646,000 artillery pieces bombarded the city, and it was impossible to wake up the people who pretended to be asleep

[Today's chapter is presented, let me tell you, I was frozen last night, I had a cold, I had a fever, I can't add more in the past two days, it's really uncomfortable, wait for Lao Yun to get better, and then add more! ] 】

"Impossible, how could the Zheng family send so many warships? That's close to a hundred. ”

More than half an hour later, Henry looked in disbelief at the surface of the Tamsui River, which was completely occupied by warships at this time, densely packed with warships, and roared angrily.

In the past half an hour, in addition to Hong Zhen's 30 vanguard fleets that arrived first, more than 70 warships have sailed into the Tamsui River from the sea.

And Brian and Henry, who had been standing on the walls of San Domingo and looking at the freshwater river in front of them, slowly stiffened their faces, and finally became even more incredulous.

"Could it be that the Zheng family is really in the south, defeating General Bruce's Far East Fleet, and the city of Governor Paul's Geranza has also been conquered?

This is impossible, not to mention the strength of General Bruce's Far East Fleet, just to mention the cities of Geranza and Provenza, which were guarded by Governor Paul, they are not something that the Zheng family can easily defeat.

If it weren't for the Zheng family's great victory in the south, how could they have the opportunity to send such a huge fleet to attack us? ”

Brian said with some confusion.

"Perhaps, this fleet is not the Zheng family's fleet?" Suddenly, Henry next to him spoke.

"Is this really not the Zheng family's fleet, but at this time, in addition to the Zheng family's fleet, who else in the Ming Dynasty can have such a fleet of hundreds of warships?"

Brian frowned, lost in thought.

"Could it be him?" A moment later, Brian exclaimed.

"Brian, who is it?" Henry also asked eagerly.

"Pete, go and call Andre over, I have something to ask him."

Brian ignored Henry's inquiry for the time being, and instead turned to his lieutenant behind him and shouted.

Immediately, he turned his head again, looked at Henry beside him, with a gloomy face, and said: "Just now I remembered that at this time in Daming, in addition to the Zheng family, there is another person who may have such a fleet.

That's the one who secretly made a deal with us before, the general surnamed Li from Jiangbei, Li Zixiao. ”

"It's him!"

After hearing this, Henry's eyes also shrank, of course he knew about Li Zixiao, and they were responsible for taking back Andre and the batch of firearms and ammunition for the weapons transaction with Li Zixiao last year.

"Lieutenant Colonel, you're looking for me." At this time, Andre also ran up, and after saluting Brian and Henry, he shouted.

"Second Lieutenant Andre, come over and see, are the battle flags flying by those warships on the river at this time from Jiangbei?"

When Brian saw Andre coming, he took the initiative to hand the glasses in his hand to Andre and said.

"Yes."

Andre answered, stepped forward to take his glasses, and looked at the White Dragon Army warship on the river in the distance.

Because, the White Dragon Army's warships were far away from the castle, and it was impossible to see the battle flags they hung with human eyes without the help of goggles.

"Soaring White Snake!"

Soon, with the help of his glasses, Andre saw clearly the battle flag hanging on the White Dragon Army warship, and couldn't help but exclaim.

Immediately, Andre put down the glasses in his hand, returned them to Brian, and then saluted and shouted: "Report colonel, those warships are flying the unique 'Soaring White Snake' flag of Jiangbei."

Last year, when my subordinates went to Jiangbei, they saw their flags, and they couldn't be wrong, they were not the Zheng family's fleet, but Jiangbei's fleet. ”

Sure enough, I guessed right. Alright, Second Lieutenant Andrey, you go down. ”

After hearing Andre's words, Brian's face became even more gloomy, and he whispered, and then waved his hand at Andre.

"It's really Jiangbei's fleet, so that the Daming Jiangbei general and the Zheng family have teamed up to attack us?"

Henry, who was beside him, also heard Andre's answer clearly, and said suspiciously.

Brian shook his head lightly and said, "Li Zixiao and Zheng Zhilong have not joined forces, I don't know."

But one thing is certain now, this Jiangbei fleet is coming for us. That's all that matters. ”

"Report to the colonel, another group of warships have sailed into the mouth of the river, and at this time there are one hundred and thirty warships of the enemy on the river outside."

