Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 419 Five Dragons Out of Water
In fact, Na Qitai guessed wrong. The small Northern Navy unit at the foot of the mountain was not the one that attacked the Mongolian River Camp, but was ordered to attack the Jiuzang Division of the Tongken Mountain Fortress from the north bank of the Mongolian River to the west.

Their combat experience is too rich, and they have participated in all battles from the Battle of Fuljaha River to Southern Kyushu.It was this company that first rushed into Shigeho Shimadzu's tent during the Battle of Ridang Mountain.As the head of the regiment, Jiuzang's only regret at present is that he has not fought against the Tsarist Russians.

The reason why Zhao Xin transferred this regiment back was because after experiencing the battle in Southern Kyushu, the entire three regiments were very familiar with mountain jungle warfare.

The trouble with mountain and jungle warfare is that it is not conducive to the deployment of troops, and it is easy to lose contact after deployment, and it is easy to be divided by the enemy and the terrain; in addition, the personnel are physically exhausted, the movement speed is slow, and they are easy to lose their way.In terms of defense, there are also problems such as large gaps in positions, many dead spots, and exposed wings due to terrain.

But the biggest problem is not the above, but the logistics.Once the supply line is broken, either retreat or wait to be besieged.

The company commander of the first company was born as a refugee from an island country. He was brought out of Matsushima Town by Zhao Xin, Liu Sheng and others earlier. After naturalization, he changed his name to Lin Shizhong.Had it not been for Zhao Xin's order to bombard Matsushima Town and defeat the Sendai Fan, Lin Shizhong and his wife would have long since become bones in the ditch by the roadside.

At this moment, everyone has entered the bunker. If you look down from the air, the bunkers of the Beihai Navy form an oval fortification. The camouflage composed of branches and bushes is mixed in it, and the light machine guns and rifles are intertwined. A dense firepower system.

When the Qing army detoured from the mountain in the north and reached 400 meters in front of the position, there was nothing but the sound of digging on the position of the Northern Navy.Right now, soldiers are using engineering shovels to expand and extend individual bunkers to form a "W"-shaped circular trench.

The Qing army bowed their backs, and carefully stopped at a position more than 300 meters away from the Beihai Navy, all crawling on standby.The co-leader who led the team waited for almost a stick of incense before hearing a trumpet cannon from the fortress on the mountain.

"Tom!"

"Woo~~" Immediately afterwards, the shrill conch sounded in the fortress, and the co-leader knew that the attack had begun.He drew his waist knife and ordered the two Second General guns scattered on both wings of the formation to fire first.

"Boom!" There was a loud noise, and the artillery position on the right side of the Qing army's formation opened fire first.

The Second General's cannon, which was erected on several pieces of wood and stones, jumped upwards, and then hit the ground heavily.Two gunners with leather gauntlets hurried forward to lift the long barrel, while the others stacked stones and logs.The gunner in charge of aiming quickly estimated the position after seeing the impact of the shell, and then called his companions to raise the gun body a little, and then used stones to cushion it.

At the same time, the gun position on the left wing also adjusted the height of the gun body according to the direction of the bomb falling.

The iron bullet that flew out of the first shot passed through the gap between the mountains and forests, roared and hit the ground 300 meters away, then jumped up immediately, and landed almost ten meters in front of the North Navy position, rolling around everywhere. , Hit the flurry of weeds and fallen leaves.

"shooting!"

The attacking Qing army formed an offensive formation according to small groups, and each team advanced in a row of ten people, a total of five rows; in front of these musketeers were armored soldiers holding thick cowhide wooden shields, followed by a dozen Guy with a bow and arrow.

The co-leader who led the team kept in mind Na Qitai's instructions, regardless of whether it was within reach or not, and began to order shooting from within 300 meters.All of a sudden, white smoke billowed in the forest, and the sound of guns and guns was deafening one after another. Four teams of two hundred musketeers spread out in a fan shape and came slowly towards the North Navy's position.

