Even though the Northern Navy troops were more than 20 kilometers away from the fire site, it was already autumn, when the weather was dry and the grass and trees were withering. The fire burned very quickly due to the wind, and in less than an hour it formed a two-pronged fire in the north and south.
Kilometers of fire wall, advancing at a speed of several kilometers per hour. If it had been a little later, Zhao Xin would have had no choice but to take everyone and escape to the other side of the Angara River.
Following Zhao Xin's order, thousands of Bei navy troops took urgent action. They first cleared a circular isolation zone more than 100 meters wide and two kilometers long outside the camp; then they frantically dug trenches inside the isolation zone.
Zhao Xin brought out several water pumps to divert water from two wells in the village into the ditch.
Liu Sheng also received the news, so he ordered the troops on the west bank of the Angara River and the north bank of the Belaya River to retreat to the other side of the river.
In an open space in Mikhailovka Village, several small diesel generators and water pump motors roared, and dozens of engineering lighting lights illuminated the inside and outside of the village as if it were daytime. While everyone was nervous and busy, Zhao Xin sent cavalry to attack at any time.
The headquarters communicates the progress of the fire.
At this time, an Oroqen soldier came to his company commander and said that just clearing the fire break would not be enough. He had heard from the old people in the village that when encountering such a fire, you should fight fire with fire.
"The wind is blowing from the northwest now, wouldn't you burn yourself if you light a fire? Such a wide isolation zone is enough!" The company commander was from Henan and had never seen a grassland fire.
"Company Commander, no! The dry grass is very light and can float very far when blown by the wind. There is no way it can be stopped!"
After hearing the soldier's explanation, the company commander immediately took him to report to the regiment leader Chen Jishan. Not long after, Zhao Xin also knew about it. After listening to the soldier's explanation, he understood immediately, and immediately ordered the soldier to lead people immediately.
A fire was lit from a position more than 300 meters away from the outer edge of the fire break. In this way, the fire break became more than 400 meters wide.
At almost nine o'clock in the evening, the fire finally came over. As far as the eye could see, the open field seemed to have been poured with gasoline, and the flames were coming in an instant. Thanks to the Oroqen soldier's idea, the front line of fire was in Mikhailovka
It stopped more than 400 meters away from the village, and then swept away along the north and south sides of the fire break zone.
"It's done! It's really done!" Zhao Xin looked at the prairie fire outside the village with some annoyance, saying that he was grateful that he had "enjoyed" Napoleon's treatment in advance.
The fire burned for several days, turning the alluvial plain between the Belaya River and the Angara River into a scorched earth. Although it had a certain impact on the military operations of the Northern Navy, it also affected the newly arrived immigrants.
I was secretly happy, now I didn’t even need to hoe the grass. I plowed the ground right away before the weather got colder, so I could plant crops right next spring.
In the early morning of August 30, the Northern Navy set out from the village of Mikhailovka. More than 20 armored vehicles were responsible for opening the road. At the same time, the cavalry battalion sent out sentries for reconnaissance. When they arrived at the village of Cheremhovo, they found the road
The center and both sides were filled with charred material debris, which was discharged for a kilometer. Fortunately, an armored vehicle cleared the way and knocked away the obstacles, clearing a path for the following troops.
In the eighteenth century, the army could only march a few dozen miles a day at most. No matter how good the road conditions were, fifty miles was the limit. The tens of thousands of Russian troops were defeated, and the speed could not be increased. In order to move tens of thousands of people, Rumyantsev
They retreated to the west bank of the Oka River and set up a blocking position at Kutulik.
The problem is that the Russian army can never accurately estimate the strength of the Northern Navy. If the infantry and cavalry are to travel a distance of fifty kilometers, it will take at least two days. But does that matter for an armored vehicle traveling at a speed of fifty kilometers per hour? Even slower
Open, it arrived in two or three hours.
