The fleet was attacked and annihilated, and this scene was like a dream.

Mel's heart suddenly cooled a lot, the company lost so many warships at once, and his career line was afraid of a fork......

In order to hide his inner uneasiness, Maier cursed in a deep voice: "Damn Chinese! ”

(In the thirteenth year of Wanli (1585), the Spaniard Mendoza called the Ming Dynasty Chinese in his History of the Great Chinese Empire, and in the memoirs of Kwai Yi, the last governor of Taiwan of the East India Company, he also referred to the Chinese.) ）

Regardless of the facts, it was obvious to Meier that he was in big trouble!

Compared to those ships, the city of Geransha and the city of Pumisha (Chikan City) are the most important assets of the East India Company, and they must be kept!

These two fortified fortresses, built by the company over a period of five years and a huge amount of money, are also the most advanced bastions in Europa, and the artillery is difficult to shake!

With the advent of artillery, the siege has become much easier, and the attacker has a great advantage, and can choose to attack from any direction, especially against the fire of ordinary castles, which can not withstand it for a long time.

Where there is a spear, there is a shield, ordinary castles are outdated, and soon a new type of defense system such as a bastion appears.

Bastions are complex castle systems, with the outermost layer consisting of low, sloping, and high-thickness anti-gun walls.

The anti-artillery wall has an angle, the thickness is very high, and it is difficult for the shells to penetrate, and once they hit the anti-artillery wall, the shells are also prone to ricochet, which greatly weakens the power of the artillery bombardment.

Moreover, the enemy will be exposed on two or three sides of the bastion no matter where it attacks it, and the defender can use crossfire to deliver multiple strikes.

The city of Geranza is a typical modern European fortress, the wall base is a natural stone wall, the wall is made of red bricks, made of sugar water, glutinous rice, oyster shell ash, sand pounding and sticking, both the height and solidity of the city wall are first-class.

In addition, the city of Geranza is surrounded by moats, the outer city has four bastions, the inner city has two bastions, and the inner city is a square with two floors, and the walls are nine meters high.

The three-story fortress has a total of nearly 100 cannons, which can be expanded along the side and face of the wall to spread firepower, which is really easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is an out-and-out king eight shells.

The basement of the city of Geranza was a storehouse, which contained a large amount of ammunition, food, and sundries, and Mel was confident that he could hold the fortified city.

After the naval battle, the Ming army began to prepare for the landing, and a large number of warships approached the shore.

Mel's heart tightened, and he loudly encouraged the soldiers under his command: "Soldiers, take out your craftsmanship and let the Chinese taste the taste of shells!" Beat them into the sea and feed the sharks! ”

As Governor, Meir's encouragement was still effective, and many Dutch officers and soldiers screamed.

"Your Excellency the Governor, all the artillery has been loaded and ready to fire!"

Satisfied, Maier immediately replied, "Prepare for a salvo!" ”

As soon as the words fell, hundreds of artillery pieces in the city of Geranza were fired in unison, and the sound of the cannons shook the sky, and after a while, I saw that the waves on the sea in the distance stirred up patches, and several small boats of the Ming army were destroyed.

Obviously, the effect of this wave was not good, and it did not hit the main warships of the Ming army.

It seems to be more of a warning to the Ming fleet, don't get any closer, we're strong!

In the telescope, Maier found that the Ming fleet really put away the previous full sails, slowed down significantly, and they kept rowing circles on the sea, not daring to continue to approach, and there were signs of turning around.

His tactics seemed to have played a role, the corners of Mel's mouth slowly rose, and a confident smile appeared on his face: "If they dare to approach again, they will inevitably be wiped out by the merciless rain of bullets, and there will be no armor left!" ”

"A bunch of cowards!"

"The guy who only sneaks up! Vile! ”

Nearby officers and soldiers also heckled, cursed, and some spitted.

Since the Dutch invasion of Dongfan twenty years ago, two or three hundred soldiers were able to defeat seven or eight thousand local aborigines, and since then, the Chinese of Formosa (Dongfan) have been seen by the Dutch as weak and cowardly.

Even if the previous naval battle of Liuluo Bay was defeated, and the defeat in this naval battle, Maier and the others were unconvinced from the bottom of their hearts, feeling that these two times were caused by the large number of Ming soldiers and sneak attacks, and they did not play the prestige of the Dutch navy!

The cheering on the city of Geranza did not last long, and the rumbling of cannon could be heard in the distance.

"Your Excellency the Governor, the Chinese have attacked Chikan Tower in the east!"

Maier was shocked, Chikanlou and the city of Geransha formed a corner, but the defense there was far from that of Geranza, and the defenders were few, so it would be bad if it was breached.

What he was most worried about was that after the Ming army captured Chikanlou, they would besiege the castle of Geranza, so that the calf would be finished.

Meier asked, "How many people are there in the Ming army?" ”

The herald hurriedly said: "It seems that there are thousands of people, Your Excellency the Governor will send reinforcements, there are too few soldiers in Chikanlou, and they can't stop them at all!" They also have cannons......"

"Quickly send 500 people to support!" Maier immediately made a decision and immediately sent troops to support.

According to Dutch estimates, twenty-five Chinese together are not worth one Dutch soldier, and they are all timid and indurable.

This arrogant view has penetrated into the hearts of every Dutch soldier and has become their irrefutable conclusion. (The statement comes from the memoirs of the East India Company's 'Governor of Taiwan' Kwai Yi)

It turns out that a lot of arrogance is just a false appearance, and it will be shattered when it really touches hard reality.

Both Chikan Tower and Geranza City were built according to the standards of European-style castles, and Chikan Tower was smaller in scale.

With the strong intelligence ability of Jinyiwei, Zhu Chenggong also knew how hard the Wang Ba Shell in Relan Sha City was, and decided to conquer the weaker Chikan Tower first, so as to prevent the Wang Ba Kezi Relan Sha City from being attacked by the front and back for a long time.

So Zhu Chenggong ordered that Chen Ze and Shi Lang were responsible for the main attack on Chikanlou, and he was responsible for besieging the city of Gelan and containing the forces of the Netherlands.

"The surname of the country, the red-haired reinforcements are here, it seems that there are only a few hundred people!"

"Hundreds of people dare to come to support? Look down on me? ”

Zhu Chenggong said coldly and categorically: "Kill the past and destroy all those red-haired ghosts who don't know the height of the sky!" ”

He wants to make the red-haired ghost pay the price for his carelessness, and this price can only be death!

Zhu Chenggong's regiment commander Gan Hui led 1,300 people to block the attack, and the two sides quickly engaged.

Both sides used flintlock muskets (not Heding rifles), and both used the tactics of horizontal formations to fire at each other.

The Dutch army, in a platoon of twelve, advanced bravely, and when it approached the Ming army, three rows of guns were fired.

The Ming army did not show weakness, lead bullets rained down, white smoke rose up, and there were dead and wounded on both sides.

Before two or three rounds were played, the formation of the two sides was chaotic, and it was completely chaotic.

Most of the soldiers of the Pingfan fleet were carefully selected and reorganized from the original Zheng family and Fujian guards, and they had no experience in platoon gun combat, and their combat effectiveness was incomparable with that of the Tianwu Army.

The soldiers of the East India Company were basically mercenaries, and those who dared to come to Asia to venture and pan for gold were basically the masters who hung their heads on their belts, not only were they not afraid of death, but they were quite experienced in combat, and they were not timid in the face of the Ming army, which was doubled in number.