"Coutinho, there are no gunshots outside today."

"Fernando, I'm listening. If my guess is correct, reinforcements from outside will not attack in the next few days."

"Well...are we going to try to attack the outside world in the past two days?" As a civilian general who was also promoted by Rudolph, Fernando is very willing to cooperate with Coutini.

Austrian thought, so his 20th Division has been advancing and retreating at the same time as Coutinho's 19th Division. But now, he already feels that he cannot control the situation.

Humans are very fickle creatures. When the officers and soldiers of the 19th and 20th divisions were first slipped out of the warm spring-like Crete to pursue the Ming Dynasty's Sixth Division, they were full of reluctance.

When they approached Jerusalem, their morale was like a rainbow. When they entered Jerusalem and became the restorers of the holy city, everyone was so excited that they went crazy.

Therefore, when they just entered the city and Coutinho asked them to prepare for defense, everyone devoted themselves to work with great enthusiasm, and all said: I will not leave here, those infidels want to

If you desecrate the Holy City again, you can only step over my corpse!

Then...

The siege had been less than a month, and the morale of the defenders in the city began to plummet: 100,000 enemy troops and 100,000 civilians outside started a huge work of digging trenches. The people digging the trenches could not feel anything, but on the city wall

The defenders looking down from above felt greatly shocked.

The Temple Mount, the Stations of the Cross, that's what it is. After going to worship and pray, you will be excited for a day or two, and then there will be nothing left. In addition, you are trapped in a dry city, and the actual radius of the city is

There are only about 1 square kilometers, and more than 20,000 smelly men are crowded together. The smell, tsk tsk tsk...

In short, when the excitement is over, there will be irritability, then fear, and then of course uneasiness.

On August 20, after Maurice began to lead his army to attack Richelieu's defense line, the morale in the city was boosted. It was not that there were no officers who suggested that we should take this opportunity to fight out, but they were rejected by Coutinho and Fernando.

The two rejected it on the grounds that the Holy City needed to be defended - What a joke, we could see clearly in the telescope, the Ottoman encirclement showed no signs of being broken through, what if we get out now and we are trapped?

?Wait until both parties are exhausted.

But today, September 2, the gunfire that had been going off for more than ten days stopped. Naturally, the defenders in the city had an illusion: Have the friendly forces outside abandoned us? Or have they been killed?

?Then what should we do?

This kind of collective anxiety can easily cause problems if superior officers do not handle it well!

Therefore, Fernando suggested that we should find a way to fight, otherwise the soldiers below would be extremely anxious and make a camp and roar out, which would be terrible.

"Agree." Nodding, Coutinho said: "I don't know who the commander is outside, but I think it's either Maurice or Frederick. Their command level is good, and they are also good at appeasing the soldiers' psychology.

I estimate that the suspension of attack starting from today will definitely last more than one day. If my prediction is good, the soldiers should at least be allowed to rest for three to five days."

"Well, that's right. If I were to direct the perimeter attack, I would arrange it this way."

"So, Fernando, how about we set the counterattack time for the night of September 4th?"

"Okay, give the soldiers below three days to prepare well. Damn it, this place is too small, the troops can't deploy at all. After so many days, people are really exhausted, and it's hard to go out and move around.

good."

Just as Coutinho was preparing to rush out of the city, outside the city, inside the headquarters of the Ottoman Jerusalem Front.

"There is no doubt that the Spaniards are exhausted, and excessive casualties will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among the soldiers. Therefore, Sir Morris must temporarily stop the attack to allow his soldiers to breathe. This is our opportunity to counterattack.

"

"Your Excellency, Civil Affairs Secretary, when will we counterattack?"

"Well, haha, generals and pashas, ​​we have worked together for so long. You should know that I am very poor in specific tactics. Therefore, you still need to come up with a solution in this regard."

"Well..." The real commander of the front army, Ibrahim, who served as the governor of Baghdad in the Mesopotamia, was recruited by the Arab general Hussein after thinking for a while and said: "I think today is the day when the enemy stops attacking.

On the first day of the attack, we will definitely maintain a certain degree of vigilance, so we'd better not move. Let's launch the attack on the night of September 4th. By that time, the enemy has rested for three days, and even if the opponent's commander is still

Prepare to rest, but also start thinking about attacking again. At that time, there will definitely be some new changes in the enemy's front, and we can take advantage of this opportunity..."

"What Hussein Pasha said makes sense." Seeing the senior officers participating in the meeting nodding, Richelieu naturally followed suit: "The time has been set, then we will start making preparations. The artillerymen quietly gathered,

When the time comes, attack one point of the opponent. Then break one point and then the entire line."

