As night fell, the Russian Cossack expedition and a rudimentary camp were set up, and the exhausted Cossacks fell asleep, leaving only a few sentry posts to guard the camp and supplies docked on the shore.

In a dense forest not far from the Cossack camp, Du Long, the company commander of the mountain company of the Far Eastern Army stationed nearby, had just arrived here with his troops.

He led two platoons with a water-cooled heavy machine gun and a 60-millimeter mortar through the dense forest to the southern part of the enemy camp. Company instructor Wang Cheng led a platoon, a water-cooled heavy machine gun, and a 60-mm mortar gun to establish a blocking position in the north.

Two hundred Outer Northeast Native Hunters are scattered in the surrounding woods in squads. Five hundred young herders patrol the perimeter to prevent any fish from escaping.

Two river steam deck barges, which arrived from the Baikal water garrison, also caught up with the battle, and were to provide fire support to the attacking troops on the Angara and prevent the evacuation of the enemy by boat.

At three o'clock in the morning, the Far Eastern Army's offensive had all arrived at the previously scheduled starting position for the attack, and Du Long, the company commander of the mountain company, looked at the table below, and then gave the order to attack.

The mountain companies were the assault force in this battle, and they infiltrated the Cossack camps from two directions, north and south, taking advantage of the dense jungle.

In the past few years since the formation of the mountain divisions of the Far Eastern Army, their combat effectiveness has also been continuously improved, and in particular, the quality of grassroots commanders and noncommissioned officers has improved rapidly.

No matter what kind of troops, one soldier is bearish, and no matter how good the soldier is, he can't hand it over to a fool, and the troops on the battlefield have to be thrown in.

Therefore, the Far Eastern Army attaches great importance to the training of troop commanders, and is currently the main force of the Far Eastern Army. Most of the commanders of grass-roots companies and platoons have received training from the regular military academies of the Far Eastern Army, and the rest have also received short-term accelerated training.

Don't underestimate the grassroots cadres, when they go to the battlefield, they are at the forefront, and no matter how perfect the tactics are, someone must implement them, and the front-line troops are not effective. It's useless to say anything.

Du Long, the company commander of the mountain company, was a veteran from Dongjiang Town, because he was a night and did not collect money, during the expansion of the mountain brigade

Transferred to the mountain troops of Higashino. Because the mountain troops have not been expanded on a large scale, the promotion of non-commissioned officers at the grassroots level is much slower than that of other units.

The Dongjiang veteran who enlisted in the same year as Du Long has the highest rank of battalion-level commander. However, it is very difficult to train cadres in mountain troops, and the gold content of cadres in mountain troops is much higher than that of other troops.

The Southwest Field Army, which will be formed in the future, will also face a large-scale expansion in the next few years. At that time, the grassroots cadres of the Higashino Mountain Army. Most of them will also be transferred, and their ranks will also be greatly improved.

Du Longna, the commander of the mountain company, is the Far Eastern Army Command School, and after three years of regular study, he is a cadre who will be trained by the Military Commission in the future; although he is only a company-level military rank now, in the long run, he will have a more promising future than those cadres who have been trained for a short period of time for non-commissioned officers.

Officers and soldiers of the Mountain Company. Taking advantage of the cover of night, the enemy was slowly and covertly engaged from the north and south in a squad unit. This is also a subject that the officers and men of the mountain troops often train on weekdays.

There was silence in the camp of the Cossack expedition, and after several days of long journeys, the Cossack mercenaries were very tired. They slept peacefully, and they didn't expect that someone would come to attack them in such a dark night.

After all, in this day and age, few people will attack in the middle of the night. Because in such an environment, it is impossible to effectively command the troops to complete the assembly, and it is difficult to make it difficult for oneself and oneself to fight.

In particular, these Cossacks had basically no opponents in Siberia, and there was no precedent for the local natives and Tatars to sneak up at night. So when the mountain company infiltrated the periphery of the Cossack expedition's camp, the Cossacks who were on guard at night were still dozing.

Du Long took out the microphone. He shouted in a low voice: "Attention detachments, launch a surprise attack in ten minutes." ”

At this time, two river steam deck barges of the Baikal Water Guard have also arrived near the target area, and two airships in the air are also hovering over the target, ready to descend to support the ground forces at any time.

Two Cossacks, who were dozing off on the boat leaning on the shore, were suddenly awakened by a roar.

They climbed up from the deck, rubbing their sleepy eyes, looking around for the source of the sound. Sensing that the sound was coming from the river in the distance, the two took off the torches that had been planted next to them and prepared to go ashore to report to the camp.

Suddenly, two blinding beams of light lit up from the surface of the river and shone towards where they were. They saw that they could not see it, so they jumped out of the boat, climbed ashore in the cold water, and ran madly towards the camp.

As he ran, he shouted loudly, "Someone sneaked up on you...... Someone sneaked up on ......"

At this time, small flaming parachutes floated down from the sky one after another, getting brighter and brighter, and instantly illuminated the camp of the Cossack expedition as if it were day. Tatars covered in leaves and weeds poured out of the surrounding forests, and quickly surrounded the Cossack camp.

Both of them were stunned by the sight in front of them.

"Bang...... Bang ......"

A burst of gunfire woke them up from their sluggish state, and they hurriedly took the arquebus and began to load, but due to nervousness, they hurriedly loaded for a long time, and did not finish loading the lead bullets.

Several Tatars with oil paint on their faces and covered in leaves and weeds had already rushed to their side, and the two simply gave up their reloads and slammed their arquebuses at each other.

But the Tatars on the opposite side were clearly well trained, and easily unloaded their arquebuses with muskets in hand, and then smashed them to the ground with the butts of their rifles.

The two were dizzy from being smashed, and by the time they came to their senses, their faces had been trampled on by each other's military boots. They were kicked in the stomach a few times, and they retched in pain, and finally they were tied together.

By this time the Cossack camp had long been in chaos, and many disheveled Cossacks with arquebuses had arranged defensive positions around the camp under the command of several Cossack chiefs.

But as flares continued to fall from the air, the Cossack camp was already clear at a glance. Many officers and men of the mountain companies gathered around the outside of the camp, half-kneeling on the ground, holding Type 28 rifles and firing continuously.

The Far Eastern Army was in the dark, and the Cossacks were in the light, and the scene was somewhat like hunting, and one by one the Cossacks were called by the accurate fire of the officers and soldiers of the Far East, and they were knocked to the ground one after another.

The non-commissioned officer of the mountain company also used the 40-mm grenade launcher in his hand to smash 40-mm high-explosive grenade shells into the Cossack camp and blew them up to the point of howling wolves. (To be continued.) )