Chapter 871 Night Battle

Most of the Russian nobles and generals in the city agreed to persevere and wait for reinforcements. No one believed that a fortress with such complete defensive facilities would fall in a short period of time. The offensive and defensive battles surrounding the solid fortress would last forever every time, without exception.

, This is common military knowledge.

"Persevere, in winter, the severe cold will cause these southerners to suffer!"

"Cannon, we have the advantage of artillery fire!"

Amid the aristocrats' shouts, Colonel Sasha rubbed his sore forehead and tried his best to convince these arrogant nobles not to be blindly confident. Judging from the shooting level shown by the heavy artillery, his artillery had no advantage at all, but was fired by artillery.

If suppressed, what reason is there to be blindly confident? Less than 100 large and small cannons in the city can gain the upper hand in a full-scale artillery battle.

This was a very clear view, but was ridiculed by the nobles. The colonel was afraid that he would be scared by the enemy and lost his confidence.

"We didn't even lose a single gun, our gunfire is still very powerful!"

"I don't believe that those yellow-skinned monkeys will defeat our powerful royal artillery in artillery battles!"

Colonel Sasha cannot have the nobles, their confidence is very reasonable. Before seeing the shooting level of the Ming army with his own eyes, Sasha would never believe that a group of indigenous troops from the south would have such superb artillery skills.

Isn't artillery a patent for Europeans? When will it be the turn of the Eastern army to ride on the Russian royal artillery?

The royal artillery skills are not as good as those of the French, the British, the Spanish, and even the Poles, but how can they be inferior to those of the Orient? This is unacceptable. However, in fact, there are some mercenary officers standing in Sasha.

The side advocated the cavalry going out of the city to fight at night and tried their best to slow down the Ming army's civil engineering operations. So the two groups of people were in stalemate and even moved the knife after the fierce noise.

Sasha was furious and used his power to force the commander to shut down the aristocrats who were causing trouble. That's all. Apart from closing, he didn't dare to do anything to these aristocrats. Russia is serfdom, and the nobles are the masters.

The privileges they possess are even more exaggerated than the gentry group of Ming Dynasty, and small colonels dare not deal with them at will. In the end, the decision fell into the hands of Governor Alexey, who adopted the habit of bureaucrats all over the world.

The way, and the mud!

The Governor comforted his confidant generals while appeased the noble officers.

Finally, the colonel's night attack plan was discounted. The nobles who did not agree to fight were guarding the city and remained silent. Sasha, who agreed to attack, led the troops to fight. The governor was confused while convincing the Cossacks.

The leader Bogdan hoped that the Cossacks would go out of the city to cooperate in the battle, and promised to give a reward to the Don Cossacks after the war.

Bogdan believed in his nonsense, but of course he didn't believe it, but he still assembled all the Cossack cavalry to attack.

Bogdan doesn't care whether the reward promised by the Governor can be fulfilled. If the Cossacks cannot be fulfilled, they will rob them by themselves. Or rob Russian civilians legitimately. No one dares to owe the Cossacks money, and the Russian emperor cannot do it. Bogdan is willing.

If you go to war, you will have to take revenge. The loss of 20,000 Cossacks is a shame. There is no way to humiliate the Cossacks!

So, Colonel Sasha reluctantly accepted the combat plan, but felt very helpless.

The night sneak attack lacked the strongest Dragon Cavalry Regiment and Hussar Regiment. Most of the elite cavalry did not participate in the battle, so the effect was of course discounted. Fortunately, there were still 14,000 Cossack cavalry to cooperate in combat, so they gave up the city to attack at night.

The number of cavalrymen reached 17,000, which was already a very powerful force. The colonel issued a combat mission.

Attack late at night, retreated at dawn, the cavalry rushed first, and a large number of armed civilians carried hoes, pickaxes and shovels to attack. The purpose of the combat was to kill and injure the Ming army's engineer troops, destroy the trenches under construction on the front line, and calculate how much they can fill in at dawn.

. At the time of the Foxiao period, the entire army must withdraw to the city to avoid being cut off by the Ming cavalry who were monitoring the battlefield on both wings. Looking at the Cossack leader who was sloppy and drinking wine, Colonel Sasha made a cross on his chest, God

Bless, what else can I hope for

Outside the city, southeast.

At night, the frontier positions of the Ming army were brightly lit.

Besieged a city with a large number of cavalry guarding, and the impact of cavalry was the top priority. The Ming army laid a large number of roadblocks and resisted horses on the front line, a large number of shotgun cannons, and also laid a piece of gravel and caltrops.

But Ma Cheng always felt that there was something missing. At night, he ordered people to secretly lay a layer of hay in the gravel, sprinkle some tiny oil, and then buried some enemies of ten thousand people.

The huge enemy was buried in gravel, covered with hay, and ignited with rockets. Finally, there was no need to arrange for the dead soldiers to order these big firecrackers. Macheng firmly believed that the Russian army would not sit idly by and watch the siege army dig the trenches under the city.

If this is true, the gunpowder city bombing method created by Kaiyuan Military Academy will show its power. The children of Kaiyuan Military Academy have been studying gunpowder city walls and have initially achieved results.

The actual combat effectiveness is still hard to say, and it still needs to be tested by the Russians' strong city.

To fight for the Northern Expedition to Macheng, I thought of everything I could think of. It is absolutely impossible to fill it with human lives. Every strong city is filled with human lives. I am afraid that it will not be able to fight Europe until I die. The Ming army was in Liaodong Ten

During the war in 2008, a unique set of siege methods were created. Civil trench excavation and artillery fire suppression were created. Now a method of digging tunnels to bomb the city was created, and this tactical system was improved.

In this era, it was not easy to use black gunpowder to explode the city walls. It required a lot of experiments. After all, black gunpowder is not explosives.

The night was getting darker, and the Ming army's frontier positions were full of torches, and they rushed to work overnight.

To the northwest, on the banks of the Zhen River.

Li Zhengming's eyes rolled around for a while, and he understood the general's intentions well. How to make the Russian army lose blood continuously? The Ming army created many evil methods. He no longer blindly competed with the Russian army for water sources.

Instead, dig traps and arrange various camouflaged traps on the routes that the Russian army often take to get water, be fakes, fake artillery lures the Russian army to open fire, wasting ammunition.

A scarecrow put on a military uniform and stood in a row at night. How can the Russian army distinguish between true and false?

As for the traps arranged along the way, there were a variety of things, big enough to swallow the tall war horses, and the small could only accommodate one foot. The unethical Li Zhengming ordered the Ming army to create countless small holes in the water source during the day, these only

The small hole that could accommodate a foot later caused the Russians who fetched water to suffer, saving time and effort, and causing a large number of casualties to the Russians without any effort.
Chapter completed!