"Ula! Ula! Ula!"

The sound of gunfire suddenly fell silent, and then earth-shattering shouts rang out.

It was the Nerchinsk defenders commanded by Urasov who shouted for a decisive attack! As the defenders, they should have been sitting in the castle, waiting for the barbaric Tatars to flood towards Nerchinsk. Fort sent to death.

But now they have to bite the bullet and leave the city, because if they don't leave the city for a decisive battle, they will not even have a chance to break out and escape.

Before, Urasov dared to promise Stroganov, of course he was somewhat confident. The current Nerchinsk city was built two years ago. When it was built, it was a simple bastion of civil structure. In Ulasov After Sov took office as the governor of Irkutsk, he concentrated manpower and material resources on strengthening the Nerchinsk Fortress.

After the completion of the reinforcement project, the defensive capabilities of the Nerchinsk Fortress have been significantly improved. Not to mention the desolate Eastern Siberia where there are only "barbarians" around, even in the western part of the Rakshasa Kingdom facing Poland, Sweden, and the Ottoman frontier In this area, there are few fortresses stronger than Nerchinsk City.

There are about 1,500 Cossacks and shooters in Nerchinsk city. If fully mobilized, the number of defenders can be 1,000 more.

In addition, the equipment of the Nerchinsk garrison was also good, with twenty or thirty light artillery pieces, three hundred flintlock muskets, more than a thousand matchlocks, hundreds of war horses, a large number of cold weapons, and some Cossacks. The warriors also brought their own bows and arrows.

So when Peter Andropov brought back the news that "the Tatars possess large mortars and artillery" and the number of people exceeded 10,000, Urasov still insisted on the main battle and rejected the surrender proposed by Obai and Yue Le. If you want to capture a strong bastion like Nerchinsk, it is useless to have large mortars and 12-pound and 18-pound cannons. Unless the siege party has enough skilled engineers to guide the infantry to dig parallel attacks around the bastion. For the Tatars along the Heilongjiang River, such requirements were too high for the Tatars along the Heilongjiang River.

As far as Urasov knows, the Ming army and the Jungar army fighting against the Rakshasa Kingdom in Central Asia are not of that high standard, let alone these Tatars from the Heilongjiang River Basin!

But when the armies of Obai and Yue Le came in parallel by water and arrived at Nerchinsk City, Urasov realized that he was wrong, and it was very wrong.

Because what he met now was not ordinary Tatars, but a group of new-style Tatars who were knowledgeable, cultured and good at mathematics and physics!

Nowadays, the Tatars are not only ferocious, but they are also literate. They can also learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well, and are not afraid of them when they travel all over the world. Are they going to let the idiots in Nerchinsk live?

Of course, the educated Tatars are not Ao Bai and Yue Le. It is not that they are illiterate, but that the knowledge they master is lagging behind. Ao Bai is an old man who has emerged since the Huang Taiji era. He is already six years old this year. In his teens, he had never learned any new knowledge. Yue Le was a little younger, but he was still in his forties and almost fifty, and the Tatars of his generation had not learned anything new.

However, influenced by "Zi Lun Ge Wu Pian", among the children of the Eight Banner nobles who were born after the early years of Shunzhi, there were a group of new Tatars who were proficient in new learning.

The representative figures among them are the Sanbao Lama and the Mingzhu Lama, the two great monks of the Sengge! There are also such figures in Heilongjiang and the Andong Army. The more outstanding ones are Daishan’s grandson Jin Jieshu and Dong E

Fei Yanggu, both of them were born in the second year of Shunzhi, and received half-new and half-old education since childhood. When the Qing Dynasty disappeared, they were both in their teens, and they all shed tears and swore to fight for

After the revival of the Qing Dynasty, I became even more energetic in studying.

