Andre stood on the tower of the third floor of the fortress, observing the lineup of the Ming army with a telescope, this position should be considered relatively safe, the Ming army even pushed the artillery to the fortress and couldn't reach here, but, looking at it, a layer of cold sweat slowly appeared on his forehead.

The regular legion of the Ming Empire is really terrifying, there are hundreds of giant cannons that are almost two people high, and the firing range is even farther than the sixteen-pounder cannon they set up on the third floor of the fortress, you must know that there are only ten sixteen-pounder cannons in his hand, and the others are twelve pounder cannons and six-pounder cannons, adding up to less than a hundred!

Immediately after that, the thousands of artillery pieces of all kinds that were pushed up refreshed his cognition, is there any mistake, the entire Tsarist Russian Army is not equipped with so many field artillery, and the three legions of the Ming Army below, no, to be precise, it should be two legions equipped with so many artillery, and let people not live?

At this time, Andre no longer had the confidence to hold on for a month, the stormy cannonballs smashed over, and his heart slowly sank, such a fierce firepower, the fortress could not bear it for long, if the Ming army continued to bombard, let alone a month, the fortress would be smashed in half a month, and his five thousand people had to be buried alive by the shells of the Ming army!

His worries are superfluous, how can the Ming army prepare so many shells, more than a thousand artillery pieces, it is hundreds of thousands of shells in a day, even if the solid bullets are no longer valuable, then they have to be carried over, the solid bullets are more than ten catties or even dozens of catties of iron lumps, hundreds of thousands of rounds are millions of catties, no matter how strong the Ming army's transportation capacity is, it is impossible to transport millions of solid shells at one time.

After a day of non-stop bombardment, the solid ammunition brought by the Ming army was actually almost consumed, and at the end of the day, there were actually not many casualties.

Needless to say, the Russian defenders had many dead ends in each direction of the fortress, and as long as they were not seeking death, they insisted on standing where the shells hit, and they would not be smashed under normal circumstances.

The protection of the Ming army is also very good, the turret with iron plate is difficult to smash, plus there are not many artillery in Tsarist Russia, and only a dozen turrets have been blown down in a day, and the Ming soldiers below have hid in the turrets on both sides, and there is nothing to do, but there were a little casualties at the moment when the turret collapsed.

In short, there were no casualties on both sides at the end of the day, but the first floor of the fortress was facing the side of the Ming army, the arrow battlements and the female wall were almost swept away, and all kinds of city defense equipment were also bombarded, and it seemed that it was useless.

Early the next morning, at midnight, the Ming army launched an attack again on time.

It was still covered by ten rounds of scattered shells, and more than 1,000 artillery pieces lined up against the turrets again, ready to bombard.

This time, the Ming army used flowering shells.

Although the power of the flowering shells was not as great as that of the solid bullets, it was easy to light the gunpowder kegs of the defenders, and the overwhelming flowering shells smashed down, and within a few rounds, smoke came out of several places on the fortress.

The flowering bomb is with a splashing effect, and the shooting dead angle can not completely block the sparks and debris that are sputtered out, and the flowering bomb keeps smashing over, and finally there are several gunpowder barrels of the battery that are ignited, and there is a lot of commotion on the first and second floors of the fortress, and the whole barrel of gunpowder explodes, and the damage caused is also quite scary.

At this time, hundreds of miles of siege vehicles rushed out of the Ming army's lineup and rushed towards the fortress quickly.

The siege vehicle was also covered with iron plates, and one or two shells hitting it had no effect at all, and Andrei saw this scene, and hurriedly ordered: "Quickly, order a layer of soldiers to prepare boulders and oil." “

He was still a little experienced, and he could instantly judge that only boulders and fire oil could cause damage to this kind of siege vehicle.

However, he still underestimated the weapons and equipment of the Ming army, which had not only artillery and muskets, but also grenades.

When the siege vehicle approached the first floor of the fortress, the Russian soldiers hiding in the dead corner of the artillery had already lifted the boulder and the oil pot and ran towards the city wall, and at this moment, countless black bumps suddenly flew out from under the siege vehicle.

"Boom, boom", the Russian soldiers carrying the boulder and the oil pot immediately began to roll all over the ground, and the ghost cried wolf.

There are tens of thousands of siege troops in this wave, and tens of thousands of grenades explode at the same time.

Andrei secretly said badly, the grenades of the Ming army are really so powerful, when he first heard the Far Eastern Army who fled back talk about grenades, he thought that these guys were deliberately exaggerating in order to shirk responsibility.

However, he didn't show too panicked looks, because there is more than one layer of the fortress, there are two and three layers on it, and the Ming army always has to climb up to one layer, and when the time comes, they can still be beaten into a sieve, but the losses in this wave are a bit large, there are only two thousand soldiers in total, and nearly half of them have become rolling gourds!

The Ming army did not climb the first floor of the fortress by a ladder as he imagined, because this wave of Ming troops did not bring a ladder at all, and all they held in their hands were two pointed pickaxes!

Of course, Sun Chuanting knew that when the siege soldiers climbed the first floor of the fortress, they would become the target of the defenders on the second and third floors, and if the time was urgent, it would only be filled with human lives, but now, he had a lot of time, so naturally he didn't have to worry, so he chose to dig the city wall.

He was going to dig a few openings in the first and second layers of the city wall and push the siege carts up, so that there would not be too many casualties.

Andre waited for a while, but he didn't see a single Ming soldier emerge from the wall of the first layer of the fortress, he couldn't help but feel strange, just at this time the Ming army's shelling also stopped, he immediately ordered: "Quick, let the rest of the people on the first floor go up, first drag those wounded soldiers back, and then attack with boulders and hot oil, by the way, let them see what the Ming army below is doing." “

The uninjured soldiers below received the order, and immediately ran up with a puff of smoke, pulled all the rolling gourds to the hidden place on the first floor, and then stepped forward to lift the boulder and the oil pan that had not been overturned and ran towards the city wall.

As a result, they had barely run a few steps when a dense pile of grenades flew up from below.

"Boom boom" There was a bunch of rolling gourds on the first floor of the fortress, and finally some people knew the power of this black bump, and jumped away in time and fell to the ground, otherwise, the soldiers on the first floor of the entire fortress were afraid that they would all become hedgehogs.

Andrei couldn't understand that the soldiers on the city wall couldn't see the Ming army under the city wall, and how could the Ming army under the city wall see the defenders who were carrying boulders and oil pots that had not yet shown their heads?

In fact, it is very simple, the Ming army under the city wall cannot see the defenders above, but the Ming army in the artillery array in the distance can see it, as long as the commander over there makes a gesture, the commander of the Ming army under the city wall will know, and it is naturally a throw.

In the face of such a strange thing, Andre had nothing to do, how many people went up would turn into rolling gourds, so why did he send people up, he had to order the uninjured soldiers on the first floor to pull all the injured soldiers back to the hidden place, waiting for the Ming army to show up.

After waiting for a long time, there was still no Ming army on the outside of the first layer of the city wall, but the commander of the first floor ran up with grinning teeth and said in fear: "Report to the general, the Ming army seems to be digging the city wall!" “

"Poof", Andrei almost didn't have a mouthful of blood spurting out, digging the city wall! What can I do?