Chapter 439 Lost

When the first cannon rang out, he was still entangled with a bunch of ruffians.

Before they could react, a cannonball whistled and slammed into the castle.

The heart of the hard thing tightened suddenly, and he immediately shouted: "Enemy attack!" Enemy attack! Hurry up to the city and fight back! ”

His soldiers, who were still scolding and scolding just now, also came to their senses at this time, and almost all of them picked up the guys and rushed to the city and the road.

These outlaws know that the battle will still be fought.

After all, the quarrel between one's own people and the fight to the death with the Chinese are completely different things.

In any case, we still have to withstand a wave first, in case the Governor really sends troops to repel the Chinese Yankees, and after settling the accounts, those who don't do anything with the money will definitely not be pleased.

However, when they got to the top of the city and looked at the scene in front of them, Rao was these battle-hardened soldiers, and they were secretly frightened one by one, and their legs and stomachs trembled.

At a glance, the three sides of the black pressure were full of people, and it seemed that there were many more siege equipment in their formation than yesterday.

"The Chinese guys are here for real!"

The robbers looked at each other and thought in unison.

Somehow, the cannons that flew from Fort Haarlem seemed to have eyes, and they all went in the same direction, and almost all of them landed near the breastwork.

I saw that huge iron balls kept hitting the breastwork, and within a range of tens of meters, this breastwork soon loosened, accompanied by the splashing of masonry and smoke and dust, and several openings the size of water tanks had appeared......

Seeing this scene, he was shocked, staring at the round castle in front of him, and his heart was even more annoyed by yesterday's carelessness.

"Look, look, look, look......"

Suddenly, a small boss beside him exclaimed, waking up the stunned descriptor.

Following the direction of the little leader's finger, he turned his head to look, only to see several teams of Chinese Yankees emerging from the ruins in the enemy formation in front of him, pushing dozens of artillery pieces with great difficulty, slowly moving forward......

"Is this, going to risk your death?"

It is difficult to describe the hard thing and gasp, Zheng Chenggong ignores the artillery fire at the head of the city, and does not hesitate to suffer casualties, this is the meaning of the imperative?

Immediately, he subconsciously raised his hand and shouted in a miserable voice: "Quick! Counterattack! Counterattack! ”

"Yes! My lord! ”

Hearing the order, the little leader immediately ran away and beckoned the minions to organize guns and artillery fire back.

To be honest, these red-haired soldiers are indeed very fierce and have a good set of battles.

Not only did they concentrate their guns on the city to return fire, but they also organized a group of people, about 50 musketeers, to open the city gate and rush out at the risk of death.

"What do you want to do with these ghosts?"

Seeing this scene, Shi Lang, who was personally commanding in front of the battle, was a little puzzled, "Do you still want to come and snatch my cannon?" ”

It turned out that due to the shape of the round fort, the more than ten guns on the roof of the building could not really face the same direction, and although the power of the cannons issued from the condescending was large, the striking surface was still slightly scattered, and it was impossible to concentrate on the attack.

In order to collapse the city wall as soon as possible, so that his Iron Man Army could rush into the city to fight house by house, Shi Lang went out, he mobilized thirty more cannons, and brazenly ordered to fire closely!

Unexpectedly, the red hair, who has become a frightened bird, actually dares to take the initiative to attack out of the city?

Shi Lang blinked, and immediately became furious: "Archers prepare, call Lao Tzu back!" ”

"Yes!"

At the sound of the order, a group of archers who had been waiting for a long time came out from behind the ruins, braved the bullets flying everywhere and quickly formed a team, and raised the hard bows in their hands in unison.

At this time, the group of ghosts rushed over while firing, and the distance was getting closer and closer, and rows of bullets were fired into the artillery formation that came out of the group, and more stray bullets flew everywhere......

Behind the artillery formation, in the ranks of archers, there were also people who were shot and fell, but immediately someone stepped forward to fill the position......

"Volley! Put! ”

"Whoosh! Whoosh! ”

At the commander's command, more than 200 sharp arrows shot out, flying like locusts towards the top of the red-haired group's heads.

"Poof! Poof! Boom! Boom! ”

For a while, sharp arrows accurately drilled into the bodies of the red-haired people, and more than 50 people fell nearly half of them in an instant......

Next, the second round is ...... Round 3......

In less than half a bag of cigarettes, the red hair that attacked was almost completely wiped out, and less than ten people were left in fright, dropped their muskets and fled back.

Seeing that the counterattack was repulsed by the archers of the Zheng army in the blink of an eye, the soldiers guarding the city panicked and immediately closed the gates, never daring to leave the city again.

Seeing this scene, Shi Lang nodded with satisfaction and immediately ordered the artillery to speed up.

Speaking of which, the reason why Shi Lang's bow and arrow array is capable of defeating musketeers is mainly because the muskets of this era have not yet formed an overwhelming advantage.

Because the Dutch soldiers were still armed with arquebuses, the preparation time of this kind of guns was too long, almost ten times that of bows and arrows, and the advantages of range and accuracy were not obvious, so it was easy to be repelled by a well-organized and dense rain of arrows, and once the formation of the "three-stage strike" was disrupted, the musket unit would basically become a live target.

Of course, Zheng Jun's strong discipline and good organization, and the high morale of the soldiers and the fact that they were not chaotic in the face of danger were also important reasons......

After quickly entering the firing range, the gunners dodged the constantly whistling iron balls and sporadic leads, while quickly correcting the muzzle, reloading, and ignition......

"Boom, boom!"

Except for two, which had been destroyed, the remaining twenty-eight guns opened fire in unison.

The distance was too close, and there was an earth-shattering loud bang, and dense cannons smashed into the breastwork walls on both sides of the city gate one after another......

"Click! Rumble! ”

It didn't take long for this section of the breastwork to collapse!

"Iron Man Army, first team!"

Shi Lang shouted, and more than a hundred black-clothed people rose up, brandishing their double knives and rushing forward with a wild shout.

Behind them were more than 200 archers......

And then three hundred musketeers!

……

The city gate was lost, and the Chinese poured in, sighing and despairing.

There were only more than 200 red-haired soldiers defending the front, and after the dozens of people who took the initiative to attack were annihilated, there were only more than 100 left.

For more than 100 people, they also had to guard against the assault of the Zheng army in the direction of the round fort, and in the direction of the city gate, except for a few squads hiding on the second and third floors, there were only a few dozen people guarding the bottom floor.

These dozens of people were overwhelmed by a large wave of black-clothed people in a blink of an eye......

Because it was surrounded on three sides, it was difficult to divide the troops to defend, of which there were 100 men on the west and south sides to defend, and 200 men in the north direction was already the largest.

Speaking from the heart, there is nothing wrong with the deployment of troops.

First of all, he has to consider echelon defense, and he can't let all the manpower be crowded on the ground floor; Secondly, as long as the direction of Zheng Jun's main attack is judged, manpower can be transferred and reconfigured at any time.

However, it was difficult to find that his supposed flexible troop dispatch failed.

At this moment, the city gate was lost, and the front was extremely dangerous, and none of the soldiers stationed in the west and south could be withdrawn......

(End of chapter)