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  Chapter 853 849【Uninformed guy】

  The west, south, and east sides of Yaksa are all rivers, swamps, and sandbars, so the key defensive area should be in the north.

  However, the Datong Army is completely unreasonable.

   Land directly on the back of the sandbar in the southwest, use the cover of the woods to move the artillery, and build an artillery position to attack Yaksa across the river.

  There are three rivers converging here, and there are many tributaries. The water network is extremely complicated, and the river channel is narrowed by dense sandbars. Artillery positions can be arranged to attack the city on many sandbanks.

   Khabarov was very obedient after he surrendered. Facing Chinese civil and military officials, no matter what level they are, he always looks like a grandson, wishing to kneel down and kiss the boots of the old men.

At this moment, he was wearing cotton armor on the outside and a silk coat from the emperor on the inside. He pointed to the castle and said, "I built the castle. This sandbar is the best artillery position. After sealing the upper river channel, in the northeast and northwest, There is a river valley where you can escape, and you must send troops to intercept them to prevent the damned Cossack robbers from escaping at night."

   "Very good, if you win this battle, I will credit you." Wang Fuchen praised.

  Because they were afraid of scaring the snake, the spies sent by the Datong Army could only use binoculars to observe from a distance across the river. They really didn't know that there were two river valleys to the north.

  Khabarov quickly said: "They are all serving the country, and I dare not take credit. General, after our army bombards, I can go over and shout, and I will definitely instigate some Cossack bandits."

  Wang Fuchen said coldly: "You still want to save your former subordinates?"

"It's not to save them," Khabarov was really black-hearted, and he even explained, "The Cossack robbers don't have much food. They must be bombarded first and then besieged. People must be in panic. At this time, I went to shout, and some people thought they could survive , there will definitely be internal strife. If you can induce surrender, the best thing is to disarm them and kill them all. Even if you cannot induce surrender, you can take advantage of the chaos to attack the city."

  Wang Fuchen said: "Here in the Datong Army, there is no such thing as inducement to surrender. Surrender is surrender, and meritorious service will be judged according to the situation. They will not go back on their promises. They will kill people after they surrender."

   "Yes, yes, I was wrong." Khabarov quickly admitted his mistake.

  Because the warships of the Anton Navy are not large, the caliber of the ship-borne guns is also small, so they are not very powerful when attacking the city walls.

  However, there are still a few city defense guns!

   This thing belongs to the big guys. After Yaksa is captured, it will be installed on the city wall. At this moment, it is directly deployed on the sandbar to attack the city.

   Troop carriers follow the naval warships, bypass large and small sandbars, and go directly upstream to block the enemy's retreat.

  Standing on the city wall, Stepanov fell into despair when he saw that the upstream river was blocked. Their main force is the Cossacks. Their usual tactic is to run away if they can't win, and then look for various opportunities to sneak attack. Now that they are blocked, what can they do?

  Damn aristocratic generals, all **** blind orders!

  At this time, Zhang Tingxun followed a sentry chief and went to land a few miles upstream, with the goal of blocking the river valley that Khabarov told.

  In addition to this sentry Datong Army, there are more than 200 aborigines.

  Most of these native soldiers belonged to the Daur people, and a small part came from Sauron, Sakhalian and other ministries. According to the names hundreds of years later, they are Daur, Oroqen, Ewenki, Hezhen and so on.

  Bringing the native soldiers is not to support the scene.

   One is to help with physical labor as auxiliary soldiers, and the other is to let them see with their own eyes how the Datong Army killed the Rakshasa ghost, showing off the super strength of the Datong Army.

  The head of the post was named Peng Chunlin. After he led his troops to the valley, he sent some soldiers to investigate the mountains.

  He continued to walk forward with the troops, and explained to Zhang Tingxun as he walked: "This terrain is most suitable for ambushes. We must send a mountain search team to ensure that we will not be ambushed."

   "Chief Peng is right." Zhang Tingxun studied humbly, he knew why the other party was like this.

   It’s nothing more than that he is a little prince, and Peng Chunlin has an extra task, which is to teach him how to fight in actual combat.

Peng Chunlin continued: "Our main force is besieging the city. If there are enemy troops fleeing here, they will either flee or break out. At that time, the number of enemies we will face will not be too many, and certainly not Formation. Choose a relatively narrow place as our ambush point, and win as quickly as possible. The next step is to chase and capture scattered enemies, so when choosing an ambush point, we must predict the rout Where will you flee?"

   It took half a day to finally select the ambush point.

Peng Chunlin explained again: "Look here, the river valley is very narrow, and the mountains on both sides are relatively steep. Our army is hiding in the forest. Even if we encounter hundreds of enemies, we may defeat them. If the enemy wants to escape, there is a gentler hill ahead. , which is the best place to climb mountains. Do you know how to do it?"

  Zhang Tingxun said: "Arrange soldiers to ambush and intercept."

Peng Chunlin pointed to the native soldiers: "We only have one Sentinel Datong army. There are hundreds of people. Try not to divide the troops. These native soldiers are very suitable. They have a blood feud with the Raksha ghost, and they will definitely fight bravely. And, flee to that place The Raksha ghosts on the hillside were already frightened, and when they encountered the ambush by the native soldiers, they would turn around and run away in fright."

  Zhang Tingxun sincerely admired: "Peng whistle chief has a good strategy!"

Peng Chunlin pointed to the other bank of the river: "The Rakshasa ghosts are proficient in water, so some people must jump into the river and escape. On the other side, the natives can also set up ambushes. When fighting, they will come out of the forest and guard the bank to kill the Rakshasa ghosts in the water. "

   That night, everyone spent the night at their respective ambush points.

