As a captain of the Dutch East India Company, Badel, who was in charge of guarding the city of Geranza, was very relaxed.

Originally, this fortress was the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company, and it was not his turn to be the head of the house here, but not long ago, the headquarters of the company sent a new governor, John Brown. Fan. When Debaul arrived, it was natural for Putmans, as his predecessor, to hand over to the successor officer. At this time, Shouhan led the Nanzhong Army fleet to call, and Putmans had to stay in the Red Embedded City on Dayuan Island to guard it, and at the same time suppress the tens of thousands of reclamation people from the Zhangquan area.

Captain Beder couldn't help but sneer at the warships that covered almost the entire ocean from time to time spewing flames and cannonballs at the city of Geranza.

"Stupid Orientals! Don't you know that the range of the ship's cannons can't hit this city of Geranza? He held the wine glass in his hand and watched this rare fireworks display from the window.

The ship's artillery, though huge, could only splash columns of water and sand on the beaches and tide lines.

"That's it! Order the soldiers to step up their duties tonight and not let the Orientals sneak up on them! He threw his neck up triumphantly and dried the barley wine in his hand.

However, things in the world often backfire.

When Captain Bader was enjoying the taste of being in charge of the city of Geranza, and was carrying a very angry Atayal girl in his bedroom, he lowered more than a dozen small boats from the three-headed tiger on the sea, and quietly touched the island under the cover of the sound of the waves.

The same boats were on the main warships such as the Victory and the Kirin and attacked the nearby islands such as Erkun.

When the sun leaps out of the sea where it meets the skyline. The soldiers of the East India Company, who were on guard duty at the head of the city of Geranza, rubbed their somewhat astringent eyes, and they could hardly believe what was happening in front of them:

On the rooftops of Anping Town, not far to the east of Relanza City, fluttering in the morning breeze are clearly the Sun and Moon Banner of the Ming Dynasty, the Li Zishuai Banner of Li Shouhan and the Iron-blooded Eighteen-Star Army of the Southern Chinese Army!

"You bastards! I must have slept lazily at night! Captain Bader, who had received the news from the sergeant, waved his command knife and shouted at the group of black soldiers who were responsible for the night duty, venting his timidity and fear.

Outside Anping Town, more than a dozen cannons erected on the artillery fort made of sandbags can easily pour cannonballs into the head of the city of Gelanza!

"One, two, three, four...... Fourteen! ”

Bedel's hand holding the telescope turned a little pale from the exertion, and there were fifteen cannons weighing up to a thousand pounds in the city of Geranza, but. These cannons. Either the muzzle of the gun is facing east, or the muzzle of the gun is facing west, and it is fixed on the turret and cannot be moved at will. These cannons to the east. It was a mortal danger for him.

"Fire!"

The artillery commander outside Anping Town waved his red flag. The gunners, who had been busy all night by the artillery, quickly lit the letter tube with the fire rope in their hands. The intense burning of the gunpowder pushed the shell out of the chamber and flew away on a fixed track, while the huge recoil pushed the gun carriage and drove the gun body backwards!

"Boom!"

Several twelve-pound shells smashed heavily on the walls of the city that were covered by Geran! Captain Beder could almost feel the tremors of the walls beneath his feet. Broken bricks and rocks flew in all directions.

"Clean the chamber!"

The gunners quickly pushed the gun back into position, the observer stepped forward again to measure the number of shots, and the sightman adjusted the elevation angle and dense position according to these numbers, and the person responsible for cleaning the gun chamber was holding a long wool brush dipped in vegetable oil to clean the gun chamber. The loader quickly reloaded the kit and shells, and the whole process worked as well as a precision machine. When everyone had completed a series of actions in accordance with the requirements of the drill code, a twelve-pounder cannon had completed the preparations before firing, and they could continue to fire at the first order.

"Fire!"

