On April 25, the Qing army advanced to the city of Yaksa. The land and water divisions gathered together. General Xinzhu of Jilin sent thirty-one warships to the Songhua River to the north and entered Heilongjiang to block the river near Yaksa to prevent the Russians.
A boat sails on the river.【】
Peng Chun personally set up the military tent three miles southeast of Yaksa City, the left army two miles northeast of the city, and the right army two miles south of the city. The three armies responded to each other from a distance. The camps were connected for several miles, and they were impressive.
Ning Guta's 1,200 soldiers were transferred from Shandong, Shanxi and Fujian provinces to the north and 2,600 Eight Banner soldiers were mobilized to form the Left Army, with a total of 3,800 soldiers. The commander-in-chief of the Left Army was to guard the army and command the camp at Ma La.
Sabusu of the Heilongjiang Jiang army led the right army with eighteen commanders and 4,900 soldiers. There were also Daur and Sauron who each led troops, totaling 5,200 soldiers. Sabusu was the commander-in-chief of the right army.
Peng Chun personally led the firearms camp with 2,000 troops, the guard camp with 1,000 troops, the cavalry camp with 1,400 troops, and the vanguard camp with 1,000 troops, totaling 5,400 combat troops. In addition, 6,400 young and strong civilians from various places outside the Pass were accompanying the army.
Each man was assigned twenty assistants. Food and grass were stationed in Aihui, and Jilin Navy was responsible for transporting them.
Bandar Shah led the Ninguta troops, the forward camp, and the guard camp to remain stationary and stationed ten miles away in order to cut off the retreat route of the Russian army in Yaksa City.
On April 27, Peng Chun received Kangxi's imperial edict, instructing him to capture Yaksa before the end of May and to march into Nerchinsk in early June.
After Peng Chun received the order, he summoned all the generals to hold a meeting in the army tent.
Storms are coming, and a war is imminent.
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The city of Yaksa is surrounded by a high mountain to the west, vast stretches of farmland and pastures to the east, the surging Heilongjiang River to the south, and a dense forest to the north. After the Russian army seized this place a few years ago, they began to burn, kill, and loot, plundering the people who lived there.
People of all ethnic groups in this area use Yaksa City as a springboard and military frontier, and continue to expand to the lower reaches of Heilongjiang River in an attempt to incorporate the entire Heilongjiang Basin into Russian territory. Therefore, the walls of Yaksa City, as a military center, have been built more and more.
It is tall and strong. Tall watchtowers are built with logs at intervals around it. Soldiers are stationed on the tower to stand guard day and night. Moreover, the construction of the castle is different from the four square cities in the East. It adopts the bastion model.
The essence of the bastion is to change the fort from a convex polygon to a concave polygon, so that attacking any point of the castle will expose the attacker to more than one bastion surface, and the defender can use crossfire to carry out multiple strikes.
In other words, when the attacker attacks any wall of Yaksa, he will be hit by fire from the other two directions. Therefore, although there are less than 800 soldiers stationed in the fort, Tolbuzin's impact on the Qing army is
When he arrived, he did not panic. He believed that he could definitely hold Yaksa until the severe cold of winter came. Once there, the Qing troops would retreat without a fight.
When the Qing army was approaching, Tolbuzin immediately ordered the Russian outposts outside the city to be withdrawn into the fort to wait for reinforcements and not to engage in direct combat with the Qing army. In order to prevent the Qing army from attacking the city at night, they specially strengthened the vigilance and dispatched more patrols.
The Qing troops outside the city could clearly see the city wall of Yaksa. Groups of Rakshasa soldiers were changing guard with each other. At night, they could even hear the chatter of the Russian army.
At the same time, Tolbuzin executed two officers in the fort who were loyal to the former governor Vlasov, took away their musketeers, opened an arsenal, armed more than 100 Russian civilians in the fort, and killed 130 captives of all ethnic groups.
Young and strong, his body was displayed in the south of Yaksa City as a provocation.
The brutal killing of people of all ethnic groups by the Russian army angered the Qing army. Peng Chun ordered six previously captured Russian soldiers to be beheaded in front of the camp in protest. Seeing this, Tolbuzin stopped killing the captured people of all ethnic groups.
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Guilu was from the Zhenghuang Banner in Manchuria. He was the deputy general of the Zhenghuang Banner. He was also the deputy general of Peng Chun, the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition. As soon as the battle report came back that Bandasha had completely wiped out the Rakshasa reinforcements coming from the direction of Nerchinsk, everyone was shocked.
