Daming Military Empire

Chapter 550 The Bastion Defense Is Really Scary

Fortress No. 18 of Tsarist Russia, on the third floor, on the tower, the Tsarist Russian defender, Major General Andrei, is watching the camp of the Ming Army in the southwest with a telescope. I feel a hair in my heart.

Count the number of Sun Moon Dragon Flags and you will know that there are three regular legions of the Ming Army on the opposite side, with a total of 30 troops. Those are three regular legions of the Ming Army!What's more, the one in the middle, the Sun and Moon Dragon Banner turned out to be the same brilliance of the sun and the moon, which is the symbol of the strongest military force of the Ming Empire, the first-class legion!

As a general of the great powers of the Anti-Habsburg Alliance, he is naturally very familiar with the division of the ranks of the Ming Empire's legions. Based on the performance of the Ming Empire's previous wars, the allies made a rough assessment of the combat power of the regular legions of the Ming Empire.

The third-class legion of the Ming Empire is as powerful as the elite troops of the allies. That is to say, if each country gathers [-] elite troops to fight against a third-class legion of the Ming Empire in the wild, the outcome is only five or five.

The second-class legion of the Ming Empire completely crushed the elite troops of the allies. That is to say, if the elite troops of about [-] people from various countries encountered the second-class legion of the Ming Empire in the wild, they should run quickly, they would never be able to do it!
The first-class legion of the Ming Empire is an extremely terrifying existence, and its combat power cannot be evaluated by the same number of elite troops. Like last time, Marshal Golovin met the first-class legion of the Ming Empire, the Far East Army 10 The men and horses went to attack the ordinary guardhouse stationed by 1 people. After several days of mad attack, not only did they fail to capture it, but they lost nearly 2 people, and almost all of the rest were injured.

What kind of will is that, what kind of combat power is that!

Didn't it mean that there are only three first-class legions in the Ming Empire, and there is also one of them is His Majesty's Imperial Guard Legion, which usually doesn't directly participate in battles. How can I be so unlucky to meet one!
If possible, he really wanted to run away with his men, but he was not Marshal Golovin. Marshal Golovin could lead his army to run wildly, thousands of miles, and a strategic retreat would be fine.

He was different. If he dared to lead his army back even a few miles, Marshal Golovin would definitely hang him with a pork hook!

However, fortunately, Marshal Golovin has led reinforcements to lurk near the bastion. The Marshal also sent someone to send a personal letter to let him guard the bastion with peace of mind. The reinforcements will seize the opportunity when the enemy is besieging the bastion. There is absolutely no problem in sneak attacking and repelling the three legions of the Ming Empire.

Andre is still very confident in the defense of the bastion. Even if there is a first-class army of the Ming army in front of him, even if there are 30 Ming troops outside, it is impossible to break through the bastion he guards in a few days. General Golovin just didn't want to lie. He didn't have the confidence to keep the bastion forever, because the ammunition in the bastion was limited. If the enemy took turns to attack, the ammunition in the bastion would be exhausted within a month.

Golovin was not lying to Andre. The reinforcements he led were indeed lurking near the bastion. He also wanted to sneak attack when the Ming army attacked the city, but would Sun Chuanting give him a chance?
On the side of the Ming army, 30 troops took turns to go into battle, frantically manufacturing siege equipment, how many siege equipment can be produced in five days?
It is naturally impossible for Sun Chuanting to count them one by one. Anyway, it is definitely enough to capture the bastion in front of him.

There were not many types of siege equipment made by the Ming army. Except for the necessary ladders and siege vehicles, there was only a new type of siege equipment called a gun tower.

This gun tower does not mean that the artillery can be placed on it and pushed up to attack the city, but a square frame used to protect the artillery and artillery. If it hits it, it can only hit the frame, but not the artillery and artillery below.

