Smoke billowed from under the eastern walls of the outer city of Moscow, and through the faint light, three large holes on either side of the city gate could be faintly seen.

The entrance to the cave was about a foot wide, and the Rakshasa soldiers in the city held heavy shields to defend the entrance, followed by several rows of musketeers, and then a heavy artillery.

"Dumbfounded, how many grenades are there?" Liu Hong gradually heard that the city of Moscow was broken, and hurriedly left the group of to check the military situation.

The Blood Wolf Mercenary Group has been basically annihilated, and all that remains is the finishing work of cleaning up the battlefield, and Liu Hong gradually knows that the real tough battle is in Moscow.

The Rakshasas put out a four-layer defense system of heavy shield soldiers, grenadiers, musketeers, and artillery, intending to consume the living force of the Ming army at the broken wall.

In fact, Duke Dumarod, who doesn't know much about military affairs, is indeed playing this calculation, and the artillery of the Ming Dynasty is powerful, but if you want to pour in from the door hole, the artillery will definitely not come in handy.

And such a small hole would undoubtedly have to pay a great price to hold its ground under the combined fire of his thousands of Rakshasa soldiers.

"I didn't ...... There aren't many left, and there are still a dozen or so left. The second stunned looked at Liu Hong's face and gradually looked a little unkind.

He knew that these howitzers were the lifeblood of the army, and he signaled that the artillery he used just now was also carefully calculated, but after all, Moscow City was operated by the Rakshasa for a hundred years, and the city walls were really strong, and only three of the five points that were originally bombarded at the same time were considered to have opened a gap, and seeing that there were not many shells left, he decisively chose to stop the bombardment.

"It's enough, see those three gaps, two cannons as a group, listen to my orders for a while, I'll let you fire at the gap!"

Liu Honggradually didn't know how many times he had fought such a battle, and he naturally knew the purpose of the Rakshasa people in his heart, but he couldn't use artillery, and the other party didn't want to use it, not to mention that he had 10,000 bolt-action rifles in his hand.

"Obedience!" Kong Er was stunned and immediately set out to calibrate the bearing.

"Lin He, divide the 10,000 bolt-action rifles into three teams, each with 500 grenadiers and 300 heavy shieldmen, and your task is to control the three entrances to allow the large army to enter the city!" Liu Hong gradually calmed down.

"Humble duty!" Lin He trotted towards his musketeers.

The battle with the Blood Wolf Mercenary Group is over, and the task of cleaning up the battlefield is simply handed over to Lu Haibo's cavalry, but the musketeers still need some time to form their team.

"Babala, your cavalry is also divided into three teams of 6,000 men each, and when the musketeers seize the position, they will immediately break in, and all the soldiers of the Rakshasa Kingdom will be killed, and the civilians of the Rakshasa Kingdom will ...... Those who descend do not kill. In the end, Liu Hong gradually pondered for a moment.

"My lord, what if the civilians don't surrender?" Baba also frowned, there are at least fifty or sixty thousand Rakshasa soldiers in the city, and under the big battle, the soldiers are red-eyed, where do they care about civilians?

Besides, all the way to the west, aren't all the cities slaughtered? What's wrong with this, Lord Wang?

"Humph! Won't surrender? Then they deserve to be exterminated, so hurry up and arrange it! Liu Hong said coldly.

"Lao Chang, you take the remaining musketeers to attack the city-head artillery in a phalanx formation, your task is to cover the rest of the troops to attack the city, Yang Tianbao, the sniper team also assists in suppressing the city-head artillery!"

The reason for this Liu Hongjian did not explain, and there is no need to explain, he is the commander of this army, and his order is heaven.

There are at least one million civilians in the city of Rakshasa Country, most of these people fled from the eastern part of Rakshasa Country, and it is precisely because of Liu Hongji's iron-blooded massacre that the Ming army rarely encountered resistance after the Chernog offensive and defensive battle.

In fact, before the siege of Moscow, Liu Hongjian had a combat meeting with all the soldiers, and hardline generals such as Babala and Suketu put forward a proposal to besiege but not attack.

The reason is very simple, the population of Moscow is usually only 70,000 or 80,000 people, but after the trampling of the iron hooves of the Ming Dynasty, there are now millions of people living in the city.

