Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1648 Rising Winds and Clouds ([-])

"It's all yours. Give me as much as you can, and load the rest on a sled." Outside a village on the east bank where the Niuman River (that is, the Bulie River) and Heilongjiang River meet, a man wearing The officer in a cotton coat and his face smeared with grease to prevent freezing rushed over, brandishing a Model 1633 flintlock pistol, and yelled at the men, women and children who were gathering to load and unload supplies outside the village.

There are several ammunition boxes under his feet, and there are also molds for making lead bullets, and there are several heavy powder kegs behind him, which are full of black powder if there is no accident.Obviously, the officer was ordered to deliver some ammunition to the settlers in the village.

Hearing what the military master said, the village head who was transporting grain and beans straightened up immediately, ordered seven or eight young men, and asked them to carry these precious weapons and ammunition into the village for storage in case of emergencies need.In the previous five months, they encountered several Russian attacks, which consumed a lot of ammunition.Everyone was worried that if the reinforcements from the rear couldn't come, they would be in a dilemma of insufficient ammunition. How could they face the vicious Russians?

Fortunately, Tianzun finally did not forget them! On February 1673, 2, Liu Jianguo, the leader of the Heishui Pioneering Team and Heishui Security Commander, personally led an army of 16 people to arrive at this village that has been struggling so far and has not yet fallen. of military funds.In return, the village also provided a considerable amount of stored grain, horse feed, cured meat, dried fish and other food to the army. Although it seemed like a drop in the bucket, it was more or less a supplement.

After seeing a few young and strong young men moving powder kegs, bullets and other military supplies into the village, the village chief was not in the mood for work. He walked slowly to the officer and asked cautiously: "Sir, what's the situation outside now, I think our people have already fought against the Cossack cavalry..."

The young second lieutenant officer looked at the village chief, nodded, and said, "Yes, we have already handed over. We won a big victory, beheaded more than forty ranks, and destroyed an enemy military station, and seized a large number of furs." And alluvial gold, unfortunately, there is too little food, not enough for our army to consume for a week. We are going to recover the counties of Zeya, Udi, Hailanpao, etc., so the food still has to be transported from the rear.”

At the end, the second lieutenant officer patted a heavy sled beside him, meaning that it was all dependent on this means of transportation.And speaking of this, I have to mention that even in the later period of the Republic of China, when Japan colonized Manchuria, due to poor traffic conditions, winter and spring have always been the main transportation seasons, and a large amount of materials were transported to various places by mules, horses and sleds. On the contrary, in the summer and autumn seasons, due to the heavy rain, the ground transportation is always bad to the limit, and it is impossible to carry out effective exchange of materials.

This is the case in Manchuria, and the Outer Northeast is also very similar.In summer and autumn, in areas far away from the main waterways such as Heilongjiang and Songhua River, transporting materials is really hard work and the cost is extremely high, but in winter it is much simpler. The transportation volume of the sled is not small, and it is convenient and fast, which is indeed the most important a means of transportation.

"Sir, I hope you will win the battle. These Russians have brought us a terrible disaster." The village chief took out a bag of shredded tobacco from his pocket, stuffed it into the young officer's hand, and said, "Greeting" them well for me. "

The second lieutenant officer was stunned, didn't say anything, then turned and left.

At this time, in a field about ten kilometers west of Niumanhe, a large group of east bank cavalry had just finished fighting and began to clean up the battlefield.In the past week, they have obviously put away the relatively leisurely attitude they had when marching, because the number of encounters with the enemy has increased significantly, and the battles have become more frequent. Very close.

But I don’t know if it’s because they are naturally slow or what. Their military commander Liu Jianguo is still the old peasant who is a civilian official. Discussing issues of rural construction and economic development with local officials.Moreover, he asked very detailed questions, so detailed that he even had to ask about the breeding of livestock after the beginning of spring, which left all the generals speechless. We are going to fight a war, why is it like an agricultural inspection? ?

Liu Jianguo will now be living in the village, talking with the people in the village all day long about the harvest of rye, the harvest of oats, and the yield of placer gold in the nearby river, etc., until the officers under his command kept reporting the enemy's situation. After coming up, he gave up and made the decision to march westward.

