The Last Frontier of Fire and Sword

Chechen led the Tatar cavalry to the city of Cherkessk. He walked around the city of Cherkesko and got a general understanding of the situation in Cherkesko.

Cherkosk is a rectangular wooden fort with a length of 200 meters and a width of 150 meters. It has four towers five meters above the city wall on its four corners. Outside the city wall, there is a shallow trench, there is no water in the trench, only the sharpened wooden thorns are inserted diagonally. On the city wall, there is a person standing every four or five meters. There are men and women, old and young, each holding a musket or a spear and a large axe, staring at the outside of the city.

"It's really a strong city." Cheerchen sighed.

If there is an artillery, not the small caliber Francan cannon, but an over 12-pound artillery, as long as a gap is blasted in the wall, Cheorchen will dare to attack now. However, facing this wooden city wall, Cheerchen, who lacked large-caliber artillery, could only make a fuss for a while.

"Bey, Patriarch Isaac is here."

While Cheerchen was looking at the city and sighing, Karachimir brought a sturdy middle-aged man to Chechen's back. This man is the head of a Tatar tribe nomadic in the areas of Cherkesk and Azov.

Cheerchen beat his horse and turned his head.

"Chechenbey," Karazimir continued, "Patriarch Isaac brought three hundred tribal cavalry."

"Three hundred?" Cheerchen's tone was disappointed.

Patriarch Isaac certainly heard this disappointed tone. He rolled off his horse in a hurry. He apologized to Chechen, and then complained: "Master Bey, it's not that I don't want to work harder. It is because my tribe has suffered heavy losses under the blows of the Cossacks and Kalmyks. People even took refuge in the Kalmyks."

"Kalmyks?" Cheerchen is very unfamiliar with this name.

"That's a group of demons from the East. They wear cotton-padded clothes with foam nails, iron helmets with small flags on their heads, and use generous sabers. They come and go like the wind, and they can command freely without using golden drums." Chief Isaac said in a trembling voice. Obviously this group of Kalmyks left him with a terrifying impression.

Cheechen calmed down Patriarch Isaac's emotions. As for the so-called Kalmyks, Chechen didn't take it to heart. After all, his main purpose this time was to destroy Cherkessk and open up the road link between the Crimean Khanate and Azov.

Then Cheerchen asked Karazimir again: "Is there any news from Segetbey?"

Segetbey was the lord of Azov Fort. When Chechen moved eastward into Cherkessk, he sent a letter to Segetbey, asking him to come to meet in the city and attack Cherkessk together.

Karazimir shook his head and said: "No, Sagetbey has not arrived yet, I have sent a messenger again."

Cheerchen sighed, now he can only rely on himself.

At about 11 o'clock, Cheekchen launched his first attack when smoke was rising in Cherkessk. He divided the 10 artillery into two groups and bombarded the city gates in the north and west. As we all know, the strength of the city gate is incomparable with the city wall.

The Hessian mercenaries operating the artillery lived up to expectations and smashed the city gate of Cherkessk with only two volleys.

Immediately, Chechen ordered Karazimir’s Tatar cavalry and Isaac’s tribal cavalry to launch a raid on Cherkessk.

Each of the Tatar cavalry who roared out had a bulging sack behind their horse butt, which was filled with sand. The Tatar cavalry made a bend in front of the trench and threw the full sandbags into the trench. After a while, the trench was filled out.

But when the two cavalry rushed to the gate of the city, they ran into trouble again. The cunning Alexei Torbzin had already blocked the city gate with stones. The cavalry who hadn't expected this situation for a while did not know what to do. The cavalry crowded at the gate of the city soon became a living target for the shooters of the two towers. After paying seventeen or eight casualties, the defenders easily repelled the Tatar cavalry attack. After that, Cheerchen led his troops to retreat amidst the sarcasm of civilians and soldiers in Cherkessk.

At 15:00 noon, Cheerchen finally got back a round. The Tatar cavalry patrolling outside threw five **** heads under the city of Cherkessk, who was sent by Alexei Torbzin for help.

Seeing the heads rolling on the ground, the Russian garrison on the wall was desperate. This means that Cherkessk has become an isolated city.

