Nowadays, the normal angle of cannons in Europe (below 45°) is about four miles at a distance, such as the commonly used 24-pound cannon.

As for the larger caliber 32-pound cannon and 42-pound cannon, it is a rare super heavy cannon. Not to mention that it is still in the middle of the 17th century. Even in the later 17th century, this super heavy cannon is rare and is not within the scope of conventional artillery.

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And four miles, or two kilometers, are just the farthest strike distance that is theoretically effective in heavy artillery.

In fact, once the range of smoothbore cannon exceeds one 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 rely on increasing the number of cannons and covering the firepower.

At present, the Ming army warships used hundreds of artillery to achieve firepower coverage on the sand island that was surging in the forefront!

"Oh, God, how is that possible?" Seeing hundreds of shells coming, the sergeant murmured unconsciously, then held the last hope and said, "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, the Ming people can only fire real ammunition, even if it's

There are hundreds of times, but it may not cause much damage to us on this sand island."

The soldier next to him wanted to punch the sergeant when he heard this and thought to himself: My Crow Mouth Captain, please shut up!

What happened next proved that the Sergeant Captain was a crow's mouth.

After the hundreds of shells fell, they exploded one after another, and shrapnel, iron nails, broken porcelain pieces, etc. were sputtered everywhere!

Although the five turrets on the sand island were not directly hit, several soldiers next to the turret were injured by shrapnel or even killed directly!

"Shot! Fight back!"

The sergeant came to his senses and did not care about being slapped in the face repeatedly, and yelled at the order.

Although the injured soldiers were screaming, the smoke of Ming army artillery shells filled the sand island and the atmosphere was tense, these Dutch soldiers were indeed elite. They were not too panic at this time. Soon someone took up the position of the wounded to help disembark the shells.

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

Unfortunately, the five cannons are too few than hundreds of naval cannons in the Ming Dynasty.

For the Ming warships more than three miles away, it is difficult to hit because they are too far away. For the many small boats and sampans that are advancing forward, they are also difficult to hit because they are too small.

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

The battle took place only for a while, even though there were not many Dutch soldiers on the sand island, they felt desperate when they went up to the non-commissioned officers and privates.

"How could the Ming people install so many heavy artillery on a warship? Their ship is not big enough. One ship is equipped with almost twenty heavy artillery. Are you not afraid of the ship being shaken and cracked?"

"When did Mingren also start using flowering bullets? Not only did they create flowering bullets, but they also seemed to be more powerful than ours. How could this be possible?"

"Don't the officials above all say that the Chinese people are in a simple manner? All these stinky dog ​​shit are lies!"

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Seeing that the Ming army could not stop the attack, the Dutch soldiers on the sand island were shocked by the Ming army's firepower. While puzzled, they could not help but curse at the company's upper-level decision-makers.

If I knew that the Ming army had such strong firepower, only a fool would fight the Ming army - would it be impossible to win at all?

The sergeant captain is still conscientiously encouraging morale.

"Young men, don't panic. The cannons outside wait for the Ming army sampan to get close to them before firing, and directly fired the bullets, which made them look full of peach blossoms.

If they land on the island, we will rely on the strong stone fort and deal with them to the end. Isn’t it our mission to make them bleed here?"

The sergeant may have finished speaking because he was too ungodly to his Lord, and an accident happened again.

I saw the Ming army's flat-bottomed warship and sampan suddenly split half of it and headed to the north when it was nearly one mile away from the sand island.

The sergeant looked at it with a thousand-mile mirror and found that there were a large number of Ming troops on the north land.

The warships went to pick up the Ming soldiers and rushed from the north to the sand island!

Seeing the number of Ming soldiers, even the sergeant could not say anything encouraged, but felt his scalp numb.

"Oh my God, how many Ming soldiers have come? Three thousand, five thousand, or ten thousand?"

"Sergeant, no matter how many thousands, we can't defend this sand island. We must retreat as soon as possible!" A corporal officer said loudly amid the rumbling cannons.

