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    *** The Tsaritsyn Fortress was built between the Volga River and the Tsaritsyn River. It is surrounded by mighty rivers on three sides. Only the northwest side has a fan-shaped land that can be used to launch an attack on the fortress.  ¡Ñ This fortress is a bridgehead to resist the Ottoman army. It is extremely solidly built, especially the northwest wall. The base is 12 meters wide and nearly 20 meters high. It is mainly made of huge stones. The northwest wall alone has six forts.  .  Tsarist Russia has stationed tens of thousands of troops here all year round. On the periphery, they also learned from the Hungarians and built several small castles to form a star-shaped fortress, which formed the horns of each other.  The Ottoman Empire has been trying to annex Tsarist Russia for many years. It sent out large armies to attack the Tsaritsyn Fortress six times, but all ended in failure.  Therefore, Tsaritsyn Fortress is called the Fortress that will never fall by the Russians.  "If Li Ding's plan to lure the snake out of the cave had not been successful, it would have been even more difficult for Li Ding's tens of thousands of troops to capture this solid fortress if Ivanov's 10,000 troops had not defended the fortress.  But now, there are only a thousand Russian troops left in Chengzhong, and Li Ding's total of 40,000 troops rush to the outside of the fortress in a dark and noisy manner, like a wave of people and horses that can't be seen beyond the horizon.  Li Ding ordered the heads of nearly 7,000 Slavs to be piled outside the fortress. The heads of commander-in-chief Ivanov and Sergeikov and other senior generals were lifted high with bamboo poles and lined up.  Listed outside the fortress.  Seven thousand heads were piled into a hill, covered in blood and extremely ferocious. The remaining one thousand Russian soldiers in the city looked depressed and felt chilled.  Li Ding sent some Russian prisoners to the city to persuade him to surrender, but the one thousand Russian troops in the city thought they had a fortress and refused to surrender.  Li Ding was furious and ordered an attack on the city. Once the city was breached, no chickens or dogs would be left behind!  Three thousand Kazakh servants carried long ladders and rushed up with shouts. The six artillery at the top of the city took the lead in roaring.  The Russian army loaded up with shotguns, and terrifying barrages sprayed down, causing the Kazakhs to fall in pieces. In less than a stick of incense, they suffered more than 300 casualties.  Li Ding was a few miles away, looking through a telescope and frowning.  The Kazakhs killed and injured so many people before they even touched the city wall. If they continued to attack like this, they would eventually be filled with all 40,000 of their own.  I'm afraid we can't break through this solid fortress!  The sound of the horn sounded, and upon hearing this, the Kazakh army attacking the city immediately retreated like a tide; leaving only a mess of corpses under the city.  The Russian army defending the city won the first battle and their morale was greatly restored.  However, the Russian general Basayev knew in his heart that the Qin army was only conducting a tentative attack this time to find out where the weaknesses of the Tsaritsyn Fortress were.  He did not dare to neglect, and ordered the city defense to be strengthened and a large number of stones and rolling logs to be brought up to meet the more fierce attack of the Qin army.  Li Ding divided his troops to besiege the outer Star City.  On the other hand, he personally arrived to observe the Lizin Fortress up close.  This fortress is very large, facing the river on three sides. Under the high city wall, less than ten feet away are the muddy river beach and the rolling river.  If there are battleships.  It is possible to bombard the city from the river, but this is only if, Li Ding cannot transform the warship.  Staff officer Wu Ying suggested: "General, in the middle and lower reaches of the Volga River. Shipping is developed, and it is not difficult for us to find a group of ships. There are few enemies in the city now, which is their most fatal weakness; if they only guard the northwest wall. They will always  Thousands of people can still hold it, but once they are dispersed on the four walls, with only more than 200 people on one wall, the force will become very thin. Therefore, my subordinates suggested that they immediately gather the ships and a large amount of thatch and spread the bundles of thatch.  On the river beach, after nightfall, we will launch a fierce attack from all sides. The enemy will not be able to hold out for long. "Guerrilla General Li Wei also said: "I agree with Staff Wu's opinion. General, I have carefully observed that the artillery is on the side facing the river.  There are only two gates on each city wall. After going deep, we can concentrate the rockets and quickly kill the enemy's artillery. Then we can launch the main attack from the river. Because the side facing the river is not conducive to the deployment of troops, the enemy must think that our main attack is.  The direction is still on land in the northwest, and the troops allocated to other areas must be relatively small. At this time, we can launch a fierce attack from three sides of the river and catch the enemy by surprise. " Li Ding said: "The wall of this fortress is nearly seven feet high.  It¡¯s difficult to climb up with bare hands. Even if you can successfully destroy the enemy¡¯s artillery, it¡¯s still not easy to attack it. ¡°This is true. Even if the enemy has no artillery, even if there are few people, the wall is nearly 20 meters high and you have to work hard to climb it.  