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Chapter 108: Portuguese Succession Battle Part 7: Reading’s Strategy

 The tactics of the giant axe Batulu are similar to those of the previous attack on Manila. The only difference is that Seville and the magical island have more artillery and are more powerful.

Despite this, the Spaniards would not have thought that there would be enemies directly attacking this place along the Guadalquivir River, and naturally they would not practice on it from time to time. The Truchens obviously came prepared.

For a time, on the city walls and on the docks, the firepower density on the island was not as good as that of the armored warships.

However, Sevilla's artillery was obviously stronger than Manila's. After an hour, except for the giant axe Batulu was completely unscathed, several other Brut hulls had been damaged to varying degrees, and several rotating turrets were also damaged.

Although the Spaniard's artillery cannot cause damage to the battery itself, it still damages the exposed barrel.

However, the attack effect of the Truchens is also significant.

Under the attack of various types of cannons and mortars, whether it is Seville, which faces rivers or the magical island, there are artillery on the walls of about 300 meters or they are either blown up or lost their artillery and temporarily lost their fire.

For ships of all sizes parked on the shore, it is obviously not possible to cut them off now. They are too many. After destroying several sail warships with artillery, the ironclad fleet stopped one after another!

They obviously wanted to use these ships as buffers as barges and then get the army ashore.

Just at this three hundred meters distance, two battalions of troops each came ashore. One went to the Seville City Pier, and the other boarded the magical island.

Then under the cover of the fleet, it began to build fortifications frantically.

This was in the 18th century, when concrete was not yet popular. If it were later or the present Truchen, it would be obvious that it would be impossible, because cement was used on the docks.

For the Spaniards, whether it is the city of Seville or the walls of San Castillo in the magical island, the cannons on them are naturally aimed at the river surface, and the cannons are mostly fixed. They are simply interlaced with different ranges to cover the entire river surface.

If you want to change the range, you need to rearrange the cannons. This is the eighteenth century. If it is on land, you can still use animal power, but this is on the city wall. If you want to change the range, you can only rely on manpower.

First take out the wedges of the fixed artillery, and then, under the push of a large number of personnel, change the position of the artillery weighing several thousand kilograms, and then fix it.

However, once the Truchens got ashore, they could place a large number of heavy mortars on the shore. At this time, they could accurately strike the city wall about five meters wide. They would not give the Spaniards the chance to arrange artillery calmly.

Another hour later, the two shore positions were arranged.

However, artillery fire on the two walls continued to sound, and seeing this, Qitade issued an order to attack the wall.

Although Seville City is close to the river, it did not dig a moat, which gave the Truchens an opportunity to take advantage of.

It is still the old method. When the firing distance of the mortar is fixed, it can be fixed in its original position. The mortar's rear frustration force is also quite considerable. However, the Truchens have already had mature spring shock absorption technology. As long as small pits absorbing the rear frustration force are dug on the ground in advance and fixed them, they can bombard the target city wall continuously.

At this time, you can't feel sorry for ammunition. Since a large number of saltpeter mines were discovered on the ancient Ganges Road in India, there is no need for this.

Soon, two battalions of Truchen soldiers rushed to the top of the two castles!

Then use continuous rifles, short-barrel artillery, and light mortars to fight back against the swarming enemies, and they will soon be able to stabilize the walls at both ends.

However, most of the unsatisfactory things in the world are often in the past ten. Just after two battalions of soldiers climbed the city wall, a large number of small boats suddenly rushed from the upper reaches of the Guadalquivir River!

The number of small boats almost filled the entire river surface, and a raging fire immediately ignited when approaching the castle!

The fire boats collided with each other and slowly approached the Truchen boat!

Although it is an ironclad fleet, if it is roasted in the fire for a long time, the temperature of the hull will obviously rise quickly. After reaching a certain level, not only will the crew members inside be unable to stay, but the ammunition, oil, and steam engines placed inside will also explode!

There has not yet been an explosion of an armored ship in this world. What kind of landscape is it? Qitad obviously doesn't want to know, but he quickly issued a new order.

"Let all ships leave Seville!"

There is no way to do this. There are almost thousands of ships in front of them, and it will take at least an hour to burn them all. If they are touched and surrounded, the consequences will be terrible.

The problem arises again. At this time, there are only two battalions of troops on the shores of both places, one on the dock and the other on the city wall. If the enemy takes the opportunity to mobilize a large number of troops to siege, I don’t know if it can be stopped.

