Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 541 The real tough battle
Taichang took Charleston very easily.

Because Charleston is a castle facing the sea, as long as there are enough buildings, ships and gunboats, it can be covered with firepower, making it impossible for others to fight back.

It's a pity that only one castle in the entire Carolina colony was built by the sea, and the other castles were all inland, and even many castles were not on the banks of the big river.

For example, the first castle that Cao Wenzhao wanted to attack was Greenville.

Greenville is neither by the sea nor by the Xinliao River. There is even a small river near this castle, which even the Spike warships cannot enter.

There was no way, Cao Wenzhao could only lead his army to land more than a hundred miles away from Greenville, and then marched all the way with horse-drawn artillery carts and supplies.

The British colony is not the same as the Spanish colony.

In Spain, the king sent troops, appointed a governor, established a colony, established an administrative agency, and then started farming and mining.

The British are directly some emerging nobles or capitalists who hire a group of thugs or armed men to enclose land everywhere. After enclosing the land, they capture slaves or buy slaves to raise cattle and sheep, grow grain and cotton, and so on.

After they seized the money, they handed over a little to the king or the parliament to obtain the title of lord or noble.

This way of colonizing colonies is quite fast, but it is also quite barbaric or cruel.

Because in the colonies they are truly lawless thugs, with weapons in their hands, they can do what they want, and no one cares about them!

This is also the root cause of the unscrupulous behavior of the British colonists in North America or the Americans behind, because they were born as robbers, and they can do whatever they want, and no one can control them.

The British king wanted to control them, so they killed the British king.

If the British government wants to control them, they will directly break away from the British government and fight for independence!
These people are really not ordinary tyrannical.

What they did when they opened up colonies or enclosures, they themselves have no face to record or rarely record.

In short, they do all kinds of bad things, and they are especially afraid of retribution.

Therefore, when the soldiers of the Ming army and the soldiers of the Apache tribe appeared, those so-called big ranchers or ranchers were so frightened that they ran away and rode their horses to the nearby castle. go.

This is cheaper for Cao Wenzhao and the others, because the farms or pastures established by these people either have a lot of grain or a lot of cattle and sheep.

They even saved the effort of hunting, and they can directly fight tooth sacrifices.

However, these farms and ranches also had large numbers of slaves.

Among these slaves, the civilians of the Apache tribe or other Indian tribes are easier to rescue, at least the language is still interlinked, so they can follow the army or stay where they are and wait for other tribes to receive them.

The problem is that there are a large number of Africans among these slaves.

These Africans don't understand what they say, and they don't understand what these Africans say.

This road really made Cao Wenzhao's head bigger.

For more than 100 miles, they walked for two days.

On the morning of the third day, they arrived near Greenville Castle.

This time the British colonists will not cooperate with them like the Spaniards and retreat directly.

Not only did the British colonists not retreat, but they also guarded the castle strictly as if they were facing an enemy.

Cao Wenzhao raised his binoculars to scan the scene inside the castle, and couldn't help frowning slightly.

These British have a lot of artillery, and, judging by the caliber, there are still a few of them that should have a range similar to the [-]-jin Thor cannon.

They rode their horses to the hillside at the moment, and they probably felt that they couldn't reach them, so they didn't fire the cannons. If they lined up the artillery on the flat ground in front of the hillside, they would most likely be bombarded by them.

Moreover, the people in the castle had no intention of surrendering at all. Judging by their posture, they might want to resist to the end.

From the looks of it, this is a tough battle!

How to fight this battle?

Cao Wenzhao turned the binoculars to scan the surrounding terrain again, then pointed to several nearby hillsides and ordered decisively: "Send the order, let the artillery push all the artillery up the hillside, spread out according to the terrain, and aim at the castle ahead , ready to bombard."

It is indeed difficult to push the several hundred kilograms of artillery and the cannon cart up the mountain, but it is better to take a little effort than to eat shells.

It took tens of thousands of artillerymen with the assistance of tens of thousands of musketeers about an hour to push all the artillery up the hillside and set up artillery formations. At this time, [-] soldiers of the Apache tribe had already deployed in the valley in the middle of the hillside. Out of formation, ready to charge.

Cao Wenzhao scanned the opposite castle with his binoculars again, and then decisively ordered: "All artillery, fire ten rounds."

"Boom boom boom", there was a violent artillery roar, and thousands of artillery pieces fired together, and the castle was also filled with broken stones and dust.

The soldiers of the Apache tribe heard the roar of the artillery, and their blood was boiling.

In the past, only the invaders bombarded them with artillery. This time, Daming finally helped them bombard them back.

But the British colonists in the castle were panicked and panicked, running around.

The reason why they didn't fire was not because they thought they couldn't reach the enemy. The main problem was that they didn't have such a precise telescope in Cao Wenzhao's hands!
From such a long distance, if it is a huge building gunboat, they can barely take a look.

Opposite the question are some vague figures, how do they aim?
That's why they didn't fire.

Because they can't see clearly at all, and their ammunition is limited, and it takes time to reload. It is not as convenient and quick to fire as the Thor cannon.

If they didn't fire first, they basically had no chance to fire, because Daming's Thunder God cannons can bombard continuously. A thousand cannons can bombard ten rounds, not to mention how many of them can be killed, at least, the fort they fixed there It is very difficult to escape.

After ten rounds of bombardment, the castle was already full of holes and a mess.

However, the British colonists hiding inside did not surrender.

What is going on here?
Perhaps, they did too many bad things, and they also knew that most of the people who rushed over were Indian tribe fighters, so they didn't dare to surrender.

Perhaps, they didn't see the huge building gunboat, so they haven't fallen into despair yet.

After all, if the artillery were to knock down the castle, it would take at least a hundred thousand shells, so they bet that the enemy didn't bring so many shells.

They felt that as long as the castle was not destroyed, there was still hope of keeping it.

Because they were not just a few hundred people. After the nearby big ranchers and ranchers rushed over with their thugs, more than 1000 people had gathered in the castle, and they still had a lot of muskets.

In short, after knowing that the enemy on the opposite side was the Indians, what they considered was not surrender, but resistance.

This is the case with people who have done a lot of bad things, they are afraid of retaliation!

Cao Wenzhao did not bring so much ammunition.

Because they don't have many war horses, and there are not many carriages, and they have to carry food, grass and luggage.

Therefore, he brought a total of [-] shells.

In other words, after these ten rounds of bombardment, if the ammunition is loaded, it will be able to bombard for another ten rounds.

It is impossible for these shells to knock down other people's city walls.

So, should we order people to go back to transfer ammunition?
In war, not only casualties need to be considered, but sometimes time must also be considered.

He can't spend more than ten days building a castle!

If he is really so stubborn, I am afraid that he will not be able to help the Apache tribe regain all their territories in a few months.

(End of this chapter)