The Cossack cavalry tried several times to cut down wood to make ladders, and forcibly climbed the two cities of Temple Street and Longshan Wei. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Even, the Cossack cavalry thought of breaking through the city gates with a thousand-year-old giant log.

However, the Ming army had poured a large amount of water on the walls of the two cities, and when the temperature dropped sharply at night, the current two cities of Temple Street and Longshan had completely turned into a solid ice city.

The Cossack cavalry thought about burning it, but it was still difficult to melt the walls of the city, which was several feet thick, with ice thickness.

What's more, as soon as you get close to the city wall and burn the fire, you will be pressed and beaten.

The time is not occupied, the weapons are not better than the Ming army, their cavalry advantage cannot be brought into play, and there is less and less food to eat, so the Cossack cavalry can only continue to work around to minimize the consumption of energy.

But they still did not choose to retreat, from Eastern Europe to here, they can be described as invincible along the way, never encountered half of the strong enemy, if the two fortified cities here can not be broken, even the relatively short yellow race can not be defeated, their Cossack cavalry prestige will be completely lost in the Rakshasa country.

This is undoubtedly a fundamental threat to the survival of a tribe that relies on military warfare for its livelihood.

The Supreme Commander of the Cossack cavalry, Oknido, also had to request reinforcements from within the Rakshasa Kingdom.

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"The most worrying thing is that after the weather gets warmer, as soon as the snow melts, the fortification of the two cities of Temple Street and Longshanwei will definitely be reduced, and the Cossack cavalry outside the city will also be replenished because of the awakening of a large number of hibernating prey, and there is also the intensification of consumption in the city, especially food and medicinal materials, if there is any more epidemic disease, it will not be good, many of the people in the city have just moved here, not suitable for the water and soil here, and they can survive the cold and cold in winter, but the weather turns warmer, and the cold and hot alternate, and those who are not in good health will not feel the wind and cold."

Mao Wenlong put his two hands into his sleeves and said as he paced around the room.

"I don't know when the army and supplies of the imperial court will arrive, but our men have reported that they have been observing for several days, and there has been no movement on the sea, and the sentinels have not found anyone coming by land, but the cavalry of Jiannu has been more active lately, and has taken advantage of the Cossack cavalry to fight with me, and has captured several of my retreating castles."

Zhu Guozheng is trying to blow some wet firewood, in order to ensure the heating in the city, there is no wet firewood and dry firewood, anyway, a lot of trees are cut down and hoarded in the city, and now the dry firewood is used to cook and boil water, and it is only these wet firewood that is usually burned and roasted.

For Jiannu's behavior, Mao Wenlong also sighed helplessly, but his heart was also a little relieved, the current Jiannu at least has not completely seen through the current situation, and can only simply take advantage of the fire to rob, but no one is sure that they will unite with the Cossack cavalry, so that their Ming soldiers and civilians who have traveled thousands of miles and finally gained a foothold are completely isolated and helpless.

"Wait a little longer, you have to get through it, I hope the war in the south can end as soon as possible, as long as the war in the south is over, with the strength of my Ming army, the Cossack cavalry is just the end of the crossbow."

Mao Wenlong said that he left the General Military Mansion and prepared to go to the barracks to have a look.

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The Xilin Gol Mansion in Monan, which has been reclaimed and returned to the river, has now become a very important transit point in the Ming Dynasty.

Last year, Yang Tinglin was ordered to build a road between Mobei Town and Xilin Gol Youpingwei.

Now that it has been basically completed, it has saved a lot of time when it is time to support Mao Wenlong and Zhu Guozheng.

Except for most of the infantry, which relied on the North Sea Fleet to ship to Temple Street, the rest of the cavalry and other troops, as well as important baggage, had to pass through here.

At this time, this area has been strictly guarded, and no herdsmen are allowed to enter within five miles, especially at the border with Jiannu, which is heavily guarded to prevent this logistical supply line from being cut off.

But some of the herdsmen who had been hired as men were fortunate enough to see the army as it crossed the border.

Naturally, the Praetorian cavalry marched at the front, but at this time, the Praetorian cavalry had changed into white robes, white hats, white gloves and white snow boots, in order to better conceal their whereabouts in the snow.

Even the muskets of the cavalry who accompanied them were painted with white paint, which, according to a scholar of the Royal Academy of Engineering, was anti-freeze.

