In June last year, Tsarist officials in Okhotsk discovered that the two three-masted sailing ships that went to Sakhalin Island to haul coal had not returned, so in early July they sent two ships south to find out the reason.
The reason for the search is that sailing on the Sea of Okhotsk at the turn of summer and autumn is very dangerous. When the wind speed is strong, it can reach 20 to 30 meters per second, and the waves are more than ten meters high. If the two ships are caught in a storm and sink, it will be
We need to know where Shen is.
As expected, the two boats sent to look for the boat also capsized in the wind and waves.
Before the ocean froze in winter, a whaling ship returning to Okhotsk brought back news that the northern camp on Sakhalin Island had been occupied by a group of Tatars of unknown origin.
The Tsarist Russians were immediately anxious! It was so hard to find a coal mine that could be mined all year round, and they could also grow some potatoes, but their butt was taken away before they could sit firmly. No matter whether it was an uncle or an aunt, they couldn't bear it.
!It must be taken back.
So the Tsarist Russian officials in Okhotsk sent a letter to Irkutsk, requesting the transfer of a regiment of Cossack musketeers. Ivan Jacobi was extremely shocked after receiving the letter. He first suspected the Qing Dynasty, but according to the
As a past practice, people in the Qing Dynasty would always say hello first when making a move.
Is he from the island country? It doesn't seem like it. No matter who it is, the coal mines in Sakhalin are extremely important to support the development of Okhotsk and must not be given up. So Ivan Jacobi signed the transfer order before leaving for Petersburg.
.He felt that a regiment of 1,200 Cossacks was a bit too much, so he transferred four companies.
Advancing eastward and southward to occupy more land has been Tsarist Russia's established national policy since Peter I. Since Kangxi defeated Tsarist Russia, the Cossack expedition could only expand eastward. They soon reached the Pacific coast and Kamchatka
Peninsula, and crossed the Bering Strait to occupy Alaska. The Russians established two strongholds on the northern coast of the Pacific, one in Okhotsk and one in Kamchatka.
But the problem is that the climate in both Okhotsk and Kamchatka is extremely harsh, and crops cannot survive at all, and all farming experiments have failed. No matter how delicious whale meat is, no one can bear to eat it every day.
Every year, the grain required by Kamchatka is transported from the upper reaches of the Lena River to Irkutsk by water, and then transported by horseback to Okhotsk through rough and difficult roads. Each time one pup is transported to Kamchatka
A special grain (16.38 kilograms) costs fifteen rubles, and transportation costs are extremely high; while a load of flour sells for as high as thirty-six rubles in Kamchatka.
Before the 19th century, the Russian ruble was not linked to gold, so the ruble was just a pile of silver. One ruble contained 28 grams of silver. Of course, there were also gold rubles and copper rubles, and their purchasing power was still very high. So you can imagine that food
How expensive is it in Kamchatka? Eating food is like chewing silver.
The tactics of the coal mine security team are not complicated. It would be crazy to engage in close combat with a weapon with an effective range of 400 meters. Therefore, keeping a distance and taking advantage of the weapon is the first priority.
Mergu'a and others did not think so. They believed that only those who dared to fight hand-to-hand were heroes. However, the security captain Yu Yilang did not pay attention to the suggestions of these scumbags.
As a result, the Cossacks who entered the forest were hit by a heavy hail of bullets, and were immediately stunned. In panic, the Cossacks fired aimlessly at the surrounding woods, leaving dozens of corpses behind.
He retreated to the ship.
The security team was the size of a reinforced company, with eleven squads. It was inconspicuous when dispersed in the dense forest. The intensive firepower made the Cossacks think that the opponent had at least a thousand people.
Although there were a lot of people in the previous battles in Beihai Town, the specific tactics were implemented in squad units. Because the early refugees' ability to lead troops was only like this. Even Sheng Haizhou and the others were rushing to the top. This was also the case with Zhao Xin.
The reason for holding a rapid training course for officers.
However, after the security team launched a tentative attack on the port, they never attacked the port again. The reason was that the four sailing warships were equipped with hundreds of artillery pieces. When they fired together, the momentum was overwhelming. The dozens of people who rushed at the front were
A Hezhefeyaka man was hit by hundreds of iron balls of different sizes, killing more than ten people on the spot. This made Mergua heartbroken.
So the Cossack musketeers took advantage of the situation and attacked again, trying to attack the coal mine. However, the quick rifles in the hands of the security team once again taught them what it meant to hit the iron plate head first.
After two consecutive defeats, the Cossacks retreated to the port. The security forces were unable to attack the port because they had no artillery, and the Cossack musketeers did not dare to go deep into the interior. The two sides remained in a stalemate for several days.
