103 Fierce battles in the city
The raindrops of beans fell, and soon there was a sound of rain between heaven and earth, and this rain invisibly helped Lin Fei, because on a rainy night, the sound of rain would drown out the sound of gunfire, and it would be even more difficult for the Spaniards to figure out the situation on the battlefield.
At this time, Servete was not in the city, but in the barracks command post in the center of the city, after all, he was in his fifties, and his body could not be compared with young people in his twenties, young soldiers could stay up all night on the city wall to guard the city, but Servette would not be able to, so he took advantage of the opportunity when Lin Fei ordered the troops to stop the attack today and returned to the camp to rest.
Since the center of the city was far from the south and east of the city, Servet only heard the explosion, and he did not hear the gunfire of the patrol being killed, so he did not know what was happening at this time, he hurriedly called the adjutant and asked, "What happened?" โ
The adjutant was also confused and said, "There was an explosion in the south of the city, and we don't know the specific situation. โ
Servette hurriedly asked, "Did you send scouts?" โ
The adjutant replied: "I have been sent out, but I have not come back yet, and it is estimated that it will take five minutes to come back at the earliest." โ
Servette frowned, thinking that five minutes was too long for a rapidly changing battlefield, but there was no choice but to wait. Servette didn't expect that it was these five minutes that made the Spanish army lose the initiative on the entire battlefield!
During the time that Servette was waiting, Qi Lei led the first company to the vicinity of the east gate, and Lin Fei's large army was at the location of the northeast gate, which was not too far from the east gate, so there were defenders here at the east gate.
The defenders of the East Gate did not react when they saw Qi Lei and others, and as soon as Qi Lei waved his hand, the soldiers threw a series of grenades over, and the grenades exploded in the defenders, and the defenders were in a big mess and ran down the city in a panic.
Qi Lei pointed down the stairs of the city wall with his hand and said: "Second row, third row, rush down to open the city gate, one row will stay at the head of the wall with me, covering the second and third rows." โ
The soldiers of the second and third platoons immediately rushed down the city wall like wolves, and the "four-three system" combat group designed by Lin Fei played a role again at this time, and the soldiers of the two platoons immediately divided the labor again with the "four-three system" group, some groups went to annihilate the temporary barracks on the side of the city wall, and some groups went to open the city gates.
Lin Fei's troops were well organized, on the other hand, the Spaniards' troops, an infantry squad of ten people, only one squad leader, this rainy night that suffered a surprise attack today, has long become a plate of scattered sand, the wolf bรจi fled, and even the temporary barracks were not needed, and the soldiers of the attacking battalion group quickly took the temporary barracks, using this as a fulcrum to cover the soldiers of the broken door group.
The soldiers of the door-breaking group rushed to the city gate, several people raised the door latch, more than a dozen people pushed the city gate together, the gate made a dull sound, and gradually opened, Qi Lei took out a signal gun and shot three green signal flares into the sky, Lin Fei in the distance immediately understood when he saw the signal flare - Qi Lei broke through the city gate, he was excited, waved his hand and ordered - siege!
The first regiment rushed to the city gate under the leadership of Niu Dalong, while the second regiment launched a feint attack in the original direction of attack, due to the confusion of the Spanish army at the east gate, the attack on the east gate was not reported, but the enemy army in the direction of the second regiment's feint attack reported the attack, and the guide Zรฌ Servette believed that the main direction of attack of the Chinese Empire was at the northeast city gate, so the reserve was transferred to the direction of the feint.
The first regiment attacking the east gate entered the city without encountering any resistance, and their first target after entering the city was the ammunition depot in the east of the city.
The Spanish ammunition depot in the east of the city is the ammunition center of the entire Spanish army, once this place is captured, the Spanish army in the city will face the embarrassing situation of having guns and no bullets, and after laying the ammunition depot, Lin Fei's troops will have a stable fulcrum in the city, and it will be very convenient to carry out follow-up attacks.
The ammunition depot was brightly lit at this time, and many migrant workers, all of whom had been forcibly recruited, were waiting outside the ammunition depot to deliver ammunition.
It took less than fifteen minutes from Niu Dalong leading his troops into the city to killing the ammunition depot, and in these fifteen minutes, the scouts sent by Servette finally returned to Servette and reported: "There has been an explosion on the city wall in the southern part of the city, and a force from the Chinese Empire has entered the city. โ
Servette hurriedly asked, "Where did this troop go?" โ
The scout shook his head and said, "East Gate!" We heard the sound of gunfire at the east gate, and we met the defenders who had retreated from the east gate, and they told us that the east gate had been conquered by the enemy, and a large number of enemy troops had entered the city. โ
Servette slapped the table and shouted, "It's broken! The main direction of attack of the Huaxia Empire was at the East Gate, not the Northeast Gate, so he quickly ordered the reserves to go to the Northeast Gate to immediately go to the East Gate to protect the ammunition depot in the east of the city. โ
The heralds hurriedly ran out to deliver orders, but the army of this era had no radio, and the army's communication could only rely on people, so it would take a lot of time.
