Chapter 662 Take the initiative to attack
"I'll beat you hard!"
On the artillery position, dozens of thirty-two-pound artillery were divided into three rows and one by one, and hundreds of gunners were busy clearing the residue in the cannon chamber, loading and aiming.
Chiu Disheng was standing in the center, and he saw him wearing a helmet and a three-color camouflage uniform. He was staring at a pair of rubber shoes, commonly known as Jiefang Shoes more than 300 years later.
If this outfit came to later generations, it would be a migrant worker who went to the city to work as a farmer, but in today's Jiangning Army, this look is not too trendy.
Perhaps stimulated by his colleagues in the commander's tent, Qiu Disheng, who returned to the artillery position, sent a stomach full of evil fire on the Dutchman opposite him. At the beginning of the shelling, he ordered a base flowering bullet to be fired first.
"Start up and fire!"
Watching the flowering bullets fall on the city wall and explode and bursts of black smoke rise, Qiu Disheng shouted loudly while observing.
In fact, according to the normal process, when facing solid fortifications such as the city wall, you should first use solid bullets to destroy the city wall, and then use flower bullets to kill people. This is the regular process.
But seeing Chiu Disheng's somewhat hideous face, the few BJPs next to him wisely did not ask, but just started to communicate quietly in private.
"Brother, what's wrong with us guerrillas today? Since he recovered from the medical camp, he saw that everyone's eyes are not eyes, nose, and nose, and what happened?"
"How did I know? Maybe I was scolded by the Marquis."
"Okay, stop talking, it's time to work. If you can't blow the Red-haired Japanese city walls open today, the guerrillas will not spare us."
When Chiu Disheng got angry, the firing frequency of the artillery battalion increased a lot.
Not only the soldiers of the artillery battalion, the Dutch soldiers did not expect that the other party would bombard them with expensive things like flowering bullets from the beginning. You should know that even the smallest and cheapest twelve-pound flowering bullets would require two Dutch shields. Did the Ming army already have money to waste at will?
In this way, the Dutch soldiers who were just hiding behind the battlements were in great danger. Flowering bullets continued to explode on the city wall. The shock waves were swept with shrapnel and exploded gravel, causing the Dutch soldiers on the city wall to cry for their parents and their deaths.
"Idiots... are all a bunch of idiots. Why do you put so many troops on the city wall? Don't you know that our most precious one is the soldiers?"
In the bunker of a Half Moon Castle on the second line of defense, Encos grabbed a captain's collar and roared loudly, and the spit from his mouth sprayed directly onto the other party's face.
There are only 2,500 people in the city of Relanzha. In addition to the elderly, weak, sick and disabled, women and children, only 2,000 people who can fight with guns will die. It can be said that every person who can fight is very precious now, which has also led to the Dutch army's unusual sensitivity to the number of casualties.
The captain also had a bitter look on his face. Who knows what Ming Jun is doing? He used such expensive flowering bullets to bombard the city wall from the beginning. Don't they know that the flowering bullets are far less destructive to the city wall than the flowering bullets?
Fortunately, the Ming army quickly met his request. After five rounds of volleys, the Ming army replaced the flowering bullet with a solid bullet. It seems that even the wealthy Jiangning Army cannot use it unscrupulously.
At an observation point less than one mile from the cannon camp, Yang Feng looked at the city wall with a telescope in his hand. Seeing that the cannon camp finally stopped using the flowering bullet, he snorted softly from his nose, "I thought this Qiu Disheng would shoot out all the flowering bullets in his hand in one breath."
The officers standing behind him looked at each other, and they all saw the gloating expression in their eyes.
The flowering bullet of ten taels of silver was just now. Qiu Disheng made three or four hundred rounds in one breath. He was just not in charge of the company and didn’t know how expensive it was. It seemed that Qiu Disheng would be in trouble after the battle.
But then again, although the flowering bullet is a bit expensive, its lethality to personnel is indeed incomparable to solid bullets. After five rounds of flowering bullets, nearly 100 people were killed or killed on the city wall, and the entire city wall was filled with broken limbs and broken stone bricks and rubble.
Encos came to the Chief Office and found Sonod: "Governor General, we can no longer be beaten so passively. If this continues, our defense line will be lost for up to three days. Once the second defense line is lost, the Ming army can drive straight in, and the entire city of Relanzha will fall!"
"Then what are your good ideas?" Sonod sat behind the desk in the somewhat damaged office, looking at his adjutant faintly.
"Governor General, we must disrupt the rhythm of the Ming army's offensive and must not be dragged away by them, so I think it is necessary for us to take the initiative to launch an argumentative attack on them!"
"Take an attack on your own initiative?" Sonod looked at Encos with a strange look, "Don't you know that the Ming people are attacking us now?"
"Of course I know, but so what?" Encos shouted: "There is an old saying in the Ming Dynasty that there must be brave men under heavy rewards. As long as we are willing to spend money, there will naturally be warriors willing to be loyal to His Majesty the King.
I just observed that the Ming army's artillery positions were directly set up on the wall of our original first line of defense, about 500 meters away from us, but because their artillery positions were very hidden, it was difficult for our artillery to hit them.
It is logical that such artillery positions are difficult to break, but I found a problem. The Ming army's artillery positions do not have many troops, at best, less than 200 people, so I think that as long as the planning is done properly, we can completely blow up their artillery positions and even take their artillery over!"
Seeing Encos being passionate, Sonod was silent for a moment before asking slowly: "Who do you plan to let go, how many people do you need."
Seeing that Sonod agreed to his request, Encos was overjoyed: "Governor General, I need at least one hundred soldiers and fifty slaves, each carrying a rifle and twenty kilograms of explosives, and I need you to pay each of them five Dutch gusts as a reward for them."
"Five Dutch guilds per person?"
Sonod was silent for a while and couldn't help feeling a little distressed. For each person, five Dutch gulfs would cost 750 Dutch gulfs, which is not a small amount.
Seeing Sonod hesitate for a while, Encos hurriedly said, "Governor General, if there is no high bounty, how can those soldiers and slaves work hard? If the castle is broken by the Ming army, no matter how many gold coins are, they can only become the spoils of the Ming people."
"All right!"
Sonod finally nodded.
"I'll send someone to send you the money right away, and you can gather people immediately. By the way, who are you going to lead the team this time?"
"I'll go in person this time!"
"You're going in person?"
Chapter completed!