Chapter 793: Moscow Offensive and Defense
On the battlefield of Shaokran, most of the areas south of the Dnieper River fell into the Ottoman seven-thrower slaughter. The areas north were controlled by the Ukrainians who took advantage of the situation, while the Ottoman army in the Greater Caucasus was blocked in the southwest of Erection. The only troops to Moscow were the two armies of the Ming Dynasty.
Now the two armies of the Ming Dynasty have joined forces in the suburbs of Moscow. The Dragon Cavalry Regiment, Western Navy Marine Corps, Xuzhou Corps, Peking Corps, Chengdu Corps, Haidu Corps, Liaodong Corps, Haodong Corps, Suzhou Corps, Wuhan Corps, a total of nearly 400,000 troops surrounded Moscow like an iron barrel. The battalion was nowhere to be seen in the end. This battle was so grand that even when the Northern Expedition to the Qing Dynasty, their target was naturally the ancient city in front of them. If they seized this place, it would be equivalent to completely conquering the vastest country in the world.
The Ming army did not launch any attack rashly. They were not in a hurry to take Moscow, but were waiting slowly, waiting for the weather to gradually warm up, waiting for the arrival of Chief of Staff Li Dingguo.
Moscow City is also extremely calm. Under this calmness, the news of helplessness over the situation in front of us spread. Russians naturally worship heroes and leaders, and the more difficult it is. They always hope that a hero can stand up, point them in the direction, give them the greatest encouragement, surround them into a fist, and let them sacrifice their lives for the leader.
Unfortunately, there is no such hero with great appeal in Moscow City today. Needless to say, Princess Sophia, Tsar Ivan is weak and sick, and the only possibility is Peter. Although Peter is young, he is tall and energetic. If he is under ordinary circumstances, he will be the spiritual leader of all Russians under the iron hoof. However, it is no longer possible now.
If Russia was just a tight front line in the early days, but now Russia is already facing the fate of the country and the family. All of this is probably counted on Peter in the eyes of the Russians. If Peter had not insisted on seeking peace, if he had not insisted on signing the peace treaty with the Ming Dynasty, how could it have made them suddenly difficult and caught them off guard? The Russian army on the front line suffered heavy losses without preparation, so that there were only 140,000 Russian troops surrounding Russia City, including many disabled people.
However, in order to defend the homeland, Peter's mobilization order was quickly implemented. Countless Russians, both young and old, released weapons, and all assigned tasks, patrols, rescues, garrisons and other tasks. Looking at the dark Ming army outside the city, the barracks that stretched for hundreds of miles and the loud shouts during practice every morning, it made people feel inexplicably panic.
Moscow City built castles in the past years. It was the capital of the Principality of Moscow in the early 13th century. It was the capital of the Russian Empire and the largest industrial and commercial center at the end of the 15th century.
Moscow has taken into account its robustness and reliability from its very beginning. At first, the alliance of nomadic tribes from southern and eastern Moscow often threatened it, and the troops in the west were also eyeing it. So the Vladimir, Tver, and Novgorod allies also established a stronghold at the same time.
It can be said that if the city does not consider it
After the victory of the Battle of Kulinlf, the Duchy of Moscow quickly grew. In the 15th century, the population and territory of Moscow had surpassed London, Prague and some large cities in Europe. Therefore, after many renovations, the city was probably the most sturdy in the entire Eastern Europe, whether it was the city wall or the protection capacity of the surrounding fortresses.
However, these thick walls did not strengthen the confidence of the Russians. Someone had already fled to Moscow when the city of Rostov fell. What these people told them was that after the war started, countless artillery fires plunged Rostov into a sea of fire. Then the wall collapsed, and the enemy rushed into Rostov like a flood, followed by the city. Then the city fell, and all those who tried to resist were killed.
This horrifying impression made the Moscow people deeply feel it. They understood that if Moscow fell, they would probably not be as good as Mrs. Rostow.
The Ming army outside the city still had no intention of attack. Li Dingguo arrived here with the officers of the General Staff. The first trouble he encountered was not the Russian army in Moscow, but the Polish army from Ukraine. The Ottoman army invaded Ukraine had achieved the established goal. However, since part of the Ukrainian land was occupied by the Poles, although the Ottomans' main energy is now focused on destroying the Russian remnants in the occupied area, in some areas, because of the seizing of towns, they still had a small-scale conflict with the Poles. The Ottomans immediately submitted the news to the Ming army. The governors of various armies disagreed, and Li Dingguo arrived at the outskirts of Moscow. Ran he came to make a decision on this matter.
