Daming Military Empire

Chapter 551

Andre stood on the tower on the third floor of the bastion, observing the lineup of the Ming army with binoculars. This position should be regarded as relatively safe. Even if the Ming army pushed the artillery to the front of the bastion, they would not be able to reach it, but look at it As he watched, a layer of cold sweat slowly appeared on his forehead.

The regular legion of the Ming Empire is indeed terrifying. There are hundreds of giant cannons that are almost two people tall, and their range is even farther than the [-]-pound guns they set up on the third floor of the bastion. You must know that he has a total of There are only ten sixteen-pounders, and the others are twelve-pounders and six-pounders, which add up to less than a hundred!

Immediately afterwards, the thousands of artillery pieces of various types pushed up refreshed his cognition. Is there any mistake? The entire Tsarist Russian army was not equipped with so many field artillery. It should be that the two legions are equipped with so many artillery, and they still let people live?

At this time, Andre had no confidence to hold on for a month, and the shells hit him like a storm, and his heart sank slowly. Such fierce firepower, the bastion could not last long, if tomorrow The army's constant bombardment, not to mention a month, half a month later, the bastion will be riddled with holes. The 5000 people of my own must be buried alive by the Ming army's shells!

His worry is superfluous, how could the Ming army prepare so many shells, more than 1000 cannons, hundreds of thousands of shells in a day, even if the solid shells are worthless, they have to be transported, right? A few catties or even tens of catties of iron bumps, hundreds of thousands of rounds are several million catties, no matter how strong the transportation capacity of the Ming army is, it is impossible to transport millions of rounds of solid ammunition at one time.

After a day of uninterrupted bombardment, the solid bullets brought by the Ming army were almost consumed. After a day, they did not actually cause many casualties.

Needless to say, the Tsarist Russian defenders, the bastion has many dead ends in every direction. As long as they are not looking for death and insist on standing where the shells hit, they will not be hit under normal circumstances.

The defense of the Ming army was also very good. The gun towers with iron plates were hard to smash. In addition, there were not many artillery guns in Tsarist Russia. Only a dozen gun towers were blown down in one day. The soldiers of the Ming army hid in the gun towers on both sides, and nothing happened, except that there were a few casualties at the moment the gun towers collapsed.

In short, there were no casualties on both sides this day, but on the side of the bastion facing the Ming army, the arrow stacks and parapets were almost wiped out, and all kinds of city defense equipment were bombarded. Can't use it anymore.

Early the next morning, at Sishi, the Ming army launched an attack on time again.

It was still covered by ten rounds of shotguns, and more than a thousand artillery pieces lined up against the gun towers again, ready to bombard.

This time, the Ming army used flowering bombs.

Although the explosive bullets were not as powerful as the solid bullets, they were easy to ignite the gunpowder barrels of the defenders, and the overwhelming explosive bullets fell down. After a few rounds, thick smoke rose from several places on the bastion.

The flowering bullets have a splash effect, and the dead angle of shooting cannot completely block the sputtering sparks and fragments. The flowering bullets kept hitting them, and finally several gunpowder barrels of the fort were ignited. The first floor of the bastion and the There was a lot of commotion on the second floor, and barrels of gunpowder exploded, causing terrifying damage.

At this moment, hundreds of miles of siege vehicles sprang out of the Ming army's lineup, rushing towards the bastion quickly.

The top of the siege vehicle was also covered with iron plates, and one or two shells hitting it had no effect at all. Seeing this, Andre quickly ordered: "Quickly, order the soldiers on the first floor to prepare boulders and kerosene."

He was quite experienced, and he judged instantly that only boulders and kerosene could cause damage to this kind of siege vehicle.

However, he still underestimated the weapons and equipment of the Ming army. The Ming army not only had artillery and muskets, but also grenades.

When the siege vehicle approached the first floor of the bastion wall, the Russian soldiers hiding in the blind spot of the artillery had already lifted up the boulder and the oil pan and ran towards the wall. At this moment, countless black lumps suddenly flew out from under the siege vehicle.

"Boom boom boom", the Tsarist Russian soldiers carrying boulders and oil pans immediately began to roll all over the ground, howling ghosts and wolves.

There are tens of thousands of siege troops in this wave. What is the concept of tens of thousands of grenades exploding at the same time? The place near the city wall on the first floor of the bastion has almost become a sea of ​​steel needles. If you want to avoid being attacked, unless you are not close to the city wall!
Andre said inwardly, “Oops, the grenades of the Ming army are really so powerful. When he first heard about the grenades from the Far Eastern Army who fled back, he thought that these guys deliberately exaggerated in order to shirk their responsibility.

However, he didn't look too flustered, because the bastion has more than one floor, and there are two and three floors above. The loss is a bit big, there are only [-] soldiers on the first floor, and nearly half of them have turned into gourds!

The Ming army did not climb up to the first floor of the bastion on ladders as he had imagined, because this wave of Ming soldiers did not bring ladders at all, and all they held were two pointed pickaxes!
Of course, Sun Chuanting knew that when the siege soldiers climbed to the first floor of the bastion, they would become targets for the defenders on the second and third floors. Naturally, there is no need to worry about time, so he chose to dig the city wall.

He was going to dig a few openings in the first and second city walls, and push the siege vehicles up, so as not to cause too many casualties.

Andre waited for a long time, but he didn't see a single soldier of the Ming army protruding from the wall of the bastion on the first floor. He couldn't help being surprised. Just then, the shelling of the Ming army stopped, and he immediately ordered: "Quick, let The rest of the people on the first floor, first drag the wounded soldiers back, and then attack with boulders and hot oil, and let them see what the Ming army below is doing."

The uninjured soldiers below received the order, and immediately ran up, pulled all the rolling gourds to the hiding place on the first floor, and then stepped forward to lift the boulder and the oil pan that had not been knocked over and ran to the city wall.

As a result, they had just run a few steps, and a bunch of dense grenades flew up from below.

"Boom boom boom" There was another pile of ground gourds on the first floor of the bastion, and finally some people knew the power of the black bump, jumped away and fell to the ground in time, otherwise, the soldiers on the entire first floor of the bastion would be completely changed Become a hedgehog.

Andre couldn't understand it. The soldiers on the city wall couldn't see the Ming army under the city wall. How could the Ming army under the city wall see the defenders who were carrying huge boulders and oil pans?
In fact, it is very simple. The Ming army under the city wall cannot see the defenders above, but the Ming army in the artillery formation in the distance can see it. The commander over there only needs to make a gesture, and the Ming army commander under the city wall will know. Yes, of course it's right to throw one at a time.

Faced with such a strange thing, Andre had no choice but to go up and turn all the people into gourds, so why send people up, he had to ask the uninjured soldiers on the first floor to pull all the injured soldiers back to the secret place , Waiting for the Ming army to show up.

After waiting for a long time, there was still no Ming army on the outside of the city wall on the first floor, but the commander on the first floor ran up with grinning teeth, and said in panic: "Report the general, the Ming army seems to be digging the city wall!"

"Pfft", Andre almost spat out a mouthful of blood, digging the city wall!This is how to do ah?

(End of this chapter)