The technological gap made the Crusaders completely abandon all illusions. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Then they could only launch a heroic attack on the city of Malacca without the cover of artillery fire, and the soldiers of the five countries who had come all the way to this distant land marched towards the small castle without hesitation, just like on the battlefield in Europe, in a neat formation, blowing trumpets and beating drums, following the officers in white gloves and flags one after another.

Then the shells continued to fall at a rate of dozens of rounds per minute, and the bursting shells continued to take away their lives with scattered shrapnel.

I have to say that the quality of these soldiers is still very high, even if the dead bodies fall in pieces, but they still do not retreat, after all, they all dare to rush to dozens of meters to play in line and shoot, the proportion of casualties caused by the fierce artillery fire of the Ming army is not higher than that of thirty meters away from the fire, those officers bravely walked in front, loudly encouraging the courage of their subordinates, in the light of the shell explosion from time to time someone fell in a blur of flesh and blood, and even was blown to the bones, but they still maintained a neat enough formation, and even maintained enough rhythm, Gradually approaching the city of Malacca.

"Yes, if the Tartars had this level back then, maybe we would still be fighting in the country at this time!"

Qin Yan said with interest.

"It's a pity, now they are lagging behind, ready to shoot!"

Then he said.

Behind the reinforced concrete parapets on both sides of him, a soldier quickly checked the rifle in his hand, pulled the bolt in a neat sound, pulled out the paper shell bullet from the cowhide bullet box on his waist and put it into the chamber with his finger, then pushed back the bolt, slammed it to the right, turned it and stuck it, and then stretched the barrel out of the perforation, and at the same time erected a ruler to set the distance, stared at the crosshair, and aimed at the approaching enemy in the distance.

"Fire!"

Just as the Crusader soldiers entered the range of a hundred zhang, Qin Yan roared without hesitation.

Almost instantly, two thousand rifles on the city wall erupted in flames at the same time, two thousand lead bullets pierced the air like a frenzy and burst blood on the enemy's body, and the corpses of the marching crusaders fell one after another. The Ming soldiers on the city wall quickly pulled the bolt again, checked the chamber slightly, and hooked it with their fingers if there was any unburned paper shell, and if not, they directly put in the paper shell bullet and manually pushed it into the chamber of the gun, pushed the bolt on, locked the aim, and pulled the trigger. The released spring pushed the firing pin to pierce the paper shell and hit the fire cap, igniting the ****** and nitrifying the paper shell to push the projectile out, and in less than ten seconds, the second wave of bullets hit the crusader soldiers again, and then the Ming soldiers on the city wall repeated the same process again.

Three rounds of bullets were fired in less than twenty seconds, and the old-fashioned breech guns fired at most one round.

At this time, the officers of the crusaders came to their senses, they no longer cared about the orders behind them, and it was simply suicidal to maintain the rhythm of formation in the face of such furious fire.

As the shouts of the first officer charged, the soldiers of the Crusader companies who had been advancing in formation immediately carried ladders and rushed under the city wall, but this was useless, there was still a distance of three hundred meters in front of them to cross, and there was no shelter in the air above the three hundred meters, and the Ming soldiers on the city wall continued to pour bullets at them at a frequency of more than ten rounds per minute, and those charging Crusader soldiers continued to fall on this foreign land, and the dead body belt stretched towards the city.

"No, they can't be only three thousand, that's at least ten thousand people shooting in turns, those damned British lied to us! They are all as shameless as that little white-faced general of theirs! ”

Cockhorn roared hysterically.

"General, did you give the order to retreat?"

An officer beside him asked.

"No, attack, keep attacking, retreat and we'll never take this castle again!"

Kirhorn roared.

But at this moment, the soldiers in front stopped one after another, and gathered into a dense line as if they were preparing to commit suicide.

"Bastard, attack, don't stop!"

Kirhorn roared like a madman.

Anyway, those soldiers really don't want to stop now, who doesn't know that stopping in this situation is tantamount to suicide!

But the problem is that there is a barbed wire fence in front of it!

The city defense system of the Ming army has always been to wrap itself in barbed wire first, then bombard itself with artillery from afar, get closer with guns, throw grenades and then get closer to spray gasoline and ignite, and the Qing army has more than 100,000 people in the sand under this system, not to mention these 10,000 people? Speaking of field warfare, it is indeed difficult to say what will happen to the Ming army, but when it comes to defense, every soldier knows that he is invincible, and how many ghosts of the Qing army in hell can prove it to them, not to mention that now with breech guns, their firepower has increased by more than three times.

This is the enemy......

It's really not enough to see.