The target of this round of shells was no longer the waist of the wall, but the top of the wall was slightly lower. More than a dozen cannonballs landed on the eastern walls of the city of Geranza, and the splattered masonry became unprefabricated fragments, flying in all directions on the city's head, shattering a single object in their path, or flying into it, whether it was a wall, a beam, or a human body.

Captain Bader saw a black soldier less than five paces away from him being hit in the head by a broken stone flying from nowhere, knocking the entire skull out of the air, scarlet blood and white brains spraying on his beautiful tweed uniform, and he couldn't help but feel the urge to vomit.

How can Captain Beder accept that it has been the Dutch who have used their firearms to abuse others for many years, and today it is the turn of others to abuse themselves with firearms? Ever since he came to the East, he had always believed that the richness of the land, the spices, tea, raw silk, and silk produced thereon, and all the wealth that had arisen from them, should belong to the Europa. Those cowardly Orientals can only become worker ants who create the wealth of the East India Company! Although the news of the defeat of the fleet of the Liuluo Bay Naval Battle Company came before, he stubbornly believed that it was the Orientals who relied on their human resources and used the sea of fire and ships to take advantage of it. But today these Orientals have taught him a solid lesson with cannonballs!

"Boys! Well played! Keep playing! ”

There was a burst of cheers from behind the positions of the artillery team, which made the artillerymen rejuvenate again, and the movements of their hands could not help but be a little faster. A series of actions such as gun cleaning, reloading, and resetting are done like a cloud of peers.

After the shells were loaded, the artillery adjusted its aim again, and with the red flag swinging in the commander's hand and the shouting of the password, the gunner lit the letter tube on the fire door, and in an instant the fourteen guns made a series of loud noises, and the muzzles of the guns freed up a large stream of flames and smoke, and the fourteen red-hot solid iron balls roared straight towards the city wall, as if the city wall was their lover.

A few shells because the gunner turned the elevation angle slightly higher. The cannonballs went straight to the tower of the city of Geranza, and the corner of the brick and wood tower was hit by a cannonball, and there was a loud uproar, and the group of black soldiers at the head of the city who were called black ghost soldiers by the Han residents held their heads and trembled, and Captain Beder looked fixedly, and the smoke cleared, and the tower had collapsed in a large area.

Seeing that the artillery fire of the Nanzhong Army has been fired three times, according to the general practice, at this time, the shooting will stop for a while. Give the barrel that has already heated up a time to dissipate heat. Captain Beder decided to check the casualties and losses during this time period.

However, before he could straighten his back, another loud noise came from under the city.

The fourth round of shelling of the South Central Army began.

Captain Beder had to be like the lowly black ghost soldiers. Tightly clinging to the ground of the city walls. to dodge the massive damage caused by the shells.

Finally. The shelling came to an end for the time being.

"Damn it!" He jumped up and didn't care about tidying up his military appearance, "Why don't you shoot back?!" Why not teach them a lesson with our cannons! ”

"Captain, don't rush to shout. Our cannons are fixed in the four corners of the turrets, and unless you are Zeus, or you have the divine power of Poseidon, which can move those behemoths quickly, we will no matter how many cannonballs we fire, it will not help. On the contrary, it may consume ammunition in vain and attract enemy fire! One of the artillery officers scoffed at his accusations and ridiculed his layman's behavior.

"That's it! If you really have the courage of a knight, then fight out of the city, drive the enemy out of the sea, defeat these Chinese, just like the Spanish conquered the Inca Empire, and create a miracle! ”

Thomas? Captain Beder has always been arrogant and domineering in the Dutch garrison, and his popularity is extremely poor. However, from the words of his colleagues and subordinates, he keenly grasped an opportunity that could create a miracle.

"Troop assembly!"

He was ready to lead fifty Dutch soldiers, two hundred black soldiers, and a thousand auxiliary indigenous Christian soldiers in the city of Geranza out of the city to destroy the artillery positions of the Southern Central Army and, if possible, drive this damned group of Orientals out to sea!

