Chapter 214 Soldiers Break through the Margin City

On this side, Liu Tong led his troops straight to the east gate of Humao City without rest, and several sea wolf warships over there have reached the river road outside Humao City.

The sea wolf's boat immediately began to bombard Humao City without saying a word, and the shells roared and hit the walls of Humao City and the city.

Humao City was built on the shore of the middle road of the Kowloon River. Although these warships are not heavy gunboats, and each ship is not too strong in firepower, the worst on the ship is also a 12-pound mountain howitzer. Some of them have not been reloaded, and they are also equipped with some six-pound light guns. One of the ships is also equipped with a 32-pound card. Long gun.

Although this kind of Caron gun has a close range, it is quite powerful. When shelling at close range, how can 30 catties of shells hit it? Even if it is a wall made of masonry, it is a little unbearable.

For a moment, the sound of gunfire on the river surface became a piece, and the smoke and flames filled the whole river. The hot shells roared and fell one after another in the Humao City, causing masonry flying inside and outside the Humao City.

What's more terrible is that when the sea wolf shelled the city, the gunboat loaded with 32 pounds of Caron guns actually used less commonly used grenades.

Now, due to gunpowder and shell casting, the power of grenades is not very great. Among the huge shells, only a small amount of gunpowder can be filled. After the shell hits the ground, it is generally a few pieces. The lethality is not very great, but because the shell can explode, it is very psychological pressure on the enemy.

When a grenade fell into the Mar Maocheng and exploded, an unlucky soldier flew high on the spot, and his internal organs were also blown up all over the place. This scared the officers and soldiers, one by one, they were scared to the point of their heads.

While Mr. Cao Qian was busy suppressing his soldiers, commanding them to fire back, and resist the sea wolf stride to attack the city, Liu Tong also began to take action.

First, they carried two 12-pound mountain howitzers aimed at the city's hair fire. This time, they ventured to approach the city wall directly and used shotgun shots. After each shot, the wall was like a rainstorm, and if they were not careful, they would be sifted on the spot.

Some officers and soldiers who first resisted here were beaten to pieces. The officers and soldiers who were so scared that they could only hide behind the female wall, shout in panic, and even set fire and bows and arrows indiscriminately. They fought without any rules and did not pose any threat to the sea wolf at all.

Liu Tong then ordered half of the company's * hands to shoot accurately on the wall. As long as they found someone moving, they would shoot them, even those who hid behind the women's wall and shot out from the hole.

At first, the officers and soldiers dared to hide in the hole of the stack of the female wall and look at the appearance. From time to time, they also set fire or put a few arrows down, but when the sea wolf's bird opened fire, they found that it was still unsafe to do so.

Several officers and soldiers were lying on the hole and looking out. Suddenly, their heads were blooming, and some officers and soldiers showed their bodies in the mouth of the stack and immediately fell down.

Only then did the officers and soldiers find that the sea wolf's bird can actually be far away, and it is very accurate. It can even directly pass through the narrow hole, shoot the cymium into the hole, and shoot the people hiding behind.

This time, the officers and soldiers completely collapsed. They leaned down on the wall one by one, almost lay on the wall and crawled around. Some people simply lost their guys and fled into the city.

The remaining sea wolf members did not attack the wall, but carried a few gunpowder barrels. Under the strong cover of * hands, they directly held their shields and rushed into the doorway of the east gate and piled them up at the gate.

Not long after several soldiers rushed out of the gate, they suddenly heard a loud roar at the gate.

A large mass of dust and smoke, mixed with a large amount of masonry, rose to the sky. The gate, which was not very strong, was immediately blown apart and flew away towards the inside of the gate cave. Even the small tower above the gate cave collapsed at the same time.

Some officers and soldiers hiding in the gate cave were blown to pieces on the spot. The fragments of the bodies flew far away, and even some pieces of meat were directly pasted on the wall.

"Brothers, bayonets! Go!" Liu Tong watched the gate being blown up, raised his sharp waist knife high, waved at Hu Maocheng, and roared loudly.

A bayonet was stuck in the muzzle of the gun by the soldiers, and there was a tsunami-like shouting outside the east gate at the same time.

Hundreds of sea wolf infantry, led by bayonets and squad leaders, shouted like a tide and poured into the Humao City.

Under the strong attack of the sea wolf, the seemingly strong Humao City only persisted for an hour under the attack of the sea wolf, and then announced that it was broken. The sea wolf that attacked the city, shot with * in the distance, stabbed with a bayonet nearby, and took less than an hour to control the whole Humao City. In hand.

Mr. Cao Qian in the city was loyal. Seeing that the gate was broken, he still led more than 20 of his own soldiers to launch a counterattack against the gate. However, in front of the sharp * of the sea wolf tribe, their counterattack was only a flash in the pan, and they were quickly submerged by the sea wolf tribe. Cao Qian was shot several bullets. The field was killed, and most of the soldiers were killed, and only a few were captured alive.

