Chapter 219 Easy

The shells fired by dozens of heavy guns roared and fell in Gaopu City. The gray stones flew around Gaopu City. The morale was mobilized by the He guerrillas. After half an hour of shelling, the defenders in the city completely lost their fighting spirit.

The technical difference made this kind of battle so unfair. It can be said that this He guerrilla also did its best. When the sea wolf began to bombard, the gunners in the city counterattacked, but in the face of the fierce artillery fire of the sea wolf, their counterattack seemed so weak.

The only 2,000-jin Hongyi cannon in the city was completely destroyed by the shell fired by the sea wolf's naval gun, and nearly half of the officers and soldiers with the cannon were killed and injured.

As for the other larger guns, they also did not play much role. Their range could not reach the sea wolf's warships at all, and they could only be beaten by the sea wolf's naval guns without any power to fight back.

Maybe some officers and soldiers are not as unbearable as imagined. If they are given a fair opportunity to take knives and guns and fight with sea wolves, it is estimated that the performance of these officers and soldiers should not be too bad, but because of the generation difference in equipment, they have no chance of such a fair decisive battle.

The sea wolf never thought of fighting with them fairly. The concept of the sea wolf is that as long as the problem can be solved with the cannon, it will be solved with the cannon as much as possible. If the cannon can't be solved, it will be solved with *. When it really doesn't work, the sea wolf will use a bayonet and fight with the opponent with bayonet, and the sea wolf people do not lack this. That kind of courage.

So while the sea wolf fleet bombarded Gaopu City, the sea wolf army also began to operate in the north of the city.

Their way of fighting is very simple. With the many long-range wolftooth rifles in their hands, they line up a hundred steps outside the city, cooperate with the mountain howitzers carried by the army, first knocking off several threatening officer guns on the top of the city one by one, and then fiercely against the defenders on the wall with wolf tooth rifles. Shooting.

Under such an attack, although there were a large number of defenders in the city, there was no chance to fight back at all. A batch of defenders were killed on the wall. Officers and soldiers who had never experienced this kind of tactics were beaten without any power to fight back. Many people were even killed by bullets passing through the holes behind the stack. Therefore, the officers and soldiers were so scared that they dared not rise on the wall.

Some officers and soldiers' archers were bold and tried to resist, but many archers just put an arrow on the head of the city and were pierced by bullets and killed on the wall on the spot. As a result, in a short time, the wall seemed to have been swept away, and many defenders He was so scared that he escaped from the wall, and the official couldn't even suppress it.

In addition to these infantry using wolf-tooth rifles, Li Dazui also mobilized snipers in the army and built several wooden high platforms outside the city to allow snipers to climb to the high platform. The lowest height of the high platform is equal to the wall, even beyond the height of the wall. The sniper can move forward to the defenders on the wall. Line by name.

Officers and soldiers will even lie on the wall and be shot by the snipers of the sea wolf, so the various arrangements of the guerrilla were declared invalid under the tactics of the sea wolf. If even people can't stay on the wall, then there is naturally no way to talk about the defense.

So under the cover of a large number of * hands, the rest of the sea wolf infantry systematically removed all kinds of obstacles built by the defenders under the city.

In order to resist the attack of sea wolves, He guerrillas have arranged a lot of horses, deer forts and bamboo sticks in some places on the open terrain outside Gaopu City in the past two days.

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

As for the siege, there was not much suspense. Li Dazui and Meng Fei did not adopt any deceptive tactics. Everything was normal. After landing, they made a batch of siege ladders, and when attacking the city, they also sent troops to climb the long ladder to attack the city wall.

But the soldiers they sent to take the lead were the projectiles in the army. Each of these soldiers carried three iron shells*, and each of them also brought a shield, a single knife or a short spear. When they began to attack the city, everyone had a lit fire rope in their mouth.

The city *hands suppressed the officers and soldiers in the city, and these projectiles began to attack the city, followed by light infantry and long gunners and began to climb the long ladder to attack the city in an orderly manner.

Seeing that the sea wolf began to be attached to the ants, He guerrilla personally ran to the wall in the north of the city to supervise the battle and urged the officers and soldiers to resist. These officers and soldiers held some heavy wooden shields to try to block the arrows from the sea wolf.