Halfway through, if someone pushes the ladder lightly, you will fall down together with the ladder.  After thinking about it, Li Ding thought of a herringbone ladder and had someone urgently build it for siege.  On this day, the Qin army did notInstead of attacking the city, they were busy working urgently. It was not until the third watch in the middle of the night that everything was ready.  After giving the soldiers a good meal, Li Ding immediately ordered an overnight siege.  First, the Kazakhs launched a fierce attack from the land. The 10,000-strong army was divided into three groups and took turns to attack the city.  After attracting the enemy's attention to the land on the northwest side, on the three sides of the river, small boats first approached quietly in the dark, and concentrated a dozen rockets to deal with an artillery piece;  On the turrets, balls of fire exploded at the top of the city, deafening.  The fort was quickly blown to pieces, and after it was determined that the enemy's artillery had been killed.  The Qin army, which had been quietly waiting on the river, immediately launched a general attack!  Counting from its mouth to the sea, the Volga River goes up 6,000 miles, with a drop of only 190 meters. There is almost no drop in the middle and lower reaches, and the water flow is very gentle and calm.  The Qin army connected the collected boats and the improvised bamboo rafts, rowed them directly to the river beach, quickly spread the prepared hay on the river beach, and then swarmed up.  First, tall herringbone ladders were quickly set up. There was a small wooden basket on the top of the herringbone ladder that could accommodate one person to hide arrows from the wall.  This kind of herringbone ladder is very light. Although it is nearly 20 meters high, ten or eight big men can easily carry it ashore. Once the left and right sides are separated, the front and back can be pulled with a rope to fix it on the river beach.  The small wooden basket was about ten meters away from the city wall. The enemy at the top of the city was unprepared and could not find such a long wooden stick to push it.  The soldiers hiding in the wooden basket quickly threw the thunderbolts one by one on the top of the city, which was only ten meters away. They could easily throw the thunderbolts over by shaking their arms while sitting.  The Russian general Basayev did not expect that the Qin army would attack from the river at night. There were less than a hundred Russian troops on the walls on each side of the river. The thunderbolts were thrown over one after another, and the city walls exploded continuously.  The Russian army was disoriented and suffered heavy casualties.  At this time, groups of Qin troops desperately climbed to the top of the city along the ladders. Many people climbed to the top of the city without encountering the imaginary rocks and rolling trees.  Basayev on the northwest wall saw Qin troops attacking on all sides of the river. He didn't care much at first. He thought the Qin troops were just bluffing and wanted to distract his troops.  When reports came from soldiers crawling over that several city walls could no longer be defended, Basayev was horrified.  How can this be?  He didn¡¯t have time to think too much and quickly divided his troops to rescue.  At this time, under the bombardment of a series of thunderbolts, the Russian army had almost suffered all casualties on the city wall facing the Volga River in the east. Alsleng personally led the troops to attack the city, and hurriedly rushed to the city wall.  The Tsarist Russian reinforcements fought together and desperately defended a city.  As the Qin army slowly climbed up the ladder and climbed to the top of the city, they quickly gained an absolute advantage in terms of military strength. They even carried rockets up. Two rockets blasted over, instantly killing those who were still resisting tenaciously.  The Russian army was routed.  The Qin army opened the east gate, thousands of soldiers holding torches swarmed in, and the shouts of victory filled the air.  Seeing that the situation was over, the Russian general Basayev ran to the city and changed into ordinary people's clothes, hoping to become an ordinary person and avoid this disaster.  However, the Mongols and Kazakhs who entered the city carried out Li Ding's order thoroughly, leaving no chickens or dogs except young and beautiful women.  Basayev could put on civilian clothes, but he couldn't transform into a woman. Even if he put on women's clothes, no one would take notice of him at his age, so he still became a "chicken dog."  The Tsaritsyn Fortress, which had withstood many attacks by the Ottoman army and was called by the Slavs as never falling, could not hold out for less than a day in the face of Li Ding's 40,000-strong army.  As soon as the Tsaritsyn Fortress fell, the surrounding satellite cities also surrendered one after another after receiving the guarantee of avoiding death. The southern gate of Tsarist Russia was completely opened to Li Ding's army.  ************************* ps: Bow and thank n880103, Night & Rain & Wind, Ambush, Changdu, Leng ¡í1, Lin Kong  Classmates Wan Li and Guagua Wawa cast their valuable monthly votes, thank you!  The second better code is out, hurry up and upload it, brothers and sisters, the end of the month is here, the chrysanthemum has been stabbed again, please vote for me urgently!  Urgently looking for monthly tickets!  Urgently looking for monthly tickets!  .(To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!
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