Start: Datang Wanli a lonely city

Chapter 1007: The sound of gunfire after half a century

When Guan Deng used all his strength and shouted "fire", everyone on the Zhiyuan entered a state of intense excitement for no reason.

In such a state, they had beaten the battleship horizontally in the previous time.

Quickly turn the gun muzzle to install a twin-mounted 210mm naval gun at the bow and a single-barreled 210mm naval gun at the stern, a total of three barrels.

They were all aiming at the building on the deck at the moment, the Dutch flagship: the Gorland, which was already on fire.

The entire adjustment and firing speed was probably one-third faster than usual.

Finally, under the electronically controlled artillery salvo system of the Zhiyuan's powered ignition tube, a total of three shells shook the ship and hit the target with a huge roar.

At this moment, the five members of the team, including Yang Dongli and Xiaomei, who were currently on the Imperial Concubine, were all in tears.

Because compared with the somewhat confused sailors of the Beiyang Fleet, by this time they had clearly realized one thing:

Since the 20th year of Daoguang, the period of the First Duck War.

Those foreign devils used naval guns to smash open the flower grower's country gate.

After 53 years and half a century, the army of this humiliated nation finally used naval guns to fire at the white door on the foreign territory.

This not only represents the sound of the cannon at the beginning of this battle.

What's more, this nation is filled with unwilling roars amid the great humiliation.

With a huge excitement in her heart, Xiaomei shouted with a broken voice: "Raise the muzzle 1 degree, adjust it 0.5 degrees to the left, and fire in the direction of the rising signal~"

Immediately, the entire Xuange Camp fleet entered a state of full-force fire support from the other side.

As for the threat from the Dutch side, they don't have to worry at all at this time.

The reason why I dare to be so reassured is that the three shells fired from the Zhiyuan, 53 years apart, seem to have magical powers.

With astonishing accuracy, they all hit the Dutch flagship 'Gorland'.

One of the shots happened to hit the most important command tower of this thing, directly knocking down the entire command tower; the Dutch fleet commander died without even a last word.

With a delay of at most twenty seconds, three 210mm naval guns on the Laiyuan also fired a salvo.

Although only one shot hit the Gorland, it hit the key waterline and tore a huge hole in the hull.

Letting a large amount of seawater pour in, the Dutchman's flagship soon began to tilt.

The sailors above jumped into the sea desperately and began to flee. They were not prepared to fight back on the ship.

In a short period of time, an important goal was solved.

The guns on the two cruisers began to turn towards the Dutch, and the last remaining old-fashioned iron-clad battleship, the Haai.

Of course, the Zhiyuan and Laiyuan are each equipped with two 150 mm caliber secondary guns, and they are not idle during this process.

They each aimed their targets at the Dutch boats.

Although these small boats are also steam-powered, the larger ones are only five to six hundred tons, and the smaller ones are only two to three hundred tons.

The 150 mm caliber secondary gun only needs to hit these targets.

Even just one near miss was enough to bring them a disaster; not long after, they had already suffered one injury and one sinking.

In short, the main guns of Zhiyuan and Laiyuan only fired four rounds.

First on the flagship Gorland, a white sheet had been waved vigorously by a sailor, expressing their eager desire to surrender.

That miserable look is nowhere to be seen as the ancestors of these Dutch people, who used to be known as the "sea coachmen" who traveled all over the world.

Not long after the passage of time, this little Guo Jia in the West is now in a state of disrepair.

Even the flagship surrendered. When the Dutch sailors on other ships saw this, they immediately followed suit.

They couldn't even find white sheets for a while, so they took off the white pants that were actually not white at all, took them in their hands and shook them vigorously.

In short, not long after the war began, the entire Dutch fleet surrendered.

Even at this moment, they are all a little confused:

Has Brother Su abandoned them? Otherwise these are behind the head. How could a young man with an ugly pig tail have the courage to shoot at noble white people like them?

After the Dutch fleet surrendered, the two warships Zhiyuan and Laiyuan still did not stop firing.

Instead, while maneuvering, they continued to engage in an artillery battle with the five coastal defense batteries on the shore; this meant that the three warships of Xuange Camp no longer had any threat.

So, everyone who cheered up fired a large-caliber naval gun.

With their love and hatred, as well as the pressure, grievance, helplessness and other emotions they had endured in their hearts before, they greeted Surabaya City with all their strength amid the shells.

During the entire bombardment, in addition to deliberately avoiding three safety zones, there was also the Li family's manor in the west of the city.

Every place where fireworks rise is the direction in which they strike.

