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ICP record number: Xiang B2-20100081-3 Internet Publishing Qualification Certificate: Xinchu Network License (Xiang) Zi No. 11 Network Culture Business License: Wen Wangwen [2010] No. 129

A group of Ming army generals gathered and observed the Red Castle with a telescope on a hill five miles from Chichicheng.

Their perception of the castle is the same as that of the defender of the castle, John de Boer of the Dutch, but the castle is too difficult to fight.

Not far away, from behind the hill three miles from the castle, a trench in the shape of "Feng" was extending, and from yesterday afternoon until this morning, about 12,000 laborers began to build roads and bridges from ten miles away, and stretched to the back of the hill three miles away, and then began to hollow out the hill, and dug a cave about five meters high, thirty meters wide, and about ten meters deep, under the hill, for the storage of cannons and ammunition, and for those who dug to rest and transport the wounded.

Due to the terrain, the Lingbao on the third floor of the castle, which is about 100 meters higher than here, began to fire cannons to block the excavators, and it could shoot more than 1,000 or nearly 2,000 meters of cannons, but because of the terrain, it had an extra range of one mile, and it could hit nearly 3,000 meters away.

That's the equivalent of six miles of land.

In this way, no matter whether the shells of the enemy's artillery fly so far and can hit people, or whether they have the strength or not, but such a large shell, even if it has no strength, with its weight, it can hit a person's head or body with its flesh and bones, and it will be seriously injured if it does not die.

Although the range of the twelve-pounder cannon was not so far, it could also hit a distance of 1,7800 meters, nearly four miles, which caused a lot of damage to the excavators.

There are many people here, there are many cannons there, and even the luckiest person will inevitably be hit.

While paving the road, three unlucky people were seriously injured when they approached six miles of land, and five people broke their legs or smashed their arms.

When digging the bunker here, more than a dozen people were injured, although it was a minor injury, because of the precautions, the personnel were scattered farther away, so there were fewer injured people at this time.

When they approached the four miles, more than 20 people were wounded and six died.

When digging a hill bunker three miles away, and advancing to the position, more than 30 more were wounded, and 15 people died.

The enemy's shells were like raindrops, and they didn't need money to fall down, and when they were ten miles away, the enemy could only hit six miles, and the people who paved the road were between ten and five miles, but they were frightened and not injured.

At dusk, as we approached the three-mile area, the enemy had more artillery to fire and the casualties began to increase.

By the time they began to advance from three miles, it was already evening, and the diggers dug in the darkness of the moonlight, and the enemy's shells flew everywhere, and the earth and rocks were splashed, but the wounded were few, and only about five unlucky ones were injured by the flying earth and rocks, and were slightly injured.

When the excavation reached 500 meters, the enemy's shells could hit even the best in the dark, and at this time, the casualties began to increase suddenly, and the enemy's artillery involved in the shelling reached an unprecedented 60 guns.

For the first time, a hundred people were injured and more than fifty died.

At dawn, 200 people were wounded and more than 80 were killed.

Early in the morning, when the final works began to be finished, and the diggers hid in the trenches, behind high mounds of earth, at which point the casualties began to decrease, with only more than eighty wounded and more than twenty dead.

Now, the trench bunker is formed, and the excavators are doing the final temporary additional work, digging up to 300 meters, but not on the ground, but at a depth of two meters underground, multiple passages are working together, and finally at 300 meters out of the way, they are connected. This is a trench for Tibetan soldiers, and when the time comes, dig upwards and blast together, forming a trench that allows soldiers to assault and suppress fire, so that soldiers can attack in a safe place and assault the city wall.

48-pounder, 36-pounder, 32-pounder, 18-pounder artillery began to enter positions.

One morning, the captives were doing one thing, which was to transport the heavy cannons through a wide trench to a distance of 500 meters.

The enemy's shells still fell without money, and many people, even if they had the cover of the trenches, were wounded again, and the cannons were so heavy that the captives did not often take the risk of jumping on top of the trenches and dragging the cannons with ropes, although there was a gun carriage at the bottom of the cannon, and the gun carriage was attached to the wheels, but the wheels were made of wood, not only large, but also heavy, and it took a lot of effort to move forward on the soft ground in the trenches.

At noon, the enemy's artillery shelling was a little lax, so many guns were fired, even the best quality cannons wore out, and even some were blown up, and the number of enemy cannons began to decline.

It is estimated that there are still more than 40 artillery pieces that can be used to directly hit the Ming army, and the frequency of the enemy's firing has dropped from one and a half minutes to a salvo every five minutes.

Liu Guoxuan wiped the sweat from his forehead and breathed a sigh of relief, "The enemy finally knows that they are doing useless work, although we have suffered more than six hundred casualties, we have finally achieved our goal."

Approaching the base of the enemy's city wall, we used to have to let the soldiers carry ladders and push siege engines from ten miles away to reach the outside of the city wall, and we had to lose nearly seven or eight hundred men, and only more than half of them could be used to attack the enemy.

Even with the cover of night, we suffered more than 1,000 casualties, and we suffered more than 5,000 casualties by tearing down the enemy's breastwork, and many people felt that it was better to besiege the city for a long time than to fight a castle like this, and then attack when the enemy ran out of ammunition and food, or perhaps without attacking, the enemy surrendered on his own. ”

Zhang Qiang knew that Zheng Chenggong did give up continuing the attack after heavy casualties in history, and originally wanted to surround the city and wait for the enemy to run out of ammunition and food, but this wait was a year, which almost exhausted most of the strength and strength of the Zheng army, and as a result, when they attacked Nanjing City, many elite troops were pinned down on the treasure island.

