Forty-eight years of Qianlong

"Dajunmen! It's not that they are greedy for life and afraid of death. It's because the North Sea pirates have demon skills! The brothers are still two hundred steps away from their camp. The North Sea pirates suddenly acted like daylight, and the brothers panicked and fell into chaos. In the end, the general can't see where the culprit is! In the blink of an eye, we will be killed and injured a lot!"

After the Qing army failed in the night attack and fled back to the city, the leader of the team who escaped by chance fell to the ground when he saw Du Erjia, crying loudly.

None of the deputy capital commander and the other six co-leaders present said anything. They all saw the strong light that suddenly lit up on the Beihai Navy's position before. All the defenders on the road were frightened.The most terrible thing is that the dazzling rays of light will continue to flicker, and anyone who gets close will be blinded.

Well, the Qiqihar generals, including Du Erjia, have never seen the powerful flashlights of the Beihai Navy.The defeat in Fuerdan City was during the daytime, and when Du Erjia was captured at the Mongolian River Station, the Beihai Navy hadn't used this thing yet.

Although the Jilin side once mentioned this matter in the military newspaper, saying that the North Sea pirates can do it at night and have the skill of "reversing yin and yang", but the Qing army in Qiqihar has not "enjoyed" it yet.

At this time, the flickering and dimming of the candlelight on the handsome case reflected on Du Erjia's expressionless face, also flickering and dimming, looking strangely ferocious.He sat motionless, and waited for the co-leader to finish speaking before asking, "Where are your people?"

"Going back to Dajunmen, we only have thirty muskets, we can't stop..."

Du Erjia chuckled, like a night owl on a branch at night, got up and walked to the leader, and said flatly: "So you escaped back?"

"Dajunmen, please forgive me!" The co-leader already sensed something was wrong, he crawled two steps on his knees, and tried to defend himself, but Du Erjia pulled out the knife from the waist of the soldier behind him with his backhand, and stabbed it, the bright long knife pierced through his chest As soon as he entered, he raised his foot and kicked out the knife, the leader was already bleeding profusely, and fell to the ground with a "plop".

The deputy capital commander in the commander's tent, the other seven co-leaders, the commander of the navy battalion, and the firearms commander all backed away in shock. They didn't expect that Du Erjia, who usually looked like a harmless old cat to humans and animals, would make a move. So vicious.

"Whoever dares to abandon their troops and run away again, this is a role model!"

A soldier came forward and breathed out, then turned to Du Erjia and shook his head.

"Carry it out for a good burial."

After a long while, Qiqihar's deputy commander said in a condescending way: "Junmen, why don't you call the shamans in the city to do it, and then use the black dog's bloody feces to break it?"

Duerjia smiled when he heard this, and felt very disapproving, he didn't believe in these nonsense things.To be honest, Du Erjia felt that the failure of the sneak attack was nothing.Although the other party's "magic" made it impossible to find out the exact number of enemy troops, more than 500 people escaped from 700 people. In addition, considering the fact that the North Navy did not launch a pursuit, he felt that the South Gate Outside the North Navy Ding Potian only 200 people.

Don't forget, this guy saw with his own eyes how thousands of Eight Banners Mongolian cavalry were wiped out on the battlefield in Fuerdan City. 700 people are nothing!
He got up and walked to the large sand table with a radius of Zhang in the commander's tent, and glanced for a long time with his hands behind his back with a gloomy face. All the officers present were silent, waiting for his order. …

Duerjia knew very well that there was not much time left for him.Fortunately, the soldiers and civilians in the city have not seen the scene of the North Navy firing guns during the day, otherwise the morale of the army would be lost, and he could only end up committing suicide.

Since you can't fight at night, then fight during the day, and it's better to fight early than late
After a while, Du Erjia's slightly hoarse voice sounded in the commander's tent: "This battle is not easy to fight, nor can it be delayed. Today is different from the past. To tell you the truth, don't look at the strength of the troops in the city. In addition, there are tens of thousands of young and strong, but as long as the brigade behind the North Sea Pirates arrives immediately, it will be useless to double the number of troops! He moves me quietly, and he can only wait for death if he stays in the city. He wants a safe way of fighting It's impossible, we can only use human lives to fight a bloody way! We will make plans when we arrive in Hulan City!"

"Under the bid, I would like to obey the order of the Great Army Gate! Please arrange the strategy of the Great Army Gate!"

Du Erjia nodded, said "hmm" in his nose, and said to the vice president: "The method you just said is not bad, I will leave this matter to you!"

