Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 350 It's not good for any programming

On Zhao Xin's way to the north, two companies of the Beihai Navy who had already arrived at Xiaodazigou were engaged in a fierce exchange of fire with the retreating enemy forces.In fact, it is not easy to block thousands of routs with three 122-caliber howitzers and more than 200 people.

To explain this problem, it is necessary to 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 revolution.The army was divided into two factions, one was the conservative faction who tried to implement the Prussian system; the other was the rapid assault faction, dominated by Rumyantsev and Suvorov, who advocated column and skirmish line warfare.

(To make a digression, the wars Suvorov has engaged in all his life are unjust wars of expansion. The battlefields are all in the enemy’s country, and they often fight without a rear, without the support of the people, and it is difficult to maintain morale. That’s why he emphasizes rapid onslaught. )
Of course, since Her Majesty the Queen is a Prussian, it is still the conservatives who are currently leading the army building.

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

俄军的一个战列步兵团大致由1800人组成，其中包括了1400名士兵、50名军官、160名士官、40名乐手、十几个战场救护、辅助兵以及行政人事部门。

(In history, the Russians did not change the Battle Infantry Regiment to the Musketeer Regiment until 1796, and it was renamed the Infantry Regiment after 1811. It was written so for the convenience of understanding.)
Each regiment has two battalions under its jurisdiction, and a battalion consists of six companies.In combat, each company has 114 combat members, in addition to auxiliary soldiers, a total of 150 or so.

The ground offensive troops dispatched by Tsarist Russia this time included the first, second, and third Cossack battle infantry regiments in Transbaikal, the first and second Buryat infantry regiments, three artillery companies, one cavalry company, and a battalion of supplies. Troops totaled more than 1 people.

In addition, there are ten hunter commandos with a total of 600 people on the Heilongjiang fleet, scattered and stationed on each ship, responsible for precise shooting of targets approaching the water surface.

The battle under the city of Aihui has been fought until now, and the Tsarist Russian army still has more than 6000 people, and the commander Alexandrov is still alive, so after the Russian army retreated to the north of the old city of Aihui, order was gradually restored.

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

There are only three howitzers in the Beihai Navy. No matter how they fire, the gunners can only fire six shells per minute at most, and they cannot maintain this speed all the time.For the enemy troops whose assembly radius exceeds several kilometers, if they hit the east, they can't care about the west.

Although the two companies in charge of interception had more than a dozen machine guns, they could not fire at the same time.A third of the spare should always be set aside to maintain fire projection while the other machine guns are reloading.

Moreover, although the PKM machine gun used by the squad is solid, the number of bullets is a big problem.Although the Beihai Navy has issued a chain loader to each squad, the efficiency of that thing is not high. Shaking the handle can only load one round of bullets, which leads to the need to arrange a deputy to help load the bullets; Chains, that’s troublesome. Each bullet often needs 4 to 8 kilograms of force to be loaded in place on the chain link. The North Navy now uses a [-]-round non-scatterable ammunition chain.

A 7.62*54 bullet is 9.65 grams, and a metal ammunition box has 440 rounds of bullets, which means that a box of ammunition weighs 4.5 kilograms. As the deputy of the ammunition hand, even if it is a mule, 10 boxes of ammunition are top-notch; Don't forget, he also has to wear a chain loader.

Even if Zhao Xin can carry a large amount of supplies as a humanoid mobile warehouse, he can't take care of all the battlefields.

When Zhao Xin and the others arrived at the line of defense that the Qing army had initially set up north of the old city of Aigun, the battalion commander Mi Shilang kept calling for artillery support from the walkie-talkie.The Russian army used only a dozen 8-pound guns and 4-pound guns to bombard the blocking positions desperately. More than [-] people from the two companies under Michelang have been killed.

