Chapter 2980
Chapter 2980
Chapter 2980
As expected by Zheng Agui, this group of troop transport ships carrying soldiers from the Bangui Battalion was destined for Fort San Pedro on the other side of the strait. The landing site was not even a hundred meters from the ruins of the castle.
At this time, there were also passengers on the coast waiting to take these troop transport ships to leave the front line. Zheng Agui glanced at them, either wearing bandages, or using crutches, or the wounded soldiers being carried on stretchers.
Behind these wounded soldiers, there were some stretchers on the ground. The people lying on them had their faces covered with white cloths. They were obviously the people who died in the battle yesterday.
Zheng Agui stood on tiptoe and peeked through the gaps in the crowd. There seemed to be quite a few dead in the battle. Stretchers were densely packed and occupied a large area, at least dozens of people.Including the wounded who had to be evacuated from the line of fire, there were at least 200 people up and down.
Yesterday's fierce battle had made Zheng Agui expect certain casualties, but he did not expect that there would be so many casualties.
It's no wonder that the headquarters had to use a ruthless move before dark, blowing Fort San Pedro into rubble at any cost.
After disembarking, the soldiers did not need to be greeted by officers, and tacitly made way for the wounded soldiers.Some people silently took out their cigarettes and handed them to the wounded soldiers who passed by.
Although the casualties were not small, the results obtained in the attack yesterday were actually not bad.Zheng Agui and the others came to Fort San Pedro, where the collapsed city gate was still being cleaned up, but there was already a passage for carriages to enter and exit.
The corpses of the defenders were all pulled out from the castle one by one, piled up on the carts.
The reason for cleaning up the ruined Fort San Pedro is to count the results and confirm the role played by the blasting operation yesterday.
Second, if Haihan wanted to achieve a long-term occupation in the local area, he could not just sit back and watch these corpses rot and stink under his nose, but he had to get rid of them as soon as possible.
The third is that the Haihan Army needs a front-line command post, and Fort San Pedro has two relatively well-preserved city walls, which can be used as bunkers for the command post.
The Bangui Battalion was quickly assigned the task of clearing several forts in the surrounding area under the cover of artillery fire.The Manila battalion, which was struggling in this area yesterday, will temporarily withdraw from the line of fire and get a precious one-day rest.
"There is good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear first?" Zheng Agui tried his best to make his tone a little more relaxed, which might ease the pressure on the soldiers under him.
No one answered, and finally Qin Bo muttered, "Let's say the good news first!"
Everyone could see that the Haihan Army's offensive in Cebu was not very smooth, and it was inevitable that they would be nervous.
The battle situation here is much more intense than the places where they participated in the battle before. As the elite Manila battalion has suffered such heavy casualties, the performance of the Bangui battalion sent to the line of fire may not be as good. where to go.
Zheng Agui said: "The good news is that the ruins in front of us are the strongest fortress in the area. The next target to deal with will definitely be easier than this Fort San Pedro."
Qin Bo asked, "What's the bad news?"
"The bad news is..." Zheng Agui paused for a while before continuing: "It is said that there are at least ten fortresses in this area nearby. It is indeed not an easy task to clean up all these fortresses!"
This is far from easy, it is simply a daunting task for them.
These recruits have not been in the army for a long time, and have not had time to receive training on tough battles. As for the tactics of coordinated attack by infantry and artillery, it is completely unfamiliar.To attack the local fortress, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, is no longer as simple as clearing the town of Masbate.
But the military orders are like mountains, and the headquarters has already assigned the combat tasks to the Bangui Battalion. Naturally, there is no way to shirk it. Even if you know it is very dangerous, you can only bite the bullet at this time.
The sky was getting brighter, and the Haihan Army took the initiative to launch a new round of offensive.
The first target of Camp Bangui was a private fortress that was only [-] to [-] feet away from Fort San Pedro.This mouth-shaped fortress is surrounded by three-story buildings. The entrance to the ground floor and the doors and windows used have been blocked with a lot of bricks. It is obvious that the defenders have the heart to fight to the death.
But this kind of fort converted from private houses is just an ordinary masonry structure, and its stability is far less than San Pedro Fort. If it is bombarded with large-caliber artillery continuously, the outer wall of the building will definitely not be able to withstand it.
