On August 25, 1790, Rumentsev led an army of 10,000 to the village of Cheremhovo, thirty kilometers away from Usolier, and set it as its base camp.

The name of this place comes from the Mongolian word "Sheremkhe", which means coal. In another time and space, it was once one of the largest coal mining centers in Siberia.

He placed a reserve force of 10,000 people here, with the purpose of echoing the Zaimka Fortress 16 kilometers away. Once the situation changes, it will be very convenient to walk on the post road or the river.

From August 26 to 27, Rumentsev rushed to the front line to inspect the positions. He spent almost immediately during the past two days, either studying the terrain or the plans handed over by his generals, and personally issued orders.

The Russian army was preparing in full swing, and the Northern Navy was not idle either. In order to reconnaise the deployment and troop mobilization of the Russian army, Zhao Xin released all the drones at hand and took turns to move them in 24 hours. For a moment, various types of drones of the Northern Navy were swaying over the Irkutsk-Cheremkhovskaya Plain.

The big, small, black, white, expensive, cheap, and the buzzing sounds overhead all night, making the Russians extremely nervous. Many regiment commanders had no choice but to let the troops enter the dense forest to hide, and were bitten by mosquitoes. The problem was that they didn't know at all. In order to facilitate night reconnaissance, many of Zhao Xin's drones were equipped with infrared thermal imaging cameras...

Fortunately, Suvorov had reminded his teacher before that this strange "Tartar unit" had a magical device, and he was not sure what it was used for; but Suvorov guessed that a reconnaissance method was used.

With the mentality of being cautious and no big mistakes, Rumentsev organized dozens of hunters with good marksmanship to hide in various positions in advance, preparing to shoot a few and study.

There will always be something like blind cats hitting dead rats. Even the North Navy itself is used to bullying others, sometimes it will become careless.

In order to see the situation of the enemy cavalry in a dense forest, a reconnaissance team operating the drone deliberately lowered the height. Unexpectedly, the Russian army was prepared and had been ambushed. More than 20 people who had been ambushed suddenly opened fire together, and seven or eight lead bombs hit the target. They smashed the drone into pieces and fell to the ground on the spot.

After the people below excitedly took the fragments to the commander-in-chief who inspected the front line to see them, Lumentsev and his generals were all confused.

Some of these fragments look like propellers, but most of them don’t recognize them at all. What makes people confused is what material is made of this thing? The black texture is also very light, neither gold nor wood, which is really confusing.

"Holy Virgin! The Tatars are really a group of skilled craftsmen who can actually make such exquisite things."

The person who spoke was an engineer in charge of repairing artillery firearms in the command. He was holding a magnifying glass to study the camera under the fuselage that was damaged by lead bullets.

Rumensev heard this and asked, "What is this?"

"Sir, I have only seen such a small lens on a microscope. This may be really an observation device."

"Observe? This thing is flying in the sky, how can people on the earth see it?"

"I really don't know this."

At this time, another officer found a clue on the wreckage. He pointed to a place and shouted loudly: "PHANTOM? Ghost? This is in English. Is it made by Britain?"

When everyone heard this, they surrounded him and looked at the wreckage. Then a noble officer said, "It's very likely! I remember that Anthony Levinhoek, who was wearing a distinct micro-mirror, was a member of the Royal Society of England."

Sixty-seven years ago, in 1723, Levinhoek, who was 91 years old, sent the production method of microscopes and the 26 best microscopes and hundreds of magnifying glasses he made to the Royal Society of England before his death. In history, until the 19th century, with the development of technology, microscope technology surpassed Levinhoek's technical level.

Rumentsev got up and walked to the table, picked up the wreckage, looked at it for a while, and murmured: "PHANTO...microscope...gents, this is really interesting. Such technology and equipment must be obtained by the Russian Empire!"

At the same time, after Zhao Xin learned that he had lost the cheapest drone, he did not accuse the scout who operated, but instead reminded them not to think that "god, my second brother". No one in this world is much smarter than anyone else, and the enemies in the future will become more and more cunning.

