The geographical location of Naowen City is roughly near Qiqihar, Heilongjiang in later generations. It was one of the important strongholds for the Qing government to control Heilongjiang. It once was a provincial capital, which shows its importance.

However, in this time and space at the end of the 17th century, the North Manchuria was almost all chewed away by the people on the east coast. The Qing Dynasty did not have the so-called Heilongjiang Province, and the Naowen City was not the provincial capital. It had almost degenerated into a pure military stronghold. On the one hand, it acted as a defensive portal for the Hulunbuir grassland, and on the other hand, it also appropriately restrained the East Coast people in Harbin and Model Fort, forcing them to restrain their greed and no longer rush to embezzle various parts of Jilin. However, on the East Coast people took a different approach, penetrated from the northeast and south into the Hulunbuir grassland, and the Ningguta in the east fell. After the Haixi Jurchens subdued, Naowen City had become a dazzling isolated stronghold, and the fate was basically destined.

Naowen City is said to be a city, but it is actually just a larger village. In the North Manchuria area, where both economy and culture are extremely backward, if you want to build a beautiful city with brick and stone structure, the cost is very high. The people on the east coast are relatively rich, and they also enjoy convenient transportation for water transportation. The cost of firing bricks and tiles is also very low. So, some fortresses, grain stations or cities have been built along rivers such as Heilongjiang, Songhua River, and Ussuri River, but the scale is actually not very large, and it is really incomparable to the cities within the city.

Naowen City is generally a square structure, facing the Nenjiang River in the west and the vast forests and fields on the east. The terrain is stable and endless. It makes people feel refreshed and happy. The city walls of Naowen City are wooden, covered with a thick layer of soil on the outside to absorb the kinetic energy of artillery shells, and also have fireproof functions. The city walls are square and have no characteristics, no convex parts are added, and there is no line-type wall that reduces the bullet area. They are so traditional that they cannot be more traditional. Therefore, in the eyes of artillerymen on the east coast, the artillery soldiers who come with the team are drawn by Harbin Fort and Model Fort, with a total of 4 artillery companies and 32 artillery types.

There was no fortress outside the city that formed cross-fire with the main city, which made it more convenient for the siege army to arrange troops. The only obstacle was probably that the terrain outside the city was too wide and flat, which was conducive to the cavalry's driving. But these might be a problem for the army of the ancient Central Plains dynasty, but for the East Coast people with a large number of cavalry, it was not a problem at all! They mobilized a total of 1,000 well-trained cavalrymen during this trip!

Of course, the East Coast people brought more infantry, including 2,000 people from the 21st Infantry Regiment of the 7th Division of the New Army, 1,000 soldiers from the garrison teams in Harbin and Model places, and 3,600 soldiers from the Ping'andao Town, North Korea. These are all infantry, with about 6,600 people. In addition, the East Coast people also brought nearly 500 artillery, 1,000 cavalry, and some scouts, guards and command staff. The total force was close to 8,500, which was quite large.

In order to prepare for such a "battle" in the northeast, such a scale is enough to become a battle. The Manchuria and Mongolian pioneer team not only emptied its own assets, but also borrowed a large amount of food and other materials from Denglai and Ningbo to ensure the smooth development of the battle. Considering the time difference from the secondment of materials to the actual arrival, the Manchuria and Mongolian sides were planning this battle at least a year in advance. They spent so much effort, consumed so much money and grain, and gathered so many troops. If they did not conquer Naowen City in one fell swoop, it would be unreasonable!

The number of Qing troops guarding the city was originally quite large, and at the peak it looked like nearly 3,000 people, all of which were Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners, and their combat effectiveness was pretty good. However, since Galdan's high-profile attack on the Mongolian grasslands, the defenders in Naowen City have been decreasing again and again, and large numbers of them have been transferred to other places to fight. The number of local garrison soldiers has dropped sharply to about 800, and there is almost no threat.

However, it was due to the fact that the Junggar Mongolian incident, the number of Mongolians who had escaped war and came to the area of ​​Naowen City has increased. Sabusu, the veteran defending the city, came up with a plan and recruited some war-going people from these Mongolians, who looked like more than a thousand people, and joined the city guarding team to fight the offensive of the East Coast people.

At this time, some of these Mongolians, about seven or eight hundred, were already arranged in an open space outside the city. With the commander's order, these Mongolians, who were in a messy uniform, were equipped with ordinary weapons, suddenly urged their horses and rushed towards the east coast people.

Major Bei Zhensheng, who was commanding the army, stood on a temporary wooden platform. After seeing these Mongolians rushing through a telescope, he smiled and said, "It seems that these Qing people have never learned the lessons of the Battle of Pine Tree Nests, and they even want to use cavalry to rush forward. I can't believe that it's already in the 1990s, and there are still people who use such backward and boring fighting style."

Speaking of the battle of Songshuwanzi during the conquest of Ningguta, the Qing army and the East Coast encountered in the wild. At that time, more than 2,000 children of the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia rushed to the East Coast Army, which was in a hurry to line up, but were intercepted by the East Coast Cavalry. When they found an opportunity to break through and rushed to the infantry formation, they encountered the dense firepower of the East Coast infantry that had been prepared and were suddenly beaten to flee. After that, the situation was easy to understand. The two thousand Qing army was attacked by the East Coast infantry and cavalry, and lost more than half. The rest hurriedly slipped back to Ningguta with familiarity, and were finally wiped out by the besieged army.

