The artillery barricade was shaken by the enemy's shells and was covered with dust, and people couldn't help coughing and scolding, but after the experience of being shelled for the first time, this time the gunners of the sea wolves were not very nervous, scolding and scolding, but the movements of their hands did not slow down.

They still only used a small number of guns, but the reloading speed was quite fast, and they completed the reloading and artillery reset with flying speed, and once again aimed the cannons at the enemy ships on the sea.

As the command to fire the cannon sounded, the cannons of the forts roared again.

I saw a few flames flickering again from the forts on the shore, and the hot cannonballs flew towards the Dutch ships as if they had eyes.

This time, the artillery was once again trimmed to make it more accurate, and none of the seven shells fired missed, all of them smashed on the Dutch ships, and the Dutch ships were also debris in the air.

This time Waite knows the power of the sea wolf, no wonder there are rumors everywhere recently, saying that this group of sea wolves is very powerful, just by the appearance of the sea wolf troops in several artillery forts on this shore today, they dare not underestimate this group of sea wolves, such an accurate shelling, or the first time they have encountered this side of Asia, has participated in many conflicts with Chinese pirates and even participated in the battle of Penghu, today they have to admit that they have encountered a strong opponent.

In the following hour or so, the two sides engaged in a long artillery battle, and the sea wolf troops on the shore always held the battery, and according to the order, only used part of the artillery to counterattack, but still caused considerable damage to the Dutch fleet on the sea.

But because they could not fire at full strength, although they damaged the enemy ships, but in the case of the use of solid shells, they were never able to sink the enemy ships, but these Dutch fleets, with overwhelming fire superiority, continued to fire salvos at several artillery forts on the shore, although the solid ammunition was not powerful enough, but could not withstand such a large number of artillery bombardments, and several artillery forts were damaged after the artillery battle lasted for an hour.

One of the forts was finally half destroyed by the Dutch's shells, and the collapsed fort buried dozens of gunners, but fortunately, because the shells in the Seawolf's fort were properly stored, they were not detonated by the Dutch's shells, otherwise the Seawolf troops in this fort are estimated to be completely destroyed.

It was only at this time that the forts received a new order, and an order came from Tamsui City behind, ordering all the forts at the mouth of the river to cease fire and not to counterattack again.

It was only at this time that Waite outside the estuary breathed a long sigh of relief, today they fought the sea wolf for the first time, although the number of sea wolves' artillery was limited, but it still caused them a lot of damage, several ships involved in the artillery battle, all of them were hit by a different number of shells, and the loss of sailors on board reached dozens of people.

Fortunately, their firepower was always superior, and after two hours of fierce fighting, they finally knocked out the artillery of the sea wolves on the shore and finally achieved this first victory.

So Waite ordered the ships to lower their sampans, and to send out sailors to land and inspect the condition of the seawolf forts.

From his telescope, the artillery forts set up by these sea wolves on the shore were all battered after a burst of high-intensity shelling, and the artillery completely stopped firing, and it was basically certain that these artillery forts had lost the ability to continue fighting, and the artillery forts should have been almost destroyed by them. ‘

But Waite was still not at ease, and wanted to send someone ashore to check the actual effect, so several large ships lowered their sampans, and selected a group of sailors to row the sampan towards the shore.

Through the observation window and gun door of the fort, the sea wolf sailors in the fort immediately discovered the movement of the red-haired man, so they couldn't help but want to scold one by one.

Today, if it weren't for the limited counterattack ordered from above and asked them to stop firing, although they didn't dare to say that they would definitely be able to destroy the red-haired warships outside, but at least one or two of them would not be a big problem, but the military order is like a mountain, although they don't quite understand what they want to do, but they can only act according to the order.

At this moment, it seemed that their fort had been beaten badly under the continuous bombardment of the red-haired people, and the entire fort seemed to have been turned over, and the entire outer stone was almost destroyed, and it looked lifeless, and it seemed that their fort had been destroyed from a distance.

However, in essence, the damage to their fort was not as strict as it seemed from the outside, because the main body of the fort was made of triple soil rammed, which had a strong ability to absorb the impact force, so the internal structure was not destroyed, and it was still very strong, and the casualties were very small on the whole, and even the cannon was not destroyed a few pieces, only one of the batteries was damaged more severely, and some of the casualties inside.

However, after the rescue of the personnel in the fort, many buried people were still picked up, and in fact, they did not completely lose the ability to fight a war.

Although the navy is not equipped with wolf's tooth rifles for the time being, they still use the short-barreled South Japanese flintlock pistols that were mass-produced in the past, but this flintlock pistol has technically surpassed the equipment level of Western countries of the same era.

