Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 545 Fighting the Tula River

Zhao Xin has been away for many days, and he has never been away from the eighteenth century for so long in these years.

After returning to the non-freezing port with Lao You, the two of them went directly to the airport in Vladivostok to charter a private jet without delaying a minute, and returned to China at noon the next day.As soon as the plane landed, he went straight to the famous hospital specializing in brain surgery on the edge of the South Fourth Ring Road.

"Take good care of your illness and don't think about anything else. I found a smart warehouse to store your precious things. The address and phone number are stored in the phone. This is the key."

After a few days of busy work, Zhao Xin finally put Old You into a high-grade ward, and after that, there were a lot of examinations to prepare for the follow-up surgery.Taking advantage of the time when his wife who had just arrived went out to find a doctor to inquire about his condition, Lao You, who was leaning on the hospital bed, held Zhao Xin's hand and said, "I made you worry about it. Sigh, it seems like a lifetime away in a blink of an eye."

Zhao Xin smiled and said comfortingly: "Look at what you said, when your body recovers, you can call if you want to go back and have a look."

Lao You hesitated for a moment, and finally couldn't help but said: "Although I agree with you not letting concubines, but Zhao Xin, don't delay any longer! The ancients said that lovesickness becomes a disease, and every time that girl talks to me , you will be mentioned in three sentences. I have persuaded her many times, but this matter between a man and a woman, it is really a one-word entry into the palace, and it will never be pulled back. What if she is the same as in history. Forget it , Beihai Town is such a big land, where can't it be settled? Please spend more time with her."

Zhao Newsyan nodded. Although he was smiling, he was full of feelings in his heart.After leaving the hospital, he felt a little hungry, so he found a restaurant nearby, ordered a plate of stir-fried kidney, and ate it silently with a bowl of rice
Lao You's sudden departure still caused some waves in Beihai Town.

It was Wang Zhong who first noticed something was wrong. On the night when Zhao Xin took Lao You away, he brought a pot of ginseng chicken soup stewed by his old wife to visit, but found that the door was closed, and no one answered no matter how hard he knocked on the door.Then came Wang Zhenyi who came over the next morning. When she found that she couldn't open the door, she thought that something happened to her teacher, so she went to the hospital.But I asked in the inpatient department, but found that the teacher was not hospitalized at all.Then she went to the school again and asked Wang Zhong, the vice principal, and found out that even Wang Zhong didn't know where Lao You had gone.

Reminiscent of Zhao Xin's sudden appearance at Lao You's house yesterday, Wang Zhenyi speculated that this matter must have something to do with the former, so she went to ask A Miao in private.

"Ah~~ this matter, I know this matter."

A Miao, holding King Duofu in her arms, blinked Bling Bling's big eyes, and there was a cunning flash in his eyes.At first she was quite happy to hear that Zhao Xin was back, but when Wang Zhenyi told about Lao You, A Miao immediately understood what was going on.

"Oh? Please tell the girl frankly, where did Wang Zhao take the teacher?"

A Miao put Duofu on the table, then got up and went to the door of the boudoir to look out, then closed the door, returned to the table and sat down with Duofu in her arms again.Wang Zhenyi was a little confused by her mysterious behavior, and was about to ask, when she heard A Miao say: "Miss Wang is not an outsider, if I tell you about it, you must keep it a secret!"

Hearing that the other party said that she was "not an outsider", Wang Zhenyi thought of something, her face turned red, and then said a little embarrassedly: "I promise you."

A Miao stretched out a white finger, pointed to the sky, leaned over and said softly: "Mr. You is not in good health, the master probably took him back to his hometown for treatment."

"My hometown?" Wang Zhenyi was a little dazed, and then she remembered that Lao You had mentioned that people like herself were survivors from overseas.

Meow~~~ King Duofu bowed his head into A Miao's arms, expressing that he fully agrees with the standard answer that the other party said, so good.

"Miss, you don't know. The master once told me that the place where they came from has better medical skills than our Beihai town. I'm afraid Mr. You's illness is very serious, so he must be taken back for treatment. Don't worry, Miss Wang. Well, as long as Mr. You goes back, he will recover soon."

Wang Zhenyi showed an expression of enlightenment, and then sighed: "So that's the case. But why did you leave in such a hurry, why didn't you even say a word?"

A Miao shrugged like Zhao Xin, saying that she didn't know what Lao You was thinking.

The two girls chatted for a while, and after Wang Zhenyi said goodbye and left, A Miao went back to the main room in the backyard to tease Zhao Xin's son with her hands behind her back.When walking around, I saw her two big black braids which were newly combed, dangling non-stop.

