Looking at the excited crowd, Zhao Ming ordered them to participate in the trenching.As a result, the siege trench, which would have taken a day to complete, was completed that night.Early in the morning of the fourteenth day.The Jurchen tribes, as well as the Mongols such as Chahan, went out of the camp early to assemble after breakfast.Last night, the Jurchens, who helped dig the trench, built a high platform outside the camp at Zhao Ming's request.At this time, flags were planted around the high platform, big chairs were placed, and Zhao Ming sat upright in armor, asking people to invite the Jurchen heads and Mongolians to sit on the stage and watch the battle that was about to begin.The elite of the 6,000 Ming army in front of the stage has already completed the assembly, and they are only waiting for an order to launch an attack.Zhao Ming still had no intention of letting the Jurchens and the Mongols participate in the siege, so as to avoid them forming the illusion that they defeated Lao Maozi, and would argue with the Ming Dynasty in the future.This Hailan bubble is the stage of the Ming army, and the protagonist of today's siege can only have one, that is, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.At the head of the city, the commander of the Russian army has already felt that the Chinese outside the city are no less powerful and elite than Sweden, the rival of the Tsarist Empire in Western Europe.However, it was not easy for the Swedish army to capture the fortified fortress."
Cheer up!
The Chinese are going to attack the city!
”Bakharov inspected the city and commanded the Russian soldiers to deploy the defenses.At this time, on the high platform with colorful flags fluttering, Zhao Ming looked at the bayonet jungle in front of the stage, and immediately beckoned, and the general Chen Youlong immediately came over and bowed down to listen.Zhao Ming smiled and whispered in his ear: "Fight hard, don't let the widow not come to the stage!"
”Although the 6,000 elite Ming army has a great chance of winning against the castle garrisoned by 1,000 Tsarist Russian soldiers, and Zhao Ming has always been full of confidence, but whether he can capture it in one day, Zhao Ming actually doesn't have much confidence in his heart, and there is indeed an element of gambling."
Regent, rest assured!
The ministers will not disappoint the regent!
”Chen Youlong said in a low voice.When Zhao Ming heard his statement, he immediately smiled and waved, "Let's start attacking!"
”As soon as the military order was issued, all units of the Ming army began this performance, and the first to go on the field was naturally the artillery with the longest range.Ten red-coated cannons lined up in the artillery array under the city and bombarded the city wall, smashing the castle wall into clouds of smoke and dust.At the same time as the artillery bombardment, the killer team of the Ming army carried the ladder to the city, entered the trench in turn, and then advanced along the "zhi" trench to the city wall.At this time, the Tsarist artillery at the head of the city began to bombard the Ming army close to the city wall, but the shells fell on the ground, and none of the shells smashed into the trench, so they could only watch the Ming army follow the trench and arrive at the horizontal trench at the foot of the city wall.Seeing this, the commander of the Russian army, Bakharov, frowned, he didn't expect China to be so smart that he would come up with a kind of siege method, so that the Russian artillery at the head of the city was almost useless.At this time, he personally operated a one, and the bronze cannon was aimed, but the Ming army was squatting in the trench, and the shells could not hit the Chinese at all.On the high platform, the Jurchen chieftains and the Mongol chieftains were shocked when they saw the Ming army entering the city without a single casualty.At this time, the second wave of the Ming army, which had already pushed the short-barreled general cannon and the improved Huzun cannon, entered the trench, and a large number of muskets also entered the trench.On the fortress, the Russian soldiers saw that the shelling could not hurt the Ming army, so they simply gave up the shelling, and one by one they held muskets and crowded by the wall, with the muzzles sticking out of the holes, waiting for the Ming army to attack the city.If the Ming army wants to attack the city, it is impossible to hide in the trench all the time without coming out, as long as they rush out of the trench, they will be exposed to the guns of several city walls, and the city will be their target.The Russian army waited for a long time, but the Ming army, which was hiding in the horizontal trench near the city, never moved."