俄军的8磅炮和4磅炮都是铜炮，两种炮发射实心弹的射程在800~900米，换成榴散弹和霰弹的话，8磅炮的射程最多也就是400~600米。

Zhao Xin turned off the walkie-talkie and took out his binoculars to look north. He could already see shadowy figures on the post road ahead and in the woods in front of him. The Russian army was only a few hundred meters away from them.Further north of the Russian army, gunshots and explosions sounded from time to time.

He was about to give orders when he saw someone approaching out of the corner of his eye. He turned his head and saw a soldier from a guard company grabbing a guy wearing a roe cap and walking over. If it wasn't that Sauron boy who was Oolong, whoever it was.

Zhao Xin didn't have the time to pay attention to it for the time being. He hastily assigned the mission and asked Chen Jishan to lead two platoons and two mortar squads to detour from the left flank of the forest and launch an attack from the enemy's left rear. At that time, his side will also cooperate.

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

It is said that after using drones for reconnaissance for so long, he has already marked all the terrain with a radius of tens of square kilometers on the simple map.

Chen Jishan looked at the map suspiciously and said, "Then what if they charge towards the blocking position to the north?"

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

"I understand, my lord, you are planning to drive all the Rakshas to the riverside."

"Just understand, act now!"

After everyone dispersed and went about their business, Zhao Xin walked up to the "roe deer head" and said with a serious face, "Didn't I tell you to go south? Why are you following me again? Where's your horse?"

"It's grazing under the trees in the west." Wulong lowered his head, rubbed the ground with his boots, and said after a long while, "I, I want to fight Rakshasa with you, my lord."

"Nonsense, how old are you. Be obedient and go back."

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

Zhao Xin laughed, thinking that instead of letting the kid run around, it would be better to fool him and let him stay here honestly, so he said to Wulong: "Want to be a soldier for me? Don't you regret it?"

"I don't regret it! I, Amma, said that the Saurons are dedicated to serve as soldiers."

Zhao Xin was taken aback, seeing Xiao Wulong's expression of no hesitation, but didn't know what to say.

Chen Jishan led the team to roundabout from the west of the woods, crawling and crawling forward, and finally arrived at the designated location after more than 20 minutes.He first notified Zhao Xin with a walkie-talkie, and after the machine gunner and two mortar squads found their positions and dug simple fortifications, he ordered the mortars to fire.

"Boom!" A black column of smoke with flames exploded in the Russian army, taking away more than a dozen lives in an instant.

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

He hurriedly said to his subordinate non-commissioned officer: "Quickly tell Your Excellency the Commander! The Qing people are coming with more artillery!"

Aleksandrov's temporary headquarters was located in a hidden place naturally formed by several huge rocks.After the bombardment by the Northern Navy, Alexandrov, who was protected by his men, was unscathed, but his chief of staff, Fisher, was dead.

When he braved the artillery fire to restrain his troops and retreated all the way here, the artillery of the "Qing people" also caught up, which scared Aleksandrov enough.He has been in the army for so many years, and he has never seen such a fast-moving artillery unit. You must know that the artillery that can hit such a distance is the kind of giant artillery.

Reinforcements from the Qing people are coming!At this time, all officers of the Russian army from top to bottom thought so.But how many people came from the other party?The pessimistic ones among the military officers believed that at least 1 "Qing people" had come, but according to Alexandrov's information, there were only more than 5000 Qing people in Qiqihar and Hulunbuir (Hulunbeier). .

Could it be that their emperor was a prophet?Did you arrange the troops in Qiqihar in advance?
This battle has been fought so far, whether it is Bogaevsky's regiment or the reserve force led by himself, until now even the shadow of "Qing reinforcements" has not been seen, and they have suffered heavy losses.Thousands of people are now trapped at the foot of Karen Mountain, and the damned "Qing people" are stuck in the middle of the mountain. I arranged for thousands of people to attack before, but they were all beaten back by the dense rain of bullets.

Hearing the news from one regiment, Alexandrov decided to change his tactics and use the column method to break through the blocking defense line of the "Qing people" as soon as possible. Everyone has to confess here.

