Chapter 2: Broken city

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"Boom boom"
Three siege artillery guns fired for the first time, and the shells hit a dense attacking crowd, causing more than 20 casualties.
The first test firing of the three artillery guns yielded good results and added a lot of confidence to the Bolivian soldiers on the wall.
"After the test firing, the ministries are preparing for the first round of volley, and the target enemy forces attack the city ladder."
The siege artillery officer commanded his artillery to prepare for firing, and then the command flag in his hand suddenly dropped.
"emission"
The order dropped, and eight heavy artillery and dozens of light artillery fired shells.
The sound of gunfire was rumbling, and more than twenty rounds of large and small shells hit the Indian army in the siege, which immediately disrupted their offensive formation.
The open space outside Beicheng is relatively wide compared to the east and west walls. However, more than 6,000 Indians and Chinese soldiers launched an offensive, which still makes the open space not too wide.
"Don't mess, keep the offensive formation, and rush forward one hundred meters, the enemy's shells will be useless! Brothers rush forward with me."
The shells roared, and the Chinese officer who commanded a cloud ladder commanded loudly.
"boom"
A shell landed seven or eight meters to the left of the Chinese officer and directly destroyed a moving ladder. Indian soldiers carrying the ladder lost most of their losses.
"The platoon leader, are you okay." The waves from the shells toppled the Chinese officer to the ground, and the soldiers behind him hurried forward to help the Chinese officer.
"Don't need to help me, keep going, you can only be a target when you stay here!" The Chinese officer stood up, shouting loudly in his ears.
"Yes"
The Chinese soldiers realized that the officer was not in trouble, and quickly returned to their positions, pushing the ladder forward.
On the walls of La Paz, Medellin stood high to observe the battlefield situation.
Advancing against the enemy's artillery, the attacking force paid 500 casualties to reach within 80 meters of the northern city of La Paz, less than 100 meters from the city wall. The threat of the Bolivian defending artillery to the attacking force weakened. At this time, two Fang soldiers shot at each other across the city wall.
Fifteen Chinese soldiers holding shields formed a squad of guards on each side of the ladder to protect the soldiers under the ladder from the enemy.
Sixty meters, thirty meters, and ten meters, the huge cloud ladder and round wood finally reached the edge of the city wall. The cloud ladder lifted up and hit a frame on the city wall. The Chinese soldiers below started to climb up the cloud ladder.
Medellin, on the walls of La Paz, personally oversaw the ugly face. Is this the same as the uncivilized Indians? As usual, the Indians would flee and flee if the Bolivian army released a musket.
However, under the leadership of a few Chinese officers, these Indians not only dared to take the initiative to attack the Bolivian army, but they were able to persist in the attack even when five hundred or six hundred people were killed or injured. Is the Chinese army really so powerful? Time can make cowardly Indians brave?
Medellin became more and more afraid, and now it is only the Indians under the Chinese army that it is difficult to cope with. If the Chinese Independent Army attacked the main force, how many days would La Paz persist?
A staircase of ladders cascaded over the city walls, and Bolivian soldiers hiding behind the firing mound became increasingly powerless.
"General, there are more and more enemies. My subordinates will soon be unable to resist it. I ask the army to send troops for support."
Turning the task of defending the city to his deputy, the North City defensive officer ran to Medellin to ask for support.
"There is no reinforcements. Dongcheng and Xicheng have enemies attacking. The last one is ready to send to support Xicheng. Now I have no soldiers to send."
Medellin Road.
"General, Dongcheng's enemy has a weak offensive force. It is too wasteful to place a large number of troops in Dongcheng. We urge the army to send troops from Dongmen to reinforce them, otherwise Beicheng will not be able to secure them."
The battle in North City is fierce. Although there are enemy attacks in the east and west directions, the offensive intensity and the number of enemies cannot be compared with the north city. Therefore, Medellin believes that the main direction of the Chinese Independent Army is the North Gate. At this time, the troops are wasted. The place was not good for defending the city, so Medellin agreed with his men's proposal to transfer troops from the east city to support the north city.
