Tsarist Russia's No. 32 Bastion is facing the direction of the Ming army. If the Ming army does not suddenly act in disguise, then the target will definitely be this bastion.

The bastion guard was Ivanov, the Russian Army Colonel of Tsarist Russia. He was the best in an ordinary military officer family. His father was just a major throughout his life, but he was promoted to colonel in his thirties.

Ivanov's military talent is still very good. The problem is that he has only more than 3,000 people under his command. When he heard that more than 100,000 Ming troops headed straight to the bastion where he was stationed, his face was so scared that he changed color.

It’s not that he is greedy for life and death. He is born in a military family and regards glory as more important than life. However, the Ming army is famous for being fierce and has a very good weapon and equipment. Not to mention more than 100,000, even if he only comes to 100,000 or 20,000, he can’t stand it!

However, if you can't stand it, you have to endure it, because Marshal Peter Golovin conveyed the order of Prime Minister Rozov last month. The Allied forces were about to counterattack and the Ming army was about to retreat. All the bastion defenders were not allowed to take a step back. If they fled in a cowardly battle or surrender without fighting, they would be punished as treason. This treason would harm their families.

This means that you are not allowed to escape and must fight. As for what it means to surrender without fighting, and what it means to surrender without fighting, there is no clear standard, and it is very vague. Rozov dares not force you too ruthlessly, making it clear that people will die. These defenders dare not take chances and challenge the bottom line of treason.

Therefore, Ivanov knew he was defeated but did not dare to retreat. He could only seek help from his boss, hoping to obtain enough support to withstand the Ming army's attack and persist until the moment the Allied counterattack.

His request for help was naturally futile, because Rozov had issued a secret order to Golovin. No matter how the Ming army attacked, they must stabilize their position and persevere until the end of the year. It is a victory!

This is clearly a matter of using space to exchange for time. Golovin was too lazy to lead the main force to take risks. Anyway, the Ming army captured eight bastions last year. So what if they were allowed to capture sixteen this year? Persistence is victory. If you let your subordinates persevere, he will win.

Therefore, although Golovin was actively preparing for the war, he actually did not intend to lead the main force to fight with the Ming army. Let's waste it, let the Ming army slowly chew the bastions one by one to see how many they could chew.

Ivanov was destined to not be able to wait for reinforcements, but he waited for another good news. The Ming army was halfway through, and suddenly divided into three groups and rushed to two nearby bastions at the same time. Only 40,000 to 50,000 people were left to him.

Well, although 40,000 to 50,000 people can't stand it, it's better than more than 100,000 people. He can only comfort himself like this.

It has been a tactic that has been decided long ago. Attacking one bastion at a time is too time-consuming. Anyway, with armored combat vehicles, it does not require too much force to attack the bastion. The only thing to be careful is the sneak attack from the main force of Tsarist Russia.

The Ming army is no longer afraid of the main force of Tsarist Russia's sneak attacks. With hot air balloon warning and armored wings, even if Tsarist Russia's 200,000 to 300,000 troops attacked the 50,000 Ming troops in a row, it would be difficult to capture it for a while. At that time, the 100,000 cavalry and the other two groups of support will definitely be able to repel the main force of Tsarist Russia, or even defeat it!

The assembly point chosen by the Ming army was not very far from the surrounding bastions, and the farthest was no more than two hundred miles. The No. 32 Tsarist Russia was less than one hundred and fifty miles away from the assembly point of the Ming army on the south road. If you march quickly, you can reach it in one day.

However, the speed of the armored combat vehicles was already there, and they were walking faster than normal people. It was impossible to march quickly. In addition, hot air balloon warnings were arranged along the way. Cao Wenzhao simply asked the entire army to move slowly, walk in two days, advance together on the first day, and the second day the troops divided into three groups to reach their respective goals.

