I Am Louis XIV

The port expansion and renovation of Dunkirk was the first time that Louis XIV employed wizards on a large scale.

At that time, the great Condé returned to Paris with guilt. If it hadn’t been for the assassination of Louis XIV, he came out to negotiate with the British under the persuasion of his friends and saved the achievements of Louis. After that, the king would not treat him So lenient—but during that time, as the eldest son of the great Condé, Henry wisely did not immediately choose to return to his father, but continued to stay elsewhere with his mother.

When he returned to Paris, the reconstruction of Dunkirk was coming to an end, so how Dunkirk was rebuilt, he only heard from Vauban and others-they said that wizards can transform an entire city All the seawater in the port was lifted up and pushed to the outside, exposing dry sand and rugged rock walls. Construction in the sea is like construction on the ground, so simple that it is unimaginable. Henry really had a hard time imagining that kind of scene, which should only be heard in the legend of Neptune (the god of the sea), but he still firmly remembered it.

When he was trying to find a way to hold on to Calzava, he almost immediately thought that it would be great if the saint could immediately pour down a heavy rain. The land around Calzava was loose, the vegetation was sparse and low, and the roads were not as solid as those in France. Flat - There are still many places that have been damaged. This place is often devastated by wars. Destroying roads is the easiest way to defend.

Unfortunately, the accompanying priests and wizards all said that the next few days will be sunny and rainless.

Henry didn't know why he had a flash of inspiration. There was no heavy rain, so what about the river?

There is not only a tributary above Calzava, but also a large lake. Of course, it is impossible to dig a ditch in such a short period of time, but the wizard can lift the sea water of a port, lift a lake, Even if it's only part of the lake, it shouldn't be a problem. No, Lake Lubanas is higher than Calzava, and as long as the embankment is dug, the lake will rush down.

The latter method is the suggestion of the wizards. The wizards in the other world are only more vigilant when facing the same kind than the aliens. These French and Italian wizards are very familiar with the Slavic spirits. There are not enough of them. The lake then poured down, not impossible, but not efficient, but they quickly caught enough Lusaka and Voganoi.

Lusaka is a mermaid on land, which is different from mermaids in the sea. They live in the reeds by the river or in the swamp. Legend has it that they are unbaptized and drowned children or the incarnation of women. Wizards say this is pure nonsense of priests. Eight reasons, because the earliest records of Lusaka can be found in the temples of ancient Greece, and the savior of the priests had not yet been born at that time.

Henry doesn’t know if that’s the case, but Lusaka looks as beautiful and attractive as the mermaid in the sea-only the upper body, the lower body is more like a snake than a fish, they are just good at hiding, and they are not very good at humans. The great threat can only be so much in places where the power of the church is insufficient. The wizards arrest them and ask them to point out the underground waterways or the ditches that have been hidden by vegetation for a long time.

As for Voganoi, they are the exact opposite of Lusaka in terms of appearance. They look like a man with a long green beard, with an out-and-out fish tail under his body, and his skin is covered with rough black scales. They looked more like otters and frogs, with eyes that glowed like coals, and they were more dangerous than Lusaka—they were so powerful that they could easily destroy river banks, mills, and drag people into the water.

Therefore, in the wizard's plan, Voganoi has to take on more work-the wizards gather part of the lake water into the air to impact the soil and vegetation by the lake, and Voganoi digs ditches in the direction pointed out by Lusaka , directing the water in the direction of Calzava.

At the beginning, this plan seemed difficult to succeed. When the lake is in the air, its volume looks amazing, but once it falls to the ground, it is immediately absorbed by the soil and plants. Under the moonlight, the stems and leaves of the plants are all Glittering, the soil bulged with one gray foam after another, but after the wizards repeated the second and third times, a stream of dirty water finally flowed slowly to Karzava's under people's expectations. direction.

Such a scene also happened on the side of the tributary of the Gapwa River.

