Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1132 Model Castle

On June 1657, 6, the showers stopped.

On the construction site of the Model Fort that has not yet been completed, Kurhan took off his rubber raincoat and looked solemnly at the conscripted North Korean master carrying the corpse.There are a lot of corpses, more than 1000 according to rough statistics, and these are still under the city or beside the ditch. If you count the scattered corpses in the field ahead, it is estimated that there are more than 2000.Such a large-scale casualty could no longer be regarded as a small-scale battle in the sparsely populated Amur River Basin.

In this battle, although the East Bank fought with ease and leaned on the city, more than 500 people were killed and injured, most of them were officers and soldiers of the Korean Imperial Battalion who were transferred to the local area to assist in the battle. The desperate attack failed to withstand the collapse of the battle for a while, and more than [-] people were thrown everywhere. The situation was terrible.Fortunately, the officers and soldiers of the Heilongjiang security regiment guarding the city (many of which are half-built city walls that have not been repaired) have a tenacious fighting will, and their number is not much smaller than that of the Qing army. The army was defeated.

"It's already the fourth attack organized by Sarhuda in a year." Kurhan stood above half of the city wall, looking at the quietly flowing Songhua River - two navy gunboats on the east coast were lazily Cruising on the river—muttering to himself: "It seems that the construction of this model fort (later Jiamusi City) was indeed built firmly on the seven inches of the Qing court. I can no longer pretend to be invisible, so I have to bite the bullet and attack, otherwise Bogd Khan will punish him."

In fact, Kurhan guessed right. As the people from the east bank infiltrated along the river and along the river, the Qing court felt more and more pressure. Without him, the aborigines living in this area In the long-term harsh natural environment, they have developed an extremely realistic character. Once they find that the Bogd Khan of the Qing Dynasty cannot provide them with shelter, they will naturally vote for a new owner, whether it is a Russian or an East Coaster. Not Bogd Khan's courtiers.

And as more and more tribes deviate from the Manchus, it will become more and more difficult for the Manchus to raise food and grass in the nearby areas, and the difficulty of raising food and grass will be greater, so their combat radius will inevitably be greatly affected, and the combat radius If it is affected, the control over the surrounding tribes will further decline, which is simply a vicious circle.

But unlike the Qing Dynasty, there was never any problem with logistics transportation on the east bank. As long as the big rivers can pass, the inland river shallow water gunboats on the east bank can transport personnel and materials to the front line at a speed that the Qing army could not imagine. In this way, the Qing army can be killed by smashing supplies alone. Why should the Qing army fight against the East Bank?

"Nihari, tell me, is Sarhuda a dead dog now?" Kurhan jumped off half of the city wall, grabbed Nihari who was digging a drainage ditch under the guard of the supervisor, and asked in a provocative tone .

Nihari was unfortunately captured in a previous offensive operation and has been working on the construction site for many days, suffering terribly.Therefore, even though he is a middle-ranking general in the Qing army, he can't stand up in the slightest now, facing Kurhan's questioning, he can only be submissive, which makes people look very boring.

Culhan casually threw away Nihari, who had become a dead dog, and turned around to take stock of his strength.After his benefactor Marshal Mo left for so many years, he still firmly controls the five or six hundred scouts of the most elite security team of the Blackwater Security Command, relying on being loyal enough, brave enough to fight, and capable enough in reconnaissance, because No matter who will be the commander-in-chief, he has to rely heavily on him, otherwise this battle will not be fought.

This time when Model Fort was being built, he, Kurhan, recommended himself to Marshal Chang and asked to come here to guard it. Chang Kaisheng agreed after much deliberation, and then ordered him to choose a hundred elite scouts to serve as the cavalry squadron in Model Fort. squadron leader.Coming with him was Wang Shichuan, the head of the Heilongjiang security regiment and the garrison commander of the Model Fort. This person is also a veteran general who has worked hard in the Northeast for many years. If he is in charge of the army, everyone will be more at ease.In addition, Lieutenant Liao Degong, a second lieutenant who graduated from the Artillery Department of Dingyuan Military Academy, served as the commander of the artillery squadron. It doesn't seem to be a big problem in urban warfare.

There are nearly 2000 troops on the east bank with infantry, cavalry, and artillery. If you count the more than 2000 soldiers in the North Korean Imperial Barracks, there are more than [-] soldiers gathered around this small model fort (including the city and the dock area). Four thousand soldiers, this is definitely an incredible number in the Heishui area of ​​the Far East, enough to frighten the tribes out of breath.

No, since the Model Fort was built for a year (the work was suspended for several months due to the inconvenient transportation of materials in winter), the natives who were forced to surrender after being raided on the east bank—many were then forcibly moved to the lower Amur River area— There are more than 500 tribal people. These people used to pay taxes to the Manchu Bogd Khan, and sometimes they might even serve some military service, but now they all belong to the east bank and become the tax of the east bank. Ji and the source of soldiers, how can this make the Qing Dynasty not in a hurry?How to make them not angry?

