Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 982
On the southern edge of the Sahara Desert, a temporary supply point established by Spain and the Holy Roman Empire.

Twenty armored warships of the European Union United Fleet are docking at the temporary pier, and nearly [-] broken soldiers who have fled one after another are staring nervously at the southeast from the temporary fortress.

This point of defensive power seems to be a joke to the Black God Army with tens of millions.

Wallenstein wants to send more warships and army officers and soldiers to guard here, but the combined fleet of the European Union is not dedicated to serving him alone. Spain and the Holy Roman Empire will not be able to attract hundreds of thousands of troops for a while.

At this moment, Felipe IV will also be able to control the newly built [-] ironclad warships, and the other warships were taken to the Nile River Basin by the Duke of Richelieu in the name of attacking East Africa.

And most of the two hundred ironclad battleships were sent to pull people between the Americas and the Spanish mainland. It would be great to have twenty ships stationed here.

As for the army, the armies of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire were crippled at the moment. Even if they resorted to militarism and frantically recruited recruits, they would not be able to fight on the battlefield for a while.

Wallenstein had no choice but to go back to mainland Europe to reorganize the Spanish and Holy Roman Empire armies, replace recruits and veterans in batches, and strive to reorganize 50 elite troops as soon as possible.

The only thing he can keep is nearly [-] frightened routs, and the [-] elite cavalry under him are his own troops, so naturally they can't stay here as cannon fodder.

In fact, he never thought that this temporary supply point could be held, and he didn't even send any reinforcements to the subsequent supply points.

After he came back to his senses, he already understood the tactics of the Ming Empire or these black mercenaries. They just used one trick to lure the enemy deep, lure him into the encirclement and then encircle and wipe out.

This tactic is not too simple for him, he will play it.

The reason why he didn't send people to reinforce these supply points was to lure people to go deep.

Anyway, North Africa has thousands of miles of coastline, and he can let [-] ironclad warships cooperate with the defenders at the supply point to slowly consume the mercenaries.

And he organized 50 elites as soon as possible, and then used the North African terrain they were familiar with to arrange various ambushes, preparing to deal a fatal blow to those mercenaries.

At that time, he can completely command the army of land and water to cut off the food and fresh water supply of others, and then gather heavy troops to block the back road of others.

There is no food and fresh water in the Sahara Desert, and millions of troops will still die of thirst and starve to death!

I have to say, his trick is really vicious.

If Zuma and Atlanta were really leading the army, they might have fallen into his tricks and fell into the terrifying Sahara Desert, where they ran out of water and food and died.

Unfortunately, he also made the same mistake as Taichang, that is, he underestimated the enemy.

He didn't consider that the Navy of the Ming Empire would secretly help. He only knew that the small warships of the mercenaries were no threat to the iron-clad warships at all.

Zhang Yuanfang held up the binoculars and scanned it carefully, and couldn't help but have a strange look on his face.

He really didn't expect that there were only a few warships stationed by the enemy to guard the frontline strongholds.

Twenty ironclad warships are not enough for them to fire a few salvos!

However, he did not underestimate the enemy, the lion fought the rabbit with all his strength, and he fought twenty iron-clad battleships as if two hundred iron-clad battleships.

What if there are really two hundred ironclad warships guarding here?

Naturally, let the Spike go up to cover and block them first, and they will carry out a sneak attack from behind!

After a wave of command flags, the order was quickly conveyed to Zheng Hongkui.

Zheng Hongkui felt as if he had returned to the time when he was a pirate. When they first started, his car was a small boat of [-] materials.

He really didn't expect that one day his flagship would turn back into a small boat of [-] materials.

Of course, the warship under his hands at this moment is not comparable to that when he was a pirate.

At this moment, he has a total of [-] Spike warships.

His commanding experience is still quite rich. He has equipped the Spike warships where the Navy Admiral School is located with command flags as high as Zhang Xu, and there are as many as four command flags on his flagship.

In this way, with the help of the sight distance of the telescope, it is very simple to pass orders or issue orders.

The command flag was waved on the Spike warship behind, it was Zhang Yuanfang passing the order to him.

Xiaoqi, who was in charge of watching from behind, immediately said in a loud voice: "Report, General Zhang ordered that the Spike warships step forward to cover."

Zheng Hongkui nodded slightly, and then ordered in a loud voice: "The forward line up, slowly approach the enemy."

After waving the command flag, the thousand Spike warships in the front quickly formed a five-row square formation, and then slowly approached the enemy's iron-clad warships at a starting speed.

At this moment, the distance between the two sides is still more than ten miles, and it may take several hours for them to drive at this speed to get in front of them.

They were just covering, so naturally they didn't need to rush forward at full speed, at least not for now.

The [-] Spike warships in front had just lined up in a square formation, and the [-] dragon warships in the back immediately followed, and also lined up in a row of [-] ships behind.

In this way, from a distance, it looks like a series of spike warships.

At this time, the ironclad warship docked at the enemy's temporary dock still remained silent.

Because the ordinary binoculars in their hands can't see the situation more than ten miles away at all, what they see is a row of small black spots.

Such a row of small black spots naturally couldn't scare them away.

They all knew that the black mercenaries were holding small warships without armor. If such small warships dared to come within five miles of the armored warship, they would be their targets. What's there to be afraid of?

In fact, they are the target at this moment.

Zhang Yuanfang saw that the enemy's twenty ironclad battleships were still not moving at all, and immediately ordered: "Send the order, open the left and right hanging windows of the bow, and prepare to launch rockets."

In fact, there are not too many requirements for the launch of the rocket launcher. Basically, as long as the bottom is flat and the top is not covered by anything.

There are hanging windows pulled by iron chains everywhere on the Feilong battleship. It is fine to turn up the hanging windows completely and stick to the armor, and it will not block the trajectory of the rocket launcher at all.

