Li Zhi gave an order, and seventy heavy cannons loaded with shells were pushed to a relatively gentle slope. The mountains covered the cannon bodies, and only the muzzles were pointed at the Dutch bastion at the foot of the mountain. The gunners quickly turned the spiral to adjust the cannons.
He opened his mouth and aimed at Fort Relanja, two miles away, with a musket, ruler and caliper.
As soon as the Chinese military command flag was waved, seventy cannons opened fire at once, spouting tongues of fire towards the Dutch fortress.
The roar of seventy cannons was deafening, scaring away countless birds on the mountain.
Seventy rounds of explosive shells were fired towards the Fort of Relanje. The Fort of Relanje was not small, and almost all the shells fell into the inner fort. After the explosive shells collided and bounced in the fort for a while, the fuse ignited the gunpowder in the shell, and the shell
One after another exploded, sending sparks one after another in the bastion.
Seventy shells fired shot pellets flying everywhere, killing the arquebusiers hiding behind the fort wall one by one. The Dutch bastion was blown into a mess, and an unknown number of people died.
The Dutch soldiers no longer dared to guard the city wall and all hid in the buildings. Only the artillerymen were still firing in the fort.
The Dutch's twenty-seven heavy cannons counterattacked. The Dutch artillerymen aimed at the spot on the high ground where the fire had been, and lit the matches of the twenty-seven heavy cannons. Twenty-seven shells were fired rapidly towards the high ground.
However, Li Zhi's artillery fired downwards on the mountain. When firing downwards, the artillery had a great advantage, because even if there were no artificial barriers such as forts, the cannons could be placed behind a platform that was invisible at the foot of the mountain and only needed to be exposed
The muzzle of the gun is enough. If explosive shells are thrown from high ground, even the muzzle of the gun does not need to be exposed. The artilleryman only needs to expose his head and take aim.
The artillery firing from below can easily observe the target at the foot of the mountain, while the artillery firing upward from the foot of the mountain cannot see where the cannon on the mountain is.
Twenty-seven rounds of Dutch artillery shells were fired at the mountain, but they could not reach Li Zhi's cannon on the mountain and missed.
After firing one round, Li Zhi's gunners immediately used a brush dipped in water to clean the gun barrel and filled the gun barrel with propellant. Then the gunners pounded the gunpowder with wood, put in the blooming projectiles, and then pounded it again. Complete.
After loading, the gunner stood in front to observe the target at the foot of the mountain, took aim, and adjusted the pitch angle of the cannon. The gunner poured a small amount of gunpowder into the ignition point at the rear end of the cannon as a firing charge, and then the gunners all stood on both sides, ready to fire.
Not long after the Dutch's ineffective shooting, Li Zhi's gunners had finished loading. With a wave of the flag, the gunner of the seventy cannons pulled the gun rope and ignited the cannon's fusilier ignition device. The barrel
The black powder inside was instantly ignited, turning into flames and air, and violently pushed the explosive shells out of the barrel. The explosive shells were like meteors, shooting towards the turret of the twenty-seven heavy guns at the foot of the mountain.
Amidst the rumbling explosions, at least two forts were hit by explosive shells and were blown to pieces.
After several rounds of firing like this, the Dutch lost seven of their forts and became desperate. If they kept fighting like this for a long time, their heavy artillery would be wiped out. They finally gave up the strategy of defending the bastion and gathered a thousand soldiers.
Four hundred soldiers attacked Li Zhi's troops on the high ground.
Although the Dutch knew that their numbers were small, they hoped that Li Zhi's troops would be vulnerable. Li Zhi's army could not be all elite soldiers, right? If the infantry sent by Li Zhi this time were as vulnerable as the ordinary Ming army, the Dutch would
The 1,400 men can drive Li Zhi's troops into the sea.
The Dutch poured out from the gate of Fort Jelandje. Half of them were arquebusiers with an ammunition pouch slung across their bodies; half were pikemen with a spear as their only weapon.
They organized themselves outside the bastion for a while and then attacked the high ground.
Seventy artillery aimed at them and fired seventy shells. Twenty shells hit the advancing red-haired troops, cutting more than twenty lanes of flesh and blood in the crowd, killing six or seventy Dutchmen.
Soldier.
However, the explosive bomb was designed to attack turrets and ships. The fuze was set relatively long and the explosion speed was slow. The Dutch soldiers had enough time to escape after seeing the bomb stop. After the explosive bomb exploded, not many people were killed.
The Dutch soldiers trotted all the way and withstood four rounds of shelling. After leaving two to three hundred corpses behind, they finally rushed to the bottom of the high ground panting.
In fact, by this time, the morale of the Dutch had been crippled by the artillery on the highlands, and they were now at the end of their strength. That is to say, Li Zhi's ferocious refusal to accept the Dutch surrender at Chikan Fort scared the Dutch soldiers, otherwise they would have long ago
He collapsed and surrendered with the white flag raised.
On the high ground, Li Zhi's three thousand riflemen were waiting for work. They loaded their bullets and stood in several rows, waiting for the Dutch soldiers to make a desperate move.
At a distance of three hundred meters, two hundred meters, and one hundred and fifty meters, and still fifty meters away from the effective range of the Dutch matchlocks, the riflemen on the mountain started shooting.
With a long horn blast, Li Zhi's first row of a thousand soldiers fired at Hong Mao, who was a hundred and forty paces away. In the crackling sound of gunfire, flames and smoke suddenly enveloped the entire high ground.
A thousand rounds of bullets roared towards the Dutch soldiers charging into the formation like a storm.
The bullets penetrated the jackets and uniforms of the Dutch, and entered the equally fragile flesh of the white people. In an instant, they claimed the lives of these European soldiers and ended them on a small island in the Far East.
Blood arrows emerged from the soldiers who were hit by bullets, spraying red blood everywhere.
A red-haired man who rushed in front was shot three times and fell back without saying a word, losing his life. A Dutch officer who shouted loudly and waved his saber was hit in the nose by a bullet and fell screaming.
He fell to the ground. He covered the wound and rolled on the ground. The blood sprayed from his nose spread all over the ground. His strength became weaker and weaker.
This was a massacre. With only one volley, half of the Dutch soldiers fell in front of the formation. Screams rang out everywhere, and together with the groans of the fallen, it was like the background music of this battle.
The Dutch were defeated in an instant, turned around and fled in all directions, panicking and choosing their way.
However, the volleys on the mountain had not stopped yet. The Dutch ran a few tens of meters, and the second row of riflemen started shooting again. Another hail of bullets hit the Dutch, and half of the Dutch who were still alive fell to the ground.
The remaining three men abandoned their weapons and ran as fast as they could, finally escaping from the range of the riflemen on the high ground before the third row fired a salvo.
However, these sailors actually couldn't escape. The island was so big. Unless the Dutch rushed into the sea, there would be no way to escape in the subsequent pursuit.
The main force of the Dutch was defeated, and Relanje City had lost its ability to resist. Li Zhi smiled, waved his hand and said: "Enter Relanje City!" (To be continued...)
