"Let's forget it. Everyone knows about St. Petersburg. Now it seems that the Ming army has the upper hand, but if there is a real fight, even the Ming army will be trapped.

However, we can let the Danes consume their strength." Grouchy looked at Schlieffen with a smile, they were still happy to sacrifice the strength of their allies.

After all, everyone is hanging out in the same place. Using this as an excuse to weaken the enemy's strength is really something that the news would like to see.

Although Schlieffen was a little disdainful of Grouchy's nastiness, this is how everyone does things these days. An honest person will either not suffer a loss or suffer a loss to his death.

The Ming army's attack attracted a large number of Russian troops.

However, these Russian troops felt somewhat incompetent.

A large group of troops came to the city wall, but they could not leave the city to fight. Because the Ming army made no move to climb the city at all. They just continued to use artillery fire to bombard the Russian troops on the top of the city.

Because of the losses suffered by the artillery, the Russian army on top of the city could not raise its head at all, and the Russian artillery below the city could not come up even if they wanted to.

At this time, Constantine had just sent Duke Peter to the third floor of the basement. He heard someone reporting that the Ming army had begun to attack the city. He was so frightened that his hair stood on end, and he immediately abandoned Duke Peter and ran up the city wall.

Hiding in the huge stone bunker on the city wall, Constantine looked down with a telescope.

The Ming artillery in the distance kept moving back and forth behind one building after another. Each time, it was only a few minutes after they moved that the Russian artillery shells came down.

There was no way, the Russian mortar troops couldn't come up. Shooting Zhu Yuan basically relied on the communication soldiers running back and forth. The legs of the communication soldiers were almost broken, but there was no way to report the required data directly to the Russian artillery.

What's more, the Russian troops in St. Petersburg are basically old, weak, sick and disabled. They don't even train very much on weekdays, and they can't fire a few artillery shells a year.

Calculating the level of soldiers, you can imagine it.

On weekdays, even Feng and Liri, based on the data they calculated, rarely hit the target in the first round.

"It doesn't look like the Ming army is about to attack the city!" After looking for a long time, I only saw about two companies of Ming army infantry, running around a few kilometers away, but no one came within range of the Russian artillery fire.

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"How long have they been like this?" Constantine frowned and looked at the colonel next to him.

"General, they have been like this for two and a half hours." The colonel replied nervously. They were all a little confused about the Ming army.

Those Norwegians and Swedes were not reckless. In the wars between the Ming Dynasty and European countries, the Ming army maintained a record of complete victory.

I heard that two months ago, the Ming Dynasty had just captured Tashkent, the capital of the Mongols. People who survived said that it was extremely miserable there. Less than ten people out of ten thousand people could survive.

Less than one in a hundred is no longer enough to describe the tragic situation there.

Facing the notorious 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 like this?"

"Yes! General!"

"No! This is not the style of the Ming army. I have seen the Ming army fighting in India. When they bombarded the infantry in the city with artillery, their infantry would start to charge.

Then the artillery will gradually extend the artillery fire, and the infantry will attack by stepping on the craters where the artillery shells fell. It will not attract all our strength here like it is now, unless...!"

Thinking of the consequences, Constantine's back felt cold.

"Retreat! Let everyone evacuate the city wall, quickly! Immediately, immediately!" Constantine's voice changed his tone, and he held the colonel's arm tightly, his fingers almost digging into his flesh.

"General!" The colonel was frightened by Constantine's appearance and didn't know whether he should obey his orders.

"Go!" Constantine pushed the colonel over and roared like a lion, the sound even louder than the sound of the cannon.

"Go, let the artillery retreat immediately, and stop shooting at the Ming army. Quick!" Constantine pointed at an officer behind him and shouted.

"Yes! General." 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 useless war. When they heard that they were about to retreat, they all walked down the stairs and down the city wall. Then, under the leadership of their officers, they withdrew back into the city.

Those who were lucky enough to take down the city wall were only half of the defenders at most.

Li Xiu in the port was waiting for news from the front. Without a portable telegraph machine, there was really no way. He could only use people to convey the location information of St. Petersburg.

This involved very complex calculations, so it only took two and a half hours.

"Commander, the calculation results are out."

"The Russian troops on the city wall have almost gathered. Fire! Blast these people into the sky, and then tell Chen Laohu to take action. I want the St. Petersburg Shipyard to disappear!"

Li Xiu gave the order fiercely, and the staff officer responded and immediately issued the order to fire.

