It didn't take much effort to recapture the gatehouse, and there were already those suspected officers and soldiers who were in turmoil, with little fighting spirit and defense, and there were probably hundreds of people gathered nearby, and after being drawn out by a simple pluck, they scattered inward at a faster speed than they came out.

A few of them rushed inward, and before they could even close the door, they became prisoners.

After seizing this west-facing gatehouse, we followed the inner city wall of the port city, almost without much hindrance, successively captured the two city gates by the sea, and then opened the door widely, put our main brigade inside, and after rushing inward through a large number of private houses, we directly occupied and controlled the trestle bridge and warehouse in the eastern part of the port area.

After killing those who were snatching or carrying things on the spot or kneeling on the ground with their heads in their hands, and basically controlling them, we obtained a consolidated defensive zone after using these warehouses and the goods stacked in the open to form several temporary defensive rings and block most of the passages and gaps.

The natives who were hidden among them were also identified one by one and put into custody and used as auxiliary labor under the supervision of knives and guns.

Of course, as a characteristic of the docks, it is mainly a young and middle-aged laborer and sailor, as well as a small number of merchants and men who take care of the barns and warehouses. Apprentices or something, to give us a temporary new force.

As for the people in other areas of Port City, I can only say sorry, I have limited manpower and troops, so I can only take care of myself first.

This is also my usual style, some kind of tower prevention and control, first find ways to ensure that they are as undefeated as possible through relatively adequate preparation and prefabricated positions, and then consider weakening, defeating and destroying the enemy.

This also made me, a soldier who accounted for a large proportion of the "Longzhou Regiment Left", was once ridiculed as a turtle stream or turtle style of warfare, because in most cases, our tactics are like soft-shelled turtles, encountering the enemy tightly shrinking the vital points, relying on tenacious and elastic defensive formations, so that the enemy has no way to start but forcibly take, and after a long battle, showing fatigue and flaws, suddenly attack with hand-to-hand combat troops to take the vital points.

Once the opponent is trapped, it is difficult to get rid of the entanglement, just like a turtle, as long as it is bitten, don't want to let go unless the head is broken. It can only be continuously weakened and suppressed in waves of gunfire until it collapses.

However, after our record has been fought a lot, it has become another more neutral name, the so-called "strong formation strategy" and "key flowering formation", of course, the real core still relies on well-trained batches of firearms to maintain long-lasting lethality in the long and short range.

This is the key to others wanting to imitate or not being able to get started, although the romance of queuing up to be shot in the era of firearms is temporarily unthinkable, but like a precision machine and gears, the size of the square array of firearms and cold soldiers is still relatively realistic.

In the low thunder, the shelling of the naval division and the fighting ship sounded again, and a heavy projectile swept over our edge, and landed in a building on the edge of a trestle, and suddenly half of it collapsed in dust, and those fire robbers who were desperately carrying like ants only had time to cry for their fathers and mothers, and even ran out of a few of them, and the rest were buried.

It was only then that I remembered another thing, it seemed that we were also within the range of the naval division's shelling, and I suddenly shouted with some eagerness

"Flag Officer ......"

"In ......"

A few figures ran from not far away

"Find the highest place here......"

"Raise our flag and try to communicate with the sailors in the harbor in the official flag language......"

"Don't get hurt by mistake......"

"Ordered ......"

Not long after, my cat's claw flag and the left black flag of the Longzhou regiment stood in a watchtower in the port area

"The temporary line of defense has been preliminarily arranged"

Not long after, the wind swept to report to me,

"Please show the main training ......"

At this time, although the naval warships in the harbor had not yet responded, the sporadic shelling seemed to deviate from us.

I was in the mood to start patrolling the area that was currently under control, and the line of defense was made up of large sturdy wooden boxes, or large pieces of marine labor, as well as components lifted from collapsed buildings, and then piled up with sediment and poured with sea water, which could effectively prevent fire, or other means of impact and destruction.

Combined with the guns that shoot behind them, it's enough to deal with most situations. The White Soldiers were in place as reserves, and the Spears were responsible for guarding the labor teams that were temporarily recruited.

The pacesetters and the teaching team were sent out by me to count and inspect the warehouses to see if there were any materials we could use, and there was also the implication that since we were involved in this right and wrong, of course, we should not be empty, but when we searched the last batch of buildings, we encountered a little obstacle.

