At the sound of Qi Wei's order, thirty Tang-class warships and ten cruisers entered the bay and besieged ten Dutch warships on the docks of the city of Geranza. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The remaining cruisers and twenty Song-class warships remained in the open sea to protect the rear of the fleet and infantry fleets, while the clippers went out to continue to investigate the situation on the left.

The two patrol ships landed at the eastern trestle bridge, laid down two hundred teams of broken soldiers, and after they landed, they first rested for a meal, and then marched to the northeast of Chikan City.

They walked cautiously along the way, after all, anything could happen on the battlefield, watching the enemy evacuate, but it could also be the enemy's trick, waiting for the ambush to give the vanguard of the Broken Army a head-on blow.

They came to the gate of the castle, which was wide open, and the dark doorway was silent and terrifying.

The Breakers continued their march with iron shields, and they entered the bottom floor of the castle, which was deserted and littered with discarded debris, showing the haste with which the Dutch had left, and even four cannons were quietly left on the bottom gun emplacements.

At this point, the soldiers could be sure that there was no problem with the castle, that the Dutch had not been ambushed, and that they had fled in haste.

Li Lu, who got the news, immediately decided to use Chikan City as the base camp of the infantry team, and unloaded the baggage and other items in Chikan City, so as to solve the problem of repairing the infantry army first.

Here, one ship after another began to move closer to the east of the sea, and began to swallow men, horses, and baggage onto the land, and for a moment the east coast was still silent and noisy.

Vanderbilt and Vander listened to the faint noise coming from the east bank from afar, and their hearts were complicated, and they could probably hear it. There were many soldiers and horses from the Ming people. It looks like they're about to face a tough battle.

Right now. The Akito's warships began to move, and they approached the ten Galen ships anchored on the castle docks.

Fandel saw that the Akito did not want these ten warships to continue to exist, and he urgently ordered all the more than twenty gun emplacements in the east of the castle to be on alert, ready to cover the ten warships docked in the east at any time.

"Mr. Fandel, can we keep these ships?" Vanderbilt asked nervously.

"Can't keep it," Vandel shook his head, so many enemy ships pounced, and none of these ships were spared. "But our artillery can cost the enemy dearly."

This. Van Del is full of confidence, the reason is very simple, no matter how the castle is bombarded, it is invincible, and the enemy's warships will be bombarded by the opposing warships, as well as the artillery on the castle, even if the ten warships are sunk in the end, but they will have to exchange a few warships.

Because if you want to sink a warship, you must shoot at close range, otherwise the destructive power will never be enough.

But when approaching the boundary of two or even one mile, then the castle's heavy artillery is not vegetarian. It was impossible for the Akito's warships to sink these ships without paying a price.

Of course, Fandel's idea is quite correct in the normal sense of the word. But the enemy encountered with the Breakers is often miscalculated, and this is no different.

Less than four miles away, the five Tang-class battleships in front began to face the enemy on the sideboards, and their gun windows were all opened, revealing their black holes.

Just when Vander was extremely puzzled about the use of the artillery bombardment from such a distance from the Akito's battleship, the opponent's artillery began to bombard.

Boom, boom, a large amount of smoke and fire came out of the gun windows of the Ming warship, but not all the gun windows came out of the smoke, only more than half of the gun windows were like this.

Even so, sixty cannons were fired one after another, breaking the silence in the bay and startling the surrounding seabirds.

The projectile came to the pier from far and near with a whistling sound, and when it landed, a large column of water rose near the pier, or hit a column of smoke that was not high on the pier.

With a bang, a small and half of the projectiles hit the Dutch battleship that was also moored there and was preparing for battle, and the Dutch battleship that was shot shook violently from side to side.

Just when Van Del felt that this was no more than this, there was a faint terrible howl from his own warship, which made Van Del extremely surprised, because it was moored at the dock as a battery, when the Akito began to shell, almost all the sailors hid on the lower deck to avoid the guns, how could there be so many wounded and howling.

Boom, boom, the Mingren's salvo was very fast, less than a hundred breaths, and the second round of shelling began again.

This time, Van Del paid attention to the side of one of the most cornered battleships, because of the angle, most of the warships facing the side of the Akito were exactly the back of the city of Geranza, so the impact point could not be seen.

Only this ship, because there was not enough mooring, had the front half of the hull moored to the south, and Fandel could see its side from the walls.

Unfortunately, the Dutch warship was still violently swaying by the blows, and the force of the blow was extremely heavy, and the wounded sailors were howling loudly, and it was obvious that the Ming people's projectiles had broken through the side of the ship and burst into the cabin, but the warship that Vander could see was still not hit.

This made Van Del anxious about what went wrong.

At this time, the five Tang-class battleships in the second row replaced the five Tang-class battleships that had just left the shelling position, and then began to continue the bombardment.

