Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2122
Before dawn, the defenders in the city were already distracted.

In the first half of the night, women, children, old and weak were expelled, riots broke out frequently in the city, and the flames in the city swirled and fell, but under the desperate fighting of the well-prepared people, they never expanded into a conflagration throughout the city.The more than 1000 wolf soldiers who stayed in the city to set fire to plunder failed to plunder many places because they were on guard everywhere, coupled with the resistance of "friendly troops" and strong men.In the middle of the night, the loudspeaker broadcast outside the city revealed the conspiracy of arson, which made the remaining people and strong men in the city more determined to resist. Therefore, some of the rebels planned to flee for their lives, and some still did not give up, preparing to gather after dawn Form a large group of people and set fire to the upper hand.

In this situation where the defenders have their own concerns and people's minds are scattered, the soldiers guarding the north of the city are all in danger, and no one knows what to do next.

Yesterday, the strong team dug open the blocked city gate according to "Shangfeng's order" - it is said that they wanted to let the people out of the city.However, no people left the city from here at night.Now the city gate has been dug open, and there is no order to refill it.

The urn city and city gate of Dayunmen had been destroyed in the shelling a few days ago, and if the gate was not blocked, the gate would be completely opened.The guard ordered the city gate to be blocked again. Unexpectedly, the strong men who were very active when they dug it up would pretend to be deaf and dumb. They didn't take the order seriously at all. The guy went straight to work.In the end, we could only use some horses and knife carts to plug the gap.

The Kun thief in front of him didn't move at all, and no one screamed.About half an hour will not attack.

Because of the fear of Australian snipers, there were no lamps or torches anywhere in the city except for a few lights.It was dead.

At this time, Zhu Quanxing, who was in charge of the main attack in the north of Wuzhou City outside the Dayun Gate, had completed combat preparations.The companies participating in the attack ate emergency dry food and lined up in columns according to the attack sequence. The ladders and ropes used to climb the city, and the explosives used to blast the city gate were all ready.

His 2nd Battalion is only about 200 meters away from the camp outside Dayun Gate.The Hongyi cannons on the top of the city had already been silenced by the artillerymen. Even in the daytime, the soldiers in the trenches did not have to worry about the artillery fire of the Ming army.

At this moment, the artillery deployed at the front was silent, and the gunners carefully observed the dark city wall opposite, they had not yet received the order to fire.

At this time, under the cover of the darkest night before dawn, on the northeast side of Wuzhou City, the forward of the light infantry company of the 2nd Battalion had already touched a distance of only 30 meters in front of the Ming army camp.The light infantry marched in groups of three, in groups of three, and each group advanced in a triangle formation.Each team advances alternately, one team advances, and the other team lies down on the spot to cover. When the front team advances a certain distance and stops lying on the left, the rear team gets up and advances under the cover of the front team.

The task of the light infantry company is to destroy the barracks outside the Dayun Gate that protects the city gate, so as to ensure that the follow-up combat engineers can deliver explosives in time.

The camp outside Dayun Gate suffered a lot of damage during the bombardment in the past few days. Many trenches were bombed down, and the walls were also bombed down in many places.Because of the constant sniping by the light infantry, the strong civilian soldiers who came out to make repairs suffered heavy casualties, so in the end they just closed the gap temporarily with plug-door knife carts and earthen baskets.

At this moment, a sentry on the wall seemed to have discovered something, but it was dark and he couldn't see anything—because he was afraid of being targeted by the snipers of the Fubo Army, and he didn't dare to light a torch on the camp—he could only hear it not far away. There was a rustling sound everywhere, and the sound was getting louder and closer.

His hairs stood on end, he turned around and shouted, "Enemy-attack-"

While he was shouting, a red signal rocket suddenly rose above the Australian position.The sky is starting to brighten!

The attack has begun!

The officers and soldiers who were awakened by the sentry looked out, but saw dozens of Australians had already started to cross the collapsed trench, and some climbed directly to the wall.

"Copy guy! The enemy is coming up!"

With a series of screams, all the defenders in the camp were alarmed, the generals howled loudly, and led the soldiers to drive the soldiers to the camp to fight.

At this moment, the artillerymen who were waiting for this moment immediately stuffed the fire tube into the fire door, hung the cable, the gunner turned around, the artillery vibrated, spit out fiery shells, and flew towards the direction of Dayunmen.

The first round of artillery shells flew into the camp, and the officers and soldiers who hurriedly got up and ran towards the camp were beaten to fractures and broken limbs.There was a lot of screams in the camp, and it became a mess.

In order to prevent accidental injury, the covering artillery fire was only fired once.Originally, Zhang Dapao planned to bombard the targets on the city wall of Dayun Gate, but there was nothing on the city wall. The city towers were bombed and burned, and in some places even the battlements of the female wall were completely destroyed. There was really nothing to fight, so we had to cease fire .

