Chapter 558 Ouch, My Head!

"Attack, attack--"

Amidst Yongrong's roar and Potemkin's roar, waves of Eight Banners and Russian soldiers rushed in like a flood. In such an ambush, the morale of the Qing army and the Russian army was the highest on the first day. They had to strike while the iron was hot!

"Boom boom boom..."

Several cavalry cannons accompanying the army were spraying shells. Dong Wei stood behind the artillery position with a knife in his hand.

The shells were not dense. But the enemy on the opposite side did not have a single cannon. The empty battlefield was like a big red-hot iron ingot, constantly being hit by heavy hammers. Every time the shells fell, there was a loud bang.

"Fire--" The captain of the artillery squadron did not move at all, and his voice was as steady as a mountain. It seemed that the shells did not hit his heart at all.

Then the muskets fired, and then there were the dense grenades like raindrops from the Chinese soldiers.

But the dead and wounded Russian soldiers still shouted "Ura" and attacked the frontier positions of the Fu Han Army. At this time, their morale was high, because the cunning prey of the Chinese soldiers finally fell into the trap. They knew very well that the Chinese defense was the worst at this time. These Chinese cavalrymen all carried engineer shovels. As long as they were given one night, they could complete an absolutely standard defense position by the river.

Waves of Russian cavalry were like magnets, attracting all firepower. The booming shells kept falling among them, the broken limbs and arms were bloody on the battlefield, and the fragmented bodies were scattered everywhere with broken rifles.

Potemkin almost crushed the telescope in his hand. The explosion of the grenade could only make his face turn blue, but the firing of the cavalry cannon shotgun made his heart bleed.

"Every life of a Russian soldier is precious and cannot be wasted in vain." Potemkin opened his one eye and looked at Yongrong, whose face was stiff, "Your Highness, you should order the Eight Banners follow-up troops to follow up."

People, since they are already dead. Then make their deaths more meaningful.

The Russians have already triggered the counterattack of the Fu Han Army, and the Eight Banners are also going to go up.

…

Six days later, two pigeons flew up from Sandaogou to Ganzhou, from Ganzhou to Lanzhou, from Lanzhou to Xi'an, and from Xi'an to Lushan…

The pigeons did not carry particularly detailed intelligence, but just a brief military briefing.

The cavalry unit that had been blocked in Sandaogou for six days was relieved, and they returned safely to the empty Yumen County. Although Dong Wei's troops suffered heavy losses, the bodies of Russians and Qing soldiers left on the battlefield all showed who the real winner of this battle was.

The Qing-Russian army, which had long been beaten by the Fu Han Army without a single artillery, was unable to start after Dong Wei commanded his men to change from a cavalry unit with an attack of 100 and a defense of 10 to a mixed infantry and cavalry unit with a defense of 100 and an attack of 50. The latter became a copper pea that could not be steamed, cooked, hammered, or fried, but was loud and loud, firmly guarding the defense line.

Whether the Qing-Russian coalition army was surging at night or the iron cavalry roared during the day, the Fu Han Army was like a reef that had stood on the seashore for thousands of years. No matter how many troops and horses kept hitting the rocks like waves, no matter how loud the roar was, they could only be smashed to pieces in front of the reef.

When the main infantry force of the Fu Han Army approached Yumen, the Qing-Russian army had to retreat no matter how unwilling they were.

Chen Ming was of course concerned about the war in the northwest, just as he always kept the war in the northeast and Lake Baikal in mind, but to be honest, he felt that the Fu Han Army's situation in the northwest was completely impossible to collapse. Just like Chiang Kai-shek's mood when he received the news that Hu Zongnan had captured Yan'an, the overall situation in the northwest was determined. The remnants of the Qing Dynasty were like fish swimming under a cauldron, unable to stir up any waves.

