Volume 4: Hot! The whole world is a warring state Chapter 735 Bullets Are Fair
Although the soldiers tried their best to make their footsteps light, the sound of more than 7,000 feet landing on the ground alternately still seemed very abrupt in the empty and silent plateau night.
So, when the Ming army's vanguard was still two or three kilometers away from the city wall, some of the sleepy soldiers on the city wall were finally alarmed.
"Enemy attack!"
With the first roar, more and more Spanish soldiers discovered the enemy approaching the city wall. Amidst countless shouts, a soldier finally reacted and rang the alarm bell in the attic of the city wall.
Amid the rapid and long clanging sounds, the city of Bogota, which had been mostly in darkness, began to light up again. Countless soldiers who had fallen asleep hurriedly crawled out of their warm quilts, pulled up their pants, grabbed a coat and started running outside.
"Damn it, we've been discovered from such a distance. There's nothing we can do, brothers, no need to slow down, just sprint!"
"yes!"
As the Ming army completely let go of its speed, from the first Spanish soldier yelling that the enemy was attacking, in just seven or eight minutes, more than 3,000 special forces soldiers ran to the bottom of the city wall of Bogota. At this time, the Spanish soldiers in the city had not had time to climb the wall. And on the city wall...
Spain's colonies in the Americas were divided into four viceroyalties, each of which had more governorates. Mexico City, Lima, Bogota and Buenos Aires were the four viceroyalties' resident stations - that is, before North America was effectively opened up, Bogota was one of the four largest cities in the Americas in the 17th century.
In December 1642, the nearby Viceroyalty of Peru had been completely lost. Therefore, Bogota, the capital of the Viceroyalty of New Granada, was the core hub of Spain in northern South America. The average height of the city wall was seven meters, and the circumference reached 23 kilometers. Such a long wall would be stretched even if the 10,000 soldiers stationed in the city were stationed on the wall. Not to mention, most of the soldiers violated Prince Louis' orders and secretly ran down the city wall to sleep. So, don't look at the 3,000 soldiers on the city wall at this time, which is about the same as the number of Ming troops rushing the city. But these 3,000 people scattered on the 23-kilometer long defense line are like water drops sprinkled in the desert, which is almost nothing.
Prince Louis was still too young. He had no idea that he had ordered all soldiers to be on guard and stand guard on the city walls for a long time. Not only did the people below not obey, but even the attendants around him did not take it seriously - in such a cold day, all the soldiers were not allowed to rest when there was no war, and they were freezing on the city walls every day. How could you enforce this if you did not set an example yourself? If you really enforced it and suppressed it by force, the soldiers would mutiny.
He didn't know that such a large city could not be defended by relying on the city walls with such a small number of troops: scouts should be deployed everywhere to guard the city, and the troops should be concentrated in the city. Once the scouts sounded the alarm, the whole army should immediately respond collectively!
Unfortunately, no one taught him these things in the court of Madrid. After coming to America, he was too "kind" in Mexico, so the American generals lost interest in teaching him. The real city defense commander, on the one hand, was afraid to say more because of his prince's status. On the other hand, he thought that his side had a sure victory, so he let His Royal Highness do whatever he wanted. And then...
"Snipers! Each company should send out a group of snipers to target the enemy troops on the city wall, especially to knock out the machine gun points!"
"Has the catapult come up? Set up the zipline and quickly climb the city!"
As Cao Bianjiao roared loudly, the company commanders of each battalion issued various orders. The well-trained snipers quickly found a relatively high hill outside the city to set up a sniper point. The soldiers who were charging in the front also took out the catapults from their backs. With a series of teeth-grinding "clang clang clang", countless five-claw flying ropes, driven by high-pressure air, flew to the seven-meter-high wall.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!" The first sniper groups of each company that had taken their positions began to call out the names of the figures on the wall holding torches and looking down. The Spanish soldiers who were hit directly in the vitals could not make a sound under the huge power of the sniper rifle. After a handful of blood burst out, their bodies either fell on the wall or fell directly from the wall. And those soldiers who were not hit in the vitals and were still alive for a while screamed loudly because of the pain caused by the wounds. In addition to highlighting the cruelty of the battlefield, it also made the hands of a few soldiers who were setting up machine gun ammunition chains tremble even more.
After all, the wall was too long and the density of troops was seriously insufficient. After the Ming army's snipers showed their power, there were soon not many enemy troops above the section of the wall chosen by the Ming army. At this time, the Ming army soldiers who had set up the flying rope began to skillfully use the ropes to climb the wall.
