Chapter 453: Surrender of the Cossacks

"Bang bang bang! ......" Suddenly, the sound of a dense bang sounded intensively. Chata and the others, who were fighting with the enemy army at the head of the city and had gradually gained the upper hand, heard the dense sound of guns, and everyone's faces suddenly turned pale.

Chatta's heart is big, okay, these Russians are finally in a hurry, and in such a situation where the enemy and us are fighting, they actually open fire and shoot, in order to shoot their own Tang army that has mixed into the city as soon as possible, but they are ruthless.

You must know that in the case of such a stalemate between the two enemy troops, this is the enemy shooting together without distinction, it can be seen that the current Russian defenders are also in a hurry.

After the sound of gunfire, many Russian soldiers and Tang soldiers screamed and fell down together in the city and below.

A stray bullet flew past the cheek of Chatta's face, burning a dark red blood streak on his face, and he gritted his teeth in pain.

"Damn, these Russian devils are really ruthless!" Chata took a sip, his heart was full of anger, he shouted at the remnants of the Tang army at the head of the city: "Quick, there is a break in the fighting, rush over, cut down these guys, pull up the iron gate, let our army enter the city!" The remnants of the Tang army roared and fought hard to attack forward.

And the Cossack mercenaries, who had only a dozen people left, also fought more and more desperately against the Don army. After the last Cossack mercenary fell, there were only more than fifty people left, all wounded, all of them bloody Don soldiers, scrambling to pull the chains on the winch.

"Bang bang bang! ......" was another dense sound of banging, and it sounded intensively. Many Tang Army soldiers, like a trick, instantly appeared on their bodies with large and small blood holes.

They fell down screaming, rolling and wailing on the walls until they died. Chata's leg was also shot once.

A small buckshot whizzed into his calf from the left side, stirring up a blur of flesh and blood in his calf.

"Camp Commander Cha!

The surviving Tang troops around screamed for a while. He screamed in pain, and immediately fell to the ground, but he still yelled: "it!" Don't stop! Quickly pull up the hinges and let the brothers outside the city in! When the remnants of the Tang army heard the order, everyone gritted their teeth, shook the winch with all their strength, and rattled up the thick slate-clad iron dark city gate that amounted to more than a ton little by little.

And the more than 400 soldiers who were waiting anxiously outside the city immediately rushed in from the gate of the city with tigers out of the mountains and swords out of the boxes.

The other nearly fifty Flying Harrier cavalry guarding the gate of this gate were already very strong, and the rampant general army outside the city came very timely.

Chatta sat down on the ground, his face covered in blood, panting heavily, his hands on his shuffled calves, but the smile on his face was very bright.

An even larger bloody battle began at the gates of the city. Slashing with knives and stabbing guns, fighting with flesh and blood, screaming again and again, the Tang army and the Russian army, at the east gate of Yakutsk, attacked each other in full swing.

Overseer Golovin, who was watching the battle from afar, turned pale, his lips trembled involuntarily, and for a moment, he was speechless.

These damn yellow-skinned monkeys, when they were at such a disadvantage just now, can still fight to the death so desperately, without giving in, and finally open the situation, so that the east gate of Yakutsk City is completely lost, their such strong combat power can be called the most powerful opponent encountered since the Russian Eastern Crusade!

At this time, the Tang army and the Russian army were completely deadlocked, and the musketeers in the city no longer dared to let go of their guns at will, they stood far away, stunned.

After nearly a quarter of an hour of slashing in the city, as time went on, the advantage began to shift more and more to the side of the Tang army.

The encircled Russian army couldn't stop it at all, and these most elite infantry soldiers in the Tang army screamed and kept retreating.

At this time, at the head of the city of Yakutsk, another piercing siren sounded.

"Overseer, oh no!" The adjutant hurried over and shouted: 'Hundreds of Chinese cavalry outside the city are rushing towards the east gate!

In the back, there are more overwhelming Chinese infantry marching, whose strength is afraid to be two or three times that of ours!

Golovin sighed, and the panic on his face was beyond measure. No, the Chinese army came in waves, and the gate of this Yakutsk city was lost, and if you resist, I am afraid that it will all be buried here. The Russians do not have many troops and cannot afford to lose too many troops, and the current plan is only feasible to retreat. Otherwise, if these yellow-skinned monkeys were allowed to swarm in, wrap dumplings, and wipe out the entire Yakutsk defenders, the Russian Empire would need more preparation time if it wanted to counterattack in the future.

"On my orders, the cavalry and the musketeers quickly retreated from the west gate, leaving only the Cossack mercenaries and native mercenaries to guard here.