Li Dingguo obviously couldn't stand this extremely cold weather. He grew up in Shaanxi since childhood, then moved to Sichuan, Myanmar and other places, and then arrived in Nanjing. These places were not cold places. Compared with southern Xinjiang, the weather in Russia was really the same place today. He was wearing fur clothes, with a red cloak outside. The standard cotton helmet on his head wrapped his face tightly, but still could not stop the bone-broken cold. Originally, Zhu Jun was not willing to let Li Dingguo come. After all, he was old with Mu Pei. Xu. The coldness of the northern country was definitely not something that the old coach Xin with gray temples was "being able to bear it all the time. If it weren't for the front line, and Li Dingguo repeatedly begged, Zhu Jun might even consider himself to fight in person.
Li Dingguo locked his eyebrows and listened carefully to his subordinates explaining the forms inside and outside Moscow City. Finally, the topic turned to Poland's little neighbor.
"Sir." Li Xiao was happy when he saw his father, and then frowned his eyebrows. In recent years, as the governor of the Wuhan Legion, he has been busy with training, fighting and supply issues in all aspects. However, Li Dingguo was far away in Nanjing. Except for the occasional trip to Kyoto to report his duties, he was mostly busy with his own work. Inadvertently, Li Xiao suddenly realized that his father, who was originally awesome and energetic, suddenly grew old, his head was silver, and even his thick eyebrows, which were originally thick ink, have become much pale now.
Li Xiaoqiang suppressed the guilt in his heart, made a look of official duties, and saluted Li Dingguo with fists and saluted: "The Poles are a small country in western Russia. The border is bordered by Russia and the Ottomans. It is said that they had territorial disputes with the Russians. This time, when Russia was in trouble, they had the intention to take advantage of the situation and sent troops to the Ukraine area. They occupied a lot of land. The Ottoman and us sent people to negotiate with them. Not only did they disagree with the Dutch, they were also flirting with each other during this period. I think they were determined to take advantage of it.
Li Dingguo nodded calmly. It is not groundless to collude with the Dutch. Although the Poles are enemies of the Russians, the Dutch, who do not have much army power, cannot do much help to the ally of Russia. Everyone understands that Russia's fall is only a matter of time. Therefore, it is not completely impossible for the Dutch to abandon Russia, the ally and instead contact Russia's enemies. What are the benefits of this?
Li Dingguo carefully found the Polish location on the map, which also marked the Poles' military strength ratio. Seeing this, Li Dingguo became confused. The strength of the Poles is here. Now the Dutch fleet has lost most of the losses in the Battle of Pies Island. Whether it is land or ocean, the anti-Dutch alliance has a great advantage. At the forefront, did the Poles take the wrong medicine? They just wanted to contact the Dutch and provoke the Ming and Ottomans at the same time. Isn't this a disease?
Li Dingguo ruled out all conspiracies. When he finally confirmed that the Poles were really just trying to seize the Ukrainian region, he couldn't help but say: "The clown jumps and doesn't know how to live or die."
"Sir, do you see if we immediately send a military force to let the Poles see it very well? The most unsightly thing that young and strong officers like Mu Jianming are those guys who are not aware of their lives and are not very good at all, but they are trying to cause trouble. They have long disliked the Poles. They stand up and look forward to Li Dingguo and ask him to lead the army to teach the Poles.
"No need, let them be arrogant for a while. Take Moscow first, and then let them know that the Ming Dynasty is powerful, Li Dingguo considered it again and again, and finally decided on Mu Jianming's opinion. The most urgent task now is to completely defeat Russia. Consider other things.
"Send the order! Siege the city!"
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The siege of Moscow was very fierce. The Ming army rushed towards the black and gray city walls overwhelmed. European castle-style buildings trembled in the huge waves and were at risk of being destroyed at any time. The Russians on the city were desperately defending. They could not see hope, but the stubborn ones were not willing to kneel down on them. They would rather die with the enemy than suffer humiliation. The walls of each section and the streets everywhere were the focus of repeated competition. With a sound, "Forward is the rush of Ming troops coming in like a tide, and then, with the sound of "Ula, groups of Russian soldiers and civilians who were not even complete in military uniforms and weapons immediately faced the Ming army.
Especially after the city walls collapsed in many places, street fighting gradually began, and the advantages of the Ming army's weapons were weakened, and the use of the terrain for the Russians who were very familiar with Moscow continued to cause great resistance to the Ming army.
After a few days, both sides consumed a lot. Although Tsar Peter lost the support of the Russians, his orders were quickly implemented. Even Peter's political enemy Miloslavsky family did not hesitate to drive Peter and contributed food.
