Tsarist Russia sent people over to negotiate for surrender, but neither Mishilang nor Monk Zhou knew either Russian or Mongolian.
Besides, the real master is not here either.
Monk Zhou, who was sweating profusely from running, took off his helmet and scratched his itchy scalp that was stung by sweat. At this moment, he saw the Rakshasa officer opposite was stunned for a moment, and asked dissatisfiedly: "What?
Already? What are you looking at?"
Of course, there was no such thing as "looking at you" in these days, not to mention that the Tsarist Russian officer couldn't understand Chinese. He looked at Monk Zhou's shiny bald head with some confusion, and thought to himself that there was something wrong with this guy.
It was hair loss. Since other Northern Navy soldiers around him were all wearing helmets, the Tsarist Russian officer didn’t think much about it.
"On the order of the acting commander of the Lieutenant Colonel, Baron Ilya Andreevich Rostov, I negotiate with your army about the surrender. During this period, I hope that your army will not launch any more offensive operations."
Listening to the other party talking nonsense in Russian, Monk Zhou collapsed a little. He widened his eyes and asked, "What the hell are you talking about?"
The two Russian officers saw that Monk Zhou was confused, so they repeated it in Mongolian. Monk Zhou was even more confused this time! He could only ask Zhao Xin for help.
On the other side, the battalion commander Moshiro on the Karen Mountain position was also confused. Although this former farmer from the island country Mutsu can speak Mandarin very well now, how can he speak Russian! The soldiers under him are either Henan soldiers or soldiers.
Naturalized Mutsu farmers.
However, Alexandrov was well prepared, and the two officers he sent included Lieutenant Essin of the General Staff. This Buryat actually escaped the artillery fire of the Northern Navy and was not killed; and
Because this guy had been engaged in spying on the Qing Dynasty and could speak Manchu and Mongolian, he was sent here.
Aisin saw that the other party could not understand Russian, so he explained his purpose in Manchu. In order to facilitate communication with the Hezhe hunters led by Saharian, Mishilang learned a few Manchu words these days. He heard what Aisin said
He had vocabulary he was familiar with, so he quickly asked someone to call Saharian over.
When Sakhalian came over to translate, Mislang finally understood. He asked the two Tsarist Russian officers to wait, returned to the command position, and reported to Zhao Xin through the walkie-talkie.
Zhao Xin already knew the situation on Monk Zhou's side, and now Mislang sent another message. He understood that the Russian army could not fight. The problem was that he only had a few hundred people under his command. If he really wanted to accommodate thousands of Russian soldiers
Prisoners, if Tsarist Russia sees a flaw, they will be in big trouble. Don't forget, there is a group of Qing troops in Heilongjiang City behind you!
"These bastards really know how to choose the right time! It's almost dark now. Surrender? Why the hell are you doing this so early!"
He thought again and again, and then issued orders to the troops in three directions.
First, it was Monk Zhou. He first ordered Monk Zhou and others to build fortifications on the spot and monitor the actions of the Russian army. Then he called Ukanbe, a soldier from the guard squad, and asked him to work as an interpreter for Monk Zhou.
Then came the side of Karen Mountain. He asked Mishilang to inform the Russian envoy that we would discuss anything after dawn. However, since we want to surrender, we must all put down our weapons and pile them up at the designated place. Everyone must evacuate to the east bank of the river.
Otherwise, they will be hit by more intense artillery fire.
Half an hour later, when the commander of the Russian army, Major General Alexandrov, listened to Essin's reply, he showed a disapproving look. The reason why he chose this time to surrender was to delay time and organize troops to break out under the cover of night.
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Unexpectedly, he was only proud for a few minutes, and the artillery fire of the Northern Navy began again. Faced with the overwhelming and violent attack, Alexandrov was shocked and could not imagine that the cannons of the "Qing Army" could also fire in the dark.
So accurate.
Although Colonel Bogaevsky, who was avoiding artillery fire, had his ears buzzing from the explosion, he seemed to hear the familiar buzzing sound above his head...
After fifteen minutes of shelling, the ground where the Russian army assembled was once again full of broken limbs, and cries of crying and shouting could be heard one after another. The light and shadow shrouded in the night kept swaying, and right after the shelling were streaks of red light.
, pounced on the fleeing Cossacks from the mountainside to the north and the edge of the woods to the southwest.
"Your Majesty Commander, if we let the Qing people continue to fight like this, we won't be able to see the sun tomorrow!"
