Chapter 962: The hot air balloon has an accident

While Zhu Cilang curled the elite Tsarist Russians to Kutuzov's bastion and did not dare to show his head, Meng Liang and the others also fought on the left.

The bombardment of the Cossack cavalry's rifle and machine guns turned into a sandbag, and they had no ability to fight back at all. As a result, more than half of the 30,000 Cossack cavalry were killed.

The leader Jimalok could only lead the remnants of defeated soldiers and fled, but he fled in a panic way to a dense forest of basin with more than 200 meters high on three sides. The basin area was not large and they had no way out.

Meng Liang ordered the Ming army to block the exit, and immediately bombard the Cossack cavalry whenever they saw someone showing their heads, ready to trap the group of Cossack cavalry alive.

Because both sides invested in rookies in the middle, the battle was very fierce and it was still going on. Although the Ming army's combat effectiveness was not strong, the Tsarist Russian recruits were not much better, and their weapons were not as good as the Ming army.

In order to make meritorious, the Ming army was very brave in fighting today. In their eyes, the new Tsarist Russian soldiers were no longer humans, but became the military achievements of their people in the Ming Dynasty. Whether it was the speed of loading bullets and the accuracy of shooting, they were two levels higher than usual.

While they were trying their best, almost everyone was injured after fighting for half a day. By noon, they could not hold on and suffered a defeat.

After this battle, the Tsarist Russian New Army was killed by their supervisory team, and more than 50,000 were killed by the Ming army, including more than 40,000 injured.

Although the Ming army completely defeated them, they also paid the price of more than 10,000 people killed in battle and injured more than 5,000 people. If all firearms were not used, the Ming army would probably be wiped out.

Zhu Youjian was very satisfied with the performance of the Ming army, so he asked them to retreat to the back and rest, and then sent an elite army, Danlongqi Army, to prepare to fight against the Tsarist Russian Royal Imperial Guards.

However, after receiving the report of the defeat of the left and right sides, Kutuzov did not dare to fight and retreated to the central bastion, preparing to use the strength of the bastion to deal with the Ming army, and delayed the time for Tsarist Russia to increase troops to Tula.

Seeing that the Tsarist Russian army could not defend, Zhu Youjian ordered the siege of the tsarist Russian army to surround the bastion where the Tsarist Russian army was located and suspended the attack, allowing the Ming army soldiers to rest and have lunch on the spot. The wounded soldiers were sent to the rear barracks for treatment, preparing to launch a fierce attack on the Tsarist Russian army in the afternoon.

Zhu Youjian knew that the Russians wanted to delay time, so it would be better to drag the Ming army until winter. At that time, there was no need for the Tsarist Russian army to take action. The extremely cold climate here could defeat the Ming army and allow the Ming army to retreat without fighting. Then the Tsarist Russian army would attack and kill with all their might, just like dealing with Napoleon and Hitler.

Unfortunately, the Russians made the wrong plan. They didn't know how powerful the opponent they were facing. If it weren't for Zhu Youjian's failure to use the system too much, they would have been eliminated by the Ming army long ago.

After lunch, the Ming army had a rest for more than an hour. Zhu Youjian ordered the Ming army soldiers to prepare for battle. As for the strong bastion of Tsarist Russia, Zhu Youjian would not order the army to attack.

There were artillery on the bastion, and Tsarist Russian soldiers also had firearms. If the Ming army attacked the bastion for a strong attack, there would definitely be a large number of casualties, so he ordered two hundred air forces to participate in the battle.

The air force here did not fly planes at that time, but two hundred hot air balloons with large amounts of explosives and grenades were launched one after another. They wanted to launch air strikes on the Russians in the bastion and the Cossack cavalry in the woods.

Zhu Youjian had considered bombarding the bastion with cannons, but the bastions like Tsarist Russia were very strong, and it was difficult to collapse the cannons from outside. It was better to directly blow the Russians on the bastion, and then the Ming army exploded the iron gate of the bastion and attacked directly.

Two soldiers can sit on a hot air balloon, and can also carry eighty grenades and more than a dozen explosive packs. The grenades and explosive packs carried by two hundred hot air balloons can completely destroy the prism.

The bulwark is not a bunker, but a very thick multi-layered city wall. Solid bombs have little effect on the bulwark, and it is difficult for the flowering bomb to blow it up. If they attack from the air, they will not have the ability to fight back, at least that's what Zhu Youjian thinks.

Seeing the hot air balloon slowly lifting into the air, the soldiers of the Ming army were very excited, especially those Ming army. They simply watched the Ming army watch the gods descend to earth, otherwise how could such a magical operation be done? After the hot air balloon was lifted up, many Ming army crawled on the ground and prayed.

"No, the monster is coming again..."

When the Russian soldiers of Tsarist Russia saw two hot air balloons slowly floating in the air, they were so scared that they had been bombarded by the hot air balloons once and were afraid of this monster.

But immediately some Russians found that more than a dozen monsters were floating over, and they hurriedly shouted, just like they wanted to see ghosts:

"God! Look at this time there are more than two, and there are more than a dozen..."

But as soon as he finished speaking, someone saw a large area of ​​monsters slowly floating above the bastion:

"God! There are only a dozen people. Look at the back, there is a large area. It's completely finished. Is God punishing us..."

Many Russians were so scared that they almost fainted. They seemed to feel the arrival of the end of the world. Not to mention that they still have the confidence to fight, they could not even stand firm in the battle...

"Oh, the monster is coming down..."

Suddenly, two hot air balloons collided in the air, and the fuel on the hot air balloon overturned. I don’t know why the hot air balloon actually started to catch fire and burn.

The Ming army above hurriedly shouted at the other Ming army:

"Be careful to keep a distance. Never bump into each other, otherwise it will catch fire and burn..."

While they were shouting, the hot air balloon quickly wanted to fall. The brave Ming army lit the explosive pack and grenades on it before the hot air balloon fell to the ground. The explosion began to explode three or four meters above the heads of the Russian soldiers.

"Boom..."

"Bang bang bang..."

The four Ming soldiers exploded with the grenade explosive pack. The Russians were so scared that they forgot to escape and closed their eyes and began to pray. The Ming soldiers also closed their eyes, and they felt sorry for their comrades.

Zhu Youjian also frowned. He was also very distressed for the brave Ming army soldiers. He was so brave!

Coincidentally, the effect of this hot air balloon explosion was amazing. The explosion of two hot air balloons actually caused more than a thousand Tsarist Russian soldiers to lose their lives forever.

It is not that the hot air balloon has a great explosive power, nor that it is that the Ming army's courage touched God, but that this explosion just verified the huge power of the air bomb.

Of course, no one could understand that life was called an air-explosive bomb at that time. Even Zhu Youjian didn't know that air-explosive bombs exploded above people's heads. The first thing to kill was the human head, and it exploded downward from the air, amplifying the power of the explosives to the extreme.

After seeing two hot air balloons colliding and falling down, the Ming army on the hot air balloon immediately began to maintain a certain distance between each other, and successively wanted to throw grenades and explosives bags from the air.

With the explosion of countless grenades and explosive packs, the two bulwarks instantly fell into a violent roar. Explosions occurred everywhere in the bulwarks, artillery on the city walls were blown over, and countless defensive soldiers were killed.

The soldiers began to run to the houses in the castle to hide, but soon the roof was blown down, and then a raging fire ignited. The entire castle was trapped in a sea of ​​fire, and many Tsarist Russian soldiers died amid cursing the Ming army's unethical curse.

"Boom..."

"Bang bang bang..."
Chapter completed!