A city of 100,000 people accommodates a million people, and with the city management ability of the Europa, it has never been encountered at all, and it is cold and snowy, not to mention whether the house is enough or not, but one piece of food is enough for Narod's headache.

Indeed, the Rakshasa has always been at odds with its neighbors such as Poland, Prussia, and Sweden, and even signed an armistice with Poland and Sweden a year ago.

Most of the Rakshasa refugees fled to neighboring countries and were captured as slaves, and a small part fled to Moscow for refuge, even if the parliament took out all the money to buy food, but a million people consumed people and horses, how long could it last?

The best strategy is that the Ming army besieges but does not attack, although the 70,000 soldiers surrounding Moscow do not show, but as long as the gates of the cities are blocked, it is enough, and the Ming soldiers welcome the Rakshasa to come out to fight in the field.

As long as the food in Moscow is exhausted, the Ming can take Moscow without a single soldier.

However, this suggestion was gradually rejected by Liu Hong, and the reason was the same as the military order that Liu Hong gradually issued just now. 、

Liu Hongjian is not a murderous madman in the end, the policy of slaughtering the city along the way is just a matter of no way, and now all the civilians in the Rakshasa country can escape, and there are only a million people left in the city, and there is no problem of being attacked by the Rakshasa guerrillas.

Let him order the slaughter of a million civilians, he can't do it, and even if he gives the order, his conscience will be disturbed in the future, Liu Hong can only use one word to describe it, maybe this is humanitarianism.

This decision was supported by young moderates such as Lin He, the vast majority of the musketeers were Han Chinese, and most of the generals promoted by Lin He and others were young, and they did not experience slaughter and be slaughtered like the Mongol cavalry of Babala, and the agrarian people and the nomads had different temperaments.

Although he knew that even so, Liu Hong's title of slaughtering the city mad demon could not be taken off in Europa, but the benevolent and the wise saw the wise, and there were always people who understood what it meant to be a thunderbolt bodhisattva, and he didn't care about these titles imposed by others.

Two quarters of an hour later, after the preparations of each unit were completed, Liu Hong gradually explained the precautions in detail, and waved his hand at the artillery battalion not far away.

"Two stunned, fire!"

As soon as the words fell, Kong Ermao, the general of the artillery battalion who had been waiting for Liu Hong's order, immediately made a move.

Boom - Boom Boom - Boom -

Six shells successively attacked the Rakshasa heavy shield soldiers behind the broken wall, and at the same time, the bolt-activated rifle camp divided into three groups and rushed towards the gap, and the rest of the musketeers under the command of Chang Yu marched forward in formation, and then attacked the Rakshasa soldiers at the head of the city with a platoon of guns.

In Liu Hongji's plan, in fact, the musketeers ran under the city wall when the greatest threat was made, and the Rakshasas were not idiots, and the artillery at the head of the city immediately opened fire.

Dozens of shells fell under the city one after another, and the running musketeers suddenly formed several red blood lines, but fortunately, the artillery at the head of the city could not rush too far due to the angle problem.

The platoon guns and snipers focused on suppressing the artillery on the city wall at the right time, so as not to cause greater losses.

There was a distance of about 400 steps from the Ming army camp to the city of Moscow, and Lin He pinched the time for the Rakshasa artillery to reload, and many musketeers ran fast and did not give the second round of fire to the city's artillery.

The Rakshasa soldiers defending at the gap were also miserable, the two howitzers accurately hit the center of the gap, and the heavy shield could not resist the power of the grenade, and under the explosion, the entire defensive formation was in a mess and nothing could be seen.

When the musketeers led by Lin He arrived at the periphery of the gap, the Rakshasas finally reorganized their formation, and a row of heavy shield soldiers that had been replenished again blocked the gap, and the Rakshasa people saw that the Ming army was outside, and the grenadiers behind the heavy shield soldiers were ready to open the fuse of the grenade and throw it out.

Woo –

At this moment, the commander of the musketeers at the three gaps blew the iron whistles in his mouth, and the musketeers at each gap immediately dodged to the left and right, and the sight of the gaps was again exposed to Kong Er's stunned eyes.

"Shoot now!" Kong Er was stunned and yelled.