Chapter 1134 Operation Closing the Door 4
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Although there are a lot of torches on the city, which can illuminate the distance of more than ten meters in front of the city wall, but at this moment, all the soldiers in the city are attracted by the assault of Chen Shuangnan and others, and no one has a look outside the city at all, and it is naturally impossible to find several Qing army demomen who are quickly approaching the city gate. With a loud bang, the two city gates that seemed to be thick suddenly became pieces of wood chips flying in the sky, and the explosives used by the Qing army were filled with yellow gunpowder, and its power was so great that it was really not comparable to black powder.
"Attack!"
Before the smoke of the explosion cleared, Wang Kuan waved his hand, and hurriedly gave the order for a general attack, there was nothing else, the attack in the city was just a feint, relying on the people of the Overseas Intelligence Bureau, to carry out assassination, such a frontal attack, even if it was a surprise attack, it is difficult to have any effect at all, and what can really solve the battle depends on the actions of the marines.
This operation is concealed, Wang Kuan brought not many troops, either disguised as sailors or disguised as cargo owners, together with a total of less than two hundred, and previously divided into two groups of people, now there is actually only one standard company, but all of them are elite soldiers, tactical movements are extremely good, Wang Kuan just gave an order, more than 140 people have rushed up together, only footsteps, but no one issued those unnecessary shouts, and rushed to the broken city gate with great speed, and at this timeThe defenders at the head of the city had not yet recovered from the sudden explosions.
Although the city gate has been broken, but in the end it is made of thick oak, not completely collapsed, although there are several big holes broken below, but people want to rush into the city, it is still quite difficult, but this is not difficult to prepare the Marine officers and soldiers, but see several strong men in the front swing their axes together, and in a few rounds, they split a large hole in the door that two people can enter side by side, and then quickly flash open, when even if a soldier with a machine gun rushed into the city gate hole first, regardless of the front of the gunsmoke, As he rushed forward, he pulled the trigger, and a rain of bullets swept out, and several British soldiers who rushed over to see what was going on were swept into a sieve on the spot.
Chaos, complete chaos, although the defenders of the city head also have a company of men and horses, the strength is not less than the Qing army, but most of the soldiers are still asleep in the barracks on both sides of the city gate, hastily wake up, how much combat effectiveness at all, and then by the Qing army on both sides of a surprise attack, on the spot was killed to the ground, before and after just a stick of incense time, the city has fallen into the control of the Qing army, most of the defenders of a company were killed, and the rest all honestly raised their hands as prisoners of war.
"Defend on the spot, move quickly!"
After taking the city wall, Wang Kuan did not rush to the city greedily, but commanded the whole army and the people from the Overseas Intelligence Bureau who came to help the battle to defend on the city wall, and arranged several machine gun positions to stabilize his own position.
The fierce gunfire stopped, but the chaos in the city did not abate a little, and countless awakened British officials were all in chaos, and the Governor of Temasek, Viscount George Green, did not even dare to stay in the governor's palace, and fled to the military camp south of the city in his pajamas by several personal servants, regardless of the demand that the commander of the garrison, Colonel John McKinsey, immediately send troops to suppress the rebellion - in the eyes of Viscount George Green, the Kingdom of Great Britain was the most powerful country in the world, Naturally, no Western country would dare to invade the territory of Great Britain, and the reason why there was a war was that the local natives were rebelling.
It was Colonel John McKinsey's duty to send troops in Jingsui Prefecture, but in the darkest hour before dawn, Colonel John McKinsey did not intend to send troops indiscriminately without knowing the enemy's situation, so he just blindly appeased the frightened Viscount George Green, and dragged it on until it was already dawn, and only then did he send people to the city gate to inquire about the news, and at the same time reorganize the team and prepare to attack.
The news came out quickly, not one, but two, one is that the two soldiers who were originally sent to the commanding heights of the lighthouse to contact one died and one was seriously wounded, and the soldiers who escaped back by luck only said that the lighthouse had been occupied by unknown people, and the specific strength was unknown, and the second was that several rout soldiers who fled from the direction of the city gate reported that the Qing people should join forces with the outside to enter the city, and the specific number of troops is not very clear, and it is estimated that there is at least one company or more.
