Daming Military Empire

Chapter 552 Digging Through the Bastion
Faced with the Ming army's wall-digging tactic, Andre really has no way to do it. It's not that this tactic is so clever, it's mainly because the Ming army's grenades are too powerful.

To prevent people from digging the city wall, one must be able to get close to the city wall. When he sent people close to the city wall, there was a cloud of grenades.

The artillery can't hit it at all, and the musket may be able to hit it if you think about it. The problem is that the soldiers of the Ming army must be hiding under the siege vehicles to dig the city walls. Waste of bullets.

That's all the weapons and equipment of the Tsarist Russian Army. Andrei has thought about all the ways he can think of, but they are all useless.

He was really helpless, so he could only wait in fear. When night fell, it would be impossible for the Ming army to light up the lights and fight at night!
It is true that the Ming army would not fight night battles, one because it had plenty of time, and the other was to prevent sneak attacks.

The second day of NO.18 Bastion offensive and defensive battle slowly ended in this weird atmosphere. The Ming army did not launch any other attacks, but sent 1 people to change shifts to dig the city wall every two hours. Tsarist Russia There is no special action, just a few random shots when the Ming army changes shifts. It is simply impossible for the moving siege vehicles to hit a target with several shots in a row at the same time. They want to use this method more. Tell the Ming army: We will not give in!

In the evening, the Ming army finally withdrew their troops and went back to the camp to rest. Andre had the courage to ask someone to put him and a group of guards down the city wall with a frame to see the progress of the Ming army's day-long digging.

Good guy, the Ming army has dug out more than a dozen huge holes in the first floor of the city wall. The holes are as high as a person and three to four meters deep!

How to do it?Tsarist Russia did not have cement at this time, and the city wall could not be repaired in a day or two. He could only organize manpower to hang down the city wall in turn, pile back the excavated earth and rocks, and block it randomly.

It is conceivable that 3 people took turns digging for nearly six hours. Andre directed the uninjured [-] soldiers to work all night, and only half of the large holes dug out were filled. Filled up, the soil and rocks are not pressed very tightly. As for the effect, it can only be said that nothing is better than nothing.

Early the next morning, at Sishi, the Ming army came up again full of energy. Andre could only suppress his drowsiness, dragged his exhausted body, and continued to watch, or wait for the Ming army to dig the city wall.

Fortunately, the Ming army did not intend to change their tactics. They still focused on digging holes in the city wall, and there was no sign of rushing up. The only strange thing is that the Ming army seemed to be digging deep instead of digging up. The first floor of the city wall was about ten meters high, and it was impossible for them to dig it down like this. Andre was very puzzled by their behavior. Could it be that they wanted to dig directly under the city wall of the second bastion?
The next day passed in this weird atmosphere again. The Ming army did not play any tricks from the beginning to the end, but the personnel alternated more frequently. The original shift shift every two hours became one shift every hour.

For this situation, Andre can only guess boringly, maybe they are tired of digging.

In the evening, the Ming army withdrew its troops and returned to the camp again, and Andre had him hanged from the city wall again to see the situation.

Looking down, he was so angry that he spit out a mouthful of blood. This time, the Ming army actually removed all the excavated earth and rocks. The bottom of the city wall was empty, and there were only a dozen huge holes left there. It seemed that a group of demons opened their mouths wide and were laughing at him there!
Their equipment is not as neat as that of the Ming army. Who has nothing to prepare so many hoes? Even if there are so many hoes, how much earth and stone can 3000 people dig out in one night to fill the huge hole.

As soon as Andre gritted his teeth, he decided to go to bed. It happened that he hadn't had a rest last night. The Ming army would dig if they liked. Anyway, it would take at least ten days to dig under the second-story city wall, and it was still very early. we'll see.

Naturally, it was impossible for Sun Chuanting to let people dig under the second-floor wall of the bastion in a boring way. How much time would it take? To do it like that, a month would not be enough to capture a bastion.

He had already made an arrangement, but Andre couldn't think of it. On the third morning, at Sishi, the Ming army was ready to dig the city wall again. However, this time, the soldiers under the siege vehicles not only brought pickaxes and The shovel also brought the dynamite used when Daming built the railway, the biggest kind, the dynamite as thick as a thigh!

At noon on the third day, just as Andre was about to order the man to cook, there was a loud bang, the cave and the mountain shook, and the entire No.18 bastion shook a few times.

"Oops, it's dynamite." Andre ran back to the top of the tower in one breath, took out the binoculars and looked down, it's a cake, the first floor of the bastion near the city wall is like a dog chewing on it, there are gaps everywhere , the Ming army is desperately cleaning up the gravel at the gap!

This is a big trouble. If they cleared up the rubble, wouldn't the siege vehicles covered with iron plates be able to push up from the gap? In this way, the second and third floors would also be easily breached by them.

He quickly ordered: "Quickly, order the soldiers on the second and third floors to aim and shoot to prevent them from cleaning up."

At this moment, the Ming army's artillery formations recalled the terrible roar again, and scattered bullets covered the second and third floors of the bastion like a dark cloud, and more than half of the Ming army raised their rifles at the outcropping Tsarist soldiers. After a shot, the Tsarist Russian soldiers on the second and third floors were immediately shrunk back.

With such a quick response and such precise cooperation, the performance of the Ming army is simply a model of infantry and artillery coordinated operations. How can we fight with others!

Andre had no choice but to order: "Quickly, order all the soldiers on the first floor to withdraw to the second floor, and the others pay attention to concealment."

There were only 300 uninjured soldiers left on the first floor, and the injured had already moved to the second and third floors. Before the Ming army rushed up, they ran up to the second floor, and the first floor was empty.

With the cooperation of the artillery fire, the soldiers of the Ming army quickly cleaned up the gravel at the gap, and the siege vehicles were pushed onto the platform one by one. Tens of thousands of soldiers of the Ming army pushed the siege vehicles and searched everywhere on the first floor. Once again, after confirming that there was no danger, they pushed the siege vehicle closer to the second-story city wall.

Although it was uncertain whether there was anyone beside the second-story city wall, the Ming army threw a wave of grenades before approaching the city wall, and then pushed the top of the siege vehicle to the city wall, digging through it, which was exactly the same as the offensive and defensive battle on the first floor.

Andre was still helpless. He didn't dare to send soldiers near the edge of the city wall to throw boulders and pour kerosene. That was purely to deliver food to the Ming army. He just couldn't stop it.

He could only pray that Golovin would seize the opportunity and make a sneak attack, otherwise, sooner or later, this bastion would be pierced by the Ming army!

(End of this chapter)