On Zhao Xin's way to the north, two companies of the Northern Navy, which had reached Zigou, were exchanging fierce fire with the retreating enemy troops. In fact, they wanted to block several 122-caliber howitzers and more than 200 people with three 122-caliber howitzers and more than 200 people.
The rout of thousands of troops is not easy.
To explain this problem, we must understand the infantry organization of the Tsarist Russian army in this era.
At the end of the 18th century, a military revolution was brewing in the Russian army. The army was divided into two factions. One was the conservatives who tried to implement the Prussian system; the other was dominated by Rumyantsev and Suvorov and advocated columns and scattered troops.
A fast and aggressive faction that fights along the lines of troops.
(As an aside, the wars Suvorov engaged in throughout his life were all unjust expansionist wars. The battlefields were all in the enemy's country. They often fought without rear areas. They received no support from the people and it was difficult to maintain morale. That's why they emphasized rapid and fierce attacks.
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Of course, since Her Majesty the Queen is a Prussian, it is still the conservatives who are currently leading the construction of the army.
Due to the backwardness of the military system, only a small number of people in the Tsarist Russian army were equipped with rifled guns at this time, and the vast majority still used smoothbore guns; even those jaggers who were famous for their accurate shooting were the same.
A battle infantry regiment of the Russian army is roughly composed of 1,800 people, including 1,400 soldiers, 50 officers, 160 non-commissioned officers, 40 musicians, a dozen battlefield ambulances, auxiliary soldiers and administrative personnel departments. Historically, Russia
It was not until 1796 that the line infantry regiment was renamed the musketeer regiment, and after 1811 it was renamed the infantry regiment. (It was written that way before for the convenience of understanding.)
Each regiment has two battalions, and each battalion consists of six companies. During combat, each company has 114 combat members, in addition to auxiliary soldiers, totaling about 150.
The ground offensive troops deployed by Tsarist Russia this time included the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Transbaikal Cossack Infantry Regiments, the 1st and 2nd Buryat Infantry Regiments, three artillery companies, a cavalry company, and a battalion of baggage.
The total number of troops exceeds 10,000.
In addition, there are ten hunter commando teams with a total of 600 people on the Heilongjiang fleet, which are stationed on each ship and are responsible for precise shooting at targets approaching the water surface.
The battle under Aihun City has continued until now. There are still more than 6,000 Tsarist Russian troops, and the commander Alexandrov is still alive. Therefore, after the Russian army retreated to the north of the old city of Aihun, the various departments gradually restored order.
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Facing such a huge force, whether it is the artillery at the rear or the infantry at the front, it is quite difficult to completely eliminate it.
The North Navy only has three howitzers. No matter how hard they fire, the gunners can only fire six shells per minute at most, and they cannot maintain this speed all the time. For the enemy troops whose assembly radius exceeds several kilometers, they can't care about the east.
Go west.
Although the two companies responsible for blocking have more than a dozen machine guns, they cannot fire at the same time. One third of them must be left in reserve to maintain firepower projection while other machine guns are loading.
Moreover, although the PKM machine gun used by the squad is sturdy, the bullets are a big problem. Although the Beihai Navy is issued a chain loader to each squad, the efficiency of the thing is not high. Shaking the handle can only load one bullet.
, this means that a deputy must be arranged to help load the bullet; and if there is no chain loader, it will be troublesome. Each bullet often requires 4 to 8 kilograms of force to be loaded on the chain link. The North Navy now uses a
A bullet chain that can't be scattered if a hundred shots are fired.
A 7.62*54 bullet weighs 22 grams, and a tin ammunition box holds 440 rounds. Even if the ammunition hand's deputy is a mule, it will be overwhelming to carry four boxes of bullets; don't forget, he still has to
I'm wearing a chain mounter on my back.
Even if Zhao Xin could bring a large amount of supplies as a humanoid mobile warehouse, he would not be able to take care of every battlefield.
When Zhao Xin and the others arrived at the line of defense originally set up by the Qing army north of the old city of Aihui, battalion commander Michelang's request for artillery support kept coming over the walkie-talkie. The Russian army only had a dozen 8-pounders.
