When the sun rises from the east, the first rays of sunlight are seen on the hot air balloon fifty meters above the ground.Zhou Qingfeng and Wu Gate stood in the hanging basket of hot air balloons early in the morning, clutching the telescope to observe the movement around the Panjim fortress.

Due to the sea, the surrounding terrain is flat, and the field of view on the hot air balloon is extremely wide.A clear image within a dozen kilometers can be clearly seen in the telescope.The old city of Goa is just seven kilometers away, and everything in the city can be described as unobstructed exposure to the sight of the observer.

“With this hot air balloon and telescope, the plains and the sea are not afraid of being attacked by the enemy.”Wumen put down the telescope, extremely emotional, "in the martial arts chessboard has been practiced so many times, with our current fire density, should be able to withstand five times the enemy's long-term siege."If the enemy wants to take down our fortress, he will either fill it with tens of thousands of lives or bombard it with heavy artillery.”

As the sun rises, the old city of Goa slowly awakens in the distance.The soldiers in the Portuguese barracks were slowly coming out of the barracks, and their slacking paces and smiles showed that these Europeans were not nervous about the impending war.The appearance of the fortress of Panimim, although shocking, the colonists did not easily change their inherent ideas, they did not realize how terrible the enemies from the East were.People in the city can still be seen in the telescope pointing points to hot air balloons.Over the course of the night, they were more curious than they were afraid.Some are even eager to find out.

The sea breeze came and the hot air balloon fluttered.

The picture in the telescope also shook and blurred.Zhou Qingfeng had to put down his hand and wait for the hot air balloon to stabilize again.He turned to look into the sea, and there were also several ships on the far side of the sea, and the fragments and corpses of the ships that undated with the waves—that was a Portuguese ship, which had been sunk last night.

After the appearance of the fortress, the migrant workers even repaired the perimeter of the fortress at night, built the fortifications, and cleaned up the shooting world.Six heavy fort guns began testing, determining their respective fire ranges and calibruding range of range.The sound of cannons can even reach a few kilometers away.

These six guns are made by Zhao Ze in name, but in fact it is the credit of Sun Yuanhua.After the Daming artillery expert completed the addition of basic knowledge, he began to take over the work of artillery design and manufacturing - casting, forging, machining, ballistics, etc. are all university questions, Zhao Ze is really busy.With Sun Yuanhua taking over, he put his energy on the more important steam engine.

Last night, migrant workers worked all night, and the Portuguese sent several small boats to try to attack.As a result, Zhou Qingfeng ordered a round of lighting rockets to be launched every ten minutes at night, and the lighting hall that would be ignited within two kilometers of the perimeter, and the ships that were disturbed were confused and broke into the death range of the artillery.

After joining the fire, the "Revolutionary Army" steel plant can finally provide qualified low-carbon steel.This is a significant advance for the design and manufacture of artillery.

Sun Yuanhua designed these fortress guns are all 200 mm caliber, fifteen times the diameter of the long barrel, the pipe wall is uniform, light weight can withstand stronger load pressure.A two-ton gun can have an effective range of 1,800 meters.He even copied the hydrobal-loaded wire drawing bed according to the drawings given by Zhao Ze, pulling out the equidistance winding line in the barrel.

Under the guidance of the illuminated rocket, the three heavy guns on the fortress aimed at the attack-throbed ship a kilometer away, hitting the target with only two rounds of salves.More than a dozen kilograms of egg-shaped round-headed solid shells have a fairly straight ballistic and high initial speed, and the spin given by the rifle brings good stability, and only two shots make the enemy ship a thin rot.

This reminded the Portuguese that the warships should not fight against the large-calibre fortress guns and could not fight them.

A kilometer of artillery range frightened the Portuguese.Until dawn, their ships did not approach the coast any longer, but retreated to 1500 meters away to hide.Although they are still within range of the fort gun, Zhou Qingfeng ordered that no fire should be allowed to be fired and go with the enemy.

The sinking Portuguese ship was turned into tattered wood chips, drifting around the sea, warning others not to be easily near the enemy's fire range, and to make it clear to the Portuguese that the opponent they encountered was not a stupid native.But the lessons learned by the Portuguese are clearly not enough.

"The enemy is waving artillery."The hanging basket stabilized again, and the Wumen raised the telescope to continue to observe the direction of the old city of Goa."Their guns are also big."

Zhou Qingfeng also extended the telescope observation.

The Portuguese, who had lived in India for more than a hundred years, never imagined that their dominance would be challenged.In order to be more comfortable, they chose to build a city in the interior.As a result, Zhou Qingfeng was now stuck in the river out of the sea, and they found that they had fallen into bad luck.

Bullying the indigenous people of India all the year round, the Portuguese army in Goa was not of high quality, slow in action, and morale in general.If Zhou Qingfeng's strength is insufficient, if the snake is not enough, it is necessary to lead the snake out of the hole to fight an annihilation war, and it is possible to take the initiative to block the door and destroy them in the barracks.Now the Portuguese are carrying their own artillery, and they seem to be big guys.

"It's a twenty-four-pound cannon, with a range of more than a kilometer, and weighs about the same as our fort cannon."He probably identified the gun type.In fact, the British say that the Portuguese unit of length also uses "rigue" instead of "rice".These measures of the Europeans are actually quite chaotic, and he gives a general description.

