Putmans was furious when he discovered the unauthorized actions of the residential area, but what could he do about it?

"Go and grab the damn guy who ordered the unauthorized dispatch and shoot him! Go, hurry up! ”

He yelled at his men. The defeat in the First World War was an immeasurable blow to morale, and the Three Guards deliberately put on this posture, obviously with the intention of digging a pit and waiting for the other party to jump in. Sure enough, after the first volley of artillery fire, the infantry of the Three Guards rushed forward with shouts, and overtook the artillery to chase the remnants of the Dutch infantry into defeat.

The remnants of the defeated army were also unhurried, thinking that as long as they escaped the range of the artillery of the Three Guards, everything would be fine, but who would have expected that the other side would send troops so suddenly. In a rush of action, the remnants of the Dutch could no longer care about anything else, and swarmed into the walled city.

But when the foot soldiers of the Three Guards suddenly stopped at a distance of twenty paces from the foot soldiers who were swarming outside the walled city, their muskets were raised, and after a rapid drum beat, the first musket salvo was fired with the light of fire and smoke.

Countless musket projectiles rained down on the remnants of the Dutch army that had sent out their troops without permission. With each salvo, the opponent falls like a leek and falls a stubble. The fire of the Three Guards continued, and the Dutch fell one by one.

In the distance, on the high walls of Geranza, the governor of Putmans clutched the telescope tightly in his right hand, eager to smash the bronze telescope. Although most of the rabble who sent troops without permission were fugitives and exiles, they were an indispensable force after all, so how could people be willing to die like this?

Putmans tried again and again to make up his mind, but in the end he failed to give the order, and reason succeeded in gaining the upper hand, no matter how angry he was, knowing full well that the Three Guards had hundreds of field guns in the field, and a single salvo would be devastating to the morale of the soldiers under his command.

"Order, no one is allowed to send a single soldier without authorization! Did someone get me back? ”

Putmans' anger was still unquellable, and his shouts were hysterical. One of his subordinates replied tremblingly: "Your Excellency, the people have been killed!" ”

This reply made Putmans stunned for a moment, and then suddenly felt a little bitter in his chest. He never imagined that the combat effectiveness of the infantry of the Three Guards Army would be so strong, far beyond his imagination.

In fact, this infantry battle was planned by Heisenberg, the battalion officer of the 1st Artillery Battalion, who was the biggest fan of artillery, and the tactics used were to use the overwhelmingly superior dense artillery to deal a devastating blow to the enemy's morale and formation before engagement, and then send a well-trained musket phalanx to ruthlessly slaughter.

Clearly, Heisenberg's strategy was extremely successful. Compared with the vast majority of infantry battalion commanders of the Three Guards, Heisenberg was the first to use this artillery-centric tactic, and the importance of artillery in other commanders can be said to be dispensable. In previous military operations, Heisenberg was an auxiliary existence. This time, because Li Xin's command really lacked command talents, Heisenberg was specially transferred from Nanjing, and he was asked to take the old battalion of the First Artillery Battalion to fight with the two new artillery battalions that had recently been trained into the army.

Due to the relatively hurried time of the artillery for this landing, only half of them were scattered, and if there was enough time, a salvo of only a few hundred guns would be enough to shake the mountain.

Soon, the entire battlefield was enveloped in thick white smoke, and Putmans was no longer able to observe the development of the battlefield situation from the walls of Geranza. However, he had already expected that the residential area north of the city of Geranza would not be able to be preserved in any case.

"Go, send someone to withdraw all the troops to the city!"

Putmans's voice was a little hurried, and the men around him didn't react for a moment, which made him a little hysterical again.

"Are you all deaf? Hurry up and bring our soldiers back! If it's too late, even Geranza will be captured by the Ming army! ”

Although the Three Guards easily defeated the rabble under his command in the field, he still had enough confidence that with the strong walls of the city of Geranza and hundreds of cannons, even if the Three Guards were brave and good at fighting, it was wishful thinking to take this fortified city without paying a heavy price.

Suddenly, someone ran over with a crawl, and kept shouting in a panic: "Your Excellency the Governor, quickly send reinforcements, the east of the city can't hold on!" ”

"Can't hold on?"

This made Putmans's brows jump suddenly, the city defense of Geranza was still relatively sound, and the four directions of the city were specially extended outwards to build long walls to block the enemy's invasion, so it was impossible for the Three Guards to move into the east of the city in such a short time.

At first, Putmans only wishfully believed that the attack on the east of the city of Geranza was nothing more than a harassment of the division, and that two or three hundred men was already the limit, and that the more than one thousand men mentioned by the herald before were just a lie about the military situation in order to shirk responsibility. He has seen more of this situation since he came to the East.

