The officers and soldiers of the artillery regiment were all very excited. First, they had been supplemented by dànyào, and they could have fun again. They were attacked by Hongyi before, and now it was time to retaliate in kind. "Eight"Eight"Read "Book,.2■⊥
Secondly, it was because the prince sent someone to reward the troops, saying that Shenzi would have a "artistic performance". Many rough guys didn't understand this term, but it was a great thing to be able to see the songs and dances that could only be seen in the rear mansion for free.
Many guys met women when they were in the capital a few months ago. When they came to the hot weather, they didn't even touch her, let alone look at her. If they could break into Hongyi's castle, they would also be able to meet Hongyi. What does a Yi woman look like?
Therefore, it is truly a blessing to be able to see the dancers performing in the backyard in this place full of mosquito bites. Everyone did not need to be called out by the monitors, but took the initiative to get busy and try to finish the work at hand as soon as possible.
It seems that Zhenhaibo Zheng Zhilong is very interesting and provides everyone with pretty good food. According to doctors, kelp can also cure big neck disease. If you have the chance, you should eat as much as possible, so that the taste of sea fish will be even more delicious.
The artillery regiment came to assist Zhen Haibo this time. Due to the generosity of others, they were short-tongued, so they did their best when bombarding the target, and they would not deliberately perfunctory the task, so the accuracy would naturally be good.
The Crown Prince sent someone to reward the troops. Hu Dawei's unit was affiliated with the combat order of the East Palace Guards, so the treatment was naturally extraordinary. As long as there was a wound on the body, the doctor would apply "Shu Shuang" on it, which can speed up the healing of the wound. .
As for the psychological trauma, another kind of medicine is needed to treat it. Although it can only be seen but not touched, watching the song and dance performance can at least relieve the pressure on the nerves and is very good for regulating the mood.
The vast majority of ordinary soldiers have only seen street performers, and the generals' horizons are actually not broad. Most of them are limited to the level of performances in the building. Those who are lucky enough to watch the palace singing and dancing can be regarded as the emperor's favorite generals.
Originally Zhenhaibo Zheng Zhilong wanted to open the eyes of all the brothers last night and let them hear and witness the wonderful dances and sounds he had seen in the capital. It was an unparalleled enjoyment. One hundred taels of silver would cost them just one listen. I feel it’s not a loss.
However, due to the long boat ride and lack of shore activities, many members of the song and dance troupe suffered from seasickness. As a result, they were still not feeling well after being transferred from Xiamen to Dayuan, so they could only rest for a day until things got better today. , and then performed for the soldiers.
However, it cannot be completed in one day. At least all the officers and soldiers participating in the battle have to appreciate it once. The audience for each appreciation must be determined by the venue. The audience seat was chosen on the hillside in the southern part of Taiyuan Island.
The actors perform on the beach, with the coastline as their back, and the audience can be blown by the sea breeze and not feel the heat at all. The nearby scenery is picturesque, which is the best background at the moment.
In order to prevent the women sent by the Crown Prince from being harassed by a group of guys with green eyes, in addition to the Jin Yiwei who escorted the song and dance troupe, Zheng Zhilong also specially sent a team of personal soldiers to protect them from the Jin Yiwei and his soldiers. There was friction over this matter.
Zhen Haibo didn't have time to check the performance venue for the time being. He first wanted to check on the condition of the wounded soldiers who had been smeared with the special medicine "Shu Shuang". This was related to a big deal with an annual income of one million taels of silver, so he couldn't be careless.
What makes Zheng Zhilong feel gratified is that some of the injured soldiers who have used "Shu Shuang" have seen some improvement, while others have not been so obvious, but they cannot force it, after all, it only lasted one night.
Furthermore, no matter what kind of medicine it is, its effects vary from person to person and cannot be generalized. If the situation is abnormal, Zheng Zhilong would not dare to take it in large quantities easily. ⑤∞eight⑤∞eight⑤∞Read ⑤∞book,.←.o≈
It seems that the 15,000 boxes purchased in advance will not be a loss. If the wounds of the wounded soldiers are significantly improved after three to five days, Zheng Zhilong will decide to purchase at least 5,000 boxes every month in the future.
I heard that the war in Western Europe has been protracted and has been going on for no less than twenty years. There are hundreds of thousands of people on both sides fighting all year round, so there will definitely be many wounded soldiers.
If this special medicine was sold to Xi Yi, it would be a good deal at that time. When they see such miraculous effects, they will be happy to buy it in large quantities.
At least in Zheng Zhilong's view, there is no similar type of medicine on the market yet. The medicine "Shu Shuang" has a short effect time and has great advantages over any herbal medicine.
