On the second day after the whole army was assembled, Guo Xu commanded all his troops to board the ship and head north, where he selected a flat bay with a flat beach as the landing site, and many small boats sent a large number of soldiers to the shore.

The landing site was safe, and before that, Guo Xu had investigated and probed it, and the deal with Akdun was placed here, and the smooth transaction meant that Man Dahai was not clear about the actions of the trading company.

However, the landing was very chaotic, and the troops involved in the battle came from different systems, including two companies of marines, members of two pioneer teams from Ezo and Tohoku, and the mining corps from Sado Island.

Because the tide was not detected, the low tide in the middle of the landing halted for a while, giving Mandahai a certain opportunity, and the hundreds of cavalry he sent launched a surprise attack, but they were repelled by the marines who had completed the formation with muskets, and both sides were damaged.

In the face of the change, Guo Xu was not in a hurry, and ordered all the soldiers of each boat to assemble on the sand boat, and then directly let the flat-bottomed sand boat run aground directly on the beach.

Then, Guo Xu put more than 170 soldiers of the Mining Corps in front, led by An Mingge and Yoshida Shichiro, to form a skirmish line to conduct reconnaissance and early warning, while the rest of the army was to reorganize and follow up and go to the direction of Mokowei.

On the side of a stream outside the peninsula where Mokowei is located, the army was ambushed by the Qing army, but fortunately, the soldiers of the mining corps found it in advance, lit a fire in the pine forest, and burned the ambushed Qing army, and the two sides confronted each other across a stream densely covered with pebbles.

Man Dahai did not ride on a horse, not even under the big curtain, but stood in a group of horses, looking around from time to time.

"It seems that Mandahai knows us very well, and he is worried that there are hunters here to fight him." Luckedhun said with a smile.

Guo Xu nodded, but unfortunately, he didn't have an elite chasper in his hand, nor did he have a rifled gun, but even if he had, he was not sure to hit key figures such as Man Dahai.

"Do you want to attack?" An Mingge asked, a bloody streak appeared on his face, which was caused by the arrow of an Eight Banner soldier when he was in contact with the outpost, but this did not make him afraid, but stimulated his bloodiness.

Guo Xu said: "Wait for the first-class artillery team, maybe Mandahai will attack." ”

But Guo Xu guessed wrong, at this time Mandahai was already in a state of tension, the number of enemies surprised him, Guo Xu had at least six hundred people around him, and all of them were firearms troops.

Haise pointed to the stream and said, "Bei Ziye, this river is very shallow, we can wade across the river, walk slowly, and the formation is not chaotic." It just so happens that the river is a little bit different from the river, and we can get the archers to draw them to shoot when we cross the river, and when we have done so, we can disperse them. ”

Man Dahai smiled coldly: "When I was in Liaodong last year, Prince Zheng and Rao Yu Beile also thought the same. ”

Haise asked, "What about the result?" ”

"The result was that they were crushed, and then thousands of gentry were lost." Man Dahai said disdainfully.

He carefully observed the opponent, Guo Xu lined up a small phalanx on the relatively open left flank, and the formation of the phalanx was more than 200 soldiers of the Ezo Land Pioneer Team, they were called the Chezhi Dan Battalion, this army was hot and cold, and the troops equipped with weapons at the same time, and now Dashun and Daming were half of the firearms troops and half of the cold weapons troops, and the Eggplant Dan Battalion was that everyone had an arquebus, in addition to spears or katanas.

If it weren't for Guo Xu's order in advance, these people would still be wearing exaggerated samurai armor.

This is because they belong to the pioneer team of Ezo Land, Matsushita Tomaki has now set out from Fukuyama Castle, landed in the plains north, and then conquered all the natives of Ezo Land, they tend to go deep into complex terrain such as mountains, forests, valleys, etc., and the number of soldiers is relatively small, so they need a variety of weapons to deal with it.

And in the rocky friendship, it was the mining corps brought by Shichiro Yoshida and a dozen subordinates of An Mingge, a total of more than 170 people, who formed a general team, and at the same time exerted their firepower to the right flank, they could attack the enemy formation.

The Mining Corps was an armed force set up by Li Sizhi to manage the fifty-five gold and silver mines on Sado Island, and their standard weapon was a Chongzhen 17-year-old arquebus plus a set of chain mail, of course, at Guo Xu's request, the armor was left on the ship.

Most of these people are hunters or indigenous people, because they catch escaped miners or thieves in the mining area all year round, so they are good at shuttling through the mountains, and can be regarded as mountain hunters.

The rest of the troops, including two companies of the most elite marines, were in the position of the Central Army.

After a little confrontation for half an hour, the artillery team following behind arrived, with two four-pounder guns and four twenty-four-pounder mortars, the former belonging to the Outer Northeast Pioneer Team, and the latter being the standard equipment of the Marine Corps.

The mobility of the twenty-four-pounder mortar is very strong, the bronze mortar with a length of less than half a meter is placed on a heavy wooden block, not counting the wooden block, only less than seventy-five kilograms, if the five-pounder is used to fire 1 charge, it can be used with a range of more than one thousand meters, but the accuracy is a little touching, and the pitch angle is not easy to control, it can only be regarded as a light siege gun, and it is really not suitable for field warfare.

But in practice, this kind of artillery was very popular with the colonial army, because it was so light that two people could carry it, and four people could carry it over the mountains.

Sometimes a 24-pound mortar shell explodes in the village, which will frighten the chieftain to surrender on the spot, and when the two sides face each other, a shell explodes nearby, and can even scare thousands of natives to collapse.