Now the siege equipment of the Ming army has also been greatly improved. Like the siege vehicles and the gun towers, an inch-thick steel plate is added to the top. Siege vehicles or gun towers were smashed to pieces.

On the tenth day after Sun Chuanting received the imperial decree, at Chenshi, before dawn, the Ming army camp outside the No. city.

At three o'clock in the morning, the siege equipment outside the Ming army camp began to move slowly, and more than a hundred thousand cavalry guarded the two sides of the siege equipment, slowly approaching the bastion.

Half an hour later, dawn appeared in the sky, and the 20 Ming troops were neatly lined up five miles away from the front of the Tsarist Russian Bastion.

Sun Chuanting asked the non-commissioned officer who was counting the time. It was only about a quarter of an hour before Si time, and he immediately ordered: "All the Shenwei cannons are lined up in front of the formation."

The range of the Shenwei cannon is about five miles, and a hundred steps in front of the formation is just enough to reach the first floor of the enemy's bastion. According to calculations based on the small number of Tsarist Russian artillery captured by the Ming army, the longest range of the artillery made by Tsarist Russia is roughly [-] miles. It is equivalent to the [-]-style howitzer of the Ming army. In other words, the range of Tsarist Russia's artillery on flat ground is less than two miles. If the height of the bastion is added, the range of Tsarist Russia's artillery can reach three to four miles at most. In other words, the range of the Shenwei cannon on the flat ground exceeds the range of the artillery on the enemy's bastion.

It's a pity that only the first-class legions of Ming Dynasty are equipped with Shenwei cannons, and each first-class legion is only equipped with a hundred guns.

Following Sun Chuanting's order, a hundred Shenwei cannons were quickly lined up in front of the Ming army's formation.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Sun Chuanting immediately ordered: "Order, all the Shenwei cannons are loaded with shotguns, and prepare for the longest range bombardment."

The personal guards behind him waved the command flag, and the artillery group in front of the formation rang out bursts of orders. Soon, all the artillery positions raised the command flag to represent the completion of preparations, but the artillery commander did not give the order to fire. Sun Chuanting under Xianglong's banner.

Sun Chuanting did not order to fire, but sat on the horse and quietly observed the bastion in front of him with binoculars.

Finally, a hurried time chime sounded next to him: "Report to Vice Marshal Sun, the time has come."

Sun Chuanting heard the words and immediately ordered: "Fire the guns."

"Boom boom boom", there was a roar of artillery in front of the Ming army, and thousands of shotguns rained down on the bastion of Tsarist Russia.

Sun Chuanting looked at where the shotguns fell, and then ordered: "Shenwei cannons, bombard ten rounds with shotguns without interruption, and all other artillery pieces will move forward together with the gun towers, arranged according to the firing range."

Following his order, the Ming army launched thousands of gun towers, and artillerymen pushed the artillery forward together under each gun tower.

The roar of the artillery continued to sound, and while the gun tower was advancing, the hundred Shenwei cannons never stopped, and the shotguns continued to rain on the bastion of Tsarist Russia. Inside, the roar of artillery was still heard in the bastion.

There were not many cannonballs fired from the bastion, only dozens of them, but they never stopped. From time to time, the advancing Ming army gun towers would be hit by shells, and there was a huge collision sound.

Finally, all the cannons were in place, and the ten rounds of the Shenwei cannon had been fired. Sun Chuanting directly ordered: "Order, all the cannons are loaded with live ammunition and bombarded without interruption."

The flags were flying, and soon there was an earth-shattering roar in front of the Ming army. More than 1000 artillery pieces were fired together, and the shells hit the bastion in front of them like a torrential rain.

However, the effect was not very satisfactory. The inner wall of the bastion was filled with earth and rocks, the thickness of which was almost impossible to estimate, and no matter which direction the bombardment was from, there were many dead spots. It's very difficult, the roar of Tsarist Russian artillery also never stops for a moment, the defense of this bastion is really terrible!
(End of this chapter)