Because the enemy came too suddenly, the garrison had not fought here for many years, so without reacting, the Swedes landed on the shore and advanced three kilometers inland, because of the rain, the garrison soldiers at the pier were annihilated by the enemy without reacting, and it was really impossible for a squad to attack the enemy with a regiment of nearly 2,000 people.

The garrison that reacted gathered its forces and counterattacked, but the enemy came too quickly, and soon the dock was lost, and the garrison army drove out of the camp and entered combat readiness in the preset second-line defensive positions, that is, the four high ground outside the dock, while the patrolling cavalry company quickly recalled the platoons patrolling within a radius of 100 kilometers of coastline and 100 kilometers of inland mountains, and sent scout cavalry to reconnoiter the enemy's movements, and only one squad of cavalry could be dispatched.

The field army stayed in the camp intact, but only a platoon, thirty kilometers away from the pier, the shore artillery position on the pier was the responsibility of the garrison, and it was also lost at this time, the garrison lost two platoons of defensive strength in this raid, the cavalry company was attacked by the enemy in the process of contact and patrol and lost a squad of troops, and the nearby garrison militia lost two platoons of troops, but it was their hasty resistance and transmission of news that enabled the garrison to react quickly and enter the fortifications, Blocked the enemy's route to continue the offensive into the interior.

However, each defensive site was only a squad, or a few people, and because of the strength of the troops, the garrison hastily opened the camp and then dispersed on a defensive position of about nine kilometers around it, waiting for the subsequent build-up of troops to enter the position for reinforcements.

By the time more than 200 people in the garrison camp entered the fortifications, the enemy had already begun to attack, and more than 200 militia reinforcements had joined the defense, and the total strength was only about 400 people, and they had lost more than 100 people before, and they actually had no troops, and urgently called the garrison army, which had not been trained for several years, to noon to gather enough 500 people, but the enemy was too much, and the dozens of people who came back from the cavalry company could only hold some key intersections to prevent the enemy's scouts from penetrating in.

When a platoon of the Guards was urgently reinforced, the enemy had already broken through some key defensive points and was attacking the garrison camp, which was only a squad of troops, and the hastily arrived artillery platoon of three eighteen-pounder guns and six six-pounder guns set up positions on the high ground outside the camp, opened fire on one of the enemy's attacking companies, and repelled the attack of one of the enemy's companies after receiving reinforcements from a platoon of the Guards and a patrol force of six men from a cavalry company.

At noon, the immigrants who came from nearby were reinforced by young and strong, and they were able to hold the garrison camp, and at this moment, within a radius of 10 kilometers from the wharf, gunfire and artillery were continuous, and many fortifications began to be lost, and the garrison battalion was rapidly losing, and by the time of the noon count, more than 200 people had been lost, and a company of the garrison battalion had been lost.

After the return of all the strength of the cavalry company, there were only two platoons of eighty men, all sent out to attack the enemy's infiltration of small units, the commander of the Guards established a headquarters in the garrison camp, and then sent the remaining cavalry to summon the surrounding garrison troops, the nearest port, the nearest point guard, no matter which corps.

The quickest to arrive was the reinforcement of a company of the cavalry corps, they had a cavalry battalion within a hundred kilometers of the vicinity, the nearest sixty kilometers away, from the morning to the present the cavalry had spent four hours on the rough mountain road, and after a short rest, they threw themselves into the battle to regain their work, and they were sure to get the enemy stuck around the docks.

The enemy did not give up, and continued to send a battalion of troops to attack the garrison camp, after many arms transactions, the weapons and equipment of the Swedes were still good, artillery, muskets, are similar to the Chinese Empire, in terms of weapons and equipment, the army on the defense line that has not changed weapons and equipment for a long time is not advantageous.

Seeing that the reinforcements were not coming, the enemy was strong, and the artillery was also very fierce, the lieutenant colonel of the Guards was already anxious, and personally led a platoon of soldiers of the Guards to repel several enemy attacks, with the stubborn resistance of the Guards, it bought time for the Chinese Imperial Army, and the artillery of the other two platoons of the Chinese Imperial Field Army also came from the station, and worked with Li Ya and their artillery platoon to output artillery fire to the enemy.

