Chapter 698: Break the Eight Shells of the King

On April 23, at the end of the hour, the Ming army launched a fierce artillery bombardment of the city of Geranza.

In the final decisive battle, the Ming army put all artillery on the commanding heights.

At the same time, the warships of the Ming army anchored in the inland waters of the Taijiang River also opened fire on the city of Geranza from the sea, forming a fire attack by sea route.

"Oh my God! Am I dreaming? ”

On the city wall, a Dutch soldier looked at the Ming artillery array on Fort Utrecht and exclaimed in amazement.

Maier pulled out his monoculars and looked at it for a while, and the corners of his mouth twitched a few times.

"It's over....."

Before the words fell, a dense cannon sound suddenly sounded in the distance.

With a loud rumbling bang, several cannonballs smashed into the bastion with the hot air, and the splatters of rubble slammed into Meir's face, cutting a deep bloody cut.

Maier was frightened and inexplicable, and immediately subconsciously lay down, shouting in his mouth: "All lie down!" ”

With the loud explosion of artillery, the entire city of Geranza trembled violently, and several of the Dutch soldiers defending the city were so frightened that they could not stand on their feet and fell to the ground, and several soldiers were even shaken to the bottom of the city.

The city of Geranza is different from the cities in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, on the surface it is a city, but in fact it is a military castle.

There were no ordinary civilians in the castle, only officers and soldiers, and the officers' families.

The artillery array of the Ming army on the mountain, coupled with the artillery of the battleships on the sea, the first salvo of hundreds of guns produced a momentum of shaking the ground and the mountains.

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

On the ruins of Fort Utrecht, the Ming artillery was rumbling endlessly, surrounded by exciting white smoke, and the Ming gunners were constantly brushing and reloading, shelling Wang Bahu!

After a few rounds of bombardment, the artillerymen rotated the gun body with force, adjusted the angle, and continued to bomb with a different target.

The artillery of the Ming army shelled fiercely, and all their anger was vented at this time!

The strategic purpose of all the Ming artillery is only one, to bombard the Iron King of Geranza City into ruins!

What about your fortress? And what about the anti-artillery walls? We went down from the top and went into the city!

The entire city of Geranza was within the range of the Ming army's firepower, but the artillery of the Dutch army could hardly reach the Ming artillery array at Utrecht Fort, and they were helpless against their artillery array, and they were completely beaten.

The solid bullets and flowering shells in the Ming army's formation continued to roar and fire, and they were fired in a series of coordinated matches, cooling down here, and firing artillery on that side, almost forming a continuous artillery bombardment!

Huge solid iron balls kept flying, smashing hard all over the city wall, creating deep holes.

Those flowering bombs exploded, and countless pieces of iron flew inside, and the middle of them were all bloody and blurred, making them cry and cry for their mothers, embarrassed, and the city defense was in danger of collapsing in an instant.

"Lord, let thy kingdom come, and thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven....."

A Dutch gunner had just finished praying and was about to return fire when a black shell slammed into him.

Before he could react, he heard a loud bang, and the whole person was blown up into the sky and returned to the arms of the Lord.

The earth-shattering explosions, and the explosions were serial explosions, and the large amount of smoke produced after the explosions almost covered the entire city of Reranza.

Where have the Dutch people seen this kind of flowering bomb, especially the kind of black clouds that rise, like the devil descending?

The surrounding Dutch soldiers were terrified, screaming and running wildly, and the surrounding soldiers also ran for their lives in a panic.

As long as there were shells flying, the soldiers all screamed far away, and it was useless for the officers to shout, especially some of the officers themselves ran away.....

What's worse is that the artillery of the Ming army is still firing continuously.

Meier and the other Dutch officers were so anxious that they were about to see that they were crying and fleeing, and he was powerless to stop them.

"It's a pity that there are no poisonous smoke bombs, if there is that thing, hitting these red hairs is the same as playing!"

