The tentative bombardment continued until the evening. The Ming army's position was like a honest and strong man, without complaining about pranks, and always looked at Bernard with a calm and peaceful look at him thousands of steps apart.

The Western Army artillery was not discouraged. It seemed that the Western Army's artillery would not launch an attack without using artillery to destroy the Ming army's fortifications. It was indeed useful to constantly bombard the four small cannons against the barrier wall.

When the third time the four Franco cannons were refilled, the Western Army artillery was able to accurately project at least two shells onto the barrier wall even if they were thousands of steps apart.

It just cannot be broken down.

The goal of not fighting back was enough time, allowing the Spanish artillery to project two carriage shells to the position in one afternoon, greatly reducing the burden on the baggage, but the Ming army position opposite was still the same as when they came.

Two cannons were also scrapped.

"Who can tell me why the Ming Dynasty built such strong fortifications in the canyon. Those slaves never showed amazing strength and talent when planting corn. Why could they transport stones here for the Ming army to build a defense line?"

Bernard was a little angry. Although his troops had no losses, it was much better than Herrera's defeat in two hours of annihilation, but thousands of people watched the target in the canyon for an afternoon, but the target broke first without any trouble. This situation itself was very annoying.

"What else did we do except a shell made a hole in the shed?"

Jesus, named Jesus, was also discouraged by this. He walked over ten short castle-like barriers in the canyon, nearly half a rigueur wide, and two indestructible lines were laid out in depth. He spent the afternoon studying how to break through.

"It is impossible to attack without breaking the defense line. They are learning that the arrangement of those fortifications is the same as that of our legion company after it is unfolded. A gap flashes out in the middle and fills up the square formation behind. As long as the legion attacks in, they will be hit from multiple directions just like the Indians attacking our square formation."

"In the layout of fortifications, they are also learning that the surface of the stone walls is covered with turf and soil, which is the same as the outer wall of the bastion, can eliminate part of the impact of the shells. The interior should be wood and solid stones, which cannot be destroyed by the circumference cannon."

In fact, the biggest question in Jesus' mind was how thick the walls that were dozens of meters wide were. He spoke to Bernard: "Our lookout hand climbing on the cliff should bring back more information about the fortifications."

"I think the most urgent thing is to build the awning and the wooden wall in front of the formation. Today's wind is a bit strong, and the sky is cloudy earlier than usual, and it may rain at night."

Hessus tasted it with his nose and said, "It's not good to rain. The musketeer company I specially prepared for the Ming army will not be useful."

"No, the Ming army has more muskets than us, and it's very good to rain."

Bernard shook his head and said, "You should tell the merchants behind this news. If it rains, their stone shooting cannons will be useless. Tonight, I will use two stone shooting cannons to push them to a distance that can hit the fortifications, but no silver coin will be paid to them."

"If those two heavy artillery can come in handy, I will pay them one-tenth of the spoils after victory."

"Don't worry about the method, use stone shooting cannons to bombard it. When it rains, use swords, shields and knights to kill in. We don't have much time and we must attack the port as soon as possible."

Bernard walked to the door and lifted the white curtain. The phalanx soldiers in front of the formation had been replaced. The soldiers relaxed due to fatigue, and their morale turned sharply in just one afternoon.

The inability to destroy the fortifications greatly affected the soldiers' confidence in victory, especially the Ming army that defeated them many times on multiple battlefields.

At least the battle is going to this moment, if the whole process is transmitted back to the old continent, it will become a laughing stock for following Bernard's life - the battle is from noon to evening, the Ming army has not fired a single shot, has not fired a single shot, and has not died.

On the contrary, four Western Army soldiers were dismantled due to the explosion of artillery.

"The naval battle should have begun. It only takes four days at the fastest. The Ming cavalry can go around from the north to behind us, and the attack must be fast."

Jesus glanced at Bernard, and he could feel that the solid fortifications not only disintegrated the soldiers' confidence in victory, but also disintegrated Bernard's.

Although they only care about war and do not need to consider the future of things, everyone can feel the atmosphere now - if this battle is lost, no one in New Spain will dare to fight the Ming army in the future.

Even if there are enough troops, the prestige of the Ming army will make every Spanish soldier full of fear. When he hears the news of the Ming army's attack, he will throw his weapons and flee.

Just like what the French army did when they met the Spanish phalanx on the battlefield.

The servant said a few words in Bernard's ear, and went to the military formation for the master to finally find the merchants to talk about using stone shooting cannons. Not long after, Indians with turkey feathers on their heads emerged from the bushes under the cliffs in the north and ran straight to the direction of the white military tent.

It is very dangerous to climb up the steep mountain wall to observe the Ming army, and it is also very difficult. Few people in the entire army can climb up and then climb down like nothing is wrong. The Indians who ran back are among the best even in his own tribe.

"Their wall is so wide." The scout was as wide as his forearm, and felt unsure, so he expanded to his entire arm and said, "Maybe it is so wide?"

Jesus' face was not very good-looking, and he asked the scouts to observe a barrier from a distance, perhaps this was a stupid decision in itself.

He asked, "Where is the Ming army's defense? How many soldiers do they have outside the fortifications?"

"In the afternoon, two troops arrived, eight hundred? There were cavalrymen. They appeared and ran to the canyon. I don't know how many of them there were, but they didn't look many."

Not much seems, that is, actually a lot?

"What about their will? What are their people doing when our cannons keep bombarding them? Hiding behind the stone walls, trembling?"

The scouts with patterns on their faces shook their heads seriously, "No, they have been there behind the stone wall, constantly rotating, a team of people are filling up from behind, and a team of people withdrawing from the stone wall. They may have been mobilized like this six times."

"Six times, what are you doing?"

Bernard was puzzled and asked himself if there were fortifications, his soldiers would not be dispatched like this. Why did the Ming army not preserve their physical strength like this?

The scout thought for a while and said, "Maybe it was eating. Smoke was coming out from the canyon. The cavalry teams appeared, and they immediately brought things, put them down behind the stone wall and left, and came back later."

Bernard felt the big tendons on his forehead pounding, and his brain hurt a little.

Have a meal?

He explained that Jun was having a meal.

Do these bastards know how to respect people?

I am attacking them, attacking them with at least four times the strength. Four Franco cannons can fire eight shells in a minute. What should they eat?

"By the way, Governor, just now, just as I was about to come back, two teams of Ming army walked far away with cloth of the same color as the stone wall. They seemed to have picked up all the shells."
Chapter completed!