At night, in order to boost the morale of the soldiers and civilians in Cherkessk, Alexei Tolbzin celebrated his victory at noon. He took out the vodka accumulated in the wine cellar and drank the most vodka, and soon collapsed on the bed like a muddy mud.

In the middle of the night, a loud noise awakened Alexei Tolbzin and shook him out of bed.

Alexei Torbzin got up from the ground sleepily, his wine still not awake, he was still confused to see everything.

"What happened?" Alexei Torbzin shouted. He saw through the glass in the window that the fire was igniting outside. At first Alexei Tolbzin thought it was a drunk who accidentally lit a haystack—this is common in Cherkessk. matter.

But the real situation is not as simple as a fire. A new army soldier wearing a high helmet hurriedly pushed open the door. He hurriedly reported to Alexei Torbzin: "Deputy leader, the Tatars exploded with gunpowder. Our city wall, they rushed in,"

Alexei Torbzin was taken aback. He didn't even care about wearing armor, so he rushed to the door wearing only a shirt.

In the light of the fire, the city wall of Cherkessk was blasted with a big opening, and the Tatar cavalry kept pouring in from the gap. They slashed with knives and used lasso and leather cords to restrain those drunk and unconscious. Of the person’s neck, and then dragged it away.

"Cunning Tatar!" Alexei Tolbzin cursed. But he knew that cursing alone would not help, he had to find a way.

Alexei Torbzin grabbed the Nouveau soldier by the collar beside him.

"What's your name?" Alexei Torbzin asked.

"Andre, my name is Andre." The new army replied tremblingly.

"Okay! Andre, you are my messenger now. I now order you to gather all the sober people. Come here, understand?"

Andre nodded.

Alexei Torbzin let go of Andrei. He walked back to the room, and when Alexei Tolbzin came out again, he was fully equipped.

Alexei Torbzin raised his arquebus and aimed at a Tatar cavalry who was chasing a Russian woman. He pulled the trigger, and the Tatar cavalry was shot and dropped his horse.

"Come on, you goat fuckers, come on!" Alexei Tolbzin roared.

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When the day came the next day, in Cherkessk, except for the city hall, the entire city had been occupied.

In the city hall, Alexei Torbzin led the remaining forty people desperately defending. The bull's bladder at the gate of the city hall and the windows on both sides were filled with arrows, all of which were left by the Tatars who tried to rush into the city hall. There were also more than twenty corpses on the way to the gate.

At this point, the Tatar attack on the city hall has come to a halt.

At this time, Cheechen, who was supervising the battle outside the city, saw that the battle in the city was not over yet, so he ordered Yelishei to take care of the troops and walked towards the city with Patriarch Isaac himself.

Patriarch Isaac bowed his back and followed Chechen. At this time, the patriarch of the Tatar tribe casts the ground on the five bodies that Cheerchen admires.

In only one night, Chechen basically occupied Cherkessk, an important town on the southern frontier of Tsarist Russia. This is something that Sjetbey did not sit in for several weeks or even months. Especially Cheerchen's method of blowing up the wooden walls of Circassion, Patriarch Isaac was even more incredible.

In the past siege of Cherkosk, the Tatars didn’t think about blasting the walls with gunpowder, but they worked hard to pile up the precious gunpowder from Bergzisale under the walls, but they couldn’t. Destroy the city walls. But the people Cheechen sent did the same way, and they used less gunpowder than he used.

"Master Bey, what method did you use to blow up the walls of Cherkessk?" Patriarch Isaac asked.

"What way? Gunpowder, of course." Tetsuchen said naturally.

Hearing what Chechen said was so natural, as if it were easy, Patriarch Isaac scratched his head.

"But we used to use gunpowder, but it didn't work." Patriarch Isaac said.

Cheerchen stopped the horse.

He asked: "How do you do it?"

Patriarch Isaac said hurriedly: "Just like Bey, you did last night..."

After listening to Patriarch Isaac’s hand-to-mouth gestures, Cheer Chen knew what went wrong with the Tatar patriarch.