The 480mm main gun, which had been resting for half an hour, had already prepared ammunition. After hearing the order given by the commander himself, the boys immediately put the shells into the barrel.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!...!" A series of cannon sounds, and in the smoke, the shells roared towards the city wall of St. Petersburg.

St. Petersburg, as its name suggests, was originally a castle.

The walls of the castle are the result of hundreds of years of construction by the tsarist family. Every stone is made of hard granite. It is difficult to shake even a 120 mm caliber cannonball.

However, a 120mm artillery shell is difficult to shake, but a 480mm artillery shell may not be able to shake it.

Moreover, this time the Ming army used instant fuzes.

Before the Russian troops on the city wall had time to evacuate, they heard several thunderous explosions. Many people flew into the air before they had time to react.

The ground was trembling, and the huge stone wall, which was said to be indestructible, turned into a pile of rubble under the huge power of the explosion.

Constantine heard the explosion behind him, and when he turned around, he saw only smoke. There were human parts in the sky, and gravel fell from the sky.

I hurriedly hid in a house. As soon as I got in, a human thigh fell down behind me. It was so dangling! I almost got hit by the thigh!

Being hit by a dead person is regarded as very unlucky by both Easterners and Westerners.

"I don't know how many people were killed on the city wall this time. The Ming army was really too cunning." Constantine murmured, and was swallowed up by the smoke and dust in the sky.

Just when the solid city walls of St. Petersburg were falling apart, Chen Laohu led the foreign corps and rushed into the St. Petersburg Shipyard of the Russian Navy.

Because it is less than one kilometer away from St. Petersburg, the defense here is basically connected to St. Petersburg.

The difference from St. Petersburg is that the guys guarding here are all Russian navy. There are enough people in a regiment.

This is the first time in history that the Marine Corps of the two countries have collided.

Chen Laohu didn't know that these guys were so fierce.

Many times, when soldiers of the Foreign Legion entered a building, a door would suddenly be kicked open, and one or more grenades would be thrown out.

Before the air wave from the grenade explosion had dissipated, a group of Russian marines wearing sea soul shirts rushed out.

They held bayonets or daggers in their hands, yelling "ouch" and "ouch" and rushed out to fight with the soldiers of the Foreign Legion.

Close combat is the fatal weakness of the Liao army. Li Xiao has not properly trained the Liao army's fighting skills since Pidao.

Later, some martial arts masters were hired from Cangzhou to support the scene. Although the fighting skills of the troops had improved, they were not enough to face this level of fighting.

But these people in front of me are not normal Ming army soldiers.

This is a foreign legion composed of fugitives and desperadoes from various countries.

Each of these guys is a well-known brave and fierce fighter in various countries. Before joining the army, everyone must have more than ten or twenty lives in his body.

Compared with the combat method that strictly requires tactics, they prefer the current method.

Knife to knife, fist to fist. Fighting in close combat, bayonets see red.

Excited by the smell of blood, they drew out their daggers one after another and rushed towards their enemies. The soldiers, who were armed to the teeth, now had to fight in the most primitive way.

They used daggers, fists, and teeth. They tried every means to attack the enemy in front of them.

When Chen Laohu entered, the smell of blood in the room was so strong that people dared not breathe. The ground was greasy, and there was red and black blood everywhere.

The marine boots were a little slippery when I stepped on them!

There were corpses everywhere, both from the Ming army and from the Russians.

Everyone stared, and many people hugged each other. It was obvious that they were fighting hard during their lifetime. Chen Laohu even saw a soldier whose deputy was stabbed with a dagger biting his throat hard with his teeth.

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It was the first time that Chen Laohu saw that human teeth could bite so deeply.

"You are not allowed to engage in hand-to-hand combat with them from now on. You don't need to go in to search all the buildings. Just blow them up with explosives outside." Chen Laohu's face was ashen.

In one morning, we still couldn't capture this damn shipyard.

The warships built in this hellish place attacked him secretly, and the Russian soldiers currently guarding the factory are actually so difficult to deal with.

These guys relied on their familiarity with the terrain. After the Ming army did not enter the room, they hid in dark corners and shot at the Ming army soldiers who were exposed outside!

Some of it was unintentional, and the marksmanship of these Russian troops was generally very good.

In one morning, more than a hundred people from the two regiments of the Foreign Marine Corps had died.

In the past, when the Ming army fought, it was difficult to suffer casualties on this scale.

Chen Laohu even felt that he was a little shameless.

As a result, the offensive against the St. Petersburg Shipyard became a cat and mouse game.

The soldiers discovered that the Russians were willing to hide in the cellar.
To be continued...