Leclerc has been very happy recently. When he wakes up every morning, he goes to the command post map to look at it.

The places that were originally occupied by the red flags representing the Ming Dynasty are now all blue.

The front lines are constantly expanding, and there is good news every day.

Either so-and-so troops occupied many Ming army positions, or so-and-so troops repelled the Ming army.

The French army even captured more than 200 Ming troops for the first time!

This was a huge result. In the previous two months of fighting, more than 300 Ming Army soldiers were captured.

But now in just four days, more than 200 Ming troops were captured. This is an incredible victory.

Napoleon even called personally to encourage Leclerc.

Paris newspapers compared Leclerc to the French national hero, Joan of Arc.

Leclerc was so excited that he now had the rank of lieutenant general on his shoulders.

After winning Tsaritsyn, the military rank on his shoulders became a general. In the future, he might also be able to become a marshal.

Leclerc has been looking forward to the golden rank of marshal for a long time.

The prisoners of the Ming Dynasty were hard goods. In the past, the Ming Dynasty once offered a prisoner the price of ten tons of gasoline in exchange for redemption.

Now that we have coalified oil, there is no need to change the oil anymore.

But spare parts for various industrial products, as well as the diesel engine of the airship, had to be exchanged for these Ming prisoners.

The prisoners will be sent back to the rear of the battle line as soon as possible to avoid being accidentally injured by artillery fire.

These Ming prisoners were treated for injuries as soon as possible.

Use whatever medicine is easy to use. Anyway, as long as it saves the patient's life, regardless of the cost or price.

The prisoners of the Ming Dynasty who were not injured were treated with delicious food and drinks.

Not only are bread, milk and ham provided, there are even two packs of French Camel cigarettes provided every day.

You know, this is the standard for French military academy-level officers.

After four days of fierce fighting day and night, Tsaritsyn had been mostly occupied by the coalition forces led by the French.

The Ming and Russian armies were compressed in an urban area centered on the train station on the banks of the Volga River.

In terms of area, the area controlled by the Ming army was less than a quarter of Tsaritsyn.

"Tonight, we are going to attack the train station.

This is the last place where the Ming army and the Russian army can hold on, and it is also the last stumbling block for us to capture Tsaritsyn.

As long as the train station is captured, the Ming army can be forced to blow up the bridge over the Volga River.

However, blowing up the bridge will not stop us. Under the command of His Majesty the Emperor, we will cross the frozen Volga River.

Chase the Ming army all the way until they cut off their logistics supply line - the Central Asia Railway.

Gentlemen, by then the war will be over. We won't have to stay in this damn place and can go back to Paris."

Just tonight, Leclerc decided to occupy the train station in one go and remove the last solid stronghold of the Ming army in Tsaritsyn.

It generally gets dark earlier in winter. The sun has already set at half past four, and the sky gradually becomes darker.

At five o'clock, it was already dark.

The moon rises from the horizon and hangs like a disk in the sky.

Under the silvery moon, there are ruins, rubble and exposed steel bars everywhere like grass, forming a jungle of reinforced concrete.

Complete and mutilated corpses lay in the ruins.

Some were wearing Ming army uniforms, and some were wearing French army uniforms.

Darkness was the clarion call to attack, and soon the French army began to take action.

They still used the previous tactics, constantly using infantry fire to attract and lure the Ming army's machine guns and mortars to fire.

As long as the machine guns and artillery fire are fired, the infantry artillery behind them will kill them by name.

The Ming Army is an army that cannot fight without machine guns and artillery. In the battles of the past few days, they defeated one Ming Army company after another in this way.

Today, they thought it would be the same as the past few days.

Little did he know that right on the water tower of the station, the old monkey was holding a telescope and standing in front of the window looking at it.

Behind him, there was a telephone cord.

In front of another window of the water tower, two artillery troopers stood.

They held artillery scopes and stared closely at the movements of the French army in the distance.

"Did you find it?"

"No!"

Using binoculars and looking down from above, no one found any trace of the infantry artillery.

But the old monkey knows that the French army has already conquered the world with one move. They will definitely use infantry artillery, but they don't know where they will hide it.

"Let them set off firecrackers!" The old monkey saw that the French army had arrived more than 400 meters away.

The correspondent immediately ran out like an arrow had been shot in the butt!

After a while, a series of firecrackers sounded from the Ming army's position.

Although the sound is different from mg-42, the flash after the firecracker explodes is not much different from the muzzle flash.

Sure enough, it only took less than half a minute. A shell roared and hit the exploding firecracker.

"Did you find it?" The old monkey saw nothing and hurriedly asked the two calculation soldiers.

"Found it, two kilometers away, beside a ruined wall.

It's in the shadows and hard to see."

As the calculation soldier spoke, he walked to the phone and quickly reported a set of numbers.

This telephone directly connected to the divisional artillery position of the Ming Army on the other side of the Volga River.

Those 155 mm killer weapons have long been hungry and thirsty.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

...!

There were several big explosions in succession, and everyone was frightened.

I have seen heavy artillery before, but never such a powerful one.

After a few shells hit it, the infantry cannon immediately disappeared in the thick smoke.

A 155mm weapon that can kill half a football field with one shell.

That infantry cannon had no chance of survival.

"Keep looking!"

The old monkey gave an order and continued to hold the binoculars, looking around about two kilometers away from the Ming army's position.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with the saying that you can stand high and see far, not to mention the help of high-powered telescopes.

Soon, the old monkey saw a light flashing under a shadow about two kilometers away.

I quickly adjusted the focus of the telescope and took a closer look.

The calculation soldier had already rushed to the phone and quickly reported a series of numbers.

Soon, the roaring shells hit the infantry gun again.

Even if it hits a place three meters away from the infantry gun, the 155mm shell is still deadly.

The huge explosion directly turned the infantry cannon back into parts.

Not only on the water tower, there is also a group of observers on top of the reinforced concrete train station building.

The telephone line was directly connected to the regimental artillery company in the rear, and the six 105mm howitzers were equally deadly.

As long as the French soldiers attack, they will be taken care of by the artillery company.

Shotguns filled with steel balls exploded into almost a net of steel balls.

All the people caught in this net were beaten into a sieve, and no one could escape.

What's even more terrible is that the Ming army's rocket launchers also began to bombard the French army's rear indiscriminately.

The French troops who were preparing to assemble were also bombed, causing huge casualties almost instantly.

What made people even more desperate was that the roar of airships sounded in the sky.

The aerial bombs carried by the airship were giant one-thousand-kilogram heavy bombs.

The crater created when it fell on the ground was more than ten meters deep!

When a bomb falls, its power is simply devastating.

Even if you are crouching behind a bunker, the huge shock wave can kill you alive.

"Aircraft artillery regiment, why don't you fire?" Leclerc's angry roar came from the phone.

"The airship flew too high and couldn't see the target at all." A helpless voice came from the other side of the phone.

"Hit me even if you can't see the target!" Leclerc angrily threw the phone and sat in the command post, breathing heavily.

I don’t know why, but everything seemed to be wrong tonight. The Ming army, which had been retreating steadily, suddenly showed an astonishing fighting power.
Chapter completed!