After San Pedro Fort was captured by the Haihan Army last night, the defenders of the fort did not try to counterattack or rescue, but entered a state of silence, and there was no movement until this morning.
Such a reaction is of course not difficult to understand. The entry and exit passages of this fortress have been blocked. Even if there are enough water sources and food for the defenders to hold on for a long time, the fastest consumption is definitely limited ammunition.If you take the initiative to open fire, it will be the intention of the Haihan Army.Keeping silent and waiting for the Haihan Army to attack before firing is the most reasonable way to deal with it.
The Haihan's offensive was initiated by artillery units, but it took some time for the artillery to be in place.However, this also gave Bangui Battalion more preparation time, and officers at all levels were able to digest the battle plan just deployed.
The four large-caliber heavy artillery pieces, which arrived in the line of fire this morning, are now set up in temporary positions outside Fort San Pedro.Although the range of the defenders' weapons seemed to be within the reach of Haihan's artillery positions, the artillery positions built by the engineers overnight had very thick bunkers, and the small Spanish artillery could not penetrate these fortifications.
These guns with a caliber of nearly half a foot are very heavy and are designed to be used exclusively in siege warfare.However, in the process of attacking Fort San Pedro yesterday, they played a very general role. In the end, they could only rely on sapper blasting to break through the castle.
But against targets like today, the value of these artillery pieces is fully demonstrated.The four cannons aimed at the entrance of the fort and fired a salvo. After the dust and smoke dissipated, a large gap had collapsed between the blocked entrance and the second floor, as if it had opened on this side of the wall. Come in a hole.
The second round of salvos doubled the size of the hole, enough for people to get in and out.However, this obviously did not meet the conditions for launching a charge, and the artillery unit stopped after two more rounds of shooting.
The wall that was bombarded was already broken, the superstructure collapsed into a piece of rubble, forming a slope leading to the interior, and the entire fortress also changed from a mouth shape to a door shape.
The sound of the charging horn sounded at this moment, and the Haihan army rushed out of the bunker and rushed to the gap that was forcibly blasted by the artillery fire.
(End of this chapter)
As expected by Zheng Agui, this group of troop transport ships carrying soldiers from the Bangui Battalion was destined for Fort San Pedro on the other side of the strait. The landing site was not even a hundred meters from the ruins of the castle.
At this time, there were also passengers on the coast waiting to take these troop transport ships to leave the front line. Zheng Agui glanced at them, either wearing bandages, or using crutches, or the wounded soldiers being carried on stretchers.
Behind these wounded soldiers, there were some stretchers on the ground. The people lying on them had their faces covered with white cloths. They were obviously the people who died in the battle yesterday.
Zheng Agui stood on tiptoe and peeked through the gaps in the crowd. There seemed to be quite a few dead in the battle. Stretchers were densely packed and occupied a large area, at least dozens of people.Including the wounded who had to be evacuated from the line of fire, there were at least 200 people up and down.
Yesterday's fierce battle had made Zheng Agui expect certain casualties, but he did not expect that there would be so many casualties.
It's no wonder that the headquarters had to use a ruthless move before dark, blowing Fort San Pedro into rubble at any cost.
After disembarking, the soldiers did not need to be greeted by officers, and tacitly made way for the wounded soldiers.Some people silently took out their cigarettes and handed them to the wounded soldiers who passed by.
Although the casualties were not small, the results obtained in the attack yesterday were actually not bad.Zheng Agui and the others came to Fort San Pedro, where the collapsed city gate was still being cleaned up, but there was already a passage for carriages to enter and exit.
The corpses of the defenders were all pulled out from the castle one by one, piled up on the carts.
The reason for cleaning up the ruined Fort San Pedro is to count the results and confirm the role played by the blasting operation yesterday.
Second, if Haihan wanted to achieve a long-term occupation in the local area, he could not just sit back and watch these corpses rot and stink under his nose, but he had to get rid of them as soon as possible.
The third is that the Haihan Army needs a front-line command post, and Fort San Pedro has two relatively well-preserved city walls, which can be used as bunkers for the command post.
