Chapter 742: Completely wipe out the Royal Austrian Army and conquer Minsk (two in one)(1/2)
The Duke of Lorraine had to order his own royal elite to form a formation that was lined up to kill.
A bloody battle was fought with the Ming army who were surrounding them.
Artillery is in front and infantry is in back.
But what Duke Lorraine did not expect was that the Ming army not only surrounded him with absolute superior forces, but also continued to increase his troops.
Moreover, he actually found that these additional soldiers were serfs from his manors in Austria.
He saw that these serfs were gathering around him under the organization of the Ming army, carrying all kinds of muskets, swords, and hoes and sticks that they had snatched from nowhere.
He is going crazy.
He didn't understand how Mingjun organized the serfs.
It even looks like there are quite a lot, as many as 50,000 or 60,000!
"Let the serfs rush over!"
At this time, Guo Mu issued an offensive order against the elite royal soldiers led by the Duke of Lorraine.
Then, the Ming army instructor shouted to the organized serfs in local language: "Roar over! Kill these shameless nobles and his thugs in front of you, and the Austrian land belongs to you! You will live this winter and no longer starve to death and freeze to death!"
The serfs belonging to the extreme poverty class were very indifferent to their lives. For the sake of land, they rushed towards the royal elites of the Duke of Lorraine.
The royal elites of the Duke of Lorraine had to fire and fire the serfs to deal with them first.
While these serfs consumed the firepower of these elite Austrian royal soldiers, Guo Mu ordered the Ming cavalry he led to charge.
Then, these Ming cavalry rushed towards these Austrian royal elites like a scattered sea of scattered terrorists.
Because the serfs were offsetting the firepower of these Austrian elites, the Ming cavalry successfully rushed into the camp of the Austrian elites, and then used thunder and explosives to blow up the cannons and artillery of the Austrian elites, and also slashed and killed these elites.
At the same time, the horse-riding infantry in the Ming army also dismounted and rushed in the three-three system.
Even if the cavalry was not cut to the ground, the Austrian royal elite were powerless after seeing the Ming army's infantry. Many Austrian royal elite infantry were shot to death before they could see the faces.
In the end, more than 20,000 Austrian royal elites were directly defeated and completely wiped out.
The Duke of Lorraine was also directly captured alive.
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Sobesky didn't know that the 20,000 Austrian infantry artillery he relied on had been completely wiped out by the Ming army.
Now he is bringing his 120,000 Polish winged cavalry troops to the vicinity of Kiev.
In order to understand the movements of the Ming army, Sobesky sent out tens of thousands of cavalry to provoke everywhere. Therefore, he received news that the main force of the Ming army attacked Minsk did not show signs of withdrawal because of his attack on Kiev.
He even learned through his whistle cavalry that there were no Ming army whistle cavalry nearby.
This made Sobesky feel relieved. He believed that the Ming army must have not expected that he would attack Kiev and abandon Minsk, the capital of Lithuania.
"Send the order, gather the troops, rest along the Dnieper River, and wait for the infantry and artillery of the Duke of Lorraine!"
Sobesky conveyed a new order after arriving near Kiev.
For him now, everything is ready, but he only lacks the east wind.
However, he should never wait for the 20,000 Austrian soldiers of the Duke of Lorraine.
Because even the Duke of Lorraine himself had been taken to Moscow at this time, and after being interrogated by the Jinyiwei, he revealed his purpose for this trip.
Zhou Yuji also knew Sobesky's plan, and on the one hand, he increased troops to Kiev, and on the other hand, he ordered more than 300,000 main forces of the Ming army attacking Minsk to speed up their advance, conquering Minsk as soon as possible, and opening up the next way to destroy Prussia.
At this time, the Minsk guardian Earl Jog was helplessly watching the Ming army get closer and gradually forming a siege.
"The despicable Poles, why haven't their reinforcements appeared yet? Do they really want us to have 30,000 soldiers coming from the city to block the seemingly 300,000 orientals outside the city?!"
Therefore, Earl Jogg asked in anger.
The Ming army commanded the more than 300,000 Ming troops to attack the city, Jiao Lian, who was named Duke Xuan not long ago.
Jiao Lian looked at the Minsk City, which was built into a bastion-shaped building, and naturally did not dare to order an attack rashly, but seriously thought about the countermeasures of the attack.
"Observe the wind direction and wait until the wind direction is right, directly release chlorine bombs! The guards in the city will be dazzled, and then howitzers will be fired to directly send these dazzled enemies to the King of Hell!"
"At the same time, the Red Flame Army rushed forward, dug trenches, and bombed the city wall!"
"In their respective directions, the Ming army will first build bunkers and dig traffic trenches so that they can follow the Chiyan Army and rush up."
Jiao Lian finally issued his own siege order.
So, not long after, hundreds of artillery artillery of the Ming army began to adjust the angle, and after the wind direction changed, it directly fired chlorine bombs.
