Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1247 Bloody battle under the fort
With an order, more than 3000 people in the Fengjie Camp were divided into 21 units based on the bureau. Every 100 people resisted two trench bridges and two long ladders and rushed towards the top of the mountain.

The high morale of the Ming army and the large number of troops made the Dutch on the fort terrified. However, it would be useless if the two armies faced each other.

Bananshi led less than [-] musketeers, looking for cover on the broken stone wall. Dutch soldiers stood or squatted all over the stone wall, their muskets loaded with ammunition, and their muzzles looking for targets.

The soldiers of the Ming army were scattered on the hillside in units of bureaus. Zhang Yiguo led his subordinates and followed Baihu with cats on their waists, climbing along the messy hillside. Gunshots were heard from above his head from time to time. Occasionally someone was hit and rolled down the hillside.

At this time, the Ming army had not yet reached the mountainside, and the distance was too far. Although the Dutch on the fort kept aiming and shooting, there were very few projectiles that could hit the Ming army.

Zhang Yiguo and others groped along with the army, and slowly reached the mountainside. At this time, several soldiers in front of the Ming army were shot in the chest immediately, and were brought down by the Dutch, screaming and rolling down.

"Shield!" Jiaqian's Qianhu officer fired a pistol at the top of the mountain and shouted loudly.

The shield players in each round immediately shouted and climbed up, rushed to the front, and protected the soldiers behind them.

After a large number of changes in the Ming army, they found that the shield was useless against the self-generated firecrackers, but the Ming army still kept this weapon, because the surrounding enemies did not have a large number of firecrackers.

Li Dingguo knew that the Dutch were powerful with muskets, so he made a little improvement on the shields of the Ming army, that is, wrapped a layer of wet cotton cloth outside the shields, but this could only protect against muskets beyond fifty paces. Even if it is penetrated, the shield can't stop it basically. After all, the shield can't be made of pure iron, so the soldiers can't hold it.

With the shield guards, the casualties of the Ming army were a little smaller, and the soldiers behind lifted the long ladder that fell to the ground and continued to move forward.

The Ming army spread out their attacks in units of rounds, so the Dutch did not bombard with guns, but shot and killed the Ming army climbing the mountain freely.

At this time, the Ming army was less than [-] steps away from the fort, and it was hard to describe. Most of the bullets shot by Holland were blocked by the Ming army's shield, and they hit the Ming army with a "popping" sound, but did not cause much damage to the Ming army. In a hurry, he hurriedly directed the Dutch to manipulate the artillery with a shorter range and began to bombard.

These Dutchmen surrounded a small short-barreled cannon. One of them filled the gunpowder, and the other loaded iron sand and gravel into the barrel of the cannon. Fan-shaped rain of gravel and iron sand.

The troops of the Ming army in front were hit by the Dutch shotguns and gunfire, and immediately fell to the ground in pain.

The Ming army, which was protecting its vitals with a shield, was hit by a shotgun head-on, and the part protected by the shield was fine, but the face and hands were pulverized by iron sand, and they fell to the ground dripping with blood.

The wounded appearance of the soldiers made people stand in awe.

The bullets of the Dutch and the shotgun ejected from the artillery formed a dense net, and the soldiers of the Ming army charged forward in this net.

As the distance got closer, the Ming army suffered more casualties. Seeing the soldiers in the front row falling to the ground, the Qianhu officer suddenly shouted, "Come on!"

With an order, the flag waved, and the soldiers of the Ming army, who were slowly climbing up the slope while conserving their strength, suddenly accelerated.

Zhou Yiguo commanded his subordinates, and quickly rushed to the front of the fort. He and the soldiers of the firearms team immediately knelt down on one knee, raised their guns and fired at the wall. Over the ditch, on a half-collapsed stone wall.

As soon as the ladder was set up, a team of Dutchmen squatted in the gap and fired a round of guns. Two of the four Ming soldiers were beaten and fell into the ditch, while the other two fell on their backs like chaff.

Seeing this, Zhou Yiguo hurriedly raised his gun and shot towards the gap, killing three Dutchmen as well, but the Dutchman behind him immediately went up and knocked down two gunmen beside him, and he was also hit by a bullet on his iron helmet.

Seeing that the Dutch firepower blocked the gap, Zhou Yiguo turned around and roared, "The firearms team is suppressing, and the killer team is throwing thunder!"

Hearing the sound, a team led twelve musketeers, and immediately formed a three-row shooting formation. Two Ming soldiers took out two fist-sized Zhentianlei from the cloth pockets hanging around their waists, and held them in the other hand. The fire book ignited the fuse and rushed to the gap.

One of them tried his best to throw, and then immediately fell down. The other was just about to throw, when he was hit by a bullet, and his strength was exhausted, and Zhentianlei fell into the ditch.

Two thunderbolts exploded at the same time. One blasted the six Dutchmen at the gap, and the other exploded in the ditch, breaking the long ladder of one's own side. It flew up, and it rained stones.

Zhou Yiguo shook his head, shook off the dust, saw that the Hollanders in the gap were empty, and immediately shouted, "Go!"

Four Ming soldiers hurriedly resisted a long ladder and set it up at the gap. The soldiers of the Ming army hurriedly stepped on the long ladder and rushed into the smoke and dust. The first few soldiers had just climbed the stone wall when sharp Western swords stabbed at them. , the two soldiers in front were stabbed and fell down the ditch screaming.

