258 Demolition of Marseille

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Under the continuous bombardment, the city of Marseille's proud walls were smashed into huge gaps, and the broken stones were surrounded by unfortunate people who had been killed by rubble and shells.

When the front-line commander Casio saw that the defenders on the city walls were almost bombed, he ordered the improvised demolition team to be sent in, while the brigade of Young Guards musketeers covered the advance.

First clear the defenders on the walls of Marseille City, and then use musketeers to cover and carry out blasting operations with a large amount of black powder, this is how Lin Haoda attacked the outer walls of Marseille City......

In fact, on the city wall, the Marseille revenge army did not put the main force here to defend, because the bigwigs of the Marseille city government knew very well that under the bombardment of hundreds of large-caliber field guns, no matter how many defenders were placed around the city wall, they would never be able to hold it.

If there are too many people, a large number of people will be killed by artillery, and the gains outweigh the losses.

And entering the city of Marseille is different, even if the large-caliber field artillery can be dragged into the city by horses, but the field of vision in the city is so narrow, where can it be placed in the best bombardment position like outside the city, and slowly aim at the bombardment?

In the 18th century, large-caliber artillery was rarely brought directly into the city, and even if artillery was used in street fighting, small-caliber mobile and lightweight 6-pounder or even 3-pounder guns were used.

In another time and space, Napoleon used a six-pounder cannon with grapeshotfire to suppress the riots in Paris.

Most people in later generations thought that Napoleon was a hero, but they didn't know that Napoleon's hands were also stained with French blood before he ascended the throne!

Although the walls of Marseille City were bombarded and the muskets suffered heavy losses, there was always a group of Marseille Avengers who were better concealed and did not want to die, taking advantage of the demolition team to arrange the black powder, and tried to burst the black powder keg!

As long as they are hit by the black powder keg, basically the entire demolition team will ascend to heaven, but unfortunately, these Marseille Avengers have enough courage, but they do not have the corresponding marksmanship......

As a result, the losses of the demolition squad were not as great as the city of Marseille had anticipated.

In less than an hour, in a series of earth-shattering gunpowder explosions, a large area of the city wall of Marseille collapsed, completely turning into a slope composed of rubble, with a wide field of vision and easy to attack.

The front-line junior officer of the Young Guards, who had been covering the demolition squad, suddenly pulled out his command knife and swung forward after the walls of Marseille City completely collapsed: "For the sake of victory, advance!! ”

"Long live the regent!!"

The attacking Young Guards burst into a tsunami-like roar and rushed into the huge city of Marseille with flintlock muskets loaded with bayonets.

As soon as they rushed into the street, countless lead bullets suddenly shot out from the shooting holes and windows of the surrounding houses, and instantly knocked down the charging young guards.

However, in less than a minute, the fire in the house was suppressed by the dense and accurate fire, and a part of the Young Guards rushed to the bottom of the house in the rain of bullets, piled up the large black powder explosives bag there, and ignited it!

The Young Guards really went to the word 'demolition', and did not go into the house to search for the enemy, because then it would be easy to be killed by a sneak attack, and immediately began to clean up the house, the stone house was blown up with gunpowder, and the wooden house was burned with fire.

At the beginning of the attack, this method did cause a lot of casualties to the Young Guards, but as long as the house was successfully blown up and ignited, there was a chance that the area would have an extra 'open space'.

If the fire burns well, it can also ignite other wooden houses, causing a series of fires that smoke the Maasai revenge out of the house, and as long as these Maasai revengers are out of bunker, they are a live target for the Young Guards who are professional in war.

The Marseille Avengers said it well, but the combat quality was not a little worse than the original Maasai Revolutionary Army, most of the Maasai Avengers only knew how to shoot and use weapons, and had never fought at all, and many people had never killed people with their own hands, so it is conceivable that such a group of Avengers, even if their morale is high, after losing their bunkers, how can they fight against the professional and die-hard army Young Guards?

After clearing a clearing in Marseille, Casio quickly ordered a small number of 12-pounder infantry field guns to be towed in.

No matter how hard the large-caliber field gun moves, it has to pull in a few pieces, and this thing is much more powerful than manpower for close-range demolition!

In this way, the Young Guards took turns to attack one regiment after another, and there were always soldiers on the front line to demolish the buildings in Marseille City, Lin Haoda had a lot of time, and he could slowly raze the entire Marseille City, and directly demolishing the buildings was much smaller than letting the soldiers clean up the enemy one house and one street, and as for the razing of Marseille City would affect the economic activities of the colony and mainland France, that was not a problem that Lin Haoda needed to care about.

His basic plate is in France, and he can't get involved in the colony at all, so naturally he doesn't care about the interests of the colony, and the group of Lamet factions have not yet recognized the status of Lin Haoda's regent!

The demolition style of the Young Guard's advance and retreat made the Marseille revenge army unable to use its strength, and it was a death to hide in the house if it went out, and the plan of the Marseille city government to let Lin Haoda drain the last drop of blood seemed to have failed......

However, for the 18th century, when the power of gunpowder was not very good, the demolition of a city was not a small project, Lin Haoda was ready to live in the suburbs of Marseille for a long time, and even forcibly expropriated a walled mansion of a French tycoon, when the Young Guards arrived, the owner of the mansion had long since left, leaving only a butler, and then this mansion became Lin Haoda's private property......

The stewards and servants have evaporated out of thin air, and the Young Guards have promised that their bodies will not be found!

The demolition siege on the front line is not difficult, the main consumption is time and black powder, Lin Haoda is to use time and black powder to save the lives of the young guards.

With Casio in full command of the siege of Marseille, Lin Haoda can be a hands-off shopkeeper, and the reason why he appeared here is only because the Young Guard needs him as a spiritual pillar to maintain the morale of diehards.

Lin Haoda, who lives in the mansion of a rich man on the outskirts of the city, does not look like a war at all, every day he either goes to the front line to see the Young Guards killing people while demolishing and demolition, or he hugs Zhaoyun's sister in the mansion to try all kinds of new postures and games to relieve boredom and vent**......

Occasionally, Lin Haoda would complain, why didn't that Qin Xue'er come back from the task!