open sea

Chapter 512 Explosion
The Baigu Fortress is not big. This city wall located at the mouth of the Sancha River is built on small islands, just like those water villages on small islands and reefs along the coast of the Ming Dynasty. .

The wall is more than six feet high, without any fancy decorations, standing bare on the island, with gun windows on all four sides, large and small, not to mention Shao Tingda's troops with insufficient armament, even if such an army is standing In the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, only a few hundred people were needed to defend, and it was not easy to attack by force.

Shao Tingda stepped on the cannon to punch holes and gravel in the wall, but he couldn't reach a height of more than ten feet, so he touched a gun window, waited for the cannon to explode behind the window, jumped into the smoke, and was about to kill, but unexpectedly Arched body stuck in the gun port.

Only then did he realize that the gunport was not a thin wall, but a small platform four or five feet deep that became narrower and narrower, and the innermost one could only accommodate one person crouching through, and it was a relatively thin person. right behind that.

Moreover, the Burmese army in the city has long been prepared.

Before the gunpowder smoke dissipated, several long soldiers stabbed from behind the gun window. Spears, boring handles, and long knives rang out on Shao Tingda's body in a blink of an eye. It was only because of his thick armor that he was not stabbed to death on the spot. , Several long soldiers were pressed against him, even with natural supernatural power, it was difficult to stabilize his footsteps, almost pushing him out of the gun window.

Relying on the last step to miss the ground, he grabbed the two spears and avoided the fate of falling into the city and being smashed to pieces.

Others may not die if they fall from the city wall which is more than two feet high. He is wearing a forty-pound armor, and if he falls, he can smash the ground, let alone him in the armor.

Just like that, he slapped the wall with the spear in his hand, and he was so shocked that he didn't know his surname. Butt pier.

Looking back at the city, most of the banner troops climbing up the city were like this. It was impossible to attack the top of the city. They climbed up the gun windows one by one, and they were stabbed out before they could kill the enemy. The banner troops had better armor than him. If you lose one weight, you will be unable to move for a long time after falling, but you may not die.

This kind of fortification, even if they have a complete ladder, it is difficult to attack. If the flag troops in the hinterland of Daming come to attack, they may not be able to attack for a long time and retreat.

Shao Tingda also wanted to withdraw the army. He felt that this kind of fortress still had to be bombarded by boats. If it failed for half an hour, it would be bombarded for an hour.

He felt he had to find a way to retire.

Just for a while, Shao Tingda saw a flag soldier hanging outside a gun window in the upper half of the city, hanging on the side of the gun window, with a knife stuffed into his waist without moving, as if waiting for something, followed by a sound from the gun window There was a loud noise, gunpowder smoke, flames, shards of iron, and pieces of iron blasted out of the gun window, and the flag soldier immediately bowed and turned into the gun window, drawing his knife and sprinting in.

A palm mine was thrown in through the narrow gun port. Although Mang Chong didn't know the structure inside the fortress, he could imagine the result of the flag soldier rushing into the fortress.

Those Burmese soldiers who were still holding the handles of their spears just a moment ago, I am afraid that they will be bombed to pieces at this time, and it is still a question of whether they can breathe while lying on the ground.

smart people!
Without his order, there were not a few bannermen who saw this scene. Shao Tingda had just got up from the ground, and several bannermen who climbed up again cooperated with each other to raise the fire and throw the thunder, and the palm thunders aimed at the gun holes one by one. Throwing it in, gunpowder smoke blasted out everywhere in the blink of an eye, and the gun ports that were originally a great obstacle to the siege turned out to be the easiest weak spot for the Banner Army to attack at this moment.

It is easier than climbing to the top of the city, directly entering the interior.

When Shao Tingda entered the fort from a breached gun port, there were shouts of killing everywhere.

This is the second floor of the fortress. There are as many as twelve or three gun holes on each floor of the city wall, but the gun holes blasted by the Shiqi fleet on the city wall are irregular, and there are only a few places where they can use their strength to climb. However, the gun windows are not the defensive passages on the city wall as Shao Tingda imagined, but small rooms separated by one by one.

The rooms are not connected, and the doors all lead to the spiral staircase in the middle.

Each room is equipped with a cannon and guards a gun port, and at most ten soldiers can use this to guard hundreds of enemies who want to attack from outside.

Even if a room is lost, if you want to attack, you have to face the defenders with different heights up and down the stairs.

It's a pity that what they encountered was the Nanyang Army, Chen Mu's Nanyang Army.

In and out of the city, there are battles everywhere.

In a blink of an eye, the Banner Army rushed in through the gun windows, and there were grenade explosions everywhere. After capturing the room, a Banner Army stood on the gun windows and shouted loudly to the people below the city, letting the people outside the city attack the fortress from here, but followed closely. Then the Burmese gunner who came out of the gun window next door let him die nearby, and fell to the city with a scream.

The Burmese army gunner who fired the blunderbuss was also in a bad position, there were all Nanyang army blunderbussmen in the city, and before he had time to hide himself, he was also shot to death by the blunderbuss.

The three houses were cleared by the Ming army first with grenades and then with knives and axes. The ropes were lowered through the gun windows, and more banner troops were brought in to wait for the battle below the city. The floor tiles under Shao Tingda's feet trembled.

He knew that the right-wing three-flag army had finally blasted a breach in the city wall with gunpowder. He waved his hand and said to the subordinates in the room: "More people have come in, they are downstairs!"

The fact is just as Shao Tingda thought, the left-flanked three-vessel flag army gathered to his side after landing, while the right-flanked flag army that landed first formed an array on the spot. Their lucky boats had not been caught fire, and many gunpowder weapons were gone. Throwing it down, bombarding and blasting with gunpowder cartridges and tiger squat guns one after another, and going back and forth several times, finally blasted a gap from the outside of the wall, poured into the fortress, and fought bloody battles with the enemy on the first floor.

The attack over there was much easier than that of Shao Tingda. The first floor of the fortress was the barracks of the enemy's residence. It was supposed to be a weak point of defense, but the continuous blasting reminded the enemy to defend on that side and gathered a lot of enemy troops.

But in hand-to-hand combat, no one can get benefits.

The Nanyang Banner Army bird gunners who formed the formation rushed into the gap, and several people shot out in a row. The three rows of bird gunners shot out first, followed by the knife and axemen who filed in. Once, the Burmese army, which valued the long soldiers, was broken up by the gunners, followed by the swords and axes, and the opponents could only resist for a while before being repelled.

Then more banner troops poured into the fort through the gap, squeezing the enemy to the north, and their morale collapsed in a blink of an eye.

At the same time, the flag army led by Shao Tingda also launched an attack from the second-floor gun tower, seized the stairs, and went straight up. Relying on the strength of their armor, they defeated the Chinese and Burmese troops in the fort until they reached the top of the tower. Hundreds of Burmese troops pushed towards the city wall, fearing that the enemy would not be able to launch an effective counterattack against them, and some even jumped off the fortress out of fear of fighting.

The strongest fortress is often breached from the inside, and in the second year of Wanli, the strong fortress will also be breached by gunpowder.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)