The Northward Fleet of the North Navy had a miserable journey. In addition to having to avoid fishing boats and canoes on the river, because it was the spring flood and the river was swollen, the two catamaran passenger ships almost hit the shoals several times.
The hydrology experience of the Hezhen people is completely useless here in the Northern Navy. Where flat-bottomed small boats and fast horses can pass, the big ships of the Northern Navy may not be able to pass.
The three guides Zhao Xin found in Boli Township had only gone as far as Kubutlin (today's Chaoyang Town, Jiayin County, Yichun City), and they drove there in canoes made of birch bark. They had no idea about the hundreds of people behind them.
The waterway was not familiar at all. So the fleet only traveled during the day after crossing Kubutlin. At night, they found a place to park, and set off at dawn the next day. Along the way, they also had to measure the water depth and flow rate, and record various places along the river.
Village, Karen location to provide hydrographic data for later ships.
In the 18th century, when it was impossible to deploy a large number of measurement sensors, if you wanted to obtain hydrographic data suitable for the passage of Northern Navy ships, you could only rely on manual collection; this was an extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive project, and it was difficult to figure it out just by one voyage.
It is simply impossible. For example, the water level, flow rate, flow rate, sediment content, water quality, etc. of precipitation, evaporation, runoff, etc. are very complicated.
The hydrological data of the Manchu and Qing dynasties was unavailable, and Zhao Xin had no time to look through the pile of old papers. And if you rely on hydrological data from another time and space to prove ancient times, you are just asking for trouble; after all, the topography and river courses have changed a lot over the past two hundred years.
Not applicable at all.
When the fleet arrived at the Tuolirfeng Hetao Water Camp, seventy miles south of Heilongjiang City, a firefight broke out with the remaining troops stationed at the naval camp.
In line with the principle that there is no need to kill innocent people indiscriminately, Zhao Xin said nicely at first that he was going north to fight Rakshasa, but the Qing army who blocked him didn't believe it at all, and boldly shot two arrows at the patrol boat of the Northern Navy.
Then don't talk nonsense, teach yourself about machine guns. The two M2HBs on the patrol boat only fired a few bursts, scaring the Qing troops on several river boats and fled.
But there were more disgusting things along the way. I don’t know who had the bad idea. After the Northern Navy’s fleet passed the Tuolirfeng Hetao Water Camp, there were Hezhen, Oroqen and Daur people driving in twos and threes.
The flat-bottomed boats were blocked on the river, refusing to let the North Korean Navy pass by, even if Saharian and others talked about it, it was useless.
If you are too soft, you have to be tough. Zhao Xin asked Wu Kambei to loudly warn the border residents through the patrol boat's loudspeaker, and at the same time ordered the North Korean navy on the patrol boat to shoot near the boats, thus scaring the border residents away.
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However, after a wave of departure, another wave came not long after, and the dozens of miles of waterway were delayed for half a day just because of these people, otherwise the Northern Navy would have caught up with the battle at Karen Mountain.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, the Tsarist Russian troops who were five miles away from the old city of Aihun and the soldiers and civilians defending the city discovered a strange thing. Two strange things suddenly flew from the sky in the south.
At the same time, it also made a buzzing sound, like a swarm of wasps or locusts flying overhead.
After hearing the news, Bogaevsky and other officers came to check. They held up their monocular binoculars and saw that the monster in the sky was almost 1.5 feet long. It had an earthy appearance, thick at the front and thin at the back. There seemed to be blades moving rapidly on the top.
Rotate; the length of the blades is almost three feet long, but because it rotates too fast, it can only be roughly estimated. There is also a black square box hanging below the monster, and below the box there is a slant to the ground, like
Something like a telescope barrel can actually rotate back and forth, left and right.
"What's this?"
The strange objects in the sky puzzled the Cossack officers present because they had never seen anything like it before.
"Whatever it is, shoot it!"
Following the colonel's order, the Cossack soldiers on the ground raised their guns and shot at the monster in the sky. But the thing flew extremely fast. After the gunshot, it flew towards the artillery position on the hill behind.
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A few minutes later, Major General Alexandrov, Chief of Staff Fisher, and others who led the reserve offensive force also saw the monster hovering over the Karen Mountain artillery position. The frightened two people pointed to the air and pointed at Lieutenant Ai.
Xin asked: "Is this a Qing weapon?"
Ai Xin was also shocked, and he quickly denied: "I have never heard of such a thing in the Qing Dynasty!"
Colonel Fisher then ordered the surrounding soldiers: "Knock that thing down!"
Tsarist Russia did not hesitate to shoot. The soldiers and civilians in the old city of Aihui were frightened by the monster passing above their heads. Many people did not even care about the Rakshasa outside the city and climbed to the roofs and walls to look around.
.The monster circled in the air over the old city of Aihui, and then flew towards Heilongjiang City in the south.
So starting from the dusk of June 1st, from the mouth of the Zeya River to the Heilongjiang City in the south, tens of thousands of people in the Qing and Russian countries were frightened by these two monsters in the sky, and they were restless all night long.
