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Volume 1 Chapter 62 The first battle with the Dutch

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    The beach in Dafeng Village was busy. The villagers were moving the racks for drying fish on the beach. All the racks were pushed aside, and then they carried large bamboo racks from the edge of the woods. This kind of bamboo rack has been around for a long time.  It's ready. It's made of huge moso bamboo bundles, with one end sharpened to a sharp point. Place it densely on the beach to block the enemy's charge.

    The soldiers of the escort team dug fortifications in the woods behind the beach, set up medium-sized crossbows at some firepower points, and prepared arrows to meet the incoming Dutch.

    Although time is very short, Liang Yong is already very familiar with the terrain here.

    It turns out that this beach is like a huge trumpet. There are huge and sharp rocks on both sides of the beach. The side facing the sea is bigger and smaller as you go further back. A bottleneck is formed behind the beach near the woods.

    Although this bottleneck is also five or six hundred meters wide, it is much better than other places. Although a defense line is arranged at the bottleneck and the artillery on the enemy warships can cover it, due to insufficient manpower, Liang Yong has to  The defense line is arranged here.

    "Commander" Luo Hu came over with his deputy Wu Shunkun, looked at Liang Yong standing on the platform, and said with a smile: "We are defending the city together again."

    After the last battle at Black Tiger Village, Liang Yong has established prestige in the escort team.  Liang Yong kept shouting and turned around and said:

    "This time it was too hasty. Fortunately, we prepared a large number of bamboo frames. However, the soldiers who later joined the escort were not well trained. In addition, it was our first time to fight the Dutch, so we were afraid that they would be nervous and fight later.  You might suffer a loss.¡±

    Wu Shunkun had just joined the escort not long ago. His whole family was killed by the Dutch. Now that he heard the Dutch were coming, his eyes were red. When he heard Liang Yong's words, he said fiercely next to him:

    "We actually have a way to wipe out all the Dutch."

    "Oh!" Liang Yong already had the demeanor of a general at a young age. When he heard someone saying that he could completely eliminate the Dutch, he was not excited. He just asked lightly: "What method?"

    "Set fire!" Wu Shunkun waved his arms fiercely: "Lue all the Dutch people into the woods and set fire to them."

    "Are you crazy?" Before Liang Yong could speak, Luo Hu had already jumped up: "If we prevent fire in the woods, although the Dutch will be burned to death, our home in Dafeng Village cannot escape this disaster.  , when the crops and houses in the fields are completely burned down, how can we survive?"

    "You don't have confidence in me?" Liang Yong also shook his head and looked into Wu Shunkun's eyes and said:

    "Don't worry, when we were guarding Black Tiger Village, the enemy was seven or eight times our size. Now, although there are no natural dangers to defend, there is still no problem in blocking twice as many enemies." At this point, Liang Yong stopped.  After thinking for a while, he said to the old village chief who was assisting in directing the villagers: "Uncle! After the trench here is dug, you immediately lead the villagers to dig another trench three hundred meters behind. Then I will ask people to dig another trench."  Teach you how to dig"

    Under Liang Yong's arrangement, each veteran will bring one or two recruits. They will be instructors at one time, cheering up the team members; at other times, they will be instructors, explaining the essentials of shooting to the team members, and exhorting them to shoot at a closer distance.  

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    The sun slowly moved to the west, and five black spots appeared on the sea, getting closer and closer.  Slowly it became clear that it was a large Dutch two-masted sailing ship.  The displacement of this kind of ship is generally less than 2,000 tons, the length is 50 to 60 meters, and it can usually carry 600 to 700 people.  In addition to sailors and combatants, there can be four to five hundred people per ship.

    After the five sail warships approached, they slowly began to turn. All the warships turned sideways towards Dafeng Village and slowly stopped;

    There were many small boats put down on the battleship.  After it was full of people, they slowly rowed towards the beach.

    The boats arrived at the beach one after another, and tall Dutchmen jumped out one after another.  I made a rough estimate and thought there were probably one or two hundred people.

