"What about our casualties?" Before dawn, Carl ran to Hong Tao's flagship. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info last night's night battle must have disturbed him from sleeping well, and his eyes were bloodshot.

"Three people were slightly injured, all of them were injured by the sawdust from the shells, nothing serious. I'm about to storm the city, so take command of the fleet in my place. Don't be careless this time, if the back road is copied, I will surrender directly, and then confess you, and we will be burned to death together. Don't look at Hong Tao's gritted teeth at Carl's regression, he still trusts this redbeard the most in his heart, and handing over the entire fleet to him is equivalent to entrusting half his life.

"I'll be tossed to death by you sooner or later, so it's better to burn to death. I'll dispose of these corpses, they deserve a cemetery. Carl didn't express his gratitude to Hong Tao for his trust, he really hoped that Hong Tao would stop trusting himself, trust is sometimes pressure, a lot of pressure.

"Whatever, I don't have a problem if you eat them! You come with me, with our little band! Hong Tao didn't care whether the corpses of the 100 enemies outside the shipyard were buried or cremated, and now he was going ashore to be the commander of the army, and this was the first time he had followed the army to attack the city, and he was a little excited.

At this time, the ancients were cloudy again, and the old should be rampant and the little should be stable. People tend to be more and more unsuccessful the older they get, Hong Tao is like this, cautious and timid all his life, and when he is old, he has to go ashore to take risks.

"I sent someone to wait for you on the dock in a small boat, if you can't beat it, run quickly, and when you go back, I won't say that you were defeated, just say that more than 200 people went to sea and drowned!" Carl has also learned badly, and he can actually be sarcastic.

“…… Embarkation! Hong Tao didn't look back, stretched out the middle fingers of his two hands and gestured behind him, and then took the lead to climb down the side of the boat. He was followed by the Broken Mouth Captain and more than a dozen dressed sailors. These sailors were dressed in Indian, with multicolored feathered headdresses on their heads, no clothes on their upper bodies, but a lot of patterns were painted, a palm-wide belt diagonally across their chests, and several huge leather bags in their hands.

Unbeknownst to Karl, the Army soldiers on the shore knew these sailors in traditional Indian costumes, and before the dinghy could land, they let out a burst of roars, and their emotions were very excited, as if they had just been drugged.

"Here is ......it again," when a priest in a white robe climbed up to the dock from a dinghy and began to recite the scriptures with his staff held aloft the symbol of the sun god, more than 200 army soldiers and sailors, except for those who stood guard, all knelt on one leg, bowed their heads and stroked their chests, and began to chant together. When Carl saw this, his mouth pursed as much as a scoop, expressing his disdain. But when he turned his head, he saw that there was also a large kneeling on the deck, and he was the only one standing, and immediately swallowed back the second half of his sentence.

The prayer was short, and in less than a minute, the priest lowered his staff and stopped chanting. At this moment, the brass whistle in the officer's mouth sounded again, and the soldiers and armed sailors scattered all over the place gathered together in a very short time and formed four columns. Seven or eight horses captured last night had all become scouts' mounts, and they had already scattered in pairs and run away. Standing at the head of the line at this time were a dozen sailors dressed in Indian costumes that Hong Tao had brought from the ship, and the large leather bags they were carrying had been opened, and inside was a cylinder with hooks on it, which hung on the belt diagonally across their chests.

"What kind of weapon is this? Have you seen it? Karl saw clearly on the deck of the battleship, but did not recognize what these cylindrical things were, so he turned to ask the gunner.

"The gods have told you that this is a god-given war drum that reminds the gods to bless us. However, it cannot be used on a ship, and the war drums are afraid of the sea. The divine envoy said that when the divine power of the kingdom of God is enough, he will be able to obtain the war drums that are not afraid of the sea. The gunner finally found another opportunity to be a teacher, not only asking questions and answers, but also giving free detailed explanations.

"War drums! How to use it? Karl still didn't understand what a war drum was.

