"They're coming!"

At the southern entrance of the Kerch Strait, on an ordinary Swedish merchant ship, an officer said respectfully to a middle-aged man in front of him. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The latter nodded expressionlessly.

This is Charles XII.

His Majesty the King, the little lion of the Swedes, who led them to win the Great Northern War, won the Crimean War, and eventually became the unrivaled overlord of the European North, was already in middle age at this time, in fact he was in his fifties, he was originally killed in Norway more than ten years ago, but now he still dominates the Baltic coast. Not long ago, through a bloodless struggle, he added the Polish crown to his head, so that his territory included Sweden, Finland, the three Baltic states, plus Poland and Ukraine, as well as parts of Moldova and Russia.

It's a truly powerful empire.

But alas, the empire was still nothing compared to his old friend, who had maintained thirty years of friendship, and whose sword was about to fall on his head.

There is only one Russia left in the middle.

Although they are still talking about friendship, and even the partnership company is still operating, he doesn't think that after Yang Feng conquers Russia, he will let go of his territory that follows him, and his territory runs through the entire Eastern Europe, and if the Ming army wants to continue to attack, it is impossible to bypass this land, it can be said that the war between the two sides is doomed, it depends on when Yang Feng completes the conquest of Russia, or how long Peter can support Yang Feng in front of him.

He sighed gloomily, then looked up at the sea level in the distance.

There, countless black smoke pressed on the waves of the Black Sea like a cloud, and in the black smoke yellow chimneys and masts appeared, followed by the white hull of the ship, and then the black side of the ship, and also appeared in his field of vision, and there were also black holes in the muzzles, and at the top of the mast, the red flags became clearer and clearer......

This is a Ming battleship.

At the same time as this battleship appeared, countless warships on both sides of it kept emerging one after another, densely packed with a majestic momentum in his field of vision, there were too many, he couldn't count how many, as far as he could see, the entire horizon was full of towering yellow chimneys and masts, all black and white hulls, as if covering the sea surface slowly over the blue, like a nightmare pressing on his heart, just like the Mongolian iron horseman who spread across the Eastern European Plain five hundred years ago.

"Such a battleship can destroy a European fleet, but they have dispatched hundreds of them at once, is this strength?"

A general beside him smiled wryly.

Everyone watched silently, looking at the spectacular scene of the huge fleet of five hundred steel warships, in front of such an enemy, they even had a feeling of suffocation, this is a truly invincible powerhouse, there is no need to fight him, just feeling the terrifying breath makes people feel a sense of despair.

Of course, they were not the target of this fleet, because instead of sailing to the Kerch Strait behind them, the fleet headed east to the Kuban Peninsula, on the eastern shore of which originally belonged to the Ottoman Empire, but has now become Russian territory. There, a total of 50,000 Russian troops and former Ottoman troops were waiting for them, all of them hid in underground bunkers and criss-crossing trenches, and even erected precious barbed wire in front of the trenches, resisted horses, dug countless traps, and it was said that there were improvised mines underground, in short, they did their best to improve the defense line, waiting for a decisive battle with the Ming army.

A lot of this stuff was given to them by Sweden.

Sweden's arsenals are working day and night to produce weapons and ammunition for the whole of Europe, including Russia, relying on the iron ore of almost unrivaled quality, and even half-selling and half-giving away to the Russians.

Now they are the Swedish barrier.

"This is the enemy's defense map!"

On the battleship Dingyuan, Chen Feng, commander of the First Army of the Ming Marine Corps, pointed to the map on the wall and said.

The Ming Marine Corps has also been expanded, they had only one army before, and now they have also been promoted to the group army level, with a total of four corps under them, whether it is on the Kuban Peninsula or the port of Azov and the landing operation at the mouth of the Volga River, they are responsible for the first wave of attacks, and the task of the first army is to open a landing ground on the south bank of the Kuban Peninsula, and two armies behind them will arrive later and attack in depth.

"This is your mission!"

