Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 483 The fortifications are not dug casually
There was a 15-minute break in the middle of the meeting, and the subsequent arrangement was to let the chief officers of each regiment speak out about the difficulties, and arrange solutions on the spot if they could be solved.

At this moment, the air in the meeting room and people's emotions are like waves on Lake Baikal, rising and falling wave after wave.While chatting and laughing, a person knocked on the door and walked in. Everyone fell silent again and focused their eyes on a young female soldier who came in.

There are very few female soldiers in the Beihai Navy. Except for the field hospital, they are all in the telecommunications room. Liu Sheng's wife Wu Xiha is no exception.She is only 22 years old this year. Although she has been married to Liu Sheng for several years, she is still the most lively and active.After the kidnapping incident the year before last, Liu Sheng was afraid that something would happen to his little wife again, so he discussed with Zhao Xin and made Wu Xiha a confidential officer.

When the officers were serious and nervous before the battle, they were really surprised and relieved to see a female soldier suddenly.What's more, Wu Xiha's appearance is getting more and more handsome, with two big black eyes moving on her rosy round face.Short shoulder-length hair and a dark green military uniform not only did not detract from her beauty, but became a kind of beautiful decoration.

As soon as she entered the room, she was immediately frowned by the miasma in the room, coughed a few times, and then felt a strong threat under the eyes of everyone.

So Wu Xiha lowered his head, walked lightly through the gap between the crowd, and walked in front of Liu Sheng.The more shy she was, the more those officers who had never seen her looked at her intently; the valiant female soldier seemed to have a strong magic power, tempting men's eyes.

She took out a handwritten telegram from the folder in her hand and handed it to Zhao Xin, so everyone turned their eyes and attention to the expressions of Liu Sheng and Zhao Xin, and the telegram they were scrutinizing.

Although the content of the telegram is unknown to everyone, the chief officers of each regiment are still trying to observe the changes in the expressions of the two immediate superiors, guessing what the telegram will bring to the battle; some even carefully observed Ushiha's face, trying to Find the basis for judging the content from her.

After reading it, Zhao Xin signed the telegram with no expression on his face; Liu Sheng took it over and glanced at it, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth.Then he handed the telegram to Sheng Haizhou and Li Rui.The eyebrows and expressions of the officers present all changed according to the expressions and movements of these people.

The rest time was extended by another 10 minutes. As a result, the level of tension in these 10 minutes was even greater than that of listening to Zhao Xin's speech at the beginning of the previous meeting.

Jiuzang patted Pan Xiucheng, gestured to Zhao Xin with his chin, and said in a low voice: "The situation seems to be wrong, look at the expression of your lord!"

Pan Xiucheng threw the cigarette butt on the ground, crushed it out with his feet, and said to himself, "Could it be that something happened in Manqing in the south?"

At this moment, Chen Jishan, who was beside him, clenched his fists, and said in a firm tone, "It doesn't matter whether he is a Manchu or a Russian, just hit him!"

Huji took a cigarette from Mishran, lit it and said, "I don't know if our mission will change?"

Michelang interjected: "It's nothing more than the three directions of north, west, and south."

"Don't talk! It's a meeting!" Sheng Haizhou suddenly reminded the officers in the room loudly, and everyone became quiet instantly.

Wu Xiha, who was waiting to retrieve the original text of the telegram, was told by Zhao Xin to leave the telegram here temporarily.She walked along the wall, walked behind the crowd, stood at the door and glanced at Liu Sheng, then turned around and walked out.

Liu Sheng, holding a telegram in his hand, looked like a soldier holding a grenade and preparing to throw it, with a majestic expression on his face.He cleared his throat, looked around the crowd, and the corners of his mouth curled up.

"This is a telegram from our people in Nizhny Uginsk. Marshal Rumyantsev of the Russian Army has left Krasnoyarsk and is heading for Nizhny Uginsk. He is accompanied by an army of 1 people. Troops." He bit every word clearly and forcefully, with a hint of excitement in his tone.

The man stationed in Nizhny Uginsk by the Northern Navy was Igor, the groom who surrendered the first time, and he was also the uncle of Fan Tong's fiancée Polia.Last summer, after some training, Igor and two Northern Marines dressed as Mongolians went to Nizhny Uginsk and opened a grocery store as a cover.

After Liu Sheng finished speaking, after a few seconds of silence, there was a burst of warm applause in the room.The time to come has finally come. After showing weakness to the enemy for so long, the enemies on the western front have finally come out!

Zhao Xin was satisfied with the applause, it was like taking a shot of stimulant before the battle.He took a puff of the cigarette, puffed out a puff of smoke, and drove away a few annoying mosquitoes in front of him, and then announced in a brisk and firm tone:
"The original plan remains the same! When you return to the station, you will immediately carry out emergency mobilization. After the meeting, you will receive a written notice from Sheng Haizhou for the specific task arrangement."

Liu Sheng and Zhao Xin have been working together since Beihai Town was not established. The two cooperate tacitly and complement each other.

