's body, it made a popping sound.
But there were still many people who rowed their boats out of the range of the arrows. Those who remained on the shore squatted on the ground with their hands raised, hoping that these Chinese soldiers could accept the prisoners.
As they wished, the rangers inspected the men and gathered them together.
There are always some people left to work as coolies, right?
The property on the dock naturally became the rangers' trophies.
As for the city, it has now become a hell. The tribal warriors have knocked down the houses one after another. Except for the city hall and the church, which were taken over by the dragoons, all other residential buildings have been handed over to the tribal warriors.
Gao Yun led the dragoons to blockade the surrounding area of the town, preventing any Tsarist city from slipping out of the city.
To the north of the city, the Tsarist Russian merchants who were escaping by boat suddenly saw several strange carriages on the side of a narrow river.
Just as they were speeding up to rush over, the curtain behind the carriage opened, revealing a circle of black gun barrels.
"Da da da……"
The first few wooden boats rowed into pieces instantly turned into pieces. Together with the sailors and businessmen rowing on them, more than a dozen people were instantly beaten into sieves and fell into the river.
The river water was dyed red.
The ships behind quickly turned around in the hope of leaving the opponent's design range.
However, those bullets chased them as if they had eyes.
Finally someone realized that there was no way to escape like this.
Someone tore off the white shirt he was wearing, tied it to the oar, and lifted it up.
Finally the bullets stopped chasing them. Others followed suit.
Seeing that all the people on the other side surrendered, Guan Fei, the captain of the dragoon company, took Er Dezi to the river. He asked the soldiers to be on guard.
Then, Er Dezi shouted and asked these Tsarist Russian merchants to row the boat to the shore. Then he asked them to move the things on the boat to the shore to accept the surrender.
"Haha, Chief Guan, you're getting rich, you're getting rich!" Er Dezi came to Guan Fei holding a wooden box.
After opening it, the gold inside was shining, all filled with gold rubles.
"I definitely made a profit by attacking the Amukhabai merchants this time. Now is the peak trading season. Almost all the merchants in the Yenieshe River Basin are gathered here, and we just happened to be rich in one pot." Er Dezi opened his eyes when he saw the money.
He was so happy that he couldn't help but go back and continue giving orders to the prisoners.
Guan Fei ordered all the seized property to be gathered together, and asked people who knew how to swim to go down to the river to fish out the things from the ships that had just been sunk.
And he and his men were temporarily stationed at this place to alert the ships coming downstream and to prevent any fish that slipped through the net from escaping from the river.
Soon, it became dark, but the city was still noisy.
The tribal warriors were full of energy, and Geser led others to put out fires everywhere, because some warriors went too far and set the house on fire.
What Gao Yun wants is a intact city, he doesn't want to end up with a ruin.
The people in the city were not what he needed, so he gave them to the soldiers of the Khan tribe. This should be regarded as the first payment to them. After all, they had no obligation to help the Chinese army in the war.
Cleaning up the city is not a safe thing and there will definitely be casualties.
Especially in the Tsarist Russian cities in Siberia, basically everyone here is a soldier.
Even outside the city, Gao Yun could hear gunshots ringing out from time to time in the city. These gunshots could only be the last tenacious resistance of the Tsarist Russians in the city.
Gao Yun didn't care about the life or death of these tribal warriors. He made such an arrangement just to arouse the ferocity of these tribal warriors.
Because there is still a lot of dirty work for them to do next.
Most of the Tsarist Russian strongholds were in the upper reaches of the river.
Because most of the middle and lower reaches of these rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean are barren permafrost areas that cannot be cultivated. Only the indigenous people live there and rely on hunting and herding reindeer for a living.
There are so many strongholds waiting for Gao Yun to uproot and destroy, and he needs these tribal warriors in his hands.
For Gesl, they could not prevent the tribe's warriors from getting such an opportunity to make a fortune.
Early the next morning, Gao Yun led the dragoons into the city, and the city was completely silent.
Dragoons and tribal warriors were carrying the corpses out of the city.
They've dug a big hole outside the city. It's time to eliminate what was there.
The looted materials were gathered together and Dashengkui's guys helped count them.
After all, they can't take things with them to war.
"Shopkeeper Sun, see if you can contact your general manager to send a team to transport all these things back."
"These furs, honey and other specialties can be sold to you at a discount. The same thing will be done with the things we grabbed later. If you take this business, you may be able to make up for your losses outside the mouth!" Gao Yun said to those who have been following him.
Shopkeeper Sun next to him said.
This shopkeeper Sun was the shopkeeper of Uliasutai. He was in charge of trade with Tsarist Russia, so he knew Tsarist Russia very well, so he was sent to Gao Yun to lead the way.
After listening to Gao Yun's words, Shopkeeper Sun's eyes lit up. In fact, he had wanted to do this for a long time, but he was just too embarrassed to speak.
After all, it would be suspected of being self-serving for one's own benefit.
But now that Gao Yun took the initiative, he naturally agreed to it.
Immediately, shopkeeper Sun asked someone to use the fastest flying eagle messenger.
According to Gao Yun's suggestion, when their pack team comes, they can help Gao Yun and others bring some supplies.
Presumably the support from the rear should be arriving in Cullen now.
The pack team should start from Cullen.
The former Dashengkui man rescued by the Renaissance Army from the city went back first with the first batch of supplies.
ps: I’ll update it first. I went out to watch "Changjin Lake" and the movie started. If there are any typos, please point them out and I will correct them later.