Zhang Bo had never been on the battlefield. He was quite anxious at first, fearing that the Russians would attack Oja's oil "industrial zone" and cause damage after landing. But when he saw that hundreds of Cossacks could not even defeat the security forces, he finally felt at ease.
.However, he was worried that the Russians would come around to the Oha River to attack, so the garrison camp never moved.
In fact, the Cossacks were even more miserable. They were like rats in a bellows, unable to advance and unwilling to retreat. However, with the arrival of the Thor a few days later, the end of the Cossacks came.
After getting in touch with the Thor, the Oha garrison battalion, except for leaving one company behind to take charge of security, marched quickly to the coal mine to cooperate with the security team in launching a counterattack.
When the Cossacks saw this big white ship that suddenly appeared, they were shocked and frightened. They knew that the other party was definitely not a kind person. Just when they thought about going over to negotiate, the Thor directly responded with cannonballs, which immediately stunned the Cossacks.
It is said that after several months of intensive training, the gunners on the Thor had a sharp increase in their skill points. After the war, three guns sank a three-masted sailboat. Ding Guofeng was so angry that he cursed the prodigal. What's wrong with taking them back and refitting them?
Why the hell do we need to send someone to salvage it?
Amidst the roar of machine guns and artillery from the north and the hail of bullets from machine guns and rifles from the south, the surrounded Cossacks were slain and their bodies fell on their backs. There were corpses everywhere in the sea on the port. In the end, only about 80 of the more than 300 Cossacks were left, and they had to fight.
White flag surrender.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After the battle, Ding Guofeng sent a telegram to Beihai Town asking what to do with these prisoners. What he personally meant was to send them all to coal mines to dig coal.
A few days later, Zhao Xin's telegram arrived. Zhao Xin told Ding Guofeng that these Cossacks were all extremely vicious people in the past, and each of them had a lot of blood debt on their hands. They were fed to unfamiliar wolf cubs, and there were great hidden dangers if they stayed.
It is said that after the failure of Pugachev's uprising more than ten years ago, except for a few principal criminals who were executed, most of the other Cossacks who participated in the uprising were exiled to Siberia. During the process of following Pugachev's uprising, these people burned and killed
He committed plunder and committed all kinds of crimes. After arriving in the Far East, he joined the Kamchatka expedition one after another, and the corpses of the Kamchatka people he killed were littered everywhere.
There is a very funny thing, that is, the process of Tsarist Russia’s conquest of Kamchatka was completed during the process of these Cossacks rebelling, submitting, rebelling again, and submitting again. As long as they find that the commanders sent by the above are weak and can be bullied, these Cossacks will
Just rebel, kill your whole family, and divide the family property; when the new chief arrives, kill a few leaders, and everyone will continue to look for opportunities to brew the next wave of rebellion.
Originally, Tsarist Russia was planning to conduct an expedition and survey of Kamchatka. However, when the Cossacks rebelled, the rebels fled south. The counter-rebellion troops chased and slaughtered the Kamchatka people. Only after the rebellion was finally eliminated did they realize that the entire
The map of the peninsula has been surveyed.
For a modern man like Ding Guofeng, it is easy to talk, but it is really difficult to kill prisoners. However, a dogleg from the Sendai clan came to Ding Guofeng and said that there is no need for adults to do anything, we will do it.
The speaker is called Shiba Tada, whose real name is Shibata Shigetsu. Yes, he is related to Shibata Kakuzo.
This man was the third son of Shibata Kakuzo's uncle's family. He had been running errands and doing odd jobs with Shibata Kakuzo. Since he was not the eldest son, there was no hope of inheriting the family business, so he was sent to Beihai Town by Shibata Kakuzo.
Shibata Kakuzo made it very clear to his cousin that when you go to Beihai Town, you must follow the steps of Zhao Wangdian and fight wherever you are told. Maybe your future future will be much better than that of my brother and me.
"What if Prince Zhao asks me to attack the shogunate?"
"Then you try to be the first!"
Shibata had a good relationship with his cousin since he was a child, and he obeyed his words. So not long after arriving in Beihai Town, he became the first naturalized among the 600 samurai, and gave him the Han name Chai Zhong.
.So after the recruit training was completed, Chai Zhong was naturally promoted by Zhao Xin to become the first company commander of Qingye Battalion.
The island country warriors of Qingye Camp are respectful to Beihai Town. First of all, they cannot defeat it, and secondly because Zhao Wangdian is Zhu Ming's "descendant of the emperor." In this sense, there is no shame in being unable to defeat them; anyway, they have been unable to defeat them since the Tang Dynasty.
, he still didn’t win in the Momoyama era.
