Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

Because this Hongyi cannon has a slow rate of fire, and it is difficult to adjust the shooting angle, it really does not pose much threat to the fast-moving enemies with a team of 60 people.

Moreover, there are only 12 36-pound cannons placed on the St. Paul's Fort, and they are scattered on four triangular platforms located at the four corners of the core fort and the four walls of the core fort. There are only nine cannons in the army.

If Zhu Heqi's army had formed a square formation or a dense formation lined up for shooting, they might have been severely beaten by the nine Hongyi cannons.

However, the tactic used by Zhu Heqi's Jinyi pro-army is to send out hammer soldiers as a unit to cover the artillery equipped with "hammer throwing guns", scattered on the battlefield.Then look for favorable terrain as much as possible or simply build fortifications by yourself to resist the enemy's artillery fire or cavalry impact.

And their main and most powerful means of attack are hand-throwing grenade hammers and using bronze hammer-throwing guns to launch flowering grenades.

The spears, knives and firearms equipped by the hammer throwers are only used to cover bombing, firing bombs and launching the final blow to the enemy.

In addition, there are also a small number of cavalry in Zhu Heqi's Jinyi army, which are used for the same purpose as the cold weapons equipped by the hammer throwers. , to launch the final blow and to pursue.

This set of new tactics around sweet gunpowder, grenade hammers and flowering grenades was developed by Zhu Heqi, Zhuge Sanhe, Lin Ahu, Su Zhanshan, Zhao Hongkui, and Yu Xiaoqian in a series of drills and actual combat. slowly summed up.It's not mature yet, but as long as the sweet gunpowder is powerful enough, and it's the only one on the side of the third prince and grandson of Zhu third, it's enough to beat ordinary opponents.

Although this is a bit of a weapon theory, Zhu Heqi is the "inventor" of a series of advanced weapons such as sweet gunpowder, grenade hammer, flowering grenade, and bronze hammer throwing gun!

The "invention" of a powerful new weapon is not the same as spending money to buy a few new weapons from the imperialists for use!

Because every powerful new weapon has the power to change the rules of war to a certain extent.

And the army leader who is the first to touch the new rules can of course discover and use this power earlier than others, and he is of course a great military strategist!

Tonight, it is the artillery on the triangular platform northwest of the Fortress of Macau who will experience the power of the new rules of war.

Because they are using nine cannons to continuously fire at the British business house in the inner harbor of Haojiang, and they are still firing incendiary bombs-this requires firing a stove on the triangular platform to heat the shells, and the result is a blazing fire, which is far away. you can see them.

So Zhu and Qi didn't need to light up the lanterns, they both knew where to go!

When the St. Paul Fort and the outer wall of the fort were built, there was no sweet gunpowder, and there was no bronze hammer-throwing gun capable of firing sweet powder grenades, so no consideration was given to how to defend against it.The defense around the fort was not very wide open. There were only two moats outside the outer wall, forming a perimeter defense zone thirty or forty paces wide.

This perimeter defense belt is more than enough to resist the enemy's muskets, bows and arrows... Catapults and other equipment must not be able to withstand the bombardment of the Hongyi cannon and the Hongyi small cannon at close range.

However, the enemy's artillery will definitely not be able to hit the bastion of the St. Paul's Fortress, and most likely it will not be able to hit the outer wall of the Fortress.

But the defense around the cannon could not stop the bronze hammer-throwing gun that Zhu Heqi had just invented—it was said to be a hammer-throwing gun, but it was actually a small-caliber mortar.

It consists of two parts, the cannon body and the gun carriage. The cannon body looks like a small copper pot, only weighs more than [-] kilograms, which is much lighter than a tiger crouching cannon, and can be carried around by one person.

The gun mount is made of wood, just like an ordinary mortar gun mount. It is made of relatively solid materials and weighs more than 20 kilograms. It can also be carried by an artilleryman.

This small-caliber mortar can be used to launch two types of flowering grenades, one large and one small.Among them, the small grenade weighs only three catties, and can be completely stuffed into the barrel of the gun before being fired. It can hit a relatively long distance, and can hit 150 steps away.

The big grenade weighed eight catties, and it was a super-caliber bullet. A wooden stick was installed at the end of the grenade. When loading, the wooden stick was pushed into the gun bore, and the projectile body was left outside the gun bore.

