Debaul sat in his study in silence for a long time.

Thomas. Beder walked in, "Sir, excuse me. ”

"What's the matter?" Debaul looked up and asked.

"Sir, Paul Kaecheng has surrendered, and now the whole city of Geranza is talking about it, and I want to let you know at once."

"Paul, there is no way for him to surrender, the strength of the Ming army is too strong, and there is a huge disparity between the enemy and me." Debaul said that he had just sat here and thought about it for a long time, thinking that they would not have to worry about the attack of the Ming army after they had to get reinforcements from the Anglo-Dutch fleet. But the Penghu naval battle, which was a light enemy, made them lose their vitality all of a sudden, and finally lost the advantage at sea, allowing the Ming army to fight the big man.

Especially their battleships that sank in Penghu are said to have been fished up by the Ming army, and the thousands of cannons on them have now become a sharp weapon for the Ming army to attack the generals. No matter how strong the castle of Gelanjia is, it can withstand at most a hundred shells under the bombardment of the ship's 32-pound, 24-pound, and 18-pound guns.

And now that the Ming army has tens of thousands of troops and thousands of cannons, he now wants to scold Van Buron's mother.

"Thomas, what is everyone talking about now?"

"Everybody is pessimistic and thinks we can't hold on."

De Baul is not surprised by this sentiment, and anyone who sees today's results will be so pessimistic. "Maybe we should surrender, and we will not lose our courage to surrender at this time." Debaul Road.

Thomas took a deep breath, "Sir, I don't think we're at the time of pessimism, we still have a few main warships, I have a plan, take advantage of the darkness tonight, let me lead a company to land on the northern line of the tail island in a small boat, and snatch the northern line of the tail island back." Meantime. Send someone to contact Commander Van Bronn, and ask him to lead the fleet to launch a night attack on the Ming fleet, and if we can win, then we can turn the situation around us in one fell swoop. ”

The young company commander Thomas was full of fighting spirit, and Debaul couldn't help but feel a sense of anticipation when he saw him eager to fight.

"Are the soldiers willing to fight?"

"Everyone is unwilling to surrender to the Ming people, and is willing to fight."

Debaul became excited, stood up and paced in the study, "Okay, let's fight." Let Akito know how good we are. Akito had just won a big victory during the day, and he must be a light enemy at this time. ”

With Debaul's permission, Thomas took his leave, and walked back along the castle's promenade, past a row of tall arched windows, and in the courtyard below, a group of soldiers were wiping their weapons.

Thomas walked up to them and addressed the crowd, "The Commander has agreed to our request for battle. Now get ready, we're ready to get out of town. ”

"Yay! these yellow-skinned monkeys! ”

"Kill them."

A group of mercenaries roared.

"Every soldier who goes into battle will be rewarded with a hundred guilders!" Thomas said as he threw a large bag of silver coins on the ground. Ten guilders are equivalent to one pound sterling at this point. And one pound is equivalent to three taels of silver, and this hundred guilders is about thirty taels of silver. Even for these mercenaries, this is a very motivating bounty.

Thomas handed out the silver coins to the soldiers of the company, and then waited until midnight before setting off.

There is a sewer that leads directly to the south waterway to the north of the castle. Three hundred soldiers, armed with weapons on their backs, quietly reached the South Waterway through the sewers, and they swam straight across the river.

Mei Qing led hundreds of men from the division to guard the southern end of the northern line of Oshima. After capturing the Sicao Sea Fort during the day, the landed Nine-headed Bird began to build fortifications on the island, in addition to strengthening the slender Sicao Sea Fort, it also focused on building forts on the south of the island and the west side of the island.

Mei Qing's mission is to patrol and prevent the Dutch from landing on the island and destroying them.

It was already a cold November night, and Mei Qing divided his men into three parts, one patrolling along the southern coast of the island, one as a secret outpost, and some as a reserve.

During the day, it was very smooth to take the Sicao Sea Fort, Mei Qing and the others didn't even have a chance to shoot, and they didn't even reach the designated interception position at that time, and the castle was blown up. Everyone also looked down on the Dutch more and more, and felt that there would be no danger in this battle.

Mei Qing sat in the dark, looking at the fort in front of her, the thousands of pounds of cannons, which fascinated her. This kind of cannon fished up from the red-haired shipwreck is too strong, especially the kind of 32-pound cannon, which is said to be nearly 7,000 catties, and the barrel is more than a zhang long.

In the past, he had also heard that the Hongyi cannon of the imperial court could fight more than ten miles, but it was mostly an exaggeration, and this kind of cannon could really hit that far. It is said that these guns are all the guns on the big warships of the red-haired people, and they are all placed on the lowest deck, and the barrels are extended, and the enemy ship is basically finished with one shell.

It is said that with such cannons to bombard the kind of fortresses of the Dutch, it is said that as long as there are two, it does not take a hundred shells to destroy the fortified castle.

