Looking at the higher and higher earthen platforms, a sense of powerlessness welled up in Sonord's heart.

Although the gunners on the city wall were frantically pouring cannonballs at the Ming army for several hours, they still could not stop the movement of the Ming people.

Those Ming people were like the hardest working ants, tirelessly carrying the soil without fear of sacrifice, one fell down and the other came up again, Sonod couldn't understand why these people were so different from the Ming people he had come into contact with before?

If it weren't for the fact that he used his clairvoyance to see that those who were busy were also black-haired and yellow-skinned, he would have thought he had come to the wrong place.

"Strange people, strange country!" Sonord shook his head.

Onkos hurriedly walked up to him and whispered: "Your Excellency the Governor, the artillery commander, Major Ranny Brewer, requests a pause in firing on the grounds that the artillery is overheated and needs to be cooled. ”

"Let's stop." Sonod said: "Let Lenny hide the artillery, since the Ming people's earthen platform has been built, presumably they will open fire soon." ”

Sonord was right, less than half an hour after the earthen platform was built, more than 30 32-pound guns were pushed onto the earthen platform, and with a roar, one after another dozens of pounds of shells fell to the city with a whistling sound.

Unlike the 24-pounder cannon used by the Jiangning Army in the previous artillery battle, the 32-pounder cannon was much more powerful than the 24-pounder gun.

When the projectile weighing dozens of pounds slammed into the city wall with huge kinetic energy, it was not like a twenty-four-pounder cannon that just smashed a crater the size of a basin.

"Boom ......"

A projectile slammed into the battlements of a fortress, which was more than a man high, and was smashed to pieces in an instant, and countless fragments flew in all directions, and even the Dutch soldiers hiding nearby felt the entire city wall tremble slightly.

"Boom ......"

Thirty-two pound shells fell one after another on the city, and a dull sound could be heard everywhere from the walls of the city walls, which had been cranked in the artillery battle just now, and from time to time there were the wails of the soldiers.

The artillery commander, Major Ranny, found Sonod: "Your Excellency the Governor, you can't let the Ming people be so arrogant anymore, I suggest using flowering shells to return fire on them!" ”

"Are your guns cooled down?" Sonord asked rhetorically without answering.

"Not yet!" Lenny shook his head: "But we can first carry out emergency cooling of a few cannons, and then return fire on the Ming people." ”

The heat of gunpowder burning in the process of firing the gun will be transferred to the barrel, and the barrel will become hotter and hotter over time, and when the barrel heats up to a certain extent, it must stop firing and wait for the gun to cool down naturally before re-firing.

The so-called emergency cooling is to use cold water to pour the heated artillery to forcibly cool it, but this method will have a great impact on the service life of the artillery, so under normal circumstances, the artillery will not do this.

Sonord hesitated for a moment and shook his head: "No, we don't have many flowering bombs, we have to save them until the critical moment to use them, and besides, we didn't use them just now, but the effect is not very good." ”

"Okay!"

Lenny also knew that Thornold had a point, and stomped his foot and turned away.

The entire city of Geranza was like a flat boat, struggling in the storm, and the thirty-two-pound projectiles were like lightning bolts from the god of thunder constantly smashing on the city wall, making the people around them wonder when this section of the city wall would be blown up.

Thirty thirty-two-pounder guns bombarded the city wall for more than an hour, until the barrels of the guns were hot before they stopped.

The whole city wall was filled with the pungent smell of gunsmoke, and the originally neat city wall was littered with broken bricks and rubble, and occasionally there were pools of blood in the middle, and a breeze blew through the smell of gunpowder smoke to disperse, but the smell of blood that was originally covered by the smell of gunpowder smoke became even greater.

"Quick...... Hurry up to the city walls...... Get me back to the fight! ”

On the city walls, several officers were shouting at the soldiers hiding in bunkers.

Just after the shelling, it is difficult to ensure that the soldiers of the Ming Kingdom do not take the opportunity to attack, and the shelling has just passed, the city wall is in a mess, which has caused certain difficulties to the defense, and if you do not seize the time to clean up the debris and garbage on the city wall, it will bring a lot of trouble to the defense.

The movements of the Dutch officers were not unpleasant, but where would the Jiangning army, which had been prepared for a long time, give them time to calmly deploy their defenses, only to hear a sharp whistle sound, and rows of helmets reflecting dazzling light in the sunlight suddenly poured out from behind those earthen platforms, and countless soldiers in green military uniforms rushed towards the city wall.

The soldiers ran desperately forward with their bayonet guns in hand, and the soldiers in front of them carried long ladders.

Seeing the sergeants who suddenly appeared, the officers on the city wall hurriedly shouted: "Open fire...... Fire the cannon and take those yellow-skinned monkeys down! ”

"Boom ......"

The artillery on the city wall, which had been silent for two hours, began to roar again, and one after another the cannonballs whistled towards the Ming soldiers under the city wall.

A Bai general ran briskly while shouting to the sergeant next to him: "Hurry up...... The ladder team hurriedly put the ladder on the city wall, and everyone else was scattered and couldn't be gathered together, otherwise they would all become the target of the red-haired devils! ”

Two miles away from the city wall, Yang Feng held a telescope to observe the scene of the charge and nodded slightly.

Since he came to this plane, he has fought against the Japanese Invaders, as well as the Mongols and Manchu Tartars, and has achieved remarkable results.

But whether it is the Japanese or the Manchu Tartars, they are still in the era of cold weapons, even if they have achieved much success, Yang Feng does not feel that there is much achievement, after all, using hot weapons to fight cold weapons always has a bit of a bullying taste.

Moreover, the previous experience cannot be used in this battle, and today's battle is also the first time that the Jiangning army has fought with an army that uses hot weapons, so Yang Feng also attaches great importance to it.

At this time, looking through the binoculars, although the Dutch artillery was fierce, the battle line of the Jiangning Army was very scattered, so the damage caused to the sergeants was not very large, and to Yang Feng's surprise, the Dutch actually used solid bullets, not more lethal flowering bullets.

"Could it be...... These Dutch flowering shells are running out of numbers? ”

While guessing, Yang Feng ordered the artillery battalion to open fire to suppress the Dutch artillery fire at the head of the city.

"Boom ......"

Seeing that the artillery on the earthen platform opposite began to pour out tongues of fire again, Oncos, who was watching the battle, couldn't help but lose his voice, "This is impossible, don't their artillery fire need to be cooled?" ”

As soon as Sonord on the side changed his mind, he immediately understood the reason, and he couldn't help but scold: "It's not good, Your Excellency the Governor, we have all been deceived by the Ming people, and they still have artillery hidden behind the earthen platform!" These damn yellow-skinned monkeys have fooled us! ”