One of my search party, in front of a large brick and stone barn, was blocked by a small group of officers and men who remained inside, occupying the only position of the door and window, and using bows and arrows and the tips of their knives to show a certain distance and unwelcome attitude.

When I arrived,

"I know all the firearms under the command of Tanjung, and I must requisition ......"

The soldiers standing in front of the door were still shouting, trying to get the people inside to open the door and come out.

In response, several arrows were nailed to the ground by Puff

"This is the exclusive ...... of the Divine Machine Army"

The voice inside shouted.

"No trespass unless you have a warrant from your own army......"

"No one needs to say much about this......

"Get on the artillery team, blast them out of the ......"

I immediately decided, just kidding, forget about other things, since it is the warehouse of the Divine Machine Army, I don't need to think that there must be something I need in it, even if it is worth the risk.

"Then use a ball of smoke and smoke them out......"

"Understood"

Left and right to get orders to prepare.

After a few moments, the two small cannons were pushed straight ahead, facing the closed door, and then reloaded, and finally several heavy iron bullets were stuffed and tightened with wooden supports.

When the people inside saw it, they immediately became a little commotion and panic, and with a burst of footsteps and movements, they left the front door and behind the window.

Gently lit the fire with incense, covered his ears left and right, and heard a dull thud, and suddenly the thick barn door was hit with several deep cracks in the splashing of sawdust, and then the second cannon was also fired.

The heavy projectile suddenly smashed the cracked gate to pieces, followed by a panicked figure flashed away, and then a small number of the army's most powerful and accurate grenadiers dried the cloth soaked in horse urine, miscanthus and spicy seeds into a special smoke ball, poured oil on it, lit it, and quickly threw it into the depths of the doorway.

In the midst of the movement of chickens flying and dogs jumping, two smoke balls were directly dialed out by the defenders of the barn, but the remaining ones, fueled by grease, quickly turned into a gray and choking smoke, and came out directly from the door and the air window.

Ahem, cough, cough, in the heart-rending coughing sound, the people inside were like rats smoked out of the hole, busy holding their heads, rubbing their eyes and covering their throats, and running away in various ways.

Then he was dizzy, and the soldiers of the headquarters who were guarding outside used the shaft of a spear to pull his ankles and calves, flipped to the ground and tied his hands behind his back, and captured them one by one. More than 40 people were captured, almost half the size of a team.

Then no one came out and there was no movement, and the pacesetters, who covered their mouths and noses with a wet cloth, forcibly took them first, and extinguished the still burning smoke balls with a wide cloth wrapped in a large canopy of sand.

Then the team leader, whose face was covered with the smell of smoke and fire, was tied up in front of me for questioning, and I suddenly felt that this person was a little familiar.

"It's ...... you again"

The other party also recognized me, and couldn't help but look a little complicated and surprised.

"You are, Guo ...... Vice-capital"

I just remembered that this is not the deputy capital of the Shenji Army Artillery Team who had a relationship with him when he was guarding the artillery fortress outside Tiannan Mansion, just looking at his current uniform and job badge, at best, he is just a team leader, how can he go back more and more.

"Where don't we meet in life......"

I sighed, but he snorted heavily.

"What about your artillery regiment, how did you change it to lead the infantry army?"

"Artillery Regiment ......"

Hearing this word seemed to remember some kind of memory, which made him look in a trance

"It's gone......"

"Gone? ……”

I was amazed by him. The Shenji Army is a subordinate of the Fifth Army, and all the armies are the "important weapons of the country" for key protection, and the heavy artillery team is the trump card of attacking fortifications, even if it encounters a crisis, it will lose some ordnance at most, and it is rare to have the result of group annihilation.

What's more, as the establishment of an artillery regiment, that is, it is equivalent to a middle battalion of the regular officer army, and it is not a trivial matter to lose it together with men and equipment, as a typical technical service, an experienced gunner can be much more precious than ordinary cavalry, let alone lose a large number.

"Do you know what you're doing......

