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Chapter 742: Annihilation of the Austrian Royal Army and Capture of Minsk (2-in-1)


The Duke of Lorraine had to order his royal elite to line up and be shot.In order to prepare for a bloody battle with the Ming army that came to surround them.The artillery was in front, and the infantry was in the rear.But what the Duke of Lorraine didn't expect was that the Ming army not only surrounded him with an absolute superiority of troops, but also kept increasing troops.Moreover, he discovered that these additional soldiers were the serfs of his estates in Austria.He saw that these serfs were gathering around him with all kinds of muskets, swords, hoes and clubs that had been snatched from nowhere, and under the organization of the Ming army.He's going crazy.He didn't understand how the Ming army organized the serfs.It even seems that there are quite a few of them, as many as 50,000 or 60,000!"

Let the serfs rush over!"

At this time, Guo Mu issued an order to attack the royal elite led by the Duke of Lorraine.Then, the instructor of the Ming army shouted in the local language to these organized serfs: "Rush over!

Kill these shameless nobles and their thugs, and the land of Austria will be yours!

You will live this winter and no longer starve to death!

”The serfs, who belonged to the destitute class, had no regard for their own lives, and rushed desperately at the royal elite of the Duke of Lorraine for the sake of the land.The royal elite of the Duke of Lorraine had no choice but to shoot the serfs first.And while these serfs consumed the firepower of these Austrian royal elites, Guo Mu ordered the Ming cavalry led by him to charge.Then, these Ming cavalry rushed towards these Austrian royal elites.Because there were serfs who were counteracting the firepower of these Austrian royal elites, the Ming cavalry smoothly rushed into the camp of the Austrian royal elites, and then blew up the cannons and artillery of the Austrian royal elites with thunderbolts and explosives packs, and also slashed and killed these royal elites.At the same time, the mounted infantry in the Ming army also dismounted and rushed in a three-three manner.And even if they were not cut by the cavalry, the Austrian royal elite was powerless after seeing the infantry of the Ming army, and many Austrian royal elite infantry were killed on the ground before they could see their faces.In the end, more than 20,000 Austrian royal elites were directly defeated and annihilated.And the Duke of Lorraine was also directly captured alive.…… Sobiesky did not yet know that the 20,000 Austrian infantry artillery he relied on had been completely annihilated by the Ming army.And now he is approaching Kiev with his 120,000 Polish hussars.In order to find out the movements of the Ming army, Sobiesky sent tens of thousands of cavalry to spy everywhere, and as a result, he got the news that the main force of the Ming army attacking Minsk showed no signs of retreating because of his attack on Kiev.Even, he learned through his sentry that there were no Ming army sentry horses nearby.This relieved Sobiesky, who believed that the Ming army must not have expected that he would attack Kyiv and abandon Minsk, the capital of Lithuania."

Order, gather all the departments, dismount and rest along the Dnieper, and wait for the infantry artillery of the Duke of Lorraine!"

Sobiesky, having arrived near Kiev, conveyed a new order.For him now, everything is ready, and he only owes the east wind.However, he should never have been able to wait for the Duke of Lorraine's 20,000 Austrian soldiers.Because even the Duke of Lorraine himself, at this time, had been taken to Moscow, and after being interrogated by Jinyiwei, he confided the purpose of his trip.Zhou Yuji also knew Sobiesky's plan, and therefore on the one hand, he increased his troops to Kiev, and on the other hand, he ordered the main force of more than 300,000 Ming troops attacking Minsk to speed up the march, conquer Minsk as soon as possible, and open up the next road to destroy Prussia.The defender of Minsk, Count Georg, was helplessly watching the Ming army get closer and closer, and gradually formed a situation of encirclement."

Despicable Poles, why haven't their reinforcements yet appeared, do they really want us to have 30,000 soldiers to block the Orientals who look like there are as many as 300,000 outside the city?!"

And so Count Georg asked angrily.The Ming army commanded the more than 300,000 Ming troops to attack the city, and it was Jiao Lian, who was named the Duke of Xuanguo not long ago.Jiao Lian looked at Minsk City, which had been built in the shape of a fortress, and naturally did not dare to rashly order an attack, but seriously thought about the countermeasures for attacking the city."

Observe the wind direction, and when the wind direction is right, directly release the chlorine bomb first!

Stun the guards in the city, and then release howitzers to send these stunned enemies directly to Hades!

