Chapter 95: The Price (Page 1/1)

Sergeant Major of the Mendoza Phalanx Legion, Captain Suniga and his sergeants on a tour of the island, spotted enemy troops.

The first sight was that they saw several small rafts on the sea from a distance, and it was not surprising that there were people fishing on the rafts, but it was not surprising that these fishermen, who did not look like the pagan aborigines of the island, saw them running away from a distance.

Upon approaching, they found that the edge of the island, on the shore north of the harbor, was inhabited by people who seemed to be wearing armor and armed weapons.

Could it be...... Ming army?

When his dinghy descended from the big boat and struck towards the shore, seeing a dozen fishermen who had just fled to the shore and a few people scattered along the shore, Captain Suniga thought that he was favored by God—the battle had been going on for more than a month, and no one had yet been able to catch the enemy.

He will lead his company and accomplish this glorious feat here!

However, as the 300 sergeants of the Suniga Company approached the shore in a small boat, the situation on the shore seemed to be a little strange.

"There were a dozen people on the shore just now, right, Father?"

With an arquebus in one hand and one foot on the bow of the dinghy, Suniga, dressed in a well-wrought cuirass and a high-topped helmet with intricate carved knightly patterns, turned his head to the back of the clergyman, who was holding a Bible in one hand and a cross in the other, and asked, "Do you see, the person they are about to meet seems to be ...... How more and more! ”

In those huge stone slopes with bushes, one after another Ming soldiers with helmets and armor walked out with birds and spears, and quickly reorganized the army under the assignment of Lin Manjue.

The 'fishermen' who had returned to shore were not in a hurry to flee when they came ashore, and used ropes to pull the rafts up the sandy and rocky beaches, lifting them against the soft-looking bushes.

In the bush is just a camouflage, there is already a wooden frame nailed into by the Ming army, and the half-person-high raft is lifted up from the other side looks like a breastwork, followed by a row of Ming soldiers who half-knelt behind the raft and set up arquebuses.

A simple fortification to block the landing of enemy troops on the coast was built in a very short time, and the closer it became, the more frightened Suniga was as he prepared to attack the beach—it seemed like a deception, an ambush.

The Ming army he saw in his eyes put down their spears and swords in front of them, they had handcuffs pinned to their waists, bird guns in their hands, captured arquebuses on their backs, bird guns loaded with gunpowder leaning on the raft, each wearing a cuirass and a hood.

In the past, they didn't have so many muskets, nor did they have so much armor, and the most was just the single-sided cuirass that Chen Mu had equipped for junior sergeants, but now it was different, dozens of them wore one-piece cuirasses captured from the Spaniards, another part wore two past cuirasses in front and back, and some had high topped helmets from the Spaniards on their heads.

That's it, it doesn't matter yet.

Can your man come out of the stone? Very good.

Suniga was confident that his invincible company would be able to break down their rudimentary defenses, kill or capture the dozens—no, hundreds of damned heretics now—and then take a closer look at the stones.

But how the can a stone pull out a cannon!

First, the bushes were lifted and thrown aside by the roots, revealing the gun carriage hidden inside, and then the Ming army clumsily dragged and carried hundreds of pounds of two-pound guns and light tiger squats through the cannon window from the capsized boat disguised as a stone slope, and then repeated this action.

Lin Manjue thought clearly, he didn't care if the use of artillery would be discovered by the enemy army, if he didn't destroy these enemies, they would die now, and other things would not be considered until the battle was over.

Five overturned shark boats brought out two two-pound cannons, mainly using tiger squats, and the dense enemy boats were still twenty or thirty paces from the coast, and the Spanish warriors who could not wait had even bravely jumped off the boats, holding their arquebuses high and moving towards the shore.

"Gun hands line up, listen to the sound of cannons."

"The gunner charges, loads the shotshots, and the tiger squats into the scatter!"

Compared with the two-jin cannon, Lin Manjue prefers to use the tiger squat on land, which is the only 'cannon' he can come into contact with when he was in Pingyuan County, and the battalion soldiers who are born in the countryside are also the most familiar, and the charge is much easier than the two-jin artillery.

After nailing the tiger's claws, after loading the gunpowder, the loose barrel produced in Nanyang is directly stuffed into the muzzle of the gun, and the launch can be completed, which is much less troublesome than the two-pound cannon.

The range of the tiger squat cannon is not close, and it can be hit in four or five hundred steps, but that can only play the role of disrupting the formation, and if you really want to cause damage, you have to fight closely. The Qi family army guarded the southeast, and when they brought the tiger squat cannon to them, they specifically told them that this was a weapon to prevent the enemy from approaching and charging.

Now, this is exactly the case.

Captain Mendoza landed on the coast, and when he saw that the Ming army had placed two guns behind the line, he did not panic, and methodically ordered dozens of his musketeers to line up and fire a volley at the enemy line.

Their muskets were loaded on the ship, and a platoon of heavy musketeers propped their forks on the ground, set up their heavy muskets, and were ordered to position the two heavy guns at the rear of the line.

As for those light Tiger Squat Cannons, they were directly ignored by the Spaniards, what use can such gadgets be?

In the smoke of gunfire, more spearmen had lined up behind them, raising or erecting their spears.

Their spear movements were very professional, and the Spaniards were very comfortable with the use of spears during the long war, and summed up a set of training methods for spear infantry.

The infantryman's right hand holding the spear is stretched back, the back of the hand is facing upwards to hold the tail of the spear and pressed downward, and the left hand holds the spear against the chin, so that the four- or five-meter-long spear forms a lever between the two hands, and advances towards the enemy with a more effortless posture under the cover of the left and right musketeers.

If they are on the defensive side of a cavalry or enemy charge, they will step on the tail of their spear under their right foot, hold their spear in their left hand, and be ready to draw their short sword at their waist in their right hand to fight in close combat.

Nearly 100 light and heavy muskets were fired into Lin Manjue's formation, and in an instant, there were muffled snorts and screams of lead penetrating the wooden planks or subordinates being shot, but many of the battalion soldiers who were hit by the guns were still standing, doing what to do, and even a few people struggled to shoot back after being shot.

On the dirt slope in the rear, several gunners loaded with two-pound guns were shot through the cuirass and shot over the spot, and they were the main targets of the heavy gunners.

The wooden grille made of rafts in the front line blocked most of the light musket bullets, and even if there were those that penetrated the planks and hit the battalion soldiers behind, most of the weakened lead bullets could be blocked by the cuirassiers, but it was difficult to avoid being injured by the deformed cuirass.

The two sides were only forty or fifty paces apart, and it was good that the armor would not be pierced.

"Tiger squat cannon, let's go!"

There is no need for Lin Manjue to remind, the subordinate gunners have already put the tiger squat cannon at a low angle suitable for firing, and at the sound of an order, the six tiger squat cannons in the middle of the wooden fence composed of the raft burst out loud one after another, and the loose cylinder was blasted out in the smoke of gunpowder, and the paper seal was torn open under the air pressure of the disembowel, followed by the iron shell of the loose cylinder, and dozens of lead pellets castrated towards the spearmen who were in a dense formation.

They will pay the price for despising the Tiger Squat Cannon.

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