The buzzing above the head lasted for half the night, and the musket shooting continued until midnight. Bonfires were lit all night on the positions of the Tsarist Russian army, and in the old city of Aihui and Heilongjiang City, in addition to clusters of bonfires, hundreds of Kongming lanterns were also set off.
Trying to light up the sky with sky lanterns.
When the Qing Dynasty saw that the monster did not attack them, but instead fired a lot of gunshots from the Rakshasa side, they thought it was sent by God to punish the Rakshasa; while the Tsarist Russia side thought it was the Qing's secret weapon.
This further strengthened their ambition to seize the old city of Aihun.
In fact, before dark, the news of a strange fleet coming five miles south of the old city of Aihui had already reached the ears of Eldemubu. He also sent a small team of cavalry to investigate. The problem was that this fleet
The cavalry did not come back until late at night. Now Eldemubu did not have many troops in his hands, so he could only shrink his troops and no longer dared to send troops abroad.
In fact, the Qing army had already planned to retreat from Aihui City. The defeat at the foot of Kalun Mountain made the deputy capital commander Eldemubu unable to fight anymore. After the day's battle, he had realized that the city wall with pine wood and earth was fundamentally
Unable to withstand the Rakshasa's cannon, he planned to escape to Qiqihar by boat at night.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, because Tsarist Russian warships patrolled the river all night, and the surviving large and medium-sized Yaksa warships of the Qing army hid near the mouth of the Kun River south of Heilongjiang City,
Therefore, there are only some small river boats that can shuttle back and forth on the river at night, which is of little use for transferring troops. So Eledimbu ordered his two assistant leaders to lead the troops to stand outside the old city of Aihui for two days.
The purpose was to buy time for the troops and civilians in the city to retreat.
In the early morning of June 2, the Russian cavalry reconnaissance team discovered the deployment of the Qing army outside the old city of Aihui. The Russian Army Staff judged based on the intelligence that the main force of the Qing people was concentrated in the area 2 versts north of the old city of Aihui.
Countless holes were dug in the woods from Karen Mountain to the old city of Aihui. It seems that the Qing people planned to launch a tenacious counterattack in this area.
In view of this situation, the Russian Chief of Staff Fischer drew up a combat deployment in the morning, and after approval by Major General Alexandrov, decided to launch an attack at 2 p.m.
The Russian army's plan was to have the cavalry company attack from the west of Aihui at 2 p.m., threatening the Qing army's left flank, and then outflank the Qing army to the south, cutting off the Qing army's southward escape route.
Bogaevsky will lead a regiment and the Buryat Musket Regiment led by Polyakov will dispatch at 2:15 in the afternoon, attack along the road from Karen Mountain to Aihun City, and defeat the occupied road.
After defending the Qing army, they continued southward to occupy the old city of Aihui.
At 2:15 in the afternoon, under the cover of fleet artillery fire, the Second Regiment led by Colonel Shverin advanced south along the river bank east of Heilongjiang City, outflanked the Qing army's right wing, and cut off the Qing army's retreat to Qiqihar.
The General Reserves set off at 2:30 and will also participate in the attack after Bogaevsky launches the attack; the entire army's baggage train will stay at the foot of Karen Mountain to wait for orders.
At 12 noon, the monsters that had troubled both the Qing and Russia most of the night came buzzing again. However, this time the two khaki monsters only stayed in the air for half an hour, and then turned around and flew back to the south.
It is said that Zhao Xin's men brought 600 people this time, including 100 people in two patrol boats, 400 people in two catamaran passenger boats, and 100 people in two flat-bottomed boats. In addition, Sakhalian brought
Dozens of Hezhe hunters.
According to the original plan, one week after the departure of the northbound detachment, Wu Siyu will lead a regiment of reinforcements, engineers, medical teams, and administrative cadres, and take the Beihai Town own ship under the guidance of the inland river official boat that once carried the "Skinny Horse"
The river sailing ship we built headed north. The problem was that Zhao Xin himself had such a hard time walking, let alone Wu Siyu.
After landing yesterday afternoon, the reason why Zhao Xin did not launch an attack immediately was because he wanted to find suitable artillery positions on the hills south of Aihun City.
This is not like finding an open space, firing up a cannon and starting blasting, that's just nonsense!
The ground of the artillery position needs to be flat and compacted, otherwise the entire artillery mount will sink into the soil after one shot. At the same time, defensive positions for cross-fire must be set up around the position.
In addition to continuously sending out drones for reconnaissance to draw topographic maps from the old city of Aihun to Karen Mountain, he also sent out two three-person teams of scouts at night. One team was set up on the mountain one kilometer away from the right wing of the Tsarist Russian army.
An artillery observation post was established, and the other group was responsible for monitoring the Russian fleet on the river and providing bombardment directions.
Since he had too few men, in order to deal a devastating blow to the Russian army, Zhao Xin issued two AKMs to each infantry squad. In this way, each infantry squad had only one weapon that could be operated by two people.
