Chapter Eighty-Four: Annihilation of Ships on the Don River Shelling of the camp on the west bank of the Don River

In fact, the mortars and infantry guns carried by the Yaogang cavalry would not suffer much damage in the face of the Ottoman warships on the Don River, but the Mongolian cavalry that was bravely advancing had been rushing to the front, and they did not have such good equipment, so they suffered a big loss. This is also to blame them, when they find that their opponents are bombarding them with running in the river, they should quickly dodge, their bows and arrows and sabers can not help others at all, but they suffer losses, and one by one they stand on the shore and curse into the river, and as a result, they suffer even greater losses.

This time, the only regret of the Yaogang people is that the naval army did not come to participate in the war, otherwise the progress will be much easier, as long as there is a Yaogang warship, blocking the mouth of the Don River from the Black Sea, all the Ottoman warships in the Don River will not be able to run.

However, the heavy artillery divisions were all brought out by Li Wei himself, and they were ordered to advance to the banks of the Don River to secretly appear and make a surprise attack on the Ottoman warships on the Don River. The commander of the heavy artillery division was simply overjoyed, and finally it was his turn to make a move, and he followed the other side all the way, and even the gun jacket was never opened, and there was no chance to open the cannon at all.

The commander of the artillery division ordered the army to advance as far as possible in the direction of the lower reaches of the Don River, and he was to hold the mouth of the Don River and block the retreat of the warships on the Don River.

The artillery of the heavy artillery division was deployed on the banks of the lower Don, and the artillery of the artillery divisions of the infantry corps was also deployed on the banks. The artillery strength of this infantry corps was not weak, and they saw the warships on the Don River that the Ottomans had taken advantage of, and they had already aimed their guns at them.

When Li Wei heard that the heavy artillery division had already set up its position, he immediately ordered the artillery of the infantry to open fire immediately. The 130 heavy guns of the artillery division of the infantry corps smashed through with a burst of shells, and nearly 100 warships coaxed by cattle on the river were hit by more than 20 at once. The wooden ship, which had been hit by 130 shells, basically fell apart. At this time, the Ottoman artillery on the opposite bank, seeing that their ship was beaten, they and the warship that could still fight, together with the kiln artillery on the river bank, returned fire.

The Yaogang artillery did not expect that there would be opponents who would dare to engage in an artillery battle with themselves. Part of the artillery shelled the Ottoman artillery positions on the shore, and part of the artillery continued to bombard the warships on the river. As soon as the two sides fought, they didn't expect the opponent's artillery fire to be so fierce. The Ottoman artillery, needless to say, such an artillery bombardment has never been seen at all, and every shell can be blown out to a large crater, which they could not have imagined in any case, many people were not killed, but not shocked to death. The Ottoman artillery used their latest artillery, and even then, the power of the shells could not be compared to the shells of the Ming artillery.

The people of Yaogang have always underestimated their opponents, and they did not expect that their opponents could have such dense artillery fire. Although their accuracy and power were not compared with their own artillery at all, the opponent dared to engage in an artillery battle with them, which the Yaogang artillerymen did not expect. However, this aroused the fighting spirit of the kiln artillery soldiers. After a while, the planes came to shoot the artillerymen, but the Ottoman artillery positions soon could no longer send out shells, and the warships on the river saw that they could not fight at all, so they pulled up their sails and ran downstream.

When these warships felt that they had finally escaped from the fire net of the kiln artillery, the frightened fleet wanted to converge, when suddenly the grass and trees on the shore suddenly opened, and rows of guns opened fire at them. The Don River was narrower in this channel, and the heavy artillery division ordered the guns to fire freely, and these 130 heavy guns, with flat fire, began to open meat. The more than 50 warships that ran down were taken by surprise, and one by one they turned into some flying sawdust in the deafening sound of cannons, and fell into the river and flowed into the sea. These fifty warships, in less than ten minutes, and then not intact, turned into floating debris all over the river, and went downstream. The photographers accompanying the army in Yaogang used two cameras to rush to the shore to record this scene completely.

Now that the fight has started, Li Wei feels that he has no scruples and wants to inflict heavy damage on his opponent. The planes had long taken aerial photographs of the positions of the hundreds of thousands of enemies on the west bank of the Don River.

The Ottoman army made a serious mistake by underestimating the power of the kiln guns, and the camp was arranged very close to the Don River and within the range of the kiln guns, which was a fatal mistake.

Li Wei and Li Jing, including Liu Chenghuang, firmly rejected the request for the plane to participate in the war. Now is not the time to use the secret weapon of the airplane, when attacking the warships on the Don River, the pilots asked for battle, and Liu Chenghuang refused for Li Wei.

