0664 The truth is amazing
When Li Si, the prime minister of the Qin Dynasty, was beheaded, he dipped his hand in his own blood and wrote seven "miserable" words on the ground before struggling for a long time before dying! So sometimes it is a benevolent way to end the suffering of one's companions.
While the soldiers were staring at the artillery, the mortar finally fired! As the soldiers moved forward, the mortars also stopped to build gun emplacements. In fact, the emplacements of the mortar are quite simple. Underneath the huge stubby barrel was an iron plate that was almost square. The gunners only need to talk about the rough leveling of the ground, put down the iron plate, and then nail the iron plate to the ground with iron nails, and a gun emplacement is finished.
While the soldiers were still approaching each other's breastwork, the first round of mortar shells fired! The mortar cannon fires flowering shells, which are specially designed to deal with the crowd behind the breastwork. The ballistics of ordinary artillery are relatively straight, and they cannot deal with enemies behind the breastwork. Because the shell hit the breastwork and was stopped! But the mortar is different, his trajectory is parabolic! The flowering projectile is fired high, and after passing over the breastwork, it falls to the ground and explodes, relying on shrapnel and shockwaves to kill enemies behind the breastwork.
The sound of more than a dozen mortar guns firing at the same time can be described as terrifying! Everyone watched as more than a dozen flowering bullets landed in front of and behind the breastwork, and then exploded! Although more than half of the first shot landed behind the first breastwork, and some of the shells landed relatively far away, even if they exploded, they did not cause any damage. And the flowering bullets that fell in front of the breastwork were also pushed up by the breastwork!
But the flowering bombs that exploded right behind the breastwork took a huge toll on the Dutchmen! The flying shrapnel and the tiny iron bullets contained in the flowering bullets swept through the crowd, and immediately blood splattered and screamed! Directly in the crowd behind the breastwork, a few gaps were punched!
These Dutch people had never experienced such a sight, and they panicked for a while! The crowd became agitated. This led to a crackdown by the officers, and it took a long time for the riots to subside.
Subsequently, after observing the landing point of the shell, the observer quickly adjusted the firing angle and charge of the mortar. Then, under the command of the gun commander, the second batch of flowering shells was fired. This time, the landing point of the flowering bomb is much more accurate! More than half of the flowering bombs
Exploded at a valid distance behind the breastwork! Fifty or sixty people were knocked to the ground by shells all at once!
Shrapnel and projectiles hit sandbags and human bodies with a "poof, poof" sound, but what flows out is different. All that comes out of the sandbag is sand, and what spews out of the human body is blood!
In just a few seconds, blood stained the breastwork red! This cannonball, which can go over the breastwork and explode, completely disturbs the mood of the Dutch people! At first, they were ready to confidently follow each other's example, leaning on the chest wall to repel their opponent's attacks. But now the opponent has not yet entered the firing range, and they have already been bombarded by two rounds of flowering shells! Nearly 100 people were killed and wounded!
The timid man huddled under the chest wall with a smoothbore gun and kept screaming and crying. The daring man continued to lie on his chest and try to shoot out. Others want to save their companions. The officers had no way to restrain the unit, which was full of civilians.
Seeing the chaos ahead, the army commander ordered his soldiers to speed up their pace and prepare to seize the breastwork. At the same time, a signal was given to the mortar gunners in the rear, asking them to fire a final round. Given the order, the mortar gunners reloaded and fired the final round of flowering shells as fast as they could. The blossom bomb whistled into the air. When it flew to the highest point, it began to tumble and fall.
By the time the third round of mortar fire was fired, deserters had already appeared in the Dutch troops. This shell is terrible! As soon as it hits the ground, it will explode! Cannonballs the size of a human head were stuffed with tiny iron bullets. Driven by gunpowder, they can kill enemies within a radius of more than ten meters.
Those ordinary civilians have not experienced the baptism of the battlefield at all. Perhaps they once joined the fight to massacre the natives. But those natives had neither muskets nor artillery. It can only be a one-sided slaughter! But today they have an even stronger opponent, and they are the ones who will be slaughtered! So they simply can't hold on!
When the first person threw away the smoothbore gun and turned to run away, the entire line of defense collapsed! As a result, more than a dozen flowering shells caused the greatest casualties among the fleeing crowd. Those flowering projectiles that fall close to the breastwork will try to resist
The man was knocked to the ground. The flowering bombs that are far away from the community in the landing point shrouded the fleeing crowd! Large swathes of land were stained with the color of blood, and the morale of the Dutch people was completely brought to the bottom!
So when they saw the opposing infantry approaching quickly, they all fled like crazy to the first breastwork, trying to escape back to the castle. Even the people behind the second breastwork were led into flight. The two breastworks were lost in the blink of an eye.
Liu Pei's soldiers were even more excited when they saw the enemy being blown up by the flowering bomb on their backs! Before the third round of flowering bombs hit the ground, they had quickly advanced a considerable distance, approaching the breastwork. As soon as the shells exploded, they roared and began to charge!
At this time, the Dutch also began to shoot piecemeal. But apart from a few soldiers being shot, the Dutch counterattack had no effect. Because the dense explosion of flowering shells just now completely shattered the dream of the Dutch counterattack!
At this time, the artillery on the castle tried to stop the charge of the soldiers and wanted to fire grapeshotfire at them! But thankfully, those two breastwork lines were lost too quickly! When Liu Pei's army soldiers were slowly advancing, they could only fire solid shells because of the distance.
But when Liu Pei's soldiers broke through the two sandbag defense lines in a row, they didn't even have time to turn the muzzles and replace the shells, and the soldiers crossed the sandbag defense line and entered the dead end of the artillery! Only one cannon had time to fire grapeshot, resulting in the death and heavy damage of seven or eight soldiers. That's the only contribution of the castle's artillery!
After the Dutch began to flee in disarray, Liu Pei's soldiers rushed over and climbed over the breastwork with a shout, and directly attacked the second breastwork! Then go over the second breastwork and chase after the city gate! At this time, the Dutch people were already like lost dogs, and they couldn't stand at all! And a large number of people were so frightened that they even threw away their muskets, and they had no power to fight back, so they could only desperately flee in the direction of the castle gate.
The front-line commander quickly gave the order, and some of them followed the Dutch in pursuit of the city gates, while others pounced directly on the large hole in the outer wall of the castle. He tried to pull off a breakthrough in two places at once.