Chapter 722
Boom—boom——

There were explosions under the city of Prominza, and the soldiers on the escalator under the city were the first to be bombarded and fell to the ground. The white-armed soldiers who were climbing fell from mid-air wailing because they lost the support of their robes.

"My lord, the Dutch army...has grenades!" The commander of the frontline supervising team rushed to report to Qin Gongming.

"Understood, continue to attack the city, those who retreat, beheaded!" Qin Gongming said without any hesitation.

The current situation of the Beiyang Navy in the Taijiang Inner Sea is more urgent than theirs. If Puluominzha cannot be captured quickly, the Beiyang Navy is very likely to face the test of life and death.

Ouwat of Zeelandia would not sit back and watch Prominia be lost. Qin Gongming now seems to be racing against the Dutch army in Zeelandia and betting his life with the Dutch army in Prominia.

Taking down Prominzha, the Beiyang Navy will be able to build a living habitat with artillery. If they can’t capture Prominzha before Zelanzha’s reinforcements arrive, then Qin Gongming is the sinner of the Beiyang Navy and the king of Anguo County sinner.

Although the development of the hand grenade by the Netherlands was beyond Qin Gongming's expectation, he figured it out after thinking about it.

The production steps of the grenade are not complicated, and the key point is nothing more than the problem of the fuze. If someone with a heart gets it, it will not take long for a country to replicate it.

There are many small countries in Europe. I heard from the prince that most of the kings of these small countries are related to each other. The secret of the grenade may have been passed on from the Raksha country.

It's not that Qin Gongming never thought of retaliating with a grenade, but it's not easy to throw a three-jin grenade over the top of the city, and it's very likely that the people on the city will throw it down.

The grenadier can be thrown up, but there is no time to assemble the attack in a hurry, so let's attack by force. Seeing that there are not many Dutch troops at the top of the city, Qin Gongming made up his mind.

The white pole soldiers are worthy of being the soul of the Sichuan army, and there are explosions all around, and they still hold their wrist shields to protect their heads and climb up.

The Dutch army at the top of the city threw grenades down as if they didn't want money, and the white-armed soldiers who were forced to speak foul words picked up the smoking grenades and threw them where no one was around.

Not to mention, because the accuracy of the grenade fuze at this time is not very good, the fuze will be extended for the safety of the soldiers when it is manufactured, and many grenades have been thrown out by white soldiers and fired empty guns.

Of course, some white soldiers died because of this reckless move, but this aroused the fighting spirit of the white soldiers even more.

The white soldiers under the city were desperate, and the Dutch soldiers on the city had to be forced to delay the release of the grenade. After pulling the fuze and watching the smoke of the grenade, they could only hold it in their hands to check the time. This took courage.

"Captain, the grenades are about to run out!" Felix trotted to report to Captain Carton.

"Have all the people in the city evacuated?" Carton ignored Felix, but asked the gloomy deputy Colin.

"The company's employees and their relatives have all evacuated, but... there are still some desperate businessmen who want to take away the goods." Colin just came from the city and said angrily.

The soldiers tried their best to cover their retreat. These merchants were simply too much.

"Captain Carton, the enemy has already attacked the city, and we can't resist it!" Just at this time, a wounded Dutch soldier ran from the west of the city.

"I can't control that much anymore, order the soldiers in the city to retreat as soon as the grenades are exhausted, we will not pay for the goods of those merchants!" Captain Caton snapped.

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Half a quarter of an hour later, Prominzhaxi City changed hands. After paying more than 800 casualties, the white-armed soldiers finally opened the west city gate.

"Xing Yurong, Liang Hengtai, Dou Qi, I ordered you and others to lead 1000 people to block the other three city gates. Don't let the foreigners in the city escape! The rest of them will follow me to the inner sea shoal to cover the navy. Dock!"

Qin Gongming didn't have time to clear out the Dutch in the city, and immediately led thousands of freshly assembled white-armed soldiers to the south of the city.

However, during the entire landing process, no reinforcements from Zeelandia City came to support them, and the Beiyang Navy set foot on the main island of Ryukyu almost without any danger.

"My king's ears! I'm sure I'm going to be deaf in a while!" Liu Hongjian complained constantly as soon as he set foot on this land, but in fact he was very beautiful in his heart.