The Ming army next to him immediately stabbed with the thorns straight, and pierced the one-foot-long thorns in front of the lances into He Yi's body from the side gap of the Dutch breastplate.

At this time, soldiers from other bureaus of the Ming army also arrived at various stone walls one after another. The long ladders crossed the trenches, looking for the stone walls destroyed by the Hongyi artillery, and began to attack.

After all, the Ming army was several times that of the Dutch, and the soldiers were scattered like ants. However, once the Dutch had their advantages, the western plate armor could indeed be said to be the acme of the cold weapon era.

The war swords of the Ming army are very difficult to penetrate armor, it is better to stab it in by looking for a gap.

Over the years, the Ming Dynasty has been attacking cities and villages for many years, and has not little experience in storming cities. This fort is only a small city.Once the soldiers of the Ming army reached the bottom of the fort, they either climbed up the ladder, or raised their guns and shot for cover. The Ming army quickly waited on the city wall by virtue of their superiority in numbers.

The shooting of firearms has become a fight for progress. Westerners hold the most advanced firearms and wear armor that can prevent cold weapons. No wonder they can rule the world.This offense and defense are the best things at the moment, and there is naturally no way for ordinary countries to preempt them.

At this time, a large number of Ming soldiers climbed onto the stone wall, but there were still Dutchmen hiding behind the stone wall, shooting and killing the soldiers who crossed the ditch and ascended the city without interruption. Fall into the trench.

"Do it!" Zhou Yiguo saw that his subordinates never broke through the gap, and the soldiers were constantly shot down by the Dutch with their muskets on the stone walls on both sides.

With a roar, he raised the thorn and inserted it into the self-generating blunderbuss. He saw two Dutchmen rushing up the long bridge with their long poles pounding medicine after firing a shot.He knew that he might be shot at any time, so he was extremely fast, but there were still bullets passing by him, which made him break out in cold sweat. He was still four or five steps away from the stone wall, so he jumped directly from the long ladder, Falling on a crumbling stone wall.

As soon as he landed, he didn't rush forward, but stepped on the gravel, holding guns in both hands, and climbed towards the collapsed stone wall.

With a few quick steps, Zhou Yiguo ran up the collapsed slope and climbed to the top of the wall.A Dutchman just loaded the ammunition, saw his face startled, and was about to raise his gun to shoot him, he stepped forward, swiped the musket with a blunderbuss, then lifted the butt of the gun up, and hit the Dutchman. The man's forehead and the blade hidden in the butt of the gun immediately cut the Dutchman's face open.

The firecrackers of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the thorns, also had a blade that leaked about an inch in the butt of the blunderbuss tail, which could improve the fighting ability of the Ming army in close combat.

The Dutchman's face was cut open, and immediately let out an inhuman scream, and fell to the ground covering his face. The other Dutchman who was shooting down the wall heard the scream, turned his head, and immediately pulled out the slender However, Zhou Yiguo raised his gun without hesitation, and the projectile dented the Dutchman's breastplate, and his body flew upside down, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

"Your Excellency, Commander!" Several Dutchmen exclaimed when they saw this. It turned out that this man was indeed the commander of the fort. A Dutchman immediately helped him up and stepped back.

Seeing this, Zhou Yiguo knew that he had met a big fish, but it was too late to chase after him, so he had to roll away to avoid the blow after several shots from the Dutchman.

At this time, the soldiers who followed him to the high wall on the side immediately raised their guns and returned fire, killing two Dutchmen.

As Zhou Guoyi occupied the high wall on one side of the collapsed site, reducing the pressure on the gap on both sides, the Dutch could not withstand the continuous Ming army's attack, and finally a big gap was opened by the Ming army.

The officer of thousands of households commanding outside the wall found the breakthrough and immediately waved his hand, "Rush in from there!" After speaking, he led a hundred people behind him into the gap.

But at this moment, cheers suddenly came from the No. [-] Fort in the distance. It was the troops commanded by Chen Youlong who attacked the No. [-] Fort first.

"Damn it!" The Ming army who rushed into the gap couldn't help cursing, and then suddenly accelerated the pace of the attack, letting a banner of the Ming army control the gap, and then led a round of soldiers to advance quickly.

Zhou Yiguo didn't know when he had already been shot, but he didn't stop, chasing and killing him all the way to the edge of the fort by the sea.

At this time, the Dutch had already fled across the board and fled to the hillside near the sea. Zhou Yiguo caught up, but suddenly found that several warships were parked by the pier below the fort, and four or five hundred Dutchmen were quickly climbing up to the top. It was the reinforcements sent by the main fort seeing that the fort was not safe.

Zhou Yiguo saw the situation and fled downhill, but the Dutch reinforcements had reached the mountainside. He hesitated slightly, and immediately let out a loud roar. The Dutchman of Bananshiding kicked and rolled, then grabbed the armor behind Bananziding with one hand, pointed at the back of his neck, and cut off his head with a knife.

At this time, Ming Army Chief Qian also chased after him. When he saw the Dutchmen climbing up, he couldn't help being slightly taken aback, and even shouted loudly, "Kill them down!"

The Ming army immediately squatted down and fired a row of guns, knocked down the Dutch soldiers in front, screamed and rolled down, and then took advantage of their confusion, roaring down the mountain, trying to drive the Dutch into the sea.

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