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The shells fired by dozens of heavy artillery roared and landed in Gaopu City, causing gray stones to fly in and out of Gaopu City. The morale that had been mobilized by He Guerrilla with great difficulty, after half an hour of shelling,

, the defenders in the city completely lost their fighting spirit.

The difference in technology makes this kind of battle seem so unfair. It can be said that this He Guerrilla tried his best. When the Sea Wolf started bombarding, the gunners on the death order city fought back, but in the sea

In the face of the ferocious artillery fire of the wolf, their counterattack seemed so weak.

The only two-thousand-pound Hongyi cannon in the city only fired three rounds before it was completely destroyed by the shells fired by Sea Wolf's naval gun. Dozens of officers and soldiers who were operating the cannon were also killed and injured nearly 100 times.

Half.

As for the other larger artillery pieces, they also did not have much effect. Their range could not reach Sea Wolf's warships at all, and they could only be beaten by Sea Wolf's naval guns without any ability to fight back.

Maybe some officers and soldiers are not as unbearable as they imagined. If they are given a fair opportunity to hold swords and guns and fight with sea wolves, their performance should not be too bad. However, due to the equipment

The generation difference makes it impossible for them to have such a chance of a fair decisive battle.

Sea Wolf has never thought about having a fair duel with them. Sea Wolf's philosophy is that as long as the problem can be solved with cannon, it should be solved with cannon as much as possible. If the cannon can't be solved, use muskets. When it really doesn't work, Sea Wolf

Only then can they mount their bayonets and use them to fight their opponents, and the Sea Wolf tribe does not lack such courage.

So while the Sea Wolf fleet here was bombarding Gaopu City, the Sea Wolf Army also started operations to the north of the city.

Their fighting method is very simple. With the many long-range Wolf Fang rifles they have on hand, they line up a hundred steps outside the city. Together with the mountain howitzers they carry with them, they first attack the threatening guns on the city top one by one.

The army's artillery was knocked out, and then the defenders on the city wall were fired violently with Wolf fang rifles.

Under such an attack, although there were many defenders on the city, there was no chance to counterattack. Groups of defenders were beaten to death on the city wall. Officers and soldiers who had never experienced such tactics were beaten to death.

Many of them were unable to fight back, and many of them were even killed by bullets fired through the perforations behind the crenellations, so the officers and soldiers were so frightened that they did not dare to stand on the city wall.

Some archers of the officers and soldiers tried to resist because of their skill and bravery. However, many archers just fired an arrow on the top of the city and were pierced by the bullets coming from the opposite direction and were killed on the spot.

On top of the city, within a short time, it was as if the city wall had been swept through. Many of the defenders were so frightened that they fled off the city wall, and the officials could not even hold them down.

In addition to these infantrymen using Wolf Fang rifles, Li Dazui also mobilized snipers from the army and built several wooden high platforms outside the city for the snipers to board. The lowest height of the high platform was the same as the city wall.

, or even beyond the height of the city wall, the sniper can condescendingly name the defenders on the city wall one by one.

Even if officers and soldiers lie down on the city wall, they will be shot by Sea Wolf's snipers. Therefore, all the original arrangements of He Guerrilla are invalid under Sea Wolf's tactics. If no one can stay on the city wall,

If so, then the matter of defense will naturally be out of the question.

Therefore, under the cover of a large number of musketeers, the rest of the Sea Wolf infantry methodically cleared away all kinds of obstacles originally built by the defenders outside the city.

In order to resist the sea wolf's attack, He Youyi set up many Juma and Luzhai on the open terrain outside Gaopu City in the past two days, and also inserted a lot of bamboo sticks in some places.

However, due to Sea Wolf's tactics, these various obstacles set up in advance had no effect in the face of Sea Wolf's attack, and were easily swept away by Sea Wolf's infantry.

As for the siege, there was not much suspense. Li Dazui and Meng Fei did not use any cunning tactics. Everything was quite satisfactory. After landing, they made a batch of long siege ladders and sent troops during the siege. They climbed up the long ladder and attacked the city wall.

But the soldiers they sent to lead the battle were the grenadiers in the army. Each of these soldiers carried three iron-shell grenades. Each of them also brought a shield, a single sword or a short spear, and began to attack the city. At that time, each man held a lighted match in his mouth.

The musketeers below the city used their muskets to suppress the officers and soldiers on the city. The grenadiers began to attack the city. The light infantry and long gunners followed closely behind and began to climb the long ladder towards the city in an orderly manner.

Seeing that the sea wolves began to attack, He Youyi personally ran to the wall in the north of the city to supervise the battle and urged the officers and soldiers to go up to the wall to resist. These officers and soldiers held some heavy wooden shields to try to block the muskets fired by the sea wolves.

