After the two regiments of foreign troops got into the sea of ​​​​fire, they quickly moved forward and occupied the port. Then they began to build a defense line!

When Prince Peter learned that the port of St. Petersburg had been attacked, he immediately panicked.

St. Petersburg, this is the largest port in Russia. It is also the closest port to Moscow!

If St. Petersburg falls, then the coalition forces will definitely open a northern front. Russia, which is already stretched thin in terms of military strength, will simply not be able to open another front.

After the coalition forces successfully land, they can fight all the way to Moscow.

Almost all the country's troops were deployed on the front line, and only 10,000 to 20,000 troops were stationed in the capital, Moscow. Once the coalition forces approached Moscow from St. Petersburg, Catherine had only one way to escape.

The most troublesome thing is that the Russian army simply cannot afford to lose Moscow.

In recent years, Moscow has not only become Russia's transportation hub, but almost all of Russia's heavy industry is around Moscow.

Having lost the industrial base on which they relied for survival, the soldiers on the front line have no material support. The guns have no bullets, and the cannons have no shells. This war is still a fart!

Moscow cannot be lost, absolutely cannot be lost.

Once Moscow is lost, the entire Russia has only one way to surrender. At that time, Russia will be like a fish on the chopping board, ready to be slaughtered by others!

"Take it back, we must take back the port." Prince Peter's roar made the entire city hall tremble.

No one spoke, everyone stared blankly at Duke Peter, waiting for the gentleman to roar before issuing an order.

"Assemble the troops!" Prince Peter roared like a lion, grabbed the pistol on the table, inserted it into his waist and walked out of the city hall first.

In fact, without his words, the troops around St. Petersburg had already begun to gather. After all, the sound of artillery was an order.

The city of St. Petersburg is actually quite far from the port.

The 120mm artillery on ordinary destroyers could not hit the city of St. Petersburg at all. However, when they saw the thick smoke rising in the distance, the citizens began to panic.

Some of the quick ones have already started to pack their belongings and prepare to escape to the countryside for a while.

Anyone with any brains knows that since the coalition forces have landed here, the next step is to siege the city.

"Recapture the Port!" organized a team of more than 5,000 people, and Duke Peter felt somewhat confident.

He drew his pistol and let out a roar.

"My Lord Duke, no!" Who knew that just as he roared angrily, he heard the voice of opposition. A short but strong guy pulled the reins of Duke Peter's horse.

"Why not?" Prince Peter asked doubtfully.

If it were another guy, he would have been shot in the head by Duke Peter. But the guy in front of him couldn't be shot in the head, because he was a general under Duke Peter. In the war with the Ottoman Empire, he only led a company and defeated the Ottoman Empire.

A battalion of the empire.

Therefore, he was directly promoted from captain to colonel.

The name of this colonel officer is Konstantinovich.

"Konstantin, you know that I don't have time to argue with you here. If you have anything to say, please tell me immediately." Prince Peter looked at Konstantinovich with a livid face.

"My lord Duke, it must be the Ming army that has such a huge fleet. I have seen the Ming army fighting, and they often use artillery first.

If you lead the army out of the city like this, you will be torn to pieces by the Ming army's artillery before you get close to the port. Look outside, the Ming army's artillery fire is like plowing through the port area.

You take people out of the city without any field fortifications to rely on. Can there be any living people in such a place?"

Constantine pointed to the port with thick smoke in the distance, and finished speaking in one breath, still holding the reins of Prince Peter tightly.

Prince Peter looked at the port in the distance and swallowed hard. Constantine was right, he knew that such dense artillery fire must be the work of rocket launchers.

Because Russia now has something like that.

"Then what do you think we should do?" After thinking about it, Duke Peter decided not to become cannon fodder.

"Immediately send someone to Moscow to report the situation here to Her Majesty the Queen. In addition, while the opponent has just landed, quickly organize the men in St. Petersburg, issue them weapons, and let them participate in the battle.

Evacuate women, the elderly, and children. This place will become a battlefield and it is not suitable for them to stay here.

In addition, the granary must be well protected. It is best to store the grain in the basement so that it will not be damaged by artillery fire." He said several suggestions in succession, which were all the suggestions that Constantine could think of in a hurry.

Duke Peter stared at Constantine for a long time, and then said: "Constantine, now you are the commander of the city defense of St. Petersburg.

Everyone, including me, must accept your command. I hope you will lead us to withstand the Ming Dynasty's attack." Duke Peter was still very afraid of the Ming Dynasty. After all, the Ming army's record was obvious to all.

From Asia to Europe, no country is the opponent of Ming Dynasty.

Just in the spring, the Ming Dynasty sent people to attack Tashkent. It is said that not even a single person survived there. Today, Tashkent has become a death place.

Duke Peter knew how much he had. In this case, he simply gave the power to someone who could fight. And in the eyes of Duke Peter, the person who knew how to fight was none other than Constantine.

