The distance is about five kilometers, and the artillery of the Ming army still has a fairly high level of shooting at this distance.

Kuznetsov was begging the gods to let the gunners shoot more shells and give the coalition more blows. The entire warship shook violently like an earthquake.

Then, the shell that smashed into the hull of the ship, which was more than a man high, exploded.

The force of the explosion tore apart the sturdy iron armor.

A complete ironclad ship, in an instant, returned to a state of parts, and was thrown around with an explosion. The farthest debris flew out more than a kilometer.

As for the people on the ship, there could not have been any living people.

The Daming fleet is the most professional fleet in the world, and there is no such thing as one.

Kuznetsov was disappointed, the gunners fired only a few shells, and countless shells were attracted by the muzzle fire. The three Russian ironclad ships, bombarded by countless shells, turned into orange balls of light.

Soon, the sea was quiet.

Li Xiu radioed and issued an order not to open fire without authorization.

The sea is still very dark, and the cannonballs don't open their eyes, so they can't tell the enemy from our warship.

Although it was only a short naval battle, not even ten minutes. But the damage on the shore was huge, and a dock was completely unusable. The other pier was also almost half blown up.

Almost half of the shipload of munitions, which began to be unloaded at 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, turned into gunsmoke.

As for the soldiers and workers on the docks, it is not known how many died.

By the light of the fire, you can see people swimming on the surface of the sea and floating corpses. The screams of the people on the shore even overshadowed the waves and reached Li Xiu's ears far away.

"I didn't expect that the Russian Navy would still have such a kind. It was a mistake for me to come with me in the middle of the night. Command, those search fleets are back. The rats have all been killed! ”

Looking at the fire burning on the shore in the distance, Li Xiu said expressionlessly and continued to go back to sleep in the cabin.

Those who are familiar with Li Xiu know that the commander is very unhappy now. This is also understandable, after all, there is such a big mistake in the port guarded by the Ming Navy, and it is impossible to get over it in terms of face.

It wasn't until seven o'clock in the morning that Li Xiu came out of his lounge.

Everyone was taken aback, the commander was wearing a navy camouflage uniform. A pair of eyes are as sharp as eagles, and the eyes of people are hooked.

People, including Chen Laohu, didn't dare to speak casually. You can only have breakfast with the commander!

The atmosphere in the cafeteria was rather eerie, and no one knew what His Excellency the Commander was up to.

After breakfast, Li Xiu wiped his mouth.

"Tigers, with foreign legions, captured the St. Petersburg shipyard. Blow up everything there, and if there's a whole brick, you don't have to come back. After speaking, Li Xiu threw down the snow-white napkin and walked out of the restaurant.

Li Xiu, who had lost face last night, once wanted to personally lead the troops to completely wipe the St. Petersburg shipyard from this earth.

But when it was time to eat breakfast, Li Xiu figured it out again.

If you lead a team to destroy the St. Petersburg shipyard, it will be a real loss of face. The Russians will say that the naval commander of the Ming Dynasty will not be able to stand the humiliation, and this will take revenge.

Chen Laohu heard Li Xiao's order, answered the promise and left.

The St. Petersburg shipyard is actually not by the sea, but at the mouth of the Neva River. It is quite close to the walls of St. Petersburg, and the shipyard buildings are mostly made of reinforced concrete.

The defenders of St. Petersburg, there is no reason to abandon such a fortress close to the port.

However, in Chen Laohu's view, this should not be an difficult task. With the firepower of the Ming Navy, the world's navies combined, the tonnage is not as strong as the Ming Navy.

So at eight o'clock in the morning, Schlieffen and Grouchy, who were leading troops into Moscow, suddenly found that the Ming fleet poured into the port like a tide, which made the already very busy port even more crowded.

Looking at such a huge fleet, the two of them were at a loss for what to do, not knowing what the Ming fleet was going to do.

They even forgot about the quarrel that lasted for hours between the two of them.

"Commander, it's still quite far from St. Petersburg, and our artillery can't hit that far. Only the front main gun of the Shanzi class can hit the city of St. Petersburg. ”

"Enough!" Li Xiu's eyes were like falcons staring at the city of St. Petersburg in the telescope.