After finishing shooting, the musketeers in the front squat down quickly to charge the powder under the cover of their shields. After the five rounds of shooting are over, the archers behind begin to throw long arrows, and then the shieldmen advance ten steps, stop and continue shooting .

After firing three rounds, the gun crews on both wings raised their hot barrels and started to move forward. When they crossed the 200-meter line marked by the North Navy on the tree in advance, the only mortar in the middle of the position opened fire.The first shot hit the back of the Qing artillery crew on the left, and the second shot that followed exploded three meters away from the right side of the artillery crew, killing and wounding one each on the spot.

Na Qitai in the fortress of Yingchengzi leaned forward and lay on the edge of the half-human high fort wall, holding up the binoculars to watch the movement on the battlefield.When he saw that his subordinates were advancing towards the Beihai Navy step by step with continuous shooting of five dragons out of the water, without stopping, he almost shouted out excitedly.At the same time, the four hundred Qing soldiers who had already arrived one mile west of the Beihai Navy also began to attack the Beihai Navy's position.

Then Na Qitai turned his head and shouted, "Beat the drum!"

On the Xiaobai Mountain defense line of the Qing army, the attacking North Navy took the battalion as a unit. With the cooperation of the reconnaissance team, after destroying many fortresses, they fought continuously and finally drove the defenders at the east foot of Xiaobai Mountain back to the west side of the main peak. .

In order to ensure the fierce offensive of the attacking troops on the western front, Zhao Xin, who had arrived at Ningguta at noon, played the role of "logistics captain" again.In fact, it was precisely because of his arrival that the shortage of ammunition for the attacking troops was alleviated.

At the foot of Xiaobai Mountain where the Huji Regiment Headquarters was located, in several temporary warehouses, mountains of ammunition and supplies were being continuously transported to the front line by civilians who came from Fuldan City and Boli Town.

For this campaign, the entire Beihai town mobilized [-] migrant workers.Encouraged by the propaganda department in charge of Yu Deli, from Sanxing City to Ningguta, from Boli to Beihai Town, the loudspeakers in every village and town kept broadcasting the battle situation and mobilization orders; The subsidy of one silver dollar has attracted many housewives to sign up enthusiastically.

Those naturalized people from the island countries and refugees from the interior now understand that if the Qing army is not driven away, Beihai Town will not be able to develop; The harvest will be in vain.

Those who have come to Beihai Town for more than a year and have experienced ample food and clothing, no one is willing to go back to be a slave or a pariah, to endure the life of being extorted twice a year and borrowing money to survive; I would like to relive the precarious life of relying on the sky for food, not even eating meat all year round, and even picking up the tea leaves that others drank as treasures.

Zhu Dagui and his wife also came.His son Zhu Xiaoshun is now enrolled in a technical school in Beihai Town, and will enter a factory in three years to earn money to support his family.

As the village head of Xingkai Lake No. 30 Village, under his leadership, more than 20 strong laborers and more than [-] women in the village formed a team, which was responsible for transporting ammunition from the warehouse under Xiaobai Mountain to the forward positions.Among them were Han Chinese, Manchus who had worked as couriers in the Fuerdan city post station under the Manchu Qing rule, and even three Hezhe people.

After each of them transports the materials from the warehouse to the forward material storage point, the logistics officer there will issue them a small metal badge; after returning to the regiment headquarters, they will hand over the metal badge to the officer at the warehouse door and register Departure and return times.As the Beihai Navy's attack line deepened, Zhu Dagui's transportation distance became more and more distant.

Because there are no roads and carts cannot be used, all the supplies, weapons and ammunition depend on the soles of the feet of the migrant workers and a few horses, carrying, carrying, and carrying them along the winding and rugged mountain roads.

After arriving at the forward headquarters on the western front, Zhao Xin first listened to the combat report and assigned tasks, and then immediately came to the logistics transfer point.

