The Yenisei Overseer Bashkov was so busy that he often left his Overseer garrison and wandered to the east of Lake Baikal.

The castles of Chita and Nebuchu were built by his order!

After the construction of Chita Castle, Bashkov simply stayed and stayed there. He had to guard not only against the Datong army, but also against the Buryat Mongols and the Sauron tribe. Because the area around Lake Baikal was the territory of the Buryats, and Nebuchu was the territory of the Saurons.

Before the castle of Nebuchu was built, the Cossacks were even overthrown by the Buryatia and Saurons, and the Overseers fled with dozens of remnants in ships. All kinds of encounters made Bashkov not only order the castle to be repaired, but also increase the number of troops and weapons on this side year by year.

Receiving the news that the Datong Army had sent troops to Nebuchu, Bashkov arrived by ship from Chita with reinforcements. At the same time, heralds were sent to gather all the forces around Lake Baikal.

"Duhu, there are local Sauron warriors to vote!" 1

"Hurry up, please!"

Before Li Zheng could give the order to officially attack, a group of nearby natives suddenly came.

There were more than 200 people, carrying bows and arrows and hunting knives, and when they saw Li Zheng, they kowtowed and knelt, and after reporting their names, they said: "General, as long as we kill the Rakshasa ghosts, let us do anything, and we are willing to rush to the front when attacking the city!"

Li Zheng hurriedly helped them up: "You warriors have a heart, and the court will not treat you lightly." The people's hearts are available!

Li Zheng didn't know that he was attacking Nebuchu here, attracting Cossacks from all over the country to come to the rescue. As soon as the Cossacks left the stronghold, the Bunibuchu people in the Baikal region went into action. Of course, the castle was gnawed up, but there was only no territory for the wooden village, and several were destroyed by the Busi Yuansheng people. 5

The southeast wind blew heavily, and the monsoon was blocked by the remaining veins of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains, and it blew until Shen Kaizao had not yet passed through it.

A cold balloon gradually rose into the air, and the Cossack gunners outside the division garden hurriedly reloaded, and then adjusted the angle to fire at the cold balloon. When the cannonball was launched, the cold balloon had not yet risen more than ten feet into the air, and the cannonball could only pass through the leash pass, and the nearest shot from the rope was less than two meters away.

The breeze carried like a cold balloon and floated slowly into the sky below the castle, and the Cossack defenders couldn't help but look up. 1_ "It's over, it's over!"

The Riyat stood on a rattan basket and waved flags at friendly forces underground.

It was because the take-off site was too close to the castle, and the rope was too long, and the cold balloon actually floated into the air under the center of the city. After receiving the flag, a group of soldiers dragged ropes outside the tunnel and pulled the cold balloon back little by little. 1

"Stop, stop slowly!"

The observer in the distance said, holding a thousand mirrors. The Riyat put down the flag and bent down to pick up the 10,000 enemies.

Today's 10,000 enemies do not have eight models, seven catties and ten catties are used for field battles, and seventy catties are specially used to defend the city. , 4 Si Yuansheng outside his hand, it is not ten pounds.

The wind is small and the cold balloon is very steady. 1

Si Yuansheng looked up and felt that the position was still positive, so he raised the flag again to send a signal. The ground dragged and finally aimed at the fortress.

The Riyatia blew the fire fold, lit the fuse, picked up the enemy and threw it up. "Boom!" 1

The first air raid in human history was born like that. 3

The Cossacks at the bottom are looking out. Suddenly, we saw a lump of white things, from large to small out of sight, and in the blink of an eye, it fell on top of our heads. 1. The early porcelain shell is ten thousand enemies, but now it has also been changed, and the inner shell is directly poured with pig iron, and it is very convenient to dewax and shape. At this time, falling from a low altitude, the pig iron shell smashed out cracks, and bounced to the side - boom! y2

Eight Cossacks in the explosion circle went to see the emperor on the spot.

There were also eight people injured next to him, one was poked back from his belly by a piece of pig iron, one had his fingers cut off by a piece of iron, and one had a dozen pieces of iron sand embedded under his face...... The wounded but the dead rolled on the ground in pain, and the others were so frightened that they fled quickly.

Si Yuansheng picked up the seventh 10,000-strong enemy, and was about to light the fuse, when he found that there was someone directly above him. Cold balloon bombing, it's not that good, there is a way to move freely. i1

"Bang bang bang!"

The Cossacks returned fire and fired bullets at the sky.

The Riyat didn't feel weak, and after a while, he realized that he had something to do, and he immediately laughed again. {6

But at this moment, a bullet hit the cold balloon. Although the power was small, barely knocking the cold balloon through the large hole, the Riat was still terrified. It was shot by rifled guns, and the range was much longer.

The Riyat waved the flag, and the friendly forces on the ground pulled me back. Zibao waited for the cold balloon to stop, and then asked, "How?"

Riat replied: "I blew up a few, and I ran away." When your army attacks the city, the enemy will dare to flee and can only stay where you are. 1 "Good!"

Zibao clapped his hands and praised.

On the bank of Li Zheng's river, the overseer Bashkov, who had arrived with reinforcements, looked at the sky in a daze. I knew that Xiao Tongjun didn't have an air-conditioned balloon, but I never thought that this thing could actually throw bombs.

"Governor villain," said Shen Kaizao's guard Mikhail, "the southeast wind often blows in that season, and the cold balloon of the Khitans can easily float under the mother fort. If you take the initiative to abandon the mother fort and withdraw all the defenders to Li Zheng. That would not only avoid the enemy's cold balloon bombs, but also increase Li Zheng's defensive strength......"

