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"Bang bang bang bang!"

The battle started ten miles upstream first, and the Cossack reinforcements landed ahead of time, only to be discovered by the Datong army standing guard in the mountains.

Chapter 992 [Killing Prisoners]

On the banks of the Heilongjiang River, larch trees towered into the clouds, and a total of thirty scouts were hidden in the canopy of the mountains on both sides.

They wear special iron shoes with a "ㄛ" shape at the front end, which can be used to catch tree trunks and climb up quickly-this kind of iron shoes are usually used to climb trees and beat pine nuts.

Once you've reached the top, choose a strong branch and secure the pulley with nails and rope.In a group of two, watch the whistle in turns, and pulleys can be used for climbing up and down.

Luo Shu tied the noose around his waist and hugged the tree trunk with both arms.

The partner below, Chen Yutai, was putting down the rope bit by bit. With the cooperation of each other, he quickly descended to the ground.

Luo Shu untied the noose, and Chen Yutai took it and put it on, and put on the iron shoes at the same time.

Chen Yutai stepped on the tree trunk to climb up, and Luo Shu pulled the pulley on the ground to help his partner climb the tree quickly.When Chen Yutai arrived at the observation position, Luo Shu went to tie the rope, and at the same time hung a bell on the lower end of the rope.

After squatting on the tree for a long time, Luo Shu was so tired that his back hurt and his eyes were sore.

He lay on the paved hay, took out dry food and closed his eyes to fill his stomach.

After eating the dry food, I didn't even have time to drink water, so I fell asleep in a daze.

"Jingle Bell!"

The bell under the tree rang suddenly, and Luo Shu woke up from his sleep.He was afraid that the mountain wind was blowing the bell, so he didn't act immediately, only to see the rope vibrating violently, and the bell rang even louder.

Luo Shu picked up his flintlock rifle, ran quickly down the mountain, jumped into the boat and reported the news.

This place is thirty miles away from Nippon Chu!

Holisanf is the commander of the support army, and he is usually stationed in Bargutimu Hetun.The city was built on the shore of Lake Baikal, next to the Balahu tribe of Buryat Mongolia, and the battles have never stopped every year.

Only one-third of the Buryat Mongolian territory was occupied by the Cossacks.

Among them, Hachikube became more powerful.Because of this Mongolian tribe, the grassland was not damaged, but instead received a large number of refugees who fled south.They don't lack horses or people, they only lack pasture and food, and they will take the initiative to attack whenever they have the opportunity.It doesn't matter if you lose troops. Anyway, the population is too large to support, as long as you can kill the Cossacks, you can earn it.

The city of Ust-Borolva was the busiest place to fight. They didn't dare to send too many soldiers to support them, leaving a full 60 Cossacks to guard the castle.

Bargutimu and Tuncheng, the pressure is slightly less, leaving 40 Cossacks to defend.

In the cities of Upper Angarask and Baonte in the north, almost all the troops were mobilized, leaving only ten Cossacks in each castle.

Four castles, three strongholds, 386 Cossacks, and more than 800 servants, rushed to help Nerchinsk after gathering in Chita.

They also encountered an attack from the Buryat Mongols on the way, and won several battles, but one Cossack was killed, five Cossacks were injured, and more than 1 indigenous servants were killed or injured.

"Just go ashore here and go around the mountains." Holisanf said.

He was already very cautious and landed more than ten miles ahead of schedule.The Cossacks walked in the front, and the native servants followed behind to carry the grain. These guys also brought some grain and grass to Nerchinsk.

But their every move was seen by the sentinels of the Datong Army along the coast.

Walking among the mountains, Holisanf suddenly muttered, "Why do I feel something is wrong?"

Of course something was wrong, the birds and beasts along the way were all scared away by the Datong Army, and the forest was extremely quiet.

After Chen Yutai asked Luo Shu to report the letter, he returned to the ground with the telescope.After the Cossack fleet passed, they went to gather with other scouts on both sides of the strait, followed the enemy far away, and destroyed their ships when the enemy landed.

These scouts have different selection criteria in each region.

Take the coast of Heilongjiang as an example, you must be proficient in climbing, you must know how to swim, and you must be good at marksmanship.After being selected as a scout, they have to learn the indigenous language, especially the language of the Daur people. It is convenient to communicate with the indigenous people in the mountains.

They had a flintlock musket, and daggers and axes, and other miscellaneous things.

Since the boat was taken away by their partners, the scouts cut down small trees, tied them with the ropes from before, and made a raft to move slowly.After advancing for more than ten miles, people continued to join along the way, and fifteen scouts successfully assembled.

When they arrived at the landing point of the Cossacks, the enemy had already gone far away, and the ships were buckled on the shore.

Chen Yutai swung his ax and chopped down the bottom of the Cossack's boat, then climbed to a nearby tree and squatted to guard.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

Gunshots sounded in the distant forest.

