Chapter 984
"Forget it, everyone knows the place in St. Petersburg. Now seeing that the Ming army has the advantage, but if it really starts, even the Ming army is trapped in it.
However, it is up to the Danes to wear down their strength. Grouchy looked at Schlieffen with a smile, they were still willing to sacrifice the strength of their allies.
After all, everyone is in the same place, and it is really news to use this excuse to weaken the enemy's strength.
Although Schlieffen is a little disdainful of Grouchy's filthiness, everyone has done this way these days. Honest people, it's not that they don't suffer, but they will suffer losses to death.
The attack of the Ming army attracted a large number of Russian troops.
However, these Russian troops have a feeling that they are not powerful.
A large army of men and horses came to the edge of the wall, but they could not go out of the city to fight. Because of the Ming army, there was no action to enter the city at all. It's just that they continue to use artillery fire to bombard the Russian army on the city.
Because of the loss of artillery, the Russian army at the head of the city could not raise its head at all, and the Russian artillery under the city, even if they wanted to come up at this time, could not come up.
Constantine had just sent Duke Peter to the third floor of the basement when he heard a report that the Ming army had begun to attack the city. Frightened, his hair stood on end, and he immediately left Duke Peter and ran up the city wall.
Hiding inside the megalithic bunker on the city walls, Konstantin looked down with a telescope.
The artillery of the Ming army in the distance was constantly moving back and forth behind one building after another. Each time, it was only a few minutes after their transfer that Russian shells fell.
There is no way, the Russian mortars can't come up. Shooting Zhuyuan basically relied on the communication corps to run back and forth, and the legs of the telecommunications corps were about to run off, but there was no way to directly report the need for data to the Russian artillery.
Not to mention, St. Petersburg, these Russian troops. Basically, he is old, weak, sick and disabled, and he doesn't even train much on weekdays, and he can't fire a few shells a year.
Calculate the level of soldiers, you can imagine.
On weekdays, even if it is the wind and the sun, the data they calculate has not been able to hit the first round a few times.
"The Ming army doesn't look like it's going to attack the city!" After looking at it for a long time, I only saw about two companies of Ming infantry running around a few kilometers away, but no one leaned into the range of Russian artillery.
"How long have they been like this?" Konstantin frowned and looked at one of the colonels beside him.
"General, they've been doing this for two and a half hours." The colonel replied nervously, for the Ming army, they were a little confused.
Those Norwegians and Swedes were not reckless, and in the wars between the Ming and European countries, the Ming army maintained a record of complete victories.
I heard that two months ago, the Ming Dynasty had just taken Tashkent, the capital of the Mongols. Those who survived said it was terrible. Of the 10,000 people, less than 10 survived.
There is no more than one hundred, and it is no longer enough to describe the tragic situation there.
In the face of the famous Ming army, the Russian army was extremely nervous.
"Two hours?"
"Two and a half hours!"
The Colonel's voice is a little hoarse!
"Just keep firing?"
"Yes! Your Excellency, General! ”
"That's not right! This is not the style of the Ming army, I have seen the Ming army fighting in India. At the same time that they bombarded the infantry in the city with artillery, their infantry would begin to charge.
Then the artillery would gradually extend its fire, and the infantry would attack by stepping on the craters where the shells fell. It won't attract all our power here like it is now, unless ......! ”
Thinking of the consequences, Konstantin's back was cold.
"Retreat! Get everyone out of the walls, quick! Immediately, immediately! Konstantin's voice changed tone, and his hand gripped the colonel's arm tightly, his fingers almost digging into the flesh.
"General!" The colonel was frightened by Konstantin's appearance and did not know whether he was going to obey his orders.
"Go!" Konstantin pushed the colonel to his head, and roared like a lion, even louder than the sound of cannons.
"You go, let the artillery retreat immediately, and don't shoot at the Ming army again. Fast! Konstantin yelled as he pointed to an officer behind him.
"Yes! Shogun. The colonel picked up his hat on the ground and went to organize his troops to retreat.
