Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Chapter 962
While Zhu Cilang shrank the Russian elite to the Kutuzov Bastion, Meng Liang and the others were also fighting vigorously on the left.

The Cossack cavalry was completely turned into sandbags under the bombardment of rifled guns and machine guns, completely unable to fight back. As a result, more than half of the [-] Cossack cavalry were killed.

The leader Guimaroque had no choice but to lead the remnants of the defeated generals to flee. In the end, he fled in a panic and took refuge in a dense forest in a basin with a height of more than 200 meters on three sides.

Meng Liang ordered the Ming army to seal the exit, and immediately bombarded the Cossack cavalry with artillery whenever they saw someone showing their heads.

In the middle, because both sides are rookies, the battle is very fierce and it is still going on. Although the Mingxie army's combat effectiveness is not strong, the Tsarist Russian recruits are not much better, and their weapons are not as good as the Mingxie army.

In order to make meritorious service, the Ming Association Army fought very bravely today. Those Tsarist Russian recruits are no longer human beings in their eyes, but they have become the people of Ming Dynasty. Both the speed of loading bullets and the accuracy of shooting are higher than usual up two grades.

With their best efforts, almost all of the 15 Tsarist Russian recruits were wounded after fighting for half a day. By noon, they finally couldn't hold on and were defeated.

After this battle, more than 2000 people were killed by the Tsarist Russian new army by their supervisory team, and more than 5 people were killed by the Ming Association Army, of which more than 4 were injured.

Although the Ming Xie Army completely defeated them, they also paid the price of more than 1 people killed in battle and more than 5000 injured. If they did not use all firearms, it is estimated that the Ming Xie Army would be wiped out.

Zhu Youjian was very satisfied with the performance of the Ming Xiejun Army, and asked them to retreat to the back to rest, and then sent the elite Danlong Banner Army to prepare for the battle against the Royal Guards of Tsarist Russia.

However, after receiving the battle report of the disastrous defeat on the left and right sides, Kutuzov did not dare to fight, and retreated to the central bastion, preparing to use the strong bastion to deal with the Ming army and delay the time for Tsarist Russia to increase troops to Tula.

Seeing that the Tsarist Russian army could not defend themselves, Zhu Youjian sent an order to suspend the attack after surrounding the bastion where the Tsarist Russian army was located, and let the soldiers of the Ming army rest and have lunch on the spot. Launch a fierce attack.

Zhu Youjian knew that Maozi wanted to procrastinate, so it was best to delay the Ming army until winter, when the Tsarist Russian army did not need to do anything, the extremely cold climate here could defeat the Ming army, let the Ming army retreat without a fight, and then the Tsarist Russian army attacked with all its strength Hunt down, just like dealing with Napoleon and Hitler.

It's a pity that Maozi made a wrong calculation. They didn't know how powerful an opponent they were facing. If it wasn't because Zhu Youjian didn't want to use the system too much, they would have been wiped out by the Ming army long ago.

After lunch, the Ming army rested for more than an hour. Zhu Youjian ordered the soldiers of the Ming army to prepare for battle. As for the strong bastion of Tsarist Russia, Zhu Youjian would not order the army to attack by force.

There are artillery on the bastion, and the Tsarist Russian soldiers also have firearms inside. If the Ming army storms the bastion, there will definitely be a lot of casualties, so he ordered [-] air forces to participate in the battle.

The air force here did not fly planes at that time, but two hundred hot air balloons carrying a large number of explosive packs and grenades took off one after another. They wanted to carry out air strikes on the Maozi in the bastion and the Cossack cavalry in the woods.

Zhu Youjian once considered using artillery to bombard the bastion, but the bastion of Tsarist Russia is very strong, and it is difficult for the artillery to collapse from the outside. go in.

Two soldiers can sit on a hot air balloon, and it can also carry [-] grenades and a dozen explosive packs. The grenades and explosive packs carried by two hundred hot air balloons can completely destroy the bastion.

The bastion is not a bunker, but a very thick multi-layered city wall. Solid bullets have almost no effect on the bastion, and it is difficult to blow it up with explosive bullets. If they attack from the air, they will have no ability to fight back. At least Zhu You The inspection thinks so.

Watching the hot air balloon slowly rise into the sky, the soldiers of the Ming army were very excited, especially those of the Ming Xie army. , Many Mingxie soldiers prostrated themselves on the ground to pray.

"No, the monster is coming again..."

The Tsarist Russian soldiers in the bastion saw two hot air balloons slowly floating in the sky, and screamed in fright. They had already been bombed by hot air balloons once, and they were terrified of such monsters.

But immediately, Maozi noticed that there were more than a dozen monsters floating in, and he yelled in a hurry, as if he wanted to see a ghost:
"God! Look, there are more than two this time, there are more than a dozen behind..."

But as soon as he finished speaking, someone saw a large group of monsters slowly floating over the bastion:

"God! There are only a dozen or so. Look at the back and there is a large area. It is completely finished. Is this God punishing us..."

Many Maozi were so frightened that they almost fainted. They seemed to feel that the end of the world was coming. Not to mention they still had the confidence to fight, they couldn't even stand firm in the fight...

"Oh, the monster is down..."

Suddenly, two hot air balloons collided in the air, and the fuel on the hot air balloon turned over. Somehow, the hot air balloon started to catch fire.

The Ming army above hastily yelled at the other Ming troops:
"Be careful to keep a distance, don't bump into each other, otherwise it will catch fire..."

When they shouted, the hot air balloon quickly wanted to fall. The brave Ming army ignited the explosives and grenades on the hot air balloon before it fell to the ground. The explosion began to explode three or four meters away from the heads of the Tsarist Russian soldiers.

"Rumble..."

"Boom bang bang..."

The four Ming soldiers exploded together with the grenade explosives. Maozi was so frightened that he forgot to run away and closed his eyes and began to pray. The Ming soldiers also closed their eyes, feeling sorry for their comrades.

Zhu Youjian also frowned, he also felt sorry for the brave soldiers of the Ming army, so brave!
Coincidentally, the effect of the hot air balloon explosion was astonishing. The explosion of two hot air balloons caused more than 1000 Tsarist Russian soldiers to lose their lives forever.
It was not because of the explosive power of the hot air balloon, nor because the bravery of the Ming army touched the heavens, but because this explosion just proved the great power of the air-burst bomb.

Of course, no one at that time could understand that life was called an air-burst bomb. Even Zhu Youjian didn't know that an air-burst bomb exploded above people's heads. The power is magnified to the extreme.

After seeing the two hot air balloons colliding and falling, the Ming army on the hot air balloons immediately began to keep a certain distance from each other, and successively threw grenades and explosives from the air to the two bastions of Tsarist Russia.

With the explosion of countless grenades and explosives, the two bastions instantly fell into a violent roar. Explosions occurred everywhere in the bastions. The artillery on the city wall was blown up, and countless defenders were killed.

The soldiers began to run to the rooms in the bastion to take shelter, but soon the roof was blown down, and then a raging fire broke out, and the whole bastion was engulfed in flames. Many Tsarist Russian soldiers were cursing the immorality of the Ming army. die.

"Rumble..."

"Boom bang bang..."

(End of this chapter)