The artillery bombardment of the Ming army, which lasted for nearly three days, collapsed most of the stone walls built on the fort, but the Dutch have been crisscrossing the sea for decades, and every time they occupy a place, they will inevitably be counterattacked by local forces, and they can stand on their heels, naturally there are some doorways.

In front of the stone wall erected, the Dutch used gunpowder blasting to blast out a parapet trench, so although the stone wall was high, only the upper half of the stone wall was exposed, which reduced the probability of being hit by shelling, and guaranteed that only the upper half of the stone wall could be knocked out.

Before dawn on the fourth day, Li Dingguo ordered the soldiers to rise up and rebel, and after a full meal, the soldiers of the Ming army formed a formation according to their duties.

Chen Youlong, Liu Wenxiu, and Yu Youming each led 5,000 men to attack a fort respectively, Li Dingguo led 10,000 people to press the formation, and the Dutch army in the main fort came out to make trouble, while the Ming army's naval division cruised outside the port, feintting to contain the Dutch warships.

After the deployment was completed, the soldiers of the Ming army, who had eaten a full meal, were full of strength, ready to gnaw the hard bones in front of them.

After all, the army has been fighting for almost four months since September and December, and it should be over.

At this time, the army was outside the range of the battery, lined up in formation, and the officers with the flags on their backs were cheering up their soldiers from time to time.

After the commanders of each battalion had a meeting in the commander's tent, they returned to the array and summoned the thousands of households from each department, and these people listened to the order, and called the hundreds of households from each division and bureau to explain the essentials of today's attack, and then they implemented the flags and teams at the most basic level.

Over the years, the Ming army has attached great importance to the training of low-level officers, and a selection will be carried out every year in the army, and low-level officers with outstanding ability can be sent to Nanjing for martial arts through selection, and after they come out, they will have the opportunity to rise to middle-level officers.

This is tantamount to an upward passage, and as soon as the passage is opened, the officers below will unconsciously compete.

This is the same as the imperial examination, the government said that the examination of eight shares can be an official, then the scholar reads the eight shares, the government says that the examination of miscellaneous studies, archery, firecracker, then the reader will follow the requirements to learn astronomy and geography, to shoot the bow.

This is the trend of interests, because only in this way can they become officials, and when they become officials, they will rise from the middle and lower strata of society to the middle and upper strata, which is the driving force of interests.

Then select outstanding people in the army to send them to martial arts, and after graduation, they can go further, without retiring, and have the opportunity to become a noble class, which is also a rising channel like the imperial examination, which promotes the quality of the low-level officers of the Ming Dynasty army and slowly realizes the modernization of the army.

Zhang Yiguo is a general banner selected by the A and B Division of the Fengjie Battalion in Zhongyi Town, after this battle, when he returns to Daming, he will be sent to Nanjing Martial Arts School with nearly 100 other small flag officers in Zhongyi Town.

At this time, the artillery of the Ming army began to bombard the hill again, the rumbling cannon sound was deafening, the thick white smoke covered the long Ming army front at the foot of the mountain, the artillery mounts retreated, and more than ten catties of iron bullets roared to the top of the mountain, and the Dutch battery was splashed with broken stones, and countless stones splashed into the air and then fell like raindrops.

After a few days of bombardment, the stone walls of the fort had been broken everywhere, and the sound of stones collapsing from the top of the hill was constantly heard, mixed with the panic and screams of the Dutch.

On the messy fort, a wounded and wailing Dutch soldier was dragged slowly in the smoke and dust.

The stone wall beside him was shot from time to time, and several Dutchmen lay on the ground with their heads in their hands, not daring to move at all.

He dragged the wounded Dutch soldier to a safe area, and when he turned around, he saw a section of the stone wall behind him under the impact of the cannonballs, the whole wall trembled violently and suddenly collapsed, and the stones fell into the trench with a clanging sound, his heart sank, and he immediately shouted loudly: "Leave a few people to monitor above, and the others will go down to the fort to hide first, and then come up when the Ming army attacks." ”

At that moment, the Dutchmen who were lying on the wall with their heads in their arms hurriedly got up one by one, bent their waists, bowed around the corpses of several Dutch soldiers lying on the ground, hurriedly got off the fort, and hid behind the wall.

Zhang Yiguo was explaining things to his three teams, as soon as the Ming army's cannon sounded, the three of them turned their heads to look at the mountain, Zhang Yiguo could only say with a straight face: "Don't look at it, it's been a few days, haven't you seen enough?" ”

The three teams under him turned around a little reluctantly, and one of them touched his head and said, "I see that the top of the mountain is broken, is there anyone on it?" This time, our Fengjie battalion will definitely be able to take down the fort with a charge. ”

Zhang Yiguo glared at him, "It's really so easy to fight, will the handsome spend so much effort?" Don't look at us, the most taboo in our Zhongyi Town is the arrogant soldiers. ”

In the first battle of Hezhou, Zhongyi Town was disabled by the Jin army, and there was not one out of ten soldiers, which is a lesson that Zhongyi Town always remembers.

