It didn't take much effort to recapture the gatehouse. Those soldiers who were suspected of being an official army had almost no fighting spirit or defense. There were about hundreds of people gathered nearby. After being simply teased and pulled out a gun, they fled inward at a faster speed than they came out.

A few people were in a panic and congested inward, and even failed to close the door, so they became prisoners.

After seizing the gatehouse facing west, we followed the city wall facing the port city, without much obstacle, and seized the two gates near the sea one after another, then opened the door hole and put our main brigade in. After rushing through a large area of ​​private houses inward, we directly occupied and controlled the pier and warehouses in the eastern part of the port area.

Those who robbed or transported things indiscriminately killed them on the spot or knelt on the ground with their heads under their heads and kneeled on the ground. After basically controlling them, they used these warehouses and the goods piled up in the open air to form several temporary defense circles, and blocked most passages and gaps, and then connected them into a consolidated defense zone.

The locals hidden among them were also found one by one and were used as auxiliary laborers under the surveillance of swords and guns.

Of course, as the characteristic of the dock area, it is mainly composed of various laborers and sailors mainly young and middle-aged people, as well as a small number of merchants, shops, accounting, apprentices, etc., which has given us a group of temporary new forces.

As for the people in other areas of the Port City, I can only say sorry. My manpower and military strength are limited, so I can only take care of myself first.

This is also my usual style. For a certain kind of tower prevention and control, we must first find ways to ensure that we are as unbeaten as possible through relatively sufficient preparation and prefabricated positions. Then we must consider weakening, defeating and eliminating the enemy.

This also made my gunman, the "Longzhou Left", which accounts for a large proportion, and was once ridiculed as a turtle stream or a turtle-style tactic. Because in most cases, our tactics are like turtles. When we encounter the enemy, we tightly shrink our key points. Relying on a tough and elastic defense array, we have no way to start the enemy and have to force them. After a long battle, we can't show fatigue and flaws, we suddenly use the hand-to-hand combat troops to attack the key points with all our strength.

Once the opponent is trapped, it will be difficult to get rid of the entanglement. Just like a water turtle, you can only be bitten unless you have a broken head. You can only be weakened and suppressed in waves of gunfire until you collapse.

However, after we made too many achievements, we became another relatively neutral name, the so-called "stiff formation tactics" and "key blossom formations". Of course, the real core of this is to rely on well-trained batches of muskets to maintain long-term lethality at a long and near range.

This is the key to others who want to imitate or cannot get started. Although the romance of shooting in line in the Firearm Age is temporarily unthinkable, the large and small square arrays that match the firearms and cold soldiers are still relatively over-the-top.

Amid the low thunder, the shelling of the navy's battleship at the sea sounded again. A heavy projectile passed over the sky above our edge and landed in a building next to a trestle. The fire-making robbers who were desperately transporting like ants had time to cry and cried out, and some of them were buried.

I only remembered another thing at this time. It seemed that we were also within the range of the navy's shelling. I immediately shouted anxiously.

"Flag Official..."

"exist……"

A few figures ran over not far away

"Look for the highest point here..."

"Rise our flag and try to communicate with the navy in the port in the official flag language..."

"Avoid being injured by accident..."

"Get order..."

Soon my cat claw flag and the Longzhou Tuan Left Black Flag stood there, a watchtower in this port area

"The temporary defense line has been initially arranged"

Soon, the wind flag reported to me,

"Please show the main training..."

At this time, although the navy warships in the port had not responded, the sporadic sound of artillery bombardment seemed to deviate from us.

I just let go a little bit and was in the mood to start patrolling the area currently controlled. As the defense line, I was surrounded by sturdy large wooden boxes, or large marine materials, as well as components lifted from the collapsed building, and then piled up mud and sand to water in Shanghai, which can effectively prevent fire, or other means of impact and damage.

Cooperating with the gunsmen who covered themselves up and shot behind them, it was enough to deal with most situations. The White Soldiers were on the spot as a reserve team, and the Spears were responsible for guarding the temporary labor force.