When Cao Wenzhao led 50,000 infantry to the No. 32 Bastion, it was already 3:00 on the afternoon of the next day. Seeing that it was getting dark, he hurriedly ordered people to set up camps and raise hot air balloons. As for armored combat vehicles, they were arranged around the camp, so that even if the enemy attacked, there would be a steel barrier.

Golovin had given up the sneak attack tactic, and the battalion defenders dared not go out of the city to sneak attack. Naturally, nothing happened that night, and nothing happened overnight. The next morning, Cao Wenzhao set up his formation and prepared to attack the city.

The formation of the Ming army was very strange. There were a hundred magic cannons in front, lined up in four rows, and then there were four rows of armored combat vehicles. Then there was no more. Ivanov on the third floor of the castle could only see these. After the armored combat vehicles were transformed, they were like a wall, and there was nothing behind them.

Faced with such a strange steel monster, Ivanov felt a little nervous. He only received the news two days ago that Ming Jun seemed to have added a new equipment, with iron plates on the outer layer, and he could move forward by himself. I don’t know what he is doing!

Ivanov used a telescope to observe the steel monsters carefully, and couldn't help but curse the pig-head intelligence personnel in his heart. It was clearly used to attack the city. I don't know what it was for. It was such a group of pigs!

Are the intelligence personnel of Tsarist Russia a group of pigs? Obviously not. They may have guessed the role of armored combat vehicles a long time ago. As for why they didn’t tell Ivanov, what’s the point of telling him? What should he do if he abandoned the city and ran away after he knew it!

Perhaps, Ivanov is the pig in the eyes of intelligence personnel. The little white pig used to test the specific functions of the Ming army's armored combat vehicles was just kept in the dark.

The siege tactics of armored combat vehicles have been practiced countless times in the army training base in the capital. Cao Wenzhao is naturally very familiar with it. After the 50,000 troops set up their formation, he ordered loudly: "All the magical cannons have a test shot for a round."

When the flag was waving, the roar of artillery sounded soon in front of the formation, "Boom Boom Boom" One hundred flowering bullets rushed into the No. 32 Castle, and thick smoke immediately emerged from the castle.

Cao Wenzhao did not look at the bastion with his telescope, but looked at the flag bearer on the hot air balloon, and then ordered: "Current the elevation angle to a little higher, and then test the flower bullet for another round."

The flag was waving, and soon the roar of artillery sounded in front of the formation, "Boom Boom Boom" One hundred flowering bullets blasted into the No. 32 Castle again, and the smoke came out of the castle.

Cao Wenzhao looked at the hot air balloon with a telescope again, and then ordered: "Keep the current angle, develop ten rounds of bombardment, drive the mountain bike, and the artillery carriage move forward!"

Another wave of order flags was waving, and soon the roar of cannons came to the formation. Flowering bullets kept flying into the bastion, and the mountain bikes and artillery cars also lined up toward the bastion.

It may be a bit inappropriate to use rushing here, because the speed of the mountain bike and artillery truck is now higher than the speed of a normal person walking, so it may be more appropriate to use approximation.

Behind each roller car and artillery car, a hundred Ming soldiers lined up in dense square formations and followed closely. Of course, these were not visible from the bastion, because after the improvement of the armored combat vehicles, they became more and more burly, and the whole wall was just a wall.

This is very different from later tanks or armored vehicles. Later tanks and armored vehicles were made very low, probably to reduce the area of ​​attack. However, the Ming army's improved armored combat vehicles are getting higher and higher, just to increase the area of ​​attack, block the shells, and thus protect the soldiers behind them. Anyway, the shells at this moment have no harm to an inch of thick armor!

Ivanov in the basin saw the enemy coming up, and quickly ordered the bombardment to bombard it. However, after the Ming army's Shenwei cannons were cleared, the number of artillery in the basin was not large. In addition, the roller carts and artillery vehicles were moving all the time, and there were only a few shells that could hit the roller carts and artillery vehicles. Even if they were hit, they would have a loud "clang" sound, and then there was nothing. The roller carts and artillery vehicles were doing, and they were still moving forward slowly.
Chapter completed!