"Lord Li, the artillery array has been set up, let's open up the fuck!"

Seeing Li Xiao coming over in armor, Tang Enshun, the sentry commander of the artillery unit, shouted to Li Xiao for his life. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Li Xiao looked at the ten heavy dragon bombers that were lined up and fired thirty-two pounds of iron bullets, nodded, and immediately ordered to test fire a round first.

"Order!"

Tang Enshun turned to leave, and then waved the order flag in his hand, shouting loudly: "Clear the chamber and prepare!" ”

After shouting loudly, these gunners immediately opened the sealing cover of the dragon strike muzzle, stretched in a dry cloth to wipe the protective oil in the gun chamber, then opened the fire door cover, poured in a little ignition powder, and then poured all the rest of the fixed gun gunpowder from the muzzle, and then smashed it with a stabbing stick until it was half solid, and then from the muzzle of the gun, two gunners worked together to stuff the huge 32-kilogram iron bullet into the gun chamber.

"Adjust the gun position!"

After Tang Enshun shouted, the gunners immediately used the gun gauge to measure the range, adjust the gun lug, select the elevation angle, and then carefully calibrate the front sight and the illumination door, and then opened the cover of the fire door, inserted the fire rope, and prepared to open the gun.

"Ready, light!"

As soon as he finished speaking, behind each dragon cannon, there was a gunner, who immediately lit a long rope in his hand, and the rope emitted a light blue flame and burned slowly.

"Put!"

Listening to his order, the gunner immediately lit the fire rope in his hand on the fire door of the dragon hammer gun in front of him, and had to hide a beam of light into the fire door.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

。。。。。。

Almost instantly, the 10 dragon guns almost simultaneously emitted a burst sound that could burst the eardrums, making everyone present feel as if they had been hit by a heavy hammer, the huge muzzle floated a crimson afterburner, and a large cloud of choking white smoke immediately filled everywhere, and 10 huge black round iron bullets whistled out of the chamber and slammed towards the battlement position on the left side of the city wall of the west gate of the red embedded city.

Li Xiao and others could see that from the red embedded city wall at 1,000 meters, there was a dense muffled sound. Thanks to the calibration of the moment and the measure, the 10 shells accurately hit the position under the battlement, and 10 black holes were punched, and the arachnoid cracks that spread around them looked like figurative art from the clairvoyant.

However, Li Xiao found from the clairvoyant mirror that the damage caused by this attack on the city wall of Chiji City was limited, the traces of the holes were not deep, and the surrounding spider web cracks were also shallow. However, it was much less effective than the previous attack on the city of Santo Domingo by the Spaniards.

Li Xiao sighed secretly in his heart, it seems that the Dutch built the city, but they used a lot of materials, and it took a lot of effort. The history books say, "The city wall is pounded and glued with sugar water, glutinous rice, oyster shell gray sand, and the red bricks are rebuilt, and they are solid in stone." "It's true. The city was much stronger than the Spanish city.

It is no wonder that in real history, when Zheng Chenggong attacked the city wall of Promincia City, he fired 2,500 shells in one hour, only opening a small gap in the southern wall of the city.

Although it is said that most of Zheng Jun's artillery are small-caliber types, they can withstand the concentrated bombardment of 2,500 shells, and the degree of tightness of the castle built by the Dutch can be imagined. And cities like the cities built by the Spaniards in Taipei, and the walls of most cities in Chinese mainland, are completely incomparable.

"Hit again, until you reach the limit of the number of times!" Li Xiao continued to order.

"Yes!"

After eight more rounds of volleys, the left part of the city wall at the west gate of the red city was smashed out of dense black holes, large and small, and countless spider cracks spread with each other, making the city wall look very badly damaged, but there was no obvious tilt and cracking.

The sturdiness of the Red Embedded City was really beyond Li Xiao's imagination.

The city of Santo Domingo, which wanted to come to the Spaniards, suddenly collapsed under the salvo of four rounds of heavy dragon cannons, and the current city of Chichi, the city wall withstood nine volleys, but it was only badly damaged, but it was far from the extent that it could collapse the city wall.

It's just that after nine rounds of fire, these heavy dragon bombers had to stop firing because the chambers were overheated, and they were afraid that continuing to hit would cause them to explode.

Of course, this one-time data is extraordinary compared with the common artillery of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Because according to the data in the "Kangxi Record", the artillery of this era can only be fired four or five times on average, and the gun will overheat and become unusable, otherwise it will explode.