At this time, a red-haired ghost soldier approached Brian and Henry and reported the situation to the two of them.

"What? And battleships! Henry felt like he couldn't take it anymore.

Immediately, when Lu Yuan's more than 130 warships all sailed into the Tamsui River, arranged on the surface of the Tamsui River, and aimed the muzzles of a black hole at them, Brian and Henry were still shocked and speechless.

"There are more than 130 warships, in fact, there are a few warships that are so big, although they are not as big as our 'Salvaro' battleship, but they are not much worse."

At this time, Henry used his glasses to carefully look at the White Dragon Army battleship on the surface of the Tamsui River, and said in a condensed voice.

"Don't be afraid, no matter how many warships they have, they won't be able to sail up on land, we can defend the castle."

At this time, although Brian was also frightened in his heart, he still maintained a calm appearance and cheered himself up.

At this time, in the castle of San Domingo, not only Brian and Henry, the two supreme military officers, were shocked by the more than a hundred warships that appeared on the river outside.

Even in the castle, those ordinary red-haired ghost soldiers whispered one by one at this time, looking at the eyes outside, revealing fear.

"Report to the general, all the warships are in place, ready to shell the castle of the red-haired ghost."

At the same moment, on the flagship of the White Dragon Army Navy Lu Yuan, a naval adjutant ran to Lu Yuan and reported loudly.

"Okay, now that all the ships are in place, let's give the order to open fire!" Lu Yuan's eyes were deep, and he said lightly.

"Yes." The adjutant answered, and went down to give the order.

Thundered!!

After the time of half a bag of cigarettes passed, the sound of cannonballs, which had been silent before, sounded again on the surface of the Tamsui River at this time.

However, this time, it was no longer just Hong Zhen's vanguard fleet that fired its own guns, but all the 130 warships that entered the river and fired at the castle of San Domingo at the same time.

In an instant, the whole world was occupied by the sound of 'booming' cannons, and the cannonballs fired from the flames of the White Dragon Army's warships roared and fell towards the castle of San Domingo on the shore.

"Get down, get all down, find cover, the enemy fires."

In the castle, Brian was also very nervous after hearing the collective cannon fire of the White Dragon Army fleet, and roared loudly at the red-haired ghost soldiers with muskets around him.

Thundered!

Next, the red-haired ghosts in the castle of San Domingo saw what it means to be a cannonball all over the sky, and the roaring explosions filled the castle.

More than 130 warships and more than 2,000 guns of the White Dragon Army launched a carpet bombardment on the castle of San Domingo.

The cannons fired shells to bombard the castle walls, while the howitzers equipped with the warships were responsible for shooting a large number of explosive shells into the castle to kill and injure the red-haired ghosts' soldiers.

"Ahhh

For a while, the entire castle of San Domingo was covered by shells, and while a large number of buildings were smashed and blown up, it also affected the red-haired ghost soldiers inside, and there were terrible screams.

"Find cover, hide." Inside the castle, the shouts of red-haired ghost officers resounded.

What's even worse is that the first battalion that was transferred to the city wall by Brian before, the explosive bomb fell around the city wall and exploded, leaving them with no place to hide.

After the explosion of the explosive bomb, the iron pieces and nails were shot in all directions, and the lethality was many red-haired ghost soldiers.

Although, very few red-haired ghost soldiers are stabbed to death by an explosive bomb, unless they are very unlucky and are exploded at very close range by an explosive bomb, it is possible to kill someone.

However, those scattered pieces of iron and iron nails caused a sharp increase in the number of red-haired ghost soldiers, and these injured soldiers basically lost their combat effectiveness.

"Brian, no, we can't let the soldiers of the first battalion stay on the city wall, the enemy's fleet is obviously just shelling, and there is no intention of sending soldiers to land and attack our castle.

Rather than letting the soldiers of the first battalion continue to be bombarded on the city walls, it is better to let most of the soldiers retreat and go to the bunkers in the city.

Only a small number of soldiers need to be left on the city wall to keep an eye on the enemy fleet on the river, and if they send men to land and attack, we will let the soldiers go up to the wall to defend it. ”

Henry and Brian were hiding behind the city walls, and Henry proposed to Brian as he watched the soldiers around him constantly being injured by shells.