"Your Excellency is right. Our counterattack this time will only hit the opponent a little bit."

"Well, everyone, you can decide among yourselves which point to attack specifically. I only have one last question."

"Your Excellency Secretary?"

"The more than 20,000 Spaniards in the city must be sent out in advance to keep an eye on them."

"..." No one thought Richelieu's suggestion was unreasonable: Although the more than 20,000 Spaniards in the city seemed to be asleep during this period, with no intention of rushing out. But in the end, they were two

An army with tens of thousands of people can kill people even if they use force.

"Well, Mr. Secretary, how about we ask the Chinese to help me guard the enemy troops in the city? They have not participated in the war for more than 20 days. They eat our food and use our food, and they are well enough to rest."

"Well." Richelieu tugged at his beard: There is no doubt that after Hepan revealed the truth to the other party that day, the other party was very unhappy. If it were not for the fact that he was still waiting for a messenger from China to confirm the location of the fleet,

, this unit has already left. Now, are you going to ask someone to guard your way back?

However, this counterattack is very important. We must mobilize as many troops as possible to defeat the opponent in one fell swoop. Therefore, we must also make use of the nearly ten thousand Chinese elite forces.

"Let's do this. I will try my best to persuade the other party. But regardless of whether the other party agrees or not, we must stay with the Azerbaijani division to guard our rear."

"agree."

...

September 4th, 11pm.

Jerusalem has a typical Mediterranean climate, with warm and rainy winters and hot and dry summers. At this time, summer is coming to an end and the rain is coming but has not yet come: Anyone with a little experience knows that in this kind of weather, people are the most vulnerable.

Uncomfortable.

When Morris was young, he often took the lead in charges. He ate a lot of black powder lead bullets, and his whole body was often in pain. Now, when the season is about to change, he is even more restless. So, even though it was almost early morning this night,

He was still tossing and turning in pain on the bed, but couldn't fall asleep.

Damn it, this rainy season should come as early as possible, so that your body can feel better as soon as possible.

Anyway, he couldn't sleep now, so he simply put on a single piece of clothing and walked out of his headquarters and climbed a mound.

Under the mound, many Spanish army positions with a radius of dozens of miles are brightly lit: the attack will be launched again tomorrow, the reorganized troops are entering the attack position, and the logistics troops are also quietly moving ammunition.

Transported to the front line. This time, Morris was prepared not to drive the soldiers to launch a mass charge: it was still the old trick, artillery plowing! It was a bit slow, but the casualties were small.

As for the friendly forces in the Holy City? Humph, I will give them death to these cowards! In order to save them, our soldiers who died on the outside have already exceeded the defenders in the city!

This battle must be fought slowly, without any more... Huh? How come there was such a bright fire five or six miles across the way, dyeing half of the night sky red?

He didn't need to think too much, and the other party soon gave him the answer: the sound of countless artillery shells roaring through the air clearly told him that this was the Ottomans firing fiercely at their own position!

"No! Did we have a traitor? Why did the enemy just shell our position tonight when the rear was transporting ammunition?"

However, the shells that had been discharged did not give him time to think further. In a few breaths, hundreds of shells fell on the front and rear of the Spanish position, with huge explosions, large amounts of dust stirred up by the shells, and extreme

A few lucky ones happened to fall into the Spanish position, causing the soldiers to scream. Suddenly, the Spanish position, which was busy but orderly just now, became a mess!

However, this army was trained by Rudolf after all, so even though they were beaten in the face, officers at all levels soon stood up and called on the soldiers everywhere to restore order and get into fighting positions.

However, before their work could see much effect, the second round of shelling came soon. Then came the third round, the fourth round...

This is the largest heavy force group that the Ottomans will fight this time. It was originally deployed with the purpose of fighting a war of annihilation. So in this group, Ibrahim gritted his teeth and equipped these 100,000 people with 200 cannons: Istanbul is so important.

There are not so many cannons anywhere!

Therefore, when Hussein divided these heavy artillery into two groups and took turns firing, it really made the Spaniards feel endless fear.

From 11 o'clock in the evening until the early morning of September 5, the fierce shelling finally stopped temporarily after lasting for an hour. However, the entire Spanish position was already full of broken limbs and broken arms, as well as people of various sizes.

The blazing fire...

Just when the Spaniards took a breath and the surviving officers stood up with difficulty, preparing to call the soldiers to reorganize the battle line, they all felt a violent vibration under their feet!

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"anla-ahm-akbar!"
Chapter completed!