"Well, our guns are better."The Wumen attaches great importance to the enemy's artillery, and once it is opened, it is necessary to defeat the enemy's heavy equipment first.The effective range is one kilometer, the maximum range must be two kilometers, and the big goal of the fortress is no problem at all.

But Zhou Qingfeng shook his head: "This is not the Portuguese's most powerful artillery."They also have more than five tons of heavy forts, although the number is small, the shooting speed is slow, but the power is large, the range can reach three kilometers.Those are the biggest threats to us.”

“Three thousand miles!”The forehead of the Wumen was a little sweaty, "Then we must send a force outside the city, and it is necessary to attack and destroy the enemy's artillery positions and destroy these heavy guns."Five tons of heavy artillery, will inevitably transport difficulties.Our cavalry has just changed its new cannon, and should be able to take on this responsibility.If not, you can only ask the commander to bomb with the plane."

Oh, Zhou Qingfeng laughed twice, and was satisfied that these officers of his men had finally grown up.In the past, the war, the idea of how to fight is him.Now these battalions are also gradually having their own ideas.

The five-ton heavy gun was quite heavy for the current road conditions and could only be used on fixed forts, with no maneuverability at all.It is necessary to force the Portuguese to mobilize this big guy, which does not need to be a plane, and directly with a rocket salf to cover it.It runs slowly anyway, much like a fixed target.

Zhou Qingfeng wanted the enemy to move the heavy guns out and bombard him.For he made iron, but the enemy's guns were bronze.Every door is a lot of money.

At the end of the day, the early exercise was cancelled.

As tired overnight migrant workers are back to the dormitory to rest, these people are armed, ready to play as a supplement.Soldiers in the Guards were getting up to eat breakfast in preparation for the next battle.

When the sun goes up, the weather gets hot.Zhou Qingfeng felt like he was being roasted by fire in a hot air balloon, and there was really a stove above his head that was fueled by coal tar, constantly making hot air."Go down and let the observers come up."

Wu's gate threw a token along the rope, and a set of ratchets on the tower of the fortress began to turn, and the coarse hemp rope of the hot air balloon was wrapped around the ratchet, pulling Zhou Qingfeng two people down.

After jumping off the hot air balloon, Zhou Qingfeng said to Wu Gate: "The weather here is too hot, let the accompanying craftsmen build a lightened shed on the hanging basket of the hot air balloon, otherwise the solar energy of Goa University at noon will heat up people."Observers go up with more salt soda and change shifts in two or three hours to avoid unnecessary non-combat attrition.Every one of us is precious.”

After Zhou Qingfeng came down, he saw that Wen Ruolan was taking the medical platoon to examine the soldiers one by one, feeding some antipyretics.This tropical region has many mosquitoes and many diseases, which are easy to cause soil and water.Many colonists were not afraid of the attacks of indigenous soldiers, but talked about the various diseases in the barbaric areas.

Sister Wen really can do any work, engage in research, practice is also very meticulous.With her in the barracks, the soldiers felt very at ease and could be treated for any injuries.Compared with Zhou Qingfeng, Wen Ruo Lan's gentle and gentle personality gave the soldiers great comfort - the captain and the lady were in the front line, and the soldiers really had nothing to complain about.

“How many non-combat attritions are there now?”He was close to her sister and asked.

Wen Ruolan has not met his eyes since yesterday, and at this moment she wiped her forehead because of the sweat that came out of the high temperature and smiled back: "The weather here is too hot, completely different from our Tianjin."If it weren’t for you before, the miasma would have been intense.I have now given some refreshing soup to the soldiers to drink, and there are about ten injured people, but nothing is a big deal."

Zhou Qingfeng is not afraid of external enemies, but internal diseases.The inexplicable death and injury of the war because of the epidemic is too common.The ancient hygiene habits are poor, a person accidentally bitten by a mosquito a few bites to make a malaria epidemic, that fun is big.

“The husband is reassured.In this fortress, I will look at you.You can fight peace, open up the territory, and achieve a first-class name.I promise you will never get out of trouble behind you."Wen Ruo Lan is kind to people, everything is given to Zhou Qingfeng to think of everything.

Zhou Qingfeng felt that he had saved the world in his previous life, and in this life, she had sister Ruolan committed herself.She was alone, and he saved him a lot of energy.He wanted to go forward and embrace the love, but Wenrulan booed back, angry coy said: "You bad people do not want to mess up, but there are people around."

"Come at night, come at night."He smiled and groaned, and his heart only felt beautiful.He went again to check the soldiers' food, to make sure that all the details were perfect, but he saw that his sister and Zhuo were putting on horses and riding a horse in the fortress with no hundred cavalry companies.At this moment, the cavalry was full of breakfast, and seemed to go out and walk around to eat.

The Shandong Raiders are now nearing the end, and the whole Qilu land has been broken by more than a dozen cities, and the squire killed is rolling in and the soul is flying.Even the Confucian house was bulldozed and liquidated by her.Nowadays, there is nothing in the world that the readers in the world hate her, and even many old-fashioned evidents in the "Revolutionary Army" have cursed.

Zhou Qingfeng said in the newspaper that the liquidation of the rotten and backward feudal ideas and their carriers is his personal order.But outsiders did not dare to do anything to him, and the slanderous resentment was going to the peace.

And Zhuo did not care about this, but still happy, at this moment is ordering the fortress gate to open.When she saw Zhou Qingfeng coming, she raised her hand and shouted, "Wait for Ha, sister to cut you off a few heads of Taixi ugly ghosts."