Without the "harassment" of the Hongyi cannons, and the Zheng family did not have decent archers, the Qiongzhou battalion, which had no pressure, soon approached a distance of 100 meters outside the acropolis. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

According to the agreement of the two battalion commanders, the task of opening the city gate was given to the second battalion, and the vanguard of the attack after the city was broken was replaced by the first battalion, so that it was more reasonable in terms of ammunition consumption and physical strength.

How to break through a small city with weak defenses without heavy weapons, Wei Lianheng already had experience when he attacked Changhua County: that is, the fire suppressed the city head, and the explosive package exploded the city gate.

The soldiers of the second battalion were arranged in a neat formation, with each two companies side by side as a horizontal platoon, in three rows and two horizontal columns, leaving two companies and an artillery company as reserves. Since it is shooting upwards towards the city wall, there is no need to worry about accidentally injuring the front row, so it can be lined up in such a dense horizontal line to ensure sufficient firepower delivery.

The soldiers in charge of the demolition were also ready, and a full ten soldiers were on standby with two explosives packs each - far more than the strength of an Acropolis gate. The reason for this arrangement is to ensure that even if there are casualties in the process of placing the explosive package, a sufficient number of explosive packages can be guaranteed.

Although Zheng Zhilong didn't know the routine of the Qiongzhou battalion to attack the city, seeing that the other party had a fearless appearance, he must have a way to attack the city, and he definitely couldn't stand still. He looked at Matos, who was on standby in the rear, and the black guards he led, and began a struggle in his heart: should he put this guard in the defense of the city or leave it for the last chance to save his life?

At this time, the Zheng clan began to persuade the big dragon head to send musketeers to the city wall to suppress the enemy, Zheng Zhilong began to waver, after all, it was not to the point of cornering, if he held on to the only musket team, even if he kept the city alive, he would let his brothers and his subordinates drift away. After much consideration, he ordered Matos to lead his men up the city wall to set up defenses.

After seeing a black man holding an arquebus on the wall, Wei Lianheng smiled faintly: "I thought there was no resistance, it turned out that there were still people who came to consume our ammunition." ”

No matter how the Zheng family responded, the combat method of the Qiongzhou battalion would not change, and after all the infantry were ready, Wei Lianheng gave an order: "All of them are there, target the city wall, suppress the fire, and shoot freely until the order stops." ”

The six companies of infantry raised their rifles at the wall in unison, and there was not a single noise except for the sound of guns clashing against each other. I saw a forest of spears pointed at the wall, motionless, and behind the muzzles of the black holes, there were calm and serious faces. Such strict discipline made the defenders at the head of the wall tremble, they had not seen such an army for many years.

Matos secretly praised that these infantry were more elite than the army of his old club, Portugal, but it was a pity that they were his opponents. He didn't know whether he could resist the other party's attack, so he could only do his part, sacrifice his own life and the lives of his subordinates if necessary, and be worthy of his employer.

The blacks began the tedious process of loading ammunition and lighting the arquebus. Normally, it takes about a minute for the arquebus to shoot from receiving the order to shooting, but it only takes about twenty seconds for the Qiongzhou battalion to do these actions, and the most elite infantry can even compress it to less than fifteen seconds. The serious imbalance in the rate of fire of the weapons of both sides doomed this to an unequal battle.

Before the wall fired, Wei Lianheng's command knife had already been chopped: "Fire!" ”

......Six hundred people pulled the trigger at the same time, and a dense burst of lead bullets instantly enveloped the wall, and many black people who were loading ammunition were hit and fell down screaming.

The soldiers received an order to fire freely, so they did not wait for the order to fire the next salvo and continued to reload for the second and third shots. Although the gunfire was no longer uniform, the continuity of the fire was greatly enhanced, and the rhythm of the blacks was completely disrupted, and it was not until the soldiers of the Qiongzhou battalion generally fired a third shot that the first return fire was launched.

At this time, the smoke peculiar to black powder shrouded the air of the two opposing sides, and the consequence of the confrontation was that neither side could see the opposite side clearly. The Qiongzhou battalion only relied on the vague shadows of the city wall and the direction from which the screams came to determine the landing point of the shot, and the blacks could only hide behind the battlements to reload, and then turn around and light the fire rope at a large black shadow under the city.

After several rounds of firing, because the Qiongzhou battalion had no cover and the formation was too dense, even though the opponent's rate of fire was several times slower, some people were still shot and casualties occurred. However, the situation of the black musketeers was even worse, as long as they showed their heads, the casualty rate remained high, and if they did not show their heads, they could not shoot effectively, and the others were already on the verge of collapse, and the blacks persevered with their endurance and obedience from slave birth.

Wei Lianheng saw that the time had come, so he ordered the city gate to be blown up. Ten soldiers rushed forward with a bag of explosives of thirty or forty pounds in one hand, and some people were hit by stray bullets on the way, and finally seven people successfully reached the city gate.

After lighting the long fuse, the Demomen quickly retreated, sacrificing two more in the process, and only half of them managed to place the explosives and retreat. Wei Lianheng frowned, it seems that in the future, the Demoman will have to find some ways to increase the chance of survival, otherwise this temporary class of troops will become the highest casualty rate in the entire Qiongzhou battalion, and there is no one.

In the smoke, the blacks were still fighting back mechanically, but as the casualties increased and their physical strength decreased, the speed and density of the shots gradually decreased, and they did not know that with the explosion of the explosive pack, everything they did was useless.

"Boom, boom", several loud noises one after another, several explosive packets exploded almost at the same time, the thin city gate was turned into powder by the violent explosion, the tiles on the city tower were shocked to the ground, shattered, the black musketeers on the wall and other Zheng family members were shocked to the ground by the energy of the explosion, and many people left blood in their mouths and noses.

The sudden change stunned the defenders, and by the time they finally reacted, the Qiongzhou battalion had already taken advantage of the smoke and dust to launch a charge, and rushed through the city gate in the blink of an eye. After resisting for less than an hour, the Acropolis was easily breached.

Everyone didn't expect the Acropolis to fall so quickly, and they were completely overwhelmed, let alone organize resistance on the spot. After Huang Hansheng led a battalion to rush into the acropolis first, most of the people of the Zheng family were scattered, and there was almost no resistance on a large scale, he kept in mind Xia Nan's instructions and went straight to the government office, the most important goal of this trip was to kill Zheng Zhilong, and the rest was not important.