915 Burning Dakar

"Zhiyuan at ten o'clock...... Target No. 3 Battery...... Triple burst of high-explosive ordnance ......"

"One o'clock...... The battleship that the target enemy raised its sails...... Two shots in a row......"

"Target Dakar barracks...... Target Minion Camp ...... Target Armory ......"

"Target Dakar Governor's Palace...... Fire, fire, fire!"

The Zhiyuan has gone crazy, Xiang Ying and Lin Zhen, the two commanders, abandoned all distractions and devoted themselves to this one-sided bombardment, the two of them couldn't hold back the ecstasy in their hearts, they really didn't expect the Dakar's defensive force to be so slack.

The bombardment had been going on for fifteen minutes, two batteries were on fire, three warships and four merchant ships had been engulfed in the breakwater of the harbor, and the harbor was filled with the sound of sailors diving and the terrible wails.

The whole city was in chaos, and the noise of the fire reached into the sky.

Immediately after that, the artillery of the Zhiyuan began to extend and shoot at the city, this is not the time for women's benevolence, and there is no intervention in human rights and international law, as long as it is a military target on the map, I don't care if you have civilian residence, the cannon will explode first.

There are no dates and no dates to hit three poles!

The god of luck will always favor the warriors, and when the Zhiyuan abandoned all the fetters and let go of the hands and feet to fight, the luck of the Zhiyuan returned.

Boom Boom Boom ...... Three successive cannon shots sounded like muffled thunder, followed by three fires at the Dakar armory, and three minutes later the ammunition depot began to detonate.

There was an earth-shattering loud bang, and the people of Dakar fell to the ground in fright, and a mushroom cloud rose in the direction of the armory in the distance, and the earth shook violently with a bright and flickering light in the black cloud.

The blast blasted particles-like debris into the sky, and when the kinetic energy ran out, a rain of stones crackled and fell. All the blacks were lying on the ground and praying to various unknown gods, where had they ever seen such a massive explosion.

An explosion far beyond the might of heaven and earth is simply not an existence that primitive people can understand.

There were cries and shouts everywhere, and people were running helplessly, and now I could think that the people who fled for their lives outside the city were considered determined people, and more people were simply confused.

"Woooooooooo......oo It must be British, absolutely British! My God, why are you punishing me so much, I will be able to go back to Paris next year...... Why did the war arise in my tenure!"

The Doge, weeping like a child in his pajamas and holding his most precious treasure chest, fled out of the city under the protection of loyal guards.

"Damn the British, I curse you to hell!" the Governor cursed as he ran, and soon the group disappeared into the darkness.

The Governor's escape was another key factor in the Dakar rout, and five minutes after he left the estate, a captain rushed in on a fast horse...... Brigadier General Cecil disappeared in the armory...... The brigadier general is no longer in contact, please come forward to rectify the army......"

The shouting stopped abruptly, for the Captain saw the entire manor of the fleeing black slaves, and the barbarians were scattering with all their belongings, and the Captain realized that the Governor had fled first.

"Oh God, what kind of damn war is this? All the commanders can't be found, how can we fight this battle!"

Dakar has a small French army of 3,000, which is equivalent to the strength of a division, and the division commander Brigadier General Cecil is the head of the military attaché in Dakar, and the governor is naturally the head of the civilian officials.

But it's a pity that the brigadier's house is too close to the armory, and the explosion just now is too powerful, the brigadier general lost contact with him at the first time, and no one can find him.

If at this time, the governor could appear in front of the army on horseback and use his prestige to forcibly take over the command, then the French still had the possibility of turning the tables, but the escape of the governor completely plunged the French army and the servant army into a melee of companies and platoons.

"Hurry up and extinguish the fire in the armory, beware of the chain explosion......"

"Hurry up, go and protect the warehouse of the Governor's Palace, this year's tax revenue cannot be robbed by the enemy......"

"Set off towards the harbor and immediately go to the battery and fire at the enemy......"

"Suppress the riots, so that these do not flee, do not rob, steal, ......"

The confusion intensified when the junior officers began to slam around like flies, and the two companies collided in the narrow streets because of different mission orders, and the scattered blacks and civilians desperately disrupted the army's formation.

Many company and platoon commanders ran and looked back to see that more than half of the soldiers had been lost; many soldiers shouted in a daze for a long time, and when they looked back, they found that the officers had long since disappeared.

Dakar has already dug a big grave for himself.

"Bomb, bomb, bomb...... On this return home, we prepared 6,000 rounds of high-explosive shells, 1,000 rounds of armor-piercing shells, 200 torpedoes, and countless small-caliber ammunition......"

"Open up and blow this city into flames!" Brothers in the Marine Corps, we have opened the way for you with artillery fire, and you will go all the way......

Lin Zhen roared and pulled the firing rope of the main gun, and with a loud bang, the industrial area of Dakar was also bombarded by artillery, a cotton processing factory became a target, and hundreds of tons of cotton were ignited and black smoke rose into the sky.

By now the bombardment had been going on for twenty minutes, and three of the four batteries were already out of action, and the last one had finally begun to counterattack.

Boom Boom Boom ...... With a series of dull cannon sounds peculiar to smoothbore guns, more than a dozen iron balls flew over with a whizz, and the bells slammed into the iron armor. The soldiers on the Zhiyuan looked serious at first, but they immediately laughed when they heard the sound of the iron bumps falling into the water after the impact.

"Hahaha...... This is the gateway of France and West Africa? You actually hope to defeat us with this most primitive smoothbore cannon? Paper tiger, really a paper tiger, it turns out that your ferocity is only exposed on the outside, to scare and scare honest people!"

"Give him a few rounds of vigor and send them to God ......" The main cannon of the Zhiyuan fired a salvo with a roar, and the last turret burst into flames.

The artillery has cleared all the enemy's defensive heavy firepower, and this is the time for the marines to appear, and the six emergency boats on the Zhiyuan have all been put down, and each dinghy is filled with thirty people, and the Zhiyuan has a total of 180 marines.

This is already a gamble that only a madman would open, 180 special operators want to fight against 3,000 French troops, 2,000 servants, and a city of 30,000 people?

But this group of hot-blooded youths, this group of fanatical believers in the prime minister, really dared to make such a big gamble! The Dakar massacre became more efficient precisely because of their participation.