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Chapter 366: Battle of Jaquessa (V)

The Russian army was in chaos, and the troops outside the city of Jaxa were retreating to the first trench, and the living were no longer caring about their dead companions. As soon as they exchanged fire, they immediately fled in panic. It was not that they did not want to be brave, but that they were at an enemy that could not be fired by muskets or cannons. At this moment, the Cossacks and Buryat soldiers were only afraid.

The orders for retreat were issued by the officers closest to the soldiers in the team. Not only did they not ask Suvorov, but they did not ask the chief officers of each regiment. The soldiers were no longer afraid of disobeying orders or taking action without authorization, and they would be punished without any of their own life.

Some people have to run back to be saved, some people think they can be saved, and the soldiers act according to their momentary mood. In fact, no matter which direction, the situation of the Cossacks cannot be improved. The North Navy's machine guns are a fan. The Cossacks run around in the rain of bullets, or stand on mud steps and shoot at the alternate enemy.

The commanders stationed in the city tried to rectify the fleeing troops and force the defeated soldiers to obey discipline. However, this so-called discipline was just to push them to the front of the sky with artillery fire. Out of the horror of death, they lost their discipline again, because they were facing death and their emotions started to run wild again.

The closer the Northern Navy is to the city of Jaquessa, the more powerful the offensive it is, like the shells that are about to land after being released. Behind it is the thousand-mile white mountains and black water full of hatred, and the Ergun River in front is only more than 200 miles away from the Ergun River, which is bounded by the border. Every soldier of the Northern Navy could feel that the dawn of victory in this battle had appeared.

"Admiral, the enemy's small troops have attacked the ancient city island!"

"Admiral, the bastion on the ancient city island was bombed by enemy heavy artillery. We really can't figure out why their heavy artillery moved so quickly!"

"Admiral, our soldiers in the second-line trenches are being massacred!"

A major general walked up to Suvorov and suggested to him that the hunters in the city would be put into battle. Major General Alexey, who was standing next to Suvorov, exchanged glances with the others, and smiled bitterly at the general's meaningless suggestion.

Suvorov's entire facial expression seemed calm and nervous at this time. He was silent for a long time before saying, "You can't let my soldiers die anymore. Order the outside of the city to retreat into the first trench."

He dusted the ribbon on his chest, as if dust had fallen on it. Then his calm face said to his opponent: "Gentlemen, raise the white flag and send someone to contact the Qing people opposite, so that this meaningless massacre will be stopped as soon as possible."

After hearing this, many Russian officers present felt relieved. It was 8:30 in the morning, and the war started for only three and a half hours. The Russian army was beaten to the point of no fight back. Only 200 cavalry were left, and most of the four infantry regiments lost. They all knew that there was no battle now, only continuous massacres were left...

On the artillery position of the North Navy, Li Yansheng stood fifty meters behind the artillery position with a red soundproof earmuff and watched the fun. Every time the D30 fired, the muscles on his face kept trembling.

As a former Qing army artillery leader, the five thousand kilograms of cast iron red cannon was the largest cannon he had ever seen. The fifteen kilograms of shells (16 pounds) could be shot three miles from the top of the city. Li Yansheng thought the most powerful cannon was just like this.

But it was not until yesterday that he finally saw the Northern Navy's cannon. When he saw the cannon barrel that was more than ten feet long and was only as thick as a calf, he heard that the maximum range of this cannon could reach forty miles away, and Li Yansheng could not do anything at all. So when the Northern Navy launched an attack in the early morning of this morning, he was about to come to see the cannon fire.

At first, he was very close and wanted to see the way the bolt was closed by close observation, but after watching for a long time, he couldn't figure it out. The first test shot made him feel that the sound was acceptable, but when the five cannons fired five rapid shots, Li Yansheng couldn't stand it anymore. The taste was really "sour and refreshing"; especially with his two calves, every time he fired the fire, it felt like someone was slapped with a stick.

When the five artillery guns of the North Navy were fired, all gunners had to listen to the orders of the gun captain. Every time they shouted "Prepare---Set!", everyone in the artillery position opened their mouths and shouted "Set", otherwise the sound of the artillery will damage hearing. The dust around the artillery position was flying, choking that the mouth and nose could hardly breathe. After staying for a long time, Li Yansheng felt that his heart was almost shocked.

There are such cannons in the world?! The court is still farting, so hurry up and make peace. The North Navy will wipe out the world sooner or later!

