The Duke of Lorraine had to order his royal elite to line up and shoot him.
In order to prepare for a bloody battle with the Ming army that surrounded them.
The artillery is in front and the infantry is behind.
But what Duke Lorraine didn't expect was that the Ming army not only surrounded him with absolutely superior strength, but also kept adding more troops.
Moreover, he unexpectedly discovered that these additional soldiers were serfs from his own estates in Austria.
He saw that these serfs were gathering around him under the organization of the Ming army, holding various muskets, swords, hoes and sticks that they had snatched from unknown places.
He's going crazy.
He didn't understand how the Ming army organized the serfs.
It even looks like there are a lot of them, as many as 50,000 or 60,000!
"Let the serfs rush over!"
At this time, Guo Mu issued an order to attack the royal elite led by the Duke of Lorraine.
Then, a Ming army trainer shouted to the organized serfs in the local language: "Charge over! Kill these shameless nobles and their thugs in front of you, and the land of Austria belongs to you! You will be in Survive this winter without starving to death or freezing to death!”
The serfs belonging to the extremely poor class had no regard for their own lives and rushed towards the royal elite of the Duke of Lorraine desperately for the sake of land.
The royal elite of the Duke of Lorraine had no choice but to shoot and kill these serfs first.
While these serfs were consuming the firepower of these elite Austrian royals, Guo Mu ordered the Ming army cavalry he led to charge.
Then, these Ming cavalry rushed towards these Austrian royal elites like an overwhelming force.
Because there were serfs counteracting the firepower of these elite Austrian royal elites, the Ming army cavalry successfully rushed into the camp of the elite Austrian royal elites, and then used thunder and explosive packs to blow up the cannons and cannons of the elite Austrian royal elites. The artillerymen also started to kill these royal elites.
At the same time, the mounted infantry in the Ming army also dismounted and charged in a three-by-three system.
And even if they were not cut down by the cavalry, the Austrian royal elites were helpless when they saw the Ming army's infantry. Many of the Austrian royal elite infantrymen were shot to the ground before they even saw their faces.
In the end, more than 20,000 Austrian royal elites were directly routed and annihilated.
The Duke of Lorraine was also captured alive.
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Sobieski did not yet know that the 20,000 Austrian infantry and artillery troops he relied on had been completely wiped out by the Ming army.
And now he is approaching Kiev with his 120,000 Polish Hussars.
In order to find out the movements of the Ming army, Sobieski sent tens of thousands of cavalry to scout everywhere. As a result, he got the news that the main force of the Ming army attacking Minsk showed no signs of withdrawing because of his attack on Kiev.
He even learned from his sentinels that there were no Ming army sentinels nearby.
This made Sobieski feel relieved. He believed that the Ming army must not have expected that he would attack Kiev and abandon Minsk, the capital of Lithuania.
"Send the order, gather all the troops, dismount and rest along the Dnieper River, and wait for the Duke of Lorraine's infantry and artillery!"
Sobieski delivered new orders after arriving near Kiev.
For him now, everything is ready, all he needs is the east wind.
However, he should never be able to wait for the Duke of Lorraine's 20,000 Austrian soldiers.
Because even the Duke of Lorraine himself had been taken to Moscow at this time, and after being interrogated by the royal guards, he revealed the purpose of his trip.
Zhou Yuji also learned about Sobieski's plan, so on the one hand he sent more troops to Kiev, and on the other hand he ordered the more than 300,000 Ming army that was attacking Minsk to speed up their advance, conquer Minsk as soon as possible, and then destroy Prussia. road.
Count Jog, the defender of Minsk, was helplessly watching the Ming army get closer and closer, and gradually formed an encirclement.
"Despicable Poles, why haven't their reinforcements shown up yet? Do they really want our 30,000 troops to block the seemingly 300,000 Easterners outside the city?!"
And because of this, Earl Jorg asked angrily.
The man who directed the more than 300,000 Ming troops to attack the city was Jiao Lian, who had just been named Duke Xuan.
Jiao Lian looked at the city of Minsk, which was built into a bastion shape. Naturally, he did not dare to order an attack rashly, but seriously thought about the strategy to attack the city.
"Observe the wind direction. When the wind direction is suitable, shoot chlorine gas bombs first! Stun the guards in the city, then fire howitzers, and send these stunned enemies directly to the King of Hell!"