However, the enemy's artillery fire was too fierce, and after occupying some of the high ground at the pier and having some shore guns at the pier, the remaining infantry of the Swedes landed, and moved more huge artillery from the ship, the 34-pounder bilge cannon, although the range was short, but it caused heavy losses to the Chinese army defending the nearby high ground, even if a platoon of guards came from behind to join the battle, still let the enemy eat all the high ground near the pier bite by bite, and gathered troops to rush to the garrison camp.

However, after only six kilometers of distance, the enemy arrived in a blink of an eye, and after the artillery company suppressed by the enemy, after losing three eighteen-pounder guns and a battalion of thirty-two-pounder fortress guns, the remaining firepower could no longer completely suppress the battlefield.

After a day and a night of attack, the enemy rushed to a distance of 200 meters in front of the camp gate, and almost surrounded the camp on three sides with only 400 guards.

After the last highland artillery near the 12-pounder camp was destroyed by the enemy, the enemy's infantry even rushed into the camp, and the garrison and the guards entered street fighting mode with a platoon and a half of troops, and even the artillery company had to send reinforcements to them, and the cavalry company went around to the rear to attack the enemy, with the result that a platoon of cavalry was completely annihilated, so that a cavalry company of the cavalry corps was completely wiped out except for the remaining six companies, and a battalion of 600 people of the garrison army had a company of strength left, and only three of the nine eighteen-pounder guns of the artillery company ran away, Only four of the twenty-four six-pounder guns remained, eight twelve-pounder guns on all sides of the camp were destroyed, and three fortress cannons were destroyed.

After inflicting 1,200 casualties on the enemy, 20 artillery pieces damaged, 120 sailors killed, two troop carriers sunk, one sail battleship damaged, and 30 enemy reconnaissance cavalry killed and wounded, the total strength of the Chinese Imperial Army was more than 200 men.

Li Ya gathered the artillery strength in his hand, two squads, assigned to three eighteen-pounder guns, and continued to bombard the enemy, as for the other two platoons, because they took over the fortress artillery and the reserve artillery of the garrison battalion, because they were all destroyed, all were killed and wounded, and those who were not killed or wounded also became infantry to fight positional battles with the enemy.

In the early hours of the morning, Li Ya commanded the artillery platoon to sneak out of the camp and sneak into three miles outside the enemy's artillery position, at dawn, the enemy who was driven out of the camp attacked again, Li Ya quickly measured the position of the enemy's artillery when the enemy artillery opened fire, and a round of artillery killed the enemy's heavy artillery, the 34-pound artillery at the bottom of the cabin, after three rounds of artillery fire, the enemy moved down from the ship and 14 guns were all destroyed.

Then, taking advantage of the time, two more rounds of artillery coverage were carried out, all the artillery that the enemy had pushed to the front was destroyed, and a round of artillery suppression was carried out on the enemy's attacking infantry, although there were only three shells, but the enemy infantry had to withdraw 600 meters from the camp range and retreat and regroup.

After that, Li Ya quickly threw away an eighteen-pounder gun that was too late to put on the carriage, and returned to the camp with two guns that had been ready to be transferred, when the enemy cavalry arrived, they had already entered the camp, and quickly deployed the artillery, and carried out three or four rounds of artillery ambush on the enemy cavalry, and the enemy cavalry left dozens of corpses and retreated.

At noon, only one eighteen-pounder cannon was left in Li Ya's hand, and the other one was blown up, and two artillerymen were taken away, and four gunners were wounded, and even Li Ya was slightly wounded, Li Ya immediately pulled out the four six-pounder guns that were hidden, and distributed the manpower equally, and the enemy attacked again, five artillery, suppressing the enemy's attack at a close distance, and by the evening, the enemy had lost two thousand soldiers, and the rest was only eight hundred, and the camp had not been taken down, Although the camp with artillery is only 80 people.

At this time, gunfire rang out nearby, and soldiers of the regrouped garrison battalion, who had retired for many years, appeared around, taking advantage of the darkness and taking advantage of the darkness to seize the high ground around the dock with the enemy with their outdated weapons and equipment, which had not been replaced for many years.

The battle was lost, the losses were heavy, and the enemy had to consider retreating, and at this time the reinforcements of the two battalions of the Guards and the Cavalry Brigade had reached twenty miles away, and were coming at full speed, led by the cavalry of the cavalry company of the original cavalry corps.

