After destroying the Spanish's only maritime armed force, the city of Santo Domingo was like a girl opening her heart in front of Xia Jun.
Zuo Hua was quite patient in dealing with such an enemy.
He asked the Second Marine Division to land on the seaside, then circled behind the city of Santo Domingo and surrounded the entire city.
At the same time, the warship went deep into the Danshui River and aimed its guns at the city wall.
During this time, Rausa Gonzalez had been revived.
Although Gonzalez was frightened when he saw being surrounded, he was still able to comfort the bewildered soldiers.
"Don't worry, we have strong city defenses and are not afraid of enemies coming in. As long as we hold on for a while, the governor will definitely come to rescue us."
The city of Santo Domingo is neither far nor close to the city of San Salvador, where the Governor is based, but if there is no news from here for a long period of time, the Governor will definitely become suspicious and send someone to check.
"Do you have confidence in such a city defense?"
The task of attacking was handed over by Zuo Hua to the Second Marine Division.
It's not that he is generous, but he has far-reaching considerations.
Santo Domingo City is a typical military castle type in Europe, and it will inevitably face such defenses in future wars.
Attacking with the army is the main method of Xia Army.
It would be a good idea to take advantage of the fact that Santo Domingo City's defense force is not strong enough to train the army.
In this way, when we really have to fight against powerful enemies in Europe in the future, the trained army will not suffer a bloody blow in front of such fortifications.
Gu Erzhong and Zhao Xianbing got together to discuss and asked Zuo Hua for help.
"Can you remove the heavy guns from your warship and lend them to us?"
Only the Seventh Marine Regiment followed the operation this time, so it did not carry heavy artillery.
If you want to attack a city, heavy artillery is the best weapon.
Of course Zuo Hua didn't care, and immediately ordered the ten heavy guns on the Yangzhou to be unloaded.
Only then did Gu Erzhong reveal his attack plan.
"This kind of European castle is very effective against front-mounted solid projectile artillery. Because the power of that artillery cannot collapse the city wall at all. The defenders are condescending and there are no blind spots, which will cause great damage to the attacker. But our artillery not only has a long range, but also has strong destructive capabilities. It is estimated that after a few rounds of shelling, a gap will be blown."
Zuo Hua didn't know anything about land warfare.
He pointed to the wide deep trench outside the castle and asked: "How do you break through here? And you must be careful. The low wall behind the deep trench should be used for combat."
Gu Erzhong admired him immensely.
"Those low walls are similar to our sheep and horse walls, and they are the main part of the defense of this kind of castle. Whether it is this kind of castle or our city wall, once the enemy actually attacks the city, it will actually be considered a failure. "
Although Xia Jun saw European castles on the battlefield for the first time, this kind of fortification was actually not unfamiliar to them.
Because in the military academy's lectures, Zuo Menggeng emphatically explained the advantages and disadvantages of this kind of castle, and also described many ways to crack it.
After all, the bastion plays a decisive role in the history of modern warfare, and it must be a problem that the Xia army will encounter.
Anyway, he would meet him sooner or later, so Zuo Mengeng added him to Xia Jun's military lectures.
Therefore, as soon as Zuo Hua, Gu Erzhong, Zhao Xianbing and others saw this kind of castle, the knowledge they had learned in the past came to mind, and they came up with ways to deal with it one by one.
In fact, with the current Xia Tian's firepower, facing this kind of castle, there is no need to use many clever methods.
One force can bring down ten.
In the face of the fierce firepower of the Xia army's heavy artillery, the defense of this kind of castle was no different from that of Zhihu.
Even the large ditch ten meters wide and five meters deep, as well as the connected low wall defense, was not difficult for the Xia army to break through.
"Give me all the heavy artillery to suppress the city. I must not let the enemies on the wall shoot from above. All the rifles, rocket launchers and mortars are concentrated on the low wall. All the snipers in the army are in place. Who dares to shoot from the low wall?" If he sticks his head out from behind, kill him."
Gu No. 2 Middle School decided to let the Dutch and Spanish take a closer look at what suppression fire meant.
Faced with such a deployment, the infantry of the Seventh Marine Regiment only needed to build siege equipment and follow the artillery fire.
In the afternoon, the siege officially began.
Ten heavy cannons were lined up, only about three thousand meters away from the castle.
This distance made the old-fashioned artillery on the castle helpless, but the accuracy of the heavy artillery was greatly guaranteed.
Standing on the city wall, holding a telescope in his hand and looking at the arrangement of the Xia army's artillery, Gonzalez was filled with questions.
"What's the use of artillery deployed so far away?"
The other Spaniards couldn't answer this question, they just laughed and laughed, thinking that these strange enemies who suddenly appeared must not be able to fight.
But when the cannons rang out and roared like thunder, everyone felt something was wrong.
The cannonballs fly too fast and don't give people much time to react. Immediately afterwards, gunpowder smoke billowed out from the top of the city, and the ground shook.
The solid city bricks were like flour in the face of such an explosion, exploding into pieces one after another, turning into weapons that aided evildoers.
In the blink of an eye, the city walls were swept away, and very few people survived.
Gonzalez fell to the ground and felt that his internal organs were out of position. The sky that my eyes saw was red for a while, white for a while, green for a while, filled with shadows and erratic.
He tried hard to push the body away, held on to the broken city wall, and looked outside in horror.
The fighting outside the city was not fierce.
The soldiers of the Xia army were extremely scattered. At a glance, they were so few that they could not be caught.
This caused great trouble to the Spanish soldiers.
They stood up from behind the low wall and wanted to shoot, but it was difficult to locate the enemy as they glanced back and forth.
But just when they were hesitant, Xia Jun opened fire.
Although the power of the infantry artillery was not as good as that of the heavy artillery, when it hit the low wall, it still scared all the Spanish soldiers back.
But something beyond their knowledge happened.
The low wall that could shield them from wind and rain was completely useless at this time. Strange cannonballs fell from overhead one after another, setting off a violent storm behind the low wall.
Even if these soldiers were not completely killed, Xia Jun's rockets still turned the city wall into a decoration.
A raging fire quickly ignited near the impact point of the rocket, burning the inside and outside of the wall, forcing the Spanish soldiers to retreat.
As for those Spanish soldiers who had no time to retract, they died more happily.
Xia Jun's snipers fired from every hidden corner, opening a path for the infantry to advance.
A long ladder was set up on the trench, and the soldiers climbed over it without any hindrance and captured the low wall.
The city of Santo Domingo could not be defended as soon as the war started.
