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The Tsaritsyn fortress was built between the Volga and Tsaritsyn rivers, and was surrounded on three sides by a mighty river, with only a fan-shaped land on the northwest side that could be used to attack the fortress.

The fortress was a bridgehead against the Ottoman army, and it was built very strongly, especially the northwestern wall, which was 12 meters wide and nearly 20 meters high, and was mainly made of huge stones, with six batteries on the northwest wall alone.

Tsarist Russia stationed tens of thousands of troops here all the year round, and also learned from the Hungarians on the periphery, built several small castles, formed a star-shaped fortress, and turned into horns for each other.

The Ottoman Empire has been trying to annex Tsarist Russia for many years, and has sent large armies to attack the fortress of Tsaritsyn six times, all of which have ended in failure.

For this reason, the Tsaritsyn fortress was called a fortress by the Russians that would never fall.

If it weren't for the success of Li Ding's plan to lure the snake out of the hole, Ivanov's 10,000 troops would have held the fortress, and Li Ding's tens of thousands of troops would have been even more difficult to capture this strong fortress.

Li Ding ordered the heads of nearly 7,000 Slavs to be piled up outside the fortress, and the heads of the commander-in-chief Ivanov and Sergeikov and other high-ranking generals were lifted high with bamboo poles and lined up outside the fortress.

Seven thousand heads, piled up into a hill, bloody, extremely hideous, the remaining 1,000 Russian troops in the city looked depressed, and their hearts were cold.

Li Ding sent some Russian prisoners to the city to persuade him to surrender, but the 1,000 Russian troops in the city thought that there was a fortress to serve and refused to surrender.

Li Ding was furious and ordered the siege of the city, once the city was broken, the chickens and dogs would not be left!

Three thousand Kazakh servants rushed up with a shout, carrying a long ladder, and the six cannons at the head of the city were the first to roar. The Russian army loaded with shotguns, and a terrifying barrage of bullets sprayed down, causing the Kazakhs to fall in pieces, and in less than a pillar of incense, more than 300 people were killed and wounded.

Li Ding was a few miles away, looking at it with a telescope, and his brows couldn't help frowning.

The Kazakhs had not even touched the city wall, so many people were killed and wounded, and they continued to attack it so strongly, and finally they filled in all 40,000 people. I'm afraid I won't be able to break through this strong fortress!

The whining horn sounded, and the Kazakh army besieging the city immediately retreated like a tide; Only a mess of corpses was left under the city.

The Russian troops defending the city won the first battle, and their morale was greatly restored.

However, the Russian general Basalyev knew in his heart that the Qin army was only a tentative attack this time in order to find out where the weakness of the Tsaritsyn fortress was.

He did not dare to slack off, and ordered to strengthen the defense of the city, and brought up a large number of stones and rolling logs to meet the more fierce attack of the Qin army.

Li Ding divided his troops to besiege the outer Star City. While personally approaching and observing the Tsaritsyn fortress.

The fortress was large, facing the river on three sides, and under the high city walls, less than ten zhang away were muddy river beaches and rolling rivers.

If there are battleships. It was possible to bombard the city from the river, but this was only if, Li Ding could not conjure up a warship.

Staff officer Wu Ying suggested: "General, middle and lower reaches of the Volga. Shipping is developed, and it is not difficult for us to find a group of ships. Now there are few enemies in the city, which is their fatal weakness;

If only to guard the northwest wall. They can still hold on to a thousand people, but once they are scattered on four walls, one wall is only more than two hundred people, and the force will become very thin.

Therefore, the subordinates suggested that the ships and a large amount of thatch should be gathered at once, and the bundles of thatch should be spread on the river beach, and after nightfall, we would attack from all sides, and the enemy would not be able to hold on for long. ”

The guerrilla general Li Wei also said: "I agree with the opinion of Staff Officer Wu, the general, the last general has carefully observed, on the side of the river, there are relatively few artillery, and there are only two on each wall.

Once at depth, we can concentrate our rockets and, when we get closer, quickly take out the enemy's artillery. Then the main attack was launched from the river.