The Ottoman Empire's hundreds of thousands of cavalry, on the west bank of the Don River, along the Don River, arranged three camps from south to north, and there were cavalry patrolling the entire riverbank.

Li Wei is a veteran of playing with cannons, how can he let go of such a good opportunity to use cannons. Now in his hands, there are three artillery forces, one is a heavy artillery division sent by Jiang Zhuan and them, the other is the artillery division of the infantry corps, as well as the divisional artillery, the regimental artillery, and then a 130 flat-fire artillery regiment and a 152** artillery regiment of his own armored division. There are rocket artillery, one of their rocket artillery divisions, and the rocket artillery regiment in the armored division. In fact, no matter whether it is the 130 flat-fire artillery regiment or the rocket artillery regiment in the armored division, the configuration is the same as that of the independent heavy artillery division and the rocket artillery division, but the name is different.

This time, Li Wei, Li Jing, and Liu Chenghuang agreed that the rocket artillery would not participate in the war, and they could not expose their family backgrounds at one time.

According to the enemy's disposition on the opposite bank, Li Wei ordered the heavy artillery division to deal with the Ottoman camp in the direction of the lower Don River; The artillery divisions of the corps, the divisional artillery regiments, and the regimental artillery battalions agreed to use them, and after supporting an artillery regiment of the heavy artillery division, their goal was to deal with this camp on the middle road across the Don River; The flat projectile artillery regiment and the ** artillery regiment of the armored division, against this camp in the direction of the upper Don River.

An artillery battle, the Ottoman artillery on the west bank of the Don was almost annihilated, and the rest no longer dared to be on the riverbank road. This battle also made the cavalry of the Ottoman Empire tremble one by one. The shells of the Ming Dynasty are simply terrifying, those soldiers who were killed by the explosion are still relieved, those whose ears are deaf, and those who are frightened by the explosion of the shells are crazy, and those who have no arms and legs are miserable.

Originally, they knew that it would be difficult to confront the Ming Dynasty army, and this made the entire army feel finished, and it can be said that they were defeated before the battle. They didn't know when the Ming Dynasty army would come and give them a fatal blow. They didn't know that the Ming Dynasty army didn't have to come, and they could still give them a fatal blow.

After Li Wei ordered the artillery to be ready, the shelling began at midnight, and at this time, the troops all returned to the camp to rest, just as the enemy was asleep, and it was a good opportunity to destroy the enemy.

Li Wei, Li Jing, Liu Chenghuang, and Li Kui are all waiting for this moment to come in the big tent. There was a clock hanging in the middle of the big tent, and when it was twelve o'clock, Li Wei ordered at all the connected radio stations: "When the time comes, fire the cannon!" ”

The entire east bank of the Don River, from south to north, began to make a loud noise like the sky and the earth cracking at the same time. A total of several hundred cannons opened fire at the same time. In the light of the fire, the smoke quickly drowned out the artillery positions. Officers and soldiers were sleeping in the Ottoman barracks, many of whom flew into the sky with tents in their sleep. Loud explosions rang out throughout the camp, and there was nowhere to hide. And shells, whether you are a general or a soldier, are treated equally. The artillery artillerymen, who had already marked the shooting of Zhu Yuan, used shells to continuously work back and forth in the target camp for more than 20 minutes, sweeping back and forth several times.

After the shelling was over, Li Wei smiled and said to the staff officer: "After finishing the work, let the brothers go back to sleep first, and then clean up the guys after dawn!" ”

Li Jing said: "Damn, I've waited all night, and it's over in a while!" ”

Li Wei said a meaty word: "You are also so capable!" ”

"Haha! You bastards! "Li Kui can sell an old man now," This burst of cannonballs is exchanged for wine, and we can't drink it all in our lives!" ”

Liu Chenghuang said: "It's happy, but I think we can sleep for a while." When the day dawns, the sappers have to build a bridge, and there are a lot of things! ”

The kiln gang people happily fought for a while and went back to sleep. But inside the Ottoman camp was miserable, full of burning tents, and there were parts of arms and legs. The wounded soldiers who did not die kept wailing, the horses that did not die kept neighing, the horses that did not die in the stables were scurrying around the camp, and many ran out of the camp and ran aimlessly in the night.

When it was dawn, the soldiers found that the generals did not know whether they had blown up or fled, in short, they were gone, and these poor cavalrymen had no horses of their own, so they had to let the cavalrymen on the few horses go out to help them bring back the horses that ran out. But the horsemen went out and did not return, and the soldiers who did not die scattered and fled westward.

