Chapter 230 Now you can start killing the bears! (Please subscribe, please collect)

"Boom boom boom"

In the early morning of May 10, 1829, on the frontier of Adrianople, starting from 6 a.m., the booming sound of artillery shell explosions rang out simultaneously throughout the Turkish first line of defense!

This time the Eastern Romans were showing off their skills. Hundreds of 75mm and 105mm breech-loaded howitzers opened fire at the same time, firing explosive shells filled with picric acid. The power was quite astonishing!

For a moment, the Turkish army position at the front of Adrianople was filled with smoke and dust, fire was shooting into the sky, and even the ground beneath their feet began to tremble.

Standing in an anti-gun bunker near the front line, holding a telescope and witnessing the Turkish forward position a few kilometers away, Nicholas I was so excited that he burst into tears when he was completely submerged by the clouds of smoke from the artillery shells.

Eyes filled with tears.

This was the first time after 376 years that Eastern Roman artillery exploded on the battlefield near Constantinople!

With such fierce artillery fire, no one on the Turkish position that was hit could survive, right? Nicholas I thought to himself: "It seems that Marshal Wittgenstein underestimated the firepower of the world's number one army."

How can this strategy take five to ten days? 72 hours should be enough to break through the Turkish defense line of Adrianople. Within a week, the eagle flag of Eastern Rome will definitely fly over Constantinople again.

On top of the city wall!”

Thinking of this, Nicholas I felt his eyes moistened, his nose became sore, and tears flowed down uncontrollably.

The area known as the "Adriaple Trench Zone" or the "Edirne Trench Zone" is located just west of Edirne (Adriaple Fortress), between the Strandia Mountains and Thrace.

Between the mountains. This is a piece of terrain that is neither too dangerous nor too open. It is dozens of kilometers wide and is cut in half by the Densa River.

Therefore, in the past several battles of Adrianople, no one has ever adopted the strategy of "taking control of the village". Whether it was cold weapons or queuing to kill, a "Great Wall" had to be built to guard a wide front of dozens of kilometers.

. And the Thracian Mountains and the Strandia Mountains are not insurmountable natural dangers. Therefore, it is not cost-effective to build forts here, so let’s go for a field battle!

However, in this battle that determined the life and death of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, due to the full use of barbed wire, machine guns, and various trench defenses, a layer upon layer of trench defense system emerged. With barbed wire, machine guns, etc., it would be easier to defend the trenches.

Manually, one division can defend a defensive line of more than ten kilometers, and a few divisions on a front of dozens of kilometers is enough.

The person who presided over the construction of these defense systems was Hugh Gough Pasha, who had suffered a huge loss from the "Bagua Machine Gun Formation" in Peshawar.

Yes, Hugh Gough is now a pasha. He had to retire from the British Army prematurely because he took the blame for the defeat of Peshawar. He didn't even get a job in the Indian Army. Fortunately, his old boss Wellesley Way

His lordship became the British Prime Minister and found him a job as a pasha in Turkey.

However, Gaofu was quite happy to be the pasha, because Sultan Mahmud was a courteous corporal and a good sultan who valued talents. Not only did Gaofu become a pasha, but he also asked the Grand Vizier Kara Pasha to lead him there.

The slave market in Constantinople "rescued" a very cute Greek girl named Alexia. She was captured by Ali Pasha's Egyptian army in Greece and sent to Constantine.

Gaov Pasha, who was sold by Niye, sympathized with her plight, so he asked Kala Pasha to redeem her and become a Greek tutor for him.

With the status of pasha, the Greek girl as a tutor, and of course the house and treasures rewarded by the sultan, Hugh Gough felt like he was meeting the emperor. Of course he met the emperor's Hugh Gough Pasha.

He had to work hard for the Sultan, so these days, he used his true skills that he had exchanged for the life of Indian Asan in Peshawar, and helped the Turks build eight layers of barbed wire and trench positions, forming a large area.

The trench line blocks the west, north and south of Edirne - the eight trench lines are of course not straight, but winding. Seven of them are cut into two parts by the Denza River, and the eighth

Another part of the road stretches along the Maritsa River, forms a protrusion around the city of Edirne, and then extends north to the Strandca Mountains.

Although there are eight lines of trench defense, as well as 100,000 new Turkish officers and soldiers and hundreds of thousands of mobilization troops arriving from Constantinople, Hugh Gough is still not sure of victory. After all, in previous wars

Among them, the performance of the Mao Xiong Army was much better than that of the Turks!

Moreover, the Rakshasa country is much stronger than Turkey, and the tsar of the wooly bear is the one and only master! Although it is subject to serfdom, it is impossible to completely turn the Rakshasa country with a population of more than 30 million into a war machine, but the

An army of millions can still be pulled out.

In addition, after raising the banner of the Eastern Roman Empire, the Moldavia, Wallachians, Bulgarians, and Greeks in the Turkish Empire have all sided with the Bear.

The Turkish Sultan is the city lord of Constantiniya at best. In addition to the 100,000 new troops hired with money, he can only mobilize the residents of Constantiniya, and only the Tianfang believers among them.

Will obey his orders.

To talk about a ridiculous fact, the Eastern Roman Caesar Nicholas I could mobilize more troops in the Ottoman Turkish Empire than the Sultan Mahmud II of the Ottoman Empire could mobilize.

Thinking of this, Hugh Gough, who was hiding from artillery shells in a bunker at the front of the Edirne defense line, sighed and thought: "Although Mahmoud II performed very well and was not afraid of strong enemies, in the

The emperor tried his best to mobilize the army and even came to Edirne personally to supervise the battle. However, his fate with Turkey was still doomed. The most he could do was to shed more blood on the Rakshasa people. However, his demise would definitely mean a great deal to the British Empire.

It is valuable and it is an honor for him and Turkey!"

At this moment, the sound of artillery coming from the front had become a little sparse. After about a few minutes, the sound of artillery finally stopped abruptly.

Hugh Gough took out his pocket watch, looked at it, and then muttered in a low voice: "After one hour, Nicholas I was still careless. He didn't have many cannonballs!"

As he spoke, he put away his pocket watch, turned around, and quickly walked out of the bunker.

Outside the bunker is a tall barn, where Hussein Pasha's former enemy command post was located. When the Rakshasas started shelling just now, most of the people in the command post hid in several anti-gunnery bunkers.

At this time, the bombardment was over, and everyone came out of their bunkers and took their places.

When Hugh Gough walked into the command post, there was already a commotion. Phones were ringing one after another, and the staff officers of the New Turkish Army picked up the phone receivers and loudly asked about the situation on the front line.

"Hey, hey. Report the damage! Can you still maintain the position?"

"What? There aren't many casualties? Okay, okay, we must hold our position!"

"Report the situation of the Rakshasa people in front of you."

"Hey, hey, check the line! Contact line 15 has been interrupted!"

Using telephone lines as complicated as a spider web to connect the entire position to form a whole is a command method that began to appear during the Napoleonic Wars. This command method is perfect when combined with a strong position composed of machine guns, barbed wire, and trenches.

!

The generals responsible for commanding operations can now easily understand the situation in various positions, dispatch reinforcements at any time, and can also uniformly direct artillery to block and fire enemy attacking troops. It is very convenient.

"What? A large number of Rakshasa people appeared in front of position 11. The formation is very dense. Okay, keep observing!" At this time, a staff officer of the New Turkish Army suddenly shouted to Hugh Gough in English, "Gough Pasha

, the Rakshasa Bears began to attack, and their first target was Position 11 near the Densa River!"

Hugh Gough nodded heavily: "Okay! Now we can start killing the bear!"
Chapter completed!