Because the side of the river is not conducive to the deployment of troops, the enemy must have thought that the direction of our main attack was still on land in the northwest, and the troops assigned to the other sides must be relatively small. At this time, we launched a fierce attack from three sides of the river at the same time, and we were able to catch the enemy by surprise. ”

Li Ding said: "The walls of this fortress are nearly seven zhang high, and it is difficult to climb them empty-handed, even if they can successfully destroy the enemy's artillery, it is still not easy to attack it." ”

This is a fact, even if the enemy has no artillery, even if there are few people, the city wall is nearly 20 meters high, and when you climb to the top of the city with all your might, people gently push the ladder, and you will fall down with the ladder.

After thinking about it, Li Ding came up with a herringbone ladder and asked people to urgently build it for siege of the city.

On this day, the Qin army did not attack the city again, but was busy urgently, and everything was not ready until the third watch in the middle of the night. After giving the soldiers a full meal, Li Ding immediately ordered the siege of the city overnight.

First of all, the Kazakhs launched a fierce attack from the land, and the army of 10,000 was divided into three and took turns to attack the city.

After attracting the enemy's attention on land on the northwest side, on the three sides of the river, first small boats approached quietly in the dark, and concentrated a dozen rockets to deal with an artillery piece;

On the turret where dazzling flames were drawn out and bombarded one after another, clusters of flames burst out at the head of the city, deafening. Soon the batteries were bombarded to pieces, after it was determined that the enemy's artillery had been taken out.

The Qin army, which had been quietly waiting on the river, immediately began to launch a general attack!

Calculated from the mouth of the sea, the Fuerga River traces 6,000 miles upstream, the drop is only 190 meters, and there is almost no drop in the middle and lower reaches, and the water flow is very gentle, and the waves are not alarmed.

The Qin army connected the collected boats and the improvised bamboo rafts, rowed directly to the river beach, and then quickly spread the prepared hay onto the river beach, and then swarmed up.

First of all, a tall herringbone ladder was quickly erected, and at the top of the herringbone ladder there was a small wooden basket that could accommodate a person to hide from the wall and arrows.

This kind of herringbone ladder is very light, although it is nearly 20 meters high, but ten or eight big men can easily carry it ashore, separate the left and right, and then pull it with a rope before and after, and it can be fixed on the river beach.

The small wooden basket was about ten meters away from the city wall, and the enemy at the head of the city was not prepared, and for a while could not find such a long wooden stick to push.

The soldiers hiding in the wooden basket quickly threw the earth-shaking thunders one by one to the top of the city, only ten meters, and they could easily throw the earth-shaking thunders over when they sat and flicked their arms with their hands.

The Russian general Basalyev did not expect that the Qin army would attack from the river at night, and the Russian troops on the walls of the river were less than 100 people.

At this time, a group of Qin troops climbed desperately to the top of the city along the ladder, and many people climbed to the top of the city without encountering the imaginary rocks and rolling logs.

Basalev, who was on the northwestern wall, saw the Qin army attacking on all sides of the river, and at first he didn't care too much, thinking that the Qin army was just bluffing and trying to disperse his forces.

It was only when a soldier came in with a report that several walls were almost unfortunate, and Basalev was shocked. How is this possible?

He didn't think much about it, and hurriedly divided his troops to rescue.

At this time, under the bombardment of a series of earth-shattering thunderstorms, on the city wall facing the Volga River in the east, the Russian army had almost suffered casualties.

With the slow and continuous surplus of the Qin army to climb up the ladder to the top of the city, it soon occupied an absolute advantage in terms of troops, and even carried the rockets, and two rockets bombarded it, and immediately the Russian army that was still resisting stubbornly was crushed.

The Qin army opened the east gate, and thousands of soldiers swarmed in with torches, and the shouts of victory rang out.

Seeing that the general situation was gone, the Russian general Basalev ran to the city to change into the clothes of ordinary people, wanting to turn into ordinary people to escape the catastrophe.

However, the Mongols and Kazakhs who entered the city carried out Li Ding's order very thoroughly, leaving no chickens and dogs except for young and beautiful women.

Basalyev can change into civilian clothes, but he can't become a woman, even if he wears women's clothes, no one will look at him at his age, so he still becomes a "chicken dog".

The Tsaritsyn fortress, which had resisted the attacks of the Ottoman army many times and was called by the Slavs that would never fall, was supported in less than a day in front of Li Ding's 40,000 army.

As soon as the fortress of Tsaritsyn fell, the surrounding satellite cities also surrendered one after another after being guaranteed to avoid death, and the southern gate of Tsarist Russia was completely opened in front of Li Ding's army.

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