One hundred and twenty ninth chapter Dingyuan battle three
According to Zhao Qiang's request, the Transportation Department will send people to follow the army after it sets off. According to the standard of a post station thirty miles away, a small post station will be built on the spot to facilitate the transmission of information from various troops. []uuSo the Transportation Secretary Xu Xu
Ping organized 600 strong women and 200 old and weak men to accompany the army.
The strong women of various ethnic groups are different from the Han women in Guan Nei. Their physical strength is only slightly worse than that of the men in the tribe. Most of them are strong laborers, and their feet are not bound. They can withstand heavy physical labor. For example, the Oroqen women
Chinese women are the main labor force of the clan, and they have a certain say in their respective clans, which is much stronger than Han women.
In order to mobilize the enthusiasm of these strong women and old and weak men, Wei Ji asked the Animal Husbandry Department to allocate some cattle and sheep, and asked the Agricultural and Reclamation Department to provide some grain for transportation. After Xu Ping received the cattle, sheep and grain, he told those who were going to set off with the army
Strong women and men, as long as they complete the task, each will receive no less than ten kilograms of meat and twenty kilograms of grain as a reward.
Ten kilograms of meat and twenty kilograms of grain are undoubtedly a huge temptation for these strong women and men, who are mostly untouchables. Since they were kidnapped to Shouui City, although they can barely fill their stomachs with three meals a day, it is not enough.
There is very little oil and water, and the daily work they have to bear is too heavy. Therefore, they often have a full stomach an hour ago, and are extremely hungry an hour later.
After hearing that after completing the task, there will be rewards of meat and grain, the strong women and men are naturally a little excited, especially the strong women with children, they are even more excited, and they can't wait for the horse to finish the work so that they can take the meat and grain with them.
Looking back at Yicheng, let your children have enough to eat.
With the hope of eating, the strong women and men set out with the army and walked very fast. When they arrived at the place, they consciously left some people to build the post station, while the rest continued to follow the road trodden by the army, to the next three steps.
Leave people ten miles away to build the post station, and move forward in this way.
Silin Mubinsk and Guri River City are more than 300 miles away from Shouyi City, while Yask is less than 200 miles away from Shouyi City. Therefore, Qi Zhuang's left wing and Hu Wang's right wing set off lightly, carrying only half a month's worth of supplies.
rations in order to quickly reach the second city and implement the occupation.
If Hu Wang and Qi Zhuang's troops moved smoothly and successfully captured Guri River and Xilinmubinsk, except for a small number of troops waiting for Shouyi City to receive the personnel, most of the rest quickly headed for Yask to meet up with Zhao Qiangyi.
The second phase of the battle plan was carried out. As for the population and wealth of the Guri River and Silin Mubinsk City, Wei Ji organized manpower to take over and count them, and replaced the Russians in the role of occupiers.
Because he did not know the actual situation of these Russian cities and strongholds, Zhao Qiang did not determine which stronghold should be the base camp of the Guan Ning Army. Therefore, the order given to Wei Ji was to send people to count the population and wealth, and then choose one after the Dingyuan battle.
A suitable place is urgently needed to build a base area. In the future, all the population will be transported to the base area in a planned way until they go south to the outside of the pass. After gaining a foothold outside the pass, the base camp will be moved to the outside of the pass. From there, they will continue to encroach into the pass, and finally successfully enter the pass.
, turned over the Qing Dynasty, and let the flag of Guan Ning's army fly in the sky of Bauhinia City.
Yask City is much stronger and larger than Guri River City and Silin Mubinsk. Therefore, the artillery team that just fired a few rounds under the guidance of the Russian artillerymen was driven away. I hope that in Yask City
It can come in handy when a siege occurs.
Although the four artillery pieces were transported by horse-drawn carriages, they still moved slowly. In order not to pull too far away from the artillery team, Zhao Qiangyi controlled his marching speed to thirty miles a day. At this speed, it would take seven days to reach the city of Yask.
In addition to mobilizing 4,400 troops for this "Dingyuan Combat Operation", nearly 4,000 people of all ethnic groups were also recruited to engage in various war-related affairs. It can be said that in addition to the necessary personnel in the entire Shouyi City,
They are all involved in this war to expand territory and strength, and no one can avoid it.
When Guan Ning's army marched towards the Russian stronghold in three directions, a dispute broke out in the city of Yaksa far away in Heilongjiang. Both parties in the dispute were Russian commanders of the city of Yaksa, but the one surrounded by everyone was
Tolbuzin left Cooper and Vladimir and fled back. At this time, he was livid and angry at a bearded young officer opposite him.
The young officer's name is Shakchav. Two years ago, he was just a murderer who was exiled from Moscow to the East. Now he is the musketeer captain of Yaksa City. The two hundred musketeers under him are all composed of exiles. Compared with
Among the few military personnel, the musketeers led by Shakchav were more offensive and more effective. Therefore, in the city of Yaksa, he was the second in command besides the city guard Tolbuzin.
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When Tolbuzin fled back like a coward, Shakchav realized that the opportunity had come. He would not have passed this abominable bandit long ago. If he had not been senior, the city guard of Yaksa City would not have been able to do so.
It might be his turn. But now, Shakchav felt that he was qualified to challenge the opponent. He felt that Tolbuzin's cowardly performance was no longer qualified to be the commander of an imperial city. Therefore, he and four fellow prisoners
The former military officers took the lead in attacking, demanding Tolbuzin to leave Yaksa immediately and hand over the command of Yaksa city to them.
"Tolbuzin, you coward! You left Cooper and Vladimir to the Qing people and buried four hundred warriors of the Russian Empire. How could you have the nerve to come back! If I were you, I would rather jump
If you drowned in the river, you won’t be able to come back shamelessly!”