In the end, when encountering the Ottoman army, only 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers were brought back, and it is estimated that 50,000 were killed and wounded in the shelling, and some were scattered and missing.

The blow that these routs inflicted on the Ottoman army was very deadly. After the battlefield they described, it was like a devil's hell, and the Ottoman army trembled when they heard the news.

At daybreak, the planes reconnoitred and found that the camp of the Ottoman army was basically empty.

It turned out that Jiang Zheng and their one delta wing flight group, Li Wei and their armored division flight group, all delta wings took off at the same time and first crossed the Don River, established a defensive line on the west bank of Don, and the infantry crossed a regiment in rubber boats. The sappers began to build bridges over the Don.

The most anxious were those Mongolian cavalry, and several thousands of households came to Li Wei's big tent and were anxious to send troops.

Li Wei smiled and asked, "The Don River is so wide, can you swim across it without a bridge?" ”

The Mongol shook his head.

Li Wei said: "Don't worry! When the bridge is ready, I'll be the first to let you go first! ”

The Mongols were delighted. They are eager to fight, and even more eager to have some gains.

The soldiers who crossed the river and found that the Ottoman soldiers who could run had run away, they were very experienced, the first thing was to clean up the wounded horses, and try to save those who could be saved, even if they could no longer be used, they would have to be killed later, and now the dead horses all over the ground needed to be dealt with as soon as possible, and the meat should be cut out, and a lot of salt was transported from the east bank of the river to marinate the horse meat. The logisticians from the east coast were also very experienced, and they knew that there would be a lot of dead horses, so they brought a cauldron ashore and began to cook horse meat.

Because it was a spring flood, the water of the Don River rose sharply, which brought great difficulties to the sappers to build the bridge, and it was not until the afternoon of the next day that the pontoon bridge could be considered to be passable. Tens of thousands of Mongol cavalry crossed the Don River first.

The Volga and Don rivers, which had never been heard of before, were famous in the Ming Dynasty, and the news about the front line in the past two days was inseparable from these two rivers. Those who read well quickly found out that when the Yuan Dynasty was the literature of our subject territories, they published their thoughts on reclaiming these places in the newspapers.

However, the Yaogang command center was faced with a choice, Li Zhi's intelligence agent sent back news from Istanbul that the merchants of the Ming Dynasty had been arrested by the Ottoman Empire, the shop had been sealed, and the telegram could no longer be contacted. Whether or not to go to war with the Ottoman Empire needs to be carefully studied. Now Li Wei and they still take back the territory handed back from the hands of the Russian Empire, if Ningde and they start a war from the southern front, then it will be a war against the Ottoman Empire, and the war situation is likely to expand to the entire territory of the Ottoman Empire.

Although this was something that was thought of in advance, I originally thought that the Ottoman Empire would not dare to completely turn the other cheek with us, and now it seems that the Ottoman Sultan is desperate and unwilling to give in. Whether an immediate attack will force the Ottomans to kill our people is something to be considered.

Chen Yufeng said: "No matter what, we must let Ningde and their side be ready to attack at any time." It is also necessary to replenish the forces of the army on the other side of the Greater Caucasus Mountain, and also to exert pressure to the south from that side. ”

"Our biggest problem is that we can't talk directly to the Ottoman Sultan and put pressure on him," Ouyang said. Now the Ottoman sultan is directing the army to attack Moscow. ”

"I have a way to do it, we can broadcast it on the radio, and tell the Ottoman Empire that war is a matter between soldiers, and it has nothing to do with civilians." If there is a problem between the two countries, the two countries can solve it through dialogue, but if they cannot solve it through dialogue, if they want to go to war, it should also be a matter between military personnel. Innocent civilians should not be harmed. We ask the Ottomans to release our legitimate merchants and compensate them for the loss of their shops. In this way, the relations between our two countries can still be resolved through negotiations. If not, one of our merchants is wounded, and we will compensate with ten Ottoman nobles. We do not want to occupy the territory of the Ottoman Empire, but we will definitely take back the territory that the Russian Empire has given us. Please don't underestimate our resolve and release our merchants immediately, otherwise the Ottomans will be responsible for all the consequences. Don't say I'm not expecting it! ”

"Great idea!" Ouyang He said, "We should emphasize giving them a day, otherwise we will attack." In fact, one day is not enough to send a letter from Istanbul to the Sultan, but it can definitely give a great deterrent to those who want to do something to our people, so that they dare not do anything to our people. A day later, Ningde and they can attack! ”

Ningde and they looked forward to this order, and their eyes were blue. Finally waiting for this day, the whole army was very excited. Slaughtering pigs and sheep was ready to attack.