    The guards became nervous, and each one put his hand on the trigger of the steel crossbow. Just waiting for the order, he shot his mother hard.

    But what they didn¡¯t expect was that the Dutch did not attack immediately after they got to the beach, but formed a square formation under the command of an officer.

    "No! What are they doing?" Liang Yong looked at the inexplicable enemy and said to Luo Hu next to him: "Aren't they here to attack us?"

    "I know" Wu Shunkun on one side said fiercely: "I heard that this is their way of fighting, that is, the two sides line up and then shoot at each other. In their words, this is a chivalrous battle.  .¡±

    "Chivalry" Liang Yong spat: "What nonsense, if it is really so noble, then they shouldn't come to attack us.  Now that we are here, let¡¯s fight according to our method.  "

    Liang Yong said this, picked up a rolled-iron trumpet next to him, and shouted loudly: "Order Stand by with fury, steel crossbow ready Target, straight ahead, eject at a 45-degree angle  emission"

    Liang Yong doesn¡¯t have much chivalry. Although the enemy is standing far away, it is such a good fixed target position and such a good opportunity to improve morale.  If he wasn't sure, he believed Wu Yiping would scold him to death.

    With the order, there was a sound of "swish, swish, swish!", and the arrows were thrown into the sky, and then like a heavy rain, they hit the Dutch who were working hard on the team.

    "Ah!" Dozens of people were pinned to the beach in an instant.

    For a while, screams and wailings continued.  The remaining Dutch people had no energy at all, and everyone fell to the ground in unison.

    I saw the tall and mighty Dutch lying on the ground and heard their dying cries.  The morale of the escort team rose to an unprecedented level;

    Everyone thought in their hearts that it turned out that the Dutch were invincible and invulnerable, but it was just a rumor. On the battlefield, even if they shot an arrow, they would bleed and die.

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    "Bastards, these barbarians, this is such an uncivilized place." Carlos kicked the railing hard: "You barbarians without chivalry, God will punish you."

    When Carlos came, he brought five huge warships and thousands of soldiers to this small village; as long as his soldiers lined up in a square formation and advanced majestically, the opponent would definitely be frightened immediately.  He pissed himself, and then immediately surrendered with the white flag high.

    You must know that in his concept, in Western countries of this era, it is not a shameful thing to surrender to an opponent several times more powerful than oneself.  On the contrary, he will be praised by everyone for saving the lives of his men.

    But now he was slapped hard.  Not only did the weak enemy not surrender, but they ignored the spirit of chivalry and launched the attack first. A hail of arrows rained down, and dozens of soldiers fell in a pool of blood. Others were so frightened that they lay on the ground.  How could this keep him from being angry? Carlos became furious for a moment.

    "Fire the guns, fire all the warships! Blast me hard with the cannons;" Carlos roared, waving his arms and giving the order: "Klar, send all the marines to the beach. As soon as the bombardment is over, launch the attack immediately."  Charge, I will capture them all, tie them to crosses and burn them slowly"

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    "Boomboom, boom, boom"

    "Hidden!"

    As soon as the cannon sounded, Liang Yong had already retreated into the trench, and at the same time he did not forget to shout.

    The veterans who had experienced the battle lay down in the trenches without any hesitation; but some soldiers who had just joined the village protection team reported that it was a little slow. Just this little time, many new soldiers lost their lives.

    Not far away from Liang Yong, a solid artillery shell with a diameter of about ten centimeters hit a soldier's chest. The huge iron projectile shattered the sternum and embedded itself in his chest; and his whole body seemed to have been hit by a train from later generations.  It was the same, and under the inertia of the iron projectile, it flew back six or seven meters!  A person who was alive just a moment ago died without even making a sound.

    ??The cannons of this era all had solid projectiles, weighed between 2 and 25 pounds, and had a range of about 1,000 meters to 2,500 meters.  In terms of power alone, it cannot keep up with the giant crossbow Wu Yiping plans to install on the Dafeng.