After seeing the terrain, Rumentsev and his generals found that due to the flow of the Belaya River, it was difficult for the Russian army to surround the Northern Navy from both wings. The only way was to attack head-only in order to break through the enemy's defense line in a relatively narrow area.

Therefore, the Russian army finally determined the combat plan to quickly conquer the Northern Navy's defense line with a storm, try to kill and injure the opponent during the battle, and force the enemy to retreat to Baikal. Based on this combat attempt, the Russian army's combat formation formed four groups: right wing, center, left wing and reserve wing.

The army of the right-wing group was commanded by Tymoxin, arranged in the direction from the village of Tethurk to Sredney, with five light infantry regiments and four light cavalry regiments. The troops' actions were guaranteed by three Cossack Hussachs and three hunting cavalry regiments deployed in front of the infantry.

The Central Group is commanded by Bezhuhof and is arranged between the village of Sredney to the village of Stapnoy, with six light infantry regiments and three heavy cavalry regiments.

The troops of the right wing and the central government were incorporated into the First Legion and were unified under the command of General Repining. In the reserve team of the army, Repining also arranged three light cavalry regiments and two Hussar regiments behind the right wing regiments.

The left-wing group was commanded by Borkonsky and was arranged between the villages of Stapnoy and the villages of Novo Maltinsk. It was composed of the 12th, 13th, 15th and the 8th, 9th and 11th Cavalry Regiments. Because the left-wing forces were obviously not large, Rumentsev placed the entire reserve team of five regiments on the back of the left wing, with six light infantry regiments and four light cavalry regiments under it.

The Russian artillery unit had a total of 567 artillery pieces, most of which were howitzers and unicorn artillery (mortars). Except for more than 200 artillery pieces that were deployed on the 2.5-kilometer artillery barracks from the right wing to the Central Group, the rest were arranged in the reserve team behind the Central Group so that they could be allocated at any time after the war started.

Commander-in-chief Rumentsev's headquarters is located in the village of Cheremhovo, while he himself is located in the village of Mikhailovka, which is only a dozen kilometers away from the front line.

On August 29, at 4 o'clock in the morning, it was not yet dawn. The Russian troops in the Central Group, the reserve team and the right wing did not dispatch, but the infantry, cavalry and artillery columns on the left wing all stood up from the camp and took the lead in the operation.

They were going down from the highlands and hills to the plains and attacked the right wing of the Northern Navy. Their mission was to attract enemy firepower and thus gain time for the rapid advancement of the right wing and the Central Group.

In order to move forward lightly, the Russian soldiers threw all kinds of unnecessary things into the bonfire, and bursts of smoke stimulating their eyes.

Because it rained last night, the weather was a little cold at this time, with dark clouds in the sky and heavy fog on the dense grass plain.

It was pitch black all over the place. The officers hurriedly drank tea and ate breakfast; while the soldiers chewed dry bread and gathered around the campfire to keep warm. They threw all the remaining cargo sheds, tables, chairs, wheels, and wooden barrels, which could not be taken with them, into the firewood pile and burned them together.

The light cavalry teams came and went between the infantry camps, conveying orders one by one. Whenever the regiment commanders and battalion commanders had enough food and drink, the troops they belonged to began to move.

The soldiers left the bonfire, packed their own supplies, picked up muskets and started queuing. The lower-level officers set buttons of their uniforms, wore triangular military caps, wore sabers, and carried backpacks. While shouting, they patrol the queue. The baggage soldiers and orderly soldiers were all tying, packing their luggage, and putting their horses on the cart.

The battalion commanders of each battalion rode on war horses, drew crosses on their chests, and issued a final order to the remaining baggage soldiers, entrusting them with various affairs.

As the snare drum was beaten, the footsteps of thousands of people began to sound in the woods, and the well-trained war horses did not make a slight neigh. The Russian battalions lined up in a column of five people, and under the guidance of two cavalry squadrons, they slowly walked out of the camp.

In fact, if a modern man came to the European army in the 18th century, he would definitely be completely distraught by the infantry organization. Fortunately, the Northern Navy had fought with the Russian army before, and then he understood the organization of his troops.

