Three o'clock in the morning is the time when the human body clock is the sleepiest.
Although the city was besieged by a large army, the calm for more than a month still made the Spaniards slack off.
Especially the soldiers on guard on the city wall, looking at the dark environment outside, felt a deep sense of sleepiness coming into their minds from time to time.
As long as the commander is not around, there will always be someone who secretly closes his eyes and takes a nap.
Governors, chiefs, and nobles all have warm and comfortable rooms. What does it matter if they are lazy?
I will definitely spend this night peacefully, right?
Unfortunately, people's wishes are often impossible to realize.
The overwhelming, earth-shaking roar of artillery suddenly sounded, and then lines of fire densely hit the head of the Spanish Royal City.
Bricks and tiles shattered, smoke and dust flew, and human fragile limbs were torn apart, indicating that a battle was coming unexpectedly.
On the Xia Army's position, Gu No. 2 Middle School looked at the watch in his hand and issued the order for a general attack without any errors.
The special forces will use fixed gliders to fly into the city to create a center, and of course the rest of the troops will fully cooperate.
Only by cooperating with the inside and outside can the Spaniards lose sight of one thing and become unable to defend.
Fierce artillery fire broke the tranquility of the night.
The sleeping Spaniard got up in panic. He didn't even have time to get dressed, so he quickly picked up his weapon and rushed to the defensive position.
The construction of the Royal City of Spain was very scientific, and the soldiers' accommodation was so close to the defensive posts that they rushed to the place in a short time.
At the same time, the city officials also rushed over with supporting troops.
They were all experienced soldiers. As soon as they heard such artillery fire, they knew that the Xia army was definitely not bluffing, and a more violent attack was definitely coming from behind.
The dark night became Xia Jun's best cover.
Although the Spaniards had a geographical advantage, they did not know how to defend because they could not see the outside environment clearly.
As for night fighting, the Spaniards are not inexperienced.
Many torches were immediately thrown down from the top of the city, providing a faint light.
At the low wall outside, soldiers braved the Xia army's artillery fire and fired rockets towards the other side of the moat.
Sparks pierced the night sky, making the situation on the other side flash by.
The Spaniards saw it clearly, and at the same time the souls of the dead were rising.
It turned out that at the same time as the Xia Army's artillery bombardment, the Xia Army's infantry were not afraid of being hit by their own artillery fire, and brazenly touched the bank of the moat.
Not only that, they also secretly pushed something into the moat.
That was the secret weapon prepared by Xia Jun.
If you want to cross the moat, which is more than 40 meters wide, you can usually only transport it by boat.
But under the firepower of the Spanish, this would only increase casualties and be too inefficient.
Just as the special forces were preparing to descend from the sky, the Second Marine Division was not idle either.
Everyone brainstormed and found a good solution.
That is to take advantage of the dense surrounding woods to make large rafts from the felled wood.
This kind of raft does not require people to row it.
There will be a tenon structure on one side of each raft.
In other words, if the two pieces of raft are joined together, they will be firmly fixed without worrying about breakage.
The raft can float in the water.
In this way, you only need to join many pieces of rafts together to form a simple floating bridge.
Because the raft was so large, it could withstand a small number of soldiers running on it.
At the same time, due to the existence of the tenon structure, the soldiers only need to stand on the shore to connect the rafts, and then push them into the water one by one.
The one in the back pushes the one in front, and it only takes a short time for the raft to reach the other shore and form a pontoon bridge.
Thousands of engineers gathered on the banks of the moat and used the cover of darkness to launch countless rafts into the water.
The defending Spaniards discovered their movements and fired continuously, hoping to stop them.
The artillery on the city head also lowered its muzzle and fired towards here.
At this time, there is nothing to think about, all I can do is grit my teeth and persevere.
The infantry of the Xia army fired desperately at the city head to provide cover for the engineers.
The engineers were surrounded by shields.
A lot of bullets hit the city, but they were all blocked. As for the cannonballs, there was no better way.
Soon, Xia Jun made a great sacrifice.
However, the Xia army's artillery fire was continuous, and the muskets under the city were also raining down bullets, which actually caused more damage to the Spaniards.
Asura Torres and Diego Franco have led the last reinforcements in the city to come over.
Facing the Xia army's strong attack, the Spaniards had no choice but to send troops toward the city head under artillery fire.
This is a contest of wills.
Whoever fails to withstand it first will be the loser.
The fighting was extremely fierce, causing all the Spaniards to focus their attention here.
No one looked up, and no one noticed that a large black shadow was quietly descending in the dark night sky.
Because a firefight has begun below, the fire of hot weapons provides the best guidance for the special forces.
Li Wangdong was at the front and the fastest. He took his sights on the San Diego Garden in the middle of the castle and rushed towards it.
The Spanish have been operating here for a long time, and there are many buildings in the castle. Only the garden side has a large open space.
Even if there are some trees, flowers, grass, soil and rocks, the damage will not be too great.
And because there was a fighting going on, there were no people around here, so the special forces' actions were not discovered for the time being.
It was pitch dark in the garden, and Li Wangdong couldn't see anything clearly even with his eyes wide open.
He doesn't know what's down there, whether it's life or death.
But now that the matter has come to this, when did Xia soldiers lack courage?
Li Wangdong gritted his teeth, pressed down, went a little faster, and dived down with a roar.
There was a crackling sound, and his body didn't know what he hit, and the pain was unbearable.
But in the end the fixed glider came to a good stop.
Li Wangdong quickly untied his belt, rolled it, and felt it carefully.
He breathed a sigh of relief when he found that there were no injuries on his body.
He took out the weapon from his back, held his breath, and listened carefully to the movements around him.
After a while, he found that it was quiet as usual, and he immediately sped up his movements.
He took out an iron can from his bag, opened the lid, lit a piece of paper with a lighter and threw it in.
A ball of flame burst out of the iron can, and the flames were a bluish color. It was completely different from the flames of war throughout the castle, and it was extremely obvious when viewed from a high altitude.
The other special forces soldiers still hovering in the sky saw this special flame and immediately turned over.