Ten days later, both sides were in a confrontation, whether it was Podrache or Warsaw, but at this time, Ye Bushu

The army's infantry brigade has finally arrived.

And in Minsk, Lithuanians, Swedes, and Russians are rarely combined, among which

There were 10,000 ins and cavalry led by Yanush, 10,000 elite troops led by Horn, the governor of Livonia in Sweden, and 20,000 troops led by the Russian Empire, Grigori, Gangoli, the governor of the Northwest, and a total of 40,000 troops were transporting into Poland.

However, Minsk is more than 700 miles away from Warsaw and Podrache. It is not to mention that it is impossible for them, a military dominated by infantry, to reach the Polish border within ten days. Moreover, the Horn army also carried the cannons that the Swedes were proud of at this time.

This was exactly what Nikan wanted to see. He stayed and rushed to Warsaw in person to "reconcile" the Grand Duke of Prussia Frederick William, who was on both sides, and asked him to stay in his barracks to watch the battle, and asked Yebushu to immediately launch an attack on the castle of Podrache.

At this time, the Hanhai Army's food and grass were also exhausted, but the brothers of Karnetsky and the Polish king Kazimiz who fled to Krakow got a lot of food and grass under the premise that Nikan promised to drive away the Swedes and Russians and let Poland restore its country as soon as possible. After Kalinovsky's defeat, Carnetsky became the new Earl of Lublin and the city lord. Lublin was not affected by the war at this time. One Lublin alone was enough to support the three legions of the Hanhai Army's three months of food and grass.

(At this time, Europe had two major granaries, one was Poland and the other was Denmark)

Three months? The Hanhai Army has never fought such a long battle.

March 10th, a sunny day, but Ye Bushu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

There was a reason why he breathed a sigh of relief. By March, the temperature in Poland began to grow tall. Although it was a bit cold, it was already raining and the road was muddy. If the Nebuchu bronze cannon was transported here at this time, it would take at least ten days!

The son of the Heijin people (Hezhe tribe) near the Sanxun (Yilan County) who had originally moved to Liaodong, now perfectly replaced Nan Chu, a former Jurchen general in the Daxia Kingdom. After half a year of training at the Jinzhou Military and Political School, he couldn't help but maintain a brave and tenacious style, and he also used various tactics of the Hanhai Army very easily.

He was 35 years old this year. He was originally a general under the Qing Dynasty royal family, and made great contributions to Nikan's conspiracy to see through Lukan and Ebilong at the graduation ceremony of the Military and Political School. He has always been generous to the "Pan Solon tribes" like Heijin (the traditional Solon people refer to Ewenki, Oroqen, Daur, and Pan Solon included Xibe, Heijin and Haidong Jurchens). In fact, these people from Pan Solon tribes have now played a role like in the Qing Dynasty in later generations.

At present, Kake Duli comes from the Jurchens of the East China Sea, Ye Bushu comes from Heijin, Mu Zhan comes from Yehe, and Tong Yangjia comes from Huifa Tongjia, and is considered the best among the surrendered generals in Manchu.

The circumference of Podrache is only three miles long, but it is still an irregular polygon with only two gates. The castle is similar to the Chinese city, with battlements and parts similar to the Chinese horse-faced wall. However, it is round and not as long as the Chinese horse-faced wall. It is just a small bulge with a conical city tower on it.

A small town like Podrache is naturally impossible to build very thick, but it has reached the standard of ordinary Chinese county walls - a thickness of one zhang and a height of two zhang. However, such a small town naturally has no moat, moat, and the gates are also made of wooden, but they are made of thick oak, and the edges of the wood are covered with iron. It also requires a winch to open and close the gates.

In fact, with the ability of the Hanhai cavalry, if you keep bombarding with a 200-pound cannon, such a city gate can be knocked down. However, it will take time, and Nikan needs to understand the Russians and the Swedes' determination to rescue their Tsar and Regent. After learning that they had assembled 40,000 troops in Minsk, he immediately decided to attack Podrashe first, capture the Tsar, and let the Russian reinforcements retreat without fighting, and then use two legions to deal with the remaining Swedish and Lithuanian army.

Especially the Lithuanian army, which is the essence of the entire Lithuanian region, is exactly the effect Nikan wants to achieve, which is closely related to the plan he is about to implement.

"boom!"

In the city of Podrache, three twelve pounds of Nibchu bronze cannons were placed near the two gates, and now they have begun to bombard the city gates at almost the same time.

In fact, with the size of the city gate of Podrashe, it is enough to use a bronze cannon. However, in order to prevent the Russian cavalry from suddenly leaving the city to attack, two other bronze cannons were arranged to be filled with shotguns. In addition to artillery, there are also 1,500 fully armed infantry and cavalry of the same size near the bronze cannons. Even if Alexey wants to break through, it is almost impossible.

Speaking of the Nebuchu bronze cannon made according to the Napoleon bronze cannon in later generations, the situation has naturally undergone new improvements at the moment. Due to the improvement of the quality of steel, the cannon that fires 12 kilograms of lead or iron cannons are no longer as heavy as before. Including the cannon body and gun stand, the total weight has been reduced by almost 30%. In this way, four horses will pull up and run faster.

Speaking of horses, at present, the Daxia Kingdom has also cultivated horses that are specially used for military purposes. Compared with war horses, horses are not as fast as possible, endurance and strength are not bad at all.

In addition, the gun mirrors, rulers, and devices for adjusting gun positions have also been further improved. The previous Nebchu bronze cannon could hit four miles away and had a correct head. Now it has increased its effective range to five miles, which is one mile higher than the Napoleon era.

