Chapter 306: The Sacking of Philadelphia

Charleston, the capital of West Virginia!

At this time, after a long journey, Daniel finally arrived here from Lexington with more than 3,000 people and four regiments, where they rested beautifully for a day, wiped their guns, sharpened their knives, and waited for Yang Dongfang's arrival. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

They knew that this time they were going to do a big deal, and the envoy sent a message saying that they would take them to the east and north to rob the Delaware Valley.

The Delaware Valley, where there are Philadelphia, Wilmington, Cherry Hill, Trenton, which is not a rich city, just think about it makes people excited and unable to sleep.

Dry!

Envoy come here, let's go do it! Our broadsword is already hungry and thirsty.

The sky was overcast, it had rained lately, and the monsoon season was approaching, but Charleston's night streets were filled with torches blaring, and more than 3,000 people were waiting anxiously with bright lights.

Suddenly, the air moved slightly, and Yang Dongfang and others appeared in front of him.

"Envoy! Envoy! You're finally here! ”

"Warriors, are you excited? Are you excited? Are you ready? ”

"Envoy! We're always ready, let's do it! Loot all of Philadelphia! Burn down Philadelphia! Kill all the North Yankees! ”

Yang Dongfang didn't expect this group of guys to be so passionate, and raised his arms high: "Okay!" Let's do it! ”

The surging street was cold and gloomy in an instant, and the chilly wind blew, and the four thousand people disappeared without a trace, as if they had never appeared, and at the same time, on the main street of Philadelphia, the sudden firelight illuminated the place.

"The first group of devils goes to the west of the city, the second group of devils goes to the north of the city, the third group of devils goes to the south of the city, and the fourth group of devils goes to the east of the city!"

"Kill! Haha Philadelphia, our Devil's Legion is here... Yang Dongfang quickly arranged for the past, and the four regiments quickly rushed to all parts of the city, opening their heinous criminal mode.

At this time, Yang Dongfang said to the dozens of people behind him: "You guys go to the port with me!" ”

There weren't many defenders in Philadelphia, only less than two regiments of militia, and two companies of regular troops, not to mention weapons, a water front-loading rifle, which itself was not strong in combat, plus there were no good weapons, and not all of them were on duty, and most of them were still sleeping at home.

Soon the north of the city was captured, the east of the city was captured, the west of the city was captured, and the south of the city was close to the harbor, and it resisted for a while and quickly routed, leaving behind the corpses of a company of militiamen.

The only fighting force was the Confederate Navy, but there were only two warships here, and they heard the gunshots, lazily assembled, and then received the news of the attack on Philadelphia, and made their way out of the military port and gradually came to the dock harbor.

"Handsome! The battleship of the North American devils is coming. ”

"Aim, blast them!"

The two battleships with a metallic luster in the distance, Yang Dongfang was greedy, this is an ironclad ship, although it is not all-metal, just two skin-wrapped, but it is also a very powerful battleship, if it weren't for the large-scale crossing technique used today, he would have wanted to fly over and capture these two.

But now hemp, it must be destroyed, and there will be a chance to capture a better ironclad ship later.

Suddenly, the silent battery finally erupted in flames, and the starlight fire lit up for a long time, and smashed into the Federation Navy battleship in an arc.

"Hell, the fort and dock are occupied by the enemy, fire the artillery, return fire!"

The Federal Navy did not show weakness either, and opened fire on their loads, heading towards the place where there was fire.

The two sides shelled back and forth three rounds, but no one hit anyone, and the sight was not very good at night, and the accuracy of the breech gun was not very good, and now it is a little difficult to hit the other side in this environment.

Yang Dongfang first ordered his subordinates to stop the shelling: "Don't open fire, it's a waste to fight like this, it's not easy for me to grab some shells, save me some use." ”

The Federal Navy originally intended to retreat, retreating while fighting, gradually withdrawing from the shelling range, seeing that the battery was not firing, it also guessed what the other party meant, stopped for half an hour, and then returned to the military port mooring.

Controlling Philadelphia was easier than expected, leaving two companies to guard the prisoners, five companies to patrol, two regiments to defend it, and the rest to be put into the laundry.

First of all, banks, shops, municipalities, ammunition depots, grain depots, etc., all were collected, and then they began to collect guns from house to house, regardless of civilian and military use, long guns and pistols, and iron and blood, but those who did not comply were killed.

Philadelphia changed color for a while, and the frenzied army of devils who had fallen into hell on earth began to move, from night to dawn, and then from dawn to night, until the next day, when the basic work was completed.

The rich landlords of the large and small shops in the city all robbed it, and at this time, the materials that had been collected were piled up, but fortunately, Yang Dongfang received them in the space as soon as possible. After counting, there were as many as four million taels of silver, five tons of gold, and five million dollars in bills.

Three million stone of grain, and countless other materials.

After doing this, he began to organize workers to dismantle the mother machine, collect the timber from the harbor, and burn the docks directly, and the south side of Philadelphia began to burn.

It took another day, during which time there was no expansion outside the city, let alone an attack on the federal naval camp.

In Yang Dongfang's words, this time I came to rob, not to fight.

It was not until the city was sacked that the east city was left behind, and three regiments were sent to various places in the suburbs and small towns outside the city.

At noon, the soldiers of the 2nd Devil's Regiment returned and reported: "The envoy was attacked by a secret weapon during an attack on an arsenal outside the city, and two platoons were killed in the battle, and he has not yet been able to take it. ”

"Arsenal? Secret Weapon! Yang Dongfang immediately asked people to lead the way, riding horses for half an hour, and there were dense factories in front of them, these factories were surrounded by walls, and there were cement bunkers at the door, obviously this is a very important arsenal, and the owner of this factory is also very rich, employing a lot of private armies, about five companies or so of manpower.

The most important thing is that there is a weapon that can constantly fire, the bullets are whizzing non-stop, more powerful than Gatlin, and the attacking Devil's Second Regiment just doesn't know the situation, and as a result, it suffers a small loss.

Fortunately, the commander understood the task assigned by Yang Dongfang, and robbery was the first priority, so he did not have a hot head and attacked in one go.

Of course, this is also the reason why they actually cherish life very much, and they want to ask Yang Dongfang to transfer the cannon over and bomb it directly, instead of charging with flesh and blood.

"Two 12-pound small calibers, wipe them, don't hit them in the arsenal."

Faintly had a guess about that mysterious weapon, Yang Dongfang immediately asked the second devil regiment to wipe it and see what the situation was!

Sure enough, seeing that the soldiers of the Southern Army of the Second Regiment of the Devil were about to attack, gunshots rang out inside, obviously they were not very good at fighting, and they opened fire to deter before anyone saw it.

"Bump Bump Bump Bu

"Boom!"

As soon as my mysterious weapon on the opposite side fired, the shells that had already fallen also fell, and the people on the other side obviously did not expect to use artillery bombardment on this side, so they stopped firing all of a sudden. (To be continued.) )