Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Today's European cannons have a range of about four miles at a normal angle (below 45°), such as the commonly used 24-pound heavy artillery.

As for the larger caliber 32-pound guns and 42-pound guns, they are rare super heavy guns, let alone the middle of the seventeenth century, even in the latter part of the seventeenth century, this kind of super heavy guns are also rare, not within the category of conventional artillery .

And four miles, or two kilometers, is only the furthest attack distance that heavy artillery can theoretically be effective in.

In fact, once the range of a smoothbore artillery exceeds a mile, the shooting accuracy will be greatly reduced.

In this case, if you want to hit the target at a longer distance, you can only achieve it by increasing the number of cannons and covering them with firepower.

Right now, the warships of the Ming army used hundreds of cannons to cover the most protruding sand island!

"Oh, God, how is it possible?" Seeing hundreds of shells coming, the sergeant murmured unconsciously at first, and then said with the last hope: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, Mingren can only shoot live ammunition, even if it is With hundreds of rounds, it may not be able to cause us much damage on this sandy island."

The soldier next to him wanted to punch the sergeant when he heard this, and said in his heart: My Captain Crow's Mouth, you can shut up!

What happened next proved that the sergeant captain was a crow mouth.

I saw that after hundreds of shells fell, they exploded one after another, and the shrapnel, iron nails, broken porcelain pieces, etc. inside were splashed everywhere!
Although the five forts on Shadao were not hit directly, several soldiers beside the forts were wounded by shrapnel, or even killed directly!
"Fire! Fire back!"

The sergeant came back to his senses, ignoring the repeated slaps in the face, and shouted orders.

Although the wounded soldiers were howling miserably, and the smoke from the Ming army's artillery shells permeated the sand island, the atmosphere was tense, but these Dutch soldiers were indeed elite, and they were not too flustered at this time. Someone soon filled the position of the wounded and helped to fire the shells.

Five 12-pound or 18-pound cannons on Shadao began to fight back against the Ming warships.

It's a pity that five cannons are too few compared to the hundreds of naval cannons in Ming Dynasty.

As for the Ming warships that were more than three miles away, they were very difficult to hit because they were too far away.For the many small boats and sampans rushing forward, they are also difficult to hit because of their small number.

Even if they occasionally hit a small warship with hundreds of materials or a sampan with less than [-] materials, the Ming army still had hundreds of such small ships and sampans.

The battle took place only for a while, and even though few Dutch soldiers died on Sand Island, everyone from the non-commissioned officers to the privates felt a burst of despair.

"How could the Ming people install so many heavy cannons on a warship? Their ships are not big enough, and one has nearly twenty heavy cannons. Isn't it afraid that the ship will be shaken apart?"

"When did the Ming people start using flower bombs? Not only did they make flower bombs, but they seemed to be more powerful than ours. How is this possible?"

"Didn't the officials above all say that the Chinese people's equipment is poor? This group of stinky shit, all of them are lying!"

"···"

Seeing that the attack of the Ming army could not be stopped, the Dutch soldiers on Shadao were shocked and puzzled by the firepower of the Ming army, and at the same time they could not help but curse at the company's upper-level decision makers.

If you know the firepower of the Ming army is so fierce, a fool will fight with the Ming army-it's impossible to win at all, okay?

The sergeant captain was still doing his duty to boost morale.

"Boys, don't panic. The cannons outside waited for the Ming army's sampan to approach before firing. They fired shotguns directly, hitting them with peach blossoms.

If they land on the island, we will rely on strong stone fortresses to fight them to the end.Isn't it our task to let them run into a broken head here? "

The sergeant, probably because he was too irreverent to his Lord, finished speaking, and the accident happened again.

When the flat-bottomed warships and sampans of the Ming army were nearly one mile away from Shadao, they suddenly split in half and sailed to the north.

The sergeant looked through the binoculars and found that a large number of Ming troops appeared on the land on the north side at some time.

Those warships went to pick up the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, and rushed towards Shadao from the north side!

Seeing the number of soldiers from the Ming Dynasty, even the sergeant couldn't say any words of encouragement, but felt his scalp tingling.

