Just as Zhao Xin rushed north, two companies of the Northern Navy that had arrived at Sakurazigou were fighting fiercely with the retreating enemy troops. In fact, it was quite difficult to block thousands of defeated soldiers with three 122 caliber howitzers and more than 200 people.

To explain this issue, we must understand the infantry organization of the Tsarist Russian army in this era.

At the end of the 18th century, the Russian army was brewing a military change. There were two factions within the army. One was a conservative faction who tried to implement the Prussian system; the other was a fast-striking offensive faction that mainly included Rumensev and Suvorov, and advocated columns and scattered lines to fight.

(To put it bluntly, the wars Suvorov engaged in throughout his life were all unjust expansion wars. The battlefield was all in the enemy country. It often had no rear combat, no support from the people, and it was difficult to maintain morale, so he emphasized a rapid attack.)

Of course, since Her Majesty the Queen is a Prussian, the conservatives are still leading the army construction.

Due to the backward military system, only a small number of the Tsarist Russian army were equipped with rifled guns at this time, and most of them used smoothbore guns; even those hunters who were famous for their precise shooting were the same.

A battle infantry regiment of the Russian army consisted of roughly 1,800 people, including 1,400 soldiers, 50 officers, 160 non-commissioned officers, 40 musicians, more than a dozen battlefield rescuers, auxiliary soldiers and administrative personnel departments. In history, the Russians changed the battle infantry regiment to be the musket regiment in 1796, and after 1811, it was changed to the infantry regiment. (I wrote it before to facilitate understanding.)

Each regiment has two battalions, one battalion has six companies. During combat, each company has 114 combat members, and in addition there are auxiliary soldiers, totaling around 150.

The ground attack troops dispatched by Tsarist Russia this time include the First, Second and Third Cossack Battleship Infantry Regiments of the Outer Baikal, the First and Second World War Infantry Regiments of the Buryat, three artillery companies, one cavalry company, and one battalion of baggage units, with a total of more than 10,000 people.

In addition, there are ten hunting commandos with a total of 600 people on the Heilongjiang fleet, scattered on each ship, responsible for accurately shooting at targets near the water surface.

The battle under Aihui City has reached more than 6,000 people. The Russian army still has more than 6,000 people, and the commander Alessandrov is still alive. Therefore, after the Russian army retreated to the north of the old city of Aihui City, the troops gradually restored order.

Faced with such a huge force, it is quite difficult to completely eliminate it, whether it is the artillery behind or the infantry at the forefront.

The Northern Navy only had three howitzers. No matter how much they fired, the gunners fired at most six shells per minute, and they could not maintain this speed at all times. For enemy troops whose assembly radius exceeded several kilometers, they would not care about the west side if they attacked the east side.

Although the two companies responsible for intercepting have more than a dozen machine guns, they cannot fire at the same time. One-third of the spare ones must be left to maintain firepower when other machine guns are loaded.

Moreover, although the squad uses PKM machine guns, the bullets are a big problem. Although the North Navy has issued a chain loader in each squad, the efficiency of that thing is not high. Shaking the handle can only load one bullet, which means that a deputy must arrange to help load the bullets; if there is no chain loader, it will be troublesome. Each bullet often requires 4 to 8 kilograms of force to load on the chain link. The North Navy now uses one hundred non-scopic chains.

A 7.62*54 bullet is 22 grams, and a tin ammunition box has 440 rounds. Even if the ammunition master is a mule, he will be able to beat the sky with four boxes of bullets. Don’t forget that he has to carry a chain device on his back.

Even if Zhao Xin could carry a large amount of supplies as a human-shaped mobile warehouse, he would not be able to take care of the various battlefields.

When Zhao Xin and his team arrived at the line of defense that the Qing army had originally set up north of the old city of Aihui, battalion commander Mislang kept calling for artillery support from the walkie-talkie. The Russian army used only a dozen 8-pound cannons and 4-pound cannons to bombard the blocking positions. More than 20 people had been killed in the two companies under Mislang.

