The earth is trembling!

In the fierce artillery fire, Colombo City was trembling, and even the stone walls were trembling and shattering.

The originally seemingly solid brick and stone buildings turned into ruins in the explosion, and some buildings were even directly razed to the ground. The violent explosion directly dismantled the streets made of stone bricks. The debris of steel mixed with countless gravels roared around, and the stones turned like shells of different sizes to tear the running people around them to pieces.

As the shells fell, there was a scene of flesh and blood flying everywhere in Colombo...

"O my God!"

Listening to the howling sound from the sky, in the church, a missionary prayed to God in despair. At this moment, all they could do was pray!

Just prayer!

All people are in a despair that they have never had before.

Just as they were praying, several deafening explosions came from above the city wall. People in the city could clearly see the huge bursts of smoke exploded from the city wall.

A 100-pound shell hit the cannon accurately, razing everything around it to the ground, and detonating the powder barrel behind the cannon. The violent explosion directly leveled everything around it.

As for the Portuguese and the black slave soldiers on the fort, they were torn into pieces by the explosion's shock wave. The howling wind blade cut off their limbs and abdomen, and the complete body turned into a pile of minced meat. In the pool of blood, a pile of fuzzy pieces of flesh were crying and screaming, and life disappeared in their crying.

Once upon a time, when luck was overwhelming, twenty-four-pound shells could knock down dozens of people from the side from hundreds of yards. Now, the high-explosive grenade weighing 100 kilograms has brought people an almost devastating blow.

While the Portuguese soldiers guarding the city were lying on the ground to avoid shelling, they were almost dumbfounded at the cannons that were blown into the air. The cannons weighing thousands of pounds were blown into the air in a violent explosion. Several thick and long black shadows in the smoke fell down fiercely as people watched.

The Portuguese turrets failed to survive the first round of artillery, and the most artillery was lost. The more heavy the gunners were the gunners, and less than half of the gunners survived. Many gunners turned into a pile of minced meat in the violent explosion. Even those who survived, many were seriously injured, and their thighs and arms were blown off. One thing is certain that even if they luckily escaped the wound and survived the rotten wound, they would be companioned with crutches, wooden legs, prosthetic arms, and iron hooks instead of their hands.

Actually...it's better to die.

Like hell!

At this moment, no matter whether the people on the fort believe in Catholicism, Buddhism or Tianfang Buddhism, when faced with such artillery fire, they only have one thought here is hell!

The real hell on earth!

Just as they were screaming for this hell, the hell makers saw that the gun positions on the city wall had been destroyed by long-range heavy artillery, so they approached the shore to approach the range of the short-barrel heavy artillery.

"Short-barrel heavy artillery can be eliminated!"

Staring at the city of Colombo, which was filled with smoke, Zhu Mingan silently said to himself in his heart.

Perhaps the weight of the short-barrel heavy artillery is very light, but its range is too close, so there is no problem with naval combat, but still need to be heavy artillery at long-range shooting of targets on the shore.

"The wine bottle cannons that should be replaced with hundreds of kilograms, and at least fifty kilograms, which is a perfect combination of range and power."

The reason why he made such a judgment was because during the Battle of Nantianmen, he witnessed with his own eyes how vulnerable the warships were in front of heavy artillery, and even had an extreme battle example of two guns sank an enemy ship.

The large-caliber "Wine Bottle Cannon" is far from comparable to the short-barrel heavy artillery, whether it is naval battle or land attack. The short-barrel heavy artillery may be good, but the range is too close.

As if it confirmed his point of view, a sudden shell hit the ship accurately. Although the shells flew away with a "bang", Zhu Mingan's brows were still frowning.

"If it were a 50-jin shell, the hull might be pierced through, and the distance would be too close..."

When Zhu Mingan was reflecting on the insufficient performance of the cannon, Zheng Zhilong sat on a chair and drank tea in a decent manner. Fortunately, there was no phonograph in this era, otherwise he would probably sound a big show on the boat.

Zheng Zhilong, who was squinting his eyes, was just listening to the sound of cannons. As the distance approached, the short-barrel heavy cannons on the ship also began to fire. The originally sparse sound of cannons became denser. The sound of cannons, like drum beats the giant drum face in the sky.

This area.

"Oh, this shot is pretty good."

Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but praise him, if it were the past, he would definitely order the reward silver, but now he can't say that. When he did this, the General Administration said that he was buying the morale of the army and committing the crime of bribing the army. In the Ming Dynasty, buying the morale of the army was not a serious crime, but bribing the army was a death sentence!

As early as in Liaodong, Your Majesty issued such a military order to bribe the army is equivalent to a bad army, and he will definitely kill it!

Many people cannot understand this, but they do not know that they do not give rewards to soldiers. This is precisely the biggest difference between modern and feudal armies.

In ancient times, the army had "driving silver" when going out to camp, "defending silver" when fighting, "red silver" when being injured, and "reward silver" when killing enemies. What was the final result? It was a group of troops with only silver in their eyes. As for tactical power... If the combat power was strong, they would not be chased by the Japanese army during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895.

The modern army is not necessarily an army armed by nationalism, but it must be a strict military discipline, and it must be a soldier who fears military discipline more than die. This is the fundamental reason for the combat effectiveness of the modern army.

How to maintain military discipline?

Of course it's a military stick!

The Japanese army was tenacious during World War II. Many people thought it was based on "Long Live the Emperor", but in fact? According to the Japanese soldiers, the thing they feared the most was not the enemy's artillery fire, but the "spiritual injection stick"!

The way of fighting violence is to make soldiers more explosive during the war, and they can vent their anger by fighting seriously. They can also help soldiers establish a hard psychological defense line and adapt to the cruel and high-intensity war environment in advance.

Compared with silver rewards, the "spiritual injection stick" in the hands of the soldiers is cheaper and more effective.

In this way, bribing the army will naturally be a death sentence. Of course, this is also to avoid generals winning over the morale of the army. After all, in this era, they used money to win over the morale of the army. What's even more terrible is that the generals on the front line will give rewards at will, and those who are emperors must admit their claim, otherwise it will really be possible to stir up military changes. So now we have eliminated this possibility directly from the source.

The inability to pay the reward silver does not mean that the soldiers cannot be encouraged. Listening to the dense sound of cannons, Zheng Zhilong said loudly.

"Brothers are good at shooting! Tonight, everyone will have extra meals and the meat will be full!"

The sergeant holding the "spiritual injection stick" in his hand immediately shouted loudly.

"Did the brothers hear it? The admiral gave the brothers a meal, hurry up, and even the red-haired ghosts would not even be able to come out!"

The brave men who were scrambling the artillery, the soldiers and the soldiers immediately shouted excitedly.

"Quick! Cannonballs! Cannonballs!"

While the gunners were yelling, they fired at more than three shots.

"Blow him up!"

The officers and soldiers shouted excitedly. The gunners' faces were all black by the smoke of gunfire. Except for their teeth, their eye sockets were white, which looked similar to those "black people".

The nearly devastating artillery shelled the entire Colombo, a city with tens of thousands of residents. At this time, this vast city was completely covered by gunfire. The wind blew the gunfire to the sea and connected it with the smoke when the fleet fired its cannons on the sea, forming a thick gray-black smoke on the sea surface in front of the fleet.

The smoke blocked the entire Colombo behind it, and this scene was extremely spectacular, something they had never seen in the past.

The smoke of gunpowder turned into fog, completely covering the city. The black fog was like the hot air emitted by the god of death breathing, covering everyone. For the people in it, they only had two choices left.
Chapter completed!