After the black powder reacts, a large amount of carbon dioxide and nitrogen will be produced. If it is in a closed space and the container cannot withstand the pressure, it will explode. But if there is a gap, it is different. The energy generated by the burning of gunpowder will be ejected from the gap, releasing the energy. This is also the principle of muskets and artillery firing projectiles. And there is no way to release the air pressure, the gunpowder will explode. Patriarch Isaac's failure was because he didn't understand this principle and didn't create a confined space. Instead, he simply piled gunpowder under the city wall. The effect was of course similar to setting a large firework.

And just in 1654, two years before Chechen came to Eastern Europe, the then Mayor of Magdeburg Otto von Glick conducted a scientific experiment in Regensburg in the Holy Roman Empire to prove that The existence of atmospheric pressure and its huge energy.

In the experiment, Otto von Glick evacuated the air in the two hemispheres, reducing the number of air particles in the sphere. The atmosphere outside the sphere presses the two hemispheres together. The more air is pumped out, the greater the pressure on the hemispheres, and the harder it is for the two hemispheres to separate.

"Patriarch Isaac, next time you prepare to blow up the city wall, remember to dig a hole under the city wall, and then plug the hole, so that it will have an effect." Chechen said.

Hearing Chechen's words, Patriarch Isaac showed a suddenly realized expression. The expression seemed to say: That's how it should be.

But Isaac's understanding of this is limited to this. He who has not received scientific education can always only be aware of it but not knowing why.

Since the beginning of the Renaissance, the light of science and technology in the Western world has left the rest of the world far behind.

After telling Patriarch Isaac where he was wrong, Cheerchen stopped talking. He went on and came to the back of the bunker in front of the gate of the city hall.

Karazimir was hiding behind a pile of wood piled at the entrance of the street. Mirza had a bandage on his leg, which was a mark left on him by a new army gunner at night.

"Karazy, haven't you taken the city hall?" Cheerchen also hid behind the timber and asked Karazimir.

"Bey, these guys are too stubborn. They didn't surrender. We attacked several times without success." Karazimir defended his failure.

Cheorchen raised his head carefully. He was about to observe the situation of the city hall. A bullet fired from the window of the city hall hit the wood in front of him, scared him and hurriedly retracted his head.

"How many people are there?"

"Thirty or forty. According to the captives, Alexei Torbzin, the deputy leader of Cherkessk, was also inside."

"That demon!"

Upon hearing the name of Alexei Torbzin, Patriarch Isaac gritted his teeth.

"What's wrong?"

Cheerchen wondered why Patriarch Isaac called Alexei Torbzin by the devil.

"Bey, that devil, cannibalism!" Patriarch Isaac gritted his teeth.

It turned out that UU Reading www.uukanshu.com was in the process of Alexei Torbzin’s suppression of the local nomadic tribe’s resistance, whether it was for the purpose of deterrence or he had a special interest in human flesh. This military officer of Tsarist Russia unexpectedly A captured Tatar was grilled on the fire, and then the meat of the Tatar was cut off and eaten piece by piece. This also gave Alexei Torbzin the name "ogre" in the mouth of the Tatars.

The Tatar who was eaten alive was a tribe of Patriarch Isaac, so Patriarch Isaac hated him especially.

After listening to the causes and consequences, Cheerchen was also shocked by Alexei Tolbzin's atrocities-cannibalism, even if the food is infidels, this is really only the devil can do.

Chechen, who was enraged by the atrocities of Alexei Torbzin, shouted to Karasimirzan: "Strike with fire, and destroy these demons with fire."

Karazimir, who was in order, showed hesitation on his face.

"Bey, there may be property in the city hall. It's a shame to burn it all."

Karazimir is distressed by the things that are within reach.

Cheerchen glanced at him: "Well, if you don't care about the casualties of your men, then continue to let your men attack."

Hearing Chechen's words, Karazimir gritted his teeth, and he passed the Huo Gong order on. Not long after, the Tatar cavalry surrounding the city hall received arrows tied with tar and other firelighters.

Hundreds of arrows fired at the city hall at the same time. Some arrows were shot into the city hall, and most of them were nailed to the outer wall of the city hall.

After a while, the wooden city hall ignited a raging fire. Through the broken window, Cheerchen seemed to be able to see someone inside waving his arms.

After another while, a few fire men rushed out from the gate, they only walked out a few steps and fell to the ground, lost their breath.