Therefore, there are many places where rockets can be launched on the Dragon Battleship.

Question, at this moment, each Flying Dragon battleship is also equipped with two quintuple-mounted rocket launchers.

Therefore, Zhang Yuanfang ordered all the Feilong battleships to set the rocket launchers on both sides of the bow, so that it is easy to aim.

There are also two rocket launchers on the flagship. Seeing that the left and right hanging windows have been opened up, Zhang Yuanfang ordered loudly: "Send the order, load the rockets, blasting bombs on the left, and incendiary bombs on the right."

He carefully calculated the distance between the two sides, and ordered all the dragon warships to adjust the angles of the rocket launchers, and then ordered loudly: "Explosive bombs, launch!"

"Swish, whoosh, whoosh", rows of gorgeous rockets suddenly appeared in the sky.

The European navy on the armored battleship didn't know what was going on, and a thousand rockets rained down.

A violent explosion sounded, and the vicinity of the temporary pier seemed to be swept by a hurricane, with broken iron sheets fluttering and sawdust flying across.

What is this?
So scary!

The twenty armored warships were thrown into chaos immediately by this bombing, and all the warships wanted to leave the dock and flee north to avoid this terrifying bombing.

In the end, they were crowded into a mess, and no one escaped.

At this time, another thousand rockets rained down, and the vicinity of the pier was suddenly engulfed in a sea of ​​flames.

Of the twenty ironclad battleships, only the two outermost ones were not set ablaze, and the rest were ablaze.

The people on the battleship were so frightened that they jumped into the sea crazily, and the rout soldiers on the shore were so frightened that they just wanted to run away.

Fortunately, no rockets fell down next.

After all, the rockets are still a bit expensive, and they only brought [-] explosive bombs and [-] incendiary bombs in total. They fired [-] of them at once, and the remaining two unlit ironclad warships are really not worth it. They wasted another thousand incendiary bombs.

Next came the Black God Army.

A burst of waving flags spread directly to the shore.

With a wave of Zuma's hand, one hundred thousand soldiers of the Black God Army immediately pulled five thousand city defense guns and five thousand gun mounts to climb up the hills around the enemy's supply point.

At this time, the enemy's supply points were all messed up, and the sailors who jumped into the sea were trying their best to swim to the shore, but the two armored warships that were not set on fire ignored them and fled directly to the north.

Seeing this, the broken soldiers on the shore were so frightened that they began to pack their bags and prepare to flee.

They knew very well that it would be impossible to stop millions of mercenaries without the protection of the armored warships here, and they didn't want to stay here to die.

Zuma has actually seen the situation in the stronghold.

In this case, he only needs to order people to push the chariot to slowly surround it, and the panicked enemies in the stronghold will definitely run away in fright.

However, he wanted to practice the actual combat experience of his artillerymen, so he ordered people to pull [-] city defense guns and [-] gun mounts to the surrounding hills.

It may be very strenuous for ten people to carry a cannon and a cannon carriage up the mountain. Pulling it up is different. One hundred thousand soldiers of the Black God Army almost ran up the mountain. The artillery and gun mounts were all pulled to the top of the hill near the stronghold.

The next thing is to lift it down and assemble it. They have been practicing for two days, and the speed is not too fast.

After a while, the ready flags were raised on the tops of the hills.

Seeing this, Zuma nodded slightly, and then ordered in a loud voice: "The order, the city defense artillery is aimed at the enemy's stronghold, loaded with ammunition, ready to launch, and the chariots are deployed, ready to attack."

The enemies in the stronghold didn't know that the hills around them were covered with city defense artillery, so they hesitated to run away at this moment.

After all, the enemy's battleship never approached at all, and the enemy's army was not seen nearby. If they just ran away, they might be dealt with by military law when they returned.

The consequences of their hesitation are quite serious.

"Boom boom boom boom", suddenly there was a violent roar of artillery from the surrounding hills, and the whole earth seemed to tremble, and the dense shells covered them like a dark cloud, and the entire stronghold was bombarded in a mess immediately!
They have a total of less than 5000 people, how can they survive [-] rounds of shells.

This round of shelling almost wiped out their entire army.

In any case, there were only a few hundred people who fled on horseback in the end, and the rest were either killed or seriously injured and fell to the ground unable to get up.

As for those marines who jumped into the sea, they finally climbed ashore, and it was indeed the swords and guns of the Black God Army that greeted them.

This stronghold was captured just like that, two of the twenty ironclad warships escaped, and less than a thousand of the nearly five thousand defenders escaped. captive.

The power of the rockets directly frightened the sailors of the Continental Union United Fleet. The two armored warships did not dare to stop along the coastline at all. They galloped all the way north and ran back to Europe to report the news.

Without the help of the armored battleship, the strongholds along the way could not stop the attack of millions of black gods.

What's more, Zuma didn't attack directly. Every time he went to a stronghold, he would ask his artillerymen to practice the attack of the city defense artillery.

Who can withstand the impact of [-] shells?
There are no 5000 people stationed in other strongholds, and the shells fired in a salvo are several times more than the defenders, so it doesn't scare anyone to death!

As for the navy ships led by Zhang Yuanfang and Zheng Hongkui, they were useless at all.

Of course, it is impossible for them to drive their ships close to the port to eat other people's shells. There is no enemy warship to stop them and there is no need to waste rockets.

They were basically watching a show along the way. Every time they reached a stronghold, they only needed to scan through binoculars to see if there were any warships at the port pier, and then parked far away on the sea and waited.

On the other hand, the Black God Army was advancing like a bamboo, covering hundreds of miles a day, advancing crazily.

In just over a month, they advanced to a place more than a thousand miles away from Ceuta.

(End of this chapter)