The gunshots in the sky were still ringing unhurriedly, and from time to time soldiers or people who had been recruited to defend the city wall were shot and screamed, and a stretcher team responsible for transporting the wounded kept shuttling through the city wall with bullets.

Soon, however, wooden planks or door panels were urgently transported to the city walls, and the soldiers got their hands on these items and held them above their heads, which reduced casualties to a certain extent.

As the casualties decreased, Field and the officers also breathed a sigh of relief, if the situation just now did not improve, I am afraid that it would not be long before the morale of the soldiers would collapse.

This situation was naturally noticed by Yang Feng and the generals of the Jiang Ning Army in the distance, and they couldn't help laughing when they saw the Spanish soldiers on the city wall staring at the door panel and shrinking at the foot of the wall one by one, "Do those red-haired ghosts think that we are just using this method, they are also he underestimating us." ”

As he spoke, he saw that the hot air balloons began to move slowly, until they floated above the city wall and then stopped, and then they saw small black dots flickering with fire falling from the hanging basket under the hot air balloons.

A second lieutenant in a gray military uniform hiding under the battlements suddenly pointed to the sky and shouted: "Look...... What is that? ”

"Whoosh......"

"Boom ......"

As soon as his words fell, he heard a loud bang, a violent explosion sounded less than twenty meters away from him, and the two soldiers who were hiding nearby were swallowed up by the sudden rising gunsmoke, it turned out that those small black dots falling from the sky were ten thousand enemies.

"It's a bomb, the Ming people are throwing bombs!"

"Get out of the way...... Get out of the ......"

A series of explosions rang out one after another, and the Spanish soldiers, who originally thought that with the door panel, they would not be afraid of the bullets shooting from the sky, found that they were wrong, since the Ming people had invented this kind of thing that could go to the sky, how could their means of attack be only so little.

A major said to Field in a trilled voice, "Your Excellency, what should we do now?" Do you want the soldiers on the city walls to withdraw first? ”

"Absolutely not!" Before Field could speak, Castro objected: "The soldiers on the city wall must not be withdrawn, once the soldiers withdraw from the city wall, it means that we have abandoned the city wall, and the Ming people can occupy the city wall without much effort." Without the walls, would Fort San Petro still be able to hold on? ”

"But are we just watching the Ming people slaughter our soldiers like this?" The major pointed to the soldiers on the city wall and said angrily: "I would rather let these soldiers die bravely in battle than let them be slaughtered like lambs to the slaughter!" ”

Looking at the major with tears in his eyes, everyone fell silent.

They had also thought in advance that Fort San Petro might fall under the fierce attack of the Ming people, but they never imagined that the war would be fought in such a way.

Today's battle has been less than an hour since the beginning, and at least hundreds of soldiers have been killed on their side, while the other side has no casualties, all the other side has to do is to stand comfortably under the original monster in the sky, and shoot at the Spanish soldiers on the city wall like a wild duck with the fire gun in his hand.

What these officers could not accept was not the heavy casualties or the fierceness of the battle, but the despair of the other side that could slaughter wantonly and their own side had no way to fight back, and this kind of emotional weakness and despair was the most damaging to the morale and morale of the troops.

All eyes were on Field, the Supreme Commander.

As Spain's supreme commander in Luzon, Field's pressure was undoubtedly the greatest, and it is no exaggeration to say that the life and death of tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Fort San Petro were now in his hands.

After closing his eyes and forcibly calming himself, and taking another deep breath, Field asked Castro: "If we continue to fight like this, how long can we last?" ”

Castro said helplessly: "Your Excellency the Governor, if we can't defeat the few round monsters above our heads, and if we continue to fight according to this trend, we can hold out for three days at most." ”

Mitchell's lips twitched a little, but he eventually swallowed back the words that came to his lips.

In fact, it's not just him, the officers around him are like mirrors in their hearts, Castro still brags, don't say three days like this, as long as the six monsters above their heads continue to throw bombs on the city wall, it won't be long before the defenders of the South City Gate may collapse at any time.

Once the defenders of the South City Gate collapse, the tens of thousands of Ming troops who have been waiting outside for a long time will swarm in, and I am afraid that these people will either die on the battlefield tonight or become prisoners of the Ming people, there is absolutely no third possibility.

How could Castro's words be concealed from Field, the reason why he asked this was simply to hear the opinion of this confidant.

Listening to the constant explosions and screams outside, Field gritted his teeth, "Castro! ”

Castro straightened up and said loudly, "Your Excellency the Governor, please give orders!" ”

"Order the troops to withdraw from the city walls and occupy all the main streets and buildings, as long as we are not directly exposed to their sight, there is no way for the Ming people in the sky to discover us. Let's fight the Ming people in various streets and houses! ”

"What?"

"God...... Will this work? ”

As soon as Field's words came out, everyone was shocked.

In this era, there was no such thing as street fighting, and before that, both in the East and the West, when fighting, the battlefield would be placed in the field or on the city wall.

Because in the era of cold weapons, once the support of the city wall is lost, there is no way to resist the powerful attack of the attackers, and even if they retreat to the city, they can only become a turtle in an urn, and this situation has not changed even now.

Now when Field suddenly put forward the order to withdraw to the city and continue to resist, even Castro's henchman was taken aback, and then hurriedly said: "Your Excellency the Governor, if we give up the city wall, it will be equivalent to giving up resistance, what will we use to resist the attack of the Ming people at that time?" ”

"It's better than staying on the walls and waiting to die, right?" Field said coldly: "At least retreat into the city, we don't have to worry about the bullets and those bombs from the overhead, our soldiers can also concentrate on fighting the Ming army, even if they die, they can die more valuable!" ”

The crowd was silent, and when they found that Field's words made sense, they were speechless.

Either wait for death in vain here, or retreat to the city and at least be able to fight the Ming army.

This either-or question doesn't seem to be difficult to choose.

With this in mind, Castro and the officers quickly carried out Field's order, and a soldier who had been struggling to dodge the bomb from the sky on the city wall quickly descended the wall and retreated into the city like an amnesty......