Chapter 485: Driving the Prisoners

In the summer at high latitudes, the sun rises very early, and the sentinels of Fort Dimitri, under the reflection of the rising sun, watch the black crowd appear on the horizon in the distance.

The fortress was not a Cossack farmstead, it was surrounded by a wooden fence, and the Dimitri Fort was built after the European fortress fortress, with heavy walls made of rammed earth and stone bars, deep trenches dug around it, and suggested forts in key directions.

When this fortress was built, nearly 3,000 people of the Obir Khanate who were captured by Russia died, and Baron Roganov also asked a special civil engineer to estimate that such a fortress, even if it was placed in Western Europe, belonged to that kind of fortress-level castle.

The baron definitely did not build this fortress to deal with the Obir Khanate, which was already degenerated and could not even install trebuchets, and in the baron's heart, if he had a conflict with his uncle, Count Roganov, this was his own base.

Looking at the huge number of people in the distance, the guards of the castle reported loudly that the entire castle army had already been assembled, they did not panic, counting the number of people, the two thousand people in the castle and the Mongols were one to five apart, according to previous experience, after rushing over, the miscarriages of the Lost Bil Khanate would naturally collapse.

The baron also sent a team of five hundred musketeers to teach these yellow people who had come to their deaths for no reason a lesson in the first contact.

Liu Shisan's large group stopped when it was still more than a thousand steps away from the castle, and a dozen or so guards who knew Mongolian language, surrounded by his men, came to the middle of the Mongol captives, stood on the cart, or rode on horses, and announced an order in a loud voice:

"The end of this journey is in front, if you want to be free, if you want the lives of your relatives, as long as you break through this fortress, your relatives will be released, if you want to escape, your relatives will be killed, and the cavalry of the expedition is not a decoration!"

As soon as this order was announced, the entire captives team suddenly became in a commotion, looking at the magnificent castle not far away, and the looming artillery, such an impact was tantamount to looking for death, but if they wanted to resist, they didn't even have a weapon at hand, and more importantly, the companions who were used as death squads along the way have now become accomplices, looking at the people around them.

There was no chance of a successful resistance, and a dozen carts were pushed to the front, all loaded with crude knives and guns, the booty captured at the Golden Horde of the Obir Khanate, and at the back of the line, the five cannons were loaded with shotguns composed of lead particles.

The soldiers of the expeditionary pioneer team also took up swords and guns, and the soldiers of the Obir Khanate, who had previously participated in the death squad, stood at the back of the brigade with better quality weapons, they were the last people to charge, and of course, if the people in front of them were scattered, they were also the overseers.

For the sake of their own lives and the lives of their families, these people raised butcher knives mercilessly for their companions.

Five hundred musketeers, according to the usual European establishment, should have been three hundred spearmen and two hundred musketeers, maneuvering on horses, not assaulting, because among these people there were four hundred Cossacks, so the musketeers were about one hundred and thirty, and more than a hundred were light horsemen with sabers.

For the battle of the Lost Bil Khanate, they have long summed up a set of tactics, that is, they will not take the initiative to attack, first use the shot of firearms to knock off the opponent's sharpness, and then begin to attack, try all the tricks, after riding out of the castle, these soldiers first walked forward more than 100 steps, and then dismounted to prepare for the battle.

But the brigade on the opposite side, there was no news for a long time, just when they were strange, suddenly, several cowhide drums were beaten, countless people rushed to the cart to grab weapons, and then rushed towards here frantically, the five hundred Russian soldiers here were all stunned and widened their eyes there, could it be that the soldiers on the other side didn't even ride horses?

Even if the infantry charged, according to the rules, it would not exceed the distance of two hundred paces, but this distance of nearly six hundred steps, those people rushed over without slowing down at all, and the Cossacks naturally did not fear, more than a hundred muskets were fired in unison, within the firing range, such a dense enemy formation, almost without aiming, can do without missing shots, and the people who were hit by the fire guns fell to the ground in unison.

The rest of the cavalrymen with spears and sabers rushed forward with great bravery, and the people of the Obir Khanate were indeed worthy of the title of sheep, and these people who were originally charging with red eyes were beaten by a row of guns, and looked at the foreign devils with high noses and deep eyes, shouted and rushed over, and actually ran back behind.