Because the body of this kind of super-caliber bullet is bigger, it naturally has more charges, and of course it is more powerful.Moreover, there is an iron cap on the head of the projectile that can protect the matchlock. It can be ignited first, then blocked, and then fired. The reliability is also high, and it is not easy to misfire.

But this small cannon hits a big bomb, so naturally it can't hit far, at most it can blast more than a hundred steps.It is a little longer than the effective range of muskets and bows, and it is incomparable with the cannons on the top of the city.

But this kind of small-caliber mortar is a curved gun, small in size, light in weight, easy to move, and can be placed behind a bunker to fire.You can also swim around the battlefield, and suddenly hit your opponent with a few ruthless shots.

Tonight was the first battle of this kind of hammer-throwing cannon. Due to time constraints, Zhu Heqi only had time to let the craftsmen of the South Factory cast twelve hammer-throwing cannons.Moreover, each hammer throwing gun is only equipped with forty super-caliber ammunition, and there are no ordinary caliber ammunition... There are only 480 shells in total, and they will be gone after shooting!

So Zhu and Qi planned to use the night as a cover to get as close to the Portuguese fort as possible and launch flowering grenades at close range.

Although these more than 400 rounds of ammunition are not many, their power is quite amazing. As long as they can be hit with [-]% accuracy, St. Paul's Fortress will not be difficult to break through!

Chapter 125 Hurry up, ask Jesus for help!

A team of more than 1000 people was deployed less than a hundred steps away from the outer city of St. Paul's Fortress, and they were still busy building fortifications and arranging artillery. Of course, this movement was not small!

So it was quickly discovered by a few black sentinels dressed in black that Rotoni arranged outside the city... Although these black sentries are really suitable for lurking and moving at night, their mathematics is not very good.

"Master Governor, there are many, many of them!"

Rotoni frowned, how much is "many, many"?

Another black sentinel who looked more wise said: "their people are as many as the stars in the sky, and they can't be counted!"

Luo Dongni hurriedly looked up at the sky at night, and was startled when he saw it... the sky is full of stars!

There must be more than [-]!

Did the Ming army really come so many?How many people can be accommodated in those ten boats?

"Governor," De Figo approached at this time, "the enemy is likely to use the night to launch a sneak attack! I suggest strengthening the defense immediately, and immediately mobilize the reserve team to the west wall of the outer city to defend against the enemy's sneak attack."

Luo Dongni nodded, he didn't have the guts to send troops out of the city to fight against his opponent at night... He had already seen the fire on the inner harbor of Haojiang just now!

By the light of the fire, he also knew that it was his own galley that was burning!

These galleys were hit by something, why did they burn like that all at once?Do the Chinese not only have black magic, but also Greek fire?

Rotoni has studied and studied history, and he knows the power of Greek fire... This thing can not only burn ships, but also be used in field battles. The bottle containing Greek fire can be thrown anywhere, and it will burn a large piece.

Moreover, this Greek fire probably also used some kind of magic. It is said that it does not need to be ignited, it is directly put in a bottle and thrown out, and it will burn as soon as the bottle is broken, and it will burn whatever it touches, and it will fall down after burning!

So don't go out of the city at night. Anyway, the outer city of St. Paul's Fortress is quite strong, and it is not so easy to be broken.Even if you want to go out of the city to fight, let's wait until dawn!

"Okay! That's it... Send an order to the reserve team, let them all carry muskets and swords, and climb the western wall of the outer city." Rotoni thought for a while, and then ordered, "Order all the people in the castle who do not serve God, Adult men who didn’t join the army gathered outside St. Paul’s Cathedral, and I want to give a speech to them!”

Concentrating the adult men in the city and giving speeches is of course to mobilize them to take up arms to defend the colony.

There were as many enemies outside the city as there were stars in the sky, so of course Rotoni needed to gather more men.

But before giving his speech, he still wanted to go inside St. Paul's Cathedral...to see how Father Santos was praying.

So after giving the order, Governor Rotoni, who had been standing on the city wall for a long time and his legs were sore, took his adjutant De Figo down the city wall.

St. Paul's Cathedral and St. Paul's Seminary are inside the west wall of the outer city of St. Paul's Fortress.The cathedral is located in the northwest corner of the outer city, with its back against the city wall.The front of the cathedral is quite a spacious square.This square is now full of people—all Portuguese, mixed-race Portuguese and their most loyal servants who have taken refuge in the city, densely packed, the number of people is probably no less than [-]!

