Chapter 869 Artillery Battle

Compared with cunning opponents like Nurhaci and Huang Taiji, the Russians are really not very smart. They cannot set up an ambush in this empty Siberian wilderness. How can they fight for support? Ma Cheng mentioned his younger brother. Fighting support does not necessarily mean ambushing.

It can block the attack and attack the reinforcements, or block the front, encircle the flanks, or resist step by step, lure the enemy into the depths, the soldiers are in constant force, and the water is in constant form.

After Ma Can's advice from his brother, he understood it and knew how to fight this battle.

Later generations thought that in modern times, firearms troops were fighting, and they were queuing up to fire guns and shooting them in line. They thought that the strategy was useless, but they didn't know that the line was just because Europe was too small, and most of them were plains, hundreds of thousands.

The army can fill France with one line, and there is no room for strategic maneuver. Europe without strategic depth naturally can only queue up and shoot it.

Later, hundreds of thousands of French troops lined up and went to the vast Russia with great courage to line up and shoot it. As a result, it was a tragedy and there were countless dead scumbags. The queue was only suitable for playing in the flat and strategic hinterland of Europe, which was in the

Liaodong, which has a complex terrain, cannot play with it, so Macheng relies on mountain infantry like Sichuan soldiers to fight in Liaodong. When it comes to the vast Siberia, it naturally depends on powerful cavalry and strategy.

The concept of strategic depth depends on powerful cavalry and a large number of horse-riding infantry to achieve it, and win with mobility. Ma Can has been influenced by his elder brother since childhood, and is well aware of the importance of mobility. In his elder brother Ma Cheng's tactical philosophy,

Putting aside the special terrain of Europe, mobility is the foundation of a strong army in the world. With strong mobility, everything is easy to say.

The troops were at the city, divided the troops, besieged the city, and set up cannons to bombard them.

Facing the strong city, the Ming army also formed a complete set of siege tactics during the ten years of Liaodong war, and rushed up against the ladder. It was an idiot. When 80,000 Ming troops arrived at the city, they drove the outer city to defend against cannons from ten miles away.

Trenches began to be dug outside the range, and trenches were digging forward one by one. The digging of soil happened to build the chest wall, digging forward with civil fortifications, covering the cannons to push forward step by step.

In October, the land on the south bank of Zhenhe River can still be dug, and it will turn into permafrost in another month.

On the city wall, the Russian gunners who had been waiting for battle were holding torches, standing stupidly like goose, constantly moving their sore arms. Behind the cannon were rows of infantry guarding the city wearing breastplate and holding heavy grenade guns.

Below were squatting a large number of heavy infantry soldiers with heavy armor and heavy armor, ready to climb the city to launch a counterattack, like an iron barrel guarding the city wall.

However, the Russian officers felt that their IQ was humiliated again. The group of southerners in the southeast did not resist the ladder and waving simple weapons and ants as everyone expected. Instead, they camped on the spot to dig trenches.

Here, is this going to fight a position war or trench siege? In the uproar, the Russian nobles and Eastern European mercenaries felt that all this subverted the known worldview.

The pair of angry eyes stared at Governor Alexey, and the questioning made the big-bellied Russian nobles unable to refute.

"Is this the Ming Dynasty that was about to be destroyed by the Tatars?"

"My God, they even have professional engineers!"

"What is that, siege cannon?"

In an uproar, Russian colonel Sasha held a telescope and looked at the cannon building on the front line of the Ming army. Several large-caliber mortars as thick as buckets were baring. This is the weak strength of the Dutch merchants.

Is the old empire that was about to be destroyed by the Tatars? Now even the siege cannons have been lifted out. Then, there will be heavy cannons with a caliber of more than twelve pounds.

This idea had just risen. In the distance, the Ming army's rear formation was actually dragging a large-caliber heavy artillery with two cows and more than a dozen horses. It appeared in the field of view. The heavy cannon cart was thick and long.

The gun barrel made Sasha slap himself hard, and he really said that he would come to whatever he said.

Under the city, the Ming generals pointed and exchanged greetings and discussed.

This battle was planned for a year and a half. Before the Liao army entered the pass, the Taiwan Prefecture began to accumulate strength and prepare for the northern expedition. In this battle, the Governor used a total of 98 artillery posts, nearly 600 various types.

Field artillery, with 10,000 artillery soldiers equipped with 8,000 horses and more than 30 artillery posts that arrived on the front line in advance, were already building three artillery positions, and four heavy Divine Power Supervisor's cannons arrived with the army.

That was an eighteen-pound field heavy artillery, powerful.

On the city wall, Colonel Sasha and a group of mercenary officers calmed down.

Colonel Sasha looked at the pale-faced governor and cursed in his heart. The whole of Russia was deceived by the Dutch. The Dutch had no good intentions and concealed the information about the southern country. But he didn't know that the Dutch was defeated in Malacca.

Even the elite guards suffered heavy losses, so they still redeemed them with money. When they returned to Europe, the Dutch were certainly unwilling to publicize the news of their defeat everywhere, so they concealed the news.

The defeated mercenary groups did not say a word, so the Eastern Ming Dynasty became a taboo topic in Europe. After defeat, the whole of Europe was pretending to be ostrich. They pretended to be invisible to the rising Eastern Ming Dynasty, but they were

The Russians far away in Eastern Europe have suffered a lot. Now, the nobles on the city wall have calmed down and realized the reality.

The vast southern army in front of us was a powerful empire with complete structure, complete military branches, tens of thousands of brave cavalry, extremely advanced weapons, and well-trained forces sent to conquer Eastern Europe, just like the Mongol Empire three hundred years ago.

Thinking of the various legends of the Mongol Empire three hundred years ago, Colonel Sasha, a group of nobles, and Eastern European mercenaries were silent and collectively lost their voices.

It took Europe more than two hundred years to barely ask for the shadow of the Mongol Empire, and now another powerful army is coming from the south.

Most people have recognized the situation, become cautious, and become awake.

Three days later, early in the morning.

Four Ming army's 18-pound field heavy artillery that advanced to the range, took the lead in firing, opening the prelude to the offensive and defensive battle. Three test shots, huge shells roared, and on the city wall, the Russian army had two 24-pounders.

The fortress cannons counterattacked, and formed a situation of two-on-one. The shells flew around. Although only six cannons were firing and fighting, they were in a state of dimness.

At a distance of five miles away, the Ming army's cannons had two or one. Although the caliber of field guns was not as good as fortress cannons, they actually suppressed the two city defense cannons with their excellent artillery skills. At this distance, they had to hit the opponent directly.

It is unrealistic, so it can only be relied on Meng. However, the city walls built by the Russians are low and the standard Western bastion design is even more difficult to hit directly.

It is even more impossible for Russian military city defense cannons to hit Ming army cannons.
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