The protruding fort is only about thirty meters away from the main city wall. It can be killed in one charge. Even though there are many Portuguese on the opposite side who will use shotguns and muskets to intercept and shoot, but in the short charge time
, the most they can do is fire one round of cannon and one round of musketry.
As long as you hold on to the first wave of enemy firepower, you will gain a victory next!
After taking several deep breaths in succession, Shi Enli raised his command knife again, and then rushed out with his grenadiers!
The grenadiers were running ahead on this narrow wall passage. They were almost crowded and shoulder to shoulder. Because this was a short-distance charge, they were even strictly prohibited from shooting!
"Rush over, throw a grenade from a distance of twenty meters, and then directly use the bayonet to kill the remaining enemies!"
This is the order Shi Enli gave to his troops!
Simple and crude!
But at this time, it is the most effective way!
Seeing two to three hundred people rushing up in dense numbers, the Portuguese defending on the opposite side hurriedly opened fire and opened fire. Inevitably, their firing also knocked down the more than ten Tang grenadiers who were rushing at the front.
It went down, but more grenadiers rushed up with muskets attached to bayonets!
"Grenade ready!"
"bomb!"
As the officers who led the charge gave orders one after another, grenades were thrown out one after another, flying over a distance of more than 20 meters and landing on the Portuguese crowd behind the parapet on the opposite side.
After the dull explosions sounded intensively, not many Portuguese people behind the parapet on the opposite side could stand up. The few survivors who reacted saw many people rushing toward them and turned around and ran away!
There were also a very small number of surviving Portuguese soldiers who did not react to the explosion at all. When they did, what they saw was the bright bayonet stabbing them.
"The grenadiers will fight to the death!"
"For your majesty, for the sake of the empire, go for it!"
The assault force of the 57th Infantry Regiment, more than 300 grenadiers, directly launched an intensive charge, crushing all the Portuguese they encountered along the way!
They quickly swept through the city wall, which was less than tens of meters long, and then continued to attack both ends of the city wall.
At this time, more soldiers also rushed to the top of the city. These were the troops of the 571st Infantry Battalion of the 57th Infantry Regiment. They were the vanguard of the main offensive force. They had been suppressed under the city before and had never been able to board the city.
They went to the top of the city, but now under the cover of the grenadiers, they rushed directly to the top of the city and began to advance deeper into the city.
Dong Qiankun, who was in the rear, saw this scene, clenched his fists tightly, and said loudly: "Okay!"
At this time, Hu Baoguan, who was standing next to Dong Qiankun with his arm hanging, ignored the severe pain in his arm and immediately said to Dong Qiankun: "Now is the best opportunity to break the city.
We must invest a large amount of troops to occupy and expand the gap before the Portuguese barbarians can react!"
When Hu Baoguan got excited, he even touched his injured left arm, so that the wound that had just been sutured burst open again, and blood oozed!
But Major Hu Baoguan didn't feel any pain at all. As the regiment's chief of staff, he immediately suggested to Dong Qiankun to launch a general offensive!
Dong Qiankun also came from a serious academic background. Although he never entered the imperial school, his grades in the martial arts school were not bad. He was ranked in the middle of the pack anyway. In terms of military tactics, I dare not say that he was good at anything.
He has too much talent, but he knows everything he needs to know. Even a warrant officer student at the martial arts school can tell the current situation. It is time to increase the attack and expand the breakthrough point.
Immediately Dong Qiankun also immediately ordered: "Let the 574th Battalion attack immediately to reinforce the 571st Battalion!"
"Inform the 59th Regiment that it's time for them to take the field!"
As the flag soldiers continued to wave flags, and the messenger soldiers who existed as double insurance ran out on fast horses, the entire northern battlefield set off a new climax!
About half an hour after the launch of the general offensive, the grenadier assault team of the 57th Infantry Regiment, after seizing the protruding fort, covered the 571st Infantry Battalion and successfully climbed onto the city and occupied the gap.
Immediately, the 574th Infantry Battalion quickly stepped forward for reinforcements and blocked several Portuguese counterattacks.
Then, more than ten minutes later, the 59th Infantry Regiment entered the battle as a new force!
With the 59th Infantry Regiment, the main infantry regiment of 4,000 men, entering the battle, the Portuguese on the northern city wall could no longer establish an effective line of resistance!
One direction of the northern city wall was breached one after another, and the remaining enemies were forced to retreat to the inner city!
When Ding Chenzhen received the victory report of the 57th Infantry Regiment and the 59th Infantry Regiment, what he didn't know was that although the 19th Infantry Division fought smoothly, it also successfully conquered the first line in the north.
city wall, but he never expected that the battle of the second temporary regiment of the Guards would go more smoothly than everyone expected before the war.
The second temporary regiment of the Guards launched an attack from the direction of the pier. It was originally just a feint attack, but no one expected that when they carried out routine blasting of the South City Gate, they found that the South City Gate was just like
It was like paper and was exploded in an instant.
