"How are our casualties?" Before dawn, Carl ran to Hong Tao's flagship. Last night's night battle must have disturbed him from sleeping well, with blood in his eyes.

"The three people were slightly injured, all of them were damaged by wood chips from shells. No big deal. I'm about to attack the city. You should take my position as the command of the fleet. Don't be careless this time. If someone raids the back, I will surrender directly and give you out. Let's be burned to death together." Although Hong Tao gritted his teeth at Carl's regression, he still trusted the red beard most. Giving the entire fleet to him was equivalent to entrusting half of his life.

"I will be tortured to death by you sooner or later, so it's better to burn it to death. I'll deal with these corpses. They should get a cemetery." Carl did not express gratitude to Hong Tao's trust. He hoped that Hong Tao would not trust him anymore. Trust is sometimes stressful, and a lot of pressure.

"Whatever, I don't have any objection to eating them! Come with me and take our little band!" Hong Tao didn't care whether the corpses of the hundreds of enemies outside the shipyard were buried or cremated. Now he was going to go ashore to be the commander of the army. This was the first time he followed the army to attack the city. He was a little excited.

At this time, the ancients said again, "If you are old, you should be arrogant and have to be stable." People often have a less conviction when they get older. Hong Tao is like this, he is cautious and timid all his life. When he gets old, he has to go ashore to take risks.

"I sent someone to drive a boat to wait for you on the pier. If I can't beat you, I will run away quickly. When I go back, I won't say that you have been defeated, but I will say that these more than 200 people have been drowned in the shipwreck!" Carl also learned bad things and actually mocked people.

"Go on the boat!" Hong Tao did not even turn his head, stretched out his middle fingers with his hands and gestured behind him, then took the lead and climbed down the side of the boat. Behind him were the captain of the slap and more than a dozen dressed sailors. The sailors' outfits were very Indian, with colorful feathers on their heads, and they had no clothes on their upper body, but many patterns were painted. They straddled a belt across their chests and carried several huge leather bags in their hands. Carl was stunned, not knowing where Hong Tao was playing.

Carl didn't know that the army soldiers on the shore knew these sailors wearing traditional Indian clothes. Before the boat could dock, they let out waves of roars, and were very excited, as if they had just knocked medicine.

"This set again." When a priest in a white robe climbed up to the dock from the boat and held high a staff symbolizing the sun god to start chanting scriptures, more than 200 army soldiers and sailors, except for standing guard, knelt on one leg, lowered their heads and stroked their chests and recited them together. Seeing this scene, Carl said with disdain as a scoop, and expressed his disdain. But when he turned around, he saw a large area of ​​kneeling on the deck, only he was still standing, and immediately swallowed the second half of the sentence.

The prayer time was very short. In less than a minute, the priest put down his staff and stopped reciting. At this time, the copper whistle in the officer's mouth sounded again. The army soldiers and armed sailors scattered everywhere gathered together in a short time and lined up in four columns. Seven or eight war horses seized last night all became the mounts of the scouts, and they had already run away in groups of two. At this time, the front of the team was more than a dozen sailors wearing Indian costumes brought by Hong Tao from the ship. The big leather bags they were carrying had been opened, and there was a tube inside, with a hook on it, which was hanging on the belt slanted on the chest.

"What kind of weapon is this? Have you seen it?" Carl saw it clearly on the deck of the battleship, but did not recognize what these cylindrical things were, so he had to turn his head and ask the gunner.

"The God Envoy said that this is a war drum given by God, which can remind the gods to bless us. However, it cannot be used on the ship, and the war drum is afraid of sea water. The God Envoy said that when the divine power of the Kingdom of God is enough, you can get a war drum that is not afraid of sea water." The gunner finally found the opportunity to be a teacher again, not only with questions and answers, but also gave free detailed explanations.

"War drum! How to use it?" Carl still didn't understand what kind of weapon the war drum was.

"Dongpala, dongpala, dongpala, dongpala, dongpala, dongpala, dongpala, dongpala, dongpala, dongpala, dongpala, "This time, the army that had been lined up on the dock began to move forward. At the same time, a neat drum sounded, and the soldiers' footsteps followed the drum beats. Although there were only more than 200 people, they walked so neatly that they looked quite majestic.

"He is so idle and has nothing to do. I'm also confused. How can I use the war drum? Isn't it just a drum? Just beat it!" Carl was very dissatisfied with himself. The war drums were both used by the Byzantine and the Greeks, and the great cannibals had them. Although the sound was not as loud as Hong Tao's war drums, they were not much different.

In fact, the thing Hong Tao made is not a traditional war drum, it should be called a snare drum or a string drum. It is made of hollowed out with light tree trunks, whale bones as skeletons, whale tendons control elasticity and tightness, and covered with appropriate thickness and thickness. Compared with ordinary drums, it has several springs made of fine alloy copper wire on the non-knocking skin. This thing is called a string drum, and when it hits, it is a round-headed small wooden stick with a hand, and the drum sound is a little hoarse, and there is also a very special tread, step, and tail sound. The frequency is higher than that of a big drum and has strong penetration.

During the Napoleon period, because the infantry battle lines were to be kept neat, drummers would use different drum beats on the battlefield to unify the pace of the infantry phalanx according to the orders. The army of Hong Tao and others had already used hunting rifles that loaded the entire bullets, and they could not use any battle lines or phalanxes to maintain on the battlefield, so they could not use the command of such a snare drum. He made this thing out just to play, just to have fun, it would not be difficult anyway. Moreover, the Indians were very talented in music and could dance by slapping their thighs. They mastered this kind of small chuck with a strong sense of rhythm very quickly.

However, snare drums are rarely used in normal times, because Swan's army riding horses to attack the enemy most of the time, so they will definitely not beat the drums. Now Hong Tao has finally found an opportunity to show his face. He can't use it in a war. He should beat the assembly when marching. This opportunity to show off must not be missed.

It would be great if you left a horse for yourself at this time. Riding on a tall horse and watching teams of infantry passing by with drum beats, it felt like a general. This feeling was not the same as naval battles. The down-to-earth and close combat between people is easier to arouse people's blood.

The strange army that advanced by the drum beat not only surprised Carl, but also attracted the attention of the people in the castle. The naval battle was lost and the river was not defended. The nobles of Flanders Hansea were not giving up. They thought that they could teach the emperor from the East a lesson in land battle. The emperor was too arrogant. He dared to sway and attack a solid castle with heavy troops, without even siege equipment, and looked like he was blinded by victory.

In fact, since the day of the defeat of the naval battle, Flanders Hanseatic had already begun to mobilize troops from a relatively close territory to Behenopzom. Together with the former garrison here, more than 5,000 people were raised, including a new musketeer of thousands of people and more than 1,000 light cavalry.

In their opinion, Hong Tao's two or three hundred men had no chance of winning, whether it was a field battle or a castle defense battle. If Hong Tao, the Eastern Emperor, could defeat the Eastern Emperor, in the land battle, could make up for the losses caused by the defeat in the naval battle. If the emperor could be captured, it would be a big profit. How much should the emperor's ransom be? Do you have to use a sea ship to pull it? For this belief, all the nobles who participated in the Flanders Hanseatic did not escape, and they still had to wait to share the spoils. Whoever left would be able to compensate for it would not be able to get a penny.
Chapter completed!