The fortress that Europeans are proud of can be said to be the most difficult fortress to break through in the black powder period, like Zheng Chenggong attacked the city of Gelansha in the Southern Ming Dynasty, 25,000 people surrounded more than 1,000 people for more than nine months, and it was intimidation, persuasion, and repair the earthen wall, and it was the bunker, and the means were exhausted, and Zheng Chenggong who attacked was about to go crazy before he took it.

Now, although there are only 500 people in the city of Gelansha, Zhu Cijiong only sent 2,000 people up, is it a bit too little?

In fact, it is not a lot at all, because the current Ming army has something that Zheng Chenggong did not have at that time, and this thing is a grenade. Don't look at the grenade explosion power of this period is not lethal enough, but it can make people temporarily lose their combat effectiveness, so grenades are a very practical weapon both when defending a city and when besieging a city.

The Dutch didn't realize that the Ming army had such a thing as a grenade, so they were a little contemptuous of the Ming army sending 2,000 men to attack the city, and they didn't even fire a single shot at the siege vehicle, of course, the siege vehicle was still tied to their colleagues, which was also a very important reason.

In short, as long as the Ming army approached the city wall unharmed, they were basically finished, when Zhu Cijiong estimated the losses, the main calculation was the casualties of rushing from five or six miles away to the distance under the city wall, if the Dutch frantically bombarded with artillery, then these two thousand people were really not enough, plus two thousand estimates were not enough for them to bombard, at least tens of thousands of people, scattered and rushed up in batches, in order to cross this death distance.

When the two hundred siege engines approached the city wall, the Ming fleet at sea finally stopped running and slowly retreated, and the Dutch on the city wall raised their muskets and poked their heads out.

The strange thing is that the soldiers of the Ming army did not get out from under the siege vehicles after approaching the city wall, and even the long ladder was thrown to the ground by them, as if they were tired of running and needed to rest.

The tall lieutenant was not too nervous, he instructed the musketeers to aim around the siege engine, and searched among the captives, and soon he saw Putmans tied to the siege vehicle in the middle, and he shouted excitedly: "Sir, you are all right, it is very good, you wait a minute, and when I have destroyed them all, I will send someone down to save you." ”

The captives on the siege vehicle opened their eyes one after another when they heard this, they were almost all frightened, they all closed their eyes there and waited for death, but they didn't expect that they had nothing to do under the city wall, and when they saw their colleagues on the city wall, their eyes finally had a little brightness.

Putmans has been dead and alive several times, and he is used to dying and dying, so he is not frightened stupidly, he even has the heart to care about the battle, no, as soon as the lieutenant on the wall finished speaking, he warned: "Be careful, their muskets are terrifying." “

The Ming army was not only a horror of muskets, but also a horror of their grenades, and as soon as Putmans finished speaking, countless grenades suddenly flew out from under the siege vehicle, raining down on the city walls.

The Dutch musketeers on the city wall looked at the grenades flying up in horror, what is this! This grenade was not a cannonball after all, and it didn't fall quickly after flying to a high point, so most of the Dutch musketeers dodged, and some even raised the butt of their rifles to smash it, and they hit it!

You can imagine how terrifying it is for two thousand grenades to explode among three hundred people, "boom boom" followed by "ahhhh

That's not all, the screams on the city wall just sounded, and the Ming soldiers under the siege vehicle immediately rushed out, and there was another wave of grenades on the city wall. "Boom, boom, boom", after this wave, all the musketeers on the city wall almost rolled to the ground in pain, what was it like to pierce the flesh with dozens of steel needles!

The Ming army under the city wall didn't care what the Dutch on the city wall felt, they quickly set up a ladder to climb up the city wall after throwing the grenade, it stands to reason that there should be no casualties this time, but as soon as they climbed up, there was a burst of gunshots, and almost all of the two hundred people in the first wave of outcrops were splashed with blood. There were two hundred Dutchmen elsewhere, who fired their cannons, but they also had arquebuses, but they were no less tragic.

The two thousand elite of the Praetorian Guard can each carry more than two grenades, and the muskets at this time can not kill with one shot, their sneak attack has aroused the ferocity of the Praetorian Guards, everyone almost at the same time took out the grenades, pulled out the pins, and threw them at the Dutch soldiers hiding in the corners, and for a while, the explosion of grenades and the screams of the Dutch sounded everywhere in the city of Geranza, and it was not over, and the Ming troops who climbed up behind also took out their grenades and threw them to all corners, soon, The 200 Dutch soldiers were almost all turned into rolling gourds.

A strong fortress was dramatically breached in this way, not a single Ming army was killed, not a single Dutch was killed, the number of wounded on both sides was less than eight hundred, and most of them were Dutch, I have to say, this is a miracle!

Zhu Cijiong didn't seem too excited after knowing the result, he never thought that the city of Relansha would not be breached, just kidding, 150,000 people besieged 500 people, how strong the fortress was, it was only a matter of time. The capture of the city of Geranza was never the main problem, but how to deal with the Dutch navy on the Batavian side was the main thing.

In fact, before setting off, he had agreed on a bold plan with several army commanders, and now this plan can be said to have the conditions for implementation, just before Zheng Zhihu's Nanyang Naval Division.

Zheng Zhihu didn't let him wait long, he rushed to the Taijiang Inland Sea that afternoon, early the next morning, the Ming army's amazing plan began to be implemented, Zhu Cijiong stood on the main fort of the city of Relanza, looking at the fleet in the distance, he couldn't help but feel a little regretful, he originally wanted to follow, but Zheng Zhihu, Huang Long and Qin Liangyu were desperately right, and finally he had to give up.

