Chapter 25 Breaking the Village
After the shells landed, they successfully dispersed the fighting spirit of all the villagers and their families, and now more than 200 army soldiers walked towards the wall in a neat row, and the wall immediately exploded. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 The crowd on the info wall who were still watching suddenly screamed, jumped off the wall, and desperately retreated towards the inside of the stockade. I have to say that Wen Xinyi's luck couldn't be better, the gold juice in the sky and the flying bricks didn't even rub against him, and at this time, several family members were protecting him and retreating to his big mansion along the road in the village.
Suddenly, there was a bang on the wall of the wall, and a puff of gunpowder smoke quickly rose from the wall, and it turned out to be a tiger squat cannon that Wen Xinyi got at some point and fired at the wall. Several village leaders nervously watched the effects of the bombardment while urging their men to quickly reload the artillery.
The cannonball is a pile of broken copper and iron with some gravel, and the theoretical range of this kind of shotgun is less than 200 meters, but with the sad charge and short barrel of the tiger squat cannon, these projectiles flying out of the muzzle like fairies scattering flowers all over the sky did not fly 50 meters away and fell into the field at most.
However, although the Tiger Squat Cannon failed to cause any damage to the pirates more than 100 meters away, based on the power of the cannon explosion just witnessed, it had already made the army soldiers frightened. At this time, as soon as I saw the fire on the wall, the artillery was opened, and the army array, which was advancing in a neat formation just now, suddenly squatted or lay down a large area, and at first glance I thought it was overturned by a shell, which made the villagers at the head of the wall think that their artillery had hit, and immediately rose into cheers.
"Get it all up!" He Yue, who was walking in the middle of the first company, was almost so angry that he was angry, to be honest, at first glance, when he saw that the people around him suddenly dropped a piece, he thought that he had been hit by artillery, but when he saw these soldiers crawling on the ground, he knew that he had not been hit at all, and he couldn't help but kick up a burst of high-waisted canvas boots on the buttocks of the nearest three platoon commanders.
The platoon commander is a fake veteran, and even many of them are still from the army, and they are actually taking the lead to lie on the ground at this time, which directly affects the image of the veteran.
Several platoon commanders got up and immediately spread their kicking depression evenly on the butts of every army soldier who had not had time to get up, "Get up!" Get up! Offensive! Offensive! ”
Fortunately, the bayonet gun array quickly returned to its previous appearance. When the team entered a hundred meters, Zhao Yong suddenly waved his command knife twice and shouted: "The first row is ready to fire a salvo!" A hundred meters away! ”
The first company continued to move forward, and the second company all stood upright, and the action of the shoulder gun changed to holding the gun. Soon the drummers of the second company began to beat dense drums, and Zhao Yong then issued the next order, "First row, target the wall, aim!" ”
The drums began to beat rhythmically, and the soldiers in the first row took their rifles in their hands and aimed them at the suspicious spots at the top of the wall, where there were not many people at all, and the salvo was purely suppressive to deter the possible enemy.
As soon as the dozens of bullets fired from the suppressive fire swept past the wall, the villagers who fired the cannon began to get up and reload the tiger squat cannon with propellant. Zhao Yong didn't say a word, and waved the command knife again: "The second row step forward!" Salvo ready! ”
The soldiers in the first row pushed the lever with the muzzle down to open the magazine, pulled out the hot brass shell and threw it into the magazine bag he was carrying on his waist, then pulled a new one from the magazine and put it into the magazine, then closed the magazine and prepared for the next round of shooting. On weekdays, the army soldiers practiced a lot of reload movements, so much so that they broke a lot of Type 1628 rifles during the training stage, and it only took more than ten seconds to complete the loading operation. The soldiers of the second row stepped forward quickly to overtake the position of the first row, and to the beat of the drums, the soldiers flattened their rifles and aimed at the busy villagers at the top of the wall.
"Fire!" Dense gunfire erupted again. Those who loaded the ammunition were hit one after another, staggering off the wall. It seems that no one will dare to reload this tiger squat cannon in a short period of time.
Then the soldiers of the third row crossed the soldiers of the second row and fired another salvo.
At this time, the soldiers of the first company had already walked to the gap that had been blown up, and then He Yue raised his command knife high and shouted: "Blow the trumpet!" Charge! ”
Then a ticking trumpet sounded, and more than a hundred soldiers rushed in.
He Yue and a group of army soldiers who rushed through the gap all stood on the spot, looking at the completely empty street in amazement, except for more than a dozen corpses on the ground and a few seriously injured people who were seriously bleeding and vomiting blood, not to mention the people who were jumping around, not even a single mouse that could jump around. At this moment, several people dressed as hawkers rushed out from the intersection ahead, and they had a blue towel wrapped around their right arm. They were sent by the intelligence department to be placed in Wu'an Village as guides, and they had already infiltrated Wu'an Village as hawkers a few days ago, and were familiar with the route in the village and the location of the Wen family.