When the current suddenly became rapid, no one noticed it. It seemed to be only a moment. The first thing people noticed was that their cry suddenly changed from a low The gray black turned into silvery white, the artificial torrent broke through the last obstacle and rushed down, they pushed away, swept away and whipped all the things in their path, the wizards who observed the situation hurriedly fled, Lusaka Disappearing and disappearing in the water with Voganoi, uttering terrified cries.

This little deluge came towards Carzava, circled two-thirds of its way around its low walls, and headed lower still.

The lower-lying place is of course the battlefield.

It's just that at the place where the battlefield is located, the power of the flood has become very small, even very gentle. They are like a group of greedy nymphs, silently hollowing out the foundation of the earth, but leaving no obvious traces on the surface ——The darker soil is covered under the green branches and leaves, and the air is more humid, but it also feels like a drizzle at night. When the Russian soldiers walked out of the tent, they felt indescribably comfortable. He didn't realize how fatal the ground under his feet had changed.

Henry no longer needed to pretend to be seriously ill. He came to the city wall wearing a breastplate and looked at the Russian camp with a telescope.

Boris Romanov was not a wise man, but by this time he also guessed that he had been fooled by the Poles, and he declared war angrily without much remorse. The war at this time has no conditions and no concepts, and the time is too particular. The long marching process, the complicated messenger exchanges, and the attack and defense like dots are the most common. The Russians not only failed to keep up with fashion. In the footsteps of the Europeans, the same is true in war.

The advantages that the Slav wizards had won for him were thrown away.

The same was true of the Polish army before, but since Condé the Great became the king of Poland, he naturally brought everything from France into Poland, not just equipment. After being stationed in Kalsava, the first thing Prince Henry of Poland did was not to repair or build his own official residence and palace, but to inspect the city walls, fortifications and fortresses, and build forts, so now, his twenty cannons have been destroyed. Moving up the city wall, towards the direction of the Russians, seeing this scene, the Russians laughed instead. They don’t think that these artillery can move in a short period of time, and they can choose whatever they want to launch the attack before the reinforcements come. place.

They thought so, and did so, and Alexander of Miloslavsky rode forward calmly, commanding the soldiers to move the latest artillery to the place where he thought the Kalsava city wall was weakest, together with the ammunition lined up with mules and horses. box, ready to take the city and the Polish crown prince in one fell swoop.

Although those places have been burned by fire, and horses and human boots have stepped on them, how can their weight compare with the solid artillery made of bronze and black iron? In an instant, the carriage carrying the artillery fell down without warning Go, in the first few seconds, some people were thinking-whether the axle of the carriage was broken, but they soon discovered that the entire carriage was sinking in unison, and a young soldier subconsciously stretched out his hand to pull , But how does the power of a human being compare to a heavy weapon that weighs several tons? His arm immediately dislocated, and he couldn't help but let out a scream.

Fortunately for him, another carriage loaded with artillery fell to one side, crushing two people to death—one was silent immediately, and the other was broken in half. It seemed that there was no hope. His companion helped him End the pain.

Most of the cannons have encountered this problem, and just like humans walking into the swamp, the infiltration is gradual, and the soil behind is still solid. When the carriage reaches a place that cannot bear it, they can hardly retreat.

At this time, someone went to check the ground. What puzzled them was that there was no heavy rain last night, but the ground was as soft as after a storm. The morning sun dried the surface, making them careless and falling fell into the trap of the Poles. But if they were given some time, they would not be unable to drag the carriage out again, but at this time the Polish artillery had already roared.

Of course, the artillery that can be brought all the way to Karzava by Henry will not be the heavy artillery weighing more than twelve pounds. There are only twelve eight-pounders and eight six-pounders here. The advantage is that none of them weigh more than one pound. Tons, which could be quickly transferred to the city walls, were ammunition with solid bullets, grenades with gunpowder inside, and shotgun shells popularized by Louis XIV.

Henry asked the loader to load double the shotgun shells first, which would greatly reduce the life of the barrel, but he needed a bloody first victory to deter these Russians-as we all know, shotgun shells are generally They are used to deal with humans and horses. Their range is very short, and they only have the maximum lethality within 400 yards. But when the bottom of the round pot-shaped projectile bursts due to the change of internal and external pressure, the bullets inside are like an open fan. When sweeping around, the damage caused to the flesh and blood can be imagined.