Liu Sheng is decisive in his actions and straightforward in his speech. In his eyes, there is never an invincible enemy.

Zhao Xin has a meticulous mind, and there is always a strong provocative in his speech.However, he never underestimated any enemy, and always had to be prepared.If he didn't figure out everything on the preset battlefield before the battle, he would feel uncomfortable sleeping and eating.However, it was precisely because of this that after being called by him one by one, the officers below felt a lot more at ease.

On August 8, Pan Xiucheng's fourth regiment, led by a small group of scouts, went westward along the Belaya River, bypassing the upstream village of Bielsk from the south, and then crossed the vast dense forest.Their goal is Zima Village, 17 kilometers northwest of Usolye, which is an important node on the Siberian Post Road.

The order of the staff department was to let them lurk in the forest west of the Oka River, and after the large Russian army passed through, they quickly captured Zima Village, and then built a blocking position relying on the Oka River to the east of the town to prevent the Russian army from fleeing north. channel.

On the same day, Jiuzang's Second Regiment, Aoba Camp, and Hagi Camp entered the plain between the north of the Belaya River and the Angara River through the pontoon bridge built in advance to build positions.

This is an alluvial plain 11 kilometers long from north to south and 22 kilometers long from east to west. Due to abundant water flow, lush vegetation and high organic matter content in the soil.Since the establishment of Usolie in 1669, the exiles and settlers have not only fished and boiled salt here, but also planted rye, oats and barley near the river bank in the east of the plain; vegetables include peas, cabbage, Radishes, onions and garlic.

Contrary to what many people imagined, Siberia at the end of the eighteenth century could not open up wasteland and farm at will.Due to the prosperity of the fur trade, many mountains and jungles have been officially designated as "sable hunting grounds". The settlers who came here only had five acres of land to cultivate, which is the area of ​​three football fields, or thirty acres in later generations.Historically, after the nineteenth century, with the reduction of the fur trade, large tracts of land were released for farming.By the way, Tsarist Russia exempts settlers from taxes for ten years.

According to the task book issued by the staff, the main position of the Northern Navy is located in the southeast of this plain, and the position is just stuck on both sides of the road from Nizhny Uginsk to Usolye.The Belaya River, which flows into the Angara River from west to east, forms a large pocket here, forming a slanted strip 2.9 kilometers wide from east to west and 4 kilometers long from north to south.

When it comes to building fortifications on the battlefield, it must be based on manpower, material resources, time, and the purpose of the fortifications, and the fortification resistance level must be different in different locations.The kind of fortification that pursues high resistance regardless of priority is meaningless at all; the stronger the resistance, the more manpower and materials are invested.

Generally speaking, the resistance strength of battlefield fortifications is divided into five levels.The fortification of the command post is stronger than the resistance of the personnel, and the resistance of the personnel is stronger than the concealed fortification of materials and equipment.

When it comes to personnel, it is necessary to determine the standards of soil work according to different weapons.For example, the trenches used for individual shooting are one meter wide at the top, 0.5 meters wide at the bottom, and the depth is generally 1.1 meters.But if it is used for bazooka shooting fortifications, the breast wall and the accumulation of soil in the shooting area must be 10 to 20 cm lower than the mouth of the barrel, and the height of the rear wall must not exceed the tail of the barrel, and no one or any materials shall be placed 10 meters behind the bunker; Otherwise, once fired, it will be a disaster.

For machine gun fortifications, it is determined according to the type of machine gun, the size of the shooting area, shooting posture and personnel.Generally, it is a ring-shaped area with a diameter of 1.8 meters, and the upper part is covered with logs, soil and leaves; the perforation is determined according to the direction, high and low shooting angles, and the thickness of the front wall of the fortification, that is, the outer horoscope, the inner horoscope and the inner and outer horoscope.

As for the artillery positions of the Beihai Navy, they are located in the dense forest five kilometers away from the main position.It is located on the south side of the Belaya River, and Chen Jishan's Fifth Regiment is responsible for stationing it. If necessary, it can cross the river through a pontoon bridge to provide support to Jiuzang's troops.

Liu Sheng started preparing for this artillery fortification almost half a year ago. Neither the local residents nor the new immigrants used it. The soldiers of the Beihai Navy built it entirely by themselves.In order not to be discovered, all the gun beds are semi-underground cover fortifications, and camouflage is laid on them.Each gun position is composed of three parts, the middle is the shooting room, the left side is the ammunition shelter, and the right side is the personnel shelter.

Because there are no shops in front of the village or back, and no one comes here at ordinary times. In addition, Liu Sheng has set up many secret sentries on the periphery, so the Russian army's spies can't go deep into it to find out.

In order to allow the cavalry of the Russian army to enter the fire crossing zone of anti-aircraft guns and machine guns, the Northern Navy laid out layers of obstacles around the main position and artillery positions, and trenches and barbed wire became the inevitable choice.

The layout of the barbed wire cannot be as simple as repairing the livestock fence, otherwise it can be turned over with a straw curtain.The technical content of this thing is very high, so the staff department sent someone to guide it.