What Li Xiu said was enough, and it was indeed enough. The two Shanzi-class battleships, the Kunlun Mountain and the Tianshan, have 480 mm caliber for the main guns.

A cannonball, taller than an adult. A special crane is required to load the gun chamber!

A shell of this level does not need to explode. If you smash it directly on the ground, you can smash a pit more than ten meters deep.

If you use a delayed fuse, that kind of explosion can really be described as devastating.

Within a radius of 100 meters, not even a cockroach can survive.

People within a radius of thirty meters will be directly vaporized by a violent explosion.

Even a person from 200 meters away will be shredded by the explosion, turning the back into a corpse. Of course, the person collecting the body may not be able to recognize the person.

Because at this time, you are scorched.

A mountain-class battleship with two turrets in the front of the main gun, a total of six main guns.

There are some differences on the aft deck, and on the Kunlun Mountain ship, there are two triple turrets on the aft deck. On the other hand, the Tien Shan has only a three-tael turret on the aft deck.

Although the firepower was sacrificed, it also saved dozens of tons of weight, and the speed was much faster than that of Kunlun Mountain.

Li Xiao once told Li Xiu that don't just look at firepower, in fact, speed is also very important for warships.

At first, Li Xiu didn't understand Li Xiao's words, and the Kunlun Mountain ship was a product of this situation.

But later, when he experienced actual combat, Li Xiu changed this idea.

In rough seas, the accuracy of artillery firing is actually quite poor. It's not the same as on land, like St. Petersburg now, where this thing can't run away at all. You can fight no matter how you want!

But the warships at sea are different, and that thing can also run. On several occasions, the Kunlun Mountain ship spotted enemy traces. But under the long-distance artillery bombardment, more than a dozen rounds were fired, and one shot was hit by the enemy ship.

Playing with the speed, the Kunlun Mountain with huge artillery and heavy armor has a displacement of up to 70,000 tons, and the side armor is as high as 390 mm. The whole thing is a steel fortress floating on the sea, and even the underwater waterline is more than ten meters.

A gadget of this magnitude is a great test for the power system.

The result of several sea chases is that the people have run away, and Kunlun Mountain is still hobbling and chasing.

Li Xiu was so angry that he had the heart to burn the house, but there was no way, the heavy armor of the giant cannon would inevitably sacrifice power. After all, the Kunlun Mountain ship, which is older, still uses traditional coal-fired boilers.

That power is definitely not comparable to the oil-burning Tianshan ship.

"The other warships retreated a little, and the Tianshan and Kunlun Mountains leaned up. Bombard the city of St. Petersburg with the main artillery! "Anyway, last night's breath was going to come out.

"Whoa!"

With the telegraph, the command was much more dexterous.

The rest of the army withdrew from the port, leaving only the huge Tianshan and Kunlun Mountains.

"What are they going to do?" Looking at the Ming warship, he suddenly entered the port. Schlieffen swallowed!

"How do I know!" Grouchy replied angrily.

At 8:30 a.m., two battleships as high as a mountain entered the port area.

"Front and rear main guns, bombardment of St. Petersburg, free fire!" This time, Li Xiu had no purpose at all, it was just a vent for last night.

His own fleet was quietly mixed in by other people's warships, but he still didn't know anything. That's a lot of pockets!

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ……！ "The artilleryman, who had been waiting for a long time, quickly fired the shells.

The 480-mm main artillery shells flew towards St. Petersburg in the distance with a sharp whistle.

In St. Petersburg, everyone is working intensely. Officials were recruiting men in the prime of life, and many were training in squares and open spaces.

The old men, children, and women of the city went out of the city in groups from the north. They were ready to cross Lake Ladoga and go to the countryside for dispersal.

On the city walls, no one saw the signal of the build-up of enemy artillery.

No one expected that the Grim Reaper was wielding a scythe, ready to harvest the lives in the city.

A huge piece of iron fell on the square in front of the Winter Palace.

The blue-gray stone slabs were smashed and scattered, and the two citizens who were training disappeared in an instant, leaving only a huge pit on the ground.

The person next to him didn't understand what was going on, "Boom! There was a loud explosion, and everything on the ground was lifted into the air.

