Chapter 1664
Attacking Manila
Chapter 1664 Attacking Manila ([-])
If Sun Zhen was asked to choose a favorite fighting method, he would still choose to shoot the enemy with a rifle at a relatively short distance.If the combat distance is too far, it will take more time to aim, which cannot fully reflect the advantage of the shooting frequency of their equipment with this kind of burst rifle. If it is too close, it is easy to be injured by the enemy's cold weapons, and the distance of 50 meters In fact, this kind of rifle can basically shoot where it points, and the speed of reloading and loading is fast, which is the combat distance for its performance to be fully utilized.
Of course, the premise of this kind of performance is to be able to suppress the opponent in terms of firepower, preventing him from having the opportunity to calmly organize and counterattack.And the platoon led by Sun Zhen suddenly came out from nearby, which happened to have the effect of surprise soldiers.The few Spanish guards who hadn't reacted at the gate of the mansion were shot and fell almost at the same time as the gunshots sounded, and they didn't have time to take any resistance measures at all.
"Enemy attack!"
When Sun Zhen was less than ten meters away from the gate of the official residence, a Spaniard finally sounded the alarm at the top of his voice.But he only yelled, and Sun Zhen grabbed his hair and smashed his head on the stone pillar at the gate.
Then the first batch of Spanish soldiers who rushed out of the mansion encountered a round of rifle fire almost unpreparedly. Those who were lucky enough not to be shot quickly retreated to the mansion, not even the comrades who were shot had time help away.
Haihan soldiers rushed into the gate and quickly took control of the courtyard outside the mansion. Sun Zhen left a squad at the gate to guard the rear, while the others continued to attack the mansion.Although this three-story building is not small, it only has two entrances, one at the front and one at the back. As long as you control the ground floor, you can catch the people inside the building.
The people in the building obviously didn't plan to rush out to confront the Haihan army. To be precise, they probably didn't understand what happened outside at all. Why did the Haihan army suddenly push the front line here? According to the current battle situation , the Haihan Army that is the closest to here should also be a long way away.
Unless, the Haihan army successfully bypassed the city that was fortified without disturbing anyone.This possibility, which exists only in theory, seems to have become the terrifying reality in front of us.
Francis chose this layer-by-layer interception tactic before, relying on the geographical advantage that the defenders were familiar with the city's environment, but because of his limited troops, the range of defense was limited to only a few meters near the direction where the Haihan Army was advancing. It's just a street.However, Francis felt that such a deployment was sufficient, because the defenders were more familiar with the environment and could make corresponding adjustments when the Haihan Army changed its attack direction.But he really couldn't imagine that the Haihan army already had a detailed map of the city in their hands. As long as they mastered the defensive range of the defenders in this urban area, they could swagger around the almost deserted urban area and attack directly. The core organization responsible for commanding the defense of this urban area.
The people in the building didn't know whether it was a surprise attack by a small group of troops outside or the main force of the Haihan army had already arrived, but they took the initiative to shrink the defense line to the mansion, which slightly delayed the opponent's offensive.The battering hammer has been hammered several times, and the door panel is also cracked, but the main entrance of the mansion still hasn't been smashed open. It seems that the Spaniards have already set up obstacles indoors, and it is somewhat difficult to break in through the main entrance.
However, this did not trouble Sun Zhen, he immediately shifted the direction of attack, attacking the French windows on both sides of the main entrance.The floor-to-ceiling windows are made of wood, with several palm-sized pieces of glass inlaid on them to play the role of lighting.This kind of window cannot be blocked firmly in a short period of time. Sun Zhen shouted, and the soldiers smashed the glass on some of the windows with gun butts, and then threw incendiary grenades into the room. After several explosions and roars, Sun Zhen led the crowd to break through the window, and when he saw anyone who could still stand, he shot and knocked them down.
At this time, the defending troops deployed outside finally noticed the fire in the backyard, and hurriedly pulled some people back to make a rescue. However, the Haihan army had already set up a firepower point at the gate outside the mansion.Although there are only a dozen rifles, it is difficult for the reinforcements of hundreds of people to move an inch away from a hundred meters away.After leaving behind a dozen or so corpses, the Spaniards resolutely gave up their plan to rush towards the mansion from the front, and turned to disperse and detour to surround the flanks.Although there is a wall around the mansion, it is much easier to climb over the wall than to break through the firepower net of the Haihan army. At least it seems that it is not so easy to die.