The Model Team and the Teaching Team were sent out by me to count and inspect the warehouse to see if there were any supplies we could use. It also means that since we were involved in this right and wrong, we would certainly not leave empty. As a result, when we searched the last batch of buildings, we encountered some obstacles.

One of my search teams was blocked by a small team of officers and soldiers who were left behind inside in front of a large brick-and-stone warehouse. They occupied the only door and window positions, and used the protruding bows and arrows and knife tips to express a certain distance and unwelcome attitude.

When I arrived,

"I know all the firearms under the command of Danrong, and I must be requisitioned..."

The soldiers standing in front of the door were still shouting, wanting the people inside to open the door and come out.

In response, a few arrows nailed to the ground

"This is the exclusive important place of the Shenji Army..."

The voice inside shouted.

"If you have to get the command of this army, you must not trespass..."

"Apart from that, don't say too much..."

"Go to the artillery team and blow them away..."

I made a quick decision and joked, it would be fine if there were other things. Since it was the warehouse of the Shenji Army, there was definitely something I needed inside, and it was worth it even if I took risks for it.

"Then use a smoke ball to smoke them out..."

"clear"

After orders, they left and went to prepare.

After a while, two small cannons were pushed directly in front of the confinement gate, then adjusted and loaded them up, and finally stuffed several heavy iron bullets and stuffed them tightly with wooden support.

When the people inside saw it, they suddenly became a little commotion and panic. With the sound of footsteps and movements, they left the door and behind the window.

He gently lit the fire with a silk incense, covered his ears left and right, and heard a dull roar. In an instant, the thick warehouse door was hit by several deep cracks in the splashing wood chips, and then the second small cannons also fired.

The heavy projectile immediately broke the cracked door, and behind it was a panicked figure flashed away. Then a small number of grenades with the most arm and accurate heads in the army dunked the special smoke ball made of soaked horse urine, Glauber's salt and spicy hot tubers. After adding fuel to ignite it, they quickly threw their eyes and hands into the depths of the door hole.

Amid the storm, two smoke balls were called out directly by the defenders of the warehouse, but the remaining few quickly turned into gray and choking smoke with the help of grease, and emerged directly from the door opening and the air window.

Cough cough, amid the heart-wrenching choking, the people inside were like mice smoked from the hole. They couldn't help but hug their heads, rub their eyes, and covered their throats, choosing various ways to escape.

Then, the soldiers guarding outside were dizzy and pulled their ankles and calf with their spears, overturned the ground and tied their hands one by one, and captured more than 40 people, almost half a team.

Then no one came out and did anything else. The model team, which covered their mouths and noses with wet cloth, was aggressive and extinguished the burning smoke ball with a wide cloth wrapped in large sand.

Then the leader, who was covered in smoke and fire, was tied to me to ask questions. I suddenly felt that this person looked familiar.

"It's you again..."

The other party recognized me, and couldn't help but look complicated and surprised.

"You are, Guo...Person Capital"

Then I remembered that this was not the deputy Duke of the Shenji Army Artillery Team who had met when guarding the artillery tower outside Tiannan Prefecture City. It was just that he looked at his current uniform and duties. At best, he was a team leader, so why did he get back more and more?

"Where is no meeting in life..."

I sighed quite a bit, but only he snorted heavily.

"Where is your artillery regiment? How did you change it to lead the infantry?"

"Architecture regiment..."

He seemed to remember some memories when he heard this word, which made him feel dazed

"It's gone..."

"It's gone?..."

I was also surprised with him. The Shenji Army is a member of the upper five armies, and is equipped with the "national heavy weapon" that is key to protecting each army. The heavy artillery team is the trump card for attacking and deciding the village. Even if it encounters a crisis, it will lose at most some weapons, and there is rarely a result of group destruction.

What's more, as the organization of the artillery regiment, it is equivalent to a central battalion of a regular official army. It is not a trivial matter to lose both people and equipment. As a typical technical branch, an experienced gunner is much more precious than an ordinary cavalry, let alone a large number of losses.

