On the Xingchen, Chen Shiyi was cursing a group of operators of the Dragon Roar Cannon.
"Are the eyes on the buttocks? Can this be shot crooked? It's such a big palace, and one shot missed. I didn't see one fall on the palace. It was either crooked or off-center. Is that all you have?"
On weekdays, everyone brags, saying that they are always on target. The best cannons are for you to operate. Is this what you call always on target? What a waste, shameful!"
"Master Chen, please calm down. The first cannon shot was originally intended to test the cannon, to master the range and angle, and to adjust it..." the commander hurriedly explained.
"Try it! Look at our heavy artillery, how come they all hit the target? Are you the only one who wants to test it? If you don't have the ability, you have no ability, and you have to find a ridiculous excuse." Chen Shiyi said angrily.
At the front of the deck, seven or eight gunners next to the heavy guns turned around and laughed loudly while loading ammunition.
"Blind Liu, it seems you are really blind. Such a good cannon is useless in your hands. It's so shameful."
"Isn't that right? During the initial selection, they somehow managed to hit it more accurately by chance. Such a powerful artillery piece as the Dragon Roar Cannon was nothing in their hands. Oh, it's really embarrassing."
"Hahaha... Blind Liu, ask your brothers to watch. Let me give you a rough look. Brothers, prepare, direction is due north, elevation angle is 46, target, the fortification in the middle of the street. One round of explosive shells,
fire!"
Amidst the roar, the heavy artillery fired a shell. A moment later, the observer on the mast shouted loudly: "It's not bad at all, it hit the target."
"Did you see that? Learn from it." The heavy gunners laughed proudly, mocking the operators of the Dragon Roar Cannon.
Faced with the unscrupulous heavy gunners, Liu Xiazi and other Longyin Cannon operators were red-faced and trembling with rage. The soldiers in the army had already developed a tendency to compete with each other in combat skills. With Zhang Yanling's various spiritual and material encouragement
, the most taboo among members of the Ming Dynasty Armada is that they will be ridiculed if their skills are inferior to others. And this kind of ridicule cannot be retaliated. This is a way to encourage soldiers to be brave after knowing their shame.
"Didn't we hit that tower?" A young soldier muttered softly. He was only eighteen years old and was in full swing. He was originally an excellent soldier, but he couldn't bear to be ridiculed at this moment.
"Hit the tower? What's the point? Does the King of Ceylon live in that broken tower? It's a joke. Palace, palace, understand? Bomb that palace for me, blow out their king, make him look like a dog
Do you understand, just grab your head and run away?" Chen Shi cursed.
The commander Liu Xiazi hurriedly said: "General Chen, don't be angry, we will adjust the angle and we will definitely hit the palace. If it misses again, you can do whatever you want with us."
Chen Shi rolled his eyes and said, "That's pretty much it."
As soon as he finished speaking, the soldiers watching on the mast suddenly shouted: "The tower has collapsed, that tower has collapsed. Is the Dragon Roar Cannon so powerful? It destroyed that tall tower with one shot. It's incredible."
Everyone hurriedly looked into the distance, only to see that the half-exposed tower in the distance was collapsing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and soon turned into a cloud of dust.
However, Liu Xiazi and others did not feel happy, but felt ashamed. After all, it was a building outside the target. If it collapsed, it would be crooked. If they expressed their happiness again, they would probably make General Chen even more angry.
Fortunately, Chen Shiyi didn't curse anymore. He only turned his head and glanced at the smoke in the distance, then left with a snort.
In the eyes of Chen Shiyi, Liu Xiazi and others, it was just a broken tower that was not the target, and there was nothing to be proud of. But how did they know that in the high tower they hit by accident, there was the king of Ceylon, Yale.
Alex is inside.
Alex was having a bad time, and the Buddha's teeth did not protect him.