Coupled with Zhang Huangyan and other cultural officials to lead the army, Zheng Chenggong fought with newly recruited soldiers, and was attacked by the Qing army under the city of Nanjing.

Since then, the Zheng Jiajun pirates have declined, and they are no longer as glorious as Zheng Zhilong's era, Zheng Chenggong finally left his name in the history books because he drove away the Dutch and recovered the treasure island, but the history writers of the Qing Dynasty did not write so, they thought that it was the capricious Shi Lang who recovered the treasure island, the person who often betrayed others for his own self-interest, but became a hero.

Although the Qing Dynasty emperors later in the eighteenth century gave the names of some Ming resistance figures, and Zheng Chenggong also left some good reputations, his achievements could not compare to Shi Lang, who was out of the limelight and enjoyed the fame and fortune in his life journey.

"Okay, it's done, let the soldiers go into the trenches, open fire, and attack the enemy for me. The iron bucket was also beaten into tofu skin. Zhang Qiang waved his hand vigorously.

On the city wall, John De Boer was worried, approaching a distance of 500 meters, his own cannons due to too frequent cannons, the quality of the deterioration, many cannons simply exploded, there were more than 80 cannons of more than 9 pounds, but the cannons on the fourth layer of the Lingbao can only shoot three miles away, and then hit the first layer of the city wall, and their own people will hit their own people.

The third layer can hit six miles of land, but the enemy is approaching 300 to 500 meters, and the shells are also very dangerous, and the muzzle of the guns cannot be adjusted so low, it can only be shelled 700 meters, 800 meters, and the enemy's horizontal trenches are 1,000 meters away, and they are not used at all in the near distance.

Only the second layer can hit the enemy at the wall of 300 meters, and if the enemy runs within 300 meters, it will not work.

You can only rely on the cannons on the city walls.

The cannons on the city wall are 18-pounder, 12-pounder cannons are not to think about, 2780 meters, 250 meters are dangerous, if the enemy rushes closer to within 250 meters, there will be only those 9-pounder guns and 6-pounder guns, 3-pounder, 2-pounder cannons.

Of course, this is the range of the arquebus.

Arquebus, can hit 300 meters away, but at a distance of 120 meters, the bullet can hit the enemy, then only rely on God's blessing, the West generally fights, most of them fire at a distance of 50 meters, a little farther away, 80 meters, 75 meters away, the damage to the enemy, it is better to rush up and solve it with a sword, it is more efficient, and even less useful than the English longbow.

The English longbow can still cause damage to the enemy's cloth-clothed soldiers at a distance of one hundred and twenty meters, but due to the appearance of armor and shields, the lethality of the English longbow is greatly reduced, and after the appearance of the arquebus, the damage of the musketeer wearing armor to the English longbow can hardly be calculated.

Although the English longbow can still deal damage to musketeers who have given up their full body armor, cannons have also appeared, and the longbow team has to collapse before reaching the enemy array, and the reason why it will not quit the stage of history in the end is that the cost and time of training an English longbow can train ten or even twenty musketeers.

Although there are still repeating gunners, but those are a few after all, and those guns are expensive to make, the cost is too high, they are not too much equipment, only a hundred, the governor took twenty with him, and the battle with the Ming army in front of him lost another ten, although those guns can hit 350 meters away, the effective range can also hit 150 meters away, and can accurately hit the enemy at a distance of 120 meters, causing damage to the enemy, a hundred meters away can kill the enemy, but the reload is too laborious, you have to use a hammer to knock in, the gun is too slow, in front of countless enemies, they are not as powerful as platoon guns.

Although the time for firing is greatly shortened, the power is smaller, and the firing range is also shorter, killing the enemy at 80 meters can accurately hit the enemy, and 100 meters can also kill the enemy, but a skilled gunner aims at the enemy for too long, 120 meters away can cause damage to the enemy, and the longest range is 30 meters.

The improved arquebus is no longer called an arquebus, it is called a sei gun, but the failure rate is the biggest problem, after ten shots of five shots, no more than five can continue to shoot, even if the normal gun, ten guns together, can fire only seven or eight guns.

There are many problems, which is the biggest problem restricting the new gun.

Even so, John de Boer arranged these gunners on the city walls, ready to meet the enemy attack.

At the same time, the regular army was sent, and this time, he felt that the enemy was serious, and the enemy was ready for a big attack, not only the regular army, but also half of the remaining militia, about two thousand people, and two hundred women and old men with cold weapons.

More than 100 sailors, if he can't stop the enemy on the city wall, then, he is no longer ready to fight, the remaining regular army around him is less than 50 people, the militia is 300 people, and the number of people who can be gathered to fight is 400 people, a total of 750 people, this point of people, it is useless, for the Ming army, which is a large number of people and is the attacking side, if this person defends the city, even if there are complex streets and strong castles, he also knows that it is just a battle of trapped beasts, and it is not worth losing his life for this.

What he can comfort himself is that at the most critical moment, the governor of the city can appear on the sea with a heroic fleet, like a savior, and use the fleet's hundreds of large and small cannons to defeat the Ming army outside the city in all directions and save the city.

But will the Ming army give him such an opportunity?

He heard a loud cannon fire, and the entire city wall trembled at the sound of this huge cannon.

The next moment, the wall that he thought was extremely strong under his feet collapsed like tofu dregs.