Chapter 179: Crossing the River in the Night
"Our NPC sent troops to attack the sick man of East Asia in the south on five fronts, please forgive me for calling it that, if it were the reality, it would be published. Ha ha! In fact, I want to say from the bottom of my heart that the country in the south is still the sick man of East Asia, and the land under our feet is still our country more than a hundred years later, named after those martyrs who opened up the territory of the empire. ”
"I think there is a reason why you here did not choose the south road, the northwest road, etc., but chose to attack the north road of Aihui. We came here because of the emperor's ** team that invaded the south more than 100 years ago, and the Northern Route Army was the most iron-blooded. We here pay tribute to the great General Gribsky, who has been assigned to us and whose land has been assigned to us lives as a sick man of East Asia, who, in order to solve the hidden dangers of the empire, ordered the sweep of the people of Hailan Pao and the 64 Tun of Jiangdong. ”
"In this highly realistic game, we have the privilege of participating in the feat of our forefathers, using our guns to conquer southern China and occupy more land. My brothers, when I received the mission of the Northern Route Army, the system prompted me that I would be punished by the system for participating in inhumane missions, and I believe you also received the prompt. What I'm trying to say is, to hell with the TMD punishment! After we go south, we will not only have to participate in the massacre, but also find a way to convince the NPCs to slaughter more cities, which is not a good chance......"
The players let out bursts of laughter, and like Brotsky who gave the speech, they were not afraid of system punishment and just wanted to enjoy the tyrannical thrill of this extremely real game. Brotsky is said to be a real-life Far Eastern veteran, a fanatical hawk who mixes well in the game and was appointed as the player's commander by the governor of the Amur province, Gribsky.
Both Huaxia and Tsarist Russia have completed military preparations, and a major war is about to break out, and the pressure on the Huaxia side of Aihui City is the greatest. Tsarist Russia divided its troops into five routes, and there were only more than 400,000 players in the other four roads, but there were more than 300,000 players on the northern route from Hailan Pao to attack Aihui, and there were only two or three hundred thousand Huaxia players in Aihui City.
The Hailan Pao Barracks of the Russian Army, which is across the river from the Aihui garrison, has 3 infantry battalions and 3 companies, 7 cavalry companies, 2 artillery companies, more than 2,000 local armed forces, a total strength of more than 7,000 people, and 28 advanced artillery pieces. The Russian players who participated in the mission were better than the Chinese players in terms of their own weapons, and they were replenished with ammunition from the Tsarist Russian garrison of Hailanpao, and there were also artillery soldiers who had learned ballistic mapping.
Chen Hao found Feng Xiang, the deputy commander of Aihui City, and offered to propose that the cavalry team secretly cross the river to attack the Russian army and harass the logistics and supply of the Russian army. Feng Xiang rejected Chen Hao's suggestion, believing that there was no reason for the Russians to take the lead in firing without provocation.
Chen Hao sighed, even a general like Feng Xiang did not dare to take the initiative to provoke the great powers, and the waist of the country's weak people was not straight. Unable to convince Feng Xiang, he did not dare to act on his own, and the punishment for disobeying military orders was very heavy, and it would also affect the resistance of the Russians. After returning to the camp and waiting for the Russians to take the initiative to start provoking, Wu Peifu was put in charge of commanding his 1,000 patrol battalions and a dry horse bandit, while he himself led the player to fight.
On 15 July, two Russian ships, "Mikhail" and "Selenga," which had gone to support the Russian forces on standby in the attack on Harbin, sailed to the waters of the Aihui River. The Huaxia Aihui garrison "flew across to block," and the Tsarist "Selenga" opened fire, and the Huaxia troops fought back, wounding the "Selenga" and "Mikhail," killing and wounding five Russian officers and men.
Gribsky, the military governor of Amur Province of Tsarist Russia, led cavalry artillery to the Russian outpost on the opposite bank of Aihui and shelled the city of Aihui. The Huaxia Heihetun garrison launched a full-scale attack against Hailan Pao in response to the Russian army. This is the so-called Heilongjiang incident.
After the Heilongjiang incident in the game, Chen Hao immediately found Feng Xiang and asked to lead troops to secretly cross the river to gain strategic depth. Feng Xiang stubbornly shook his head and said, "The Russians are just provoking now, if we rashly enter their territory, I am afraid that the imperial court will hold them responsible." ”
Chen Hao sneered: "I heard that the Russians are searching for the Chinese people of Hailan Pao, if the adults hesitate, I am afraid that thousands of Chinese people will not escape the killing of the Russians." Now that the Queen Mother has declared war on the Great Powers, and the Russians have provoked again and again, why not meet the head-on blows? If the general is afraid of responsibility, I am willing to lead the troops across the river, and the court will hold me accountable. ”
Feng Xiang stood up and said, "What you said is true? Will the Russians really attack the Hailan Pao Chinese? ”
Chen Hao sighed and said: "The Russians are ferocious, in addition to Hailan Pao, there are also Jiangdong Sixty-four Tun, they can't be kind enough to send the people back, if we don't go to the rescue of the people of the two places, it will be difficult to escape death." ”
"Where are you going to cross the river, and how many people are you going to take with you?" Feng Xiang didn't disappoint Chen Hao in the end......
"Cross the river from Zhong'an, sweep the Russian supply lines all the way, replenish the ammunition of the Inhumans and mobilize the Russian troops in Hailan Pao, and then the cavalry team will take the opportunity to take Hailan Pao, and then let all the Inhumans defend in Hailan Pao."