The artillery and 4-pounder artillery shelled the blocking position desperately, and more than twenty people in Michelang's two companies were killed.
The Russian 8-pounder cannon and 4-pounder cannon are both copper cannons. The range of solid bullets fired by the two cannons is 800 to 900 meters. If shrapnel and shotgun shells are used, the range of the 8-pounder cannon is only 400 to 600 meters at most.
Zhao Xin turned off the walkie-talkie, took out his telescope and looked north. In his field of vision, he could already see the shadowy figures on the post road and in the woods in front of him. The Russian army was only a few hundred meters away from them. And further north of the Russian army,
Gunshots and explosions sounded from time to time.
He was about to lay out the order when he saw someone coming from the corner of his eye. He turned around and saw a soldier from the guard company holding a guy wearing a roe deer hat walking over. If it wasn't that Sauron kid, who could it be?
Zhao Xin didn't have time to pay attention to it for the time being. He hurriedly arranged the task and asked Chen Jishan to lead two platoons and two mortar squads to detour from the left wing of the woods and launch an attack on the enemy's left rear. He would also cooperate at that time.
"Remember, never charge at the Russian army, even if they run eastward." Zhao Xin pointed to the position on the map and explained.
After using drones to conduct reconnaissance for so long, he has marked the entire terrain covering dozens of square kilometers on a simple map.
Chen Jishan looked at the map and said with suspicion: "Then what if they charge towards the blocking position in the north?"
"Then you just move north and don't let them enter Shaodazigou."
"I understand, sir, you are planning to drive all the Rakshasa to the riverside."
"Just understand and act now!"
After everyone dispersed and went about their own business, Zhao Xin walked up to the "roe deer head" and said seriously: "Didn't I tell you to go south? Why are you following me again? Where is your horse?"
"I'm eating grass under the trees to the west." Wulong lowered his head and rubbed the ground with his boots. After a while, he said, "I, I want to follow you to fight Rakshasa."
"Nonsense, how old are you? Be obedient and go back."
"Yes, how about you accept me as a Goshiha?"
Zhao Xin smiled, thinking that instead of letting this child run around, it would be better to fool him first and let him stay here honestly, so he said to Oolong: "You want to be a soldier for me? Don't you regret it?"
"I don't regret it! I, Amma, said that the people of Sauron are dedicated to serving as soldiers."
Zhao Xin was stunned, looking at Xiao Wulong's unhesitating expression, he didn't know what to say.
Chen Jishan led the team from the west side of the woods in a roundabout way, crawling and crawling, and finally arrived at the designated location more than 20 minutes later. He first notified Zhao Xin through the walkie-talkie and waited for the machine gunner and two mortars.
After the squad found a good location and dug simple fortifications, he ordered the mortars to fire.
"Boom!" A black column of flaming smoke exploded among the Russian troops, taking away more than a dozen lives in an instant.
Bogaevsky, who was organizing the retreating Russian army to attack the defense positions of the Northern Navy, was shocked. He heard that this explosion was completely different from the previous ones.
He quickly said to his sergeant: "Quickly tell your Excellency, Commander! The Qing people are coming with more artillery!"
Alexandrov's temporary headquarters was located in a natural shelter made of several huge rocks. After the North Navy launched an artillery bombardment, Alexandrov, who was protected by his men, was unscathed, but he
Fisher, the chief of staff, has passed away.
When he gathered his troops under artillery fire and retreated all the way here, the artillery of the "Qing people" actually caught up with him. This scared Alexandrov so much. After so many years in the army, he had never seen this before.
For an artillery unit that moves so quickly, you need to know that the artillery that can hit such a distance is a giant artillery.
Reinforcements from the Qing people are coming! At this time, all the officers of the Russian army thought so. But how many people came from the other side? Those officers pessimistically believed that the "Qing people" had come at least 10,000 people, but Alexander
The intelligence at hand by Derov showed that the Qing garrisons in Qiqihar and Hulunbuir (Hulunbuir) combined totaled only more than 5,000 people.
Could it be that their emperor had foresight and arranged his troops in Qiqihar in advance?
Until now in this battle, neither Bogaevsky's regiment nor the reserve troops led by him have even seen the shadow of "Qing reinforcements", and they have already suffered heavy losses. Thousands of people are now trapped.
