Lord of Ming Dynasty

What he can comfort himself is that at a certain most critical moment, Governor Kui Yi can bring a heroic fleet, appearing on the sea like a savior, and use the fleet's hundreds of large and small cannons to destroy the Ming army outside the city. Fleeing in all directions, save Chixian City.

But would the Ming army give him such an opportunity?

He heard a loud gunshot, and the whole city wall trembled at the loud gunshot.

Repeating the next moment, the city wall under his feet that he thought was extremely strong collapsed like tofu.

Chapter 2 Shocking shelling

The first to fire, of course, was the huge 48-pound gun. [Read the full text.]

在面对荷兰人的赤嵌城两千200米的城墙的正面500米正西南的地方，一处堆砌的堡垒里面，4门48磅炮分布在100米的阵地上。

Every bombardment sets off a dust storm, and it is basically impossible to see things within 30 meters around. This is a big shortcoming, but it cannot conceal its huge power. The first time Qi S was in the Dutch city of Red A few gaps of more than ten centimeters were smashed into a water chestnut wall, and the wall began to swell obviously. All the defenders on the wall were either killed by the shock, or were at a loss, with blood on the corners of their mouths, screaming I don't know anymore.

The three tiger squatting guns, three two-pound guns, one four-pound gun, and one six-pound gun installed at the water chestnut corner were all missing, and they were all blown into parts and flew around. Great damage was done to the Dutch infantry and militiamen on the ramparts, as well as the auxiliary women and old men.

On the front of the enemy's two-kilometer-long city wall, the water chestnut and the middle, its side is the city gate, and the huge cast iron gate separates the city gate from the outside world. The city gate is also made of steel. The Chinese are different, and their defense must be extreme.

However, the Chinese have too many cities, and the people are too poor. The city gates that can be made of wood will never be wasted, and the few that can be cast with iron will never be wasted.

John De Boer tried his best to control his body, leaning on the second-story city wall, stood at the window and looked out, and saw the front of the castle, football-sized cannonballs, like locusts, heading towards the first-story city wall at a speed visible to the naked eye. fly over.

"Boom"

"Boom"

The city wall was crumbling. Except for the artillery that made him feel shaken just now, the enemy's artillery fired in sequence.

There are a lot of artillery, and on the front line alone, there are about 500 large-caliber artillery firing at [-] meters away.

The city wall was blown to the point of crumbling. He deployed more than 700 soldiers on the first layer of the city wall. At this moment, there were very few people who could witness it. Roughly, there were dozens of them.

The bombardment also started about 50 meters behind, all facing the first city wall.

Soon he felt another huge earthquake under his feet, this time it came stronger than the previous one.

What he didn't know was that it was newly added about five 36-pound carron guns, together with four 4-pound guns, against the water chestnut S-shot that was hit by the first S-shot just now.

Under the bombardment of a dozen heavy-duty Carron cannons of different calibers, the water chestnut collapsed, forming a gentle slope.

The city gate was also bombarded by the enemy's heavy-duty Carron cannon. The enemy's artillery did not bombard the city wall head-on, but hung S, directly hitting the platform on the top of the city wall. Shells from other artillery that followed widened the gaps again.

Now it seems that the enemy's position is shrouded in dust and gunpowder smoke. People who don't know it think it is the artillery in the castle that bombards the enemy's position with gunpowder smoke. In fact, it is caused by the enemy's heavy artillery every time. The dust raised by the mud, and the smoke of black powder from the muzzle.

"Counterattack, counterattack, order all artillery to counterattack," John de Boer drew out his command knife, pointed at the enemy's position in front of the castle, and shouted loudly.

But the orderly beside him was pale and didn't move, "Why didn't you fight back?" John de Boer kicked a soldier over hard and asked.

"My lord, where are we going to fire?" the orderly asked.

Zhang Qiang's position is simply too wide. Zheng Jun has already forced the Dutch into the city and defended it. John de Boer, in order to fear the loss of his limited troops, forbade the soldiers to go out of the city to fight the enemy. I also prayed that Governor Kuiyi would lead the fleet back to rescue him, and his strength was too small.

"Fire, no matter where you see the enemy's position, the enemy's artillery, shoot when you see the enemy, and fire all the artillery." John de Boer roared.

