Chapter 451 Fighting is never about fighting for numbers
Feng Yandong never expected that he was just using waste, burying the black gunpowder that seized the Dutch in a port built in the Netherlands, and then sending the Dutch to him.
This is also the end of the world to the Netherlands.
But as a result, the explosion killed at least 400 Dutch people and injured as many as 600 to 700 people. What was even more surprising was that the Dutch attack was delayed for three days.
Due to the explosion center, the powerful shock wave actually inferred the tall mast of the Garen ship. The huge mast hit another ship ready to enter the port, which sank the ship directly.
The Luermen waterway was blocked like this. After three days and three nights, the waterway was finally cleared. At this time, due to the explosion, the morale of the Dutch people also became depressed.
There is no way to be depressed. No one can feel good about this matter if it is on anyone.
The Dutch were no better than the Ming people. Even a bandit had a few thousand, tens of thousands, and even hundreds of thousands. The Dutch sent a large number of officials to seize the island, and there were more than 5,000 land soldiers who could almost draw the entire East India Company.
However, they came to the senior officials with great enthusiasm, and did not even see the Liu family army. With a loud bang, more than two more horses disappeared from the battle sequence.
After finally cleaning up the wreck in the alley, cleaning up the port dock, and then heading down the city of Orentz again, the Liu family army had already prepared the fortifications.
The Dutch unexpectedly discovered that the Liu family army did not resist the city in Olenji City, nor did they line up outside the city. Instead, they used wooden stakes as thick as sea bowls, wrapped around iron wire, and blocked the spots with Olenji City as the center, spreading out along the city outside. These wooden stakes and iron wires seemed to encircle the entire city like fences.
Faced with this inconspicuous tactic, the Dutch colonial army, Spanish representatives and Zheng representatives did not take it seriously.
In fact, Feng Yandong actually didn't understand why he had to dig trenches about one meter five meters deep and two meters wide on the ground. The workload was not low.
The Dutch, who were still learning the fire of muskets, faced the first world, the first world, the big, and the most common landmines, trenches, and barbed wire fortress tactics.
Because the barbed wire is very large, there are very few soldiers from the Liu family army outside.
"They just want to use this barbed wire to stop us? Are they underestimating us too much?"
Several Dutch Army officers looked at each other, and they had never encountered such a situation.
"This barbed wire mesh can be only 1.5 meters high. At worst, it can be cut, which will not hinder us!"
"This barbed wire is a good thing. It is used to carry sheep, so sheep will never run away..."
"Okay, I'm wrong, why don't we try to fight?"
Moreover, they hid in the trenches, and in some places, small sheds were built with canvas, so this phenomenon is both strange and has an indescribable smell.
After half an hour of preparation, the Dutch artillery slowly pushed up. The artillery had just been removed from the warship, and began to unscrupulously adjust the shooting boundary against this fortification.
The Dutch wanted to solve the battle by shelling, but they were a little surprised. Because the trenches and barbed wire were crisscrossed, the trenches like spider webs expanded the defense line outward to at least one thousand meters.
The Dutch wanted to learn from the Liu family army to open fire outside the city, but the range of the artillery was still a little out of reach.
Although they couldn't reach it, the artillery of the Liu family army was condescending. Just as the Dutch artillery was preparing to build a launch position, an interpreter approached the trench with a white flag, looking like he was preparing to persuade him to surrender.
As a result, the translator had just entered the outermost trench when suddenly his feet became soft.
"Ouch..."
This is the clip hunter used to catch wild boars. The sharp spikes were inserted into the interpreter's calf and stuck directly on the bone. He almost fainted due to pain.
"Despicable, shameless..."
All kinds of dirty words were cursed, but unfortunately, the distance was too far, and the soldiers of the Liu family army could not hear it. Even if the distance was close, it was useless. Most of the troops of these Dutch East India Company were natives they recruited, and only the officer-level Dutch people were Dutch, but the number was very small.
Finally, the Dutch artillery positions were built and they were ready to fire shells.
"Boom..."
The Dutch artillery fired a deafening roar, and the hot shot put pulled out a graceful parabola and smashed it towards the Liu family army's position.
The shells hit the pile of soil hard, and the soil splashed everywhere. The soft pile of soil was vulnerable! However, it was surprising that the shells hit the pile of soil and suddenly fell into it and were extremely moved!
