The goal of the second team led by Chen Shiyi was to seize the east gate city wall. It was the city wall with the most complete defense system facing the dock.
In order to deal with incoming warships on the sea, eight heavy artillery turrets were built on the city wall, each with a range of five or six miles.
These forts are surrounded by fortifications built with solid gravel and rammed earth. Connected platforms with a radius of several feet are built on the already wide and thick city wall to place them. This does not affect the transportation of personnel and materials on the city wall, but also ensures the safety of the forts.
Attack without restraint.
Almeida had conducted tests before and found that even without the assistance of the seven forts on the pier, the eight forts on the city wall alone were enough to withstand the attacks of more than a dozen enemy warships. Before they arrived two miles away from the pier,
These huge cannons destroyed all enemy ships.
Not to mention the forts on both sides of the pier to form a three-dimensional crossfire. In addition, small artillery can be temporarily lifted up the city wall for medium-range bombardment. Even if a large enemy fleet attacks, it will be difficult to attack the pier.
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Even if the enemy attacks the shore, so what? With the huge iron gate, and the city wall more than two feet high, which is made of rammed earth inside and bluestone outside, the opponent can only look forward and sigh. A large number of soldiers defend the city head with matchlock guns.
Attacks by long bows and rolling logs and stones. Let alone a fleet, even a strong attack by tens of thousands of enemy troops may not be successful.
It was precisely because of this defense system that the defenders of Guri City never worried about missing.
However, the only weak point of this defense system is the sky. No one would have thought that danger would come from the sky. Enemies would fall from the sky.
Therefore, when Chen Shiyi and the first group of a dozen soldiers landed on the wide city wall from the night sky, a group of Franco soldiers on the city wall who saw this scene were in a state of confusion. They thought they
I was dazzled.
"David... pinch me, am I dreaming? Is that... the black angel who has descended? My God."
"Carl, did you see it too? I thought I was the only one who saw it. God, what did I see? That was not a black angel, that was a raven from hell. The Bible says, be a raven from hell.
Returning to the human world is the time when doomsday and death rule the earth."
"..."
A group of Franco soldiers thought they had seen a vision, a reappearance of scenes from the religion they believed in. They knew that Dongfang, in black helmets and black armor, was holding swords, bows, arrows and firearms in their hands.
Only then did they realize that they were enemies of the Ming Empire.
The battle started in an instant, and quickly entered the most brutal close-range firearms bombardment and hand-to-hand combat. The team led by Chen Shiyi had 150 people, but only more than 100 people accurately landed on the city wall.
, after all, although the city wall is wide, it is still difficult to land on it accurately. A dozen people landed on the pier outside the city, and a dozen people landed on the square inside the city.
That's all. The more than a hundred people who fell on the city wall were already a powerful striking force. Chen Shiyi led dozens of people to kill all the way along the city wall, and another hundred people led another group of soldiers in the opposite direction.
They fought in the opposite direction. The two teams mercilessly harvested the enemies at the top of the city.
When facing each other, they first have a row of blunderbuss, bows and arrows, and then throw a round of golden melon thunder, and then they draw their swords to engage in melee combat or last-ditch attacks. There is no sloppiness or soft-heartedness.
There were less than 300 defenders on the front of Guli East Wall at night. After all, no one realized that the enemy would attack tonight. These 300 people were completely confused and panicked after the battle started, because they didn't know
How did the enemy come up? After the enemy attacked with fierce firearms and explosives, they fell into a state of panic. After a symbolic resistance, they began to flee along the stone steps to the bottom of the city wall.
In less than a stick of incense, the entire east city wall was completely controlled by Chen Shiyi's people.
According to the established plan, Chen Shi ordered to blow up the four upper stone steps leading to the city wall from the inner city, blocking the way for the enemies in the city to attack upwards after they regained consciousness. At the same time, he ordered two small teams to stand in the stone turrets at both ends of the city wall.
Hold fast to prevent the enemy from attacking from the two sides of the city wall to the east wall. The two turrets are at the corners of the city wall, and their position is similar to a pass. As long as the firepower is fierce enough, the passage on the city wall can be controlled.
Subsequently, Chen Shiyi ordered heavy artillery to attack the seven forts on the dock.
The fort on the pier is located on an artificial platform like a trapezoidal pyramid, with a height of about 1.5 feet, facing the direction of the bay. Although the fighting on the city head has alarmed the fort defenders at this moment, they do not dare to act rashly.
Firstly, it takes a long time to adjust the heavy artillery to the city. Secondly, the enemy and we are not clear, and they don’t know what is happening on the city. Even if they turn the muzzle, they dare not bombard them rashly. Therefore, even though a stick of incense has passed, they still
Didn't dare to fire a single shot.