    But it is a pity that Dafeng Village does not have giant crossbows, and the range of medium-sized crossbows is only 500 meters.  Therefore, when nearly 200 large and small artillery pieces on the five Dutch warships were bombarded, the escort led by Liang Yong could only hide in the trenches and take cover, with no way to fight back.

    Soon, solid lead bullets of various sizes were scattered around, some big and small, some just dropped on the ground, the temperature was still very high, some rolled into the blood stains and made a "click" sound.

    The bombardment only lasted for more than ten minutes. Today's artillery is all front-loaded, has slow reloading speed, and basically has no aiming system. Whether it hits the target or not depends on luck.  However, under the cover of a large number of projectiles, dozens of people in the escort team were still killed, and many others were injured.

    Although there were not many casualties, the deafening momentum of the cannon still had some impact on the escort!  Some of the people who had just joined had their crossbow hands shaking.

    The shelling gradually became sparse, because the Dutch had taken advantage of this time to send all the marine soldiers toside.

    "beat!"

    On the beach in front of you, the Dutch.  It surged up like the sea water at high tide.  Seeing the Dutch who were already within the shooting range, Liang Yong gave the attack order fiercely, then aimed the steel crossbow in his hand at an enemy and steadily pulled the trigger.

    This time the Dutch learned their lesson and did not line up in a neat formation, but charged very scatteredly.

    ¡°Whoosh! Whoosh whoosh!¡± The sound kept ringing.  Liang Yong fired the arrow and hit the target accurately. The sharp arrow pierced deeply into the Dutchman's chest, and the huge impact knocked him to the ground.

    Liang Yong pulled the lever and cocked the sniper crossbow string halfway, preparing for the second shot. But at this moment, there was a "chirping" sound from the enemy on the opposite side, and then all the Dutch fell to the ground and fired.  The gun was placed in front and the match was lit.

    ¡°Bang! Bang bang bang¡± bursts of white smoke came out from the beach, and about half of the enemy¡¯s matchlock guns fired one after another.  Other Dutch soldiers took advantage of the convoy being suppressed to get up and move forward quickly.

    The Dutch kept carrying out the same tactics. Some of them lay on the ground and fired concealedly to suppress fire, while the other part advanced quickly and resolutely.

    The beach is filled with dense figures and puffs of white smoke.  Just five minutes.  They had advanced nearly fifty meters from the edge of the beach to the hillside.

    ¡°If the position wasn¡¯t covered with sharp bamboo frames, we would definitely be able to advance faster.

    Liang Yong's eyes suddenly lit up, and he murmured to himself: "Is this what the instructor said about staggering forward? It's really amazing This red-haired devil does have some fighting ability."

    "Medium crossbow ready!" Liang Yong picked up the tin trumpet and roared again.

    In order to prevent the medium-sized crossbow from being damaged by artillery fire, Liang Yong placed this medium-sized crossbow with a range of 500 meters one hundred meters behind the position.  At this distance, the enemy's matchlock gun cannot hit, but the medium-sized crossbow can easily cover the entire beach.

    "Bang! Bang bang bang", the enemy fired a volley of matchlocks again, and the escort on the position was beaten so hard that they could not lift their heads.  The charging enemy stood up again.

    "Medium-sized crossbowfire."

    "Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

    Unlike the whooshing sound of a steel crossbow when fired, when this crossbow is fired, the crossbow arrows will make a soul-stirring scream.

    Before the enemy who had just stood up had a chance to take a step, the scream was already in front of him.  The sharp arrow coupled with the huge penetrating power allows this 60-centimeter-long, egg-thick arrow to easily pierce the entire person, then pass out from the back, and then fly towards the next target.  Or it hits the enemy's bones, and then the huge force carries the enemy flying for more than ten meters before stopping.

    With a "wow" sound, the enemies who had just stood up all fell down again, crawling on their knees looking for a place to hide.

    A dozen medium-sized crossbows could not kill many enemies, but the huge power forced these soldiers to stop charging!  Because no one wants to be targeted by this kind of crossbow, and if they encounter it, they will die or be maimed.

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