So in terms of external performance, he paid more attention to the battle at Lake Baikal. The battle in the northeast was the second, and the battle in the northwest was the second. As for the inland of the Central Plains, and the court, Chen Ming discovered a very bad phenomenon, that the enthusiasm for war in the inland of the dynasty was rapidly declining.

The battles in the northeast and northwest were better, but the battle at Lake Baikal was completely a cloud in the eyes of many people.

"The Lake Baikal mentioned by the Russians was the North Sea in the past, and the place where Su Wu grazed sheep in the past. Now many people don't understand this place, don't take it seriously, and think it is a bitter cold place with ice and snow. This is the failure of your propaganda department!"

"What is propaganda?" Chen Han doesn't need to unify the front now, but Chen Han needs to make the people under his rule seriously realize the importance of land. "Since ancient times" is a very useful signboard, but the actual value must also be made known to everyone. Otherwise, no one will regard the land as a sacred and inviolable place.

Just like when Zhu Ming gave up Jiaozhi, it seemed to fill a big hole for the Ming Dynasty at that time. But the fact is that Jiaozhi, half of Annan, or the current Beizheng area, produces as much grain as Hunan in a year. What a huge grain output! What a huge loss for China!

"The propaganda department should step up the propaganda of Lake Baikal and the Outer Northeast, including Sakhalin Island."

The Chinese are too practical. When they feel that they have suffered a loss in something, no matter how bright the future of this thing is, the Chinese will not love it.

This is the case with the prosperous Tang Dynasty's management of the Korean Peninsula, the Northern Song Dynasty's release of Jiaozhi, and the Ming Dynasty's management of the Northeast and the abandonment of Jiaozhi.

"It's a remote and shabby place, with many people causing chaos and wasting military pay. It's better to abandon it." That's what he thought.

Although for many years to come, Outer Northeast and Lake Baikal are indeed bitter and cold places for many Han people. After all, the technology of this era is too different from that of the 21st century.

Liu Wen left the palace with a bitter face. Outer Northeast and Lake Baikal, no, now it's called Beihai. Such a northern place, not to mention that it is a bitter and cold place in the minds of ordinary people, it is a ghost place where birds don't shit and turtles don't lay eggs, even in Liu Wen's own mind, it is a useless rotten place. It is estimated that only the barbarians in Outer Mongolia will definitely think that it is a Feng Shui treasure land.

The Qing Dynasty exiled people only to Ningguta, and Ningguta is where? It is much more reliable to the south than Outer Northeast.

As for why the Russians like Lake Baikal and Outer Northeast so much, doesn't it just prove that the Russians' territory is a place of suffering for the barbarians, and it is worse than these broken lands...

"Alas..." Liu Wen felt that his head was three times bigger, but he had to complete this matter beautifully. Maybe this can be regarded as a change of subject.

Recently, some bad rumors have been spreading in Nanjing City, which are about His Royal Highness Prince Song. I don't know who spread it, but it really made the muddy water in Nanjing City more muddy.

The Song Wang family was originally wronged and was the party sympathized by the general climate, but this changed the taste again.

Liu Wen did not find that the Song Wang had spread gossip at all, and according to his behavior in the past six months, this matter was not necessarily done by the Song Wang. But among the people, his reputation is inevitably damaged. There are many people in this world who spread rumors.

...

Shanghai Port.

After a month of quarantine, immigrants from Sweden can finally walk out of the quarantine area freely. They took the carriages specially sent to carry luggage and people as a family unit and came to their respective posts.

For example, Ekdal, he used to be a chemistry teacher at Larsson High School in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, and he is still a teacher now. But the position of teaching and educating people was officially listed last year, located in East China Normal University in Shanghai, a port city that is moving towards glory. He is the fifth external teacher of this college, a chemistry lecturer.

As an external lecturer, an external lecturer with very good Chinese language skills, Ekdal's salary is very high. At least in his eyes, in the eyes of a former middle school teacher, it is very high. He believes that with his salary, he is fully capable of making his wife and children live a rich life.