Peter's order is very simple, without any fancy, and without any conspiracy. His order is only one, using all the manpower that can be called, using all the resources that can be used, and using everything in Moscow, and stick to it! Hold on until another Russian winter is coming. Russia's closest ally, the severe winter, will help the Russians clear all enemies out of this land.
Now there are at least five kilograms left before another winter is coming. The moon is far away, but this still gives many Moscows enough hope. As long as the hope is still there, the battle will not stop.
The dark clouds gathered by Mo Ming were like roaring war horses. The sky was no longer bright. In fact, the sky was not bright because it was covered with war clouds. Seeing a heavy rain coming, no matter how cold the rain was, it would disappear the traces left by the war.
Li Dingguo was quite unable to sit still. According to his understanding of the war, a besieged city, without the reinforcements and the city walls could no longer protect them, the people in the city should either break out or surrender to the Ming army. The Ming army had contacted many enemies, and there were hundreds of cities that were being guided. Never encountered such a fierce resistance. Even women wearing patched dresses picked up bullets left by dead soldiers everywhere in the streets and alleys to resist. What kind of city is this?
The sudden heavy rain disrupted the Ming army's offensive deployment. As an experienced commander, Li Dingguo finally decided to change the combat policy and he ordered the order to stop the attack. Although he understood that if the Ming army's current momentum was to continuously attack Moscow, Moscow would fall sooner or later. However, in this way, the Ming army's losses would inevitably be several times more. The siege in the past few days is a clear proof. In just three or four days, the Ming army's soldiers died and injured in battle exceeded 8,000.
Li Dingguo planned to launch a shelling of the entire Moscow after the rain stopped. The target of the shelling could no longer be military facilities and city walls. He understood that the only way to weaken the Moscow people's resistance was to give them the most cruel casualties, and such casualties should never be at the cost of his soldiers.
Seeing the Ming army swarming like a tide retreating like a tide, a cheer sounded from Moscow City,
Kiev has a long and glorious history and was once the center of the first Russian country, Kiev Rus. Therefore, it is called "Mother of the Slavs' City". The city was built in the late 6th and early 7th century AD. In 822 AD, it became the capital of the feudal state of Kiev Rus and gradually flourished through trade. It is called the "City of Imperials" on the Dnieper River. By the time the thugs were captured by the Mongols in 240 years. Many cities were destroyed, most of which were
The residents were killed. They were then occupied by the Principal of Lithuania. "The sixth year of the year returned to Poland. Immediately afterwards, the Russians seized the capital of the oldest city-state of the Slavic nation from the Poles. Now, Schehosky, the commander of the expeditionary army from Poland, was standing comfortably on the site of the former palace of the city, and the guards behind him were as tall as a hill. When they looked at Schehosky's eyes, they were full of worship.
Schekhosky became the hero of the Poles. No, he was the greatest hero of Poland since Boleslaw I. He led his army to regain Ukraine, making Poland shine again. Schekhosky enjoyed his current life. Every day, countless letters from the country would be sent to his command center like a tide. And these letters were of great Polish nobles, so they naturally wanted to make friends with this prestigious general in order to be able to
There are some help in politics, including soldiers, who are full of love for the motherland, and they all have a bit of awkward and naive praise for the general who has recovered the country. The soldiers all say that they are willing to serve Schehosky, and even washing his horse boots is a kind of honor, but more of them come from the noble ladies of all sizes. The content of the letter is naturally nothing more than the naked admiration.
However, there were some troubles. What made Schekhosky very troubled was the Ottomans who were stationed in Ukraine. The Ottomans were dissatisfied with the small country of Poland that they had planned to respect the fat they had given to the Ming Dynasty. Although the two sides did not declare war, the conflicts of all sizes at the junction of the occupied areas had never stopped. Although Schekhosky believed that the heroic Polish soldiers could completely defeat the Ottomans, this kind of thing was not decided by him after all, and the Ming Dynasty behind the Ottoman seemed to be difficult to deal with.
Just now, an Ottoman messenger was killed by Schehosky, but the envoy's warning kept echoing in Schehosky's ears like a spell. He was very excited, but there was a little bit of loss from the thug, which made "the great hero, Schehosky became more and more disgusted with the Ottomans.
"A general soldier rushed over and reported to Schehosky: "The Ming army's attack on Moscow City was stagnant. They gathered their troops and canceled the attack on Moscow City.
Schehosky held his hands behind his back and deliberately made a casual look to listen to the soldiers' report. However, he had many ideas in his mind. He asked: "What's going on? Did the Ming army fail to siege the city?
"It seems that the soldiers answered a little vaguely: "It is said that the army attacked the city for four days, not only did not capture Moscow, but also suffered serious casualties.
“Haha, our chance is here
Chapter completed!