The natives didn't really trust the Ming boats floating on the shore in the distance, even though they had just sent someone to drive away two Spanish dhows docked at the pier.

If it weren't for the fact that they also had black hair, yellow skin, and black eyes, the lobbyists sent by Magui might have been killed in the first place.

All the aborigines to the south of the Yi tribe have a very different sensitivity from the northern aborigines, and they are more suspicious and fierce.

Magui didn't know why, but he had some speculation about why the northerners would bring food to them and invite them into the village when they were docked on the shore.

And the natives of the South threw their spears when they saw them?

Because this is the battlefield.

The messenger of the chief officer seemed to have been detained by the natives, and stood beside the natives commander, looking helpless, and looked over to the ship from time to time, hoping for help.

Magui's flag army was fully armed on the boat, but they did not get off the boat, but just stopped on the shore and watched the situation of the siege from afar.

An hour had passed since the first failed assault, and it seemed that the aborigines were preparing to organize a second assault, making more torches and preparing more sticks and branches for fuel.

At the front, each team also organized a group of siege soldiers with skin and wooden shields and iron axes.

I saw Ma Guizhi shaking his head, it's a pity!

He had seen this kind of wooden shield painted by the aborigines in the north, and his people had changed it with a short steel knife on three sides.

The one-inch-thick wooden shield is covered with one or two layers of buffalo or bison skin, which is the kind of huge bison that Magui's subordinates encountered in Majiagang.

It was the best quality cowhide that Magui had ever seen, and the inner layer of the made cowhide shield also had a thick and dense high-quality cow hair from winter bison, and the knife could only leave scratches on it, and the arrow would also be offset by the cow hair after penetrating the cowhide.

But what's the use?

This thing can only have a chance to block the gun from fifty paces away, and among the knowledge that Ma Gui and the others learned on Khuwu Island, the Spaniards had a heavy gun charge of nine coins with a bracket, and their flintlock gun only had a charge of three coins.

From the distance of the aborigines besieging the camp is 200 paces away, Magui thinks that the Spaniards in the walled city used bird guns, although there are no brackets, but they are erected on the wooden wall, which should be the kind of powerful heavy guns.

Even a well-quality skinned wooden shield would not be able to hold off a gun at such a close distance during a siege.

It seems that the aborigines also knew the worries in Magui's heart at this time, they were not for the siege of the city, a large group of soldiers rushed to the city from all directions with torches, and after paying some casualties, they threw countless torches under the wooden village, and then returned fire with bows and arrows to the wooden village for a short time, and then retreated.

These aborigines were the most morale-boosting soldiers Ma Gui had ever met, and he said to Ma Jin: "We are on the nine sides, if we want the soldiers of the banner army battalion to fight against such casualties, we must send at least half of them to supervise the battle, and those who retreat will be beheaded and rewarded." ”

As he spoke, Ma Gui raised his finger and pointed at the aborigines who used torches and fire starters as weapons to attack the wooden village again and again.

"There is no war, no reward, no threat, everyone is willing to do so."

Ma Jin didn't interject, raised his hand and said, "Cannon, Xiyi has moved the cannon!" ”

In the thin lenses glowing green like emeralds, the Spanish soldiers guarding the camp carried two small cannons up to the gap in the city, and the two pieces of gunpowder smoke exploded, and the cannonballs smashed into the besieging aboriginal forces in the distance.

After a few moments, two more shells came out of the city.

Ma Gui and Ma Jin glanced at each other, and said in the same way: "Franc cannon." ”

The Franc cannon used by the Ming army came from Portugal, and in just a few decades it was found everywhere from Guangzhou Prefecture to the nine borders of northern Xinjiang, and for a long time it occupied the position of a heavy weapon of national defense, relying on the advantages of fast rate of fire, light gun, and lethal foot.

However, it should be said that the Franc cannons of Western European countries are not the same as the Franco cannons of the Ming Dynasty.

In Western Europe, the name of this cannon was Veuglaire, which belonged to the breech splicing gun, which was manufactured in the same way as a wooden barrel, made of wrought iron bars and reinforced with iron hoops, and on land it was a small and medium-caliber gun, and on ships it was a swing gun.

A swing gun is a defensive gun that does not occupy a deck gun position and can rotate up and down, left and right nailed to the side of the ship.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Franc machine was a kind of cannon type, which was cast, and all kinds of large and small artillery and even the breech guns used by the Liaodong cavalry could be collectively referred to as the Franc machine.

General Zhenshuo, who was made by Xuanfu, now also has a Francophone style.

Ma Gui was a little puzzled by the Westerners taking out the Franco machine gun at this time, and frowned: "Could it be that their garrison is lax, and the artillery is still in the warehouse?" ”

In any case, the appearance of the Franc cannon was a great shock to the aborigines, and the blow to morale was particularly heavy, and although the shells did not actually kill many people, it made the aboriginal army formation, which had been fearless during the charge, show signs of rout.

Soon, the flag army, who was a lobbyist, rushed all the way and waved fiercely at the boat on the shore beach.

Ma Gui's face was still cold, revealing the seriousness of the coming war, and he raised his right hand and said: "The whole army disembarks, the tiger squats in front and the soldiers are behind, and the shore is lined up!" ”

The Spaniards had noticed several large and small Ming ships docked at the beach as early as the two small boats on the pier were seized, but they had no choice but to watch as the Ming army took away the ships that belonged to them.

Everyone prayed in their hearts that the ship was some thief, and that it would be enough to steal it—and at this time, no one would care about the value of the two dhows.

But their prayers were in vain, the big boats lowered the small boats, the small boats carried soldiers and horses to the shore, the high imperial flagpoles plunged into the sand, and the Ming troops wearing standard armor quickly lined up in four formations.

Twenty-two members of the Liaodong Army marched in formation, and then received an order to disperse into two wings under the leadership of Ma Jin, on the one hand, they faintly formed a joint camp with the aborigines, and on the other hand, they were also careful to guard against the aborigines.

Twenty-one Xuanfu and Shuntian banner soldiers stood at the front with bird guns on their shoulders, and behind each of them were two Yanian soldiers who were also wearing standard cloth and iron armor.

However, not every Anen had weapons, some of them were issued with waist knives, bows and arrows, a few clever people also carried bird guns on their shoulders, and some of them struggled to carry tiger squat cannons or gunpowder boxes, shell boxes, and long shields on their shoulders.

On the side of the team, there was a mixed squad of 33 Jurchen hunters and Korean archers, they had dispersed, and they had little room to show themselves in this battle, but they could probably come in handy when they captured prisoners.

The army advanced 200 paces, barely stopped in the area with solid soil on the ground, and the eight tiger squat cannons were supported by iron claw nails and iron hoops of the cannon body at a suitable angle, nailed to death by two large iron nails, and then the tail end was clamped with an inverted U-shaped double-pointed tripper into the ground to clamp the tail of the cannon.

Ya Nian, who couldn't understand words, carried a long shield to cover in front of the gunner, and the pole bird formed a round-fire formation, and in the middle of the military formation, the gong hand around Ma Gui tapped lightly.

Relative!

In a loud and crisp sound, the fire ignited.

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