The European infantry tactical units in the 18th century were actually "battalions". The regiments were organized for administrative and economic purposes. Each regiment consisted of two to three battalions, and each battalion consisted of four to six companies. What is more verbose is that the "company" is not a tactical unit, but a pure administrative unit. The soldiers' garrison, training, distribution of weapons, equipment, supplies, and salary are all completed based on the company.

In this era when orders were conveyed on the battlefield, in a battalion of the Russian army, the number of soldiers was between 700 and 1,000. If there were fewer people, the tactical tasks could not be achieved, and if there were more people, the orders could not be quickly transmitted to every soldier.

Specifically during marching and fighting, the Russian battalion must divide the formation into several equal parts, usually divided into 8 or 10 units, which is called "platoons" and also called "semi-company".

This is done because the platoons divided by a battalion in combat cannot correspond to the company at all. Taking the Prussian army as an example, its infantry battalion is usually composed of 5 companies, but it must be divided into 8 platoons, that is, 4 sub-battalions.

This was the case in the era of flintlock rifle. The basic organization of infantry was actually "troop". In order to ensure the consistent number of "troops" in each platoon, the company's organization must be disrupted.

After the Russian troops on the left wing walked out of the dense forest, thick fog still spread on the plains. Four kilometers away was the battlefield. According to the combat sequence, artillery must first go up.

It was only six o'clock in the morning, and the sky above my head was already bright, and the mist was like a vast ocean and the entire plain. The bayonets on the Russian rifle shone slightly in the thick fog. The sun rising in the distance was like a large hollow buoy in the dark red, rippling on the milky white fog sea.

According to the tactical principles previously formulated, each column of the Russian army consists of two battalions, and the columns used for impact are arranged in three columns. The purpose of this is to enable all soldiers in the queue to fire with weapons.

After research, Rumentsev and his generals believed that the front width of the column in the impact should not exceed one branch battalion. The column used for the impact is not a solid column, and at least 3 steps must be left between the front and rear parts.

Because the North Navy's firepower density is too strong, instead of using a large column, it is better to dismantle it into several small columns and deploy a certain number of infantry fighting in dispersed formations between the columns, allowing these hunters to harass the enemy through firepower and attract enemy firepower.

The column tactics of this era require soldiers to advance at double pace without firing a single shot when attacking, accelerate to triple pace after 200 steps away from the enemy, and run directly to impact when they are 30 steps away from the enemy. If the troops involved in the impact successfully repel the enemy's front-line troops, they should immediately unfold it from the column into a horizontal line to prepare to repel the enemy's counterattack.

When the left-wing Russian army entered two kilometers away from the Northern Navy position, the Russian army on the right-wing and central position were also ready to set off, waiting for the battle to start in the east, and the first one to attack was Bezukhov's Central Group.

After the left-wing Russian army arrived at a position 1.5 kilometers away from the Northern Navy position, the unicorn cannon fired first.

Hundreds of Russian gunners pushed twenty 10-inch unicorn cannons to the front of the formation. After adjusting the angle, gunner No. 1 first packed the gunpowder into the thick gun barrel. Then gunner No. 2 pierced the medicine bag from the fire door and pressed his thumb on it. Then gunner No. 3 put a thin round wooden board into the gun barrel. At this time, gunner No. 4 had ignited the fuse of a circular grenade weighing several kilograms and then put it into the gun barrel. Gunner No. 2's fingers left the fire door and inserted a fuse tube containing gunpowder into it. Gunner No. 5 poked the ignited fire fork in. With the roar, more than 20 smoke-emitting grenades passed through layers of fog and exploded in the thick fog.

At this time, everyone on the North Navy position had already been ready for combat. When the Russian army started to operate at four o'clock, Jiuzang already knew about it. However, facing the shelling of his right-wing Russian army, Jiuzang was not in a hurry to launch a counterattack. Zhao Xin asked him to wait, and he had to wait until the Russian troops on the middle and left to start a counterattack. Speaking of the barbed wire fortifications in front of the formation, it took so long that the enemy would always taste the taste.
Chapter completed!