It is said that after Cullen received the "Ten Agreements" brought back by two negotiators, they did not reply for three days in a row whether they agreed or disagreed. They would send people to Kuytai Station every day to let the cavalry regiment help convey it. , I hope the North Navy will give it some more time.

Shanzhuo Teba and Khenpo Nuomen Khan knew very well that it would be fine to send some food and grass privately to avoid disasters, even if Bogda Khan knew it, it would be pity for him; but if he agreed to the ten agreements, then It means that the Lama flag represented by Jebtsundamba surrendered to the Northern Navy.

Who would dare to make such a decision without the Dharma decree of the Great Living Buddha? !Besides, the Great Living Buddha was accompanying Bogda Khan in Rehe, and his words and deeds were being watched by people, so it was impossible to do so.

The most important thing is that the officials of the Qing Dynasty have not all withdrawn from Kulun, as Dornier Lama Dhamcharabuja said.Yunduandorji, the Mongolian minister who worked in Kulun, took more than [-] guards and hid in an "Aimak" in the monastery Kulun. Various Mongolian cavalry exchanged news.

And the Northern Navy didn't bother to spend time with a group of lamas. On July 7th, Liu Sheng ordered the cavalry regiment and two infantry regiments that had already arrived in Kuytai to continue to advance south. Arrived ten miles southwest of Kulun City, on the north bank of the Tula River.

During the march of this team, the Mongolian sentry in charge of reconnaissance heard a rumbling sound from a long distance, as if it was thundering.However, because the cavalry of the Northern Navy spread the cordon for three to five miles, wishing that not even a fly could fly in, the Mongol spies felt a little uneasy, but they didn't know what it was.

After the troops arrived on the north bank of the Tula River, they still set up camps and built fortifications.Thousands of people worked together, and in just half a day, three ring-shaped fortifications in the shape of finished characters and horns were basically completed.In the evening, the white smoke of lighting a fire to repel mosquitoes diffused everywhere in the fortification.

By the early morning of the next day, the chest-high blast-proof wall had surrounded the inner side of the ditch outside the fortifications. In the grass 300 meters away from the ditch, there were low-pile barbed wire fences with a depth of four meters, each group 30 Meters long, there is a gap between each group that can accommodate two horses; the sharp black butterfly-shaped blades are hidden in the knee-deep weeds, and anyone who comes will be hit and bloody.

By the next morning, the Northern Navy began building pontoons on the Tula River.After the Khalkha Mongols ambushing in Zhaomodo learned of this situation, they finally couldn't sit still; once the Northern Navy was allowed to cross the river, the nearly [-] troops ambushing in the dense forest on the hillside would be exposed.

The first to attack was the troops of the Chechen Khan.They attacked in units of 500 people, one was to test firepower, and the other was to wait for an opportunity to destroy the pontoon bridge being built.However, when these people faced the barrage of bullets fired from the northern naval position on the other side of the river, everything was in vain. The Mongolian cavalry quickly retreated after killing and wounding more than 300 people.After that, the Mongols sent hundreds of small groups of cavalry to harass them, but they were all killed and injured by the machine guns of the Northern Navy.

At night, more than 3000 Tushetu Khan’s cavalry stepped out of Kent Ridge, quietly crossed the Tula River from a narrow place in the river more than 20 miles west of the Northern Navy’s position, and tried to launch a sneak attack on the rear of the Northern Navy’s camp on the north bank. .

They had already discussed with Yunduan Dorji in Kulun City during the day, and they would raise fire as a signal; the cavalry of the Tushetu Khan tribe would attack from the northwest, and Yunduan Dorji would lead his guards and fight these days More than 2000 Mongolian men recruited from the city of Kulun attacked from the northeast.

In the early hours of the morning, the Mongolian cavalry who arrived at the location where the attack was launched, led by the leaders of the banners, led their horses to five miles away from the North Navy camp.At this time, the camp of the Northern Navy was still quiet. Both the troops of Tushetu Khan and Yunduan Dorji in Kulun City thought that the trick had succeeded, so the Mongolian cavalry from two directions began to attack.

All of a sudden, thunder rolled across the grassland in the dark night, the earth began to tremble and roar, tens of thousands of horseshoes galloped, and the sound was earth-shattering.

When the Mongolian cavalry in front rushed to a position 300 meters away from the parapet of the Northern Navy, a large area fell down in unison. People shouted and horses screamed in the grass, and human blood and horse blood were mixed together. Turn this barbed wire area with a depth of only four meters into a flesh mill.The Mongols attacking from behind couldn't see what was happening ahead at all, they just instinctively urged the horses to move forward, and then these people were tripped again by the people and horses who had fallen into the barbed wire before.

