America 1881: Legend of the West
Chapter 507 Breaking the Stronghold
"Your queen has surrendered, why don't you quickly put down your weapons?" Haruma Yamamoto asked the translator to shout outside the village, while quietly signaling his soldiers not to put down their guns.
The guard captain was the first to recover from his daze.
Although he is straightforward, he is not stupid.
Yamamoto Haruma's words were without sincerity, and the soldiers on the wooden wall clenched their guns tightly, ready to kill themselves and the soldiers around them at any time.
The guard captain looked around and found that the soldiers who followed him had suffered heavy casualties.
Some were wounded and lying on the ground with blood flowing all over the ground, some were still wailing in pain, and some were lying face down on the ground not knowing whether they were alive or dead.
The guard captain looked up at the wall again, knowing that continuing to attack like this would be in vain.
They don't have heavy weapons, and if they do, they'll just lose their lives in vain.
Now we can only retreat and join the police chief and the others to find another way.
As for the Queen's life, we can only leave it to fate!
"Take the wounded, one by one. As long as they can still move, take them away! Let's retreat!" The guard captain was reluctant, but had no other choice.
Sure enough, his choice was extremely wise.
After Yamamoto Haruma discovered that the guard captain and his men were beginning to retreat, he hesitated for less than ten seconds before ordering the soldiers to continue shooting.
The guard captain and a group of people worked hard to take the wounded out of the shooting range of the Japanese on the city wall.
He ordered some people in the team to take the wounded to local doctors or witch doctors in Honolulu for treatment. If that didn't work, the pastors of the Christian Church also knew some medical skills.
The guard captain himself led the remaining people towards the palace.
He had to find the police chief and figure something out.
But the road from the palace to the foot of the mountain was also in chaos.
The citizens of Honolulu mostly had no idea what was going on.
The city on this island has been peaceful for too long, and the battle in Chinatown some time ago was only limited to Chinatown.
It had been a long time since the local indigenous and many white residents had seen soldiers and policemen marching through the streets in front of them with guns drawn.
Some people were afraid to avoid it and hid in their homes with their doors closed; some people just watched the excitement and stood on the street to watch without taking it too seriously.
The captain of the guard walked quickly along the street with his people.
He soon saw a group of people walking towards him at the other end of the street.
The captain of the guard looked closely and saw it was Thurston and his white militiamen.
Among them, there was no voice from the local indigenous police.
The captain of the guard secretly said something bad.
If Thurston was here, and not with the Honolulu police, there must have been a fight between the two, and the result must be that the police failed, and Thurston and the coup troops broke out.
The guard captain didn't have the guts to go up to him at this moment.
God knows if Thurston had an affair with those Japanese people. If so, it would be really troublesome!
Their own side had lost troops and generals, while Thurston's side had just won a victory. After a back and forth, the morale of both sides was high and the decision was made.
"Change the other way!" the guard captain gave the order.
In fact, Thurston also vaguely saw the guard captain and his indigenous soldiers.
He was so furious that he was just about to get his men ready to fight.
But he found that the guard captain chose to avoid their attack, retreated with his troops, and turned into another street.
"A bunch of rubbish." Thurston put down the gun and muttered.
He turned around and pointed his index finger at the highly motivated white militiamen behind him, and shouted loudly: "One hour! We only need one hour to capture those so-called 'fortresses' in Japan!"
The white militiamen, led by Thurston, arrived in front of Kameda Masao's "fortress" and, without saying a word, exchanged fire with the guarding Japanese soldiers.
These Japanese soldiers, including Haruma Yamamoto, were also confused.
We had just beaten away a group of black natives, but why did a group of white people arrive and start shooting whenever they met?
At this time, in the stockade, Kameda Masao was taking a prepared edict for the queen to sign.
In this edict, the Queen will announce her abdication, and a so-called "royal family" that the Queen herself does not know will be brought to power as a puppet, and then controlled by the Empire of Japan.
If this edict is completed, Kameda Masao feels that his contribution is no less than that of Saigo Takamori.
He stood by the door of the cabin, staring at the Queen like a hawk as she signed.