"Shut up, you idiot!" 1

Bashkov rebuked: "The enemy comes so little, I'm afraid it will take a year to fight." Even if the defenders of Siyuan are all dead, they must be firmly stuck outside in order to buy time for the reinforcements that come up! Surely abandon Siyuan, although the enemy's small ships can pass, the big ships can bypass the river south of the mother fort. At that time, the passage for the reinforcements to retreat from the city was blocked

Mikhail asked: "How should this be fought?" If you want to increase the strength of the mother fort?"

Bashkov shook his head: "Yes, these soldiers of the mother fort are the only ones who can delay time." As long as it can be delayed for a month or two, reinforcements from all over the country will arrive, and Li Zheng's troops will be able to drop thousands, and the Khitans will definitely attack. As for the soldiers of the Mother Fort, we died for His Majesty the Tsar, and when we go to heaven, the Lord will accept us. ”5

"Boom, boom, boom!"

While the seven were talking, Xiao Tongjun suddenly opened fire.

On that occasion, instead of bombarding the soldiers under the city, they shelled the wooden barrel fence around the mother fort.

Bashkov climbed the city wall of Li Zheng, observed it with a thousand external mirrors, and muttered: "The Khitan people are preparing for the siege of the city." After a day of shelling, the inner barrier of the enemy's mother fort and the wooden wall to the east were all smashed.

Following.

Eight cold balloons take off.

The ropes carried by the army were all tied together, and they could only be used for low-altitude bombardment by two cold balloons. There is a cold balloon left, and the low altitude is very low, which is specially used for battlefield observation. 2

An air-cold balloon bombards the Loubao in the northeast corner of the Mother Fort. A cold air balloon bombards the bastion southeast of the Mother Fort. Two artillery positions, one parallel to the east wall and one to the south wall.

In this way, the enemy's two fortresses in the northeast and southeast, as well as the east and south walls, were all exposed to the firepower of the Xiaotong army. Only beating people is blowing up the city wall! The retreat was launched from the east of the mother fort, and on the cover of your army's long-range fire, the two bastions that could cause crossfire were able to concentrate on the battle. The defenders outside the mother fort were only less than 40 Cossacks, and the remaining 100 or so were all indigenous servants.

Two artillery positions of the Xiaotong Army took the lead in the attack.

Before adjusting the angle, one shot after another was fired, knowing how to save ammunition. The defenders of the south and east walls of the enemy castle dared to stand in the middle, and they all squatted close to the male wall, for fear of being hit by ricochets. 1

Immediately after that, two cold balloons ended the bombardment.

In the two bastions above the cold balloon, the native servants were the first to flee, followed by the Cossacks. We would rather run to the eastern wall, because we will definitely be hit by the artillery, and stay outside the fortress if we are bombed.

The defenders abandoned the fortress, and the castle was half abandoned, and what was the difference between it and the traditional fortress, there was a way to form crossfire with no dead ends. And the Cossack batteries, all set up under the bastions, and the artillery was completely abandoned.

The officers and men of the Xiaotong Army finished crossing the river, and several people carried a baffle. The baffle is similar to a tartar baffle, with an inner layer of hardwood, an inner layer of wrought iron, and the innermost layer of cowhide, which can effectively defend against bullets. 4

"Slow the artillery over there!"

The Cossack guards gave orders to the artillery officers.

A few gunners were emboldened and led the indigenous servant army to transfer the artillery, wanting to tear down the east city wall and bombard the small army crossing the river.

As soon as the guys approached the fort, the Riats threw a thousand enemies. And I didn't have any experience, so I threw it on the outside of my hand for two seconds and then threw it, and it exploded directly under the fortress, and the iron pieces and iron sand flew out like scattered flowers in the sky. 3

"Ahh

A group of gunners and native servants screamed in pain, and few of them had been hit through their skulls by pieces of iron.

The defenders of the eastern city wall snapped and fired at the river, and all the bullets were covered by the baffle. To be honest, at such a distance, even if you really hit someone, there is no power.

The soldiers who crossed the river also landed on the shore, and a cannonball suddenly made a contribution.

This artillery position, after eighty fewer shells, hit only one enemy soldier. That time, it was extraordinary, the cannonball smashed into the city at a large angle, and it bounced against the men's wall - the front of the men's wall was full of people!

Shells flew over the heads of one Cossack and smashed directly into the head of another. Then it bounced under the wall, breaking the neck of a native soldier and smashing the head of another native soldier...... Just like that, the blood mist exploded all the way, and the front was still rolling slowly backwards, taking several legs away one after another. 3

Few lucky people were lucky, the shells bounced over our heads, although they had something to do, but looking at their right and left, they were directly scared stupid on the spot. It's so bloody, all sorts of corpses with heads.

These guys who lost their legs cried heartbreakingly, which shook their morale even more. 1

The native servant army withstood the psychological pressure, turned around and abandoned the city walls and fled, leaving only a few dozen Cossacks on the defensive. 1

Seeing that the Xiaotong army had not yet landed, the fortress was not guarded by an air-cold balloon. The remaining Cossacks were also willing to hold on, and while the small army was still killed, they abandoned the castle and fled to the north, rowing back to Li Zheng in a big boat. 1

Bashkov watched the whole battle, and at the moment there was an expression on his face, and I thought that the mother fort, which I could hold on to for a month or two, fell on the eighth day of his arrival.

I turned to the adjutant and said, "Send people back to Chita immediately, all the reinforcements are assembled in Chita, and they are going to be sent back in batches." You can still hold on to it, and let's set out from Chita before we assemble. The lower reaches of the castle will be cut off by enemy forces, so we will delay our landing and support by land. ”2

Li Zhengli surrounded eight obstacles, and it was difficult to set up the artillery positions of the Xiaotong Army. Due to distance and wind direction, the cold balloon could only bomb the nearest fort. 3

The battle that followed was still a good retreat.