The scene of Barnaul at night like a grand fireworks display, from time to time a series of bursts of orange light shining in the entire night sky, and the scene of flames rolling into the sky is really unimaginable for the soldiers of this era - it is now 1788 in the Western calendar after all. And not 1914.

Whether it was the Russian side, or the officers from the subject countries from Japan, Annam, and Siam in the headquarters of the 11th Division, as well as many cadets who came to intern, their hands holding binoculars trembled slightly.

Their faces were pale and their mouths were half open, and they shuddered at the volcanic eruption in front of them. Imagine what it would be like to be inflicted on their country......

As the days passed, the explosion in Barnaul became more intense. In the past, one or two hundred rounds could be loud in one night, and it could not reach the three hundred mark in a day. But now?

300 rings in one night is sparse and usual, and it can be sounded 500 times a day, but the strength of the Russians' counterattack has decreased! No matter how early the Russians had prepared, it would have been impossible to put 20,000 or 30,000 rockets in a city. Rockets also cost money!

The cost of a rocket is not high, but if this number is multiplied by '10,000', it is not a small amount.

However, the logistics supply lines on the Wehrmacht's side were unimpeded by a large number of vassal cavalry. The transfer of rockets from the rear has become a top priority in the war. This reminded Chen Ming of the shell crisis during World War I.

Before the start of the war, neither Britain, France, nor Germany had estimated the ultra-high rate of artillery consumption in the war. The stockpiles of millions of shells were depleted within a few months, so much so that both military blocs were wielding real money and looking for arms manufacturers all over the world.

Both the Little Devil and the Lighthouse Nation took the opportunity to make a lot of money.

After a while, Chen Wei put down his binoculars and said loudly to his old superior, Wei Xiuzhi: "How is it, is it much more powerful than when you were on the training ground?" You've been the deputy governor for so many years, and you've never seen such a big scene, right? ”

On the border of Lake Balkhash and Jaisangbo, the Wehrmacht also built a number of forts, and Wei Xiuzhi was responsible for the preparation of these forts, and many of those forts were equipped with heavy artillery.

Ten-pound cannons and twelve-pound cannons can only be counted as small guys, fifteen-pound cannons can be counted into the eye, and the maximum caliber is twenty-catty cannons, and the flintlock ignition mechanism. The sound of that shot was not much less than that of a rocket, but they could not fire as fast as a rocket.

The rumbling explosion tore Chen Wei's voice into dismemble, but Wei Xiuzhi still heard it clearly, turned his head to look at him, and said with a smile: "It's not that I haven't seen it, I haven't even thought about it!" With such a concentrated launch of rockets, such a siege mode, it costs too much. ”

The production cost + labor cost of a heavy rocket is around 200 Chinese dollars.

The production and manufacturing of rockets in the Chen Han military industry has formed a production chain early, labor is not expensive, do not need to be experienced skilled workers to take care of, one by one production procedures, a simple assembly line under the conveyor belt was born. The labor cost is not high, and the cost price of 200 yuan is almost all in the raw materials.

Whether it's iron, gunpowder, or cork stuffed inside, it costs money.

500 rings a day, that's 100,000 yuan. And that's just the cost price of rockets, but also artillery bombardment, food and guns, and human lives?

The daily attrition of a battle is 300,000+, and the total cost of today's northwest battlefield will not be less than 2 million per day, and the three battlefields in the east, west and north are all counted, and the logistics are also counted, and the daily cost will not be weaker than 5 million. If you don't have money in your hand, how can you fight?

A 10-pound cannon and a 12-pound cannon were placed at a distance of less than 1,000 meters from the fortress wall, and as long as the artillery group was not blackened by rockets, the artillery group was relatively safe.

The only Russian artillery in the city of Barnaul is the fortress and the fortress guns in the closed bunker, and the artillery placed in the open air has almost all been destroyed by their own 'peers' these days, and Chen Han's artillery group has an extra pair of clairvoyance.

The artillery of the Russian army is not flintlocked, it is basically old-fashioned - hot iron brazing into the fire door.

In the first three to five days of the war, the artillery battle between the two sides was still quite fierce. The artillery groups on both sides shook at every turn, and the fire spewed out, followed by the thunderous sound of cannons, and the cannons also retreated sharply.

At that time, large columns of smoke would rise in the city of Barnaul and on the positions of the Chen-Han Defense Army, which was not the smoke of the explosion after the shell hit, but the smoke from the cannon after the two sides fired the shell.

Chen Han's artillery rarely has flowering shells, almost all of them are solid shells, or special shells, which are more effective for bombarding the fortifications of the Russian army. And the Russians can't make flowering bombs if they want to. The lethality of the bilateral shelling in the initial stage was very poor, and it was impossible to imagine that the fragments of the shells swept over the city where the XX were entrenched like a storm, and human limbs, gravel, dirt, or other debris flew around. However, it is true that the bricks and stones on the head of the city and the fortress of Barnaul that have been smashed by iron bullets have fallen straight down.