The wind in the field was still chilling. Liu Jianguo rode a heavy sled and quickly arrived at the place where the battle had just ended.Stepping on the creaking snow, listening to the faint groans around him—the sound of the wounded and fallen Russian cavalry—Liu Jianguo sighed heavily, waved his hand and said, “Continue to go north according to the plan. Go forward and recover Huashulinzi Township. In addition, send a team of cavalry to Yongsheng Township to investigate the situation."

The order was quickly carried out, and the troops moved on. On February 2, the army arrived at Huashulinzi Township, which had been breached by the Russian army. Two thousand militiamen on the east bank with knives and guns lined up outside, posing a posture of attacking.

Nesting in the village is an enemy army of about [-] people, of which there are only about [-] Cossacks, and the rest are either Russian serfs serving as infantry or tribal tribesmen recruited in the east bank. In fact, it is more limited.

And the course of the battle really confirmed this point.When the people on the east bank moved out 8 light artillery pieces and finished the adjustment, the Russians in the village were already in a commotion. They rushed out twice, but they were beaten back by the east bank infantry brigade waiting in full force. Then it died down, not knowing what to do.

The next step is the siege battle familiar to the people on the east coast. The artillery concentrated the bombardment to create a gap, and then the infantry followed up and broke in to expand the gap.To be honest, this style of play is really not very clever, but there are many people on the east coast, many guns, and fierce firepower. It is clear that they will pile you up with supplies.

Liu Jianguo watched the whole battle process with relish, perhaps he had never seen such a large-scale war before.However, the old officers under him shook their heads. The combat quality of these militiamen was indeed a bit low, and there was a huge gap with the standing army such as the New Army's Third Infantry Regiment, let alone the more powerful No. The Seventh Mixed Battalion waited for the elite troops.Their troops, which can only rank third-rate in the military system on the east coast, can only fight with those natives. When they encounter a large group of Cossacks, they have no advantage, and they may even be severely injured by the opponent's advantage in maneuvering. Nothing is impossible.

The East Coasters did not let the fighting drag on until nightfall.Under the urging of officers and veterans, these militiamen dispatched from various counties used sharp volleys of guns to squeeze the enemy's space step by step, and then dispatched cannons to bombard them.Such an unreasonable way of fighting naturally made the Russians extremely frightened. They didn't have a single gun, and there were only dozens of muskets, and the others were cold weapons.There may be some ways to think about in the wild, and there is still a chance to turn defeat into victory, but it is really too difficult to nest in such a small village in Huashulinzi Township. No strategy and tactics can be used. Can fight with hard power!

So, after the fight reached the evening, the Cossacks quit first, got on their horses, and rushed out from the other side regardless of the many looted things in the stockade.The more than 300 east bank cavalry who had been waiting for a long time rushed over to intercept. They Cossacks did not stop a few, but many Russian serf soldiers or tribal people who fled behind were stopped.These people had completely lost their confidence. After being charged by the cavalry, they turned around and hid in the stockade in a mess. Just annihilate.

After winning the first battle, Liu Jianguo lived in the township on the spot full of ambition, and then called the officers to discuss the next step.However, when the logistics staff came over in a hurry and told him that Liu's ammunition consumption exceeded the sky, he couldn't laugh anymore!Grandma is a bear, even a small birch forest can use up 20% of the ammunition reserves at once, what's the matter?No wonder the sound of guns and guns was so intense just now, everyone was squandering ammunition desperately!Thinking about those Russians in this way is really aggrieved. These people who still have a lot of cold weapons in the establishment, and these people who have never had enough ammunition, ended up encountering the local tyrants from the east coast, and they were beaten at once. It collapsed, and it was also tragic.

As a last resort, Liu Jianguo ordered the logistics staff to re-check the ammunition in stock, and then asked officers at all levels to strictly restrain the sergeants under their command, save ammunition incomparably during combat, and do not shoot or fire without orders.In this northeastern land, all ordnance and gunpowder have to be transported from the rear for a long distance, and it is really impossible not to save some money.

