Chapter 334: The Soldier Refers to Lake Baikal
The smoke of the grenade explosion had not yet dissipated, and groups of Ming troops poured into the gap with bayonets, shouting the slogan of "Wan Sheng", and colliding fiercely with the Russian army chanting "Ula".
The Russian army's melee combat ability is quite strong, although it was blown up by grenades, but more than a dozen Russian musketeers rushed towards the Ming army, which was much larger than themselves, chanting "Ula", brandishing a long-handled axe, and slashing over the five Ming soldiers who rushed in front at once. The Cossacks in the back also rushed out, and in the defense of the city, their horses could not play a role, so the Cossacks waved their sabers on foot and launched a counterattack against the Ming army.
The indigenous soldiers and slaves in the castle were also desperately resisting, some hiding behind and shooting arrows, and some picking up various weapons and rushing towards the Ming army.
Although the Russian soldiers were brave, the more than a dozen remaining Russian soldiers could not resist the rows of bayonets, and finally all of them were overturned in a pool of blood. The Cossacks and indigenous soldiers, seeing that the situation was not good, fell to their knees and surrendered.
Ingoda was breached, the Russian officer Pod Bektov was killed, more than 160 Russian soldiers were killed, and some of the seriously wounded were not killed, but they were also killed by the Ming army with bayonets. Of the more than one hundred and fifty Cossacks, more than seventy were killed, the rest were captured; More than 200 native soldiers were killed, more than 80 were killed, and the rest were captured; More than 500 local indigenous slaves died, more than 200 died, and more than 300 were captured.
At the cost of more than 30 killed and more than 100 wounded, Zheng Zheng completely annihilated more than 1,000 enemies, captured 86 fine war horses, captured more than 300 muskets, and captured a large amount of food, ammunition and other materials. This battle uprooted the Russian citadel and opened the road to Lake Baikal.
"Sons, the road to Beihai has been opened by us! Our next goal is to smash the Tartars and Rakshasas' lair in the North Sea! We are doing everything we can to eradicate evil, and we can't let the Tartars get a respite! While their strength has not yet recovered, we will annihilate all the Tartars in the North Sea! Zheng Xi gave an order to the victorious Ming army.
After conquering the Chita River Valley, 6,000 sled soldiers marched westward, galloping across thousands of miles of frozen snowfields.
More than three feet of snow is a barrier created by nature for others, obscuring the road and making it difficult for people and horses to walk. But for the sledders, the snow is their best way forward.
The horses that pull the sled are wrapped in thick cotton armor to keep the horses warm. The horse's hooves were wrapped in a thick cotton cloth, which increased the area of contact with the ground, making it difficult for the horse to get caught in the snow. Horses are spiritual animals, for example, when people march in water meadows, they tend to fall into swamps, while horses have a natural instinct to avoid swamps where murderous motives are hidden. War horses in cold regions also know how to avoid glaciers and deep pits hidden under the snow, and can find a way in the frozen snowfield.
Six thousand sledders galloped towards Lake Baikal in preparation for a final battle against the remnants of the Manchu court.
On the shores of Lake Baikal, this winter has been much better than last winter, and the harvest of high-yield crops such as potatoes and corn, as well as the grain brought back by the caravan returning from Russia, provided the remnants of the Manchu court with relatively sufficient food. Before the arrival of winter, when the weather turns cold, a large number of flag men and Baoyi go into the mountains to hunt, go to the lake to fish, and also get a lot of food for the winter.
Of course, the Russians did not take their food for nothing, and when the Manchu court fled from Beijing, it brought out a lot of gold and silver treasures, which fell into the hands of the Russians in exchange for food, weapons and ammunition for the Russians.
In addition to some adventurous European merchants, there were also some Russian criminals, vagrants and adventurers who dreamed of making a fortune, as well as criminal and erroneous soldiers from Eastern Europe, who organized an expeditionary force to the Far East to help the Manchu court.
Because Kangxi asked the Fan family to bring the situation, the Manchus could agree to all the conditions of the Russians, as long as the Russians could help the Manchus restore their strength and fight back to Guannei, the Manchu government could cede more land to the Russians.
The insatiable need for land and a strong desire for access to the sea led the Russians, who were engaged in many wars with Turkey, to accede to the Manchu government's request and send a group of people to the Baikal area.
Bumu Butai, who was wearing a mink cloak, stood by the lake with Kangxi, looking at the flag man who was busy digging ice and fishing on the ice, and then turned his head to look at the flag man who came back from the mountains carrying the prey, Bu Mu Butai turned his head and said to Kangxi: "Emperor Sun, do you see it, this is our Manchurian warrior!" When we didn't enter the customs, we Manchurian warriors all came over like this! At that time, living in the deep mountains and old forests, how could there be a comfortable big house, how could there be a hot kang and stove for heating? Where is there enough food? Haven't you come here like this? Only a bitter cold life can stimulate fighting spirit. It's a pity that after entering the customs, the flag people walked birds and crickets, listened to the drama and visited the kiln, and there were also the harmful Eight Banners special offerings, which made the flag people fall quickly! Now that I have lost all my time in Manchuria, it is really distressing! Now we have come to the bitter cold land where Su Wu shepherded sheep, and I believe that in a few years, the banner people can recover the martial arts of the year! ”
"Huang Ma, but the pseudo-Ming traitor is well-armed, and the firearms are so powerful that they can't be reached by the courage of the banner people!" Kangxi is actually a person who understands the power of firearms. It is precisely because of this that in real history, he banned the development of firearms and issued Dai Zi, who had made advanced weapons.
Bumu Butai pointed to the Russian soldiers who were running and shooting not far away and said, "Isn't this a Rakshasa helping us?" Our bravery, coupled with the firearms of the Rakshasas, will surely be able to fight back to the Guannai again. Maybe grandma can't see it, maybe you can't do it in your life, but our children and grandchildren can do it one day! ”
"Yes!" Kangxi nodded viciously, "As long as we enter the customs again, there will definitely be many cowardly Han people who will help us!" ”
But Kangxi didn't know that they couldn't have a chance to enter the customs. At this time, Zheng Xi's sledding team had arrived at a place about fifty miles away from Lake Baikal after a long journey of more than ten days.
"Bang bang" Two gunshots rang out on the snowfield, and two bannermen who had run too far for hunting spurted bloody swords and fell off their horses. The two bannermen were originally going to hunt in the snowfield, but they themselves became the prey of others, and were shot dead by a Ming army sniper hiding in the snow.
Out of the snow came two all-white figures, wearing white cloaks, white cotton armor, and carrying a Minny sniper rifle wrapped in a white cloth, running in the direction of the fallen flag man. For mobile phone users, please browse and read,