There is more than one way here, and a perfect ambush cannot be achieved.The Datong army was divided into several groups to set up an ambush, and only 200 people fought first.Before the gunshots sounded, other scouts had already moved, leading the rest of the troops towards the battlefield.

At the moment of the gunshot, Holisanf fell down suddenly, his heart beating violently.

The Datong Army in charge of the ambush had two scouts who fired rifled guns and aimed at Holisanf and his clerk respectively.

A bullet flew past Hollisanf's ear.

Another bullet hit the clerk in the chest, and he was still alive after falling down.

"There is an ambush, retreat to the forest to the west." Horisanf shouted.

Nearly 800 Cossacks and more than 70 servants were shot coldly, and more than 30 people fell down in an instant.Due to the close distance, the Datong Army's hit rate was close to [-]%.

While the Datong army was loading ammunition, the remaining enemies fled frantically.

"Use the bayonet to scatter the Rakshasa ghost!"

Counting the two scouts, 202 Datong troops rushed out with bayonets in hand.

Suddenly encountered an ambush, the Cossacks were in a panic, even with a gun in their hands, they did not dare to stop and fight back. It is already good that they have not completely lost their organization.

A part of the indigenous servants fled indiscriminately, throwing down their food, and did not follow Holisanf's order to retreat westward.These guys didn't escape very far before colliding with another Datong army. Most of them surrendered directly, and a few continued to escape.

Holisanf fled to a hillside, leaned behind a big tree and shouted: "Fight back here!"

The Cossacks were very obedient, but the native servants didn't care, and continued to run away, trying to escape by sailing a boat by the river.

While these Cossacks were reloading, there was another gunshot from the slope above the north slope, and several Cossacks were shot and fell to the ground—another Datong army had already arrived.

There is no way to escape, and whoever dares to show their heads will become the target.

These two Datong armies have four scouts.

They put on iron shoes, hid behind a tree and climbed up.Climb to a certain height, step on the trunk with iron shoes, immediately fill the ammunition, and attack the enemy from two directions condescendingly.

Luo Shu was right behind the Cossacks, and he led the troops to come, already out of breath from exhaustion.

At this moment, he climbed up a tree and immediately saw the backs of several Rakshasa ghosts.

Holisanf was targeted by Luo Shu, because he was the best dressed, and the hat was even made of sable fur.

The weapon in Holisanf's hand was a rare flintlock gun for Cossacks.He squatted quietly behind the big tree, quietly observing the Datong army below, and suddenly he heard shouts from the side, and instantly despaired—surrounded on three sides!

"boom!"

Desperation lasted only for a moment, Holisanf suffered from pain in his back and felt that his whole body was losing strength.

Luo Shu grinned and continued to reload the bomb.He is very confident in his marksmanship, he is a sharpshooter selected from tens of thousands of soldiers!

The main general suddenly disappeared, and the Cossacks completely lost their organization.

However, they dared not run away under the three sides, because they would die faster if they left the cover of the big tree.

Cossacks keep falling, enemies are everywhere, they don't even know where to hide.

"Surrender, we are willing to surrender!"

Finally, a Cossack officer yelled, and the guy had obviously broken down.

In a mortal situation, the Cossacks will also surrender.

In the Battle of Yaksa, the Cossacks attacked the Qing army's siege equipment in a foggy sky. After being ambushed, those who could not escape all surrendered.A total of 45 people were escorted to Beijing to join the army. They belonged to the Xianghuang Banner and were compiled as the No. 17 assistant leader of the fourth Manchurian leader. This assistant leader is also called the "Russian team".

Zhao Han is very stingy with Khabarov, and he has to make meritorious service in order to be promoted.

Kangxi was much more generous to those 45 Cossacks. As captives with bloody hands, they actually enjoyed the treatment of bannermen.Even, the Guandi Temple was converted into an Orthodox church, and the number of people multiplied to about 1000 in the late Qing Dynasty.

Due to the intermarriage with the Chinese in the past dynasties, the descendants of these Cossacks have almost the same appearance as the Chinese.More than 200 people were killed by the Boxers, and a few people emigrated to the Soviet Union, and the rest have been living in China.

"Put down your arms and come out with your hands up!" shouted the officer with some knowledge of Russian.

One after another, Cossacks threw away their weapons and raised their hands, carefully leaving the hiding place.

These guys were tied up and taken to Nerchinsk.

Hundreds of indigenous servants fled to the river in a panic, eager to carry the overturned boats into the river.

"There is a hole in the bottom of the boat!" One person shouted.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

Fifteen scouts crouched in the trees and fired at the crowd without even needing to aim. There were people all around the boat.

Due to the sound of gunfire from all directions, the indigenous servants thought they were ambushed by the army, and they all jumped into Heilongjiang subconsciously.While diving, I also took off my clothes. If the clothes are too thick, I can't swim far.

