The city of Geranza was built on an island, and it was a problem to transport the heavy artillery. What's more, there is heavy artillery on the city of Geranza, which is often referred to as fortress artillery. They don't make it easy for people to get on the island.

And the captain and the fortress artillery did not have an advantage in the bombardment. First of all, the plug gun is placed on the turret, which is very stable and easier to aim. And the warship is affected by wind and waves at sea, and the accuracy is not at all comparable to the artillery of the battery.

Secondly, warships could not beat the fortress guns. The caliber of the fortress guns is large, and once the warship is hit, the losses are very large! So Liu Pei had to think of another way.

However, when Liu Pei was looking at the map just now, he already had a preliminary idea in his heart. Liu Pei first of all thanks to the arrogance of the Dutch for this plan! They believed that their strength at sea was invincible, so when they built a castle on the island, they did not build a wall to enclose the island at all. There are not even walls outside the castle. This provided great convenience for the attack on Liu Peideng Island and the attack.

Moreover, when the Dutch built the city of Geranza, it was divided into two directions: east and west. On the east side, the main castle was built in the direction of the mountains. In the western coastal area, a large number of warehouses, barracks and other ordinary buildings were built. This provides convenience for Liu Pei.

Liu Pei's plan is to use this complex. Because of the shelter of the building, the artillery on the castle has a dead end. It can only attack ships far away from the sea to the west of the island. And the ships in the vicinity could not hit at all due to the obstruction of buildings.

So the breakthrough set by Liu Pei is here. He was ready to attract fire from the castle with a fleet feint. Then use another fleet to break the battery on the west side of the island, and let the Marines land in small boats in the west to capture that part of the building complex. These buildings were then used as a basis for artillery bombardment of the main castle of the city of Geranza. That's the only way to go!

After Liu Pei formulated the main plan, he threw it to the staff officers and asked them to improve the entire plan. The staff officers also lived up to expectations and came up with a detailed battle plan in a very short time. Now the whole team is moving according to the plan. The Great War is on the verge of breaking out.

At noon the next day, the second fleet sent Liu Pei 1,000 army soldiers and four heavy artillery. Now all eight heavy artillery pieces in Liu Pei's hands have been assembled in southern Taiwan. The time for the battle is scheduled to officially begin tomorrow morning.

The next morning, the soldiers gathered after a feast and waited for orders. And the fleet has already moved one step ahead. In the previous days, the fleet had never given up harassment on the island. The battleships took turns firing artillery at the castle to harass the opponents.

And inside the castle is used to this kind of harassment. Now unless the opposing ships get too close, they won't even fire their guns. This also caused the captains to become more and more daring, often reaching and shooting.

But this morning was different, and the captains took turns to harass. Either a single ship, or a combination of two or three, to besiege the main castle from all sides. But the castle is too strong! The shells fired by the fleet were of little significance other than minor damage.

The people in the castle also noticed the difference today. The army inside the castle has long been mobilized and sticks to various posts. All male civilians were also armed and used as regular soldiers.

The people who dare to go to sea in this era are those who are more courageous, or have no way to live, so everyone can be counted as a skilled militiaman. In this way, the castle was pieced together with more than a thousand troops. In their opinion, it was enough for these people to hold the castle.

When they found out that the situation was different today, they quickly mobilized everyone to fill the fort. They felt that today might be the day when the Red-Eyed Dragon King was preparing to attack the city. They felt they had to give the arrogant pirate king a little color. So they mobilized everyone to rush to the gun emplacements and set up artillery to bombard the ships close to the castle.

From the beginning of the battle, more and more ships joined the artillery bombardment. However, the captain was very clever, and once he found out that his ship was locked on by the turret for a long time, he immediately withdrew from the warband and let the turret re-aim to attack other ships.

Judging from the accuracy of the artillery at that time, this tactic undoubtedly greatly increased the difficulty of hitting the castle artillery! It's even harder to hit enemy ships! But even so, there are still ships that will be injured by artillery shots. But at the same time, the dense artillery of the ships also caused certain losses to the Dutch. However, in general, it is the castle that prevails.

While the castle and the battleships were bombarding, the fleet that had stopped in the western part of the island used its bodies as cover and lowered a large number of small boats. The Marines will land on the western part of the island. But those Dutch people are not stupid, they know that the western flank must be the direction of the enemy's key attack! Although it was not possible to place fortress guns there, they built four batteries to defend against the enemy approaching from the island.

As soon as the boat got out of the water and was loading soldiers, a group of battleships rushed towards the west side of the island! They were going to destroy as many of the four batteries as they could before the boat was ready.

The Dutch on the battery had long since noticed that there seemed to be something strange about the flotilla parked not far away. But the fleet coming in from the other side attracted their attention, because they posed a real threat to the batteries.

Sure enough, as soon as the fleet said that the batteries were included in the firing range, the ship's naval guns were the first to fire! Instead of forming a unified battle line, the eight ships pulled away at a relatively large distance. The purpose of this was to prevent the battery from coming up with uniform data on shelling.

The fleet slipped a short distance from the shore of the island, shelling the batteries at once. I saw a dense number of shells streak through the air, raining down on those batteries! And the fort is not to be outdone, and is also desperately organizing a counterattack! In addition to the feint fleet, for a time the sea cannon rumbled, and the smoke of gunpowder was filled! Heralding the complete unfolding of a great war!

Before the start of the war, Liu Pei taught the captains how to concentrate fire and shoot. That is, the fleet in a group of two or three ships concentrated on attacking one battery! This greatly increases the density and number of hits of artillery shells.

It worked! The guns on the ship, although the caliber was not as large as those on the batteries, were far more numerous than him. For a moment, the blazing iron ball smashed into the fort like raindrops, like a terrible hail!

The battery was dusty and bricks shattered under the impact of the shells! The dust that flew up almost covered the turret! But you Dutch gunners on the turret are also very brave! They fought back with a whistling shell. Although the hit rate is relatively low, once a ship is hit, the heavy shells will cause great damage to the battleship!

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