"What's going on with this port, it's so easy to blockade."

The siege of the port was easier than Chen Mu had imagined, and he subconsciously imagined the garrison of Acapulco as a port like the Baigu Fortress, and maybe even another bastion on land.

But in fact it is not.

Acapulco, with the exception of a few forts that looked like that, the entire harbor was unremarkable, either garrisoned or architecturally built.

Chen Mu's fleet of Jiading ships easily blocked the shore of the port at night, and the defenders on the shore did not attack the fleet in the sea several miles away, which greatly boosted Chen Mu's confidence.

He ordered: "Order the Juniper fleet to send two fleets to approach the harbor in succession to test the range of shore artillery firing, and the captains of each ship keep an eye on the shore and note the position of the shore guns." ”

It was especially difficult to give orders at night, when the flag was no longer useful, and only the lights and drums could convey orders, but the drums were difficult to hear in battle, and the lights could only convey a few simple commands.

At this time, the most reliable way to send orders was to communicate with the boat, which was slow but could accurately inform the ministries of complex military orders.

Chen Mu stood on the stern of the Great Wall on the sea with his helmet and armor, frowning and looking at the low buildings and uneven terrain of the harbor in the darkness in the distance, but he was thinking about something that had nothing to do with this battle - intelligence.

Until now, he had no knowledge of the number of garrisons in Acapulco, the situation of shore artillery, the topography.

It made him feel like a blind man, his eyes covered with the fog of war, and his husky-like cousin, who had broken his rope, did not know where he had gone, and that he had no information about New Spain to send back.

As for Fu Yuan, not to mention, this guerrilla general knew that Acapulco had the official road to Mexico City, but he didn't know anything else.

The generals of the North and the South have never been to the martial arts hall, in the final analysis, they are all middle- and lower-level officers, and there are only two wins on the New Spain issue - take this and take that.

This is especially true for the graduates of the Lecture Martial Arts Hall.

Thinking this way is not because Chen Mu feels that he is better than others, but precisely because he is on the same level as others, he feels the most embarrassed.

As the general that Chen Mu relied on the most, Deng Zilong was a representative figure among the officers of the North and South Oceans, but he couldn't jump out of this box, General Deng's strategy was much more elaborate than others.

'Take this, and the enemy will be here, kill you.' ’

Chen Mu has always felt that the national war should not be such an idea, but there is no way.

They will not fight a national war, no one will, they will only fight a war of partial annihilation.

The light of the guns on the shore lit up the dark harbor in an instant, and the sound was deafening, and Chen Mu heard the flag officer beside him report loudly: "Marshal, six forts!" ”

There were a lot of guns, and the shore guns were of great caliber and the shells were extremely heavy, as can be seen by the irregular splashing of the waves that fell into the water and were higher than the side of the ship.

You can also see the type of artillery.

The Spanish ships used artillery, stone guns and mortars for shore defense.

As early as the first interception of the Spanish galleon, among the trophies was a bronze stone cannon that fired forty-five pounds of stone projectiles, which was extremely powerful, but he despised this kind of cannon.

Although extremely powerful, the ballistic warp is not easy to aim, the gunpowder consumption is large, and the shell is difficult to reload...... Chen Mu can count a lot of shortcomings.

But the battlefield meets, and this cannon is much more terrifying than any new artillery of this era.

Although it is not accurate, this kind of weapon did not exist for accurate shooting in the first place, and it all depends on whether the ship being beaten is accurate or not.

As long as it is accurate, the 500 battleships will sink after one shot, and no matter how lucky they are to open two holes, they will not be able to save the unlucky warship.

Thirty or fifty pounds of stone bullets fell into the sea intensively, and the cannonballs fell as if they were not aimed, but the momentum could scare the sailors on the ship into a cold sweat.

Chen Mu raised his hand, the war drums on the stern of the Great Wall on the sea were beaten, and the two Liujia battleships under Fu Yuan's subordinates on the left flank were the first to sound a long suona sound on the deck, and the 36 guns on the port side of the two ships briefly adjusted their angles and blasted out in turn from front to back, creating a cloud of gunpowder smoke on the sea.

Only the suona that can blow from the thirtieth to the seventh day of the first month can accurately convey orders from ship to ship.

The shells dragged their indistinct tails in the dark night and slammed into the unsightly places in the port villages, four or five miles apart, and they didn't intend to take out the shore guns in the first round.

The shells had already fallen, and the two small fleets in front of them had begun to bombard the shore with their guns, but except for the two fleets, the rest of the fleet was three miles away from the coastline and bombarded the batteries with naval guns.

In battle, they never suffered a loss.

It was only a night bombardment of recruits miles away, and the fleeting target was a great obstacle to accuracy, and almost no shell could accurately hit any of the batteries.

Because of the design of the gun carriage with a preset track on the deck for close-range naval gun battles, the gun could not rotate left and right, and the upper and lower could only be adjusted at a very small angle, let alone at night, even during the day, such a shot would be difficult to hit.

But after a pause, Chen Mu's telescope still saw that a turret had collapsed.

The cannonballs were fired from a position only a mile north of the port, and when a flag soldier saw the flames coming from there, he excitedly shouted on the deck: "Great commander, it's General Lin!" ”

The navy has a strong desire to fight, and it is not difficult to imagine that even if a good old man is thrown on any ship in any country of this era, as long as he is not a captain or a nobleman of illustrious birth, a few months of life at sea can make him a grumpy old man.

What's more, what about the flag army that has been practicing killing techniques hard?

Like Lin Manjue, with legendary experience, well-known fame, and weathered faces—there is no doubt that every banner soldier wants to be like that.

"General Lin appeared on the battlefield and was very able to muster up the fighting spirit of the banner army."

Deng Zilong nodded slowly beside Chen Mu, and when he said this, his eyes showed undisguised envy, and he said to Chen Mu: "After landing, let me lead a force and let me attack Mexico City." ”

The sound of artillery at sea shook the sky, and a large number of ships and shells from Lin Manjue's headquarters on the shore rained down on the harbor, but in a few moments they collapsed two batteries again.

The forts that collapsed for a while naturally fell silent, and the remaining two forts gradually went silent, as if they were afraid that firing shells into the sea would reveal their positions.

In the blink of an eye, only the last fort remained, and a few stone bullets were fired into the sea every moment, unwavering and fearless.

But apparently, they won't last long either.

Chen Mu was silent for a long time before he eased up from Deng Zilong's leap in thinking of attacking Mexico City, and said, "Attacking Mexico City, of course you can lead the soldiers, but before that, I still need you to be the captain of the fleet." ”

"The Westerners are longer than me in land warfare and shorter than naval warfare, so let's try to pack up their reinforcements from Peru from the sea first."