"This place is good!"

Qin Yu, the commander of the Eighteenth Army of the Ming Army, sat on a folding chair, with a parasol above his head and a small coffee table next to him, holding a teacup with Erlang's legs crossed, and said leisurely as if he was drinking tea in his own garden. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

And at the end of his field of vision, the faintly visible Euphrates River, or the Xiyuan River on the map of the Ming Dynasty is a city shrouded in gunsmoke, in the endless yellow sand, the gray smoke soars into the sky as if to cover the dark clouds on the horizon, the firelight flickers in the smoke from time to time, in the sky you can see the airships moving slowly, and between him and the city are artillery positions, hundreds of cannons are constantly roaring, even here, he can still feel the tremor of the earth.

That's Nasiriyah.

This city, which had left a deep impression on the US military in history, was trembling under the artillery fire of the Ming army at this time, and this was the throat leading to Baghdad, and the entire army of Qin Yu's Left Route Army was here.

The Ming army had two armies attacking Baghdad, and the other army attacking from Ahvaz to Amarah, and the Euphrates and Tigris rivers provided logistical support for them. And a Ming army with sufficient logistical support, the combat style is always extremely violent, for example, like Qin Yu, the large and small artillery of a concentrated army bombards a city that is not too big, and those small inland river diesel engine ships sailing from Xiyuan are constantly sending him enough ammunition.

"I just like to bully people like that!"

He said smugly.

At his feet is the remains of an ancient building like a mound of earth, and then down is a huge square platform, like a Mayan pyramid built with inclined square bricks, more than twenty zhang long, fifteen zhang wide, and six or seven zhang high, the front three wide steps are divided into left and right to the top, standing majestically like a castle in the boundless yellow sand, and Qin Yu and his 18th Army Headquarters are high at the top of this building.

This is the Tower of Babel.

Or the prototype of the Tower of Babel.

This is the earliest center of Mesopotamian civilization, the capital of the Sumerians 7,000 years ago, and at the foot of Qin Yu is the origin of all Babel Towers, the Temple of Zigrat Temple.

"My lord, look at this!"

At this moment, a staff officer walked up to him with a smile and handed over something that looked like a stone slab, but it was not a stone, but a clay tablet that had become like a stone over time, and several strange symbols were carved on it.

"What the hell is this?"

Qin Yu said.

"This is the humble office picked up nearby, the humble office thinks this should be their ancient book, just like our Yin Shang engraved on the bones, the pre-Qin engraved on the bamboo slips, they carved the text on the clay tablet, but unfortunately we can't translate it, the history here according to some records, can only be pushed to our Shang Zhou period, if you can translate this maybe you can know what this land was like a long time ago!"

The staff officer said regretfully.

"Some of the ghost drawings drawn by some wild people casually, where do so many things come from, don't forget the teachings of the saint, the saint said, my Huaxia is the origin of world civilization, and other places are just some wild people who are no different from beasts when the sun is hot, how can there be any written inheritance, you are a soldier who wants to do the right thing, don't do the right thing every day."

Qin Yu said with a calm face.

Then he threw the clay tablet out with his hand.

"Well, my lord has taught me a lesson!"

The staff officer hurriedly said ashamedly.

"My lord, Brigade Commander Han has reported that he has broken through the outer defense line and entered Nasiriyah, and he has asked the heavy artillery to stop firing!"

At this time, the officer guarding the radio next to him shouted.

"The heavy artillery is paused, tell Lao Han a few, the battle must be resolved before dark, the 22nd Army has already hit Amara, we have been delayed here for too long, and if we continue like this, the first work will be robbed by others!"

Qin Yu said.

"Before dark? Isn't that? ”

In Nasiriyah City, Han Ping, commander of the 95th Infantry Brigade, said speechlessly.

At this time, thousands of Ming troops in front of him were cautiously marching through the ruins, and from the ruins in front of them, the smoke of black powder was constantly shooting, and of course, there were enemy bullets in the smoke.

