Xinshun 1730

Chapter 753 Performance Battle ([-])
As the order was issued, the impatient artillerymen, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately released the heavy shells.

On the viewing platform, the envoys of these small countries listened to the roar of the cannon and watched the Fort Santiago that seemed to tremble on the ground. They were dubious about what Liu Yu said just now.

Although on the bright side, since so many people are watching, no one can place a bet. After all, the scriptures forbid them to gamble.Although you can still play in secret, it's not good in front of outsiders.

If there is no restriction of scriptures, they actually don't want to bet with Liu Yu.

They don’t gamble, not because they think Liu Yu will definitely win, but because they think Liu Yu will definitely lose. If they think Liu Yu will definitely win, they will gamble instead—spend a little money and buy fun. The Chinese general who ran away from the Netherlands has no face at all?
They don't have the vision of some middle and high-ranking officers in Dashun, and they can't understand at all that "effective explosive bombs will make the bastion system withdraw from the stage of history, the era of exhausting food and grass to defend the fortress to force troops to retreat is over, and the era of field battles will determine the outcome." has come."

Even they did not have the vision of the Bastion era.

For the noble envoys of these small countries, the ancient castle in the Zhengde period in front of them is still difficult to conquer.

Back then, the Portuguese also relied on this kind of broken castle. In Southeast Asia and India, they had a record of breaking 500 and breaking [-].Of course, the premise is that there is control of the sea.

Over the years, countries have also fought several battles with the Dutch and Portuguese one after another.Even if they were not fighting for the motherland and the liberation of the nation, there must have been internal struggles. Someone had the experience of leading Dutch soldiers into the capital.

The Dutch didn't build too many decent bastions, and serious bastions are expensive.

Many forts are left over from the Portuguese era.The handover of Portugal and the Netherlands in Southeast Asia occurred around the time of Chongzhen and Tianqi, when the new fortress system had not yet fully formed.

Relying on these completely outdated fortresses, the Dutch completed their control of Southeast Asia.

According to the knowledge of the nobles of these small countries, if such a fortress wants to be gnawed down, let alone a day, I am afraid it will not be possible to do it in ten days.If there are 100 garrisons inside, maybe seven or eight hundred or even thousands of corpses will be thrown away?

It's not that they haven't seen cannons before. Of course, there are cannons in their own small country. This kind of idea is based on the existence of cannons.

These fortresses left by the Portuguese in the late Middle Ages are similar to the bunkers built by the Japanese invading China in later generations against the resistance of Chinese soldiers and civilians.That shit, any so-called Italian guns with the level of the late Franco-Prussian War are rubbish.But it doesn't, which makes it appear indestructible.

The Italian guns produced in 1897 could defeat the bunker tactics of the Japanese invaders in 1940; and the bombardment tactics of the Franco-Dutch War 50 years ago could also defeat the fortresses built by the Portuguese during the Zhengde period.

It is impossible for the envoys of these small countries to realize these principles by themselves.This is a standard way of thinking. I think Liu Yu's claim that the fort will be conquered within a day and that no more than ten people will be killed or injured is just a dream.

But their imagination was soon ruthlessly shattered by reality.

Two in the afternoon.

Fort Santiago was already vulnerable to shelling.

The mortars on Dashun's side fired exploding shells, because the mortar's chamber pressure was low, so it was not easy to cause danger.

Heavy artillery continued to use solid bullets.

This is exactly the same as the tactics of heavy artillery, and those who demolish houses with sledgehammers. You can't just smash the walls down casually, you need some knowledge of mechanics.

Continuous shelling with solid bullets to form a T-shape, and finally adding a few shots at the junction of the T-shape can perfectly destroy the mechanical structure of the wall.These formulas of structural mechanics were not introduced by Dashun itself, but from the artillery course of the French military academy. Dashun just followed the example, but it was perfect.

At two o'clock the walls of Fort Santiago came crashing down.

After the wall collapsed, the bulky mortar fired a large number of gunpowder packets.

In fact, at this time, there were almost no living people in the fort.

The fort fell, and not necessarily all Dutch soldiers died.

However, the large amount of explosives projected by the mortars produced violent explosions that killed many Dutch soldiers.

The seven orifices were bleeding, and the internal organs were seriously injured.

After shelling, many Dutch soldiers could still smile at their comrades, as if nothing happened.But maybe one or two minutes later, the internal bleeding will cause them to roll on the ground in pain.

Visceral injury will not cause severe pain at the first time, but will feel unbearable pain after about one or two minutes.

It's just that when you feel the pain in your internal organs, it's actually too late. With the medical conditions at this time, when you feel the pain in your internal organs, it's impossible to survive.

After the collapse of Fort Santiago, mortars and wooden howitzers continued to bombard for another hour. At three o'clock in the afternoon, the combat engineers and grenadiers who had been resting nearby were finally assembled.

They were different from the usual attack. They neither dug a hole nor carried a grenade in one hand and a grenadier's short-barreled rifle in the other. Instead, they lined up neatly like a military parade and held up the Dashun flag. , Amidst the sound of war drums and military music, they walked towards the collapsed and ruined Fort Santiago.

The Dutch defenders in the city of Malacca in the distance had nothing to do about it.

After a day of artillery battle, Dashun successfully defeated the few artillery pieces on the six towers of Malacca.Countering the forts of this era with flowering bullets is as simple as adults beating babies.

The artillery was reversed, and they could only watch the Dashun army marching towards the ruined Fort Santiago, which was arrayed like a military parade.

