The Last Frontier of Fire and Sword

Baron Gustav Wrangel leaned on the body of a six-pounder gun placed on the third floor of the Church of the Holy Spirit, and kept observing the Polish position outside the church.

Although the Poles laid planks on the tops of all the trenches and tunnels, Baron Gustav Wrangel observed many people moving in the trenches through the gaps between the planks.

Baron Gustav Wrangel has the same subtle observation and cautious character as most Swedish generals of that era. Only from this little anomaly, he judged that the Poles were about to attack.

Although Baron Gustav Wrangel was once defeated by Jan Skrzeduski, he was not an incompetent general. This can be seen from his defense of the Turin church.

After taking over the defense of the Church of the Holy Spirit, Baron Gustav Wrangel quickly used the felling of trees to obtain wood and dirt to build a strong wall on the periphery of the church, and dig three more outside the wall. The arc-shaped trenches are also filled with Juma pickets outside the trenches.

The most deadly thing is his arrangement in the church.

Baron Gustav Wrangel knew very well that the first floor of the church was the most difficult to defend. As long as the attackers destroy the walls and trenches, they can easily break into the gate.

So in the low hall, Baron Gustav Wrangel cleverly built fortifications to block the entrance. The fortification is made up of sandbags, filled with bullet-loaded rapid-fire weapons: bellmouth guns, revolver guns, organ guns, etc., in addition to sabers, large axes, and daggers for close combat.

Baron Gustav Wrangel did not wish to block the attack of the Polish soldiers on the first floor, only to kill as much as possible.

The stairs leading from the hall to the second floor were removed by the Baron. Only a few ladders are left for climbing.

On the second floor, all the windows were blocked, leaving only small holes for people to shoot and observe. The baron also ordered someone to chip away some of the masonry on the wall, so that the shooting had no dead ends.

Although Baron Gustav Wrangel removed the stairs from the first floor to the second floor, he retained the spiral staircase from the second floor to the third floor. Because the stairs are very narrow, only one person can go up and down. At the end of the stairs, the Baron prepared a table the same as the first floor, full of ready-made weapons. As long as there is one person guarding here, it is a man who is in charge of a man.

In addition, there is a tunnel in the basement of the church that communicates with the city, and Baron Gustav Wrangel has carefully disguised it. At a critical moment, this tunnel can transport valuable troops from the city to support the church.

With this arrangement, for an attacker to win the church, he has to cross the gate, destroy the fortifications, and then seize the second floor, and then take the spiral staircase step by step under the rain of bullets; every step is right. They are all deaths.

What's more, when they are attacking, their backs can always appear as reinforcements from the defenders.

"boom!"

There was a loud noise, and a red light flashed on the artillery position in a camouflage city where the baron could see.

This tentative shell hit the second floor of the church and pierced a large wall near the firing hole of the gun on the second floor. A Swedish soldier was buried under the rubble.

The Swedish soldiers hurried to rescue the wounded and used sandbags to repair the gap.

Baron Gustav Wrangel shouted:

"Dear and loyal friends, God has given us strength! Many enemies more fierce than demons have appeared before us. They want to take the church from us and take Warsaw. The brave and faithful friends of King Carl X, Use our wisdom and courage to defend our honor..."

As soon as the baron's voice fell, the artillery beside him lit the velvet rope of the six-pounder gun and launched a counterattack.

Then, there was a sound of gunfire.

Polish warriors filled the three trenches outside the church with sandbags against the bullets and shells on the second and third floors of the church. Then, a hole was also opened in the wall.

In the sight of Baron Gustav Wrangel, Polish soldiers rushed towards the main entrance of the church like a gray cloud. In this dark cloud, there are many white spots, which are the wings behind the wing cavalry. The baron knew that the wing cavalry was the most elite unit in the Republic of Poland, and there was a bloodthirsty smile on his face.

"Shoot toward the gap, change shots, change shots. Aim and hit me." Baron Gustav Wrangel shouted.

Six artillery guns spewed out flames without interruption. Countless people fell in a pool of blood beside the gap in the wall. But the living people were still desperate, and they rushed into the blind spot of artillery fire.

The Polish artillery also tried to suppress the firepower of the Swedish artillery in the church, but Baron Gustav Wrangel meticulously reinforced the wall near the gun stand, and ordinary six-pounder guns could not penetrate it at all.

The Polish soldiers who rushed forward drew their axes, and they wanted to chop open the door of the church.

The gate suddenly opened, and the Swedish soldiers behind the sandbags operated pipe organ guns and trumpet muskets and fired at the Polish soldiers at the gate.

At this time, death gave them equal treatment regardless of whether they were civilians or nobles, wearing armor or naked, wing cavalry or Polish militia.

The front door was full of wounded and dead. People stepped on the corpse, people stepped on the wounds, stepped on the broken limbs, groans from there, and sometimes the feet were caught by the dying person. But no one will save them. Soon, the groans were drowned in the shouts.

The living Polish soldiers endured the crazy death with amazing perseverance~www.readwn.com~ They rushed into the church.

Originally, according to the Baron’s plan, the Swedish soldiers guarding the gate would immediately evacuate after the bullets were fired. However, the Polish soldiers rushed too fast and did not give the Swedes time to retreat. People from two different countries grappled with each other in the hall. I could hear the clash of sabers and sabers, the cracking of spears piercing the human body, scary panting, groans, hoarse gasps, curses, and thunder.

Gradually, the blood of the slayers flowed into a river. It flowed from the gate to the stairs and then to the outside of the church, seeping through the black soil. The big pool of dark blood flared up on the grass.

"Quickly remove the ladder!"

"Go in!"

"Victory!"

The baron, the colonel, and the prince shouted at the same time.

The fortifications on the first floor were breached. The Swedish soldiers stranded here were killed cleanly. But every time they died, Poland paid the price of ten deaths.

The victorious Polish soldiers were preparing to expand their battle and take down the second floor of the church, but they were surprised to find that there was no staircase leading to the second floor.

No one thought that there would be such a situation, so no one had prepared a ladder for them.

A wing cavalry climbed the wall in vain, but fell down after a few climbs.

"throw."

A password came from the second floor.

Immediately afterwards, a dozen huge land grenades fell on the ground on the first floor.

"Oh, God!"

The wing cavalry shouted, then disappeared into the smoke.

Death-like silence shrouded the church of the Holy Spirit, and even the light of God could not dissipate it. Prince Mihavu was dumbfounded-two hundred people were gone in just one morning!

Inside the church is hell, and outside the church is also hell.