Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 1050

With the assistance of the Daming Navy, the 20 troops of the Persian Empire quickly captured the Basra Fortress.

They only felt that the defenders of the Ottoman Empire were really like paper, and they were not vulnerable at all.

The 200 million troops of the Kingdom of Bohemia were in trouble. The acropolis of the Ming Empire seemed to be made of steel and could not move at all.

To the southeast of the Ural Mountains, the central midfielder of Wushan was already surrounded by an army of 40 from the Kingdom of Northern Bohemia like an iron barrel.

Logically speaking, hundreds of thousands of troops surrounded such a small city that could accommodate at most 5 people and stormed it. It should take a few days to take it down.

However, the 40 troops of the Kingdom of Bohemia stormed for several days but hadn't even climbed the city wall.

As for the reason, it is actually the same as Basra Fortress.

Because the artillery of the Ming Empire was too terrifying, they rushed up with simple ladders, but they couldn't reach the city wall at all.

The dense shells not only smashed the ladder to pieces, but even the people who rushed up were seriously injured.

Wallenstein held up his binoculars and scanned the strange city walls in the distance, his brows almost knit together.

How many Ming troops are guarding this small city?
How many artillery pieces did these Ming troops have?

He really couldn't understand why the artillery fire in a city that seemed to be four or five square kilometers at most was so dense.

He has killed and injured tens of thousands of horses in the past few days, and he hasn't even touched the city wall yet!
Is it full of Ming army elites?
It is definitely not possible to fight like this, no matter how many people he has under his command, he can't stand the exhaustion.

Originally, he thought that as long as 40 people launched a fierce attack on all sides at the same time, the city should be easily taken.

After all, there are only 5 horses in the city at most, and more than 1 people are evenly allocated to a city wall.

As long as they can attack a city wall, the city will almost be taken.

Who would have thought that there would be so many artillery pieces in such a small city, and the terrifying rate of fire would blast out a barrage of bullets, and unprotected infantry would not be able to rush through.

He had to change his siege strategy, otherwise the infantry would eat shells when they went up.

The problem is that there are not many tactics available to him.

For example, he could not use the tactics often used by the Ming army, setting up artillery on the city wall to bombard the defenders in the city.

Because there are no high grounds around here, and the number of artillery in his hand is not many.

Moreover, he was carrying field artillery, and the range was simply not comparable to that of city defense artillery.

Coupled with the fact that he didn't have much ammunition in his hand, not only would it be ineffective to fight with others, but it might also ruin all the skilled gunners.

As for the armored chariot, don't even think about it.

He has no chariot, let alone armor.

Now, his only option seems to be to build lumbering siege engines.

Only in this way can the artillery shells of the Ming army be blocked and the soldiers rush to the city wall.

The problem is that siege vehicles are not so easy to build, so he has to find a way to solve the problem of wheels.

At this moment, his men don't have the ability to build wheels on site. If they want to build siege vehicles, they must use ready-made wheels.

He frowned and pondered for a while, and then said loudly: "The order is that all the five armies stop attacking, and build siege vehicles first.

The wheels of the siege vehicles are the wheels of grain carts, and each army must build [-] siege vehicles within three days. "

Well, he is going to take off the wheels of all the grain and grass carts.

I have to say that he was indeed a little bit flustered, thinking that it would be great to have an army of more than 200 million.

He even surrounded the city guarded by the Ming army and stormed before he knew anything!
In fact, there are many things that he didn't expect.

For example, it was Cao Wenzhao, the Duke of Jin known as the first fierce general of the Ming Dynasty, who led the army to fight against him this time.

At this moment, people are staring at him with binoculars on the city wall.

Cao Wenzhao didn't know what this guy was talking about, he couldn't help but look disdainful when he saw the enemy retreating in such a hurry.

Is this the fighting power of the mercenaries of the European Union?
He originally thought it would be a tough battle. After all, he had 200 million soldiers and 40 veterans under his command.

