When the Dutch fleet began to bombard, the scene was quite shocking, starting from the bow of the first ship, the Dutch ships began to fire their guns from front to back, and each shot could throw a large number of shells.

Originally, the sailors in the seawolf's fort were still full of confidence before this, waiting to fight the Dutch, but when they saw the shelling of the Dutch, many people's faces began to turn pale, because they had always thought that their cannons were enough and powerful, but when they saw the Dutch fleet set up and began to shell today, they knew that the firepower of these red-haired people's flotilla was really very powerful, far exceeding the firepower of the fort they set up at the mouth of the river.

When the guns of the Dutch ships began to flicker, all the marines of the battery immediately burrowed into the fort.

After Yu Xiaotian established Tamsui City, he began to send people to build the defense facilities here, in addition to building a lighthouse for navigation at the mouth of the river, he also built several forts at the mouth of the river.

These forts all use the main structure of the rammed earth of the three-fold earth, it seems that the rammed earth structure is not as strong as the all-stone structure, but the rammed earth structure of the three-fold earth has its points, that is, the barrier of the fort is more elastic, which can absorb the energy of the shelling to a certain extent, and the interior is not easy to crack when it is bombarded, causing the stone fragments on the inner wall to fly sideways to kill and injure the insiders.

Moreover, on the outside of the rammed earth walls of the fort, a layer of thick large stones was also covered, which effectively protected the fort, and it was basically impossible for ordinary shells to destroy the fort.

In each fort, three to five twenty-four-pounder guns were generally arranged, and in total, about thirty twenty-four-pounder guns were arranged in the fort outside the estuary, and in each fort, some light guns were also placed, as a measure to prevent the enemy's infantry from landing and attacking the forts, constituting crossfire from far and near, and the overall fortification was quite tight.

When the Dutch bombardment began, all the sailors stationed at the fort took refuge in the forts, and hundreds of shells of various types fell into the forts like hailstones.

The whole fort, like a sieve, kept trembling under the enemy's shelling, and the dust was constantly falling on the top of the head, making the soldiers in the fort gray one by one.

Fortunately, their fortifications were built with semi-permanent fortifications, all with caps, not open ones, otherwise it would have been difficult for the Seawolves to survive such shelling by the Dutch.

Although the flowering bombs, that is, grenades, have not been put into use in large quantities in this era, even if there are flowering grenades, with the current manufacturing technology of shells and gunpowder, the power is not great, so the Dutch did not use many such flowering shells, and basically used ordinary solid shells.

But even so, the kinetic energy of twenty or thirty pounds of shells smashed on the fort is also quite powerful, and when each shell hits the fort, the fort will shake violently, making the officers and soldiers of the sea wolf hiding in the fort worried.

"Grandma's, call Lao Tzu! Hit with just one cannon! Let them not be too arrogant! The second lieutenant of the fort scolded, foaming at the barricade and yelling loudly at the soldiers in the fort.

At this time, after experiencing the feeling of being shelled a few times, the gunners found that their artillery fort was still quite strong, and when the red-haired people's shells landed on their forts, they failed to effectively destroy their forts, so they gradually calmed down, although the orders from above did not allow them to open full fire, but they were still allowed to open three percent of their firepower, so they currently had three twenty-four-pounder guns in their forts, which could just be used to return fire with one.

So these gunners, who had been holding back for a long time, after hearing the order, all gathered next to the cannon in the middle, quickly began to load, and quickly joined forces to push the cannon to the gun door, and the muzzle of the gun poked out of the gun door and pointed to the sea outside.

"The enemy ship is three hundred paces away, aim!" The observer lay down at the gun door and visually measured the distance of the enemy ship from the battery, and immediately roared loudly.

The gunners immediately began to slowly turn the barrel and adjust the elevation angle of the barrel, aiming it at the largest red-haired ship in the center.

From the flag, they can see that the largest warship is the enemy's handsome ship, that is, the flagship, and since they want to fight, they naturally have to pick the most important one.

For these sailors, they have to carry out high-intensity artillery training every day, and now whether it is loading or aiming, they are already familiar with it, and it doesn't take much time at all, and every few days, they will also conduct a live firing, so for their own accuracy, these gunners are still quite confident.

More importantly, they have to carry out aiming and artillery training on the sea surface every day, what distance should be adjusted to how high the elevation angle of the gun body, they have long been familiar with it, and 300 steps is the most accurate effective range of their 24-pound gun, so basically there will be no error, and there is no need to even shoot a school, not to mention that when they train on weekdays, the sights are buoys composed of small sampans, and now they are replaced by a large ship of 2,000 materials, and there is no need to worry about not hitting the target.