At this time, dozens of lights brighter than the sun suddenly lit up on the position of the Northern Navy, clearly showing the positions of the Mongolian cavalry.However, before those cavalrymen panicked, in an instant, gunshots erupted from the North Navy's position, and the dense rain of bullets knocked down the Mongolian cavalrymen outside the low-piled barbed wire one after another.

A co-leader shouted: "We've been tricked! Get out!"

As soon as the words fell, a cloud of smoke and dust with flames exploded behind him. Immediately afterwards, clusters of flames rose up on the grassland, and those Mongolian cavalrymen who were trying to retreat bumped into them, and then turned into Flour.

At the same time, on the position of the Twelfth Beihai Marine Regiment, the flames constantly spewed out the Mongols who attacked from the direction of Kulun.The tracer bullets fired by the machine guns were like red lines drawn on a huge canvas, chasing the Mongolian cavalry armed with broadswords, spears and muskets.

"Warriors of Khalkha Mongols! Go! Kill them all!"

Yunduan Dorji, who was in his 40s, blushed because of his loud shouts. He was wearing armor, waving a long knife in his hand, and galloped forward.However, when the guards standing in front of him were knocked off their horses one after another, Yunduan Dorji suddenly felt a sudden numbness in his thigh, and then a burst of burning pain, which felt like a thousand knives piercing his heart.He tried all his strength to keep the long knife from slipping from his hand, and when he was about to shout again, a bullet flew from nowhere and hit his face.

Yun Duanduoerji, Minister of Manchu Qing Affairs in Kulun Mongolia, fell off his horse and died on the spot.

After more than 20 minutes of the battle, the Mongolian cavalry from the Tushetu Khan and Kulun City suffered heavy losses, and the living people ran around on the grassland like headless flies.On the third regiment's position, whether it was a dozen 75mm field artillery or mortars, they stopped firing, and the machine guns and rifles in the hands of the soldiers also stopped amidst a long whistle.

Suddenly, a loud bugle sounded from inside the circular fortification, causing the Mongolian cavalrymen who had run two miles away to look back.

In the twilight of the morning light, more than 1000 Northern Navy cavalrymen with sabers lined up in a double column, filed out from the exit of the position, and then followed the passage between the low-piled barbed wire fences, and jumped over the fallen soldiers on the grass. The horse and corpse on board, and then began to accelerate.

Those Mongolian rout soldiers who looked back suddenly lost their souls. They desperately urged the horses under their crotches, and fled desperately to the position where they crossed the river at night.But after a while, the Northern Navy cavalry galloping on horseback chased after him.

"Commander Zhou, I order you to fire a cannon into Kulun City!" Monk Zhou bared his teeth in Liu Sheng's loud voice through the walkie-talkie.

"Yes!" Monk Zhou responded loudly, and then added: "Commander, did you just fire one shot? Can't you make more releases?"

"Fart, I'll let you fire a cannon, why so much nonsense!"

"Yes! Just fire one shot and make sure to complete the task!"

boom!A 75mm artillery shell fell on the streets of Kulun City. The impact of the explosion brought the mud on the ground into the air, and a white wooden fence wall just a few steps away from the explosion point was immediately torn apart by the shock wave.Then black mud and white wood chips crackled and fell into the temple tens of meters away.

"It's not good! The Han people are coming in!"

"Everyone, run for your life!"

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With just one shell, the [-] Aymarks in the monastery Kulun were already in a mess, and thousands of young monks, priests and slaves were all panicked.

Amidst the chaos and noise, the elderly Lobsangdar Gyalma slowly walked out of the Buddhist hall with the support of his attendants. He twisted the rosary in his hand and sternly yelled like a bell: "What are you panicking! Everyone go to the Buddhist hall Chanting scriptures! Kulun City is protected by all the Buddhas, and all evil will not invade!"

After the people in the open space calmed down under the scolding of Lama Gesigui and other Khenpo Lamas, and entered the Buddhist hall to chant scriptures, Khenpo Nomon Khan Lob Sundarkya ordered Zhang Qibuerduoji, who had previously negotiated with the Northern Navy, to After finding it, he said in a deep voice, "Go look for those Bei Haijun outside the city, and ask them not to send troops into the city, and don't fire any more guns. Tell them that everything can be sat down and discussed, just say I ask them to send people into the city talk."

Zhang Qiburduoji hesitated for a moment, bowed his hands together and said, "Grand Lama, what if they don't agree?"

Lobu Sandarja thought for a while and said, "If you can't do it, then you can take some of you to Qingning Temple, others to Dalhat, and I will stay alone."

(End of this chapter)