At this moment, he had come to his senses, and he struggled and yelled at me

"Attacking friendly troops and looting public property in the army is tantamount to rebellion...... Knowable sin"

"It's hard to say whether to rebel or not to rebel for the time being,"

"But do you know that the various departments of the official army in the port city are fighting among themselves, and there is already chaos in all directions......

"No one can take care of this anymore, so naturally they can't convict us......"

"What ......"

It was his turn to be shocked, and then he noticed the smoke and dust that was billowing over the Minato.

"What the hell is going on......"

"Found something good"

There was a certain cheer coming out of it, which immediately attracted my attention, and then I remembered that there was still a lot of harvest waiting for me inside, so I ordered them to be taken down and placed first.

Then, despite the choking smell of smoke that had not completely dissipated, I walked through the front corridor and the gatehouse, and went down the steps to enter the barnhouse, only to find that the space inside felt a little larger than I had thought, mainly because the ground had been dug down a layer and a half, and then supported by huge pillars.

On the basement floor, the most common is the barrel of encapsulated gunpowder, as well as bags of lead and iron bullets and other reserves, as well as various iron ingots, copper blocks, coal and other materials, which also makes people a little afraid, no wonder those guys before, fart and urine flow can't escape, really didn't expect that we will use fire attack, fortunately, the smoke ball that was shot in unknowingly did not ignite the things inside, otherwise we would have suffered heavy losses.

Then on the ground floor, there are all kinds of official-made firearms, firebox crossbows held by individual soldiers and fire-nest vehicles in dense arrays; the iron chamber used to make the zuò wooden and leather cannons; Short-barreled hand cannons fixed in rows on shelves with thick arms; a small torque catapult that can be pushed and carried by two people and a projectile that can be fixed on horseback - a cyclone cannon;

There are even dozens of huge flying fire mines, which are also Congreve rockets of later generations, which are tightly wrapped in dust-proof and moisture-proof tarpaulins in easy-to-carry camel equipment.

Then in the compartment at the bottom, my people found the same refined fire oil in a special pottery container, according to the label on the container, about two or three thousand catties, as well as a special rattan box and basket for easy transportation, empty ammunition bottles and flare tubes, all of which were specially fired military supplies in the official kiln, the large ones were used for catapults or crossbows, and the small ones were used as grenadiers.

As long as it is filled according to the scale and plugged into the cork-type ignition pipe, it becomes a fire oil bomb that can be used immediately. It's just that some of the other throwing explosives called thunderbolts that I was expecting can't help but make people feel a little regretful.

In the final compartment, there was the armor and equipment of the Divine Machine, which consisted of hard-cloth silk armor dyed blue-gray, bust chain armor with accent panels, and fireproof overalls and gloves that were clearly made of fire-alkane cloth (asbestos weaving). There are a lot of other supporting tools, and it seems that the categories are very complete.

It's just that in a pile of overturned tools, I accidentally cleaned up a secret door, and in the mezzanine room behind the secret door, I found five guns stacked together, although there were quite traces of wear, but it was still roughly intact, so I suddenly had a surprise mood of winning the jackpot again.

This is not a small cannon removed from the sampan of the Marine Corps that can only fire pounds of bullets, but a standard field long cannon, only an inch smaller than the six-inch siege guns I have seen on the fort, but it looks much lighter.

It adopts the design of the copper tire iron core sub-cannon, there is an opening of the set sub-cannon above the rear section of the mother cannon, as long as the sub-cannon loaded with ammunition is stuffed and tightened when firing, and then fired with a disposable drawpipe, the shooting efficiency and power can be much higher than the two small cannons with front-loading leads in my hand.

It's a pity that there is only an empty gun body, and there are no specially matched gun carriages, gun trucks, ammunition tows, and tool accessories, so people can only move them out first. In addition, there are some encapsulated ordinary cages, I opened them one by one and looked at them, and they were nothing more than some calligraphy, painting, antiques, gold and silver artifacts that looked quite old

Although it is said that this is the exclusive treasury of the Shenji Army, there are obviously some private collections belonging to the generals, and they have also been stored here to avoid people's eyes and ears, and now they are all in our hands.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but smile bitterly, this is not as easy to take as I imagined than a windfall. As the army's public property has suffered losses, it may be possible to pass the buck, but if these people's private collections have suffered, it is a terrible thing, and it is not so easy to give up.