"Mr. Ekdal, this is the house you chose. Here are your keys." In front of a two-story building with a separate entrance and courtyard, the school logistics officer officially handed the key to Ekdal after opening the door.

"New locks are available at the supply and marketing cooperatives and stores inside or outside the school. You can buy a few brand new locks yourself."

The two-story building is much larger than Ekdal's "home" in Stockholm. Here, he will never have to worry about being asked by the landlord to rent. As long as he has worked in this school for ten years, the property rights of this house will all belong to Ekdal's family.

When they were in the quarantine area, Ekdal and his wife Rebecca chose this house. Although they need to pay twelve yuan in banknotes every month from today, which is about six or seven Swedish kronor, compared with Ekdal's monthly salary of only fifteen Swedish kronor at that time, this is definitely an expense they cannot afford. But here, twelve yuan in banknotes is a piece of cake.

Ekdal's monthly salary plus allowance, not counting the material things, can be more than 150 yuan in paper money. It is worth it to exchange less than one-tenth of the salary for a comfortable living space for the family.

Ekdal and Rebecca have four children.

...

Zhu Shihai looked at the two people in front of him with a headache. It was hard to say who was right or wrong, because both of them were wrong.

One of them was drunk and teased someone else's baby, scaring the child to cry loudly, and he laughed happily. Such a person deserves to be beaten; the other one just saw his child being "bullied", so he rashly picked up the door bar and hit the drunk's head, breaking a hole in the head, which was a bit extreme.

The drunkard had long sobered up, and there were layers of gauze wrapped around his head. The bright red blood oozed from the wound, and a round sun was printed on the white gauze. He didn't want to, he was very angry! "Why did you hit me? Didn't I just make the kid suffer? Is it that serious?" The drunkard had forgotten his threat to sell the kid.

The drunkard was furious and glared at the man opposite him. The man opposite him was obviously also a hot-tempered man who loved the kid, and the hit he threw didn't make him vent his anger at all. The two of them were at loggerheads!

As an ambitious legal worker and now a civil judge at Nanjing Xiaguan Court, Zhu Shihai had a headache. "Don't yell. Is this your place to yell? You're threatening to sell the kid?" Zhu Shihai felt that the "Regulations on Public Security Administration Punishments" should also regulate verbal threats. You should be responsible when speaking.

Zhu Shihai is an ambitious man. Between being a lawyer and a judge, he chose the judge without hesitation, and chose the civil judge who has many things to do and has troubles. Because of his grand ambition, how can he make up for the legal loopholes if he does not work hard? For example, now. There is no regulation on verbal threats in the "Regulations on Public Security Administration Punishment".

Zhu Shihai applied some cooling oil on his temple, and the cool and stimulating feeling immediately refreshed him. This is a new product made by the Imperial Hospital. Since it was officially put into production last year, it has been widely praised once it was sold. Not only in the military, but also in the civilians, it has opened up sales.

Although this cooling oil can cure mosquito bites, for Zhu Shihai, he now carries a box with him, and it is more used to apply to the temple. If you don't really enter this industry, you don't know how much pressure it will be to be a qualified judge under the rules and regulations of the court, let alone excellent, just qualified. The complexity of civil cases cannot be felt by those who are not involved in them.

Zhu Shihai had a trace of fatigue on his brow, and he did not open his eyes immediately.

Perhaps in the eyes of ordinary people, judges are a noble and glorious profession, a very, very decent thing. Because in the eyes of many people, judges represent "judgment" and represent rights.

Zhu Shihai is not only a judge, he is also a Jinshi in law, and the envious eyes of people around him once made him proud and proud. But soon Zhu Shihai was no longer proud, because he found that the reason why the profession of "judge" is sought after and respected by so many people is not because "judge" represents "law", but because "judge" represents "power"! This made him feel bitter quietly in his heart.

