Chapter 662: Take the initiative

"Hit ...... Give Lao Tzu a hard beating! ”

On the artillery position, dozens of 32-pounder guns were lined up in three rows, and hundreds of gunners were busy removing the debris from the chambers, loading and aiming for the guns.

Qiu Disheng, on the other hand, stood in the center, only to see him wearing a helmet, a three-color camouflage uniform, and a pair of galoshes commonly known as liberation shoes more than 300 years later.

If this outfit is in the future generations, it will be a migrant worker who goes to the city to farm, but in today's Jiangning Army, this style is not too trendy.

Perhaps stimulated by his colleagues in the tent, Qiu Disheng, who had returned to the artillery position, sent a belly of evil fire on the Dutch on the opposite side, and as soon as the shelling began, he ordered to fire a base number of flowering shells first.

"Speed up, fire the gun!"

Watching the flowering bombs explode on the city wall and emit bursts of black smoke, Qiu Disheng shouted loudly while observing.

In fact, according to the normal process, in the face of a strong fortification such as the city wall, the city wall should be destroyed with solid bullets first, and then the flower bullets should be used to kill and injure people, which is the normal process.

But seeing Qiu Disheng's somewhat hideous face, the few Bai Bosses next to him wisely did not ask, but quietly communicated in private.

"Brother, what's wrong with our guerrilla lords today? Since he came out of the medical camp, everyone has eyes, not eyes, and noses are not noses, what happened? ”

"How do I know, maybe I was given a lecture by Master Hou."

"Okay, don't talk about it, it's time to work, if we can't blast the wall of the red-haired devil open today, the guerrilla master won't be able to spare us."

Qiu Disheng's fire caused the artillery battalion to fire a lot faster.

Not only the soldiers of the artillery battalion, but the Dutch soldiers did not expect that the other party would bombard them with such an expensive thing as a flowering shell from the beginning, you must know that even the smallest and cheapest twelve-pound caliber flowering shell costs two guilders, is it possible that the Ming army is already rich enough to waste it at will?

As a result, the Dutch soldiers who were just hiding behind the battlements were unlucky, and the flowering shells continued to explode on the city wall, and the shock wave carried shrapnel and blasted rubble flying around, causing the Dutch soldiers on the city wall to cry and cry for death and injury.

"Idiot...... It's all a bunch of fools, why do you put so many troops on the city walls, don't you know that our most precious thing is the soldiers? ”

In the bunker of a half-moon fort on the second line of defense, Onkos grabbed a captain by the collar and roared loudly, and the spit from his mouth sprayed directly into the opponent's face.

The total number of people in the city of Geranza is only 2,500 people, excluding the old, weak, sick and disabled, women and children, and the number of people who can pick up guns and fight is only 2,000 people who have died, so it can be said that everyone who can fight is very precious now, which also leads to the Dutch army is extremely sensitive to the number of casualties.

This captain also had a bitter face, who knew what the Ming army was crazy about, and bombarded the city wall with such an expensive flowering bomb at the beginning, didn't they know that the flowering bomb was far less destructive to the city wall than the flowering bomb.

But fortunately, the Ming army quickly met his requirements, and after five rounds of salvos, the Ming army replaced the flowering bullets with solid bullets.

At an observation point less than a mile away from the artillery camp, Yang Feng looked at the city with a telescope in his hand, and saw that the artillery camp had finally stopped using flowering shells, and snorted lightly in his nose, "I thought this Qiu Disheng was going to shoot all the flowering bullets in his hand in one go." ”

The officers standing behind him glanced at each other, and each saw the gloating look in their eyes.

Ten taels of silver a flowering bomb, just now Qiu Disheng fired three or four hundred rounds in one breath, purely because he didn't know the price of firewood and rice, it seems that Qiu Disheng will be unlucky after this battle.

But then again, although the flowering bullet is a bit expensive, its lethality to personnel is indeed incomparable to the solid bullet, after five rounds of flowering bullets, the Dutch defenders on the city wall suffered nearly 100 casualties, and the entire city wall is full of stumps and broken stone bricks and rubble.

Onkos came to the governor's office and found Sonod: "Your Excellency the Governor, we can't be so passive anymore, if we continue like this, our defense line will be lost in three days at most, once the second line of defense is lost, the Ming army can drive straight in, and the entire city of Geranza will fall!" ”

"And what do you have a good idea?" Sonord sat behind a desk in his somewhat broken office, looking at his lieutenant faintly.

"Your Excellency the Governor, we must disrupt the rhythm of the Ming army's attack, and we must not be dragged along by them, so I think it is necessary for us to take the initiative to launch a discussion attack on them!"

"Initiating an attack?" Sonord looked at Onkos with strange eyes, "Don't you know that it is the Ming people who are attacking us now?" ”

"Of course I do, but so what?" Ankos said loudly: "There is an old saying in the Ming Kingdom, that under the heavy reward, there must be brave men, as long as we are willing to spend money, there will naturally be warriors who are willing to be loyal to His Majesty the King."

As I have observed just now, the artillery positions of the Ming army are directly erected on the wall of our original first line of defense, about 500 meters away from us, but because their artillery positions are very hidden, it is difficult for our artillery to hit them.

It stands to reason that such an artillery position would be difficult to break, but I found a problem. There weren't many guards around the Ming army's artillery positions, less than two hundred at best, so I thought it was entirely possible for us to blow up their artillery positions or even take their artillery over with proper planning! ”

Seeing Oncos impassioned, Sonod was silent for a moment before slowly asking, "Who are you going to let go, and how many people are needed." ”

Seeing that Sonod had agreed to his request, Ankos rejoiced: "Your Excellency the Governor, I need at least a hundred soldiers and fifty slaves, each carrying rifles and twenty pounds of explosives, and I need you to pay each of them five guilders as a reward for them." ”

"Five guilders each?"

Sonord was silent for a while, and couldn't help but feel a little distressed, five guilders per person, that would cost 750 guilders, which is not a small amount.

Seeing Sonod's hesitation, Onkos hurriedly said, "Your Excellency the Governor, if there is no high bounty, how can those soldiers and slaves be willing to die?" If the castle was breached by the Ming army, no matter how much gold coins there were, it could only become a trophy for the Ming people. ”

"Okay!"

Sonord finally nodded.

"I'll send someone to send you money at once, and you can go and gather people at once. By the way, who are you going to lead the team this time? ”

"I'll go in person this time!"

"You're going in person?"

Sonord looked at the other in surprise.

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