And the huge city gate hole is also empty, not blocked by landfills such as sand and gravel at all!
This discovery surprised the commanders of the Second Temporary Guards Regiment!
When they fought against the Ming Army, the Ming Army completely blocked the city gates. The Tang Army fought against the Ming Army for many years and conquered countless cities. But to be honest, there were few times when they directly attacked the city gates.
Most of those who fought through the gate climbed up the city wall, or simply destroyed or blasted the city wall and rushed in.
This is a way for the Tang Dynasty military to rush in directly from the city gate to fight. This has not been tried many times for the Tang Dynasty military.
Brigadier General Feng Deqiu, the leader of the second temporary regiment of the Guards, did not react at first when he first faced this situation!
The blasting of the cities was just a routine matter. No one had ever thought that the city gates could be blown open before. Even if the city gates were blown to pieces, it would be of no use if the entire city gates were blocked.
But what do you think of it, these Portuguese didn't block the city gate!
Brigadier General Feng Deqiu, who had experienced several battles in the later stages of the Unification War, didn't know that this was a pie in the sky. Although it was possible that this was an ambush by the Portuguese, Brigadier General Feng Deqiu had no idea.
of hesitation.
Even if this is a trap with an ambush inside, he is still prepared to defeat this trap, because no matter how bad it is, it is still better than climbing the city wall!
As a result, the soldiers of the second temporary regiment of the Guards rushed towards the city gate in a swarm!
As a result, they found that there was no ambush at all. There were not many Portuguese soldiers in the city gate or behind it. Instead, many Portuguese soldiers were rushing over not far away, trying to drive them out and recapture the city gate.
But the Guards soldiers who had already rushed in could retreat so easily!
When they rushed in, they threw grenades and bayonets, and they opened a gap!
Then Guards Brigadier General Feng Deqiu directly ordered the troops to retreat the two two-pound infantry cannons and fire at the Portuguese who rushed up to try to block the city gate!
Two catties of infantry cannon are actually two catties of shotguns. One catty, two catties, and three catties of shotguns are widely equipped in the armies of the Tang Dynasty. On battleships, they are auxiliary artillery, usually three catties.
Mainly, the gun body is also heavier, has a longer range, and is more powerful.
In various ground combat forces, shotguns are generally used as infantry support artillery and directly accompany infantry operations. Therefore, they are generally lightweight and have short barrels. At the same time, the barrels are also relatively thin, so their
The range is generally not far, only a hundred meters at most, but because of its light weight and small size, it can be carried directly by infantry units and accompany the infantry forward, so it can be said to be quite easy to use.
Because this small-caliber shotgun is exactly called an infantry support artillery, it is often also called an infantry artillery.
Although the two two-pound infantry cannons can kill a lot of enemy troops in the first round of shelling, it is obvious that their role is limited to this. No matter what artillery these days, the reloading speed is too slow. In the face of tension,
Close combat won't be of much use at all.
Therefore, after these two infantry cannons were fired, they lost their effectiveness in a short period of time. The main task of combat was still a large number of Guards infantry!
Just as the Guards soldiers in front were fighting with the Portuguese in the open space behind the city gate, suddenly another special force entered the city gate!
They are different from the musketeers who mostly wear breastplates. They wear half-length armor!
This unit has a small number of only over 170 people, slightly more than a standard infantry unit. This unit is a very special heavy musketeer in the official Guards.
Not only are they equipped with 18mm flintlock rifles, but they are also equipped with half-body armor!
It's just that most of the time, the half-body armor they wear is useless. Before the war, even many soldiers didn't plan to wear this kind of half-body armor.
But when the city gate was blasted and the Portuguese on the opposite side sent a large number of reinforcements to block the city gate, and many of these reinforcements were spearmen wearing armor, Brigadier General Feng Deqiu was surprised and said
Quickly mobilize the heavy armored musketeers to go up!
Although I don’t know what these Portuguese people are thinking, in the age of guns, they still use cold weapon troops to engage in hand-to-hand combat, but the war still has to be fought!
It is a pity that before the battle began, most of the heavy musketeers did not wear their half-body armor at all, because based on past combat experience, many soldiers of the Tang Dynasty believed that plate armor was outdated and was not suitable for fighting
It is more advantageous not to wear plate armor than to wear plate armor.
This also caused a very embarrassing situation. When Brigadier General Feng Deqiu wanted to mobilize the heavy armored musketeers to join the battle, he found that most of the heavy armored musketeers were not wearing armor!
This scene once embarrassed Brigadier General Feng Deqiu. After all, it is no secret that soldiers in heavy armor units voluntarily fight without wearing armor. Everyone knows that many officers also acquiesce, and even he sometimes does it.
I think it would be better not to wear armor.
But who would have thought that a situation like today would still happen!
It's the age of guns and artillery, but these Portuguese still use heavy armored spearmen to engage in such an outdated combat as hand-to-hand combat!