Chapter nine hundred and thirty-two flags fluttering in the wind and thunder (fifteen)
The Ross Alliance artillery team, who had been busy all night, was basically in place in the morning of the next day. Similarly, the Anqueling Castle was brightly lit and built a temporary wall behind the wall overnight. Anqueling Castle was originally a defensive castle, and the inner city was built with various situations of being broken by the enemy when the inner city was built. The construction of defensive fortifications was a masterpiece of the Han people. In addition, Zhang Ping'an, a war monster, appeared in the inner city at the second update. In the past, a crescent-shaped two-meter-high wall appeared. Zhang Dashen, who had always lacked a sense of security, built several half-moon-shaped walls behind the temporary wall of the inner city to increase defense strength. Zhang Ping'an also ordered the evacuation of the crossbows on the west wall of the inner city, and the soldiers stationed on the wall were also scattered to the enemy on both sides.
Zhang Ping'an checked the crumbling guard wall on the west, and he believed that this guard wall would definitely not stand the enemy's five rounds of artillery attacks. It was based on this judgment that Zhang Ping'an was preparing to fight an inner city defense battle. On that day, Zhang Ping'an finished breakfast early and protected one hundred guards to a large bunker 50 feet inside the west guard wall. It was less than fifteen feet away from the temporary wall and had a good viewing. The soil layer on the half-buried bunker was six feet thick, and the front was seven feet thick. The thick protection caused insufficient light to the entire bunker. Fortunately, Zhang Ping'an was only watching the battle here, and in addition, the bunker was very close to the defense line, he did not need a high-power telescope.
At the top of this bunker is a cannon formation composed of three cannons and nine crossbows. There are 200 guards and musketeers defending behind the guard wall in front of the cannon formation. So many people working on Zhang Dashen's head will inevitably have a lot of impact on the lower level. The sparse dust that fell down made Zhang Ping'an dare not drink tea in tea bowls. Zhang Ping'an, who loves to drink tea, also has a good way. Since he can't use the tea bowl, he picked up the teapot and poured it into his mouth. Today's sunshine is destined not to appear so early. The sound of spring thunder from the northwest indicates that the first spring rain on the grassland is coming. Hearing the thunder of spring, Zhang Ping'an's centipede face showed a smile. In his opinion, God is helping the Posou Army fight.
Zhang Ping'an, who pays great attention to opponent intelligence, discovered a weakness of the Ross people, that is, the Ross people do not pay enough attention to moisture prevention. The Ross people have a rough style of work. They usually use * wooden barrels, and even muskets, they also carry them with cow horns. This has a problem. There is no big problem with using wooden barrels in the dry north in winter. When it comes to the deep spring and summer when the moisture is severe, * is easily affected by moisture. On the other hand, the Slave Army cannons and crossbows are used for *
All of them are individually packaged integrated ammunition. Even if there is transportation damage, only some ammunition is damp. The Pou Slave Army used integrated ammunition to package ammunition for a long time. Although it is expensive to do so, it shows great benefits in actual combat use. First of all, this packaging is convenient for transportation and quick loading on the battlefield, and it will not be taken to the opponent in one pot because the ammunition is too concentrated. It is far higher than that of wooden barrels in moisture protection, especially moisture protection, which has been highly recognized by the Navy gunner of the Pou Slave Army.
Standing in the thick perforation hole, Zhang Ping'an could see the dense dummy being placed on the protective wall. Zhang Ping'an was a little overwhelmed by these scarecrows wearing armor. These dummies were made in a hurry, and the masks painted on paper on their faces looked like burial dolls for visiting graves. Not long after the thunder sounded, Zhang Ping'an sighed and said to himself: "Oh! Come early if you should come. Since you can't hide, let the storm come more violently!"
Before the heroic words of the commander of the Pou Slave Army, the Ross artillery team responded with a volley. As Zhang Ping'an expected, Colonel Ujiqinov, the front-line commander of the Ross people, also heard the thunder. As an officer who had fought from actual combat, he naturally knew that the Ross coalition was vulnerable to moisture. For this reason, Ujiqinov ordered to quickly transport more* from the rear to the front-line bunker. This time the Ross coalition built the bunker using the retaining walls left by the Pou Slave Army. Because of this, Mongolian slave soldiers built a guardrail passage. This passage was half-moon-shaped, and the two entrances were far from the range of the Muskets of the Pou Slave Army.
Perhaps it was Liu Chong's Fire Fox Camp that gave the Ross coalition a deep impression on the Wild Duck Lake Camp. The Ross front commander Wu Jiqinov was very afraid of the newly built southern fortifications of the Pou Nu Army. Although the triangular fortifications seemed easy to capture, Wu Jiqinov had never even launched a tentative attack. And the Ross people paid the greatest attention to the capture of the inner city of Anqueling. After all, the Ming Dynasty Marquis Zhang came to preside over the war and sent all the main forces of the Pou Nu Army to fight. Even the Ross coach Jijiunev believed that as long as the Anqueling Castle, Zhang Cheng, the Ming Dynasty Marquis Zhang, admitted that he would defeat the coalition forces, could win a complete victory.