And Sun Zhen led his department to basically complete the cleaning work on the first floor in the mansion.The few grenades that were thrown in earlier made most of the armed personnel gathered in the hall on the first floor who were preparing to resist at that time lose their combat effectiveness. When Sun Zhen and others entered, they did not encounter much resistance and successfully took down a control of the building.
However, when the soldiers tried to go up the stairs to the second floor, they were shot from overhead.After several rounds of firefights, the Haihan army finally cleared the two firepower points upstairs.After rushing up to the second floor, Sun Zhen found that his opponents had retreated into various rooms to continue to resist, and some of them went up to the third floor.Obviously, the Spaniards did not intend to catch them without a fight, but to deal with their own side to the end.
"Move faster!"
After Sun Zhen finished speaking, he looked at the window on the second floor, and saw that the Spanish army outside had begun to look for a new breakthrough point outside the mansion, and the troops he had deployed at the gate were also fighting and retreating, otherwise if the opponent attacked from both sides If they climb over the wall and come in, they will be attacked from both sides.
Sun Zhen led this army to go deep alone. If he could solve this command post, it would be a great achievement, but trapped in this mansion, it will be very difficult to escape for a while.But Sun Zhen was not in a panic. He firmly believed that he would lead this reinforced platoon to hold this place until reinforcements arrived.
Of course, to achieve such an effect, first of all, he had to completely destroy this so-called headquarters and cut off the enemy's command system before the opponent counterattacked.Now it's time to see who moves faster, whether the Haihan army will clear the command structure in this mansion first, or the Spanish army outside will come in first to complete the counterattack.
Sun Zhen divided another squad to clean up the rooms on the second floor one by one, and he led the remaining soldiers to start a firefight with the enemies on the third floor.There were also quite a few people on the other side retreating to the third floor, densely packed muskets protruding from the middle of the railing, aiming at the only staircase going upstairs.At such a short distance, even if the Spaniard's musket is mediocre, it is enough to kill him with one shot. Whoever dares to bite the bullet and charge upwards will inevitably be beaten into a honeycomb.
Sun Zhen still adopted the previous cracking method, using the shooting blind spot on the upper floor to throw the grenade, and then used intensive firepower to attack the shooting position on the edge of the stairs on the third floor.This method is very difficult for the Spaniards who lack indoor combat experience to guard against. The defense line built was almost disintegrated by the Haihan army downstairs in just a few seconds.
Once the superiority in firepower was established, Sun Zhen took the lead and went straight to the third floor.A Spanish officer stood at the end of the stairs and slashed down with a knife. Sun Zhen blocked the blow with his guns in both hands. He passed out and fell to the ground.Sun Zhen spat and saw that there were no other people in the corridor on the third floor, so he ordered the room to be searched immediately.
At such a time, Sun Zhen didn't care whether he was going to be captured alive, and would shoot twice at any closed door before breaking in, in case the Spaniards hid in the room and made a sneak attack.
The Spaniards downstairs have regained control of the courtyard, forcing the broken Haihan army back to the hall on the first floor of the mansion.However, they didn't have grenades to break the defense. Although they surrounded the mansion, they couldn't rush in immediately. On the contrary, because of the lack of concealed bunkers in the courtyard, they were shot and killed several people one after another from the doors and windows by the Haihan army.
After Sun Zhen breached three rooms in succession on the third floor, he finally bumped into the Lord in the fourth room.Before the door of this room was broken, the people in the room had several rounds of shooting with the Haihan army in the corridor, and the door was smashed to pieces.After the counterattack in the house stopped, Sun Zhen kicked open the crumbling door without waiting for the hammer to come up.
Apart from the few people lying on the floor lying in pools of blood, there were three men left in the room who were still capable of fighting, but they only had a saber in their hands. Presumably it was too late to reload after the musket had been shot just now.Sun Zhen yelled in the Spanish he had learned before the war, telling them to surrender, but these people obviously didn't have this plan, and they tried to rush forward for the final fight while yelling.However, Sun Zhen didn't intend to give them this chance, he fired first, and then his subordinates also fired together, killing the three men on the spot.
