Lord of Ming Dynasty

Then under the oppression of the mercenary squadron, the overseer squadron still learned to attack the town, separated in two directions, and commanded the captive and slave squadron to attack the port.

When they were ready, ten sailing warships from the sailor brigade rushed into the narrow and long harbor of more than ten miles, rushed to the vicinity of the port for three or four miles and began to bombard the port. The artillery on the sailing warships here is not enough to hit the castle, so they can only be beaten.

The first thousand and 260 five chapters were almost beheaded by artillery fire

The four sailing battleships attracted most of the enemy's castle firepower, and at the same time tilted the firepower of dozens of artillery loaded on their own battleships to the port. The British inside were panicked and ran around. Flanked, the British almost completely collapsed.

There were less than [-] British immigrants, [-] Newfoundlanders, and some sailing warships. When this side fired, the sailing warships over there also used naval guns to support the British army on land, and rushed in from behind. The naval warships of the Chinese Navy completely washed the entire port with artillery fire. The port was damaged a lot, but the ships on the dock were not affected much. British sailing warship.

Here, three hundred slaves charge with their captured flintlock guns, and the overseer team behind them also charge with flintlock guns. The distance of two miles is only 6 minutes, and 600 people bear the enemy's counterattack bullets. As well as the artillery shells falling on the castle, as well as the enemy's warship artillery charge at the port pier, more than 100 people were lost in the end, and more than 400 people rushed to the place, fighting desperately.

Some people are even former British immigrants from the neighboring peninsula. There is no way. If they don’t work hard, their families and themselves will die. Even if they rush in, they will flee or join forces to fight back against the new Qin Empire troops here. And the Han officers of the New Qin Empire told them long ago that it doesn’t matter, if you are not afraid of the death of your family members, and if you are not afraid of reprisals in the future, then go fight your own compatriots to the death, those who disobey have already been shot.

What's more, there are many people from other tribes among these charging people, Indian tribes, Iliad tribes, Inuit tribes, and even Romanians, Hungarians, as long as these people don't want to die , they will definitely watch over these British immigrant captives and slaves.

The mercenary squadron stepped on the enemy's artillery fire and the corpses left by their own people, and then rushed into the port. Some of them helped the captives, slaves, and overseers to clean up the British, while some scattered to guard the battlefield. When someone rebelled, they immediately rushed to replenish their guns. A very small number of people bypassed the battlefield and rushed to the pier, rushed to the pier and shot at the British warships.

With the arrival of the cavalry squad, the enemy's resistance entered the final stage. They wiped out almost all the soldiers, and quickly supported the pier under the leadership of their own commanders. , fight hand-to-hand with sailors on enemy battleships.

Soon someone from the gunner squad, led by the mercenary squadron, seized the enemy's shore artillery, and turned the shore artillery hard to bombard the enemy's city wall.

But the enemy fleet has been wiped out, and the task of suppressing the firepower of the ports on the coast has been completed. The four sailing battleships with thick smoke, facing the enemy's artillery fire, regardless of their own safety, struggled to retreat for two miles, and then retreated here together. The other six ships went too high, and bombarded the enemy's city wall with the turret artillery on the bow.

The enemy's castle was bombarded by dozens of artillery pieces. You could see faint enemies running on the city wall, putting out fires everywhere, or treating the wounded, or carrying supplies, while the artillery on the water chestnut fort on the enemy's city wall was still firing continuously. Poured into the sea and on the docks and ports, and even the formerly occupied towns.

Sweeping Thunder issued an order to the people around him, "Order the fleet to retreat, take away all the ships that can be taken away, order the troops to clean up the battlefield, and withdraw from the battlefield as soon as possible, and order the defenders of the town, except for the artillery, to retreat quickly .”

After issuing several orders in a row, the cavalry around Tian Lei frequently fired, which also attracted the attention of Major Thomas, who commanded the battle on the castle. He said to the people around him: "Order the artillery on the fort to concentrate firepower on the hill outside the forces. Where does the enemy general seem to be."

