The sound of horse hooves echoed along the riverside, mixed with the low whistle of the Mongolians.
The dull sound of muskets was heard everywhere, but the smoke was penetrated by sharp arrows.
Then the war horses broke through the smoke, and the poorly armored Junggar cavalry carried wooden spears and swept away the broken soil and mud. The shooting army who dropped the muskets and raised the tomahawks had no time to chop down, but was heavily penetrated by the carbonized black spearheads.
The Cossacks are on the run.
The cavalry of the Chuhuer Battalion separated into hussars formations in the wilderness and pursued the scattered Cossacks and hunters. After a short chase and fight, the battle gradually became a confrontation.
The fleeing Cossack detachments gathered during their escape and became small groups of more than ten, dozens or even hundreds of people. They swarmed against the stones and earth slopes on the wasteland, or the wooden fences and vehicle barriers of the campsites on the shore.
The arriving Oirat cavalry counterattacked.
At this stage, the Oirat cavalry showed a slight decline.
The cavalry led by Chu Huer was only one-third of the Cossacks. In the initial contact, they used rockets from the ship to disrupt and successfully achieved a large number of results.
But once the enemy on the opposite side finds a fortification, even if it's just a hillside, the characteristics of the nomadic cavalry as shepherds and hunters will be revealed.
People do not want to expand the results of the battle. Their tactics are such that they would rather chase the enemy who is still running away, or guard the enemy behind the fortifications like a sheepdog, rather than rush into the sheepfold and kill everyone.
Dozens of cavalry surrounded the vehicle base outside the range of the vehicle and could not do anything to the Cossacks in the vehicle barrier. Similarly, the Cossacks and shooting troops in the vehicle barrier could not suppress them.
What followed was a protracted confrontation.
Until the entire battlefield on the left bank was divided into more than a dozen small encirclement battlefields by the thousands of cavalrymen from the Chu Hu'er camp.
Chu Hu'er led a small group of cavalry to rush up and down the field, killing all the enemy troops that had fled to the periphery.
He is like a fierce tiger, quickly defeating as many opponents as possible, and even the enemy troops hiding behind the fortifications are his playthings.
Chu Huer had a lot of experience in using cold weapons against firearms. He commanded his cavalry to throw dense rain of arrows outside the range of the musket again and again, but he did not allow the cavalry to scatter aimlessly.
From time to time, cavalry teams were sent to harass the camp and launch feint attacks again and again.
Hunters always have extraordinary patience, and Chu Huer is not in a hurry like most generals in the Marshal's Mansion.
In his mind, the battle on the left bank should end at dawn tomorrow at the earliest. He would at least have the whole day and night to waste the enemy's gunpowder.
Because for Chu Hu'er, who is good at defeating many enemies with fewer enemies, killing is not the meaning of battle, nor is it the key to winning a battle.
Fear is.
He wants the enemy to be demoralized and trembling behind the vehicle barriers and mounds. Only in this way can the cavalry have the greatest power when they penetrate the position, and can have the greatest deterrence after victory.
As for Centurion Lewando, who was surrounded in the camp, his brain was pierced by the mental pollution brought by Liu Chengzu as soon as the Tianshan fleet arrived.
Weird, so damn weird!
For Lewando, who is well-informed and speaks three languages, he is no stranger to explosive grenades such as rockets and cannons.
If there are three most prosperous civilization centers in the world in this era, then they must be the Habsburg Dynasty, the Ottoman Empire and the Ming Empire.
The Crimean Khanate, where Lewando had lived for six years, was a vassal of the Ottomans. Like the Ming Dynasty, it also possessed many advanced firearms that were of great exploration significance.
Take the clay pot grenade, which was first brought to the Middle East from the Song Dynasty by Arab traders, who adapted it to local conditions and formed a glass incendiary bottle. Of course, there are also hand-held mortars like flying cannons there.
The Ottomans also had rockets, but compared to the Ming Dynasty's rockets, they were more like Japanese stick fire arrows. They did not explode. They loaded gunpowder at the tail of the arrow, put a tail fin on the arrow body, and used its weight to attack ships.
Although the large number of rockets is terrifying and alarming, it will never make Lewando feel novel.
But Liu Chengzu's Tianshan Army was different.
The decorations on those big ships, the armors and even the people wearing armors were all extremely weird to Lewando.
It is not an exotic custom, the Russians are familiar with the Mongolian style, armor, and writing, but this is the weirdest thing.
The sword between straight and curved, the military flag similar to the Mongolians, the armor similar to Mongolian nail armor, and even the soldiers in the armor with the same skin color as the Mongolians all made him crazy and confused.
The shape of the knife was very familiar, but he had never seen it before; the military flag looked the same, but he couldn't recognize the 'painting' on it; the armor seemed to be the same, but it clearly did not belong to any Mongolian force he had seen.