At the foot of Karen Mountain, the damn "Qing people" were stuck halfway up the mountain. I had arranged for thousands of people to attack before, but they were all beaten back by a dense rain of bullets.
After hearing the news from the first regiment, Alexandrov decided to change his tactics and use columns to break the "Qing people's" blocking defense line as soon as possible. Otherwise, when the "Qing troops" behind him caught up, his five thousand
Many people have to be accounted for here.
"Da da da... bang bang bang..."
Alexandrov suddenly raised his head and heard the unique sound of weapons firing from the "Qing reinforcements" coming from the southwest.
"To the southwest, are the Qing people catching up?"
"Reporting to your Excellency, Commander, there is a group of enemies catching up, but our scouts found that there are not many of them."
"Inform Polyakov to lead a regiment and destroy this enemy! We must enter that ravine before dark, otherwise none of us will be able to escape!"
"Yes! Your Excellency, Commander!"
With the sound of bugles and drums, the Cossacks who were sheltering from the bombardment at the foot of Karen Mountain began to gather.
Polyakov walked among the soldiers and shouted: "Brothers of the Third Regiment! Now a small group of enemy troops appears in the southwest, and we are ordered to destroy them!"
The accompanying officers saw that the Cossacks were cowering, so they roared: "You idiots, didn't you hear what the lieutenant colonel said?! Everyone formed a battle formation! Each company formed a column and set off!"
The soldiers reluctantly walked out of the temporary bunker, lined up in formation amidst the smoke despite occasional explosions, and arrived one kilometer away from the battlefield in ten minutes.
After arriving, the ministries quickly converted the columns into horizontal formations under the leadership of the officers. Each horizontal formation consisted of five rows of soldiers, with 24 soldiers in each row. In each row of the square formation, the captain officer commanded the odd-numbered rows.
, the lieutenant commanded the even-numbered platoon, and behind the square were four noncommissioned officers, the company commander (sub-battalion commander) and the musicians.
There are four such horizontal phalanxes in total, forming a large rectangular formation. In the middle of the two phalanxes on the left and right is the accompanying artillery company, which deploys several 4-pound guns and 8-pound gun carriages;
Fifty feet apart, the phalanx behind can provide support for the phalanx in front at any time, or be used to outflank the enemy.
This is a standard Prussian infantry formation. In each square, there are three rows of battle infantry and two rows of skirmishers. The so-called skirmishers at the end of the 18th century were not scattered in groups as imagined. The soldiers were left unorganized.
If you are shooting on your own, you still need to line up.
From the late 18th to the early 19th century, there were two basic ways to use skirmishing tactics. One was common in the Prussian army, where each line infantry company formed its own unit of shooters, who would line up in two rows instead of three.
Fight in line. These shooters hold the rank of sergeants, are equipped with rifled guns, and are selected to receive training in skirmishing tactics; the other type is still being explored and will shine with Napoleon in the future, that is, the general
The entire line infantry company is deployed as a skirmisher and must stand on the front line.
When the first two phalanxes were still 900 meters away from Chen Jishan and the others, the two 8-pounders opened fire first.
These two 8-pound cannons are already the only ones in the Russian army. The artillery company lost most of its cannons when it retreated, and a lot more were lost during the bombardment of the Northern Navy position halfway up the mountain.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the Russian 8-pounder fired two shots, there was an explosion from behind the artillery team, and the splashing mud made the surrounding soldiers disgraced.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "No! Escape!" the artillery company commander yelled and ran away. There were two loud noises near the two 8-pound guns behind him, and the shock wave generated by the explosion
It knocked him to the ground. Before he could react, there was another bigger explosion behind him, a huge fireball rose into the sky, and the gunpowder on the gun emplacement was ignited.
Not long after that, another burst of flames accompanied by dirt exploded in the infantry square. After the deafening roar, the soldiers in a square suddenly fell down like wheat.
Amidst the billowing smoke, there was the sound of bullets swishing through the air, and sparks shot out from the overturned bronze cannon. Seven or eight more Cossacks in front fell.
