The Last Frontier of Fire and Sword

And outside the city of Cherkessk, the Kalmyk cavalry that attacked Chechen took the corpses of the killed Tatar cavalry and their mounts back to the camp and brought them to Ayuqitaiji.

"Taiji, we killed twelve people, escaped eight people, we lost six people." The ten captain headed by the head reported to Ayu Qihui.

At this time, Ayuqitaiji was sitting with Naum Vasilyev. Five days ago, they had already surrounded Circsksk to a halt. During this period, the Kalmyk cavalry used a hook to launch a raid on the small city of Cherkessk. Dozens of warriors successfully boarded the wooden walls of Cherkessk, but they were accused by the defenders. The superior force was defeated, and dozens of people went to work.

After this, Ayuqi ordered to stop the attack. He asked Naum Vasilyev to provide a "bigger musket (artillery, otherwise he would never let his soldiers go to death.

Although Naum Vasilyev was eager to regain Cherkessk, he did not say that he did not have artillery for Ayuqi, even if he did, he did not dare to provide artillery to the Kalmyks. He is well aware of the dangers of providing artillery to these nomads, and providing artillery that can blast through the gates and walls of Cherkessk means that most of the border towns in southern Tsarist Russia will no longer be protected from their invasion. .

Especially this Ayuqi, Naum Vasilyev is very wary of him now. This boy who is less than twenty years old has a crazy thirst for knowledge. In just a dozen days, he has captured several Cossacks under his men through money and beauty, and not only learned how to use muskets from them. If he hadn't discovered it in time, a Cossack would even pass on the formula of gunpowder to him.

But without artillery, Ayuqi refused to attack the city. Prior to this, Naum Vasilyev and Ayuqi had negotiated several times, but neither of them let go.

This time, taking advantage of the Tatar cavalry, Ayuqi made another request.

"Chief Naum Vasilyev, you have also seen that these Crimean Tatars have noticed that Cherkessk is under siege. I am afraid that there will be thousands of Tatar cavalry in the near future. Flocking here, I am afraid that I will be unable to help you with these people from Bentaiji." Ayuqi said as he shook his head for Naum Vasilyev regretfully.

After hearing Ayuqi's words, Naum Vasilyev hated him: He has been unable to attack Cherkessk, and it is not because your kid has not worked hard.

But he was scolding his mother, Naum Vasilyev still had a smile on his face.

"Master Taiji, as long as you open the door of Cherkessk, you will launch a general offensive?"

"Of course! We Turhute people are honest." A Yuqi slapped his thigh and said sternly.

The Gelu Lama sitting aside also proclaimed the Buddha's name.

"That's good! I'll provide you with artillery!" Naum Vasilyev gritted his teeth.

What Naum Vasilyev wanted to provide Ayuqi and the others were a few skin artillery pieces. The so-called skin artillery was first invented by Gustav the "Nordic Lion". This artillery was originally a light wrought iron tube wrapped in rope and leather used to fire chain shotguns. Although the skin artillery has the shortcomings of short life and short range, these shortcomings are precisely its advantages for Naum Vasilyev. Because of this, after the battle, the Kalmyks could no longer use these artillery. Moreover, these skin artillery is easy to manufacture, which is suitable for use in this kind of emergency.

When several temporary skin artillery pieces were mounted on a simple artillery cart and pushed in front of Ayuqi early the next morning, the ten officers and centurions who stood beside Ayuqi were all stunned. The vase-like skinned artillery pointed.

"Lord Taiji, please look!" Naum Vasiliev proudly pointed to these skin artillery.

Ayuqi walked to the gun, he tilted his body and looked at the black hole of the gun.

"Naum Vasilyev." Ayuqi straightened up and said to Naum Vasilyev.

"exist."

Naum Vasilyev held his head high.

Ayu Qihan pointed at these things rolled up in cowhide and asked, "This is the artillery you provided for me?"

As soon as Ayuqi's words fell, Galdan Celing drew his sword.

"Unbelievers! How dare you fool Taiji with this kind of cowhide rolls!" Galdan screamed.

"The leader of Naum Vasilyev is not an unbeliever, and Naum Vasilyev is the leader of the Don Cossacks." Naum Vasilyev was fearless and fearless towards Galdantzering's swordsmanship, because He has figured out Ayuqi's routine. He sings red face, while the man's reckless Galdan Zeling sings black face, and the two fool themselves together.

Sure enough, Ayuqi held down Gardan Celing's knife hand. He said to Gardan Celing: "Don't be rude."

Then he turned his head and smiled at Naum Vasilyev and said, "Chief Naum Vasilyev, since you said this is a cannon, please show us its power."

"Of course!" Naum Vasilyev responded. He ordered the six Cossacks pushing the gun cart to push the gun cart to the gate of Cherkessk, aiming the muzzle at the gate.

The defenders in Cherkessk saw that the enemy outside the city pushed artillery, and madly poured bullets and feather arrows toward the direction of the artillery cart, trying to kill the soldiers operating the skin artillery, but Naum Vasilyev clearly Already prepared, he erected a wooden wall as high as a person with logs to cover the soldiers operating the artillery.

The Cossack, who operated the first skin artillery, poured gunpowder into the muzzle under the watchful eyes of Ayuqi and Glu Lama, and then put an iron cannon ball in and tamped it with a push rod.