After entering the ammunition depot, Niu Dalong immediately gathered the Chinese workers who had been bullied, gave them the guns and bullets in the warehouse, and told them: "Go and fight the Spaniards!" โ
Niu Dalong did this at Lin Fei's behest, and Lin Fei didn't expect the Chinese workers to kill many Spaniards, the purpose of this was to interfere with the Spaniards in the city and make them unclear about the situation.
Just as Niu Dalong was handing out weapons to the Chinese, a subordinate reported: "A Spanish army is coming. โ
Niu Dalong immediately ordered: "A battalion, go to block the attack, and bring the Chinese compatriots; the second battalion, which was left to guard the ammunition depot and distribute guns to the Chinese people; The 3rd Battalion followed me to the Northeast Gate to receive the 2nd Regiment into the city. โ
The first battalion quickly seized the commanding heights near the ammunition depot and inflicted casualties on the Spanish troops with strong firepower, while the second battalion continued to distribute guns to the Chinese people, and the Chinese people in the city were oppressed by the Spaniards all day long.
The third battalion launched an attack on the Spanish defenders at the northeast gate, the Spanish defenders at the northeast gate were the elite in the city, and the number was the largest, but they did not take advantage of it in the face of the three battalions, on the one hand, because the attack of Lin Fei's troops tonight was very sudden, the Spanish army's intelligence was inaccurate, the command was ineffective, and it was completely defenseless, on the other hand, because Lin Fei equipped the troops with a new type of weapons!
This weapon is a grenadier canister, which can be regarded as an ultra-light mortar, its caliber is only 45 mm, just enough to put a grenade in it, and then put the propellant cartridge into it, unscrew the cover of the grenade, so that the lead is exposed, press the firing button, the propellant will burn, ignite the lead when the grenade is launched, the grenade can fly out of a distance of about 150 meters, and then explode in the air, leaving no dead ends.
According to the army weapon naming convention formulated by Lin Fei, this type of weapon is called "ZD-1 grenadier canister", its weight is very light, only a little more than 2 kilograms, Lin Fei equipped each squad with five, to make up for the lack of rifle surface lethality within 200 meters, most people throw grenades by hand at a distance of only 30 meters, this type of grenadier extends the range of grenades.
Niu Dalong told the squads of the 3rd Battalion not to shoot when approaching the Spanish barracks, and first threw a grenade with a grenadier canister, which did not make a sharp whistling when it fell, and it was so loud that the Spaniards did not realize its existence until a moment before the explosion.
Hundreds of grenades flew over and exploded on top of the Spanish barracks, instantly turning the barracks of the Spanish army into a sea of fire, and the defending troops in the barracks suffered countless casualties!
The Spaniards on the wall were terrified, and they didn't understand why an explosion was sounding behind them.
Niu Dalong immediately ordered the artillery company to occupy the high place of the building and bombard the Spanish army at the head of the city after the grenade blew up the Spaniards!
The artillery company went up to the roof of the nearby building under the leadership of Zhao Menggang, it was already raining and sunny at this time, and the firing of mortar shells was not hindered at all, and the mortar shells fell one after another on the top of the city, and the Spanish soldiers on the head of the city were very dense, and each shell was enough to blow up a group of people into a sieve!
There were also Spanish artillery at the head of the city, and the propellant of these cannons was piled on one side, and the mortar shells immediately detonated the propellant, and the propellant exploded on the wall, and the cannon was blown away.
At this time, the shortcomings of the backward organization of the Spanish army were once again exposed, and in the case of being attacked, they did not know how to fight, some stayed at the head of the city and shot downward, and some ran down the city and shot at Lin Fei's troops under the city.
Colonel Klaus, the guard of the Northeast Gate, hurriedly called Servette and told him that the troops at the Northeast Gate had been attacked, and when Servette heard this, he hurriedly asked, "How many people are attacking the Northeast Gate?" โ
Klaus said helplessly: "I don't know! โ
Servette slapped the table and scolded, "What are you eating?" How come it is not clear how many enemies there are? โ
Klaus said pitifully, "It's so dark, and they're hiding in the distance and throwing something that explodes at us, we really can't see how many of them there are!" โ
Servette scolded the bastard viciously, and then said: "You immediately lead the troops, withdraw from the northeast gate, withdraw to the front line of the city government-governor's palace-command post in the city center, and hold the main intersection!" โ
Klaus replied loudly, "My subordinates understand! Klaus put down the phone and asked people to convey the order, and then preemptively withdrew from the defensive position at the northeast gate and retreated to the city center, but at this time, the Spanish army had been disrupted by Lin Fei's troops, and many of them had not withdrawn, and they had become ghosts under the gun.
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