Especially after the bachelors and craftsmen of Louis XIV changed the bullets in the shotgun shells from gravel and soft lead bullets to hard and non-deformable iron bullets after continuous experiments.

What Henry wanted to attack was the horses pulling the carriage, and the soldiers beside the carriage. After a brief shelling, the carriage stuck in the mud was dyed red, and neither the man nor the horse could stand upright—there was even a burst of fire on the battlefield. There was a brief silence. After a while, a group of ragged people were driven up. They may be Tatar soldiers, or they may be serfs around, but there is no difference. As long as the Russians have the intention to pull the artillery back, Henry's gunners will fire.

"It's a pity for these light artillery pieces." Bu Hua said.

Shotguns have excellent lethality against men and horses, and the same is true for artillery—a new bronze cannon can fire more than 5,000 solid bullets, but can only withstand more than 200 rounds of shotgun. The artillery was almost useless.

"I think I'm still worth twenty cannons." Henry said jokingly, with his uncle's support, he didn't need to worry too much about armaments - he was also confident that he could repay the debt, he was the future of Poland king. He raised his binoculars to look again—in fact, it was not necessary. Although the Russians had a large number of cannons, their quality was worrying. Mortars, leather cannons used with the Swedes in the Thirty Years' War...

As the name suggests, the leather cannon is a thin copper tube or iron sheet on the inside, wrapped with a leather strip dipped in rosin, and then added with an iron hoop, and wrapped with layers of leather on the outside—this kind of cannon is better than light weight , but the range and lethality... needless to say.

Because most of these are either old or perfunctory artillery, the Russians had to push them very close to the city wall to give the Polish shotgun a chance to show off, and now it seems unlikely that they will use these artillery After dragging it back, is it necessary to rely on the number of people to win? Maybe, after all, the defenders only have 20 cannons, and they must either use up their cannonballs or wait for their cannons to become useless.

The Russians retreated a little further and began building fortifications and siege engines.

Leaving aside the anger of Russian Tsar Alexei I, Prince Henry of Poland did buy enough time for himself. Before the arrival of reinforcements from Sweden and Poland, the young soldier made another bold decision—— When the envoy from the old city of Luza came to him, he let him take away Buhua and some Tatars, as well as a hundred musketeers and three hundred guards. Together with the army, using the method of fighting in the carriage camp used by the Hussites in the fifteenth century, they raided the left flank of the Russians in the middle of the night.

The carriage camp warfare used by the Hussites has many similarities with the modern infantry tactics. At a suitable location, the carriages were connected with iron chains, the artillery was erected, and the cannons were fired through the gap between the carriages and the carriage workshop, and the soldiers launched an attack after the shelling.

The Hussites still used stone-shooting guns, but now Henry was able to transfer four-pound guns and six-pound guns from the defenders. However, the final victory could not be entirely attributed to these artillery pieces, but to the abundance and wealth of the Polish army. Nutritious military food.

Enough offal, fish, and meat for each of Prince Henry's soldiers to maintain good eyesight at night, but the Russian soldiers could not. Russian serfdom lasted until the nineteenth century. Although ordinary soldiers were better than serfs , but not to the point where they can eat as much meat as they want, they cannot see freely at night, the Poles and French, and the Tatars can.

The artillery roared, and then the light cavalry charged, accompanied by infantry, but after pouring a burst of shotgun shells, the Russian soldiers huddled in tents instead of fortifications had already collapsed, and they hardly encountered any organized resistance until Golovin's cavalry finally appeared on the edge of darkness and light.

As soon as Buhua saw the horses and knights who were so familiar to him, he immediately led the crowd to retreat. They were not Russians, and they had plenty of time.

To Henry's surprise, Buhua actually captured the Russian commander, Boris Romanov, in this battle.

Sorry for the lateness.