The Buddha Tooth Relic Pagoda is indeed too old and ancient. Although it has been repaired many times, the repair of the pillars on the bottom floor is too difficult, and it has been postponed and dared not be replaced. I think that after the new tower is completed, the tower will be moved and abandoned.
However, something happened.
What was even more unlucky was that we encountered this hurricane again. A grenade bomb originally penetrated the bottom floor of the wooden pagoda and broke two supporting columns on the north side. The pagoda, which was supported by eight columns, would not collapse due to this.
.But the powerful hurricane gave it a helping hand. In the end, during the shaking, several nearby roots broke, and the entire pagoda collapsed suddenly.
Alex was thrown out of the ninth-floor window, falling from the sky like a fat giant bird, and landed firmly on the bluestone on the ground. He was dead the moment he fell, but he didn't.
Too much pain. This was probably the last mercy the Buddha gave him.
The news soon came that the Tower of Tooth had collapsed and that the king had fallen to his death. All the subjects of Ceylon were stunned. The enemy's artillery fire began to bombard the palace again, and the golden roof of the palace was blown to pieces. Cannonballs were scattered in the streets.
It fell from time to time, and the assembled soldiers were killed and injured many times and had to hide in the house.
Under this situation, people began to panic.
Munilla was also shocked when he learned the news of the death of the King of Ceylon. But he soon realized that this was an excellent opportunity to incite the emotions of the local people. They could not be discouraged because of fear, and they must be encouraged at this time.
, encourage them, incite them.
So Munilia immediately ordered people to summon the panicked nobles and ministers of Ceylon. Prince Kled, who had close contacts with Munilla, gained support and temporarily took the throne as king. Under Munilia's instruction, Kled
A kingdom edict was issued, calling on all people, regardless of men, women, old or young, to rise up against the Ming Dynasty's troops and avenge the death of His Majesty the King.
The Tooth Tower fell down, and the Buddha's tooth enshrined on the top was missing and was probably destroyed. This also touched the pain point in the hearts of these Buddhists. Munilla further instigated that this was the purpose of the Ming Dynasty soldiers coming here.
In order to destroy the sacred relic of the Buddha's Tooth in Ceylon, Munilia said that as long as the Ming soldiers and horses were driven away, he would usher in new sacred relics for them from other countries. Not only the Buddha's Tooth, but also the relics and so on.
In panic and grief, the people of Colombo directed all their anger at the Ming Dynasty soldiers and horses. Originally they were hiding at home, but soon they took to the streets to help build fortifications and carry supplies. Thousands of them
The clever man picked up harpoons, sticks, simple bows and arrows and other weapons and joined the defending army.
Incredibly, a group of craftsmen actually repaired more than a dozen crossbows and catapults in the Ceylon armaments warehouse, and assembled them in a residential area above the port a few miles away from the bay, preparing for the attack.
The Ming soldiers and horses in the port carried out the attack.
Although the Ceylon Kingdom does not have the technology to make artillery, they still have the technology to make trebuchets and crossbows, and they are very exquisite. The large trebuchets they built can project huge rocks two miles away, and they are extremely powerful. Their crossbows
A chariot can also travel seven or eight hundred paces, making it an extremely powerful weapon.
Although they saw many people running out of their houses and gathering everywhere, the Armada did not pay any particular attention. They interpreted this as people fleeing in panic, rather than angry participation in the action.
They never dreamed that in just four or five hours, the Kingdom of Ceylon had returned to a different dynasty, and the anger of the entire Colombo people was aroused.
What they faced was no longer thousands or tens of thousands of Francois and Ceylon soldiers, but countless red-eyed local people who were carried away by anger and incitement.
It was not until late afternoon, when several huge rocks roared from the pier and landed on the sea less than thirty steps away from the warship, splashing large waves. The generals and soldiers of the Armada realized that this was
The bombardment that lasted for half a day not only failed to scare the opponent, but the opponent launched a counterattack.
Under their own eyes, they actually set up trebuchets and started bombarding the warships in the bay with rocks.