"Aim!" The gun commander who was in charge of aiming the cannon had just finished aiming, and as soon as he finished aiming, he immediately shouted loudly, and the other gunners who pushed the cannon immediately rushed to both sides of the cannon when they heard the sound, turned their backs and opened their mouths wide to cover their ears, in case the huge cannon sound would deaf their ears.

"Fire!" The second lieutenant commander of the battery did not wait for the gunner's voice to land, and immediately roared.

A gunner had already prepared a red-hot fire drill, and without hesitation, he poked at the fire door where the primer was loaded.

The inside of the fort shook violently, and at the same time there was a loud roar, and the turret of the twenty-four-pounder gun instantly sat back sharply, until it was pulled by the pulley block, and then stopped.

The smell of gunpowder immediately filled the entire inside of the fort, and people couldn't help but cough loudly.

"Hit! Ha ha! Well played! Right in the bow! "The lookout at a lookout window above the fort immediately loudly reported the effect of the shelling.

The artillery commander smiled and said: "Grandma, if you can't hit it so closely, Lao Tzu should be beaten up!" Load! Fast! Let's give them another shot! Ha ha! This time Lao Tzu is going to hit their stern! ”

The second lieutenant was quite satisfied with the gunners' appearance, and the first shot hit, which was a very face-saving thing, and it also fully showed that he usually qualified the drills of these gunners, although he could not fire at full power today, but with the effect of this gun, at least he could get a commendation.

While this battery opened fire in counter-attack, several other forts began to act in unison, and at the same time began to fire back at the Dutch ships outside the estuary.

Because of the restrictions of the order, these artillery forts are not fully fired, they only use one cannon at most two guns to counterattack, and basically the artillery accuracy is very high, this is inseparable from their daily drills, for the performance of the cannon, they have long been familiar with the relationship can not be more familiar, the relationship between the muzzle elevation angle and the firing range they have already remembered the melon, know it well, so between three hundred steps to five hundred steps, want to hit a large ship that is not very fast, there is no difficulty for them.

In addition, they have recently been taught by the Spanish mercenaries, so that their gunners have improved their gunnery level, so the gunners of each fort have a high shooting accuracy, although individual forts do not achieve the first hit, but they are also some close arrow shells, which are already very close to the target.

The arrogant Dutch, after starting the shelling, did not expect to be counterattacked by the seawolf fort so quickly, although the firepower of these seawolves' forts was not strong, and there were not many guns that fired, which made them feel that the number of artillery equipped in the seawolves' forts was limited, but they were surprised by the accuracy of the shelling of the seawolves' gunners.

Shortly after they had smashed the first round of shells on the shore, and before they had finished preparing for the second salvo, the Sea Wolves on the shore began to counterattack, although it was only a few cannons, but these shells were very accurate.

Immediately, Waite's flagship was hit three times in a row, and two other ships were hit by one shot each, even if the other two shells did not hit their ships, but they were all close-fire shells, very close to their ships, and with only a little adjustment, it was estimated that the next shot would hit their ships.

In addition, what surprised them was that these sea wolves' shore guns were actually Western-style large-caliber artillery, from the point of view of ballistics, they should belong to snake cannons, or half snake cannons, full of power, originally their warships were made of solid hardwood, and the hull side plates were very thick, which could easily resist the shells fired by the cannons of the Ming army in the past, but in front of the sea wolf's cannons, their hulls could not withstand it, and almost the middle guns would be shot through the hull, although there were few cannons, but they had already caused casualties.

Weter's ship hit three guns in a row, all of which were accurate on the side of their hull, and a shell pierced into their lower gun compartments, killing several of their gunners on the spot, and destroying one of their guns.

This kind of shelling startled Waite and his men, and they quickly ordered to speed up the shelling and suppress the shelling of these sea wolves on the shore.

Soon after the first salvo was fired on the sea, a series of earth-shattering cannon sounds were once again remembered, and the smoke of gunpowder once again shrouded around the Dutch warships, which were slowly blown away by the sea breeze, and the air was filled with a thick smell of gunsmoke, and the whistling shells once again fell like a storm between the various artillery forts on the shore.

Once again, the seawolf's artillery ramparts trembled violently under the heavy shelling of the enemy.