Seeing that the defenders actually began to lay cloth bags on the city wall, Qiu Disheng's white hair sweat immediately stood up.

Using a cloth bag full of dirt as a cover can effectively reduce the impact of the cannonball and reduce casualties, which the Jiangning army has long been aware of, but in the past battles with the Qing soldiers, those Manchu Tartars who only believed in the sabre in their hands and the war horse under their crotch did not realize this, so in the battle with the Jiangning army, the Manchu Tartars only knew how to rampage or futile with shield cars and shields to try to block the musket artillery, and as a result, they all became the ghosts of the artillery.

It was only a brief encounter with the Spaniards today, but the quality of the Spaniards was astonishing.

Their castle is not only strong, but also designed with bulletproof in mind, in the shelling just now, don't look very lively, but the casualties caused are not large, at best, there are only about a dozen people, such a casualty ratio is already very low.

In the shelling just now, the Jiang Ning army fired out more than 300 shells, a total of more than 10,000 catties of materials, but only harvested more than 10 casualties on the other side.

Behind a hillside not far away, Yang Feng, accompanied by Geng Bingyi and other officers, observed the situation on the city wall, Chu Maoguang shook his head and said in amazement: "The red-haired ghost is very good at the study of firearms." You see, it was only a short time, and their young men spread the city wall with cloth bags filled with earth, which was to guard against our artillery. And the speed is so fast, it only takes a while to get most of it done, which shows that they have been prepared. ”

"Well, that's true, these cloth bags are spread like this, and the effect of our cannons will be greatly weakened." The surrounding officers were also talking.

Yang Feng didn't speak, these Spaniards were indeed different from their previous opponents, and they actually came up with such a way to guard against their artillery.

You must know that today's artillery, whether it is range or power, cannot be compared with later generations. Even the most powerful 32-pound cannonballs hit the bags filled with dirt, absorbing most of their power, and the destructive power plummeted.

"Since solid bullets can't work, let's try them with blossom bullets." Someone suggested.

But it was immediately refuted: "Flowering bombs may not work, those cloth bags full of dirt are the best cover, even if you can blow up one or two cloth bags, it is not much use, people still can't let us do this, how much silver is a bag?" How much silver is a flowering bomb? ”

The cost of a flowering bullet is at least two taels of silver, which is already equivalent to a month's salary. And a slightly cheaper sack is only ten cents at best, and exchanging one or two broken sacks for a flowering bomb is too cost-effective.

After discussing for a long time, there was still no countermeasure, and everyone scratched their heads a little.

Seeing that the atmosphere was relatively dull, Yang Feng took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, lit one himself, and casually threw the remaining half of the pack to Geng Bingyi, Geng Bingyi took one and threw it to Chu Maoguang next to him, and soon everyone in the group except Liu Xiang began to swallow the clouds and spit out the fog.

After smoking most of the cigarette, Yang Feng looked at Geng Bingyi and said with a smile: "Old Geng, tell me your opinion?" How soon do you think Fort San Petro will be able to take down? ”

This time it was Geng Bingyi's turn to sit down, last night he was still a representative figure who advocated a quick victory, but now the Spaniards gave him a slap in the face with facts.

At this time, he felt a little hot and panicked in his face, this slap in the face came too quickly, and Geng Bingyi didn't even prepare at all.

Facing Yang Feng's question, Geng Bingyi gritted his teeth and said in a low voice: "Master Hou, in this matter, I underestimated the enemy, and asked Master Hou to punish the crime." ”

"You did underestimate the fighting power of the red-haired devil." Yang Feng said in a deep voice: "Although Ben Hou always tells you on weekdays that you must be indomitable when fighting, it is a coward to be timid.

But today Ben Hou also wants to tell you that it is true to be indomitable, but this point must be based on the premise of fully understanding the enemy, otherwise it will be reckless. ”

Seeing that there were still some people who were a little unimpressed, Yang Feng sneered: "What, still not convinced?" Don't look at the Spaniards until now, that's because our 32-pounder guns have taken advantage of it, and the range of the red-haired devil's artillery is not as good as ours, so we can only be beaten passively, but if we wait until we attack, I think you will see the enthusiasm of the Spaniards! Which of you would like to try it? ”

No one said anything, although there were still a few Qian Zong with a stupid look on their faces, but in fact, these people all understood that the enemy they encountered this time was completely different from the opponents they had encountered before, this was a force like them, almost all of them were pure firearms, and it was almost impossible to abuse them with the firearms in their hands as much as before, and the reason why they showed such expressions was just that they couldn't let go of their faces.

Yang Feng also saw their expressions, but he didn't plan to say anything more, some things were more useful than he emphasized a hundred times in person.

After thinking about it, Yang Feng said to Geng Bingyi: "Old Geng, the first battalion is the elite of our Jiangning army, if there is any big battle in the past, the first thing Ben Hou thinks of is the first battalion."

We're not just talking about how powerful or vulnerable the Spaniards are here, we'll have to try it for ourselves. I thought it was time to launch a wave of attacks. ”

Geng Bingyi immediately understood in seconds that his boss had said so much, and his feelings were to let his battalion go to explore the way for the whole army.

Seeing that Geng Bingyi was stunned and didn't speak, Yang Feng asked lightly: "What...... Is Geng guerrilla unwilling? ”

"Oops!"

Geng Bingyi immediately snorted, Yang Feng's name for him had been compiled from Lao Geng to Geng Bingyi, although it sounded a lot more formal, but Geng Bingyi knew what it meant, being unfamiliar also meant being estranged, if he dared to shirk it, let alone go further, he couldn't keep his current hat.

"Don't worry, Hou Ye, this time I personally led the team, I must take a look at the red-haired devil, the majesty of our Jiangning Army!"

"It's not the Jiangning Army, it's the majesty of our Ming Army." Yang Feng immediately added.

"Okay, give you a quarter of an hour to prepare, and after a quarter of an hour, they'll attack, remember not to be too big, just a little small."

"Understood!"

Hearing this, Geng Bingyi finally put his mind at ease, since Yang Feng said that it was only a small-scale attack, it proved that his boss just wanted to test the strength of the Spaniards, and he was not dizzy and really wanted to launch a general attack.