Looking at the shells that were falling into the city and began to emit gas, Earl Jog shouted in horror: "It's the poisonous gas of the Ming army! Hurry up and retreat quickly! Hurry up and hide in the place against the wind!"
With the Ming Dynasty repeatedly using chlorine gas bombs in the war to destroy the Rakshasa Kingdom, Western troops were no strangers to poison gas bombs and also knew some ways to prevent them.
But because the poison gas spreads very quickly and people always have to breathe, even if these Western armies know some precautions, many defenders still lose their combat effectiveness.
Earl Qiao Ge naturally felt very frustrated. He even wanted to rush out and deal with this situation by actively attacking the Ming army.
But before Earl Jog made up his mind, many howitzers roared and exploded directly on the walls of the city.
Many defenders were blown away and even smashed into pieces.
The defenders who were fainted by poison also lost their ability to avoid howitzer bombing, so many of them were directly bombed and died.
After the smoke and medicine subside, there were no more defenders in the entire Minsk city.
At this moment, many Red Flame Army, composed of the extremely poor serf class of the Rakshasa Kingdom, rushed to Minsk City, digging trenches, burying explosives, and setting up ladders.
Jog, who retreated to a higher bastion, watched helplessly as these Red Flame Army dig out their outer city walls frantically.
boom!
boom!
boom!
Not long after, he heard many violent explosions, and then saw that more and more places in the outer city walls had begun to collapse, and what was accompanied by more and more Ming troops rushing to the fort.
However, Earl Jogg was not unprepared for this. He had prepared tens of thousands of volunteers who were willing to contribute to the city and were composed of citizens in the city.
So he immediately ordered the remaining defenders in the city to rush up to the city with these volunteers to stop the Ming army's attack.
But at this time, when the Ming army sent the Red Flame Army to attack the city, the other troops were not idle. They had already dug up the trenches that went straight to Minsk, and also organized assault teams, rushed over with light company muskets, and followed the Red Flame Army and used dense firepower to repel the defenders who came to stop their siege.
As the Ming army's traffic trenches directly reached the city of Minsk, and after wooden boards were built on it, the Ming army rushed over continuously and finally attacked the outer city of Minsk.
Earl Jogg therefore had to order his retreat to the inner city.
However, the inner city is the same as the outer city.
In front of the Ming army, who was very powerful and could use poison gas bombs without scruples, various machine guns, and the Ming army of the Red Flame Army who was not afraid of death in order to protect the land he had just obtained, the inner city was also breached in the next half month.
Earl Jogg had to commit suicide.
When Minsk was captured by the Ming army, Sobesky didn't know the situation in Minsk, and he was still waiting for Austrian reinforcements.
However, as he waited longer and saw that the Austrian reinforcements led by the Duke of Lorraine were delayed in the future, he gradually became uneasy.
Sobesky even began to guess the arrangements of the Ming army.
But he had difficulty accepting the results he had guessed for a while, so he murmured unwillingly: "No, no, impossible! How could the Ming army think about fighting the Duke of Lorraine from Austria? They didn't know that Austrian reinforcements would come! Their soldiers were in the Dnieper River and the Taoist Wa River. Didn't they just attack my Polish and Lithuanian Commonwealth?"
Duke Milin also analyzed: "But it is not impossible! After all, the purpose of the Ming Dynasty is to unify the world, not just annex my Polish and Lithuanian Commonwealth!"
Bang!
Sobesky punched the wooden table and said depressedly: "We should enlarge the pattern of the battlefield a little more, and focus on the entire European continent! It should not be just the Dnieper River and the Taoist Wa River Basin!"
As he said that, Sobesky said again: "We should evacuate quickly and go to Minsk immediately to rescue Minsk, otherwise our situation will become very bad!"
Immediately afterwards, Sobesky changed his mind and waved his hand and said, "No, we should not go to Minsk again, but we should go back to Warsaw and rush back to Warsaw immediately! The Ming army must have expected that we would go to Minsk long ago."
Then Sobesky looked at Milin and shouted: "As soon as possible, as soon as possible! We must bring our 120,000 winged cavalry back!"
"yes!"
Milin immediately responded.
So, not long after, the neighing sounds of war horses and the hurried footsteps came from outside.
One hundred and twenty thousand Polish winged cavalry began to evacuate urgently.
A man holds a stick.
Cage immediately.
Bunches of emergency move towards Warsaw.
But soon, these Polish winged cavalry discovered that at the end of the sky in front of them, there were Ming cavalry on the horizon, and gradually there were more and more trends.
Then, they also found that Ming cavalry began to appear in other directions, and there were signs of increasing numbers.
The Polish whistle riding horse immediately reported the situation to Sobesky.
Sobesky became even more uneasy after hearing this.
After thinking for a while, Sobesky spitted out the wooden stick in his mouth, and asked his personal soldiers to take off the cage, then pulled out the knife, and said in a desperate attempt: "Run over at all costs! Target, Warsaw!"
Not long after.
To be continued...