Chapter 26: The Bastion (Page 1/1)

It was not Chen Mu who led the night attack, but the Spaniards.

Deng Zilong's fleet was besieged outside Manila Bay, and several western ships failed to break through and retreated to the port, and the shore artillery opened fire on the pursuing Deng Zilong's fleet, causing the fleet and the shore artillery to exchange fire.

The artillery bombardment of Deng Zilong's fleet and the city wall created a great momentum, and the interval was not long, and the sound of the shore artillery returning fire became dense.

The shore artillery attack is intensive, and there are only two possibilities, either Deng Zilong has led the fleet to attack the shore, or the Spaniards in the city mobilize the large-caliber artillery in the city to attack the fleet.

Either way, Chen Mu needed to launch a surprise attack for the response fleet.

The formation of the three flag armies went from the trail to the open field, facing Manila in the dark night, and naturally facing the Luzon Army that Salcedo had left behind, and they were commanded by a squad led by Captain Goiti, the commander of Manila.

When the elite banner army came out of the woods to form a murderous battle, the Spaniards were not afraid, in fact, their enemies looked really strong.

"General, the Spaniards are courageous, and they will have their men keep the musketeers outside, and the spearmen form a large formation to defend against your onslaught."

Pinto was explaining the Spanish phalanx to Chen Mu on the way to Manila, and he was well-informed about it, because Portugal was also an expert in using this formation.

Chen Mu thought that he had seen the Spanish phalanx in Macau, and it was so weak that it was vulnerable, but in fact, the one he saw in Macau was nothing.

The best formations are made up of experienced mercenaries and adventurers, all of whom are professional outlaws, in addition to skill and weapons, with arquebuses in the small square squares and a row of heavy musketeers in the front, supplemented by knights, horsemen and artillery, to complete the Iberian Peninsula.

The concept of a fortress was embedded in the minds of Europeans in this era, and the Spanish phalanx was also a fortress concept, so that the enemy attacking from any direction would be retaliated by two or three musketeers in formation.

"I kind of get it, you mean that this Luzon phalanx is still fake. You just said that the great array formed was to defend against my onslaught, and they couldn't defend against it. ”

The three formations of the Ming army are in the middle of the character, Chen Muce stood in the middle of the chuckle, waved his hand, with the army artillery team to escort more than a dozen artillery to the edge of the woodland through the night cover, there are not only Nanyang two-pound cannons, but also captured the Spaniards' artillery, the same is also a field artillery, but the caliber is slightly larger, about four pounds.

"Let them be accurate, my son is on the right flank, don't be blown to death."

The military music stopped, and with the shouting of the order of the artillery team, the seven guns on the left flank roared angrily at the frightened left flank of the Luzon army formation behind the wooden wall.

Regardless of whether it is Luzon or Malays, except for the undead Japanese people, there is no one who is not afraid of artillery bombardment, and even the Japanese are only a little more casualty than them.

When the first cannonball swept over the military formation and crashed into the canal north of Manila, there was a riot in the military formation, and the Spanish commander stood up with a tall horse man under his crotch and let out a sigh of uneasiness, but the military formation was still able to hold up.

Immediately after that, a large area of light and fire appeared in the forest again, and several shells smashed into the military formation in unison, and a few bounces smashed the flank line into twists and turns, and even some shells passed through the entire military formation—the Luzon version of the phalanx, which was short of two pounds, could not reach the thickness it should have at all.

When the artillery of the Ming army bombarded the flanks, the beggars' phalanx and simple fortifications were pierced through like window paper.

Seeing his own army line torn apart by artillery fire, the Spanish captain shouted and fired back, and two small cannons blasted out, and the shells fell on the edge of the woodland, causing him to suffer.

In this battle on Luzon, they were the ones with fewer artillery.

"Shhhh Just two cannons? ”

Chen Mu tilted his head disdainfully, the seven artillery pieces on the left flank had just stopped, and the eight guns on the right flank blasted out again, causing no significant casualties directly, but the position of torches under the cover of night could no longer maintain stability.

The military music changed tone, Chen Mu's war drum on the right side sounded three ways, Shao Tingda led the right flag army to move to the right, and the first hundred and ten servant troops trotted out of the opponent's army formation tremblingly. Even if the advantage is on their side, if you want to talk about their mentality, there is probably only hemp stalk to fight wolves.

And Chen Mu, who is holding a hemp stick, and the wolf who is beaten are not afraid, they are hemp sticks.

Without waiting for Shao Tingda, who was escorting the servant army, to attack the Luzon Xiyi position, a large roar suddenly erupted on the right flank of the phalanx, followed by a surprise defection.

"It's the Imperial Heavenly Army that attacked, but it's the opposite, kill Lao Tzu!"

Even the Han people in the formation did not react, and suddenly there were Han people everywhere on their left and right holding spears to kill the Luzon army, and many Han people did not know where the change came from, and then they heard people shouting and urging: "If someone is against it, it will be death, or if it is not against it, it is better to go into the city with the official army, and it will not take my life after the war!" ”

The voices everywhere came and went, and the personal will was so small that it could be ignored, even if it was only Li Dan's dozens of cronies who were coaxing everywhere at the beginning, and then some people followed the crowd, and then there was no opportunity for others to weigh the pros and cons.

Even if you don't want to fight, you will be enraged by the spears stabbed by the Luzon, and the army will be in disarray.

Li Dan, the initiator of the chaos, did not let himself fall into a dangerous battlefield, and watched as if he was out of the way, watching the Ming army that had previously moved to the left flank approaching and even attacking the Luzon from the flank, and the battle outside the city had already set the overall situation.

He looked at the bridge outside the castle, and almost laughed at the sight of it, and in the light of the fire, a group of twenty or thirty men was escorting the captain who rode the tall horses of the Westerners towards the bridge and retreated.

Even if the Ming people pursued, the figures of more than a dozen widows wielding swords and jumping battles were also very conspicuous - who said that Zhuang Gonghan was Han? This widow actually knows how to protect the Spanish captain to escape, this is the talisman in the melee!

Li Dan led people to shuttle through the formation for a while, leaving only one person to contact the officers and soldiers, and led more than a dozen of his subordinates and cronies to get out of the battlefield to the south, and disappeared.

"Shiqi, lead the army to bypass the canal from the east, and cut off the back road from the outer city; Junxiong led his troops to help Shao Qianhu defeat the enemy army outside the city, and I went to bombard the city gate. ”

It's a fortress, but the unfinished fortress can't stop him.

The two soldiers and horses rushed out on the left and the right, Chen Mu commanded the artillery team to push the artillery forward, aiming at the city gate at a suitable distance, and found that Zhuang Gong had already climbed to the top of the city, the iron gate was wide open, and Shao Tingda led the army into the city without hindrance after defeating the Luzon army outside the city.

The invincible artillery actually didn't come in handy this time!

"Do you know, Mr. Pinto, what it means to promote cultural exchange?" Chen Mu turned around his horse, waved his binoculars and pointed at the torches hanging high in the city, and the joy on his face couldn't be hidden: "Thank you to the Spaniards for sending me a fortress!" ”

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