Li Yansheng felt that all the barriers of the Qing Dynasty were slags in front of such cannons. He was extremely grateful for his decision to surrender to the Northern Navy before. He had been watching in such a daze until the Rakshasa cavalry launched an attack, and his attention turned to the direction of the anti-aircraft artillery. After he watched the Northern Navy's massacre of the Rakshasa cavalry, Li Yansheng was shocked and looked like earth. He was nearly a thousand cavalry, and it was finished in a blink of an eye.

Zhao Xin had already learned that a white flag was raised at the top of Jaxa's city, but his attack on the ancient city island had not stopped.

Liu Sheng and Fan Tong had already taken Hu Ji's sixth regiment to board the ship by the river. Now the Russian fortress on the east side of the ancient city island and the west side of the city of Yaksa has been suppressed by artillery fire from the North Navy. As long as the battalion on the south bank exploded the Russian pontoon bridge, Liu Sheng would lead the fleet to Irkutsk and completely block the gate of Tsarist Russia into the Far East.

At 9 a.m., with several huge explosions, the floating bridges set up by the Russian army on the ancient city island and Heilongjiang turned into debris. At 9:15, Liu Sheng's fleet passed through Paiwo Island under the opening path of two dark gray patrol boats. When the fleet passed through the blown up section of the floating bridge, it hit the Russian fleet that was waiting for it.

Under the cover of the dense rain of bullets of the two patrol boats, dozens of RPG-7V2 rockets ejected from two catamaran passenger ships following the patrol boat, and a dense explosion sounded suddenly on the river. Because the effective range of this thing is only 200 meters, Zhao Xin bought it two years ago and has not used it much except for training, but he has finally used it today.

After more than one hundred rockets were fired, the Russian fleet was basically destroyed. So, in the stunned silence of thousands of Russian troops at the top of Jaxa, the Northern Navy fleet quickly passed through the wooden ships that were igniting the raging fire with black smoke and quickly disappeared on the river.

When Suvorov learned of the news, his face changed drastically and he became a little older. He understood what the enemy's fleet was doing. Once the other party followed the Heilongjiang River to Irkutsk on the west bank of Lake Baikal, the entire Irkutsk Province would be over. If the empire loses Irkutsk, Okhotsk and even Kamchatka will be out of food. There is no need to send troops at that time, and these two coastal strongholds will soon die out. Once the empire's seaport in the east is lost, the fur trade routes between the Aleutian Islands and even Alaska will be interrupted.

The loss was too great, so great that Suvorov could not afford it. He could no longer think about how the queen of St. Petersburg would send him down, but instead ordered his subordinate Major General Alexei to quickly take the white flag and discuss surrender with the North Navy.

At 12 noon, when Zhao Xin learned that Liu Sheng's fleet had arrived at the Ergun River and was about to enter the Tsarist Russian border. He ordered all troops to stop firing and wait for the battle. By this time, the Russian troops on the ancient city island had been wiped out; and the Russian troops outside the city of Jaxa had all retreated into the city.

When Major General Alexey finally met Zhao Xin, who spoke fluent Russian, he realized that this was not a Qing army at all, but the armed force that was said to have always been against the Qing Empire.

Zhao Xin's conditions were very simple, he put down his weapons and surrendered unconditionally.

"I will only give you one hour. If the gates of Jaquesah City do not open in an hour and you do not come out to disarm, we will continue to bombard the castle."

Major General Alexey said sincerely: "Your Excellency, I have no objection to your conditions. But are the time being more harsh? We hope to restrain our fellow soldiers who died in battle and bury them."

Zhao Xin said: "Major General, this is not a conflict. You can send someone to collect the body now. Let me tell you the general about my conditions. In forty minutes, I will wait for his arrival here."

When Suvorov led his officers out of the east gate of Yaksa City and passed through the trenches carefully dug by the Russian army, they saw a large area of ​​corpses of their own soldiers.

Whether it is officers or soldiers, they either lie or lie, either in the trenches, or in the open space between the trenches, in the craters, in different postures, most of which are very ugly and terrible. The wet land near the corpses was stepped into thick mud, and the ground was covered with deep ruts rolled out by footprints and cannon trucks.

The Russian army and his group passed through the pile of dead bodies, and the entire battlefield was filled with pungent smell of blood and smoke.

"Damn Rakshasa, what you do is still human affairs? After killing others, you will be punished now."

A North Navy soldier holding a gun looked at Suvorov and others without fear, and whispered in Mandarin that the Tsarist Russians could not understand. The Russians knew that there must be no good words in their mouths without translating.

Suvorov ordered his subordinates to stop moving forward. He took a few steps alone, took off his military appearance, and looked carefully at the soldiers and officers who died in battle, trying to remember their appearance. While silently walking to the third trench, he looked at a captain who was still clearly visible after his death for a long time.

