serious man in the red chamber

Chapter 299

Uliasutai is a Mongolian language, which originally means "a place with poplar trees".

Uliasutai City is the residence of General Uliasutai. It is said to be a city, but it is actually a military camp built with wooden fences.

The city wall consists of four- to five-inch-thick logs buried one by one in the ground and densely arranged into wooden fences. The distance between two wooden fences is one foot. The middle of the wooden fence is tamped with the soil excavated from the moat. The city wall is one foot six high. The city wall is one foot wide, the city circumference is more than 140 feet, the east-west width is more than 110 feet, and the north-south width is more than [-] feet. There are three gates. The east gate and west gate are not named. The south gate is called Chengen Gate. There is a small wooden bridge outside the city gate.

The southeast, north and south sides of Uliasutai City are surrounded by mountains. On the southeast side, there is a river flowing out of the mountains, named Bogdo River, and the south mountain is also called Bogdo Mountain.In the northeast of the city, there is also a river flowing out of the mountain, named Zagasutu River. Both rivers flow westward, and the distance between them is less than ten miles. They happen to sandwich Uliasutai City in the middle. About three miles to the west of Liyasutai City, it converges into a river named Uliasutai River.

There is a small hill to the northwest of the confluence of the two rivers. At the foot of the hill is the commercial port set up by the Manchus. It is not big. There are only two streets in front and back. The Emperor's Temple, Zhenwu Temple and Chenghuang Temple, surrounded by many croplands reclaimed by the common people, are now in ruins.

The moonlight shone quietly, and the city of Uliasutai was shrouded in tranquility.

At this time, Jia Hu was standing on the top of a hill, holding a telescope towards the Zhagasutu River, paying attention to the situation of the Pioneer Camp crossing the river.

Looking down from a high place, the soldiers of the vanguard battalion were quickly passing through the simple pontoon bridge built by the Mongolians of the Yikezhao League. They rushed towards the city of Ulyasutai.

On his left, Liu Xianglian, who has been promoted to the general of the Sentinel Battalion, is also holding a monocular telescope. As early as the beginning of April, he was ordered to infiltrate Uliasu Terrace. After half a month of intelligence collection, Basically mastered the situation around Uliasutai City.

After the Rakshasa people captured the city of Ulyasutai, they brutally massacred the Mobei Mongolian nobles in the city. All their wives and daughters were sent to the military camps, and all the tribesmen were demoted as slaves.

In just a few months, the city of Uliasutai was ruined by the Rakshasa people.

The main force of 5000 Rakshasa bandits moved north ten days ago. Currently, there are more than 1000 defenders left in the city. The weakest defensive force is the south gate, with less than [-] defenders.

A gust of night wind blew the torches on the city wall flickering, a group of vanguard soldiers rushed across the small wooden bridge, ran a few steps and squatted down against the wall, after a while, another group of pioneer battalion soldiers rushed across the wooden bridge , They also squatted down at the base of the wall.

Soon, the foot of the dark wall was crowded with soldiers from the vanguard battalion.

Another gust of night wind blew by, and then, countless iron anchors thrown from the city wall appeared on the city wall, hooking tightly to the wooden stakes.

Countless vanguard soldiers with long knives and firecrackers climbed the ropes and jumped up the city wall.

Niu Ben drew the saber from his back, his eyes flashed with excitement, and he rushed towards the tower like lightning.

"Who!" came a shout from inside the city tower.

With a "bang", the door was kicked open, and Niu Ben rushed in, followed by screams, a flash of knife light, Niu Ben came out with a saber, and the Raksha people in the tower fell to the ground one after another.

The Rakshasa people's military camp was under the city tower. The screams alarmed them. Torches were raised one after another in the military camp, and dozens of Rakshasa people began to run towards the city tower in a hurry.

Unfortunately, it was too late, the soldiers of the vanguard battalion holding firecrackers had already aimed at them.

In the light of the fire, the body of the Rakshasa who was running in the front flew backwards, fell heavily on the wooden stairs, and then rolled down.

More and more soldiers of the Vanguard Battalion jumped onto the city wall and began to kill towards the east and west towers.

Niu Ben cut off the head of the Luocha officer with a knife, and then opened the south gate. The soldiers of the vanguard battalion who had been waiting outside the city gate brandished their long knives and entered the city of Uliasutai!