As a result, Sarhuda couldn't sit still anymore, and after reporting to the Beijing court, he attacked the construction site of the model fort of the people on the east bank four times within a year, and the most powerful one even organized more than [-] soldiers and horses Unfortunately, they were all repelled in front of the east bank army who was waiting for work.Later, the Qing army’s reputation of insufficient supplies and low morale was heard even by the North Korean soldiers who assisted in the war. Therefore, when facing the Qing army’s attack, all ministries were able to take it easy—of course, the Koreans had more difficulties—and then Don't fight this battle too easily if the Qing army finishes eating its food and leaves.

And since the Qing army couldn't eat the model fort set up by the people on the east coast, don't blame the tribesmen living in the nearby area for voting with their feet.As a result, the buffer layer between Ninggu Tower and Model Fort gradually disappeared, direct armed conflicts between the two sides increased greatly (mostly small-scale fights between cavalry), and the Qing army, which had difficulties in personnel and supplies, It is a big disadvantage, and the area of ​​activity is getting smaller and smaller-in fact, this is also the disadvantage of the Qing government's strategy in the Northeast. Facing the fortress encroachment tactics on the east coast, there is no effective solution, and it can only be brutally The tribes that still obeyed Bogd Khan's migration retreated to the south. In addition, they launched futile battles again and again, hoping that a miracle would happen to drive away the people on the east coast, but how could this be possible?

"The model fort can be built almost before winter. According to the design of local engineers, it should be able to accommodate more than 800 fully armed soldiers. Of course, this is only the garrison inside the bastion. The outside of the city and the model fort form an angle. The strongholds of the Qing Dynasty should also be preserved and gradually become permanent, and the dock fortress on the opposite side of the river should also be strengthened to ensure that we can station 4000-5000 soldiers here, and maintain military pressure on the Manchu Qing for a long time, making it like a thorn in the back, at any time. Worried that the old nest of Ninggu Tower will be copied by us." Wang Shichuan, the garrison commander of Model Fort appointed by Marshal Chang, did not know when he came behind Kurhan, and he continued: "Of course in the long run, we are on the Amur River. , The enemy along the Songhua River is far more than the Manchu family, and the Russians who have expanded to the far east of Albazin must also be vigilant. This group of people is extremely greedy, and they have completely failed to abide by the agreement with us to use Albazin as the city. The verbal agreement of the world, the wanton invasion of the East, continuous killing and terror, and even moved many serfs from the hinterland of Ross to settle down. The meaning of long-term entrenching is becoming more and more obvious. General Chang said, we must pay attention to the Russians Colonial pace, if necessary, you can find an opportunity to create some friction with them. Don't be afraid of war, don't be afraid of casualties, Russia is more unbearable than us here! And now Russia has a great demand for our country's ordnance, Russia They are also deeply mired in the quagmire of war, and it is impossible to fight with us in a wild place like the Amur River, and we are fully capable of chopping off their claws."

It is said that after years of construction, the cavalry regiment of the East Coast people in the Far East has gradually expanded to more than [-] cavalry. These well-equipped and well-trained troops have become a force that cannot be ignored on the Shandong battlefield.After discovering that the Russians had fortified Albazin and colonized the upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River, which is only a few hundred kilometers away from Khabarovsk, Chang Kaisheng also planned to transfer some of the Polish cavalry to form an independent cavalry brigade, and then dispatched to Burleigh. Stationed in Lizhai and Model Fort, together with nearly [-] officers and soldiers from the Heilongjiang Security Regiment, they were preparing to intercept any possible eastward movement of the Russians.

In order to better deter the Russians, Chang Kaisheng also plans to send nearly a thousand newly recruited Japanese ronin over there, and at the same time conscript another two to three thousand North Korean soldiers. Now the number of soldiers is already six to seven thousand. , Supplemented by naval gunboats and army cannons, it will not be a problem to cut off the bear claws extended by the Russians, and even razed the city of Albazin - of course it depends on the development of the situation, at least the current situation on the east coast Man is not going to do it yet.

"The Cossacks are cunning, cruel, and ruthless, and they never leave behind any tribes." Although Kurhan was born in the Kiryak tribe of Sakhalin Island, he didn't have a good impression of the Russians: "I stayed in Temple Street County. I heard from those Poles when I was a child. They think that the Russians are the worst people in the world. There are no more rude and cruel colonists than them. They said that if they beat the Russians, they would also be willing to retire Put on and go back into battle."

"These are all things for the future. What we need to do now is to finish the model fort, and then consolidate the surrounding area and take root here." Wang Shichuan said, "After digesting the surrounding area, we will We can use this as a base to do a lot of things, whether it is going west to fight the Russians or going south to fight the Manchus, the initiative will be completely in our hands."

(End of this chapter)