"Captain! Is this possible?! ”

"Those Orientals are only ferocious in artillery, but they don't have infantry firearms comparable to our Dutch muskets, and even if they do, our white-knuckle assault will kill them!"

"Soldiers! Believe me! All you have to do is fire a volley of guns, and the Chinese soldiers will scatter and flee for their lives, and they will fall apart! Victory, belonging to Christians! ”

It should be said that Captain Beder's ideas are not without merit, and the Ming army in this era is indeed like this, either they are not equipped with firearms that are not cost-effective, or they do not dare to fight with their white blades, and in the face of the enemy's swords and guns, they suddenly let out a shout, turned around and fled.

It is a pity that he did not have contact with the land battalion of the South Central Army, and from the day it was established, this unit was equipped with a large number of firearms, and raised the white-knuckle combat to an unprecedented height. So much so that often the battalion uses firearms as new recruits, spears as more experienced soldiers, and swords and shields as the most qualified soldiers.

"Red hairy Yi is out?!"

Zhang Xiaohu, who set up his own temporary headquarters in the Tianhou Temple in Anping Town, was quite surprised, "This method really works!" He slapped the offering table in front of the statue of the Queen of Heaven and the goddess, and the bowls and plates where the offerings were placed clanged for a while.

Shi Lang proposed to Zhang Xiaohu the tactic of using only twelve-pounder cannons to fire at the dead end of the fort of Gelanza City to bombard the city wall, instead of using the more effective Kelon cannons and mortar cannons to attack the city. Because this kid was a person who was sent to the army by Shouhan to train and serve, Zhang Xiaohu could only pinch his nose and accept his suggestion, but he didn't want to, after five rounds of shelling, the Dutch defenders in the city of Geranza really couldn't bear it anymore and came out of the city to fight!

"My lord, are we also sending troops to meet the battle?!"

Huang Wen, the battalion officer of the right rear battalion of the Xuanwu battalion, was a little uncontrollable, seeing that the heads of other battalions had been fighting in four directions over the years, but the Xuanwu battalion could only move around with the fleet, and there were few opportunities to fight, and there were even fewer opportunities for meritorious promotion and reward.

"People are coming to the door, let's not go to greet it, isn't it rude?!" Zhang Xiaohu smiled wickedly for a while, and looked Huang Wen up and down. "Lao Huang, you are also the first group of people to follow me to join the lord, right?!"

Huang Wen's face flushed, "Exactly!" ”

The group of pirates who were captured with Zhang Xiaohu back then, after many years of operation, have also become the backbone of the Nanzhong Army and officers at all levels.

"The 800 people in your battalion, can you deal with the more than 1,000 people who came to Hongmaoyi?! Don't disgrace our old brethren! ”

There is a way that it is better to send a general than to provoke a general, as soon as Zhang Xiaohu's words came out, Huang Wen's face immediately turned red. "Please rest assured! The mark was to take only 800 men out to meet the enemy. I don't want any artillery support! With only muskets and knives, he taught this group of red-haired and soldiers a lesson, and let them know that the pot was made of iron! ”

Bader divided his men into two teams, each led by indigenous auxiliaries who were professed Christians. Behind them were soldiers with muskets in hand. The soldiers were followed by the Dutch troops. Two phalanxes of five or six hundred people. The Dutch soldiers and soldiers were in a row of twelve, supervising the large native soldiers who had converted to Christianity, and the black pressure poured out of the city of Geranza and rushed towards the artillery position of the Nanzhong Army outside Anping Town!

Looking at the roaring and whistling dancing of the natives with broken hair and tattoos. Huang Wen tried his best to quiet the soldiers under him, "Brothers, little meaning! It's just some natives, we have dealt with them in Luzon, Manraka, and Nanzhong, and there is nothing new! ”

The soldiers looked carefully, and the group of natives in front of them seemed to be no different from the ones they had come into contact with before, except that they all wore a cross on their chests, and they all held the familiar funeral guns and knives in their hands.