"Ah?" The vice president was stunned, and it took a moment to remember the bad idea he had just made.

"However, this commander can only give you two hours. Regardless of the time of the black dog's blood, the boy's urine, or the shaman, all must be ready before dawn! I wrote a warrant to you, whoever dares to stop it will be killed immediately!"

"Whoo!"

The vice president actually had no idea about his own ideas, but he felt that whether it would work or not, he would at least stabilize the morale of the army and boost morale.

After the vice commander went out, Du Erjia looked around at the seven co-leaders and other generals present, and said in a deep voice: "Now go and inform the battalions under your command, let them take the time to eat and drink, and feed the horses Materials, and then prepare dry food for ten days, let them put on armor and bring horses and weapons before the second quarter of Maozheng, and go to the big colonel in the city to stand by! Remember! Before dawn, no one is allowed to make loud noises or walk around outside the barracks. No mercy!"

Everyone said in unison: "Hey! Please obey the order of the army!"

The city of Qiqihar was brightly lit that night, and the vice-captain ordered hundreds of his subordinates to go door-to-door to collect boy urine and black dogs.During the period, the Beihai Navy also sent drones for reconnaissance, but they didn't feel anything wrong after looking at the chaotic scene in the picture.

Duerjia really guessed right.The reason why the battalion commanders of the two battalions outside the city dared to spread their troops to block the gates of the city during the day was mainly because the battle ahead was so smooth!
Whether it was the post stations along the way, or the cities of Morgan and Butha, they all surrendered on the day the soldiers approached the city.Now the entire battle has become a camping exercise in the eyes of many recruits. After waking up every day, apart from eating, they will march in a hurry. As long as they reach the target position, set up an attack formation, and fire two cannons, the Qing army will surrender.

In addition, the large troops had already arrived at the Talal station sixty miles away yesterday afternoon, which also gave them confidence.At most, stick to it for a day and a night, and the big troops will arrive.

Due to the shortage of manpower, the Beihai Navy outside the south gate did not care about treating the wounded Qing soldiers left on the battlefield, and only sent a platoon of soldiers to remove some of the corpses so as not to block the shooting range.The strong smell of blood on the battlefield made the recruits carrying the corpses vomit. …

At the same time, the hungry wolves on the wasteland and the wild dogs outside the city were also attracted by this breath, and started howling from a long distance away.After a while, pairs of green eyes began to dance in the wilderness like will-o'-the-wisps.

At five o'clock in the morning, another battalion and regiment headquarters finally arrived after a night of rapid march, which made the two battalion commanders breathe a sigh of relief.

At 6 o'clock in the morning, the sun rose and the sky was bright. When the Beihai Navy in various positions outside the city were busy lighting fires and having breakfast, they noticed some people in strange clothes appearing on the city wall.In the field of vision of the telescope, these people wore copper helmets and masks of different shapes, and wore double-breasted gowns decorated with large copper buttons and bronze mirrors, and many shells, streamers, leather strips, copper bells and other accessories.

Immediately afterwards, with the joint efforts of some Qing troops, a pillar almost two meters high and thick with a bowl mouth was erected on the top of the city, with a piece of bloody skin hanging on it, as well as a bow, some arrows, and spears. and other weapons.

"Shaman?!"

Almost a quarter of the Northern Navy soldiers in the two battalions outside the city are from the aborigines around Heilongjiang City, including Daur, Ewenki, Xibe, and Oroqen. They are too familiar with this set of things up!
You must know that in the surrounding area of ​​Heilongjiang City, each frontier family has its own ancestral temple and wild temple, and each "Mokun"—that is, the village has its own shaman.Every year from the Lunar New Year to "February [-]" is the shaman's "gathering period". People in and outside the village will drive cattle and sheep, bring money and various tributes to worship, and ask God for fortune-telling. There is an endless stream of people seeing a doctor.

In the early years, whenever the Daur people in Heilongjiang City were sick, they would think that their ancestors had committed a crime and blamed them, so they hired shamans to dance gods to cure their illnesses, and at the same time killed cattle to sacrifice to the gods; if someone in the family died, it would be even more troublesome. Kill cattle and horses, take the skins and hang them on the high places of the pillars as a sacrifice.

In the middle period of Kangxi, under the bewitching of some bad shamans, this bad habit was widely spread in the general area of ​​Heilongjiang, and killing cattle and horses became popular for a while; often all the cattle and horses in the family were killed, and the patients died, which led to Many people fell into extreme poverty.Sabsu, who was the general of Heilongjiang at the time, also dealt with a large number of people, and finally stopped the indiscriminate killing of livestock.

