The Last Frontier of Fire and Sword

When Yakov Cherkasky led four thousand Russian troops to reach the city of Polotzko three days later, a simple bastion stood in front of them.

This bastion is a "non-standard" Vauban-style bastion. Although its central embankment is very short, it can ensure that the rifle's "fire" range can completely cover this area. In order to prevent the siege artillery from directly hitting the central embankment At the same time, a concave fort was built in front of the middle embankment of the bastion, and some musketeers were assigned here to strengthen the defense of the trenches.

But there is no main fortress above the core triangle fort. Originally, there should be a main fort at a higher position of the triangular fort, and artillery was mounted on the main fort so that the artillery on the main fort could surpass the "fire" attack. At the same time, artillery was also arranged on the triangular fort to form a crossfire. Part. But because of time constraints, the main fort was abandoned.

In places that Yakov Cherkaski could not see, there were hidden roads and military camps. These are the bunkers that counterattack the former infantry. In order to prevent the enemy from shooting, Tetsuchen and the others also set up many horizontal walls in the concealed road.

Most of the entire bastion without a main fortress was built with thick soil. The reason why masonry is not used is due to lack of time, and the other is that the soil can effectively absorb the energy of the shells. As for those places where bricks and woods had to be used, the mercenary group also covered thick soil on the outside.

Yakov Cherkaski had an instinctive resistance to attacking the bastion. In fact, it often took months to conquer a bastion in that era.

Yakov Cherkaski sent a ride to the other two walls of Polotsk Castle to investigate. The conclusion he reached was exactly the same as that of Cheorchen—the north and the west were not suitable.

Compared to Chechen, Yakov Cherkaski certainly knew that Werner and Myatelsk Fort were also under attack by the Tsarist army, but he did not dare to ensure that his country’s army would win in those two directions. Or it can hold back any reinforcements that may appear.

Yakov Cherkaski didn't want to be attacked by two sides compared to the losses he would have to bear in attacking a bastion.

As a result, Yakov Cherkaski arranged an army of eight hundred men to the west, and the main force was to besiege the bastion.

Soon, the Russian army built an artillery position. Twelve artillery pieces lined up one after the other, aiming at the bastion guarded by the mercenary regiment.

Following the command of the artillery commander, the artillery proficiently pushed the gunpowder and shells into the muzzle. After adjusting the angle of the muzzle, the artillery roared like a dragon.

Most of the first batch of shells fell around the bastion, and only one of the shells hit the bastion.

The artillery of the Russian army adjusted the angle of the artillery and reloaded it. This time, the accuracy of the shells has been greatly improved, and most of the shells hit the bastion.

The following morning, the Russian artillery positions continuously poured firepower on the bastion. But the bastion guarded by the mercenary group was indeed silent. Despite the enemy's shelling, they did not launch a counterattack. It was the artillery in Polotsk Castle, which fired several times.

Pidro carefully poked half of his head from behind the breast wall. His field of vision was full of smoke and dust, all of which was the dust aroused by the shells hitting the bastion. Although the shelling of Yakov Cherkaski was terrifying, if it were a complete bastion, the damage to the bastion would be minimal. Because there were no reliable grenades in that era, most of the shells were solid. After they hit the bastion, the energy was absorbed by the thick soil on the bastion.

But the simple version of the bastion that the mercenary group spent a few days building did not have such a strong ability to resist bombardment, and the number of artillery in the bastion was seriously insufficient.

Pidro retracted his head behind the breast wall. He leaned his back against the breast wall, took out a handful of tobacco and put it in the pipe. The reason why it often takes several months to capture a bastion is because artillery cannot cause substantial damage to the bastion in a short period of time. The attacking party can only bombard for a long time to create a large enough gap. Under normal circumstances, the infantry will never launch an attack until the gap is opened.

But there are exceptions to everything, Cheerchen has no confidence in how long his bastion can withstand the shelling. So Cheerchen arranged for his uncle Piedro to guard the possible sneak attack inside the breast wall.

Pidro lighted the pipe and took a comfortable sip, then spit out a few circles in a leisurely manner. As a veteran, he has already been familiar with the environment of the artillery fire, even if it is more fierce than this, he has also experienced it. But the new recruits of the mercenary group today do not have this strength. As soon as they heard the sound of the cannon, they didn't know the distance of the sound, so they drew their heads in fright.

"We have to train them well in the future." Pidro thought.

Gradually, Pidro heard and felt that the sound of the Russian guns was significantly reduced, and the frequency of the guns was not as dense as the beginning. He hurriedly put his head out of the breast wall again, and this look shocked him-in front of him, there were one Russian infantry phalanx, and Yakov Cherkaski only spent half a day of artillery fire. The infantry was ready to attack, and the bastion was blasted through a gap in a long time.

Pidro hurried into the camp.

"Russian army, the Russian army is about to attack." Pidro shouted to the people hiding in the camp.

Everyone stood up, and although most of the soldiers were full of panic in their eyes, they still entered the position under the leadership of their captains.

"Fedot, wait a minute." Cheerchen caught Fedot, who was about to lead the team to run out.

"What's wrong? Captain."

"You stay here, the Musketeers are under my command." Cheerchen said to Fedot.

He still remembered the agreement with Fedot that Fedot would not shoot at his compatriots.

"Head!" Fedot knew Cheerchen's intentions immediately, and he glanced at Cheerchen gratefully. At this time, the players under Fedot looked at them strangely. They didn't know that Fedot was a Russian.

"You stay here and help take care of the wounded." For Fedot, he also gave a reasonable reason for the players.

Then, he picked up a musket leaning against the wall and jumped out of the camp.

Yakov Cherkaski's army is still a classic offensive formation. The only difference is that because the bastion does not have deep trenches, the Russian army also omitted the cannon fodder to fill the trenches.

The new Russian musketman in the first row stood within the effective "fire" range of the musket, set up the bracket and aimed at the breast wall and the gap of the bastion.

"Fire!"

The Musketeer commander gave an order, and the New Army Musketeers skillfully pulled the trigger.

A row of bullets hit the breast wall, and the mud on the breast wall was sifted down~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The soldiers of the mercenary regiment consciously did not have a probe. They were waiting for Chechen's "stand up" command.

After another two rounds of "shooting" strikes, the Russian infantry finally dispatched.

Seeing the red flag waved by the scout in charge of the observation, Cheerchen decisively gave the order to stand up.

The Musketeers stood up quickly. They filled the gun chamber with gunpowder and bullets in accordance with the training procedures.

The musketeer in the first row set the musketeer on the breast wall and aimed at the rushing Russian army.

"boom."

The four-pounder gun, which had been silent for a long time, opened its mouth first. The shells made a blood alley in the Russian infantry phalanx.

Crackling.

Musketeers also joined the quartet. The last frontier of fire and sword