The barbed wire of Beihai Navy is a hot-dip galvanized blade barbed wire purchased by Zhao Xin from another time and space. When using it, it can be directly stretched and laid.Each group of barbed wire fences is divided into two lines, high piles and low piles. There are two groups in total, and they are laid at 200 meters and 100 meters in front of the trenches respectively. A two-meter-deep trench is also dug in front of the barbed wire.

The high piles are to be driven into two rows of wooden piles on the ground, the exposed height of the ground is 1.2 meters, and the distance between piles and columns is 3 meters, and they are arranged in a staggered manner.Five horizontal thorns are drawn between every two stakes.

The low piles should be laid out in grassland and shallows. The height of the wooden piles is 30-40 cm above the ground, the distance between piles and columns is two meters, and the depth is 4-6 meters.When stretching the barbed wire, first horizontally, then obliquely, and then fix the two nails of the iron wire on the top of the pile; finally, stretch the slipknot barbed wire loosely between the horizontal lines, so as not to leave a gap for the enemy to step in and cross.

Because the periphery of the artillery position is woodland, a deer village made of trees was also set up in front of the barbed wire.The Beihai Navy's method is to cut down the tree in a staggered manner, but the trunk cannot be separated from the stump; then cut off the twigs, and then fix the trunk to the ground with wire.

Of course, tying empty cans to the barbed wire, tripping grenades, and what not.

On August 8, 19 Russian troops arrived north of the Belaya River along the Siberian Post Road.After some reconnaissance, they soon discovered the main position of the Beihai Navy. After Jiuzang discovered this situation, he immediately sent Aoba Battalion and Hagi Battalion forward to prevent the Russian army's vanguard from exploring the Beihai Navy's position layout.

Although the height of the islanders is really not good, the Qingye Battalion, which has already experienced many battles, is not afraid of the Russians.Holding the "Type 90 front-loading rifles", they stood in three rows and fired at a distance of 200 meters from the enemy cavalry.The saturated rate of fire of four rounds per minute turned a cavalry squadron of the Russian army on its back.

In contrast, the performance of Hagi Camp, which had never participated in actual combat, was unsatisfactory. The soldiers were extremely nervous during the second reloading and made frequent mistakes. Many of them opened fire without even pulling out their sticks.

Because the horses of the Russian army were much taller than the southern horses that the islanders usually rode, some soldiers of the Hagi Camp turned their heads and ran away in fright when they saw the Russian army rushing towards them wielding their sabers.If these people were not vassals and not farmers, Oshima Yijun, the leader of the Hagi camp, would have ordered the supervising team to kill people.

After that, the defeated Russian army retreated to camp five kilometers away from the North Navy.

On August 8, a large force of 21 Russian troops finally arrived. They set up their camp near a hill 6 kilometers northwest of the main position of the Beihai Navy, and the position was located at a distance of 15 kilometers away from the Beihai Navy. On a gentle slope; the right side is a large piece of gentle hills and bushes, the left side is the alluvial plain between the Angara River and the Belaya River, and the Siberia Post Road is interspersed in the middle.

On the second day after the Russian army arrived, they sent a large number of militiamen, under the escort of two regiments of hunters, to enter a position two kilometers away from the North Navy, and built forts and high platforms for observing the enemy's situation. Turned into a big construction site.

On the same day, Rumyantsev led his army to Nizhny Uginsk on the Uda River.He only stayed here for a day before heading towards Brattburg on the Oka.After receiving the battle report from the front, the old marshal thought that the position chosen by the Russian army was not bad, but he was puzzled by the setting of the main position of the Beihai Navy, facing the river on three sides.
The Russian army's combat plan is to attack the right wing of the Northern Navy, attract enemy artillery fire, and then use a large number of cavalry and infantry to carry out a powerful assault from the center and left flank, find and destroy the artillery, and at the same time cut off the gap between the Northern Navy and Irkutsk. The connection between them surrounded it on all sides and pressed it to the bank of the Belaya River to annihilate it.

In the early morning of August 8, a group of 24 Russian troops quietly crossed the river from the Uzkilug settlement on the north bank of the Belaya River, and arrived at the village of Sosnovka, five kilometers west of the North Navy artillery camp. There was a fierce exchange of fire with a battalion of the Fifth Beihai Regiment stationed here.

Under the heavy fire of a large number of light infantry (jaegers) and mortars, the Russian army launched three consecutive assaults on the small village, and tried to use two cavalry squadrons to flank the village.

In order to attract the enemy to this battlefield, the artillery in the rear did not fire, but defended with rifles and mortars.The battalion of the fifth regiment endured the bombardment of Russian howitzers and mortars. After fighting for a day, it withdrew from the village of Sosnovka in the dark and returned to the outer defensive position of the artillery position.

　In the past two days, the maps around Irkutsk have been thoroughly turned over, and the history of every village has been checked.Basically, what was not mentioned did not exist at the end of the eighteenth century.

　　
　
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