Seeing that one of them was clearly in military uniform, Sun Zhen called someone to bring a prisoner over, and he also called over the interpreter accompanying the army.
After experiencing the battle with Sun Zhen’s Portuguese translator, he was quite excited, and he didn’t seem to worry about how he would get out of this place in the future. After listening to Sun Zhen’s instructions, he went to let the prisoner identify him and was shot dead. officer status.
After being identified by the captives, the Spanish officer who was shot dead by Sun Zhen himself was Lieutenant Gonzalo, the aide of Francis, the commander of Manila City Defense, and also the supreme commander of the command post.
"He deserves to be captured alive!" After hearing this, Sun Zhen felt a little regretful inwardly. For such an officer with status, he would probably be able to pay for his ransom after the war, and the credit will also be credited to him at that time.But now that the man is dead, then Sun Zhen only has one battle achievement for killing an enemy officer, and there will be no commission bonus from the ransom fee.
At this time, someone came down to report that the enemy army had begun to gather and surround, and the first floor was about to be overwhelmed, and the soldiers were fighting and retreating to the second floor.
Sun Zhen pointed at Gonzalo's body and said, "Throw his body out and let the Spaniards decide whether to continue the beating!"
Sun Zhen understood very well that one of the reasons why the Spaniards stormed the mansion was naturally to rescue the people in the headquarters, but now that the commander Gonzalo had been killed, the opponent's combat purpose was only to fight with Sun Zhen's troops. Fight to the death here.Without command, these Spanish soldiers may not have enough motivation to continue fighting.
Two soldiers took Gonzalo by the hands and feet, carried his body to a balcony on the third floor, and then threw him straight out.Soon the Spanish soldiers outside discovered that the corpse that fell from the third floor was their own commander, and the scene became a little chaotic.At present, whether to continue to attack the official residence and destroy the Haihan army entrenched in it at all costs, or to focus on the southern front and continue to intercept the main force of the Haihan army, suddenly there are different opinions.
Sun Zhen divided his men into two groups, and one group guarded the stairs on the second floor. He also specially assigned all the remaining grenades to them. If necessary, they could blow up the stairs and delay the time for a while.The other group was personally commanded by him, deploying firepower points on the windows and balconies on the second and third floors, condescending to shoot and kill the Spanish army outside the mansion.
However, after a series of vicious battles, the ammunition carried by Sun Zhen's troops was not too much, so he specially asked the soldiers to save ammunition as much as possible, and to be sure when firing, and strive to make every bullet Can play a lethal effect.Sun Zhen shot a red signal bomb into the sky from the window to point out the direction of attack for his reinforcements.In fact, most of his tasks have been completed, and the next step is to see if the main force of the Haihan Army can arrive in time to respond.
"Sun Zhen is really bold and reckless!" Gao Qiaonan was also a little surprised after receiving the report from the front, but he admired this fighting style.Personally leading troops into the enemy-occupied area, this is what Gao Qiaonan used to do when leading troops, and now he can be regarded as a successor.Gao Qiaonan thought it was a good thing to have such an officer in the special warfare battalion, but he didn't know if this guy was as lucky as himself and could survive after completing the mission.
Gao Qiaonan has already received an order from Qian Tiandun to send another reinforced company to the battle zone in the southeast city to speed up the advance to the east gate.Now it seems that there is one more task, and that is to reinforce Sun Zhen who is going to attack the enemy headquarters.
At noon, the defenders who had been fighting endlessly with the Haihan Army suddenly became confused, and then began to voluntarily withdraw. Soon, the Haihan Army saw the red signal flare shot into the sky from the enemy-occupied area, and knew that the Sun who broke into the enemy's rear The real department has already succeeded, and immediately stepped up the offensive, advancing in the direction of the signal flare.
About an hour later, the main force of the Haihan army finally dispersed the enemy troops on the advancing route and arrived at the already devastated enemy command post.Amakusa Shiro, who led the team, looked up and saw a pair of red and blue flags planted on a balcony on the third floor. Although it was somewhat incomplete, it was still waving in the wind.