Your Excellency, Commander, look, it's a mortar cannon!"
A Russian officer pointed to the general's cannon pulled by a mule in the trench and said in alarm.The general cannon is a short-barreled mortar cannon, and the mortar cannon is also available in the West.The cannonballs fired by this artillery are parabola, which can directly shoot at the head of the city, and can hit the enemy behind obstacles, so it is often used to siege the city.However, this kind of cannon has a disadvantage, that is, the range is too short, so although he can hang the head of the city, it is difficult for the besieging side to advance the mortar under the city wall to bombard the castle, and it is easy to be killed by the artillery on the castle.Now that the Ming army has transported artillery to the city through the trenches, there is no danger of being knocked out by the city's artillery in advance."
Cunning Chinese!"
Bakharov scolded, but although the mortar cannon can shoot at the head of the city, it is not a big threat.At this time, the Ming artillery team transported the general's cannon to the city along the trench and completed the erection in the trench.There was a muffled "boom", a cloud of white smoke rose from the trench, and a cannonball was seen rising into the air.At first, the cannonball was just a black dot, but in the blink of an eye, it had drawn an arc in the air and smashed towards the city.There was a loud bang, and the iron bullet smashed a depression at the head of the city, and then bounced up again, falling into the city, and it was difficult to find a trace.Bakharov, the head of the city, smiled lightly, thinking that the mysterious East had some great means to startle him, but it was nothing more than that.Seeing this, the rude and irascible Russian soldiers in the city were already a little annoying.The Chinese are digging trenches again, and the artillery is tossing for so long, they just don't dare to attack the city.Hurry up!
The muskets of the Russian army are already hungry and thirsty.At this moment, after the Ming army's mortar cannon was tested and debugged, all ten mortar guns were loaded with flowering shells."
Boom boom" after a few muffled sounds, the trench was filled with gunsmoke, and I saw ten shells, piercing the sky, getting bigger and bigger, and smashing directly into the city.Bakharov did not care, as long as such shells do not hit people, it is just bluffing.As soon as the sky was dark, the cannonballs were whistling and falling, and before the Russian soldiers could react, they heard a loud "boom", and the city burst into white light, blowing a strong wind, throwing the Russian soldiers in the city directly away, screaming and falling from the city.For a time, the city exploded again and again, the smoke and dust were filled, and in the distant stands, the Jurchen people stood up one after another, only to see the Rakshasa people in the city, who were blown up like dumplings, fell from the city, and were so shocked that they couldn't speak.At this time, when the head of the city exploded, in the ditch under the city, the general of the Ming army stood up, drew his sword and pointed angrily, "Soldiers, kill me!"
”"Kill!"
The shouts of the mountain and the tsunami sounded, and the killer team who had ascended the city jumped up, carrying ladders and rushing out of the trench.At the head of the city, Bakharov was scratched by shrapnel, his head was broken and bleeding, and the whole person was in shock, and it was difficult to recover for a while.The Russian soldiers were also bombed, and the city was full of, and there were wounded soldiers rolling and wailing everywhere.At this time, the Ming army rushed to the bottom of the city, set up a moat bridge, erected a ladder to climb the city, and the sparse gunfire sounded on the city, and the Ming soldiers climbed along the ladder, one after another to the top of the city.Watching the Ming army climb up to the top of the city, the shocked eyes of the Jurchen people were about to fall, and at the same time they felt a trace of fear and happiness in their hearts.At this time, the battle had just begun, and the prince of Horqin, Chahan, suddenly knelt on the ground and kowtowed again and again, "The great tomorrow soldiers are invincible, the regent is wise and powerful, and the slave is willing to lead the Horqin clan to attach." ”A group of Jurchen people were also so frightened that they knelt on the ground one after another, bowed their heads, and did not dare to look up to show their submission.Zhao Ming laughed loudly when he saw this, and said domineeringly, "Get up, the city hasn't been beaten yet." ”(There is another chapter at eleven o'clock) ()