What exactly gave the Qing army on the side of Naowen City so confident that they dared to attack the military formations that the East Coast people had already arranged? Aren’t they afraid of being trampled again? The war process over the years has repeatedly shown that the East Coast military formations that have been arranged well cannot rush. A major feature of a modern army is that they are high training frequency, high intensity, good equipment, and high morale. It is completely different from the serf infantry in the Middle Ages. The Mongolian horse team would probably not be able to defeat the enemy by cavalry like their ancestors. Although Sabusu was old-minded, he did not understand this principle. The reason why he did this was probably to use these worthless Mongolian herders who were temporarily recruited to test the quality of the East Coast people.

Sure enough, these Mongols did not seem very determined at the beginning of the charge, hesitating and fearfulness, so they only got a hundred shells from the east coast from a distance. Dozens of people lay down, and then they scattered and retreated to the rear. However, it was easy to come, but it was not that easy to retreat! Some of the cavalrymen of the 7th Cavalry Regiment were dispatched! They rode a black water horse under their crotch, which was fast and had strong sprinting ability. They were more suitable for rushing than those short and slow Mongolian horses. Therefore, some slow Mongolian herders were quickly attached to them and surrounded and divided and annihilated. The Qing army at the top of the city fired several cannons, but there was no effect.

Some of the Mongolian herders who retreated were eager to enter the city, while others simply passed around the city and ran to the north. It seemed that they did not want to stay in the deadly place of Naowen City for burial. After seeing the enemy so weak, Major Bei Zhensheng no longer vaguely and ordered the infantry formation to move forward to cover the artillery to set up positions.

Their main task next was to use their artillery advantages to knock out several small cannons on the enemy's city, and at the same time blast open the wooden walls of Naowen City, and finally use their superior forces to kill into the city, completely destroying the established Qing army nailed to the north Manchuria land.

There is no doubt that such an attack method is very boring. To put it bluntly, it is to use the logistical advantages of the East Coast people to kill the enemy with money. But likewise, such tricks are also very difficult to break. At least Sabsu cannot come up with any good solutions at present. In history, he led his army to besiege the Yaquesa Castle in Tsarist Russia, and he also dealt with the Russians in this way. The only difference is that the cannons he brought were too small, and he could not open the Yaquesa wall, which allowed the Russians to persevere to the end. However, the cannons of the East Coast people were not comparable to those of the Qing Dynasty during the Battle of Yaquesa. Therefore, after several rounds of bombing, the soil layer of the outer wall of the Naowen City had been scattered and cracked, revealing the dark gray logs inside.

The Qing army on the top of the city couldn't bear it and climbed down one after another. The yellow-clothed thief got the explosives from somewhere. It was extremely powerful. The shell shells were often blown into countless pieces. They killed a lot of people just now. Even Lord Sabusu's nephew was lifted off his forehead by a shrapnel and died on the spot. But the anger was the cannon he fired, and the solid shell was fine, but the flowering shell was simply a nightmare. When the shell landed on the ground, the shell shells exploded in half, which made the East Coast artillery laugh and was so embarrassed.

When Sabusu saw the Qing army retreating from the city, he was extremely angry and immediately brought his personal soldiers forward and drove the defenders to the city. At this time, the infantry on the east coast had already arrived at the city. They and the Korean musketeers were shooting densely at the city. The Qing army was forced to shoot at the city, but soon they could not bear it. The tragic casualties knocked all their courage away, and a group of people rushed to the city.

"Sabsu has also been stationed in Manchuria for half his life. Is this the level?" Major Bei Zhensheng put down the telescope on his chest. He no longer had the desire to continue watching. More than a thousand Qing troops were trapped in a small wooden city, surrounded by the East Coast troops with superior forces and superior equipment. The fate was basically destined. Bei Zhensheng thought about it and could not think of any way the Qing army could escape.

The most stupid thing to do is to fight the city defense against the people on the east coast in the northeast. You don’t have a strong bastion-style fortress, two don’t have powerful firepower in the city defense (especially cannons), three don’t have enough military talents who are familiar with modern warfare. The fourth is to trap a dead place without a chance, but there are no reinforcements outside. This is a very wrong strategically, so the destruction is not difficult to imagine.

Sabusu is also an experienced veteran. How could he be so confused and incompetent? Over the years, this man has also been a Qing army general who has fought with the East Coast army more often on the land of North Manchuria. From Ningguta to the Sanxian City, from Naowen City to Hulunbuir, a major feature of this man's military use is that he likes to set up ambush halfway, and then fights close contact with the East Coast people, avoiding their firepower disadvantages, and pulling the East Coast people into the fighting style they are familiar with.

It should be said that this is a pragmatic approach and a smart approach. The East Coast army is well-trained, well-equipped, and has good morale. Fighting positions and defending the city is the least smart approach, and encounter battles, ambushing wars or even night attacks are the most likely to cause enough casualties to the East Coast people.

It is really a pity for Sabusu to be so unwise. It is not that he doesn't understand, but that he really can't retreat. Once Naowen City is gone, the tribes of all ethnic groups around him who are looking forward to "My Qing Dynasty" will be conquered by the people on the East Coast, and there is basically no need for the territory of Naowen City to exist. In that case, the court will not be able to circumvent him, and there is no doubt about this.

Therefore, it was not that Sabusu was unwise, but that if the situation was like this, he had no choice but to fight to the death!

"Report, the North Korean soldiers sent to patrol on the left wing arrested several suspicious Russians, who may be envoys from Nerchensk. The purpose is unknown, the destination is unknown, and the intelligence officials are interrogating. This is a briefing, please check it." When he was feeling that Sabsu, the last Qing general of the North Manchuria, was pedantic and incompetent, a staff officer suddenly rushed over to report to him. This caught Bei Zhensheng's attention, so he immediately ordered those people to be brought over. As for the occupation in front of him, there was no need to read it, and the result was already destined!
Chapter completed!