Before daybreak, the defenders in the city were already in disarray.
In the middle of the night, women, children, the elderly and the weak were expelled, and riots broke out frequently in the city. The flames in the city rose and fell, but they never spread into a fire throughout the city under the desperate fighting of Minzhuang who had been prepared. More than a thousand people who stayed in the city were preparing to set fire to and plunder.
Because the wolf soldiers were on alert everywhere, coupled with the resistance of "friendly troops" and strong men, many robberies were not successful. In the middle of the night, loudspeaker broadcasts outside the city revealed the arson conspiracy, which made the remaining common people and strong men in the city
Their determination to resist was increasingly confirmed, so some of the rebels planned to flee for their lives, while others had not yet given up, preparing to gather in large groups after dawn and set fire to the upper wind.
In this situation where the defenders and the common people have their own concerns and are distracted, the soldiers guarding the north of the city are all in danger, and no one knows what to do next.
Yesterday, the young men's team dug out the blocked city gate in accordance with the "order from the top" - it was said 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 out, and there is no order.
Said to fill it out again.
The urn and city gate of Dayunmen had been destroyed in the bombardment a few days ago. If the gate was not blocked, the gate would be completely opened. The guard ordered the gate to be blocked again, but he did not expect that when it was dug out
The very active team of strong men pretended to be deaf and didn't take the order seriously at all. If they wanted to use force to force them to do it, they would immediately show off and do it directly. In the end, they could only use some resistance and horseback.
The door plug car is used to plug the gap.
There was not much movement from the Kun thieves in front of them, and no one screamed. They probably wouldn't attack for about half an hour.
Because of fear of Australian snipers, except for a few lights, no lights or torches were lit anywhere in the city. It was completely lifeless.
At this time, Zhu Quanxing, who was responsible for the main attack in the north of Wuzhou City outside Dayunmen, had completed preparations for the battle. The companies participating in the attack had eaten emergency dry food and had been lined up in columns according to the attack sequence. They used ladders and ropes to climb the city and blasted the city gate.
The explosives used are all ready.
His 2nd Battalion's position was only about 200 meters away from the camp outside Dayunmen. The Hongyi cannon on the top of the city had already been silenced by the artillery. Even during the day, the soldiers in the trenches did not have to worry about the Ming army's attacks.
The artillery fire, but the snipers, kept the Ming troops in the city from showing their faces.
At this moment, the artillery deployed at the front was silent. 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 forwards of the light infantry company of the 2nd Battalion had reached a distance of only 30 meters in front of the Ming army's camp. The light infantrymen marched three to one
Each team advances in a triangular formation. Each team advances alternately. One team advances, and the other team lies down to cover. When the front team advances a certain distance and stops lying down on the left rear, the rear team
Then get up and move forward under the cover of the front team.
The task of the light infantry company is to knock down the barracks outside Dayunmen that protect the city gate to ensure that subsequent combat engineers can deliver explosives in time.
The barracks outside Dayunmen suffered great damage from the shelling in the past few days. Many trenches were blown down and many fortification walls were collapsed. Due to the constant sniping by the light infantry, the civilian soldiers who came out to make repairs
There were a lot of casualties, so in the end the gap was hastily closed temporarily with a door stopper and an earthen basket.
At this moment, a sentry on the fortification wall seemed to have discovered something, but it was pitch dark and he could not see anything - because he was afraid of being targeted by the Fubo Army's snipers, he did not dare to light torches on the fortification - he could only hear something not far away.
There were rustling sounds everywhere, and the sounds were getting louder and closer.
His hair stood on end immediately, and he turned around and shouted: "The enemy - attack -"
Just as he shouted, a red signal rocket suddenly rose from the Australian position. The sky began to light up!
The attack begins!
The officers and soldiers who were awakened by the sentry looked out and saw that dozens of Australians had begun to cross the collapsed trench, and some climbed directly onto the fortification wall.
"Copycat! The enemy is coming!"
With a series of screams, all the defenders in the camp were alerted. The generals howled loudly and led their soldiers to drive the soldiers up to the camp to fight.
At this moment, the artillerymen who were waiting for this moment immediately inserted the fire tube into the fire door, hung up the pulling rope, and the gunner turned around. The artillery vibrated, spitting out fiery red shells, and flew towards Dayunmen.
The first round of artillery shells flew into the camp, beating the officers and soldiers who hurriedly got up and ran towards the camp until their bones were broken and their limbs flew everywhere. The camp was filled with screams and chaos.
In order to prevent accidental damage, the covering artillery fire was only fired once. Originally, Zhang Dapao planned to bombard the targets on the Dayunmen city wall, but there was actually nothing on the city wall. The city towers were blown down and burned, and in some places, even the battlements of the female wall were hit.
There was nothing left to fight, so we had to cease fire.