But towards the surrendered Cossacks, the red-haired Ezo, the samurai were not merciful at all.
It is said that the older generation of Sendai people have actually seen the Cossacks a long time ago. At the end of June 1739, a Russian expedition consisting of four sailing ships visited Sendai. During this period, the Sendai clan sent officials and Buddhist monks to visit the ship and exchange views with each other.
Gift items. However, due to the language barrier, the Tsarist Russian expedition quickly returned to Okhotsk.
The tied-up Cossacks were divided into teams of twenty and taken to the coal mine by Qingye Battalion for disposal. Ding Guofeng looked at the island warriors who were no more than 1.4 meters tall in front of him, and then looked at those pale-faced ones who were about the same height.
The Cossack, who was only about 1.6 meters tall, felt that the scene was really strange.
Yes, the average height of Russian soldiers in this era was a little over 1.6 meters, and some well-nourished officers were only 1.65 meters tall. Even during the "Russian-Japanese War", the height of Tsarist Russian soldiers was only 1.65 meters.
The Japanese are a head taller and taller than the others. That is only after the 20th century.
Of course, not all the prisoners were disposed of. The two captured sailboats and the sailors and crew members who escaped and were rescued from another sunken ship survived. This was mainly because Ding Guofeng found that many of the captured sailors were ten
How many years old were the children? After a stumbling exchange in English with a captured captain, he learned that these children were all students of the Okhotsk Navigation School.
"Forget it, take them all on board." Ding Guofeng ordered his men. There is no use keeping these children. They can't do any heavy work as coolies.
The next step was to take a trip to Okhotsk. So the Thor first turned near the mouth of the Oha River, filled up half a tank of fuel, and then headed northwest.
The straight-line distance between Okhotsk and Oha Camp is more than 700 kilometers, which is more than 370 nautical miles. If the journey goes smoothly, it will only take more than two days. This town is the first coastal town of Tsarist Russia in the Far East.
The stronghold had a wooden fort around 1649.
In 1732, under the initiative of the famous navigator Bering, a navigation school was established, mainly to train young Cossack sailors for the sea routes of Okhotsk and Kamchatka Peninsula.
The further development of the city was closely related to the fur trade, and the Qing-Russian trade was very important to Okhotsk. Beginning in 1740, the Tsarist Russian expedition discovered sea otters in eastern Kamchatka, so fur hunters began to follow the Aleutian
The archipelago hunted all the way east. The furs they obtained were brought back to Okhotsk and then transported to the market in Kyaktu for trade.
Sea otters are not found in China and are called "sea dragons". Although a "sea otter catching officer" was set up in Ninggu Pagoda during the Kangxi period, sea otter pelts in the Qing Dynasty were all purchased from Tsarist Russian merchants.
Very precious.
By 1783, although Okhotsk had become the capital of the Okhotsk District under the jurisdiction of the Governor-General of Irkutsk, it was only the size of a town with a population of only 2,000 people.
When the Thor arrived at the sea off Okhotsk, it had just been two days, and the journey was calm. When we arrived at the ocean here, we could already see a lot of whaling ships, so Ding Guofeng and the sailors on the ship were lucky enough to see the segmented whales.
and the scene of boiling whale oil.
After the whaling ships of this era hunted whales, they were usually towed next to the whaling ship. The crew stood directly on the floating whale carcasses, cut off the blubber with sharp knives, cut it into pieces, and loaded them directly.
In the barrel.
If you are close to the port, you can return with a full load quickly. However, if you are unable to return for a long time, the blubber in the barrels is likely to deteriorate and smell. Therefore, some whaling ships built a large brick building in the middle of the main deck.
On the stove, prepare several large pots and start boiling whale oil at the same time.
In these years, whale oil was more expensive than gold, and the biggest buyer was the British. So when the Thor approached the whaling ships that were boiling oil, although the people on board felt like they were facing a powerful enemy, they still did not escape.
Of course, some of them were curious and wanted to know the origin of the Thor. But after shouting for a long time, no one on the Thor paid him any attention.
A few hours later, as several fishing boats hurriedly returned to the port, the chief executive of Okhotsk knew that a strange large ship had arrived in the open sea. At this time, the Thor was getting closer and closer to the port, because he did not know the location of the port.
Due to hydrological conditions, we had to anchor one kilometer outside the port.
The current chief executive of Okhotsk is named Kaslov Ogren, a Dane. This situation is not surprising in the Far East. The first chief executive of Okhotsk was a Portuguese.
In order to find out whether it was an enemy or a friend, Kaslov Ogren first ordered the army to be on alert, and then sent a small sailing ship carrying a priest, an administrative official, and ten soldiers to find out.