He couldn't imagine the strength of the five-star army!

Chasing and fleeing, nearly a day later, at dawn, Hang He took the lead in returning to Luzon Port with a third-class warship. By the time the ship had stopped, and the planks connecting to the land had not yet fully stabilized, he had already sped out, shouting for everyone to evacuate while running towards the four mortar batteries in the harbor.

Port Luzon, and even the entire island of Luzon, has not experienced a war for many years. The last time it was the Five-Star Army came, but they occupied the whole island with little resistance, so that many people did not know more about the coldness and horror of war, even if this time Hang and his comrades ran and shouted, but few people really attracted attention, and even some fishermen still walked towards the fishing boats moored in the harbor, looking unconcerned.

Just as Hang He and the others ran to the fort and began to shout at other comrades-in-arms to carry shells, when they were adjusting the muzzles of the artillery, dozens of warships flying the flag of the Philippines appeared. Duterte, who was mixed in with it, screamed and fired the cannon with a very excited expression.

The cannon roared, and about 20 or so guns on dozens of ships suddenly fired, making an earth-shattering sound, and the shells fell on the ships anchored in the port of Luzon. For a while, I don't know how many fishing boats were hit, and even after a short time, the only third-class warship of the Songcheng garrison was also hit and was sinking.

Artillery fire is merciless, and it will not hurt you because you are an old man, a woman or a child, or a common man. Wherever the artillery landed, hundreds of people were covered, and their lives were mercilessly devoured in the screams, and for a time the port was in chaos, with cries, shouts, cannons, and gunfire mixed together, forming a picture like hell coming.

Taking advantage of this chaos, the Philippine naval division opened a passage with artillery fire and began to approach Luzon Harbor, preparing for landing.

"Open fire." In the battery above the harbor, Hang He had already adjusted the direction of a mortar, and after the first shells were loaded, the counterattack began. The cannon flew in mid-air and landed on a large Philippine warship outside the harbor, causing an even bigger explosion.

At the same time, the other three artillery guns began to fire back without separating, hitting the Philippine ships outside the harbor that had entered before they had time, attracting bursts of ghost crying wolf howls and soldiers jumping into the water for help.

At the beginning of the counterattack, four mortars with more accurate and powerful strikes suppressed the fierce attack of the Great Philippines, and dealt a heavy blow to the sea ships in the rear of the opponent's team, but they had a sense of powerlessness for the Great Philippine musketeers who had already docked their ships and mixed with many civilians and were rushing towards the port.

If the artillery fire is retracted, it will hurt the people at this moment, but if it is not retracted and fired, the enemy may take the opportunity to rush up, at this moment Hang He's eyes have a great shake and hesitation, as a member of the former cold front, he can unscrupulously fire at the enemy, shoot, or draw his sword. But he really couldn't do anything about the people who had already surrendered to him.

"Commander, what should I do? The enemy is coming rushing up. Seeing that Hang He was in a daze, a platoon commander on the side asked anxiously.

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After a while, Hang He's voice rang out, "Order the soldiers to prepare their swords and guns, and prepare for battle." After hesitating again and again, he finally did not give the task of harming the people. The duty of a soldier is to keep one side safe, and if when war comes, he needs to let these people as stepping stones, he really can't open this mouth and give such an order.

Several alien company commanders who joined later immediately showed a puzzled look when they heard that Hang He had abandoned the cannon and wanted to use someone to fight the musket, but at this moment Hang He's attitude was very firm and said, "This is an order." ”

Just these four words already represent a lot of content. No matter how unwilling they were, it was an iron law for soldiers to obey orders, and several company commanders had to shake their heads, and then walked out of the battery with a look of resentment, and at the same time showed a look of death as if they were at home, and began to direct their respective soldiers to prepare for defense and counterattack.

In many cases, you can't have both fish and bear's paws, Hang He understands this truth, and knows even more that if he is still serving in the cold front, the officers above will definitely make the same choice as himself. So he didn't regret it, he was just afraid that he wouldn't be able to hold out until the arrival of Leng Feng's main force, and once he really let the enemy rush up and leave Luzon Port, then he would become a sinner for the ages.

The moment the cannon fire sounded, I felt that there was a newly built Song City not far from the port. As the city lord, Li Sheng immediately called the telegraph operator and asked him to immediately send a distress signal to the city lord's mansion, to the naval headquarters, and even to the radio of the sixth young master.

