Chapter 28： Siege of the city gate

Entering June, after two months of intensive preparations, Paul Greiman officially issued a combat order to the army to recover Port Fuland.

At this time, the Arda Guard already had two full-staffed reorganized battalions, with a total of more than 1,100 officers and soldiers. With the unremitting efforts of Heman and others, in addition to traditional cold weapons such as swords and spears, they were also equipped with 20 matchlock guns and two 4-pounder guns.

Outside Port Fulan, the Earl raised his binoculars to observe the pirates' fortifications from a distance. He invited opticians from other places to make this telescope, and it was quickly equipped in the army. The officers were full of praise for this sharp weapon that can observe the enemy's situation from a long distance. Of course, the optician was 'retained' by him with a high salary.

At this time, the port of Fulan has been reinforced by pirates. It is said to be a city wall, but compared with a big city like Jingyao, it is just a low earth enclosure. However, there are quite a lot of defensive weapons on it. From a distance, you can see something cooking in a large pot on the wall. It is either boiling hot oil or fetid feces. The pirates have discovered the gathering of troops outside the city and set the fire on fire ahead of time. stand up.

Not far from the city wall, a trench as deep as one person was dug. Between the trench and the city wall were densely scattered barbed caltrops, ground thorns and other sinister things.

Schroeder put down the binoculars and suggested: "Attack directly at the gate. We have artillery, and the wooden gate can be blasted open with a few shots. Then use muskets and artillery as a cover to fill up the trench in front of the gate, and then you can rush in." went in."

Paul nodded in agreement with the plan.

In the afternoon, two cannons were aimed at the gate of Port Fulan from a distance, and the battle began.

"Load...aim..." Following the command of the gunner, the gunners operated the artillery in an orderly manner. They had been training continuously for nearly two months for this actual combat, and every step of the movement seemed to be instinctive.

"Fire!" The gunner roared, and the gunner in charge of firing ignited the gunpowder in the fire door.

"boom!"

Accompanied by a huge roar, the 4-pound solid iron bullet rushed out of the barrel at a speed of 416 meters per second carrying huge kinetic energy, and hit the city wall of Port Fuland almost instantly.

The pirates on the wall only saw a burst of white smoke rising from the two strange things in the distance, and after two loud noises, they suddenly felt the city wall shake. Although it missed the gate, its power still gave the pirates a huge shock, and there were horrified shouts on the city wall.

"Calista, a ballista with a simpler structure but more powerful." Pirate leader Shark quickly judged this, and he quickly ordered his men not to gather together to avoid being caught by shells.

"Reset...Adjust the shooting angle!"

The gunners adjusted the angle slightly and quickly played the second round.

The second round of shelling still didn't focus on the city gate, but it smashed a piece of the wall. The shells penetrated the female wall and directly blasted a hapless pirate off the city wall, killing him instantly. The fragments of the wall also seriously injured his companions not far away on both sides.

Painful wailing sounded on the city wall, and the shark immediately ordered the two men to be taken down so as not to affect morale.

However, the morale had almost dropped at this time. After witnessing the power of the "Calista", all the pirates shrank their heads and shivered.

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Accompanied by a loud cracking sound, the fifth round of shelling finally hit the gate, and the wooden gate was smashed to pieces. The pirates ambushing on both sides of the gate were frightened. It's like thunder from the gods.

"Musketeers advance!"

The musketeers of Arda's army began to slowly advance towards the city wall under the cover of the shield bearers.

"The archers are ready, the enemy is about to attack the city, let the brothers at the gate watch closely."

Seeing the musketeers advancing and giving successive orders, he knew that the opponent was about to attack the city.

Pirates equipped with bows and arrows showed half of their bodies from the wall, looking for targets approaching the trench.

But the "siege soldiers" they thought stopped at a distance of more than 100 meters from the city wall. At this distance, their inferior bows and arrows could not cause any effective damage, not to mention that the opponent was protected by a shield.

There was a sound like fried beans, and 20 matchlock guns fired together. Immediately, 4 pirates were hit, paralyzed on the wall holding their wounds and screaming.

"Get down! Get down!" "It's the legendary black magic!" There was a burst of shouting from the city wall.

It's the kind of legendary evil weapon that can hit so far. The shark was secretly startled, why the enemy's long-range attack was not over yet, he thought that the enemy would fill in the trenches and attack the city next.

This is indeed the case. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the pirates on the wall to lie down to avoid the muskets, the soldiers carrying bags of soil quickly ran to the ditch in front of the gate and began to throw them in.

If you don't stop it, it will be too late, the shark can't care less, and roars: "Archer, attack!"

However, no one listened to his words, and all the people with bows and arrows hid behind the parapet and refused to get up.

The shark was furious: "Are you all deaf?"

One of his subordinates said with a sad face: "Boss, surrender! We can't win."

The shark sneered twice: "Hmph! Someone finally said it."

Immediately, he opened his bloodshot eyes wide and shouted at his subordinates: "Gleiman's father is in our hands. What do you think will happen after surrendering? Knowing what it is for people like us to hurt nobles Consequences?" The voice was indescribably insane.

Scary scenes appeared in the minds of the pirates.

In this harsh era, after civilians hurt nobles, the result depends entirely on the words of the nobles. Although it is said that some nobles forgive criminals, it is said that they are said to be good, but most of them impose severe punishments. Cutting off hands and feet is considered light, and it is very common to be executed directly. What is even more terrifying is being tortured to death or even life is worse than death. There used to be a lord who dealt with the person who assassinated himself in this way: insert a sharpened piece of wood into the back door of the victim, stand on the ground and let him fall slowly, and finally the victim wailed to death in endless pain.

Treating civilians like this, let alone these pirates who already have **** hands, everyone shuddered involuntarily.

"Fight with the noble boy!"

Under the oppression of fear the pirates were aroused to blood, and they clamored to fight Paul Grayman to the end.

But being pressed against the city wall and beaten was not an option. Anyway, the trench was almost filled, and the opponent was about to rush in. The shark ordered the minions to go down the wall to fight the opponent.

Just as the pirates were noisily moving down the wall, the shark called a confidant and whispered a few words.

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With the frightening roar of artillery sounding again, a cannonball drilled into the city gate hole, immediately opened a passage of flesh and blood in front of the city gate, and the pirates who gathered at the city gate disregarded their companions who fell to the ground and groaned, and scattered to the city gate in panic both sides.

Arda's army launched an assault at the right time. Four infantry companies stepped on sandbags and crossed the trench one by one. There were killing sounds in the street.

The musketeers rushed into the city behind them. They took advantage of the enemy being blocked by the gunmen and stood in a safe rear to fire freely. At such a short distance, they almost pointed at where to hit, accompanied by bursts of smoke rising. There was a sound of "bumping", and the lives of pirates were being harvested by projectiles one by one.

"Disarm, don't kill! Disarm, don't kill!"

A cavalryman rushed into the city and conveyed the earl's latest instructions to the pirates who had been divided into several parts.

"We surrender!"

As soon as they heard that they could avoid death, some of the **** pirates dropped their weapons and knelt on the ground to surrender. There was one who took the lead, and the pirates next to him followed suit, lest they fall behind the others, whether he would settle his score later, let's take a gamble first.

In a few minutes, all the pirates in the city gate area surrendered.