Vol 5 Chapter 103: The Great Siege (16)

The Ottoman fleet went smoothly upstream on the river. As the river gradually became narrower than at the estuary, the governor's look gradually became more serious.
There are many forests on both sides of the river, which made the Osmans pay more attention. They carefully monitored the situation on the bank, especially after gradually seeing the fortress along the east bank of the river, Osman immediately became vigilant.
"The artillery in these fortresses can block most of the river," the Governor estimated slightly and came to this conclusion, which made his look gloomy. "I hope that no one in Xi Sugu will be disappointed, otherwise we may just take this place. That's it. "
According to Sudan ’s plan, the army of Sisu Valley will first control the west bank of the lower Demwica River to protect the fleet along the river. Because the army of Sisu Valley did not carry artillery, it was temporarily unable to attack the fortress on the other side of the river, so he only You need to control one side of the river bank.
But further upstream, this will obviously not work, because the river surface there will be narrower, which allows the artillery in the fortress to block the entire river surface, which means that the fortress must be captured, otherwise the fleet will be subject to artillery fire Threat.
Because of this, Xi Sugu had to try to surround the fortress in the West Bank at all costs, but now he was blocked by Alexander's Montina army and could not move further for a while.
The fleet was getting closer and closer to the Pletvi fortress, and the ships began to move closer to the west bank. Because the Pletvi fortress was built on the east bank of the river, the Ottoman army did not have time to cross the river, but fortunately, the army in Sisu Valley had already controlled the west bank. On the side of the river, so the Ottomans wanted to use the river ’s wide distance to avoid artillery attacks in the fortress.
"At least this distance will allow us to avoid artillery." The governor stared at the movement of the Pletvi fortress on the other side.
It seemed that Pletvi was quiet, and there was no movement.
Or those Bucharest people have been frightened to escape, and the thought flashed in the Governor ’s heart. Although he knew that it was not a good habit to always think about things on the battlefield, but now Pletvi is really quiet, this It made him think that maybe he was really a little too nervous.
Several Pioneer ships in front of the fleet have passed. Most of these ships are loaded with heavy stones. This is intended to impact the Bucharest sluice. In addition to the stone ships, there are large barrels of gunpowder. Muselim soldiers, and the Governor had promised those people before they set off that if they could destroy the enemy ’s sluice this time, they would be free as long as they could come back alive.
Such a promise is very tempting, so even if you know that this mission is extremely dangerous, the Muselim soldiers are still scrambling to get on board, and they are more vigilant than the Ottomans along the way. The Governor has more than once because of listening At the sound of muskets from the ship in front, someone was sent to ask what happened.
The Pletvi fortress has been quiet, perhaps because the fleet is close to the left bank to make their artillery unable to shoot, or it is really because of fear that they escaped early. After all, there are only two fortresses downstream, once they are under siege It may support each other like the fortresses upstream.
The Governor exhaled a little, but he was still a little nervous. After all, the Sultan gave him the important task of attacking Bucharest. When the Sudanese army opened its position under the city, his fleet was up against the current. Whether this can divert the Bucharest sight, the Sudan is already using the whole army to create opportunities for him to enter the city.
If this does not complete the tasks assigned by the Sudan, the Governor knows that he may be in a hardship in the future
It may still be good to be sent to a remote place to be a governor. After all, there is still a chance to come back, but if it is lost and sent home, it is too bad.
After all, Sudan is slowly getting older now, and Sudanese sons are fighting for power everywhere to prepare for an attack on the throne. At this time, a real governor and a desolate governor will obviously be in front of the new Sudan. Differently, a person who has been deprived of all his power and can only be left at home may not even be remembered by the new Sudan in the future.
Thinking this way, it makes the governor of the fleet feel that Xi Sugu is much luckier than himself. At least that person almost never wants those extras except for war, which makes the Sudan and his sons seem more at ease with Xi Sugu than others. .
The vanguard ships in front of the fleet had almost passed through Pletvi, and everything went well, and the governor's heart finally dropped a little.