Listening to the intensive and orderly gunfire around him, Major General Alexandrov was in agony. He keenly felt that the "Qing" army had seen through his intentions, so he said to Lieutenant Essin standing aside: "Go ahead.
, go tell the Qing people that we surrender and ask them to stop fighting!"
After saying that, he covered his face with his hands and slumped to the ground, tears streaming from his eyes due to failure and fear.
An hour later, Lieutenant Essin, who received Michelang's ultimatum, first led his people to light two large bonfires in a designated open space. After a while, the bonfires sprinkled with whale oil illuminated the surrounding area of hundreds of meters.
Nothing left.
The remaining Cossack soldiers, organized into platoons, piled their muskets and sabers next to the bonfire; ten Northern Navy soldiers who came down from the Karen Mountain defensive battlefield stood aside with sharp bayonets in their hands to monitor.
At the foot of Karen Mountain, the surviving soldiers, ambulance soldiers and military priests held torches to inspect the wounded. The casualty figures reported from each battalion made Major General Alexandrov complain endlessly; the fifteen minutes of indiscriminate bombardment by the North Korean Navy made
The Russian army lost several hundred more people, and the number of seriously wounded and wounded has reached more than 2,000.
After disarming, the Russian troops carried the seriously wounded and supported each other and headed eastward under the supervision of the Northern Navy.
Near the east bank of the river, the Cossacks who had surrendered long ago were resting around a campfire. They shared the few dry food supplies, leaned together exhausted, and worried about the fate of tomorrow.
Although the Cossacks were uneasy after disarming, after all, the "Qing Army" in the south never launched an attack again. The explosions and gunshots coming from the west not long ago made them panic, and the acting head of the regiment sent someone to contact them urgently.
On the other side, the reply I got was, "As long as you stay calm, you won't open fire!"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Knowing the ultimatum on the other side, the soldiers of the 3rd Fusiliers Regiment felt that the choice of the Acting Commander was really the right one!
From the second half of the night, Zhao Xin and a squad of guards were also busy. He first returned to the artillery position in the south and notified the troops here to move north and meet up with Monk Zhou's troops; of course, he was busy most of the night
The purpose was to take away the three artillery pieces.
After that, he went to the Karen Mountain position. Michelang's headquarters and Chen Jishan's guard company also merged together after the remnants of the Russian army moved eastward. Nothing else, just some encouragement and praise, and then replenishing supplies and ammunition.
Otherwise, working as a mobile warehouse would be tiring, and Zhao Xin would have to do it all by himself!
Monk Zhou was not idle either. He was ordered to clear a piece of hard and flat land 200 meters behind the position. When the sky was dimming, the soldiers of the third company suddenly discovered that there were two more familiar doors behind them.
double-barreled rapid-fire cannon.
Several accompanying communications soldiers set up antennas at five o'clock in the morning and began to contact Wu Siyu's fleet at the rear. Only then did Zhao Xin know that the second batch of fleets had just passed Kubutlin because the wooden boats were traveling upstream.
It’s slow and it takes two days at the fastest to arrive.
At 6 o'clock in the morning, the Russian army, which had been frightened all night, received a notification from the Northern Navy, ordering them to send manpower to clean up the debris after the fire in the old city of Aihun.
Yes, Zhao Xin decided to use that place as the place to accept the formal surrender of the Russian army, because diagonally opposite the old city of Aihui was Jiangdong No. 64 Tun in another time and space.
At 6:30 in the morning, a cavalry team of more than a dozen people arrived southwest of the old city of Aihun, and the Qing army also came. However, the cavalry team did not approach, but hid in the woods and observed from a distance.
Due to the fierce battle in the north yesterday afternoon, the Qing army's cavalry sentry quickly discovered the artillery position of the Northern Navy; however, when they tried to get closer, they were discovered by the nearby defending Northern Navy. After a warning shot, the Qing army's cavalry
The team fled.
When it was dark, the deputy capital commander Eldemubu who was guarding Heilongjiang City saw the flashing artillery fire in the north and listened to the roaring cannons and gunshots. He finally understood that these were not reinforcements from the volunteers at all.
He had read the Ditang newspaper transcribed and printed by the Heilongjiang General's Office in Beijing, and now he was finally convinced that those who were beating up the Rakshasa were the rebel bandits entrenched in the Shuangchengzi area.
They actually came to Heilongjiang City. These guys are a serious problem for the imperial court!
Send someone to contact each other to communicate with each other? How can I, a high-ranking official of the second grade, unite with the rebels and bandits? Even sending someone to contact them will not work!