"Okay, agree to your plan, let Owen and their class continue to stay on the city wall, and the others will all retreat."

Soon, Brian gave the order.

Thundered!

On the river, nearly 130 warships and more than 2,000 artillery shelled the red-haired ghost of Saint-Domingo, which lasted for more than two incense sticks, and there was no intention of stopping.

If it weren't for the fact that the breeches of many guns on the battleship were red, they stopped the shelling, poured cold water on the guns to cool down, and then continued the shelling.

To the surprise of Brian and Henry, until now, they had not seen the enemy fleet on the river, and sent people to land and attack their castle.

"Hmph, these despicable yellow-skinned monkeys, they don't think that they don't need to send people to land, they can destroy our castle with artillery, let's raise the white flag!

These vile yellow-skinned monkeys, ignorant and ugly, who are only worthy of being slaves to our noble Caucasians, are as disgusting as those.

It's just that the yellow-skinned monkeys here are much more powerful than those in the south, but I firmly believe that our noble Deniland people will definitely win the final victory. ”

At this time, Henry and Brian were hiding in a semi-underground bunker in the castle of San Domingo to prevent being injured by shells, and Henry leaned against the stone wall, smoking a cigarette.

"Henry, you are wrong, the yellow people in this country called Daming, their civilization is not weak to us at all, and even for a long time in the past, they were the most powerful country in the world.

I don't want to admit it, but it's true, and I only learned about it after I got here.

The yellow race of the Ming Dynasty and the yellow race on those islands in Batavia are not the same at all, otherwise we would not have been defeated by the Zheng family's fleet before.

You must know that the Zheng family is just a general in this country, and it seems that the strength is not as strong as the Jiangbei general this time.

Anyway, this Ming country is too big and complicated, even bigger than our entire Baroo continent, and that's all I know.

So, I've never despised the people here, and yours can't think of that. ”

Compared with Henry, Brian, who has been on Ryukyu Island for several years, knows more about the situation in the Ming Dynasty, and he has even been to Quanzhou and Jinling.

He had seen with his own eyes that the majestic cities of Quanzhou and Jinling were many times larger than their small castles.

It is precisely because he knows more about the truth that he will not underestimate the enemy, unlike the people who look down on this place like Henry.

"No way, how could these yellow-skinned monkeys create a civilization more advanced than our Denilanders, no matter how big their territory is, can it be bigger than those Gallic chickens?

These yellow-skinned monkeys are simply wasting such fertile land in vain.

If you want me to say, they should be like the yellow-skinned monkeys on the southern islands, obediently accept our rule and be slaves to our noble Drasni. ”

Henry didn't quite believe Brian's words and said.

After hearing Henry's words, Brian shook his head, he knew that he couldn't convince Henry, you can never wake up a person who is pretending to be asleep, so he simply won't reply to him.

"Huh? Shelling seems to have become less? At this time, Brian sensed the situation outside and said.

"Report to the colonel, the enemy's shelling has weakened, and all those small guns have stopped shelling, except for a few large-caliber guns, which are still shelling our castle.

Moreover, the shells fired by the enemy's large-caliber artillery smashed several large cracks in the walls of our castle, and two of them collapsed. ”

At this time, a red-haired ghost soldier outside hurriedly ran in and said to Brian.

"What! Let's go, go out and have a look. When Brian heard the news, he was also shocked and immediately walked out towards the underground bunker.

Peng!

As a result, Brian had barely stepped out of the semi-underground bunker when he felt a tremor in the ground, followed by a muffled sound from the southern side of the wall.

This is exactly the movement of the 64-pounder guns fired from the three-masted gunboats of the White Dragon Army, which smashed into the walls of the castle of San Domingo.

At this time, the White Dragon Army warships on the Tamsui River basically stopped shelling, except for the five 64-pounder large-caliber guns on the four three-masted gunboats, which were still firing shells.

"As we predicted before, the only thing that can wreak havoc on a fortified castle like the Red-Haired Ghost is the sixty-four-pounder cannon on our warship."

At this time, on the flagship of the new three-masted gunship, Lu Yuan held a clairvoyant mirror in his hand, looked at the side of the Castle of San Domingo, and said in a deep voice.