Soldiers are impermanent, and water is impermanent.

The war on Sakhalin really went unexpected!

Aobai landed on the island from the north of Sakhalin, and a total of 1,000 Sauron cavalry, 150 Han artillery soldiers with the blue banner, 200 regular soldiers with yellow flags outside the pass, 150 clothed minions with yellow flags outside the pass, and 50 soldiers from the city of Nuer Gancheng, a total of 1,550 people. Among them, 50 "Ulin soldiers" were soldiers who were responsible for exchanging cotton clothing, salt, ironware, and the eight tribes of Sakhalin for furs, all of whom were Hezhe. The patrol team that bumped into Ezo Matsumae's house last time was these people, and Aobai selected 50 people from them to act as guides.

The 1,550 men, plus more than 3,500 horses, three three-pounder guns, and some vehicles, got on a bird boat driven by Koreans who spoke Shandong and Huizhou dialects and crossed the island.

After arriving on the island, Ao Bai immediately dispersed 40 of the 50 Wulin soldiers, and one tribe went to 5, responsible for informing the Ainu, Feiyaka and Hezhe tribes on the island to prepare for the Qing Heavenly Soldiers. He also ordered the eight chiefs of the island's surnames to bring 200 strong men each to receive the reward.

Don't look at the territory of Sakhalin Island, which is not small, but the population of the island is very small, and the eight major tribes (eight surnames) plus one piece can only be pulled out by two or three thousand strong men. But all the strong guys are really strong! is to take out the first warrior of Manchuria to compare with them, and it is also between the two and the middle.

It is difficult for the natives who survive by fishing and hunting in such a harsh environment as Sakhalin to be strong!

However, although they were strong enough, they were too backward in productivity, so they did not have any good weapons to use, and even the arrowheads were made of animal bones. Hunting is okay, but fighting is not good.

Ao Bai had known about this situation for a long time, so he had already prepared a batch of eight-force bows, arrow clusters loaded with iron arrows, round shields, waist knives and spears, all of which were "rewarded" to the eight strong men, and they were also generously given a precious opportunity to follow the Qing Heavenly Soldiers to make meritorious contributions. And he patted his chest and promised that only by bravely killing the enemy and cutting off the head of the Japanese invader could he be carried into the Nine Banners outside the Guanwai and become a glorious good slave of the Qing Dynasty!

With the prospect of becoming a minion, the strong men on Sakhalin Island naturally worked hard, and a total of 7 tribes sent out more than 1,600 people (one tribe of the Anui people located in the southernmost part of the island did not respond, and the remaining 7 tribes pulled out a total of more than 1,600 people).

However, Aobai, who had received more than 1,600 cannon fodder, did not dare to despise the Japanese, and still marched cautiously.

The topography of this Sakhalin Island is high in the south and low in the north, with flat land in the north and mountainous land in the south. There are unbelievably many rivers and lakes. In addition, there are many forests on the island, all of which are primeval forests, and it is easy to get lost without locals leading the way.

Fortunately, there were more than 1,600 strong men from Sakhalin Island to help drive the boats, which allowed Aobai's army to advance southward smoothly.

However, Aobai was still very careful, and every hundred miles forward, Aobai would choose a place where he was in danger of building a wooden fort, and then leave a small number of strong men from Sakhalin Island to garrison, so he slowly moved forward. After about 400 miles, just north of central Sakhalin, there was no way to move forward.

Because the natives of Sakhalin who were scattered in front of the team to explore the way came to report that they had encountered a Japanese brigade! It's impossible to tell how many people there are, anyway, they are all over the mountains and fields.

It turned out that Ao Bai was cautious here, but his opponent, Japan's No. 1 military master Kusunoki Masayuki, came to make a long drive.

Kusunoki had 5,000 "ronin troops", plus 1,000 ashigaru soldiers from the Matsumae, Nanbu, Sendai, and Aizu domains to carry grain, forming a total of 6,000 "large army".

The 6,000 men, together with food rations that would feed them for three months, were transported to Sakhalin in three batches, and they landed not at the southernmost tip of the island, but on the western coast of the Great Gulf in the south of Sakhalin. After the landing, he began to build a castle on the south bank of an unknown river near the landing site, and named the castle Akasaka Castle after Akasaka Village, the birthplace of Kusunoki Masanari, as if he was ready to be a lord on Sakhalin Island, and he really didn't think of himself as an outsider!