"Phew! With our knives and guns, you dare to compete with us?! I don't know what to live or die! In the queue, a young soldier with fluff on his mouth smacked hard.

"Array!"

The formation under Huang Wenbu is still used to the use of the Nanzhong Army, with the firecrackers in front, arranged in three horizontal formations, the pikemen on the two wings, which are two columns, and the sword and shield soldiers are pressed behind the firecrackers and pikemen, and there is only one horizontal line. However, the sword and shield soldiers of the Xuanwu Battalion were slightly different from the other battalions of the land battalion in that they were equipped with double-barreled short firearms that only sailors were equipped with as reinforcement firepower.

Just when Huang Wen was arranging his troops to prepare to meet the enemy, on the roof of a house called cuo in Hokkien dialect in Anping Town, Guo Huaiyi was lying there, holding a monocular in his hand, staring at the scene of the confrontation between the two armies without blinking.

"This group of red-haired ghosts actually let these people who take grass headhunting as fun to take the lead, and the Southern Chinese Army is going to suffer this time!"

Guo Huaiyi was a little gloating.

Seeing that the chaotic team of natives was still about 200 steps away from him, he was stopped by the Dutch sergeant who led the team, where he reorganized the team and checked the weapons, and there was a priest holding a Bible in his hand to lead this group of students to chant words and prayers, Huang Wen sneered, "If the prayer and chanting of the scriptures work, then wouldn't the monks and Taoists be invincible in the world?!" ”

"Attention all! Press it up! ”

A sharp copper whistle sounded over the ranks, and the soldiers of the right rear battalion of the Xuanwu battalion put their weapons on their shoulders and began to advance towards the opponent's position with neat steps!

"These damned infidels! How dare you show off the phalanx in front of us! Drumming! Catch up! Captain Beder had not yet sorted out the formation of the native troops, but he saw that the troops of the South Central Army in the distance had been pressed up mightily, although the formation was far less than his own in terms of numbers, but the indomitable momentum was incomparable to his own chaotic team. He began to wonder if he had left the castle to fight in the field, was this decision wrong?

However, it is too late to withdraw now. The Nanzhong Army on the opposite side was only more than 150 steps away from him. Now that the order was to retreat, the natives feared that few would be able to retreat back into the castle. Captain Beder gritted his teeth, he secretly made a decision, let those filthy natives fight these damn Ming army! Anyway, they are all Orientals, and it doesn't matter if these natives die a few more! It's just the right thing to alleviate some of the food pressure in the city of Geranza! Prepare for the next step of long-term perseverance and wait for reinforcements!

In this regard, the Dutch are the same as the Japanese, another alien force that occupied Taiwan in history, and the Japanese were even more ruthless, recruiting Gaoshan residents in Taiwan on a large scale, taking advantage of their characteristics of enduring hardships and standing hard work, and being good at mountain warfare and jungle warfare, so that they could form the so-called Takasago Volunteer Corps to go to the islands of the Pacific Ocean to face the US planes and artillery. Men were used as consumables under fire, and women were used as comfort women.

In short, it is one word that can be described, cannon fodder.

Guo Huaiyi lay on the roof, watching the distance between the two armies getting closer and closer, he seemed to be suppressed by the increasingly thick and heavier murderous aura on the battlefield, and he wanted to jump off the roof, rush to the battlefield and slash with knives and guns to relieve this pressure.

"Stop!"

The Dutch sergeant, who was commanding the indigenous soldiers in front, gave an order to organize the line one last time in this position, which was less than a hundred paces away from the Southern Central Army, so that the guys with spears in their hands could line up as much as possible, maximize the power of the spears and queues, and rush out of the formation of the damned guys on the opposite side, and only by disrupting their formation, the nigger musketeers behind would have a chance to shoot.

However, the South Central Army on the opposite side did not leave him this time and opportunity.

Still stepping forward with firm steps! (To be continued......)

PS: Yesterday was my mother's birthday, and I came back late, I'm sorry everyone. Updates are available!