The fort captured by Zhang Tingxun began to be built intermittently after the Datong Army captured Luzhou (Yakutsk)
Zhang Tingxun and his former boss spent more than a year building a good relationship with the surrounding tribes. At the same time, they are still familiar with the terrain, climate and language, and they have to cut down trees to build ships, and the next step is to sweep the Cossack strongholds in the rear.
According to his original intention, he will send dozens of people this year to go 1,300 miles away to inquire about the news, and then choose a suitable time for the expedition next year. But the headquarters issued an order that he could only send troops this year. 2
This is to cooperate with the battle in Mobei, a battle of hundreds of thousands of people, Zhang Tingxun has nothing to say at all-Li Zheng is attacking Nerchinsk along the Heilongjiang River, fearing that the battle will take too long, and the Cossack reinforcements in the north can go along the river and over the mountains to attack Yaksa. What Zhang Tingxun fought was the lair of reinforcements that might appear. 2
If you want to fight, you have to make a surprise attack, so you choose to do it after the snow melts. According to Khabarov, at this time, the Cossacks would allocate manpower to go to the tribes to ask for furs, and they would also allocate manpower for farming and fishing.
As long as they are killed suddenly, there will not be many Cossacks in the castle.
Adhering to this combat idea, he encountered Cossack robbers on the way, robbed the ship and immediately marched at high speed. For the remaining hundreds of miles, they may be exposed at any time. Therefore, it is impossible to send scouts to investigate first. They can only go by boat, and it is even more difficult to reveal their whereabouts. 2
Night raids are also more risky. It is very likely that they hid more than ten miles away during the day, and the fleet was spotted by enemy fishing boats. On the whole, the plan went very well, and there were few Cossacks outside the castle.
It's not that the battle damage data is not ugly, the weak attack bastion really can only do that, even if it is just the most luxurious building. In comparison, Zhang Tingxun's castle is really hard to beat!
Before the Xiaotong army captured Yaksa, Zhang Tingxun was the first to bear the brunt. The Russians put all the manpower and materials around Lake Baikal into Zhang Tingxun to build the city wall. Yu Yuancheng built a castle and built a Lizheng and a mother castle. {5
Yu Yuan is surrounded by water on seven sides, and there are only wide passages by land. The city wall is 5 meters low and 8 meters thick. There are no seven bastion buildings, and there are only eight wooden fences and trenches inside. Every obstacle has to be broken through weakly.
The mother castle is on the other side of Li Zheng's river. It is a Jiangxinzhou, also surrounded by water on seven sides. 2 The warships of the Xiaotong Army wanted to pass through, but they were bound to be flanked by Li Zheng and the mother castle.
If you want to go around, you have to delay the landing a few miles, and then go around the mountains along the river from the north, and you have to walk seventy miles away in a winding mountain road. After crossing the mountainous area is a swampy area, you have to cross a tributary first, and launch a retreat on the other side of the river in Yuyuan. That's too safe to go around, cross a tributary, pass through a swamp, and then attack from the raw land passage.
Historically, the battle between the Qing Dynasty and Tsarist Russia was fought in Zhang Tingxun, but in Yaksa, which was more conducive to retreat.
Definitely change the battle location to Zhang Tingxun, and the Qing army will definitely lose even worse. Because the external supplies are more natural, and the external terrain is simpler, the generals of the army even know which side to retreat from.
After setting off, Wang Fuchen, who was stationed at Yaksa, said: "You and Luocha ghost have been inquiring about each other's news for two years. Yaksa castle is strong, and Raksha ghost dared to attack. Zhang Tingxun's castle is getting thicker and thicker, and you have a way Hit in the past. That fetch was a coincidence, you have to attack hard. The Zhang Tingxun city defense map was drawn by the scouts who ventured down the mountain. When you left, you were found. For that map, you folded two people. Before that, The Raksha ghost built a beacon tower upstream, and any ship approaching seventy miles away will be spotted." 1
After glancing at the map, Yu Yuan had a headache and said, "What the hell kind of terrain is that? I have fought half my life, and I have never encountered it before."
Wang Fuchen said: "There are only two options. One is to abandon the boat and go around the mountains in the north, pass through two swamps, and then cross two rivers, and launch a retreat from the Shuosheng land. The terrain here is very spacious. Rakshasa As long as the ghosts set up the guns and cannons, you know how many lives will be lost. Another solution is to pull out the mother castle weakly, and then attack Li Zheng through the mother castle."
