"Order Commander Wen to cancel the cavalry battalion attack!" Ding Yi immediately issued an order, the cavalry battalion of 400 cavalry, no matter how elite it is, is it going to stuff people's teeth? It seems that this success is not only a disaster, but also a fulfillment in thousands of miles overseas, and the communication soldiers around Ding Yi reported to Ding Yi after observing the signal sent by the cannon detection post on the hot air balloon:

"Sir, more than two hundred galleys have come from the sea."

The Aegean Fleet had already set off for Athens with Du Ziteng, and Ding had only two destroyers on his hand.

That is to say, it can be regarded as seizing the T-position of the battle line, and only twelve guns per ship can be developed.

Hot weapons are superior to cold weapons if the amount of ammunition delivered per unit of time exceeds the number of troops that the cold weapon side can put into the battlefield.

There are more than two hundred warships, if their commander is good enough, such as a figure like Huang Xiaoyang, then he can definitely play these two destroyers to death. Because it is impossible for two destroyers to blockade the entire sea, a good fleet commander will sacrifice a part of the battleship to contain the destroyer, and then outflank it to carry out a gang-jumping operation.

The Ottoman shipbuilding skills are not good, and the artillery is even worse, but they who occupied Greece will use Greek fire, and if those two destroyers cannot quickly detect each other, then the Greek fire thrown by the trebuchet, that is, the incendiary bombs, will cause big trouble, and the hull is on fire, but once the sails are on fire, it will become meat on the chopping block.

"Stay alive first, don't go to prevent the enemy from landing and break through in the direction of Ismailia."

Liu Ji, who hurried over from the military household, just wanted to come to sue Ding Yi, the other party's powerful cavalry. But he heard Ding Yi's order, and he didn't have time to dissuade him. Just like the order given to Wen Fatzi, the cannon detection post on the hot air balloon. Not only did he take on the task of observing artillery fire, but also took on the task of transmitting orders when the sun was shining.

The messenger around Ding Yi used the method of covering the mirror to interrupt the reflection to transmit the ten numbers from zero to nine, and each group of numbers corresponded to a word in the code book of the army under Ding Yi. The correspondents who could follow Ding Yi were all very professional, and they quickly gave Ding Yi's orders. Passed to the communications corps on a hot air balloon.

And the communication corpsman above immediately pointed the mirror at the unit that was about to send the order, and repeated the order received.

This kind of primitive wireless communication made Liu Ji unable to dissuade him at all, and the order that Ding Yi issued to the fleet was, in his opinion, an order to fall into the ground.

There were at least 40,000 cavalry in front, and more than 200 galleys came from the sea, and Ding Yi also let the destroyers run away on their own. Well, if you outflank both sides, isn't it another battle of civil forts? Liu Ji hurriedly said: "Mr. go with the fleet!" You can't stay here! ”

"Don't lie, be afraid. It's still too late to get to the port. Ding Yi said to Liu Ji very calmly.

Liu Ji hesitated, he has never been a warrior who regards death as his home. Nor is he one of those soldiers who madly adores Ding Yi, counting on Liu Ji's loyalty? Even the middle-aged women who were half-drunk and armed with pans and pitchforks. Be more reliable than him.

But he didn't have to make a decision right away, because of the communication soldiers around Ding Yi. It has already been reported: "The destroyer has received the order to go to sea to meet the enemy!" ”

Ding gave one order after another: "Order the cavalry battalion to prepare to attack the port and land the enemy troops." ”

"An order was issued to all high-altitude observation posts, and once the enemy broke through the first-line positions, all high-altitude observation posts, cut the cables, and retreat on their own."

Hot air balloons are of course sailable, and now they are tied to the ground with cables attached to the ground in order to serve as observation posts.

"Yuzhi, I didn't expect you to have this heart! Well, courage is not enough, it is enough to have this will. Ding Yi patted Liu Ji on the shoulder and said to him, "Follow me, if I have any accidents, you will take someone to the top." ”

Liu Ji knew that there was no need to say anything at this time, nodded with a wry smile, and waved to Ding Yichang: "The disciple takes the order." ”

Ding Yi looked at Liu Ji's side face and laughed slightly, how could he not know Liu Ji's thoughts? It doesn't matter, whether he is interested in deeds, he didn't escape, or he didn't have time to escape, for Ding Yi, it's the same. Of course, if Liu Ji really dared to escape, then he would be martyred immediately. This arrangement is a necessary backhand. At least Ding Yi thinks that it is necessary for people like Liu Ji.

"There are 40,000 cavalry, coming to us in two directions!" Ding Yi drove his horse from the artillery position to the fortifications on the front line, and shouted to the soldiers in the fortifications, "Forty thousand cavalry!" Do you know what the concept is? Damn, if the enemy surrenders, don't stab him to death! Mining and farming, 40,000 cavalry, how much labor! ”

He dismounted, walked on the edge of the trench, and yelled at the soldiers in the trench: "Battlefield discipline, all fucking remembered!" If you kill the prisoners, wait for confinement! Do you hear that? ”

"I heard you!" The soldiers of the third battalion of the guard regiment responded loudly.

