Chapter 615: The Battle of Huizhou City (3)

The three of them finished their breakfast in silence, and then began a new day of shelling, sixty breech guns roared again, and each shelling made the Dutch soldiers feel a little more happy.

After the shelling was over, the attack was carried out at once, and suddenly it rained heavily, and the rain poured down, and no one could open their eyes in the rain, let alone launch an attack.

The Dutch had no choice but to retreat and wait for the rain to stop before attacking.

In the evening, the heavy rain finally stopped, and the sky had completely darkened, and he couldn't wait to break the city, so he ordered all the troops and horses to launch a general attack, and launched an attack from the north gate, the east gate, and the south gate at the same time.

The soldiers of the Ming army on the city wall found that the Dutch army was attacking, and immediately lit the torches and threw them hard towards the city.

Most of the torches were thrown under the city, bringing up a line of fire in the night sky, and the Ming army fired wildly at the city with guns and bows and arrows, and the Ming soldiers only had to complete one or two fires, and they were suppressed by the Dutch army.

Rifles are hundreds of years ahead of firearms, although the Ming army has battlements as a cover, it is still suppressed by the Dutch army and does not dare to raise its head, under the cover of rifles, the Dutch army moved to the city, dozens of bundles of grenades against the city gate, detonated grenades successively, boom boom three loud bangs,

Almost simultaneously, three gates were blown up.

The Dutch soldiers passed through the bombed-out city gate and launched an attack on the city, but the Ming army did not flinch, bravely rushed up with shields, and fought with the Dutch soldiers at the city gate.

The Dutch soldiers were in groups of three or five, shooting as they advanced, and the Ming soldiers were not afraid of sacrifice and did everything possible to stick them up for hand-to-hand combat.

The two armies fought a terrible battle under the city wall, the Ming soldiers rushed up a group, and a group was killed, many Ming soldiers jumped down from the city wall, and smashed the Dutch soldiers with their bodies as weapons, and some of the Ming soldiers smashed them with stones, shot with bows and arrows, and beat them with firearms, and forcibly stopped the Dutch army's attempt to occupy the city wall.

Only the right battalion troops stationed at the east gate, because of the large number of new soldiers and weak combat power, were gradually unable to resist after the Dutch army broke in, and were forced to retreat, and the Dutch also began to climb the city wall, and they were about to occupy the east gate city wall.

Zhao Tu tried his best to resist, but still couldn't resist, Ling Jingyang hurriedly mobilized the British soldiers, Edmund and Jackson led more than 500 British soldiers to reinforce the east gate, Edmond had long been hungry and thirsty, returned to the barracks last night, took a breath of rice wine given to him by the dealer Li Ningyang, and slept in a daze for a day.

The next day, the Dutch bombarded the city of Huizhou, but he did not wake up from drunkenness, and knowing that his subordinates had woken him up, he knew that the Dutch had begun to attack the city.

He and Ling Jingyang said: "It's time for the Dutch to drink a pot." ”

After the British soldiers entered the battle, the situation at the east gate was reversed instantly, and the Dutch soldiers attacking the east gate were beaten by hundreds of rifles.

"The Sword Comes"

The battle of the North Gate, the East Gate, and the South Gate continued, and the Ming army blocked the advance of the Dutch army with flesh and blood, and Jin Dashou also led the young and strong team into the battle, fighting to the death with the Dutch, and the Dutch army's attack was contained alive.

Ling Jingyang suddenly realized that tonight was an excellent opportunity, the main Dutch forces were attacking the city, and they would not be able to enter the city for a while.

At this time, there were not many troops stationed in the Dutch headquarters, Ling Jingyang and Bai Lushui on the side said: "Lushui, protect yourself in the city, and go outside the city to kill the enemy for your husband." ”

Bai Lushui didn't let her worry, holding a bow and crossbow, and let Ling Jingyang fight to his heart's content.

Behind Ling Jingyang, two hundred guards lined up with rifles, and at the height of the battle, the guards did not participate in the battle, and watched their comrades die under the Dutch wall, and everyone's hearts were full of anger.

At this time, Ling Jingyang finally wanted to dispatch his trump card troops, and before launching an attack, Ling Jingyang recruited Wu Daling.

"Wu Daling, the artillery battalion is attacking."

Wu Daling looked up at the sky, he was ready to go, these days with the British artillery hard to learn breech gun firing, he realized for the first time how backward the Ming Dynasty was, and the Europa artillery was simply epoch-making ahead of the Ming Dynasty.

From Ling Jingyang's capture of British artillery, he followed to learn artillery technology, although he did not understand physics and mathematics, but he was also an experienced gunner, and he studied hard to kill the enemy.

"Governor, I'll fight wherever you tell me?"

"Outside the city, Dutch command."

The Ming army showed its bloodthirsty fangs and used the same breech-loading guns as the Dutch, which were also small-caliber howitzers,

The range of the Europa breech cannon is longer than that of the redcoat cannon, and Ling Jingyang still doesn't know which era and which arms company invented the artillery used by the Europa?

It is only known that this artillery shoots fast,

The firing range is long, and he also knows some military developments in various countries around the world, but he has never seen this kind of breech gun.

Even if it is the rifle used by the Fusang people, it can be seen at a glance that it is the famous 38-type rifle in later generations, but Ling Jingyang has not studied the Europa weapon, and the current goal is to defeat the Europa.

And Yu Yi just thought that the Ming army only had red-coated cannons, and red-coated cannons were of little use in field battles, and the firing range was not as far as breech guns.

After coming to Huizhou City, he actually placed his headquarters two kilometers away from the north gate, where he could command the battle at the first time. His arrogance brought ruin to the Command.

Wu Daling got the order to go to war, and the artillery battalion finally came into play, and he excitedly sounded the war drums in the city, which belonged to the artillery battalion.

The sound of war drums sounded, and the gunners hidden in various parts of the city quickly pushed out the cannons from the trenches and foxholes, and the muzzles of each cannon were facing the outside of the city, quickly adjusting the muzzles and angles.

Without the command of Wu Daling, the breech guns that could still be used normally in the city roared with the efforts of the Ming artillery and the British gunners.

Instead, there were still nineteen cannons to use, and nineteen shells flew towards the Dutch headquarters outside the city.

He didn't stay at the headquarters tonight, he led an infantry company to the north gate to supervise the battle, Tolten didn't open up the situation in the city for a long time, he couldn't help but be a little angry, and wanted to lead the troops to the north gate for reinforcements several times.

Suddenly, he heard a familiar cannon sound, which felt strange, and both the adjutant and the soldier were puzzled.

After the infantry regiment launched an attack, he did not let the artillery continue the shelling, and the next second, he suddenly heard an explosion from the rear headquarters.

The Ming gunners were not very skilled in using artillery, and only half of the nineteen shells fell into the headquarters, but they also made the Dutch soldiers in the headquarters tremble.

I couldn't believe my eyes, how could this group of earth buns of the Ming army also have artillery?

Soon the Ming army began the second round of artillery bombardment, Wu Daling personally made an observation eye on the north gate city wall, and asked his subordinates to verbally report the results of the battle to the gunners, and the gunners adjusted the angle of the muzzle again, and quickly carried out the second shot.

The second time the cannon was fired, more shells fell into the headquarters, and the Dutch command was in shambles.

At this time, Ling Jingyang led the guard team and quietly went out of the city from the west gate, with the goal of cleaning up the Dutch headquarters.