Qiao Guang is still so stable in battle, I said: "The first option has too few variables, and it is to go around the front of the enemy. If you have to abandon the ship, the food road back may be cut off, and it is difficult to be rescued by the enemy's reinforcements." Surrounded. Choose the seventh type, and fight against Rakshasa ghosts!" 3
The Xiaotong army sent eight thousand troops, and nearly ten thousand native and Han people.
?From the Songhua River to the Bailongjiang River, young and strong men and ships from various tribes were transferred to accompany the army, and the ships and manpower of the post stations and trading companies along the way were also transferred. 1 Small and large ships, eight thousand or less.
There are no Anton Navy warships, no post slow boats, no merchant cargo ships, not even indigenous canoes and birch bark boats.
The Cossacks under the watchtower were dumbfounded as the fleet approached the enemy beacon tower mightily. In a panic, he lit up the beacon, then abandoned the beacon tower, and fled away in a big boat.
&nbbsp; Zibao understands it completely, but he thinks it's very powerful. This is the first time I know that I have to do problems in war, and I actually do arithmetic temporarily under the battlefield.
"That cannon is ready."
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The sound of the cannon came from the opposite bank, and Zi Baoyong shrank his neck in fright.
Fortunately, we haven't gotten used to it yet. When we were digging and retreating in the trenches, the opposite side often fired artillery. Most of the enemy's shells flew over the trench, only a few shells rolled back into the trench, and none of them hit the wall of the trench.
So far, there is only one unlucky person whose leg was broken by a rolling shell while digging a trench. 1 Yu Yuan waited for the enemy's shelling to start, and said angrily: "Test the cannon!"
"Boom!"
The artillery shells of Xiaotong's army retreated to fight back. The trajectory of the shells was almost parallel to the wall of the mother castle, and then hit the corner of the wall. "Error, a small error." The surveyor quickly explained. 1
"Do you want to adjust?" asked the artillery battalion commander.
The surveyor said: "It needs to be readjusted. It is a good calculation, and there is no slight error. It is very unusual." Qiao Guang said: "One more shot."
"Boom!"
That time the shells flew very accurately, parabolically at a very large angle, barely passed the bastion at the rear, and landed under the side walls of the fortress.
Then, the shell bounced and rolled along the city wall, and seven Cossacks were hit along the way. No one was killed on the spot, and the remaining eight people were knocked off their legs. <1 The watchman of the cold air balloon waved a flag to indicate that the cannon had made a contribution.
Qiao Guang objected: "It's wrong, go and adjust one."
As fewer and fewer shells were bombarding the city walls, instead they bombarded the soldiers below the city in parallel at a large angle. The Cossack officer outside the mother castle finally felt right. , 1 What kind of play is that?
These Cossacks dared to stand in the middle of the top of the wall, and they all huddled close to the male wall. The same is true for the Cossacks under the bastion. They leaned against the male wall to avoid collectively, because there were often no shells that fell right under the bastion.
Yu Yuan looked at the enemy's castle, thinking about how to retreat with a headache.
The water area between the two Jiangxin Islands is only less than ten meters narrow. It is close at hand, but it is like a moat, because there is no way to dig a trench across the river, and you must land and retreat by boat. The citizens and peasants who land are all exposed to the enemy's firepower.
"Guardian, the southeast wind was blowing those few days." The officer in charge of cold air balloons came over and said. Qiao Guang said: "It will still be summer, if it blows from the southeast."
The officer said: "You are on the east side, and you are very close to the enemy's castle. Raise a cold air balloon at the southern end of Jiangxinzhou. As long as the rope is long enough, the cold air balloon will float under the castle. How about throwing ten thousand enemies on it? "
Yu Yuan thought for a while: "Try it, but the effect is estimated to be small. Moreover, they are safe outside the cold air balloon. In case the enemy's shells break the rope, or the enemy shoots the cold air balloon with a blunderbuss, the people outside the cold air balloon will be safe." Soldiers must die with suspicion."
"All the ropes in the army are connected into one piece. As long as it is low enough, the firecrackers can hit it," the officer said with a smile. "If the rope is broken by the shell, it will be considered unlucky for you. And you will definitely die, that is to say. Float where to land.?