Unlike those officials in the imperial court, he thought that Ryukyu was dispensable. In the grand plan of Ming Dynasty to conquer the ocean, Ryukyu was an extremely important part. As a transit station for trade, Ryukyu is really a treasure land of geomantic omen in Liu Hongjian's eyes.

"My lord, it's not enough to just take down Prominza. Zeelandia is the Dutch military fortress, and that's where Owat, the governor of the Netherlands, lives!" He Bin walked up to Liu Hongjian and said in a low voice.

"We have taken down the city of Prominzha, so what's the difficulty in taking down another ruined castle built on a sandbar?" Before Liu Hongjian could say anything, Xing Daorong behind Qin Gongming bluffed.

Although the city of Puluominzha experienced a short-term resistance, for the white-armed soldiers who often fought hard and bitter battles, this level of siege warfare was really not worth mentioning.

"This general, Zeelandia is not Prominza..."

"Fuck, we just inquired about Puluo Minzha, this city should be called Chixian City!" Before He Bin could finish speaking, Xing Yurong interrupted his words.

The history of Puluominzha City is only 20 years, but Chixian City has hundreds of years, and there are many Han people in the city. Now that Ryukyu is restored, it will naturally return to the original title of Han people.

"Yes yes yes, what the general taught is that it is as difficult as going to heaven to take down Zeranza with artillery or crowd tactics!" Although He Bin was talking about running the train, he did not dare to be sloppy in the key points.

Because he found that if the Daming army suffered losses because he did not tell the truth, the young Daming prince in front of him would be the first to use him to sacrifice the flag.

If he had known that it would take such a big risk to save his family, he would not have stepped into this muddy water if he was blinded by lard.

After all, with the riches and waters that I have collected from the Dutchman in the past 20 years, it is not easy to marry a few more wives and concubines.

The city of Zeelandia was built on a sandbar, and it was a fortification built by successive Ryukyu governors in the Netherlands. Half of the ordinary cities are convex polygons, but Zeelandia city is a concave polygon, referred to as Lingbao.

This improvement made it possible to attack any point of the castle without exposing the attacker to more than one bastion face, allowing the defender to use crossfire for multiple strikes.

Zeelandia didn't stop there. Several large forts were built around the castle to block the entire Dagang waterway.

He Bin knew this very well. In his opinion, unless the Dutch took the initiative to go out to fight in the field, it was basically impossible for the [-] Ming army brought by Qin Gongming to take down this fortress.

As for the naval fleet, it's even worse. Entering the Dagang channel is to give away the head.

"General Qin, send people to closely monitor the Dutch in the city of Zeelandia. The rest of the soldiers bury pots and cook food on the spot. Let's talk when they are full!" Liu Hongjian did not listen to He Bin's one-sided words, and waved his hands before entering the city.

There was a storm yesterday, and all the soldiers only rested for a few hours. In the early morning, they had to sail to Ryukyu in the dark, and fought fiercely for a long time. Not to mention the soldiers, he couldn't bear it.

As for Zeelandia, the main island has been taken down, so are you afraid that you won't be able to take down a small sandbar city?
There was turmoil in the city of Prominza for several hours. In the afternoon, Liu Hongjian interrogated several Dutch businessmen who had been seized in the city, and at the same time sent a navy to launch a tentative attack on Zeelandia.

However, it is true what He Bin said, the battleship was beaten back by the Dutch forts on both sides before it entered the Dagang channel. He still frowned when shells bombarded the battered battleship.

The range of the Dutch's artillery was no closer than that of the Beiyang Navy's new artillery, which gave Liu Hongjian a deep headache.

As for the fact that the Dutch developed the hand grenade, it did not surprise Liu Hongjian at all. Jin Yiwei sent the news more than half a year ago that the Raksha country experienced a disastrous defeat at Lake Baikal, and it only took three months to develop it after returning home. Hand grenades, and they were soon used in the battle with the countries of Europa. It is not difficult for the Dutch to counterfeit the hand grenades as a powerful country in Europe.

Zeelandzha must be taken down. Only when Governor Raoshizi in the city is captured alive, he will be confident when he goes to Sulu.

Let him take the lives of his soldiers, he can't do it, not to mention that even a strong attack may not be able to capture it.

But how to attack?Liu Hongjian sat in the spacious meeting hall of Prominza City and began to think.

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