The attack intensity was reduced and the artillery was insufficient, so the Ming Dynasty could only change from the original full bombardment to the focus bombing. The Ottoman defense could also breathe a sigh of relief.

The key bombing is that the army wants to attack the mountain, and any mountain will be concentrated on fire, while the rest of the mountain will only shoot a few symbolic shots to prevent them from being idle.

Then the second and sixth hills on the battlefield began to roar, and the army began to attack in an orderly manner.

In attacking the mountain, you don’t want to set up a fortress on the opposite side and then rush up and win. There are various traps blocking the road along the way, and various open and secret castles blocking the intersections.

There are also camouflaged shooting points and enemies hiding in caves.

If you are not careful, you will be attacked by the opponent, and the casualty rate is very high, especially if the opponent is defending and attacking from the lower body. In order to reduce unnecessary casualties, the Ming army can only fight and stop and retreat continuously.

When you find a fire point, then find a way to see if it can be removed. If you can't, call for artillery support. If the army artillery doesn't work, call it the navy.

If the enemy's target is small, the point where the artillery is difficult to aim, the army will also use mountain cannons and mortars. If it doesn't work, they can only use people to carry explosives and blow them up.

If you encounter caves and caves, in order to reduce casualties, you will throw them into them with a grenade and spray them with a flamethrower.

It doesn't matter how much it kills. As long as you are sprayed by a flamethrower, the oxygen of the cave will be exhausted. Unless the other person's cave is connected, the people inside will run away from other places.

After the flamethrower passes, the blaster behind it will go in and blow the cave down to prevent the enemy's hole from being really connected. Then someone will come out from behind.

This set of operations can indeed solve the problem, but it is not efficient, because the first batch of landing troops were limited, and there were less than 20,000 troops attacking from one side.

Then there is also a deep advance, and there are defensive flanks. In the end, only about 10,000 people can be used for offense. In order to maintain the strength of the day and night, these 10,000 people can only be divided into two waves of attacks in turn.

Therefore, the force of the attack on the mountain was only more than 5,000, which was just a little more than the defenders.

In other words, the Ming Dynasty had too many advanced weapons, otherwise this battle would not be able to be fought at all.

At dawn, the airship troops finally arrived. In order to put on continuous pressure on the other side, the airship troops dropped a large number of incendiary bombs on the hills.

And half of them sway over the position. Once there is a firepower ignition, the fierce airship will fly over and throw a few incendiary bombs.

The Ottomans have never seen such a formation, such as joint combat between sea, land and air. Not to mention the current Ottoman Empire, even if it is advanced for two hundred years, it cannot withstand such an attack.

So it was not dark in the afternoon, and the second and sixth highlands were successively taken down. The Ming Dynasty had occupied four of the seven highlands, and there were three left to completely control the waterway.

However, after a day and night of attack, the Imperial ammunition was exhausted, and the remaining warships were also very necessary after high-intensity combat.

The Army has also attacked for one day and one night from last night to today. The Ming army needs adjustments and needs rest. So that night Li Xin decided to let the Navy carry out continuous fire suppression, and the Army sent two thousand people to carry out a pressure attack on the remaining high ground.

Anyway, the accuracy of artillery at night is not high, and the army is prone to suffer losses. It is better to wait until tomorrow to adjust and take down all the high ground in one go!

The entire Suez Canal was planned for several years and various plans were proposed. Finally, it was concluded that it was necessary to force the turtle shell to pry open layer by layer.

Although there are only three remaining high grounds, their difficulty is much more difficult than the other four.

If the four on the periphery are guards, then the three in the middle are generals guarded in the middle. Not only are their artillery denser, but the Ottomans used more stones to build forts.

Moreover, in order to prevent sea attacks from destroying the gun positions, they designed some gun positions in semi-buried design, which means that these gun positions are embedded in the mountain, and it is difficult for you to cause damage to them unless the naval gun hits directly.

Naval gun strike is a matter of probability. Even if it hits, it is only a range hit, and it does not mean that it can hit directly.

Moreover, not only the small cannons have such designs, but even the 160mm secondary cannons have such shooting. Although not many, they are enough for the Ming Navy to dare not step forward easily.

Among them, Heights No. 4 and Heights No. 5 also have gun positions facing the canal surface on the side. If you want to break through forcibly, even the Imperial will have to worry about damage to the ship island and deck buildings.

Especially if the main gun turret is shot in a solid moment, it will be a big pit. If the machine inside is damaged, the cannon chamber will be ruined.

The airship troops evacuated before the sun sets. This thing has not yet mastered the method of night battles, and there is nothing to see at night, so I can't tell the enemy and not to throw a bomb on my own head. That's not funny, it's a major accident.

Li Xin is confident that he will go south to the canal estuary fortress group for up to five days. Judging from today's offensive and defensive form, even if he adds the fortress group in the middle and late sections, Li Xin is confident that he will resolve the battle within one month.

This is two-thirds ahead of the three months specified by the military headquarters, which is definitely a great achievement. Of course, this is inseparable from the intelligence work of the Military Intelligence Department.

The Ming Dynasty had all obtained the Ottoman fortress drawings, military deployment maps, and authentic system maps. The Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers were more familiar with their fortress groups than many Ottoman officers in the fortress.

The battle in the Suez Canal area fell silent, and the battle on the Nile River had just begun. Because the Japanese blew up the dam, the Nile River water flowed down. Although Li Xin did not like this, he had to admit that their attack was much simpler after they let the water go.

After a day and night of rushing, the water flow on the Nile River began to calm down.

This dam is not a dam that blocks water and generates electricity in later generations, but a dam that prevents dry water. This dam is woven from long stones and iron mesh gravel.

The function is to raise the water surface, but if the water level exceeds the dam, it will overflow from above, not delaying the flood transit. However, during the dry period, a certain amount of water is blocked so that the local area can carry out normal planting.

This kind of dam is a bit similar to Dujiangyan's idea, but this was not an invention of the Ming Dynasty. Anyway, this kind of thing is available everywhere, so I don't know who invented it first.
Chapter completed!