Chapter 212: Shelling of Kinmen

This inspection sweated on the anxious head of the city, but he couldn't come up with an idea, he knew very well that although Kinmen Island was not too small, there were very few residents on the island, except for the military households on the island, there were only two fishing villages, even if all the young and strong people were concentrated in the city of Kinmen, it would not exceed 700 people, these people usually did not have much training at all, and there were no more than 100 people with combat effectiveness.

And look at the fleet of sea wolves, there are at least two or three thousand people in dozens of large ships, and they have also unloaded these more than three hundred elite soldiers on the shore, even if the Golden Gate Institute does its best, it can't withstand their attacks.

Time passed minute by minute, and everyone in the city was like ashes, they didn't dare to say surrender lightly, but they didn't dare to say war, because they were not stupid, knowing that this time the official army's attack on the sea wolf was a complete annoyance to the sea wolf, and the sea wolf made it clear that he wanted to retaliate against the government this time.

And their Golden Gate is the first to bear the brunt, to be taken by the other party, if they don't surrender, then can they hold this acropolis? Obviously, no one has such confidence.

Even if they repelled the Seawolf once or twice, how long would they be able to hold out? Look at the gunboats of the sea staring at them, they can't muster the courage to fight the sea wolves to the death.

If the sea wolf is provoked again, there is no guarantee that when the city is broken, the sea wolf will really slaughter everyone in the city, and not many people are suspicious of this.

Therefore, the people in the entire Thousand Households City of Kinmen are already cowardly before fighting at this time, not to mention the complete decline in morale.

At this time, even the officers and soldiers of those cannons did not dare to operate their cannons lightly and make a little resistance movement.

Two quarters of an hour is half an hour, in this half an hour, the sea wolf unloaded several long ladders to the shore, these long ladders are combined, in the ship is scattered, after unloading to the shore, with a thick iron bolt, it can be quickly assembled, forming a siege ladder, it is obvious that the sea wolf is determined to capture this Golden Gate.

As the time limit approached, the sweat on the forehead of this inspector increased, and he hurriedly walked around the city, but finally made up his mind and sent a close subordinate to put him under the city with a rope, and ordered him to go to the sea wolf for negotiation.

The requirements for this inspection were not high, and after sending his subordinates to find Liu Tong, who led the troops to land, he told Liu Tong, saying that they had no intention of being enemies with the sea wolf, and if the sea wolf had a need, they could only keep the acropolis, and the rest of the island would be at the disposal of the sea wolf, and the city could provide the sea wolf with a batch of wine and meat, and another 500 taels of silver, just ask the sea wolf to let go of the Golden Gate City, and not occupy the Golden Gate City.

But such a request was also categorically rejected by Liu Tong immediately, and told the officers and soldiers who ran out to negotiate that the sea wolf wanted the entire Kinmen Island, including the city of a thousand households, and this condition was not negotiable, and the sea wolf was not interested in the conditions they proposed, as long as the people in the city surrendered and obeyed the orders of the sea wolf, they could ensure the safety of everyone's lives and never kill indiscriminately, and at the same time ensure that they would not rob the private property of the people in the city in the city, including the family property of the patrol, they would be protected.

Now that the time was about to come, Liu Tong ordered the officers and soldiers who had come out to return to the city and immediately tell the inspectors to surrender immediately, otherwise they would immediately launch an artillery attack on the city of Qianhusuo.

The negotiators had no choice but to run back to the city in disgrace, and were pulled up to the city wall by the defenders of the city with ropes, and told the inspection what Liu Tong said again.

The inspector is so angry in his heart! Although his official position is humble, but he is also the official of the Ming Dynasty, now Qianhu is not on the island, even if he is the largest, he is responsible for defending the land, once the thief falls, he will no longer be able to mix, once the thief retreats one day, even if he leaves his life, he will be held accountable by the peak in the future, and then he will lose his head at the lightest, and he may be beheaded by the whole house.

So this inspection thought about it and didn't dare to make up his mind to surrender, and just when he was still hesitating, the time limit for the sea wolf had already arrived.

I saw that the big ships of the sea wolves on the sea suddenly began to spit out flames one after another, and in an instant there were clouds of gunpowder smoke rising from the sea, and all kinds of cannonballs flew towards the Golden Gate City with a roar.

The people in the city exclaimed, and they began to avoid the artillery, and suddenly it became a mess, and many of the soldiers were so frightened that they lost their weapons on the spot, turned around and fled off the city wall.

The firepower of the Seawolf fleet, now looking at the entire Chinese sea, even the Dutch and the Portuguese, may not be able to surpass the firepower of the Seawolf's fleet, and this time there are two Western-style large plywood ships participating in the battle, several ships fire at the same time, a total of more than 20 guns of more than 12 pounder guns.

Although the cannonballs were also solid, the power was not too great, but the momentum was very terrifying, and the cannonballs were scattered in the city of Kinmen with a whistling, stirring up patches of dust and rubble inside and outside the city.

