Without taking a short step, you can't reach a thousand miles. Zheng Zhilong's plan is very good, but it must be implemented step by step.

He now has to use the power of the army to put more pressure on the city of Gelancha, so as to create better conditions for the upcoming naval battle.

The shells kept falling on the castle of Jelancha, like raindrops.

Whether it is Fort Folixinlian, Fort Campbell, or the semicircular castle between the two ridges, they are like hot red iron ingots, constantly being knocked by heavy hammers (cannonballs).

Every solid shell fell on it and there was a loud bang.

"Fire the gun—" To the east of the castle of Jelanzha, there were large open spaces between the winding trenches and Dayuan Town, and gun positions were dotted among the winding trenches. Facing the Dutch counterattack on the top of the city, the gunman's face remained motionless at all, and his voice was as calm as a mountain. The shells seemed to have not hit him at all.

After all, it is night. During the day, it is difficult for the Dutch to smash shells into the cannon position, let alone at night.

Their gun positions do not pay attention to speed. Do they come slowly in the dark? The shells, the bullet holders and the powder bag are connected together, which greatly saves steps when loading. Occasionally, an open fire will be lost in an instant. It does not give the Dutch the chance to aim at it.

What's more, both sides have smoothbore cannons equipped with front-mounted ones, and their accuracy is not good.

"Swoosh--" A bright light penetrated from the battlefield and illuminated the entire sky. It was already night, and Zheng Zhilong had an order - he had to ensure that flares would rise every quarter of an hour.

Zheng Zhilong doesn’t prepare too much of this old-style firework product!

Looking at the flares shining in the sky, a hint of hatred flashed in Paul's eyes. Such ghost things... are all the clever cleverness of the Easterners!

But he could not deny that with such things, it would be a lot of trouble to send soldiers to attack the damn artillery in the castle.

Fort Folixinlian and Fort Campbell have been bombarded by artillery fire for many days. I don’t know how many shells have hit them these days. Even though they are very strong, they are difficult to destroy by solid shells. However, iron balls fell on the castle, and the two forts and the artillery positions on the semicircular forts in the middle were greatly affected.

Compared with the number of artillery that the Dutch could place on the city, the Zheng army had too many artillery fires.

One of the five or even ten shells hit the cannon base, which was a huge threat to the cannon position on the castle.

Because in this era, the gun positions were open-air, at least this was how Jelancha Castle was arranged.

Therefore, even if there are certain losses, in the dark, he will send soldiers out of the city to attack from time to time. Because compared with the attacks in the daytime, their threat is the greatest and the least threatened.

The soldiers didn't need to break into the cannon positions in the trench. They just needed to throw grenades into the cannon positions far away.

Today is the moment when the night battle is staged again. Hundreds of Dutch soldiers joined a group of indigenous people (patrols) to start the attack tonight.

Another flare was shot out, and the dark figures of Dutch soldiers below appeared at the shining light.

"Boom..."

There was no need for the chief officer to give any more orders. Musketeers, snipers, and even a large number of rattan soldiers who had been guarding in the trench began to attack.

The dark night immediately sounded violent gunfire, and many figures flashed at the front of the position.

"Boom boom boom..." A dense explosion, but much weaker than the sound of shells, exploded in front of the position.

This is a confrontation between grenadiers!

To be honest, the Zheng army under the city made Paul almost forget what the Ming soldiers looked like in his previous memory. Back then, he followed Colonel Reyes Zorn to fight the Ming army in Penghu. At that time, the Ming soldiers and the Zheng army in front of him were really two completely different armies.

Grenade throwing in trench warfare is a cruel thing. The fixed environment makes it difficult for people to escape in time even if they find that the grenade falls under their feet.

The latter is not very powerful, but the range of killing is absolutely fatal to the soldiers on both sides of the trench.

The Dutch soldiers who rushed to the front immediately suffered heavy damage. The Zheng army threw hundreds of grenades together, far more than them in number. The power after the explosion was enough to make the Dutch reimburse their vanguard troops on the spot.

A dozen people fell into the trench, and then the muskets fired.

However, some of the Dutch soldiers who died and injured were still shouting "Gates" and "very tired" and other mixed calls, hitting the frontier positions. They naturally became iron-sucking stones, attracting all the firepower. The blasting grenades kept falling from the soldiers on both sides, and the broken limbs and broken arms stained the battlefield. The fragmented corpses were accompanied by broken hot and cold weapons, and they were spilled everywhere.

Paul had to tighten his fingernails into his flesh. The soldier's loss made his face turn blue and his heart dripped.

However, "the life of every soldier is precious and cannot be wasted unnecessary."

With a wave of his hand, Paul ordered: "Follow up the troops and rush in."

People are already dead. Then let their death make more meaningful.

So Paul did not withdraw his troops, but instead increased his troops.

Another hundred people were added in. As expected, the Dutch took the forefront position under the city of Jelanz at night. However, due to the attack of grenades and muskets, the attacking Dutch soldiers were killed and injured by thirty or fifty people, while the Zheng army, which was in a defensive position, suffered very little losses.

Even if the Dutch threw grenades into multiple gun positions and detonated the powder bucket in the gun position, they would at most lose several guns.

But how many Dutch soldiers in the city are totally? They lost so much in one sneak attack. They couldn't bear it even if they came back a few more times.

In fact, the Dutch people in the city had a headache.

If you don't pull out these nails that are so close, the shells will wish they can cover the entire castle. But if you want to remove them, the loss will be too great, so it will be a headache.

Of course, the Dutch also learned some tricks from this war, such as trenches.

Compared with the Europeans' straight tunnel trenches, Zheng Jun's curve trenches and anti-aircraft shelters, the utility of them is definitely beyond their era.

Paul once suddenly realized the "anti-aircraft hole". With the curved trenches and anti-aircraft holes, his counterattacks all day and day could not destroy many Zheng army members.

But now these have no effect on the castle of Jelancha. Unless Paul is willing to fight street battles after the city is broken, this is simply impossible!

...

Dozens of wounded people were lying in the hospital in Relancha City for treatment. Zhang Dejin walked around the edge of the bed, and near the door, the bed area where the sun could be sunk were all seriously injured. For example, now, the three people lying here have just had amputation surgery and were unlucky with one leg or one arm missing.

The three people were moaning, and the other was crying silently. They were missing their arms and legs and would be useless if they could survive in the future.

Zhang Dejin couldn't pity them, nor did he think they were really pitiful.

First of all, he was a native of the Ming Dynasty. Although his medical skills were not good, he practiced medicine in the south of the island and gained some fame in this place. So he was captured by the Dutch and was caught in Ralangzhe.

If the Dutch hadn't forced him with his family, he wouldn't have appeared in Jelanzha at all.

Furthermore, Zhang Dejin felt that their (injured soldiers) were lucky enough. After being in the south of the island for many years, Zhang Dejin had heard of Western medical skills and the treatment of these soldiers in wars.
Chapter completed!