Chapter 726: Bombing Heaven
Qin Gongming has always had little hope for tonight's action, but as a subordinate, it is not easy to discourage Liu Hongji's enthusiasm.
In his opinion, a castle like Geranza could only be destroyed by sealing it off and running out of food.
But where did Liu Hongjian have this kung fu, he was still in a hurry to support Zheng Sen, the little brother of Baizi!
Moreover, the recovery of Taiwan is a major event that can go down in history, although he does not care much about these false names, but with the experience of later generations, he has a kind of obsession with Taiwan.
That is, it must be recovered in person, and it must be tightly and permanently incorporated into the Chinese territory, instead of looking at each other across the sea and looking forward to it.
Liu Hongjian was surprised by the surrender of the Gaoshan tribesmen, which showed that even the tribes in the mountains and forests hated outsiders, because these outsiders were for plunder.
Plundering resources, plundering wealth, and plundering everything valuable, relatively speaking, the Han people are in order to survive and reproduce, and they really regard the place where they belong as their home, which is the biggest difference between the Han people and the Europas.
But when Qin Gongming walked through the narrow city gate hole with his guards, he was directly stunned.
What kind of scene was that, the entrance of the side door about three steps wide, the corpses were stacked on top of each other, half a man high, and a mountain tribesman stood on top of the corpse mountain, holding a cross sword and slashing forward, no matter how fierce the Dutch soldiers outside were, they just couldn't enter the doorway.
Caton saw the Ming soldiers outside rushing in, his face turned green, he wished that there were grenades on his body now, no more, one was enough.
However, due to the limited quantity and the difficulty of supply, Governor Ovatt classified grenades as restricted firearms, which were not to be used at critical moments, and everything happened in a matter of breaths, so that he could not even think about it.
"Damn, are all the people in the barracks pigs? Why haven't you come to support yet! Caton roared, but the matter was irreparable, because the spears of the Ming soldiers had been poked out of the hole in the city gate.
"Brother, you go to the rear for a while, and then it's up to us!" In a hurry, Qin Gongming didn't say much, and after saying a word, he led his subordinates into the city, regardless of whether the Gaoshan people understood it or not.
There are three Gaoshan clansmen in the city, but now there is only one left, of course Qin Gongming knows the fate of the other two, but as a general under the jurisdiction of Tusi, he has seen a lot of corpses and a sea of blood.
It was only as he walked past Dado's side that he still paused, stretched out his only right arm and patted Dado's shoulder.
"All of them, twenty paces ahead, grenades are thrown freely!"
The white-pole soldiers in the front row forced back the frightened Dutch soldiers with their standard white-pole spears, and then rushed in two rows of sweaters, each with a row of grenades hanging from their waists.
Qin Gongming gave an order, and these Great Khans pulled out the grenades and threw them directly in front without hesitation.
Boom - Boom Boom -
Before he had time to run too far, Caton and his men suddenly fell into the range of the grenade, and Caton saw a sparkling grenade fall two steps ahead, but because he ran too fast, he couldn't stop his body at all, and only heard a loud bang, and his whole body was blown up half a foot high.
"Torture mourning Rong, you take a thousand people to attack the city wall, remember, the prince said the truth, don't consume the grenades tonight, go back and eat the board!" There were explosions in front of him, and Qin Gongming yelled at his subordinates.
"Order!" In the dark night, Torture Mourning Rong licked his lips and gave his hand to his life viciously.
"The rest of the people, wait with me to meet the enemy in front of you, no one is allowed to enter, listen to my orders, and prepare grenades!" Qin Gongming looked at the enemy rushing in front of him and said viciously.
What is the most powerful weapon in the night, the musket? No, no, no, you can't see anything clearly in the black light and can't hit anyone at all, and you can't fire a second shot with one shot, because you can't reload.
In this year, the night is either an arrow feather, or it is still a big sword and a spear, and the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road.
But the appearance of grenades overturned all this, and this kind of area-wide explosion attack was simply a ghost of the night.
Before leaving, Liu Hong gradually expected that even if he entered the city, there would be a bloody battle, so he simply equipped all the 5,000 people who participated in the siege at night with grenades, and each of them had a circle around their waists, as many as ten.
And Liu Hongjian also specially ordered that if he could enter the city tonight, all the soldiers would not have to spare ammunition, and they must use up all the grenades on their waists, which can be regarded as revenge for the hundreds of Sichuan soldiers who died under the city.
Qin Gongming sighed in his heart that the prince was nonsense again, and at the same time he was a little grateful, the hundreds of men who died in the battle died under the grenades of the Dutch army, is this the way of riding people to treat their bodies?
In fact, if Liu Hong was here, he would definitely laugh and not speak.
The reason is simple, this batch of grenades is almost expired.
Due to the existence of strong enemies in the north and south of the Ming Dynasty in recent years, the grenade workshop of the Ordnance Institute has not been suspended, and the output is still increasing.
Only in the armory at the western foot of the West Mountain, there are no less than 350,000 grenades, and the craftsmanship at this time is not as good as that of later generations, especially the fuse process, and the rate of stinky bombs will increase sharply after the grenade is stored for a long time.
The grenades carried in this attack on Taiwan were a batch that had been stored for more than a year, and the stink bomb rate was as high as 30 percent.
The frontal battlefield will naturally be greatly affected, but for this kind of night attack, regardless of whether he explodes or not, he will not lose if he throws it out, and he will earn it if it explodes.
Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom
As soon as the Dutch army arrived at the East City Gate, they were subjected to heavy bombardment, and Major Kaz, who led the team, went to see God without even seeing what the Ming army commander looked like.
The Ming soldiers launched an indiscriminate projectile at the place in front of them like grenades don't want money, and in five breaths, at least 5,000 grenades fell on the battlefield in front of the East City Gate.
"Hurry up and report to the Governor, the Ming soldiers have broken the city, and we can't support it!" Sergeant Major Victor hid behind the walls and pulled up one of his men.
At the same time, the city of Geranza, the Doge's Palace.
"Damn Caton, I knew those barbarians weren't that kind!" The Dutch governor Ovatt smashed the precious porcelain on the table.
"My lord, Captain Caton has been killed." The guard said depressedly.
"What about Carlisle? Let his English open fire, aimed at the eastern wall, and fire! "Ovat is going crazy.
He has been blessed and misfortune recently, first the Zheng family of the Ming Dynasty oppressed him, and finally the Zheng family was in trouble, but the opportunity for revenge did not fall on him.
And now, with a castle in the air, but no warship in his hand, Rao is so, and the hateful Ming soldiers don't give him any respite at all.
Boom - boom boom - a different kind of explosion came from the west of the city.
"Your Excellency the Governor, a large number of warships of the Ming Dynasty have appeared in the west of the city, and their family ...... They have already begun shelling the West Side! ”