After all, Thomas is condescending. The difference between the height here and the height of the castle is more than 30 meters. Major Thomas has already noticed where it is, but he is not sure, but every time he adjusts, the enemy also adjusts accordingly. This day is another very good weather. Therefore, in his telescope, he could almost see the sky-sweeping mines standing on the protruding rocks watching the battle.

The New Qin Empire is the country of the Chinese people, and they continue the inheritance of the Chinese Empire, so their military uniforms are also the military uniforms of the Chinese Empire. In this era, because dyes are not so prevalent and complicated, the military uniforms of many teams are monochromatic. Moreover, under the influence of the West, many military uniforms are more gorgeous, especially the military uniforms of generals, so Thomas can see the bright military uniform of the sweeping thunder like the sun at a glance.

There are also the horses they ride, all tall and handsome, strong and strong, very conspicuous, and the cavalry here come in and out, running around, without shelter, Thomas is [-]% sure that this group of people must be the command of the other party Ministry, commanders.

Just when the remnants of the mercenary squadron escorted the remnants of the overseer brigade, the remnants of captive soldiers and slave soldiers, escorted the captured British prisoners, and transported the captured supplies to leave the port and wharf, dozens of solid bullets were still there. More than a dozen large-caliber artillery shells fell all around, and several of the horses below were killed by surprise. However, there was a big error in the first shelling, which was more than 50 meters away. Only the horses tied at the foot of the mountain were still alive. The soldiers of the guard squad guarding the horses smashed several people to death.

The others have all done demolition work. Nearly a dozen big trees with the thickness of the mouth of a bowl were smashed to the waist, and the gunfire exploded a full 30-meter-wide smoke and dust. Running, ran down the mountain for a full 3 minutes, and then picked out a few good horses, while the other guards drove and chased the frightened horses, while protecting the sweeping thunder and retreating.

The second wave of artillery shells hit them only ten meters away. The solid shells were useless, because they had fled nearly 300 meters away. The enemy hit farther this time, and the spread range was relatively large. There were only three copper shells. The shell exploded about ten meters behind them, sweeping some branches and gravel, injuring a horse, and killing a guard, while the sweeping mines were dazed by the dust, and the team went on After retreating for nearly a mile and turning a few turns, they escaped the enemy's artillery fire.

In a forest, Sweeping Thunder saw the enemy's shells exploding beside a lake, blowing up the fish in the lake so high that the water column was more than ten meters high, and then he had to cut down trees and scratch the grass.

Jin Lin, the officer escorted by the fourth wave of the camp who came on horseback, looked at the exploding shells in the distance, and some horses running around, and said angrily to Sao Tianlei: "Sir, it's not like we don't have cannons, the enemy's The cannons seem to be only able to reach twelve miles, or about six kilometers, and depending on the situation, most of them are old-fashioned 34-pound artillery, which use solid bullets, and we bombard them with giant cannons."

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Sweeper, who retreated back to the camp in embarrassment, was very angry. Hearing Jin Lin's words, he immediately ordered the last batch of reinforcements to prepare, and mobilized the elite of the artillery team to operate two 128mm cannons. Five kilometers away, About ten miles away, it took an hour for the two giant cannons to be placed, and then the coastal artillery team cooperated with the elite soldiers of the artillery team. This time, there were no slaves to carry the shells, and no prisoners to help pull the cannon carts. They are all operated by Han Chinese.

Thomas was very happy. Although the opponent's commander was not killed, the opponent fled in embarrassment, which was considered a bad breath.The reinforcements were routed, nearly 2000 people were captured in the small town outside the castle, and nearly 1000 people were wiped out at the port. Few soldiers returned, and the population of the town was transferred in with 3000 to [-] people. Such a defeat is unacceptable.

There are more and more people in the castle, close to 7000 people. Let a castle with 800 people garrison accept 7000 people. Now the population density in the castle is very high. Although the artillery battle between the two sides did not damage the defense of the castle much, it made many soldiers Was wounded.

The castle is built with cliff stones. The ancient British castle-building technique makes the castle very strong. The general 75mm artillery shells cannot cause substantial damage to the castle. It can only blow up some stones on the surface, leaving at most one There is a big hole deep in the mouth of the bowl, but it is almost impossible to completely destroy every castle built with cliff stones ranging from fifty catties to five hundred catties.

