Chapter 425: Yakutsk! (continued)

The shells of the six-pounder cannon had not yet been discharged, and the momentum shown by the fire and white smoke had greatly boosted the morale of the Sauron soldiers, and the defeated Sauron soldiers bypassed Li Peiting's Chinese army formation far away, and stood on both sides of the large formation with the heads of their horses in a bit of a fox, they waved the crude and rudimentary weapons in their hands, and shouted excitedly.

After the first cannon was discharged, the hearts of Golovin and the officer Vasily, who was standing beside him, sank sharply, this battle is not easy to fight!

From the beginning of the eastward expansion of the bear's paw of the Russians, they used the advantage of their weapons, especially firearms, to bully the Daur people in this area.

This was especially true of the boyarkov who was smeared with honey and sugar all over his body by Li Peiting, who spent the winter in the area of the Outer Khingan Mountains and the Jieya River, because their food was exhausted, he used the leather and gunfire in his hands to snatch the food from the surrounding villages, relying on the food mixed with flour from the bark of these trees, and the corpses of the Daur people who had come out of the woods and attacked them with cannons and firearms, and they survived the hungry winter until the weather warmed.

But now, when others use more powerful firearms on their heads, the Rakshasas who are accustomed to using their firearms and axes against the Daur people with only bone arrows are about to pee out.

"Fire!"

Accompanying Li Peiting all the way north, the gunners, who were almost marching thousands of miles carrying these six-pounder guns, excitedly repeated the gun commander's orders in unison.

Dazzling fires rose one after another, and in the deafening cannon sound, four iron balls roared towards the Rakshasa people. Special four six-pounder guns. They were divided into two groups, one to fight the ranks of the Rakshasas, and the other to aim their guns at the city of Yakutsk behind them. The two six-pounder cannons that struck the queue, using the butts, fired a dozen large and small cannons in one cannon, and flew towards the already slightly chaotic ranks of the Rakshasas in groups.

"Firecrackers, step forward!"

Li Peiting's escort leader sent a congratulatory letter, waved the command knife in his hand, and shouted at the Sauron soldiers who were carrying arquebuses to step forward for actual combat training, in front of them. The hundreds of musketeers of the Nanyue Army have also dismounted and lined up. He picked up the flintlock in his hand.

"Put!"

There was a sound of fire like popping beans, and the Nanyue army gunners standing in the front row took the lead in firing, and immediately dozens of Rakshasa soldiers standing in the front of the body burst out of the blood mist and fell to the ground one by one. In the deafening sound of firecrackers. The Sauron gunners tilted their heads and pulled the trigger. The fire rope ignited the ignition powder in the medicine pool. Tiny projectiles flew out quickly.

Thick clouds of gunpowder smoke rose up and quickly condensed into thick smoke that shrouded people's eyes, and countless projectiles roared and roared all the way towards the Rakshasa people not far away. No matter what weapon they hold in their hands or what their status is, there is no difference in the slightest, and they are completely the same.

The Rakshasas were like weeds when the autumn wind blew through the wasteland, and they were all covered with a blur of flesh and blood, and they were covered with dense blood holes.

The Rakshasa army formation, which was still full of majesty, was suddenly hit by the projectiles of the cannon and hit two flesh and blood channels, and suddenly, the military formation showed a collapse situation!

The Rakshasa soldiers screamed wildly, leaving their comrades who had been knocked to the ground and turned around and fled towards the city of Yakutsk, especially the exiles with weapons in their hands, who followed behind the Rakshasa soldiers and Cossacks. Some of them were blindfolded, screaming and not knowing where to run, or finding something to cover up.

"Your Excellency! Let's go back and defend the city! ”

Vasily anxiously reminded Golovin, who was stunned by this short wonderful live drama in front of him.

The use of firearms by the Southern Yue Army has long reached the point of reaching its peak, from the south to the north, from the scorching hot tropics to today's bitter cold land, almost no one can resist the fire and artillery fire of the Southern Yue Army, and the Qing soldiers in heavy armor will collapse under the dense volley of firearms, not to mention these Rakshasas who only have a leather robe on their bodies, but they have cultivated arrogance and arrogance by bullying the really defenseless Daur people with weapons in their hands!