Even the soldiers have the same skin color as the Mongolians and have big beards, but their facial bones are not as strong as those of the Mongolians, and their eyebrows and facial features are more square, as if they come from another foreign world.
It's like a person who is clearly right in front of you, but feels familiar all over his body, but when you take a closer look, he is completely unfamiliar.
This feeling is very scary, and the uncanny valley effect is directly reached.
Modify the cognition-like army and it is simply impossible to look directly at it!
Fortunately, those people seemed to have no intention of landing and annihilating them. The fleet just released rockets like a whirlwind on the left bank, left two more ships, and turned to the right bank.
The two ships were left unlanded, just dragging up the river a hundred steps away from the shore, dropping the two small sampans like laying eggs, putting boxes of munitions on the sampans, and loading them back onto the big ship.
, and finally two small cannons and ammunition were suspended on ropes and transported to the shore.
Liu Chengzu originally wanted these two boats to transport some rockets, flying cannons and the like to the shore, but Mr. Bai, who was in charge of the big ship, thought about it and realized that the friendly troops on the left bank were all soldiers of Chu Hu'er, and they did not know how to use firearms.
ah.
Don't cover your own people with rockets anymore, the flying cannon will explode in your hands.
So just transport two cannons.
Liu Chengzu's main attention was still focused on the city of Tomsk on the right bank.
This longest route in the history of the Marshal's Office made the Tianshan General very angry.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Let's just say that he started guarding the border and was in charge of the troops, and he has always been very confident in leading troops.
Regardless of whether you are leading a small team, a large group, or a horse infantry with a division and a battalion, you never feel that it is difficult.
But he has never led a navy. Sailing on a fucking river is much more difficult than leading an army across a desert.
The fleet ran aground on the sandbank three times, and the ships collided with each other seven times. Soldiers had to be fished out when they fell into the water, ships were pulled when they ran aground, and they had to find a way to pull them apart after they hit each other.
The key point is that Master Lu's sense of command is gone.
The leading fleet signaled that there was a sandbank ahead.
When the flagship arrives, it becomes an enemy ship ahead.
The sailors in Liu Chengzu's ship pedaled hard and suddenly landed on the sandbank.
That is to say, there is no opponent in the Ob River Basin who can fight a water battle with them, otherwise this seemingly very powerful and huge fleet will be gone.
Fortunately, they finally arrived in Tomsk successfully.
When the fleet arrived, the offensive and defensive battle in Tomsk was in a stalemate.
In this castle offensive and defensive battle, Sunday Qiang was unable to provide any help to the front line, while Tabi and other Kyrgyz leaders only had rich experience in failed sieges.
So the real commander on the front line is General Wang Jinzhong.
The problem is that Wang Jinzhong has never attacked the city. He was born in a farmer's household under the commander-in-chief Wang Cheng'en. He has been practicing with Wang Cheng'en since he was a child and learned the art of bow and horse.
In terms of martial arts, he was selected into the Huben Camp very early and is naturally a leader in the army. However, his combat experience is not rich and he has only fought in four battles in total.
The first battle was to defeat the Kou Tao captives in Shandan County, the second battle was to pursue the bandits in northern Shaanxi, the third battle was to follow Wang Chengen to defeat Liu Chengzong, and the fourth battle was to follow Liu Chengzong to defeat the Wei Lat coalition.
Full of fights, this is the fifth battle.
Let alone commanding an siege, he didn't even have the experience of being commanded to siege a city.
Therefore, despite having all the equipment, Wang Jinzhong's tactics were crude to the core, focusing only on the offensive side.
The siege army used rocket cover to repel the enemy behind the wooden fence between the two arrow towers, then transported the rush car to the bottom of the wall, and even successfully cut through the wooden fence to create a gap.
But in the fierce fighting, although the Kyrgyz soldiers were brave enough, they could not break into the camp no matter what.
The gap was too small, and the offensive tactics were clearly visible to the warlords on the bell tower. They had already focused on strengthening the defense on this side. The Cossacks and hunters were holding blunderbuss and spears, and they could not penetrate at all.
The reason why the Tsarist Russians chose to build more of these simple wooden forts in Siberia was because building such wooden forts here was enough to cope with conventional tactics.
Fortunately, at this time, Liu Chengzu's fleet sailed into the shore west of Tomsk.
The fleet's docking was not serious, but it was shocking.
More than twenty boats, large and small, rushed towards the river beach in a matter of seconds.
First, the flat-bottomed boats rushed ashore with the river water, plowing ravines in the soft river beach. The soldiers on board bumped into each other in the bumps, but they jumped out of the boat before the boat stopped.
Those who led the horses led the horses, those who raised the flags raised the flags, and the guards who covered their heads pulled out their wild goose feather knives and called for the soldiers to inspect the equipment and line up.
There are no enemy troops on the shore, and the flat-bottomed boat has no anchor, so it has to be towed to the shore anyway. This is a slightly out-of-the-ordinary way of docking, but it is still within the scope of understanding.