"At the same time, the Red Flame Army rushed forward, dug trenches, and blew up the city walls!"
"Each Ming army will first build bunkers and dig communication trenches in their respective directions, so that they can rush up behind the Red Flame Army."
Jiao Lian finally issued his own siege order.
As a result, it didn't take long before hundreds of Ming army artillery began to adjust their angles, and when the wind direction changed, they fired chlorine gas bombs directly.
Seeing the cannonballs that fell in the city and began to emit gas, Count Jorge shouted in horror: "It's the poisonous gas from the Ming army! Hurry up and withdraw the city wall! Hurry up! Get out of the way and hide against the wind!"
As the Ming Dynasty repeatedly used chlorine gas bombs in the war to destroy the Rakshasa Kingdom, Western armies were no longer unfamiliar with poison gas bombs and also knew some prevention methods.
However, because the poisonous gas spreads quickly and people always have to breathe, even if these Western armies know some prevention methods, many defenders will still lose their combat effectiveness.
Count Qiaoge naturally felt very aggrieved. He even wanted to rush out directly and deal with this situation by actively attacking the Ming army.
But before Count Jorg could make up his mind, many howitzers roared over and exploded directly on various city walls.
Many defenders were blown away and even turned into pieces.
The defenders who were stunned by the poison also lost the ability to avoid howitzer bombing, so many were directly bombed and died.
After the smoke dissipated, there were not many defenders left in the entire city of Minsk.
At this time, many Red Flame Army members composed of the poor serfs of the Rakshasa Kingdom immediately rushed to the city of Minsk, dug trenches, buried explosives, and set up ladders.
Qiao Ge, who retreated to the higher bastion, watched helplessly as the Red Flame Army frantically dug into the walls of their outer city.
boom!
boom!
boom!
Not long after, he heard many violent explosions, and then saw that more and more parts of the outer city wall were beginning to collapse, and along with it, more and more Ming troops rushed to the fort.
However, Count Jorge was not unprepared for this. He had already prepared tens of thousands of volunteers composed of citizens in the city who were willing to contribute to defending the city.
So, he immediately ordered the remaining city defenders to rush 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, other armies were not idle either. They had already dug trenches leading directly to Minsk, and also organized commandos to rush over with light rifles. , together with the Red Flame Army, they used intensive firepower to repel the defenders who came to stop them from attacking the city.
Subsequently, the Ming army's communication trench led directly to the city of Minsk, and after the wooden planks were built on it, the Ming army rushed over in a steady stream, and finally invaded the outer city of Minsk.
Therefore, Earl Jorg had to order a retreat to the inner city.
However, the inner city is also the same as the outer city.
In the face of the Ming army, which has powerful artillery and can use poison gas bombs unscrupulously, as well as various machine guns, and the Red Flame Army who are not afraid of death to protect the land they have just received, the inner city is also about to It was breached half a month later.
Count Jorg also had to commit suicide.
When the city of Minsk was captured by the Ming army, Sobieski did not know the situation in Minsk. He was still waiting for Austrian reinforcements.
However, as he waited longer and longer, he gradually felt uneasy when he saw that the Austrian reinforcements led by the Duke of Lorraine were delayed in arriving.
Sobieski even began to guess the Ming army's arrangements.
But it was difficult for him to accept the result of his guess, so he murmured reluctantly: "No, no, impossible! How could the Ming army think of attacking the Duke of Lorraine from Austria? They didn’t know that Austrian reinforcements would be coming! With their troops on the Dnieper River and Daojia River, weren’t they just going to attack the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?”
Duke Milin also analyzed this: "But it is not impossible! After all, the purpose of the Ming Dynasty is to unify the world, not just to annex our Polish-Lithuanian Federation!"
boom!
Sobieski punched the wooden table and said depressedly: "We should enlarge the layout of the battlefield and focus on the entire European continent! Not just the Dnieper and Daojiava river basins!"
With that said, Sobieski added: "We should evacuate quickly and go to the direction of Minsk immediately to rescue Minsk, otherwise, our situation will become very bad!"
Immediately afterwards, Sobieski changed his mind and waved his hand: "No, we should not go to Minsk anymore, but should return to Warsaw and rush back to Warsaw immediately! The Ming army must have expected that we would go to Minsk. "
Then, Sobieski looked at Milin and shouted: "As soon as possible, as soon as possible! We must bring back our 120,000 winged cavalry!"
