Chechen led the Tatar cavalry to the city of cherkesk. He walked around the city of cherkesk and got a general understanding of the situation of cherkesk.
Cherkosk city is a rectangular wooden fortress with a length of 200 meters and a width of 150 meters. There are four towers five meters higher than the city wall at its four corners. Outside the city wall, there was a shallow trench. There was no water in the trench, only sharpened wooden thorns were inserted obliquely. On the wall, one person stands every four or five meters. They are men and women, old and young, each with a firegun or a spear and axe, staring at the outside of the city.
"It''s really a ''hard city''." Che Chen sighed.
If there is a gun, not a small caliber Fran machine gun, but a gun of more than 12 pounds, as long as a gap is opened in the wall, Chechen dares to attack now. However, facing the wooden wall, Cherchen, who lacks large caliber artillery, can only do nothing for a while.
"Bey, the patriarch Isak is here."
While Chechen was sighing at the city, karazimir brought a strong middle-aged man to Chechen''s back. The man was the head of a Tatar tribe nomadic in cherkesk and assu.
Chechen beat the horse back and went too far.
"Cherchenbey," karazimir continued, "the head of Isak brought 300 tribal cavalry."
"Three hundred?" Chechen''s tone was disappointed.
Of course, the patriarch of Isak could hear the disappointment. He hurriedly rolled off his horse. He made amends to Cherchen, and then complained: "Lord bey, it''s not that I don''t want to contribute more. It''s really that my tribe suffered heavy losses under the attack of Cossacks and Kalmyks, and many people even took refuge in Kalmyks."
"Kalmyk?" Chechen was unfamiliar with the name.
"It''s a group of demons from the East. They wear cotton padded clothes with foam nails, iron helmets with small flags and broad sabers. They come and go like the wind, but they can command freely without gold drums." the head of Isak said in a trembling voice. It was clear that the Kalmyks had left him a terrible impression.
Chechen calmed the mood of the next asak patriarch. For the so-called Kalmyk people, Cherchen did not pay attention. After all, his main purpose this time is to destroy cherkesk and open up the road connection between the Crimean Khanate and Azov fort.
Then, Chechen asked karazimir, "is there any news from saigetbey?"
Saijietbei is the city Lord of Yasu fort. When Cherchen entered cherkesk in the East, he sent a letter to saijietbei and asked him to meet under the city and attack cherkesk together.
Karazimir shook his head and said, "no, saijetbei hasn''t arrived yet. I''ve sent a messenger again."
Che Chen sighed. Now he can only rely on himself.
At about 11:00, when cooking smoke was rising in the city of cherkesk, Cherchen launched his first attack. He divided 10 guns into two groups and bombarded the city gates in the West and North. As we all know, the firmness of the city gate cannot be compared with the city wall.
Hessian mercenaries operating artillery lived up to expectations and smashed the city gate of cherkesk with only two volleys.
Immediately, Cherchen ordered karazimir''s Tatar cavalry and Isak''s tribal cavalry to launch a surprise attack on cherkesk.
The Tatar cavalry roared out. Everyone had a bulging sack behind their horse''s ass, which contained sand. The Tatar cavalry made a bend in front of the trench and threw full sandbags into the trench. After a while, the trench was filled out.
But when the two cavalry rushed to the gate, they were in trouble again. It turned out that the cunning Alexei tolbuzin had already blocked the city gate with stones. The cavalry who did not expect this situation did not know what to do for a moment. The cavalry crowded at the gate of the city soon became the living target of the archers of the two towers. After paying the casualties of 178 people, the garrison easily repulsed the attack of Tatar cavalry. After that, Cherchen led the army to retreat in the mockery of the army and the people in cherkesk.
At 15 noon, Chechen finally pulled back a game. The tartar cavalry patrolling outside threw five bloody heads under the city of cherkesk, which was sent by Alexei tolbuzin for help.