"Ayuqitaiji, Lama Gelug. I think we'd better stay away, it's not safe here." Naum Vasilyev persuaded the two men who were staring at the artillery.

Naum Vasilyev, this is really for the good of the two, because although these skin artillery is made by himself, Naum Vasilyev himself can’t guarantee these temporary ones, made of wrought iron and cowhide. Will the artillery blow up.

When Ayuqi heard Naum Vasilyev's words really, he and Glu Lama backed away dozens of steps.

The Cossack who operated the artillery nailed the burning red flame braze into the ignition port. The ignited gunpowder creaked, but there was no movement in the barrel for a long time.

Everyone was wondering when suddenly there was a loud noise from the position of the artillery. The Cossack gunner and artillery were suddenly drowned in flames.

The artillery exploded.

Then, there was an earth-shattering cheer from the head of Cherkessk. These insurgents apparently regarded the blasting of the skin artillery as a kind of good omen, that God is blessing the "real" czar and the czar's servants.

Naum Vasilyev's face was green. There was such a big accident in the first test, which was undoubtedly a slap in the face.

Gardan Tsering also looked pale. In his opinion, this is undoubtedly another evidence that the Russians cheated Taiji.

On the contrary, Ayu Qi, who was nearly killed, was not surprised. After the fire was put out, he smiled and said to Naum Vasilyev: "It's not surprising that there are occasional mistakes. I believe the next shot, your Excellency will not disappoint me."

Ayuqi's words were more lethal to Naum Vasilyev than Galdan Tsering's knife. He forced the Cossack gunner of the second artillery whose legs were weakened by fright to push the skin artillery into position and fire it.

"God bless, God bless!" The "lucky" Cossack gunner kept drawing a cross on his chest, then closed his eyes and inserted the fire braze into the ignition port.

Of course, in addition to praying for God’s blessing, Naum Vasilyev also summed up the experience and lessons. He replaced the solid shells with lighter chain shells.

This time, the Cossack gunner did not repeat the tragedy of the last time. The chain bullet was fired out, although it did not hit the gate, it swept a section of the city wall more than ten meters long, and the four heads protruding from behind were beaten into fleshy flesh. After that, the chain bullet was still cast, and it hit the pillars of the wooden arrow tower, interrupting the entire arrow tower.

The power of this artillery is absolutely beyond the reach of manpower. Whether it was the young and wise Ayuqi, the brave champion Gal Dan Tsering, or the Gelu Lama who was obsessed with the Buddha, they all stared blankly.

Seeing the three of them stunned, Naum Vasilyev smiled triumphantly. This is exactly the effect he wants.

Naum Vasilyev said to himself loudly: "Such artillery is not influential in our Tsarist Russia. There is a giant cannon in front of the Kremlin in Moscow. The length of this cannon is 5.34 meters. The caliber is 0.92 meters and it weighs 40 tons. Do you know how big 0.92 meters is?"

Naum Vasilyev, who pretended to be talking to himself, stretched his arms exaggeratedly in order to explain the size of the cannon.

"It's that big!"

Naum Vasiliev gestured.

After seeing the great power of the skin artillery, Naum Vasilyev’s words and actions gave the young Ayuqi a huge shock~www.readwn.com~ He could hardly imagine that such a small-caliber artillery already has this. It is so powerful that once Naum Vasilyev's 0.92 meter caliber cannon fires, it will be earth-shattering. And how do their own people sustain themselves when they encounter such fierce firepower.

"Lama Qin, Lama Qin."

At this moment, Lama Gelug repeated the reading of the master's understanding twice, and then said to Ayuqi: "Taiji, you are in Germany but not in danger."

Lama Gelug quoted an allusion from the Warring States Period in China: Wei Wuhou took a boat down the Yellow River, and when he was in the middle reach, he turned back and said to Wu Qi: "It's so beautiful, such a dangerous mountain and river, this is the treasure of the Wei state"! Wu Qi replied: "The treasure of a country should be the monarch's morality and not the dangers of mountains and rivers. In the past, the Sanmiao family had Dongting Lake on the left and Pengli Lake on the right. However, because he was not cultivating humanity, he was wiped out by Xia Yu. Xia Jie lived. The place where the Yellow River and Jishui are on the left, Mount Taihua is on the right, Mount Yique is on the south, and Yangchangban is on the north. Because he governs the country without benevolent governance, he was banished by Shang Tang. Shang Zhou’s land, on the left is Mengmen Mountain. , On the right is Taihang Mountain, Changshan is in the north, and the Yellow River passes through the south. Because he is not good at benevolence, he was killed by King Zhou Wu. It can be seen that the national treasure lies in virtue and not in the dangerous terrain. If the king does not exercise virtue, I am afraid that these people on the ship will become Your enemy"!

He is reminding Ayuqi that it is people who should really be in awe, not weapons.

How clever Ayuqi was, he immediately understood what Gelu Lama meant.

As soon as Ayuqi's demon was gone, he gratefully nodded to Lama Gelug, thanking him for the suggestion.

Then, Ayuqi calmly said to Naum Vasilyev: "I faced the city gate but knocked down the wall. It seems that your country’s artillery is nothing but this."