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Chapter 746 Renaissance Fort
Admiral Van Persie withdrew into Chikan City with the defeated generals, and came to see Wei Malang to plead guilty. In just a few days, this was the second time he pleaded guilty to his immediate superior.

Wei Malang looked at his naval commander, Van Persie, who was in a mess, with a frustrated face, and he didn't blame him this time.Even the prime minister in Taiwan now realizes the strength of the Ming Dynasty navy. He absolutely does not think that his navy commander is an idiot who can make their fleet lose again and again. This shows that the Ming navy is definitely not a fluke. And he, Commander Fan, would definitely not fail by fluke.

This can only show that the navy of the daimyo is already strong enough to compete with them, the overlord of the sea, and he is unwilling to accept this fact.

But now they still don't pay attention to the large number of Ming troops who have landed on the island. What is it to win a naval battle?Victory and defeat are commonplace. They have been operating in Taiwan for so many years, and they have long regarded themselves as the masters of this island. The two castles are built solidly and luxuriously, and each castle can accommodate tens of thousands of people. There is quite a lot of savings in the castle, and it is absolutely no problem to support food, grass and ammunition for a year.

Moreover, he has already written to the Dutch government that within three to five months, reinforcements will arrive. As long as the two castles can be defended, no amount of Ming troops will be able to take them. The Ming army rushed into the sea to feed the fish, but they were still the final victors.

Therefore, Wei Malang was confident. Instead of blaming the naval commander for another defeat, he encouraged him: "Don't be depressed, the general. Don't look at the victory of the Ming army at sea. He will never enter our castle. He has the ability to let them come." It's done."

Van Persie is the commander of the navy. He is not very familiar with land defenses, and has suffered successive defeats. He used to be arrogant and arrogant, but now he has restrained too much.

Therefore, he has no confidence in fighting the army of the Ming Dynasty. This is understandable. The Netherlands is the overlord of the sea and has the world's first-class naval fleet. It is known as the coachman of the sea.In other words, their most powerful is the navy. As for land combat, attacking, killing and defending are of course not his strong point.

So Fan Persie timidly asked: "Your Excellency the Consul General, these Dongyi are too difficult to deal with. They are even more difficult to deal with than that Zheng Zhilong. Our army is now losing consecutive battles and morale is not high. How can the castle abide by the law?"

"Hahahaha," Wei Malang laughed a few times without saying a word.

Chief of Defense of Chixian City, Batens, said: "Your Excellency, don't worry, don't look at them winning naval battles again and again, but they want to attack our castle unless they have three heads and six arms!"

Hearing Batens' arrogant words, the navy commander felt a little feverish on his face. What he said seemed to be exposing his shortcoming, so he didn't like to listen to it, and he also had some doubts. What is powerful is the navy, even sea battles are not good, how can you do it?Why are you so confident?This commander was even more arrogant than you before, but what happened?
Batens may have seen the doubts of the naval commander, and sneered disdainfully: "It's not your Excellency's nonsense, our castle is different from the city of the Ming Dynasty. There are attics, archery towers, auxiliary cities, Qianjin gates and suspension bridges, none of these, but our castle is a bastion, "

As he spoke, he took out a model and gestured proudly to Van Persie: "Look, Your Excellency, here, here, and here are all our forts, and this area is all our guns. , Isn’t there a lot of people in the Ming army, let’s see how many of them can come this time?”

Cold Castle is also called Renaissance Fort.Van Persie was relieved.Although he is not familiar with land warfare, he is no stranger to attacking and defending in battles. Looking at the design of the bastion of Chixian City, if it is as Van Persie said, no matter how much defense there is, the Ming army will never want to attack. .

Batens was still afraid that Van Persie would be worried, so he bid farewell to Prime Minister Wei Malang, and Batens personally led Van Persie to inspect the city defense.

The walls of the castle are not high, only two feet.All are made of stone, and the thickness of the city wall is more than 1.5 meters. With such a thickness, there is no threat to it from the fire of the red cannon, let alone a thousand catty Flang machine.

In addition, from the defense of artillery strongholds to the defense of musket positions, it can be said that the defense of the entire castle has truly achieved full coverage of firepower from point to surface.

This castle can be regarded as a standard eight-pointed star shape, with eight corners aligned in eight directions. The high point of each corner is the defense point of the red cannon, and the corner between the corners and the corners. It is the defense point of the Qianjin Frang machine, which is the defense point of long-range and short-range artillery. Between the turning point and the defense point, all Dutch soldiers form a defense line with muskets.

In this way, according to the shape of the castle, the defense of the Dutch generals also became a standard octagonal star, from points to lines, and then connected to form the entire surface, starting from ten miles away, going to the bottom of the city wall, from far to near, a powerful cross The firepower net completely covers the entire castle without any dead ends.

Therefore, from all directions, no matter which direction the Ming army came from, they were all within the range of the artillery fire from far and near the castle. If such a castle wanted to attack, it would really change as Batens said, unless it had three heads and six arms.

After reading it, Van Persie couldn't help nodding his head in admiration, and felt reassured in his heart that staying in the castle really gave him peace of mind.

Batens and Van Persie had just finished transferring to the city defense and returned to the Prime Minister's Office. At this time, someone came to report that a large number of Ming troops had come to kill them!
"Well done!" Wei Malang slapped the table and said to Batens, "This time it's up to you."

Batens patted his chest loudly, "Your Excellency, please don't worry, you two can sit back and relax. I'm determined to wash away the shame of the naval battle, and wait for the victory report!"

After Batens finished speaking, he left the Prime Minister's Office...

The 3 Ming army, advancing by land and water, rushed towards Chixian City from three directions.

Liu Zhaoji, Minister of the Ministry of War, commanded 1 Ming troops to attack from the north, that is, the front. Zheng Chenggong commanded 5000 troops to attack from the east, that is, the side. Since Chixian City was connected to the Neijiang River, Lieutenant General Liu Guoxuan led [-] naval forces to attack from the waterway. , which is also a side attack.

In this way, the 3 Ming soldiers were divided into three groups, attacking from the front and two wings, advancing by land and water, and rushed towards Chixian City overwhelmingly, intending to destroy the castle in one go.

Chief of Defense Bartens stood on the observatory with a binoculars. Through the binoculars, he could see clearly that the Ming army had so many troops, covering the sky and covering the earth, covering the sky and the sun. Hearing the report from his subordinates, the three Ming armies joined together When the attack came, the two forward troops of the Ming army on land had entered the range of artillery fire, and Batens gave an order.

"Fire!"

"Boom, boom, boom..."

The sound of the sky-shattering cannon roared continuously, and the red-clothed cannons on the Chixian City continued to spray flames, and shells whizzed towards them, exploding among the rushing Ming army.

Countless soldiers of the Ming army suffered casualties in the artillery fire, and the frightened horses jumped wildly, farted and smashed, and fell into a pool of blood.

But all the soldiers of the Ming army, who have experienced many battles, are not afraid of death. The blood and bones of their comrades in arms arouse their fighting spirit even more. One batch falls, another batch rushes over, one after another, like raging waves...

(End of this chapter)