But they still don't know much about the power of the sea wolf's wolf-tooth rifle. These wooden shields can indeed effectively block the guns fired by ordinary birds, but they can't stop the high-speed Meine bullets.

After the Mine bomb concentrates on the board, it can directly penetrate the board and maintain enough kinetic energy to kill the officers and soldiers hiding behind the wooden shield. Once hit, the damage is even greater. Although the broken and deformed warhead cannot penetrate the human body, once it is hit, it will be even worse.

So the officers and soldiers were finally caught up with the city wall and were knocked to the ground one after another, and even some soldiers with shields and armor were killed on the city wall.

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

After approaching the head of the city, these sea wolf bombers quickly ignited *, shook their hands and threw it on the wall. After hearing a roar, the wall was immediately emptied. These bombers immediately took the opportunity to jump to the head of the city, pulled out their waist knives and began to expand the results, control the mouth of the wall and cover. Follow-up personnel grabbed the city wall.

The sea wolf infantry took little effort, so they quickly attacked the wall and quickly stood firm. The subsequent attacking troops swarmed up, rushed up the wall like ants, and began to expand towards the two wings of the wall.

Once the hand reached the wall, the officer's counterattack was more restrained. After the sea wolf's * went to the castle, it was immediately organized by the officers to shoot at the platoon.

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

He guerrilla was also injured, received a shot in the shoulder, and was rescued by his own soldiers. At this time, the resistance will of the officers and soldiers had basically completely collapsed. 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. Swarmed out of the city.

Including the He guerrilla, a large number of defeated soldiers escaped from the west gate and fled straight to Tong'an County.

Next, the sea wolf infantry who attacked the city controlled the whole Gaopu City without much effort, and Gaopu City was completely announced to be broken.

However, the defeated soldiers who tried to escape to Tong'an County could not run far, because Meng Fei and Li Dazui had already judged that once the city was defeated, the officers and soldiers would definitely escape from the west gate and flee to Tong'an County.

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

When the defeated soldiers of Gaopu City fled here, Meng Fei led his troops to attack them head-on. Several rows * shot together, and the officers and soldiers were killed. At this time, the officers and soldiers were completely useless. The sea wolf's troops blocked the road in front of them, and Gaopu City had fallen behind them. They could only disintegrate on the spot and towards the fourth He fled in all directions.

However, Meng Fei was unreasonable and chased some of them and chased them until dark before withdrawing the troops. In this battle, the remaining 2,000 officers and soldiers gathered by Gao Pu, except for more than 300 killed and injured, were almost captured by the Sea Wolf Army, and only less than 300 defeated soldiers were able to escape at night.

Although the number of sea wolf siege operations is very small, they have also carried out simulated siege training many times before. Using the characteristics of their weapons, they have summarized a set of relatively effective siege experiences. This attack on Gaopu City is a test of their training. At present, the effect is really good. When paying for such a city, the tactics they adopted are very effective and can completely suppress the resistance of the defenders in the city.

In this attack on Gaopu City, the number of soldiers killed in the Sea Wolf Army was less than 30, and only dozens were injured, but it basically wiped out the defenders in the whole Gaopu City, which can be said that the results are quite brilliant.

Even the He guerrilla sitting in Gaopu City finally failed to escape. His own soldiers who protected him were slaughtered by Meng Fei and captured the He guerrilla alive and brought him back 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 the momentum of the sea wolf attack this time was very strong, after all, the government has sent troops to reinforce Gaopu City, plus the garrison of Gaopu City itself, as well as the temporary township bravery training, there are two in the city. Thousands of officers and soldiers are stationed.

From the perspective of these officials, no matter how bad it is, there is still no problem for Gaopu City to stick to the town with He guerrillas for a period of time. What's more, it is still unknown whether the sea wolf will attack Gaopu City at the cost of huge losses.

So they thought that as long as Gaopu was not lost, the sea wolf would not easily attack Tong'an County, but they never thought that the sea wolf would easily conquer Gaopu City and almost completely annihilate the defenders of Gaopu City, so their Tong'an County would be dangerous next.