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About ten days after the battle of Geranza City, more than a thousand huge sailing ships suddenly appeared outside Manila Bay, no need to ask if this must be the fleet of the Ming Dynasty, in the southeast sea, only the Ming Dynasty can make up so many huge sailing ships, this is the combined fleet of the Ming Nanyang Naval Division and the Beiyang Naval Division to implement the shocking plan!

After arriving at the mouth of Manila Bay, 500 Daifuku ships separated from the fleet, and they lined up in dense five rows, blocking the mouth of Manila Bay to the sea.

The remaining 100 super battleships and 500 Daifuku ships were arranged in a relatively loose six rows and pressed directly in the direction of Manila City.

At this time, the city of Manila also experienced fierce battles, the Dutch Navy's Second Eastern Fleet under the leadership of Admiral Van Dimen had been surrounding the city of Manila for almost a month, the Spanish defenders of Manila City were quite tenacious, and the Dutch did not even take down the fort south of the city when they had an absolute advantage in artillery and numbers! However, the losses on both sides were heavy, the 10,000 Spanish troops in Manila had lost nearly 1,000 men and wounded countless others, and the musketeers on the Dutch battleships had lost almost 7 or 800 dead and wounded.

The long tug-of-war made both sides very tired, so the two sides invariably chose a truce in the past two days, the Spaniards were repairing the south fort that had been bombed like a dog, and the Dutch were also repairing the damaged side of the ship that had been smashed by cannonballs, and both sides were so calm, as if it were two other groups of people who had been fighting and killed here in the past month.

However, this calm was soon broken, when six hundred huge sailing ships appeared on the sea more than ten miles away from Manila, the Spaniards in the entire Manila City were pale with fright, and let people not live, fifty super battleships were almost crippled by them, and now there is such a huge fleet, the Spanish governor Corquian has even ordered the herald to secretly prepare the white flag!

However, their horror soon turned into surprise, and instead of sailing towards Manila, the huge fleet turned to the right and headed south, and the posture turned out to be the fleet that was about to surround the Dutch!

The Dutch Navy's Second Eastern Fleet was resting near the southern shore of Manila Bay, and when the huge fleet sailed towards them, all the Dutch people also showed frightened expressions, whether they were friends or foes, these six hundred galleons tens of meters long were too terrifying to gather together!

When Fan Dimen received the news and came to the bow of the ship, Daming's fleet was already less than ten miles away from them, he quickly took out his binoculars and looked at the opposite side, and soon he saw the two huge dragon flags flying in the wind on the main masts of the two battleships in the middle of the opposite fleet.

Dragon? It's the fleet of the Ming Empire! He hurriedly shouted: "Quick, make all the warships waive the flag, and ask them what they want to do?" “

The heralds behind him hurriedly climbed the mast and waved a burst of flags, and soon all the Dutch ships had flag-raising heralds on the masts, and they waved the same flag: "What do you want to do, what do you want to do, what do you want to do?" “

It's you who did it, the Daming Combined Fleet didn't reply, a hundred super battleships quickly divided into two columns on the left and right, heading towards the two wings of the Dutch fleet, and the five hundred Daifuku ships behind slowly gathered in the middle, and when the overall width became similar to the Dutch fleet, they turned directly to the Dutch fleet!

Seeing this scene, Fan Dimen hurriedly ordered: "Quick, all artillery is loaded with live ammunition and ready for battle." “

As soon as his order was conveyed, the super battleships of the Ming Dynasty on both sides had entered the range of three miles to the left and right of his fleet, "Boom Boom" There is nothing to say, just do it, the super battleships of the Ming Dynasty roared one after another, and rows of shells flew to the Dutch battleships in the middle, and for a while, the entire Dutch fleet was in chaos, there were screams everywhere, sawdust was flying everywhere, they had just returned fire for one round, and the Ming battleships on both sides had already bombarded no less than five rounds, and they had just returned fire for the second round, The Daming warships on both sides have already bombarded ten rounds!

At this time, 500 Daifuku ships had already smashed into the Dutch fleet, because the speed of the ships was not fast, but there was no direct crash of the battleship, 500 Daifuku ships were so forced to squeeze into the middle of the 50 Dutch battleships, and the 100 super battleships on both sides also stopped shelling, directly turned the bow, and squeezed over from both sides.

The Dutch battleship was still resisting, and kept firing at the Daming battleships on both sides, but the Daming battleship leaned directly on it as if it was not fatal, so close to the Dutch battleship, and then the hook lock and bullets flew together! Countless bullets covered the side of the ship, and the frightened Dutch did not even dare to raise their heads, countless hooks and locks flew to the side of the Dutch battleship, and soon countless Ming soldiers poured onto their battleship.

The Ming soldiers on the battleship didn't say a word, took out their revolvers, and faced the Dutch soldiers on the battleship for a while, until they couldn't climb up, as for life or death, it didn't matter for the time being!

Fan Dimen looked around desperately, hooligans, just rely on how many people rush hard, do you still talk about tactics? If this is on the ocean outside, hundreds of ships will not be able to surround his fleet, the problem is that this is Manila Bay, the people are pressed from the north, and the south is directly on the beach, and they have no room for maneuver at all!

By mistake, the Dutch Eastern Second Fleet, like the Spanish Armada, was so inexplicably served by the Ming fleet, not a single battleship escaped, and even their Admiral Van Dimen became a prisoner!

As soon as the news came out, all the powers in the whole world were shocked, when did the Ming Empire become so violent, and it was directly at sea to overturn the sea overlord Netherlands!

This battle was recognized by historians of later generations as a symbol of the rise of the Ming Empire, and since then the Ming Empire has become a recognized maritime power in the world!