After Beihai Town occupied Heilongjiang City, it did not prohibit folk sacrificial activities during festivals. It just called the shamans from the surrounding villages to the military control committee and strictly ordered them not to extort money from others, take more than they wanted, and offenders would be dispatched to the railway. Go to the construction site to build roads.

In addition, in the process of land reform and land distribution, there is a very important principle that family members cannot seek help from shamans when they are sick, they must go to the clinic for treatment first, otherwise once they are discovered, the first time is to criticize and educate, and the second time the whole village must be called. Collective criticism meeting.

The ban alone is not enough. Measures such as broadcasting with loudspeakers and opening schools to educate children and recruits have been used. However, the most effective means is Hong Tao's policy of sending medical teams to the countryside, which has achieved unexpected results.

It is said that people who can be shamans are almost all weak and sick people.These people have to be enlightened by the previous generation of shamans, and they can "come out of fullness" only with the consent of themselves and their families.However, with the deployment of medical teams to the countryside, many diseases that were regarded as incurable by the frontier residents have been treated. The shamans found to their dismay that their own three-day dance is often not as effective as other people's medicine. …

With these means, the soldiers of the Daur and other ethnic groups in the army no longer have awe of the shaman dancing god, so they all dismissed Qiqihar Qing army's move.

At this time, it was as if thunder rolled over the city wall, more than a dozen big drums were sounded one after another, and a dozen shamans summoned by the Qing army began to ring the divine bells, shaking their whole bodies, and sang "Yegye".At the same time, more than 2000 men, women and children gathered around behind these shamans. Following the chanting of the shamans, they either knocked on the grabbing drums in their hands or howled together.

All of a sudden, there were noisy sounds on the walls of Qiqihar all over the city, and people who didn't know it thought it was a temple fair.

"What the hell is the Qing army doing?!"

The head of the group who was eating breakfast muttered something, and then sent out a drone, intending to go over and have a look.Unexpectedly, Du Erjia was already prepared. Early in the morning, he sent a dozen or so Qing troops with good eyesight to watch on the scull tower.Although he didn't understand the use of those black and white "strange birds" released by the Beihai Navy, but based on years of experience in fighting against the opponent, he judged that those things were probably "evil things" like clairvoyance and wind ears. .

"The strange bird of the Northern Pirate is flying over again! Shoot the arrow!"

Hearing the news, a Sauron soldier immediately raised his bow and set his arrow, and only heard a sound of "咻~~~", and the arrow whizzed towards the school ground in the city with the sound of bone whistle.

"Show the flag! Ming the conch! Everyone get on their horses! Let the pawns set off for Nanxunmen!"

Following Du Erjia's order, the captain of the guards on the stage immediately waved a golden banner in his hand; then, the whimpering and desolate sound of the conch horn sounded, and more than 2000 cavalrymen who had been waiting for a long time on the school field stepped forward one after another. On the horse.On the streets around the school grounds, Qing army infantry armed with weapons also began to march towards the south gate.

At this moment, for the [-] Northern Marines outside the city, what filled their ears was almost all the loud chanting of shamans and the sound of rumbling drums.However, in the foxhole at the forefront, a Daur soldier who had been a Qing army still heard an unusual voice from the noise.

"Company commander, the situation in the city is not right! Listen, someone is blowing the conch horn!"

The company commander listened intently for a while, and his face gradually became solemn. The blowing of the conch by the Qing army was usually a prelude to an attack. He immediately said to the signal soldiers beside him: "Report to the battalion immediately, and everyone is ready for battle!"

The harsh and sharp whistle immediately sounded on the position, and all the soldiers dropped their things, grabbed their guns and jumped into the foxhole.At the same time, the drone footage sent back from the regiment headquarters startled the regiment leader and several staff officers in the tent.

The head of the regiment suddenly shouted: "Let the third battalion immediately send two companies to the south position, and let the guards line up to the third battalion's position! Move quickly! The first battalion is ready to support the third battalion at any time! Order the mortar company Stand by immediately, aim at the south gate! Listen to my order!"

The Nanxun Gate of Qiqihar City was slowly opened, and more than 4000 Qing troops, armed with bows, arrows, spears, or steel knives and shields, poured out like a tide.

"Tom!"

With a loud noise from the top of the city tower, thick white smoke came out of the fired trumpets, and the Qing army who left the city burst out in front of the formation and shouted: "Kill!"

Boom~~~ The dark Qing army pressed up like a tide.At this time, on the city wall, the chanting of the shamans became louder and louder, and the drums in their hands were beaten more and more urgently.