After a night of careful preparation, the Ross deployed 357 artillery pieces fifty feet away from the guardrail west of the inner city of Anque Ridge, of which 30 eight-pound artillery were the most sharp firepower of the coalition forces. The artillery used by the artillery mounts had been loaded, and Mongolian slave soldiers were continuously carrying the barrels from the rear to various artillery positions. Behind the Ross artillery position, 17,000 Turkic infantry were ready to go, and the eight thousand Ross musketeers hidden in the artillery position were also ready for the final preparation before attacking. Colonel Ujiqinov, the commander of Ross, who had been hiding on the outer defense line on the west side of Anque Ridge, also transferred his command position to the Turkic position, where he commanded operations here to facilitate overall coordination.
The thunder from afar was the horn of the attack ground. Colonel Wujiqinov ordered the cannons to fire first. Three hundred cannons exploded in a short time, which shocked the officers and soldiers of the coalition forces. In this round of cannons hit the inner city guardrail of Anqueling, blowing away a large area of mud and walls. The collapsed large pieces of mud and walls piled up countless soft mud under the guardrail. The Ross artillery has not stopped since its launch. How could the Anqueling guardrail, which had cracked, with the cracks, with the blasting force, with the tragic fate of the folding door.
Seeing the gate of Anqueling inner city opened, although Ross commander Ujiqinov was very happy that he still did not attack immediately. From his heart, he could send an army to attack from the gate, but Ujiqinov could not guarantee that there were no other traps behind the gate. For this reason, Ujiqinov continued to order artillery to bombard the outer wall of the west side of Anqueling Castle. He must completely destroy the guard wall before launching a general attack. According to the habit of the Ross people's siege, they like to siege from all sides. Ross coach Jijunev also sent an army to insert the rear of Anqueling Castle, but when the fight broke out, the commanders of the Ross coalition realized that the battlefield of Anqueling could not apply to the previous war habits.
This is mainly because there is a main force of the Slave Army not far from Anqueling Castle. This army has more than 100 million-dollar war soldiers. It can not only move quickly but also support the battle of Anqueling Castle at any time. This army not far from Anqueling makes the Ross coalition feel like a thorn. The head coach of the Ross coalition is not unwilling to destroy the large number of Slave Army main force. The key is that because the enemy Marquis Zhang is in charge of Anqueling, the Ross coalition has to set its combat target at Anqueling Castle. The Ross coach Jijunev is considering how to end the war decently, rather than fighting a long war of attrition.
Since Jijunev issued a war order due to food shortage, he has been considering what happened after the war. The Ross people have a very strong purpose in fighting, and they hope to continue trade with the Ming Dynasty after the war. If they seized Marquis Zhang in the battlefield of Anqueling, the purpose of the war would be perfectly concluded. If the coalition forces defeated the main force of the slave army, and the Marquis Zhang of Anqueling took the opportunity to escape, even if the coalition forces eliminated the main force of the Slave Army in the south of Wild Duck Hunan, the war might last for many years. The Ross people occupied this vast grassland, which was not as profitable as trading with the Marquis Zhang of the Ming Dynasty. Europeans were concerned about the interests first when doing things, and Jijunev certainly would not give up on the last resort and go to Wild Duck Lake to do a loss-making business.
It seems that Zhang Ping'an, the commander of the Pokémon Army, calculated the ability of the Anqueling Guard to resist artillery fire. After seven consecutive rounds of bombardment, the Ross artillery finally defeated the Anqueling Guard, and the collapsed guard wall collapsed to both sides. The Turkic infantry, who had been waiting in the rear for a long time, took the lead in launching an attack, and the Ross musketeers were responsible for fire protection of their attacks behind the cannon formation. At this time, the sound of dense muskets came from the enemy on both sides, just like the fireworks and temples were covered by white fog. Seeing this, Wu Jiqinov was helpless, and he had expected this situation long ago. The enemy's foundation for the Anqueling Guard wall was more than twice thicker than the wall. If you use artillery to fight against the enemy's base of the wall, you don't know when to break through.
War is to fight against the enemy's weaknesses. Ujiqinov still grasped the iron rule of this battlefield. Looking at the Turkic infantry who were attacked by the two enemies of the Possess Army, Ujiqinov ordered the transfer of 30,000 main forces from the rear to launch a continuous attack on the breakthrough. After continuous shooting, the artillery of the Ross artillery needs to be cooled naturally at this time. The sudden silent artillery made Ujiqinov, who had rich experience in the battlefield, feel uneasy. He led a hundred guards to quietly go to the south to observe the enemy's envoy in the southwest of Anquiling.
The stronger uneasiness made Ujiqinov feel tight inside. He felt something was wrong, but there was nothing unreasonable in all the tactics of the Pou Slave Army. It was precisely these that were too reasonable that allowed Ujiqinov to see some clues about something wrong. Colonel Ujiqinov saw many fragments of the Pou Slave Army falling on the collapsed protective wall, but these fragments did not have the bloody and bloody blur on the battlefield, but only saw fragments of armor everywhere. Therefore, Ujiqinov judged that the Pou Slave Army had a backup plan. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!