Large-scale, medium-close, and direct shelling after dawn soon suppressed the defenders' simple fortifications in the defense. Perhaps because of the completely different military thinking, Moscow at this time did not have the perfect walls of the Great Cities of the East, and still had only a few isolated military strongholds and castles, as many European or Japanese military systems do. Essentially, the cities of the East were fortified versions of the original settlements, while the cities of most of the warrior regions were market-based cities developed according to the needs of a few nobles and their servants within the castles.

In the traditional military mode, this allows the garrison to be denser and brings a number of military benefits. However, in the face of the fierce firepower of the various armies of the revolutionary army today, it is completely inadequate.

At the beginning, because of the evenness and dispersion of firepower, the stalemate on the battlefield was not broken for a while. Zhou Dayong also quickly realized his problem in the use of troops, and effectively concentrated his firepower as soon as possible. More than 120 artillery pieces were mobilized to carry out concentrated bombardment and assault at a distance of two miles, and they were not afraid of the risk of accidental injury, and launched an effective coordinated attack of infantry and artillery, and soon broke through the defense area of the Russian army in Moscow City in the dense explosion of grenades, gunsmoke and even the sound of firearms in close combat, and launched a rapid assault in the direction of the center.

At this time, at least four small reconnaissance hot air balloons piloted by special children also began to rise to a height of hundreds of feet, carefully observing the movements in the city with binoculars from all angles. Whenever the Russian troops in the city are assembled and ready to launch an ambush against the strong enemy who has invaded the city. Tens of thousands of heavy shotguns will rain down on the earth to crush the concentrated defenders.

To a large extent, the artillery bombardment also effectively guided the revolutionary officers and soldiers who had entered the city in the direction in which the enemy troops would gather and where they were. Therefore, at this time, the Russian troops fighting in their own cities seemed to be in enemy territory in terms of command and information, and sometimes they had just completed their assembly on the road and began to encounter a rain of arrows that began to attack from all directions. In this case, the Russian army eventually had to gather in several fortified positions in the center and in the squares inside the strongholds, although no one knew whether they could be an effective basis for defensive operations.

In this way, after breaking through the defenses of the Russian army on the periphery, the main force of the attacking revolutionary army destroyed and occupied most of the entire city of Moscow. The artillery was deployed at a distance of about one to two miles from several buildings at the core of the remnants of the enemy, and a heavy artillery bombardment was launched.

When Xiao Xuan was on a mission in the Emir's Summer Palace, because the artillery that could be used was mainly an improved second general cannon with a larger horse that could carry the barrel, even for some decent stone buildings, he had to use some special blasting methods. But at this time, Zhou Dayong did not lack barely decent artillery. In the face of the seven-pound bullets of two-thirds of the speed of sound and the weight of the three to five hundred pounds of medium and heavy artillery, even if some heavy walls could temporarily resist the energy brought by sporadic shelling, when faced with a salvo of battalion artillery fire, many walls still collapsed because they could not withstand the huge momentum bombardment.

At this moment, Mikhail did not want Russia to fall into the hands of the Orientals in this way, and still firmly believed that as long as the Orientals resisted or even simply hid to the end, the Orientals would sooner or later be forced to withdraw under the pressure of the European coalition forces, and Russia would be able to usher in hope. But most people, including Mikhail's father, Elder Filaret, were not willing to continue the resistance. Soon, the Russian nobles in the city finally chose to compromise in the face of military superiority that was difficult to resist.

In this way, the 40,000 or 50,000 Russian troops who chose to resist stubbornly in the Moscow area were crushed in the face of tremendous military pressure in just one day and night. More than 20,000 of them were killed in battle, and just over 10,000 were captured. In addition to the loss of troops, more than 100,000 catties of gunpowder, hundreds of thousands of catties of ammunition, and even a large number of military craftsmen and craftsmen were also captured.

Of course, Zhou Dayong had no intention of sparing these Russian elites in the end. Because if you do it yourself, there are some very bad example effects after all, so the final choice is to spend a few days through coercion and inducement to select some renegades from the captured Russian army. By similar means, a group of lower-class "turnovers" were coerced and lured by similar means among the middle and lower classes in the vicinity of Moscow, and a large number of officers were selected for public execution, such as the Russian aristocracy, who were not necessarily much smaller than themselves in number, and even the captured officers.

This somewhat delayed the team led by Zhou Dayong in the vicinity of Moscow for about ten days, but it also dealt a heavy blow to the main field forces of the entire Russia. At this point, although there were still some active militias in Russia trying to effectively defend against foreign invaders, it was difficult to form a large-scale resistance force for a while because of the lack of effective organization and command. Perhaps due to the relatively serious estrangement and contradictions, and even the relatively comfortable life, the spontaneous resistance encountered by the Russian grassroots was to a large extent even less intense than some of the resistance encountered by the revolutionary army during its campaign in South China.

However, after the strategy around Moscow was completely completed, Zhou Dayong also knew that he could not continue to waste time, so the whole army also tried its best to launch a westward advance at this time before the harsh winter was about to come, and strive to be able to join the main force led by Xiao Xuan one day earlier. Avoid any variables that the volunteer troops will encounter in the course of the Warsaw Raid because of unexpected reinforcements from other forces.

In order to speed up as quickly as possible, all the captured horses and wagons began to be put to good use at this time, and they began to make every effort in the direction of Warsaw. Sometimes the horses fell, and they were replenished with horses that had been plundered from the locality at all times. In this way, the whole army, while carrying a lot of medium- and heavy-duty artillery and even heavy vehicles, finally maintained a marching speed of hundreds of miles a day, and moved westward in a mighty way.

During this period, there were also some remnants of the local armed forces of the Polish army who carried out sporadic attacks along the way, but after all, they did not bring much trouble to the main forces of the revolutionary army, which had a good projection power, so as to delay the advance in the direction of Poland.

The weather was getting colder at this time, but the army was lucky enough to make an appointment with the most difficult part of the road from Moscow to Warsaw.

(End of chapter)