As one of the senior officers in the Far East, although he did not know the overall deployment of the navy, he still knew about the combined fleet's attack on the east, and now, the Qing people actually took advantage of the emptiness everywhere in the South China Sea to kill, the plot was obviously not small, and Colonel John McKinsey was not shocked, but he was shocked, as a soldier, he had the responsibility to defend the territory, and Colonel John McKinsey still made a decisive decision. Hurriedly sent a platoon of soldiers to regain the commanding heights of the lighthouse, while he himself led the main force to rush to the city gate, trying to take advantage of the Qing army's unstable foothold to drive the Qing army out of the city in one fell swoop.
"Don't worry, put it up and fight again!"
The high cliff where the lighthouse is located is not far behind the British barracks, from the outside, the high cliff is more than 60 meters high, but at the end of the barracks it is only about 50 meters, the slope is not too big, but the road is not very wide, only a two-person parallel path winds up the woods, at this time, the sky is already slightly bright, the movement under the hillside is already faintly recognizable, this time the number of enemies is not much, Yan Tianming even if he has the heart of annihilating the enemy, this whispered to the two machine gun shooters.
The British Navy is indeed the first power that deserves to be the first power today, even if the Qing Navy is strong, it is slightly worse than the capital, but its army, but it is far from being strong, it is just the general level in Western countries, whether it is the equipment or training level of the army, there is nothing commendable, this is not, knowing that the high cliff has fallen into the hands of the Qing army, as soon as the soldiers of that platoon rushed to the bottom of the cliff, they did not even do a tentative attack, so they lined up with guns and rushed to the high cliff, I really don't know if this is brave or stupid.
"Take turns shooting, fire!"
Yan Tianming didn't expect the Britons to be so rough, originally, he also wanted to wait for the Britons to send someone to test the time, first meet the battle with a revolver, show the enemy weakness, and induce the enemy to attack with all his strength, and then use the powerful firepower of the machine gun to cripple the enemy in one fell swoop, but he never expected that this platoon of British soldiers actually lined up to send them to the door, it was simply to send them to death, even so, Yan Tianming would not be very polite at all, and when the British's forward line reached only twenty meters away from the top of the cliff, Yan Tianming immediately let out a loud roar.
"Da Da Da ......"
Such a narrow front, for the machine gunner, is simply killing the target, just a machine gun fire, and the British soldiers who are marching up the mountain with high spirits swept down a large area, the insight behind is not good, and when they want to turn around and flee, but they are blocked by their own people, and finally wait until the first machine gun runs out of bullets, and the second machine gun of the Qing army fires again, and the bullets sweep in all directions like raindrops, When the British soldiers rolled to the foot of the mountain like gourds rolling on the ground, the unlucky ones had already become corpses, and the more fortunate ones were also scratched all over the body by stones and branches, and when they fled back to the bottom of the mountain, a whole line of forty-five people was left with only a pitiful eighteen survivors, all of whom were wounded, and who had the courage to attack again, and all fled to the barracks in a hurry, not even daring to look back again.
"Warriors of Great Britain, the time has come to test us, for the sake of the kingdom, for the sake of His Majesty, strike!"
Two flowers bloomed, one for each branch, and not to mention that the British soldiers who attacked the lighthouse were beaten to pieces, but it is said that after Colonel John McKinsey and his troops rushed along the avenue near the city gate, he did not make any tentative attack or make any tactical arrangements, and brandished his command knife, and immediately ordered more than 450 soldiers to launch a general attack.
"Knock Knock Knock ......"
Although the combat effectiveness of the British Army is not good, but it can carry out the drill code, it still has some appearance, no, Colonel John McKinsey gave the order, the drums rumbled, and the rows of soldiers lined up in a phalanx with drums and guns, and marched forward along the street with pride.
"Call me!"
Since the first battle of the Eastern Ying, Wang Kuan has always stayed in the Marine Corps, and has not participated in the battle against Russia, speaking of which, this is the first time he has fought with the armies of Western powers, originally thought that there would be a bitter battle, but he never expected that the Britons would actually put up such an ancient square attack array, for a while I really couldn't believe my eyes, but, surprised, when it was time to shoot, Wang Kuan would not have the slightest politeness at all, As soon as the phalanx of the Britons advanced to a distance of eighty meters from the city wall, Wang Kuan immediately waved his hand and gave the order to shoot loudly.
"Da Da Da ......"
The Marines lacked heavy firepower, especially in this raid on Temasek, and they could not bring light infantry guns, but there were a lot of machine guns, and in this small team of more than 140 people, there were as many as 24 machine guns alone......
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