"My God, how many Ming soldiers are here? Three thousand? Five thousand? Or ten thousand?"

"Sergeant, no matter how many thousand, we can't hold this sand island anymore, we must retreat as soon as possible!" A corporal officer said loudly amidst the rumbling cannon.

Another corporal also ran over and suggested, "Kade is right. We have a small number of people. Since we can't defend, we have to save the lives of the soldiers and go to defend the city of Zeelandia!"

"No, we can't retreat before the Ming people have landed on Shadao." The sergeant captain insisted.

"But when Ming people land on Shadao, we may not be able to escape." Corporal No. 2 roared excitedly.

"If you don't try it, how will you know it won't work?" The sergeant captain was very stubborn.

In the follow-up shelling by the Ming army, several soldiers were injured one after another near the fort.

Seeing that the Ming army's boats and sampans were less than one mile away from the sand island, they thought they had a chance to kill the Ming army in large numbers, but they saw that the Ming army's small flat-bottomed warships were also carrying artillery.

Those cannons were not made of brass or bronze, nor were they as dark and heavy as iron casting, but glowed silver in the sun, and the barrels were thinner than copper cannons, firing out angry shells one after another.

Although there were only one or two cannons on each small boat, there were hundreds of such small boats, and immediately caused more intense artillery bombardment on the sand island.

Even though the Dutch soldiers were tough, they could no longer stay on the fort to fight back at this time, and ran towards the stone fort one after another.

Among them, there was also the gun crew who persisted, but was unfortunately hit by the gunpowder barrel, and several people were killed in the violent explosion.

Even those who fled to the stone castle may not be able to escape alive.

The small artillery carried by the small boats of the Ming army fired significantly faster and in larger numbers, which only caused greater casualties to the Dutch soldiers.

At this time, several non-commissioned officers were not in the mood to argue about withdrawing or not, because they obviously could not withdraw, and could only rely on the stone fort and use small guns under ten pounds to resist the Ming army who was about to land on the island!

"kill!"

When a large number of Ming troops landed on Shadao, it was like a group of tigers coming out of the cage, with an astonishing momentum.

There are musketeers with flintlock guns. After landing on the island, they shoot in rows towards the stone castle to suppress the Dutch bullets.

There were also warriors in iron armor and holding rattan plates who rushed forward quickly, and came straight to the stone castle under the cover of their own muskets and artillery.

I have to say that the Dutch's stone castle is really good in defense.For example, in the stone fort in front of us, although there are 30 to [-] people left to fight, the cannons and guns defending the stone castle still caused a lot of casualties to the Ming army.

The soldiers of the Ming army fell down, but the people behind did not stop, but continued to charge while the Dutch soldiers were shooting.

Fortunately, our own firepower was strong enough to suppress the firepower of Shibao, otherwise the Ming army might not be able to get close to Shibao.

Even so, the Ming army paid dozens of casualties before finally approaching within ten steps of the stone castle.

Immediately, the Ming army threw grenades one after another into the stone fort through the gun holes, and blasted open the heavy wooden door of the stone fort with gunpowder. This was regarded as breaking the Dutch stone fort.

Although these garrison soldiers knew that captives were more valuable, the first to break into the stone castle was a team of sword players who killed or injured dozens of people. All people were hacked to death.

At this time, the Dutch on other sand islands realized that this place was captured and began to directly fire at this sand island...
In this way, the battle lasted for most of the day, and when the sun was westward in the afternoon, the Ming army finally conquered the last Dutch sand island and rock fortress.

It is worth mentioning that the Dutch soldiers in this stone fort did not stick to it—except for the first stone fort, the Dutch soldiers in the subsequent four stone forts did not stick to it, and some people fled to other sand islands one after another.

In the end, more than 50 Dutch people survived and evacuated from the northern sand island area and fled to the north end of the island in the south.

On the other side, there was no fighting at Dayuan Island Outer Port, where the main forces of Ming and He were concentrated.

The Ming army is waiting for the result of the battle on Shadao in the north.

As the defender, the Dutch do not have the ability to take the initiative to attack unless they let the fleet from the headquarters at sea do it.

In this way, both sides maintained restraint.

Until the results of the battle on Sand Island in the north came...