Dr. Song Hao said that this medicine can only be used to treat ordinary wounds, especially minor injuries. It has very little effect on the seriously injured and must rely on the "true spirit".
However, the cost of the latter was so high that the selling price was also astronomical. A bottle cost ten thousand taels of silver. Looking at the entire Ming Empire, only those who could afford it were worthy of the name.
At present, there is only one way to buy the relatively cheap "True Spirit", and that is to wait until the effect of the medicine is about to fade away significantly, and the prince orders the price to be reduced. The premise is that you must be seriously injured...
Generally speaking, to treat a gun injury like Zheng Ju's, at least four to five bottles of "True Spirit" would be used, which meant that the rich general had to prepare at least 50,000 taels of life-saving money, not counting the surgery and medical expenses.
According to this standard, even if you have money in your pocket, you must first declare it, and only after getting approval can you enjoy the treatment of being medicated, otherwise you will take the money into the coffin.
Of course, if the effect of the drug is strong in the past and the patient becomes "satisfied" directly, the patient's family will have to bear all the consequences, and the medical expenses will still have to be paid in full.
It is not easy for a certain prince to make a little artificially cultivated penicillin. The laboriousness is no less than the production process of sulfonamide, so the money he should charge cannot be less than one tael.
Ten thousand taels of silver a bottle is still a friendly price, otherwise one bottle would not be taken out and all would be reserved for his own thugs to use. The twenty bottles given to Zheng Zhilong are for the purpose of treating the injuries of Zheng Jun's senior generals.
It can only treat four or five people. If there are more wounded, it will depend on whether Zheng Zhilong is willing to spend money. Treating a wounded person starts with 40,000 taels of silver, and there is no limit to the amount...
This kind of price is not something that ordinary soldiers can enjoy. It is perfect for export to Europe, and it will be warmly welcomed by the upper class of European countries.
It doesn't matter if you don't have money to buy medicine. You can use mercenaries to exchange for it. Renting two hundred mercenaries can exchange for one bottle of "True Spirit", and ten thousand mercenaries can exchange for fifty bottles.
The only difficulty that prevents Europeans from buying is not the price, but time. Because the sea journey is too long and time-consuming, it takes about half a year to reach Europe one way from East Asia.
As a result, even sealed packaging may lose a certain amount of medicinal efficacy, and a certain prince had to give it to Westerners at least 50% off. On the contrary, the low-cost Vaseline is very durable and is not afraid of long journeys. It can still be applied casually after being shipped to Europe.
At the beginning of the listing, the price must be maintained relatively high, so as to leave enough profit space for Zheng Zhilong, and not let it occupy the majority of the profits, otherwise a certain prince will work for Zheng Zhilong.
In fact, a box sells for five taels of silver, which is profitable for a certain prince, but the large quantity means that the target of the sale is difficult to control. It is very likely that tens of thousands of boxes of special medicine will flow into the hands of Donglu outside the customs.
Let Huang Taiji use the money stolen from the customs to treat his wounded soldiers. This is something that a certain prince absolutely does not want to hear, so he controls the price of medicines, especially all special medicines, to maintain them at an extremely high level. The above is the established strategy.
Even if Braid can go out of his way to offer a high price, it will be difficult to obtain a large amount of special medicine. Even if the generals of the Ning Army sell it privately, the quantity will not be too large, especially the real trump card, penicillin, which cannot be sold outside.
All patients who use penicillin must go to the Ming Empire Army Hospital in the capital for diagnosis and treatment. It doesn't matter if they can't come, then they will never come again.
It would not work to use the excuse of not coming for treatment due to physical reasons to get special medicine. A certain prince had already had countermeasures, and Zheng Zhilong was an exception here.
However, the twenty bottles of "True Spirit" he brought were all controlled by Song Hao alone. Zheng Zhilong also knew the value of this medicine. Except for Zheng Ju, no one was qualified to enjoy it.
Zheng Ju alone took up five bottles, and there were only fifteen bottles left, which could barely treat four people. Zheng Zhilong also had to plan carefully. He didn't know when he wanted to get a batch of special medicines next time, especially the "True Spirit" .
With just such a powerful medicine, Zheng Zhilong could only pray silently in his heart that his brother would not be seriously injured again, otherwise it would not be enough, and those who were injured later could not watch him die of pain.
As long as there is a possibility of hanging one's life, one must take a fast boat to the capital and leave it to the prince. Even if it costs one hundred thousand, two hundred thousand or even five hundred thousand taels of silver, it is a good deal to save a life.
If money can be used to save lives, Zheng Zhilong can spend tens of millions of taels of silver to protect his people, otherwise he will not lose many men of the Zheng family when he beats Liu Xiang.