"yes!"
Milin responded immediately.
So, not long after, the sound of war horses neighing and the sound of hurried footsteps came from outside.
One hundred and twenty thousand Polish Hussars began an emergency evacuation.
People hold sticks in their mouths.
Cage immediately.
One batch after another, they headed towards Warsaw urgently.
But soon, these Polish winged cavalry discovered that at the end of the sky in front of them, on the horizon, there were figures of the Ming Army cavalry, and gradually there was a trend of more and more cavalry.
Then, they also discovered that Ming army cavalry began to appear in other directions, and there were signs of increasing numbers.
The Polish sentry reported the situation to Sobieski on horseback.
Sobieski became even more uneasy after hearing this.
After thinking for a while, Sobieski spat out the wooden stick in his mouth, and asked his own soldiers to remove the horse cage. Then, he drew his knife and ordered: "Charge over regardless of the cost! The target, Warsaw!"
It didn't take long.
The sound of thousands of horses galloping began to sound.
The very disappointed Sobieski took his 120,000 Polish hussars and swept towards the northeast like a strong wind.
The Ming cavalry began to retreat and began to convey the situation to the infantry behind.
"The Polish cavalry is speeding up to break through!"
"The Polish cavalry is speeding up to break through!"
"The Polish cavalry is speeding up to break through!"
…
As more and more Ming army sentries began to shout, the Ming army engineers who were constantly pushing the trenches forward also began to become nervous, and the engineers who kept digging the soil also danced with their shovels much more disorderly.
The infantrymen also began to hurriedly come out of the trenches, carried the heavy rifles on the bunker behind the barbed wire, and began to lay out all the thunderbolts. At the same time, they began to load the rifled guns in their hands. .
The artillerymen also began to run back to their positions and loaded the shells.
The Ming army had already deployed the most powerful secret sentry in the Kiev area to detect the movement of the main Polish cavalry force, and the news that Sobieski's troops had appeared in the Kiev area was sent back to the Ming army's base camp in Moscow.
It's just that Sobieski didn't realize it himself.
Of course, this is related to the fact that the Ming army was well prepared.
Zhou Yuji, the commander-in-chief of the Ming army, had already guessed that Sobieski might come to Kiev, so he placed dense sentinels in the forests across Kiev in advance.
Therefore, as soon as Sobieski's main force of 120,000 Polish hussars appeared in Kiev, the Ming army knew the situation.
Zhou Yuji directly transferred all the more than 200,000 troops remaining in the rear to Zhu Cizhuo, and asked him to set up an encircling defense line outside Sobieski's main force of 120,000 Polish hussars.
At the same time, after the Ming Dynasty's cavalry who went to raid areas in Austria, the hinterland of Eastern Europe, also learned of this situation, they retreated one after another according to the order and began to slowly approach the main force of the 120,000 Polish winged cavalry.
As a result, when Sobieski realized that he might have made a mistake in strategic prediction and reacted in a hurry to withdraw to Warsaw, his forward cavalry found that more and more Ming sentry cavalry appeared around them.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
The sound of horse hooves came.
The whole earth suddenly trembled.
Not long after, Zhu Cizhuo, who came here personally to take command, saw through the telescope a large number of Polish cavalry, advancing rapidly like a moving piece of red land.
At this time, these Polish winged cavalry were charging towards the Ming cavalry at the forefront.
Hundreds of Polish hussars lined up side by side, armed with lances, fearlessly charged towards the Ming cavalry.
The Ming cavalry at the front had no time to retreat, so under the command of their respective officers, they also began to charge with lances, engaging in a life-for-life war with these Polish wing cavalry.
boom!
The Ming army at the front also formed rows of formations and rushed towards the Polish Hussars, and fired first.
Like the Polish hussars, the Ming cavalry, which also carried lances, had rifled muskets, which naturally had a longer range, so they fired first.
As a result, a dense barrage rushed towards the Polish Hussars, overturning many Polish Hussars on the spot.
Sobieski was quite jealous when he saw this scene.
He really wanted his Polish cavalry to have such powerful muskets.
However, after the Ming cavalry fired and overturned a group of Polish hussars, they did not stop the Polish hussars' charge.
After all, they were 120,000 Polish Hussars.
Therefore, the Polish Hussars behind them still rushed over like a wall.