"Knock bang bang bang...... Knock Knock ...... "This time, there was no need for the gunner to explain to him, the army that had been lined up on the dock began to move forward, and at the same time a neat drum sounded, and the footsteps of the soldiers followed the drum beat, although there were only more than two hundred people, but they walked so neatly, and they looked quite mighty.......

“…… He's really idle and has nothing to do, and I'm also confused, war drums...... How to use it, isn't it just a drum, knock! Karl was very dissatisfied with himself, the war drums were both Byzantine and Greek, and the Great Cannibals also used them, although the sound was not as loud as the war drums of the waves, but it was not too much.

In fact, this thing made by Hong Tao is not a traditional war drum, it should be called a snare drum or a string drum. It is made of a light trunk hollowed out to make a drum body, whalebone to make a skeleton, whale tendons to control tightness, and covered with whale skin of appropriate thickness. In contrast to a normal drum, it has several springs made of fine alloy copper wire on the non-striking skin. This thing is called a string, and it is struck by a small round-headed wooden stick in one hand, and the drum sound is slightly hoarse, and there is a very special step, step, and tail sound. The frequency is higher than that of the big drum and it is very penetrating.

During the Napoleonic period, due to the need to keep the infantry battle line neat, there would be drummers on the battlefield who used different drum beats to unify the pace of the infantry phalanx according to the order. Hong Tao's army already uses hunting guns with rear-loading bullets, and they don't need to maintain any battle lines or phalanxes on the battlefield, and they don't need the command of this kind of small snare drum. He got this thing out for a complete play, just to have fun, and it didn't bother anyway. Moreover, the Indians are very talented in music, they can dance with their thighs clapped, and they have a very fast grasp of this rhythmic snare drum.

However, snare drums are rarely used, as Swan's army spends most of the time sneaking up on horseback and will never beat the drums. Now Hong Tao has finally found an opportunity to let the little snare drum show his face, he can't use it to fight, knock on the assembly when he marches, this opportunity to pretend to be forced must not be missed.

At this time, it would be nice to leave a horse for yourself, riding on a tall horse, watching the infantry step on the drum and walk past in front of you, it is a bit of a general. This feeling is not quite the same as naval warfare, and it is easier to arouse people's blood by fighting people at close range in a down-to-earth manner.

The strange army marching to the beat of the drum not only surprised Carl, but also attracted the attention of the people in the castle. The naval battle was lost, the river was not held, and the nobles of Flanders and Hansa did not give up, they felt that they could teach the emperor from the east a lesson in land warfare. The emperor was so arrogant that he dared to swagger to attack a fortified castle guarded by heavy troops, without even siege equipment, and he looked like he was carried away by victory.

In fact, from the day of the defeat in the naval battle, the Flemish Hanseatic had already begun to transfer troops from the relatively close territories to Berhenopzom, together with the previous garrison here, a total of more than 5,000 men, including a new musketeer of more than 1,000 men and more than 1,000 light cavalry.

In their opinion, whether it was a field battle or a castle defense battle, Hong Tao's two or three hundred people had no chance of winning at all. If you can defeat Hong Tao, the emperor of the East, in a land battle, you can make up for the losses caused by the defeat in the naval battle, if you can catch this emperor, then you will make a lot of money, how much should the emperor's ransom cost? Do you have to use a big sea ship to pull it? For the sake of this belief, all the nobles who participated in the Flemish Hanseatic did not flee, and they had to wait for the spoils to be divided, and whoever left would not receive a penny of compensation.

"Lord Jiang, is this team on the other side also musketeers? Their muskets seem to be very short, and there are no spears on them, how can they be more powerful than ours? As the master, the Earl of Nassau and the three dukes stood on the highest tower of the castle, watching their own army in front of the castle and the army coming from the dock to the beat of the drums, so Lord Jiang, as a great military strategist from the east, also stood with them. (To be continued.) )