Time passed little by little, and Chen Wei and Wei Xiuzhi, who were on the front line of Barnaul, didn't know what was going on with the surrounded Siberian Army, but at this moment they knew that Barnaul was going to 'fail'.

The Russians are fighting back with fewer and fewer rockets.

Although Chen Wei and the others knew that the real task of the 11th Division was not to capture Barnaul at all, they still felt a wave of excitement in their hearts when they saw the Balnaul pill.

In order to make it look more like, Chen Wei decided to make a real attack.

Of course, the time will not be placed in the daytime, and the 11th Division chose the time to attack at 2 o'clock in the morning at night.

The troops of the first attack, carrying planks and ladders, advanced with a loud shout, and their starting positions were no more than three or four hundred meters in a straight line from Barnaul. The attacking force did not charge with all their might at first, but moved forward in a straggler formation, quietly and full, but the Russians fired a round of flares into the sky a few minutes later, and everything was clear.

Hidden rocket artillery and rockets were quickly launched, and in the overwhelming bombardment, the attacking troops carried ladders and quickly moved forward.

The Russian army recovered from the overwhelming explosion just now, and immediately began to counterattack!

"Everyone's in place, everyone in place......"

Lieutenant Colonel Onopko's heart-rending roar rang out over the Russian positions. He looked around, and by the moonlight, he could only see a mess above the position. Several corpses lying on their backs, soldiers overturned by the wave of air.

Most of the Wehrmacht soldiers who rushed to the positions under the Russian city under the command of the officers fired fiercely at the shooting holes and roofs of the mutilated city and fortress with scattered muskets, and also threw out grenades one after another.

It's just that they have little to gain, and the bullets fired from the strong fortress, the shotguns, and the bombs thrown make the Wehrmacht officers and soldiers who rushed to the Russian positions fall like wheat harvesting.

The two companies of Russian soldiers guarding the Russian positions were easily cleared, but the fortified fortress was like a hard bone, breaking a big tooth of the Wehrmacht.

The city of Barnaul is surrounded by a moat that is one or twenty meters wide. If we don't gnaw down the fortress first and attack the city of Barnaul, how many lives do the Wehrmacht want to fill in the city?

Seeing the casualties of the attacking officers and soldiers, they still endured the enemy's bullets, shells and bombs, throwing bombs into the firing holes of the fortress like crazy, firing at the fastest speed to suppress the opponents, but this was useless.

Chen Wei, who was in the rear, was as pale as the back shell of a hairy crab, but he still issued an order to retreat, and if he continued to attack, he would be trying to waste his life.

This made him feel the powerlessness of Europeans when facing the fortress.

"If the attack can't be won, then you can only besiege, will this be trapped for a year or two?" Chen Wei unfolded a picture in his mind, the Russian army was shrinking in the city everywhere and did not come out, and there were more Wehrmacht troops outside the city - "Is this still a war?" ”

Wei Xiuzhi watched the battle tonight, and the whole person was speechless.

The Russians apparently hid some of the rockets, but that was not the point, and even without them, the battle would not be easy to take.

The ruined walls of Barnaul were full of firing positions, and the Russians also made some small cannons that fired shotguns, broken iron, and stones, which were easy and quick to move, and caused great damage at close range. They used hard granite to build a fortress outside the city, protecting the Russian army inside to the greatest extent. Then there was a crossfire between the two sides, and the Wehrmacht in the middle had only the share of slaughter. Moreover, the Russians did not have a single rocket......

There were losses on both sides, and the Wehrmacht's rockets also caused a lot of casualties to the Russian troops in the city, but this was too small and small compared to the casualties paid by the Wehrmacht. It takes 10 Wehrmacht forces to exchange the lives of a Russian army, and no one dares to fight such a battle.

"Alas, I kind of know why the emperor said that Turghut is important. This Worbasy is really crucial. "Without the Turk Special Department to do the internal response, a few days later, the Russian First Army that has been dispatched will be led all the way to 'drill' into the encirclement, and this northwest battle will be fought until the Year of the Monkey?

Wei Xiuzhi shook his head, as if the three views that were stable in his mind had suddenly been shattered. "yes." The voice was full of endless sighs.

When Chen Ming raised the army, the battles were fought one after another, and no matter how difficult the bones were, none of them were counted in 'years'.

But now it really makes him confused.

To deal with Barnaul, first solve the granite fortresses outside. These forts are actually not very big, and there are not many people in them, let alone a year or two of food savings. But between them, between them and the city, they can perfectly form a firepower cross.

If they could be disconnected from the city of Barnaul, the fortress might not last even a month.

But how can the two be severed?

Is it just that iron bullet?

Perhaps when the rockets in Barnaul are really exhausted, the Wehrmacht will be able to completely sever the connection between the two by relying on the superiority of rockets.

