Chapter 2582: Sign offense

The Mantua area, which is blocking the advance of the South China Army, is located in the middle reaches of the Italian Lipo River, southeast of the city of Milan. It is surrounded on three sides by several lakes formed by the Mincio River, a tributary of the Po River, the most important being the Mantua Fortress. Located at the confluence of the Po River and Mingqiao River, the terrain is difficult and the fortifications are strong. It can be tens of thousands of people.

It’s easy to defend and hard to attack. Lord Alejandro is not at all cold to the pagans. He refused to recruit the pagans and the Chinese as the core of the Holy Roman Empire. Jiancheng.

This time the South China Army is preparing to attack, and the Italians are well informed. The South China Army has not set off yet, and the defense of the Mantua Fortress has been prepared.

Alessandro walked around the wall, unable to help but content himself, determined to give those heretics a cruel one.

The surrounding area under Mantua Fortress is open and the water net is dense, which is not conducive to the army's offensive.

Excavated the Kuancheng River, which is wide and deep, and densely packed Luyan. Although it is a single-sided city wall, it is very strong and up to eight meters wide. There are many bunkers, artillery towers, and roofs, which have good defensive capabilities.

The defenders are well equipped, with a rifled rifle equipment rate of up to 50%. They have a lot of bombs, even bobbins. They are equipped with eight heavy guns with a caliber of over 200mm on the city wall. There are indeed silver dollars!

In addition to artillery, they also have a lot of bows and arrows, and the city is equipped with dozens of large gravity catapults.

What is surprising is that the defenders also have gas masks. Although the filter element is not activated carbon, the material also has a strong filtering capacity.

All in all, what the South China Army has, there are the defenders here.

Since the war, Baipi has suffered a lot, but they still have to work hard. They also have a continuous gun, that is, they have arranged eight Francis machine guns in two rows up and down, and fired shotguns to deal with the group charge. It is very convenient to change the ammunition, they are all breech type; and they use shields, muskets, and shields on the artillery to improve the protection.

The morale of the defenders is also good. The area of ​​Mantua is in the commercial road, and there are many merchants in the past. In addition, the olive oil, wine, and roasted meat produced by it are well-known. They sell very well. The income is high. The salary of the defenders is not low, and the money is in place. , Everything is easy to say.

Because it is close to Rome, it is convenient to listen to the voice of God, the people generally believe in religion, and the religious atmosphere is strong. Alessandro calls on everyone to resist the pagans, and the answer is like a cloud.

With such a city defense, such a defender, Alessandro's call to resist the infidels is one answer.

With this strong city and this strong army, Alessandro is full of confidence in defending the city.

So when he saw the arrival of the South China Army under the banner of the Holy Roman Empire, he was very angry, but when the South China Army organized an offensive, he was very angry!

"Damn heretics, they are all going to hell!"

The Chinese rushed in and swarmed in. There were more than tens of thousands of people in this rush. The scene was extremely tragic!

Alessandro's face changed, this is not the army, this is the people, and it exceeds the manpower needed to help the battle.

The white skins filled gully, smashed deer rocks, and piled up dirt hills. Like bees and ants, they completed four high dirt hills in one day.

Driven by the South China Army's whip, the White-skinned militia attacked the Fortress of Mantua.

They took out the fearless spirit of "You have a gun and I have a chest", and they set up a ladder to attack the Mantua Fortress in a group charge!

At first, the defenders of the Mantua Fortress were a little soft, but quickly opened fire desperately, otherwise the fortress would be captured by the white-skinned people.

The fortress of Mantua is full of firepower: shooting, shooting, throwing bombs, bows and arrows, catapults, and knocking down the white skins under the city in rows. Under the fierce firepower, the white skins are like crops on the field being harvested. .

The corpses are piled up, and the blood flows into a river!

The defenders launched a powerful fire attack. If the infidels were killed, they would be extremely happy, but now everyone was full of anger.

The heathens were not merciful at all. Those Baipi who delayed and failed to fight were shot and killed on the spot. The South China Army attacking the fort with the Baipi gave powerful fire counterattacks, counter-sniper attacks, bomb bombardment, and kerosene to wash the ground and hit Mantu. Smoke billowed in the sky over the Asian Fortress, and the flames skyrocketed.

Driven by the South China Army, the white-skinned people continued to attack the walls of the fortress, killing 20,000 people in one day.

The defender trembled: "With this courage, why not fight back!"

Alessandro said solemnly: "The heretics must have threatened their family, so... alas!"

The rebellion was momentary, and the whole family was about to suffer. Under such circumstances, the Baipi all confessed their fate.

The South China Army is still a bit of a favor. Boys under the age of fourteen do not sign and give those white-skinned hopes.

In fact, the best thing is to cut the grass and remove the roots, but if you really want to do this, it may inspire people everywhere to fight to the death, which is even more troublesome.

Another group of white-skinned people rushed up, and the defenders mercilessly knocked them to the ground, and blood covered the city.

But the white-skinned people's offensives were endless, and the defenders were softened, and their hearts became even more numb.

The ones below are all from their own people!

What made them even more desperate was that in the distance, a steady stream of white-skinned signers joined the ranks of the offensive.

The four chiefs of the Eleventh Army, Dou Mingwang, Ma Bao, Gao Bizheng, and Jin Shengheng, as well as division commanders, deputy division commanders, staff officers, and a senior officer in Ottoman Turkish attire, belonged to the Turkish Imperial Army of the South China Empire. Devio Lupasha gathered on the high ground to watch the battle.

Dou Mingwang said with satisfaction: "No matter how strong Ren'er fire is, the fortifications are dense, the water around the city is pooled, the roads are muddy, and what is the matter with our army, the dead are all white skins!"

He said to the staff: "The strategy you provided is very good. Come here, and each will reward a box of premium cigars and a cigarette!"

"Xie Junzuo reward!" The staff members said happily.

A total of seven staff officers were awarded, and others looked at them enviously.

Each army of the South China Army has its own characteristics. The eleventh member is the Tobacco Army. The commander likes to reward the soldiers with tobacco and encourage them to fight bravely. After knowing their characteristics, the superior military supervisors will release all these expenditures.

Considered very thoughtfully, they let them take away the rewarded tobacco, and also scattered a batch of cigars for everyone to smoke. Everyone smoked happily.

Suddenly, the highland where it was located seemed to be a new artillery position, so smokey!

Devi Olupasha of the Turkish Imperial Army is also vomiting~www.wuxiaspot.com~ He said: "It should have been done a long time ago, we Turks did it before!"

Dou Mingwang looked at him sideways, and said unceremoniously: "This is why your Sultan was defeated by our emperor!"

Seeing Devio Lupasha's embarrassment, Major General Tong Dawei, Chief of Staff of the Army, said in a roundabout way: "The commander means that signing the army is like a slave. When used, it is easy to become addicted. From then on, the regular army is greedy for life and fear of death, and will not fight. Your Majesty Shengming, we have always let our South China Army fight in wars, and your Imperial Union Army guards the second line. That's the truth!"

Devio Lupasha sneered and said: "Yes, yes!"

The Eleventh Army kept the sign army on the battlefield, and at the same time used two rationed "Thor’s Hammers" plus 24 H210 heavy artillery to blast the weaker southern wall of the Mantua Fortress, smashing the wall and forming many On the slope, the sign army rushed up, and then the white-skinned defenders and the white-skinned signers faced each other fiercely.

The blood is sprinkled, and the living lives are flying away in cannibalism!