And the local young men in the position, who were used as civilian men and baggage soldiers, showed desperate expressions on their faces after listening to the translation: crazy, the emperor is crazy, and his subordinates are also crazy! Forty thousand cavalry! In other words, there are at least 10,000 cavalry attacks here, and they will come here, but here, there are only about 400 people! And you still say that you can't kill prisoners? Isn't that crazy what is it?

There were seven or eight local men screaming and climbing up the trenches to run into the city, trying to escape back and hide themselves in the cellars, which would have made them feel a virtual sense of security and then await the fate of slaughter or enslavement.

However, they did not even get up from the trenches, and the veterans of the third battalion of the guard regiment stabbed their bayonets into their hearts.

"Those who escape from the battle will be killed." Ding Yi was no longer the emperor in the straight uniform he had before, there was a certain long-awaited fanaticism in his eyes, and even the smile on his face had a bloodthirsty taste in the eyes of those young people of Smyrna. This frightened them even more than the corpses of their companions who were still warm.

"You are Greeks, you speak Greek! You have Spartan blood in you! In this position, you have two thousand people, and at Thermopylae, there are only three hundred, three hundred! I will give you freedom, I will not abandon you, if I retreat, you can cut off my head, or run away, whatever you want; But before that, if you forsake me, God will spit on you! Ding Yi drew his long knife, pointed at the Smyrna in the trench, and said coldly.

Then he picked up his rifle, jumped into the trench, and said to the commander of the third battalion: "Four companies, including the cooking squad and clerks of the battalion headquarters, assemble with me, immediately!" "There were about five or six squads of soldiers, and they soon gathered around Ding Yi, and the guard company that followed Ding Yi, this was Ding Yi's only reserve.

The sound of horses' hooves has sounded, and the smoke and dust in the distance can be clearly seen without binoculars.

The dull hooves of the horses, like the drums of war, beat rapidly, and the shaking of the earth plucked the strings of the hearts of the people, and many of the young men of Smyrna were already crying with their heads in their arms; Others knelt in the trenches and begged the gods he believed in to bless him.

In stark contrast to this were the soldiers of the third battalion of the Guards Regiment in the trenches.

They lay silently in their battle positions, their breathing was adjusted as if they were nothing, they were all veteran soldiers, and they knew that heavy breathing would make the shooting accurate. No matter how strategically they despise their opponents, in terms of tactics, they will never despise any enemy according to the rules set by Ding.

At this time, the sound of artillery on the sea had already sounded, and the two destroyers that attacked did not immediately escape by relying on the advantage of the flying shear hull.

Even in the face of more than 200 galleys and sail warships, Ding Yi has not only conquered many territories in the past ten years, but more importantly, he has played the dignity of the Ming army. The navy was also a force under Ding Yi, and even if they were now part of the Aegean Fleet of the Roman Empire, this was never shaken.

Fleeing without a fight is not the habit of Ding Yi's lineage.

They maintained a dense and orderly shooting, and for an old soldier on the battlefield like Ding Yi, he listened to the sound of the cannon, so he scolded in a low voice: ", after the battle, settle accounts with these guys!" "Yes, those two destroyers did not intend to carry out the military order to break out, they did not use salvo fire to deter the enemy, listening to the sound of artillery, their interval firing, just to prevent the artillery from overheating.

At this time, the four-and-a-half-inch howitzer began to roar, and when the seven kilograms of yellow gunpowder were detonated by the time-delay fuse, the fragments of the exploded warhead began to reap the lives of the cavalry. This is not a mortar that can be compared, especially the sixty-millimeter caliber mortars that the Ding 1st unit is equipped with.

The landing point of the mortar is a flower of death, and a howitzer with a fire diameter of 4.5 inches, that is, a hundred and fifty mm fire diameter, has an absolute killing radius of fifteen meters, and within this range, even if there is no shrapnel hit, it will die from the shock wave! And within a radius of fifty meters, there is at least one shrapnel distributed on an area the size of a human body! There were even individual shamprapnel that flew out of a hundred and fifty meters!

One shell went down, and basically half a football field of cavalry was annihilated in the firelight!

A salvo of eight howitzers is the equivalent of four football fields in hell of death!

This is also why Ding did not ask any more questions after he got the report that the other party's Urban cannon was confirmed to be covered.

Don't ask, covered by a four-and-a-half-inch howitzer, then the Urban cannon is absolutely finished!

Not to mention the cavalry, the cavalry that was within the splinter killing range, their armor that tortured the war horses and their own, could not provide the slightest protection.

The howitzer fired only three shots, because the material itself still had zài problems, and the continuous firing could easily overheat the barrel.

But the salvo of three rounds had caused at least 2,000 Ottoman cavalry to fall on the battlefield forever.

Ding Yi is by no means an arrogant person.

He is good at proving this with the lives of his enemies. (To be continued......) R1292