Chapter 275: Western Siberia (12)
The Omsk fortress was originally a wooden fortress, only after the Ming army launched the war, a city wall was gradually built on the outside to protect the weakness of the wooden fortress, but even if the Ming army is still the simplest weapon, it is not something that these wooden buildings can resist, especially the gasoline burns very fast, a large number of wooden buildings in the fortress quickly burned, and the soldiers could only watch the fire burning everywhere, powerless.
The raging fire, which burned in the Omsk fortress for half a night, was not extinguished by dawn, and by this time the Ming army had completely surrounded the fortress from all sides. Because the shelling of the Ming army began from the gates of the four fortresses, the Russian army could not escape at night, and in terms of the climate in this part of Siberia, the temperature at night was still very low, and the soldiers did not dare to leave the fortress at night.
Soon the Ming army pulled the artillery near the fortress gate, and after several rounds of bombardment, the fortress gate was blown open, and the soldiers began to enter the fortress. But seeing the tragic scene inside, even the soldiers of the Ming army who had been in battle for a long time rushed to fear from their hearts. There were corpses everywhere, most of them were not blown up, but burned, and the fortress was filled with a strange smell of barbecue, which made some soldiers vomit, only those veterans, especially Mao Wenlong's starting special forces, were not afraid of this hellish scene, they were too accustomed to the smell of killing and poking.
The Ming army entered the city from the east, south, and west fortress gates, leaving the north gate to wait for the Russian army to evacuate, preventing them from jumping over the wall in a hurry, making a final death struggle, and avoiding unnecessary losses. But after entering the city, they found that they basically did not encounter resistance, sporadic fighting did not cause any casualties of the Ming army, and the rifles with a very fast firing speed had killed the opponent without waiting for the flintlock guns of the Tsarist Russian army to fire, and it can be seen that these weak resistance were spontaneous and unorganized.
In the center of the Omsk fortress was the headquarters of Admiral Petrov, where the white flag had already been hung when the Ming army arrived, and the frightened General Petrov with several hundred of his men was waiting to surrender to the Ming army, who completely lost the will to fight, nearly 30,000 soldiers and inhabitants, who lost their lives in the fire last night, and the terrible * attack allowed them to witness the horrors of modern warfare.
Mao Wenlong and Zhang Bingzhong did not embarrass the defeated hundreds of remnants, but just imprisoned them quickly, and the entire fortress did not let anyone out. This war is a long-distance attack for the Ming army, it is impossible to fight for a long time, the consumption of various materials is too serious, it is a battle last night, most of the supplies transported by Sun Chuanting were consumed, and the supply of food is also very troublesome.
The Omsk fortress is basically in ruins, Mao Wenlong and Zhang Bingzhong will not rebuild it now, and the materials in the fortress are basically burned to the ground, only the military uniforms and weapons stored in the warehouse are a little better, the food is basically gone, and the Ming army has lost this important material and has to transport it from the Ming Dynasty.
Seeing a lot of residual military uniforms, Zhang Bingzhong was overjoyed, and a wonderful way of fighting appeared in his mind. Zhang Bingzhong proposed to Mao Wenlong that the Russians would not think that the Ming army would quickly occupy the Omsk fortress, whether they could use these military uniforms of the Russian army to make a surprise attack, it is not realistic to surprise Tobolsk, there is a little too far, but it is still possible to attack Tyumen, and Tyumen is still on the main road to Tobolsk and Omsk fortress, as long as this place is occupied, it will cause serious supply difficulties to Tobolsk, and they can even withdraw their troops themselves, and the Ming army will win without a fight.
For Zhang Bingzhong's suggestion, Mao Wenlong was very happy, it seems that this guy is even better at taking risks than himself, the risk of a surprise attack is very high, and the necessary preparations must be made, but the timing waits for no one, once the best opportunity is missed, and then think of attacking the fortified city, the trouble is much greater, and the opportunity of this surprise attack must be seized. Ask Batur to discuss the specific battle plan, after all, Batur knows more about this generation than they do, especially since this is also where Batur's people once lived.
After deliberation, the three generals decided to let Batur lead 5,000 men as the vanguard, disguised as the remnants of the Omsk fortress, and equip them with a large number of Donhippos captured from the nameless town, and their own sweat horses with them, once they entered the fortress, they would immediately change to attack with sweat horses with sufficient strength, and even if the sneak attack failed, they could retreat back with the good speed of the sweat horses. Then Zhang Bingzhong himself led 20,000 troops, with the arms and materials that can be gathered now, and then followed, in case Batur lost, he could also respond quickly.
There is no problem in picking out thousands of suitable and usable military uniforms from the Tsarist Russian army, Batur's own subordinates have many soldiers who are proficient in Russian, and there is no need to mess around like Zhang Bingzhong's sneak attack on Bingzhong Fort, that kind of thing is very dangerous, and it is impossible to succeed smoothly every time. Batur has not built too much credit since he entered the Ming Army series, and it is very inconspicuous compared to the achievements in history, and this operation can be said to have given him a pretty good opportunity to play.
After packing up his equipment and weapons and getting on the somewhat unfamiliar Don hippopotamus, Batur said to the soldiers: "Now I will lead everyone to attack the city of Tyumen, where there are many enemies several times greater than us, brave Ming soldiers, are you willing to fight the enemy bravely with me?" Are you willing to sacrifice for our Ming? Afraid of sacrifice? ”
The soldiers shouted: "Life and death depend on each other, never abandon and never leave." Sacrifice for the country is supreme glory. ”
Batur said in a loud voice: "Soldiers, in front of us, no matter how powerful the enemy, we must dare to fight, dare to win, let us pledge our allegiance to the Great Emperor with our lives!" ”
"Life is endless, the charge is not stopped, the territory is expanded, and it is clear for me." The soldiers chanted again.
Batur's soldiers were all trained by himself, and after his tribe surrendered to Sun Chuanting, Sun Chuanting admired the young Batur very much and sent him to Beijing, where he was received by Zhu Youxiao. For the most powerful figure in the history of the Junggar tribe, Zhu Youxiao also attaches great importance to it, in order to make him loyal to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao specially approved him to enter the Ming Military Academy, for a period of six months of special training, and also took him to visit the Ming arsenal and scientific research institutions in Beijing, so that he thoroughly understood the strength of the Ming Dynasty, so that he realized the failure of the tribe, but also the rebirth of the Phoenix Nirvana, since then he was desperately loyal to the Ming Dynasty, after returning to the tribe, making his five thousand subordinates become extremely brave, Especially when equipped with advanced weapons, it is the icing on the cake.
Although his 20,000 subordinates were not as brave as Batur's 5,000 cavalry, but under the training of Sun Chuanting, a master of military training, the skills of various battles were more comprehensive. Whether in good times or bad, Sun Chuanting's subordinates are the backbone of the battle, and the strength of cavalry and foot combat is balanced, and there are no shortcomings in either aspect.
As for Zhang Bingzhong himself, his favorite is the Yin people, including the battle to capture Bingzhong Fort, which gave full play to his wit and strategy. He Renlong and Shuolei, who are partnered with Zhang Bingzhong, are diametrically opposed to his personality, these two guys like the most is direct violence, doing things or fighting, and speaking completely by strength, but the strange thing is that they get along very well with Zhang Bingzhong, including handing over the task of assault to Batur this time, the two of them did not express the slightest dissatisfaction, which is of course more related to Batur's subordinates who know Russian, but it is more related to their belief in Zhang Bingzhong's strategy, and no one wants their subordinates to have senseless sacrifices, perhaps because they understand that their personalities complement each other.