Chapter 257: The Tatars Are Too Tough
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He Wu kowtowed to Song Tao again, then stood up excitedly, began to greet people loudly, and assigned the tasks assigned by Song Tao one by one. Song Tao watched He Wu arrange all the work neatly and neatly, and he couldn't help but have a lot of good feelings for him.
He Wu walked over after arranging the work, and was about to kneel down for Song Tao again, but was dragged by Song Tao.
"We don't like this in the Far East, just stand and talk. It's hard for you, leading such a few people, you can actually hold the royal city, you have made a great contribution to our Far East Company. β
He Wu said a few polite words, and then asked respectfully: "I don't know if the big boss is here, when will the Far Eastern army arrive?" β
Song Tao smiled and said: "He didn't come with him this time, our fleet is estimated to arrive in Manila before noon, and we must defend the royal city before noon." β
Song Tao saw He Wu's bitter face, and he couldn't help laughing at himself. Even if the three of them were armed with automatic weapons, they would not want to hold on when the Spaniards attacked for a while.
Song Tao turned around and asked Wang Xiaojie about their remaining ammunition, and found that they were similar to himself. This time they came out with ten magazines each, and now there were only four left, a total of twelve grenades, a total of nine grenades, and seven smoke grenades.
In the face of tens of thousands of natives and nearly 10,000 Spanish soldiers, this little ammunition can kill a few people. It will take at least more than an hour for Ding Weiguo to fly here, and when he comes, the daylily will be cold. Even if he comes, he can only drop ammunition once, and the Spaniards are not those natives, and a fire can scare people away.
Thinking of this, Song Tao turned back to He Wu and said: "You mobilize the Chinese in the city to find out everything they can find, and you must seal the intersections of these streets, and if you can't do it, you will use gunpowder to blow up the house." Only those alleys were left for the Franciscans. Then the small cannons at the entrance of the city and the muskets on the ground were moved to the buildings in the alleys. There's no shortage of gunpowder in the city, right? β
He Wu thought for a while and said, "We still use the gunpowder left by the Spaniards here. Curry still has a lot of it. There are also a lot of lead bullets and shells. By the way, there are still dozens of small cannons of the Furlong machine, should we also move out. It's lightweight, and two people can run with it, and it's a child-mother gun. With five guns, the cannon is also fast. β
Song Tao glanced at He Wu, and said in his heart that this guy had already understood what he meant, and his brain seemed to be very good.
"Okay, you go find someone to arrange, and get as much gunpowder as you can. These muskets were all equipped with Chinese young people, and the small cannons here and the mother cannon of the Furlong machine were all brought out, and they were all loaded with loose bullets, which were not enough to make up for lead bullets. A few roads must be blocked first. I'll have you show you where to place your firearms. By the way, try to arrange the old, weak, women and children in a few streets in the middle of the royal city. Preferably a sturdy house, preferably with a basement. β
After he finished speaking, he beckoned to Xiao Jie and said, "Xiao Jie, you go and teach them to get it, and it is best to open up these houses on the periphery and make them like Grozny." β
After Li Ming arranged the preparations for the street fight, he stood on the ruins and held a telescope to observe the movements of the Spaniards. At this time, the Spanish army began to assemble again. Once again, the loss of a good opportunity to break the city made Enrique more and more irritable.
This time he was ready to concentrate all his forces and launch a concentrated attack on that gap. Enrique was ruthless. Be sure to capture the royal city before dark.
Just as the Spaniards were gathering their troops to prepare for the next attack, Song Tao was organizing the Chinese in the royal city to prepare for street fighting. Tens of thousands of Chinese in Wangcheng were mobilized, and the intersections of several main streets were piled up. It is several meters high.
Song Tao took He Wu to inspect the royal city, and said with satisfaction: "He Wu, you have done a good job. After a while, they were asked to reload all the guns here, and finally they were given another round of shotguns. Xiaojie, you asked people to carry dozens of barrels of gunpowder and pile them up to the artillery position in front of the gap. Start with some appetizers. β
The Spanish army was finally assembled. More than 200 artillery pieces began to roar again, after a dozen rounds in a row. Countless natives began to frantically pounce on the gap in the city wall, and Song Tao and the others who were already waiting behind the gap. Almost simultaneously ignited the goose feather tubes on the artillery.
The overwhelming scattered bullets swept the natives on the ruins, the artillery was divided into three batches and fired, and nearly a thousand musketeers also came to fire several salvos, symbolizing resistance for a while, Song Tao and He Wu fled.
The natives cheered when they saw the Chinese fleeing, and rushed into the royal city like crazy. The Spanish army in the back saw that the opening had been opened, and they also attacked. They pushed the natives aside, and a hundred cavalry were the first to enter the royal city, followed by several large formations of infantry into the royal city.