With a buzz, the Cossacks of the Third Musketeer Regiment had a complete mental breakdown! They dispersed and ran away, no longer caring about their formation. The bullets behind them were still whizzing. Even eight hundred meters away
They couldn't even reach the distance, and the third musketeer regiment was crippled.
As Lieutenant Colonel Polyakov retreated with the soldiers, listening to the sound of bullets passing by his ears, he thought to himself that the firing speed and hit rate of the enemy's muskets were terrible! The Prussian rifled guns could not shoot so fast and accurately.
Is this still something humans do?!
At the same time, on the shore of Heilongjiang River north of the old city of Aihui.
The Russian 2nd Fusiliers Regiment that had retreated here was dumbfounded when they saw all their warships running away. Are they planning to force us to swim across the river?
"Lieutenant colonel! The commander is organizing the troops to retreat in the direction of Shaodazigou. The enemy has blocked the place. Their firepower is very fierce."
The battalion commander who took over the unit managed by Shverin had no idea for a moment. The sound of gunfire from the west could be clearly heard, and he didn't want to run into it. But swimming across the river... As a nobleman, he had no idea.
can not swim!
A dozen Cossacks stood on the river bank and shouted loudly to the fleet on the opposite side. However, the fleet had been completely frightened by the North Navy in the previous artillery battle and did not dare to cross the center line of the river.
At this time, the beaten Cossacks, who were in despair, could no longer care so much. Those who were good at water began to take off their clothes and walked into the water, preparing to swim over; those who did not know how to swim had no choice but to sit down.
On the ground, I lamented as I looked at the vast Heilongjiang River.
"The enemy is chasing us! The enemy in colorful clothes is chasing us!"
Everyone looked up and saw a sergeant in charge of the rear running over with his men sweating profusely.
A Cossack officer grabbed the noncommissioned officer and asked: "How far are they from us?"
The noncommissioned officer twisted the officer's hand away and shouted dissatisfied: "Hey! Sir, let go of me! I'm going to report the emergency military situation to the battalion commander! The enemy is moving very fast, I estimate it will only take ten minutes at most!"
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As soon as he said these words, the dozen or so Cossack soldiers around him suddenly panicked. They looked at the ruins of the village house in front of them, and it was hard to find a place to hide nearby.
The invaders finally understood that retribution was coming. If they had known about this, they should not have set fire to the house in the first place.
"Those damn cavalry! Why did they burn down all the good villages!"
"Oh my God! Those devils are coming, what should we do?"
"Magic! They all know magic. We can't win, we can't win..."
The battalion commander led his officers to the middle of the soldiers and roared loudly: "Get up! You cowards! Cowards! What's the use of just complaining! The Cossacks must get up and fight!"
A soldier said with a mournful face: "They all know magic, I don't want to die, I don't want to die!"
The battalion commander's hands were also trembling. He was nearby when Colonel Shverin fell from his horse. At that time, he rushed over to check the opponent's injuries, and was shocked to find that there was only a small hole in the forehead of the dead Shverin, but
A hole as big as half a fist opened in the back of his head, and even his brains came out.
He had never heard of the weapons used by the "Qing" army across the way. Could it be that reinforcements were sent by their emperor?
Don't talk about these soldiers now, he himself is scared.
The acting captain hesitated for a while and then quickly made a decision. He said to an officer beside him: "Captain, let's go over there and talk. There is a task that you need to perform."
A few minutes later, two squads under Zhou Monk had arrived 400 meters away to observe the Russian army. When the tired and out of breath machine gunners arrived and were looking for the best shooting position, they saw the enemy on the opposite side.
Two men walked out of the Tsarist Russian army, holding a white flag in their hands.
After the complete defeat of the 3rd Fusilier Regiment, most of the Russian army in the west was bombarded by more intense artillery fire at dusk. The rumbling artillery bombardment caused the Tsarist Russian army to completely collapse. Even Alexandrov himself was stunned.
Injured.
Seeing that more and more wounded soldiers were under his command, but the "Qing army" halfway up the mountain was still holding on tenaciously. Commander Alexandrov could no longer stop a decent attack, so he sent his men to find half-way soldiers under white flags.
The "Qing troops" on the mountainside came to discuss surrender.