The cannonballs that fell into the city were even more like the destruction of many houses, and the bricks and stones flew inside and outside the Golden Gate.

The inspector screamed in panic and steady, and ordered the officers and men of the city to fire back, but these officers and soldiers were so frightened that they were now softened and trembling in the city and began to load their cannons, and the fleet of sea wolves did not finally load the cannons until they had fired three rounds of salvos.

Several cannons in the city also roared at this time, only to hear a few loud noises, the cannonballs flew out of the chambers and smashed into the sea, but the quasi-head made all the officers and soldiers feel discouraged, because after these cannons were bombarded, they did not hit any of the sea wolf ships, and the shells did not even fall near the sea wolf ships, they fell on the water far away from the sea wolf ships, but only stirred up a few balls of seawater.

The return fire in the city of Kinmen immediately annoyed the sea wolves even more, and the fire of several artillery ships became more ferocious, not only did not retreat, but they moved closer to the shore, and began to use direct aiming to directly bombard the city of Kinmen.

The Golden Gate City itself was built not far from the sea, and the south gate was only three or four hundred meters away from the shore, which was completely within the direct range of the sea wolf's heavy artillery.

After another round of salvo fire, a few shells accurately hit the south gate tower of the acropolis, only to hear a boom, a large cloud of dust rose up at the south gate tower, and the city gate tower at the good end, under the heavy artillery bombardment of the sea wolf, collapsed on the spot, becoming a brick and stone ruin.

The patrol who commanded the battle in the city, fortunately he was not in the city gate tower at that time, and luckily was not buried alive on the spot, but at this time he was also scared half to death, and he jumped to his feet and yelled, ordering the officers and soldiers to fire back fire, and the officers and soldiers were in a hurry to reload the artillery.

When they finally started firing the cannon again, something finally happened, a copper hair was lit at the time of the cannon, suddenly burst with a bang, after a huge bang, a scream sounded on the gun position, and the two gunners were even blown into the air by the explosion on the spot, and the corpses were torn apart and fell directly into the city.

Look at the copper hair fire again, at this time, the entire gun body was blown open, the muzzle of the gun became a chrysanthemum shape, the gun position had been broken on the spot, broken into pieces, and the gunners on the gun position were either dead or wounded, and there was not even a person standing.

The sudden explosion of the cannon made the officers and soldiers who had no morale completely fall into chaos, and frightened the gunners of the other guns, and they did not dare to load the cannon at this time, including the Hongyi cannon that went into battle in a hurry, and they were completely dumb.

The seawolf's naval artillery bombardment did not last very long, and under Xiaotian's order, the artillery was stopped, and the seawolf marines who had landed on the shore who had already been waiting for the day, under the leadership of Liu Tong, let out a huge cry in unison, and quickly formed a team and headed towards the acropolis.

This landing sea wolf, Yu Xiaotian specially equipped them with an infantry platoon that all used wolf's tooth rifles, equipped with fifty wolf's tooth rifled rifles, these people approached about a hundred steps under the city wall, then stopped advancing, lined up in a horizontal formation, picked up their wolf's tooth rifles, and aimed at the city wall.

There were still a small number of officers and soldiers on the city wall, stretching out their heads and brains under the order of the inspection, as if they were going to resist, and even carried out two tiger squat cannons, set them on the battlements, and aimed at the city, ready to stop the sea wolf troops from attacking the city.

The artillery platoon of the landing Seawolf also dragged two twelve-pounder mountain howitzers to the city wall at this time, and immediately began to build a simple artillery position about one hundred and fifty meters below the city, and set up two twelve-pounder mountain howitzers on the position, and quickly completed the loading.

The two cannons raised their muzzles and aimed them at the city wall, just illuminating the position of the two tiger squat cannons of the officers and soldiers in the city.

The two cannons only fired two cannons each, and then looked at the two tiger squat cannons on the city wall, they had already lost their traces, including the battlements where they were located, which were also bombarded at this time, and the two small cannons were blown into the city, and even several officers and soldiers and gunners were also killed on the spot.

Listening to the roar of the officers of the sea wolf, the musketeers in the row with wolf tooth rifles, even when the salvo began, a few officers and soldiers who were still probing their brains in the city to resist began to wonder if the sea wolf was sick, and they actually began to release birds a hundred steps away.

But when blood arrows erupted from their bodies, they realized that the sea wolf's bird gun could actually kill people from a hundred paces away, but it was too late at this time.

About six or seven officers and men who were still trying to resist were shot at the head of the city by the sea wolf's muskets on the spot, and they either had their heads blooming on the spot or they were shot in the chest and abdomen.

The entire city wall was swept away at this time, and the officers and soldiers were so frightened that they didn't dare to raise their heads, and the remaining sea wolf troops immediately carried several long ladders and rushed towards the city wall with a roar.

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