The Russian army had had enough of fighting such a, and when they heard that they were going to retreat, they all went down the stairs and down the city walls. Then, under the leadership of the officer, they withdrew back to the city.
Those who were lucky enough to remove the walls were only half of the defenders at most.
Li Xiu, who was in the port, was waiting for news from the front. Without a portable telegraph, this is really no way. Only people can be used to convey information about the location of St. Petersburg.
There were very complex calculations involved, so it took two and a half hours.
"Commander, the results of the calculations are out."
"The Russian troops on the city wall are almost gathered, open fire! Bomb these people into the sky, and then tell Chen Laohu to do it. I'm going to make the St. Petersburg shipyard, disappear! ”
Li Xiu viciously gave the order, and the staff officer immediately gave the order to open fire.
The 480-mm gun, which had rested for half an hour, had already prepared ammunition. Hearing the order from the commander himself, the lads immediately sent shells into the chambers.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ……! A series of cannon fires, in the smoke of gunpowder, shells whistled and flew towards the walls of St. Petersburg.
St. Petersburg, as the name suggests, was originally a castle.
The walls of the castle are the result of hundreds of years of construction by successive tsarist families. Every stone is hard granite. One hundred and twenty mm caliber shells, even one is difficult to shake.
However, a 120-millimeter shell is difficult to shake, and a 480-millimeter shell may not be.
Moreover, this time the Ming army used an instantaneous fuse.
Before the Russian troops on the city walls could withdraw, they heard several muffled explosions like thunder. Before many people could react, they were already flying into the air.
The earth trembled, and the boulder city wall, which was said to be indestructible, turned into a large pile of rubble under the huge force of the explosion.
Konstantin heard an explosion behind him and looked back only to see smoke in the air. There were human parts in the sky constantly, and rubble falling from the sky.
Hurriedly hid in a dwelling, and the person had just gotten in. A big thigh fell from behind him, so hanging! I almost got hit by this thigh!
Being hit by a dead person, whether it is an Oriental or a Westerner, is considered very unlucky.
"I don't know how many people were buried on the walls this time. The Ming army is too cunning. Konstantin muttered, and was engulfed in the smoke and dust in the sky.
Just when the fortified walls of St. Petersburg were falling apart, Chen Laohu, with the Foreign Legion, rushed into the St. Petersburg shipyard of the Russian Navy.
Because it is less than a kilometer away from St. Petersburg, the defense here is basically integrated with St. Petersburg.
Unlike St. Petersburg, the guards here are all from the Russian Navy. The number of people is enough to have a regiment.
This is the first collision between the marines of the two countries in history.
Chen Laohu didn't know that these guys were so fierce.
On several occasions, soldiers of the Foreign Legion entered the building. A door will be kicked open, and one or more grenades will be thrown.
Before the wave of grenade explosion dissipated, a group of Russian marines wearing sea soul shirts rushed out.
With bayonets or daggers in their hands, they rushed out and scuffled with the soldiers of the Foreign Legion.
Hand-to-hand combat is the Achilles heel of the Liao army, and Li Xiao has not trained the fighting skills of the Liao army well since Phi Dao.
Later, some martial arts masters from Cangzhou supported the scene, and although the fighting skills of the troops had improved, they were not enough to face a brawl of this level.
However, these people in front of him are not normal Ming soldiers.
This is a foreign legion made up of fugitives from various countries, as well as outlaws.
Each of these guys is a well-known brave and ruthless person in various countries. Before enlisting in the army, everyone had to have a dozen or twenty lives on them.
They prefer the current way of fighting to the strict tactical way of fighting.
Knife to knife, fist to fist. Close to hand, bayonets red.
Excited at the smell of blood, they drew their daggers and rushed towards their enemies. Soldiers armed to the teeth are now fighting in the most primitive way.
They use daggers, with fists, with teeth. They do everything they can to attack the enemy in front of them.
When Chen Laohu entered, the smell of blood in the room was so strong that people didn't dare to breathe. The ground was slippery and greasy, and there was red and black blood everywhere.
The Marine Combat Boots are a little slippery on them!
There were corpses everywhere, both Ming and Russian.