Zhang Yiguo saw that the three of them bowed their heads and didn't speak, so he continued, "Mr. Qian said, the task of our A department is to attack head-on, rush out from the middle, support the top of the mountain, and climb the mountain from the left and right sides. When charging, you should pay attention, before reaching the mountainside, try to conserve your strength, and it doesn't matter if you climb slowly, because the distance is long, the Dutch's muskets are not accurate, and when you reach the mountainside, you have to rush up desperately, without any hesitation. ”

"Don't worry, we know, before we reach the mountainside, the cat climbs up with its waist, conserves its strength, and waits for it to cross the mountainside before rushing!"

Zhang Yiguo nodded, the mountain is sixty or seventy zhang high, and it is more difficult to climb up, rushing too early, and when he reaches the top of the mountain, he has no strength to fight.

"Very well, the Dutch on the hill, it is said that there are only five hundred, and we are ten times as many as them, so everyone should have faith." Zhang Yiguo encouraged, and continued: "In addition, when charging, the shield hand should pay attention to covering the firecracker, how to arrange the tasks of the killer group, firearms group, and combat group in your team, the three of you are in charge." ”

The Ming army is fighting now, and they are all formulating big plans from above and specific tactics from below. In this way, the requirements are passed down layer by layer, and each soldier can be assigned different tasks in the most detail.

At this time, they were discussing, and suddenly, someone found that Li Dingguo was riding a horse and several generals were coming.

When the soldiers gathered around saw them, they all stood up and saluted, and everywhere they passed, the soldiers said, "Great commander." ”

Li Dingguo rode around the various formations, constantly raising his horsewhip to respond to the soldiers, encouraging and boosting morale, and when he walked through the battalions responsible for attacking the fort, the sun had all come out.

December was the coldest time in the Ming Dynasty, but in the South Seas, it was still hot, so there were not many suitable times for attacking, and the Ming army could only choose morning and evening.

At this time, Yu Youming immediately rushed in front of the battle, and he saw that it was not too early, so he galloped in front of the army, boosting morale.

He can be regarded as the second generation of generals in the Ming army, one of the highest-ranking young generals in the Wuzhong Army system, and has achieved his father's position before his death, serving as the commander of the Fengjie battalion.

In the second generation, only Sun Shoufa's nephew Qin Feng can compare with him.

The war horse galloped, raising a cloud of dust, and the gaze of the soldier moved with his running, and the mouth let out wave after wave of shouts, and both the soldier and the general gradually boiled with blood.

Under the other two forts, one and a half battalions of the Shence Army commanded by Chen Youlong, a section of Zhongyi Town commanded by Liu Wenxiu, and a battalion of the Shence Army also began to chant, and the three echoed each other from afar.

In the main fort, Moschel, the president of the East India Company, and several officers stood at the top of the main fort, observing the battlefield with a clairvoyant mirror, and everyone's faces were difficult to look at.

"Your Excellency, we can't let the Ming people capture the fort, once the company loses the fort, the Ming people can turn the artillery to bombard our warships, and the company's fleet will suffer a devastating blow, or even be completely wiped out."

When the Dutch were observing the Ming army, Yu Youming suddenly reined in his horse at the call of the soldiers, he waved the war knife in his hand forward, and shouted loudly when his mouth was neutral, "Attack!" ”

As soon as the military order was given, the Ming soldiers who lined up in a neat row were like opening the floodgates, and the soldiers in the front row immediately carried fire guns and trotted forward.

The Dutchman who was in charge of observing the fort hurriedly gave a warning, and shouted with a hard shot, "The Ming people are attacking, enter your position quickly!" The Dutchman, who had taken shelter from the shelling, got up in a hurry and hurried back to the battery.

Zhang Yiguo and his bannermen picked up their weapons, and the soldiers stared at him with the flag on his back and marched forward with the main force.

The flag behind this, with the number of the team written on it, makes it easy for the soldiers to find their commanders on the battlefield, it is similar to the flag behind the Japanese samurai, but Japan is also learning from the Tang Army.

At this time, under the bombardment of the hill artillery, they soon approached the first parallel trench, and the soldiers in front jumped into the parallel trench one after another.

Zhang Yiguo jumped into the trench, counted the number of people, and immediately followed the trench to the entrance of the zigzag trench in the middle, and then lined up with the other teams to pass through the trench and advance to the foot of the mountain.

The depiction on the fort was difficult to see, and the trenches under the mountain were full of human heads, but the shell bombardment was difficult to fall into the trenches, and could not cause damage to the Ming army, and his heart suddenly became nervous.

Zhang Yiguo and the others quickly walked to the second parallel trench at the foot of the mountain, and after walking out of the "zhi" trench, they walked some distance to the left side of the parallel trench and then stopped.

In a short time, the second parallel trench one zhang wide was full of Ming troops.

At this time, a red flag waved left and right in the middle of the trench, and the deputy general manager of Division A and Division B, where Zhang Yixing was located, suddenly pulled out his war knife and shouted loudly: "Prepare, check the equipment!" ”

When the soldiers heard the noise, they immediately checked the muskets and ammunition, and then took off the iron helmets on their backs, put them on, and tied the knots.

It was too hot in the South Seas, and the soldiers used to wear helmets on their backs, and then on their heads during wartime, and they would carry a quilt and other things when marching.

At this time, the red flag suddenly waved forward, and I saw that Mr. Qianji suddenly took out a handcuff, held it high and fired a gun into the sky, so he shouted loudly: "Get out of the trench, attack!" ”

The soldiers asked for orders, and immediately climbed out of the trench from the steps of the trench and rushed towards the hillside at a trot.

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