"Immediately remove all the soldiers from the battery!"

The fort was blown up when it was bombed, but these soldiers could not be used as burial objects in vain. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the beginning of the bombardment, these gunners were sent to the battery by the commander, ready to fire and counterattack the enemy. But when they saw that the enemy on the sea was so far away, they could only stare at it in a hurry, and there was nothing they could do.

Later, when they saw that two of the batteries had been destroyed and several soldiers had been blown to pieces, they were all terrified that the next shell would fall under their feet.

At this time, when they heard that the commander told them to leave the fort, they all dispersed in a hurry and hid in the castle.

"Alas, if all the forts are blown up, will our castle still be able to hold it?"

"Of course you can hold it! Without the forts, we still have guns, and the enemy will not be able to attack anything! ”

"Then what should we do if the enemy shells like this every day?"

"Afraid of what? We can't finish the food in this castle for a year, and I don't believe they can shell it for so long! ”

These soldiers are far away from their homeland, and they have a sense of responsibility to defend the city, but this is not to defend the motherland.

As soldiers eat food, most of these Dutch soldiers are just trying to get promoted and make a fortune, and few will die for the East India Company, even if the city is broken, they will surrender at most, and then return to their Dutch hometown.

If you have to worry about a fort or something, let the Governor worry about it.

Of course, Zhuo Shijie also wanted to blow up all the forts in the castle, but this was impossible, he looked at the castle from the perspective of the sea, and could only see the forts on the first floor of the castle, but not the forts on the second and third floors.

Even if it's just the turrets on the first floor, some of them can't be found out because of the angle.

After some time of bombardment, all the batteries that could be seen above the castle had been blown up.

"If you can't see the forts, let's continue to bombard their walls!"

The cannon roared on the sea, and the bombardment was endless, and the Baron Vanderbilt in the castle was restless, like ants on a hot pot, whirling around.

Later, Vanderbilt also found that he was too worried, and it was impossible for the opponent's artillery to destroy all the batteries on the castle, so he was a little relieved.

But there was one thing that didn't reassure him.

Where exactly is Albert's fleet? Is it really all gone?

The enemy on the sea, shelling their own castle so brazenly, didn't they know that there was a powerful Dutch fleet here?

Or are they the same pirates who defeated Albert, so they have no fear?

The thought that Albert's fleet might be finished, and that such a possibility was now very great, made Vanderbilt feel extremely anxious.

The East India Company was wealthy, and although it would not be devastated by the destruction of this fleet, his future and fate would be bleak.

In the western Pacific, the Netherlands has only such a powerful fleet, and if this fleet is gone, the security of the Dutch East India Company's sea routes will inevitably be seriously threatened, and even affect the profits of the head office in this fiscal year, and Vanderbilt is to blame for all this.

It was only in the evening that Vanderbilt tried to calm himself down, and he gave a new order.

"Immediately send two musket teams to deploy along the coastline, day and night, and closely monitor all movements on the surface of the sea that come to them, so as not to allow the enemy to land and infiltrate!"

The enemy's firepower was so strong that it was unknown if they had any other means of siege, and Vanderbilt decided it necessary to set up another line of defense on the periphery of the castle just to be on the safe side.

After receiving the order, two musket teams of fifty men each hurried out of the castle through the back gate of the castle and quietly deployed to the shore.

After dinner, after shelling for a while, Zhuo Shijie ordered the artillery to stop.

"I've been hearing this cannon sound all day, and my ears are almost deafening, so let's stop for a while, and everyone should have a good rest."

When Zhuo Shijie wanted to return to the lounge, the Flying Bird and the Flying Fish leaned on the Cherry, and Hong Zhi and Liu Laoliu boarded the Cherry, obviously to discuss the war with Zhuo Shijie.

"Commander, this castle is too hard!" Liu Lao Liu came up and said this with emotion.

Zhuo Shijie certainly knew what was going on in his heart.

The attack on Fort Geranza was a decision made by him alone, and he did not discuss it with Liu Lao Liu and them in advance.

"Take your time, you can always take it." Zhuo Shijie said with a smile.

Before he came, he thought that he would be able to take the castle in one fell swoop like crushing the enemy's fleet, but now it seems that it may not be a matter of three or two days, and that it is necessary to take other measures.

After a day of shelling, the destruction of the city walls by the continuous shelling, in addition to the destruction of some of the batteries on the castle, was not very ideal.

Hong Zhi put forward his own thoughts: "Commander, if we storm one point, after the breakthrough, we will forcibly rush in, what do you think?" ”

Zhuo Shijie shook his head and said: "Each section of the enemy city wall is a horn of each other, even if it breaks through one place, and its left and right can defend this breakthrough point, if it is forcibly attacked, the casualties are very great, it is not feasible!" ”

Hong Zhi was silent after hearing this, if they couldn't force their way in, at night, they could seize the time to repair the defects, and by daytime, everything would be at the original point again.

Seeing this, Zhuo Shijie smiled and said: "Don't worry, it should be the Dutch in the castle, anyway, they are the ones who are being shot now, not us!" ”

Hong Zhi frowned and said, "But Commander, our supplies are also a problem." ”

After a whole day of shelling, if Hong Zhi's calculation is correct, the shells of the main gun of the Cherry seem to be almost exhausted.

"Don't worry, we are on this sea, even if we stay for a year and a half, we won't be hungry, I have already arranged these, you don't have to worry."

Hong Zhi heard this, and then he was relieved: "Since the commander has even arranged for this matter to be stopped, then what are we worried about?" Everything is up to the commander. ”

After sending Hong Zhi and the two of them away, Zhuo Shijie's nerves that had been tense for a day finally relaxed, and he fell asleep.

In the middle of the night, the moonlight was like water, and on the undulating sea, there was silence on the three steel battleships.

The sentry on the Cherry tonight is two people, Erzi and Dashan, and the reason why there are two people lined up is that they can supervise each other, and second, they can chat if they are sleepy.

"Second stunned, look at this battle, how many days do you have to fight?"

"Look, there's no one for two months, I'll look at Xuan!"

"You underestimate our commander, I guess, in less than half a month, you will be able to break the city!"

"Alas, it's better to fight the fleet, and after a few shells, it's all over!"

"How can this castle compare to a wooden ship? If you look at that castle now, even at night, it's quite scary to look at, it's like a monster! ”

The two of them looked at the castle, and in the night, the castle looked like a lying beast, and it looked eerie and terrifying.

At this time, two moving targets appeared in their line of sight.