The distance between Dongcheng and Beicheng is not far. After receiving the order from Medellin, Dongcheng Shou will immediately dispatch a thousand soldiers to reinforce the North Gate. A thousand new soldiers will join in. The Beicheng defenders will immediately confront the Chinese soldiers and Indian soldiers who boarded the wall. A counterattack was launched, constantly pushing them to the side of the city wall, temporarily reversing the unfavorable situation of the La Paz defenders.
In the battle between the two armies, not only Medellin came to the battlefield to command, but Li Mingyuan also observed every move on the battlefield behind the attacking forces.
The false is true, the true is false. The offense does not mean to look like it. It is just a wave of attack and then retreats. The offense can also be used as the strength of the main attack. After mobilizing the enemy's vitality, it breaks a little and then uses the enemy's defense line At the right time, betting all the combat forces, blossoming on all sides, each attack direction can become the main attack direction.
"Shizi, the enemy's Dongcheng force is empty, and our army has the opportunity to wait. Does it order the troops to launch an attack immediately?"
Liu Pudao.
"Well, tell them they can do it." Li Mingyuan put down his telescope and smiled. "It's time to pull out this nail for a few days in La Paz."
"Take La Paz, there should be no large-scale fighting before fighting the Brazilian army."
Liu Pu sent a commander and then replied.
"It takes a lot of ammunition to attack La Paz. After entering the city, I need to take more compensation."
Prior to the La Paz battle, Li Mingyuan did not intend to plunder Bolivian cities, but after a conflict with the country of Melgare, Li Mingyuan changed his mind.
Anyway, La Paz is one of the largest cities in Bolivia. It is only Sucre that can be equal to La Paz in Bolivia. It is not too stupid to put such a big trophy.
Li Mingyuan was very straightforward, Liu Pu naturally understood,
"Even the ordinary residents in the city of La Paz do not matter. After all, the troops have to march within Bolivia for a short distance. If the soldiers are tolerated to plunder the Bolivian residents, it will adversely affect the marches behind the troops."
"Well, after entering the city, the troops only confiscated the property of the Bolivian government. As for ordinary residents, as long as they are not enemy of our army, they will not be controlled."
Li Mingyuan said.
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Before attacking the city of La Paz, Li Mingyuan and Liu Pu began to discuss the issues after the occupation of the city, but the two issues they considered were not superfluous. After the order was issued, the troops attacking the East City quickly launched an attack.
Two light artillery were placed on the mounds piled up outside Dongcheng. Because the distribution map of the defense fortifications in La Paz was obtained by the Chinese Independent Army, the two artillery had a place to use. According to the data marked on the map, they fired at Dongcheng.
Accurate artillery firing by the Chinese Independent Army destroyed the defensive artillery hidden behind the city walls. Shortly after the attack began, several artillery pieces of the Eastern City Guard were successively reimbursed by two Chinese Independent Artillery guns.
Without artillery support, and the lack of Dongcheng garrison forces, half an hour after the attack was launched, the Chinese offensive troops attacked the east wall. As for the Dongcheng garrison, except for a small part of the escape, the rest were either killed by Chinese soldiers or raised their hands. surrender.
Dongcheng broke down ~ EbookFREE.me ~ La Paz has a loophole in the entire city defense system. At the beginning of the news of Dongcheng's fall, Medellin also worked hard to put together 800 people to support, but after less than ten minutes, he was dispatched. Less than half of the reinforcements returned, and they were followed by more than two hundred Chinese soldiers.
The last effort to defend La Paz failed, and Medellin gave up hope and fled towards the South Gate quickly with the help of hundreds of soldiers around him.
As soon as Medellin ran, the other warlords in La Paz were not far behind, and they successively pulled down the city walls and ran away from the south gate.
The Chinese Independence Army started to attack the wall with a limited number of people. In addition, they had to divide the troops to siege the remaining garrison on the wall, so there was no chance to stop the enemy from escaping from the south gate.
Bolivian soldiers ran and ran away. Li Mingyuan didn't care much about this. He valued the wealth and materials in the city, because these things were the most helpful to the Chinese Independent Army.
When the cannon rang, the gold was in danger. War is the best way for a power to grow.
In the early days of the Chinese Independent Army uprising, they were poor and poor. It was because of continuous fighting to capture Peruvian minerals, weapons, and wealth that they have today's elite troops. Therefore, Li Mingyuan is not exclusive to wars that yield more than they pay.