Chapter 225: Attacking Wenshui County
The reloading of the redcoat cannons was time-consuming, and after a round of shelling, the outside of the city fell silent. Wang Jing, the magistrate of the county, hurriedly ordered people to transport the wounded people from the city, he was not concerned about the life and death of these people, but their painful screams after being injured seriously affected the morale of the officers and soldiers.
The artillerymen on the side of the security army did not care about the situation in the city, but in accordance with the requirements of the regulations, they laboriously reset the cannon, cleaned the barrel, added the medicine bag, and then put in the shell, pierced the medicine bag through the fuse with an iron skewer, and inserted the fuse. Then the loud report was prepared, waiting for the next order from the artillery battalion commander.
The artillery battalion commander was very satisfied with his soldiers, and the use of the fixed charge package greatly accelerated the loading speed, and at the same time accurately controlled the amount of charge, prevented the danger of exploding, and enhanced the accuracy. However, the training of these little cubs is really good, after the first round of test firing, the second gun accurately hit the city, if you capture Wenshui County, you can find the commander to ask for a good reward for them.
The commander of the artillery battalion gave another order to make a slight correction to the artillery, and then gave a loud order to continue the attack. The rumbling cannon sound made Wang Jing regret ordering all the forces defending the city to concentrate around the east gate, and every cannonball caused huge losses to the city. He was about to remove the personnel from the city but found a more serious problem, this time the security army artillery fire was concentrated on a section of the city wall, and the falling shells collapsed the city wall piece by piece. If this is the case for a long time, will the walls be knocked down by thieves?
"Come, go and strengthen the walls." Wang Jing no longer cared about the life or death of the soldiers in the city, and it was important to keep the city wall.
The soldiers and civilians in the city took advantage of the security army's shelling to carry wooden planks, stones, and dirt bags to repair the city wall damaged by shells. As soon as they got there, they heard a continuous burst of cannon fire, which was smaller than before, but much denser. A large number of shotguns flew up the city, turning the officers and soldiers who tried to repair the walls into corpses and wounded all over the ground.
It turned out that at the same time as the red-coated artillery bombardment, the security forces pulled light Fran machine guns close to the city wall and established artillery positions. Their mission was to kill and injure the men who repaired the walls.
"Fight back! Counterattack! Wang Jing had long lost his elegant literati demeanor at this time, and he held a steel knife in his hand and waved it wildly, forcing the officials and soldiers to fight back.
Several archers from the official army took the risk and came to the battlements of the city wall. He drew his bow and fired an arrow in the direction of the security artillery.
Unfortunately, the arrows that flew out fell before they reached the positions of the security artillery.
"The enemy's artillery is too far away for our arrows to fire." The leader of the team had no choice but to report to Wang Jing. "Can't shoot? Artillery, what about our artillery? "What impressed Wang Jing the most in this half day was the artillery." My lord, artillery, we really don't have it. The squad leader replied in frustration that Wenshui, as a small county town, has no regular officers and troops stationed, and is not equipped with artillery at all.
Since there is no weapon to fight back, there is only the fate of being abused unilaterally.
The red-coated cannon of the security army rang out regularly from time to time, aiming at a section of the city wall bombardment, the bricks and stones on the city wall fell down from time to time, seeing that the city wall was about to collapse, although the officers and soldiers sent people to repair the city wall many times, but they were eliminated by the shotgun fired by the Francophone under the city, and filled their bodies in the gap in the city wall, and then the corpse was broken by the cannonballs of the red-coated cannons, the scene was even more terrifying, and the officers and soldiers in the city couldn't help but quietly retreat, as far away from that section of the city wall as possible.
Wang Jing organized the officials and soldiers of his cronies, and constantly urged the people to plug the gaps in the city wall, and finally left only the corpses in one place.
The security forces of the brigade outside the city drove not far from the city walls. Wang Jing knew that the security army was about to attack the city, and immediately ordered the city to prepare for a counterattack, but the security army did not rush up to climb the city, but covered the city wall with the shotgun of the Franco, and the musketeers of the security army at the same time lined up and sprinkled a rain of bullets on the city, so that the officers and soldiers did not dare to show their heads on the city.
Wang Jingdu wondered a little how he was still alive, the city had become a hell on earth, the wounded officers and soldiers were wailing there, but his companions did not dare to come to the rescue, because at some point the rain of bullets would kill everyone.
The security army shouted that they were going to rush to the city wall, and the officers and soldiers defending the city only needed to gather active soldiers to defend the gap in the city wall, but what followed was a rain of bullets from the security army's artillery, and the security army retreated. Still shooting with muskets at a distance. After a few rounds of this, the officers and soldiers also understood that the security army was not for the siege of the city, but really for killing. Can't run over and be killed by them like this, and gradually the officers and soldiers are immune to the shouting and killing of the security army, and no matter how the security army shouts, they will no longer increase troops to the gap.
The red-coated cannons of the security army have never stopped firing, the gap in the city wall is constantly increasing, and the collapsed masonry has formed a slope that is easy to climb, at this time a group of people and horses of the security army really rushed up, only a few officers and soldiers on the city wall counterattacked with sparse bows and arrows, and the people who rushed up were wearing thick armor, and the bows and arrows did not cause much damage to them, and there were rows of musketeers shooting at the city wall outside the city, so that the archers did not dare to approach the battlements of the city wall, and they could not see the situation under the city at all. He can only blindly throw bows and arrows on the city walls.
The charging security army approached the city wall, dozens of grenades flew up the city, and the officers and soldiers next to the gap in the city wall were immediately swept away. The Guardsmen's musketeers climbed the city, formed a line, and fired at all the moving targets they found. The nearby officers and soldiers had long lost their fighting spirit and shouted: "The city is broken!" The city is broken! "Run to the city.
The security forces simultaneously advanced on both sides of the gap in the wall and into the city, throwing grenades and muskets to break up the few officers and soldiers who tried to resist. The rest of the officers and soldiers struggled to flee towards the center of the city, and those who could not escape had to kneel on the ground and become prisoners.
The security army quickly took control of the east gate of Wenshui City, the east gate was opened, and the security army of the brigade drove into the city, and the officers and soldiers in the city gave up resistance, threw away their weapons and fled for their lives. I don't know who opened the other three city gates in Wenshui County, and the people in the city and the defeated soldiers of the official army scattered and fled outside the city.
The security forces did not surround Wenshui County, but they did not give these people a chance to escape. Not far from the city, a large group of cavalry was waiting there, driving the fleeing crowd back. Those who have dead eyes and have to flee can only be ghosts under the saber.
Wenshui County ordered Wang Jing to change the clothes of the people and mix in the crowd, but he could not escape from the city, and was soon betrayed by the people around him and handed over to the security army.
The security army eliminated the sporadic resistance in the city and controlled the situation in the city, and Yang Biao drove into the city with a large team.
Wang Jing, the county governor of Wenshui, was brought to Yang Biao.
When Wang Jing saw Yang Biao, he knew that this was a big man who could decide his fate, so he immediately lay on the ground and kowtowed like pounding garlic. He shouted: "The king spares his life, I have read books, I have been lifted, and I can do things for the king." "Wang Jing knows a little bit about the security army and knows what kind of use value he has.
"Your life and death are not decided by me, it is you who decide your life and death, I will let the people of Wenshui County judge you to see if you have done evil in Wenshui." Yang Biao waved his hand and pulled Wang Jing, who was paralyzed, down. (To be continued.) )