The four six-pounder guns were lined up, and the black muzzles were adjusted by the gunners according to the commander's orders, aiming at the city of Yakutsk, which was more than a hundred paces ahead, and the Rakshasas who were shouting and scolding.

The gunners quickly loaded the gunpowder and fed the shells. The two six-pounder guns aimed at the wooden wall used large shells. With a loud bang, a fiery iron ball spun and smashed into the wooden wall of Yakutsk.

The four six-pounder guns fired four waves of projectiles in a row before stopping, while the musketeers each fired two projectiles out, and the entire position was blocked by thick white smoke.

Everyone was a little nervous and excited, waiting for the vision in front of them to become clear again, although the weather was extremely cold, but the Sauron soldiers did not dare to move, lest if they did, they would be swallowed by some fierce monster lurking behind the smoke. Many people's faces are still purple from the cold, and although there is a thick layer of indigo on their feet, it is difficult to resist the cruel cold. However, he still waited quietly with his weapon in hand.

The eyes of all the Sauron soldiers were looking at a neat phalanx standing quietly and solemnly in the cold wind, it was Li Peiting and a battalion of soldiers of the Guards Brigade of the Nanyue Army who served as his escort, and the phalanx they formed formed formed the core of these thousands of people. Although the phalanx was not large, it seemed to exude a powerful momentum from all sides, as if they were the only ones who dominated between heaven and earth.

In this very cold weather, the array has always remained neat, and no one has moved a little. The self-confidence and arrogance brought by this powerful person, the surrounding Sauron soldiers and horses who suppressed it couldn't help but be ashamed of themselves, and they only dared to whisper among their own teams.

The white smoke was gradually dispersed by the north wind, and a scene of blurred flesh and blood appeared in front of the opposing sides.

Although the six-pounder cannon was light, several people could lift it and force the march in an emergency. But at such a close distance, aiming the artillery at the formation of the Rakshasa people, flattening the muzzle of the cannon and firing a salvo, that accuracy reached the point of madness. The Rakshasa people, who were still showing off their martial arts just now, were beaten to flesh and blood by cannonballs. Small cannons also passed through their bodies, beating the Rakshasas to the ground of blood flying from their limbs.

And those rammed earth and wooden walls, which were enough to withstand the attack of thousands of Saurons, were bombarded by cannonballs, and one after another large holes appeared, like the teeth of old men, mutilated. When the iron ball smashed the tree trunk, the collapsed wood fragments also caused huge casualties to the Rakshasas who were hiding behind the wall, and the debris flying everywhere was mixed with a dense blood mist.

The wooden walls were littered with large holes in the crumbling cavities, through the cracks between the broken trunks and planks. Several mutilated corpses can be faintly seen. Their internal organs, stumps and broken bones lay down everywhere in the city of Yakutsk.

"That's it! Let's go! Seeing such a scene, and then looking at the Rakshasa people who had collapsed, Li Peiting was more cautious. I also know that it is time. Do not attack at this time. Do you want to give the Rakshasas a chance to breathe? Let them rebuild the walls to meet their own attacks?

After the Chinese army issued the order, the two big leaders, Bomu Bogol and Aldi, roared excitedly. Each urged the horse to lead the head office to rush out.

Behind them, waves of Sauron horses swooped down like the tide of the sea, ranging from dozens to hundreds of people according to their different tribes, and the frozen earth trembled violently under the beating of tens of thousands of horses' hooves, and the heavens and earth were full of horses' hooves.

The city of Yakutsk was built on the north bank of the Lena River. Relying on the great river to build on the river, it eliminated the possibility of being attacked from all sides, and Li Peiting's Chinese army was due north at this time. With the wave of the flag, the wolf's tail representing Bomu Bogol led nearly 1,000 soldiers and horses straight to the west of the city of Yakutsk.

The crowd shouted incessantly, and strangely enough, their loud shouts were the name of a woman.