Seeing the rolling heads on the ground, the Russian defenders on the wall were desperate. This means that cherkesk has become an isolated city.
At night, Alexei tolbuzin celebrated the victory at noon in order to boost the morale of the army and people in cherkesk. He took out the vodka stored in the cellar, drank the most vodka, and soon collapsed on the bed like a pool of mud.
In the middle of the night, Alexei tolbuzin was awakened by an earth shaking noise and got out of bed.
Alexei tolbuzin got up from the ground bleary eyed. He was still confused about everything before he woke up.
"What happened?" Alexei tolbuzin shouted. He saw a fire outside through the glass in the window. At first Alexei tolbuzin thought it was a drunken man who accidentally lit the Haystack - a common thing in cherkesk.
But the real situation is not so simple. A new army soldier wearing a high top helmet pushed open the door in a panic. He reported to Alexei tolbuzin in a panic: "deputy leader, the Tatars blew up our wall with gunpowder, and they rushed in."
Alexei tolbuzin was startled. He couldn''t even wear armor. Wearing only a shirt, he rushed to the door.
In the light of the fire, a big hole was opened in the wall of cherkesk. Tatar cavalry kept pouring in from the gap. They slashed with knives, strangled the drunken people by lasso and leather rope, and then dragged them away.
"Cunning Tatars!" Alexei tolbuzin scolded. But he knew that swearing was useless. He had to find a way.
Alexei tolbuzin grabbed the collar of the new army soldier beside him.
"What''s your name?" Alexei tolbuzin asked.
"Andre, my name is Andre," the new soldier replied tremblingly.
"Well, Andre, you are my Herald now. I command you to gather all the sober people and come here, okay?"
Andre nodded.
Alexei tolbuzin let Andre go. He went back to his room, and when Alexei tolbuzin came out again, he was fully equipped.
Alexei tolbuzin raised his rope and musket and aimed at a Tatar cavalry 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!" roared Alexei tolbuzin.
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When the next day came, the whole city of cherkesk had been occupied except the city hall.
In the city hall, Alexei tolbuzin led the remaining more than 40 people to defend desperately. In the city hall''s gates and on the sides of the windows, the cattle were filled with arrows, all of which were left behind by the Tatar people who tried to rush into the city hall. Together, there are more than 20 bodies on the road at the gate.
So far, the Tatars'' attack on the city hall came to a standstill.
And at this time, when Cherchen, who was originally supervising the battle outside the city, saw that the battle in the city was not over, he ordered yelishei to control the troops and take the Isak patriarch to the city.
The Isak followed behind Chechen with a long bow. At this time, the head of the Tatar tribe threw himself into the ground in admiration of Che Chen.
In only one night, Cherchen basically occupied cherkesk, an important town in the southern frontier of Czar Russia, which saijetbei had not sat down for weeks or even months. In particular, the means by which Chechen blew up the wooden wall of cherkesco was even more incredible.
In the previous siege of cherkosk, the Tatars did not want to blow up the city wall with gunpowder, but they tried hard to pile the precious gunpowder obtained from begzisalai under the city wall, but they could not destroy the city wall. The same means, the people sent by Chechen did it, and the amount of gunpowder used was less than their own.
"Lord bey, how did you blow up the walls of cherkesk?" asked the patriarch of Isak.
"What way? Of course it''s gunpowder." Cherchen said naturally.
Listen to what Chechen said so naturally, it seems easy. The head of Isak scratched his ears and cheeks.
"But we used to use gunpowder, but it didn''t work," said patriarch Isaac.
Chechen stopped the horse.
He asked, "how did you do it?"
Asak patriarch hurriedly said, "just like bey you did last night..."
After listening to the story of the head of Isak''s hand and mouth, Che Chen knew what was wrong with the head of Tatar.