When these shells fell, the Yexuange Battalion team and a group of Chinese compatriots in Surabaya City were saved from the edge of falling into the abyss of hell...

*******

On that unknown street, Li San brandished a rifle with a bayonet, limping and fighting for the bayonet with his opponent.

I knew very clearly in my heart: What the hell! My life has entered a countdown.

Although every time he shouted the word "kill" loudly in his mouth and stabbed the bayonet out fiercely, relying on the speed and strength brought by the general instinct of muscle memory, he could stab a Dutchman. He died on the spot.

But he still clearly felt that the muscles in his arms and even his whole body had reached their physiological limits due to overexertion.

Every time you thrust out, you have to grit your teeth to do it.

Maybe if he stabs a few more times, he won't even have the strength to raise his hand.

On the contrary, the number of those Dutch people in the position next to him seemed to be endless. Then it would be his death.

Li San's current situation is just a microcosm of all the members of the Xuange Camp team on this battlefield.

Except for Hu Biao, who was sitting slumped in the back, everyone was now in a hard fight.

And one by one, their hearts were filled with unspeakable sadness; because they knew that if a miracle didn't happen, they would be dead today.

Nearly all of them had run out of ammunition a minute or two ago.

Then Cang Guan, Yu Hanfeng, AT, Huang Yizhi, etc., one after another, members of the Xuange Battalion threw away their submachine guns and pistols that were empty of bullets and did not have a fire stick that could be used.

He drew out his spare cold weapon, or with his bare hands, rushed towards the Dutch man with a shining bayonet.

Li San's lame left leg was the result of being shot in the thigh while rushing up like this.

Behind him, there were Chinese men and teenagers such as Zheng Xiaozu, Huang Yaozong, Xie Fei, etc. They rushed forward with loud howls.

At this moment, they no longer had the usual instinctive fear towards these superior foreign adults.

As soon as they met, everyone in the team relied on their strong skills to defeat many Dutch people.

However, soon after, due to the high-intensity fighting in the previous few hours, the team's physical strength and strength declined, and people began to get injured.

The men who cooperated with them in fighting suffered heavy casualties.

No! Li Sancai kicked out and pulled out the bayonet of the rifle in his hand from the corpse of a Dutchman who had just been stabbed to death.

His arms seemed to be filled with cotton, and he could not even do such a simple action as pulling out the bayonet easily.

After he managed to pull out the bayonet, he found it difficult to stand due to the wound on his thigh. Just as he staggered, two more Dutchmen rushed up.

Facing a new crisis, Li San's choice was just a flick of his wrist, and he threw the rifle with the bayonet in his hand to the left and right as if it were a throwing gun.

no way! He saw it accidentally with the corner of his eye while stumbling. Zheng Xiaozu, a young Chinese boy, was pinched by the neck and pushed to the ground by a tall Dutchman. No matter how hard he struggled, it had no effect.

A face full of childishness has turned into the color of pig liver due to severe lack of oxygen.

So Li San instinctively threw the rifle in his hand and pierced the Dutchman's neck with a sharp bayonet.

Let Zheng Xiaozu, a young boy, finally be able to breathe freely while coughing.

However, Zheng Xiaozu's vitality represents the arrival of Li San's death.

Without waiting for Li San to be empty-handed, he mobilized the last bit of internal energy in his body to seize the white blade with his bare hands. Two bayonets were already stabbed from one left and one from the right.

In an instant, both of his waists were stabbed to pieces.

Even so, Li San did not give up resistance.

His right hand reached for the spare dagger at his waist, intending to throw it out like a flying knife. Before he died, he also wanted to take another Dutchman with him.

It's a pity that even such a small wish before his death seems to be impossible for him to fulfill.

His right hand touched the handle of the knife, and another bayonet stabbed him behind him.

What's even more outrageous is that the three Dutch men did not draw out their bayonets immediately. Instead, they used all their strength to lift him up from the ground.

Not only did the wounds on his body become more painful due to the sharp bayonet.

After he was lifted up in this weird way, he saw extremely heart-wrenching scenes, such as:

In the War Elephant team, she was recognized as a tough girl like a melee meat grinder. After killing countless people with her bloody tomahawk, she was taken care of by the Dutch people.

After several gunshots, the girl who was shot three times in the chest raised her head and fell.

Although the DIY body armor she wore successfully blocked the bullet from penetrating.

But the power carried by the bullet, even if it was buffered by the pair of assets of the War Elephant Team, still broke an unknown number of her ribs.

Now that he fell to the ground, he couldn't get up despite struggling several times. Instead, a dazzling trail of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.

