Chapter 414: White Flag

When Lu Hu heard the guide's words, he was a little annoyed, and shouted with a knife: "Wu Na man, if you talk nonsense again, I will cut off your tongue!" ”

The guide's face turned pale, and he didn't dare to say more, but he couldn't control the trembling on his body. www.biquge.info Under the push and shoving of the guards, he walked forward little by little, walked for half an hour, and finally brought the team to a small mound three miles away from Chikan Fort.

"Uncle... Uncle, in front of you is Chikan Fort, Fort... There are eight cannon guns in the fort, which are very sharp. Uncle be careful of the artillery fire. ”

Li Zhi stood on the mound and looked at it, and saw that Chikan Fort was already in sight. To the west, ten miles away, the Fort of Geranza, isolated on a small island, is also visible. There is no need for a guide to lead the way.

However, Li Zhi was worried that if he let go of the guide, the guide would defect to the Dutch in fear and leak the information of Li Zhi's soldiers and horses. So Li Zhi simply asked the guide to be tied up and detained in the Chinese army.

The guide was tied up by Li Zhi, and he was shaking all over, as if he was about to be shot to death by a Dutch white.

The Dutch had long known about Li Zhi's arrival, but instead of going out of the city to meet him, they retreated in the castle, ready to rely on the fortress and cannons to defend it. Li Zhi sneered and waved his hand. The flag commander waved the command flag, and the artillerymen immediately went into action, unloading all the 100 18-pounder guns from the gun carriage and lining up on the saline ground by the sea.

As soon as the artillery began to be arranged, the eight heavy guns in the Chikan Fort opened fire on this side. Only a few cannon booms were heard from three miles away, and a few shells flew over at great speed like meteors.

The distance was too far, and the first round of shelling of the Dutch hit low. All seven shells flew off, and only one solid shell entered Li Zhi's artillery ranks, and the shell bounced into one of the artillerymen, breaking his right leg.

Amid the screams of the wounded, the medical team ran up and carried the wounded down on a stretcher.

The guide, who was tied to the Chinese army, trembled even more when he saw that the red-haired cannon began to hurt people. He is now tied up in the Chinese army, and he can't escape if he wants to. He was so anxious that he was sweating, and he only regretted that he was greedy for money and waded into this troubled water for twenty taels of silver.

Seeing that there were casualties among the troops, Li Zhi was a little annoyed and scolded, "Barbarian!" ”。 When the artillerymen loaded the cannons with shells and aimed at the fortress in the distance with guns and other tools, Li Zhi waved his hand quickly. The flag commander waved the command flag, and a hundred artillery commanders lit a hundred heavy guns.

The scene of a salvo of 100 heavy guns is breathtaking. Li Zhi stood in the middle army, only to hear a loud rumbling sound suddenly, and the sound pressed on the eardrums like a mountain, as if to deafen people's ears, and people couldn't help but cover their ears. The heavy guns on both sides spewed tongues of fire violently, and huge sparks erupted from the barrels. The sparks spit out by the cannon were connected, and from Li Zhi's point of view, the artillery fire on the left and right sides looked like two fire dragons.

The body of the 100 heavy guns fell backwards, and the recoil force was pressed to the ground through the structure of the gun carriage, and the gun body pressed down to the ground, and then rebounded by the force, and lifted it upwards and shook it. The huge recoil of a hundred heavy guns shook the ground nearby, and Li Zhi felt that he had suddenly reached the ship, and his feet kept shaking.

The pack horses pulling the artillery wagons had already been led two hundred meters away, but they were still frightened by the roar of the heavy artillery, and they were about to flee. It was all up to the groom to hold on to the reins to stabilize it.

A hundred flowering shells shot out of the barrel and headed for Fort Chikan, three miles away.

Chikan Fort is a square fortress with a side length of more than 30 meters, and the target is not small. At least a dozen shells fell into the castle. Blossom bombs rampage through the castle, crashing into various fortifications, crushing weak-walled fortifications. Then when the fuse ignites the gunpowder in the shell, the flowering shell explodes.

With a boom, shotmarites burst out in all directions, sweeping through Chikan Fort like a storm. A round of shelling, I don't know how many Dutch were killed.

It was also the first time that Li Zhi saw a salvo of 100 heavy artillery pieces on land. This kind of majesty, you really have to see it with your own eyes to understand how shocking it is.

The Dutch at Chikan seemed to have been disrupted by a salvo, and the eight heavy guns of the Dutch did not fire again until the artillery on this side was loaded with ammunition and ready to fire a second salvo.

The flag waved again, and a hundred eighteen-pounder guns opened fire again.

Another rumbling cannon rang out, the ground shook, and a hundred shells were fired at the Dutchman's fortress. This time, the artillerymen adjusted the angle of fire according to the situation of the first shot, the hit rate was higher, and more than thirty shells entered the Chikan fort. Li Zhi looked through the binoculars and saw sparks emerging one by one in Chikan City.

It is conceivable that after the explosion of the flowering bomb, the scene of more than 30 shotgun rains swept across the entire fortress.

After two rounds, Li Zhi's artillerymen were preparing for the third salvo, and a white flag was raised at Chikan Fort.

The Dutch surrendered.

With eight solid cannons versus a hundred flowering cannons, the chances of winning such a battle are too small. The defenders of Chikan Fort were bombed twice, and knowing that if they continued to fight, they would be completely annihilated, and surrendered.

However, Li Zhi was not prepared to let the Dutch go.

Li Zhi did not have a good impression of these Dutchmen, who often went to war without declaring war and often captured Han Chinese coastal Chinese to be slaves in the South Seas. These robbers burned, killed and looted on the southeast coast at every opportunity, how could they treat the Chinese as human beings?

For example, in the second year of the Apocalypse, the Dutch colonists forced Chinese slaves to build the Hongmucheng Fortress in Penghu. The fort took three months to complete, 1,300 of the 1,500 Chinese slaves died of exhaustion and starvation during these three months, and the surviving 270 were sent to Batavia as a personal gift to Governor Kuhn, of whom only 137 finally arrived, and the rest died on the way.

For these Dutch, Li Zhi felt that there was nothing moral to talk about. Now that he has the upper hand, how can he let them go just because of a white flag?

Li Zhi sneered, just as if he didn't see the white flag, and waved his hand to let the artillerymen continue shooting.

The artillerymen continued to reload and fire, firing two more rounds into the city of Chikan. In each round of shelling, the gunners hit more accurately than the last. In the fourth salvo, at least 60 shells smashed into the Chikan Fort, blowing up the fortress to the ground.

The Dutch defenders in Chikan Fort can't stand it anymore, where is this still a strong and defensible fortress? It's just a cage to be beaten for nothing! They wailed and abandoned Chikan Fort, opened the gate and ran into the harbor. The defenders of Chikan Fort, of more than 300 people, were probably killed by Li Zhi, and the remaining 100 or so red hairs jumped into the small boats in the harbor one by one, trying to row to the Geranza Fort on the island to escape.