"Da da da bang bang bang."

Aleksandrov raised his head suddenly, and he heard the characteristic weapon firing sound of the "Qing Reinforcement Army" from the southwest.

"To the southwest, are the Qing people catching up?"

"Report to Your Excellency Commander, there is a wave of enemies catching up, but our scouts found that there are not many of them."

"Notify Polyakov to lead a regiment and wipe out this group of enemies! Before dark, we must enter that ravine, otherwise none of us can escape!"

"Obey! Your Excellency, Commander!"

With the sound of bugles and drums, the Cossacks who were hiding from the shelling at the foot of Karen Mountain began to gather.

Polyakov walked among the soldiers and shouted: "Brothers of the third regiment! Now a small group of enemy troops has appeared in the southwest, and we are ordered to destroy them!"

The accompanying officers saw that the Cossacks were cowering, so they shouted angrily: "You idiots, didn't you hear what the lieutenant colonel said?! Everyone formed a battle formation! Each company lined up and set off in a column!"

The soldiers reluctantly walked out of the temporary bunkers, faced the explosions that came from time to time, lined up in the smoke, and arrived one kilometer near the battlefield in ten minutes.

After the ministries arrived, under the leadership of the officers, they quickly converted the column into a horizontal phalanx.Each horizontal phalanx consists of five rows of soldiers, with 24 soldiers in each row.On each row of the phalanx, the captain commanded the odd-numbered platoons, the lieutenant commanded the even-numbered platoons, and at the back of the phalanx were four non-commissioned officers, the company commander (sub-battalion commander) and musicians.

There are a total of four such horizontal formations, forming a large rectangular formation.In the middle of the left and right phalanxes is the accompanying artillery company, with several 4-pounders and 8-pounders deployed; the distance between the front and rear phalanxes is [-] feet, and the rear phalanx can provide support for the front phalanx at any time. , or used to outflank the enemy.

This is a standard Prussian infantry formation, with three rows of infantry in each square and two rows of skirmishers. At the end of the 18th century, the so-called skirmishers were not scattered in groups of three or four as imagined. Soldiers were allowed to shoot unorganized and self-serving, but they had to line up.

From the late 18th century to the early 19th century, skirmish tactics were used in two basic ways.One common in the Prussian army, where each line infantry company formed its own marksman unit, and they fought in two rather than three ranks.These shooting soldiers hold the rank of sergeant, equipped with rifled guns, and are selected to receive training in skirmish tactics; Deploy in the posture of skirmishers and stand on the front line.

When the two phalanxes in front were still 900 meters away from Chen Jishan and the others, two 8-pound guns fired first.

These two 8-pound guns are already the only few in the Russian army. The artillery company lost most of the artillery when retreating, and lost a lot when shelling the northern naval positions on the mountainside.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the Russian 8-pound gun fired two shots, there was an explosion behind the artillery team, and the splashed mud made the soldiers around them look ashamed.

"Not good! Withdraw quickly!" The artillery company commander shouted and ran away.There were two loud bangs near the two 8-pound guns behind him, and the shock wave from the explosion knocked him to the ground.Before he could react, there was another louder explosion behind him, a huge fireball rose into the air, and the gunpowder on the gun emplacement was ignited.

Not long after that, another burst of flames accompanied by mud exploded in the infantry phalanx. After the deafening roar, the soldiers in a phalanx fell down in unison like cutting wheat.

In the billowing smoke, there was the sound of whizzing bullets in the air, the overturned copper cannon shot sparks, and seven or eight Cossacks in front fell down.

With a buzzing sound, the Cossacks of the 800rd Musketeer Regiment completely collapsed!They broke up in a rush, and ran away, no longer caring about the formation.The bullets behind him were still roaring.Even the distance of [-] meters could not be reached, and the third musketeer regiment was disabled.