(End of this chapter)
If Sun Zhen was asked to choose a favorite fighting method, he would still choose to shoot the enemy with a rifle at a relatively short distance.If the combat distance is too far, it will take more time to aim, which cannot fully reflect the advantage of the shooting frequency of their equipment with this kind of burst rifle. If it is too close, it is easy to be injured by the enemy's cold weapons, and the distance of 50 meters In fact, this kind of rifle can basically shoot where it points, and the speed of reloading and loading is fast, which is the combat distance for its performance to be fully utilized.
Of course, the premise of this kind of performance is to be able to suppress the opponent in terms of firepower, preventing him from having the opportunity to calmly organize and counterattack.And the platoon led by Sun Zhen suddenly came out from nearby, which happened to have the effect of surprise soldiers.The few Spanish guards who hadn't reacted at the gate of the mansion were shot and fell almost at the same time as the gunshots sounded, and they didn't have time to take any resistance measures at all.
"Enemy attack!"
When Sun Zhen was less than ten meters away from the gate of the official residence, a Spaniard finally sounded the alarm at the top of his voice.But he only yelled, and Sun Zhen grabbed his hair and smashed his head on the stone pillar at the gate.
Then the first batch of Spanish soldiers who rushed out of the mansion encountered a round of rifle fire almost unpreparedly. Those who were lucky enough not to be shot quickly retreated to the mansion, not even the comrades who were shot had time help away.
Haihan soldiers rushed into the gate and quickly took control of the courtyard outside the mansion. Sun Zhen left a squad at the gate to guard the rear, while the others continued to attack the mansion.Although this three-story building is not small, it only has two entrances, one at the front and one at the back. As long as you control the ground floor, you can catch the people inside the building.
The people in the building obviously didn't plan to rush out to confront the Haihan army. To be precise, they probably didn't understand what happened outside at all. Why did the Haihan army suddenly push the front line here? According to the current battle situation , the Haihan Army that is the closest to here should also be a long way away.
Unless, the Haihan army successfully bypassed the city that was fortified without disturbing anyone.This possibility, which exists only in theory, seems to have become the terrifying reality in front of us.
Francis chose this layer-by-layer interception tactic before, relying on the geographical advantage that the defenders were familiar with the city's environment, but because of his limited troops, the range of defense was limited to only a few meters near the direction where the Haihan Army was advancing. It's just a street.However, Francis felt that such a deployment was sufficient, because the defenders were more familiar with the environment and could make corresponding adjustments when the Haihan Army changed its attack direction.But he really couldn't imagine that the Haihan army already had a detailed map of the city in their hands. As long as they mastered the defensive range of the defenders in this urban area, they could swagger around the almost deserted urban area and attack directly. The core organization responsible for commanding the defense of this urban area.
The people in the building didn't know whether it was a surprise attack by a small group of troops outside or the main force of the Haihan army had already arrived, but they took the initiative to shrink the defense line to the mansion, which slightly delayed the opponent's offensive.The battering hammer has been hammered several times, and the door panel is also cracked, but the main entrance of the mansion still hasn't been smashed open. It seems that the Spaniards have already set up obstacles indoors, and it is somewhat difficult to break in through the main entrance.
However, this did not trouble Sun Zhen, he immediately shifted the direction of attack, attacking the French windows on both sides of the main entrance.The floor-to-ceiling windows are made of wood, with several palm-sized pieces of glass inlaid on them to play the role of lighting.This kind of window cannot be blocked firmly in a short period of time. Sun Zhen shouted, and the soldiers smashed the glass on some of the windows with gun butts, and then threw incendiary grenades into the room. After several explosions and roars, Sun Zhen led the crowd to break through the window, and when he saw anyone who could still stand, he shot and knocked them down.
At this time, the defending troops deployed outside finally noticed the fire in the backyard, and hurriedly pulled some people back to make a rescue. However, the Haihan army had already set up a firepower point at the gate outside the mansion.Although there are only a dozen rifles, it is difficult for the reinforcements of hundreds of people to move an inch away from a hundred meters away.After leaving behind a dozen or so corpses, the Spaniards resolutely gave up their plan to rush towards the mansion from the front, and turned to disperse and detour to surround the flanks.Although there is a wall around the mansion, it is much easier to climb over the wall than to break through the firepower net of the Haihan army. At least it seems that it is not so easy to die.