The attendant beside He Yue was holding a folder in his hand, which contained a map of the village in Wu'an Village based on the aerial photos taken before. The guides ran to He Yue and saluted, and then, according to the plan, the three platoons dispersed to the courtyard of the Wen family, blocked the front and back doors respectively, and prepared to attack.
The Wen Mansion was already in a mess at this time, and only the family and the Wen family were allowed to enter and leave here on weekdays, but now some relatives of the Wen family have also poured in, and this is the only place they feel safe.
As the front and back doors of the two platoons were blocked, the people inside were even more chaotic, and they all wanted to escape from the outer courtyard to the inner courtyard, and the power of the pirates' cannons was terrifying, but most of them saw it with their own eyes. However, the householders guarded the entrances to the inner courtyard and did not allow those to enter, and several of the householders and die-hard householders climbed the wall with their bows and firearms to fire at the army soldiers below.
However, these people also know the sharpness of the pirates' firearms, and most of them hide under the wall and shoot indiscriminately outside, although this kind of bullet rain seems to be very imposing, but it is not accurate at all, so that there is not even a single wounded army soldier. On the contrary, some of the family members couldn't bear to look at the location of the pirates or check the shooting effect, and in the blink of an eye, they were shot by rifles. After a crackle, they all fell to the base of the wall.
The corpses of the family members who were killed added to the horror of the pirates, and the people in the outer courtyard tried to break into the inner courtyard, and the family members began to show signs of being unable to stop them.
Wen Xinyi was already anxious at this time, and a strategist on the side advised him: "Master Wen, these pirates are here just for money, we might as well promise the benefits and let them withdraw from the army for maneuvering......"
"Master Wen, by all means, these pirates are powerful and menacing, this is the intention of destroying my morning food, we might as well take advantage of the chaos and plundering of the pirates just entered the village, gather all the family members to break out from the north."
"That's it! Master, you might as well gather all the family members to break through from the north, at this time the pirates will inevitably loot in the village, and we will rush out at this time will definitely be unexpected, and it will be easy to get out. ”
Wen Xinyi also had no idea at this time, hearing a few strategists here to discuss, hearing the crackling fire outside, and a lot of people shouting in official language, presumably they were really looting. The pirates have cannons again, and if they defend here, they will definitely not be able to defend them, and when the pirates drag the cannons closer, there is a city wall on their heads, and they are afraid that they will not be able to withstand such an explosion. At this time, the pirates will definitely not put their minds on the siege, and there are at least 300 people in the house at this time, if they rush out in one go, it is not impossible to escape. Although there are pirates ambushing at the east and north gates, it seems that the number is not large, and hundreds of people rush mightily, presumably those pirates will not be able to stop them.
"Without further ado! Master Wen, if you delay the time any longer, I'm afraid you won't be able to run away. A strategist shouted reassurance.
Wen Xinyi also had to make a decision at this time, his death is a small matter, if the Wen family is extinct, the Wen family's incense has been cut off here for hundreds of years, but it is not filial. Thinking of this, he hurriedly called a few household leaders, and asked the slaves and maids to clean up the soft and soft, and after about ten minutes of tossing and turning for the horses and carts, he prepared a small convoy, and the carts were full of wooden boxes filled with silver and all kinds of soft goods. He Wen Xinyi has the bottom in his heart, he has done too much for lack of virtue over the years, and after the pirates occupy the village this time, there will inevitably be all kinds of villages to come and plunder, and there is no silver outside, but even eating is a problem, and the silver can be carried. As for whether to bring a wife or a concubine, it is not a big problem, the key is that the son has to bring it...... After such a toss, and for more than ten minutes, a family member rushed into the inner courtyard and reported to Wen Xinyi: "Master, the pirates are retreating!" ”
The pirates' retreat is definitely not to withdraw from the siege, it must be to use cannons, Wen Xinyi immediately decided to leave now without further ado.
His family lined up, and with the knives in their hands, they forced the relatives to open the way in front, and then drove the carriage out of the gate. Unexpectedly, those poor relatives were not shot by the pirates, which made Wen Xinyi secretly happy in his heart, secretly thinking that the pirates had been in a mess in order to compete for the spoils of war.
He Yue stood on the lookout at the head of the wall and watched the messy team go all the way towards the north gate with a telescope, without saying a word, and after a while, he turned his head to the herald beside him and asked, "Are your pockets ready?" ”
The herald nodded at He Yue and replied loudly: "Report to the company commander, the combat deployment has been completed, just waiting for the enemy to enter the pocket." ”
At this moment, another loud noise came from the south, He Yue couldn't help but turn his head in astonishment, and saw a group of soldiers waving a big red flag from between the newly collapsed walls and rushing in, on the flag was an eagle holding an iron anchor with both feet, and in the center of the anchor was a earth.
"He's meowing, why did the Marines run in? How can they get in? He Yue angrily raised the telescope in his hand and was about to fall to the ground, but when he looked up at the telescope in his hand, he was extremely reluctant, so he stuffed the telescope to the orderly on the side, kicked it on the railing of the lookout on the side, and kicked the railing to fly out.