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Chapter 1410 Cannons Are Useless
"Kill!" More than 20 Han Chinese cavalry rushed to kill the Madalan soldiers, swinging straight knives, and the Madalan soldiers who killed thousands of people retreated steadily, and finally escaped from the rubber forest.The siege of the fortress in the rubber forest was easily lifted.

"Are you all right?" The cavalry officer saw more than a dozen warriors including Miyamoto Musashi and more than [-] Javanese residents trapped in the rubber forest. They were able to guard the small town surrounded by thousands of Matalan soldiers. It is also a skill to keep the bunker standing still.

Dozens of dead Mataram soldiers have been scattered around this small bunker. It can be seen that more than 30 defenders in the bunker used firearms to inflict heavy casualties on the attackers, making it impossible for thousands of Mataram soldiers to gnaw Go down to this bunker built in the rubber forest.

"Except for one companion who was shot and killed by them, the others were unscathed. Their purpose is definitely not to attack the rubber forest. Their real main force should be Batavia!" Miyamoto Musashi said.

"We have received the news from you that the captain and the sheriff are setting up their defenses. We have accepted the task of attacking their food roads." The cavalry officer said.

"Just you guys?" Some soldiers couldn't believe it when they saw that the cavalry led by the cavalry officer was only more than 20 people.

There are thousands of people in the opponent's army that invaded the rubber forest. It is normal for their main force to have tens of thousands of auxiliary soldiers. How could such a large army have thousands of people in the logistics force?

"We have enough people. If we can't fight, we will flee." The cavalry officer said of course.

As an officer of the No.12 Corps, in which battle was he not mentally prepared to face ten or a hundred times the natives?

"Please let me fight with you!" Miyamoto Musashi realized that this is an opportunity to build military merits. Whether he can change from a mercenary guarding the rubber forest to a standing soldier of the empire depends on this battle!

"You look a little old, can you still fight on horseback?" The cavalry officer couldn't help asking when he saw the obvious wrinkles on Miyamoto Musashi's face.

"There is a saying in Chinese, you will grow old and strong! I have no problem at all!" Miyamoto Musashi said.

"Then you bring dry food and muskets, we are going to go deep into the jungle to attack the enemy's logistics." The cavalry officer saw Miyamoto Musashi actively asking for a battle, so he agreed to his request.

The Matalan army approached the city of Batavia for five days, but they continued to attack the forts on the outskirts of the city, but the offensive was not smooth. Whether it was long-range firepower or close combat and the desperate efforts of Japanese warriors, defenders from a higher level of civilization The army made them suffer.

The firearms technology of the Kingdom of Mataram is not to mention compared with the Ottoman Empire and the Mughal Empire, but also compared with the neighboring Aceh, Banten and other indigenous countries. After all, when the former communicated with Arab businessmen They got a batch of outdated matchlock guns and artillery from the Ottoman Empire, and the Matalan Kingdom developed from the central part of Java Island was more barbaric, and the power of the fire guns they used was not much better than that of bows and arrows.

In the era when artillery began to become popular, it is undoubtedly very difficult to attack a city without artillery!

Not only could it not knock down the city wall, but it also could not suppress the firepower of the defenders!

On the sixth day, the two old-fashioned cannons that the Sultan had placed high hopes on finally arrived.It was a gift from the Netherlands in the past for friendship with him.Although he later fell out with the Dutch, the only two cannons were regarded as treasures by him.

As estimated by the infantry captain defending the city, the Matalan people simply do not have the technology to forge artillery!
"Sir, they pushed the two cannons out!"

"Impossible! How can the Matalan people have artillery?"

The infantry captain couldn't believe it when he heard the scouts report to him. Instead, he used a telescope to observe the Matalan army. As expected, he saw two cannons lined up in front of the Matalan formation through the binoculars.

"It doesn't have to be the artillery they produced themselves, maybe they bought it from somewhere or got it through other means. In any case, be careful of their shelling." After learning that the opponent has a cannon, the infantry captain can't judge the strength of the opponent's artillery. For fear that the unfinished bastion walls will not be able to withstand the bombardment of cannons.

For each artillery, several Matalan soldiers rushed to load ammunition, and then the Matalan gunners loaded it.

"Blow down the wall that hides the heretics!" Mata Lansudan personally ordered to fire.

The Matalan gunner lit the fuse after loading, and the spark spread rapidly, detonating the black powder in the barrel!
boom!boom!The two cannons fired violently, the smoke filled the air, and the Matalan army cheered!

The captains of the infantry and the soldiers defending the fort, when they saw the flames, ducked behind the walls, ready to bear the bombardment of the cannon on the fort.

However, the expected scene of the solid bullets slamming into the city wall did not appear, and both shells fell on the flat ground outside the fortress.

"Ah?!" The eyes of the Matalan soldiers, including Sultan himself, were cheering.

The two cannons, facing such an obvious fortress in front of them, didn't even hit a single shell!

Sudan's face was livid: "Keep firing!"

Because they failed to hit the fortress, the Matalan gunners were afraid of being executed by the Sultan, so they had to work harder this time.

However, they who lacked shooting experience hurriedly cleaned the barrel, reloaded gunpowder and shells, and it took 10 minutes!
boom!The two cannons roared again, but this time they failed to hit the fort.

Matalan Sudan's face was beyond livid.

The gigantic fortress was just there immobile, four bombardments couldn't hit it!Isn't this a slap in the face of him, the supreme sultan, in front of the two armies!

"Continue!" The angry Sudan's face twitched, and he had already moved to kill.

The Mata blue gunners were sweating profusely. They didn’t need cannons at all in the battles in the central and eastern parts of Java and other indigenous tribes and kingdoms. They only had a few times of experience in using cannons, and they basically only loaded them. Whether you can shoot accurately is not a joke, but really depends entirely on faith!
After an hour, the Matalan gunners tried to launch several rounds of shelling, and finally two or three shells landed on the wall of the fortress by chance, but the landing points of the two or three shells were too far apart to pose a threat to the fortress. .

"It scared me to death. It turns out that their artillerymen are so bad. They only hit two or three shells in an hour. We were bombarded by them here for a month without moving." Shocked to heaven" artillery technology, suddenly relieved.

There is nothing wrong with the two Dutch cannons. The problem is that the Matalans are so clumsy in using the artillery that they are reckless.

(End of this chapter)