Owari Sukeo led a group of samurai and squatted low behind the bricks of the ruins.
With a loud noise, the rear artillery shell successfully hit a three-story Western European-style building. Half of the wall collapsed, revealing a panicked British soldier behind.
The Ming army's heavy machine gun positions, which had been prepared for a long time, immediately opened fire and beat the British soldier into a sieve.
Sukeo Owari climbed out from behind the broken brick wall and crawled into the house, followed by several samurai.
This was originally the residence of a wealthy British businessman in Sydney, but now it has become a fortress for British street fighting.
Owari walked around the small door.
"boom!"
A bullet grazed the neck and hit the warrior behind him. Half of his head was ripped off, and red and white splashed all over several people.
"idiot!"
Owari Sukeo spoke his hometown dialect, and while the British soldiers were busy reloading, he stabbed him several times and took him away.
"Our army has occupied the kitchen!"
"Get ready to break into the left bedroom on the second floor!"
Some warriors shouted loudly to inform the Ming army behind them of the battle situation, while pointing their flintlock guns at the stairs and slowly approaching.
The heavy machine gunner of the Ming Army heard the shout, moved the muzzle of his gun slightly upward, and then fired a burst of bullets, making a long shot diagonally upward from the exposed small door.
The bullet almost grazed the scalp of the warrior in front and made more than a dozen holes in the ceiling above the corridor.
Through the hole, several British soldiers quickly retreated, preparing to retreat into the bedrooms on both sides of the corridor.
Owari Sukeo seized the opportunity for the British army to evade and quickly led others to the second floor.
"Bang bang bang~"
The British soldier who was robbed of the upper hand fell in a pool of blood.
The warriors began to clean up various rooms. Soon, the building was successfully occupied by the Ming army.
The Ming army's heavy machine gun squad, under the cover of several riflemen, began to move their positions and entered the newly occupied three-story building.
After a long battle, the Ming army and the warriors became more and more skilled in cooperating, and the occupation of Sydney city accelerated.
The artillery of the heavy artillery brigade began to cross the city and bombard the bastion, preventing the British troops from behind from supporting the city.
The regiment's mortars were split up and assigned to various teams on the front line, and bit by bit they began to attack the dense building positions.
A reporter from the Ming Dynasty who accompanied the army recorded this scene with a Polaroid.
Three days later, the Ming army basically completed the occupation of the entire city.
Only a few positions with basements were still holding on, but they were quickly occupied by samurai's life-for-life tactics.
At this time, Huck was very busy.
A dozen officers gathered in the castle hall to report on the battle.
"General, Baker Street has been occupied by the Ming army, and more than 100 defenders have been killed."
"The two platoons on Western Avenue have surrendered in an organized manner!"
"The Ming army has built a new position, and their small artillery has begun shelling the outer corners of the bastion!"
"The Ming Army Knights have rushed into Corner No. 7, and the passage into the castle has fallen into the enemy's hands!"
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Letters of battle reports rained down on the long table, and three days of urgent military information was piled all over the table.
"General, surrender!"
The officers kept trying to persuade him, and one officer even took out his flintlock pistol and stared at Huck with his red eyes.
Huck broke into a cold sweat and woke up as if from a dream.
"Surrender! Prepare the white flag quickly. Our elites of the British Army must not die in vain!"
"The Ming Dynasty is invincible!"
In fact, like the Royal Navy, the British Army has a royal title.
However, more than 150 years ago, the army committed the crime of killing the king and was deprived of his royal title.
She was reduced to a situation where her father didn’t care for her and grandma didn’t love her.
Therefore, officers at all levels at this time believed that the British army was worthy of George III if it could persist for three days under the Ming Dynasty's raindrop attack.
After all, he learned from the battle report of the Governor's Palace that the Royal Navy surrendered after only holding on for half a day...
In such a comparison, wouldn't their army be more loyal?
So, when Kong Er gathered the last 800 or so men of the Samurai Regiment and concentrated all the artillery of the 1st Division, they prepared for the final attack.
Huck, surrounded by a group of British officers, came out of the castle holding a white flag.
Several heavy machine gunners lost their strength and killed more than a dozen officers at once. The scene was extremely chaotic for a while.
At exactly two o'clock in the afternoon, the whole of Sydney was liberated.
More than 8,000 remnants of the British army lined up in a long queue and were escorted by the Ming army into the prisoner of war camp.
And His Majesty Zhu Zaiming, the Wude Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, also entered his loyal Sydney, accompanied by the army, navy and York envoys.
Zhu Zaiming and his group stood in front of the war-torn fortress and sighed.
"The bastions operated by the British Empire for hundreds of years really caused heavy casualties to the Ming Dynasty."
York on the side looked at Zhu Zaiming speechlessly as if he had seen a ghost, with an extremely wonderful expression on his face.
The so-called heavy casualties were more casualties among the samurai group.
Starting from the spring offensive, when the samurai group was clearing out the indigenous people, they were attacked by many indigenous people in the mountains and lost more than 600 people.
Starting from the night attack, the Samurai regiment lost more than 1,500 people in three days of high-intensity fighting.
The casualties of the Ming army can be ignored.
Throughout the spring offensive operations, the Army suffered more than 100 casualties and 36 were killed. The navy was larger, with more than 600 casualties.
And what about the British army? The army suffered 12,000 casualties, the navy suffered more than 8,000 casualties, and the rest were all captured.
At this time, the prisoner-of-war camp concentrated 50,000 civilians from the British Sydney Colony, 8,000 army personnel, 11,000 navy personnel, and 40,000 armed merchant bandits.
Such an achievement is simply unprecedented.
York could imagine the repercussions when the news reached Europa.
And this sentence, spoken by Zhu Zaiming, sounded to York's ears as Ming's mockery of the British Empire.
Zhu Zaiming had expected such results.
In the combat strategy of the General's Office, when in contact with the enemy, artillery must be 1,500 meters away, heavy machine gunners must be 500 meters away, and riflemen must be 300 meters away.
This distance was just outside the effective range of the British artillery and musketeers. After the heavy artillery brigade destroyed the British artillery, it was difficult for the British army to cause effective damage to the Ming army.
Although the distance increased, the Ming army's hit rate dropped rapidly.
But compared to precious pimple-like soldiers, it's worth wasting a little more ammunition.
Therefore, the Ming army fought with indiscriminate bombardment almost all the way.
The reason why there were casualties was that some Ming soldiers got lost in the night battle and ran into the British army, causing a lot of casualties.
Needless to say about the Samurai Group, Zhu Zaiming made it clear that the Samurai Group should try not to charge until the situation becomes clear.
However, Nara Ichibei's Dogezaza profoundly explained the value of the samurai's existence, saying that the more difficult the battle, the more loyal the samurai group can be shown.
In this regard, Zhu Zaiming could only acquiesce to the group charge of the warrior group.
At the same time, I was also thinking, should I give the samurai a division flag and add a bUff?
If they want honor, give it to them.
I, the Ming Dynasty, cannot give you a Han household registration, but giving a naturalized Han a certain honor is not easy.
Therefore, after visiting the battlefield and taking many photos for the Ministry of Rites, Zhu Zaiming began to think about the establishment of the military medal of honor system.
