Chapter 501: Heavy Artillery

"Jingle bell." The sound sounded, but it was Master Tang holding a hammer, from the bottom of the cannon to the muzzle, knocking it inch by inch, listening to the sound inside.

Zhu Houhuang couldn't hear the subtle differences, it seemed that Master Tang could hear the differences.

After a while, Master Tang breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Test the gun." ”

The apprentices around him couldn't help but shout.

Guy This is not the first cannon that Master Tang has cast here, because of the problem of cooperation with each other, or Master Tang is not familiar with this manpower, so he cast several cannons, all of which were beaten back by Master Tang, thinking that there was a flaw. It was beaten back without entering the stage of testing the gun.

It's not Master Tang who gave Zhu Houhuang face, or Zhu Houhuang brought good luck, so that he was successful this time.

The site for the test of the gun has long been prepared.

Zhu Houhuang's very clear request was to break the city.

If the city wall is built with the Buddha machine people, Zhu Houhuang doesn't know that there are not many people in the Ming Dynasty, so they use the Chinese method to build this section of the city wall, this section of the city wall is the middle of the soil, the outside is covered with bricks, and the soil is two zhang thick, such a degree has long exceeded most of the city walls of the Ming Dynasty, and it is much stronger than the city walls of some prefectures and counties, even if it is the city wall of the Dayuan, it is not so thick.

Three hundred paces away, the artillery was fixed.

Zhu Houhuang saw the fixing method of this artillery, and immediately felt that he wanted to develop a gun carriage. Because this artillery is simply fixed in the traditional way of the Ming Dynasty, the cannon is half buried in the soil, and it fires violently, and several pounds of iron bullets are smashed heavily on the city wall. Smash the masonry of the city wall into a depression.

Zhu Houhuang frowned.

This is not without effect, but the effect cannot meet Zhu Houhuang's expectations.

For one, the frequency of firing was too low, and each shot had to make the gun more erect. This old-fashioned way of loading made Zhu Houhuang look very uncomfortable, and Zhu Houhuang immediately asked to get the gun truck ready before testing. But this gun truck is not easy to get, without him, this bronze cannon does not look too big, but it actually weighs a ton. Ordinary wood simply cannot support such a weight.

It was Wang Laoqi who went out and built a cast iron cannon car for the copper cannon, which was considered to be done.

Try it again, and it's a whole day.

One after another, the shells smashed on the city wall, and the bricks outside the city wall could no longer support it, and they fell off one after another. Then, after three days of continuous shelling, this section of the city wall fell down. However, it still did not fall, but became a large mound.

Zhu Houhuang said secretly: "This should be enough." ”

It's not that Zhu Houhuang underestimated the Franc machine, he didn't believe that the wall of the Franc machine was thicker than the wall of the block. Moreover, as long as the range of this cannon far exceeds that of the Franco's cannon and can bombard the castle all the time, even if the castle is unmoved, can the people in the castle be unmoved? It must be known that Zhu Houhuang has been passively beaten, and Zhu Houhuang does not believe that the morale in Famosha City can be maintained.

Zhu Houhuang immediately made a decision, cast ten artillery pieces first, and quickly loaded them on the ship. Travel to Malacca. And in the future, all the ten doors will be sent to Malacca.

Zhu Houhuang immediately left Dongyong with artillery and reinforcements, handed over all the affairs of Dongyong to Wang Yangming, and went to Malacca himself to carry out this decisive battle.

In fact, the Malacca front did not need troops, under the command of Wang Zhi, the strength of four battalions of troops besieged the city of Famosa, and Wang Zhi could not attack the city, so he simply placed Zhu Houhuang's intention to build another earthen wall outside the city of Famosa. The city of Famosha became a city within a city. After Wang Zhi trapped Famosa to death, he began to put sorts out Malacca.

Malacca was originally a trading city, and the 20,000 army was a group with great spending power, so with the 20,000 army, Malacca flourished again. Wang Zhi even asked the soldiers to plant rice in Malacca, looking like they would hold on to Malacca for a long time. Such a move certainly relieved the pressure on the rear, but it made one person hate Dongyong even more, that is, King Manthorn.