Even if all the 75mm artillery shells on the island are fired, it won't work.

However, if you bombard a place with solid bullets for a month or half a year, it is still possible to blast a gap, or dig a tunnel to get in.

It's a pity that with the hedgehog-like artillery turret on the castle and the design of the Lingbao, this kind of plan is almost impossible, because Thomas will not let people approach the castle for a mile and a half, and dig from a distance. The underground is made of stone. Stone Mountain, there are some places that are not stones, but spring water can come up, which is why we chose to build a castle here.

Because it is close to the seaside, there are no stones around the ground, some places are below the sea level, if you want to dig, the light will penetrate the water, and the mud will make you collapse. When you dig to the foot of the mountain and encounter stones, it will take even more effort. Digging under the enemy's artillery fire, if there is any movement, Thomas will let the artillery on the castle turret fire, blowing the soil above the hole, and it must be buried alive.

Therefore, Thomas is very confident that the castle has been built here for decades, starting from the time when the British expedition team competed with the Italians for the island, and was not completed until the previous ten years.

However, the population, food, and ammunition reserves in the castle are his shortcomings. He knows that if the enemy wants to besiege the city for half a year, people like himself may not be able to persist for three months, because there is no food.

The castle is too small, there is no place for people to stand or live, and it is even more impossible to reclaim the farmland and survive in it, waiting for rescue.

The castle is too small, and the various stone houses and buildings underneath can prevent enemy artillery attacks, and can withstand direct attacks from at least dozens of shells, but there are too many people. Many people were injured standing in the open area, so many people Not to mention finding a place for them to live, even if they are standing, they can't all be placed in places where the castle can hide.

Up to now, the number of people injured by artillery fire has shown a straight-line upward trend. Previously, there were only wounded who fought and retreated, about 1000 people. Later, when the enemy attacked the port, the artillery fire from both sides suppressed each other. There are more artillery fire here, so we need to allocate them The target and the fort are no longer in this direction, so it is actually almost equal to the enemy's increasing artillery.

Sweeping the sky and mines, they directly put all the captured artillery into the artillery battle.

This is a lot of seizures. In addition to the more than 20 artillery pieces seized at the beginning, four bronze cannons were blown up by the enemy when the town was captured, and a 75mm artillery piece was injured. Later, when we fought with the enemy today, There were as many as forty cannons suppressing the rear, and nearly fifteen bronze cannons were pushed outside the town. Across the town, they used solid bullets to attack the enemy's forts and city walls at a distance of more than two miles.

Then ten 75mm artillery guns followed the attack on the port and began to suppress the enemy artillery in that direction. After pushing the bronze guns and 75mm artillery to fight with the port, they lost nearly five bronze guns and eight 75mm guns. Artillery, the fleet lost five sailing ships and was severely damaged, but luckily captured the shore artillery of the enemy's port, several old 32-pound solid bullet artillery, and four 75mm artillery, joined the ranks of bombarding the enemy's city wall .

In the end, a total of 75 enemy artillery pieces were captured, and 75 artillery pieces were brought here. In the end, 34 bronze cannons, 32 [-]mm cannons, a [-]-pound siege cannon, and two captured [-]-pound cannons were lost.

A total of forty artillery pieces were lost, more than 300 slaves were lost, 210 were injured, 170 were captured, 78 were injured, 150 were killed in the overseer brigade, more than 200 were killed in the mercenary brigade, 120 were killed in the cavalry squadron, plus The previous casualties brought two mercenary cavalry squadrons, only more than 400 people were killed and injured, a stronger number of cavalry squadrons.

The original artillery team lost more than one team, a total of 42 people, and the 75-man team left 33 people, and then the shore artillery team that came later, plus some captive soldiers and slaves, these are all skilled in previous battles There are also some arms that originally belonged to the artillery in the British, or Turkey, Romania, etc., Prussia and other places, or the British sailors, so it is equivalent to the resurrection of the artillery squad with full blood, and even strengthened, becoming a full-staffed artillery squad .