Now these Zhen main warriors have learned smart, they are no longer stupidly relying on those useless ground fortresses, but all of them are developing towards ratification, Nasiriyah This kind of soil is the most suitable for digging tunnels, so the Ottoman army and Zhen main warriors stationed in the city are hiding underground, the Ming army's shelling did not achieve the expected effect, as soon as the shelling stopped, people drilled out of the ground and blocked it between the ruins.

The Ming infantry had to be very careful to clear forward little by little, and the speed of the attack could not be fast.

"With gas?"

The chief of staff beside him said.

"I guess it's useless!"

Han Ping said.

As he spoke, he signaled to the gunner of the two two-inch howitzers beside him, who immediately changed to a duke bomb and aimed at a fire point in front of him, and the yellow-green poisonous fog immediately rose, and then the Ming army wearing gas masks rushed into the poisonous fog, and sporadic gunfire rang out inside. After about ten minutes, the poisonous fog completely dispersed, and the sweeping Ming army also walked through this ruin, but just when the other group of soldiers thought it was safe and all defenseless, there were suddenly more than a dozen fires lit up, and several Ming soldiers were caught off guard and immediately knocked down.

"Make the firing port as small as possible, make the underground nest bigger, the air inside is enough to support a period of time, let's use duke to block the firing port, and there is soil protection above the head, our shelling is also difficult to hurt them, and reserve more food and drinking water, it is no problem to block us for a month, we can only use infantry to clean up a little bit if we want to attack, and the casualty rate will naturally increase dramatically."

Han Ping said.

"That's troublesome, if these cities around Baghdad do this, I'm afraid we'll have half of the dead and injured when we get there, if the entire Ottoman region plays like this, we're afraid we'll have hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded to conquer this country, these bastards are not ready to live at all, they are going to die and pull us together, if you can't break their trick, then it will be really difficult to do it in the future."

said the chief of staff.

He didn't know that at this time the Ottomans were already doing this, not only the Ottomans, but even the Russians and Europeans were also promoting this method, which was bought by countless warriors with blood, and they proved with sacrifice that any traditional means of defense in the face of the Ming army were useless, whether it was a fortress, line infantry, bayonet charge, cavalry raid was a dead end, and it was difficult to kill a few Ming troops, and it was very common to fight hundreds to one in the past. It can be said that as long as it is on the ground, there will be no hope for the Ming army, only underground can they avoid their terrifying artillery fire and cruel anger, even if they can't achieve victory, they can increase the casualties of the Ming army, so now the entire Ottoman Empire and European countries are desperately digging holes in their own cities, and even the underground combat system has begun to study.

This is also their lifesaver, although it is expected that this tactic will not win the final victory, but it can use the casualty figure to force Yang Feng to change his mind, for example, everyone sits down and talks, etc., even if the Ming Dynasty has a large population and sufficient soldiers, after all, it is not good to die too much, if you can negotiate an acceptable condition, those monarchs can actually accept Yang Feng.

In fact, this is the only thing that those monarchs can count on.

"Trouble?"

Han Ping sneered and said: "It's not that troublesome, give me the commander, I need a bigger bomb, big enough, or simply send me a hundred and ten tons of explosives." ”

"Ten tons of explosives?"

Qin Yu was stunned and said, "What does this guy want to do?" ”

But he reacted in an instant.

"Ma, he has a very good brain, send a report to Xiyuan, send a boatload of explosives as soon as possible, the more the better, and ask Liu Qing if he has encountered this similar situation there, and tell him that as long as he marries his daughter to my son, I will tell him a very simple way."

Then he said.

"My lord, Commander Liu's daughter is only ten years old."

The staff officer beside him said cautiously.

"What's wrong with a ten-year-old? My son is not afraid to wait another six years, does he dare to think that my son is a few years older than his daughter? ”

Qin Yu said.

Uh, the staff officer quickly shut up.

Of course, this question is not important, and immediately after that, two river transport ships sailed out of Xiyuan Harbor, loaded with a full fifty tons of explosives, and at this time the Ming army in Nasiriyah City began to ......