The Bangui Battalion was quickly assigned the task of clearing several forts in the surrounding area under the cover of artillery fire.The Manila battalion, which was struggling in this area yesterday, will temporarily withdraw from the line of fire and get a precious one-day rest.
"There is good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear first?" Zheng Agui tried his best to make his tone a little more relaxed, which might ease the pressure on the soldiers under him.
No one answered, and finally Qin Bo muttered, "Let's say the good news first!"
Everyone could see that the Haihan Army's offensive in Cebu was not very smooth, and it was inevitable that they would be nervous.
The battle situation here is much more intense than the places where they participated in the battle before. As the elite Manila battalion has suffered such heavy casualties, the performance of the Bangui battalion sent to the line of fire may not be as good. where to go.
Zheng Agui said: "The good news is that the ruins in front of us are the strongest fortress in the area. The next target to deal with will definitely be easier than this Fort San Pedro."
Qin Bo asked, "What's the bad news?"
"The bad news is..." Zheng Agui paused for a while before continuing: "It is said that there are at least ten fortresses in this area nearby. It is indeed not an easy task to clean up all these fortresses!"
This is far from easy, it is simply a daunting task for them.
These recruits have not been in the army for a long time, and have not had time to receive training on tough battles. As for the tactics of coordinated attack by infantry and artillery, it is completely unfamiliar.To attack the local fortress, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, is no longer as simple as clearing the town of Masbate.
But the military orders are like mountains, and the headquarters has already assigned the combat tasks to the Bangui Battalion. Naturally, there is no way to shirk it. Even if you know it is very dangerous, you can only bite the bullet at this time.
The sky was getting brighter, and the Haihan Army took the initiative to launch a new round of offensive.
The first target of Camp Bangui was a private fortress that was only [-] to [-] feet away from Fort San Pedro.This mouth-shaped fortress is surrounded by three-story buildings. The entrance to the ground floor and the doors and windows used have been blocked with a lot of bricks. It is obvious that the defenders have the heart to fight to the death.
But this kind of fort converted from private houses is just an ordinary masonry structure, and its stability is far less than San Pedro Fort. If it is bombarded with large-caliber artillery continuously, the outer wall of the building will definitely not be able to withstand it.
After San Pedro Fort was captured by the Haihan Army last night, the defenders of the fort did not try to counterattack or rescue, but entered a state of silence, and there was no movement until this morning.
Such a reaction is of course not difficult to understand. The entry and exit passages of this fortress have been blocked. Even if there are enough water sources and food for the defenders to hold on for a long time, the fastest consumption is definitely limited ammunition.If you take the initiative to open fire, it will be the intention of the Haihan Army.Keeping silent and waiting for the Haihan Army to attack before firing is the most reasonable way to deal with it.
The Haihan's offensive was initiated by artillery units, but it took some time for the artillery to be in place.However, this also gave Bangui Battalion more preparation time, and officers at all levels were able to digest the battle plan just deployed.
The four large-caliber heavy artillery pieces, which arrived in the line of fire this morning, are now set up in temporary positions outside Fort San Pedro.Although the range of the defenders' weapons seemed to be within the reach of Haihan's artillery positions, the artillery positions built by the engineers overnight had very thick bunkers, and the small Spanish artillery could not penetrate these fortifications.
These guns with a caliber of nearly half a foot are very heavy and are designed to be used exclusively in siege warfare.However, in the process of attacking Fort San Pedro yesterday, they played a very general role. In the end, they could only rely on sapper blasting to break through the castle.
But against targets like today, the value of these artillery pieces is fully demonstrated.The four cannons aimed at the entrance of the fort and fired a salvo. After the dust and smoke dissipated, a large gap had collapsed between the blocked entrance and the second floor, as if it had opened on this side of the wall. Come in a hole.
The second round of salvos doubled the size of the hole, enough for people to get in and out.However, this obviously did not meet the conditions for launching a charge, and the artillery unit stopped after two more rounds of shooting.
The wall that was bombarded was already broken, the superstructure collapsed into a piece of rubble, forming a slope leading to the interior, and the entire fortress also changed from a mouth shape to a door shape.
The sound of the charging horn sounded at this moment, and the Haihan army rushed out of the bunker and rushed to the gap that was forcibly blasted by the artillery fire.
(End of this chapter)