Under the cover of artillery fire, the forward light infantry platoon rushed into the camp in an instant. The combat engineers assigned to them brandished axes and grappling hooks, quickly split open the knife carts and earth baskets blocking the gap, and cleared out several
A breakthrough came. An artillery squad quickly dragged 12 pounds of mountain grenades across the trench through a springboard set up by engineers.
Under the cover of the forwards, the light infantry at the back 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 troops on guard, most of the Ming troops stationed in the camp were sleeping.
Caught off guard, many people were killed by light infantry bullets or bayonets before they had time to pick up their weapons. The garrison in Wuzhou North City was also awakened by the sound of gunfire at this time. Knowing that the Australians were coming to attack, after calming down a little, they organized
Raise your troops to prepare for a counterattack.
This guard is also an old opponent of the Fubo Army. He is Li Modao, a former firearms battalion guard who participated in the Chengmai War. Li Modao is not as good at camp as others. After escaping back, he has had no official career and has been forced to rely on others to operate.
, he worked as a firearms camp general under General Fang Yao Shen in Dongshan and lived his life.
Li Modao can be regarded as a "technical cadre" in the army. He has some skills, but he is too upright and is not very good at flattering horses and joining the camp - not to mention he doesn't have much money to join the camp. General Dongshan's troops retreated to Wuzhou, but he suddenly "
His official career was prosperous. Not only was he promoted, he was also assigned to lead the newly built "Wuzhou Firearms Camp".
However, as soon as the so-called "Wuzhou Firearms Battalion" was established, it was assigned to the camp outside the city gate, which was the most dangerous part of the battle to defend the city. It was bombarded by artillery a few days ago, and most of the camp was damaged, and even the soldiers were killed or injured.
If you take them away, you will lose half the people.
Although Li Baidao was not a loyal and good general, he at least knew whose food he would eat and whose life he would sacrifice for. He did not think of escaping, and he restrained his soldiers not to participate in plundering. This was not because he had much talent.
I love the people, but in this situation, if we allow the soldiers to go out and rob, the army will quickly disintegrate.
Based on the sporadic gunfire, Li Modao knew that not many Australian soldiers had penetrated into the position now, but if they were not driven out of the position immediately, they would have no choice but to be beaten when the large Australian troops came over.
It's your share.
So he immediately ordered his own soldiers, plus some strong ones, to form a team of about a hundred people, armed with swords, guns and regimental cards. They pushed a few Folang machines filled with gunpowder bullets, and started from
They rushed out of the gap dug by the Great Cloud Gate. First, they fired at a few furlong machines without hesitation, and then with a shout, they rushed forward to fight.
The bombardment of the Fran machine gun knocked down several Fubo soldiers in front. However, at this time, the artillery had already pulled two 12-pound mountain durians through the gap in the camp. Li Baidao, the more than 100 men who came out of the city to counterattack, immediately
It hit the muzzle of the cannon. The mountain grenade spurted out tongues of flame, and shotgun shells shot out from the barrel of the cannon, sweeping across the city gate. Amidst the smoke and screams, the counterattack was instantly collapsed. Li Modao was also hit by a bullet in his right arm, and blood flowed.
If so, he fainted immediately.
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 long been destroyed by artillery fire. All they could do was use axes to clean the gate jammers.
Cars and horses.
The light infantry used bayonets to disperse the defenders gathered in the Tibetan Soldier Cave and the city wall. In some places, fierce hand-to-hand fighting broke out, but in most cases the defenders either dispersed in a hurry or knelt down to ask for surrender. Strong men at the North Gate
The team hung a white flag from the beginning, and everyone had white cloth strips tied on their left arms.
"Dayunmen has been captured!" The news came back to Zhu Quanxing, who immediately ordered: "Each company will act according to the plan and use the fastest speed!"
At this time, in the rice and grain industry guild, Luo Yangming, who had not slept all night, climbed 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 from, but Dayunmen's
The sound of gunfire indicated that the commander had begun to attack. This made him feel somewhat relieved: as long as the Fubo Army started to attack, the officers and soldiers were nothing more than local chickens and wagyu!
But he was also worried that the rioters in the city would go completely crazy. Last night was thrilling. There were rioters looting and setting fires everywhere. Even the location of the Rice and Grain Guild was attacked by a group of rioters. Fortunately, the local guards
The army was here, and the guild masters were willing to spend money. After a brawl, dozens of corpses and blood were left on the ground. Finally, the masters and their families were not tied up as "fat pigs".
However, there are not many places with armed protection. The power of the local army is limited and can only protect some important places. Many neighbors relied on strong soldiers and street gates to block the rioters and put out the fires. But there are also many places that have been
The chaos caused by the rebels: murder, rape, robbery... Some places were too late to put out the fire, and hundreds of homes were burned down. Luo Yangming watched the fires one after another in the city on the roof of the rice industry guild, and listened to the cries and curses, and his heart felt like a knife.
——When will this man-made disaster come to an end?
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