The camp suddenly became excited. Commander Peng Chun immediately held a combat meeting to formulate the battle arrangements for the general attack on Yaksa. The generals in the Beijing camp and the Heilongjiang generals were all gearing up and asking for battle. Before they came, since the Rakshasa reinforcements had been annihilated
, then it is only a matter of time that this little Yaksa falls in front of us. How long will it take for this to happen without a fight?
Guilu was ordered to escort military supplies from Aihui, so he did not participate in the pre-army meeting. After returning, he was immediately called to the army tent. After arriving at the army tent, Peng Chunzheng and several generals were studying something when they saw Guilu coming in.
, ordered the guard to sit down, and looked at the other party with a solemn expression.
Seeing the coach's solemn look, Guilu knew that there must be something important. As soon as his buttocks were seated, he quickly stood up and asked: "Capital, your name is the late future?..."
"well!"
Peng Chun let out a long sigh. He wanted to say something, but it seemed difficult to say it. He hesitated again and again, and then said: "Gui Lu, I am currently in a difficult situation, but I don't know how to talk to you about it."
"If you have any orders from Lord Dutong, just speak as soon as possible!"
Seeing Peng Chun's embarrassed look, Guilu took the initiative and said, "If you have anything to do, just ask me. I will definitely help you solve your problems!"
After hearing what Guilu said, Peng Chun glanced at Langtan, Sabusu and others, and then said to Guilu: "I and the generals have been here for half a day in order to more accurately find out the strength of the Rakshasa people in the city.
Deployment, everyone is discussing about sending someone to sneak into the city at night to conduct reconnaissance, and the army is good at climbing the city except you Guilu, I can’t think of anyone else, so..." At this point, Peng Chun stopped, embarrassed.
He was holding Guilu. The reason why he was embarrassed was because the Rakshasa people in Yaksa City were now heavily guarded. It would be too difficult to climb into the city at night, fearing a narrow escape from death. However, Guilu was the deputy commander of Zhenghuang Banner, and his deputy general wanted to
Peng Chun felt extremely guilty for letting him do such a dangerous thing. But apart from Gui Lu, he really couldn't think of anyone else who could take on this important task.
"Du Tong, leave this matter to the last general."
After hearing this, Guilu did not hesitate. He knelt down and kowtowed solemnly. He stood up and walked out and said, "Generals, I will go back and prepare now, and sneak into the city at nightfall!"
Looking at Guilu's leaving figure, Peng Chun, Sabusu and others sighed in unison. Peng Chun even secretly thought that if Guilu could return with his whole body, he would definitely defend him in front of the Holy Spirit on the day when his master returned to the court.
Please give me credit!
I hope Guilu won't miss it. Peng Chun returned to the commander's table with his hands behind his back. He concentrated on the picture of Yaksa Castle drawn by the painter accompanying the army. He felt more and more headache. This weird castle was too strange compared to the city of our country.
If you attack one point and suffer multiple counterattacks, the casualties will inevitably be huge. After all, artillery is still needed to assist. Thinking of this, I couldn't help but raised my head and asked Sabusu: "General Sa, when can the artillery be delivered?"
Sabusu said: "As the Commander-in-Chief told me, we can arrive in the first ten days of next month."
"Oh, it's a pity that we can't wait any longer." Peng Chun shook his head in disappointment and smiled bitterly: "The emperor wants us to recover Yaksa as soon as possible. If we wait for the cannon to arrive, we don't know how many days it will be delayed. Now we can only attack by force.
Yan Bi ordered: "Tomorrow, General Sa will take the lead and find out the details of the Rakshasa people."
"Yes!" Sabusu clasped his hands and accepted the order.
"By the way, what's going on over at Volha?" Peng Chun turned around and asked the pen-poster on one side.
He wrote hurriedly: "According to the battle report sent by Volha's people, he is currently active in the Ergun River area. Once the Yaksa attack begins, he can stop those Rakshasa soldiers and prevent them from going south.
reinforce."
"good!"
Bandasha had already wiped out the Rakshasa reinforcements on Nerchinsk's side, and now Volha had cut off the Rakshasa soldiers north of Yaksa. In this way, he no longer had to worry about attacking Yaksa.
"Send a letter to Volha for me, telling him not to attack the fortified city, but only to cut off the communication between Rakshasa and other places. Well, this person is the Prime Minister, and the emperor rewarded the warriors of Batulu with the title. We can't
Ignore him."
"I'll take care of my humble job right away." Bi Tieyi responded and went to prepare a letter for Peng Chun to write back to Volha.