Tsarist No. 32 Fort is facing the direction of the Ming army, if the Ming army does not suddenly disguise, then the target must be this fort.

The garrison of the fort was Colonel Ivanov of the Tsarist Army, a prominent officer from a family of ordinary officers, whose father was only a major throughout his life, but he was promoted to colonel in his thirties.

To say that this Ivanov's military talent is still very good, the problem is that he has a total of more than 3,000 people, and when he heard that more than 100,000 Ming troops went straight to the fortress he was stationing, his face was really frightened.

It's not that he is greedy for life and afraid of death, he was born in a military family, and he values glory more than life, but the Ming army is notoriously tough, and the weapons and equipment are outrageous, not to mention more than 100,000, even if he only comes to 10,000, he can't stand it!

However, if you can't stand it, you have to top it, because Peter. Marshal Golovin conveyed Prime Minister Rozov's order last month that the Allied counterattack was imminent, the Ming army was about to retreat, and all the defenders of the fortress were not allowed to take a step back.

This means that you are not allowed to escape, you must fight, as for what is meant to surrender without a fight, and what is not surrendered without a fight, there is no clear standard, it is very vague, and Rozov does not dare to force it too hard, and it is clear that people will be sent to death, and these defenders also dare not take chances and challenge the bottom line of treason.

Therefore, Ivanov knew that he was invincible and did not dare to retreat, so he could only desperately ask his superiors for help, hoping to get enough support to withstand the attack of the Ming army and hold on until the moment of the Allied counterattack.

His plea for help was naturally in vain, because Rozov had already given Golovin a secret order that no matter how the Ming army attacked, he must stabilize his position and hold on until the end of the year is victory!

This is clearly to exchange space for time, Golovin is too lazy to lead the main force to take risks, anyway, last year, the Ming army captured eight fortresses, what if they capture sixteen this year, persistence is victory, let his subordinates hold on, he can win.

Therefore, although Golovin was actively preparing for war on the surface, he actually didn't plan to lead the main force to fight the Ming army at all.

Ivanov was destined to not be able to wait for reinforcements, but he waited for another good news, the Ming army was halfway down, and suddenly divided into three routes, and rushed to the two nearby fortresses at the same time, and only forty or fifty thousand people were left towards him.

Well, although forty or fifty thousand people are also unbearable, it is better than more than 100,000 people, and it is better than nothing, he can only comfort himself like this.

Dividing the troops into three ways is a tactic that has been set a long time ago, and it is too time-consuming to attack a fortress at a time, anyway, there are armored combat vehicles, and it does not take too many troops to attack the fortress, and the only thing to be careful about is the sneak attack of the main force of Tsarist Russia.

The current Ming army is no longer very afraid of the sneak attack of the main force of Tsarist Russia, there is a hot air balloon warning, plus there are armored combat vehicle wings, even if the Tsarist Russian army of 230,000 troops sneaks all the way 50,000 Ming troops will be difficult to take for a while, and when the time comes, 100,000 cavalry plus the other two ways of support, will definitely be able to repel the main force of Tsarist Russia, or even defeat!

The assembly point chosen by the Ming army is not very far from the surrounding forts, and the farthest is not more than two hundred li, and the No. 32 fort of Tsarist Russia is less than one hundred and fifty miles away from the assembly point of the Ming army on the South Road, and it can be reached in one day if you march in a hurry.

However, the speed of the armored combat vehicle was already there, it was a little faster than a normal person's walk, and it was impossible to march in a hurry, plus a hot air balloon guard had to be arranged along the way, Cao Wenzhao simply let the whole army move slowly, walking in two days, advancing together on the first day, and dividing the troops into three ways on the second day to reach their respective targets.

When Cao Wenzhao led 50,000 foot soldiers to the No. 32 fort, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, and seeing that the sky was about to get dark, he hurriedly ordered people to set up camp and raise hot air balloons, and as for the armored combat vehicles, they were arranged around the camp, so that even if the enemy came to sneak attack, there would be a layer of steel barrier.