……

The battle in Barnaul City was soon delivered to Chen Ming through carrier pigeons, but Chen Ming did not think it was strange after reading it.

Ever since humanity started wars, sieges have been a process that many great wars have to go through.

As far as China is concerned, the distant Rutian Dan defended the city, the Qin attack on Zhao Handan, the Suiyang defense battle in the Anshi Rebellion, the Taiyuan battle in the late Northern Song Dynasty, the Xiangyang defense battle in the Southern Song Dynasty, the Diaoyu City battle, and then the Yuan army attacked Gaoyou [Zhang Shicheng] battle, and more recently, there are the battle of Daling River at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Jiangyin siege battle, the battle of Yaksa in Qing Russia is also an example, and the battle of Zheng Chenggong Xiamen. These are vivid examples.

In order to ensure victory, it is necessary to maintain absolute superiority in the number of troops, logistical supplies, and exact field capabilities, otherwise the defensive battles of Nanjing and the defensive battles of Lushan after Chen Han raised troops are also a clear reverse example.

Chen Ming didn't have the idea of attacking the city and defeating the enemy in his heart, how neat and easy it was to do that. But the reality told him that the siege warfare in this era of hot weapons was really difficult to fight, so the siege war was also his best choice.

As long as we can win the war, it is not unacceptable to delay some time.

How many years this sixth Russian-Turkish war can be fought, Chen Ming can't say. Two or three years is not too short, and three or five years is not too much.

As long as he had time, Chen Han would continuously mobilize troops to the northwest, transport materials, establish one military station after another on the communication line, and then surround Pavlodar, Barnaul, and Omsk.

Both sides are a waste.

Chen Ming now has money in his hands, and he is not afraid of spending it. When the Russian army was all surrounded/pinned down in the city, he organized a cavalry group and swept through the Urals.

After the Europeans entered the 18th century, why did they turn on the night battle mode of platoon shooting?

Isn't that the number of armies that European countries can mobilize more and more, and then they can surround the fortress while still being able to keep a large number of troops attacking the enemy's hinterland.

To a certain extent, this greatly reduces the role of the bastion. It has evolved from a national shield to a simple border bridgehead and a strategic and tactical support point.

It must be clear that the weapons of this era are still very difficult to conquer a fortress with abundant troops and material reserves in a short period of time.

However, the importance of the fortress has declined in this way, even though the significance of the 'fortress' represented by the fortress has not decreased significantly.

Not to mention the Sino-Russian War, even if it is a Russian-Turkish battlefield in the Caucasus, the significance of the fortress is still very important. The fact that the Ottomans and the Russians bumped into each other at the beginning of the war already proved the significance of the fortress in itself.

Moreover, Chen Ming does not care about the battle in Barnaul at all now, and his eyes are now completely fixed on the Russian First Army.

Kamensky could no longer sit still.

He was now convinced that the Chinese army was valiantly attacking Barnaul, and that the second batch of Wehrmacht reinforcements, still a regiment, had been re-integrated into the 11th Division outside the city. Kamensky did not dare to guarantee whether the Chinese would have a third or fourth batch of reinforcements arriving in Barnaul.

So he's going on the offensive.

First of all, with the Turgot cavalry as the lead, directly with Barnaul as the center, swept the surrounding area of 100 miles, and tightly blocked the information of Barnaul, while the First Army also launched a fierce attack on the Chinese Wehrmacht under the city of Barnaul.

Kamensky believed he was in a position that the Chinese did not expect. He had so many infantry cavalry under his command, and suddenly launched an attack on the Chinese besieging troops, the odds were very good.

The Russian army's counterattack has reached the point where it is on the verge of breaking out, and in Chen Ming's eyes, this scene is about to reach the stage of the Gao Yu Dynasty. He is now the great director of this play, and everything is in his hands!

……

The sunset in the northern frontier slowly slanted, and in the afterglow of the setting sun, one by one the Turghut cavalry let out a shout of victory. The 'relatives' who had been separated for more than a dozen years were reunited, and the sacrifice for this wedding feast was made by the four thousand Cossacks and Tatar cavalry led by Saltkov.

Corpses strewn across the battlefield, and the corpses of Cossacks and Tatars, who had been caught off guard, were thrown all over the ground. The captives fell to their knees in embarrassment.

Saltkov's unobtrusive head was presented to Worbassi, who exuded emotion in his heart, and his personal feelings for Saltkov were not bad. However, he still wanted to kill Saltkov. Because Saltykov is really a very good cavalry general, if he is released now, it is very likely that he will be released to return to the mountain.

The setting sun shone on this battlefield, and the remnant sun was like blood, covering everyone in a red veil.

At Worbassi's side stood Zeberk Dorzi, the man who had brought more than 2,000 Turkut cavalry 'back' to Turgot, with a big smile on his face......

The 4,000 Russian cavalry were wiped out.