"Boom boom boom boom..."
Liu Xiang was dead, but the Dutch Hongyi who colluded with him to commit evil still occupied the officials and refused to leave. Zheng Zhilong vented his inner anger on them.
The artillery regiment began the second large-scale bombardment of the Castle of Geranze. Each squad received twenty bombardment packets. According to the frequency of firing ten times per hour, they could fight for two hours.
One battalion has thirty-six squads, and two battalions have seventy-two squads, totaling 1,440 zhàyào bags. Even if only an integer can hit the target, it will cover the buildings in the castle for Geran. Caused considerable damage.
After multiple firings, the officers and soldiers of the artillery regiment were able to throw more than 90% of the bombs into the target area. Although they could only kill visible buildings and people, they could still blast the red barbarians so that they could not go out. Combat.
"Damn Zheng Yiguan!"
Berg knew that Jansen's troops did not destroy the pirates' artillery positions during the night attack, but since they had caused great damage to the enemy and severely injured thousands of pirates, they would need to repair for at least a while before they could resume their attack on the castle. attack.
Unexpectedly, they took a day's rest and started a stormy attack again this morning, causing the entire castle to fall into a man-made earthquake filled with flames and explosions.
Bolger's official residence has been destroyed by cannonballs and is completely uninhabitable. Even if he does not dislike the living conditions, the hateful pirates may throw cannonballs directly into his mouth while he is sleeping soundly...
The defenders also seized a number of unfired artillery shells, or a kind of shells with hundreds of iron nails tied on them. After dismantling them, they found that the ends of the fuses were damp and could not be fired.
Even such a simple-structured artillery shell caused terrible damage to the Castle of Geranze and the garrison soldiers. Even Colonel Jansen, a senior insider in the industry, found it very incredible.
The internal structure of the shells fired by the mortars used by the defenders is much more complex than similar products produced by pirates. However, on the battlefield, weapons with simpler structures mean that the cost will be lower and they can be produced in batches in a short time. manufacture.
Based on the structure of the captured artillery shells, Colonel Jansen also decided to make a batch of similar artillery shells, so that his own mortars could still be fired.
But the problem is that it is no longer possible to use the open-air gun positions. As long as the defenders dare to show their heads, they will be bombarded from the top of the mountain.
The gun positions in the castle can be used, but the elevation angle is not high enough and can only be used for cannon fire. Since there is no use for it, the mortar is completely reduced to a useless weapon.
In fact, cannons are useless because they can only shoot directly. When the pirates are hiding on the back slope of the mountain top, the cannons in the castle cannot hit any enemy...
Colonel Jansen decided to use a newly produced batch of mortar shells that were imitated from pirate shells tonight, and asked his soldiers to quickly push the mortars to an open position and fire them, hoping to inflict greater damage to the pirates on the top of the mountain.
But Zheng Yiguan's artillery was impartial and dared to be in front of Yang Sen. This time the pirates changed their tactics of attacking later and began to fire first.
Colonel Jansen was helpless about this, while Chief Berg was hiding in the basement and sulking. They both knew that in front of the pirates with strong firepower, the defenders could only choose to be patient.
Since the previous night attack had lost a lot of troops, Jansen believed that he had no spare power to organize another night attack of the same scale. Instead of taking the initiative to attack, it was better to use limited troops to defend the castle.
Therefore, any future offensive plans are just conjectures that can only bring some comfort. The defenders have lost the ability to go out to fight on a large scale. It is okay to send dozens of minions to harass, but it is of little use.
"We still need to hold on for about eighty days!"
Colonel Jansen felt that if they could hold out until the set time, the defenders must have been favored by the goddess of luck, otherwise the castle would have been torn to pieces by pirates using mortar cannons in just a few days.
If Damuan Town has been reduced to one ruin, then Relanja Castle is about to become another ruin. It seems that Zheng Yiguan is very happy to create ruins, but he cannot stop this evil hobby.
"Eighty days! Damn it!"
Now even Bolger doesn't believe that he can survive until then. Zheng Yiguan himself has a fleet with firepower equivalent to the Armada. Unexpectedly, the firepower of his mortar unit is completely equivalent to the firepower output level of the fleet.
As a high-ranking officer, Bolger felt that he had nothing to do. Apart from writing a few emergency letters, he would write down his experiences in a diary. When he had a chance to escape alive, he would sort it out and strive for publication.
"One Hundred Days of Nightmares - The War of the Generals", this title may be a big hit. Even if you don't work as an employee of the East India Company, you can still become a good writer based on your difficult experiences.
When the second large-scale bombardment launched by the pirates began, the people in the castle knew what it meant to "live like a year"... 11