The orderly responded, then scattered with a clatter, and went to deliver orders everywhere.

Zhang Qiang looked at the battlefield with his binoculars, and said to the messengers around him, "Order the counterattack troops to enter the tunnel, and order the blasting troops to explode the tunnel 200 meters away when the battlefield is covered by gunpowder smoke and dust, and prepare to attack. Let the captured soldiers go up first, the arquebus soldiers follow behind, the infantry, archers, and crossbowmen line up to follow behind."

Liu Guoxuan, Zheng Tai, and Yu Xing stared at all this in astonishment. They didn't know what to say. It was too powerful. They had seen the scene of cannons firing together and firing one by one before, but they never thought of it. The cannons are so powerful, can this city wall protect the people inside in the future?

This is their question.

The enemy's artillery began to counterattack. The surviving artillery on the city wall, whether it was an 9-pounder, a [-]-pounder, or a [-]-pounder, fired together with the two-pounder.

The Dutch gunners risked being hit and turned into R sauce, and began to counterattack in the smoke and rain of bullets.

But it was clear that there were not many cannons left on the city wall on the first floor, and there were not many people who could help them carry the cannonballs, and there were not many gunners for the cannons.

When the enemy's artillery fired the second round in sequence, they only fired a dozen or so shells, but after the second round of shelling, the enemies on the first floor of the city wall were completely quiet.

But the artillery of the Jinhua Rebel Army is still firing. The 48-pound gun focuses on the city gate and the collapsed water chestnut, the 36-pound gun focuses on the artillery on the city gate and other enemy platforms, and the 32-pound gun shoots into the city wall. The second-story fort began to fire.

The 24-pound guns fired at enemy watchtowers, watchtowers, lookout towers, and even some church roofs between the second and first walls.

For a moment, the enemy's auxiliary soldiers between the second and first floors jumped like dogs, many buildings collapsed, and the fire began to spread.

The artillery fire suffered by the second-tier fort was weakened compared with that of the first-tier, but the damage was not small at all, because the second-tier fort was built on top of the building.

Buildings were damaged by cannonballs, and the walls fell faster.

John de Boer closed his eyes, his thirty guns gone.

If you count those sub-twelve-pound guns, the eighty guns he deployed on the front line are gone.

There is gunpowder smoke and war everywhere. The city wall on the first floor has collapsed in many places, especially those water chestnuts. Three of the four water chestnuts have collapsed, forming an irregular gentle slope. If the enemy rushes up, he can be sure that the red water chestnut Everyone in the embedded city will not be spared.

He had heard about the Portuguese and Dutch soldiers who fled back, the hired sailors of the Dutch, and the gunners narrated how the Jinhua rebels treated them foreigners. Ming people called them Taixi people, dragged them to the riverside, on the beach, Line up and shoot, or throw them into a hard labor camp.

Where is the hard labor camp? I heard that once the people there enter, they have no other choice but to die. I heard that the governor of the Ming army had a famous saying when dealing with these people, "Working to death, there will be no escape."

Chapter 2 John de Boer's Dreams Broken

Bang——

John De Boer felt a shock under his feet. This time it was no longer a shock, but a collapse. The warehouse under his feet was collapsing rapidly, and the smoke and dust immediately covered his eyes. 【No pop-up window.】

His body is falling.

In the ears are still the whistling sound of the endless stream of shells in the air.

"Damn it, how many shells do they have? Did the devil give them shells?"

"Why are their cannons so powerful?"

"Did they move all their naval guns to land?"

"This is a cannon that only a 32-pound Tier [-] battleship has. Do they have such a big battleship?"

"How many Tier [-] battleships can be equipped with so many cannons?"

Fortunately, he was not hit by the rubble of the collapsed city wall, because he was surrounded by a group of soldiers and officers, so he was buried. It just covered him and blocked the broken stones and pieces of wood flying around for him. Of course, he died. If there is still a lucky person, then it is a man who was stabbed into his thigh by the scabbard commanded by his officer, howling. The restless orderly, and one of his adjutants, had a broken arm, and his face was bleeding from being hit by stones.

"Sir,"

"Sir,"

In less than 3 minutes, when he felt suffocated, a squad of soldiers quickly ran over, pulled and dug, and got him out of the soil, rubble, and corpses.