The number of shells fired by Li Xiaojun's dragon hammer gun is almost twice as much as that of the current Ming army and Qing army's artillery, thanks to Li Xiao's use of stainless steel cannons, which conducts heat quickly, and at the same time, the slightly rough surface makes it dissipate heat well, which makes the dragon artillery have nearly twice the time for firing and firing more than the artillery of the Ming army and the Qing army.

It's just that this kind of breech artillery has a common problem, and the dragon hammer is no exception. That is, when the barrel of the gun is overheated due to repeated firing, it is not possible to rush to fill it with water to cool it quickly, because the barrel that has reached the limit of one use is very hot, and in the case of sudden cold water, it is likely to immediately produce extremely small cracks, so that in the next firing, the bore will be damaged due to the explosion of the breech, so it can only be slowly and naturally cooled before the next round of firing can be carried out again.

The cooling time generally takes at least more than an hour, and it is common for it to take two hours in hot weather.

"After the heavy dragon bombers are withdrawn, the other ten small and medium-sized dragon guns continue to fire close salvos." Li Xiao continued to order with an expressionless face.

"Yes!"

Ten heavy dragon guns were mounted on the gun carriage and pulled back, and another 10 small and medium-sized dragon guns were pushed forward.

Because this kind of small and medium-sized dragon bomber that fires 16 catties of iron bullets and 8 catties of iron bullets has a shorter accurate firing range, Li Xiao then ordered the gunners to push forward 200 meters and shoot at close range.

By the time these small and medium-sized dragon bombarders had arrived and were ready to start firing, nearly two quarters of an hour had passed, and Li Xiao saw that there were many Dutch and familiar soldiers in the Red Embedded City opposite, and they had urgently repaired the city wall while Li Xiao was changing their guns, and at the same time, the artillery pieces in the city were also hurriedly ready to be fired.

After all, the heavy dragon bomber was too far away to shoot back, but the small and medium-sized dragon bombardment that had advanced 200 meters was barely between its own effective range and accurate range.

Sure enough, when Li Xiao's dragon cannon was still aiming and repairing, all kinds of artillery on the Red Embedded City were already firing in a salvo.

"Bang bang bang!"

In the distance, thick white smoke floated from the city wall of the west gate of the red embedded city, and about 20 large and small iron bullets roared towards Li Xiao's artillery array.

In this round of salvo fire, most of the shells of the Dutch army defending the city were empty, but there were three shells, which caused damage to Li Xiaojun's artillery array.

Two shells hit the gunners who could not dodge, causing two deaths and two wounds, and one shell happened to hit the barrel of a small dragon mortar very coincidentally, completely smashing the barrel of this small dragon bombard.

"it! Give me a hard beating! The artillery sentry commander Tang Enshun looked angry and shouted orders to the gunners.

Nine small and medium-sized dragon cannons roared in unison, and after another deafening cannon sound, the red embedded city wall in the distance was not damaged except for nine more large and small black holes.

Li Xiao sighed in his heart, even heavy dragon cannons are difficult to destroy this strong city wall for a while, and the damage ability that this small and medium-sized dragon cannon, which is obviously much smaller in attack power, is much smaller.

Li Xiao suddenly felt inexplicably anxious in his heart.

Of course, he could wait until two hours later and bombard it again with heavy dragon bombardment, but in these two hours, those Dutch would have enough time to re-strengthen the city, which would cause considerable difficulties for Li Xiao's next bombardment.

And this red embedded city is still some distance from the coast, and the artillery on Li Xiao's ships can't be attacked, so he can only watch from afar.

Li Xiao sighed secretly in his heart, it seems that unless his own heavy dragon cannon can be produced, and the iron mold casting cannon technology can be developed in time, then, when sixty or seventy or even hundreds of heavy dragon cannons attack at the same time, this red embedded city should be able to be successfully breached.

At this time, on the tower of the west gate of the Red Embedded City, Colonel Delong, the chief general of the Red Embedded City, was happy.

"Haha, these yellow-skinned monkeys are poor, you must not have imagined that the red embedded city built by my Dutch is so strong. You can easily take the city of Santo Domingo by the Spaniards, but you definitely don't want to attack my city so easily! Now, Lao Tzu still wants to see what other means you yellow-skinned monkeys can have! “

Delong was in a very happy mood, and he walked back and forth on the city wall with a shy stomach, and shouted loudly to order his soldiers to take advantage of Li Xiaojun's replacement of ammunition to urgently repair the city wall.

Thinking that the two liaison officers who had just slipped out of the sewers had gone to Taichung to contact the commander-in-chief Bodel, and then Baudel could return to the army and fight with him inside and out, completely eliminating these hateful Chinese, Delong's eyes suddenly danced with excitement and yearning.