Therefore, when the Dutch tried to drive the small boat ashore to inspect the destruction of the battery, all the batteries were ready to deal with it, and some of the marines of the battery immediately picked up their flintlock guns, rushed out of the battery, entered the bunker outside the battery, and began to reload and prepare.

The Dutch did not know the condition of the battery, but from their point of view, the battery of the sea wolves had been badly beaten and should have been basically destroyed, so the sailors who had been sent ashore were not very afraid, and paddled hard, sailed to the shore, and dragged the boat to the shore, and began to land towards the battery.

But as soon as they came ashore, they realized that something was wrong, and they heard a shout from the other side of the battery, followed by a series of thumping muskets.

The Dutchmen who had just come ashore fell to the shore even though they were beaten and spurted blood, and the remaining Dutchmen knew that there were still enemies on the shore, and the enemies were not all killed, so they hurriedly turned around and pushed the boat into the water, and then rowed away from the shore with their lives, and when they fled, several more were killed.

Waite kept an eye on the shore from the ship, and when he saw that the men sent to the landing to inspect the battery were repulsed by the sea wolves, he immediately ordered another shelling.

The Dutchmen, who had just repelled the attempted landing, had not had time to cheer with joy when they saw the enemy ships on the sea spewing out flames again, so everyone's faces changed, and they fled back to the fort under the shouts of the officers.

In the blink of an eye, a large number of shells fell on the shore between the sea wolf batteries, and the gray stones flew everywhere above and below the batteries, and some of the sea wolf troops who were slow to react were torn to pieces by the shells.

After another heavy bombardment, Waite saw that the batteries on the shore had not counterattacked again, but were only blindly beaten passively, so he was satisfied and ordered to stop the shelling.

However, he did not send anyone to the shore again to inspect the forts that seemed to have been destroyed, because he also knew that it was impossible to kill all the sea wolves on the shore with cannons, and he admired these sea wolves very much, although they were under heavy shelling, but they did not collapse, even if their cannons and batteries had been "destroyed", but their personnel did not flee from the shore, but continued to defend these broken batteries.

Such an expression had exceeded Waite's expectations, so he still appreciated the courage of the Sea Wolf troops, and since this was the case, he would no longer send people to inspect these "destroyed" batteries, so as not to cause greater losses.

After all, his main purpose this time was to demonstrate, and he was not prepared to capture Tamsui City, and he did not bring many soldiers with him.

And now all they have to do is to destroy the seawolf's fort holding the mouth of the Tamsui River first, and then sail into the Tamsui River to approach Tamsui City, and bombard Tamsui City, so as to force the seawolf to give in to them, and finally lift the blockade of the big man.

Now that the batteries have been "destroyed", Waite is not willing to waste too much manpower and material resources here, and in order to avoid unnecessary losses, he decided to give up continuing to land and inspect.

In the eyes of him and his men, the batteries on the shore had already been beaten by them, and even if they were not completely destroyed, they had at least lost their combat effectiveness, otherwise, they had not fired another cannon to return fire for such a long time, so they all thought that they had destroyed these batteries.

Although Waite was a little worried that the main fleet of the sea wolves would suddenly return, in order to teach these damn sea wolves a lesson, he decided to risk sending a ship into the Tamsui River and approaching Tamsui City to bombard Tamsui City.

However, in order to prevent the sudden return of the main fleet of the sea wolves, and their ships were blocked in the Tamsui River, Waite still ordered four boats to stay outside the mouth of the Tamsui River, and only sent three gunboats into the Tamsui River to bombard the Tamsui City.

At this time, the time had already entered the afternoon, and Wetter was still hesitant to wait for tomorrow morning before starting the operation, but the captains of the ships under his command thought that there was no such necessity at all, and they had full confidence in their gunboat firepower, even if the sea wolf's fleet returned at this time, they thought that leaving four ships would be enough to block the sea wolf's fleet.

The captains believed that the sooner they could end their operations here, the better it would be for them to attack Freshwater City, and if it dragged on for a long time, it might cause the Seawolves' main fleet to rush back with the news, and in that case, it would be even more dangerous.

Moreover, at this time, they had already obtained a copy of the hydrological situation of the Tamsui River, and they had arranged for personnel to dive into the Tamsui River, and secretly probed the hydrological situation inside the Tamsui estuary on the grounds of trading here, and obtained first-hand hydrological information.

Therefore, even if they break into the Tamsui River directly, it will not be much of a problem, and they can send rowing boats to lead the way, and continue to probe the hydrological situation in the estuary as they go, the sooner they launch an artillery attack on Tamsui City, the better it will be for them.

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