Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 290 Terrifying Defense

More than ten days passed in a hurry, and the migration of Tunwei gradually came to an end.

At this time, the second batch of garrison guards had already arrived at the seaport where Dongfan Zuowei and Dongfan Right Guards were located, and the last batch of [-] elite garrison guards had also arrived in Penghu. That's it.

The construction speed of Dongfan Zhongwei Acropolis is also quite astonishing. At this moment, the main defense part of the new Acropolis has basically been completed!
The upper and lower floors of the Acropolis have been completely dug out, and the surrounding walls have been surrounded by masonry-like protective walls. The parapet and arrow stacks are also being rapidly built.

This kind of city wall can no longer be regarded as a city wall in the traditional sense of the Ming Dynasty, because it has an outward side, and the inward part does not need to be built at all, because the two-story platform is equivalent to the wall of the city wall.

There is no doubt about the sturdiness of this kind of city wall, because the mountain is its wall, no matter how digging, bombing, or bombing, it is impossible to break down the wall made of the entire mountain.

And this kind of city wall has another advantage, that is, there is no need to build a gate tower, because the barracks on the two-story platform are equivalent to the defensive facilities of the gate tower.

As for the city gate, it is quite easy to defend and difficult to attack, because the city gate hole is a slope dug down from the platform.

Attacking this kind of city gate not only needs to squeeze into the narrow city gate opening and attack upwards, but also faces the defenders in the three directions above. No matter if rolling stones, wood, kerosene, etc. are thrown down, it will cause huge casualties.

Of course, this new type of acropolis is not without its drawbacks.

The biggest disadvantage of this new type of acropolis is that it is too defensive and has no other auxiliary functions. It is only suitable for guards and garrisons, and it is not suitable for ordinary civilians to live in it.

If the common people live in it, the supply of daily necessities will be a big problem, because the narrow and steep city gates with carts and horse-drawn carts cannot pass at all, and all materials can only be carried up by manpower.

Therefore, this kind of acropolis can basically only be used as a defensive facility, and cannot accommodate a large number of ordinary people living in it like an ordinary city.

However, it doesn't matter much. The purpose of Taichang building this kind of acropolis is to prevent the Dutch fleet from landing.

As for the city where ordinary people live, it can be built slowly in the future. Anyway, there are not many ordinary people in Dongfan at the moment, and these ordinary people are basically farming far from the coast.

After the main defense facilities of the Dongfan Zhongwei City are completed, the barracks are left to be built on the two-story platform, and this new type of Acropolis can also be promoted.

Taichang directly summoned the naval general school and the commanders of the other five guards, Qianhu, and Baihu.

This morning, the pier near Dongfan Zhongwei was overcrowded. Not to mention the navy general school, there were as many as hundreds of thousands of households in the other five guards alone, and as many as thousands of hundreds of households. So many people gathered in the temporary The built pier area is naturally too crowded.

However, everyone didn't feel crowded, because they were all shocked by the towering Acropolis next to the pier.

To be honest, they had never seen a city wall more than ten feet high, and they had never heard of an acropolis with a two-story structure that was more than thirty feet high.

What is the concept of more than thirty feet?
That is hundreds of meters high!
How can this kind of acropolis be broken?
Basically, these generals and generals have participated in actual combat. Standing outside a city, they will naturally think about how to attack such a city.

This is the so-called occupational disease.

Taichang wanted these people to feel the terrifying defense of this new type of acropolis outside.

He didn't say anything on purpose, and just waited on the building boat and gunboat until all the navy generals and garrison guards had arrived, and they all stretched their necks to look at the new acropolis for a while. He took Yuan Keli, Zhang Yuanfang, Zheng Chenggong and others off the flagship, and came before a group of generals and officers.

A group of generals and officers hurriedly bowed their hands and said: "See the emperor."

Taichang raised his hand slightly at first, signaling that everyone should be excused, and then pointed to the majestic acropolis next to him and said, "You all can see clearly, in the future, all acropolises built next to overseas ports will be built according to this style."

The defensive power of this kind of acropolis is really amazing. It can be said that as long as it is built, it is basically impossible to attack it. down.

Question, how to build such a majestic Acropolis?

All the generals and officers couldn't understand how such a high city wall and such a majestic acropolis were built in more than ten days.

There is no need to explain too much about this problem, as long as you go to see it on the spot, you can almost understand how this kind of acropolis was built.

Taichang immediately waved his hands and said, "Everyone follow me in and have a look."

After finishing speaking, he took the lead and walked towards the narrow city gate.

The platform on this level is more than ten feet high, and the steps in the city gate still go up obliquely, at least twenty feet long.

To be honest, walking through this narrow, long and sloping passage is frightening.

What if someone from above pushed a huge rolling stone down?
That is, there is no place to run, and you can only be crushed to death alive!

Just this one city gate hole is enough to make people desperate. As for the surrounding city walls, it is even more desperate. The city wall more than ten feet high is three to forty meters high. How to attack?

There is no need to think about the ladder, even if such a long ladder can be built, no one dares to climb it, because once they climb up, they are basically dead. As long as they push the ladder down, they will not fall to death from a height of more than ten feet That's unlikely.

In other words, this kind of powerful city is basically invincible.

In history, when Zheng Chenggong regained Dongfan, he encountered Zeelandia Castle, which was similar to this acropolis. At that time, there were only a thousand Dutch defenders in the city.

In the end, he used the method of siege to persuade the defenders in the castle to surrender after running out of ammunition and food.

It can be seen how terrifying the defense of this new type of acropolis is.

So, how was this kind of acropolis built?

Everyone walked up the narrow passage, walked to the platform on the first floor and took a look, and guessed it instantly.

This Acropolis was not built at all, but dug out!

Sure enough, Taichang immediately introduced: "This is a mountain, and this platform was dug out according to the mountain.

When you build ports and acropolises overseas in the future, you must check carefully in advance, first find a mountain like this, decide where the acropolis will be built, and then build a port nearby.

In addition, the distance between the port terminal and the acropolis should not exceed one mile, so that the artillery equipped on the acropolis can bombard the enemy ships entering the port. "

Afterwards, Taichang brought a group of generals and officers to the city wall of the second platform, pointed to the bottom boulders and said, "Look, these boulders were actually dug out when the platform was dug. There is no need to remove the excavated boulders at all times, just pile them up to make the foundation of the wall, and the foundation of the wall does not need to be dug too deep, because the entire periphery of the wall is attached to the hillside, and the bottom will not be affected at all. Too much force."

When all the generals and officers heard the words, they all nodded repeatedly to show they understood.

It is relatively simple to build the acropolis in this way. You only need to find a small hill and dig it out, then build a few tall shelves, and lay bricks and stones on the outside of the wall.

Taichang took a group of generals and officers to the second-floor platform, looked down at the port below, and then said loudly: "I hope to complete the other five acropolis within a month.

At that time, the third Spike warship will also be completed, and the sailors will come with [-] medium-sized Thor cannons and [-] muskets.

At that time, as long as the artillery and muskets are installed, the defense of the six acropolis will be almost the same.

And the Dutch will call in about a month or two, so hurry up. "

When a group of generals and officers heard the words, they hurriedly responded.

(End of this chapter)