"Perhaps it should be a good relationship with Xi Sugu. After all, Sudan may not have many years. Now it is time to find a strong companion in the court to support each other, and Xi Sugu is very active in this war. It seems that soon To be reused by the Sudan, it may also become the new favorite of the new Sudan in the future. "Because the mind was a little lowered, the Governor began to think so.
Suddenly a burst of gunshots broke his mind.
The governor was taken aback. He heard that the Muselims were shooting from the vanguard ship. He immediately ordered to ask what happened in front.
The response got the Governor a little angry. Muselim in front found that there were several boats on the river, which made them suspect that the Bucharest people arranged to intercept them, so those Muselim shot immediately, but next They found out that it was only the unowned boats that were abandoned on the banks of the river.
The governor made an angry anger from his nose. He knew that Muselim was obviously too eager for freedom to become so frizzy. Although he wanted to make a blame, but think about it before the war, He changed his mind.
"Just let those guys wanton, after all, most of them are unlikely to come back alive." The Governor is somewhat kind, but his kindness has not lasted long. With the sudden sound of the cannon, the Governor ’s body Can't help but be shocked, even the chains of gemstones inlaid on his turban could not keep shaking.
The sound of the guns was not very loud, which made experienced gunners guess that the fired artillery should be small and light weight artillery, but this was enough to surprise the Governor, because he heard that the artillery was not from Pletvi The direction sounded from the west bank of the river in front.
Although the lower surface of the Demwica River is not wide, but because the channel is steep underwater, the boat can go along the river bank as much as possible without worrying about stranding. This is indeed a convenient boat for the river, but the same means As long as the other party's courage is large enough, it is possible to launch an attack from a very close direction towards a boat that is close to the shore.
Shooting at such a short distance?
The Governor's complexion changed immediately, even if he saw a water column rising from the river on the right side of the fleet, but he was surprised by the sudden scene.
Shouldn't the enemy shoot from the direction of Pletvi? How come the sound of gunfire will come from the west bank of the river? Did Xi Sugu suffer a fiasco?
The governor's mind flashed through these thoughts, but before he could speak, two shellings had already sounded.
In the direction where the smoke from the first cannon had not dissipated, with the second cannon, a thick smoke rose from a place close to the shore.
Then the governor saw one of the ships swaying and swaying in the front suddenly twisted a mast, and then the ship seemed to be lifted up from the middle of the hull like a monster hidden under the water, and then in the river. Think of a huge explosion!
Although it ’s close enough to see the appearance of the people on board, but because of inexperience, even at this distance, the first shells flew past the deck close to the hull, and even projectiles stood on the deck on both sides. The Muselim soldiers on the road crossed between them, but they hit the river without causing any damage to the ship.
This made George Liluo want to scold, but he had no time at all, he had only two guns in his hand, and it was the smallest.
After seeing the shells of the gun in front flying through the deck into the river, George Liluo instinctively lifted up the gun body of the gun in front of himself, although Ottoman had already found their whereabouts When people looked at the muzzle of their black hole with angry, frightened and uneasy eyes, George Liluo lit the artillery twist.
The body of the gun jumped violently. With a wooden bar supported at the tail of the gun making a cracking sound, the tail of the wooden bar had been poked into the soil, and the broken wood residue at the break was at George Liluo ’s A black lump was immediately hit on the forehead.
"What shall we do next ?!" A companion looked at the boat, who didn't know where he was hit, and actually turned up like a fish that was lifted up. He excitedly asked George Liluo, could he? After George Liluo replied, with a fierce gunfire, the man had planted blood from the river bank.
"Run, leave this!" George Liluo greeted loudly without thinking. He dropped the artillery with only one shell and turned to run, because the two guns had to be used from Pletvi before. The boat crossed the river, and they didn't even bring the horses over.
George Liluo did not think about stopping the Ottoman fleet, but he felt that he was fully capable of finding trouble for the Ottomans and delaying their time.
And he did, and with the murmur of a monster whispering on the river behind him, George Liluo, who fled far away, looked back curiously, and then he was surprised to find that The ship that was hit by a shell was actually rolling and sinking.
