The cannonballs fired by dozens of heavy artillery fell in Gaopu City with a roar, and the gray stones inside and outside Gaopu City flew wildly, and the morale that had been mobilized by He's guerrilla was mobilized with great difficulty, and after the bombardment for half an hour, the defenders in the city completely lost their fighting spirit.

The technical generation gap makes this kind of battle seem so unfair, to say that this He guerrilla can be regarded as doing his best, when the sea wolf began to bombard, the gunners in the city of death ordered a counterattack, but in the face of the sea wolf's ferocious artillery fire, their counterattack seemed so weak.

The only 2,000-pound Hongyi cannon in the city was completely destroyed by the shells fired by the sea wolf's naval guns after only three shells, and nearly half of the dozens of officers and soldiers with the cannon were killed and wounded.

As for the other larger guns, they also didn't play much role, and their range couldn't reach the sea wolf's warship, so they could only be ridden and beaten by the sea wolf's naval guns, and they didn't have the slightest power to fight back.

Maybe some officers and soldiers are not as unbearable as they imagined, if they are given a fair opportunity to fight hard with swords and guns and sea wolves, these officers and soldiers should not be too bad, but because of the generation difference in equipment, they do not have the opportunity to fight a fair decisive battle at all.

The sea wolf has never thought of a fair duel with them, the concept of the sea wolf is that as long as the problem can be solved with cannons, it will be solved with cannons as much as possible, and if it can't be solved by cannons, it will be solved with muskets, and when it really doesn't work, the sea wolves will use bayonets and fight with their opponents, and the sea wolf people are not lacking in such courage.

Therefore, while the sea wolf fleet here shelled Gaopu City, the sea wolf army also started an operation in the north direction of the city.

Their combat method was very simple, with the many long-range wolf's tooth rifles they had on hand, they lined up a hundred paces away from the city, and with the mountain howitzers carried by the army, they first knocked out several threatening official artillery guns on the city head one by one, and then used the wolf's tooth rifles to shoot fiercely at the defenders on the city wall.

Under such an attack, although there were a large number of defenders in the city, there was no chance to counterattack at all, and groups of defenders were killed on the city wall, and the officers and soldiers who had never experienced this tactic were beaten without the power to fight back, and many of them were even killed by the bullets that passed through the holes behind the battlements, so the officers and soldiers were so frightened that they did not dare to rise on the city wall.

Some of the archers of the officers and soldiers were brave and tried to resist, but many archers just put an arrow on the city, and then they were pierced by the bullet that came from the face, and were killed on the spot on the city.

In addition to these infantry who used wolf's tooth rifles, Li Dazui also mobilized snipers in the army to build several wooden platforms outside the city, allowing snipers to climb the high platforms, the height of the high platforms was at least level with the city wall, or even beyond the height of the city wall, and the snipers could condescendingly roll call the defenders on the city wall one by one.

Officers and soldiers will even lie on the city wall, they will be shot by the snipers of the sea wolf, so the various arrangements of the original guerrilla attack are invalid under this tactic of the sea wolf, if even people can't stay on the city wall, then this matter of defending is naturally impossible to talk about.

Therefore, under the cover of a large number of musketeers, the rest of the Seawolf infantry methodically cleared all kinds of obstacles built by the original defenders outside the city.

In order to resist the attack of the sea wolves, in the past two days, he arranged a lot of horses and deer bars on the open terrain outside Gaopu City, and also inserted a lot of bamboo sticks in some places.

However, because of the tactics of the sea wolf, these various obstacles set up in advance did not play any role in the face of the sea wolf's attack, and were easily swept away by the sea wolf's infantry.

As for the siege battle, there is not much suspense, Li Dazui and Meng Fei did not use any tricky tactics, they were all decent, after going ashore, they made a batch of siege ladders, and when they were attacking the city, they also sent troops to climb the ladder and attack the city wall.

But the men they sent to the front were the grenadiers of the army, each of whom carried three iron-clad grenades, and each of them a shield, and a single knife or a short spear, and when they began the siege, each of them had a lighted arquered in his mouth.

The musketeers of the city suppressed the officers and soldiers of the city with muskets, and the grenadiers began to attack the city, followed by the light infantry and pikemen, and began to climb the ladder towards the city in an orderly manner.

Seeing that the sea wolves began to possess the ants, He Guerrilla personally ran to the city wall north of the city to supervise the battle, urging the officers and soldiers to go up the city wall to resist, and these officers and soldiers carried some heavy wooden shields to try to block the guns shot by the sea wolves.

