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Chapter 43 A wave of siege

While Qin Yiming's anxious waiting, five days passed quietly. The Mughal Empire army still did not launch an attack. Lu Xiangsheng sent people to contact him. The Ming Dynasty's 300,000 troops had already lurked thirty miles south of Goa, and military telegraph lines were also brought over. Just wait for the Mughal Empire army to launch an attack, the Ming army would pounce on him.

This is mainly because of fear of scaring away the Mughal army. Although this possibility is not very high, if you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of it. If it is Dala Shike suddenly something wrong and he runs away, then the Ming army's early arrangements will not be in vain.

Once they launch a siege, it will be different. Once the army is launched, it will be difficult for them to run away, unless they leave all the siege troops behind.

Looking forward, looking forward, until the eighth day, the Mughal Empire army finally built the siege equipment, but there were only 50,000 people. Dara Shike believed that 50,000 people was enough. After all, there were only more than 10,000 defenders in the city, and the rest were miners. Besides, he couldn't afford it. He originally had few military rations. After walking for more than a month, he was delayed here for a few days. The food and grass in the rear were almost unable to supply, which forced him to launch an attack.

Early on the morning of the ninth day, the Mughal Empire army rarely got up early. At the time of the year, they had already formed a formation in the north of Goa City. Fifty thousand heavy armored infantry pushed the siege equipment in front, and 100,000 heavy armored infantry were pressing the formation behind, while 50,000 cavalry were secretly lurking in the west, facing the west direction of Goa City, because if the defenders in the city wanted to escape, the most likely thing was to run to the port to the west.

It has to be said that the European powers trained the main army of the Mughal Empire quite successfully. When they started charging, Hou Shilu and Qin Yiming were both shocked. Damn, this is too shameless!

Not only did all the soldiers hide under the siege car, they also stacked all the giant shields on the roof of the siege car. Moreover, when charging, they used irregular scattered formations and ran around in a mess, which was quite in line with their free and casual personality, so they ran one by one.

Hou Shilu and Qin Yiming had a headache. This turtle shell-style siege car would not be damaged by bombing ten cannons without solid bullets. The problem was that they ran around like this, and there was no possibility of more than ten shells hitting one siege car at the same time. The cannon was aborted!

After looking at it for a while, Hou Shilu had to shake his head and sigh: "Please use the flower bullet, maybe you can ignite a few cars, but if you really can't ignite, it can cause some harm to them."

When Qin Yiming heard this, he immediately ordered without hesitation: "Transfer the order, all artillery cannons immediately load the flowering bullets without aiming, barrage attack, ten rounds!"

The flag bearers behind the two raised the flag and waved it. Soon, the artillery soldiers on the north wall were busy.

A first-class legion plus a third-class legion had 1,800 artillery pieces, reducing the artillery carried by the 50,000 people in Mysore, and there were 1,300. Hou Shilu and Qin Yiming lined up 600 artillery pieces in the north of the main attack of the Mughal Empire.

When the enemy entered the range, the artillery commander waved the flag, "Boboo" and "600 artillery fired in a round of volleys, and the power was simply shaken!

However, the six hundred flowering bullets fell into the sparse and messy siege car formations without much effect. There was no siege car at all, and it was just a siege car that was slightly injured by sputtering.

The roar of artillery in the city really scared Dara Shike, but after seeing the effect of the artillery, he immediately curled his lips disdainfully and said contempt: "No wonder more than ten thousand people dared to resist our 200,000 army. It turns out that there are too many artillery. Humph, artillery is useless in front of heavy armored infantry!"

The artillery in the city was still roaring constantly. Dara Shik looked at the direction of the siege army with a proud face, as if he was enjoying a feast of fireworks. As he looked at him, he seemed to remember something suddenly. He suddenly turned his head and shouted at the messenger behind him: "Quickly, go inform Malu, let him be ready to attack at any time. The Portuguese in the city shouldn't be able to hold on for long before they will run away."

In his opinion, the artillery had failed, and the Portuguese must have been scared. When the siege army rushed under the wall, they should be scared and fleeing.

The one who wanted to command the city was Portuguese Governor Condede. It was estimated that this would really scare the bile to spurt out. Unfortunately, the commanders in the city are Hou Shilu and Qin Yiming, the generals of the Ming Empire, who wanted to scare their bile, unless the Mughal Empire used planes and tanks to attack the city, this small scene was not enough to scare them.

The artillery has no effect, it’s just a little troublesome, and they have many methods!

At this time, the city walls were already full of large oil pans. The firewood was burning under the oil pans. As the oil was about to boil, a braised pork meal was waiting for the Mughal Empire's siege army.

If you talk about Dala Shik, it is so idiot that he doesn't even know how to pour hot oil as simple as throwing hot oil. The problem is that there is no problem in this era. It is rare for ordinary people to cook vegetables. It would be nice to collect ten pots of cooking oil in a small town to pour it on you. Most of the time the defenders of the city still have boiling water. Now he thinks that the defenders in the city are boiling water.

Boiled water is actually not that scary. If it is poured on the head, it will naturally make people feel hot. But if it is poured from the high city wall, the effect will be much worse. In addition, the weather is a little cold at this time, so the effect will be even worse. He was not worried at all, but just despised in his heart: "Spray, splash, just take a hot bath for them."

This cannot be blamed for his inadequate consideration. He just ignored one problem. Cooked oil was also a key material purchased by the Ming Dynasty and Portugal. Most of the cooking oil in the entire Mughal Empire was purchased and hoarded in Goa City. Not to mention more than ten pots, even thousands of pots cans can’t be cooked!

Therefore, the Mughal Empire's siege troops were completely tragic. When they rushed to the city excitedly, set up a ladder, and were about to climb up, "Crazy" almost every ladder fell down a pot of boiling hot oil, which made the heavy armored infantry beside the ladder so hot that it was so wailing.

It was not over yet. Then, the "miner" on the city wall picked up the firewood under the oil pan and threw it under the city wall. The entire northern city wall suddenly fell into a sea of ​​fire. At least thousands of heavy armored infantry of the Mughal Empire were lit into firemen.

It was not over yet. Then tens of thousands of grenades were thrown down on the city wall like rain. "Boom boom" loudly, and the entire city wall was covered with smoke. This wave of grenades exploded, and the fire under the city wall was blown out by mistake!

With so many grenades exploding in concentrated areas, the density of the steel needle can be imagined, almost everywhere. The Mughal Empire's siege army was attacked, and everyone grinned in pain.

He also attacked the city of Baby. The ladders were burned out, everyone was injured, and many people were burned to smoke everywhere. Dara Shik bulged his eyes and looked at all this in disbelief. After watching for a while, he roared loudly: "Stop the troops!"

"Woooooooooooooooo" A unique horn sounded, and the heavy armored infantry of the Mughal Empire retreated like a tide, and they even threw down the siege cars and giant shields.

It was not that easy to leave. Without waiting for Hou Shilu to speak, Qin Yiming immediately ordered loudly: "Send the order, all artillery loads the shotgun, no need to aim, barrage attack, ten rounds."

Run, run, it seems that your armor is hard or your shells are hard!
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