Day 3 Siege!

One after another, the firebombs flew towards the city like shooting stars, and at the same time, the bombs exploded in the city, and the artillery shells came one after another.

The smell of gunpowder smoke and fire oil floating in the air was breathless, and even though they were wearing masks, the smell still felt like it burned their hearts.

There are smoke screens everywhere, which makes people feel suffocated and helpless!

Burning the city!

The city of Colombo burned brightly, the night sky was reddened by fire, the crackling sound of burning, the cries for help of the fleeers continued throughout the night, and the whole city became a panicked, terrifying, unimaginable fire hell, in the slums, rows of wooden and thatched houses became the place where fire bombs were used, and in the rich areas, although the stone and brick houses could stop the flow of flames, the flames ignited all the plants that could be ignited, and the trees were burned into flames.

The fire borrowed the wind, the wind helped the fire, and it was out of control, and in the flames, the soldiers and civilians in the city panicked, and they fled in all directions.

In his memoirs, David, who commanded the attack, wrote: "This is the first time I have seen such a striking scene. ”

Officer Hong Xu, who was watching the battle at sea, shook his head and said, "I don't know if the funds for our navy's warships will be cut!" ”

The implication was that the trebuchet would be so good that it would cause the military to cut the cost of the cannon ship, after all, he had been besieging the city of Malacca for more than seven months.

The officers and men of the Navy were amazed to see the brilliant fireballs flying over the city of Colombo.

Determined to watch the power of the land trebuchet, he returned to the cabin to write a report, and he wrote: "Supreme Leader, it's time to build our Urban cannon, under the jurisdiction of the Marines, and this heavy artillery should be designed to be able to be transported by the Navy!" ”

In the words of Archbishop Perez of Colombo: "The situation is so alarming that it has reached an indescribable level!" ”

He exclaimed, "Maybe this is Nero's slaughter!" "In 64 A.D., the Roman Emperor Nero went berserk and set the city on fire, causing a great tragedy

The trebuchet is an ancient weapon, and if it is used well, it fully shows its power, before, the Southeast Army used the trebuchet on a large scale for the first time to deal with the Tatars, and the effect was good, and after Yan Changwu came back from the mainland, he brought back a lot of trebuchet components, and he placed a lot of orders for trebuchets to the factory, and the workers rushed to build, and now it comes in handy.

The fire attack on Colombo City is an epic victory for the Chinese, and an unimaginable unprecedented disaster for the Hongmaofan!

Its east and south sides were attacked by trebuchet firebombs, about 13 areas of the city were burned to the ground, nearly 10,000 buildings were burned, fortunately it was close to dawn, the people fled quickly, only burned more than 1,000 people, 30,000 people were homeless, many firebombs were dropped on the southeast city wall, many places were burned and exploded, the firebombs also detonated a number of powder magazines, and from time to time explosions rumbled.

The fire attacked for three hours, and the attack stopped at 8 a.m., when the city was still burning and smoke was billowing out, and the south-eastern fleet was approaching the western and northern walls, and heavy artillery bombardment was carried out inward.

The cannonballs fell in a row, causing a huge panic among the soldiers and civilians in the city, and they were angry like rats in bellows!

They didn't dare to flee to the east and south of the city, but if they stayed in the west and north of the city, they didn't know when they would fall on their heads and hit themselves.

And the position of the Southeast Army on land was full of jubilation, and the brothers began to eat breakfast, they beat to the point of forgetting to sleep and food, and said happily: "It seems that you can definitely go down to the city in seven days!" ”

Some people also said: "I don't think it will take seven days, and now I will send people into the city to persuade me to surrender, but I am afraid that Hongmaofan will surrender immediately." ”

"Eat more, eat more this morning!" Although the smell from afar was not very good, everyone had a great appetite and scraped the porridge bucket with a lunch box!

This is a new war situation, the southeast country is crushed by absolute national strength, the war carried out by the red hair fan in the name of the company is simply not worth mentioning, the weapons and equipment and logistics supplies of the southeast country provide sufficient guarantees, and the red hair can be broken by firepower, and there is no need to shout "for the leader" to charge with human lives to fill.

Times have changed!

We have money, sufficient industrial chains, technology, and manpower, and we need bigger, thicker and harder weapons.

Terminator of Constantinople: Urban cannon for the Turks. On April 12, 1453, Mehmed II, the seventh Sultan of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, led a large army to attack Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, using this huge cannon to inflict great damage on the fortified walls of Constantinople.

The cannon was cast in pure bronze, 17 feet long and about 5.18 meters long, weighing 17 tons, with a barrel thickness of 8 inches and about 20 cm in order to withstand the huge impact when the cannon was fired, and the caliber was up to 30 inches or about 762mm, which was enough to hold an adult, and the granite shells used weighed 1500 pounds and about 680 kilograms. It was the most powerful firearm of its time.

17 tons?

Waiting to see what kind of cannon we Chinese make, make it smaller, we are embarrassed to say that we are industrial maniacs!

Not only that, Yan Changwu also ordered the casting of an even more terrifying super large-caliber toad mortar cannon......

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Using trebuchets to siege the city, the Southeastern Army did not take advantage of the chaos to storm the city, although it was a good opportunity.

The people in the city were panicked, the city walls in the east and south of the city were burned black, I don't know how many fire bombs were thrown on the city walls, so that the red hairs on the city turned into a scarce animal, and it took a long time to find one from the telescope.

At such a good time, Mr. David, as the commander-in-chief of the Southeastern Army, did not give the order to attack the city, let the troops rest, and let only a few cannons and trebuchets continue to work.

Delaying the military aircraft, could it be that he, the former red-haired fan, sympathizes with the current red-haired fan?!

The senior officers knew what the red-haired man was, and some of the rude veterans scolded him.

But the non-commissioned officers stopped them from scolding, saying, "The leader agrees with that red-haired fan!" ”

The veterans dare to scold Mr. David, but they cannot scold their respected leader.

The heavy counterweight trebuchet just threw bombs so slowly, the long lever bracket of the "squeak......" trebuchet rubbed against the bearing and made a strange scream, the counterweight in front fell, and the twisting force of the thick hemp rope made the catapult at the tail soar into the air, "Bang! A flaming fire bomb immediately flew into the air, dragging the trail of smoke towards the city.

At this time, the sun had gradually set on the horizon, and the trebuchets of the Southeast Army were still being launched, and those tall and heavy equipment were set up in the afterglow of the setting sun, forming black shadows, and some levers were still rotating...... At this time, if you have seen the oil extractor on the oil well, you will definitely think of the scene on the oil well at sunset.

Unexpectedly, the next morning, that is, the fourth day of the official siege, the red hairy fan raised the white flag and lowered!

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