Boats were washed up on the beach by the waves. One by one, the Marines came out on the beach and began to try to assemble, at this time, the Portuguese soldiers who could not hold back finally opened fire on the first line of defense, a burst of muskets rang out, and a thick smoke rose from the sand barrier, and the French troops on the beach had sporadic casualties, and realized that a slow assembly was impossible, and the commander shouted in the purest French with his command knife: "Forward." ”

The infantry scattered their formation and began to rush towards the hinterland of the island, followed by the roar of artillery on the high ground not far away, and the deafening sound of artillery did give the Portuguese army a lot of momentum, and exploded in the formation of the marines, adding a lot of casualties.

The traps in the sand also play a role. It can be said that the first wave of landing operations of the marines was the most difficult, the offensive was hindered, many could only crawl on the beach to try to oppose the Portuguese army behind the sand barrier in the distance, but it was obviously the artillery support and the Portuguese army under the protection of the sand barrier had a great advantage, and the French army without any cover was like a target, and the battle lasted less than half an hour. They lost more than 700 people, many of whom were wounded, and finally rushed back to the sea like ducks.

The fact that the Marines came by boat and left in a hurry is not that they are not brave. It has nothing to do with their military quality, but the Portuguese army has made sufficient preparations in defense, and this landing operation is more of a tentative attack, and when they see that the bones are difficult to gnaw, the marines naturally flee the battlefield.

Bobby secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and he immediately transferred the Portuguese troops who had just participated in the battle back to a sand defense line to rest, and transferred the troops behind to the front line to ensure that the soldiers had sufficient physical strength. The alliance fleet is coming violently, and it is naturally unwilling to return empty-handed, and the next offensive of the anti-Dutch alliance will inevitably be even more powerful.

Sure enough, after the first defeat, the anti-Dutch alliance sent more landing boats, hundreds of landing boats scattered on the sea, like stars in the sky, can not be counted, the boats do not need to paddle at all, each boat carries five or six marines and all kinds of equipment, only with the waves washed on the beach, followed by another wave of fierce offensive, this time the charge of the marines is different from the previous time, everyone as soon as they touch the beach, they rush madly towards the Portuguese defense line, did not raise a gun to counterattack, the Portuguese army behind the sand base continued to reload and shoot, and the artillery on the high ground rumbled endlessly. But there were too many Marines, and a number of them were killed. Another group of people rushed up. They were determined to take this line of defense, and in a matter of moments, they lost thousands of soldiers, but the rest of the men were getting closer and closer, and on the left flank, there were even sporadic French troops who rushed through the sand barrier and fought with the Portuguese army behind the sand base.

Seeing that the first line of defense was lost, Bobby felt that it was completely in his own expectations. Hurriedly ordered the reserves to come to reinforcements, and the Portuguese defense line had three lines. Each lane is equipped with 500 people. Furthermore. In the direction of the two flanks, two lines of defense were also set up, that is, a total of 2,500 men were placed behind the sand ramparts, and in addition to more than 1,300 artillerymen, in the hands of Bobby, there were 2,500 men in reserve to reinforce the lines at any time.

The presence of the reserve force really boosted the morale of the Portuguese army, and what the soldiers needed most on the treacherous and unpredictable battlefield was hope, as long as they were given hope to repel the enemy, then they would inevitably make a final effort for victory.

The momentum of the landing party was slightly reduced. Coupled with the fire support of the Portuguese army, they had already suffered heavy casualties in order to break through this barrier of the Portuguese army, and now the resistance is getting stronger and stronger. In the end, the morale was lost, and if the fight continued, it would only increase the casualties, leaving only the corpses in one place to retreat in a hurry.

This one fights down. Naturally, the landing party suffered great casualties, but the casualties of the army were not low. It was enough for 200 people to die in battle, which was indeed a heavy blow to the Portuguese army, which was already small in number, and Bobby was distressed and half dead, but the Portuguese army was jubilant, defeating the strong with the weak, and killing so many enemies, in their eyes, it was naturally a great victory.

After all, the first two battles had frightened the soldiers, and the morale of the attack became weaker and weaker, and during the last landing operation, some soldiers did not obey the order, and fled back to the beach halfway through, which made the fleet commander Count Saint Rig almost vomit blood, and he soon realized that it was impossible to storm the island of Pierce, unless he was willing to pay a greater price and lost the cover of artillery fire, The landing force was completely exposed to the enemy's guns, and the effect of the assault could only be unsatisfactory.

Naturally, several deputy commanders were not willing to suffer any more losses, especially the French deputy commanders, you must know that more than 70 percent of the marines of the entire fleet were transferred from the French Army, and more than 3,000 soldiers were lost in a few battles. And at least two thousand of them are French. He didn't want to watch his compatriots become human targets. The first to put forward the plan to stop the beach-grabbing landing operation was the deputy commander of the fleet, Viscount Preville, who was one of the senior officers of the French Army, and was ordered to lead an army of more than 30,000 people south to Italy to form a combined fleet. Viscount Preville became the first lieutenant commander. Moreover, in the fleet, his prestige is not as low as that of the commander-in-chief of Rig.

Rigber agreed to Preville's proposal, and in fact he had to agree if he didn't, and as soon as the battle began, he would suffer heavy damage, and if he did not change his course of battle. I'm afraid that many people will be dissatisfied, after all, this fleet is not just for the British.