On Utrecht Fort, Zhu Chenggong let out a long sigh and looked disappointed.

Thinking of the great killer of the Shenwu Army, Zhu Chenggong's heart itched, at the beginning of the battle of Guan Jin, the high-tech was powerful, which opened his eyes and called him awesome!

Although some experienced Dutch people also fought back with their artillery, the difference in the number of artillery on both sides was too great, and the Dutch were at an absolute disadvantage, and their artillery could not effectively return fire.

After two hours of fierce shelling, under the joint attack of the Ming army by land and sea, the Ming army fired a total of more than 5,000 shells at the city of Geranza.

The Dutch returned fire with just over 800 rounds.

The fortresses of the city of Geranza had been shattered, especially in the inner city, where a large number of houses had collapsed and the rubble was piled up like a burning city, and there was fire and smoke everywhere.

The Dutch people had long since lost their sense of battle, and they were all shivering behind thick walls.

In order to end the war as soon as possible, Zhu Chenggong ordered to adjust the firing angle, concentrate half of the Hongyi artillery to bombard the Half Moon Fort in the east, blast it away, and the infantry army entered the city!

The entire battlefield was shrouded in thick gunsmoke, and Mel was hiding behind the city walls and could no longer observe the development of the battlefield situation, he was more afraid of death than anyone else, and the whole person seemed to have nowhere to put it.

A soldier finally found the Governor, and ran over with a crawl, shouting in a panic: "Your Excellency the Governor, quickly send reinforcements, Half Moon Fort can't hold on!" ”

Myer's brow twitched, and he was completely panicked.

Stunned, he suddenly said, "What about the army of the Potbelly Kingdom?" Did Alamy send someone to help? ”

Mair had sent someone to the Babula tribe to ask for the support of Alamy, the king of the Potbelly Kingdom, and offered a large amount of money in exchange for support.

He looked around with his binoculars and finally crouched down in disappointment.

Obviously, the big-bellied kingdom didn't come to support, and he didn't even see a single hair.

Under the bombardment, the entire section of the city wall finally collapsed, revealing a large gap more than two feet wide.

Many Dutch soldiers were also stunned, and they didn't expect that the impregnable Half Moon Fort was actually blasted open by the Ming army.

Shi Lang, who was in charge of the assault mission, brandished a big knife and shouted: "Brothers, rush into the city and kill all the red ghosts!" ”

However, he saw that the Wufan soldiers who had surrendered to the Ming army were the first to enter the city and rushed forward to engage in a white-knuckle battle with the Dutch soldiers.

These black brothers frantically slashed and took revenge on their former masters, and there was no ambiguity at all.

Before the smoke had cleared, the Ming army rushed to the city wall, stepped on the rubble and rubble through the gap, and poured into the city of Geranza.

The Dutch soldiers had already been frightened by the bombing, and they had no intention of fighting at all, and they were also killed by the Ming army and retreated.

Later, a large number of Ming troops entered the city of Geranza from the gap, and advanced step by step into the city.

The Dutch and indigenous soldiers could not resist and scattered in all directions.

Where can you run to the city of Geranza, where can you run?

"Surrender! I give up! ”

A dusty-faced missionary gracefully held a white flag aloft and said in Chinese as he walked: "I surrender!" ”

The desperate Dutch soldiers around them also put down their weapons, raised their hands high, and surrendered to the Ming army in stiff Chinese, apparently learning and selling on the spot.

Among them are also some Japanese soldiers, indigenous soldiers and other two devils.

The Ming army directly killed the red eye, cut people when they saw them, regardless of whether you surrender or not, the cut is over!

In the face of the robbers and barbarians, the Ming army can only deal with them in a more barbaric way!

It's your business to surrender, it's my business to spare or not, it all depends on your mood!

By about five o'clock in the afternoon, the battle was basically over, and the Ming army took full control of the city of Geranza.

Except for the more than 600 Dutch soldiers who surrendered on their knees, the rest were either killed by shells or hacked to death.