But they still don't understand the power of Sea Wolf's fang rifle. These wooden shields can indeed effectively block the blunderbuss fired by ordinary bird blunderbuss, but they can't block the high-speed flying mine bullets.

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

Therefore, the officers and soldiers were finally driven to the city wall, but they were knocked to the ground again one after another. Even some of the officers' soldiers who were holding shields and wearing armor were beaten to death on the city wall.

As a result, the resistance of the officers and soldiers on the city wall seemed very weak. Although they resisted under the supervision of He Youyi, they were unable to stop the Sea Wolf's attack at all.

After these Sea Wolf grenadiers approached the city, they quickly lit their grenades and threw them onto the city wall with shaking hands. After hearing a roar, the city wall was immediately cleared. These grenadiers Immediately, he took the opportunity to jump to the top of the city, drew out his sword and began to expand the results of the battle. He controlled the area around the crenellations of the city wall and covered the following personnel to rush up the city wall.

Sea Wolf's infantry quickly attacked the city wall without much effort, and quickly established a firm foothold. The subsequent attacking troops swarmed up, like ants, quickly rushed up the city wall and headed towards The two wings of the city wall began to expand.

Once the musketeers boarded the city wall, the counterattack of the officers and soldiers was further curbed. After the Sea Wolf musketeers climbed onto the city wall, they immediately began to be organized by the officers for volley shooting.

In only about two hours, Sea Wolf captured almost the entire northern wall of Gaopu City and pressed the army into the city.

He Youyi was also injured and was shot in the shoulder. He was saved by the soldiers desperately. At this time, the officers and soldiers' will to resist had basically completely collapsed. Many officers and soldiers saw that the sea wolf had captured the city wall, so they never stopped.

Those who dared to stay in the city opened the west gate one after another and poured out of the city.

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

The Sea Wolf infantry who attacked the city next took control of the entire Gaopu City without much effort, and Gaopu City was completely declared defeated.

However, those defeated soldiers who tried to flee to Tong'an County could not run very 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 towards Tong'an County.

Therefore, when Li Dazui directed the siege, he ordered Meng Fei to lead two companies of infantry and lay an ambush on the only road about ten miles northwest of Gaopu City.

When the defeated troops in Gaopu City fled here, Meng Fei led his troops to attack them head-on. Several rows of muskets fired at them, and the defeated soldiers were killed. Now the officers and soldiers were completely helpless. There was a sea in front of them.

Wolf's tribe blocked the way, and Gaopu City had fallen behind them. They could only disintegrate on the spot and flee in all directions.

Meng Fei, on the other hand, was unyielding and led his troops in a mad pursuit. He pursued them until dark before withdrawing his troops. After this battle, among the two thousand officers and soldiers gathered by Gaopu, in the end, more than three hundred people were killed and injured.

In addition, almost all the rest were captured by the Sea Wolf Army, and less than 300 defeated soldiers were able to escape during the night.

Although the number of sea wolf siege operations is very small, they have conducted simulated siege training many times before. Using the characteristics of their weapons, they have summarized a set of relatively effective siege experience. This time they attacked Gaopu City.

, it can be regarded as a test of their training. So far, it seems that the effect is really good. When dealing with such a city, the tactics they adopted are very effective and can completely suppress the resistance of the defenders on the city.

In this attack on Gaopu City, less than thirty soldiers of the Sea Wolf Army were killed and only a few dozen were injured. However, they basically wiped out the entire defenders of Gaopu City. The results can be said to be quite brilliant.

Even the He guerrilla who was stationed in Gaopu City failed to escape in the end. The soldiers who protected him were slaughtered by Meng Fei and his troops, and the He guerrilla was captured alive and brought back to Gaopu City.

News of the fall of Gaopu City reached Tong'an County that night, and Tong'an County was also in an uproar. Although they felt that the Sea Wolf's attack this time was very powerful, after all, the government had sent troops to reinforce Gaopu City, and with the garrison of Gaopu City itself,

There were also temporarily summoned rural warrior regiments to practice, and there were fully two thousand officers and soldiers stationed in the city.

From the perspective of these officials, no matter how bad the situation is, with the Ariga guerrillas in charge, there is still no problem for Gaopu Castle to hold on for a period of time. Moreover, it is still unknown whether the Sea Wolf will risk huge losses to attack Gaopu Castle.

Therefore, they thought that as long as Gaopu was not lost, Seawolves would not easily attack Tongan County. However, they never expected that Seawolves would easily capture Gaopu City in just two days and almost annihilate them all.

The defenders of Gaopu City, then they will be in danger in Tong'an County.