But now the situation is urgent and he doesn't care about so much. He can only believe in the combat effectiveness and firepower of Truchen's army.

It was exactly the same as Qitade imagined, after the fleet left, a large number of Spanish soldiers appeared. They did not have many troops arranged on the magical island, mainly in the city of Seville, and on the dock!

Since it is responsible for the task of transporting half of the empire's material transfer station, there are obviously many warehouses on the dock. The magical island is just important materials, and general materials are placed in Seville.

Reading went out in person, and he led a brigade to the dock position with only one battalion, where there was only a low wall about one meter five high that was built with straw bags to fill the soil!

Reading not only brought out a brigade, but also used a carriage to pull artillery. He had been dormant on the city wall just now and had not moved. Obviously, he had observed clearly that there were no large cannons in that position!

They came from the warehouses on both sides of the position. In addition to the troops of a brigade, they also arranged cannons inside!

The shelling began. Although the Spanish shells were mainly solid bullets, they also had simple grenades. Moreover, even if the solid bullets hit the dock position, the casualties caused were shocking.

The Truchen soldiers hiding in the low walls could only use heavy mortars to fight back at warehouses near their positions, which was naturally useless.

On the top of the city, although the influx of enemies are constantly being repelled, the amount of ammunition they carry is obviously limited, and they do not carry heavy mortars, just some light short-barrel artillery and light mortars!

The fire on the river was still burning, and soon ignited other ships berthed on the shore, so the fire became even more intense.

The dock position has obviously a higher amount of ammunition, but in the face of such a situation, I don’t know when the fire will burn, and their ammunition will always be exhausted.

What a Reading, he came up with such a way!

Soon, Chitard, who had already driven about five miles from Seville City, received the news.

Due to the haste of time, a large number of troops were still on the ship, so he asked the other two division commanders to come to the cabin to hold an emergency meeting.

The current Bogda City Guards are vacant, and the three division commanders are Zhang Muxun, the First Division, Qiucei, the Second Division, and Batel, the Third Division.

Zhang Muxun was a martial artist, with half of the blood of Han people. However, at this time, as a guard, Qitade broke the previous practice of dispersing and mixing various ethnic groups, and instead organized them nearby.

For example, Zhang Muxun's division was mainly a Han army. Qiuchey was the Hsottetje who stayed in place after the return of Wobasi in history. He was later honored as the father of the "Kalmyk Republic". His troops were naturally dominated by the Turgut Mongols.

As for Batel, he is the younger brother of Qitad's brother-in-law Yamankara, and most of his soldiers are from Kazakh tribes.

Therefore, the three divisions were named "Han Teacher", "Mongolian Teacher" and "Kazakh Teacher".

After reaching fifty, Qitad, who was somewhat suspicious of everything, had to use this method to test the centripetal force and loyalty of various nations to themselves. This is also impossible.

Because he has keenly observed that although he vigorously promoted Chinese and Chinese culture education in the country, when these people returned to their homes, they still spoke the previous words and Chinese, which were just the language when communicating in public.

It will probably take fifty years to get rid of this completely.

Fifty years, God knows what will happen.

The three division commanders are all about forty years old and are all young and strong. Chucey and Batel's eyes became serious after getting the previous battle situation.

Qitad smiled and said, "It's okay, at least the positions on the shore are not so easy to break. Once the enemy shells the positions from the warehouses on both sides of the dock, the soldiers can hide behind the low walls and put the ammunition there too."

"Although there are a few jumpers that can still cause damage to them, it is impossible to harm most people. Most of them are solid bullets, and their impact on soft and low walls is limited"

"And our battalion brought a base of ammunition enough to support it until the fire was burned out"

"I asked you to come here just to discuss the next strategy. The fire will not burn here soon, and we cannot sit still and wait for death. We still have a chance to fight back"

Both of them came out of Truchen's schools at all levels and studied at Elista Military and Political School. They understood it as soon as they heard it.

"Although the situation seems extremely urgent, in fact, North Africa is like this, and Your Majesty will never suffer any losses, nor will you watch the Spaniards gain an advantage in vain"

Compared with Chuchey, he became the personal guard of Chittad at the age of twenty. Battel, who had richer experience in fighting, said first: "Your Majesty, why not let the ship be slow down and move downstream. Finally, we will see what the docks on both sides of the Guadalkivir River are everywhere. Just capture one place and then lay down the forces of a brigade."
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