"You know what you're doing..."

He had come to his senses and struggled to yell at me.

"Attacking friendly troops in important places in the army and robbing public property, it is like rebellion... Can you tell if the crime is committed?"

"It's hard to say whether to rebel or not,"

"But do you know that the various departments of the official army in the port city are fighting internally, and the whole world is in chaos...

"No one cares about this anymore, so naturally we can't convict us..."

"What……"

It was his turn to be shocked, and then he noticed the smoke and dust floating above the port area.

"That's the truth..."

"I found something good"

Some kind of cheer came out inside, which immediately attracted my attention. Then I remembered that there were still many gains waiting for me, so I ordered them to be taken down for placement.

Then, despite the choking smell that had not completely dissipated, I walked through the annex and gatehouse in front and went down the steps to enter the warehouse. I found that the space inside felt larger than I thought, mainly because the ground was dug down a layer and a half deep, and then supported it with giant pillars as if it were inside and outside.

The underground layer is the most common of gunpowder encapsulated by large buckets, as well as bags of lead and iron bullets, as well as various iron ingots, copper blocks, coal and other materials. This makes people feel a little scared. No wonder those guys before were unable to escape. They really didn't expect that we would use fire attacks. Fortunately, the smoke balls shot in without knowing that did not ignite the things inside, otherwise we would also suffer heavy losses.

Then on the ground, there are all kinds of official firearms, fire box crossbows held by individual soldiers and densely arranged fire nest vehicles; iron chambers used to make wooden cannons and leather cannons; short-barrel hand cannons fixed in rows and arms as thick as arms; small torque catapults that are pushed and driven by two people and projectors that can be fixed on horseback - cyclone cannons;

There are even dozens of huge flying fire thunders, which are the Congreve rockets of later generations. They are tightly wrapped in a portable camel-type utensil with dust-proof and moisture-proof oil cloth.

Then in the compartment below, my people discovered refined tincture oil that was also specially packaged in pottery containers. According to the sign on the container, there were about two or three thousand kilograms, as well as special vanes and baskets that were loaded with easy transportation, empty bullet bottles and fire pipes, which were specially made by the official kilns. Large ones were for stone casters or crossbows, and small ones were for grenadier equipment.

As long as you fill it according to the scale and insert a cork-type fire tube, it will become a sultry bomb that can be put into use immediately. However, some of the other type of explosive thrown by me called the blast bomb that I was looking forward to, which inevitably makes people feel a little regretful of being greedy for the sake of the future.

In the last compartment, there are armor equipment of the Shenji Army, including hard cloth armor dyed into blue-gray, half-body chain armor with key inlays, and fireproof jackets and gloves that are obviously fire-resistant cloth (asbestos woven). There are a large number of other supporting tools, and it looks very complete.

But in a pile of overturned tools, I accidentally cleared a secret door. In the clamp room behind the secret door, I found five cannons stacked together. Although there were signs of wear and tear, they were still roughly intact, which made me feel a little surprised to win the grand prize again.

This is not a small cannon that can only fire pounds of heavy bombs on a large naval sampan, but a standard long field cannon, which is only one inch smaller than the six-inch siege cannons I have seen on the cannon base, but it looks much lighter and more skillful.

The design of a copper-tire iron core mother cannon is adopted. There is an opening for a set of sub cannons above the rear section of the female cannon. When firing, just plug the sub cannon filled with ammunition tightly, and then use a disposable pulling tube to fire. The shooting efficiency and power are much higher than the two small cannons in front of the two doors in my hand.

It’s a pity that there is only a cannon body, and there is no special supporting cannon stand, cannon cart, ammunition tram, and tool accessories. I can only talk about it first. In addition, there are some ordinary encapsulated cages. I opened them one by one and looked at them. They were nothing more than some calligraphy, painting, antiques, gold and silver utensils that looked quite old.

Although this is the exclusive warehouse of the Shenji Army, it is obvious that some private collections belong to the generals are also stored here for public purposes to avoid people's eyes and ears, and now they are all in our hands.
Chapter completed!