At 11:52 p.m. on December 3, Spanish soldiers discovered Cao Bianjiao's troops and began to sound the alarm.
At midnight on the 4th, Cao Bianjiao's troops arrived at the city of Bogota.
At 00:01:40, the sniper of the special forces regiment achieved the first victory.
At 00:03:07, the first Ming army soldier climbed onto the top of the Bogota city wall.
"Captain, the brothers are going up!"
"Very good. Let each company quickly set up sniper points on the city wall and call out the names of the enemy officers who dare to stand out from the city. Let the soldiers of the combat squad move in from left to right to clear out the remaining enemies on the city wall. Mortars, quickly pull up the mortars, set them up on the city wall and fire at the city!"
"Captain, don't worry. We have practiced these things countless times in Quito. The brothers know how to do it."
"That's true." Cao Bianjiao put down the telescope and started walking forward.
"Captain, don't you want it?"
"Yes, for a battle like this that races against time, you must go on the field yourself."
"...Okay, then I'll bear with it and wait outside the city first."
"Hehe, I guess you won't be able to stay outside the city for long. I guess the city gate will be opened soon."
Just as Cao Bianjiao and his deputy captain went in different directions, the situation in the city was already in chaos.
If the warning bell sounded more than ten minutes ago, it only made the alert soldiers react quickly. Most other ordinary people were still mumbling nonsense like "Who is such a bastard, disturbing my sweet dream". Then, when the Ming army climbed up the top of the city and fired into the city, even the slowest people understood: the enemy is coming!
In addition to the 10,000 Spanish soldiers, there were also about 50,000 civilians who had come were nearly 1,000 Spanish nobles and more than 30,000 civilians in the city.
Due to the fall of the Viceroyalty of Peru , the Spanish nobles who had been dominating the Viceroyalty of Peru were either arrested and shot after a public trial hosted by the members of the Ming-Indian coalition at all levels. Or they took their belongings, family members, and some trusted slaves and fled to the nearby Viceroyalty of New Granada, and to Bogota, the capital of the Viceroyalty. This group of people, plus the Spanish nobles who were already entrenched in the Viceroyalty of Granada - such a large group of parasites, gathered in the city of Bogota, and usually didn't feel anything. But when the war suddenly spread here, the fear of being caught by the former Indian slaves at any time and being liquidated at the public meeting suddenly came to mind. Then... all kinds of uncontrolled, heartbreaking, hysterical wails and screams sounded in various places in the city.
"Asshole, asshole, asshole! Soldiers, how dare you disobey my order and go down the wall to rest?"
On weekdays, Prince Louis would leave the city wall at 8pm and go back to the city to rest. At 9am, he would go back to the city wall for inspection. Therefore, in the past ten days, the soldiers stationed in the city had already figured out his pattern: at 8:30pm, two-thirds of the soldiers would go down the wall to rest, and then they would be back before 8:30am.
This behavior was known to everyone, from the city defense commander Martin to the servants Luis brought from Madrid. In fact, Luis was the only one who kept it a secret in the entire city.
But tonight? It was revealed.
But, at this time, why should we worry about such things?
"Your Highness! At this moment, we should not blame our soldiers for violating your orders. The most important thing right now is to quickly organize the soldiers to fight against the enemy's sneak attack!"
"Adrian, are you going to protect them too? Oh, but you are right. Well, soldiers, we will talk about your disobedience to my orders later. Now, put on your clothes, pick up your weapons, climb up the city wall, and..."
“Bang~!”
In the noisy city, the loud sniper sound coming from the city wall was not outstanding. However, the sound was not outstanding, but the bullets fired by the heavy sniper rifle specially developed by the Daming Fangshan Academy of Sciences for the special forces were real. The 7.62mm bullet accurately found Louis, who was serving gorgeously and jumping up and down in the crowd. Then the bullet entered from the cheekbone on the left side of Louis' nose bridge, and after effortlessly piercing the opponent's cheekbone, it continued to go deeper and flip, and finally, with a "bang", half of Louis's head was directly blown off. The brain mixed with blood stained several servants around him!
Just as these servants were stunned for a moment, and then all let out desperate roars. On the city wall, Wang Shunwen, a sniper instructor of the special forces regiment who was nearly fifty years old, exhaled lightly with an expressionless face, then put his eyes to the sight, and with the help of the observer beside him, he looked for the next target.
