On the seventh day of the first month of the twenty-third year of Chongzhen, Zu Dashou stood on the ruins of the fort and looked at the city of San Salvatore in the distance with a telescope. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The city of San Salvador was established by the Spaniards in northern Taiwan in 1626, the sixth year of the Apocalypse. In the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the Dutch established a foothold in southern Taiwan, and the Spaniards also entered Taiwan two years later, establishing the castle of San Salvador in the area of Keelung.

But for the Spaniards, who occupied most of Latin America, the most important thing was people. The Spaniards simply couldn't find enough men to conquer northern Taiwan. In San Salvador, the number of troops was always less than 200.

Compared with the Dutch city of Geranza, which has thousands of people, San Salvador is weak.

In fact, in the original history that was not changed by Li Zhi, the Dutch annexed San Salvador. However, because of Li Zhi's crossing, history has changed. The Dutch were expelled from the island of Taiwan by Li Zhi early on, while the Spanish stronghold in Keelung was very strong, becoming the last stronghold of the Europeans on the island of Taiwan.

But this stronghold is about to become history.

In the concept of Zu Dashou, who commanded tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, San Salvador in the telescope is a very small castle. The whole castle is in the shape of a six-pointed star, and its length and width are no more than 50 meters. Above the bastion are a number of stone single-storey buildings that form the main structure of the castle.

There are also some small stone bunkers outside the castle, called the guard fort, the evacuation fort, the barrel square fort, etc.

The Spaniards also tried to prevent Zu Dashou's soldiers from landing in Keelung Harbor, and yesterday afternoon the Spanish guard officer of San Salvador led a hundred men to guard the pier, only to be blown up by the flowering shells on the ironclad ship, and fled back to the castle in a panic.

But back in the castle, it's not safe either.

In one morning, Zu Dashou's artillerymen bombed all the stone bunkers near San Salvador into rubble. The soldiers then set up large-caliber twenty-four-pounder rifled guns outside San Salvador and aimed them at the Spanish castle six miles away.

There were also cannons in the castle, and the two sides began to fire at each other.

Only a few thunderous sounds were heard, and seven or eight shells crossed the sky and shot at the artillery on Zu Dashou's side. However, the distance is too far, and the solid bullet is affected by irregular air resistance when flying through the air, and it does not have an accurate head.

The round shells fell sparsely a few dozen meters away from the artillery, plunging headlong into the dirt.

Zu Dashou narrowed his eyes and smiled.

This was the first time that Zu Dashou independently led the army to fight after defecting to Li Zhi. Being able to independently bring a thousand people out to attack the city also reflects Li Zhi's trust in Zu Dashou. Zu Dashou hopes to complete this task excellently, so that Li Zhi can look at himself higher.

Of course, it is not difficult to demolish the small castle of the Spaniards with Li Zhi's tiger army armed to the teeth with various equipment.

Zu Dashou waved his hand: "Fire!" ”

The flag commander waved his flag, and fifty rifled guns opened fire. The recoil of the salvo of fifty twenty-four-pounder cannons was so amazing that Zu Dashou only felt the ground under his feet shake violently, and then he heard the deafening sound of shelling.

In the midst of the huge flames, the cone-shaped flowering projectile shot towards the castle six miles away.

Zu Dashou stabilized the lower plate on the shaking ground, and secretly stammered. Although he had gradually become accustomed to the equipment and firepower of the Tiger Army, he was still a little surprised by the twenty-four pounder guns of the latest assembled troops.

Compared with round solid shells, rotating conical shells fly more stably in the air and are several times more accurate than smoothbore guns. On the first shot, sixty percent of the fifty flowering shells were fired into the Spaniard's castle, setting off an explosion that swept across the castle.

There were more than 20 catties of nitrocellulose and crushed steel slag in the shells of the 24-pound rifled guns, and the shock wave from the explosion could cover more than 10 meters in the surrounding area. More than 20 shells exploded in the small fortress, causing as much damage as you can imagine.

With just one round of shelling, the Spanish fortress was blown into a bloody hell.

All kinds of stone buildings were blown to pieces, and they collapsed to pieces. Soldiers blown away by the blast wave, cut by steel slag and crushed by collapsed buildings were everywhere, screaming and groaning.

One of the eight city defense cannons of the Spaniards was damaged, and half of the artillery of the other cannon was killed by flowering shells, and it was impossible to fire.

The faces of the Spanish soldiers who were still alive were pale and trembling one by one.

Where have they ever seen such a powerful flowering bomb?

And it was shot from a distant place six miles away.

But the Spanish officers were still disciplined. Amid the shouts and curses of the officers, the six city defense guns that could still be used were loaded with shells, and the Spaniards returned fire on the Tiger Ben army.

Round solid shells were projectile from the sky, drawing six parabolas in the sky, and fluttering and falling dozens of meters away from the artillery.

The one closest to the target was also more than ten meters away.

Zu Dashou shook his head and said, "Xiyi's weapons are so backward, but they are so barbaric. These barbarians dare to kill unarmed people with such a weak army, they are really extremely vicious, how can they escape the thunderous revenge of the prince? ”

With a wave of his hand, Zu Dashou said loudly: "Fried!" Blow up these brutes who slaughtered my Han people! ”

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The muzzle of the twenty-four-pounder cannon spat out its rage and fired heavy shells at the Caucasian people who had invaded Asia. Fifty shells were like a meteor shower, and they smashed into the castle of San Salvador at great speed.

This time, after the first round of shelling, all 50 shells were fired into the fortress, setting off a storm of iron and blood.

The shock wave and flames swept through the small bastion like a storm, barely sparing a corner. Some Spanish soldiers were pierced into the sky by the wave of air set off by the explosion, screaming and flying three or four meters before falling, their internal organs were shaken into a blur of blood, and they died when they lay on the ground.

The stone buildings in the castle collapsed like sand in the explosions. The dust from the explosion of the stone and the black smoke formed after the explosion of nitrocellulose enveloped the castle, blocking the entire view of the castle.

One of the six groups of urban defense artillery was directly blown up, and the other three artillery groups were swept by the shock wave, killing a large number of artillerymen, and could no longer fire at the heavy artillery of the Tiger Army.

The small fortress was full of blood and scraped flesh, and it could no longer be called a fortress, but only a ruin.

Of the 200 Spanish defenders, only a few dozen were left alive in an instant.

The Spaniards' defenders did not know which bomb they had been killed by and fell on the well in the middle of the fortress. His military uniform was still intact, but it seemed that his internal organs had been blown up, and the spats of his mouth were bleeding non-stop.

The black blood fell into the well, polluting the good water source.

The frightened Spaniards immediately dropped their weapons and raised the white flag.

Zu Dashou saw the white flag of the Spaniards and smiled.

"These Xiyi are really shameless, when he killed my overseas Han people, he didn't care how the people begged for mercy, and when others killed him, he was actually embarrassed to surrender?"

With a wave of his hand, Zu Dashou shouted: "Fried!" Keep bombing, blow up all these barbarians, and don't leave a single corpse. ”

With Zu Dashou's order, fifty heavy artillery pieces roared again. The shells smashed into the already devastated castle of San Salvador, sparks burst out, and the broken bricks and corpses of the soldiers were once again blasted into the sky.

And the last dozens of Spanish soldiers hiding among the debris were also covered by this new round of shock waves, and they lost their lives in an instant.

After three rounds of shelling, there were almost no living people left in the castle of San Salvador.

Zu Dashou looked at the castle with a telescope and said, "Bomb, blow him up three more rounds!" ”