This shelling did not disappoint Fandel, two projectiles finally hit the side of the battleship, and Fandel saw that the side of the battleship immediately shattered into two large holes, and the projectiles disappeared into the big holes, and then a scream was heard from inside.

Vander immediately crashed and fired nearly four miles away, and the projectile could still break into the ship's plank, then it was likely to be a thirty-six-pounder cannon or a forty-eight-pounder cannon, and the Ming man's cannon was so powerful.

Vander saw it, Vanderbilt certainly saw it, and he took a long breath,

"Mr. Fandel, let the sailors go ashore and take up the fort, or you will be beaten on board."

"It's too late, you have to wait for the Mingren artillery to stop and cool down, otherwise it's better to be on the deck or on the dock." Vander replied depressedly.

As far as he knew, there were indeed thirty-six cannons here in the Far East, but there was absolutely no forty-eight-pounder cannon, which was a militaristic weapon, and neither the Dutch, English, Portuguese, or Spaniards in the Far East did not.

"We can't fight back with artillery." Vanderbilt was very unwilling.

"This is impossible, our largest twenty-four-pounder guns are on the Reims and Jonk, they are still in the open sea, the cannons on other ships are not so far, there are a few twenty-four-pounder guns in the castle, but here is nearly five miles away from the Ming warship, and the range is not enough."

Fandel shook his head bitterly.

Vanderbilt was a bit of an idiot at this time, and he knew that he could only be beaten at this time.

Next, a series of six rounds of bombardment, the 24-pounder guns and 36-pounder guns on the Tang-class battleships of the naval division were destroyed, and the hulls of the ten Dutch battleships were all shattered, and one of them was hit by three cannons near the waterline, and three large holes appeared.

The reason for the long-distance artillery bombardment was that Qi Wei thought about it again and again, feeling that if these ten Dutch warships were left alone, at night, if the Dutch commander really risked his life and rushed out of the dock, it was really possible to use the night to reach the close range of the Breaker Army and the Sailors to fight each other, and if he was lucky, he would still have a chance to engage in a broadside battle.

After all, this bay is still too small, and the enemy's warships still have this possibility, because the bay is too small, there are not many opportunities for so many shippers to dodge.

In order to prevent large casualties, Qi Wei decided to simply destroy the enemy's warship on the spot once and for all, although it would cost a lot of medicine packs and projectiles, it was worth it.

When the naval warship of the Broken Army made a U-turn, the captains of the Dutch battleship immediately ordered the sailors to evacuate.

The sailors of the five warships near the pier moved quickly, they rushed out of the lower deck, passed through the deck, came to the side side, and went down from the top, with great swiftness, and soon most of the sailors had already evacuated.

But the sailors of the warship, far from the shore, were saddened.

They could only board the dinghy from the boat and row to the shore, but there were very few dinghys, and in those days, the dinghy was mainly used for liaison landing, not too many, and most of the ocean-going ships in later generations were lifeboats, which had to be able to accommodate passengers and sailors.

There is no ship that cannot be withdrawn, is there anything more painful than the ship can only hold its head and wait for the shelling, no, then what to do in order not to return to the terrifying ship, it is easy to do, jump into the water and swim ashore.

Immediately, but listening to the sound of plopping and plopping, hundreds of sailors jumped into the sea, and the offshore sea was as lively as dumplings.

The sailors who jumped into the sea swam to the east shore, almost the same as the triathlon of later generations.

They thought very well, and they were about half a mile from the shore, and they would soon be able to swim there, and then they would run away from the city of Reranza, and they would have escaped and ascended to heaven.

It's a pity that people's minds are sometimes deceitful, and ships that are not too fast in people's eyes are much faster than people swimming, and the Tang-class battleships that turned around behind began a new round of bombardment.

At such a distance, only more than 20% of the projectiles could hit the warship, and the rest flew to the shore or to the sea.

The problem is that now the shore and the sea are full of sailors on the run, so the cups are gone.

As soon as the projectile fell into the sea, it could hit the Dutch sailors, and immediately the mournful shouts continued, and the sea near the sea was dyed blood-red, like the sea of red.

And some of the projectiles hit the shore, and many of the sailors who were running were also hit by the projectiles, and they also howled miserably, and their bodies lay on their backs.

Fandel looked at the tragedy in front of him and scolded the fools, his idea was to wait for the Akito to be bombarded a few rounds, and the sailors took advantage of the Akito's artillery to dissipate the heat and start to evacuate, and these fools were dizzy, so they began to evacuate at this time, and they really wanted to die.

The shelling continued, the red of the sea was getting darker and deeper, and more and more dead and wounded were falling on the shore, and the Ming people brought blood and fire to the Dutch people on this day.

It is the same as the Dutch people have brought to many Ming people over the years. (To be continued.) )

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