Like him, it looked like he could only wait to die.

Lao Tie, who was not far away, immediately turned red when he saw this.

Result? Before he could scream and kill the big baby who came to save him, he was hit hard by the butt of the rifle on his head; this blow was so hard that even the butt of the rifle was smashed.

The old man, who was also exhausted, immediately raised his head and fell down like a wooden stake.

And Barong, this guy...

In short, after Li San took a quick look around.

Everything shows that in this crisis in Surabaya City, they suffered a disastrous defeat; not to mention that the entire team was destroyed, but most of them must have been killed or injured.

Thinking of this, Li San, who had entered the countdown to death, was filled with overwhelming resentment.

Then, Li San didn't know if it was a hallucination before he died. Before he stopped breathing completely, he saw this scene that surprised him:

A huge roar appeared in the air.

Before everyone on the battlefield could react, a total of three 210 mm caliber artillery shells, with an interval of only one second at most, suddenly hit the ground in nearby streets or some houses.

Immediately, this large-caliber naval gun immediately showed its terrifying killing power.

One of them landed on the street a hundred or ten meters away.

Like a volcanic eruption, a deep hole immediately appeared on the street. At the same time, several nearby wooden houses collapsed like building blocks, flying far away.

A dozen Dutch people around the explosion point disappeared directly from Li San's eyes.

At the same time, an astonishing amount of stones, sand, bricks, and shrapnel splashed around in the surroundings, driven by the terrifying explosion shock wave.

The people dozens of meters away from the explosion point were also brought down to the ground one after another.

With just one shot like this, as many as sixty or seventy people were killed; although there were two Chinese among them who were affected, it seemed that they would not survive.

Just seeing such a scene, Li San did die with relief.

At this moment, he no longer cares about the death of himself and his personnel, he just wants to be completely destroyed together with these ugly Dutch people and natives, and even the hell-like city of Surabaya...

The sudden bombardment mentioned above was certainly not some hallucination that Li San had before his death.

That was the bombardment of the Xuange Camp fleet, which finally arrived here.

In the face of the huge explosion, and even the crisis that may affect themselves, a group of Chinese people with blood all over their bodies shouted with ecstasy on their faces:

"Fire, keep firing, kill these foreign devils."

They had the same idea as Li San, and they had already put their own lives and deaths aside.

But everyone in the Xuange Camp team and a group of Chinese people looked away; those Dutch people obviously didn't think so, after suffering a few more rounds of shells.

During the previous period, Colonel William had been commanding the operations from a safe rear position.

Governor Vic's adjutant, after hurriedly getting on his horse, ran away immediately; when the other Dutch people found out, they also completely collapsed.

Or to put it another way, they actually collapsed a long time ago.

But it's only now that these Dutch men, who are used to being domineering in the colonies, have truly reacted.

After turning around one after another, they began to flee desperately.

But this is not their backyard. Where can they come and leave as they please?

The imperial concubine, whose whole body looked like she had been fished out of bloody water, looked up with a pair of red eyes, and shouted in her mouth: "Chase, no matter whether they are natives or Dutchmen, no one can be spared and hacked to death. "

As he spoke, he took the lead in the pursuit, regardless of the shells still falling.

The others didn't hesitate after hearing this, and all chased him.

Say it! Under the power of large-caliber artillery, even the Dutch people, who were obviously more knowledgeable, reacted so badly at the moment.

The performance of those Javanese monkeys after being hit by artillery fire will only become worse.

When the Xuange Camp fleet fired five consecutive salvos in the direction of the rising signal flares, it entered the free fire mode and directed the shells to other locations.

Because outside the three safety zones and the Li family manor, an astonishing number of natives gathered, and the formations were even denser.

Therefore, after each shell falls, the killing effect is naturally more terrifying.

When a shell hits, dozens or even hundreds of people are blown away, and a bloody scene full of broken limbs and flesh begins to fall within an area of ​​tens of meters.

Finally, all the natives woke up from the urge to kill and loot.

All that was left in their hearts was fear, which made them want nothing more than the fear of escaping from here completely, no matter how far.

As a result, the screams from the mouths of these natives changed from the madness full of killing to the screams of terror under artillery fire.

Some of the natives started scurrying around the city like a swarm of empty flies.

Some other natives knelt down and begged for mercy.

There may be some differences in actions and reactions, but they are all trying to avoid such a bombardment so that they can survive such a devastating bombardment.

Under the expressions full of fear, there was no trace of the cannibalistic ferocity that existed before.

To put it bluntly, these monkeys are just bullies who are afraid of the strong...

(End of this chapter)