These people lost too much, Sweeping Thunder thought, should I give this artillery squad to the mercenary brigade, the mercenary brigade lost three squadrons of nearly [-] troops, add some prisoners and slaves, and then give them an artillery The formation of the squad may make the people in the mercenary brigade forget about their heavy casualties, because the mercenary brigade has a large organization. There are four squadrons, two cavalry squadrons, and a Han Chinese squad for surveillance. , If you give another artillery squad organization, then the mercenary brigade will definitely be much more powerful than the exile brigade.

Because these people are professional fighters, they must be farmers or businessmen before being exiled in the exile brigade, or even weak scholars who are preparing for the imperial examination.

And they can be included in the exile brigade because many of them are not welcome here, and they are foreigners, or people who are not very useful among the Han people. Even the Han Chinese team who leads them and monitors them is not satisfied , and it was brushed down layer by layer, because of lack of ability, low force, weak combat effectiveness, weak fighting will, or insufficient loyalty.

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In fact, Sweeping Thunder didn't want this artillery squad that had suffered heavy losses to join the artillery squadron again, or it was to strengthen the strength of the mercenary brigade and let them continue to work hard.

The mercenary brigade and the exile brigade are actually more advanced cannon fodder than the overseer brigade, and compared to the sailor brigade, which is mainly composed of foreigners, the sailor brigade seems a bit helpless, because most of the Han Chinese come Can't sail a boat, let alone a naval battle, and some people who can do it have not received professional training, or have not experienced real naval battles.

Therefore, the Han Chinese can only be monitors, commanders, officers, and learned sailors and gunners at sea. At present, they still have to rely on foreigners and recruited Westerners. The new Qin Empire is training itself through them. Naval talent.

It seems immature at the moment.

The mercenary brigade and the exile brigade are for training and consumption. At the same time, let those Han people experience the flames of war and train them. If some people can become talents and perform outstandingly, they will be promoted to the second brigade of the Han brigade, or the Han Chinese cavalry brigade, artillery brigade, Although the Artillery Battalion actually had only two artillery squadrons, one squadron was the shore artillery squadron.

The mercenary brigade suffered heavy losses this time. The previous two squadrons suffered heavy losses and were organized into one squadron, and the next two mercenary squadrons suffered heavy losses. The two cavalry squadrons of the squadron lost almost one squadron of cavalry in total, and now there is a strengthened cavalry squadron left. That is to say, after this battle, the mercenary brigade has almost become an ordinary New Qin Empire brigade. Be weaker.

Under such circumstances, in order to appease them, it is only a compensation for them to prepare an artillery squad with captives and slaves.

The Exiles Brigade was even worse, losing most of its strength. Now it can only be organized into a squadron of 400 people. The Overseer Brigade is even worse, almost all of them are wounded. Some people were incorporated into the artillery squad, and some were incorporated into the mercenary brigade. Of course, this is not the worst, the worst is the captives and slaves. Of the 2000 captive slaves, only [-] are left at this time. The reinforcements from the fourth batch were not used, and the other [-] people were either incorporated into other troops, upgraded, or lying there injured.

A total of 700 captives and slaves were lost, and the exile brigade and mercenary brigade also lost a total of more than [-] people, half of whom were injured.

It can be said that this battle wiped out half of the troops.

But fortunately, Sao Tianlei still has at least one Han Chinese cavalry squadron in his hand, as well as the other two squadrons of an artillery squadron that was reinforced, a Han Chinese squadron, a Han Chinese guard squad, a 20-man personal guard squad, and the new squadron in his hand. The strength of a squadron of the supervisory brigade that arrived.

Arrange the Han Chinese cavalry squadron, a squadron of the supervisory brigade that was disabled before, and two squadrons of captives to transfer the wounded and seized property to Xinxianju Town of the New Qin Empire. A yellow copper-shelled cannonball with a length of nearly 128 mm and a diameter of [-] mm was sent over the enemy's castle.

Thomas, who was looking for a place for the wounded, looked up. His expression changed drastically amidst the piercing whistling sound. Isn't this the sound of the two cannons firing from the neighboring town?