As soon as Mr. Cao Qian died, there were no dragons in the city. Seeing that the situation was not good, the guards immediately opened the west gate and ran out and fled to the shore one after another. Some good people simply took off their clothes, jumped directly into the river and swam to the opposite bank. However, most of them finally knelt down under the pursuit of sea wolves because they were not good at water. jiang。

When Humao City was broken, it was announced that Yuegang had lost its last barrier. The whole Yuegang was like a woman who had been striped naked. Next, the sea wolf could go up as much as he wanted.

Although the officers and soldiers also had a fort on the eastern shore of Yuegang, leaving about one or 200 officers and soldiers to guard and arranging several cannons, before the sea wolf's fleet arrived, the officers and soldiers who guarded here had already heard the wind and even threw the cannons directly on the fort.

What's ridiculous is that the officers and soldiers ran so fast that even the artillery rods and other accessories were simply thrown on the fort. If it were someone else, they could directly turn the cannon around and aim at the Moon Harbor to start shelling.

Fortunately, the sea wolf did not like to use these cannons cast by officers and soldiers, because the safety of this thing is really doubtful, but what makes Yu Xiaotian happy is that three of these cannons are 500 catties of copper, which is a good thing, so they seized by the infantry. After the fort, he ordered that all the cannons here be dismantled and shipped back to Tamsui City for reconstruction.

At this time, the moon port was full of merchant ships, as many as hundreds of them were. The owners of these merchant ships were like bereavement. Although they jumped their feet in a hurry, they had no choice but to stare at the sea wolf's fleet slowly coming.

At this time, the officers and soldiers guarding the Moon Harbor, the fleet that had just seen the sea wolf appeared in their sight, and the scene came to disperse, disperse the maids one by one, and fled, making the Moon Harbor suddenly lose its last protection.

However, after the sea wolf's fleet arrived here, it did not attack the merchant ships here. Yu Xiaotian immediately sent a number of sampas, and sailors rowed to the merchant ships docked at the riverside pier.

At this time, the owners of the merchant ship had already been scared out of their courage to see that the goods were about to be finished, but there was no way to resist. Because at this time, resistance could only be said to be looking for death, so they could only watch the sea wolf control the moon port.

Among the merchant ships, there are several large shipowners, each of whom has more than a dozen sea boats of all kinds. When they saw that the sea wolf did not attack them immediately, as a shrewd merchant, he immediately realized that there might be a first-line turnaround.

So they quickly gathered together to discuss, and sent out housekeepers or subordinate stewards one after another. Each family collected hundreds of taels of silver. Some shipowners had more, so they simply took out one or two thousand taels of silver, a total of about 10,000 taels of silver, and quickly bought dozens of pigs, dozens of sheep, and Hundreds of chickens and ducks, and more than 100 jars of good wine.

These people who were sent tremblingly drove more than a dozen small boats, flying white flags, and carefully headed for the sea wolf's fleet.

They were stopped by the sea wolf's long dragon and fast boat halfway. After asking what they wanted to do, they were escorted to the fleet.

Yu Xiaotian let them get on his temporary boat and meet them on the boat. Naturally, he accepted all the labored things gathered by these people.

The people sent by these shipowners took the opportunity to propose that the sea wolf could let go of their cargo, and Yu Xiaotian nodded and agreed to this.

However, Yu Xiaotian also made his request and ordered the shipowners to immediately sail their ships out of the Jiulong River, and first stop at Zhongzuo and Kinmen Island to wait for the next deal. However, Yu Xiaotian also gave them a reassurance, that is, the sea wolf would not forcibly confiscate their ships and goods, but the premise They must follow his instructions first. If someone wants to take the opportunity to run away, then I'm sorry, the ship and the goods are both sea wolves, but as long as they obey the arrangement, they will ensure the safety of their cargo.

Yu Xiaotian's promise immediately made these shipowners breathe a sigh of relief. Now the sea wolf is the boss. Of course, it's up to them. It's definitely impossible to escape now. Can they run through the sea wolf's fast ships? Since you can't run away, you have to listen to other people's orders.

As long as they can keep their goods, they still have a chance to turn over. If the goods are gone, they will be completely bankrupt. You should know that these sea merchants do sea trade not only with their own money, but many of their goods are mined. The way of joint stock use has gathered a lot of people's money to do such a big deal.

Often, when each ship goes to sea, it has to collect a lot of goods. These goods need to use a lot of funds. It is difficult to do this with the liquidity on hand alone, so these sea merchants will adopt the prospecting method to solve the problem of capital gap.

Many rich people have spare money on hand, but they dare not take the risk of doing such a sea trade. However, silver can't make money in the cellar. They have to find a way to make money. It happens that some sea merchants lack liquidity, so they are willing to give these spare money to these businessmen.

Even many officials themselves secretly put money in the hands of sea merchants to eat dividends or take interest. Once there are no goods on the sea, these payers will not care about these things. They will definitely block the door to go to the sea to discuss debts.

When many sea merchants went to sea, they encountered a pirate hijacking a ship. After losing both ships and goods, they ended up ruining their property. Many people were even forced to die by creditors, and even their families were taken away from debts as slaves.

So Yu Xiaotian promised them not to forcibly seize their cargo, which made these shipowners very grateful. Now they are asked to temporarily go to the Central Left Institute and Kinmen Island to wait for the next disposal. Naturally, they dare not to listen.