Golovin had already given up the sneak attack tactics, and the defenders of the fortress did not dare to go out of the city to sneak attack, so naturally nothing happened that night, and there was nothing to say all night, and Cao Wenzhao set up a formation early the next morning, preparing to attack the city.

The formation of the Ming army is very strange, in front of it is a hundred Shenwei cannons, lined up in four rows, and then there are four rows of armored combat vehicles, and then there is no then, Ivanov on the third floor of the fortress can only see these, those armored combat vehicles are like a wall after transformation, and nothing can be seen from behind.

In the face of such a strange steel monster, Ivanov's heart was furious, he also received the news two days ago, the Ming army seems to have a new equipment, the outer layer is all iron plates, and it can move forward by itself, what exactly is it for, I don't know yet!

Ivanov carefully observed those steel monsters with a telescope, and couldn't help but curse those pig-headed intelligence officers in his heart, this is clearly used to siege the city, I don't know what it is for, what a group of pigs!

Are the intelligence officers of Tsarist Russia a herd of pigs? Obviously not, they may have guessed the role of armored combat vehicles a long time ago, as for why not tell Ivanov, what is the point of telling him, what should he do if he abandons the city and runs away after he knows!

Perhaps, Ivanov is the pig in the eyes of intelligence officers, the little white pig used to test the specific functions of the Ming army's armored combat vehicles, but he was kept in the dark.

The siege tactics of armored fighting vehicles have been practiced countless times at the army training base in the capital, and Cao Wenzhao is naturally very familiar with it, and when the 50,000 troops are in formation, he will give an order aloud: "All Shenwei cannons have a round of test firing shells. “

The flag was waved, and soon the roar of artillery was heard in front of the formation, and a hundred flowering shells bombarded into the No. 32 fortress, and thick smoke immediately rose from many places in the fortress.

Cao Wenzhao did not look at the fortress with a telescope, but looked at the flagbearer on the hot air balloon, and then ordered: "Raise the elevation angle a little, and try firing another round of flowering bombs." “

The command flag waved, and soon the roar of artillery sounded in front of the formation, and a hundred flowering shells bombed into the No. 32 fortress again, and more smoke came out of the fort.

Cao Wenzhao looked at the hot air balloon with a telescope again, and then ordered: "Keep the current angle, develop ten rounds of non-stop bombardment, drive the roller coaster, and the artillery cart forward!" “

There was another wave of flags, and soon the roar of artillery was remembered before the battle, and the flowering shells continued to fly into the fortress, and the roller coasters and artillery carts also rushed towards the fortress in two rows.

It may be a bit inappropriate to use the rush here, because the speed at which the roller coaster and the artillery cart are advancing at this time is also the speed at which a normal person walks, and it may be more appropriate to use the approach.

Behind each of the wagons and artillery wagons, there were a hundred Ming soldiers lined up in a dense phalanx to follow closely, of course, these could not be seen from the fortress, because after the improvement of the armored combat vehicles, they became more and more burly, and the whole thing was a wall.

This is very different from the tanks or armored vehicles of later generations, the tanks and armored vehicles of later generations are very low, it is estimated that they are to reduce the area of attack, but the improved armored combat vehicles of the Ming army are getting higher and higher, just to increase the area of attack, block the shells, so as to protect the soldiers behind, anyway, the shells at this time are not harmful to the inch-thick armor at all!

Ivanov in the fortress saw that the enemy was coming, and hurriedly ordered the artillery bombardment, but after the Ming army's Shenwei artillery was cleaned up, the number of artillery in the fortress was not much, plus the mountain cart and the artillery car were always moving, and there were not a few shells that could hit the mountain bike and the artillery car, even if it was smashed, it was only a loud "clang", and then there was no then, the mountain cart and the artillery car were nothing, and they were still moving forward slowly.

How can this be fought, after Ivanov looked at the armored combat vehicle that was shot with a telescope, there was a look of despair in his eyes, a shell hit it and didn't even hit a hole, it was just a shallow nest, and you can't see it if you don't look carefully!