These forts on the island of the tail of the northern line can be erected by tomorrow at the latest, and then it is completely possible to bombard the Hongmao City on the opposite island from this island.

After defeating the Dutch, they can return to the Central Plains.

Next year, they will cross Liao to fight the Tartars, and with these large warships and cannons captured from the hands of the red hair, it is estimated that the war will go smoothly. How will those Tartars cope with such a huge ship cannon?

The Tartars don't have the big ships of the red-haired people, nor do they have the cannons and bastions of the red-haired ones.

"Heavenly King Covers the Tiger!"

Suddenly, a secret whistle command interrogation came from not far ahead.

"Password!"

Another interrogation.

This time there was a response in the darkness, but a figure jumped out, holding a long sword in his hand.

"Bang!"

The sentinels who interrogated the password were in groups of three, and the teammates next to him spotted the enemy and raised their flint guns in time to hit him. With a loud bang, the Dutchman who jumped up was hit and fell to the ground.

"Enemy attack! Red-haired ghost attack! The sentry shouted as he opened fire. The sound of guns was very loud in the night, and Mei Qing jumped up, drawing her gun and shouting, "There is an enemy attack, intercept them!" ”

Annoyed, Thomas drew his sword and rushed forward shouting.

"Mingren is timid, everyone rushes!"

Mei Qing heard the shouts of the red-haired people, and calmly ordered, "Line up, raise the fire." ”

In the darkness, Mei Qing didn't care about anything else, several teams of musketeers lined up, lit the arquebus, and raised their guns to shoot. After the thudding thump, there were many Dutch screams from the opposite side.

Thomas felt a numbness in his left arm, knowing that he had been shot in the arm, he was shocked, he didn't expect the quality of the Ming army to be so good, not only patrols, but also secret sentinels. And after being raided, he can still be so calmly arrayed.

Thomas endured the pain, and since the sneak attack failed, he attacked strongly, and he divided his men into two teams, three squads on the left and right, and sandwiched them between the two loaves.

Both sides are fighting in the dark, all by skill and courage. The two sides fired at each other in the dark, and at first the Dutch were able to advance under the rain of bullets, but soon they could not withstand it. Because the firepower of the Ming army is getting stronger and stronger, and there is artillery fire to support, at first it was a small artillery shot, and then there were already field artillery to this side.

A four-pounder field cannon roared, and a nearly four-pound iron bullet hit the Dutch left team, and the iron bullet was like a red-hot iron hammer cutting through the butter, first cutting off half of the body of a Dutch soldier, followed by an effortless knife on the thigh of a Dutch soldier behind, and then bounced up after a heavy blow on the ground, and the Dutch soldier on the entire line was shattered by this perfect iron bullet, with stumps and broken arms, blood splashes of flesh, and fragments of swords and firearms flying everywhere.

The bomb that inflicted heavy damage on the Dutch finally broke one of the lower legs of a Dutch soldier, whose calf broke at ninety degrees like a fragile sugar cane, revealing Sensen's leg bones and blood splattering up. With a blur of flesh, the iron bullet that had been dyed red rolled a few more times before finally stopping.

Countless screams rang out hoarsely, killing and wounding seven or eight Dutch soldiers in a single shot. The Dutch soldiers were unlucky, and were hit straight ahead, especially when the iron bullet hit the hard ground and caused ricochet. Mei Qing and the others did not see the terrifying lethality of this shell in the dark, but they also heard the screams of the Dutch one after another.

"Come again!" The gunners roared excitedly, they had just gotten their hands on this new type of field artillery. This four-pounder cannon is far more powerful than the Tiger Squat, the Destroyer, and the Fur Machine, but it is not too heavy, and two horses can pull it around, but it is still far away.

The gunners quickly began to clear the chamber of the gun, prepare the ammunition.

And at this time, on the side of the fort, Wang Qian's order also came, "Fire at the red hair in the red hair of Relan on the opposite island, if his mother dares to come and sneak attack, then let them compensate for the power of the cannon!" ”

Several batteries that had been completed during the day were fired one after another.

The cannon was fired by four siege mortars, that is, the Shenwei cannons invented and improved by the nine-headed bird himself, and using the Western artillery classification method, these four Shenwei cannons belong to the twenty-four pound siege mortars.

The effective shooting range of 1,200 yards was just right to bombard the Hongmao City through the South Waterway.

This is not a ballistic artillery, but a curved artillery, which can hit obstacles very well, whether it is on the back of a hill or inside the city wall, the mortar is specially designed for this situation, especially the delayed woodwind fuse designed by the nine-headed bird with the flowering projectile, which is even more powerful.

In the dark night, four twenty-four-pound explosive flowering bombs roared into the air, and in the dark night, after the four cannons were discharged, the gunpowder in the delayed fuse tube was still burning, and sparks were flying everywhere in the night sky, like a meteor with a tail flame.

When this shell rose to the top, it began to fall.

"Wow, that's beautiful!"

"It's like a broom star."

"Get out." (To be continued......)

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