Later, the two went to Vladivostok together and studied at the Vladivostok Official School (actually an army school) run by Dodo. Later, they joined Donny's army and fought with the Ming army. After Donny's defeat, the two

They followed Shang Keai (Shang Keai was in charge of Vladivostok at the time) to submit to the Ming Dynasty, and were recommended by Shang Keai to go to Tianjin Taixue. After graduating from Tianjin Taixue, they went to work under Ao Bai and Yue Le, both of whom were

He has the same position as the director of the engineering department of the Duhufu, that is, the official responsible for engineering construction. In the past ten years or so, the two Dufufus of Heilongjiang and Andong have carried out many construction projects, such as city building, road construction, and construction.

There are so many bridges and ports to build that there is so much work to do, and most of them are civil engineering projects.

Jin Jieshu and Fei Yanggu studied a little bit of engineering at the official school in Vladivostok, and later laid a solid foundation in mathematics and gezhi at Tianjin Taixue. Later, they studied and worked in engineering construction for so many years, and their level was still high.

Can it be any worse? As for bastions of the level of Nerchinsk City, they have built at least thirty or forty of them over the years. They know how to build bastions, and usually know how to break them!

Moreover, the imaginary enemies of Heilongjiang and Andong towns have always been the Ming army, which has strong offensive capabilities. Therefore, Jin Jieshu and Fei Yanggu have been studying the Ming army's siege tactics for more than ten years. What is the level of these two people?

, one can imagine.

Under the command of the two of them, 2,000 "Pseudo Rakshasa Army" and 2,000 naval officers and soldiers came ashore, carrying a large number of firewood bundles and fort baskets (wicker baskets filled with soil, used to build breastworks to resist the firepower of the fortress)

, drove to the east of Nerchinsk Fortress and three miles to the north, and at the same time began to dig an approach trench. It only took one day and one night to use the approach trench to advance nearly two miles, and also completed a line only one mile away from the fortress.

of parallel trenches.

Because the project was very well organized, and baskets and sandbags were used to form a protective parapet, there were no casualties among the Ao Bai and Yue Le troops on the first day of construction.

Afterwards, Aobai and Yue Le's troops relied on the first parallel trench to continue digging towards the Nerchinsk fortress. The digging and covering were carried out alternately, and the organization was very clever. They first used a zigzag trench with a width of three steps.

The communication trench was pushed forward half a mile, and then a second parallel trench was dug half a mile away from the castle. During the construction process, a large group of "pseudo Rakshasa infantry" and cavalry were on standby, and additional

The artillery was aimed at the Nerchinsk fortress and fired continuously to hinder the Rakshasa army's counterattack.

On the fourth day after the siege of Nerchinsk began, the second parallel trench was completed. That night, the mortar troops of Obai and Yue Le began to enter the second parallel trench. The 24-pound shells began to fire continuously.

Being thrown into the small city of Nerchinsk!

In fact, when Yuele's headquarters completed the excavation of the first parallel trench in Obai, Urasov already knew that something was wrong. He must have encountered the construction level of the Tatar engineers who dug trenches immediately. Their

Toutou America also studied in France!

Knowing that the Nerchinsk Fortress could not be defended, Urasov immediately proposed a breakout to Stroganov!

But breaking out of the encirclement was not easy? The city of Nerchinsk was built at the intersection of the Shilka River and one of its tributaries. There were rivers on both sides of the southwest. The Rakshasa army had no navy, so it was impossible to break out of the encirclement from the rivers. And Nerchinsk

The north and east sides of Buchu City were blocked by the enemy's parallel trenches and parapets.

Therefore, Stroganov could not make up his mind to break through for a while, but after he hesitated for three or four days, the enemy's second parallel trench was completed, and then 12 24-pound mortars were moved into the parallel trench.

They began to fire 24 kilograms of explosive shells into the city of Nerchinsk day and night.

By this time, Stroganov, Urasov, and all the Rakshasa people in Nerchinsk City knew that they could not wait to die.

So on the sixth day after the siege of Nerchinsk began, the Rakshasa army defending the city had to risk their lives to break out of the siege!
Chapter completed!