Chapter 50: Luring the Serpent Out of the Hole

The black-clad army who drew his bow and crossbow made this ensuing battle extremely weird. They had a variety of ways to kill the sentinels, but they chose the one they knew had the least effect.

Under the cover of the rocks, three crossbows were aimed at the Dutch sentries.

"Buzz, buzz." As the bowstring trembled, two crossbow arrows the thickness of little thumbs flew out smoothly. Even though they knew that the effect was not great, these black-clothed sergeants still used the lookout mountain to aim at the Dutch, where the protection was less and the plate armor was not covered.

They didn't wait for the bolts to hit the target, but fired four more shots in succession, and twelve bolts were fired in a swarm.

The Dutch sentry, who was suddenly attacked, only panicked for a moment, and then raised an iron shield to protect it in front of him, firmly protecting himself on three sides.

Feather arrows and crossbow arrows landed on the shield, clanging and falling directly to the ground.

"Woo ............" The Dutchman, hiding behind his shield, sounded his cornet, and the muffled sound of a warning horn signaled that the enemy was attacking the camp.

The bolts didn't work, and the squad didn't come as much of a surprise. The team leader waved his hand and signaled his teammates to pause the attack. Give the Dutchmen plenty of time to get the alarm signal out.

Then, with their shields in hand, the three Dutchmen actually advanced towards them. The muskets and spears that emerged from the shield showed the soldiers' strong desire to fight.

But this time, the team of the men in black didn't give them any chance. They waited patiently for the shield array to move less than twenty paces away from them. Then, glancing at the structure of the shield array, he threw three or four grenades from the top of the shield.

Although the Dutch were already familiar with gunpowder and artillery, these overseas soldiers had not yet seen the power of these grenades. So, the grenade had enough time to explode in the shield array.

After three or four muffled explosions, the shield split apart. The grenade of black powder and the fragments inside are completely inadequate for plate armor and iron shields. However, in this metal-sealed space, the shockwaves, roars, and debris set off a fierce storm.

Under the attack of sound and shock waves, these tall Dutchmen were like Martin fish in a can, and their flesh and metal collided violently, and one by one they became dizzy, unable to hear any sound, and stood in place stupidly.

At this time, the broadsword in the hands of the commandos became the best weapon, and they rushed straight forward.

If you meet this kind of red-haired man with blond hair and green eyes who looks like a demon in his impression, the soldiers of the black-clothed army may still be a little timid. But when these demons stood there stupidly, they were not fierce, but a little sluggish.

The team was the first to rush forward, and the sharp waist knife directly cracked open the armor and stomach near their shoulders, but it did not hurt the flesh and skin of these people.

But it doesn't matter, there are still a lot of people following the captain. The pain brought the sluggish Dutchman to his senses, but under their fearful gaze, another large knife slashed down.

The strength was not enough, the accuracy was not good, and the armor was only cut through a half-foot-long gap. Amid the frightened cries of the Dutchman, the next black-clad sergeant rushed at him again.

Soon, there was a pile of flesh and a few still-finished helmets and shields on the ground.

At this time, the Dutch troops on the beach below had also heard the alarm and screams, and the mercenary organization on the outskirts of the camp quickly formed a turtle-like shield array and rushed towards the direction of the attackers.

"Throw this helmet at them." The team said with a glance at the big man in his team.

The big man smiled, threw his helmet at the Dutchman's shield in the distance, as if throwing a javelin.

The first helmet fell far from the shield array, and so did the second. Looking at the helmets on the ground, the speed of the Dutch mercenary's shield array moved significantly faster, and in the gap between the shield arrays, bursts of green smoke rose from the ground, and the bushes not far away from the gunpowder gun crackled. It didn't hurt anyone, but it scared everyone.

Amid everyone's laughter, the last helmet was finally thrown on top of the shield. This directly aroused the anger of these mercenaries.

Just as the mad dog Moya began to observe the battlefield here with binoculars, the battalion of more than a hundred broadswords began to shoot intensively, and the feathered arrows mixed with spears were full of momentum towards the shield array.