The second is all kinds of large weapons, now the Ming Dynasty has begun to vigorously manufacture large chariots, especially after the artillery technology has reached a certain level and the comprehensive promotion of steam power and the improvement of ruts, modern chariots have come into being.

The use of steam power to manufacture civilian steam-powered locomotives has technically met the requirements, but it is not practical in civil use.

Because the cost is too high and the volume is too large, the Ming Dynasty is not able to walk on the street conveniently and freely, not to mention the gold plating technology and electrochemistry have not yet appeared, and the appearance of these large steam-powered locomotives is very ugly.

At this time, the chariots marching on the Monan steppe were also like this.

On the surface, it resembled a pile of broken copper and iron, with two oversized chimneys at the back, emitting black smoke like a large stove.

Although the bottom is also used tracks, but because the current machine tool processing skills are not good, so the chariot is always crooked and upside down, if it is not for the large volume, it is directly the rhythm of turning over the head, and the soldiers sitting in it bear what kind of bumps can be imagined.

Moreover, the speed is not fast, an adult can surpass him if he walks faster, but despite this, the coal mine it consumes in one day is equivalent to one-tenth of the coal mine consumption in the entire capital.

How the thermal efficiency of steam is more reflected in kinetic energy has always been a difficult problem.

Clumsy is clumsy, not beautiful, but the power is still there, its turret is directly equipped with a twelve-pound cannon, and it is also equipped with a Ming version of the machine gun, in order not to fire the strong recoil to make the vehicle overturn, deliberately enlarged the chassis, so that it is more bulky.

Behind the chariot were the artillerymen's two hundred newly made rifled guns, drawn by horse-drawn carriages, which were also painted white, and the caliber was smaller, but the barrels were much longer, like an elephant's trunk, slowly moving forward on the grassland.

John Tang also followed the two hundred guns this time, he was not sure how much the thermal expansion and contraction in the extremely cold weather had affected these new artillery, although he had already done relevant experiments, he was still not sure, after all, the Royal Academy of Engineering in the capital could not create an experimental environment of tens of degrees below zero.

The artillery was followed by flying battalions and other strategic weapons.

The Microbial Fermentation Institute of the Royal Academy of Engineering has added several large fermenters, and the strain screening of methane and hydrogen sulfide-producing microorganisms has been further optimized.

In addition, now Daming has begun to carry out primary constant temperature treatment, which can also make the fermentation of microorganisms more efficient.

However, it is more about food and bedding and cotton clothing, and sometimes the key to victory or defeat in a war lies in these aspects related to human clothing, food, shelter and transportation.

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Fortunately, Temple Street is one of the few ice-free port areas in the Outer Northeast, so the North Sea Fleet can smoothly transport the Janissary infantry to Temple Street and the Longshan Acropolis not far from the opposite bank of Temple Street.

The first to reach Temple Street and Longshan was the 1st Brigade of the 1st Infantry Corps of the Praetorian Guards, which was detected by the sentinels of the Cossack cavalry on the second day after their landing.

The commander of the Cossack cavalry, Oknido, was a little jealous when he learned that reinforcements had arrived from the Ming army, but when he learned that the soldiers were coming, he breathed a sigh of relief, and therefore did not grasp the last opportunity to retreat.

"It's really whimsical that just some two-legged infantry want to compete with my Cossack heroes for territory, in that case, let these yellow dwarfs taste the sharpness of our steel knives, and give the order to go down, end the siege of Temple Street City, gather all the troops, and kill me while these yellow dwarves are not firmly established!"

After all, it is a Western army whose military war theory is still only at the point of group fighting, and the Cossack cavalry has not thought of exploring the truth first, if they know themselves and know that they will not be defeated in a hundred battles, anyway, in his Orknido's opinion, the cavalry is absolutely overwhelming in front of the infantry, even if it is a long hair and shield array, in front of my Cossack cavalry, it will be broken up in formation and then trampled into pulp by its own iron hooves.

The first to land ashore was the Janissary infantry was Chang Yanling's Janissary First Army, First Town, First Brigade, for the Ming Dynasty's only ace army that was fully equipped with rifled guns and was a Minnie rifled gun, this was his first appearance on the battlefield.

Previously, the first brigade of the Praetorian Guard has been stationed in the capital and conducted intensive training, after all, its training mode has to be upgraded after being equipped with modern weapons, so as to be completely built into the first trump card army of the Ming Dynasty.