The enemy shrank his defensive position, retreated to the area around the pier three miles, and was ready to retreat, carrying the wounded and corpses onto the ships, it took midnight, and by the time the guards arrived, the enemy had retreated to within 500 meters of the pier, and the Chinese Imperial Army had reached more than 1,000 troops, recovering the lost ground from all sides, and then attacking the dock.

Li Ya led artillery to suppress the enemy, and the enemy rushed on board, leaving all the corpses and wounded, and leaving 200 people to block the Chinese Imperial Army, only after being sunk by the Chinese Imperial Army a battleship, he hurriedly retreated.

A month later, Li Ya, who had recovered from his wounds, returned to the barracks and was promoted to deputy commander of the artillery company with the rank of lieutenant.

Before the arrival of the new company commander, the artillery company managed here, and the artillery company was also replenished, and the garrison army joined the artillery company with thirty soldiers who performed well this time, and the cavalry army also supported a platoon of artillery company soldiers, a cavalry squad of eighteen people, and the garrison army was easy to say, from other places, one-third of the soldiers who rested within a radius of 100 miles were quickly reorganized, and the strength of 600 people was quickly restored, and a platoon of artillery was also formed, and the deputy squad leader of Li Yaban, who performed well this time, served as the deputy platoon commander of the sergeant, became the temporary head of the artillery platoon of the garrison.

Li Ya had a total of artillery platoon commanders transferred from other places by the garrison, a garrison lieutenant, and a cavalry platoon commander who fought bravely and was eventually injured in the cavalry company that was reorganized by the cavalry army, a cavalry lieutenant served as an artillery platoon leader, and an artillery platoon commander promoted by a sergeant of the Guards Army, who is now also a lieutenant.

Half a year after the end of the battle, with the arrival of the commander of the artillery company, a captain, and two lieutenants, Li Ya continued to be stationed in the artillery company, and half a year later he was promoted to captain, and was transferred to a regimental-level infantry regiment of the field army as a staff officer, making way for a newly transferred lieutenant and making him a deputy company commander.

Another half a year, when he was bored, he was sent to the Privy Council Staff College for further study, and after coming out, he became the chief of staff of the field army major, but without waiting for him to go to the post, he was transferred to the Guards as a captain (major) cavalry company commander, after all, it was a Guards, and his major rank could only be matched with a company commander.

The Guards have a lot to learn, but interpersonal relationships make him feel anxious, he is not a sociable person, so he did not stay in the Guards for half a year, he was thrown into the garrison, and served as a major staff officer in a garrison barracks near the military school, and then transferred to Penglai Prefecture as a lieutenant colonel and deputy battalion commander, it was really boring, he took the exam of the first fleet of the naval division, and finally returned to the naval cadet to study for half a year and then became the third officer of a battleship, intern.

Half a year has passed, he has been in the army for eight years, from sixteen to twenty-four years old, outstanding achievements, but maybe he has no talent for water warfare, maybe the sailor does not have anything to make him meritorious, the internship is over, eight and a half years, he entered the Guards under the recommendation of the general of the sailor, although it is not that unit, but he met the boss of the top boss of the unit and he did not deal with, and now this boss has become his direct boss, the commander of the Guards battalion, he is the chief of staff of the Guards battalion.

However, in just twenty days, he, a grassroots officer with no roots, broke out several wars with this superior, and was even imprisoned, demoted, investigated, and finally kicked him out of the Guards on the 21st day, and ended his military career, and threw him into the East Siberian wilderness to become an ordinary East Siberian immigrant.

Those who can rise to the position of lieutenant colonel and battalion chief of staff of the Guards can already enter the field of vision of the Ministry of Military Intelligence and the emperor.

Zhang Qiang saw the legendary encounter of this low-level officer who was not called sad one day, and couldn't help sighing, although he hated such a thing, but the empire was big, and such a thing could not be avoided, the Guards were the emperor's pro-army, their eyes only looked at the things in front of their foreheads, they were very arrogant, and they were disdainful of others, they were very contemptuous, arrogant and proud of such grassroots officers, maybe the Guards really had combat effectiveness, In the battle on the seaside, the two platoons of the guards withstood the siege of four or five hundred enemy men, and with the cooperation of friendly troops, they killed at least two hundred of the enemy, and it can be said that they eliminated one-thirtieth of the enemy's more than 3,000 troops.

Even that lieutenant colonel, after he was well, could no longer fight or march long distances, so he could only retire from the Beijing Division and go to the new barracks to serve in the administrative position of colonel.

(End of chapter)