Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1235 Trap

"Fire!" Second Lieutenant Liao Degong lit a burning torch close to the fire door, then roared and gave the order.

Several hollow iron balls landed on the broad Amur River, splashing a column of water soaring into the sky. The Russians gathered on some small boats and rafts suddenly screamed and rowed towards the south bank of the Amur River.Although the artillery of the people on the east bank is still far away, and what they fired was not an explosive bomb, these morons were afraid of being unlucky and the ship would be overturned, so they all evaded to the south bank - it's impossible not to go, don't you see To the group of musketeers and spearmen who just got out of the grass next to the artillery position?

The first Russian raft soon reached the south bank of the Amur River, followed by the second, the third...

The panicked Russian soldiers (in fact, many of them were serfs) dragged their luggage and weapons ashore, and then gathered in one place to help other ships that had not yet landed to land as soon as possible.On the other hand, several officers who looked like Cossacks stood solemnly on the hill on the other side of the river, carefully observing the infantry and artillery on the east bank on the other side—there seemed to be hundreds of them, but there were actually four small soldiers. Cannon, it's too extravagant!Where did they get so much ammunition and supplies?If we also have such armaments, it must be the happiest thing in the world.

The time went back to half an hour ago.On the south bank of the Amur River, the morning sun had just risen into the sky. Kurhan led a mixed team of infantry and cavalry, and slowly marched northwestward with the morning sun on their backs. After crossing two small ditches, they stopped, and then Quietly looking at the Russians not far away—these people were paddling in a panic and fleeing to the south bank.

After seeing that the time was almost up, Kurhan turned his head to look at the recruited ronin warrior Yamashita Yuma behind him, and said, "Yamashita-san, after my cavalry attack, you should follow up as soon as possible, so there must be no mistakes!"

"Hay!" Yamashita Yuma bowed respectfully, then held the knife tightly in his hand, his face was tense, his expression was tense, and he looked desperate.And behind him are hundreds of Japanese wanderers in various clothes. Some of these people are carrying samurai swords, machine-made knives issued by the East Bank, and some even hold waist knives captured from the Qing army. Their faces are pale and their lips are pursed. ——The pigs will fight hand-to-hand soon. Although the enemy is expected to be extremely chaotic by the cavalry from the kingdom on the east coast, I have always heard that the Cossacks are fierce and difficult to control. Even the serfs of Ross are extremely sturdy, and everyone will inevitably suffer casualties. Therefore, everyone has the expression of dead parents.

The cavalry had already lined up on the high ground, and the armored weapons reflected a terrifying light under the sunlight, which seemed so mysterious and terrifying in the deserted wilderness.

Following Kurhan's order, more than a hundred elite Shandan cavalry began to speed up slowly, heading straight for the Russians who were in a state of disembarkation chaos.Behind them, the leader of the ronin, Yamashita Yuma, also waved his hand violently, and hundreds of ronin rushed down in a swarm, without much momentum, just a brave spirit of seeking revenge after the death of their parents.

The short distance couldn't stop the cavalry on the east coast, and the Russians quickly discovered this unexpected enemy. Some soldiers who landed, under the organization of the Cossack officers, raised their matchlock guns and hurriedly loaded their guns. Medicine, reloading.

"Kill!" The cavalrymen on the east bank who rushed up shouted at each other's comrades-in-arms. For a while, the horses neighed, the hooves sounded rapidly, and the gunshots roared, and the grassland that had been sleeping for a long time became noisy.

The Russians encountered the enemy suddenly, and there was no time to react at all. The soldiers and officers were fighting instinctively.They didn't have time to form a complete formation, and the number of them was sparse. One by one, they were invisible in the grass and shot aimlessly. The effect can be imagined.

With a "squeak", Kurhan's saber easily cut a Cossack officer's body, and then he rode his horse over a serf soldier who couldn't escape, and rushed into the Russian formation. middle.Behind him, a large group of cavalry came one after another, completely throwing the Russians who had just landed into chaos.

The suspenseless battle ended soon. The more than 200 Russian soldiers who landed were in chaos after landing. They were attacked by hundreds of elite cavalry before they could remove all their weapons and luggage. In the chaos, he was picked up by hundreds of ronin who came suddenly after him.The entire battle lasted no more than half an hour, which was blindingly fast. The Russians killed 135 people and captured 71 people. None of them could escape the battlefield. It was the worst defeat since the Russians entered the Amur River Basin. Let's fight.

Second Lieutenant Liao Degong quickly came to the battlefield on the south bank by boat from the north bank.Looking at the Russian prisoners of war and corpses all over the ground, he smiled happily.Today's battle—maybe it would be better called a massacre? ——Actually, it was just a trap, and it was the Russians who had repeatedly gone to the grass valley near Hailanpao in the past year or two.