Everyone was staring, and many people were hugging each other. It can be seen that they are all working hard before they die. Chen Laohu even saw that a soldier who was stabbed with a dagger by his deputy department bit his teeth on the other party's throat.
Human teeth can bite so deeply, this is the first time Chen Laohu has seen it.
"In the future, they are not allowed to engage in hand-to-hand combat, and all buildings do not need to be searched inside, just blow them up with explosives outside." Chen Laohu's face turned pale.
In a morning, we haven't been able to capture this damn shipyard.
The warship built in this ghost place attacked him, and these Russian soldiers who are now guarding the factory are so difficult.
These guys relied on their familiarity with the terrain, and after the Ming army did not enter the room, they hid in dark corners. Shoot at the exposed Ming soldiers!
Some are unintentional, plus the marksmanship of these Russian troops is generally very good.
In one morning, more than 100 people of the two regiments of the Marine Corps Foreign Regiments had died.
In the past, when the Ming army was fighting, it was difficult to have casualties of such a scale.
Chen Laohu even felt that he was a little disgraced.
Thus, the offensive against the shipyards of St. Petersburg turned into a game of cat and mouse.
The soldiers found out that the Russians were quite willing to hide in the cellars.
And one of the characteristics of these cellars is that they are not connected to each other.
Gently approaching the door of the cellar, the door was opened in an instant, and a large incendiary bomb was thrown in.
Soon, a dull explosion could be heard.
This is a new weapon of the Ming army, which is designed to deal with enemy troops hiding in pillboxes or cellars.
These incendiary bombs were instantaneous, with a delay of only two seconds that a human could barely react to.
Therefore, before using this weapon, one must first find a place to hide.
A dull explosion is followed by flames that engulf the entire basement. Even from the exhaust holes outside the house, there is work coming out.
The explosion produced huge flames, and these flames did not know what ignited, but they could be ignited in the water.
As soon as two of these things explode, the inside of those basements would be filled with smoke. At that time, let you be the bravest soldier. can only rely on memory to escape outside.
But what they got was not preferential treatment for prisoners, but the muzzle of the black hole hole of the Ming Foreign Legion.
Except for particularly important figures, Li Xiu did not prohibit these people from killing people. Even secretly doing some robbery, as long as the evidence is not caught and sent to Li Xiu, Li Xiu will choose to turn a blind eye.
Bloodthirsty is the ancient gene engraved in the bones of these overseas soldiers.
As long as you get out of the way, you'll have a bullet in your forehead and someone take a picture of the victim.
There are also some cruel ones, who go out to rob with knives.
Daming didn't dare to go, and there was no such culture anywhere else. Those storytellers can only wander in the wilderness. That's a bit of a stretch!
But there is no way to do it, just let you be anti-China.
The principle of that kind of bomb is actually very simple, that is, to burn up all the oxygen in the indoor air in a short period of time.
Like a bunker, a cellar can deal with it like this. After the explosion, oxygen was burned out. And because the space is closed, no one notices.
In the end, they either hated Jiuquan or were said to be liars.
With this stuff, the search for the entire factory will be very fast.
Normally, Ming soldiers hit a small window in the basement that was exposed to the ground, and then threw an incendiary bomb into it.
The violent explosion would cause the flames to erupt more than a foot down the window.
The people who were carrying it inside didn't need to work hard, and they all became like roast ducks.
Chen Laohu led people to wreak havoc at the Nikolaev shipyard, just for the sake of other countries in the future, so that they would not use gravity to build ironclad ships.
Li Xiu saw that it was impossible for a country in the world that had the ability to equip such a large fleet except for the Ming Dynasty.
Whether it's Liverpool in England, Marseille in France, or Hamburg in Prussia. In these places, in fact, they already have the ability to make ironclad ships.
St. Petersburg, is also one such place. Even, Russia has produced fifteen ironclad ships that were recognized as destroyers by the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, Daming is not afraid of being surpassed by the Russians, but the technology of the Russians comes from India, and it is the manuscript of Newton and many scientists, which is simply priceless for scientific research.