The Russian 8-pound gun and 4-pound gun are both copper guns. The range of solid bullets of the two types of guns is 800 to 900 meters. If it is replaced with grenade shotgun and shotgun, the range of the 8-pound gun is 400 to 600 meters.

Zhao Xin turned off the walkie-talkie, took out his telescope and looked north. In his vision, he could see the shadows on the post road in front and in the woods. The Russian army was only a few hundred meters away from them. And further north of the Russian army, gunfire and explosions sounded from time to time.

He was about to assign orders, but he glanced out of the corner of his eyes and saw someone coming. When he turned around, he saw a guard soldier holding a guy wearing a roe-head hat and walked over. Who was it if it wasn't that Sauron boy, Oolong.

Zhao Xin had no time to pay attention to it for the time being. He hurriedly assigned a task, asking Chen Jishan to take two platoons and two mortar squads to detour from the left wing of the forest and launch an attack on the left rear of the enemy's army. He would also cooperate at that time.

"Remember, don't charge at the Russian army, even if they run east, don't rush." ​​Zhao Xin pointed to the location on the map and explained.

Speaking of which, after using drones to reconnaise for so long, he has marked the terrain of dozens of square kilometers on a simple map.

Chen Jishan looked at the map and said suspiciously: "What if they were rushing towards the blocking position in the north?"

"Then you just move north and don't let them enter Sakdazigou."

"I understand. Sir, you are planning to drive all the Rakshasa to the riverside."

"Just understand, act now!"

After everyone scattered and was busy with their own things, Zhao Xin walked to the "roe deer head" and said with a serious look on his face: "Didn't you tell you to go south? Why are you following me again? Where are your horses?"

"Eat grass under the tree in the west." Wulong lowered his head, rubbed the ground with his boots, and then said for a while: "I, I want to follow you to fight Rakshasa."

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "No, how old are you? Be obedient, go back."

"Yes, how about you accept me as a Goshha?"

Zhao Xin smiled. He thought that instead of letting the child run around, it would be better to fool him and let him stay here honestly, so he said to Wulong: "Want to join me in the army? Don't regret it?"

"No regrets! I said that the Saurons are the life of serving in the army."

Zhao Xin was stunned. Looking at Xiao Wulong's unswerving expression, he didn't know what to say.

Chen Jishan led the team to detour from the west of the woods, and crawled forward with a cat waist and a crawling forward. After more than twenty minutes, he finally arrived at the designated position. He first notified Zhao Xin with a walkie-talkie, and waited for the machine gunners and two mortar squads to find a good position and dig simple fortifications, he ordered the mortar to open fire.

"Boom!" A ball of black smoke pillars with fire exploded among the Russian troops, instantly taking away more than a dozen lives.

Bogaevsky, who was organizing the retreating Russian troops to attack the defensive positions of the Northern Navy, was shocked. He heard that the explosion was completely different from the previous one.

He hurriedly said to his corporal officer: "Tell the commander quickly! The Qing people are here with more artillery!"

Alessandrov's temporary command was set up in a hidden place made of several huge rocks. After the North Navy launched a shelling, Alessandrov, who was protected by his subordinates, was not damaged at all, but his chief of staff, Fisher, had already died.

When he braved his artillery fire to restrain his troops and retreated all the way here, the artillery of the "Qing people" actually caught up with him, which scared Alessandrov very much. He had never seen an artillery unit that acted so quickly for so many years. You must know that artillery that can be fired so far is all that kind of giant artillery.

The reinforcements from the Qing people came! At this time, all the Russian officers from top to bottom thought so. But how many people came from the other side? The officers pessimistically believed that at least 10,000 people came from the "Qing people", but the information at hand of Alessandrov showed that the Qing people's garrison in Qiqihar and Hulunbu Yuer (Hulunbuir) had only more than 5,000 troops.

Did their emperor make a prediction? He arranged his troops in Qiqihar in advance?