After the discussion, many small and medium-sized warships began to swim towards the shipwreck area and began to clear the shipping lanes, and in order to take the island of Pies, then the coalition forces must have artillery support, and the only way is to clear the shipping lanes so that the fleet can reach the coast. Then the island was bombed, and the waters from the beach were full of wreckage of Portuguese shipwrecks, and it was so easy to clean up the shipwreck.

In the absence of a professional salvage ship, a project like this will naturally take a lot of time. Don't think about cleaning up the sea channel for half a month, yes, the Gou army on the shore breathed a sigh of relief, and the coalition forces on the ship were also happy to be free, after all, fighting is to die. Clear these obstacles first. It is naturally better to bombard the beach on the island again than to risk your life to attack it.

Rostov was bordered by the sea, which was connected to the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, and at this time Tsarist Russia had not yet seized access to the Black Sea. Therefore, in addition to the land route, the most important thing in foreign trade is Rostov-on-Don, a maritime trading city, with its maritime trade throughput. Accounting for at least 50 percent of the total trade of all Russia, Tsarist Russia at that time had already recognized the importance of the sea. Successive generations of tsars to the Soviet Union focused on building the most powerful navy, and fought fiercely with the Ostosian Empire and the Western powers at that time in order to gain access to the sea and occupy and control the Black Sea straits.

But this time. Russia's maritime trade city is only this originally inconspicuous Rostov, which can be imagined. To what extent Rostov flourished in this era, Rostov is more famous not so much for maritime trade, but centuries ago as the seat of the main churches of the Orthodox Church throughout the Slavic region. After the Byzantine Orthodox Church went into exile, they began to look for a new site for a new church. The Grand Duke of Moscow at that time strongly invited them to build in Moscow, but for the Orthodox Church. The secular forces in Moscow are simply too strong. The Orthodox Church moved there, fearing that sooner or later it would become a vassal of secular power, and without hesitation vetoed the city of Moscow, and finally found the small principality of Rostov-on-Don. And with the support of the then Grand Duke of Rostov-on-Don, the Orthodox Cathedral was built. However, with the Mongol invasion, the cathedral was destroyed, and over time, Muscovy became the most famous Russian Empire. And annexed Rostov-on-Don, moved the Orthodox bishop to Moscow, this once famous theocracy of the city gradually declined, but later tsars in order to show their importance to Rostov-on-Don, on the side of the original cathedral established the Rostov Krim Palace, which means that the secular and theocracy are closely linked.

Due to the importance of Rostov. Although Russia threw itself into the war against the Ottomans. The strength of the army was already quite tight, but in this city, there are still 13,000 troops stationed in the small shooting corps, in addition, there are more than 3,000 local security forces, and its defense is absolutely not inferior to that of Moscow.

The city of Rostov was originally very small, but due to the rise of commerce, the city's buildings could not keep up with the increase in population, so in addition to a small part of the city wall in the central city, most of the rest of the area that spread outward was composed of scattered and disorderly houses, and the tsar once wanted to build a wall on the periphery, but due to the Ottoman war, this idea has been kept in a wastebasket and has not been implemented.

Today is the famous Orthodox Feast of the Nativity. To commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ. Orthodox holidays are days of solemn commemoration of the most significant events of the Orthodox Church or religious figures that the Orthodox Church loves to revere. Some festivals have their origins in ancient polytheistic religious rituals, often associated with the alternation of the seasons and the solar terms of farming, but have been reinvented and supplemented by the spirit of Christ. There are many Orthodox holidays. That's far more than the number of days in a year. Thus, there is actually one or several religious festivals almost every day. So much so that Russians don't care about such a multitude of festivals. However, the Nativity Day is different, it is almost the largest festival of the Orthodox Church, although the Nativity Day is in the cold winter, but at this moment the Russians near Rostov have come from all over the country, the city is also lit up, the bells in the cathedral echo, it seems particularly solemn, and the prayer is about to begin, and the devout believers have poured into the cathedral, or lingered outside the cathedral to pray silently to the top of the sacred church tower. The vendors along the street were gone, but the low sound of prayer continued to echo in the streets.

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In the distance, a torrent converged, as if a dark cloud was pressing down, and on the snowfield, the horses' hooves of snow trampled into mud. In the cold wind, the neighing of the war horses was extremely desolate, and the warriors' clothes and hats on horseback were covered with snow. The hands in the leather gloves on their hands seemed to have stiffened, and only the eyes of the cotton helmet were exposed, but they still shimmered.

"This is Rostov-on-Don Someone shouted excitedly when they looked at the towers of the city's spiky churches from afar.

Hooray Long live all the people came to the spirit, the long journey, the cold wind did not stop them. The extreme temperature of the northern country did not stop their pace, and now, after a lot of hardship, they have finally reached their destination, and all their efforts have not been in vain. The intention was not to attack in formation, and his orders were short and extremely targeted.

The herald yelled.

"The slaughtering cavalry was scattered across the snowy fields, like an all-devouring monster, roaring towards Rostov-on-Don. The blood was boiling, and the body was no longer so cold, and many people took off their leather gloves and pulled out the riding hammer hanging from their waists, without the slightest hesitation.

The third chapter came out, and the word count was controlled at 3,900 words. In this way, everyone only needs to read a book of 4,000 words for the price of 3,000 words.

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