Chapter 834 The Dragon in the Eagle's Nest (Fourth update, please subscribe)
On June 11, 1876, the Turkish army gathered heavy forces and began to prepare to attack the St. Nicholas position known as the "Eagle's Nest".
This position with distinct Orthodox significance was planned and designed by Li Bin. He carefully planned the defensive facilities here and brought many of the Ming army's unique fortification systems here.
The troops guarding here consisted of only one company of Russian troops and one battalion of Bulgarian troops, less than 1,000 people.
And Li Bin is their commander.
The reason why a foreigner was let to command this army was very simple. In the past few days, a large number of officers had died in battle. Although Li Bin was a foreigner, Valensky still put him in this most important position.
“Whoosh… Boom…”
The loud explosions that began in the early morning broke the silence of the mountains. In the violent explosions, the few trees on the mountain were blown away by shells, and wood chips and debris flew everywhere, hitting people on the face from the air.
After the first round of artillery fire, more shells flew over. The strong whistling sound of the flying shells overwhelmed everything, followed by a deafening roar. The fierce artillery fire continued to produce boom, boom, boom sounds.
The Bulgarian soldiers in the trenches of the Eagle's Nest heard the whizzing sound coming from afar and quickly pressed their bodies into the trenches, burying their heads in it. Rows of shells were exploding, the ground was shaking, and the sky was filled with dust. The air was filled with the choking smell of gunpowder smoke.
But even so, the shelling did not stop.
The whistling and exploding sounds of artillery shells are very different. The sharp sound is from the high-speed shells fired by field artillery, while the muffled sound is from the mortars. For the warriors in the trenches, the vertically falling mortar shells are the most deadly. Occasionally, a heavy mortar shell falls into the trench, and the shell weighing dozens of kilograms will immediately set off a bloody storm in the trench.
Amid the deafening explosion, the soldiers would be blown away and a large section of the breastwork built with rubble would collapse.
"God bless you, all the glory belongs to you, all the glory belongs to you..."
The Bulgarian and Russian soldiers in the trenches were praying and shouting. If anyone was cowardly, the flying gravel in the air would smash their heads and take their lives the moment they showed their heads.
In the explosion, the rocks were shattered, and the broken rocks and shrapnel flew through the air like raindrops, hitting each other and breaking. The flying broken rocks even flew directly to the trenches with a deadly whistle, tearing the bodies of the soldiers hiding in the trenches into pieces.
There was blood and gore everywhere in the trenches in the violent storm caused by the artillery shells, but the soldiers were still holding on tenaciously.
In fact, on this storm-shrouded position, only a few people were watching the Turkish army, while the others were waiting in the bunkers on the reverse slope, waiting for the Turkish attack.
Suddenly, amid the deafening explosions, a series of shrill whistles were heard.
"The Turks are coming up!"
Standing up suddenly, Li Bin looked at several Russian and Bulgarian officers around him and said.
"Get into position!"
"For God's sake!"
The soldiers in the bunker shouted, and then they ran through the trenches under the artillery fire without hesitation and ran to their posts.
"Don't worry, don't worry..."
Halfway down the mountain, thousands of Turks were like a tide. They shouted slogans and commanded the Type 71 rifles purchased from the Ming Dynasty. "Arms dealers who do not sell weapons to the enemy are not good arms dealers." The arms dealers of the Ming Dynasty were definitely good arms dealers. They successfully sold Ming Dynasty's arms to the whole world.
The Russians used a Russian-modified version of the Type 71 rifle, while the Turks used the original Ming Dynasty product. The blued gun body had a beautiful luster in the sun.
As the Turks rushed towards the mountain, the defenders opened fire. They held their Type 72 rifles, aimed, and fired. Amid the hail of bullets, the Turks fought back while continuing their attack.
Just as the Turks were surging in like a tide, when they were still three or four hundred meters away from the defense line, Li Bin, with smoke all over his face, shouted.
"Grenade, grenade, grenade..."
With his roar, hundreds of grenades fell from the sky like raindrops. In fact, grenades could not be thrown that far on flat ground, but they were on the mountain, and the "Eagle's Nest" was called the place they were guarding, so only eagles could fly up to it.
After being thrown, the grenades dropped from the sky flew forward in a parabola for dozens of meters before falling, but from the distance of the mountain road, it was hundreds of meters away. The moment the rain of grenades fell, the Turks who were rushing in like a tide were blown up into the sky amid the continuous explosions.
When the smoke cleared, the mountain road was littered with corpses, one here and one there. However, despite this, the Turks still did not stop entering.
"Don't worry..."
Once again, they launched an attack. At the same time, the artillery fire from the rear became even more intense. The mountain was shaking and trembling, and it even seemed as if it was going to raze the entire mountain to the ground...
"Ivan, Ivan, watch the left wing and prevent the enemy from bypassing it. Nikolay, you guard the right wing, and I will guard the front myself..."
Orders came out one by one from Li Bin's mouth. Although he was wearing the green military uniform unique to the Ming Army, he looked no different from an ordinary soldier as he was covered in dust.
In the fierce fighting, as a commander, he never entered the bunker, but moved and fought in the trenches like an ordinary soldier. He held a rifle in his hand, and sometimes he fought like an ordinary infantryman, shooting and throwing grenades.
"Brothers, if we are destined to die today, then let the world witness our courage! Our bravery!"
Facing the Turks who were coming like a tide, Li Bin shouted loudly to the soldiers in Russian. Because the hillside was not flat, the attacking Turks repeatedly used valleys and gullies to approach their positions. Finally, a group of hundreds of Turks rushed to their positions. Facing the Turks in front of them, Li Bin shouted and jumped out of the trench first. At this moment, everyone was stunned. They saw him stabbing the Turk's chest with a bayonet.
When the Bulgarian soldiers in the trenches saw this, they shouted.
"For God's sake!"
Then he jumped out of the trench without hesitation and killed the enemy with his bayonet...
(End of this chapter)
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