The battle has been fought so far. Whether it is Bogaevsky's regiment or the reserve troops he led, he has suffered heavy losses without even seeing the shadow of "Qing reinforcements". Now thousands of people are trapped at the foot of Karen Mountain, and the damn "Qing people" are stuck at the foot of the mountain. He has arranged thousands of people to launch attacks before, but they are all hit by dense rain of bullets.

After hearing the news from a group of people, Alessandrov decided to change his tactics and use column methods to break the blocking defense line of the "Qing people" as soon as possible. Otherwise, when the "Qing troops" behind him catch up, he would have to explain it to him here.

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Alessandrov suddenly looked up and heard the unique weapon shooting sound of "Qing reinforcements" coming from the southwest.

"In the southwest direction, the Qing people caught up with each other, right?"

"Report to the Commander, there is a group of enemies catching up, but our scouts found that they are not many."

"Notify Polyakov to lead a regiment to destroy this enemy! Before dark, we must enter the ravine, otherwise none of us will escape!"

"Abide by the order! Commander!"

As the sound of bugle and drums rang, the Cossacks who were avoiding shelling at the foot of Mount Karen began to assemble.

Polyakov walked to the middle of the soldiers and shouted: "Brothers of the Third Regiment! Now a small group of enemy troops appear in the southwest. We are ordered to destroy them!"

The officers accompanying him saw that the Cossacks were all timid, so they shouted: "Did you idiots hear what the lieutenant colonel said?! Everyone formed a battle formation! Each company lined up in a column to set off!"

The soldiers reluctantly walked out of the temporary shelter, and with the explosions that came from time to time, they lined up in the smoke of gunpowder, and rushed to a kilometer near the battlefield in more than ten minutes.

After each unit arrived, under the leadership of the officers, the column quickly turned the column into a horizontal phalanx. Each horizontal phalanx consisted of five platoons of soldiers, with 24 soldiers in each row. On each row of the phalanx, the captain officer commanded an odd platoon, the lieutenant commanded an even platoon. Behind the phalanx were four non-commissioned officers, the company commander (partition commander) and the musician.

There are four such horizontal phalanxes, forming a large rectangular formation. There are accompanying artillery companies in the middle between the left and right square arrays, and several 4-pound cannons and 8-pound cannons were deployed; the two front and rear square arrays are fifty feet apart, and the rear square array can provide support for the front square array at any time, or be used to encircle the enemy.

This is a standard Prussian infantry formation. Each phalanx has three rows of infantry and two rows of scattered soldiers. The so-called scattered soldiers at the end of the 18th century were not scattered in groups as imagined, leaving the soldiers unorganized and shooting themselves, and they still had to line up.

From the late 18th century to the early 19th century, there were two basic methods for using strait tactics. One was common in the Prussian army, and each line infantry company formed its own shooting troops, and they would fight in two rows instead of three rows of line. These shooting soldiers held the ranks of sergeants, were equipped with rifled guns, and were selected to receive training in strait tactics; the other was still being explored and would shine with Napoleon in the future, that is, to deploy the entire line infantry company in the posture of straits and stand on the front line.

When the two square arrays at present were still 900 meters away from Chen Jishan and the others, two 8-pound cannons were the first to fire.

These two 8-pound cannons are already the only few of the Russian army. The artillery company lost most of the artillery when retreating, and lost a lot of them when shelling the North Navy positions on the hillside.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the Russian army's 8-pound cannon was fired, an explosion sounded from behind the artillery team, and the splashed mud made the surrounding soldiers look dirty.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! "No! Retreat quickly!" The artillery company commander shouted and ran away. There were two loud noises near the two 8-pound cannons behind him, and the shock waves generated by the explosion overturned him to the ground. Before he could react, another larger explosion sounded behind him, a huge fireball rose into the air, and the gunpowder on the cannon was ignited.

Not long afterwards, another flame accompanied by the soil exploded in the infantry phalanx. After the deafening roar, the soldiers of the phalanx immediately fell down like harvesting wheat.