At 10 o'clock in the morning, when the large Russian army in Kutulik village was still preparing to set off, the scouts came to report that the enemy was catching up!
However, when the Russian officers and soldiers who hurriedly organized their defense saw twenty-four green monsters lined up in a row, roaring and heading towards them, one can imagine the shock and fear in the hearts of the Russian soldiers.
It is only the end of the 18th century, and the British industrial revolution has just begun. Watt's two-way steam engine has only been around for ten years, and its main use is in the textile industry. The entire steam age has just begun to emerge.
The general in charge of the rear of the Russian army is Lieutenant General Ivan Vasilyevich Gudovich. This person is not only the commander of the corps, but also the governor of Ryazan Province and Tambov in the Tsarist Empire. He also serves as the infantry and cavalry of the Russian Army.
of inspector.
By the way, Prince Bagration, who died gloriously in the Russo-French War in another time and space, was serving as an infantry captain under him at this time.
Lieutenant General Gudovic, who came to the front line after hearing the news, led his officers to a temporary fort. When they held up their binoculars and saw more than twenty green monsters approaching in the distance, they were all in awe.
Face shocked.
"Gentlemen, can anyone tell me what the Chinese have come up with this time?"
Regarding Lieutenant General Gudovich's question, a middle-aged officer who had been to England and seen a steam engine hesitated: "Your Excellency, based on the intelligence from the scouts, I think it may be a mechanically driven device.
"
"Maybe there is a group of people behind pushing it forward." The speaker was a cavalry colonel.
"No, the scouts said there were only cavalry behind those monsters, they didn't see infantry."
"Oh? Then Vasilyevich, how can you destroy it? This thing has made the soldiers below panic, and they must be stopped!"
While the officers were talking, the North Korean navy's armored vehicle stopped 700 meters away from the Russian defense line.
"God, why did they stop? Why were they wasting time there?" Lieutenant General Gudovich turned to the artillery captain and said: "Hey, captain, fire a cannon to test the enemy's strength."
"Go to your posts, gunners!" an officer gave the command, and a moment later, the gunners quickly loaded the shells and raised the muzzle slightly.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! There is a lot of knowledge in shooting solid bullets in the era of smoothbore guns. For example, if the muzzle elevation exceeds 12 degrees, it will not be able to bounce up after landing, but will fall directly into the ground.
. Therefore, even if the enemy is still far away from where the solid bullet first lands, the gunner will still fire at a small elevation angle of no more than two to three degrees. The purpose is to hope that the solid bullet can hit the ground in the first or second time.
After hitting the ground, it bounces up and hits the target.
"No. 1, release!" the captain issued the command.
The artillerymen on the No. 1 battery position quickly jumped away, and the six-pound field cannon made a deafening roar. A nearly three-kilogram solid bullet flew over the heads of the Russian officers and soldiers under the fort, making a buzzing roar.
In this era, the "pound" mentioned in artillery in various European countries refers to the "artillery pound", which is a completely different concept from the "trade pound" in commerce. For Russia, the so-called "artillery pound" refers to an artillery pound with a diameter of 50.79
Millimeters of cast iron solid ball weight; an artillery pound is 487~488 grams, and a trade pound is 408.98 grams.
The Russian army's artillery fire was quite accurate. The nearly three kilogram solid projectile flew 600 yards, bounced on the ground, and then hit the right front corner of the front of an armored vehicle with huge kinetic energy. Then it fired.
There was a loud bang with echoes.
"Hit!"
"Ula~ha~ha!"
The soldiers on the Russian position had all looked up since the cannon opened fire. When they saw the fort hit the enemy, they immediately cheered. At this time, the sun peeked out from the clouds, and the sound of the cannon and the dazzling sunlight merged in
Together, it gave the thousands of Russian troops present the illusion of being inspired.
But what happened a few minutes later left the Russian generals on the fort dumbfounded. The green-skinned monster that was hit by a solid bullet slowly moved twice, and at the same time, the flat round box with a long tube on it began to move.