Lieutenant Colonel Polyakov followed the soldiers retreating, listening to the sound of bullets passing by his ears, thinking that the firing speed and hit rate of the enemy's muskets were terrible!Prussians' rifled guns can't shoot so fast and accurately. Is this still a human thing? !
At the same time, on the bank of Heilongjiang, north of the old city of Aihui.

The Second Musketeer Regiment of the Russian Army who had retreated here was dumbfounded when they saw that their warships had run away. Is this trying to force us to swim across the river?

"Lieutenant Colonel! The commander is organizing troops to retreat in the direction of Xiaodazigou. The enemy has blocked it, and their firepower is fierce."

The battalion commander who took over from Shwerin lost his mind for a moment. The sound of gunfire from the west was clearly audible, and he didn't want to bump into it.But swimming across the river. He was born as a nobleman and he can't swim at all!

A dozen Cossacks stood on the river bank and called out to the fleet on the opposite side, but the fleet had been completely scared by the Northern Navy in the previous artillery battle, and they dared not cross the river center line at all.

At this time, the beaten Cossacks could no longer care so much. They started to take off their clothes and walked into the water with good water skills, ready to swim; On the ground, looking at the vast Heilongjiang and lamenting.

"The enemy is chasing you! The enemy in flowered clothes is chasing you!"

Everyone looked up, only to see a non-commissioned officer in charge of the rear of the palace running over with his men sweating profusely.

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

The sergeant twisted away the officer's hand, and shouted in dissatisfaction: "Hey! Commander, let go of me! I'm going to report the emergency military situation to the battalion commander! The enemy's march is very fast, and I estimate that it will only take 10 minutes at most! "

As soon as he said this, a dozen Cossack soldiers around him panicked.They looked at the cottage in front of them that had already been turned into ruins, and it was hard to find a place to hide nearby.

The invaders finally understood that the retribution was coming. If they had known today, they should not have set fire to the house in the first place.

"That group of damned cavalry! Why did they burn down a good village!"

"My God! Those devils are coming, what shall we do?"

"Magic! They all know magic, we can't win, we can't win."

The battalion commander walked among the soldiers with his officers and shouted loudly: "Get up! You cowards! Cowards! It's no use complaining! The Cossacks must rise up and fight!"

A soldier cried and said, "They all know magic, I don't want to die, I don't want to die!"

The battalion commander's hands were also shaking, and Colonel Shwerin was nearby when he fell from 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 on the forehead of the dead Shwerin, but there was a half-fist-sized hole in the back of the head, and even the brains came out.

He has 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?

Let alone these soldiers now, he himself was afraid.

The acting head hesitated for a while, and quickly made a decision. He said to an officer beside him, "Captain, let's go over there and talk. There is an existing task that needs you to perform."

A few minutes later, the two squads under Monk Zhou had arrived 400 meters away from the Russian army for observation. When the out-of-breath machine gunner arrived and was looking for the best shooting position, he saw the Tsarist Russian army on the opposite side. Two men walked out of the army, holding a white flag in their hands.

After the complete defeat of the Third Musketeer Regiment, most of the Russian army in the west was bombarded by more intense artillery fire again at dusk. The rumbling shelling completely collapsed the Tsarist Russian army, and even Alexandrov himself hurt.

Seeing more and more wounded soldiers under his command, while the "Qing army" halfway up the mountain was still tenaciously holding on, Commander Aleksandrov could no longer stop a decent attack, so he sent his men to find half of the soldiers under the white flag. The "Qing army" on the mountainside came to discuss the matter of surrender.

　注：18世纪普鲁士造的线膛燧发枪在91米的距离上散布精度是15.2~19.1cm，打完第一枪再想打第二枪连目标在哪都看不清了，更别说滑膛枪了。那种所谓滑膛枪有效射击距离200米的说法实在可笑至极！150米外站在那儿不动都打不中。

　　
　
(End of this chapter)