Seeing more and more indigenous cannon fodder outside the city being driven into the camp of the Ming army, the Spanish governor felt bad.

"We can't let the Ming people capture the natives, if they catch enough natives, and then drive the natives to attack the city and use it to consume our ammunition, then we will not be able to do it." Manila Governor Road.

"Are we going to go out of the city and fight back?" An officer asked.

Du Du nodded and said: "It's better to go out of the city to fight back, you don't need to defeat the Ming people, as long as you disperse the indigenous cannon fodder they captured." The Ming army was not much, but it numbered a few thousand, but it had to take care of tens of thousands of prisoners. As long as we kill them, they will have to deal with us, and they will not have time to take care of the captives. ”

The number of Spanish troops in the castle was not very large, but more than a thousand. The Spaniards in Manila had a total of more than 3,000 troops, of which more than 800 were stationed in the outer forts, and those Spanish soldiers were either killed in the shelling of the Ming army, or surrendered when the Ming army boarded the fort. There were also 1,000 naval officers and men, who were not in the port of Manila, and when the Ming fleet arrived, the Spanish fleet in Manila happened to be out of the harbor, and they were escorting the transport ships from the Americas to Manila, and they were still adrift in the Pacific Ocean at this time.

Although there were only more than 1,000 people stationed at the castle, there were more than 500 black soldiers and more than 2,000 recruited local natives, adding up to a total of nearly 4,000 troops.

The Governor of Manila decided to send 1,000 indigenous soldiers, 200 black soldiers and 200 Spanish soldiers out of the city to harass the Ming army, destroy the trenches dug by the Ming army, and disperse the indigenous cannon fodder captured by the Ming army.

"Boom, boom, boom" The cannons on the castle roared, and the whistling shells fell in front of the Ming army's position, smashing the dirt into the air. The natives who were digging the trench lay down in the trench, and the auxiliaries and native soldiers in charge of overseeing the work also lay down to escape the Spanish shelling. Fortunately, the Spaniards fired solid shells, which were already limited, and coupled with the protective effect of the trenches, the smoothbore guns were not high, and few shells fell in the trenches.

Occasionally, a few shells fell into the trench and killed several indigenous cannon fodder, but the blocking effect of the trench made the shells that fell into the trench either embedded in the soil or popped out of the trench, and did not cause greater damage.

After half an hour of shelling, the Spaniards found that the shelling was not very effective, and the Spanish governor gave an order to let the soldiers in the castle go out of the city to fight a counterattack.

The gates of the castle opened, and more than a thousand defenders lined up in a neat formation out of the gates.

"The Spaniards are out of town! Get ready to meet the enemy! Wang Yu roared.

On the Ming army's position, the marines were already in full array, and when they saw the Spanish army walking into a hundred and fifty steps away from them, Emperor Hu Dedi gave an order: "Fire!" ”

"Bang bang bang" The Ming army's position immediately resounded with a burst of gunfire like bursting beans, the metal bullet casing rear loading rifle continued to spew fire, and the torrential rain of bullets splashed into the crowd of the Spanish army, immediately setting off a bloody storm. At the same time, four hand-cranked machine guns arranged on the wings also gave a crisp sound of fire.

The "Da Da Da" machine gun spat out a slender tongue of fire, and the bullets fired from both flanks formed a crossfire, forming a net of fire that hung over the heads of the Spanish troops.

Metal cartridge rifles, machine guns, these weapons that were two hundred years ahead of their time were a one-sided slaughter for the supposedly elite Spanish infantry phalanx! The Spanish soldiers who came out were like harvested paddies, one by one being knocked down by the flying bullets. Especially in the tactics of this era, the infantry had to form a dense phalanx in order to attack. Such a dense formation is an excellent live target in front of the new weapons of the Ming army.

"It's horrible!" Seeing with his own eyes that the Spanish Army, which was invincible in Europe and the Americas, was defeated one by one without even seeing the face of the enemy, the Spanish Governor felt hopeless.

"The weapons of the Ming people are too powerful! Evacuate! In the crowd, I don't know who shouted.

The more than 1,400 Spanish troops who attempted to counterattack out of the city left behind nearly half of the corpses and wounded, and less than 800 of them fled back to the castle in disarray.

"Just now, the Spaniards are completely scared! Next, we can calmly set up our positions, and we don't have to worry about them going out of the city to fight back. Hu Dedi said.

Wang Yu nodded and said, "Start attacking in five days!" ”

Five days later, the Ming offensive began.

Wang Yu stood on the high platform, looked at the Manila Castle in the distance, and was full of emotion in his heart: "Fifteen years ago, I once entered this castle as a guest, negotiated with the Governor of Manila, and signed an agreement. Fifteen years later, I led my troops to attack the castle. Fifteen years on, we went from friends to enemies. ”

The artillery roared, the 12-pounder cannon, 12-pounder howitzer and 64-pounder siege mortar of the Marine Corps were mounted less than 600 meters from the Manila Castle, a cannon was aimed at the castle, the gunners loaded the shells, inserted the ignition flintlock into the fire door, and then pulled the rope, the flintlock ignited the propellant, and the cannons vibrated violently, the muzzle of the cannon spewed fire, and the whistling shells smashed into the Manila Castle, rising thick smoke.

"Fire! Keep firing! Bomb them for a day and a night! "Hood, who was in charge of commanding the Marine Corps, shouted.

Although it is said that the cannon fodder should be placed in front to die, since Wang Yu did not plan to let the cannon fodder sacrifice too many people in vain, the time for fire preparation must be sufficient. After all, those cannon fodder are all slaves of the Ming Dynasty, and slaves are also considered property.

The artillery group let out a deafening roar again and again, the artillery positions were filled with gunsmoke, the heat wave of gunpowder scorched Manila, which was already very hot, and the gunners took off their shirts and played shirtless, nervously loading gunpowder and shells. After nearly an hour of continuous firing, the guns were already boiling hot, and the gunners stopped firing and cooled the cannons with water. After a few minutes of cooling, the gunners cleared the chamber and the cannon roared again.

Although the Ming army's smoothbore artillery is also a smoothbore cannon, but these smoothbore cannons processed by machines are quite accurate, and they are very accurate at a distance of 600 meters, and the shells of the Ming army are specially greeted to the batteries and fortresses above the Spanish castle, and the whistling shells continue to fall on the Spanish batteries and explode, and the explosions sounded, and suddenly the batteries were in a mess. Bodies lying on their backs, cannons tossed by air waves, broken stones or fragments of weapons were everywhere. The cannonballs that hit the fortress could not destroy the strong fortress for a while, but the shells that kept smashing up smashed cracks into the fortress.

Heavy sixty-four-pounder mortar shells rose into the air and smashed down on the top of the bastion. The cannonballs landed on the bastel with a tooth-aching sound of stone shattering.