After reviewing the departure and return times of the migrant workers and counting the number of metal plates, he immediately issued an order to Huji: move the headquarters westward, shorten the supply line from thirty miles to ten miles, and the longest distance cannot exceed fifteen miles.

In order to save logistics transportation time and ensure the advance speed of the attacking troops, Zhao Xin led a dozen guards, escorted by the Sixth Regiment's guard company, into the vast mountain.

Thanks to years of unremitting running and running around, Zhao Xin's physical strength can keep up.In order not to attract attention, Zhao Xin deliberately changed into the same clothes as the guards, but the people around him looked like they were facing a formidable enemy, plus the behavior of surrounding him in the middle, it was difficult not to be noticed.

A piece of felt was placed on the back of Zhu Dagui's wife's neck, and a rectangular wooden box was placed on top of it. She bent over, tightly pulled the rope tied to the box with both hands, and followed her man step by step.

The couple and a group of migrant workers from the village walked for about five or six miles. Zhu Dagui stopped and yelled to the people behind him, "Let's go after a while."

Only then did everyone put down their things along the mountain path, drink water and eat dry food, and even light a bag of cigarettes for a few puffs.After a while, everyone heard footsteps coming from behind them. Looking around, they saw dozens of Bei Haijun wearing helmets and fully armed walking quickly, and there seemed to be many people behind them.

A group of villagers hurriedly moved the supplies piled up in the middle of the mountain road to the side. Beihai Haijun who came over saw these migrant workers and greeted them with a smile, then asked where they came from, and then checked their identity certificates.

It is said that Beihai Town's identity certificate made many new time travelers secretly laugh.This shit is not an ID card, it is completely a corporate employee badge in another time and space, or the kind that hangs around the neck.

In order to be waterproof, the Ministry of Civil Affairs under Chen Qingsong specially put a plastic seal on each card, and then put it into the badge.In addition to a frontal color photo, the identity card also includes name, nationality, age, village, and house number.

Although the time-traveling people thought it was weird, they also admitted that such an identity document could never be forged in this time and space, and it effectively prevented many people who wanted to sneak in.Many spies in the early Manchu Qing Dynasty fell on it, and it was useless to steal it. If the photos didn't match, they would be arrested immediately.

Those who live temporarily in Beihai Town use different colored paper and badge casings, which can be seen at a glance.

There are two in Zhu Dagui's village, both of them are Hezhe people who came from Khabarovsk looking for work.

Hearing the question from the officer leading the team, Zhu Dagui didn't care about smoking anymore. He hurriedly got up and patted the dirt on his buttocks, walked forward and said, "We are all from the second village of Xingkai Lake. I am the village head, and my name is Zhu Dagui. Qianlong I came here by boat in 51. These dozens of numbers belong to our village, so what else do you want to ask?”

A man who looked like a military officer saw Zhu Dagui and smiled and said, "Mr. Zhu, I know. My family is from the Fourth Village, and it is only twenty miles away from Youmen Village. My surname is Zhang, and I am an old Zhang from the west end of the Fourth Village. Family."

"Hey" Zhu Dagui also laughed when he heard the other party's Zhangde accent, this is really a fellow.Pointing to Zhu Dagui's shoulders, the officer pretended to be chatting, and asked in a low voice with his back turned to the other villagers: "Are those two Hezhe people also from your village?"

"That's right. I came here from Fuldan City when I planted the seeds last year. I said I wanted to do part-time work. The big guy got along pretty well, so I'm here again this year. Is there something wrong?"

"Oh." The officer patted Zhu Dagui on the shoulder, shook his head and said, "It's okay. There is still a team coming from behind, so don't make a fuss for a while, just pretend not to see something if you see it."

"What?" Zhu Dagui said in his heart that he didn't see anything else from here to there that day, except for soldiers, so there's nothing to make a fuss about.

Two or ten minutes later, more Beihai soldiers emerged from the other side of the mountain road.In the middle of the line, there was a tall Beihai soldier walking, but because the man kept his head down and looked at the road, many people passed by after just a few glances.

