Jiang Chong rode a horse and stood on a hill in Kaerta, Heilongjiang Province, and used a telescope to observe the Baiyi camp in the distance. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Bai Yi cut down trees and built a camp in Heishui, on the banks of the Heilongjiang River. The camp was not large, only 150 meters long and wide, and was surrounded by a strong wall. There is an exit on the north side of the camp, and there is a horse outside the exit, which seems to be very well guarded.

Bai Yi in the camp was eating in the small square in the middle of the camp, and Jiang Chong saw that those people were all tall and big, some with yellow hair and some with black hair. They seem to have snatched a deer from a nearby village, and are eating the venison with their hands, acting very roughly.

Even when eating, these Baiyi carried arquebuses on their backs.

There were a lot of horses in the camp, and those horses were taller than the Mongol horses.

Jiang Chong knew that this was the "Tsarist Russia" that Grandpa Guo said. These men gathered in the camp to eat venison were the Cossacks that Grandpa Guo said.

Half a month ago, Grandpa Guo ordered Jiang Chong, who was stationed in Alchuka, Heilongjiang Province, to go north to Kaerta to repel the invading Tsarist Russia. Jiang Chong led 500 men to ride north, and it took 16 days to reach Kaerta.

In fact, this is not the first time that Tsarist Russia has reached the Heilongjiang Valley. As early as July 1643, Tsarist Russia sent an officer named Boyakov to lead 112 military personnel, 15 vagrants, 2 tax collectors, 2 translators, and 1 blacksmith, a total of 132 people, from Yakutsk to the Heilongjiang region of China.

The expedition was unsuccessful, and the White Russians encountered fierce resistance from local fishing and hunting tribes in the Heilongjiang River valley, and eventually withdrew to Siberia because they were outnumbered.

However, Tsarist Russia's coveting of the Heilongjiang River valley has never stopped. Now, after four years, Tsarist Russia has once again sent men and horses into the Heilongjiang River Valley. This time, Tsarist Russia sent more courageous and warlike Cossacks, numbering more than 400 people.

Jiang Chong looked at the troops under his command.

This time Jiang Chong brought five hundred men and a thousand horses. In addition to the five hundred horses for riding, another five hundred horses were loaded with dry rations and bazookas. Rather than heavy artillery, bazookas are more suitable for the rapid agitation of small troops. Jiang Chong now has more than 600 bazookas at hand, and Jiang Chong believes that this Baiyi camp can't stop him.

Jiang Chong was observing the Cossacks when he suddenly saw a gunshot in the grass in front of him.

Bai Yi's police post hiding in the grass spotted Jiang Chong's men and horses, and fired a warning shot.

Hearing the gunshots, the Cossacks in the camp suddenly became nervous. They immediately stopped their food, rushed into the tent and rolled out three small cannons, erected the cannons on the gap in the wall, and then each held an arquebus to guard the wall of the camp.

These Cossacks were considered well-equipped, and I am afraid that even if they encountered the same number of Qing troops, they could win the battle. Tsarist Russia's soldiers and horses fought all the way east from Europe to Heilongjiang and conquered the whole of Siberia, relying on these soldiers who were good at using firearms.

If Heilongjiang Province was still the territory of the Manchus, Chiang Chong believed that the Manchus would only be able to compromise with these warlike Russian soldiers. The historical Treaty of Nebuchu handed over all the territory north of the Trans-Khingan Mountains to Tsarist Russia.

But now the master of Heilongjiang is no longer the Manchu Dynasty, but Li Zhi.

The Russian police guards fled back to the camp.

For these murderous European colonists, Li Zhi is not prepared to say anything to them. Jiang Chong received an order to kill all the invaders. He led five hundred Tiger soldiers with bazookas and pressed towards the Cossack camp.

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On March 13, on the wall of Jiaxian County, Wang Pu, the chief soldier of Datong, looked at the intrusive army that pressed over like a tide and fell into despair.

The 15,000 soldiers of Datong Town have to face hundreds of thousands of intruding troops. This battle can't be fought.

The officers and troops who had invaded the belly of Henan faced serious logistical problems. Because of the muddy roads caused by the heavy rains, the officers and troops on the front line could hardly get any supplies. And because of the clear walls of the army, there was no food or grass in the cities that were attacked. If the officers and troops continue to stay in Jiaxian, I am afraid that they will be dispersed because of hunger.

Three days ago, Sun Chuanting had to lead the army to retreat to the west, to the west of Henan, to eat food nearby.

However, Sun Chuanting was reluctant to give up the city he had worked so hard to capture, and let Wang Pu lead 15,000 regular soldiers to guard Jiaxian County to prevent Li Zicheng from making a comeback.

Sun Chuanting made a fatal mistake.

Guarding the belly of Henan with 15,000 men is an impossible task. The city wall of Jiaxian County is not a thick soil high wall like Kaifeng, the city wall of Jiaxian County is only one zhang and five feet, and the outside of the city wall is not wrapped in bluestone, but the blue bricks that have fallen into disrepair. Such a wall is very fragile, and it cannot resist the attack of the invading army at all.

Although the invading army was defeated by the official army a few days ago, the main force of the invading army suffered little loss. Those hungry soldiers had no other way out than to follow Li Zicheng, and soon ran to Li Zicheng's command again. Li Zicheng pulled out more than 200,000 troops in the blink of an eye, and these soldiers and horses were almost no different in other aspects except that their momentum was not as good as a few days ago.

Wang Pu's lieutenant general, Zhao Shixi, looked at the mighty army, and his face turned pale.

"Dashuai, how many days are we going to keep it?"

Wang Pu looked at the deputy general and did not speak. Even Wang Pu, who has always been bohemian, also felt the seriousness of the situation at this time. Defending in this small city is obviously a dead end.

Zhao Shixi said: "The thieves surrounded the three and lacked one, and there were no men and horses in the west, which seemed to be trying to shake our military morale. ”

Wang Pu did not speak.

Zhao Shixi said again: "Dashuai, the city walls of this county town are short, if the invading army has no artillery, we can probably hold it for ten days." Ten days later, perhaps Sun Du's army will be able to fight back. But if the invading army has artillery, we will not be able to hold it for a day. ”

Wang Pu looked at Zhao Shixi and took a breath.

Now that the 15,000 regular soldiers in Datong Town are like turtles in an urn, Wang Pu can only hope that the army will attack the city without artillery to help them.

However, soon, Wang Pu was completely desperate. In the camp of the breaking army, Wang Pu saw hundreds of cannons.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

A huge roar sounded in the camp of the invading army, and in the cheers of the invading army, heavy shells smashed on the city wall of Jiaxian. The fragile bricks were blown to pieces in an instant, revealing the rammed earth beneath the bricks.

The soldiers and horses of Datong Town collapsed almost the moment they heard the cannonball.

Breaking into the army to attack the city with artillery and defending the city wall is definitely a dead end. Kaifeng City can't be defended, how can this one-foot-and-five-foot-high Jiaxian city wall be defended? The soldiers of Datong Town were unwilling to wait for death on the city wall, so they rushed to the west city wall without breaking into the army one by one in a panic, jumped down without hesitation, and fled to the west.

Wang Pu no longer talked nonsense with the lieutenant general, he rushed down the city wall, stepped on his war horse, and almost frantically rode out of the west gate and fled for his life to the west.