This was Wu Peifu's idea, Chen Hao was just relaying, according to Wu Peifu, now that the Russians are lax, they can't imagine that the Qing army dares to take the lead in crossing the river to attack, this is the best opportunity. After listening to Chen Hao's plan, Feng Xiang pondered for a moment, gritted his teeth and said: "I will ask the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division Battalion to help you, if you can't take Hailan Bubble, I will only ask." ”
There are several thousand "overseas Chinese" living in the Huaxia residential areas and suburbs of Hailanpao City, 230 or 40 Chinese businessmen, and there are also a large number of Chinese hired workers, small traders, and handicraftsmen, totaling more than 10,000 people. Since the military mobilization of the Amur Military District and the Siberian Military District of Russia, the atrocities of persecution of the Chinese have continued to occur in Hailanpao, and a large number of Chinese have crossed back to Jiangyou. The Chinese who had settled there for a long time became the targets of massacres by Tsarist Russia because of their mobility difficulties or because they were deceived.
In view of the tense situation in the city of Hailan Pao, the representatives of the Chinese residents asked the Amur military governor Gribsky whether the Chinese residents wanted to evacuate, and Gribsky hypocritically promised that "peaceful foreigners will never be allowed to be harassed." The residents of China believed it, but they fell for it.
On 15 July, Gribsky ordered that the Chinese should not cross the river and that all ferries should be detained. Then the city police department began to arrest all the Huaxia people. On the 16th, heavily armed Cossacks and volunteers broke into the homes and shops of the Chinese, and escorted away men, women, and children, even the babies they were carrying were forcibly pulled out.
The Russians searched for a total of 3,000 to 3,500 people, and were first surrounded by Russian soldiers in the residential areas of China, and some of them rushed out and were killed 50 or 60 people on the spot. Later, the men were transferred to the city police station, which could not accommodate them, and were escorted to a sawmill by the Chingchiri River that night.
Chen Hao originally wanted to cross the river in advance to have more time to prepare, but Feng Xiang did not agree to cross the river first, and he had no choice, after all, crossing the river required the cooperation of the sailor battalion. After the clashes broke out on 15 July, the Russians were already searching for the Chinese residents everywhere, and the tragedy would happen on the 17th, leaving him with only one day left.
When Russian players and NPCs were feverishly searching for Chinese soldiers and civilians, with the cooperation of the officers and soldiers of the Navy Battalion, the officers and soldiers of the 1,000 patrol battalion under Chen Hao and more than 9,000 horse bandits all crossed the river safely. Taking advantage of the cover of night, Chen Hao rode on the snow kicking black horse, and led a group of horse bandits to kill Esuri not far away.
There are more than 400 NPC Russian troops stationed in Esuri, and no players participate, after all, the Russians can't imagine that Huaxia players can persuade NPCs to allow them to cross the river in advance. Russian players want to participate in the southern invasion mission, and no one wants to receive the mission to accompany the NPC to garrison Esuri.
Essuri hoarded part of the military supplies, which were guarded by Captain Kafka with an infantry battalion, and Kafka drank Volga and collapsed on the bed. The two sentinels were discussing what was happening to the east, betting that Governor Gribsky would spare the Chinese, when a shadow appeared not far from them.
Ouyang Yu touched a place only five meters away from the two sentinels, took out two darts from his arms, and with a slight wave of his hand, the darts accurately hit the neck of one of the sentries. Another sentry was about to scream, but Feng Yong, who had already touched the other side, pounced on him and broke his neck.
Chen Hao led a group of horse bandits into Esuri, and he signaled not to take prisoners, and most of the Russians were beheaded while they were still asleep. Finally, an officer noticed that the enemy had come in the barracks, and he hurriedly pulled out his pistol and fired, and the Russians who were sleeping everywhere woke up after the gunshots rang out in the camp.
Chen Hao led a group of horse bandits to chop around the camp with swords, and in a few minutes, he completely annihilated the small Russian army in Esuri and occupied the Russian arsenal. When the horse bandit Du Lisan saw the 600 brand-new water bead rifles in the arsenal, his eyes showed a greedy look, and he salivated and said: "Lord Chen, I don't have all the guns under my hands, and my brother also contributed today, reward me with a few guns!" ”
Chen Hao said lightly: "You already have all the guns under your hand a few days ago, right?" You can take 50 guns, but you'll have to take 50 other types of guns and give them to your brothers. ”
Du Lisan thought about it and agreed to Chen Hao's conditions, changed fifty good guns, and replenished the bullets. These water beads are all ten percent new good guns, and Chen Hao himself wants to stay. It's just that he is now the commander of the army and needs the service of these bandits, so he has to compromise with the bandits.
Chen Hao asked his guards to count it, picked out five noble versions of them, and distributed the remaining guns to the large group of bandits, and the guns eliminated by the large group of bandits were handed over to the bandits who were not fully equipped. He left two hundred for the patrol battalion, which was armed with Mauser 1888 commission rifles, but many of them were extremely old and of reduced quality to their regular counterparts.
After occupying Esuri, there was no need to be cautious in crossing the river from Zhong'an, and Fengxiang sent more ships to transport it. It's just that the number of players is too much, and two or three hundred thousand players rely on sailors to operate and deliver, even if each boat is full, it will not be delivered until dawn.
(To be continued)