Abominable Chinese, abominable yellow-skinned monkeys, Lao Tzu must kill all of you damned fellows!

At this time, thousands of meters away from the West Gate, Li Xiao, the chief general of the Ming army who led the army to attack the city, had a serious face and fell into a deep groan.

What to do?

Now that the siege is in trouble, what is the way to solve it?

Li Xiao did not plan to attack the city, because in this case, this well-fortified city would cause great damage to the soldiers under those who attacked it. Moreover, he was not willing to besiege the city just like Zheng Chenggong besieged Relan Jiaocheng to make an 8-month siege record, this method was too time-consuming and too demoralizing.

Just when Li Xiao was worried, at this time, the Dutchman Joseph, the deputy head of the water division, came to see him.

"Lord Li, are you worried about the strength of the city wall?"

Joseph asked straight to the point, blinking his blue eyes.

"Exactly." Li Xiao did not mince words.

"Lord Li, I have lived in this red city for a long time, but I know a lot about this city, I have a suggestion, I don't know if Lord Li is interested in adopting it?" Joseph smiled.

"Oh, please come quickly." Li Xiao immediately became interested.

"Lord Li, do you know where the water source of this Red Embedded City comes from?"

Joseph's soft words made Li Xiao's eyes light up.

Yes, why not start with cutting off the water supply to this red ground?

If you can find the source of the water source of this red city, then if the water source is cut off, even if the red city cannot fall suddenly, it will be chaotic and morale.

You know, you can live for a week without eating, but if you don't have water to drink, you can only live for three days at most.

Li Xiao remembered that in history, Zheng Chenggong was also troubled by the capture of the Red Embedded City, and finally, he listened to the advice of the Dutch troops to cut off the water source of the Red Embedded City, so only three or four days later, the Red Embedded City, which was extremely short of water in the city, caused civil strife due to the water grabbing, and the last Dutch governor was forced to fly the white flag and surrender to Zheng Chenggong.

Alas, in my own eagerness, I forgot about this trick.

"Where's the water source?"

Thinking of this, Li Xiao asked hurriedly.

"Just outside the castle, to the north of the town, there is a specially built culvert entrance, where there is a tributary of Zengwen Creek coming down from the Taichung Mountains, the water quality is very good, and it has always been the source of water supply for Chichicheng."

Li Xiao sighed, and Joseph added: "Not far downstream of the entrance of the culvert, is the outlet of the sewer pipe of Chiji City, the distance between the two is not too far, you can find the outlet of the sewer first, and then go up the river, you can successfully find the entrance of the water source." ”

Li Xiao nodded, and immediately ordered: "In that case, Joseph, I order you to bring 200 hundred rampaging sentinels to investigate, and if you find the entrance to the water source, cut it off immediately." “

"Yes, Master Li."

Joseph said yes, and then, with 200 sentry soldiers, hurried to the north.

Seeing that Joseph had already taken people away, Li Xiaofu ordered that all those dragon guns be withdrawn, and there was no need to do such a meaningless blow.

Delong saw in the clairvoyant mirror that the Ming army in the distance had begun to take the initiative to retreat, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed.

"Haha, I just said, these yellow-skinned monkeys have no tricks, they can't break through the walls of my red embedded city, and they are afraid of our artillery, so they don't retreat quickly with their tails between their legs, what else can they do?"

Delong had a bright smile on his face, and he quickly thought that he should hurry to pay tribute to the governor Chunis, and immediately hurried down the city wall to the governor's palace.

What Li Xiao didn't expect was that just an hour later, Joseph took dozens of soldiers and escorted two people with their heads down and wearing familiar clothes, and hurriedly returned.

Before Li Xiao could ask, Joseph laughed and said, "Master Li, I brought you a big gift back!" “

After speaking, he pushed the two people who were tied hand and foot in front of Li Xiao.

"Lord Li, I just came to the exit of the sewer in the red city not far away, and found that these two ghosts and ghosts Chongchong drilled out of the sewer exit, so we immediately stepped forward and took down these two people, after some intimidation and scolding, these two guys immediately admitted that they were sent by the Dutch in the city, and they were about to go to Taichung to ask for help from the commander-in-chief of the Dutch army, who was estimated to have been wiped out by our army. Joseph had a smile on his face.

Li Xiao also laughed, and he replied loudly: "Okay, it is indeed a gift from God, it seems that our army wants to take this red embedded city, but it is all on these two people!" “