These Russians belonged to the Albazin Castle, but there was also a garrison village on the south bank of the lower reaches, named Alexei Fort (located near Huma County in the Greater Khingan Mountains of later generations).Taking advantage of the extremely weak status of the Qing government in the Amur River Basin, they brazenly invaded this place and carried out colonial rule. Moreover, these people were not greedy enough, and they repeatedly sent people to the native villages downstream protected by the east bank to collect taxes and even grab food.Whether it is tolerable or unbearable, the Russians are so arrogant, it is no wonder that the people on the east coast want to mobilize their troops to slap them in the face once.

This time they gathered about 200 people, taking advantage of the opportunity when the wheat and rye in the field were ripe, set off from Fort Alexei by boat, and went to the relatively affluent Hailanpao and the nearby native villages to rob. It can be seen from the presence of a large number of sickles in the luggage that they must have planned to come to grab the crops planted by the Daur people.The results of the interrogation were similar. These people belonged to the Khabarov gang, and they bought a large number of sickles on credit from the Yakutsk treasury. placer gold).

These people are arrogant and lawless. Although Hailanpao's east coast people have warned more than once, these greedy Russians still do not intend to let go of the natives who are protected by the east coast people, so the conflict broke out inadvertently: Lieutenant Liao Degong He applied to Lieutenant Colonel Jiang Zhiqing, the commander of the Amur River theater, to deploy hundreds of soldiers and four artillery pieces, and then set up a trap in this area tens of kilometers west of Hailanpao, where a large number of Daurs live, waiting for Russia to requisition food The team came to the door.

No, this group of greedy mobs really didn't let go of this aboriginal settlement, they plunged into the trap set by the people on the east coast, and wiped out the entire army in a daze.I believe that after this hard blow, the heads of the Russians should be cleared up, right?

"Captain Ku, Hai Lanpao, I'm going to ask you a lot. The interrogation just now revealed that Khabarov has taken people to Yakutsk to urge supplies, and the food requisition team has also been destroyed here. This Russian guy The fortress should already be empty, and I will take my troops westward, and it shouldn’t be a problem to capture the fort.” It was Jiang Zhiqing’s decision to take the opportunity to capture Alexei Fort to deter the Russians. The native tribes sheltered on the east bank, then don’t need to give them face this time, just knock down their strongholds, destroy their food requisition team, and then see what they say, it’s up to you whether it’s a battle or not, don’t believe it You can't beat you in this Amur River valley!

According to the plan in advance, Kurhan will stay at Hailanpao with his cavalry and some infantry to protect the nearby residents from harvesting rye and barley in the field, and at the same time prepare hay for the livestock to spend the winter.Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieutenant and 400 people with artillery and brave horses under the mountain took a small steamer hidden in a bend of the Jingqili River (for fear of scaring the Russians) upstream and went straight to Fort Alexei , intending to keep it for himself.

On August 8, the small steamer went up to Fort Alexei. The twenty or so Russian soldiers who stayed behind did not know that the food requisition team had been wiped out downstream, but they saw the small steamer on the east bank puffing out black smoke. When slowly approaching the shore, these people still felt that something was wrong.Especially when they saw Yamashita Yuma rushing ashore with a large group of Japanese wanderers wading ashore, these people were immediately frightened. After hastily lighting a few fires in the stockade, they brought fresh water and rode away immediately. I left, looking at the direction, I should report to the Albazin Fortress.

It was just a trap, and the main force of the Russian army in Fort Alexei was easily wiped out, and a fortress with a very important geographical location was obtained for nothing. Is there such a cheap thing in the world?Liao Degong privately felt that if this matter was reported to Commander Chang Kaisheng Chang, maybe one day he would be able to tear off the rank of second lieutenant on his shoulders and change his name to Your Excellency Lieutenant.

However, Lieutenant Liao's good mood is obviously not over yet. According to the soldiers who interrogated a Russian who had not escaped in time, Khabarov collected a large amount of gold dust from the natives in the past two years, which means that Alec Xiebao—well, it has been renamed Humabao—there should be a large gold deposit nearby, which surprised Liao Degong. Gold, everyone loves it, and my contribution this time seems to be true. Not too small!

Yamashita Yuma quickly came over with a bag of placer gold searched from the Russian warehouse. Liao Degong took a closer look and felt that the purity of the gold was not bad. If it was sent to Heishui Port for further refining, it would be fine. It was able to be full-scale coinage material.At present, the demand for gold in the east coast is very large. The Dabo Mint will mint gold (about 150 kilograms) collected from Temple Street, Ezodi and Shandan trade every year into fifty or one hundred coins. It is believed that after the news of the discovery of many gold mines near Humabao is sent back to Yantai, it will definitely usher in a spring of development here.

(End of this chapter)