Lieutenant General Gudovic, who turned slightly and observed with a telescope, instinctively felt that something was not good, and he immediately shouted: "The artillery continues to fire!"
In fact, the fact that the Russian army's first shot hit was just a piece of cake. At a distance of 700 yards, the field cannon's hit rate was only 40%, so the second shot failed to hit anything.
However, during this period, all North Korean Navy armored vehicles also completed their shooting and aiming.
Suddenly, the 30mm machine gun on the hit armored vehicle let out a roaring roar. The tracer bullets mixed in the shells turned the armored vehicle into a monster spitting out tongues of fire. The front edge of the fort where Lieutenant General Gudovic was located immediately began to fire continuously.
Smoke and dust rose from the explosion.
Just as the faces of the Russian troops under the fort turned green and white, the other twenty-three armored vehicles also began to spit out tongues of fire. This time, the Russian frontline troops were suddenly killed and injured. The armored vehicles in the wilderness roared when they opened fire.
The sound was loud, almost covering up the explosions on the position and the screams of those who were shot.
Twenty-four armored vehicles and twenty-four rapid-fire cannons, like twenty-four huge sickles, caused a bloody storm on the Russian army's position.
"Oh God! That's the devil! The devil from hell!"
"We're done! Run!"
The Russian troops in the rear were frightened when they saw the fire and explosions at the front. The limbs of men and horses were flying, and they were all frightened. Then the tight formation became disorganized, and tens of thousands of people began to flee.
When the 30mm rapid-fire gun fires continuously, the minimum rate of fire is 200 rounds per minute, and each vehicle has 500 rounds of ammunition, so the shelling of the North Navy armored vehicles only lasted for one minute and then stopped. However, in this minute,
It caused huge damage to the Russian frontline troops. Several forts at the forefront were all blown up, and the bodies of the dead were packed up and down the forts.
Forty-nine-year-old Lieutenant General Gudovich was blinded in one eye by shrapnel. Fortunately, his deputies dragged him off the fort despite the gunfire, then helped him onto his restless horse and fled in panic.
After seeing that the Russian army had begun to rout across the board, Zhao Xin, who was sitting in the armored vehicle, opened the top cover, leaned out half of his body, waved his hand in an arrogant manner, and ordered all vehicles to move forward, while using the walkie-talkie to notify the rear.
The troops followed.
Although the Russian infantry can escape very fast, is it possible that the armored vehicles and cavalry can escape faster?
When the 1st Cavalry Battalion, located 200 meters behind the armored vehicle, received the order to attack, Battalion Commander Samu Suxin said that he had finally waited for this day! He drew out his sharp saber, turned around and shouted loudly to his men: "Cavalry
Battalion, attack!"
So, the five hundred cavalrymen marched forward quickly in platoons. After bypassing the armored convoy, they formed an arrow. After walking more than 200 meters at a brisk pace, they immediately started running.
accelerate.
Don’t be misled by movies and TV shows. It took a madman to speed up his horse to charge at a distance of nearly one kilometer!
The speed of a war horse is about 5.2 to 6.5 kilometers per hour when walking at a slow pace, 12 to 15 kilometers per hour when walking quickly, and 18 to 24 kilometers per hour when running. The speed of a cavalryman when walking on foot can reach up to 10 kilometers per hour.
It is more than 30 kilometers per hour, but this high speed cannot be maintained for long, because it will cause the horses to tire quickly, and the speed will decrease sharply. Therefore, the cavalry usually uses fast walking to meet the enemy, and then changes to charging with infantry. Basically
You can run up to three kilometers, and then you have to slow down, otherwise the horse will be exhausted.
Samusu led the cavalry battalion to the village of Kutulik five kilometers away. During the attack, if the Russian cavalry organized a counterattack, they would stop their horses and shoot with rifles from a long distance, and then began to use weapons on the remaining Russian cavalry.