”"At the same time, the Red Flame Army rushed directly up, dug trenches, and blew up the city walls!""

In the direction of their own responsibility, the Ming army of each department will first set up bunkers and dig communication trenches, so that they can rush up behind the Red Flame Army when the time comes."

Jiao Lian finally gave his own siege order.So, it didn't take long for hundreds of artillery pieces of the Ming army to begin to adjust their angles, and after the wind direction changed, they directly fired chlorine bombs.Looking at the cannonballs that fell in the city and began to emit gas, Count Georg cried out in horror: "It's the poison gas of the Ming army!"

Hurry down the walls, get down now!

Get out of the way and go against the wind!

”With the Ming Dynasty repeatedly using chlorine gas bombs in the war to destroy the Rakshasa Kingdom, Western armies are no strangers to poison gas bombs, and they also know some ways to prevent them.But because the gas spreads quickly and people always have to breathe, even if these Western armies know some precautions, many defenders are still incapacitated.Count Georg naturally felt very aggrieved, and he even wanted to rush out directly and deal with the situation by taking the initiative to attack the Ming army.But before Count Georg could make up his mind, many howitzers whistled and exploded directly on the walls.As a result, many of the defenders were blown away and even blown to pieces.The stunned defenders also lost their ability to evade howitzer bombardment, so many of them were killed by the bombardment.And when the smoke and medicine dissipated, there were not many defenders in the whole city of Minsk.At this moment, many of the Red Flame Army, composed of the destitute serf class of the Rakshasa State, immediately rushed to the city of Minsk, dug trenches, planted explosives, and erected ladders.Retreating to a higher fortress, Georg watched helplessly as the Red Flame Army frantically excavated their outer city walls.Rumble!

Rumble!

Rumble!

It didn't take long for him to hear many violent explosions, and then he saw that more and more of the outer city walls had begun to collapse, and with it, more and more Ming troops rushed to the fort.However, Count Georg was not unprepared for this, he had already prepared tens of thousands of volunteers who were willing to contribute to the defense of the city, composed of citizens of the city.Therefore, he immediately ordered the remaining defenders of the city to rush into the city with these volunteers to stop the Ming army's attack.But at this time, when the Ming army sent the Red Flame Army to attack the city, the other armies were not idle, they had already dug a trench leading to Minsk, and also organized an assault team, and rushed over with light firearms, and together with the Red Flame Army, they repelled the defenders who came to stop them from attacking the city with dense firepower.With the Ming army's communication trenches leading directly to the city of Minsk, and after the wooden planks were covered with them, the Ming army rushed over in a steady stream and finally attacked the outer city of Minsk.Count Georg was therefore forced to order a retreat to the inner city.However, the inner city is the same as the outer city.In front of the Ming army, which had powerful artillery, and could use poison gas bombs unscrupulously, as well as all kinds of machine guns, and the Red Flame Army, which was not afraid of death in order to keep the land they had just shared, the inner city was also breached in the next half a month.Count Georg also had to commit suicide.And when the city of Minsk was broken by the Ming army, Sobiesky did not know the situation in Minsk, he was still waiting for reinforcements from Austria.However, as he waited longer and longer, he became uneasy when he saw the arrival of Austrian reinforcements led by the Duke of Lorraine.Sobiesky even began to guess the arrangements of the Ming army.But he had a hard time accepting the result of his guess, so he muttered a little unwillingly: "No, no, impossible!"

How could the Ming army think of fighting the Duke of Lorraine from Austria, and they didn't know that there would be reinforcements from Austria!

Didn't they fight only the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on the Dnieper and the Taoist Wa?

”Duke Millin also analyzed: "But it's not impossible!

After all, the purpose of the Ming Kingdom is to unify the whole world, not just to annex my Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth!

”Bang!

Sobiesky slammed his fist on the wooden table and said depressedly: "We should enlarge the pattern of the battlefield a little more, and we should focus on the entire European continent!"

And it shouldn't just be around the Dnieper and Taoist rivers!

”Saying that, Sobiesky said again: "We should evacuate quickly, immediately go in the direction of Minsk, go to the rescue of Minsk, otherwise, our situation will become very bad!"

”Immediately afterwards, Sobiesky changed his mind again, waved his hand and said: "No, we should not go to Minsk again, but should go back to Warsaw, immediately rush back to Warsaw!"