Just when Kusunoki Masayuki was busy building the city, his disciple and military director Maruhashi Tadaya took dozens of horseback warriors to search along the big river, and after walking for two days, he actually crashed into a large tribe of the Anui people.

After the torture, Kusunoki Masaseuki and Maruhashi Tadaya knew that the Great Qing Kingdom had sent 1,500 people to the island this time, of which 1,000 were cavalry, and they also brought 3 small cannons.

Kusunoki and Maruhashi are both masters of war, of course they know that 5,000 soldiers are more than 1,500 soldiers, and there are more than three to fight one!

Moreover, the 5,000 people brought by Kusunoki are all samurai with strong martial arts, and they are selected from the ronins from all over Japan, all of whom are strong in martial arts!

It can't be all samurai on the Kiyoko side, right? At most, the 1,000 horsemen were samurai, and the rest were miscellaneous soldiers.

So this battle is a sure win!

The master of war Kusunoki Masasuki immediately decided to leave 1,000 ashigaru from the Matsumae, Nanbo, Sendai, and Aizu domains (there were also a small number of samurai who managed ashigaru) to continue to build Akasaka Castle, while he and Maruhashi led all 5,000 samurai, each carrying 20 days' marching rations, and marched north day and night to fight.

It's to catch Qing Kou off guard!

On the first day of the seventh month of the eighth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, Nanmu Zhengxue's department finally encountered Qing Kou at an unknown river.

As a result, the Qing army was vulnerable and collapsed at the first touch!

After the victory, where was Nanmu willing to let go of the defeated Qing soldiers? He immediately led the whole army in pursuit, and then won successive victories on the third day of July, the fourth day of July, and the fifth day of July, but because Qing Kou was a cavalryman, he did not achieve many beheadings.

Eager to establish his feats, Nanmu ordered a night-long pursuit, and after a day and a night, he finally caught up with the main force of the Qing Kou on the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh month, including more than 300 armored cavalry (yellow banner cavalry and clothed minions brought by Aobai), 1,000 musketeers (Sauron cavalry), more than 1,600 archers and pikemen, 150 artillery pieces, and three 3-pounder Hongyi cannons.

These troops formed a formation of musketeers, archers, and pikemen covering three cannons, and cavalry pressing on both flanks. In front of the more than 4,500 Japanese samurai (more than 400 were left behind) who were constantly exhausted by the march and pursuit.

At this time, the two war masters Kusunoki and Maruhashi, who had just started the battle formation (more than 4,500 samurai listed 5 phalanxes, and dozens of samurai on horseback followed Kusunok), suddenly found that their art of war was not enough!

This hybrid formation of guns and archers looks very powerful! How do you break it? Kusunoki Masanari didn't say anything about the art of war! Takeda Shingen's "Koshu Ryu Art of War" is also not on it!

Even the "Art of War", "Sun Bin's Art of War", and "Li Weigong Ask Right" from China did not say it......

Even during the Warring States period in Japan, it seems that there were very few cavalry, muskets, and artillery in a battle of thousands of people, right?

Just when Nanmu and Maruqiao were at a loss, the Qing army cannon on the opposite side had already fired!

Although there were only 3 Hongyi cannons, the gunners were trained by "English experts", and they hit accurately and quickly, and the cast-iron shells were 3 in waves, and wave after wave fell among the Japanese samurai in one of the phalanxes. There was no empty shot at all, the cannonball smashed into the pile, and then bounced up and swept in all directions, knocking down the samurai in a row!

Of course, the casualties caused by the 3 Hongyi cannons are limited after all, but nearly 900 Japanese samurai are not willing to stand stunned and be killed like this!

People came to Huatai Island to make meritorious contributions, but not to be killed.

So after a few rounds of artillery killing, this group of samurai couldn't help it, the captain who led the team gave the order to attack, and the samurai who got the order screamed forward one after another, some wielding wild swords, some holding spears, and some people holding iron cannons, and began to pounce on the artillery positions of the Qing army.

What awaits them is a round shot of 1,000 six-barrels produced by the state of Žesbania......