"Rush!" Chang Kaisheng, who was on the front line, waved the saber in his hand violently and said with a cold face.

Following his order, a group of Klandians and Gauchos rushed out of their positions in a tangled manner, and then rushed towards a trench not far ahead, carrying sandbags. Behind them, more than 2,000 musketeers were already in formation, waiting for the Crandis to fill in the trench dug by the Spaniards.

After more than a week of fighting, the Chang Kaisheng detachment of thousands of men and horses overcame the weather, disease and other unfavorable factors, and by yesterday they had finally cleared the fortifications laid by the Spaniards outside the city of Asunción, killing and wounding more than 1,000 Spanish troops (including the Guaranís), and the remaining 3,000 Spanish troops (including 2,000 Guaraní) had retreated to the city of Asunción and were ready to make the final resistance.

At the same time, they ordered every adult man in Asunción to fight, and hyped up the devilish acts of the East Bank army (massacres, looting, rape, etc.) - apparently mostly true. Under such circumstances, the resistance of the Spaniards in the city of Asunción was sharply strengthened, and when Chang Kaisheng sent some of the Clandi cannon fodder to launch a tentative attack on Asunción yesterday, they were simply beaten out by the Spaniards, and the "Clandi Volunteers" suffered more than 100 casualties, which can be described as extremely tragic.

Chang Kaisheng himself was very angry at the incompetent attack of the Klandians, so this morning (May 28) he decided to send the Klandians who had retreated yesterday into battle again, and if they were still vulnerable, then he would not mind ordering the Polish and Tatar mercenaries who were overseeing the war to enforce battlefield discipline.

The artillery, which had been reduced to 2o guns, fired a rare salvo, and the earth-shaking fire made the Spaniards cower in the fortifications and did not dare to show their heads. This comforted the charging Krandi. This time, there were more than 300 Klandians carrying sandbags on their shoulders. They quickly rushed to the front of the trench. Then he threw the sandbag in his hand into the trench with all his might. The trench was not deep and had been temporarily dug by the Spaniards before the war, so it was not very difficult to fill it up, provided that there was no enemy harassment.

Of course, the enemy will harass! No, not long after the Klandians had rushed to the edge of the trench, and the first group of people who had thrown the sandbags had barely gone far back, hundreds of Guarani men had emerged from the fortifications and used their miscellaneous weapons. For example, arquebuses, bows and arrows, and spears were used to attack the unarmed Klandians. The two Indian tribes on the South American Big 6 fought in such a scene.

As soon as the Guarani people showed their heads, the artillery commander, Major Yang Xu, immediately pointed the saber to that side, and as several corrections were completed, the four howitzers that had been prepared for a long time immediately sent explosive shells to the heads of the Guarani people. Although the explosive shells were not very reliable in terms of fire, after several rounds of continuous fire, a large number of shells exploded near the Guaraní, and then sent red-hot fragments into the warm bodies of the Guaraní. What's more, two inaccurate shells exploded in the air above the trench. Knocked a dozen nearby Guarani and several Klandis to the ground.

The constant bombardment of 4 howitzers was terrible, in less than ten minutes. More than fifty shells were sent to the Guarani crowd, and the flying shrapnel killed and wounded more than a hundred people, and the remaining Guarani were demoralized, and the priests were useless to say anything, and the collapsed Guarani ran away from the Spaniards who had prevented them from retreating, and then fled to the rear.

Chang Kaisheng, who saw that there was a advantage to take advantage of, immediately ordered the second wave of cannon fodder to be released. Three hundred Krandis men rushed to the trench with a roar of rage, carrying sandbags, and the mobilization of the East Bank officers who had led them succeeded in arousing their hatred of the Spaniards, so that this time they quickly rushed to the trench, threw the sandbags into them, and did not stop, but picked up the weapons left on the ground by the Guarani, and pursued them with a loud shout. It wasn't until they came across a volley of Spaniards' muskets that they fled back again.

After two successive waves of Klandis inflicted nearly 100 casualties, the attacking forces finally took the field. Thousands of Polish and Tatar mercenaries with flint guns, bows and arrows accompanied by artillery began to advance slowly, relying on artillery as the core to carry out siege warfare, which once again entered the familiar battle rhythm of the people on the east coast. In addition to a few heavy guns, a full 12 light field guns were pushed forward by two companies of artillery brethren. Whenever they encountered an enemy stronghold, they concentrated their fire and bombarded them, almost invulnerable, while the mercenaries kept an eye on the Spaniards with muskets in hand, occasionally striking back some of the counter-attacks they had organized. At this time, the artillery brothers would also replace the shells with grapeshot shells or even scattered shells, and carry out close shelling of the attacking enemy, and cooperate seamlessly with the infantry.