Suvorov noticed that some of these officers who died in battle were killed by bullets, while most of them were killed by shells. It was obvious that the North Navy's grenades were very lethal, and many soldiers died one by one with the bombing point as the center.

The young captain came with him for dinner the day before yesterday and yesterday, but the hat on his head was gone. He lay on his back with his eyes open, pressed his left hand tightly on his chest, and stretched his right arm to the side. The blood oozed from his waist's military uniform turned black.

A corpse on his right side was facing down there, the band on his waist had fallen off, the linen uniform bulged on his back like a hump, revealing a strong leg with blue veins, and a short, thin leather boots with crooked heels. He had no hat on his head, and even a cap was gone, and it was neatly cut off by shells; around him was a circle of wet, wet and wisps with dark red muddy water shining in his wet and wisps.

Behind him was a short, strong, faceless officer, wearing an open-minded top and a torn military uniform, his chin rested on his exposed chest, under his hair, a piece of burnt skin hung on his white and narrow forehead, and between the hard palate and forehead tip were some broken bones and a pool of purple-red soup. A little later was a pile of piles of stolen limbs and fragments of military uniforms, and a crushed leg twisted in the place where it was originally a long head.

A little further away, there was a corpse that was almost like a child, with plump lips and a child-like oval face; a row of machine gun bullets pierced his chest, and four holes were punched in his chest.

"Is this war? How can war become so bloody and cruel?"

At this time, the civilian team who came out of Yaquesa to restrain the wounded and the soldiers who died in battle were shocked to see this scene. Many people were lying on the ground and began to vomit loudly, and cries and wails began to echo in the wilderness.

Except for the soldiers of the Northern Navy, the Cossacks who left the city and stood on the walls all drew crosses, and some even knelt on the walls. Everyone remained silent and had not spoken for a long time.

Kang Youcai, who was squatting on the edge of the trench, seemed unable to stand this depressing atmosphere. He pointed to the Cossacks on the castle and scolded: "You know how to be afraid now? What have you been doing?! Why don't you know how to be afraid when you hit Guigudar City, Huma City? A group of beasts who remember not to eat!"

“…”

Zhao Xin finally met the famous Tsarist Russian general in this time and space. In the other party's surprised gaze, he stretched out his right hand and Suvorov gently held it and then let it go.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! "Please sit down, general."

Suvorov sat down expressionlessly, stared at Zhao Xin for a long time, then sighed and said, "I was wrong from the beginning. You are not the Qing army."

"This is both correct and incorrect." Zhao Xin and other guards brought a pot of tea and poured water, and then continued: "No matter whether we are the Qing army or not, we are also Chinese, and you have invaded our territory. As for the conflict between me and the Qing country, it is our own business."

"What should I call you? Young man. You are the first opponent to let me raise the white flag."

"My surname is Zhao. You Major General Alessandro, who was captured in Heilongjiang City, calls me Your Highness. And to the Emperor of Qing, I am a descendant of a vassal king of the previous dynasty." Seeing a group of Russian generals showing a surprised look, Zhao Xin put away his smile and said, "As for raising the white flag, general, as invaders, I should hang you all, and this principle can be said to be the same wherever you go."

"Going on the gallows? This is nothing. If your Highness, you can put my subordinates back, I will have no objection even if you go on the gallows."

"Haha, go back, is there such a good thing in this world? You can't beat me and give in and give in. Just pat your butt and leave, just pretend that nothing has happened?"

"What do you want to do?"

"Put down your weapons, surrender out of the city, and wait for the destiny. During this period, I allow you to restrain the bodies of all the dead. There is no need to dig the tombs. I think the trenches you dug outside the city are pretty good."

As soon as this statement was made, other Tsarist Russian generals were quit.

"Your Excellency, you will be punished by God if you do this... Brabra"

"The soldiers and officers who died in battle have the right to receive a tombstone of their own!"

Zhao Xin smiled and did not refute. He sucked the tea in the cup and listened quietly to these people's nonsense.

Suvorov suddenly raised his hand to stop everyone's talk, and looked at Zhao Xin and said, "Are you going to attack Irkutsk?"

"Yes," Zhao Xin showed his habitual smirk. "Since you always have ambitions for the Far East, I will help you. From now on, we will use the Yenisei River as the boundary."

Suvorov was shocked and said, "Young man, you can't do this! Are you ready to go to war with a huge empire?"

Zhao Xin immediately said something, which immediately made the Tsarist Russian generals present frightened and all shut their mouths.
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