Black powder will produce a large amount of carbon dioxide and nitrogen after reaction. If it is in a closed space and the container can not bear the pressure, it will explode. But if there is a gap, it is different. The energy generated by the combustion of gunpowder will be ejected from the gap to release the energy. This is also the principle of fire guns and artillery firing bullets. If there is no way to release air pressure, the gunpowder will explode. The reason for the failure of asak patriarch was that he did not understand this truth. Instead of creating a closed space, he simply piled gunpowder under the city wall. Of course, the effect was similar to setting off a large fireworks.
In 1654, two years before Cherchen came to Eastern Europe, Otto von Grick, then mayor of madeborg, conducted a scientific experiment in Regensburg of the Holy Roman Empire to prove the existence of atmospheric pressure and its great energy.
In the experiment, Otto von Grick pumped out the air in the two hemispheres, reducing the number of air particles in the ball. The atmosphere outside the ball tightly presses the two hemispheres together. The more air is pumped out, the greater the pressure on the two hemispheres, and the harder it is to separate the two hemispheres.
"The next time you''re going to blow up the city wall, remember to dig a hole under the city wall and plug it up, so as to have an effect," Chechen said.
After hearing these words from Chechen, the patriarch of Isak showed an expression of enlightenment. The expression seemed to say: so it should be.
But Isaac''s understanding of this is limited to this. Without a scientific education, he can only be in a state of knowing it but not knowing why.
Since the Renaissance, the light of science and technology in the western world has left the rest of the world far behind.
After telling the asak patriarch where he was wrong, Cherchen stopped talking. He went on and came to the back of the bunker in front of the gate of the city hall.
Karazimir I was hiding behind a pile of wood stacked at the entrance of the street. Milzan wore a bandage on his leg, which was the mark left on him by a new arms gunman at night.
"Karachi, haven''t you won the city hall?" Chechen also hid behind the wood and asked Karachi Mir us.
"Bey, these maozi are too stubborn. They don''t give up even if they die. We have attacked several times without success." karazimir explained his failure.
Chechen raised his head carefully. He was about to observe the situation of the city hall. A bullet from the window of the city hall hit the wood in front of him and scared him back.
"How many people are there?"
"Thirty or forty. According to the prisoners, Alexei tolbuzin, the deputy leader of cherkesk, was also there."
"The devil!"
As soon as he heard Alexei tolbuzin''s name, the head of Isak gnashed his teeth.
"What''s the matter?"
Chechen wondered why the patriarch of Isak called Alexei tolbuzin the devil.
"Bey, the devil, eats people!" the head of Isak gnashed his teeth.
It turned out that in the process of Alexei tolbuzin suppressing the resistance of the local nomadic tribes, I don''t know whether it was for the purpose of deterrence or whether he had a special interest in human flesh, the Tsarist Russian officer roasted a captured Tatar on the fire, and then cut off the Tatar''s meat piece by piece. This also gave Alexei tolbuzin the title of "ogre" in the mouth of Tatars.
The Tatar who was eaten alive was a member of the head of the Isak clan, so the head of the Isak clan hated him very much.
After listening to the causes and consequences, Chechen was also shocked by Alexei tolbuzin''s atrocities - eating people, even if they eat pagans, only the devil can do it.
Angered by Alexei tolbuzin''s atrocities, Cherchen shouted to karazimir: "attack with fire, destroy these demons with fire."
Karazimir, who got the order, showed hesitation.
"Bey, there may be plenty of property in the city hall. It''s a pity to burn it."
Karazimir, we are in love with the readily available property.
Che Chen looked at him: "well, if you don''t care about the death and injury of your men, then continue to let your men attack."
After listening to Chechen, karazimir bit his teeth and conveyed the order of fire attack. Not long after, the tartar cavalry around the city hall received arrows bound with kindling materials such as tar.
Hundreds of arrows were 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 lit a raging fire. Through the broken window, Chechen seemed to see someone waving his arms inside.
After a while, several firemen rushed out of the gate. They only walked out for a few steps and fell to the ground without breathing.