He once vowed to plug all the loopholes in laws and regulations. He hoped that there would be no more regrets in the world that he could not avenge his enemies in the future! But now he feels that as long as the people are more afraid of power than the law, the biggest loophole in the law will never be plugged by himself...

The scenes in Yongjing Town at the beginning, didn't there have to be a word "power" mixed in?

But how can we make the people afraid of the law instead of exercising power? Zhu Shihai is still in distress.

"Judge Zhu, Judge Zhu..."

Zhu Shihai was awakened from his fantasy by the call, and immediately found a big face in front of him, "What!" Zhu Shihai was frightened and slapped it subconsciously.

"Ouch, my head!" A scream rang out in the civil mediation room of Xiaguan Court.

...

People in Nanjing are sweating profusely because of the heat, and next to Lake Baikal in the big north, there is a spring-like atmosphere. The maximum daily temperature of 20 degrees and the cool wind, this is indeed a natural summer resort.

Irkutsk Province is in the southern part of the Central Siberian Plateau, west of Lake Baikal.

Half of June had passed, and the Fu Han Army had already fully understood the series of defensive positions and fortifications of the Russian Army outside the city.

In line with the old saying that good steel should be used on the blade, the Fu Han Army did not use any type of rockets during this period. It was completely relying on the power of artillery and mortars, coordinated with the attack of the cavalry and the counterattack of the cavalry, and of course there were so many Mongols, and they swept the entire periphery of Irkutsk in the south without paying too many casualties.

At this time, the battle really began.

The Fu Han Army suspended the offensive and built several artillery positions near Irkutsk in the night. After dawn the next day, one artillery after another entered the artillery position under the bombardment of Russian artillery fire.

The whole day of shelling ended.

On the top of the city, Alex Igna could clearly see the Fu Han Army troops outside with a telescope. The bright red uniforms were very similar to the British lobster soldiers, except that the British double-breasted uniforms and white cuffs, braces and trousers, the Chinese uniforms were completely red. And one difference from the European armies of this era was that the trouser legs of the Chinese army were all tied tightly with cloth strips.

The breastworks outside the city of Irkutsk were all destroyed. Alex Igner still remembered the fierce battle yesterday. When the sun set and the night was about to fall, the Chinese soldiers who shouted "Victory" under the cover of artillery fire, holding sharp sabers and muskets with good bayonets, flooded the trenches outside the city of Irkutsk like a tide.

Alex Igner knew what his opponent was going to do. The Chinese wanted to use their superiority in manpower and their absolutely superior equipment - their breastplates, to defeat the defenders of the frontline positions and completely wipe out all the Russian fortifications in the south of the city.

It was a fierce fight.

The Russians who were guarding the battlefield put up a strong resistance, including those gray-haired old men. When the Fu Han Army attacked Lake Baikal for the second time, all Russians were soldiers. There was no way. They were too outnumbered. Alex Igna had to gather all the men to exert their strongest combat power.

Outside the city, a full company of Russian soldiers and a large number of militiamen with knives and guns fell in a pool of blood.

"Pa pa--" The shouts of Ula and Wansheng were intense, and the screams of people were mixed with the rumbling of artillery and gunfire.

Alex Igna didn't know that his opponent, Chen Kaishan, was standing less than 500 meters away from Irkutsk with a frown at that time, and he looked at the battlefield without blinking.

At that time, the sound of gunfire continued to be heard on the battlefield, and more and more wounded soldiers were withdrawn from the front line. Chen Kaishan saw with his own eyes that two Fu Han soldiers supported a Mongolian wounded soldier who was shot by a bullet from both sides. The blood stained his collar. Judging from his clothes, the man should be a noble.

The pain of the wound made the man unbearable. The Fu Han soldier on the left covered his wound with his left hand, but he couldn't stop the blood from constantly overflowing and flowing onto the green grass on the ground.

That battle was a complete fight.

And of course, the victory belonged to China, which had more capital!

"Notify the rocket troops. Let them set up launch positions outside the city starting tonight. Be careful!"