After making a frontal breakthrough and attracting enemy forces, Chang Kaisheng decisively increased his chips, and two of the four squadrons of the Zhenhai County Militia Brigade were thrown into the battlefield by him. The two squadrons of about 5oo men, carrying two field guns and two heavy guns withdrawn from the front line, and three hundred Klandians who accompanied them, boarded the Asunción flank in groups of several small steamboats and gunboats6, and in one fell swoop routed the more than 100 Guarani who were guarding there, and then quickly secured their positions.

The Spaniards, who learned that their flanks had been captured, were immediately alarmed. On the afternoon of the 3o, Antonio, who was in charge of commanding the entire battle. Major Carlos reluctantly drew 200 musketeers from the front and equipped the more than 300 white men who had been forcibly recruited from the city with arquebuses, and then drove them to attack the east bank position west of the city, but failed. By the end of the night, the people on the east coast had completely stabilized the situation of the six battles in the west of the city, and several gunboats cruising the Paraguay River even sank two Indian canoes that had sneaked over, and more than forty Guarani people were killed.

By this time, the Spaniards' decline was already evident. In less than three days since the Eastern Coast launched a general assault on the city of Asunción, more than 600 Guarani and about 200 musketeers of the Lima Army had been killed and wounded, and two of their precious artillery pieces had been destroyed. The councillors, the nobles, the procurators, and the big businessmen were in a state of panic, and their minds were filled with thoughts of escape.

These people still had large plantations or estates in the countryside of Paraguay, and they did not want to stay in the city to die, and they even wanted to make peace with the people on the East Coast alone. But how could Major Carlos allow such a thing to be born! Because if these people fled, the morale of the soldiers who were struggling to support them on the front line would also be affected, and the entire defense line might collapse at that time. Therefore, under his kind words, these people reluctantly decided to stay in the city.

Of course, Chang Kaisheng also saw the vacillation of the Spanish front, so he did not hesitate to continue to invest heavy troops, the remaining two squadrons of the Zhenhai County Militia Brigade and the Dongfang County Militia Brigade all totaled 15oo people, with the cooperation of three hundred Klandians, carrying four artillery pieces along the gap made by the Polish mercenaries, and after defeating the interception of more than three hundred Spanish musketeers, he expanded in the direction of the east of the city, not only occupied some blocks, but also captured a complete Spanish bronze artillery by the way, The balance of the whole battle once again tilted sharply on the side of the East Coasters.

After committing this wave of troops, Chang Kaisheng moved his headquarters to the outskirts of the city, where he still had three elite infantry companies and one cavalry company at hand, which were his general reserve in case of the unexpected. The city of Asunción is now in chaos, and it is difficult to say whether there will be any incidents.

On the night of June 1, after holding out for two more days, the Spanish elite in the city, seeing that the situation was getting worse, immediately decided to move in. Seven councillors, a procurator, a superintendent, two clergymen, and more than a dozen prominent merchants and farmers quickly evacuated from the eastern part of the city, where there was no fighting, with a large retinue and wagons. Antonio. Major Carlos tried his best to dissuade them, but they were unable to prevent them from fleeing.

After the old men fled, the will of the inhabitants of the city to resist was greatly frustrated, and the will to resist was also relaxed, and the white residents from Spain ran home one after another, and then fled with their families, and those who could not escape simply returned to their homes to resign themselves to fate. Of course, many more soldiers threw down their weapons and ran into the church, comforted by the esteemed Father Juan, who awaited the arrival of the new conqueror.

On the morning of 2 June, after crushing the resistance of more than 200 recalcitrant musketeers of the Lima Legion and officially capturing the governor's mansion, the commander-in-chief of the Spanish army, Antonio Murphy. Major Carlos led the remaining soldiers of the Infantry Regiment of La Plata to evacuate Asunción to the east, officially announcing the end of organized resistance in the city of Asunción. Upon hearing this, Chang Kaisheng immediately sent three cavalry companies of cavalry to pursue him, and at the same time sent naval gunboats to block the nearby river to prevent any non-east coast ships from entering or leaving, and then led the reserve into the city of Asunción.

The Spaniards spent the night of June 2 in a state of great unease, and rumours spread rapidly among the crowd. In particular, the 3,000-odd white inhabitants of the city who still exist are even more afraid of what the inhumane East Coast Army will do. At this time in Europe, the ** teams fought back and forth, they often got supplies on the spot, and burned and looted every time they broke through, such as the Swedish army, the Austrian army, the French ** team and the Ottoman army, all of which were famous locust armies. They feared that the East Coasters would do the same thing in the city because they had a criminal record.

But when the first rays of sunlight rose over the eastern horizon on June 3, they could finally breathe a sigh of relief. This is because the East Bank Army did not carry out any massacres in the city, except forbidding the inhabitants of Asunción to move around at will. But the massacres were avoided, while organized looting seemed unavoidable. (To be continued......)

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