In order to prepare for this bitter battle, he took great pains.

He has not been idle for the past few months, and he has used almost everything that can strengthen the city's defenses.

For example, he dismantled all the materials from the settlements outside the city into the Acropolis.

Originally, there were only some wooden houses on the walls of the acropolis for winter shelter. Now, almost all the walls have herringbone roofs, and even iron plates are nailed on the roofs and outside the front wooden walls. and reinforced with steel bars.

With this kind of protection, the shells of field artillery can't move at all.

Moreover, after adding such a layer on the city wall, the whole city wall is like a fortress. Except for the observation hole and the artillery port, the other places are all steep walls, even if the enemy climbs up with a ladder, there is no place to stay.

As for the artillery, he mobilized as much as he could.

After determining the advancing direction of Wallenstein's army, he ordered the acropolis in other places to dismantle half of the city defense artillery and send them over.

At this moment, there are at least a thousand city defense guns on each wall of the acropolis facing the advancing direction of Wallenstein's army. In addition to the original field guns of the Shenji Battalion and Shenwu Battalion, there are thousands of cannons of various types on one wall. artillery.

Their artillery is also a Thor cannon that can fire continuously. With that terrifying rate of fire, the shells are really like rain.

If the enemy launches a charge without any protection, it is courting death!
Of course, even if the enemy makes protective equipment such as siege vehicles, it is useless, because they still have flamethrowers.

The flamethrower seems to have no attack power, but the speed of setting fire is frighteningly fast. If the enemy pushes the siege equipment to the city wall, it will be ignited instantly.

This is just a defense on the city wall. If it really fails, he can still call for reinforcements.

At this moment, all the nearby Acropolis were connected by telegraph lines buried underground, and he only needed a telegram to call in a bunch of terrifying reinforcements.

For example, the helicopter that was put into actual combat for the first time.

Although the helicopters at this moment are not equipped with artillery, they can carry a lot of gasoline tanks, kerosene tanks and incendiary bombs.

If there were really too many enemies for them to handle, the helicopter flew directly to the front of the city wall and dropped the gasoline and kerosene cans, and then dropped a few incendiary bombs, and the front of the city wall would soon become a sea of ​​flames.

If the sea of ​​fire can't stop the enemy's footsteps, that's okay, they still have chariots to support them.

At this moment, thousands of light infantry fighting vehicles and tens of thousands of wooden fighting vehicles have assembled around the acropolis they guarded. As long as a telegram is sent, the tanks will swarm over.

There are also 20 armored cavalry, all of whom are equipped with Daizi rifles, and a single rush is enough to crush the 40 enemy troops outside an acropolis.

The reason why they did not launch a siege was mainly because they wanted to consume the enemy's troops first.

After all, Wallenstein had more than two million troops under his command, while the total number of troops from the Western Camp and the Northern Camp involved in this battle was only one million.

It would be absurd for 100 million people to besiege 200 million people. They are only half the number of others, and they can't surround them at all.

At that time, I am afraid that there will be a big melee around.

Melee is just random fighting, and their geographical advantage and weapon advantage can't be brought into play at all.

Therefore, they still decided to use the solid city defenses to consume other people's troops first, and then rush forward when they are really unable to bear the consumption and are ready to retreat.

Wallenstein thought that the Ming army that fought against him only had such a small number of troops. He even thought that as long as he took these few cities, there would be a flat river in front of him.

Therefore, he did not retreat, and he planned to attack hard.

In three days, they really built four thousand siege vehicles outside each city.

The tops of these siege vehicles were all nailed with thigh-thick logs, and the shells of ordinary artillery could not be smashed at all.

Wallenstein looked at these sturdy siege engines, and his confidence returned.

He quickly ordered his men to form a formation that had already been arranged.

That is to say, ten people were sent under each siege vehicle to push the cart, and twenty people were arranged to follow closely behind each siege vehicle carrying two ladders.

