When Lu Hu heard the guide's remarks, he was a little angry. He held his knife and shouted: "That man, if you talk nonsense again, I will cut out your tongue!"
The guide's face turned pale and he didn't dare to say anything, but he couldn't control the trembling on his body. Pushed by his guards, he walked forward little by little. After walking for half an hour, he finally brought the team to the village three miles away from Chikan Fort.
In front of a small mound.
"Uncle, ahead is Chikan Fort. There are eight heavy cannons in the fort, which are very sharp. Uncle, be careful of artillery fire."
Li Zhi stood on the mound and took a look, and saw that Chikan Fort was already within sight. Looking to the west, Fort Relanja, which was isolated on a small island ten miles away, was also clearly visible. There was no need for a guide to lead the way.
However, Li Zhi was worried that if he let the guide go, the guide would become frightened and defect to the Dutch, leaking information about Li Zhi's troops. So Li Zhi simply had the guide tied up and imprisoned by the Chinese army.
The guide was tied up by Li Zhi, and he was shaking all over, as if he was about to be shot to death by a white Dutchman.
The Dutch had already known Li Zhi's arrival, but they did not go out to fight. Instead, they huddled in the castle and prepared to rely on bastions and cannons to defend. Li Zhi sneered and waved his hand. The flag soldiers waved their flags, and the artillerymen immediately
They took action and unloaded all one hundred 18-pound cannons from their carriages and arranged them on the salt-alkali land by the sea.
The artillery here had just begun to arrange, and the eight heavy artillery in Chikan Fort opened fire in this direction. Only a few booms of artillery were heard from three miles away, and a few artillery shells flew over at high speed like meteors.
The distance was too far, and the Dutch's first round of artillery hit rate was very low. All seven artillery shells flew away, and only one solid shell shot into Li Zhi's artillery formation. The artillery shell bounced and hit an artilleryman, interrupting
injured his right leg.
Amid the screams of the wounded, the medical team ran up and carried the wounded off on a stretcher.
The guide who was tied up in the Chinese army trembled even more when he saw that the red-haired cannon started to hurt people. He was now tied up in the Chinese army, and he couldn't escape even if he wanted to escape. It was really a shame, everything was over. He was anxious
I was sweating all over my head, and I only regretted that I was greedy for money and waded into this muddy water for twenty taels of silver.
Seeing the casualties in the troops, Li Zhi was a little angry and cursed "Barbarians!". After the artillerymen loaded the cannons with shells and aimed at the distant fortress with muskets and other tools, Li Zhi quickly waved his hand.
The flag commander waved the flag, and a hundred gunners fired a hundred heavy cannons.
The scene of a hundred heavy artillery salvoes was breathtaking. Standing in the middle of the army, Li Zhi only heard a loud rumbling sound. The sound was overwhelming and pressed on the eardrums, as if it was going to deafen people's ears.
People couldn't help but cover their ears. The heavy cannons on both sides spurted out tongues of fire, and huge sparks were ejected from the barrels. The sparks emitted by the cannons connected together. From Li Zhi's perspective, the cannon fire on the left and right looked like two lines.
Fire dragon.
One hundred heavy cannons stumbled back, and the recoil force was pressed hard on the ground through the structure of the gun carriage. The cannon body pressed down to the ground, then rebounded under the force, and was lifted upwards and shook. One hundred heavy cannons
The huge recoil of the heavy artillery shook the nearby ground. Li Zhi felt like he was on the ship all of a sudden, and his feet were shaking constantly.
The packhorses pulling the artillery carts had already been led 200 meters away, but they were still frightened by the roar of the heavy artillery and neighed so hard that they tried to escape. It was only thanks to the grooms' tight hold on the reins that they stabilized themselves.
One hundred rounds of explosive shells shot out of the barrel and towards Chikan Fort three miles away.
Chikan Fort is a square bastion with a side length of more than 30 meters, and the target is not small. At least a dozen artillery shells fell into the castle. The explosive shells ran rampant in the castle, hitting various fortifications, and destroying the weak walls of the fortifications.
Crash. Then when the fuse ignites the gunpowder in the shell, the shell explodes.
Amidst the roar, pellets shot out in all directions, sweeping through Chikan Fort like a storm. One round of shelling killed an unknown number of Dutch people.
It was also the first time that Li Zhi saw a hundred heavy cannons firing volleys on land. You really have to see this kind of power with your own eyes to understand how shocking it is.
The Dutch in Chikan Fort seemed to be disrupted by a salvo. Until the artillery here loaded ammunition and prepared for the second salvo, the eight heavy guns of the Dutch did not fire again.
The flag was waved again, and one hundred 18-pounder guns opened fire again.
Another rumbling sound of artillery sounded, the ground shook, and a hundred artillery shells were fired at the Dutch bastion. This time, the artillerymen adjusted the firing angle according to the situation of the first shooting, and the hit rate was higher.
More than thirty artillery shells were fired into Chikan Fort. Li Zhi looked through the telescope and saw sparks emerging one after another in Chikan City.
One can imagine the scene of more than thirty rains of shotgun shells sweeping across the entire fortress after the explosion.
After two rounds of fire, Li Zhi's artillerymen were preparing for the third salvo, and a white flag was raised in Chikan Fort.
The Dutch surrendered.
Using eight solid-shell cannons against a hundred split-shell cannons, the odds of winning in such a battle were too small. The defenders in Chikan Fort were bombed for two rounds. They knew that if they continued to fight, their entire army would be annihilated, so they surrendered.
But Li Zhi was not prepared to let the Dutch go.
Li Zhi did not have a good impression of the Dutch who often waged undeclared wars and frequently captured Han Chinese from China's coastal areas and sent them to Southeast Asia to work as slaves. These bandits burned, killed and looted whenever they had the opportunity along the southeastern coast. How could they ever bring Chinese people to the southeast coast?
As a human being?
For example, in the second year of the Apocalypse, the Dutch colonists forced Chinese slaves to build the Hongmucheng Fortress in Penghu. The Hongmucheng Fortress took three months to complete. During these three months, 1,500 Chinese slaves died of exhaustion and 1,300 of them starved to death.
270 were sent to Batavia as a personal gift to Governor Kun. Only 137 of them finally arrived, and the rest died on the way.
Li Zhi felt that he had nothing moral to say about these Dutch people. Now that he had the upper hand, how could he let them go just because of a white flag?
Li Zhi sneered, pretending that he didn't see the white flag, and waved his hand for the artillerymen to continue shooting.
The artillerymen continued to load and fire, and fired two more rounds into Chikan City. With each round of artillery fire, the artillerymen's hit accuracy was better than the previous round. In the fourth round of salvo, at least more than 60 artillery shells hit the city.
In Chikan Fort, the bastion was blown to pieces.
The Dutch defenders in Chikan Fort couldn't stand it anymore. How could this be a strong and defensible bastion? It was just a cage that was beaten in vain! They howled and abandoned Chikan Fort, opened the gate and ran to the port. Three hundred
The garrison of Chikan Fort with many people was probably killed by Li Zhi. More than a hundred people were killed. The remaining more than a hundred red hairs jumped on the boats in the port one by one, trying to row to Fort Relanja on the island to escape.
