Rumble——,

John de Boer felt a jolt under his feet, this time no longer a tremor, but a collapse, and the warehouse under his feet was rapidly collapsing, and the smoke and dust immediately obscured his eyes. [No pop-ups. 】

His body was declining.

Inside my ears was still the constant whistling of cannonballs in the air.

"Damn, how many shells do they have, are they the ones the devil gave them?"

"Why are their cannons so powerful?"

"Did they move all the guns to land?"

"This is a cannon only found in a 32-pound third class battleship, do they have such a big battleship?"

"How many third-class battleships can be equipped with so many cannons,"

He was lucky not to be hit by the crumbling stones of the collapsed wall, because he was surrounded by a bunch of soldiers and officers, so he was buried, at the cost that these soldiers and officers who surrounded him were either used by him as an R mat or covered him, blocking the rubble and pieces of wood flying everywhere for him, and the result was, of course, dead, if there was any lucky man, then a herald who had been stabbed into his thigh by the scabbard of his officer's command, wailing, and one of his lieutenants, who had broken an arm, His body was hit by rubble and was bleeding profusely.

"Sir,"

"Sir,"

In less than three minutes, just as he felt suffocated, a squad of soldiers quickly ran over, pulled and dug him, and got him out of the dirt, the gravel, and the corpses.

And his thinking is still stuck in how many large-caliber cannons the enemy has and how many third-class battleships can be equipped.

According to the calculation that the bottom compartment of a battleship can be equipped with 16 32-pounder cannons, he estimates that with such a powerful firepower, at least five battleships can be equipped, and they Dutch, not to mention the Portuguese, their battleships are definitely not as many as the Dutch, and they are not so big.

The Dutch battleships could be armed with 60 to 74 cannons, and the battleships they owned were classified as third-class battleships in the West, which was also a new standard for the division of warships in all Western countries.

As for the second-class battleships, first-class battleships, and even special battleships, those ships are too far away, even Spain, which has a lot of money, does not have a few second-class battleships, and the British only have a dozen second-class battleships, and the main force is still a third-class battleship, not much, but more than thirty, mainly to make trouble, and it takes too much money.

The Dutch mainly used armed merchant ships, the kind that could be equipped with more than 20 guns, the maximum caliber of the guns was only 18-pounder, which belonged to the sixth-class auxiliary warships in the West, and the fifth-class battleships were equipped with 36 guns, the bow and stern were equipped with 24-pounder guns, and the fourth-class battleships belonged to battleships, one ship was equipped with 56 guns, the bottom compartment was equipped with 8 24-pounder guns, the second deck was equipped with 36 18-pounder guns, the third deck was equipped with 10 twelve-pounder guns, and the bow and stern were equipped with one 32-pounder gun.

As for the second-class battleships, the bottom compartment was equipped with 32 32-pounder guns, the second deck was equipped with 32 18-pounder guns, the third deck was equipped with 12-pounder guns and 9-pounder, 6-pounder guns, and the bow and stern were equipped with two 32-pounder guns, a total of 82 to 96 guns, which can be called a monster, and the firepower is amazing.

The battleship of the 1st rank was armed with 108 guns, had a longer deck and a higher hull.

The Task Battleship was armed with 117 guns, and the bow and stern were equipped with a 36-pounder gun.

The fleets of the Dutch and the Portuguese conquered the world, but their second-class battleships were only four or five, all of which were placed on the mainland to defend the homeland, and they were not really used when they could be used, not to mention the high cost, and the royal approval was required for a sortie, and the cost was huge.

By dispatching a dozen fourth-class warships, they will be able to wage a national war with countries other than Britain and Spain in the Western countries, and the dozen or so warships in the east really have nothing else to do except escort the convoy.

The Dutch and Portuguese of the third class had no more than five or six battleships, which would have been enough to ensure the security of the colonies in the East.

And now John de Boer felt that he was being bombarded by a dozen third-class battleships, plus five or six second-class battleships.

This made him feel powerless, and the idea that the governor could return and lead the fleet to expel the Ming army was completely shattered.

Just as he was sitting there, stunned, there was another loud noise, which woke him up from his wandering, and he asked blankly, "What's wrong?" ”

No one answered him.

Because everyone has already felt numb, failure is certain, the question is where to go?

Zhang Qiang watched from a distance as the trench at 200 meters of the city wall was blown up, and the soldiers in the tide entered the passage before the smoke dissipated, and reached the bottom of the tunnel through the underground passage, and then the prisoners in front of them dug the mouth of the blown up passage with shovels, and the soldiers entered the trench as if they had been bombarded by the enemy's heavy artillery in World War I, and then quickly found the team.

After waiting for five minutes, the smoke had just cleared, and the eighteen-pounder cannon began to extend and strike at the walls of the third layer of the Red Embedded City, which was actually the small castle that the Dutch had just come to build here, and the soldiers stepped on the soft ground and began to attack, led by the captives.

Don't think too well of Zhang Qiang, he also uses cannon fodder, but his cannon fodder is not farmers, not those miscellaneous soldiers, but prisoners, as long as they work hard, they can be freed if they survive, and they can also become free people on the territory of the Jinhua Righteous Army.

The captives were used to test how many resisting enemies were left on the enemy's walls.

Use their blood to ensure that Zhang Qiang's soldiers can take the enemy's castle at a very small cost.

Sure enough, as soon as they rushed to the enemy's walls, the enemy's counterattack came.

A few Dutch soldiers, dressed in heavy armor, barely escaped the artillery fire, rushed out of the ruins of a gatehouse, and after a single gunshot, one of the captives fell.

It was a surviving Dutch colonial musketeer, he was holding a rifle with five unused bullets in it, and the rest of the bullets were in the magazine, but under the rain of shells from the enemy, he panicked and dodged everywhere, and did not know where he had fallen.

"Are there still enemies alive?" Zheng Tai was a little disappointed, he thought that under such artillery fire, his army would have broken and fled.

Zhang Qiang didn't speak, because this is just a large-caliber solid bullet, and it is not an armor-piercing bullet in later generations, a high-explosive bomb, protected by a solid city wall up to two meters thick, and the solid bullet can collapse the enemy's city wall, but it will definitely not stop some lucky guys from hiding in the place where the city wall collapses and the enemy survives.

That's why he arranged for his captives to rush to the front, to prevent them from causing harm to his regular soldiers.

Besides, the enemy still has a small castle, the third layer of the city wall has not been damaged much, although there are places to collapse, but due to the distance, the large-caliber caron cannon obviously can't take care of it, 800 meters away, maybe it can be hit, the power is definitely not good, it can kill people, but it is certainly not as big as bombarding the first layer of the city wall, and there is only an 18-pounder cannon that can be relied on.

This leveled the level of the two sides, fortunately the enemy placed heavy troops at the first and second layers of the city wall, and the bombardment of half an hour used countless shells, and most of the enemy's forces were consumed.

As long as there is a gap left, rush in, and the enemy will only resist or surrender.

(End of chapter)