In this way, the number of people participating in the attack on each city wall reached about [-]. As long as these people can rush to the city wall and set up a ladder, it is basically the same.

Needless to say, he was overthinking it.

At the beginning, the advance of the car array was relatively smooth. After all, the lethality of the artillery at this moment basically depends on the shells.

Once the shells can't hit people, they are basically useless.

Wallenstein couldn't help but smile when he watched the rows of siege vehicles pushing towards the city wall against the enemy's dense shells.

This trick really worked!
Although the infantry following the siege vehicles would inevitably eat some shells, this did not affect the advancement of the siege vehicles at all, and their casualties were much lower than those of the previous few days.

Seeing that the first row of siege vehicles was about to rush to the city wall, he couldn't help clenching his fists excitedly.

Looking at these wooden siege vehicles, Cao Wenzhao couldn't help curling his lips slightly.

The enemy has been busy for three days and has prepared such a thing!
What is the use of this thing?
He only needs to let his men and horses resist for a while, delay the time, and let the enemy's siege vehicles push all the way to the city wall, and a fire can wipe out the enemy's three days of hard work.

However, he did not do so.

Because if you do it too hard, you won't have anything to play later.

If he burns all the siege vehicles with a single fire, the enemy will probably retreat in fright.

The problem is, at this moment, only [-] to [-] enemy troops charged over one city wall, and about a hundred thousand or so on four walls. Even if he wiped out all the enemy troops that rushed over, the loss would be less than half.

This is too different from their goals, you can't do this!

He frowned and pondered for a while, then ordered in a loud voice: "Immediately send a report, ordering all the walls of the acropolis not to hit too hard, this time just burn down one or two rows of siege vehicles."

This should not be too simple, because there are only about a hundred siege vehicles in a row.

They even need to wait for someone to rush to the city wall, then take out the flamethrower and light it, and spray it a little.

Wallenstein couldn't help but be shocked when he saw a row of flames erupting from the top of the city wall.

what is this?
Why did the siege vehicle and the ladders and infantry behind it all be set ablaze!
At this moment, the front of the city wall has become a sea of ​​flames, and they naturally have no way to rush up.

He had no choice but to order the withdrawal of troops.

The withdrawal formation was chaotic, and under the continuous roar of artillery, they lost tens of thousands of horses just by one city wall!
Wallenstein couldn't help but look confused when he received the battle reports from various armies.

In the past few days, their casualties have exceeded 50, and more than half of them died in battle.

If the fight goes on like this, what chance is there of winning?

The question is, he is not willing to withdraw his troops just yet.

How to do it?

Tongues of fire can be sprayed from the walls of other people's cities, and the wooden siege vehicles can't be caught at one point!
He frowned and pondered for a long time, and then came up with a solution, which was to smear thick soil on the siege vehicle and the ladder.

Logically speaking, this method should be able to prevent the fire attack, but when they rushed over, they had to go through the baptism of intensive shells, and after the mud layer on the siege vehicle was smashed, it still hit a little bit.

Next, he tried the wet quilt and the protection of mud.

This method worked well, but they still failed to attack the city wall after several attempts.

Before Cao Wenzhao called for reinforcements, he couldn't hold on anymore.

Because he is trying with his life!
Every time he tried, the casualties were hundreds of thousands. In less than a month, more than half of his men were killed or injured!

The problem is, even if millions of his men were killed or injured, they still haven't captured a single city.

In this case, should we continue?
While he was hesitating, the Ottoman army on the west bank of the Ural River suddenly received news that the mainland had been attacked.

There was a fire in the backyard, and without even thinking about it, they left the southern line of defense and ran back to fight the fire.

This time, the Eastern Front of the European Continental Union has collapsed in half.

The Ural River did not have the support of 30 horses from the Ottoman Empire, and Wallenstein's army had no protection to the south in an instant. The Ming army could have crossed the Ural River to cut off his retreat!
(End of this chapter)