Chapter 199: Severe Military Law

Outside Jintian, the Keelung Army had finished resting, and the troops were assembled behind the artillery positions.

The camp flags of each camp became the boundary between the camp and other camps, and the camp flags and the flags of the camp officers fluttered at both ends of the camp square. The buglers of each camp used the bugle to communicate with each other in the camp and pass information.

In front of the army, dozens of ammunition trucks were lined up in a row dozens of steps away from the artillery positions, providing ammunition supplies for more than 30 artillery pieces of various colors in front of them.

There is nothing better than being intimidated!

The old and young of the Deng family on the wall of the weir saw the thousands of troops shouting and killing outside, and then looked at the people around them, and their morale became even lower.

Not long after, a spotless white flag quietly rose on the wall of the enclosure.

"My fellow soldiers! My Deng family is honest and has never done anything bad. Everything before was a misunderstanding. I hope you can forgive me. The Deng family is willing to pay tribute to the Keelung Army and surrender. From now on, we will obey all orders under the Keelung Army flag and follow the general's lead!"

The speaker was Deng Wentian. It was hard for him to have such confidence and lung capacity at his old age to clearly shout out his meaning.

However, the artillery team deployed 300 steps outside the Huzhuang River received the military order from Tian Shengyuan, "Attention, all guns, open fire!"

"What misunderstanding? It's because we saw the sharp artillery fire. Let's go into the city and talk slowly!"

A group of artillery shells swept across the Huzhuang River and headed straight for the village wall built with blue bricks, stone strips, burnt ash and glutinous rice paste. The huge impact sent the artillery shells into the wall, and the people on the wall felt the shaking under their feet.

The Keelung Army responded to the proposal of the old man Deng with cannons.

It's too late to surrender now. Let's welcome our artillery.

"Fire back!" Deng Wulang waved his sword and shouted in Jintianwei.

This shout did not get an immediate response. The gunners on the turret hesitated and said, "Brother Wu, this cannon was harassed by the Keelung Army last night. I don't know how many shots were fired. Now the barrel is very hot. If you fire again, I'm afraid it will explode!"

"Assholes! Who told you to fire at night! Do you want to die if you don't fire during the day?! I don't care if the cannon has any problems. If these dogs of the Keelung Army enter the enclosure, everyone will die! Fire!"

Several gunners could not bear the scolding, so they had to carefully load the gunpowder and shells. Just when they were about to wave the matchlock to ignite the cannon, a loud noise shook the earth from the turret in the southwest corner of the enclosure. They were so scared that they quickly threw away the torches in their hands.

The barrel was overheated, and the big Portuguese machine exploded!

The bursting barrel of the big Portuguese machine instantly triggered the gunpowder barrel next to it. For a moment, the explosion of gunpowder pushed the sub-guns to the nearby city walls and the village wall, splashing beautiful blood flowers.

"Good job!" Seeing that his idea had worked, Tian Shengyuan clapped his hands happily.

"All gun muzzles are raised three degrees, facing the position of the battlement, and bomb them to death for me!"

The Keelung Army would not easily give up the opportunity to beat the drowning dog. Under the command of the artillery chief, one cannon after another began to bombard Jintianwei non-stop.

The rain of bullets formed by the artillery fire mixed with the broken bricks and rocks that were blown up by the shells, pressing the people hiding behind the battlement to the point that they could not raise their heads.

In the smoke, the Keelung Army's artillery focused on the two adjacent defensive fortifications of the artillery platform that had just exploded. The shells rained down like raindrops. Three eight-pound shells landed on the gun position of the Invincible General bronze cannon placed on the top of the city, and immediately knocked the barrel of the Invincible General away. At the same time, after a few jumps, the hot shells swept the gunpowder barrel next to it.

At the moment of the impact, a small cloud rose above the top of the city, mixed with shells and human remains, scattered like flowers scattered by a fairy.

And the scattered brick and stone debris also caused huge casualties to people. From time to time, cries, groans, and wails came from the rising smoke, mixed with thick blood and echoed sincerely on the wall of the village.