The Ming army must have expected that we would go to Minsk for a long time. ”Then Sobiesky looked at Milin and roared: "As soon as possible, as soon as possible!"

We must bring back our 120,000 hussars!

”"Yes!"

Mirin immediately responded.So, not long after, the neighing of war horses and the sound of hurried footsteps were heard outside.One hundred and twenty thousand Polish hussars began an emergency evacuation.Human Rank Stick.Cage right away.Batch by group rushed in the direction of Warsaw.But soon, these Polish hussars found that at the end of the sky in front of them, on the horizon, there were Ming cavalry, and gradually there was more and more tendency.Then, they also found that the Ming cavalry began to appear in other directions, and there were signs of increase.The Polish sentinels immediately reported the situation to Sobieski.Sobiesky became even more uneasy when he heard this.After thinking for a while, Sobiesky spit out the stick in his mouth, and let his own soldiers remove the horse cage, and then, drawing his knife, ordered: "Rush over in spite of everything!"

Target, Warsaw!

”It didn't take long.The sound of galloping horses began to sound.Disappointed, Sobieski swept away in a northeasterly direction with his 120,000 Polish hussars like a gust of wind.The Ming cavalry began to retreat and began to pass the situation to the infantry behind."

The Polish cavalry is speeding up to break through!""

The Polish cavalry is speeding up to break through!""

The Polish cavalry is speeding up to break through!"

…… As more and more Ming sentinels began to shout, the Ming sappers who were constantly pushing the trenches forward also began to get nervous, and the sapper shovels that kept digging also danced a lot more disorderly.The infantry also began to hurriedly come out of the trenches, carried the heavy fire guns on the bunkers behind the barbed wire, and began to swing out all the thunderbolts, and at the same time, the rifled guns in their hands also began to load.The artillerymen also began to all run back to their positions, loading the shells.The Ming army had already set up the most powerful secret posts in the vicinity of Kiev, which monitored the movements of the main force of the Polish cavalry, and transmitted the news that Sobiesky's headquarters had appeared in the vicinity of Kiev back to the base camp of the Ming army in Moscow.It's just that Sobiesky himself didn't notice it.Of course, this has something to do with the Ming army's early preparations.Zhou Yuji, the commander of the Ming army, had already guessed that Sobiesky might come to Kyiv, so he set up secret posts in the forests around Kyiv in advance.Therefore, as soon as the main force of Sobiesky's 120,000 Polish hussars was in the area of Kiev, the Ming army knew the situation.And Zhou Yuji directly transferred all the remaining more than 200,000 troops in the rear to Zhu Cizhuo, and asked him to set up an encirclement defense line around the main force of Sobiesky's 120,000 Polish hussars.At the same time, the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty who went to Austria in the hinterland of Eastern Europe to sweep through these areas also learned of this situation, and according to the order, they retreated one after another, and began to slowly approach the main force of 120,000 Polish hussars.So much so that when Sobiesky, realizing that he might have made a mistake in strategic prediction, reacted and hurriedly withdrew to Warsaw, his forward cavalry noticed that more and more Great Ming Sentinels were around him.Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

The sound of horses' hooves was heard densely.The whole earth trembled at once.Not long after, Zhu Cizhuo, who came here to command in person, saw through the telescope a large number of Polish cavalry, like a moving piece of red land, advancing rapidly.At this time, these Polish hussars were charging at the front of the Ming cavalry.Hundreds of Polish hussars side by side, armed with cavalry guns, fearlessly charged towards the Ming cavalry.The Ming cavalry at the forefront had no time to retreat, so they had to start charging with their rifles under the command of their respective officers, and staged a life-for-life war with these Polish hussars.Bang!

The Ming army at the forefront also formed a row of arrays and rushed towards the Polish hussars, and fired first.Like the Polish hussars, the muskets of the Ming cavalry, which also carried mounted rifles, were rifled guns, which naturally had a longer range, so they fired first.As a result, a dense barrage of bullets rushed towards the Polish hussars, overturning many Polish hussars on the spot.Sobiesky was jealous when he saw this.He really wished that his Polish cavalry also had this musket.However, the Ming cavalry did not stop the Polish hussars charging after shooting and overturning a group of Polish hussars.After all, it was 120,000 Polish hussars.Therefore, the Polish hussars behind still rushed over like a wall.