The sound of gunfire, shouts and screams echoed over the city of Uliasutai
In less than half an hour, the Pioneer Battalion broke through Ulia Sutai City, beheaded a thousand people, and captured 510 seven people. The commander of the Rakshasa Bandit Army died in the chaos.

It was the end of the morning after cleaning up the battlefield, and the early morning sun shone on the city of Uliasutai, with a large flag with the word "zhou" fluttering in the wind.

Jia Hu came to the south gate under the escort of the generals. The captured Rakshasa bandits were all strung up in rows with hemp ropes tied around their left arms. Perhaps they had guessed their fate, and all of them looked gloomy. Kneel there.

At this time, the cries of countless Rakshasa people came from the city. According to the information provided by Montemu, these people were either family members of the Rakshasa bandits, or Rakshasa people who came to do war business with Nicholas, the governor of Eastern Siberia. Sha merchants are merchants who follow the army.

In one sentence, there is no good person.

Driven by the soldiers of the Pioneer Battalion, a group of Rakshasa people stumbled out, wailing loudly along the way!

Immediately afterwards, Montemu led a group of ragged Mongolians and rushed over from the city, knelt down in front of Jia Hu, and cried, "Master, there are more than 5000 people, and there are only a hundred or so left."

The Mongolians knelt on the ground and cried bitterly.

Jia Hu was taken aback for a moment, and waved his hand: "Okay, where are the rest of your tribe?"

Montemu raised his head: "Some helped the Raksha people to deliver food, grass and ammunition to Heilongjiang, and some followed Ivanov to the north to receive supplies, and the rest were herding the Raksha people in various places."

Jia Hu nodded, and then asked: "Besides the five thousand main force, how many Rakshasa bandits are there in Uliasutai?"

The elderly Mongolian on the side spoke: "There should be two to three thousand Rakshasa bandits, but they did not stay together. Instead, there were dozens of people with more than a hundred Rakshasa people to guard the one or two thousand herdsmen grazing. For convenience To provide food for the Rakshasa bandits attacking Heilongjiang, all the cattle and sheep rushed to the east."

When Niu Ben heard this, he came over with a smile: "You don't dare to resist just such a small number of people? You can drown them with just one pee!"

Everyone around laughed.

The old Mongolian blushed: "He, the firearms in their hands were accurate and ruthless, and the elite guards around King Khan were no match for them."

Niu Ben wanted to speak, but Jia Hu waved his hand: "Are there any Rakshasa bandits in the surrounding major towns?"

The old Mongolian shook his head: "I don't know."

Jia Hu asked again: "Are there any of your tribesmen in Khovd and other places?"

He did not answer immediately. He thought for a moment and replied: "When the city was breached, some people rushed out. Maybe some tribesmen got the news and escaped from the clutches of the Rakshasa bandits."

After hearing this, Jia Hu believed what he said. This was similar to the information obtained by the Director of Ceremonies and Liu Xianglian. It seemed that all the Rakshasa people were indeed in the east.

In an instant, Jia Hu decided on the next strategy of using troops. First, he went north to meet Ivanov and his transport brigade, to see what treasures he had brought to him, and then wiped out the Raksha bandit army in the east. Waiting for Xie Qiong's infantry to finally enter Heilongjiang.

Montemu said: "The commander-in-chief please hand over these Rakshasa ghosts to us!" He knocked his head on the ground as he spoke.

The Mongolians also kowtowed.

Jia Hu smiled slightly: "Okay, I'll leave them to you."

Montemu was excited and kowtowed repeatedly: "Thank you, Marshal! Thank you, Marshal!"

Jia Hu glanced at Niu Ben.

Niu Ben understood and waved his hand.

Two soldiers from the Pioneer Battalion dumped a cartload of captured Rakshasa sabers on the ground.

Montemu climbed up, picked up a saber, and shouted: "Revenge! Kill all the Rakshasa ghosts!" Shouting, waving the saber and rushing towards the Rakshasa prisoners.

More than a hundred Mongols who survived by chance picked up their sabers, roared and raised their swords and charged at the Raksha captives, slashing and killing them with all their strength.

The Rakshasa prisoners were chopped to the ground one after another, and Montemu and others rushed towards the Rakshasa people squatting under the city wall.

There were sounds of slashing and crying!

Li Si was slightly startled: "Commander."

Jia Hu raised his hand: "Tell everyone, we don't need any prisoners!"

(End of this chapter)