And Sun Zhen led his department to basically complete the cleaning work on the first floor in the mansion.The few grenades that were thrown in earlier made most of the armed personnel gathered in the hall on the first floor who were preparing to resist at that time lose their combat effectiveness. When Sun Zhen and others entered, they did not encounter much resistance and successfully took down a control of the building.
However, when the soldiers tried to go up the stairs to the second floor, they were shot from overhead.After several rounds of firefights, the Haihan army finally cleared the two firepower points upstairs.After rushing up to the second floor, Sun Zhen found that his opponents had retreated into various rooms to continue to resist, and some of them went up to the third floor.Obviously, the Spaniards did not intend to catch them without a fight, but to deal with their own side to the end.
"Move faster!"
After Sun Zhen finished speaking, he looked at the window on the second floor, and saw that the Spanish army outside had begun to look for a new breakthrough point outside the mansion, and the troops he had deployed at the gate were also fighting and retreating, otherwise if the opponent attacked from both sides If they climb over the wall and come in, they will be attacked from both sides.
Sun Zhen led this army to go deep alone. If he could solve this command post, it would be a great achievement, but trapped in this mansion, it will be very difficult to escape for a while.But Sun Zhen was not in a panic. He firmly believed that he would lead this reinforced platoon to hold this place until reinforcements arrived.
Of course, to achieve such an effect, first of all, he had to completely destroy this so-called headquarters and cut off the enemy's command system before the opponent counterattacked.Now it's time to see who moves faster, whether the Haihan army will clear the command structure in this mansion first, or the Spanish army outside will come in first to complete the counterattack.
Sun Zhen divided another squad to clean up the rooms on the second floor one by one, and he led the remaining soldiers to start a firefight with the enemies on the third floor.There were also quite a few people on the other side retreating to the third floor, densely packed muskets protruding from the middle of the railing, aiming at the only staircase going upstairs.At such a short distance, even if the Spaniard's musket is mediocre, it is enough to kill him with one shot. Whoever dares to bite the bullet and charge upwards will inevitably be beaten into a honeycomb.
Sun Zhen still adopted the previous cracking method, using the shooting blind spot on the upper floor to throw the grenade, and then used intensive firepower to attack the shooting position on the edge of the stairs on the third floor.This method is very difficult for the Spaniards who lack indoor combat experience to guard against. The defense line built was almost disintegrated by the Haihan army downstairs in just a few seconds.
Once the superiority in firepower was established, Sun Zhen took the lead and went straight to the third floor.A Spanish officer stood at the end of the stairs and slashed down with a knife. Sun Zhen blocked the blow with his guns in both hands. He passed out and fell to the ground.Sun Zhen spat and saw that there were no other people in the corridor on the third floor, so he ordered the room to be searched immediately.
At such a time, Sun Zhen didn't care whether he was going to be captured alive, and would shoot twice at any closed door before breaking in, in case the Spaniards hid in the room and made a sneak attack.
The Spaniards downstairs have regained control of the courtyard, forcing the broken Haihan army back to the hall on the first floor of the mansion.However, they didn't have grenades to break the defense. Although they surrounded the mansion, they couldn't rush in immediately. On the contrary, because of the lack of concealed bunkers in the courtyard, they were shot and killed several people one after another from the doors and windows by the Haihan army.
After Sun Zhen breached three rooms in succession on the third floor, he finally bumped into the Lord in the fourth room.Before the door of this room was broken, the people in the room had several rounds of shooting with the Haihan army in the corridor, and the door was smashed to pieces.After the counterattack in the house stopped, Sun Zhen kicked open the crumbling door without waiting for the hammer to come up.
Apart from the few people lying on the floor lying in pools of blood, there were three men left in the room who were still capable of fighting, but they only had a saber in their hands. Presumably it was too late to reload after the musket had been shot just now.Sun Zhen yelled in the Spanish he had learned before the war, telling them to surrender, but these people obviously didn't have this plan, and they tried to rush forward for the final fight while yelling.However, Sun Zhen didn't intend to give them this chance, he fired first, and then his subordinates also fired together, killing the three men on the spot.