Therefore, Putmans had only sent 200 men to reinforce him before, and he thought that with these 200 men in the east of the city, it would be enough to hold the east of the city. But looking at the performance of this herald, Putmans was also a little weak in his heart.

"You say, how many people are there in the Ming army?"

"Your Excellency the Governor, there are thousands of Ming troops, and they don't want to die in a battle, stepping on the dead to climb the city, Commander Matt has been killed!"

Matt was a brave regimental commander under Putmans, who had always commanded the phalanx, but was later demoted for violating military law and sent to the eastern part of the city to receive the city wall.

Therefore, after Putmans first heard that the east of the city was being raided by the Ming army, he did not pay much attention to it, and another reason was also because of the presence of this commander Matt. He believed that under Matt's command, he would soon be able to repel the outrageous Ming attackers.

However, Putmans could never have imagined that this brave old commander would die in the east of the city of Geranza.

"Who is in command of the battle in the east of the city now?"

At this moment, Putmans was also a little panicked.

"Your Excellency the Governor, the east of the city has become a mess, and now, now we are fighting ourselves, if we don't send reinforcements, we will not be able to defend the east of the city."

At this moment, He Bin stood on the east wall of the city of Geranza, the Yanling knife in his hand was almost curled, and seeing the Dutch defeated like a mountain, he roared hoarsely: "Brothers, work harder, go into the city, and capture Putmans!" ”

The Three Guards led by He Bin attacked the city by trampling on the corpses of their companions, paying the price of hundreds of deaths, and killed one of the opposing commanders in a battle. After the commander was killed on the spot, the Dutch soldiers in the eastern part of the city of Geranza were left in a separate position.

Therefore, He Bin must hurry up and rush into the city before Putmans reacts, and capture Putmans, in order to end this battle as soon as possible.

The four field artillery artillery of He Bin's department have been in contact with the fleet with different frequencies of artillery firing, and the news transmitted back from the fleet side shows that the Heisenberg military gate has landed north of Geranza with the infantry battalion and artillery battalion, so their other goal is to take the opportunity to seize the next city gate in the direction near the north city of Geranza, as long as they hold on until the brigade and the army are victoriously reunited, the battle situation Jiangbei is completely locked.

In fact, He Bin's two battle plans are very risky, the former rushes into the city to capture and kill Putmans, and it is easy to fall into the heavy encirclement of the Dutch soldiers, and if he is unable to catch it, he will fall into a heavy encirclement and find it difficult to extricate himself. For the latter, holding the city gate will easily lose the fighters that have been obtained, and once the main force of the Three Guards in the north of the city does not react in time, the Dutch soldiers will cover up and kill, which will also make all previous efforts in vain.

However, as a commander in battle, he must make an immediate choice, whether to enter the city to wait for the opportunity to be beheaded, or to seize the city gate and wait for reinforcements in order to break the city? He Bin immediately chose the latter, after all, this was a plan that had been drafted before the division of troops, and now since the advance plan of the Heisenberg military gate was very smooth, it was the first choice to cooperate with it and wait for reinforcements.

There is a big difference between the city of Geranza and the city of the Ming Dynasty, the city built by the Dutch is a city on the surface, but it should be said that it is a castle strictly distinguished, there are no ordinary civilians in the castle, in addition to the officers and soldiers, it is the family members of the senior officers, so although the east city has fallen into a de facto city ruin, but because most of the soldiers in the castle are concentrated in the west city wall, the north city wall, and the residential areas outside the north city wall, there are very few soldiers used to let go of the east city wall.

It was Putmans' almost conceited self-confidence that made the distribution of the entire city defense of Geranza very uneven, so that after He Bin led his troops to break the city, he could not organize an effective counterattack in a short period of time, and could only passively wait for Putmans to send reinforcements.

However, due to the rustiness of training, and the communication between the various cities, there was a serious lag in the communication between them, so that the eastern wall was captured for more than two quarters of an hour, and Putmans, as the supreme commander of Geranza, did not even know about it.

Of course, He Bin would not let go of such a great opportunity, after simply clearing out the remnants of the enemy in front of him, he led his elite infantry along the city wall and on the city wall two ways of troops, his target was a city gate in the northeast corner of Geranza, the location is remote, and there are not many defenders, as long as the Dutch can take this gate before they react, the end of Putmans will come.

Under the leadership of He Bin, the bloodied inadequacies marched quickly and soon arrived at their destination, but the scene in front of him shocked him.