Dig a pit.

When the two ships arrived just before dark, and the explosives were delivered by horse-drawn carts, a large pit of water dug out of the city appeared in the center of the city, a water pump driven by a diesel engine was pumping water out of a moment, and a large number of Ming army sappers were speechlessly making a large container from the components originally used to erect the pontoon bridge. Obviously, Brigade Commander Han ignored the terrain here, and the sandy land near the river had to face the groundwater, so he had to take remedial measures, but fortunately, it was just a small trouble, and then under the command of Han Ping, the iron box was pushed into the pit, and then the sappers began to fill the iron box with explosives......

Well, that's Han Ping's approach.

"Fifty tons of explosives, I don't believe they can't make a small earthquake, since they have dug a grave for themselves, let's just bury it inside!"

Han Ping said viciously.

Half an hour later, all the preparations were completed, during which the Ottomans did not react, and they did not even know what the Ming army was doing, and the field around the pit had already been cleared, and after this work was completed, all the personnel retreated, and at the same time began to fire air bombs into the city as a cover for the operation, and a long wire extended from the super bomb to the outside of the city.

"Brigade Commander Han, come on!"

The commander of the first battalion of military engineers who came to help handed the detonator to Han Ping and said.

"Have all the ministries been withdrawn?"

Han Ping asked the staff officer beside him.

The latter hurriedly reconfirmed it by radio again, and soon all the departments sent back the report that they had been evacuated, and then Han Ping looked at the direction of the big pit almost a mile and a half away from him, and pressed the detonator in his hand with a cruel smile. Suddenly, like the eruption of a volcanic crater, the center of Nasiriyah City arched all at once, and then the fire pushed the smoke and dust away like a tsunami, accompanied by a loud sound like the sky and the earth cracking, and the explosion even blew to him, like a rushing train, throwing a group of culprits directly out. When they fell to the ground, there was also a tremor that shook below them like a great earthquake, and then before they could get up, the sand fell like a torrential rain.

"Mah, it's too much!"

Han Ping lay on the ground, coughing painfully and spitting out a mouthful of bloody sputum like mud, looking at the sandstorm above his head that seemed to be the end of the world.

The officers who crawled out of the sand like him next to him looked at their brigade commander one by one with resentful eyes, it was obvious that it was because of their brigade commander's creativity that the Ming army almost wiped out an unprecedented brigade command organization, saying that if it was closer to more than a hundred zhang, this kind of thing was completely possible, the unlucky commander of the first battalion of military engineers was holding his obviously broken arm and scolding Han Ping, he was thrown up and landed in the wrong position, and as a result, his arm was broken.

As for the defenders underground......

The Ming army a mile and a half away is like this, not to mention them who bear the brunt of it.

They are not permanent fortifications of reinforced concrete, they are nothing more than small holes supported by civil engineering, and some of them even do not have wood supports, they just dig a hole under the soft soil, in fact, the Ming army's shelling has caused a small amount of collapse, how can it withstand the violent destruction of this thing?

Within a radius of more than two hundred meters around the explosion point, all the underground Ottoman cave fortifications collapsed, and the warriors who were waiting to continue the bloody battle with the Ming army were all buried alive. When the Ming army swaggered back to the city, and then gathered around the huge pond that had been blown up, watching the ruins that seemed to be struck by a meteorite, and discussing the jokes of the brigade commander, the city that the Ottomans had planned to exchange for at least 5,000 Ming soldiers would be overcome.

Half an hour later, a transport ship, also laden with explosives, sailed out of Xiyuan and sailed up the Tigris River, aiming for Amara.

Then a Ming high school student who was studying hard to get into college got a bad news, he had a fiancée who had just entered junior high school, according to the marriage law of Daming, he had to marry someone after at least six years, for young people who are full of longing for love, this is definitely bad news, even if this little Lori is likely to bring him a dowry of more than three million dragon yuan.