Because what he just said is exactly the solution that is urgently needed now.

With Prince Peter's order, Constantine immediately got busy. He commanded the army and quickly deployed fortifications on various streets.

At the same time, the officials of the city hall were ordered to quickly recruit all the elderly people in the city who were over 16 years old and under 60 years old to enlist in the army. Duke Peter once wanted to lower the age to fourteen years old, but Constantine vetoed it.

"Children are the hope of the future. Even if we lose the war, the Russian nation will continue to survive. They are our hope."

"Do we really have hope?" Duke Peter wondered why Constantine had such strong self-confidence.

"There will be hope for Russia, but...! I can't see it anymore." Constantine smiled and continued to work.

Prince Peter looked at the busy crowd and shook his head helplessly.

What the future will bring, perhaps only God knows.

With Constantine busy, St. Petersburg began to move rapidly.

All food was under unified control, and women, the elderly, and children were escorted to the countryside by a small number of troops. Farmers in the countryside still had food, and these people would not starve to death.

Five people, riding fifteen of the fastest horses, rushed out of the gate of St. Petersburg and headed to Moscow to report this urgent matter.

St. Petersburg completed the transition from peace to war almost in a day.

Li Xiu at sea still didn't know what happened in St. Petersburg, and he didn't care about what happened there.

Because the mission of the Ming Dynasty Navy is to seize the port of St. Petersburg. Then move forward and occupy the landing site within five kilometers.

As for attacking St. Petersburg, this is not the job of the Ming Navy.

No matter how arrogant Li Xiu was, he would not be so arrogant as to use two regiments to attack St. Petersburg, which has a population of nearly one million.

In just one morning, Li Xiu completed all campaign tasks.

The coastal forts were destroyed and the port was successfully occupied. Two Marine Foreign Legions moved forward to establish defensive positions five kilometers away to imitate the Russian counterattack.

These were all done well, and Li Xiu even thought that if the Russian army came out of the city and tried to retake the port, the Ming Navy would use cannons to send these bastards home.

However, the arsenal ship, destroyer, cruiser, and two Shanzi-class battleships waited on the sea for a whole day, but they did not see any movement from the people inside St. Petersburg.

St. Petersburg, as you can tell from its name, is a fortress city. The delta area where the Bolshoy Neva River and the Lesser Neva River converge was a swamp a long time ago. With the construction of St. Petersburg, artificial canals crisscrossed the city.

In order to relieve the seawater flowing back into St. Petersburg due to the shallow water of the Gulf of Finland, St. Petersburg has a total of 42 small islands connected by 423 bridges.

In the east of St. Petersburg, there is the vast Lake Ladoga. The area of ​​Lake Ladoga is very large, larger than fifty St. Petersburgs.

It can be said that St. Petersburg is a large fortress with countless small fortresses.

If you want to conquer these fortresses, you have to attack them one after another.

Sun Zhijie, who originally had this idea, didn't know this. He just relied on the map and saw that this was the closest port to Moscow.

As for what St. Petersburg is like, he has never even heard of it.

Li Xiu was a little surprised that no one in St. Petersburg came out to fight. But there was nothing he could do. In the entire fleet, only the triple main guns on the battleships could hit the city of St. Petersburg.

Li Xiucai didn't want to waste the expensive shells of the former main gun. Anyway, my mission had been completed. All that was left was to figure out how to get the Prussians and French to pay the balance.

The people of Ming Dynasty are no strangers to landing battles.

The main thing is to occupy the landing site and then quickly transport many landing troops over.

After consolidating the landing site, start actively attacking and occupying nearby cities!

Everything was completed in just one morning. No one expected this. The imagined Russian counterattack did not really happen.

Everything was ahead of schedule, and Ming cargo ships loaded with soldiers entered the port one after another.

The coalition soldiers quickly disembarked from the ship along the rope ladder.

This kind of thing started at noon and continued throughout the night.

By the next morning, the ground blackened by artillery fire in St. Petersburg was crowded with Prussian and French allied soldiers.

The troop transportation work continued for another day and night, and soon the port of St. Petersburg was completely occupied by densely packed soldiers.

The number of coalition soldiers exceeded 60,000. There were also a large number of various artillery pieces and mountains of supplies piled up in the port.

The commander-in-chief of the coalition forces was a Prussian general named Schlieffen.

This guy wears a pair of round-rimmed eyes, which seems to be somewhat in contrast to the image of the powerful Prussian soldier.

However, anyone who has fought in Europe knows that this is a general as cunning as a fox. In the last war, France suffered heavy losses at the hands of Schlieffen several times.

Therefore, when it came time to choose a commander, when Napoleon heard that the commander proposed by the other party was Schlieffen, he immediately agreed.

Inside the tent of Schlieffen's temporary headquarters, there was a topographic map of St. Petersburg sent back by the spy.

From the first time he saw this map, Schlieffen's head felt a little painful. He knew what price it would take to conquer so many small fortresses.
To be continued...