Chapter Eighty-Six: Sitting in the City of Sorrow
The power of the musket in this era is played, more often it is necessary to rely on concentrated fire to shoot, in order to produce a more shocking killing effect, if the gun is fired sporadically, in addition to not being able to make up for the accuracy defects of the musket, even if it is targeted, it will not scare the opponent, so the sea wolf soldiers have made it clear since their inception that no one is allowed to fire without authorization before the leader gives an order, and after the offender comes down, he will be severely punished.
Therefore, every time the musketeers fired, they had to be ordered by the upper hand before they dared to hold the fire, and when the battlefield was reloaded, they would shout: "Reloaded!" ”
Ma Xiao made a cameo appearance in the role of a temporary musketeer commander, which was very good, and when all the musketeers had finished reloading, he waved his hand again and shouted, "Fire!" ”
As a result, another volley of muskets fell from the wall, and nearly ten of Chaojianglong's men were knocked to the ground.
Moreover, the artillery on the wall of the village was not idle, and they took turns firing at the outside of the village, and the shells roared and fell into the enemy group, and the blood and flesh of the men who hit the Chaojiang Dragon were splashed everywhere, and the stumps flew around.
Chaojiang Long didn't expect that the sea wolf troops stationed here actually had such strong firepower, and with only two faces, his subordinates were in front of the stockade with dozens of corpses, and they paid a heavy price.
And although he kept bombarding the village with artillery, the shells hit the wall, and only broke a few pieces of the outer layer of the logs, but basically could not effectively kill and injure the sea wolf tribes hiding behind the arrow stacks on the wall.
Seeing the rows of muskets lowered from the wall, every time the musket salvo of the Sea Wolf tribe was fired, a few or even a dozen accomplices had to be overturned, and it didn't take long for these attacking Chaojiang Dragon's men to collapse again, and they fled towards the back like a tide.
Even if they turned around and fled, the Sea Wolf tribe did not let them go, and still fired at them in the back, knocking some of the fleeing minions to the ground, making those subordinates of the Chaojiang Dragon even more like frightened birds.
The head of the mixed river dragon grew larger......
Mixed Jianglong and his fleet and men had been in Nangantang for two full days, and during these two days, he tried his best to organize no less than ten attacks on the village.
However, the firepower of the sea wolf tribe guarding here is really fierce, and every time he organizes an attack, he is repelled by the sea wolf tribe without exception.
In the past two days, Chen Jiu only left nearly 200 of his subordinates outside the village, many of whom did not die, but after being seriously injured, with Chen Jiu's treatment conditions, they could not save their lives at all, so these wounded, even if they were carried down, could only be placed on the shore and watched them die gradually in the wail.
In fact, such a battle has almost become a one-sided slaughter, and the result of many attacks is that Chaojiang Long's men were beaten back without even touching the wall.
And once the mixed river dragon was really angry, sent his cronies into battle, forced nearly 300 minions to charge together, and after paying a lot of price, he finally rushed to the bottom of the wall, and successfully put the wooden ladder on the wall, and began to climb up the wall along the wooden ladder.
Just when the mixed river dragon was overjoyed in his heart and felt that there was a door for attacking the village this time, the sea wolf tribes guarding the village suddenly threw a lot of fire oil bottles under the wall, and immediately set fire on fire to the outside of the wall, and even a few wooden ladders were lit into torches.
As a result, the minions attached to the ladder were like grasshoppers that had been skewered and grilled, and they fell down with fire, and in the blink of an eye, they were burned alive under the wall.
In the end, only a few of the fierce Chaojiang Dragon's subordinates successfully broke through the wall, but it was only a flash in the pan, and they were slaughtered by the sea wolf tribe guarding the wall, and their heads were chopped off and hung on the wall, becoming a trophy for the sea wolf to show off.
When they saw that the people of the mixed river dragon did not dare to attack, they even climbed the battlement wall in rows, stood on the top of the arrow battlement, unfastened their belts together, took out the water gun, and peed under the wall, and at the same time loudly laughed at the mixed river dragon and his men, teasing them and letting them continue to come to die.
After two days, Mixed Jianglong and his men were getting more and more frustrated, and on the third day, Mixed Jianglong found that he was no longer able to organize a new offensive, as soon as he proposed to send people to attack the village again, his subordinates all showed frightened looks, desperately bowed their heads and shrank back, for fear of being pointed on their heads by Mixed Jianglong, and sent them to death.
Mixed Jianglong also felt that the morale of his side had fallen into the crotch of his pants, and at this time, he continued to send people to attack the village, which could no longer have any effect, but just let his subordinates die in vain, so he could only sigh, ordered a temporary truce, surrounded the stockade, and adopted the method of siege, forcing the wolf troops on the island to run out of ammunition and collapse on their own.
As pirates, they don't look very arrogant at sea, but the difference in profession makes their combat effectiveness on land, especially their ability to attack fortified villages, very poor, and they generally don't choose to attack some strong villages, just for fear of paying too much price.
And this time they came to attack Nangantang, but Chen Jiu was too light on the enemy, thinking that the Nangantang village was not big, and he had many subordinates, so it shouldn't be a problem to take it, so he brought people here to attack the village on a large scale.