It wasn't until the heavy artillery from the top of the city was aimed at them that they realized they were in serious trouble.
When Chen Shiyi learned that the shells used by the city's heavy artillery were large polished stone balls, he also cursed the Francois as poor people. But when he saw what happened when the stone shells hit the fort on the pier,
, he shut up.
Stone cannonballs have the advantages of stone cannonballs. Not only are they cheap, but they are also inexhaustible. More importantly, the power of stone cannonballs is no weaker than explosive shells and iron ball cannonballs under certain circumstances.
The effect of bombarding wooden ships is no worse than that of iron balls. It also exerts an unexpected effect when hitting the solid forts in front of them. Because these stone cannonballs will explode after hitting the solid forts, creating an effect similar to that of explosive shells.
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The smooth stone ball shells hit the forts on both sides of the pier that were less than a few miles away from the city wall at a very close range and with direct aim. Whether they hit the stone fortifications on the forts or the heavy artillery itself, or simply just
When it hit the ground, the exploding stone fragments caused a large explosion effect.
The Fo Langji soldiers on the fort never expected to be bombarded by their own cannons at the top of the city. The shattered debris penetrated their bodies, making them howl and scream. Only then did they realize that the top of the city had been occupied by the enemy.
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The impact of the stone ball turned the heavy cannon over and tilted. Once the barrel was damaged, even if it was only dented with a small dent, it might have been scrapped. And the gunners were in the midst of the scattered stones.
The head was broken and bleeding, and flesh and blood flew everywhere. The unlucky one was only hit by a stone bullet and his muscles were broken and his bones were broken.
The intact heavy artillery battery at the head of the city fired two rounds, and all seven sea-facing forts on the pier were destroyed.
Chen Shi took a long breath. These forts were a direct threat to himself and others. After destroying these forts, the city wall would be safe. What he needed to do now was to guard both ends of the city wall and the positions of the towers, and use heavy artillery to shoot towards the city.
Carry out bombardment to kill as many enemies as possible and create chaos.
Because Chen Shiyi knew that the enemy's counterattack would come soon. He must be fully prepared.
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On the northeast side of Guli City, just before a stick of incense was burned, at the moment when the battle in the city had just started, a flying wing team of fifty people landed among a large number of houses and grain stacks.
It's just that the warehouse is a heavily guarded place, and there are Folangji soldiers and horses everywhere. Moreover, when landing, the two soldiers did not control the direction well, and landed directly on the top of the large Folangji garrison barracks located in the northwest corner of the warehouse.
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As a result, the roof of the military camp was smashed, and both men fell into the house.
A room full of Franji soldiers woke up from their sleep. Looking at the two Ming soldiers with gray faces getting up from the ground under the light, they immediately understood that the enemy was attacking. Then a piercing whistle sounded, and the whole camp was instantly shaken.
Got up.
The two dozen or so Franji men in that room also immediately picked up their weapons and surrounded the two Ming soldiers.
Both soldiers were injured, and one of them broke his leg. There was no way to escape. After resisting desperately for a moment, they knew there was no way out, so they lit the golden guare that they carried.
The two of them supported each other and threw the lit Jingua Lei into their own bags, where there were still several Jingua Lei.
So in the thunderous roar, the twenty golden melon thunders equipped by the two men exploded continuously. Of course, the two Ming soldiers had no bones left, and the more than twenty Franco soldiers in the military camp also
Most of them were killed, and even the roof was blown down.
These two soldiers of the Ming Dynasty should be the first pair of soldiers to die in battle since the battle began, except for the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who fell to death. Their deaths were extremely tragic, tragic, fearless and heroic.
Although they alerted the enemy in advance, the huge explosion before their death attracted a large number of soldiers and horses around them. When Baihu Ma Laoliu and dozens of other soldiers landed later, they had about two cups of tea to breathe.
Time. It was this short time that gave them the opportunity to pour the kerosene they carried on stacks of grain and firewood, and the opportunity to sneak into several warehouses and light fires.
Fires burst into the sky everywhere in the warehouse. Dozens of soldiers did not care about anything but set fires. Wherever they went, fires started to rise. The kerosene boiled out of whale oil that everyone carried was extremely flammable, and the fire started.
, it was a blast.
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It was half past the fourth watch, the darkest hour before dawn, but the entire ancient city was bright and noisy. The lights and burning fires in the city were as bright as day. The crowds of galloping soldiers were noisy, and the heavy artillery on the top of the city was roaring.
It seems that there are enemies on all sides and fighting is happening on all sides. But most people still don't understand where the enemies come from.