In a blink of an eye, the two city walls from the southeast corner of the artillery platform to the west were destroyed by artillery fire. After two rounds of concentrated artillery fire, there was no one who could stand on this section of the wall.

Someone leaned against the battlement of the wall, constantly stuffing pink intestines and other dark red and dark green internal organs into his stomach through the huge wound on his abdomen. The torn wound made him feel unbearable pain.

But no matter how hard he tried, soon, those internal organs and intestines would slip out of the wound silently.

He stuffed them back again and again, and the huge spasm caused by the pain in his body pushed out the intestines and internal organs silently. In this back and forth, his pupils gradually became larger and he lost his breath.

Another person was crawling on the wall of the village with difficulty, and from time to time he used his left hand to pull away the bodies one by one, and carefully searched the pile of rubble that was blocked by them, "My right hand, my right hand, without my right hand, how can I hold the plow to plow the fields, and how can the old and the young at home survive?"

Under the wall of the village, under the command of Weizhou, several buglers raised their trumpets at a 45-degree angle to the sky, and used loud trumpet sounds to tell the soldiers behind them that they could start trench filling operations!

With this loud and crisp trumpet sound, a thousand Hong Kong Island recruits rushed out of the passage between the camps like arrows, shouting, carrying straw bags full of soil on their shoulders, and under the cover of 500 musketeers, they rushed straight to Huzhuang River.

They took advantage of the smoke not yet dissipated on the wall of the village, and ran quickly to the riverside, throwing straw bags into the river, stirring up a splash on the river surface.

"The bandits are going to fill the river!"

Seeing the straw bags gradually emerging from the river surface in the smoke, Deng Wulang did not bother to wipe off the blood in the corners of his eyes, and roared: "Brothers who use fire guns, follow me!"

My lord, there is more to this chapter later^.^,

From the wall of the village, "bang bang" sounded, dozens of lead bullets flew down from the firing holes of the battlements on the top of the city, and more than a dozen new soldiers carrying straw bags on their shoulders fell to the ground.

"Quick! Drag them away! Send them to the back and give them to the military doctor!" The captain of the team threw the straw bag on his shoulder into the river with all his strength, and anxiously shouted to several soldiers to drag the injured compatriots down for treatment.

"Good! Just fight like this, I see what they can do!" Seeing that his tactics had taken effect, Deng Wulang couldn't help but shout proudly.

Then another round of bullets flew down from the top of the city wall, and several soldiers were knocked to the ground, with blood gushing out of their bodies and heads, and they were obviously dead.

"Ah!"

The three recruits who were on the battlefield saw such a tragic scene, and their comrades who were just talking and laughing with them were lying dead on the ground in an instant. They panicked and threw the straw bag on their shoulders casually, turned around and ran away, not paying attention to where the straw bag was thrown and whether it tripped their compatriots.

"If you are afraid of fighting in battle, causing chaos and disturbance, you will be executed according to the law!"

After running a few steps, you ran into the guards battalion who were covering and supervising the battle from behind, and were caught by Zhou Di.

Several sword and shield soldiers rushed forward, pressed the three fleeing recruits to the ground, and stripped them of their clothes and armor, "Kneel down!"

Before he finished speaking, a sword and shield soldier swung the big knife in his hand and chopped forward, "Puff!" The head was chopped off by the big knife, and the section of the neck seemed to shrink into the chest cavity. A moment later, the huge pressure in his body caused blood to spurt out, and it splattered all over the heads and faces of the people around him.

"Watch out! This is the fate of retreating in battle and disrupting the formation! Not only will he die, but his parents, wife, children, brothers and sisters will be discriminated against in the future! Even in Keelung, he won't be given land. This is the fate of deserters!" The three captains used their spears to pick up three heads and announced loudly to the new recruits.

"Those who died in battle will receive pensions; those who are disabled will also receive consolation money and a place to work to earn money and eat; those who escape will die, and they will also implicate their families. You can choose which way to die!"

In the face of the strict and almost cruel military discipline, no one dared to retreat.