Another corporal also came over and suggested, "Cad is right. We are short of people. Since we can't defend, we have to save the lives of the soldiers and guard the city of Jelanzha!"

"No, we can't tell that before the Chinese people climbed to the sand island, we retreated." The sergeant captain had his insistence.

"But when the Ming people climbed the sand island, we might not be able to escape." The second corporal shouted excitedly.

"How can you know if you don't try it?" The sergeant captain was very stubborn.

After the Ming army's subsequent artillery bombardment, several soldiers were injured near the fort.

Seeing the Ming army's small boat and the sampan was less than one mile from the sand island, they thought they had the opportunity to kill and injure the Ming army in large quantities, but they saw that the small flat-bottomed warships of the Ming army were also carrying artillery.

The cannons were neither cast like brass or bronze, nor as dark and heavy as iron, but were shining with silver light in the sun. The barrels were thinner than copper cannons, and they sprayed out angry shells.

Although there are only one or two artillery guns on each small boat, there are hundreds of such small boats, which immediately caused more violent artillery bombardment on the sand island.

Even though the Dutch soldiers were tough, they could no longer stay at the fort to fight back, and ran towards the stone fort.

Among them, there were also gun crews that insisted, but were unfortunately hit by the powder keg, and several people died in a violent explosion.

Even those who escape to the stone fort may not be able to escape in alive.

The small artillery carried by the Ming army's small boats were significantly faster and the number was greater, causing only greater casualties to the Dutch soldiers.

At this time, several non-commissioned officers had no intention of deficiting the issue of evacuation, because they were obviously unable to withdraw and could only rely on the stone fort and use small cannons below ten pounds to resist the Ming army that was about to land on the island!

"kill!"

A large number of Ming troops climbed to the sand island, like a group of tigers coming out of the cage, with amazing momentum.

There were musketeers holding flintlock guns. After landing on the island, they shot in rows in the direction of the stone castle to suppress the Dutch gun bullets.

There were also warriors wearing iron armor and holding rattan cards who rushed forward quickly and rushed straight to the stone fort under the cover of their own muskets and cannons.

I have to say that the Dutch's stone fort is indeed very good in defense. For example, although there are only 20 or 30 people left in the stone fort in front of me, they still caused quite a lot of trouble to the Ming army.

casualties.

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

Fortunately, our firepower was fierce enough to suppress the firepower of the stone fort, otherwise the Ming army would have difficulty getting close to the stone fort.

Even so, the Ming army suffered dozens of casualties and finally reached within ten steps of the stone fort.

Immediately, the Ming army threw grenades into the stone castle through the cannon holes, and then used gunpowder to explode the heavy wooden door of the stone castle, which was considered to have broken through the Dutch stone castle.

Although these garrison soldiers knew that captives were more valuable, the first one to break into the stone fort was a team of swordsman players who had killed and injured dozens of people. In anger, they used their waist knives to slap the dozen remaining Netherlands in the stone fortress.

All the people were hacked to death.

At this time, the Dutch people on other sand islands realized that this place was captured and began to fire guns directly at the sand island...

In this way, the battle lasted for most of the day. It was not until the sun was west in the afternoon that the Ming army conquered the last sand island stone fortress of the Dutch.

It is worth mentioning that the Dutch soldiers of this stone fort did not actually stick to it. Except for the first stone fort, the Dutch soldiers of the four stone forts did not defend the dead, and some people fled to other sand islands one after another.

In the end, more than fifty Dutch people evacuated from the northern sand island area alive and fled to the north tail island to the south.

On the other side, there was no battle at the outer port of Daren Island, which had the main forces of the Ming and Dutch sides.

The Ming army was waiting for the result of the battle on the northern sand island.

As the defensive party, the Dutch did not have the ability to take the initiative to attack unless the fleet from the headquarters at sea took action.

In this way, both sides maintained restraint.
Chapter completed!