Killing with pistols or chopping with sabers, everyone was exhausted by the end, but they were very excited. The five hundred of them alone were able to stop more than four thousand Russian troops from retreating.
Zhao Xin led 24 armored vehicles in hot pursuit. After the rapid-fire artillery shells were gone, he used the vehicle-mounted machine guns to kill the Russian soldiers. Corpses were strewn across the field and rivers of blood flowed. By 12 noon, the armored convoy had advanced to a distance of Kutu.
Ten kilometers north of the village of Lik, when the infantrymen from behind arrived panting, the fields inside and outside the village of Kutulik were filled with Russian troops who had given up their escape. After an afternoon of counting, the number of prisoners was as high as
There were more than 18,000 people; in addition, many defeated troops fled into the dense forests on both sides of the post road.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! For the armored convoy that achieved such a great success, the price was that the tracks of two vehicles were broken, including the one who was hit by a solid bullet.
The broken armored vehicle cannot be repaired at present, so we can only wait for Zhao Xin to bring it back to Beihai Town for Zhao Liang and the others to repair it. So the few armored soldiers in the guard battalion who had just been excited for two days had to go back to being infantry in despair.
On the other hand, on the Russian side, Rumyantsev, who set off early in the morning, was shocked when he learned that Gudovich's troops had collapsed. At this time, the leading Russian troops had already marched to the village of Kuturik, thirty kilometers northwest of the village.
location, and there are no settlements on the 80-kilometer road from Kutulik to Zima, only a few logistics supply stations built before.
The overcrowded marching ranks were densely packed with shoulders touching shoulders and bayonets hanging on them. Under the military hats, there were frightened and tired faces of the soldiers.
Suddenly, a cavalry officer shouted: "What's going on? Why are there still a group of sheep! Get out of the way!... Make a way! Damn it! I'm going to chop it with my saber!" Next, he really
He pulled out his saber from its scabbard and swung it at the sheep beneath him.
"Sir! Sir! No, please! These sheep are my only possessions." A settler who fled from Kutulik village pulled the reins of his horse and begged. The soldiers around him looked dull.
, now no one cares about these bad things anymore.
Rumyantsev turned over and dismounted, standing blankly, his chubby body leaning tightly against a big tree, with a bitter look on his face. The officers under him were also confused and had no idea how to deal with the current situation.
chaotic situation.
After learning that the pursuing Northern Navy once again stopped in Kuturik to collect prisoners of war, the commander-in-chief ordered everyone to speed up and make sure to reach Zima early the next morning.
However, at around eight o'clock in the evening, the Cossack cavalry in charge of reconnaissance came back and reported a piece of news that made everyone feel desperate. A group of enemies who came out of nowhere had captured Zima, numbering about two thousand people.
Rumyantsev finally panicked. He knew that he had been caught in the enemy's front and rear attacks. If this were in the area west of the Ural Mountains, the Russian army would have many options for its retreat route. But this is Eastern Siberia, from Moscow to Iraq.
There is only one postal route at your feet in Irkutsk.
After experiencing these two rapid defeats, Rumyantsev knew that he was facing an extremely formidable opponent. The courage of the Russian army and his carefully planned strategy were incomparable in the face of the opponent's various strange and powerful weapons.
So powerless.
"The enemy has opened his pockets and is waiting for us to crash into him." Rumyantsev was silent for a moment and asked the generals present: "Gentlemen, do you have any good ideas?"
No one answered. The tent was lifeless. Others were either smoking with their heads down or in a daze.
"Okay," the sixty-five-year-old commander-in-chief touched his graying temples, shook his head helplessly, and said with a wry smile: "Then let the fighting stop. Next, we should end this war with dignity.
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Rumyantsev wanted to cease war with Beihai Town, but he forgot one thing: it is not the invaders who have the final say when the war will end.