At 03:30, the flag of Dashun was planted on the ruins of Fort Santiago.

A large number of Dutch corpses were dragged out by the soldiers and sent to the rear for "exhibition".

There were no wounds on many Dutch soldiers.

The soldiers who died in battle in this era generally died in a miserable state.

Whether it was hit by lead bullets like thick phlegm melted at high temperature, or hit by a big iron ball weighing twenty or thirty kilograms at a speed of more than 500 meters, there is no need to describe it, but one can imagine the horror of death.

Not to mention the big iron ball weighing twenty or thirty kilograms, but the iron ball weighing twelve kilograms of the military division field artillery level, hitting people at a speed of 50 meters per second, the tragedy can be imagined.

However, these Dutch soldiers who were dragged out of the "exhibition" mainly ran to the upper level after the lower level of the fortress was bombarded by the T-shaped bombardment method, and were shocked to death by the explosives fired by heavy mortars. No arms and no legs.

When the Dashun flag was planted in Fort Santiago, Liu Yu took out the luxury pocket watch that Louis XV gave him, looked at the time, and said to the envoys from small countries who were startled: "Although you don't gamble, I say Taking this fort at one o'clock means taking it at four o'clock. As for the loss, only three people were lost, and it was caused by the artillery's own mistakes."

"I'm not humiliating you. If you come to attack, I estimate that you will attack this Fort Santiago for ten days."

"I'm just stating the fact that the military level between you and the Celestial Dynasty and the Westerners is really far behind."

He closed the pocket watch with a smile, put the pocket watch away, and waved his hands to ask people to take away the corpses of the Dutchmen who were brought over.

The envoys of these small countries watching the battle looked at the Dutch dead bodies that were being carried away, all of them had expressions of fear.What Liu Yu said was correct. When the gap in strength was too large, Liu Yu's words were really not humiliation, but just stating the facts.

Such a fortress during the Zhengde period, if they attacked it, it would be impossible to achieve such a result anyway.Of course, it was impossible for them to imagine that when Marshal Vauban attacked the Dutch bastion system, relying on soil work and Europe's first slightly organized artillery, he would often make such an exchange ratio.

Today, Dashun's siege method is learned from France; the artillery system is beyond France.Attacking such a fortress and defensive tactics that are 200 years behind the times, such an exchange ratio is so normal that it can no longer be normal.

"Heavenly soldiers, mighty and invincible, are really the blessings of our small country!"

Someone took the lead in giving a compliment, and the follow-up praises were endless.

Among them, the "closest" relationship with China is the Sulu Kingdom.The envoys of his country even directly talked about the historical origin with the Chinese dynasty.

"Angel forgive me, we small countries have submitted to the Chinese government hundreds of years ago. However, when the ship came from the west, the Chinese government did not send a navy to Nanyang, so that all countries fell under the control of Western countries."

"During the Yongle period of the previous dynasty, the royal family went to the Celestial Dynasty to pay tribute. He died of illness in Dezhou, Shandong, and was granted the posthumous title 'Gongding' by the Celestial Dynasty. The eldest son returned to the country to govern, and the second son guarded the tomb of Dezhou according to the custom of the Celestial Dynasty. Now it is It's been 300 years."

"Since Yongle, Westerners have entered Nanyang, Sulu Elementary School, and asked for help several times. However, at the time of the great chaos in Shenzhou, the news was cut off. I waited day and night, and now I finally look forward to the return of the king of the Celestial Dynasty. This is the gospel of our small country. ..."

The envoy of the Sulu Kingdom obviously did his homework, but Liu Yu just smiled at this set of rhetoric, and felt that it was pure nonsense in his heart.

This Sulu country, after the Westerners invaded the West, lived a pretty good life.

Sulu is known as "Algiers of Southeast Asia".

Algiers is famous for two things at this time.

slave.

Barbary pirates.

Sulu, the closest country to China in Southeast Asia, not the Indo-China Peninsula region, deserves the title of "Algiers of Southeast Asia", which is not for nothing.

In fact, before Dashun went to Nanyang, Sulu Kingdom sent envoys to the capital to try to pay tribute.Moreover, the table was written without a deep cultural background, so it really couldn't be written.

Gong Wen said: "The minister avoids living in the barren clothes, and is far away from the capital of God. Fortunately, he is in the prosperous period, and at the end of the day he will go to the pilgrimage."

There will be no strong wind and rain in the sky, and the sea will not be disturbed. I know that there must be saints in China... The Eastern King, the distant ancestor of the Yi Kingdom, led his family to the court in the 15th year of Yongle in the previous Ming Dynasty. ...

Taking this opportunity, he also took the opportunity to merge the household registration and population of Sulu into China, so that China could become a protectorate.

But let’s look at this matter apart from the sense of superiority of all nations coming to the DPRK. In fact, it is because the Sulu Kingdom, the “Algiers of Southeast Asia”, robs ships all day long, which makes the countries that trade with each other hate it.

Sulu also hopes to rely on a thigh. If he has the status of a tributary state of the Celestial Dynasty, such as North Korea, he can deter those who try to encircle and suppress pirates.

Su Lu was quite familiar with the tribute system of the Celestial Dynasty.

As far as the envoy of the Sulu Kingdom said, "I have been thinking about it day and night, and now I am finally looking forward to the return of the king of the celestial dynasty", if Liu Yu believed half of it, then it was really the brain and the group of fantasies about "all nations coming to court" There is no difference between the courtesy of the government minister.

(End of this chapter)