"Ao Lei Yilan! Aolei Yilan! ”

Bomu Bogol had already informed the subordinates that Aoli Yilan was pregnant with Ning Yuanbo's blood, and used it to motivate his subordinates: "If we conquer this Yakutsk today, I will give half of the things captured in the city to Auri Yilan!" When the news of our capture of this Rakshasa Devil Castle reached Ning Yuanbo's mansion, I thought that Ao Lei Yilan also gave birth to a son for Ning Yuanbo! At that time, double happiness will come to the door! ”

Everyone knows very well that the position of a woman with an heir in the family is bound to be more stable, and if the woman's maiden family can occupy an important position in the career map of the male master, the two sides are bound to echo and support each other. As a result, more than 1,000 men under Bomu Bogol rushed to the west of the city of Yakutsk.

Soon, a sea of cavalry appeared to the west of the city of Yakutsk, and under several banners of Nuergandusi, it was full of black oppressed cavalry. They kicked up a large cloud of smoke, and the riders were looming in the smoke.

Before the smoke and dust had completely cleared, dense layers of Sauron cavalry appeared in front of the eyes of the frightened Cossacks, and I don't know how many rows were lined up, left, and right. The different flags identified the different tribes to which they belonged, most of them wore iron helmets and thick armor of various colors, and rode their horses to and fro in the cold wind, waving their weapons in their hands with a flickering cold light, full of pride, and disdainful of the Cossacks hiding behind the broken wooden walls.

As a six-pounder cannonball roared past, the already mutilated wooden wall collapsed in large pieces, and the Rakshasa people hiding behind the wooden wall battlements screamed and screamed, and they all rolled and jumped down! In the past, they used the light cannons in their hands to bombard the villages of the Daur people, but they never imagined that one day their own cities would also face artillery attacks from others. At such a close distance, how could the wall of the city gate made of logs withstand the bombardment of artillery?

"For the sake of Ao Lei Yilan! Rush in! ”

Bomu Bogol waved the wolf-tailed banner in his hand and commanded the men and horses to pounce on it from the west.

To the east, Aldi's progress was even more rapid, and he simply rushed to the city of Yakutsk with the Rakshasa escaping.

"Your Excellency! The Tunguska rushed in! There are still a large number of Count Seris's guards in the back, and we can't hold this place anymore! Hurry up and retreat! ”

Colonel Vasily pulled the reins of Golovin's horse, and his face turned pale and urged Golovin to get on his horse and flee quickly.

Under the pressure of the three roads on the east and west sides and the north side, the Rakshasas have long since lost their souls, and some have long since turned around and run into the city, completely forgetting that the city is the main target of Sauron's attack.

Golovin propped up his beautiful fox fur hat with a whip and looked around, "We're not going into the city!" Go around the city, cross the river! ”

Because this city of Yakutsk was built on the north bank of the Lena River. With the barrier of the river, the defenses in the south are not so tight, and many Rakshasas in the city are eager to flee for their lives, and they are also rushing in this direction. When the Ordi men and horses in the east rushed into the gap in the wall with the defeated army, the crowd began to flee for their lives, and as the Bomu Bogol men and horses rushed on the west, it was crowded with large crowds of refugees. The fleeing crowd was crowded like sardines in a can, countless people were trampled on each other, and a large number of old and weak women and children who fled for their lives were trampled to the ground by the Rakshasas who were eager to flee for their lives, and then countless big feet stepped on it. Trample them alive into a pulp.

Golovin and the others didn't care about that much. Although he led hundreds of remnants of the defeated army to flee south, along the way, the Saurons constantly launched flank attacks on this small force of Rakshasas, but fortunately, these people just wanted to defeat the water dogs, and the main goal was to rush into the city. After a few fights. The Golovin people finally fled to the Lena River. As far as the eye can see, the river is dozens of miles wide, and it is densely packed with fleeing crowds of Rakshasas. There are big bags and small bags on the body. It's not enough to lead a horse. Someone also led three or four horses. In the panic, coupled with the slippery ice to escape, the panic did not wrap the horse's hooves in grass, from the river bank to the crowd fleeing for their lives. There have been many horses and rakshasas who have broken their legs.