"Golovin finished this paragraph with a blank face, and the adjutant next to him was already colorless. Governor, Lord Overseer, if we abandon the Cossack mercenaries and the indigenous mercenaries, they will die at the hands of the Chinese.

"The adjutant stumbled. ' So what? Isn't their fate to serve the noble white Russians? Rather than all die in this Yakutsk city, it is better to let them cut off for us and stop these hateful Chinese. In the current situation, they can only ask God to bless themselves.

Golovin said coldly. Soon, more than 200 cavalry in the city, as well as more than 100 musketeers, opened the west gate of the city of Yakutsk, fled all the way west, and went straight to the nearest city of Nizhnelyiminsk. As soon as the main general fled, the remaining more than 1,000 mercenaries in the city suddenly suffered a great demoralization, and the already unstable formation was suddenly in chaos. Wu Zhuang, the mayor of Anton Town, led the 400 flying harrier light cavalry, roared through the city gate, and slammed into the Cossack mercenaries who were in a mess. The Cossack mercenaries, who were already struggling to resist, were instantly dispersed, and the Cossack mercenaries in front of them were knocked into the air like pieces of paper, and then collapsed. Nearly 800 Cossack mercenaries surrendered on their knees, and at this time, Wu Zhuang issued an order to stop the killing in time, so that they did not die under the Tang saber. This short, intense, and thrilling battle for the capture of Yakutsk finally ended with the victory of the Don army. After more than a month of arduous journey, and after this bloody battle of nine deaths, the most important city of the Russians in the Far East finally fell into their own hands. All the hard work is finally worth it.

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

"Kill the Tartars, go to heaven!"

"Kill the Tartars, take the fame!" …… The Tang army cheered repeatedly, and slogans resounded inside and outside the city of Yakutsk.

Seeing these fierce and cruel Cossack mercenaries, kneeling in front of him, and the entire city of Yakutsk, finally falling into his own hands, Wu Zhuang's face was full of joy.

In fact, the Cossack mercenaries are very strong, especially the cavalry and bow and arrow are excellent, and the battlefield experience is also rich, but in this defensive battle, because the Tang army is a sudden sneak attack, their advantages such as cavalry and archery can not be played at all, but only Lou Zuo ordinary infantry and the Tang army fight, and this hand-to-hand combat is precisely the Tang army's most strong point in the rampant general army, which led to passive beating, and finally under the Tang army's infantry and cavalry attack, a complete defeat.

Rao is so, these Cossack mercenaries, who can grit their teeth and fight until now, are enough to show their ability.

"Mayor Wu, why don't these Cossacks kill them, but spare their lives, but why?

Zhao Wencai, the supervisor on the side, asked puzzled. Wu Zhuang sneered: "Hmph, if they were from the Russian race, they would have killed them, but since they are mercenaries, as long as the price given by the general is right, they will naturally be able to work for us." In the meantime, it would be a double blow to sweep the surrounding Russian remnant castles, but just to send these people there. Zhao Wencai sighed and nodded, unconsciously showing a smile on his face.

At this time, the Tang army had firmly blocked the east and west gates of Yakutsk, and the residents and remnants of the army in the city could no longer escape.

At this time, the first batch of more than 30 surviving Tang troops who rushed into the city, Chata, who limped down from the head of the city, came to report to Wu Zhuang the specific process of attacking the city.

After listening to Chata City's narration, Wu Zhuang was not moved, he didn't expect that the Tang Army's capture of Yakutsk was so difficult and tortuous, if it weren't for Chata and a group of Tang troops who entered the city in advance to fight to the death, this Yakutsk City might have been a failure.

And when he saw Chata's bloody calf, he also sighed in his heart, this Chata's leg seemed to be unable to be saved.

He hurriedly ordered the guards to take Chata down first, and let the medical officer pick out the lead bullet in his calf, so that he could be treated.

Soon, various statistical reports were also reported by the officials of the Supervision and Pastoral Affairs Department. In this battle, the Tang army, which attacked thousands of miles away, eliminated more than 280 Russian soldiers, including Stashinki and other Russian officers, and more than 700 Cossack mercenaries and local soldiers surrendered, while the rest of the Russian army, including the overseer Golovin, fled from the city when the main force of the Tang army attacked the city of Yakutsk.

In this battle, the casualties of the Tang army were that a total of 82 Tang soldiers were killed and more than 180 were wounded.