The shells flew over one after another, either hitting the pile of earth in front of the trenches or crossing the trenches to hit the open space behind. As for the shells that happened to hit the trenches, there was no one in ten!
The Liu family army was still very nervous at first, but when they saw that the Dutch artillery had been fighting for a long time, no shells hit anyone. They were all happy and laughed at the Dutch loudly in the gap between the roar of artillery fire.
"Red-haired ghost, didn't you eat breasts today? You can be weak even if you fire a cannon!"
Some soldiers of the Liu family took out the cannonballs that were trapped in the loose soil and threw them out to play with. This is a good thing. Although they cannot be used directly for artillery and are good at retaliating against the Dutch, they can melt it into lead bullets for muskets, and they can also sell them for money. Anyway, there are many benefits.
Others followed suit and picked up the still steaming shells in the gap between shelling. After a while, they picked up a bunch of them. They laughed happily and said, "Red-haired ghost, are you here to fight or send us ammunition?"
The conscience of heaven and earth, although the Dutch artillery artillery level is not considered to be above level, at least at the upper level. If it were other Ming troops, facing such a storm-like shelling, even if they did not cause shit, they would cause urine.
But the key point is that Liu Mingjun adopted the trench tactics of the war period, specifically restraining artillery attacks. Not to mention such solid bullets, even if they were flower bullets, they would be powerless in the face of the enemies in the trench.
Especially the soft soil is the nemesis of solid shells. Once the shell falls into the soft soil, the kinetic energy of the shell will be consumed by two-thirds. As for the trench about two meters wide, even if the shells are shot in, they will not be able to form lethality.
However, the problem is that this is a real society.
Regardless of the reason, the Dutch artillery fired hundreds of shells. Not only did the Liu family army not suffer any casualties, but instead mocked them.
As for the Spanish, his brows raised slightly and his face was filled with a smile of appearance. Although there was no sarcastic word, this expression could not stand the savor.
The one who added fuel to the fire was Zheng Zhibao, who was standing behind the representative of the Dutch East India Company. He looked at Zheng Zhilong with a low voice and said, "The Dutch seems to be nothing great!"
But he could understand Steven. At this time, he could only pretend to not listen to Chinese, otherwise it would be even more embarrassing.
The Army Artillery Major who was in charge of commanding the artillery was scolded to death, and then replaced it with an excellent naval naval gun commander and personally stepped forward to command, and unloaded a large number of 32-pound guns from the warship behind.
It was only after noon that the second round of artillery began, and this time more than 180 artillery pieces were used.
More than 180 artillery pieces were quite powerful. Just tentative artillery bombardment formed a large amount of smoke, covering up the entire Dutch shells. More than 180 artillery shells flew parabola to the trench position of the Liu family army.
Although the Dutch fired more than 180 artillery pieces, the Dutch fired thousands of artillery pieces at the same time. Not to mention that the army encountered such artillery attacks, even if Xiaoyong and Jiannu were good at fighting, they should have thrown their weapons and fled to their lives when facing such artillery attacks.
Fortunately, there are trenches. Otherwise, even if the Liu family army faced this situation, they might not be able to hold on.
Because the Dutch naval commander had completely different angles to consider the problem. During naval warfare, when the accuracy of the naval gun was insufficient, the Dutch would draw the predetermined target area into small grids in order to improve the hit rate. It didn't matter if one shot failed to hit the opponent, that was ten guns and twenty guns were aimed at one target.
With just one round of cannonage, the barbed wire in front of the first trench was blown into pieces. If this was a team of muskets shot in line, the outcome would be the same. They were directly hit by this round of cannonage.
Now the Liu family soldiers did not curse at the Dutch. They were shocked by the huge roar and could not hear the sound. The dust and smoke from the shells made the Liu family soldiers in the trench look dirty and embarrassed.d
"No, keep going"!
Seeing that the first time the Dutch started to shoot wildly, more than 180 artillery pieces and shells hit the Liu family's trench positions like they didn't have money.
"Each company left a squad surveillance position, and the others retreated from the traffic trenches. The sentry observed it in time and prepared support sites anytime and anywhere!"
Feng Yandong issued an order in an orderly manner, and then he looked at the artillery and said, "Don't let the Dutch perform solo shows, and it's not rude to come and go, let them see the artillery attacks of our Liu family army!"
"Boom..."
The shelling of both sides began to unfold in full swing. Because the Dutch smoke had a certain protective effect, the shelling effect of the Liu family army was also not ideal.
Chapter completed!