Different from Eastern Europe and other places, as the ruling core of the western part of the world island, although the temporary deployment of troops in the area of the new capital of Western Europe is not much, the entire city defense system has been built and deployed for more than a year or so, and a relatively complete system of combining low fortresses and tunnels has been built near the entire outside of the city, and even the houses in many places in the city have been specially demolished to facilitate a wider firing boundary and complete the resistance network in the city.

Moreover, it has to be said that, compared with the layout of many cities in the north of the country, although many urban areas in Western Europe were not born to defend anything, the radial streets made it easier to build fortifications and barricades. The construction of fortifications with more than 100,000 man-years is the fundamental reason why Chen Xin dared to deploy the main force in the Rhine River under the condition that the army was pressing.

However, when the artillery of the siege coalition army continued to sound like thunder in a continuous line, some of Chen Xin's original confidence began to waver at this time, just an hour or so of artillery bombardment, there were nearly 100,000 rounds of heavy bombs mainly solid bullets smashed down with fierce power, and many simple covers were difficult to resist the seven or eight pounds of heavy bullets that flew down from a distance of one or two miles.

In contrast to the East, there has been no lack of careful study of the details of warfare in the Mediterranean Rim since classical times, so that almost after one or two rounds of defeat, it was noticed that it would be better to use different types of firepower against several of the more typical opponents of different natures.

Although the use of the tunnel system to disperse and disperse the troops as much as possible reduced the casualties caused by the enemy's artillery preparations to about 1,000 people, the impact on the morale of the defenders could not be ignored. Many officers and men who had become confident in combat because of the construction of the fortification system over the past year or so also began to waver in the face of such fierce shelling.

Immediately after that, the advance of the coalition officers and soldiers was no longer as urgent as before, and they also attached great importance to the role of the shield car with metal iron protection, and the formation was also evacuated as much as possible and had a certain depth, which made the defenders who launched a fire counterattack not give the opponent too much damage as before in the first time, and soon approached to a distance of only about one or two hundred steps from the outer defense system of the new capital. In just two or three hours, a barely decent system of fortifications was built.

It was also at this time that since the late Middle Ages, many oriental agricultural tools and techniques were introduced, and even many forests were reclaimed for arable land, and the agricultural and handicraft potential of the whole of Western Europe was clearly reflected in the difference between the traditional societies of the East. If it were a peasant rebel army in the East, even if it had been organized for a long time like the Wenxiang Sect, it would not have generally possessed such tools and weapons in the event of a large-scale uprising.

As night fell, the blasting attack, which had been prepared during the day, was fired back at the first time to prevent the night from being long and dreamy, and the demolition sappers in six directions launched a lateral cross blast against the opponent within a radius of one or two hundred paces. Because during the day, through the reconnaissance of hot air balloons, it was observed that the opponent who was preparing for the attack also built a lot of trenches made of common trees and was covered, and a lot of heavy bullets of about seven or eight catties were captured in the previous shelling, so the blasting counterattack was mainly based on more than 100,000 heavy buckshot bullets of seven or eight catties.

Although the attacking coalition forces received guidance from some people who had participated in the original battles and were more experienced, most of the troops still did not expect that the defenders would launch such a blasting counterattack just after night and when the sky had just darkened, and many coalition troops who were not ready for combat in time suffered unnecessary casualties, and nearly 3,000 people lost their combat effectiveness regardless of minor injuries.

After the blasting attack, the artillery fire concentrated by the defenders from within a mile also held a meeting, and six or seven taels of heavy bombs were continuously smashed in the face one after another. If it was before the blasting attack, these projectiles may not be able to bring too much damage to the opponent who is prepared for the defense and the forces are as scattered as possible, but after a round of blasting attack, many of the captured people have opened the gap, and after the attack, the more than 100,000 projectiles fired by tens of thousands of gunners in a short period of time have caused the number of casualties of the attacking coalition forces to exceed 4,000.

However, at this time, the Catholic coalition army was not the rabble of domestic rebels, and the organizational and mobilization advantages brought by the crisis of civilization decline allowed many teams that had just been established for a short time to withstand serious casualties, and the difference in casualties and losses of three or four times and the advantage of the defenders only allowed the coalition offensive to be temporarily contained on the periphery of Xindu, and there were still many places that began to fall at this time. The defenders could only engage in fierce trench warfare with the attacking French.

Chen Xin also began to realize at this time that if he did not risk overdrawing some ammunition stocks at this time, the entire defense system on the periphery of Xindu would be at risk of being broken under the fierce offensive of the coalition forces, so he did not hesitate much at this time. A lot of black powder grenades in stock, and even improvised black powder blocks weighing more than a few catties were put into battle at this time.

These munitions are not very effective in field warfare because of their short effective range and easy dodging by the opponent, and they are not very effective without the use of firearms, but they are completely different in trench warfare and tunnel melee combat. In the case of relatively close distance and not much dodge space in the distance, even if the lethality of a few catties of black powder still seems to be unsatisfactory for the close range of the heavily armored target, it can often deter the attacking enemy within a radius of a few feet, and win the first opportunity for the firearm to fire. These methods, combined with ignition and arson, caused the attacking French to pay almost two or three times as many casualties as the defenders in the tunnel battle.

When the sky gradually brightened, the reconnaissance hot air balloon, which had already risen from the central square to an imperceptible height of hundreds of feet, once again brought a decisive effect and impact. Because it was possible to roughly depict the weak points and direction of the attack as quickly as possible by dropping the barrel, the battle calmed down after several decisive counterattacks were launched by concentrating the artillery fire inside the city and detonating the gunpowder on an artillery position outside the city. However, even so, the first-line control area of the French army still began to enter the new capital.

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