There were quite a few people, but Rotoni didn't feel much fighting spirit. Most of the people were downcast, and many women and children were still crying.

Hearing these cries, Rotoni was really desperate... The Macau colony has not been invaded by a strong enemy for 46 years!

Most of the colonial residents of that generation who took up arms to resist the Dutch are no longer alive, and now the people living here are some colonial lords who have never really experienced war!

Rotoni himself was also very depressed, so he was in no mood to encourage these colonial masters, so he just walked straight into the brightly lit St. Paul's Cathedral.

The church is full of rich or expensive Macau Portuguese and clergy who lead everyone to pray together.

As soon as they entered the church, Rotoni and He heard a reassuring tenor voice.

This is the voice of Bishop Santos, who is leading the "Hallelujah."

"Hallelujah, hallelujah, let us bless the Lord. Hallelujah, hallelujah, let us worship him alone. How honorable, how majestic, how holy..."

Old man Sang sang very emotionally, and by the candlelight, Luo Dongni could even see the old man's tears.

Luo Dongni said in his heart: "We are all singing and crying. God must have known our suffering, and he will definitely come to save us! The only thing Macau City can count on now is God."

Thinking of this, Rotoni felt a peace of mind he had never felt before.However, his peace of mind lasted less than an hour before it was interrupted by a sudden explosion.

Although there were still nine 12-pound cannons firing and roaring on the St. Paul's Fort at this time... But Rotoni could still hear that the roar was completely different from the sound of the 12-pound cannon.

After thinking about it, Rotoni felt something was wrong, and quickly raised his eyes to the "tenor archbishop" who was still singing, and found that the archbishop was not affected by the explosion at all, and was still saying "Hallelujah" there.

Rotoni just breathed a sigh of relief, but after about 10 minutes, there was another very discordant explosion sound in his ears!

"Governor, the sound of the explosion..." De Figo also heard something wrong, and hurried to Rotoni's ear, "Could it be that the enemy sneaked over the moat and climbed up the city wall?"

Of course De Figo knew about the existence of the grenade hammer, but he didn't think that it could be thrown onto the St. Paul's Fortress from outside the two moats, so he thought it was the enemy's sneak attack.

After hearing what he said, Rotoni was in no mood to pray, and hurried out of the church with De Figo to the square.

At this time, the eastern sky was already pale, and it was early morning.

Rotoni and Figo found that the square was completely silent, and everyone turned their heads to look west!

Something must have happened!

The two of them also hurriedly looked west. After watching for about seven or eight minutes, they heard a dull roar, and then a ball of fire rose into the sky from outside the city wall, and at the same time, there was an explosion that shook the ground.

Is this... a bomb fired from a cannon?

Both Rotoni and De Figo understood immediately what was happening.

The people of the third grandson of Zhu made their god thunder into flowering bombs, loaded them into artillery and fired them out!

"Governor...they, they made that divine mine into a bomb!" De Figo's voice trembled a little.

If this Zhuge Shenlei was made into a flowering bomb and fired with a cannon, it would be really terrifying!

Luo Dongni said: "Hurry up, let's go up, go up and have a look..."

The words are very good, but the two of them just stood still outside St. Paul's Cathedral, and they just didn't move... Maybe they were thinking about whether they should take the right foot or the left foot first?

When the two were thinking, there was another low roar, and then a ball of fire suddenly rose.

But this time the fireball didn't rise outside the city, but inside the city, followed by a loud noise of the earth shaking and the mountains shaking!

Flower bombs have entered the city!

Is it okay now?

How crowded it is now in the Fort St. Paul!Nearly 2 people crowded together in the square, and it would be terrible to drop an ordinary black powder bomb, let alone a Shenlei bomb?

Chapter 126 This is the doomsday judgment of colonialism!

"Boom boom boom..."

Groups of raging fire suddenly rose on the outer city wall of St. Paul's Fortress!It was like bolts of lightning falling from the sky, one after another the roaring divine thunder hit the thick city wall, and then burst open, turning into countless scythes of death, running rampant on the top of the unshielded city wall, Standing there, the Portuguese who were completely at a loss fell down one by one!