The Crusader soldiers gathered in front of the barbed wire fence crowded in horror, they didn't know how to deal with this thing, one by one screaming in vain with knives, picking with guns, and even reaching out to drag, but the result was useless, the dead bodies fell one by one under the storm of bullets, and gradually accumulated in front of the barbed wire into a sea of corpses and blood, and soon they finally lost the courage to attack, and began to turn around in confusion from behind, desperately running backwards, and then one by one they continued to fall on the way to escape.

The offensive was thus a complete failure.

General Cohorn crouched helplessly on the ground.

The soldiers dealt a heavy blow to the crusaders, with little casualties, with a total of 2,000 killed and 3,000 wounded......

Well, that's almost a third.

But the damage to morale is the most terrible, those soldiers who fled back under the furious fire of the Ming army completely lost their courage, all kinds of myths about the Ming army began to circulate quietly, as well as all kinds of speculation about the strength of the Ming army in the city, in short, after withdrawing to the camp, the entire military camp was immediately shrouded in gloom, especially the wailing of those wounded soldiers day and night and the corpses that were constantly carried out, which made the morale of this army completely slide to the bottom.

Although Admiral Bank's fleet had to launch another attack in order to boost morale, the loss of another battleship further undermined morale.

At this time, even Bank understood that they were going to fail if they couldn't make it, and they couldn't even break through a small Malacca city and how to win the war, but at this time they still had a glimmer of hope, that is, they could defeat the Ming fleet in a decisive battle at sea, and there was no hope for an attack on land. But after all, the Spice Islands are also far away from the Ming mainland, as long as they can win the naval battle, everything will be solved, as long as the sea supply is cut off, the siege of Malacca City continues, and the food in the city will eventually run out, the last time the indigenous coalition did this, as a result, more than half of the nearly 10,000 Portuguese in the city finally starved to death.

So Admiral Bank immediately sent people to Colombo, the Coromandel coast, Dutch Bengal and other places to recruit young men and even hire Tianzhu people to replenish the losses of Corhorn, and at the same time to purchase ammunition from the British East India Company again, waiting for a decisive battle with the Ming fleet.

His confidence in this fight is still very strong.

After the Ruyter was repaired, he had four second-class battleships, three seventy-four-gun third-class battleships, and twenty-six smaller third-class battleships.

And what does the Ming army have?

All of them add up to only three eighty-gun guns, two seventy-four guns, and nine smaller battleships, which are less than half of his fleet, and they are scattered all over the place and it is impossible to complete the assembly in a short time, as for the others, all are cruisers, although there are quite a few of them, but the guns of cruisers are of little use in naval battles of this level, even if they use magic fire bombs, it is useless to not be able to penetrate the deck of the battleship, and the loss of the Ruyt is completely an extremely unexpected accident, What's more, he also thought of a trick to deal with this kind of shell.

As for the terrifying cannon of the Ming army......

That's a shore defense gun, so a large caliber is impossible to mount a battleship, that power is at least more than a hundred pounds, let alone more than a hundred pounds, that is, more than sixty pounds, it is difficult to install on a battleship, even if it is loaded on a first-class battleship, it was only twenty sixty-pound guns on the Sea Sovereign back then, and it was quickly discarded, more than a hundred pounds of guns on a battleship is a joke at all!

However, Admiral Bank did not know that two battleships with more than 100-pound guns were actually heading towards him.

And just like that, the Crusaders missed their only chance to escape.

Immediately afterwards, their infantry began to dig trenches on the periphery of Malacca City, preparing to use trench excavation to avoid the terrifying fire of the Ming army and approach under the city walls, and then launch an attack, of course, this is just talking, in fact, they want to use trenches to besiege the city, anyway, this place is very easy to dig in the loose soil, just use bayonets to grab a group of natives from the surrounding area as coolies to dig, and they also found a group of allies.

The Bugis, who had been accustomed to part-time pirates before, quickly fell to them after the Ming army came, and even joined their coalition army, although it was a bit strange for a muslin to join the crusaders, but there was no need to care so much if everyone had the same interests. In fact, at this time, the Mu Sling of Nanyang did not like the Ming army very much, and they did regard the Ming army as a liberator before, but later they found out that this liberator and the Dutch were purely a basic leader. When the Ming army came, they would neither return the land to them, nor would they not look for them to collect poll taxes, let alone not arrest their people as slaves, and even catch more, and after all the competitors were driven away, those Ming merchants who monopolized the spice trade also tore off their previous disguises, and they were more ruthless than the Dutch.

As a result, many muslins began to miss the Dutch.

Obviously, in their opinion, this is indeed a good opportunity to get rid of Yang Feng's clutches.

But unfortunately, they didn't know that at this time, Lin Hong's fleet had already entered the Strait of Malacca, and the Zhenwu and Baiyue, which were heading south at full speed, had also completed their last replenishment on Ambuna Island, and at the same time, the Dinghai formation had also sailed through the mouth of the Musi River.

The encirclement at sea is nearing completion. (To be continued.) )