Chapter 188 Capture Saigon
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The mortars maximized the shooting speed of the mortars. Conical shells flew quickly into the sky. After bypassing a large section of parabola, they flew to the side of these elephant groups and exploded. The ammonium explosives exploded quickly, and balls of white smoke instantly bloomed.
The battlefield was filled with the roars of elephants. The shells and air waves made the elephants very painful. They became even more manic. They rushed to the gap and were about to rush out.
It seems that the mortars are not very threatening to them, so at this time, they can only let the 75mm field gun and 105mm heavy gun appear.
These artillery were ready, just waiting for an order.
"Fire!" After the artillery commander shouted, the artillery fired quickly.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" These shells were shot directly onto the elephants, and their huge bodies could no longer withstand such shelling, and were quickly killed on the spot.
"Keep bombarding for me! Kill all these damn elephants to death!" Tie Niu continued to shout.
Because the First Division was busy clearing the threat of elephants at this time, the troops in the besieged city were much less, which gave Ruan Wenhui and others time to escape.
"Your door must stick to Saigon City! You must never let it be captured by the Ming army!" Ruan Wenhui also knew that this was an opportunity, so she summoned all the generals and said to them.
"General, we will never abandon Saigon!" said these people. Everyone believed that Nguyen Wenhui would be with them. After all, everyone has lived and died together for so long. How could Nguyen Wenhui abandon these old brothers?
"Okay! You are worthy of being my good brothers! I'll go to the city wall now to check it out!" Ruan Wenhui nodded to them, and then took a few personal soldiers away.
But what they didn't expect was that Ruan Wenhui got off the command center and got on the horse, and then rode with a few personal soldiers to the north gate where the Ming army had been blocking the weak blockade. After opening the city gate, they took these personal soldiers to ride horses towards Hue.
Although most of the infantry kept firing at the defects of the city wall at the south gate, attacking the elephant soldiers, there was still a regiment of infantry lying here to prevent the enemy from escaping.
They were ambushed in the forest next to the official road. If Annan people ran out, they would immediately discover that when they were delayed, they would then notify the main force.
"Captain, some of them rode out of the city!" A soldier" saw the city gate open, and immediately notified the regiment commander Chu Tianhao.
"How many people are there?" Chu Tianhao asked.
"About a dozen people! But the guy riding a tall horse should be Ruan Wenhui!" said the soldier. All the Ming soldiers had seen oil paintings by the three Ruan brothers, Ruan Phoenix and others. Everyone knew their appearance, just to catch these guys in the process of fierce battles and show their merits.
"It's Ruan Wenhui? That's great! Brothers are all ready. We're going to capture Ruan Wenhui alive!" Chu Tianhao shouted. Then, the soldiers of the infantry regiment quickly gathered and prepared to start ambushing the guy.
A group of people ambushed more than a dozen people was a piece of cake. Ruan Wenhui was afraid of death and wanted to escape, so she rode a fast horse and fled towards Hue.
He knew that there was an ambush from the Ming army on this road. Several waves of soldiers sent out were stopped and destroyed. However, now the Ming army has broken through the city wall in the south. I believe everyone has gone to the city wall. Maybe no one will ambush here!
However, the sound of bullets from the pipeline broke his fantasy.
"Bang bang bang..." A dense gunshot scared Ruan Wenhui so much that she grabbed the horse. Then he fell off the horse. He suddenly felt his thighs break, and the huge pain made him dizzy.
Chu Tianhao and his troops quickly killed more than ten of Ruan Wenhui's personal soldiers, and then rushed over.
"This guy is Ruan Wenhui, right? We caught a big fish! This guy's legs seem to have been broken. Go and find a stretcher to take him away. These horses are also taken away. This is our spoil!" Chu Tianhao said happily. Now he made a lot of money. Not only did he lead more than a dozen horses, but he also took the big fish Ruan Wenhui.
While collecting trophy here, the battle at the defects of the southern city wall was approaching its end. The thousands of elephant soldiers were all shot dead by 75mm field artillery and 105mm heavy artillery. Although these elephant soldiers were huge, they soon turned into a pile of minced meat in front of ammonium explosives. Now the officers and soldiers of the First Division fired. The ivory of these elephant soldiers who were killed by shells was very long. When they sawed it down and sold, they would be a high-quality luxury raw material!
However, they are not in the mood to deal with these ivory now. Most of them are from simple farmers and do not know how valuable these ivory are. Now in their eyes, killing more enemies is more wealth.
The infantry of the First Division rushed into the collapse of the city wall dozens of meters wide, shouting slogans of avenging the brothers who died in battle, and killed them again, and fought fiercely with the Annan people inside.
"Kill all the Annan people! Avenge our dead brothers!" Everyone rushed into the city with such beliefs.
These Xishan Army did not retreat at all. They were the people with the strongest sense of resistance in Annan. The Ruan Dynasty's heavy taxes made them unable to survive. They rose up everywhere. After years of struggle, it seemed that they would finally succeed. How could they let the Ming army take away all the fruits of their victory?
However, they all just had the courage. The weapons in their hands were too backward, and they were not as sharp as the firearms in the hands of the Ming army. They fought over the house with the Ming army, and wanted to use melee combat to offset the rifle advantages in the hands of the First Division officers and soldiers, but they were killed by ammonium oil grenades or mortars in the hands of infantry.
By the evening, the entire Saigon City was basically occupied by the Ming army, leaving only the Annan people in Ruan Wenhui's command post to resist tenaciously.
The generals inside thought that Ruan Wenhui had died in the previous street fighting. They had long wanted to repay Ruan Wenhui's kindness for his death, so they would not surrender at all.
"It's a disaster to keep these stubborn guys! I'll transfer 75mm field cannons to me and kill them all!" Tieniu looked at the building similar to the Qing yamen and said coldly.
The 75mm field gun was quickly transferred and ready soon.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The 75mm field cannon opened fire, turning the entire yamen into ruins.
Chapter completed!