Chapter 601: The Uginsk Fortress in Despair!

"Let's fire!" With a roaring roar, twenty-five heavy mortars smacked back slightly, and their wide muzzles immediately spit out a stream of white smoke. Then, the sharp and harsh roar sang in the air, flying towards the Ujinsk Fortress, which was already immersed in the hell of blood and fire.

The brick and stone fortress of the Uginsk Fortress collapsed into terrible and deadly flames, tearing the living lives around them, and tearing the Russian soldiers who were defending the city walls together with their weapons to pieces.

Uginsk, a fortress that has existed in the Siberian wasteland for nearly a hundred years, has long since allowed the moss and wind to rust and old, but now, under the rampage of the artillery, it seems to be uncovering its already mud-filled coat, revealing the truth inside, but the process seems so rough and arrogant.

The Uginsk Fortress, which is no more than one mile in length and width, is already in chaos. The Russians screamed and cried and ran wildly in the city. From time to time, shells that shot in the direction fell into the city, and smoke columns rose up, with the dull explosion.

The Russians carrying weapons shouted loudly and concentrated towards the city walls. Most of the residents in the Ukinsk Fortress were Russian pioneers from Europe. Almost every inhabitant could become qualified soldiers after picking up their weapons. However, now, the other party did not give them a chance to counterattack, nor did they give them the opportunity to kill and shoot face to face with rifles and scimitars, and seemed to want to use the dense and crazy artillery fire to bury the sturdy Ukinsk Fortress.

The bells in the Russian Orthodox church were constantly beating, just like the panicked heartbeat of the Russians. A priest stood at the gate of the church, helping the panicked women and children enter the church, cursing the damn, terrifying enemy like a demon. "Those pagans, they will definitely be punished, punished by God!"

"God, forgive us, our Father in heaven, may all men respect your name as holy. May your kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as in heaven... for our debts, as we forgive our debts. Do not meet temptation and save us from evil. For kingdom, authority, glory is all yours..." In the church, the elderly, women and children were pleading and praying with tears in their hearts, and the rumbling cannon outside shocked the church glass buzzing, filling their eyes with despair...

And there are also people who are angry and roaring in despair, roaring towards their companions, towards the Lord they believe in. "Didn't they say that the East has countless wealth? Didn't they say that the Orientals are so cowardly and incompetent? But when we come here, we see only endless wastelands and countless beasts, and the hard-to-excavated frozen soil..."

"...Why, why are they now appearing under our fortresses and ravaging our towns with such terrible artillery fire, and our army? Why don't the tens of thousands of troops who have left here before come to protect us? Are we not Russians?"

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! The deafening explosion interrupted their anger and rebuke, leaving only the desire for survival and the fear of death. The bells were still echoing, and the prayers' chants to God became louder and trembling, but they seemed so weak and powerless in the roaring cannon fire.

"College, Colonel, there is a gap in the east wall. We need reinforcements, reinforcements." A Russian soldier carrying a fur hat rushed to an officer who was lying behind the wall and gasping for breath, and shouted loudly regardless of the superiority and inferiority of the upper and lower levels.

"Reinforcements, reinforcements, damn reinforcements, where will I get reinforcements for you? Haven't you seen that I am also very critical here? You idiot, coward, go back to the wall you guard and tell your lord that I don't even have a gun to give him any more, so that he can find a way for himself." Colonel Arshavin, the city guard of Uginsk Fortress, grabbed the soldier's clothes fiercely and roared loudly, but soon another fire came, and he had to hold his head hard again and retract his foot.

After the choking smoke disappeared, the soldier who was standing in front of him and came to ask for help had turned into a corpse with his head turned into a rotten watermelon, and his body was still twitching unconsciously.

"May God forgive you, Amen." Looking at the moment when he was still so lively and shouting at himself, now he could only wait for his companion who was buried by the dust, Colonel Arshavin's mouth trembled nervously under his thick beard.

However, he stood up and waved the scimitar with the tip of the knife cut off by shrapnel, roaring loudly, inspiring the morale of the soldiers who trembled like quails. "Breaking back, fight back, are you damn cowards, are our cannons dumb? Fight back! Don't forget that we are Russians, and the Mongols who made the whole of Europe tremble and fear have been stepped on by us. The Turks who terrified the whole of Europe can only give us pity for our humble bodies..."

