Chapter 643: Someone from the capital
"The walls have just been breached?"
Not far away, looking at the collapsing city wall, Sonord only felt a chill in his hands and feet.
In the face of the attack of tens of thousands of Ming troops, the city of Geranza, which only has more than 2,000 people, is absolutely difficult to stop, which Sonod has long understood.
But in Sonord's opinion, this wall was built by him personally, although it is not as strong as the back lines, but no matter how unbearable it is, it should not be a problem to defend it for ten days and a half or even one, how can it fall in less than a day?
At this time, he only felt a buzzing sound, only that he could not hear anything in his ears except the sound of cannons, screams, and explosions, and he did not wake up from his stupor until his arm was constantly shaken violently.
When he came back to his senses, he saw Ancos anxiously pulling his arm and shouting, "Your Excellency the Governor, Your Excellency the Governor, we should go, if we don't leave, it will be too late!" ”
"Let's go?"
"Right...... Hurry back to the second line of defense and reorganize the defense there! ”
After finishing speaking, Onkos waved his hand without waiting for Sonord to answer, "Quick...... Take Your Excellency the Governor away! ”
As soon as he finished speaking, several guards stepped forward and ran behind him......
Not long after Onkos and a few guards carried Sonod down the city wall towards the second defensive line, countless Jiangning soldiers with bayonets and muskets rushed up the city wall along the collapsed city wall, and for a moment the sound of gunfire, shouts and screams rang out in a ball.
"Kill ......"
One of the Jiangning Army sergeants who had been the first to rush to the city wall let out a roar, and the fire gun in his hand stabbed at a sturdy Dutch soldier who had just risen from the ruins.
The glowing bayonet stabbed the Dutch soldier in the chest like lightning, and the Dutch soldier let out a hoarse roar of pain.
He threw away the gun in his hand, grabbed the barrel of the gun on his chest with both hands, and tried to pull the bayonet out of his chest.
It's a pity that he is a strong man, but he feels that the strength he is proud of is rapidly leaving his body, and no matter how hard he tries, he can't pull out the bayonet that has been stabbed deep into his chest.
In the end, blood gushed from his mouth and nose, his knees weakened, and he knelt heavily on the ground, glaring at the Ming State sergeant in front of him, and his eyes slowly closed unwillingly.
"Rush over...... Kill these red-haired ghosts! ”
In the face of the tide of the Ming army pouring into the castle, the Dutch, who knew that the general trend had gone, had no intention of resisting and retreated towards the second line of defense, and soon, as the first line of defense, the Half Moon Fort fell into the hands of the Ming army, and the sun and moon flag representing the Ming Dynasty also fluttered over the castle, and countless soldiers cheered on the city wall.
As the commander of the first battalion of today's main attack, Geng Bingyi is the most prominent one today, and since he took the castle, the smile on Geng Bingyi's face has never stopped, and the rest of the guerrilla generals are envious and unconvinced.
Chu Maoguang found Yang Feng as soon as possible: "Master Hou, the first battalion of Lao Geng is in the limelight today, so what should happen next, it should be the turn of the second battalion of the lowly position, right?" ”
Yang Feng smiled: "What, do you second battalion also want to serve as the main attack tomorrow?" ”
"Of course!" Chu Maoguang was anxious: "Master Hou, can you not favor one over the other, which of our second battalion is not as good as the first battalion?" Whether it is combat effectiveness or military appearance and military discipline, it is not worse than them, why can't the second battalion be the main attack? ”
"You have it."
Gou Xingma on the side said coldly: "Your second battalion is a group of brute cattle who can only charge, if the Hou Ye lets you go to the second battalion today, I will write my surname upside down if you don't die three or four hundred people." ”
Chu Maoguang's eyes glared: "Hey...... Look at my violent temper, surnamed Gou, have you not moved your body for a long time, and you want to go out with me to practice? ”
"Come on, I'm afraid you won't make it?"
The two of them rolled up their sleeves as they spoke, looking like they were going to do something, but in the end, Geng Bingyi couldn't see it, and scolded with a straight face: "You are all enough, Hou Ye is still here, don't make Hou Ye angry, you will have to suffer." ”
Hearing Geng Bingyi say this, Chu Maoguang and Gou Xingma glanced at each other, and then they were silent, but the unwilling look still jumped on their faces.
In the end, everyone's eyes looked at Yang Feng, who was sitting in the first seat.
With the growing strength of the Jiangning army, Yang Feng's prestige is also increasing day by day, in the first two years, Geng Bingyi and Chu Maoguang, the officers who came out of the Jiangdong Gate Thousand Households, still joked with him from time to time, but with the increasing majesty of Yang Feng in recent years, they no longer dared to laugh in front of Yang Feng.
Yang Feng pondered for a moment before saying: "After a few days of investigation, as of today, Ben Hou has drawn a topographical map of Relansha City, please take a look!" ”
With that, Yang Feng stood up and walked to the wall and pulled open a dark green curtain, revealing a huge map of Relan Sha City.
The generals stepped forward one after another, this is a very delicate and detailed map, whether it is the governor's office, churches, lookouts, soldiers' barracks and other facilities are marked in detail.
Yang Feng pointed to the map and said: "Everyone, please see, the city of Relansha is a long and narrow rectangle, the left and right sides are covered with mountains, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the back is backed by high mountains, if you want to take it, you can only attack from the front."
The Dutch must have thought of this when they built it, so they placed three lines of defense on the front, each of which was more difficult to attack. Their walls are made of red bricks, made of sugar water, glutinous rice, oyster shell ash, sand, and sticky, and are so strong that they are difficult to destroy even with artillery fire. ”
Hearing this, Chu Maoguang couldn't help asking: "Master Hou, it's not a big deal to look at the red-haired devil's city wall according to your humble duties, wasn't it collapsed by us with cannons today?" ”
"You're wrong!"
Yang Feng said with a solemn expression: "We just interrogated a prisoner just now, according to the prisoner's confession, the defense line we took today is actually shrunk, this city wall was built in a hurry by the red-haired devil in order to meet the construction period, and its solidity cannot be compared with the two defense lines behind, so tomorrow we want to use artillery to destroy the city wall like today, I'm afraid it will not be so easy." ”
"And this?"
Everyone was stunned when they heard this, but Chu Maoguang said indifferently: "But even so, I still think that if I defend for a long time, I will lose, and there is no city wall in this world that cannot be broken. Even the strongest walls can be blown down. ”
"Well, Lao Chu's words make sense." The generals nodded, after all these years of cultivation, the soldiers of the Jiangning Army have long been convinced of the firearms in their hands, in their opinion, there is no city wall in this world that cannot be broken by artillery, if there is one, it is because the bombardment is not long enough.
"Report ......"
A voice rang out outside.
Then a guard walked in and said loudly: "Master Qiqi, someone from the capital has come, saying that he is coming to read the holy decree." ”
Soon, a eunuch in his forties walked in,
"It's you!" It seems that people, Yang Feng couldn't help but shout in surprise.
The person who came was full of smiles and said, "Master Hou, let's meet again!" ”