Don't underestimate this. The Red Cannons at this time, which are cannons cast according to European methods, are known as "a single cannon that is decayed for dozens of miles". That's nonsense. If you can hit more than four miles, you still have a clear head. The cannon body alone costs more than three thousand kilograms. With the cannon stands and ammunition, a cannon like this costs five thousand kilograms and five thousand kilograms. Including the current road conditions and concepts of the Ming and European countries, it goes without saying that it is surprisingly slow. Even if you have worked hard to get it to the battlefield, it is impossible to adjust the cannon position for more than half an hour.

In real history, in order to break through Yangzhou City, Duoduo transferred 10,000 kilograms of red barbarian cannons from Beijing. Each cannon requires 100 people to serve and ten cows to move. In this way, the effective range of such cannons is only three miles!

Less gossip. When the twelve kilogram bronze cannons near the two city gates rang out, Alexey, the tallest building in the city, was on the top of the cathedral in the city, with a telescope, looked grim. He was an artillery expert and was very proficient in mathematics. He could discuss the kind of Taoism with mathematicians at this time. When he heard the sound of the cannon, his face changed.

As the current Tsar of Russia, he was very worried.

He was the only son of Mikhail I. After marriage, the queen had several children in one year and died. The famous Princess Sophia, Ivan V, and Peter I, were not yet born.

According to the current situation, once one unfortunately died, if the Romanov dynasty had not made Irina, who had already married William, as the queen, or had his uncle Nikita's sons ascended the throne, the Romanov dynasty's blood would have been eroded, because Alexey's father could be made the new Tsar by the Moscow nobles because his mother came from the royal family of the Liurik dynasty, not because of his father!

But Alexey was a little unwilling to surrender directly. In that case, his image in the empire would plummet, and his great achievements in winning St. Petersburg and Smolensk would be gone through the war with Sweden.

He now has 2,500 cavalrymen, 2,000 light cavalrymen composed of his cousin Cherkasky (from the matriarch) as the commander, all of which are nobles and civilians, and most of them are mercenaries from Europe. They have sworn to join the Russian Empire. Their leader is his imperial physician and guard Collins.

In fact, if he took a gamble at this time and chose to rush out from a door, it would be very likely to escape with these 2,500 cavalrymen. However, at that time, how much of these 2,500 cavalry could be left would be greatly reduced. These 2,500 cavalry were formed after he "taken power" at the age of 18. Especially these 500 cavalrymen, he was built as an imperial officer group. How could he not feel sad if he was exhausted?

But now I don't care about this much.

As mentioned earlier, the gate of the castle is made of oak, up to forty centimeters thick, covered with iron on the edges, and painted on the surface. With such a thickness, if it is bombarded with a twelve kilogram cannon, it is not easy to collapse. However, it is made of wood after all. For wood, the Hanhai Army has some methods. In addition to bombarding with cannons, it can also be close to the door and blown up with explosives, or destroyed by fire.

However, Ye Bushu still used the method of bombardment with cannons, because near the two city gates, Alexey arranged a large number of musketeers and equipped some small cannons and grenades, so it was not easy to reach the city gate.

As for the more than 2,000 cavalry in the city, Ye Bushu didn't care. Not to mention more than 2,000, he was not afraid even if there were 5,000 cavalry. He now had four cavalry brigades and one infantry brigade, all of which were arranged around the small city of Podrache. Even if Alexei had three heads and six arms, he could not fly.

When he received Nikan's order and asked him to officially launch an attack on the castle, he naturally understood the meaning, but for him, it would be best to continue to surround the castle and let reinforcements come to rescue as soon as possible, and then attack the city after annihilation of the reinforcements himself. The emperor was still too careful in making such arrangements.

The artillery kept bombarding, and every roar from the fire caused Alexey in the city to be shocked. On this day, he spent the constant prayer in the only church in the city. According to his estimate, it would take three days for the artillery like the Hanhai Army to destroy the city gate.

"Three days, Grigory should be here, right?"

However, when he thought of the Grigori brothers, he was shocked again. The Grigori brothers were both Romodanovsky family from Novgorod. This family was an important supporter of the Liurik dynasty and served as lords of Novgorod and Arkhangelsk in the two places near the Swedish kingdom castles. Although after the Romanov dynasty began, the Tsar divided the former Liurik nobles through the new Boyar, the influence they formed for a long time to guard the important places in the northwest of the Grand Duchy of Moscow cannot be underestimated.

"flutter!"

Just as he was thinking, a sound of heavy objects falling to the ground came from the north, and Alexey was shocked.

"In less than half a day, the city gate collapsed?"

However, the guards who came to report the news were relieved. The collapsed city tower was the city gate, but he was still shocked. The enemy had just bombarded with a cannon, but now he hit the city tower. It must be another cannon that was showing its power!

“Roll…”

Alexey had an idea in an instant and ran down the city with great strides.

"We must rush out of the castle before the gate collapses!"

Soon, he left dozens of artillery soldiers near the two city gates and started firing at the enemy with small cannons arranged on the city walls. Naturally, with the range of small cannons, it was impossible to hit. However, this was Alexey's delaying strategy. These people were all guards from mercenaries and would not do anything after being caught by the enemy. He personally brought the remaining two thousand cavalry and squeezed near the city gate to the north.

"Cruff..."

The wooden door with three iron door bolts opened, and in front of them were cavalrymen from three hundred free people. Alexey promised that no matter whether they survived this battle, their family would get at least one baron's title. This was very rare. It would be difficult for ordinary children to get a title, and if death could be exchanged for a title, there would have been people who would have been there, let alone the barons in Russia, not Siberian.
Chapter completed!