After conquering Huashulinzi Township, the army on the east bank stayed here for a few days—someone from Yongsheng Township came to report the situation, and Liu Jianguo ordered some firearms to be allocated to them, but did not give them much ammunition—then turned to the west South, heading towards Beigou Township. On March 3, the army arrived in the area of ​​Beigou Township. The Russian army that had plundered the four fields from this station had already withdrawn and disappeared.

On March 3, the army on the east coast, which had avoided a sudden snowstorm, finally appeared in the sight of the soldiers and civilians in Hailanpao Town.At this time, Stepanov's troops of the Russian Army, which had been active nearby, had quietly retreated, as if unwilling to confront the main force on the east bank head-on.

Lu Xiaofeng, the magistrate of Hailanpao County, reported to Liu Jianguo how he stood after being besieged, and what he knew about the chaotic situation in the wild countryside.As I was talking, I almost shed tears, because many Han people who immigrated here in recent years were brutally slaughtered—including both Russian-made crimes and local rebel tribal armed forces-there was almost no order at the grassroots level in the countryside. If it is saved, it will take a lot of energy to rebuild.

Liu Jianguo comforted Lu Xiaofeng after listening to it, and told him that the army had arrived and the Russians had retreated further to the west.The local problems in Hailanpao County are not difficult to solve, because he will leave a small number of people for him to help him rebuild local order and restore agricultural production.

Of course, he also emphasized that heavy codes should be used in troubled times.When the Russian army attacked, many village chiefs and tribal chiefs appointed by the people on the east bank turned against the water and participated in the robbery of some villages on the east bank; Good people were installed in their own village.For these "double-faced people", Liu Jianguo felt that it was necessary to clean up. They should be arrested and killed as soon as they should be arrested. Don't have any scruples.Even, Liu Jianguo hinted cryptically that if these Tungus people were not very "caring", then they might as well get rid of them all. Anyway, they had blood on their hands before, and they could never go back to the past.As for the manpower gap that may arise because of this, there is no way to do it. We will figure out a way later, the worst thing is to immigrate from mainland China.

Mr. Liu did not stay in Hailanpao County too much. On April 1673, 4, more than 9 troops from the east coast arrived at Huma Fort, which was located further upstream from Hailanpao Port, a castle that had been robbed from the Russians.

To be honest, Huma Fort is still relatively strong. The castle is made of stone, and there are several cannons on it as a protective force, and the supplies in the city are relatively sufficient, so they have been able to persist under the semi-blockade of the Russians until now. Strange.When the army from the east bank arrived here, all the Russian cavalry that had been wandering in the field also retreated, but according to reports from the scouts, they did not go far, but entrenched in the territory of Jieya County in the west, and it seemed that they did not plan to retreat any further. .

Liu Jianguo ignored the Russians, but first sent people to check the nearby gold mines. The results were a bit disappointing: most of the miners disappeared, and the machinery and equipment disappeared. Some mining areas were also destroyed. Needless to say, the gold that has not been transshipped here has already entered the pockets of the Russians.In short, there is still a long way to go before production can resume here.

At this time, there were more than 100 battle-ready soldiers in Huma Fort, and there were also some armed civilians, but Liu Jianguo did not plan to conscript them.After instructing these people to guard the fortress well and set about calming down the situation in the surrounding countryside, he took the army that had rested for several days and continued to march westward, going all the way back along the Heilongjiang River, and finally on April 1673, 4. Entered the territory of Jieya County, only tens of kilometers away from the city of Jieya County.

At this time, the Russians were still missing, which made Liu Jianguo very puzzled. Could it be that their commander, Yugovich, had already returned with his plunder?But that's fine too, Lao Tzu's [-]-strong army doesn't have an advantage, that is, there are enough equipment and military resources. It's best if you don't come and mess with me now. Wait another month, and the situation will be different after the Heilongjiang River thaws. It's the same, maybe I have to find a way to go to your territory, provided that the reinforcements from Sakhalin Island can arrive as soon as possible-according to the last news, they are not very far away from here.

(End of this chapter)