This run was immediately a chain reaction, causing a huge rout, and rushed towards Liu Shisan's main formation, according to the convention, the three thousand five hundred people in this formation could not withstand such an impact at all, and it would soon be a chaotic trend, but in advance, Liu Shisan's preparations had already been made.

As soon as the retreating crowd approached, five cannons filled with lead particles roared at the same time, and after a loud bang, the death squads suddenly fell into a larger area, and the overseers of the former dead soldiers of the Lost Bil Khanate rushed forward viciously, and anyone who turned their heads was hacked to death with a knife.

At this moment, the death squad of the Obir Khanate understood, rushing forward may not be death, but turning back, there is only one way to die, the Cossack cavalry is pursuing the rout, and they are already holding the belief of victory in their hearts, and suddenly they hear several muffled sounds in the distance of the opponent's formation.

The people of the Lost Bil Khanate, who had been chased in all directions, suddenly turned around and killed back, after the first round of firearms, it was too late to load, and the spears and sabers in their hands, even if they stabbed a person, there would be more people on the side and the knights on the horses would surround them.

Pulled down, hacked to death with a knife, and even someone directly pounced on the top of the spear, fighting for their own lives to hold the other party.

Baron Roganov, who was watching from the bunker of the castle, was already smiling at his own impending victory, but in an instant, the situation suddenly reversed, and the people who were being chased and scattered were suddenly inspired by something to ferocity and pounced viciously.

The five hundred cavalry were under the siege of several thousand men, like a small boat adrift on the sea, and in a short time they were overturned and submerged by the waves, and soon, these cavalrymen only ran back to the castle with more than a hundred people at the back, frantically whipping their horses, and they were already frightened.

The herdsmen over there snatched the horses, and they directly rode on their horses and chased after them, but the speed of the horses in the crowd could not be increased at all, and they could not catch up at all, but they still ran and chased frantically, and at the gate of the castle, more than a hundred soldiers were nervously guarding there, waiting for the cavalry to flee as soon as they entered the castle, they immediately closed the city gate and put away the drawbridge.

Everyone was in a very relaxed mood, and they were all a little panicked by the sudden madness of the battlefield outside, thinking to themselves what was going on, how did the herdsmen who could be scared away by the musket bombardment become so vicious, and not afraid of death, when the drawbridge of Fort Dimitri was raised, there were still a dozen cavalry who did not have time to enter, and the deep trench was not at all for horses to cross.

Listening to the shouting and shouting behind them, these Cossack cavalrymen did not have the courage to turn back and fight, and dismounted and jumped into the trench one after another, ready to climb over, but it was too late, the people behind had already followed, swords and guns, and killed these people in front of the castle.

It has always been a smooth battle, whether it is the Russians or the Cossacks, they are a little lax, and they have become a little unacceptable to death.

Seeing their companions screaming and dying in front of them, everyone was angry and frightened, and without getting the officer's orders, the artillerymen and musketeers at the head of the city opened fire one after another, rushed to the death squad of the Obir Khanate in front of the trench, and carried them directly into the trench.

These people wanted to retreat, and at this moment, many people cried in unison behind them, and their families and wives in the prisoner of war camp were all shouting:

"We can't retreat, we are going to die if we retreat."

Not everyone can hear such a sound, but this cry frightened these people back a little bit of fear in an instant, and the people in front jumped directly into the trench, ignoring the guns flying above, desperately crawling to the front of the castle, and some people took knives and guns in their hands that seemed to be iron rods, and desperately chopped the chains of the drawbridge, such an action had no effect except for cutting the chains out of a few white marks.

Someone shouted again, the people who had not yet jumped into the trench took off their robes, spread them on the ground, dug the soil with the weapons in their hands and threw them in the robes, wrapped them up and rushed to the edge of the trenches, and threw the soil down.

All this was carried out under the constant fire of guns, artillery, boiling oil, spears, and stones, and every moment someone fell, but all of them ignored it, and continued to fill the trench.

"Crazy, crazy."

The baron, standing on top of the castle, could only say these few words, and his eyes were blank......