Due to limitations in technology and manufacturing levels, European battleships in the seventeenth century were often equipped with only the following three types of cannonballs...
The first type
solid bullet
As the name suggests, this kind of cannonball is, to put it bluntly, a big solid iron ball!
It is used to attack the hull of a ship on the sea. After the hole is created, sea water pours in, and the opponent's ship naturally sinks...
On land, it mainly relies on the ricochet principle of artillery shells for straight-line impact.
It's just right to hit those neatly arranged rifle teams.
But if you want to hit the target in the trench... it's just like a joke, not to mention that Yan Bing specially ordered people to build a small slope with soil in front of the trench... so that the ricochet can bounce when it hits the slope.
Farther away, until the soldiers in the trenches have their heads exposed and the shells can still pass over their heads...
And the second kind
It's something called a chain bomb
This kind of cannonball often uses two cannonballs that are two circles smaller than the diameter of the muzzle, connected by an iron chain. After being fired, the two cannonballs rotate crazily under the interaction of centrifugal force and the chain, and can hit the opponent's sail.
Tear a big hole, and if you are lucky, you can also interrupt the opponent's halyard or mast, completely paralyzing the opponent's mobility...
This kind of artillery shell is also mainly used in naval battles, so it does not pose any threat to the trenches!
The last kind
It's called grapeshot...
Yan Bing's field artillery is also equipped with this kind of artillery shell. Naturally, there is no need to go into details. In short, its shortcoming is only one...
Close range...
The reason why Bingbing set up so many fake camps and large trenches was to avoid the large number of casualties caused by such artillery shells.
Therefore, the school officers at all levels, who had already discussed it several times a month in advance, immediately led their respective battalions and pulled artillery to the westernmost side of the camp after receiving Yan Bing's order.
Hidden in the trench...
And all the supplies and ammunition were moved into this trench half a month ago!
Half a month ago...
It was the day when the coastal defense map and the military information of Miyazaki Port were sent to her...
As early as that time, Yan Bing was already prepared to deal with various emergencies!
Except... the Dutch infantry of 2,000 men was something she didn't expect at all...
But just as she didn't expect at all... the other party also didn't expect that her two thousand infantry would be defeated by the opponent's one hundred infantry... and return defeated...
In light of this, Yan Bing also thought very carefully about how to reward this hundred-man team who had made extraordinary achievements after returning...
But for now... let's think about how to defeat the enemy first!
More than a hundred enemy ships have passed through the heavy sea fog and appeared in front of everyone...
"No one is allowed to step out of the trench without my order!!"
"yes!!"
"Don't go out of the trench!"
"You are not allowed to step out of the trench..."
"No..."
Shouting one after another, repeating Yan Bing's orders, artillery pieces were pushed into the trench along the gentle slope...
Most of these artillery pieces are not loaded with ammunition. This is because they are afraid that if the enemy accidentally hits the artillery pieces, they will explode and kill a large number of soldiers hiding in the trenches...
But among them... there are five artillery pieces that have been loaded in advance, but they are not shells... but five fireworks shells...
This is used by Yan Bing to signal the fleets hiding behind various islands...
Just wait until the opponent's ship is close enough! She will order someone to send out a signal, and use her fleet to cooperate with the artillery battalion on land to kill the Dutch in one fell swoop!!
The ideal...is full...
The reality...is a wrong guess...
Yan Bing never expected that the opponent would stop advancing when they were still two or three kilometers away from the camp, and instead slowly launch a diagonal artillery formation on the sea!!
"What the hell...what do you mean...why don't you move forward!??"
Yes...why don't you move forward...?
This question has been filling Yan Bing's brain, but no matter how she thinks and guesses, she will never guess that this is a military order issued by the commander-in-chief of the other party...
How could the Dutch army, which has always been extremely arrogant, suddenly become so cautious!?
Just lingering on the edge of the "pocket array", not moving forward!
If I want her to know that this is also the "contribution" made by that hundred-man team, I wonder how she will feel...
Just when she was looking at the enemy fleet, puzzled, the other party... opened fire first...
And the target... is naturally the camps set up by Yan Bing...
“Boom, boom, boom…——!!”
"Rumble...——!!"
"Crash la la la..."
Thousands of artillery pieces launched a fierce bombardment at an empty camp!!
Countless big iron balls shuttled back and forth in the tent made of leather felt and linen!!
The Dutch commanders looked at the camp with binoculars and were very curious as to why they did not see any panicked Liang soldiers...
The commanders of the Shenji Battalion looked at the other side's ships with binoculars, wondering why the commander hadn't given the order to attack...
The battlefield... once fell into an unprecedented embarrassing situation...
Just because the commanders on both sides... misjudged at the same time...
The Dutch did not expect that the other party...had been prepared and hid in the trench...
Yan Bing didn't expect the other party... He had already prepared and refused to go deep...
As a result, the battlefield fell into a stalemate under the premise that Yan Bingfang continued to lose "tents"...
"Damn!! You should go a few more seas ahead!!!"
"Shit!! Why didn't the other party respond at all!!!"
The commanders-in-chief of both sides uttered foul words at almost the same moment and in different positions...
Five rounds of shelling…
It only takes two minutes...
Two minutes later, Major Darrens had no choice but to follow the commander-in-chief's instructions and issue an order to evacuate the battlefield...
At this moment, he is worried about how to write this battle report after returning...
Report to Your Excellency, General... Our army successfully destroyed a large number of the opponent's tents and camps, but was unable to count the specific casualties of the opponent's personnel... In the end, we could only conclude that hundreds of casualties were expected...
Oh my god...listen to this, is this still human language...how should I write...
Li Bing's side... was holding up a telescope and cursing his mother anxiously...
"Why did they turn around!?? Damn it! Don't leave! Oh, I'm going to go...I've been strategizing for half a month! This half month has been in vain!!"
"Coach... how about we... fight..."
"Hit! Hurry up and hit! Send the signal!! Set up all the artillery for me! If you don't fight, we'll all be lost!!!" Yan Bing stomped his feet angrily, and with one order, five rounds were fired.
The signal flare was quickly shot into the sky!
At the same time, hundreds of artillery pieces were pushed out of the trenches by the soldiers, and boxes of ammunition were hurriedly removed from the steel plates, dug out of the soil, and moved to the artillery camp positions... All these signs indicate that,
They have been waiting for this day for a long time... but no one expected that the result would be like this...
For a moment... all the soldiers were in a mess... the position also looked a little embarrassed in the rush... but they didn't care about that much anymore. They hurriedly loaded the ammunition, pulled the rope, and dozens of artillery fired first.
Shelling!!
"Your Excellency Major! The other party has begun to fight back!!"
"Hmph... Are you starting to fight back now? From this distance... can they hit..."
"Boom——!!!Bang——!!!"
"Crash la la la——!!"
"Your Excellency Major!! The Hague and Rotterdam were both hit by bullets!! And burst into flames..."
"Bang——!!!"
"boom--!!!!"
Before the chief officer could finish his words, a loud noise came again, and the scorching flames had obviously ignited the gunpowder magazine of one of the warships! After a burst of dazzling white light and a huge air wave, the man who had just been arrogant was
The huge frigate was blown into pieces right in front of their eyes...
And in the cabin that was crazily filled with seawater, there were groups of Dutch soldiers who were at a loss. They had no idea what was happening. They could only helplessly hold the side of the ship in the fire, wailing... ⑧①ZW.?
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I can’t understand...how could such a result occur after only being hit by a few shells? Is this all an arrangement of fate!?
No...the next round of shelling will tell them the answer soon...
All this... is just an arrangement brought about by the huge technological gap between the two countries...