The forward light infantry lined up under the cover of artillery fire and rushed into the camp in an instant. The combat engineers assigned to them wielded axes and grappling hooks, and quickly split and pulled down the knife carts and soil baskets that blocked the gap, clearing out several A breakthrough comes.An artillery squad quickly dragged the 12-pound mountain grenade across the trench set up by the engineers.

Under the cover of the forward, the light infantry crossed the trench dug by the Ming army in less than a minute and rushed into the camp.Except for a small number of Ming soldiers standing guard, most of the Ming soldiers stationed in the camp were sleeping. Many people were caught off guard and died under the bullets or bayonets of the light infantry before they had time to pick up their weapons.The guards in the northern city of Wuzhou were also awakened by the gunshots at this time. Knowing that the Australians were coming to attack, after calming down a little, they organized troops to fight back.

This guard is also an old opponent of the Fubo Army. It is Li Modao, the former firearms battalion guard who participated in the Chengmai War. Li Modao is not as good at drilling camps as others. , under the command of Dongshan Fangyao general, he was a firearms battalion chief Qian Qiang.

Li Modao can be regarded as a "technical cadre" in the army. He has some skills, but he is too upright, and he is not very good at flattering horses to make money—not to mention that he doesn't have much money to make money.Dongshan General's men and horses retreated to Wuzhou, but he suddenly became "prosperous in official career". Not only was he promoted, but he was also assigned to the newly built "Wuzhou Firearms Battalion".

However, as soon as the so-called "Wuzhou Firearms Battalion" was established, it was sent to the most dangerous camp outside the city gate in the defense battle.A few days ago, it was bombarded by cannons for a while, not to mention most of the damage to the camp, and half of the soldiers escaped with casualties.

Although Li Baidao is not a loyal minister and general, at least he knows whose food he eats and who works for whom.He didn't think of running away, and he restrained the soldiers under his command not to participate in the looting—it's not because he loves the people so much. In fact, if he allowed the soldiers to go out to rob under such circumstances, the army would quickly disintegrate.

With the sparse gunshots, Li Modao knew that there would not be too many Australian soldiers infiltrating the position, but if they were not driven out of the position immediately, they would have to suffer when the large Australian troops came over. It's the slaughter.

So he immediately ordered the soldiers under his command, plus some strong and strong, at least he gathered a team of about a hundred people, holding the sword and gun regiment card.Pushing a few Flang machines filled with gunpowder bullets, they rushed out from the gap dug by the Dayun Gate.First, they didn't care how many Francophones were ordered by the 21 company, and then rushed up to fight with a shout.

The bombardment of the Fran machine guns shot down several Fubo soldiers in front, but at this time the artillery had already pulled two 12-pound mountain grenades through the gap in the camp, and Li Baidao, the more than 100 troops who went out of the city to fight back, immediately ran into them. On the muzzle.The mountain grenade sprayed out flames, and the cannonball shot out from the barrel, sweeping across the gate of the city. Amidst the smoke and screams, the counterattack was instantly disintegrated. Li Modao was also shot in his right arm, bleeding profusely, and fainted immediately past.

After the light infantry company captured the city gate, the combat engineers found that they had nothing to do. The soil at the city gate had been dug up, and the city gate had been destroyed by artillery fire. All they could do was to clean the gate knife with an axe Cars and horses.

The light infantry used bayonets to disperse the defenders gathered in the caves and the city walls. In some places, quite fierce hand-to-hand combat broke out, but in most cases the defenders either dispersed or kneeled down.From the very beginning, the strong team at the North Gate hung out a white flag, and everyone wore strips of white cloth on their left arms.

"Dayunmen has been captured!" The news was sent back to Zhu Quanxing, and he immediately ordered: "All companies act according to the plan and use the fastest speed!"

At this time, in the Rice Grain Industry Association, Luo Yangming, who had not slept all night, crawled on the roof with red eyes and looked towards the north of the city where the cannons were rumbling—he didn't know where the Fubo army would attack, but the people from Dayunmen The sound of guns and guns indicated that the chief had begun to attack.This somewhat made him feel relieved: as long as the Fubo army starts to attack, the officers and soldiers are nothing but local chickens and wags!

But he was also worried whether the rioting soldiers in the city would go completely crazy.You know last night was thrilling.There were rioters looting and setting fire everywhere.Even the location of the rice and grain guild was harassed by a group of rioters. Fortunately, the local guards were there, and the lords of the guild were willing to spend money. After a chaotic fight, dozens of corpses and blood were left on the ground. They and their families were tied up as "fat pigs".

However, there are not many places with armed protection. The strength of the local army is limited, and it can only protect some important places.Many neighbors blocked the rioters by relying on strong men and street gates, and extinguished the fire.However, there are also many places that were devastated by the rebels: murder, rape, robbery... In some places, it was too late to save, and hundreds of families were burned down.Luo Yangming was on the roof of the Rice Industry Association, watching the flames in the city, listening to the cries and curses, his heart was pierced - when will this man-made disaster come to an end!
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The next update will be Volume 327 - Guangzhou Governance Chapter [-]

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