   Instead of lighting a fire to cook, he took out mibing (compressed biscuits) and swallowed it with the cold water he carried with him.

  Mi Bing has been improved, adding dehydrated vegetable leaves can add some vitamins.

  Of course, due to the inability to master the scientific temperature, when vegetables are cooked, a large amount of vitamins will be lost, and how much can be left depends on God's will.

  As for those native soldiers, they are all chewing ordinary dry food, and compressed biscuits are not cheap to make.

  Even if it is the Datong Army, it is impossible to eat this thing all the time. I am eager to set up an ambush today, and everything is not ready, and someone will row a boat to deliver enough dry food tomorrow.

   "Boom boom boom!"

  The Datong army camped on the sandbar yesterday, and started shelling early the next morning.

  Dozens of small ship-mounted cannons and several city defense guns erected on the sandbar were aiming at the city wall of Yaksa and pouring shells crazily.

   Zinoviev, a nobleman, participated in the Smolensk War when he was a teenager. It was also a battle of tens of thousands of people, but the Tsarist Russian army only had 160 guns in total, and all of them were small-caliber light guns.

   Zinoviev swallowed his saliva and said: "The firepower of these Khitan shipboard guns is at least equivalent to five of our regular legions!"

   This guy finally knew how to be afraid, and hid in the castle, not daring to show his face. There were cannon shots everywhere.

  The small Cossack cannons in the city could not fight back at all because the range was not enough.

   After an unknown amount of time, Stepanov rolled over and crawled over: "My lord, there is already a crack in the southern city wall. It's only been one morning. If the enemy bombards for a few more days, the city wall will definitely collapse in many places."

   Zinoviev asked: "Why do the Khitan warships have dozens of cannons?"

Beketov came over at some point and spoke as an expert on the fortress: "At most one day, the city wall will collapse. The city wall here is too weak. In two days, the gap in the city wall collapse will reach four or five. places, and possibly more. We must break out tonight!"

   Zinoviev is still asking: "How big is the territory of Khitan, and what is the population?"

   "I don't know!" Stepanov was annoyed by the question.

  Zinoviev said: "How could you not know? You were sent here to raise rations for the army, and to inquire about the military situation of Khitan."

   "I'm blocked here by the Khitan army, and I can't get through." Stepanov was extremely depressed, and wanted to hack the nobleman to death.

  In fact, Zinoviev also did his homework. He knew that the southern part of Siberia was full of Tatars (generally referring to various tribes of Mongolia). In the Amur River (Heilongjiang) basin, it seems to be the territory of the Khitan people.

   As for the size of Khitan and the population, Zinoviev has no concept at all.

  For more than a hundred years, Tsarist Russia has fought wars with more than a dozen countries. Regardless of the quality of the soldiers, the number of troops must be sufficient.

   Moreover, the Tsarist Russian army is still learning from Swedish reforms.

  For example, during the Smolensk War, two new legions were formed. Not to mention being able to get military pay, there are three meals a day and subsidies. Landless nobles, bankrupt gentry, low-level boyars (vassals of princes), Cossacks, and free people are recruited to form an army, and their combat effectiveness far exceeds that of traditional nobles and serfs.

   According to this new type of legion, Tsarist Russia formed four more legions.

   Also imitated Sweden to form a new type of cavalry, forming two new type cavalry regiments. Then an artillery company was formed, each with 12 artillery pieces.

  By the end of the Battle of Smolensk, Tsarist Russia had formed 10 new legions.

   Well, as soon as the war was over, the 10 new-style legions were disbanded in situ, because they could not afford such high military expenses.

   On the southern front, in order to fight the Ottomans, several new legions were formed. And it belongs to the standing border defense force. The original plan has been maintained, but it only lasted for a few years before disbanding one after another.

   Those new-style legions are indeed strong in combat effectiveness, but they are not suitable for serf society.

   However, as the situation became tense, the standing border guards were reorganized about five years ago. Most of the officers are foreigners, and they are all experienced people who have experienced thirty years of war. Russian officers follow behind these foreign officers and learn how to fight as apprentices.

  The huge Tsarist Russian Empire currently has a new standing army of about 30,000, and it cannot afford to continue to expand the army.

  The rest of the Tsarist Russian army is still the same. The high-ranking nobles led the troops to fight, and the nobles at all levels brought their own dry food to participate. If the number of ordinary soldiers is insufficient, serfs will be recruited during the war, and they will be disbanded on the spot after the war, and there is no need to pay the army at all. At first glance, the army of 100,000 to 200,000 soldiers was all serfs, and their combat effectiveness was similar to that of the peasant uprising army in China, and it was still the kind of peasant army that had just rebelled.

  However, with the colonization of Siberia and the acquisition of a large amount of fur in exchange for gold and silver, in more than two decades, Tsarist Russia's new standing army will reach 59,000. This is the basis for Tsarist Russia to continue to expand, and it is stained with the blood of Siberian natives.

   And in this time and space, Tsarist Russia may not be so smooth.

  Zinoviev's thinking on war is still in the era of nobles and serfs, at most close to the Thirty Years War.

  He didn't take the Datong Army seriously at first. There were only dozens of warships, and at most they could have a few artillery pieces. Even if the Datong army killed thousands of people, the main force would be four or five hundred dead, and the rest would be serfs and indigenous servants. If this is the case, he is absolutely sure to hold the castle.

  What the **** are dozens of cannons firing together?

  He has not seen more than a thousand fully armed Datong Army, otherwise, this guy may have his three views shattered.

   After thinking over and over again, Zinoviev found it difficult to hold on, and finally said: "Let's break through tonight. If the breakout goes well, lead the Khitans into the forest and look for opportunities to ambush and attack!"

  (end of this chapter)