As the smoke of gunpowder rolled, there was a sound of whizzing bullets passing by in the air. The blown copper cannons burst into Mars, and seven or eight more Cossacks fell in front of them.

With a buzzing sound, the Cossacks of the Third Musketball Group completely collapsed! They scattered and ran away, no longer caring about formations. The bullets behind them were still roaring. They could not even get a distance of 800 meters, and the Third Musketball Group was crippled.

Lieutenant Colonel Polyakov, as he retreated, listened to the sound of bullets passing by his ears, and thought that the enemy's musket's shooting speed and hit rate were too terrible! The Prussian rifled guns could not be fired so quickly and accurately. Is this still a human being doing?!

At the same time, on the bank of Heilongjiang River north of the old city of Aihui.

The Russian Second Musketeer Regiment, who had retreated to this point, was stunned when he saw that his warships had all run away. Are you planning to force us to swim across the river?

"Lieutenant Colonel! The commander is organizing troops to retreat in the direction of Sakedazigou. The enemy blocked the place and their firepower is very strong."

The battalion commander who succeeded the troops under the management of Svelin had no idea for a moment. The sound of gunfire from the west was clearly heard, and he didn't want to hit him. But he swam across the river... He was a noble man and could not swim at all!

More than a dozen Cossacks stood on the bank of the river and shouted loudly to the opposite fleet, but the fleet was completely scared by the Northern Navy in the previous artillery battle and did not dare to cross the river.

At this time, the Cossacks who were beaten up and were no longer caring about so much. They started to take off their clothes and walk into the water, preparing to swim. Those who don’t know how to water have no choice but to sit on the ground and lament at the wide Heilongjiang River.

"The enemy is chasing me! The enemy in flowery clothes is chasing me!"

Everyone looked up and saw a non-commissioned officer in charge of the palace behind the palace running over with his subordinates sweating profusely.

A Cossack officer grabbed the non-commissioned officer and asked, "How far are they from us?"

The non-commissioned officer twisted the officer's hand and shouted dissatisfiedly: "Hey! Sir, let go of me quickly! I want to report the emergency military situation to the battalion commander! The enemy's travel is very fast, and I guess it will only be ten minutes at most!"

As soon as he said this, more than a dozen Cossack soldiers around him suddenly panicked. They looked at the village house that had already turned into ruins, and it was hard to find a place to hide nearby.

The invaders finally understood that retribution had come. If they had known today, they would not have burned the house.

"That group of damn cavalry! Why did they burn all the Haohao village!"

"Oh my God! Those devils are coming, what should we do?"

"Magic! They are all magical. We can't win, we can't win..."

The battalion commander walked to the middle of the soldiers with his officers and roared loudly: "All up! You cowards! Cowards! What's the use of just complaining! Cossacks must get up to fight!"

A soldier said with a sad face: "They all have magic. I don't want to die, I don't want to die!"

The battalion commander's hand was also trembling. Colonel Shiweilin was nearby when he fell off his horse. At that time, he rushed over to check the opponent's injuries and was shocked to find that there was only a small hole in Shiweilin's forehead, but a hole as big as a fist was opened behind his head, and even his brain was out.

He had never heard of the weapons used by the "Qing" army on the opposite side. Could it be that the reinforcements sent by their emperor came?

Now let alone these soldiers, he is afraid.

The acting leader hesitated for a while and soon made a decision. He said to an officer beside him: "Captain, let's go over there and talk. You need to carry out the existing task."

A few minutes later, the two squads under Zhou's command had arrived 400 meters away to observe the Russian army. When the exhausted machine gunner arrived and was looking for the best shooting position, he saw two people walking out of the Tsarist Russian army opposite, holding a white flag in his hand.

After the third musket regiment was completely defeated, most of the Russian army in the west was bombed again at dusk by even more violent artillery fire. The rumbling artillery bombardment completely collapsed the Tsarist Russian army, and even Alessandrov himself was injured.
Chapter completed!