Because he was worried that the Ming army would use the night to launch a sneak attack, Rotoni transferred all his reserve troops to the city wall, causing the wall on the west side of the outer city of the Fort to be full of Portuguese soldiers.Now these people have sadly become the targets of the artillery of the Ming army, and they have no way to survive... At least one or two hundred people have been beaten into a puddle of meat under rounds of shelling!

And the people who survived for the time being are all like crazy, either on the city wall, stepping on the corpse of their companions, running on the bright red blood, don't know where to go?Or just run off the wall crying the name of Jesus.

There was also chaos under the city wall. The Ming army shelled one round after another, and in each round, one or two shells fell into the high wall of the outer city of the Fortress!

Some of these shells will explode immediately after landing, turning into countless life-threatening fragments, and a large piece will be cut off... Within the range covered by the explosion power, corpses are scattered all over the place!

And those who escaped by chance also fell into madness and the greatest panic... For them, this is simply the doomsday judgment!

This is the doomsday of colonialism!

On the other side of the city wall, behind an outer wall belonging to a certain manor, at this time it was brightly lit and full of heat.This is Zhu Heqi's artillery position!

Twelve small-caliber mortars were placed on the spot, and each mortar was surrounded by a circle of busy gunners.One after another, the flower shells with wooden sticks stuck in their buttocks were continuously loaded into the mortar, and then ignited and fired.

In the dark, no one could see their ballistics clearly, but the big explosion that followed could tell the artillerymen who were lying on the fence and observing, how well did their shells hit?

Zhu Heqi himself was lying on the fence, holding up a binoculars and looking forward intently.

To be honest, the scene of the explosion of the sugar bomb is not particularly shocking...Zhu Heqi has seen bigger scenes from the special effects of TV movies in later generations!

However, the chemical knowledge that Zhu Heqi possessed clearly told him that every explosion that happened on or inside the outer city wall of the Fortress might cause huge casualties!

If many people happen to be within the reach of the explosive power... It seems that the mode of war has really been completely changed!

Zhu Hechi thought to himself: "No one can stand on the battlefield and forcefully carry sugar bombs... The Portuguese can't do it, the British certainly can't do it, and the Eight Banners soldiers of Emperor Kangxi can't do it."

"Shi... Shizi, this, this sugar bomb is too powerful, right?"

It was Zhuge Sanhe who stuttered, this great military strategist was standing on a table behind the wall, staring blankly at the city wall not far away being enveloped in the sudden burst of fire again and again. among.

For him, the "Yeluzi Zhuge Military Adviser" who lived in the troubled times of the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, the scene of the "big bang" in front of him was almost like the sky falling and the earth falling.

"Master, are there any living people in this city?"

It was Lin A'hu who was asking the question. Although he was a soldier...but the "cannon" he knew and the "cannon" he saw now seemed to be different!

Zhu Heqi shook his head and said, "If...if the Portuguese had placed many sandbags on the city wall that could withstand shrapnel, then someone would have survived."

"Who would put this on the top of the city?" Lin A'hu shook his head again and again, "Master...it seems that we will be able to enter the city tomorrow morning!"

Zhu Hechi nodded and ordered: "Ah Hu, go and make arrangements... Get ready for the wall-piercing bombs and long ladders! Tomorrow morning, as soon as Qiu Rong's men and horses arrive, they will send someone to persuade them to surrender. Try blowing down a section of the city wall!"

The so-called wall-piercing bullets are actually hollow-charged sugar bombs!

Zhu Heqi prepared a lot of these ammunition and planned to use them to blow up various walls... The city wall of Macau is also their target!

But he didn't know if this kind of wall-piercing bomb could blow through the city wall of Macau?So I also asked people to prepare a long ladder, and climbed up if it didn't work.

When Lin Ahu was about to attack the city, the shelling continued of course!

Zhu and Qi prepared a basic amount of ammunition for each of the twelve small-caliber mortars, which can be fired for several hours, and can be fired until tomorrow morning.

Therefore, the people inside the outer city of St. Paul's Fort will continue to accept the doomsday judgment from the "little anti-imperialist" Zhu Heqi!

The era in which imperialism can force China to sell something by setting up a few cannons at the gate of China is impossible to appear again!

Now it is the Chinese people who have put the "small mortar" at the gate of the imperialist city!

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