At the same time as sending the telegram, Li Sheng made the decision to close the four gates of Song City, and then began to call on some reserve militia in the city to take out the limited weapons in the warehouse of the city lord's mansion, and ask them to defend the city with him for the safety of his homeland.

Luzon Harbor, Duterte risked being swallowed up by artillery fire out of the warship, and then he was surprised to find that there was no artillery attack at this distance, he looked around very suspiciously, when he saw a lot of local people were trembling on the ground, he finally figured out everything, and then laughed and said to his subordinates: "See, our opponent is such stupid, for the safety of these lowly people, they dare not open fire, let us land on the port, hahaha, this is really an act of death." ”

"Yes, General, your chance to make a great contribution has come, only there is no threat from artillery, and no one will be our opponent with our muskets." The soldiers hurriedly patted their horses and said.

"You're right, that's let's make a contribution, Chong." Duterte, laughing, began to organize the soldiers who landed in the harbor to launch a charge.

The difference in strength is the same, and it is a small-scale battle, and the advantages of muskets can be better played. When Duterte led the army to rush and Hang and organized people to counterattack, there were often bursts of gunfire, and a dozen to dozens of soldiers of the garrison regiment would fall to the ground covered in blood. The counterattack three times in a row stifled the enemy's advance, but at the same time it killed about a hundred people.

Looking at this result, the first battalion commander finally couldn't help but say: "Regiment commander, if it goes on like this, we are afraid that we will all have to fight out, so let's open fire." ”

"You can't open fire, that will only hurt the people, and even if we win, we will be sinners

, unable to give an account to the sixth young master. Everyone is holding on, presumably the city lord already knows about the matter here, and should notify the nearby navy, as long as everyone persists, they may win the victory. Hang He stubbornly insisted on his decision.

He knew very well that if he died in battle for protecting the people, the Navy would not punish him afterwards, but would only praise him, and his family members who were lucky enough to survive would be well taken care of. On the contrary, if he ignores the safety of the people and shoots guns to protect himself, then whether he wins or not, he will be punished by the military department afterwards, and his family will only be affected at that time, and he will be burdened with notoriety even if he dies.

Hang He's persistence made the losses of the next combat garrison regiment even greater. Originally, there were only two battalions of fighters outside the port, but after the onslaught of five or six pulls, the number of dead and wounded had reached half. If this continues, I am afraid that in an hour at most, the remaining 400 soldiers will also die like this.

The commander of the first battalion had already been seriously wounded and carried down, and the commander of the second battalion also led the soldiers to charge twice and was slightly wounded. Hang He immediately made a decision and decided to lead the team to launch a counter-charge, anyway, as long as he still has a breath, he must not let the enemy rush to the fort, as long as he still has a breath, he will definitely not fire a cannon at the port and hurt a civilian.

"Commander, you are the backbone of everyone, you can't lead the team." When the second battalion commander was about to launch another counter-charge, he saw Hang He standing up, where he was willing to follow, and immediately expressed his opposition.

"Okay, don't fight at this time, you can all rush, why can't I, the head of the regiment. If I die, then you are the regiment commander, if you die, the company commander below is the regiment commander, in short, there is still one person, you must protect the safety of the battery. If you are unfortunate enough to die, the last person will pull off the explosives, these four mortars must not be left to the enemy, this is our mission, do you understand? ”

These last words, which were almost left before his death, made the second battalion commander not know what he was talking about, and could only watch Hang He rush out of the fort with a bow and arrow.

After rushing out of the fort, he aimed at the enemy less than 100 meters away and released his bow and arrow, one arrow or two arrows, and killed two Filipino soldiers armed with firearms one after another. A bullet flew almost close to his body, cutting a bloody cut in his leg.

Moved his right leg, found that it was only a bruise, and there was nothing serious, and continued to pull out the arrow reflex, and at the same time he touched the waist knife, constantly trying to get closer to the enemy, trying to kill a few by means of close combat.

In addition to the warships that were bombarded by artillery fire, Duterte brought only 13,400 soldiers to the port this time. There were only about two hundred muskets and flintlock pistols, and once a soldier died, other soldiers would soon be replaced, so that he could maintain enough firepower to suppress it.

After killing more than 200 opponents and killing 100 people himself, Duterte's face was a little ugly. Didn't the intelligence say that this garrison regiment had just been established and had no combat effectiveness? Why is it still so difficult? It has been nearly two hours since he entered the port, and this is the territory of the Five-Star Army, if he can't solve the battle quickly, who knows if the reinforcements of the Five-Star Army will come after a long time.