But the big ship behind is different. From the commander to the soldiers, this voyage spanning thousands of miles has given them sufficient experience in shipping, but... they are still slightly lacking in stopping the ship.
None of the bosses in charge of the big ship had the ability to plan the speed well. They couldn't stop when they reached the shore, and they didn't dare to throw the anchor down when the ship was moving faster. They simply asked the sailors to pedal the ship to slow it down.
, came to a hard beach.
The sound of the ship's planks in close contact with the earth was like thunder, and the sound of metal and stone as the soldiers' clothes and armor collided, giving them the upper hand on the entire battlefield.
I even forgot about firing off cannons.
As for the Cossacks on the archery tower, they were all experienced in water warfare and could not have imagined that there would be such a tough way to reach the shore.
But the situation on the shore made no one dare to laugh.
Because although the fleet was hit to pieces, the Tianshan soldiers who were so angry became even more murderous.
They carried boxes of firearms and pushed iron cannons off the ship. Many of them were just trying to kneel on the ground, but in a very short time, they laid out a piece of sophisticated equipment in the open space.
The Cossacks were all dumbfounded. Isn't this a sailor? Why are there still sailors wearing heavy armor?
They were not the Boye nobles with luxurious equipment, and they were accustomed to bullying the Siberian Khanate and the Kyrgyz natives. When faced with the Tianshan Army, where everyone wore cloth-covered iron armor, everyone was dumbfounded.
But Liu Chengzu didn't give them a chance to be stupid.
Liu Chengzu, who was very angry while sailing on the river, regained his confidence as a land war general as soon as he disembarked from the ship and turned his eyes to Tomsk, not far away.
Then the soldiers beat the war drums, and set up an artillery position consisting of three thousand-pound cannons on a small high ground not far from the landing site, five or six hundred steps away from the city wall, with mountains of shell boxes placed next to it.
Without waiting for the rest of the army to complete their deployment, the three thousand-jin cannons fired alternately towards the walled city with roaring sounds.
The military formation continued forward, 400 steps away from the walled city. Boxes of rockets were unloaded and unboxed, and hundreds of launchers were built. Following the roar of artillery shells, the most brilliant fireworks in Siberia during the day rose.
Finally, there were twenty lion cannons. When the first wave of rockets blasted the walled city into a cloud of smoke, they followed the infantry and quickly advanced towards the wall. They got as close as a hundred steps outside the wall. Only then did the artillery cart, which was dragged by manpower, finally let go.
List.
Then a volley was fired, and the shells were embedded into the village wall an inch or two, and even a hole was cut out from the connection between two logs and penetrated into the village.
Field guns like the Lion Cannon are not that effective at hitting wooden fortresses, but they can't hold up to its fast reloading speed.
Before the Cossacks, who were lucky enough to escape the rocket salvo, could make proper arrangements for the fortress, the second salvo of artillery fire outside the city came.
Twenty one-pound iron bullets penetrated the smoke and were embedded in the wall of logs again. This time, a log was simply broken in the middle, revealing a gap of nearly a foot.
Then there was another loud bang that hit the hearts of the soldiers behind the wall.
It's a thousand-pound cannon.
A seven-pound iron bullet swept through the upper part of the village wall, overturning the barbed wooden ceiling, and even smashed one of the thin wooden pillars cleanly, leaving the messy splinters and fibers like gunpowder smoke.
Usually explodes.
The Cossacks and hunters in Tomsk had never been beaten like this in their lives.
Across the wooden wall, it only withstood two rounds of shelling, and the reinforcements that had just arrived collapsed.
They lost their will to fight, disobeyed orders to defend the city, swarmed towards the water gate in the west of the city, and fought over the seats in the flat-bottomed boats, hoping to escape by rowing.
On the contrary, the 400-man German mercenary Xiaoqi, who seemed unreliable in the city, was more tenacious. He actually took over the task of city defense at this time and pushed four small iron cannons forward to block the gap.
But no matter how high the fighting spirit is, it can't match the difference in gunpowder quantity.
In the process of their transfer from the inner city to the outer city, twenty lion cannons had used hundreds of cannonballs to carve out a parapet on the outer wall of the city.
As soon as they lined up and walked out of the inner city gate, they were fired upon by the Tianshan Army who had guns and heavy cannons set up behind the breastworks.
In the vast clouds of gunpowder smoke, lead bullets large enough to penetrate a manhole directly knocked a third of the formation down.
Amid the noisy shouts of killing, the soldiers moved pieces of wooden planks for repairing the ship outside the wall to build slopes that could be climbed. The Tianshan army wearing helmets and armors with the army drew out their golden melon hammers and wild goose feather knives, and jumped in.
Tomsk in smoke.
Just like they drove a warship to the shore, they plowed a bloody road through the city.