Immediately after that, he waved his hand, and then an officer handed different documents to the four brigade commanders in front of him, the marines did not have cavalry brigades and heavy artillery brigades, the former they did not need at all, as for the latter......

A four-inch gun counts as a heavy artillery in the Navy?

That's whether it's good or not, and when you need it, you can directly adjust the seven-inch gun.

"Then I ask you, is there any problem with all the soldiers landing and putting into battle within an hour after the general attack order is given?"

Chen Feng said.

"Nope!"

Four brigade commanders said at the same time.

"Then notify Commander Qin to start shelling!"

Chen Feng looked at his pocket watch and said.

"Don't let our audience down!"

Then he raised his head and sneered at the merchant ship on which Charles XII was riding in the distance.

Just a few minutes later, the sea surface turned into an erupting volcano, and all the guns of various calibers on the battleships and cruisers of the Ming Army were aimed at the Russian defense line and began to bombard, and the dense shells exploded on the coast all the time, and the Russian soldiers who were huddled in the trenches and fortresses seemed to be in the hell of blood and fire, and in the earth-shattering explosions, they were torn apart by this terrifying power, and even the princes and ministers of Charles XII at sea trembled at this violent firepower.

And this shelling lasted a whole hour.

An hour later, as the signal flare exploded in the sky, the landing ships that were originally behind the battleships and cruisers all started to rush to the shore, these landing ships all set sail from the original Ottoman Sinop, because of the proximity, and even a large number of small landing craft, completely imitated the US military in World War II, with a displacement of only 200 tons, which could transport two teams of soldiers, using high-power diesel engines, just like the latter crossed the English Channel across the Black Sea.

Soon the first landing ship rushed to the beach of this famous Russian resort in later generations, and then the front hatch opened and the gangplank stretched out, and the heavily armed marines began to land, and at the same time the remnants of the Russian army on the opposite side also began to counterattack, but on the landing ships that rushed to the beach, a two-inch gun and a one-inch rapid-fire gun immediately spewed flames, like a steel fortress standing on the coast to dump shells on all the resisters, and the heavy machine guns on the landing craft, the landing soldiers set up a heavy machine gun and infantry gun on the beachhead, They also began to join the attack.

Under their common cover, more soldiers with bayonet rifles began to rush to the Russian lines.

Under the cover of heavy artillery at sea, rapid-fire guns on landing ships, rear machine guns and infantry guns, more and more marines braved the Russian resistance to cut a few barbed wires, moved away from the repulsive horses that hindered the movement, and flooded the Russian defense line like a red tide.

After all, the Russian army's blocking is too weak.

They don't have Omaha monsters.

Those seven-inch, five-inch, and four-inch heavy artillery shells that lasted for an hour have already made most of the Russian troops either dead or wounded, in the face of such powerful shells, their trenches and bunkers can provide them with very pitiful protection, especially the terrifying seven-inch cannon, more than 300 catties of shells can bombard almost a company of soldiers to death, what bunkers have become scum, and at sea are four Hongwu-class battleships and six Qi Jiguang-class cruisers, even if they are limited by the firing boundary, it is also eighty seven-inch guns!

What's more, even if you dodge the heavy artillery, you can't dodge the rapid-fire guns on the landing ship and the heavy machine guns behind the infantry.

What's more, it was a breech gun in the hands of the Russian army!

The gap in technology has reached the point where courage cannot be repaired, and the surviving Russian soldiers in the trenches, with full of grief and fear, guarded the broken corpses of their comrades, and kept completing the tedious firing procedures of the breech guns, and fired bullets at the surging Ming troops in front, but unfortunately as soon as the flames fired by their black powder bullets erupted, the rapid-fire guns on the landing ship or the machine guns of the Ming army were aimed, and then the bullets and shells of the storm tore him to pieces.

In less than an hour, the defensive line that the Russian army had painstakingly managed had been broken through by the Ming army, and then the remnants of the Russian army began to flee in terror, but unfortunately behind them were more than a thousand cannons of various calibers, and the farthest range was even more than ten kilometers.