The PKM general-purpose machine gun, two assault rifles, and six SKS semi-automatic guns are at the level of the 1970s in another time and space.
As for the dozens of Hezhe hunters brought by Saha Company, Zhao Xin did not dare to shoot them. After all, these people had never even shot a shotgun. Zhao Xin gave them a 180-pound hunting crossbow.
The speed is 67 meters per second and the killing range is 55 meters. The most important thing is that it is cheap, only 130 US dollars each.
After test-firing the crossbow arrows, the deerskin satchels were filled with 30 crossbow arrows issued by the Northern Navy. The hunters in Balk Village suddenly felt that they were extremely powerful.
After another reconnaissance with a drone at noon, Zhao Xin's attack plan came out.
He asked two companies to lead the Hezhe Hunters to outflank the Russian army's right wing from one kilometer away from the left wing of Aihun City, capture the Russian army's position at the foot of Karen Mountain, and then quickly occupy Karen Mountain to block the enemy's southward escape.
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On the river bank of the East Road, the other two companies of the Northern Navy moved to the southeast of Aihui City. After the troops from the north succeeded, they immediately launched an attack under the cover of artillery fire. The troops moved along the foot of Aihui City to the north of the city to pursue them.
As for the city of Aihui, let’s talk about it after defeating Tsarist Russia!
After assigning tasks to each company, Zhao Xin threw the pencil, looked at the map and said fiercely: "I have four companies, one in the south and one in the north. I will use cannons in the middle to kill you bastards!"
The attack time of the North Navy was set at 2:30 in the afternoon. However, when the observation post reported at 2:15 that the Russian cavalry troops and a group of musketeers had begun to dispatch, Zhao Xinxin couldn't tell and shouted "Holy crap!"
Then three D30s were ordered to launch a bombardment, so the North Navy launched in advance in a hurry.
The effective range of the D30 is 15.4 kilometers, and if rocket-extended range bombs are used, it can hit 22 kilometers. Of course, Zhao Xin does not have rocket-extended range bombs, and 15 kilometers is enough for the current North Korean Navy.
With the sound of "Boom!!!", as the first test firing began, two minutes later, the artillery commander received the news from the forward observation post and immediately corrected the coordinates.
"Attention all artillery positions! Three rounds of rapid fire reload! Fire!"
Howling artillery shells passed over Aihui City one after another, passing through the Qing army's defense line, and slammed into the advancing Cossack column. The explosion mixed with fire enveloped a column composed of 150 Cossack musketeers, and they were also killed.
They picked up most of the column behind them. Tens of thousands of prefabricated fragments flew under the Karen Mountain, killing all life around the explosion point.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The thunderous explosion shook everyone.
The Qing troops on the front line were all stunned. The commander in charge was completely dumbfounded. He thought to himself, "I haven't ordered the artillery fire yet. Who the hell did this?" And the Qing gunners on the two gun emplacements were completely petrified. They were in charge of the command.
The leader turned his head and looked at the cannonballs and medicine bags on the oxcart behind him, and then at the musket on the ground. He was confused.
After a while, a fast horse galloped out from the south gate of Aihui City and followed the path to the Qing army's position. When the sent soldier saw the leader, he quickly asked: "My lord, who fired the cannon?"
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"We didn't fire the artillery? Rakshasa is still several miles away!" Xie Ling saw that the soldiers didn't believe it, so he quickly took him to the artillery position. "If you touch it, the barrel of the artillery is cold! What the hell if I
There are cannons that can shoot for several miles, and the Rakshasa was beaten away yesterday!"
The soldiers were also confused. Eldemubu in Aihui City heard the explosion from the north and thought that Rakshasa was attacking. However, he sent someone to the top of the city to see that there was nothing wrong with the Qing army's position.
I sent my own soldiers over to ask about the situation.
As for the Tsarist Russian army, they were actually shocked from the first explosion. Many people thought it was a gunpowder truck of the rear artillery unit that exploded. But the subsequent violent explosions shocked everyone in the headquarters.
, even the cavalry company that set out earlier sent people back to ask what happened.
The first reaction of many people was that the gunpowder wagons of the rear baggage troops were attacked by the Qing army. However, when the black smoke pillars continued to rise in the south, the Tsarist Russians realized that it was not the baggage troops, but the forward offensive troops that had been attacked. The Russians
Army commander Alexandrov immediately ordered all units to stop advancing, the offensive plan was suspended, and the entire army shifted to on-site defense.
But when he heard Bogaevsky report that the troops had lost more than 200 people in the sudden explosion, Alexandrov and Fisher almost jumped up in shock!
What kind of cannon did the Qing people use?
No! No, the hateful Qing people must have planted a lot of gunpowder on the road! This is so hateful!
Alexandrov roared: "Order the artillery units to fire a mile away and detonate the gunpowder!"
Just as the commander and a group of staff were making random guesses, the guy who made the buzzing sound that annoyed them so much flew over again. Bogaevsky looked up at the monster in the sky and was so angry that he really wanted to shoot him
Coming down, he pointed at the "monster" and roared: "What the hell! Are you still finished?!"