Now the entire city of Banten is facing the threat of war, once the city is breached, the people inside will definitely not survive, whether it is military officials or ordinary people, the end is not good.

In order to survive, and without having to fight the enemy with bayonets, he just helped to load the shells, helped to load the muskets, and then pulled the trigger on the indigenous people outside the city.

This kind of seemingly bloodless battle, where neither side is engaged in hand-to-hand combat, looks more like a game than a war!

In this war game, those natives rushed up like a tide, and then were swept by the guns of the defenders of the city, and then retreated like a tide!

Today's natives did not even get close to the walls, let alone climb to the top of the city, and of course, there were a small number of musketeers and some archers among them.

In the first wave of the attack, these people still caused a small number of casualties to the defenders, two soldiers and militiamen were killed on the spot, two civilians were killed in battle, and three soldiers and civilians were wounded!

However, they inflicted a total of seven dead and wounded on the Tang defenders, and the price paid for eight wounds was that at least more than 300 people fell under the defenders' shells and bullets!

The shelling of dozens of artillery pieces, as well as the fire of hundreds of muskets, was enough to kill and wound hundreds of people in a short time, causing the shaking of the attacking forces, and then provoking a major collapse.

Seeing that the natives had just rushed up for a few minutes, they were rushing back in a swarm, and the leader of the pirate gang of the Fourth Fleet who was watching the battle in the rear, He Ding, the former commander of the standard, who was nicknamed the commander, frowned!

These natives are even more useless than he imagined!

According to his plan, he didn't expect these natives to do anything, as long as they rushed up to consume the ammunition of the pseudo-Tang thief army, and used their corpses to cover the advance of their artillery units to a distance of about three hundred meters, then this would be enough.

At that time, their own artillery would carry out intensive artillery bombardment on the head of the puppet Tang thief army, so as to suppress the artillery strength of the puppet Tang thief army, and in turn cover the charging indigenous soldiers.

But what he didn't expect was that these natives would retreat so quickly, which is nearly 10,000 natives.

Although it is impossible to say that everyone rushed forward in a swarm, well, because the place was not large enough, the first wave of indigenous soldiers who charged was only about three or four thousand like this.

But these three or four thousand men only held out for a few minutes, and then they were defeated!

"It's all a bunch of waste, worthy of being a barbarian, useless at all!" He Ding frowned, and complained directly!

When He Ding complained, in fact, the indigenous princes and nobles on the other side were also panicked!

This is a battle, dead people are normal, and they also know that their weapons are not advanced enough, and if they want to conquer this kind of fortress, they can only fill it with their lives, so they will agree to He Ding's plan before, let their soldiers attract firepower and cover the pirate artillery to come forward.

However, even if they were already aware of becoming cannon fodder, they still didn't imagine that the troops who rushed forward were killed and wounded more than 300 people in just a few minutes!

Almost = one-tenth of the casualties of the first wave of attacking troops!

And at such a heavy price, they didn't even get close to the city walls, let alone rush to the head of the city to fight.

How could this not shock them!

These Tang people, relying on guns, are simply invincible!

These princes and nobles of the Bazhang Kingdom, although they are called indigenous barbarians, but in fact, they still have the vision of others, and they have been trading with foreign merchants for a long time, and their contacts with India, West Asia and Europe are honestly much more than the previous Ming Dynasty.

They know that guns are very powerful, but they don't know that these Tang people have almost piled up the application of guns to a peak!

Although the Portuguese in these years also used muskets, the proportion of cold weapons such as spearmen and sword and shield soldiers in the infantry unit was still more than half.

But what about the army of the Tang Dynasty, their infantry units, except for a very small number of assault battalions or heavy armor sword and shield soldiers that are specially used for assault and landing operations, the other infantry units are all musketeers!

At the same width, the density of firepower of the Datang Army was almost five times that of the Portuguese army or other armies that used arquebuses!

And there is only one reason for all this: flintlock pistols!

The flintlock pistol allowed the Tang Army to completely eliminate cold weapons such as spearmen, and the distance between musketeers and musketeers could almost be shoulder to shoulder.

These two items, even the rate of fire and power of the flintlock pistol are not much different from the arquebus, but the closeness of the firepower has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Obviously, this is the first time that these natives have learned the dense firepower of the Tang Army!

The Tang forces in the city were only a few hundred people plus a few hundred civilians at most, so they were able to inflict 300 casualties on their own side in just a few minutes?

They can't believe what they're seeing with their eyes is real!

These indigenous princes and nobles were dumbfounded and didn't know what to do, while He Ding was thinking about how to break the game.

He has fought a lot with the puppet Tang thief army, so he naturally knows that the puppet Tang thief army's firearms are sharp, otherwise, he would not have gone to great lengths to collect guns and cannons produced by the puppet Tang thief army, and then equip the pirates under his command.

Now his Fourth Fleet, the arquebuses used are all made in the Tang Dynasty, and even many parts of the artillery are also, and even the largest pirate ship in the fleet is also his flagship, which is a 450 merchant ship produced by the robbed Dingsheng Shipyard!