Golovin naturally didn't care so much, so he and Vasily led the hundreds of remnants of the army into the river and rushed to the south bank of the river, forcing the armed and horse-mounted Rakshasa men into the marching procession along the way, and throwing the old and weak women and children on the ice.

Looking at the center of the river, gathering the men and horses on a sandbar in the middle of the river, and ordering some trees to be cut down and set on fire, Golovin looked back in horror to the north, at the city of Yakutsk, which had been under his orders a few hours earlier.

The city was already in chaos at this time.

Seeing the banners of Bomu Bogol and Aldi appear on the city, Li Peiting couldn't help but feel overjoyed in his heart, this largest and last fortress of the Rakshasa people on the territory of Nuer Gandusi was uprooted by himself in this way!

Carried away, Li Peiting gave an order that made him regret it to the fullest.

"My lord! Let's rush in too! ”

"My lord! The boys are about to be unable to suppress it! ”

"My lord! Let's have a chance to make meritorious contributions! ”

Under the continuous pleading of many newly attached leaders, Li Peiting waved his horsewhip forward a little proudly, and the whip made an explosion in the air.

"All the troops press!"

More than a dozen coolies excitedly lifted the six-pounder cannon with a thick wooden pole made of pine wood, put it on their shoulders, and ran towards the city not far away, while dozens of Saurons of different tribes rode their horses and rushed straight into the city.

In the city, Aldi and Bomu Bogol are already a little dazzled.

Wooden houses lined up the city, serving as government offices, barracks, warehouses, prisons, churches, and the occasional Rakshasa who scurried around like flies.

Inside several houses that had been hit by shells, a group of Saurons whose faces were covered in blood from the collapsed wood shouted excitedly in the city. Looking at the houses set on fire by the fleeing Rakshasas, they danced and shouted at the rushing Saurons.

Without waiting for the Sauron soldiers to make a move, the men and women who had come out of the collapsed houses rushed at the Rakshasas with gritted teeth, punching and kicking them, picking up stones or sticks and striking them on the heads. These Rakshasas were beaten with sticks, stones, fists, and teeth to the point of bleeding, but they did not dare to fight back, and many were beaten to death without saying a word.

Aldi ordered someone to come forward to stop a group of Sauron men and women beating several Rakshasas, intending to ask what was going on with these people, but unexpectedly, his soldiers were pulled by this group of Sauron men and women to several closed houses and cellars, and motioned for the Sauron soldiers to open.

A Sauron soldier with a leather gunfire in his hand, half-bewildered, half-ostentatiously, opened the big lock on the door of the house, and the thick and heavy wooden door was suddenly pushed open from the inside with a strong force, almost knocking the people standing outside the door to the ground.

From these few rooms, hundreds of men and women of the various tribes of Sauron who were imprisoned poured out. Under their leadership, Bomu Bogol and Aldi's subordinates rescued nearly 1,000 men and women from prisons and cellars.

The huts of the Achanis, or Gordes (Nanai people) as they were called, appeared on both sides of the river. The Gordes lived in a number of larger villages, each with more than 100 huts or tents. This ethnic group is at a lower stage of cultural development compared to the Daur and Cuchir peoples. The Gordes did not cultivate the land, and their animal husbandry developed very slowly, and they went out on sleds pulled by dogs. They are mainly engaged in fishing, so their main food is fish.

Nivkh people. The Gillyaks were all fishermen and hunters, and were in a much more backward stage of cultural development than the Golders. The cultural influence of the Chinese pervades this nation. The people of this ethnic group walked on dogs, and the Cossacks saw groups of dogs in their homes, each group numbering at least a few hundred, if not thousands.

Most of the people of these tribes were captured by the Rakshasas as captives and hostages to pay taxes. Suddenly, I saw relatives of the same clan and clan, and suddenly there was a great chaos in the city. (To be continued......)