The 1st Brigade had more than 5,000 men, a number of tens of thousands less than the Cossack cavalry that was besieging it at this time, and by the time the main force of the Cossack cavalry arrived, the 1st Brigade of the Janissaries had just set up the first line of defense and was ready to receive the other fraternal troops ashore.

But now that the Cossack cavalry was impatiently approaching, Chang Yanling had no choice but to take the first brigade to fire at the Cossack cavalry first.

Across the vast white snowfield, the Cossack cavalry rushed towards the 1st Brigade of the Praetorian Guard like an avalanche with a large amount of slush and sand swept into the sand.

Its long sharp knives were particularly dazzling in the sunlight, especially when the hands of the screaming Cossack cavalry danced like bloodthirsty madness.

"The 1st battalion is blocking head-on, the 2nd and 3rd battalions are responsible for scattering left and right, the 4th battalion continues to build camp and immediately sends signals to the other fraternal units, the Cossack cavalry can't wait to take advantage of us, let them see if the tiger's ass can be touched!"

After Chang Yanling said, the soldiers of the first battalion of the Praetorian Guard walked outside the wooden fence and began to prepare for the formation, and the soldiers of the entire first battalion were all lined up around the first line of defense, and knelt directly on one knee, picked up their guns, pulled the bolts and aimed at these rolling Marsac cavalry in the front.

The 2nd and 3rd battalions also immediately moved to the left and right flanks, taking cover on the slopes of snow or on tree sturns, waiting for the approach of the Cossack cavalry.

The Cossack cavalry was very excited, and they saw the 1st Brigade of the Praetorian Guard at this time, like a wolf dog in heat, and they were as crazy and carried away as a female dog in the siege of Temple Street and Longshan Wei City.

They were very skillful in changing their riding skills, staring at the Ming soldiers in front of them with blood-red eyes who seemed to be stunned, and they kept scolding the yellow dwarf.

Fortunately, the soldiers of the 1st Brigade of the Praetorian Guard at this time did not understand their swearing, and as a well-trained modern infantry, the Cossack cavalry, a typical classical army, brought only shock in front of them, but its superb riding skills may increase the difficulty of shooting for the Praetorian Guard soldiers.

But the 1st Brigade of the Praetorian Guard, which had been training in the capital for a year, was not really worried that they would not be able to shoot accurately because these cavalry were moving fast, but only added some tension.

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"Get into range and hit!"

After the commander of the 1st battalion gave the order, there were bursts of gunfire crackling, and the speed was very fast, covering the Cossack cavalry who rushed to the front in an instant.

The Cossack cavalrymen did not react to the fact that they had been hit at high speed, and it was not until he realized that he had been shot until he realized that he had fallen to the ground with his men and horses.

Suddenly, under the intensive and continuous fire attack, these originally magnificent Cossack cavalry were beaten to the point of flesh and blood, some of them had their entire heads directly exploded, some of them were shot by horses, and people were directly trampled into flesh.

Even if they were lucky enough to escape, they were shot clean by the second and third battalions on the left and right flanks.

Oknido hurriedly sounded the trumpet and ordered his Cossack cavalry to withdraw, and he was stunned that he did not dare to advance rashly, but asked himself suspiciously: "How can these infantry have such powerful firearms in their hands!" ”

"The enemy retreated temporarily, the first battalion retreated to clear the barrels, the fourth battalion took over, and the second and third battalions alternated internally to prevent the next wave of enemy attacks."

As soon as the Cossack cavalry retreated, the 1st Brigade of the Praetorian Guard also immediately cleaned the barrel according to Chang Yanling's order, and it turned out that although the current 1st Brigade of the Praetorian Guard was already equipped with mini guns and mini bullets, because the gunpowder was still black powder instead of smokeless gunpowder, there would still be many impurities left to block the barrel when the bullet exploded.

This has to be said to be a small defect in the manufacture of Ming ordnance, perhaps only after the emergence of smokeless gunpowder can this problem be perfectly solved.

However, despite such a small flaw, the 1st Janissary Brigade was able to easily block the attack of the Cossack cavalry.

A little more than an hour later, Orknidor launched a second attack, but this time he was a little smarter, using his numerical superiority to attack the 1st Janissary Infantry Brigade from three sides.

Chang Yanling had to use all four battalions to block the attack from four directions, and with the advantage of range and rapid continuous firepower, Orknido's Cossack cavalry still could not take advantage of the slightest.

This made him very depressed, Temple Street and Longshan Wei couldn't gnaw on him, and now it's only 5,000 infantry, and he still can't gnaw.