"Where did I hit?" George Liluo couldn't help flashing the thought before he got into the woods, and he immediately greeted his companions to escape into the jungle.
Two guns, the only shooting opportunity.
One shell flew into the river without any effect, and another shell hit the hull of a ship.
This was originally nothing. After all, the artillery was not powerful, but no one thought that the shell that fired through the gang broke into the bottom bin, and then directly hit a gunpowder barrel.
The instantaneous explosive force first burst towards the surroundings. When the stones filled around the water gate to break the sluice block the power of the explosive expansion of the gunpowder, the huge explosive force surged in the only direction that could be vented.
The explosion rang from the hull, and the thin flames and air waves instantaneously went from inside to outside, and the bottom-to-top penetration overturned the deck, throwing the people on the boat around, and then the huge force carried the broken stone The block continued to tumbling upwards, directly jacking up the entire hull from the water.
The hull, which was too fragile compared to the force of the explosion, could not withstand such an impact. As the hull turned, the stones on the ship were tilted to the side, and the instantaneous imbalance of the whole ship immediately leaned aside, and then directly sideways Planted down into the river.
Thick smoke rose from the surface of the river, and large waves were immediately set off on the surface of the river that was blocked by the water.
Everything happened so suddenly that a boat was immediately followed by it, and it was too late to evade, and ran towards the overturned boat.
This caused even more chaos. The Ottomans screamed frantically to warn the fleet behind them, while the vessels in front tried desperately to avoid the two vessels in front of them that had been entangled by the impact.
The Governor's throat roared angrily, but when he saw the other ships seemed to be trying to avoid the two ships and began to row down the center of the river, the Governor's heart quickly flew a trace of anxiety.
Then he suddenly loudly ordered the people next to him: "Tell them to stop! Stop! Don't go to the center of the river!"
Although the Governor ’s shouts were loud, the people around him began to fail to understand what he was saying because of the chaos in the front. It was not until he shouted and repeated twice that his people hurried to those who were trying to move to the center of the river. The ship signals.
Some ships saw it and began to slow down, while others were still struggling to move because of chaos.
"It's really time to cut them all off." The governor looked at the shadows of the ships that were approaching the heart of the river, and he gave a helpless moan in his mouth. He could already guess what would happen next, so he turned back to the east bank Looking in the direction.
The Governor ’s worries were immediately fulfilled. A few audible gunshots made his heart tremble slightly, and then he saw columns of water rising from the river.
"Fortunately, those pagans have poor artillery skills." The governor smiled and comforted himself, but he knew that this was just the beginning. As the two stranded and sunken ships blocked the channel on the west bank of the Dumbuvice River, his The fleet is now at risk of being attacked by artillery from the Pletvi fortress and has broken through the river.
At the Pletve fortress, Bodped standing on the highest fort of the fortress looked at the river below and shook his head slightly. He looked back and saw several ugly fort officers looking at him silently. , Bodepeide smiled to them: "Relax everyone, we won't stay here for long, we can't stop the Ottomans, but we can stop them with the greatest strength, and then you can leave the general peace of mind Letwe go back to Bucharest and go to EbookFREE.me ~ where you will think that you bravely prevented the Ottomans from being heroically greeted. "
Bodped always laughed when he said this, which made the officers feel a little more at ease, and then someone finally couldn't help but wonder and asked: "What about you, you do it after we leave, you Knowing that Pletvi can't hold it. "
"We, there are other things to do," Bodped looked at the river, and then turned his eyes to the other side of the Dembrica, and then he turned back and said to the officers, "Masters, In order to leave here early, let us try to trouble the Ottomans as much as possible. "
For a while, the artillery sounds of the Fort Pletvi were intermittent, but they continued to flow, which caused great trouble to the Ottoman fleet trying to go north as soon as possible, and the trouble lasted for a long time until an unexpected news came.
In the early hours of April 20th, the left wing of the Ottoman army broke through the defense of the river fortress Buklchani, which was closest to Dembuica, and Buklcany fell.
The connection between Dembrica and Bucharest was completely cut off.
At the same time, the left side of the Ottomans cut off the retreat, and there was also Zeppers who assisted Denbuvica.