Saunders, Van Penny, and Weddell are now on Zheng Zhilong's flagship, and together they look through telescopes at the former city of Geranza and the bay of Geranza. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Today, the brick-red castle is flying above the Ming flag, with a large Li character written on it, indicating that the owner has changed here.

There was no trace of the wrecked warship in the Gulf of Geranza, only the burning wreckage of a small sail warship, and now this small ship of less than 100 tons was still stubbornly floating on the sea.

"It seems that the Akito's fleet has escaped first, and I have to say that the speed of the Akito warships is faster than ours, which is really an embarrassing thing for us Europeans."

Weddell sighed, he felt that this trip was really a bit of a heavy punch, a large number of coalition warships were trying to destroy some Ming warships and weaken the strength of Ming people, but it was a pity to see the cold bay.

"Don't worry, we have surrounded thousands of Ming soldiers, their commander will not give up, look at it, they will definitely come to the rescue."

Zheng Zhilong was very contemptuous of these Xiyi people, in his opinion, they were all short-sighted, just staring at the immediate interests and acting.

Of course, this did not delay him from attacking this Ming people with the Xiyi people this time, after all, this Ming people brought him a great threat and threatened his position as the maritime overlord of Fujian and Guangdong.

The overlord of the sea was won by Zheng Zhilong after more than ten years of struggle and more than 100 bloody battles, for which his most powerful assistant and brother Zheng Zhihu also lost his life, no matter who threatened his position at sea, he had to fight to the death.

"Then we will wait here to fight to the death with the Ming people, this time in the words of your Ming people, they can be regarded as labor expeditions, and we are waiting for work."

Sanders smiled slightly, he was very optimistic about the situation, and with so many battlefield soldiers, he was now full of confidence.

"Until then, we will take the city of Geranza and avenge our Dutch with the heads of these men." Van Penny's green eyes shot a hateful look.

"The capture of the city of Geranja still depends on Mr. Van Penny, after all, Mr. Van Penny knows much more about the situation here than we do."

Zheng Zhilong smiled and said, he had heard of the fortification of the city of Reranza, and he could count on the help of the Dutch people who were very familiar with it to capture the city.

"We can capture the local natives and Ming people to help siege the city, of course, we can use naval artillery bombardment before, destroy the Ming soldiers and the city wall, and minimize the losses of our army."

At this time, Van Penny Zhengrong expressed his idea of capturing the city of Geranza, that is, to use the natives and Ming people near Anping as an attack force to minimize their casualties.

Zheng Zhilong looked at the red-haired little man deeply, "I'm afraid it's inappropriate for the Ming people, after all, the generals and the Anping Ming people are both fellow villagers in Fujian, and it is really hurtful to drive them to attack the city like this." ”

The vast majority of the tens of thousands of pioneers in Anping came from the coastal areas of Fujian, and they have a deep relationship with Zheng Zhilong, and many of them were transported here by Zheng Zhilong in the last Fujian famine.

There are even his subordinates who quit their maritime career and returned to Sangzi, if they drive the Ming people to attack the city, it will be a blow to his prestige, and of course he is extremely reluctant to do so.

"You can collect the heavy artillery and fill in the trenches first, maybe they haven't had time to attack the city, the natives have already captured the city of Geranza, who knows."

Van Penny shrugged.

Zheng Zhilong thought about it, maybe that's the case, let's discuss this issue then.

Zheng Zhilong, the Spaniards, and the infantry of the English began to land on the outlying islands, and they also landed in the west, far away from Anping City on the northeast side, and they were clear about the power of the Ming heavy artillery.

In order to capture Anping Fort, Zheng Zhilong carried a hundred warships to the infantry team, accounting for more than half of his infantry team, totaling more than 4,000 people.

The Spaniards also drew 2,000 men from the 3,000-strong garrison in Manila to help.

The infantry of the Portuguese, who had arrived from Ceylon and other places, numbered five hundred, had been fooled by Weddell's depiction of the capture of trade with the Ming Dynasty, and were now engaged in siege warfare.

The English, who had only five hundred men, were not enough to see in comparison, and they were drawn from the sailors on board.

In one day, more than 7,000 infantry troops came ashore one after another, and the noisy west side of the outlying island was in stark contrast to the quiet east side.

More than 7,000 people set up a large camp, and in order to prevent the Ming people from sneaking attack, their large camp was built within the range of the artillery cover of the Galen battleship on the west side.

This also made Li Lu's heart itch, he really had the idea of attacking to defeat the other party, but when he saw that the enemy's camp was under the cover of the Galen battleship on the west bank, he immediately dispelled the idea, Li Lu knew that the artillery fire would damage the dense formation.

Over the next few days, dozens of cannons were lifted from the battleship Galen, all of which were twenty-four and thirty-six pounderers, which had been specially carried by the cannons of Manila and Jakarta in order to capture the fortified fortress of Geranza.

The cannons were unloaded, but it was a problem to transport them to the front, and there were no good roads on the west side of the island, so how could these behemoths with 10,000 pounds of weight be transported.