However, at this time, fierce gunfire came from outside the door.
The Queen put down the pen in her hand, stood up angrily, and asked Kameda Masao:
"Mr. Kameda, you have promised me that you will let my guard captain and those Hawaiians go! But what's going on with the gunfire outside?"
Kameda Masao had a headache.
What are these idiots so anxious about? Don’t you know how to wait a while and find a secluded place to deal with it? Burying alive is fine!
"What's going on outside?" he asked a subordinate with a frown.
After a while, the subordinate ran back and whispered into Kameda Masao's ear.
Kameda Masao's brows furrowed even more.
White people? Royalist?
"Tell them that the queen is in my hands and tell them not to act rashly! Otherwise," he thought for a moment and gave the order to his subordinates.
Unexpectedly, when the translator shouted these words through a loudspeaker to the group of people outside the village, Thurston led the militiamen below and beat him even harder.
He is worried about the Queen's death.
This battle lasted two or three hours.
People on both sides continued to be killed and injured and lost their combat capability.
Since the Japanese had already fought with the guard captain and his indigenous soldiers before, they had almost no rest before fighting the white militia again, which was a continuous battle;
In addition, these white militiamen had just won a battle and were at great momentum.
Therefore, the Japanese were gradually at a disadvantage and their casualties were increasing.
But they still took advantage of the terrain and struggled to hold on.
As the saying goes, once you make great progress, you will be exhausted again and again.
As time passed, Thurston and his white militiamen were unable to attack for a long time, and they also suffered numerous casualties.
Thurston was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.
Duer stood far away and watched coldly.
Also paying attention to the battlefield here is U.S. Ambassador Stevenson, who is hiding in the distance with a telescope.
Thurston couldn't beat him, and he was irritated.
All this was planned by him.
If the coup succeeds, Washington may not necessarily admit it, but it can work; but if it loses, Washington will definitely not admit it.
After watching for a while, Stevenson decided not to wait any longer.
He rode toward Chinatown.
Stevenson found Chen Jianqiu on the second floor of the teahouse:
"Mr. Chen, where is the fire support you promised me? Without fire support, we cannot deal with those Japanese, and they include regular soldiers of the Japanese Army." Stevenson said anxiously to Chen Jianqiu.
"The main gun on the 'Kun' will blow that stockade to pieces, and the other auxiliary guns can't hit that far." Chen Jianqiu cracked melon seeds and said calmly, "What's more, the Queen is inside, no matter what Easy to do."
"What does it matter to us if the Queen dies?" Stevenson blurted out in desperation.
But he soon realized that these words were very inconsistent with his status as a diplomat, and even seemed a bit unscrupulous.
"Can we find a compromise?" he asked.
"Yes, I have two smaller demountable field guns on my ship. You can drag them over after assembling them, and then blast a gap in the wooden city wall." Chen Jianqiu said, "I won't charge you for the fee. It's used up. Drag me back."
"The United States of America will never forget your contributions to the Union!" Stevenson was very excited. "You are a good and responsible citizen."
After a while, Chen Jianqiu's two field guns were dragged to the front line by carriages.
Duer held his pipe in his mouth, stroked the barrel of the cannon, narrowed his eyes, and then glanced at Thurston, who was jumping up and down in front of him.
He always felt that the Chinese businessman was much more reliable than Thurston. In the end, he had to rely on the heavy weapons provided by him!
The exhausted Japanese on the wooden city wall stared straight-eyed when they saw the two cannons.
"boom!"
The shells flew past, leaving devastating marks on the wooden walls.
Debris, smoke, bodies tumbling in the air
Everything looks so full of violent aesthetics.
A large gap was quickly blown out of the wooden city wall. Thurston was overjoyed and launched a charge with the remaining white militiamen.
In his mind, victory was just around the corner.
Just kill the Japanese leader and queen, then establish a new government, and either train the remaining Chinese and Japanese on the island into dogs or drive them out!
However, when Thurston crossed the gap and rushed into the stockade, he suddenly made a discovery.
A group of shirtless Japanese ronin, wearing turbans and holding samurai swords high, rushed towards them.
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