However, he ignored his ability to tackle tough problems, doing this is a technical work, and he needs a complete set of effective planning and equipment to help him carry out it effectively, and what they lack is this kind of technique, so he hit his head here and broke the blood flow.
So the mixed river dragon had to give up this method of strong attack, and instead took the siege here, even the few peers who came to help the fist, this time when they saw that the mixed river dragon just attacked this sea wolf's stockade, and paid such a heavy price, they were all frightened.
Pang Sen and the others, when they saw that the people of the Sea Wolf Tribe, just these people who were guarding here, actually had such a strong combat effectiveness, they couldn't help but secretly beat a little drum in their hearts, and felt that the matter of coming here this time was probably not as simple as they thought, and at the beginning they were still watching from the sidelines, laughing at the incompetence of the subordinates of the mixed river dragon.
But after several attacks were repulsed, they also realized that in fact, if they did this, it was not necessarily much better than what Mixed River Dragon did, and it might even be worse than what Mixed River Dragon did, so then they all became dumb and didn't dare to laugh at Mixed River Dragon next to them.
They are also afraid that the mixed river dragon will be forced to be in a hurry, so they turned around and forced them to help attack the village, the main purpose of their help is to pick up cheap ones, but they are not here to gnaw hard bones, this kind of dirty work, it is better to let the people of mixed river dragon do it.
However, their siege method did not have any effect, and five days passed, and the mixed river dragon organized several tentative siege operations, but the sea wolf tribes in the village seemed to be like no troublemakers, still with high morale and fierce firepower, and the several attacks organized by the mixed river dragon were all defeated and ended in failure.
This time the mixed river dragon is really difficult, he brought a thousand large and hundreds of people, dozens of boats, every day here to consume, every day just to eat food, more than 1,000 catties, as well as drinking water, is a huge amount, seven or eight days down, he is here can not move an inch, such consumption he can't afford at all.
He brought a lot of food with him this time, but it was only enough to meet their needs for a few days, and by the sixth day, the food they were carrying on the ship was almost at the bottom.
He had no choice but to let some boats, using some fishing gear carried by the boats, to fish in the nearby seas to supplement their increasingly scarce food.
At the same time, he had to send some of his subordinates to return to Shuangfeng Island by boat to transfer some grain, and at the same time send some of his subordinates to scatter to the nearby fishing villages on the shore along the mouth of the Min River to grab grain to solve their food problems.
But in this way, his strength began to be gradually dispersed again, and by the eighth day, the number of ships he had left in Nangantang had only about thirty, and there were only about 1,000 men left, and one-third of the ships and men were sent by him to find food.
On the contrary, the sea wolf tribes in the village did not have a hard time, they had stored enough food in the village in advance for them to eat for a month, and there were a lot of salted fish and salted meat in the food, and even in the Xiaoice cellar dug underground, some large ice cubes were stored, and some fresh and refrigerated fruits and vegetables.
Moreover, a well was dug in the village, and a dark ditch was dug underground, and a dark spring water source on the mountain behind was connected with a bamboo pipe, which was directly introduced into the village for the people in the village to use, so they stayed in the village, not only safe, but also lived a very comfortable life, and there was no need to worry about the danger of running out of food.
In the summer, the temperature is very high, there is often heavy rain on the sea, and in a few days, there is also a typhoon, and the mixed river dragon and his subordinates who stay outside, including those colleagues who came to help the fist, in such weather, in addition to enduring the high temperature of baking, but also have to endure heavy rain, life can be said to be miserable.
Mixed Jianglong felt that the firearms of the sea wolf tribe guarding the village were too powerful, so he also organized an attack when it was raining heavily, and he thought that the reason why he couldn't attack the village was that he suffered from the sharp firearms of the defenders, and now that it was raining heavily, their firearms should not be used.
So he supervised the formation again, and sent more than 200 people to attack the village in the rain, but it didn't come to pass, but what was waiting for them was a painful beating of the head and face, even if it was raining heavily, the sea wolf tribes guarding the village seemed to be not affected at all, and the firearms could still be fired.
As a result, Chaojianglong and his subordinates, who were in a hurry and thought that they would not be attacked again, were beaten up on their heads and faces, and they rolled like mud monkeys one by one, crying and shouting for their mothers, and fled back, except for throwing more than a dozen corpses in the rain outside the village, they were not able to get any cheap.
What Chen Jiu thought of, in fact, the sea wolves had already thought of, when he was expanding and repairing the wall, he had already built roofs on some gun emplacements that could shelter from the wind and rain, and the cannons could be placed in such a gun room to calmly load and fire, and they would not be affected by the rain at all.
Moreover, after Chen Jiu came, Ma Xiao asked people to set up a small tent behind the arrow stack, every other distance, just enough for a musketeer to stand underneath, and he could continue to load and fire in the rain calmly.
Chen Jiu's little abacus was all expected by the sea wolf, so his attempt to take advantage of the heavy rain to conquer this stockade naturally ended in failure.
Chen Jiu's heart sank more and more, this time he went south brazenly, trying to fight to the death with the sea wolf again, but it was a bad start, after eight days here, the sea wolf's fleet did not even take a head, and not even a boat came to Nangantang to explore the news, but even so, this small Nangantang village has become his lingering nightmare, making him sit here in the city of sorrow.
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