The huge wave of the explosion threw the stone slabs on the ground more than a hundred meters high. When it fell, it seemed like a stone rain was falling on the ground.

At a distance of a kilometer, you can clearly feel the tremor of the earth.

Everyone was trying to stand still, and some were simply squatting on the ground to hold themselves.

No one knew what was going on, until all of a sudden the sky began to fall with fragments of human limbs. Blood rained down from the sky like drops.

Everyone's face and body were dripping with blood.

Soon, they saw the shock wave of the explosion of the shell.

Although it is a kilometer away, there are houses in between. The wind that can be brought up by the explosion makes the old people unstable.

"Shelling!" Konstantinovich roared in horror, pulled Duke Peter and ran into the basement.

"Shelling? Didn't you say that the Ming army's artillery could not reach the city's range? "Duke Peter, as nervous as he was, was far from realizing the seriousness of the matter.

"The artillery of the ordinary Ming army really can't reach the city. However, the main guns of the Ming battleships could be hit. That kind of cannonball, the explosion is far more powerful than you think. ”

"Is it that powerful?" Duke Peter felt that what Konstantin said was a bit exaggerated, and he had not seen large-caliber artillery. It's not that powerful.

"That thing, one shot can take out the Winter Palace."

"Really?" Duke Peter glanced at Konstantin, and in the light of the torches, he didn't seem to be joking.

"Let's go down to the bottom!" Duke Peter immediately quickened his pace, and there was an explosion over his head, as if striking him on the tip of the heart.

When I went down to the second floor of the basement, there was still dust falling from my head.

Duke Peter had a basement to enter, but the ordinary citizens were not so lucky.

After the shells exploded, the brick and stone houses, which had been sturdy, were immediately in ruins.

As for the people inside the house, it is estimated that there will not be too many alive when they are dug up.

One sturdy house after another, like a cardboard house, collapsed. The citizens who had already left the city immediately rushed to the ferry. Thankfully, they got out of town first.

The shelling lasted for two hours, and everyone in St. Petersburg curled up and prayed sincerely to God not to let the shells fall on them.

"What is Ming Jun doing here? Engineering? Schlieffen saw that during the shelling, the foreign regiment of the Ming army was approaching St. Petersburg.

The equipment of the Ming army was so luxurious that Schlieffen was red-eyed.

A regimental-sized unit actually has such a thing as rocket artillery.

The tail flame of the rocket launcher kicked up a huge amount of dust.

The Russian troops on the city wall were so beaten by artillery fire that they couldn't raise their heads at all.

"What are they going to do?" Grouchy saw a group of soldiers carrying mortars charging forward frantically.

I haven't seen it, the mortar charged forward.

Ming army, what kind of tactic is this.

The mortars quickly approached the city wall for about two kilometers, behind a hidden ruin, and they quickly set up a base. After two test shots, mortars began to bombard the Russian soldiers on the city walls.

The Russian soldiers who were bombarded hated to death, but they could only hide and suffer hard.

There was no way, the rifle couldn't reach it, and the artillery was aimed at the ruins. I couldn't penetrate the thick rubble at all, and I wanted to find my own mortar.

But the mortars were all deployed under the city walls, and there was no way to quickly transmit the sighting information on the city walls to them.

The soldiers of the Ming army were just moving back and forth behind one ruin after another.

When the Russian mortar shells hit them, the people had already been transferred.

"The Ming army is really powerful!" sighed in his heart, Schlieffen was convinced.

I used to think that the Ming army relied on advanced equipment. Now that he has seen the actual combat tactics of the Ming army, and looking at the clumsy performance of the Nordics yesterday, Schlieffen is convinced this time.

If his own Prussian army wanted to catch up with and surpass the Ming army, it was not something that could be done in a day or two.

"Of course! In a place like Gibraltar, the Ming army only had two regiments of men and horses, and the British lost their armor. There is no way to fight back!

If the Ming army had committed two divisions, they would have been able to attack St. Petersburg directly. As an ally of the Ming Dynasty, Grouchy, a French general, bragged fiercely for his allies.

"Could it be that they are trying to capture St. Petersburg? Do we want to get involved. Seeing that the Ming army had opened the gap in the city defense of St. Petersburg, Schlieffen was a little moved.