But the flintlock pistol he had been trying to get his hands on couldn't!

There is no way, the puppet Tang thief army regards the flintlock pistol as a militaristic weapon, prohibits all exports, and does not allow civilian use, and only equips the domestic armed forces.

And no matter how awesome the pirates under He Ding's hands are, they can't get a large number of flintlock pistols on weekdays!

Of course, if he could break through Banten Castle today, he would be able to get a large number of flintlock muskets, but would he be able to break through this city that was like a turtle's shell?

At this moment, He Ding was deeply skeptical!

I'm afraid this city can't be defeated, and they've been here for half a month, and I'm afraid it's dangerous to drag it out any longer!

According to his experience in fighting the puppet Tang thief army for many years, he must not look down on the puppet Tang thief army, and at the same time, when he feels the danger, he doesn't have to be brutal, and running away as soon as possible is the king's way.

Otherwise, he would not have been able to run all the way from Huguang to Sichuan, and then to Burma, and then when he was still a pirate, he would have been able to escape the encirclement and suppression of the Tang Navy and the Portuguese Navy all the way.

Now, he felt like he couldn't do anything!

There was already an idea in my heart that maybe it was time to retreat!

Anyway, when the Portuguese came to persuade him to attack Banten City, the benefits had already been taken, a full 500 Portuguese arquebuses and 10 cannons, as well as tens of thousands of cash.

Since the benefits have been taken, there is nothing to lose if you don't fight, as for what the Portuguese said that there are a lot of money, treasures and goods in the city, and it will definitely make a lot of money if you want to break the city, he also believes that after all, Banten City is the most important fortress and trading city of the Tang Empire in the South Seas, and it is certain that it will be rich.

But this is not very attractive to him!

He is a pirate, and if he wants money, he can grab a shot at will, and he can't break through Banten City.

He valued ships and weapons more, especially the flintlock pistols of the pseudo-Tang, which he had wanted for many years, and he would definitely be able to obtain a large number of flintlock pistols if he breached Banten City.

But in today's situation, the feasibility is not very large!

Thinking of this, he quietly ordered his subordinates around him to inform their fleet and prepare to retreat!

As for himself, he is ready to wait two more days to see if anything changes in these two days and to see if the Portuguese have any way to control the situation.

However, he found out that night that the battle was really impossible to fight, and even the Portuguese were helpless!

Since the failure of the attack on the eastern city wall in the morning, the leaders of the dozen or so forces involved in this battle have sat together and discussed how to fight.

But from the morning discussion to the evening, I didn't say why.

Because in the morning, I saw the terrifying firepower of the Tang Army, and now those natives don't dare to be cannon fodder easily, and without the natives as cannon fodder, they rely on the more than 3,000 pirates, and it is not enough to fill them all in.

That's a fortress, there are no more than seven or eight times the number of troops, don't expect to attack!

This situation also made He Ding feel bored!

He seemed to have seen that in the past, when he fought against the puppet Tang thief army in China, it was the same back then, the adults of the various armies argued with each other, and no one was willing to sacrifice themselves to fulfill others, resulting in frequent poor communication between friendly forces, or even no union, and finally being broken by the puppet Tang thief army.

Now participating in the battle of Banten City, in addition to the pirate gang of the Fourth Fleet under He Ding, there are three other pirate forces, otherwise how can they afford more than 3,000 pirates.

Even those natives are not a unified force, although they all bear the name of the Bajang Kingdom, but in fact they are a coalition of seven princes and nobles.

The coalition of 20,000 people actually has a total of seven groups of people!

And that's not even counting the Portuguese who were in charge of the central liaison.

In order to connect them before, the Portuguese spent a lot of money and took half a year to take shape, but after today's fight, although the Portuguese are in command, these pirates and natives don't listen much to the specific tactical arrangements.

The guns of the Tang army were sharp, and the natives wanted the pirate's artillery unit to go up and engage in an artillery battle with the Tang army first.

As for the pirates, they want the natives to rush up first to attract firepower, so that they can smoothly carry out artillery bombardment within the range, and then carry out artillery suppression to cover the attack of the indigenous infantry.

To put it bluntly, other pirates don't want to take risks, and are only responsible for providing long-range fire support when it is safe to do so!

Before, the natives thought it was acceptable, because they didn't know that the Tang Army's firepower was so strong, but after the first battle in the morning, they just learned to be obedient, and this first went up not to be cannon fodder to attract the enemy's firepower, but to send them to death.

And they think that even if more than 10,000 natives are filled in, it is estimated that it will not be enough time for the pirate artillery to suppress the artillery of the Tang Army!

In this case, the situation is deadlocked!

As soon as He Ding saw this situation, he immediately remembered the situation in China that year, and then that night, he just took people away!

When he sneaked away in the middle of the night, he also stole three of the other pirates' ships, and burned most of the remaining ships to prevent them from chasing him!

His Fourth Fleet is now a pirate gang, and it is not easy to explain to the old and weak women and children in the nest if he doesn't grab something to go back this time!

Pirates also have to live!

As for what to do with the other pirates and natives outside Banten City when they have no ships!

Well!

What a about him!