These casualties were basically at the beginning, when the Tang Army pretended to be the natives of the Russian caravan to seize the city, the losses suffered were exchanged for the lives of hundreds of soldiers in exchange for a complete Yakutsk city, and the largest castle in the Far East that Russia had painstakingly operated for many years, and killed several times the number of Russian soldiers.

While the civil servants of the whole army were urgently counting the number of seizures and inhabitants in the city, the leader of the Cossack mercenaries, Colonel Sordov, was escorted to the Don army by several Don soldiers.

"What's your name and what do you do?" Wu Zhuang asked sternly.

"General, my name is Zardov, I am the head of the Cossack mercenaries, with the rank of colonel." The bloodied Zarduff had a vicious face full of flesh, but the words he answered were weak.

After listening to Bao Yuangui's translation, Wu Zhuang sneered: "Erduf, the general only asks you one thing, since you are mercenaries, are you willing to serve our army?" As long as you can work with peace of mind, I will charge double the price. Hearing Wu Zhuang's words, Erduff's face showed ecstasy.

Hmph, mercenaries don't care about loyalty, who to sell their lives is not selling, if these Chinese can pay double the price, fools also know what to choose.

However, when he saw the threatening eyes of Tang Jun around him, he couldn't help but want to laugh. Finally, he replied respectfully: "My lord, we Cossacks have a saying that the sharpest sword can also change its direction because of a gold coin, and I think that people like us, who were already defeated in battle, will not find a reason to refuse your kindness to the general."

Wu Zhuang smiled and said: "Very good, as long as you are good at working for Ben General, in the future, Ben will have more rewards for you."

With an excited face, he knelt on one knee with one hand across his chest, performed a standard allegiance salute, and said loudly: "Please rest assured general, our group of Cossack mercenaries, from now on, only the general will look forward!"

After Wu Zhuang surrendered the Cossack mercenaries, it was not long before the situation of the residents of the city was reported. There are nearly 1,800 people of all kinds in the city, including more than 800 indigenous residents and more than 1,000 Russian immigrants. According to the statistics of the Department of Supervision and Maintenance, the city of Yakutsk has a lot of savings, because this is the most important Russian stronghold and city in the Far East, with a total of more than 500,000 stone of grain and grass, more than 30,000 taels of silver, and a lot of ordnance and uniforms. To tell the truth, Wu Zhuang does not particularly attach great importance to these Russian savings, after all, the logistics of the Tang Army are now very effective, and the amount of grain reserves in Guangmiaojiebao is the same as that of this Yakutsk city. However, since these materials have been seized by themselves, the more the merrier. After gathering all the people in the city, Wu Zhuang issued a cruel order. That is, all the Russian men in the city who are taller than the wheels will be killed in the street, and not a single one will be left. However, among these Russian men to be killed, Wu Zhuang also opened the net slightly. That is, Mikhail's caravan, which has now entered the city in disgrace, Wu Zhuang allowed them to take their relatives away first and save their lives, which can be regarded as a reward for Mikhail and others to cooperate along the way. Mikhail and the others, who were so frightened that their faces turned white, hurriedly found their relatives from these Russian settlements and hurriedly took them far away. And Wu Zhuang's next request, who demanded the execution of this order to kill the Russian man, were the newly returned Cossack mercenaries who were loyal to him. Hearing Wu Zhuang's cruel order, Zarduff's face changed, and he hurriedly said to Wu Zhuang: "General, now that they have been conquered by our army, why do they have to behead these Russian men?"

Wu Zhuang glanced at him coldly, then snorted and said: "Tell you, this is our order from Lord Li, these Russians, not my race, and it is difficult to assimilate and subdue, in order to prevent this hard-won Yakutsk city from causing chaos again, it is better to slaughter it, why, are you unwilling to carry out my order?"

Wu Zhuang's coercive words frightened Erdov's face pale, he no longer dared to distinguish it, hurriedly retreated, and began to arrange his subordinates to behead these Russian adult men. Looking at the back of Erduf who was hurrying away, Wu Zhuang sneered. Hmph, you Cossack mercenaries, Lao Tzu just wants you to raise the butcher's knife against your former master and use their lives to pay for your name, so that the general will not be afraid, you guys who only fight for profit will rebel against Russia again in the future. Soon, in a wail, more than 500 Russian men who were higher than the wheels were beheaded in the street, bleeding profusely, and it was unbearable to see. In an environment of crying and earth-shattering, Schordov and a group of Cossack mercenaries almost frantically slashed and killed these Russian male captives, while all the onlookers of the city were so frightened that they almost became incontinent, and almost everyone expressed in their hearts that they must serve the Tang Army loyally and must not have different hearts. [.]