Seeing that one of them was clearly in military uniform, Sun Zhen called someone to bring a prisoner over, and he also called over the interpreter accompanying the army.
After experiencing the battle with Sun Zhen’s Portuguese translator, he was quite excited, and he didn’t seem to worry about how he would get out of this place in the future. After listening to Sun Zhen’s instructions, he went to let the prisoner identify him and was shot dead. officer status.
After being identified by the captives, the Spanish officer who was shot dead by Sun Zhen himself was Lieutenant Gonzalo, the aide of Francis, the commander of Manila City Defense, and also the supreme commander of the command post.
"He deserves to be captured alive!" After hearing this, Sun Zhen felt a little regretful inwardly. For such an officer with status, he would probably be able to pay for his ransom after the war, and the credit will also be credited to him at that time.But now that the man is dead, then Sun Zhen only has one battle achievement for killing an enemy officer, and there will be no commission bonus from the ransom fee.
At this time, someone came down to report that the enemy army had begun to gather and surround, and the first floor was about to be overwhelmed, and the soldiers were fighting and retreating to the second floor.
Sun Zhen pointed at Gonzalo's body and said, "Throw his body out and let the Spaniards decide whether to continue the beating!"
Sun Zhen understood very well that one of the reasons why the Spaniards stormed the mansion was naturally to rescue the people in the headquarters, but now that the commander Gonzalo had been killed, the opponent's combat purpose was only to fight with Sun Zhen's troops. Fight to the death here.Without command, these Spanish soldiers may not have enough motivation to continue fighting.
Two soldiers took Gonzalo by the hands and feet, carried his body to a balcony on the third floor, and then threw him straight out.Soon the Spanish soldiers outside discovered that the corpse that fell from the third floor was their own commander, and the scene became a little chaotic.At present, whether to continue to attack the official residence and destroy the Haihan army entrenched in it at all costs, or to focus on the southern front and continue to intercept the main force of the Haihan army, suddenly there are different opinions.
Sun Zhen divided his men into two groups, and one group guarded the stairs on the second floor. He also specially assigned all the remaining grenades to them. If necessary, they could blow up the stairs and delay the time for a while.The other group was personally commanded by him, deploying firepower points on the windows and balconies on the second and third floors, condescending to shoot and kill the Spanish army outside the mansion.
However, after a series of vicious battles, the ammunition carried by Sun Zhen's troops was not too much, so he specially asked the soldiers to save ammunition as much as possible, and to be sure when firing, and strive to make every bullet Can play a lethal effect.Sun Zhen shot a red signal bomb into the sky from the window to point out the direction of attack for his reinforcements.In fact, most of his tasks have been completed, and the next step is to see if the main force of the Haihan Army can arrive in time to respond.
"Sun Zhen is really bold and reckless!" Gao Qiaonan was also a little surprised after receiving the report from the front, but he admired this fighting style.Personally leading troops into the enemy-occupied area, this is what Gao Qiaonan used to do when leading troops, and now he can be regarded as a successor.Gao Qiaonan thought it was a good thing to have such an officer in the special warfare battalion, but he didn't know if this guy was as lucky as himself and could survive after completing the mission.
Gao Qiaonan has already received an order from Qian Tiandun to send another reinforced company to the battle zone in the southeast city to speed up the advance to the east gate.Now it seems that there is one more task, and that is to reinforce Sun Zhen who is going to attack the enemy headquarters.
At noon, the defenders who had been fighting endlessly with the Haihan Army suddenly became confused, and then began to voluntarily withdraw. Soon, the Haihan Army saw the red signal flare shot into the sky from the enemy-occupied area, and knew that the Sun who broke into the enemy's rear The real department has already succeeded, and immediately stepped up the offensive, advancing in the direction of the signal flare.
About an hour later, the main force of the Haihan army finally dispersed the enemy troops on the advancing route and arrived at the already devastated enemy command post.Amakusa Shiro, who led the team, looked up and saw a pair of red and blue flags planted on a balcony on the third floor. Although it was somewhat incomplete, it was still waving in the wind.
(End of this chapter)