The scouts came to the ground, slowly reloading and firing.

It doesn't matter if you hit or not, you can't let the enemy go ashore anyway.When the enemy is half dead from exhaustion, even if he swims to the opposite bank to escape, he will probably end up starving to death, because it is too far to walk back to Chita on foot.

As for the captured Cossacks, Emperor Zhao had ordered them all to be killed, leaving no one behind!

Killing also needs to talk about the method, waste utilization thing.

Li Zheng ordered them to be escorted to the top of Zibao, all tied up and fixed, and shot in batches of ten.

Hearing the sudden gunshots, Bashkov picked up the binoculars, and his face turned pale—his reinforcements were killed!

The isolated fortress is trapped, the reinforcements are cut off, and the food and grass are not enough. How can we fight?

Chapter 993 [Blowing up the city]

Cossacks are humans too, and humans are afraid.

Fear is fear, but these guys are extremely brave, and they will not surrender unless they face desperation.

As long as there is still a castle to defend, it is not considered hopeless in their eyes!

Li Zheng's behavior of killing prisoners made the Cossacks even more afraid, and at the same time strengthened their determination to stick to the end.

It was under such circumstances that Li Zheng began to order to cross the river, as if he didn't pay attention to the art of war at all.

In the sky, the hot air balloon ascended again.

A few days ago, the hot air balloon was not lifted, and the extra rope was taken away by scouts.Now that the scouts have returned, all the ropes are used to raise the hot air balloons, which can ensure that the two hot air balloons will float over the bastion in the southeast of the enemy.

"The Khitan may have to cross the river and bring up the artillery!" Bashkov said.

Li Zheng kept shelling the enemy fort, and Bashkov didn't do anything.

The Cossacks tore down all the wooden boards in the city, and nailed the extremely valuable furs to the outer layer of the wooden boards to wrap them.They don't have iron sheets, so they are reinforced with double-layer wooden boards, and they are lifted by powerful people to block the top, and the gunner and the servants quickly push and pull the artillery.

The artillery position of the Datong Army on the high platform moves with two hot air balloons.

The artillery was fired towards the two bastions of the enemy's northeast and southwest, where there were also Cossack artillery.But the distance is too far, and the accuracy is extremely poor. If twenty or thirty shots are fired, maybe even one shot will not be able to hit, and it will only interfere with and delay the enemy's actions.

Two hot air balloons crazily dropped bombs towards the bastion in the southeast of the enemy.

This time, I will not drop it in a matter of seconds, because the enemy is holding the baffle, and the damage caused by the air explosion is limited.Ignite the fuse and throw it down. It can always fall to the ground and explode. When it explodes, several people fall down.Even if it falls on a wooden board or a ten-pound bomb falls from a high altitude, the impact force can hit the enemy's baffle and let it go.

The southeast bastion bombed by hot air balloons was almost ruined, and it couldn't stand people at all.

"Boom boom boom!"

The moment the Datong army crossed the river, the Cossacks fired.The two bastion forts in the southwest and northeast, as well as the defensive forts on the west city wall, bombarded the water together.

All the soldiers of the Datong Army rowed small boats, and each boat could only seat six people.

Two of them erected skin shields to protect against bullets, two of them paddled forward quickly, and finally a civilian man with a shovel in his hand.

Hundreds of small boats were paddling forward sparsely, and the enemy's shells kept hitting the water, splashing one after another.At this moment, in the mountains in the northeast, there were suddenly some warriors from Sauron's tribe, who came to the river with dozens of small boats on their shoulders.

The Cossack gunners at the bastion in the northeast quickly turned their cannons and bombarded the Sauron natives who were about to cross the river.

As a result, the firepower suffered by the main battlefield on the south side was suddenly reduced by one-third.The soldiers of the Datong Army crossed the river more smoothly. When the first batch of small boats approached the opposite bank, only one boat was hit, and two boats were overturned and sank.

The reason why it was so smooth was that the two hot air balloons made contributions, which prevented the Cossacks from firing at the bastion in the southeast, which was the direction where the main force of the Datong Army crossed the river.

The warriors of Sauron, who were responsible for the feint attack in the northeast, faced the firepower of the bastion there, and soon suffered heavy losses.More than 30 people were killed or injured in a short period of time. When the boat reached the middle of the river, it was shot by muskets, and all of them collapsed when hit.

On the front, after the Datong army crossed the river, the soldiers immediately erected the baffle on the ground to cover the civilian men digging the tunnel behind them.

Two people set up a shield to protect against bullets, two soldiers and two civilians dug a hole, and there were such six-man teams everywhere on the south bank of the enemy's castle.

"boom!"

When a cannonball hit, the cowhide on the outer layer of the baffle was not damaged, but the iron sheet on the inner layer was severely deformed, and the wooden board was broken into dross.