"Boom, boom, boom......"

In the early morning of May 10, 1829 in the Western calendar, at the front of Adrianople, from 6 o'clock in the morning, the rumbling sound of shells and explosions rang out at the same time all over the first line of defense of the Turks!

This time, the Eastern Romans were very powerful, hundreds of 75mm and 105mm rear-loading howitzers fired at the same time, and they fired flowering shells filled with picric acid, and the power was quite amazing!

For a while, the Turkish positions at the front of Adriatic were filled with smoke and dust, and the flames were so bright that even the ground under their feet began to tremble.

Standing in an anti-artillery bunker close to the front line, holding a telescope and witnessing the forward positions of the Turks a few kilometers away, Nicholas I, who was completely submerged by the clusters of smoke from the shells, was so excited that he burst into tears.

After a lapse of 376 years, the artillery of the Eastern Romans once again exploded on the battlefield near Constantinople!

With such fierce artillery fire, no one should have survived the positions of the Turks who were hit, right? Nicholas I thought to himself: "It seems that Field Marshal Wittgenstein also underestimated the firepower of the world's first army...... How can it take five to ten days to play this way? 72 hours should be enough to break through the Adrianople line of the Turks, and in a week, the eagle banner of Eastern Rome will surely fly above the walls of Constantinople again! ”

Thinking of this, Nicholas I felt a moistness in his eyes, a sour nose, and tears flowing uncontrollably......

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The area known as the "Adrianople Trench Zone" or "Edirne Trench Zone" is located to the west of Edirne (Adrianople), between the Stranja Mountains and the Thracian Mountains. It is a terrain that is not too dangerous, not too open, that is, dozens of kilometers wide, and is cut in half by a Denza River.

Therefore, in the past several battles of Adrianople, no one has ever engaged in the style of "going down to the village". Whether it is a cold weapon or a queue to be shot, it is necessary to build the "Great Wall" to guard the wide front of dozens of kilometers. And the Thracian and Stranja mountains are not impassable. So it's not cost-effective to build a fort in this place, so let's start fighting a field battle!

However, in this battle that decided the life and death of the Ottoman Empire, due to the full use of barbed wire, machine guns and various trench fortifications, a system of trench defenses appeared on top of each other. With barbed wire and machine guns, it is necessary to save manpower in guarding trenches, and one division can hold a line of defense for more than 10 kilometers, and it is enough to put a few divisions on a frontage of several tens of kilometers.

And the person who presided over the construction of this defense system was Hugh, who had suffered a big loss in the "Bagua Machine Gun Array" in Peshawar. Gough Pasha.

That's right, Hugh. Gough is also a Pasha now...... Because he carried the black cauldron of Peshawar's defeat, he had to retire from the British army on the premise, and he didn't even catch an errand for the Indian Army. Fortunately, his old boss, Lord Wellesle, became the Prime Minister of England and found him an errand to be a Pasha in Turkey.

However, Gough is still quite happy with this Pasha, because Sultan Mahmoud is a good sultan who is a courteous corporal and attaches great importance to talents. Goff became a Pasha, and also asked the Grand Villa Carapasa to lead him to Constantineier's slave market to "rescue" a very likable-looking Greek young lady named Alexia. It was captured in Greece by Ali Pasha's Egyptian army and sent to Constantineier for sale. Gough Pasha sympathized with her plight, so he asked Karapasha to redeem the man and make himself a governess in Greek......

With the status of the Pasha, with the Greek young lady as a governess, and of course the house and treasure rewarded by the Sultan, Hugh. Gough has the feeling of meeting a master. I met the rest of the Lord. Of course, Goff Pasha had to work hard for the Sultan, so these days, he showed his real ability to exchange the life of the Indian Asan in Peshawar, and helped the Turks build eight layers of barbed wire and trench positions, forming a large trench area, blocking the west, north and south of Edirne—the eight trench lines were certainly not straight, but zigzag, seven of which were cut in two by the Densar River, and the eighth part of which was spread along the Maricha River, It formed a salient around the inner city of Edir, and then continued all the way north to the Stranja Mountains.

Although there were eight trench lines, and 100,000 new Turkish officers and soldiers and hundreds of thousands of mobilized soldiers who came from Constantiniye one after another, Hugh. Gough was still not sure of winning...... After all, in previous wars, the performance of the Hairy Bear Army was much stronger than that of the Turks!

And the Rakshasa country is also much stronger than Turkey, and the tsar of the hairy bear is the master of everything! Although subject to serfdom, it is unlikely that the Rakshasa with a population of more than 30 million will be completely turned into a war machine, but the army of millions can still be pulled.

In addition, after the banner of the Eastern Roman Empire was raised, the Moldavians, Wallachians, Bulgarians, and Greeks in the territory of the Turkish Empire were already on the side of the woolly bear.

And the Turkish Sultan...... To put it mildly, it is the city lord of Constantinier, in addition to the new army hired by 100,000 yuan, he can only mobilize the residents of Constantinier, and only the Tianfang cultists among them will obey him.

To put it mildly, the Eastern Roman Caesar Nicholas I could mobilize more troops in the territory of the Ottoman Turkish Empire than Sultan Mahmud II of the Ottoman Empire could pull out more heads.

Thinking of this, Hugh, who was hiding from shells in a bunker at the front of the Edil Inner Line. Gough sighed and thought to himself: "Although Mahmud II performed very well, was not afraid of a strong enemy, did his best to mobilize his army in Junbao, and personally came to Edirne to supervise the battle, the fate of him and Turkey is still doomed, and at most it is just to give the Rakshasas more blood...... But his demise must have been of value to the British Empire, and it was an honor for him and Turkey! ”

At this moment, the sound of artillery in front of me had become a little sparse, and after about a few minutes, the sound of artillery finally stopped abruptly.

Stop. Gough took out his pocket watch and looked at it, then muttered in a low voice, "An hour...... Nicholas I was still careless, he didn't have many shells! ”

As he spoke, he put away his pocket watch, turned around, and walked out of cover quickly.

Outside the bunker was a tall barn in which Hussein Pasha's former enemy command post was located. When the Rakshasas started shelling just now, most of the people in the command post were hiding in several anti-artillery bunkers. At this point, the shelling is over, and everyone comes out of their bunkers and is in place.

When Hugh. When Goff walked into the command post, there was already a commotion. The telephones rang one after another, and the staff officers of the Turkish Forces nouvelles picked up the telephone receivers and asked loudly about the situation at the front.

"Hey...... Report the loss! Will it be able to hold the ground? ”

"What? There are not many casualties? Okay, good...... Be sure to hold your ground! ”

"Report the situation of the Rakshasa in person......"

"Hey, hey, hey...... Check the line! Line 15 is out of contact! ”

The use of spiderweb-like telephone lines to connect the entire position to form a whole was a command method that began to appear during the Napoleonic Wars. This style of command combined with a strong position composed of machine guns, barbed wire, and trenches is really suitable!

The generals in charge of commanding operations can now easily understand the situation in various parts of the position, dispatch reinforcements at any time, and uniformly direct artillery to block and fire at the enemy's attacking forces...... It's so convenient.

"What? The Rakshasas appeared in large numbers in front of Position 11, in a dense formation...... Okay, okay, keep watching! At this time, a staff officer of the Turkish Forces nouvelles suddenly spoke to Hugh in English. Gough shouted, "Gough Pasha, the Rakshasa Bears are on the offensive, and their first target is Position 11 near the Densar River!" ”

Stop. Gough nodded heavily: "Good! Now it's time to start killing bears! ”