Chapter 109
The Austro-Hungarian Empire launched attacks every day, but each time it stalled in front of the strong Hebrew fortress.
The continuous casualties made the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph unable to sit still. He had to come to Paris in person to ask for help from Zheng Sen.
"Dear Your Majesty the Emperor, you know that you cannot get any help from me.
However, since you are here, I can’t let your trip go in vain!
You can go to Crete, where the empire's naval commander, General Li Xiu, is. If he agrees, you should get some support.
But..., the commanders around us are a little tight on money." Zheng Sen clapped his fingers.
Franz Joseph glanced at Zheng Sen, these greedy Ming people. High-interest war loans have not satisfied their appetite, and now they want to make another fortune.
However, the situation was compelling, and Franz Joseph had already staked his fortune in Crimea.
Now Franz Joseph is like a gambler who got on the gambling table and lost badly. Li Xiu is his only life-saving straw.
July in Crimea is the hottest time of the year, and countless Hebrew soldiers lay naked in dirty trenches and slept soundly.
Outside the trenches, there are countless flies hovering. As long as you walk to the edge of the trench, flies will rise into the sky like black clouds.
For a distance of one thousand meters in front of the trench, there were all corpses. Some of them died relatively early, and their bones were rotted out.
The smell of rotting corpses can still sting your eyes even a thousand meters away. As a last resort, all soldiers have to wear gas masks when they go out to serve as observation posts.
Before the war, the Hebrews secretly built a defense line here. There was a large bunker every three kilometers along the defense line.
These bunkers are all made of reinforced concrete structures and are only about one meter high above the ground.
The walls of the bunker are one meter thick, and each bunker has two machine gun perforations and three artillery perforations.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire's artillery shells also hit the bunker. But even the 130mm artillery shells that hit it only ate away a layer of the bunker's outer skin.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire also thought about using heavy rocket launchers to cover and bombard bunkers. Unfortunately, the rocket launchers were really inaccurate.
After hitting it several times, there was no direct hit. The damage to the bunker was very limited!
These bunkers, combined with trenches, could easily suppress the Hungarian Empire's attack and cause huge casualties to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
After twenty days of fierce fighting, the Hebrews also knew that their bunker could withstand enemy artillery fire.
So much so that Ben-Gurion felt that this war was almost won.
But one early morning, a huge explosion woke Ben.\nGurion from his sleep.
"Commander, look!" A soldier pointed at the sea in horror.
Ben.\nGurion saw a huge battleship floating on the sea and raised the telescope in his hand.
Just as he saw the huge flames ejected from the triple cannon on the battleship, the thick smoke disappeared in a flash. But just a minute later, a deafening explosion erupted from his position.
The soil kicked up by the explosion flew more than a hundred meters into the sky.
The bunker, which the 130mm artillery had no control over, was filled with shells and turned into a large pit more than ten meters deep.
Whose cannon is this? It’s so powerful.
This question only existed in Ben.\nGurion's mind lingered for a few seconds before he had the answer. This is the Ming Dynasty's battleship.
Legend has it that this kind of battleship has a crazy 460mm cannon.
The 130mm artillery can't deal with the bunker, but the 460mm artillery has no hindrance.
Moreover, the bunker cannot move, which naturally improves the hit rate.
The Ming Dynasty joins the war!
They really sent troops to participate in this war!
Ben.\nGurion watched in shock as his carefully designed bunkers were opened one after another, like cans.
In the sky above the battleships on the distant sea, an airship floated.
I really want the anti-aircraft guns to shoot this thing down, but unfortunately the distance is too far and the double 25 anti-aircraft guns can't hit it at all.
It is this thing that indicates the impact point of the cannonball, allowing the artillery on the warship to continuously correct its trajectory.
Countless Hebrew soldiers ran out of the bunker, scurrying around like rats.
The 460mm artillery is so powerful that it can kill people even from a distance of 100 meters.
As long as the shell hits the bunker, the people inside who have not come out will never come out.
Not even the body could be found, the scattered parts on the ground belonged to God knows who.
"The Ming Dynasty joined the war, what should we do?" Victor pulled Ben.\nGurion's clothes.
"No! It wasn't the Ming Dynasty that joined the war, but the Ming Dynasty that sent warships to help the Austro-Hungarian Empire." Little Rothschild didn't know when he suddenly appeared behind Ben-Gurion.\n
"The Ming people must have received money from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. These Ming people are always so greedy."
"Order the soldiers to hold on to the trenches. We also have reinforcements!" Young Rothschild encouraged Victor with a smile.
"Reinforcements? Really?" Victor didn't believe it. Israel had already invested all its resources, so why would there be reinforcements?
"Really, I won't lie to you!" There was a mysterious smile on little Rothschild's face.
With the help of the Ming Dynasty battleships, the Austro-Hungarian Empire once again launched an attack. The Hebrews, who lost their bunker, began a real hard battle.
The position was once breached, and hand-to-hand fighting took place in many areas.
Unfortunately, in the end, the Israeli army's crazy counterattack fell short.
After knocking out the last bunker, the mission of the battleship is completed. This is the biggest concession Li Xiu has ever made!
The price paid by the Austro-Hungarian Empire was the fifty-year right to use the port of Bucharest.
The strange thing is that although the Hebrews suffered heavy losses, new soldiers would join in every time the sun rose again.
Although these soldiers were also Hebrews, it was obvious that these soldiers were more well-trained and their combat capabilities far exceeded those of the improvised armies.
Even though the Ming battleships destroyed those damn bunkers, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was still slow in close combat.
However, compared to the past few days, the situation has improved a lot. At least, this is no longer a one-sided massacre, but both sides have casualties on each other.
Sevastopol became a real flesh and blood mill. Every morning, groups of soldiers entered the trenches, and by the time they were withdrawn at night, there were not many left.
The war has reached this point, which Li Xiao and even the whole of Europe did not expect.
Chapter completed!