Fortunately, the Dutch people who returned at this time solved the problem, and they continued to ship more than 10,000 natives and Ming people.

This was all collected by the Ming people who colonized near Anping and the natives of the nearby tribes, and the Dutch people were captured and coerced by violent means.

The Tu and Ming were helpless, they knew the virtues of the Dutch people so well that disobedience would immediately result in a bloody massacre, contrary to their religious beliefs spread by their missionaries.

In order not to be slaughtered or exterminated, these people had to obey.

Immediately after the arrival of the Turen and the Ming, they were escorted by the Dutch and began to level the land on the western side, filling in the trenches and removing all the things that affected the march from the grass and shrubs.

During this period, the Dutch soldiers beat and scolded the Han and natives, and if they fell ill or were injured, they were abandoned.

Some of the Han people were Zheng Zhilong's old subordinates who begged the Zheng family, and the Zheng family said that the treatment of the Han people was slightly better, and the result was that the situation of the natives was even more miserable, but who cared about them.

After several days of leveling, the Han Chinese were driven by the Dutch and began to push the artillery eastward.

How to drive in, there are no big livestock, just put logs under the cannons, and then the people in front pull the people behind to push.

This method is okay if it is on a smooth road, but it is very difficult to advance on wasteland, and a small pit, a small hill, and a tree stump will block the advance of the artillery.

The Dutch people did not care about this, they just used the whips and knives and guns in their hands to talk, and drove the Han people to speed up, and more than 100 people died at their hands in just two days.

Under this bloody and brutal method, dozens of cannons approached more than three miles away.

Then, then it encountered a head-on attack from the heavy artillery of the Broken Army on Anping City.

After capturing Anping, the Breakers carried forty thirty-six-pounder cannons to strengthen the defense of Anping Fort.

These guns are enough to hit the territory of four or five miles, of course, there is no need to talk about the accuracy, but the range is there.

Nowadays, there is no need to talk about accuracy, dozens of targets more than three miles away, as long as they bombard the past, it is impossible to concentrate them all, and the smoothbore gun is an artillery that makes up for the accuracy with about the number of things, but it can always hit some objects.

The artillery of the Breakers began to roar, and the ten guns on the west side began to bombard unhurriedly.

But it caused a huge obstacle to the advance of these dozens of guns, and a huge thirty-six-pound projectile flew from Anping Fort condescendingly, bouncing and wreaking in the field of more than three miles to the west.

Several times into the crowd that was pushing the cannon forward, flesh and stumps splashed everywhere, so that the Han and Turen teams immediately collapsed, at this time there was no one to take care of them, the Dutch overseers were also frightened by the power of the cannons of the Broken Army, and they also retreated, without their overseers, of course, the Han and Turen teams were about to collapse in some trouble, not to mention the rampant of the bloody and terrifying giant cannon projectiles.

The projectiles not only destroyed a lot of men, but also destroyed four 36-pounder cannons, which was very distressing to the Spaniards and the Dutch, who had only a lot of such cannons in their garrisons in the Far East.

Zheng Zhilong, Saunders, Van Penny, Weddell and others discussed, yes, let's fight here, otherwise they can't move forward.

They really didn't expect that the little Anping actually had a thirty-six-pounder cannon, which is a militaristic weapon in Europe, and there are as many as ten of them here.

But now that I have encountered it, I can only say that I am unlucky, so let's try it first, and it is almost impossible to move forward.

The Spanish and Dutch gunners took advantage of the darkness to enter the location of the cannons, and then put the nearly forty cannons that were still intact in place, and transported the cartridges and pellets.

At dawn the next day, the cannons were ready to bombard.

On this day, a rumbling battle began on the island.

The coalition forces that occupy the numerical superiority in artillery are also full of momentum, often dozens of projectiles hit the city wall of Anping City, and immediately fly sand and rocks, waving large puffs of dust and smoke, which looks full of momentum.

Unfortunately, it can only be said that the Dutch are good civil engineers, and the city of Anping, which they built according to their own fortress, is really strong, although it has caused some damage to the masonry outside, but the city is basically unharmed.

Not to mention that this era is the later generations, many cannons are helpless against some solid ancient cities piled up with mountains and rocks, just think about the hardships of the attack and defense of the ancient city of Longling in the battle of western Yunnan in later generations.

They did not attack well, and from time to time they let the heavy artillery of the Broken Army hit a coalition heavy artillery, and at the end of the day, Anping City, which was a little unsightly, was still standing there.

However, the heavy artillery of the coalition army was damaged by seven.

This made the coalition troops vomit blood in distress, and they saw that this method was absolutely impossible, and at this pace, wouldn't all these heavy artillery be destroyed here.

There was no way to retreat, so in the middle of the night, the coalition forces drove the Han people and the natives to push the artillery back.

The artillery bombardment of the prelude to the siege ended with the loss of more than a dozen 36-pounder guns and hundreds of men by the coalition forces. (To be continued.) )