Eledmubu still knows the truth that "the Han and the traitors are not at odds with each other, and the king's industry is not at peace."
The problem is that the former Commander-in-Chief Fu couldn't defeat him with tens of thousands of people, so who do you think he is? He will be defeated with more than a thousand remnant soldiers under his command?
Forget it! After thinking about it all night, Eldemubu decided to send out sentries to monitor the movements of the Northern Navy. He planned to retreat to Mergen with his troops first, and wait for reinforcements from Hulunbuir to arrive before making any plans.
As for the people in the city? He couldn't care less.
At 9:30 in the morning, after working for several hours, the tired and hungry Cossacks finally cleared the ruins in the old city of Aihun. After they exited the city, Zhao Xin took the guards and two platoons of soldiers
Thirty minutes after entering, a pavilion-style tent with air leakage from all sides was erected in the center of the cross street.
When two platoons of North Korean soldiers completed their defense, it was exactly ten o'clock.
At this time, the Russian commander Alexandrov, in accordance with the Northern Navy's ultimatum last night, led several regiment commanders and staff officers under his command, and after going through a body search at the east gate sentry, they came to the awning.
"Dear Qing Empire officer, according to your request, His Excellency Alexandrov, Count of the Empire and commander of our troops, has arrived!"
Zhao Xin didn't even raise his eyelids, and said in the half-baked Russian he learned from the arms dealer: "Haha, request? No, this is an order! As a failed invader, put down your well-founded vanity! This is
Power to the victor!"
The Tsarist Russian officer who was standing at attention on the opposite side was shocked when he heard that the "Commander of the Qing Dynasty" actually spoke Russian! Not to mention him, Alexandrov and others who were walking towards the awning also showed shock on their faces.
"Your Excellency is right, the winner has this right. Let's get to know each other, I am Alexandrov." Alexandrov, wearing a three-cornered hat, stepped forward and said bitterly;
Then he stood at attention with his feet together and nodded slightly in greeting to Zhao Xin. Then he began to look at the "Qing Commander" sitting opposite.
Well, he has a determined look, a tall and thin figure, and a very capable short hair. Wait a minute!
Alexandrov suddenly realized that Zhao Xin had short hair and did not have braids like the Qing people. He was stunned and said to himself, I have braids, but as an officer of the Qing Empire, you don’t have braids?!
"Could it be that the customs of the Qing people have changed again?" Alexandrov thought that he had made a major discovery, and perhaps this discovery would change the grooming customs of men throughout Europe.
Yes, from 1670 to 1790, for about 120 years, the entire European army, including the upper class, wore a braid on the back of their heads, whether it was real hair or wigs. Although the hairstyles varied greatly.
, and they don’t have the habit of shaving their sideburns and forehead, but they are learning from the Qing Dynasty people!
(Surprised or not? Don’t scold that braid all day long. It has led the entire European hairstyle for more than 100 years.)
Beginning in the ninth year of Kangxi's reign, Europeans and missionaries who came to China to do business found that the old empire had returned to a peaceful and harmonious life. They noticed that Chinese men seemed to have changed their hairstyle overnight, and their hair was dragging behind their heads.
A braid.
This is so awesome!
So when King Louis XIII of France learned about it, he immediately began to learn that all wigs must have braids. As the most advanced civilized country in Europe, France must integrate with the most advanced and powerful Eastern civilization, there is no doubt!
It is precisely because of this that the custom of braiding quickly spread from the French court to the upper classes of various European countries, and later became popular among the military.
But for many ordinary soldiers, a silver-white wig with braids is an expensive luxury item, which is the privilege of the upper class nobles; but ordinary soldiers also have natural advantages, and diseases like syphilis that are spread in upper class society are not affected.
They had it, so they were not bald. So the soldiers imitated the officers and nobles and braided their hair longer than them.
For a full 120 years, all European countries were uniformly braided, with no need for quotation marks. Later, when it became popular in Eastern Europe, those people who liked to have sideburns even braided both sideburns.
The braid is made into three strands.
It was not until the demise of wigs and changes in the way of war in the 19th century that the European braided army withdrew from the stage of history and would only remain in some oil paintings.
Zhao Xin saw a group of Tsarist Russian officers staring at his head in a daze. After thinking for a while, he realized that his lack of braids had triggered speculation. He still sat on the chair, raised his head and looked directly into Alexandrov's eyes, and said word by word:
"Let's get to know each other. My surname is Zhao, and I am currently the commander-in-chief of the Northern Navy. You can call me your highness."
As soon as these words came out, all the Tsarist Russian officers present were stunned.