Zhu Dagui, who was squatting under the tree, held a cigarette in his mouth and tilted his head to look at it. When the tall soldier passed by in front of him, Zhu Dagui rubbed his eyes vigorously with the back of his hand, thinking he was wrong.When he saw that person turned his head and grinned at him, Zhu Dagui almost hit his head on the ground in shock.

I am obedient!Why is his old man here?Zhu Dagui met Zhao Xin several times, not to mention, last year when Zhao Xin got married, he went to have a wedding.

After all the team passed and disappeared at the turn of the mountain road, Zhu Dagui and his party got up and continued to move forward.While squatting down to carry the box, he said to his wife, "Guess who I saw just now?"

His wife helped put the box on Zhu Dagui's back, and asked casually, "Who?"

"Lord Zhao."

"What? Prince Zhao!!" Zhu Dagui's wife exclaimed, which attracted the attention of the surrounding villagers.

"What are you talking about! I see it for real, the old man is still smiling at me."

Hearing the arrival of the Great God from Beihai Town, all the villagers immediately talked about it.The two Hezhe people walking at the back of the line stretched out their ears to hear the excited discussion of the people in front of them and Zhu Dagui, looked at each other, and then muttered something in Manchu.

The group walked seven or eight miles, and when they came to a bend on the mountainside, Zhu Dagui habitually reminded him loudly: "The road ahead is narrow, walk inside, be careful."

Here is a sharp turn, with abrupt rocks on the inner side, and a ravine on the outer side. A waterfall falls straight down from the cliff, and the mist is clear.

Unexpectedly, when all the people in front had passed and only the two Hezhe people were left, everyone heard a scream, and then saw a figure slide down, and fell into the torrent in a blink of an eye. Not anymore.

At this time, everyone heard the Hezhe man named Qi Bukadai crying hoarsely. Zhu Dagui finally put down the suitcase on his back, walked carefully past the crowd, turned a corner, and saw him crying on the edge of the cliff. , Hitting his head on the ground from time to time, he looked very sad.

"Look at what happened!" Zhu Dagui sighed, stepped forward to help Qi Bukadai up, and comforted him: "Don't worry, maybe he climbed ashore by himself from the front? It's not a solution to stop here , let’s go forward first.”

With a mournful face, Qi Bukadai wiped away his tears and said, "It's all my fault! If I hadn't accidentally slipped just now, I wouldn't have knocked him down."

Two hours later, after the group arrived at the logistics supply point fifteen miles away, Zhu Dagui told the situation that the military officer in charge of logistics supplies was also very sad.Less than a day after the start of the war, three people had fallen off the cliff and died because of the rough and difficult mountain road for transporting supplies.

Not to mention, after the officer asked about the situation, he immediately sent a few soldiers to the river beach to look for it.Afterwards, he comforted Qi Bukadai a few words, saying that regardless of whether he was found or not, Bei Haijun's management would be hurt, and Bei Haijun would send the pension to his wife and children after his death.

Qi Bukadai finished listening with a sad face, and hurriedly bowed to thank him.

Because it was getting late, Zhu Dagui and the others didn't go back, but set up a tent near the logistics point to rest and make do for the night.

As night fell, Sobaeksan, which was green during the day, also became pitch black.On the other side of the ridge, the Northern Navy's cannon fire was still rumbling and roaring, and the flames of the explosions flickered.

At the right time, the general's mansion in Ula City, Jilin was brightly lit, and battle reports came back from the front one after another.In the signing room, Qing Gui was wearing a coat and holding a lantern to look at the wooden map, thinking about how to deploy and use the troops.

well!It would be great if the soldiers from the Northwest arrived, and another [-] soldiers would be sent over, no!As long as five thousand, the North Navy can be dragged to the line of Xiaobai Mountain so that it cannot cross the Rafa River.

(End of this chapter)