Late Ming Dynasty: Conquering the world starting from riding and cutting

As a lieutenant of the Dutch East India Company, Noble, who was responsible for guarding the city of Jelandja, had an easy time.

Originally, this fortress served as the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company in Taiwan, and it was not his turn to take charge here.

However, not long ago, an opportunity gave him a chance to rise up. The Netherlands Corporation sent the new Governor of Taiwan, Chokri Pace. As the predecessor, Joseph naturally had to hand over to the newly appointed officials, complete his final tasks, and then return to his hometown of the Netherlands to enjoy the pastoral scenery and see his hometown. big windmill.

However, at this unfortunate time, Qin Hao led the Keelung military fleet to call, and Joseph had to stay in Chichan City on Taiwan Island to guard, while suppressing the tens of thousands of settlers from Yilan and the area.

Lieutenant Noble couldn't help but sneered as he watched the ships on the sea that covered almost the entire distant sea spraying flames and cannonballs towards the city of Relanja from time to time.

"Stupid Oriental natives! Haven't their gunners learned mathematics? Don't they know that the range of the ship's cannons cannot hit the city of Relanja?" He took a few sips of the wine glass filled with red wine in his hand, and then Watching this rare fireworks show from the window.

Although the number of artillery guns on the Keelung naval ship is huge, they are too far away from the coastline, and they can only splash water columns and sand grains on the beach and tide line one after another.

"It's really boring!" He raised his neck very proudly and drank the red wine produced in Bordeaux, the holy land of French grapes in continental Europe. "Order the soldiers to step up their duties tonight and don't let these eastern natives sneak up on us!"

Danger always gives you the most fatal blow when you are most relaxed. It may be late, but it will never fail to come.

When Lieutenant Noble was happily enjoying the power of being in charge of the city of Relanja, holding an extremely sexy Dutch lady in his arms and making love in his bedroom, more than ten ships were dropped from the Three Tigers on the sea. The small ship, under the cover of the sound of waves, sneaked towards the island.

The same small boats attacked several other nearby islands from main battleships such as Wansheng and Xuanwu.

When the sun jumped out from the junction of the sea and the skyline, the East India Company guard captain who was on guard duty at the head of the city of Relanja rubbed his aching eyes. He could hardly believe that he suddenly appeared there. The picture before my eyes.

On the rows of rooftops in St. Ansburg, a Dutch stronghold not far east of the city of Geranze, what fluttered in the morning wind were clearly the flags of Keelung Navy and Army as well as the unique Qin characters belonging to Qin Hao. banner.

"You bastards! You must have been too lazy to sleep at night!" Lieutenant Noble, who got the news from the corporal, waved his command knife inlaid with colorful gems and roared loudly at the group of black soldiers who were on duty at night, expressing his dissatisfaction. and vent the fears in my heart.

The Keelung people landed, and they had more than ten cannons set up on the fort built with sandbags outside St. Ansberg. They could easily pour the cannonballs onto the city of Relanja!

Noble's hand holding the telescope turned white from exertion.

In comparison, there are fifteen cannons weighing one thousand kilograms in the city of Relanja. But it is a pity that these cannons have obvious shortcomings. Either the muzzle faces east or the muzzle faces west, and they are all fixed on the turret and cannot be moved at will.

These cannons from the Keelung Army in the east were a fatal danger to him and the soldiers on the city top.

"fire!"

The red flag in the hand of the gunner of the artillery team outside St. Ann's Fort waved, and the gunners who had been busy next to the artillery all night used the match ropes in their hands to light the message tube on the artillery in an orderly manner.

In just an instant, the violent combustion of the gunpowder pushed the shell out of the barrel and flew along a fixed trajectory. At the same time, the huge recoil pushed the gun frame and drove the gun body back!

"boom!"

"boom!"

Several 12-pound artillery shells hit the solid city wall made of Relanzha!

At the moment of the bombardment, Lieutenant Noble could almost feel the shaking of the city wall under his feet. Broken bricks and rocks flew in all directions, and a small piece of gravel scratched his face, leaving a trail of blood.

"Clean the barrel and prepare!"

At the command of the gunner, the gunners quickly pushed the artillery back to its original position. The observer stepped forward again to measure the shooting data, and the aiming hand re-adjusted the elevation angle and position based on these data.

The second artilleryman who was responsible for cleaning the gun bore held a long woolen brush and dipped it in vegetable oil to clean the gun bore and remove the gunpowder residue on it.

The loader quickly loaded the charges and shells. The loading process of the shells ran smoothly like a precise machine without any pauses or jams.

"fire!"

After a round of debugging, this round of more than a dozen artillery shells landed directly on the eastern wall of the city of Relanja. The splashed bricks and stones became fragments of the explosion, and they flew in all directions on the top of the city with no pattern to follow. Flying randomly, they smash all objects in their flight path, or fly into these objects, whether they are walls, beams, or human bodies.

Lieutenant Noble held his bleeding neck, still immersed in the last shelling. When he reacted, the second shelling from the Keelung Army had already arrived.

The moment he turned around, the lieutenant saw that a black soldier less than three steps away from him was hit in the head by a piece of gravel flying towards him. In just a moment, the strongest skull in the human body was hit by a small stone. The small piece of broken mountain was forcefully thrown away, and scarlet blood along with white brain matter sprayed on his beautiful green uniform. Looking at it made people unable to help but feel the urge to vomit.

This scene made Noble feel like he was living in a virtual world. For many years, they had been using firearms to bully others, but today it was others' turn to use firearms to bully themselves. How could Lieutenant Noble accept and understand this?

Ever since he set foot on the land of the East, he has always believed that the spices, tea, raw silk and other wealth produced there should belong to the Europeans.

Those cowardly Easterners can only become worker ants that create wealth for the East India Company and work hard for the Dutch Lord!

But today these Easterners taught him a solid lesson with cannonballs, subverting his previous proud world view!

"Brothers! Well done! Keep fighting!"

There was a burst of cheers from behind the position where the artillery team was deployed, which made the artillerymen on the position full of energy again, and the movements of their hands could not help but become a little faster.

The artillery was cleaned, loaded, and reset in a series of actions that were performed smoothly. It was to show the Dutch devils who had better math skills.

Seeing that the Keelung Army's artillery fire had fired two rounds, according to general practice, the firing would be stopped for a period of time at this time to allow the heated gun barrels time to dissipate. Lieutenant Noble decided to check the casualties during this period. and losses.

However, before he could straighten up to check the situation, another loud noise came from the city.