"This is the Ming way of warfare?" Wade asked with a mocking tone as he stood next to Moya.

"It's just trying to stop us. Although they did choose a decent terrain for the ambush. ”

"Still be careful, this is their country after all, and we need to break their confidence with a thunderbolt. Otherwise, we can't go to war with thousands of people at the same time. Let everyone prepare, we will take advantage of this wave of charge, rush to the front, and then go to camp. ”

"Send a signal to the fleet, we need them to extend their shelling. I don't want to go under the knife with these people. Mad Dog Moya arranged.

"We're a thousand people, and from this one onwards, we can't reduce our numbers anymore."

In Moya's mind, they are now a lone army, and in the coming days, they don't know what else awaits them below.

"Peng." A green flare exploded over the Dutch shield. Then, three red flares, fired by the eight-pounder rapid-fire guns of the Dutch camp, were fired in the direction of the shield battle.

"This should be a signal for the Dutch to summon their own fleet. Tell Xiong Wencan to let them avoid both sides at any time and pay attention to artillery attacks. ”

Sun Chengzong, who was standing in the rear, didn't have to guess to know that the entire Dutch fleet had been successfully mobilized by his 100-strong broadsword battalion.

Not to mention him, even Zhu Youzhen began to pay attention to the movements of the Dutch fleet on the sea.

Soon, the fleet began to turn the ship's bow towards the sea closer to the land.

Zhu Youzhen and Sun Chengzong held their breath and looked around the four search ships running in front. This was the first time that a mine had been put into actual combat. Whether they can keep all these Dutchmen depends on them.

On the surface of the sea was a traditional sailboat, and the speed was so slow that Zhu Youzhen had lost his patience. The Dutch, under the command of Moya, had assembled and rushed to the rear of the shield array, forming three fronts. One of the armed merchant ships was only then put into normal operation.

Moya had already arranged his own drummer and musket team, and Father Ulysses Andrade stood in the middle of the procession, holding an incense burner-like object. Everything was ready, just waiting for the wrath of their own fleet.

"Whoa...... Wow...... "The battlefield has fallen silent, and the sound of the rising tide seems to be more obvious.

"If the mines are useless, the battle will ...... later"

The "boom" is hardly the sound of an explosion, but more like the impact ......of a boulder thrown into the sea.

I saw that the leading armed merchant ship Yin Li seemed to have hit a reef in the sea. The bow of the ship followed the column of water that soared into the sky, as if it was punched by a giant hiding under the water, and it was directly raised high, and then smashed heavily into the sea.

The captain of the armed merchant ship Yin Li had fainted, and the surrounding Anna had no idea what was happening. Could this be the magic of the Daming Seaside?

However, the nightmare of the Dutch fleet did not end.

The huge waves set off by the Yin Li washed the mines next to him directly to the side of the Anna, which was a martyr next door. Then two columns of water rushed up directly from the sea.

The Anna was much worse than the Yinli, and the mine opened a huge hole directly on its port side, and the sea rushed into it fiercely.

The flagship Brasso was at the rear of the entire fleet, and it simply did not know what was happening ahead. I saw that the Yin Li was raised high by the thunderous water column, and then the Anna began to spin and sink.

"Observation post, pay attention to the shore defense artillery!"

Damn it! This must be the shore defense artillery of the Ming people. But on the rough sea, I didn't hear the sound of cannonballs flying. First mate Elodie Beggie was unusually confused.

And at this distance, I didn't observe the existence of any turrets.

"Observation post, reportback." First mate Elody Beji shouted into the brass horn.

"No batteries found, no ...... seen"

Rumble!

The sinking whirlpool formed by the Anna, which had already raised its bow high, once again triggered the already failed and sunken mines, and was once again hit hard.

"Again, I didn't see or hear the flight path of the shells."

First mate Elody Beji was nervous, this must be a weapon that he didn't know about.

"He should come from the bottom of the sea, he should come from the bottom of the sea." The second officer next to him reminded him.

"You see, if a cannonball falls from the sky, it can't be so powerful! First mate, we should go back, we should go back to where we started. ”