In his mind, in the hands of the Malacca Franc Machine, there is still the possibility of coming back, but in the hands of Dongyong, especially Wang Zhiyi, who wants to operate in Malacca for a long time, where is the possibility of taking it back. However, relying on the prestige of Daming here, he dared to be angry but did not dare to speak.

Zhu Houhuang took a boat from Dongyong to Xingcheng, and then to Malacca, and what he saw was the current situation.

The first thing Zhu Houhuang did when he came to Malacca was to take Wang Zhi to patrol the city.

It's a city patrol indeed.

The outer wall of Famosha was a newly built city, but the defense of this city was facing inside.

Zhu Houhuang looked at Mosha City from this perspective, and he didn't feel that Famosha City was impregnable.

However, Zhu Houhuang raised his head and looked at a tall Gothic building in Famosha City, and secretly said in his heart: "Even if the city wall is broken, it is not the end of this battle, or even the beginning. "This Gothic building, the Monastery of St. John, is on a small hill in the middle of the city of Famosa, and it could even be said that the city of Famosha was built around this small hill.

Zhu Houhuang said: "Wang Zhi did a good job. ”

Wang straightened his helmet and armor, and left a short beard on his mouth, as if the whole person had become mature.

Wang Zhi and Yu Dayou are both young and proud, but the styles of the two are different, Yu Dayou is a young man and an old man, and he is brave every time, which makes people forget his age, but Wang Zhi has been dressed up in a mature style, such as beards, etc., I want to forget my age, after all, seniority exists everywhere.

Wang Zhi said: "It's all His Highness's guidance, and the last general is just obeying orders." ”

"What are you going to do if you can't come alone?" Zhu Houhuang asked.

"Siege to death." Wang Zhi said: "It's just a small city, the minister builds this wall outside, and only needs to put a battalion to surround the Franc machine, and the army can be withdrawn, and the two battalions left in Malacca are, and you can set up a county in Malacca, so that you can support the Malacca garrison on the spot, and it is also possible." ”

Dongyong's financial crisis, although Zhu Houhuang did not say, but everyone in Dongyong has heard of it, so Wang Zhi has been committed to reducing the supply behind, whether it is to establish a military market, local procurement, or open up wasteland, find a way to withdraw the army, etc., all for this.

Zhu Houhuang didn't have much demand for Wang Zhi, and there was no way to do this. If Zhu Houhuang's artillery can't make a contribution this time, I'm afraid Zhu Houhuang will also choose this method. Zhu Houhuang said: "This time, Gu brought ten newly cast artillery pieces and immediately placed them on the city, and Gu wanted to see the effect of this artillery." ”

Wang Zhi said: "The minister will arrange it." ”

Ten guns, each weighing more than a ton, is not an easy task to put a gun of this weight on the head of the city. It took a whole day and hundreds of men to hoist the cannon on the top of the city.

The next day was in the thin morning mist. There was a loud bang, and for the first time, the artillery was fired. The cannonballs slammed down on the city, and in an instant the rubble flew everywhere. Splashes are everywhere. Immediately after that, the remaining guns were fired one by one, and the guns that fired the next fire were all gathered in one place. More than a dozen iron bullets smashed the head of the city into no more potholes. Under the splash of rubble, the lethality is not weaker than that of the flowering bomb.

And Zhu Houhuang also looked up at the outside of the city of the Franc machine, the brick city wall of the Han people, which is the outside and soft on the inside, and can also absorb the kinetic energy of the artillery, but the wall of the Franc machine is made of stone, which looks very hard, but in fact, the Franc machine did not find enough stones in Malacca, and the city of Famosha was built with a mixture of bricks and stones, under the onslaught of artillery. On the contrary, it is not as good as the Chinese city wall to defend against artillery bombardment.

Zhu Houhuang watched the stones being smashed by the cannonballs, smashed away, and smashed off, and breathed a big sigh of relief in his heart. Seeing this, I know that the lethality of the artillery to this city wall is enough, but the only regret is that the accuracy of the artillery is a little poor, it can't really aim a little, and the firing frequency is relatively slow, if you want to really collapse the city wall, it will take a while to bombard.