However, they still don't understand the power of the sea wolf's wolf tooth rifles, and these wooden shields can indeed effectively block the guns fired by ordinary bird guns, but they can't stop the high-speed Mine bullets.

After the Minne bullet is concentrated on the wooden board, it can directly penetrate the wooden board, and it can also maintain enough kinetic energy to kill and injure the officers and soldiers hiding behind the wooden shield, once it is hit, the damage is even greater, although the broken and deformed warhead cannot penetrate the human body, but once it is hit, it will be more miserable.

Therefore, the officers and soldiers were finally driven up to the city wall, and they were knocked to the ground again one after another, and even some of the official soldiers who held shields and wore armor were also killed on the city wall.

In this way, the resistance of the officers and soldiers on the city wall was very weak, although they also resisted under the supervision of the He guerrilla, but they could not stop the attack of the sea wolf at all.

These grenadiers of the sea wolves, after approaching the city, quickly lit the grenades, shook their hands and threw them on the city wall, only to hear a roar, the city wall was immediately emptied, these grenadiers immediately took the opportunity to jump on the city, drew their waist knives and began to expand the results of the battle, control the area of the city wall battlement, and cover the follow-up personnel to grab the city wall.

The Seawolf's infantry quickly stormed the city wall with little effort, and quickly gained a foothold, and the follow-up attacking troops, like ants, rushed up the city wall quickly, and began to expand towards the two wings of the wall.

Once the musketeers had ascended the walls, the counterattacks of the officers and troops were even more contained, and the musketeers of the sea wolves immediately began to be organized by the officers to fire in a platoon of guns as soon as they entered the city.

In about two hours, the sea wolf captured almost the entire northern wall of Gaopu City and pressed the official army into the city.

At this time, the will of the officers and soldiers to resist had basically completely collapsed, and many officers and soldiers saw that the sea wolf had captured the city wall, so they no longer dared to stay in the city, and opened the west gate one after another, and swarmed out of the city.

Including that He guerrilla, a large number of routs escaped from the West Gate and fled straight to the direction of Tong'an County.

The next sea wolf infantry who attacked the city, without much effort, controlled the entire Gaopu City, and the Gaopu City was completely destroyed.

However, those routs who tried to flee to Tong'an County did not run far, because Meng Fei and Li Dazui had already judged that once the city was defeated, the officers and soldiers would definitely flee from the West Gate and flee to the direction of Tong'an County.

Therefore, when Li Dazui commanded the siege, he ordered Meng Fei to bring two companies of infantry and ambush them on the road about ten miles northwest of Gaopu City.

When the troops of Gaopu City fled here, Meng Fei led his troops to attack them head-on, several rows of muskets fired in a volley, and the officers and soldiers were killed.

After this battle, the 2,000 officers and soldiers gathered by Gao Pu, in addition to more than 300 people who were killed and wounded, the rest were almost captured by the Sea Wolf Army, and only less than 300 routs were able to escape at night.

Although the number of siege operations of the sea wolves is very small, but they have also carried out simulated siege training many times before, using the characteristics of their weapons, summed up a set of more effective siege experience, this attack on Gaopu City, is a test of their training, at present, it seems that the effect is really good, in dealing with such a city, they adopted such tactics, very effective, can completely suppress the resistance of the defenders on the city.

In this attack on Gaopu City, the number of soldiers killed by the Seawolf Army was less than thirty, and only a few dozen were wounded, but it basically annihilated the defenders in the entire Gaopu City, which can be described as a brilliant result.

Even the He guerrilla who was sitting in Gaopu City failed to escape in the end, and the soldiers who protected him were slaughtered by Meng Fei's troops, and the He guerrilla was captured alive and returned to Gaopu City.

The news of the fall of Gaopu City spread to Tong'an County that night, and Tong'an County was also in an uproar, although they felt that this time the sea wolf came to attack, the momentum was very fierce, but after all, the government had sent troops to reinforce Gaopu City, plus the garrison of Gaopu City itself, as well as the temporarily convened township brave regiment training, there were 2,000 officers and soldiers stationed in the city.

In the eyes of these officials, even if it is not good, under the guerrilla of Ariga, there is no problem for Gaopu City to hold on for a period of time, not to mention whether the sea wolf will risk a huge loss to attack Gaopu City is still unknown.

So they thought that as long as Gaopu was not lost, then the sea wolf would not attack Tong'an County lightly, but they never thought that it only took two days for the sea wolf to easily conquer Gaopu City, and almost completely annihilated the defenders of Gaopu City, so their Tong'an County would be in danger next.