His voice was shocked by the artillery fire. The Russians on the city wall tried hard to fight back, but the firing range and rate of fire of their artillery were too inferior to the mortars of the Chinese Empire army.

Even if they gritted their teeth and fired a shot regardless of life and death, whether they could hit the target was a question. After that, the artillery position would be immediately covered by dense artillery fire, and the counterattacks on the city wall became increasingly sporadic, and more Russians fled from the city wall and hid in the city.

Zhang Jin, the commander of the Independent Brigade 3rd Battalion outside the city, rushed in and shouted to Ye Zhengchang, the commander of the Independent Brigade of the Independent Brigade who was observing the smoke and fire of gunfire from the artillery fire. "Brig Commander, give an order. The wall of Dongcheng has collapsed and has a gap. Now the Russians inside are panicked."

"Don't worry, continue to shell the shelling, let the brothers in Dongcheng concentrate their firepower, and try to bombard a passage for me from the gap in the city wall of Dongcheng." Ye Zhengchang ordered without looking back.

"Then let's continue to stare at the city?" Zhang Jin looked resentful. "Brothers are already impatient. Boss, please hurry up by the buddies of the artillery battalion."

"Get out, think that the fortress is made of tofu, and two cannons can make the whole hole? Don't bother me, don't worry, your third battalion takes the lead, I haven't forgotten this." Ye Zhengchang walked to the table, picked up a glass of cold water and drank it all. "Brothers' lives are precious. I would rather waste more shells than fill them with human lives. Don't you understand this principle?"

"Hehe, I'm just anxious and complaining. Don't go to your heart. By the way, Brigade Commander, after we take down the fortress, should we continue to attack north, or stay here?"

Ye Zhengchang shook his head and smiled, "After taking the Uginsk Fortress, we must rest here first and wait for the orders of the military headquarters. Don't worry, the ultimate goal of this battle is not just to capture a few fortresses, or to encircle and annihilate the expeditionary forces sent by the Russians, but to go north and west, to encircle and encircle and annihilate the vast Siberian plains into our territory."

"That's it that there is still a fight? But why do we want this piece of land? It's been damn snowy and ice for nearly half a year. It would be nice to be able to harvest one season of food a year." Zhang Jin said a little incomprehensible.

"What Your Majesty values ​​is resources and development prospects. Even if we cannot develop this vast land for the time being, our descendants will be able to enjoy it in the future. Moreover, Your Majesty once said that the best way to deal with opponents is to try to kill the enemy in the cradle before they become stronger!"

"What do you mean is that Russia will become a great enemy?" Zhang Jin took out a cigarette and threw it to Ye Zhengchang, and he also sniffed one and sucked it happily. After Ye Zhengchang was on fire, he took a breath of joy: "Don't underestimate Russia. Your Majesty once said that Russians are very tenacious, suspicious, and extremely arrogant. Moreover, their greed for land is far more than other Western countries. If they expand eastward in the future, they will inevitably pose a huge threat to the northern border of our empire."

"So, I should take advantage of the fact that they are trying hard to expand to the West and fall into the quagmire of chaos and war with the West, expanding north and west, leaving enough room for development and buffering for the future of the empire."

Just as Ye Zhengchang finished speaking, he heard a huge roar from the fortress, and the earth seemed to be trembling gently. Before they could react, the command post heard cheers and shouts that were rising up the sky.

"Report to the brigade commander, the eastern wall of Ukinsk Fortress has collapsed under the continuous bombardment of artillery fire." A guard rushed in outside the door and reported loudly.

"Damn, I'll leave first!" After hearing this news, Zhang Jin, the battalion commander of the third battalion who had just crossed his legs and listened to Ye Zhengchang's speech, rushed out of the command post as if he was shot in the butt. The gust of wind even lifted the curtain up.

"What is Battalion Commander Zhang?" The guard came back to his senses for a long time and murmured at the running back in a daze.
Chapter completed!