Volume 14 Chapter 43 A Wave of Siege

In Qin Yiming's anxious waiting, five days passed quietly, the Mughal Empire army still did not attack, Lu Xiangsheng sent someone to contact, the Ming army's 300,000 troops have been lurking thirty miles south of Goa, and the military telegraph line has also been pulled over, just waiting for the Mughal Empire army to attack, the Ming army will pounce.

The main reason for doing this is to scare away the Mughal Empire's army, although this possibility is not very large, but not afraid of 10,000 is afraid of what if, in case it is Darla. Shike suddenly had the wrong tendon, so he ran away, and the Ming army's early arrangements were not in vain.

Once they start a siege battle, it will be different, and when the time comes, it will be difficult for them to run, unless they leave all the siege troops behind.

Waiting, waiting, until the eighth day, the Mughal army finally built the siege equipment, but there were only 50,000 people, Dara. Shike thought that 50,000 people was enough, after all, there were only more than 10,000 defenders in the city, and the rest were miners, and besides, he couldn't afford to consume it, and there was not much military food, so he walked for more than a month, and was delayed here for a few days, and the grain and grass in the rear were almost out of supply, which also forced him to attack.

Early in the morning of the ninth day, the Mughal army got up early in a rare way, and by the time it was dawn, they had lined up in the north of Goa City, with 50,000 hoplites pushing siege equipment in front, 100,000 hoplites pressing in the rear, and 50,000 cavalry sneaking in the west, facing the west of Goa City, because if the defenders in the city wanted to escape, the most likely thing was to run to the port in the west.

I have to say that the training of the main army of the Mughal Empire by the European powers was relatively successful, and when they began to charge, Hou Shilu and Qin Yiming were taken aback, Nima, this is too shameless!

All the soldiers hid under the siege vehicles, not to mention, they also stacked all the huge shields on the roof of the siege vehicles, and when they charged, they still used irregular straggler formations, running around in a mess, which was quite in line with their free and loose character, so they ran one by one.

Hou Shilu and Qin Yiming have a headache, this kind of turtle shell-style siege vehicle, without solid shells, can't be bombarded by more than a dozen cannons at all, the problem is that they run around like this, there is no possibility of more than ten shells hitting a siege vehicle at the same time, and the artillery is equivalent to being wasted!

After looking at it for a while, Hou Shilu had to shake his head and sigh: "Let's use the blossom bomb, maybe I can light a few, but if I can't light it, I can cause them a little damage." “

When Qin Yiming heard this, he immediately ordered without hesitation: "Order, all artillery pieces are immediately loaded with flower shells, no need to aim, barrage attack, ten rounds!" “

The standard-bearer behind the two raised the flag and waved it, and soon the artillery of the northern wall was busy.

A first-class army and a third-class army corps, there are 1,800 artillery pieces, minus the artillery carried by the 50,000 people in Mysore, and there are 1,300 guns, Hou Shilu and Qin Yiming lined up 600 artillery pieces of various types in the north of the main attack of the Mughal Empire.

When the enemy enters the firing range, the artillery commander will wave the command flag and fire a salvo of 600 guns, and the power will simply shake!

However, the 600 flowering shells fell to the sparse Lala, and the chaotic siege vehicle formation did not have much effect, not a single siege vehicle was lit at all, but the Mughal Empire soldiers under the siege vehicle were slightly injured by splashing.

The roar of artillery in the city really made Dala . Shike was startled, but after seeing the effect of the artillery, he immediately pursed his lips with disdain and said with disdain: "No wonder with more than 10,000 people daring to resist my 200,000 army, it turns out that there are many artillery, hum, artillery has a fart in front of the heavy infantry!" “

The artillery in the city was still roaring, Darrah. Shike looked at the direction of the siege army with a smug face, as if he was enjoying a fireworks feast, looking at him as if he suddenly remembered something, he suddenly turned his head and shouted to the herald behind him: "Quick, go and inform Maru, let him be ready to attack at any time, the Portuguese in the city should not last long and will flee." “

It seemed to him that the artillery had failed, and the Portuguese must have been frightened, and by the time the besieging army had rushed under the walls, they should flee in fear.

It is estimated that the Portuguese governor Conde will be in command in the city, and it is estimated that this will really scare the bile out, but unfortunately, the commanders in the city are the legion generals of the Ming Empire, Hou Shilu and Qin Yiming, who want to scare their bile out, unless the Mughal Empire is attacking the city with planes and tanks, this small scene is not enough to scare them.

The artillery is ineffective, it's just a little troublesome, and they still have a lot of means!

At this time, the city wall was already full of large oil pots, and the firewood under the oil pots was burning, and the oil was about to boil, and a braised pork feast was waiting for the siege army of the Mughal Empire.

To say Darla. Shike is so idiotic that he doesn't even know that it is impossible to even pour hot oil, the question is where does so much oil come from in this era, civilians rarely see oil meat in stir-frying, it is good to collect ten pots of cooking oil for you in a small city, most of the time the defenders of the city are still boiling water, and he thinks that the defenders in the city are boiling water.

Boiling water is actually not so terrible, if it is poured down on the head, it is naturally hot people want to die, but splashing it from the high city wall, the effect is much worse, plus the weather will be a little cold, the effect is even worse, he is not worried at all, but in his heart he despised and said: "Splash, splash, just give them a hot bath." “

This can't blame him for not thinking about it well, he just ignored a problem, cooking oil is also a key material purchased by the Ming Dynasty and Portugal, more than half of the cooking oil in the entire Mughal Empire has been purchased and hoarded in Goa City, not to mention a dozen pots, even thousands of pots can't be burned!

Therefore, the siege troops of the Mughal Empire were completely tragic, when they rushed to the bottom of the city, set up the ladder, and were about to climb up, "Bang Bang Bang Bang" A pot of boiling hot oil fell on almost every ladder, and the heavy infantry next to the ladder was called a ghost crying wolf.

That's not all, immediately after, the 'miners' on the city wall picked up the firewood under the oil pot and threw it at the bottom of the city wall, and the entire northern city wall was suddenly plunged into a sea of fire, at least thousands of heavy infantry of the Mughal Empire were set on fire.

That's not all, then it rained down on the city wall like tens of thousands of grenades, "boom, boom" a loud sound, the entire city wall was covered with smoke, this wave of grenades exploded, the wrong point under the city wall to blow up the fire!

With so many grenades exploding in a concentrated manner, the density of the steel needles can be imagined, almost everywhere, and the siege army of the Mughal Empire can be said to have been hit by everyone, and everyone grinned in pain.

It's also a fart city, the ladders are all burned down, everyone is injured, and many people are burned to the point of smoke everywhere, Dara. Shike puffed out his bull's eyes, looked at all this in disbelief, and after watching it for a while, he roared angrily: "Collect the troops!" “

A characteristic horn sounded, and the heavy infantry of the Mughal Empire retreated like a tidal wave, and they even threw down siege engines and giant shields.

If you want to leave, it's not so easy, without waiting for Hou Shilu to speak, Qin Yiming immediately ordered loudly: "Order, all artillery is loaded with scattered shells, no need to aim, barrage attack, ten rounds." “

Run, run, it depends on whether your armor is hard or your shells are hard!