After combing and checking the western shipping lane, the Southeast Fleet concentrated on the western seas.

The cannon roared, hundreds of shells flew towards the city of Colombo, and the sound of the cannon was deafening!

Cannonballs fell from the sky and hit the city wall, causing the city wall to tremble and crack in some places.

Entering the city, the range of heavy artillery can reach two kilometers, although the accuracy is not good, but where it hits, it will be unlucky.

Houses collapsed and people were injured, and the people of Colombo began to be terrified day and night.

The Southeast Fleet took advantage of the hours before dusk to concentrate its firepower on bombardment for a while, and then arranged for the battleships to be on duty for two hours at night without resting and bombarding the city incessantly!

Most of the troops of the Southeastern Army, a small part of the army were on alert, and the civilian workers worked until the early hours of the morning.

Prepare for the first day!

When the sky was bright, the soldiers and civilians in the southeast began to eat morning and evening, and the steaming water was churning on the hot cauldron, they landed last night, and they ate hot food the next day.

Money, boats, and people transported a large amount of supplies ashore, and the cooks heated them with coal, providing good food for the soldiers and civilians: hot noodles and steamed buns, barbecued pork buns, and even soy milk!

The construction workers worked until the early hours of the morning, and the diligent cooks were about the same time as they started preparing the meal.

Everyone squatted or sat on the ground with their lunch boxes to open meals, while the sergeant in charge of the cafeteria prepared food, snacks and boiling water for everyone at noon that day.

If you don't eat hot food at noon, you will have military biscuits and dried meat to deal with it, as well as tea, jam, candied fruit, toffee, and officers and soldiers lining up to receive it.

With first-class efficiency, the quartermaster department has put the army's food and drink Sala on the head, so that the army has enough strength to perform.

The migrant workers started work and were busy, they repaired the roads, built artillery forts, parapet walls, and arrow towers, and built a long fence to block the east and south of the city.

They are also assembling trebuchets, which are set up behind parapets and used as mortars to use oil bombs.

Three days to prepare?

It was almost done in one day!

In just one day, the position of the Southeast Army had become infantil, which made the red-haired fan of Colombo City frown.

They watched as the Chinese artillery pushed the cannon into the fort and immediately opened fire!

Field artillery intended for siege ranged from 12 to 18 pounders, and the Marines were now supported by Army artillery.

The Marines' 6-pounder field guns were also erected and placed at the forefront of the battlefield to counter the counter-charge of the would-be red-haired infantry opening the city gates.

Eight battleships of the Southeastern Fleet broke into the bay to the north, and together with twelve battleships in the western sea, their guns were aimed at the city of Colombo.

There were also 200 land cannons, and when they were deployed in place, they launched an earth-shattering artillery bombardment.

The sound of naval and land artillery shook the sea, as if it were about to tear the sky apart, shatter the seabed, and rain shells into the city of Colombo.

The artillery of Colombo City did not return fire, in the words of Commander Romario: "They attack, we open fire!" ”

In his opinion, it is a joke to bomb to bomb, and the other party relies on the sea route to facilitate supplies.

Ammunition was wasted, and shells should be used against the attack of the Chinese infantry.

So he planned not to fire a single bullet, but after fighting the Southeastern Army for half a day, he could not withstand the pressure of the governor and had to fire back, especially on the sea.

The southeast ships were so rampant that when the tide rose, they drove their ships even as close as a hundred meters to the coast, the muzzles of their guns were raised, and all the shells entered the city!

Bullets fall everywhere, it's not safe anywhere, I don't know when a cannonball will fall and hit yourself, causing panic in the city!

How could there be such a reason that they would not return fire just after being beaten, so the coastal batteries of Colombo City fired back, but they did not fire indiscriminately, aiming at sea targets, one shot at a time.

The southeast ship observed the position of the other side, and in turn suppressed it with a platoon of artillery, the southeast army won in the firepower, while the red hairy fan had the advantage of strong protection and accurate firepower.

Ready for the next day!

At night, the naval guns kept firing non-stop artillery fire, and at dawn they carried out a "big play" of artillery bombardment together with the shore guns.

The cannon was firing, and another piece of equipment was ready to go.

The trebuchet has been assembled since yesterday, and it has been tested in the evening, and it is about to be launched.

At nine o'clock in the morning, a group of well-dressed Chinese officers came to the forward position, the guard of honor waved the golden flag, and the Chinese officers and soldiers broke out with a warm "Long live the leader!" The defenders of Colombo City were taken aback.

Yan Changwu inspected the position!

Everywhere they went, the soldiers cheered and were full of morale.

He listened to the reports of the officers and expressed satisfaction with the preparations of the army.

"Well done!" He said with a smile on his face, encouraging the officers and soldiers to fight hard, fight this battle well, and show the prestige of our Chinese!

When Hongmao Fan saw that there were big Chinese people coming, he couldn't hold back and immediately fired a cannon to "welcome" them!

The shells flew, and for safety, Yan Changwu withdrew a kilometer away to observe the attack of the trebuchet with a telescope.

Accompanied by the officer's order to "open fire", one after another burning bombs flew over the heads of the Chinese on the front line, hitting the wall and exploding violently.

The walls were on fire everywhere, and some of the defenders who were unlucky were splashed with fire oil and lit it, and immediately became a humanoid torch, and their bodies twisted and screamed.

But there were few unlucky people, because there was no siege, the soldiers of Hongmaofan hid, and they hid in the caves, pillboxes, and under the city, so as to avoid the living forces being killed and injured in vain.

It's just that the black smoke from the fire oil attack is burning everywhere in the city, and there are dozens of places in a day, and the people are tired and have begun to get used to sleeping in the open and the houses are burned down, but fortunately, the climate in Ceylon is hot, otherwise it would be miserable to have no houses to live in.

The red-haired fan opened fire and tried to hit the trebuchet, but the shells of the long cannon cannon encountered the obstruction of the parapet wall, and it was difficult to be effective, so he stopped firing after a few shots.

It seems that the Chinese can't help it?

The Chinese workers began to build the earth mountain at close range, and when they wanted the army to shoot at high height, the red hair fan showed its fangs, and they used large-caliber mortars, that is, guns with large caliber and short barrels, which were used as mortars, and their ballistics were tortuous, and they were used to deal with the Chinese earth mountains and stone guards behind the parapet!

The mortar cannon had a low firing rate and a poor hit rate, but it still destroyed the Chinese trebuchet, and at the same time brought a lot of pressure to the migrant workers who built the soil mountain.

But I am afraid that I have to do it, and the migrant workers wear army bulletproof vests and helmets, and work against time.

This kind of mortar cannon is also available to the Chinese, named as a large-caliber toad mortar cannon, with a caliber of 300 mm and a length of 1000 mm, cast in bronze, and painted with an exaggerated sign of a toad opening its mouth on the outside.

Set them up on the ground and fight them against artillery.

It can be said that everyone has done their best, and they have clearly seen the progress of the red hairy fan, they know how to defend, their city defense, artillery use have been on the next level, personal protection has been enhanced, and some of the red hairy fan even wore armor, and we went toe-for-tat!

Yan Changwu set up his camp on land, and after listening to the report, he said: "War is a catalyst for the progress of science and technology and human civilization!" ”

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