Running away is tantamount to suicide.

"How many casualties did they have?"

Charles XII stood in the mast of the merchant ship, holding a telescope and looking at the terrifying flames that exploded among the fleeing Russian troops, and asked with a wry smile.

"It won't be more than two thousand!"

The person next to him said cautiously.

"Let's go back!"

Charles XII put away his binoculars and said gloomily.

It was a sad result, the Ming army forced a landing of 20,000 to attack 50,000 Russians, and then routed the enemy with less than 2,000 casualties, and they could replicate the same glory on the other side of the Kerch Strait, a few dozen kilometers away, and the Swedish troops stationed there would be like the Russians in front of the mighty Ming army.

This is an inevitable result.

"How many casualties?"

In the headquarters of the Dingyuan, Chen Feng was also asking his chief of staff.

"More than 1,800, more than 700 were killed in battle, the Russians' bullets and shells are useless, but the improvised mines they made caused us more losses, fortunately, most of this thing was detonated by the previous shelling, otherwise we will break through the defense line and have an estimated casualties of more than 3,000, and we will have to pay attention to this thing in the future, extend the time for artillery preparation by another half an hour, and tilt the focus of the artillery bombardment to the front of the Russian position."

said the chief of staff.

"Immediately build a floating wharf, bring all the captured Russian troops over, capture the young and middle-aged people from all the nearby villages, build port facilities here, execute those who dare to resist on the spot, and if there are not enough men, bring women too, women in this place are as strong as men, and a wharf capable of accommodating thousand-ton freighters must be built within half a year!"

Immediately afterwards, Chen Feng pointed to the location of Anapa in the original history and said.

"In addition, the 1st Brigade was ordered to advance north to capture Taman to the Kerch Strait, to build artillery positions on the eastern shore of the strait, where the heavy artillery brigade of the 25th Infantry Corps would soon arrive, where they would deploy four-inch field guns to provide cover for the passage of the fleet transporting the 2nd Army."

Then he added.

And by this time the landing ships on the shore had already begun to retreat, and these landing ships would return to the ports of the northern part of Vinh An province as quickly as possible, and then load the 2nd Marine Corps there, and return again under the escort of the fleet, passing through the Kerch Strait into the Sea of Azov. While the task of the 2nd Army was to land and occupy the port of Azov, open the Russian gates for the other two infantry corps, and then attack Tsaritsyn north along the Don River, the task of the 1st Army to land on the Kuban Peninsula first was to provide them with protection through the Kerch Strait, on the other side of this narrow strait was the Kerch fortress of the Swedes, where the shore defense artillery could cover the entire strait.

Of course, this is just in case.

Because the Swedish government has made a statement that they will remain neutral in the war between the Ming and Russia, as for the navigation of the Kerch Strait, this strait is shared by the two countries and divided by the median line, so the warships of the Ming army only need to not go to their side when sailing. This is completely reasonable and legal, there is no problem, and it has nothing to do with the four Hongwu-class battleships and the eight Qi Jiguang-class cruisers loitering outside the Swedish port of Gothenburg, and His Majesty the King of Sweden simply strictly adheres to international practice.

Well, that's it.

It is estimated that after appreciating the Ming army's violent landing operation, they will respect international practice even more.

In fact, it's not just Charles, at this time all the monarchs of Europe are shrunken turtles, in front of the aggressive expansion of the Ming army, they have no effective response, can only hope that they are the last unlucky, can only hope that someone in front of them can stop the footsteps of the Ming army, even if it can't be stopped, it can be delayed! They will pay for supplies and even sneak out volunteers to help, but let them take the initiative to provoke the Ming army, they will not do it, the Ming Mediterranean fleet is like a nightmare pressing on their heads, no one wants to become the next Papal States, poor pope are all alive, do they also want to be the same as their own pope?

And Peter, the brave, must fight this evil dragon alone!

As for his ending......

Well, he'll get a heroic hymn, and God will reserve a place for him in heaven.

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