Shakchav's ally, Sterling, had already broken his skin. Seeing Tolbuzin's delay in expressing his position, he was a little angry. Why can this coward stay in Yaksa anymore? He should get out immediately!
"Sterlin, shut up, you are not qualified to teach me a lesson!"
Sterling's harsh words made Tolbuzin very embarrassed. He couldn't explain his escape, because until now, he still didn't understand what happened. The Qing team that suddenly appeared was from the Qing Dynasty.
Which general was commanding him? But he knew that he must not leave Yaksa, otherwise Nerchinsk would tear him apart.
In the East, if you have soldiers, you have power. If you don't have soldiers, you have nothing. If you lose Yaksa, any little soldier can trample on you at will.
Sterling, you clown, if it weren't for me, you would have been killed by the natives! Looking at Sterling, who he had rescued from the natives, Tolbuzin felt disgusted, Yaksa is mine, no one wants it.
Want to snatch it from me!
"Yaksa is my Yaksa. Without me, this city would never have been built! Without me, you would still be poor exiles!"
Tolbuzin pointed at Shakchav and Sterling uncontrollably: "You must understand that everything you have now is earned for you by me, Tolbuzin, with my head! Without me, there would be no you.
! Do you think those arrogant nobles in Nerchinsk would pay attention to a group of murderous criminals? No! What they care about is only our bravery and our cruelty!"
"We must unite, do you understand? If we have internal strife, the only ones who will benefit are the nobles, who are eager to receive Yaksa from us!"
"Do you want His Majesty the Tsar's rewards to fall into other hands? If you don't want to, then you must obey my orders!"
"Shakchaf, I know you want to be a real commander, but you can't betray me because of this! There is one thing you must understand, that is, I am not a coward who is afraid of death, but those Nerchinsk
The musketeers did not obey my orders at all. The governor sent me to participate in the eastward march, just to distract me so that his people could take over Yaksa!"
After a while of roaring, Tolbuzin tried to calm down. He had to appease the officers who wanted to drive him away, because the musketeers they controlled accounted for half of the troops. Without them, he would not have achieved anything great.
"Shakchaf, the Qing people have a huge land, the East is huge, women and gold are everywhere, your eyes should go further!"
"Believe me, Shakchav, one year!" Tolbuzin shouted seductively: "As long as one year, we can capture another city from the Qing people. By then, you, Shakchav
!Will become a real city guard!"
"Are you telling the truth?"
Tolbuzin's words moved Shakchav's heart, and also made him know why the governor wanted Tolbuzin to go to the eastward march alone, instead of letting the musketeers from Yaksa City go together.
Maybe what he said is true, those arrogant nobles don't believe us at all.
After a brief consideration, Shakchav reached an agreement with Stalin and two other officers. They agreed that Tolbuzin would continue to be their commander. However, after one year, if Tolbuzin could not lead them to capture the Qing army,
In the new city, Tolbuzin must take the initiative to hand over his power.
After cursing Shakchav and others for their shame, Tolbuzin hugged them one by one with a smile on his face, and vowed that a new Yaksa would definitely appear in front of everyone in one year.
"Tolbuzin, this matter must be reported to the Governor-General, and the Qing people must be punished, otherwise they will laugh at the empire."
Shakchav, who was so excited by Tolbuzin's assurance, suddenly thought that Nerchinsk must be notified of the defeat of Vladimir and Cooper, otherwise the Qing people would become even bolder and say
Maybe you will have the courage to attack the city of Yak. You must know that downstream, those Qing people are working hard to build a new city. After the city is built, blind people can come out. If they are not severely punished, these Qing people will
Maybe they thought the Russian warriors were afraid of them.
"Oh, no, there's no use telling them."
Tolbuzin shook his head and rejected Shakchav's proposal without thinking. He smiled and patted Shakchav on the shoulder: "The Governor has no troops left. Even if he knows that Vladimir and the others are finished, he still has the strength."
, in this case, why bother him. Now, we only need to do our own things well, and let the governor handle other things by himself." In fact, Tolbuzin didn't want Nerchinsk to know that he had escaped so soon.
, Nerchinsk and the journey eastward had made him realize that the Governor wanted to take him away.
After hearing Tolbuzin's words, Shakchav was startled. Although he was bold, he would not dare to conceal military information and did not understand why Tolbuzin dared to do this.
Tolbuzin's loyal subordinate Herschov came forward to remind Tolbuzin: "I heard that the Tsar's special envoy Lord Golo is leading an armed force of 1,500 people on the way to the east. With his arrival,
By now, the Governor-General has a powerful force at his disposal. As for the Qing people’s daring act this time, I think we should send a message to the Governor-General and ask him to send Lord Goluo’s troops to destroy them.”
"Why do you think the Governor will send troops to deal with them instead of us doing it ourselves?"
Tolbuzin slowly glanced at the officers: "Since last year, many of our strongholds have been stolen. Food and weapons always disappear inexplicably. We cannot rule out that these are organized actions by the Qing people. Contact us again this time
They openly attacked our army, and it cannot be ruled out that these Qing people are preparing for a major attack. So, everyone, our opportunity to make a difference has come!"
Tolbuzin walked to a simple map hanging on the wall behind him and tapped it downstream with his index finger: "I think we should respond quickly to the dirty behavior of the Qing people and let them know that the Russian Empire is not good.
Provoked!"
Tolbuzin has decided to use greater achievements to clear himself of the charge of cowardice, and at the same time make Nerchinsk and even Moscow realize that in the east, without him Tolbuzin, the empire's territory will become larger and larger.
The honor and reward from His Majesty the Tsar will be my greatest asset. So, now let the dirty Qing people have a taste of the power of my Tolbuzin.
"Everyone, please mobilize your soldiers immediately. We will attack the Qing people's Aihun City tomorrow!"