When the four-pounder gun carriage appeared in front of the formation, Man Dahai's eyes were about to burst out. At his distance, he could only see the gun carriage, and he couldn't estimate the pounds, but this kind of thing, which the Manchurians called a light red-coated cannon, was the nightmare of all the Eight Banners.

"Haise, immediately order the Jurchens to advance." Mandahai gave an order to Haise.

Haise was about to do it immediately, and Man Dahai said: "You bring a hundred archers to suppress the formation, but don't cross the river, drive the Jurchen barbarians across the river, and we will retreat immediately." We are no match for them. ”

"But we haven't fought yet." The sea was surprising.

Mandahai slapped Hai Se on the head; "Listen, just these people gathered in a phalanx, and a thousand white-armored soldiers couldn't break through. No need to try, you can't beat it. ”

Haise was half skeptical, he had been in Ningguta in the past few years, and all he heard was the victory from Liaodong, and even the war that occurred in Liaodong last year was declared a great victory by the imperial court officials, but Haise was not stupid, he knew very well that there must be something wrong, otherwise he would not have achieved a great victory in 'Shengjing City, gathering and annihilating three thousand thieves'.

But Haise really hadn't experienced the war in Liaodong, so even if he guessed something, he still didn't know the strength of the army in front of him.

Fortunately, the coach is Man Dahai, and he doesn't have to make decisions.

As Hai Se gave the order, the Jurchens, who were hiding behind the grass and bushes, stood up, and rushed towards the stream without any formation, with all kinds of weapons in their hands, and there were bursts of howls from their mouths, many of them were barefoot, some were on horseback, most of them were infantrymen, and even some were deer riders.

The four-pounder cannon and the mortar cannon began to return fire one after another, and the mortar shells fell one by one, blowing up clouds of smoke and dust, and the battle achieved few results. On the contrary, the four-pounder gun played a great role, not firing solid shells, but waiting for the enemy to get closer, and firing large shotguns.

The fifteen-centimeter-long cartridge was equipped with forty-one large shotguns, which was standard, even for six-pounder and twelve-pounder guns.

The shells were fired out of the chambers, then scattered into an oval, smashed into the pebbles on the other side of the river, and then swept across a large area, killing not only many people, but also the pebbles that were fired up in the burst.

Mandahai's arrangement played an important role, as the archers led by Haise rode in the rear, killed some deserters, stabilized order, and forced the Jurchens to cross the stream, followed by a sweep of small shotguns, which covered the ground with flesh and dead bodies.

Akdun was lying on a large rock in the middle of the riverbed, and when the two sides were trading a few days ago, he had been reminded that if he didn't want to be killed on the battlefield, he should find a pit or a stone to hide, and when he met someone from the Oriental Trading Company, he could raise his two hands above his head.

If you want to surrender with your men, you can hold up a white cloth.

He muttered to himself, praying for the protection of various gods, but his ears were filled with wails. But prayer was useless, and a shotgun poured water on his head. Akdun came to his senses slightly, he wanted to observe the situation, whether to continue hiding or retreat, and when he looked back, he did not see the banner of Mandahai.

He poked his head out slightly, only to see the retreating cavalry, disappearing around the bend in the road.

"Don't fight, the Manchurians ran away, they all ran away." Akdun shouted, and those who heard it looked back, and then kept angrily calling the Manchurians cowards.

People around can hear it, but the Oriental Trading Company doesn't know it, because the terrain is low, and the back of the stream is mostly blocked by tall grass or shrubs.

Akdun remembered the reminder of that day, but could not find a white cloth, and he looked down to find a birch tree that had been washed down from upstream, and went up with a knife to cut off a piece of bark, and held it high and swayed.

His move was useless, because the soldiers who were obscured by the smoke of the guns could not see the front line clearly, but fortunately, the army of the Eastern Trading Company had a good habit of shooting according to the agreed number of shots when the soldiers fired, and when the shooting was over, they would wait for the officer's next order.

It was at this interval that the stragglers arranged on both flanks discovered the retreat of the Qing army.

"Big brother, someone on the other side shouted surrender." Guo Hu ran to Guo Xu's side and told him that he had been stationed in Mokowei for more than a year and could understand some local languages.

Guo Xu immediately sent stragglers forward, and soon Akdun was brought, and he kept complaining that he had surrendered a long time ago, and raised a white flag, but he was still beaten.

"They ran, they ran east." Because he didn't know Chinese, Akdun pointed his fingers and spoke.

"To the east, shouldn't they flee to Ningguta?" Guo Xu asked.

Akdun explained to the interpreter: "The road to Ningguta is behind you, in the direction of Vladivostok, from where you can go north. And there is a road to Chao and Xian, which is to Huining, where you can buy and sell. ”

Guo Xu hurriedly ordered: "Assemble, the whole army gathers, and all the commanders above the company level come to me." ”

Akdun could not understand what they were saying, but when he saw the soldiers gathering, he immediately said: "I know of a road that is used by merchants for smuggling, and I can't walk horses, but I can copy it in front of them." ”

Guo Hu laughed: "Anyway, we don't have a horse, we can use it." ”

Guo Hu immediately reported the matter to Guo Xu, and after Guo Xu heard this, he decided to let Guo Hu take thirty Mokowei defenders and the mining corps that was good at mountain warfare, with Akdun as a guide, to pursue.

Not only did Akdun agree immediately, but he also said that he would bring his own men, and he went to the river and shouted for a while, impassionedly, and soon more than 400 people were going to participate, all of them viciously, to take revenge on the Manchurian soldiers who betrayed them.

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