Chapter 642: The Wall Collapses

"Shhh...... Boom ......"

A thirty-two-pound projectile struck a cannon bunker made of red bricks with a long whistling sound, and in a shocking sound, countless red bricks turned into splinters of rubble flying in the sky, and these bunkers, which were originally used to protect the gunners, turned into countless deadly weapons at this moment.

When the smoke cleared, the eight Dutch gunners, who had been busy behind the bunkers, had become a puddle of rotten meat that could not be distinguished.

"Boom ......"

The gunners of the Jiangning Army did not have any mercy for the Dutch gunners who were killed, and at this time they had only one belief, that is, to use all their strength to cover their own sergeants and rush to the city.

"Pop ......"

Several sergeants of the Jiangning Army, who rushed to the city wall under the fire of artillery, shouted a long ladder at the head of the city, and when the ladder was erected, several sergeants who had been waiting for a long time began to climb up the ladder.

It's just that these sergeants have just climbed three or four meters, and they saw more than a dozen Dutch soldiers wearing blue military uniforms and holding firecrackers emerging from the battlements.

A general manager in the back saw that the first few sergeants who rushed up the ladder were actually shot down by the firecrackers, and he was so angry that he shouted: "Bastard...... Marksman cover! ”

"Shooting ......"

"Bang ......"

With the order of the hundred generals, dozens of sergeants immediately raised their guns and fired at the city wall, but the Dutch soldiers on the city wall retracted their entire bodies behind the battlements after shooting, and all the lead bullets fired by these sergeants were empty.

At this time, many ladders had been erected, and many sergeants began to climb towards the head of the city, but they were beaten down by the Dutch soldiers at the head of the city with the same means, and many sergeants of the Jiangning Army fell under the city wall for a while.

Seeing that the attack was blocked, a melodious trumpet sounded behind them, and the Jiangning army, which was about to continue the attack, immediately retreated like a tide.

Seeing that the attack of the Jiangning army was blocked, the Dutch at the head of the city were thunderous for a while, and many Dutch soldiers even laughed and scolded loudly at the head of the city, and even many people stood at the battlement and peed under the city with laughter.

It's just that at this time, something that made their eyes widen appeared, and many of the soldiers of the Jiangning Army who had fallen off the city after being shot and didn't know their lives actually staggered to their feet, and these were either dragging or carrying those sergeants who couldn't get up on their backs and turned around and ran back towards the way they came.

On the city wall, the Dutch soldiers, who were originally excited about giving the Jiang Ning army heavy casualties, almost bulged out their eyes when they saw this scene, this is too unscientific, aren't these Ming people invulnerable?

On the position of the Jiangning Army, Geng Bingyi, who had seen this battle with Yang Feng, couldn't help but praise from the bottom of his heart: "Master Hou Yingming, those things you made are really good, if it weren't for these things, we would have to lose at least hundreds of brothers in this battle." ”

Yang Feng waved his hand, but there was no smug look on his face. It is not surprising that these sergeants were not killed by lead bullets from the city, but because they were all wearing stab-proof suits.

The stab-proof suit sounds very tall to ordinary people, but in fact, it has long been a rotten street thing, and an ordinary stab-proof suit from a regular manufacturer on a treasure is only more than 100 yuan, plus a bulletproof steel plate, and it will cost 300 yuan to die.

Such a stab-proof suit could not protect against armor-piercing steel core bullets and large-caliber bullets, but it was more than enough to withstand the lead bullets fired from breech guns of the 17th century.

This was the first time that the Jiangning army fought against the army that used hot weapons, and Yang Feng was naturally extremely cautious, and specially went to modern society to customize 5,000 sets of stab-proof clothing and bulletproof steel plates with manufacturers, all of which were equipped with Geng Bingyi's first battalion for trial.

Judging from the battle situation just now, both Yang Feng and Geng Bingyi were very satisfied with the effect of this batch of stab-proof suits.

Soon, the results of the casualties of the 1st battalion came out.

In the first attack, 36 were slightly wounded, 11 were seriously wounded, and eight were killed by falling headfirst or from lead bullets as they fell from the ladder.

Seeing such a casualty report, Yang Feng frowned a little while rejoicing.

Judging from the attack just now, the Dutch are indeed very skilled in the use of firearms, and they are more difficult to deal with than the clubs and mallets of the Manchu Eight Banners who can only wield cold weapons.

To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that there were only more than 2,000 people in Gelansha City, but seven or eight thousand or even 10,000 troops, Yang Feng would definitely withdraw his troops immediately without hesitation, without even blinking his eyes.

Geng Bingyi, who was furious by the casualties of his subordinates, gritted his teeth and said: "Master Hou, you let us attack one battalion again, just now the brothers were just caught off guard and fell into the way of the red-haired devil, next time we will definitely be able to take the city wall!" ”

"No way!" Yang Feng refused without hesitation, "Old Geng, I know you want to make meritorious contributions, but the battle is not like this, the Dutch have the advantage of the city wall, if we launch another strong attack now, the casualties will definitely not be small." ”

Geng Bingyi hurriedly said: "Then what should I do, I can't let the red-haired devil be so arrogant, right?" ”

"What else can I do? The counterattack of the red-haired devil just now has proved that our shelling is still not enough. Tell the order to go down and let the artillery battalion continue to bombard the city walls, I don't believe how many shells their walls can hold! ”

"Boom ......"

The artillery of the Jiangning army began to speak again.

In this case, the artillery superiority of the Jiangning army began to be brought into play.

At best, the artillery deployed by the Dutch in the first line of defense was only about thirty, and several more were lost in the artillery battle just now, and there were only about twenty guns that could fire at the head of the city at the moment.

The Jiangning Army brought two artillery battalions with a total of more than 200 artillery pieces, including more than 60 32-pound guns.

Although Qiu Disheng was lying in the medical camp due to an accident and could not direct the artillery battle, the artillery fire of the artillery battalion did not weaken because of this, and with the efforts of the gunners, countless shells bombarded the city wall like a violent wind.

This time the shelling began and never stopped, the whole city wall trembled in the sound of cannonballs, the originally strong bunker was smashed by the shells, all the Dutch soldiers hid in the bunker and shivered, and even many Dutch soldiers because they could not bear this torture and had a nervous breakdown and ran out of the bunker and ran wildly on the city wall, and finally were torn to pieces by the flying rubble and broken bricks.

After the shelling lasted for two hours, a wall of about sixty or seventy meters could no longer withstand the blow, and finally collapsed.

"Beep beep ......"

As the walls collapsed, the whistle sounded again, and countless soldiers with bayonets rushed out of their positions and rushed towards the walls......