Enrique, who was in the distance, saw several large formations of Spanish infantry entering the royal city, and he was immediately relieved, he knew that the royal city had been taken. How could a rabble resist the infantry formation of the regular army of the kingdom.
The adjutant behind him smiled and said, "Your Excellency, the royal city is yours." β
Enrique laughed and said, "Carlo, let's go into the city too, go see my governor's palace, haha......"
Several adjutants brought the war horses, Enrique excitedly rode on the war horses, and slowly walked towards the gap in the royal city with a group of retinues behind him. As long as he recovers the royal city and kills all those murderers, there will be many powerful people who will accept his affection, and his status will definitely rise when he returns to the kingdom in the future.
The cavalry that was the first to rush into the royal city, they crossed the gap, stepped on layers of corpses, and stepped into the royal city. They had wanted to gallop all the way to the depths of the royal city, but before they could run for a while, they were blocked by a mountain of obstacles in front of the street.
They had to turn their horses' heads to bypass the side alley, which was so narrow that only two horses could be allowed to walk side by side, and more than a hundred horsemen were crowded into this alley and could not even turn around.
"Bang...... Bang......"
Suddenly, a dense burst of gunfire rang out from both sides of the alley, and the entire alley was filled with smoke. The Polish cavalry was constantly knocked off their horses by buckshots. Cavalry fought in such an environment, and once attacked, it was no different from slaughter.
As a majestic array of infantry stepped through the gap in the wall, the square of the Intramuros was crowded with Spanish soldiers. Those cannon fodder natives were blocked out of the main city.
Enrique rode his horse, surrounded by a group of entourage. All the way to the breach, ready to walk into the gap.
"Boom ......"
A huge wave of air lifted Enrique and his horse into the air and slammed him to the ground. The people around hurriedly dismounted and ran over to help Enrique, the wolf, from the ground.
After a while, his adjutant ran over and said in a heavy voice: "Just now, the gunpowder of the Tatar artillery position in the square suddenly exploded for some unknown reason. We lost more than three hundred people, and several hundred more were wounded. β
Enrique shouted angrily, "Let the soldiers slaughter the city and kill all the Tatars......"
Thousands of Spanish soldiers, receiving the order to slaughter the city, cheered loudly with excitement. The various companies organized and roared towards the royal city.
They were also blocked by the debris on several streets, and had to turn into the small alleys on both sides. But what awaited them was countless cold guns and cannons on both sides of the street. There were pirates hiding in every room, and they attacked the Spaniards in the alleys with muskets, and after each shooter had fired a shot, he handed the empty guns to the Chinese behind him, and then took an arquebus loaded for him and continued to shoot.
Occasionally, a few pirates will rush out of the house. He took out a furlong machine cannon and placed it on the street, took advantage of the confusion of the Spanish soldiers to fire a few rounds of shotguns, and then quickly carried the small cannon into the houses on both sides of the alley.
The Spaniards, who responded to the battle in a hurry, were beaten by a group of pirates and Chinese in the alleys, and suffered heavy casualties, and they withdrew from the alleys one after another, but the retreat was not so easy to retreat, and they fired a shot from nowhere.
Enrique finally walked into the royal city. Although he had just been thrown into a wolf, he was still very interested in the city he had conquered. His adjutant Carlo walked over, frowned, and said, "Your Excellency, General." The advance of the various companies was extremely slow, and they met stubborn resistance from the Tatars in the royal city. β
Listening to the words of the adjutant Carlo, Enrique picked up a single-hole telescope and observed the situation inside the royal city. Seeing the mountains of things piled up on the main street, he shook his head with a wry smile. The Tatars are too difficult, such an arrangement is really a scoundrel.
He turned back to his lieutenant Carlo and said, "Put those natives into the royal city." Put it all in...... I'll fight with them to see who can't stand it in the end. Hey hey ......"
The natives who had been blocked out of the city were depressed, and they heard that they had been allowed to enter the city. All of them were suddenly excited and their eyes were red. They all howled and poured into the royal city, pouring into every side street and alley like a flood.
A group of natives rushed into the alley frantically, and they quickly rushed to the end of the alley, and with a loud "boom", the house at the intersection in front exploded violently.
Countless scattered rubble crumbled the natives in the alley, and the collapsed houses blocked the intersection of the alley, and the natives who rushed here wanted to turn around and flee, but more natives wanted to come in. The whole alley was crowded with natives like canned sardines.
Powder kegs rolled down from the roofs on both sides of the alley, and smashed into the crowd of natives, and with a burst of violent explosions, the natives in the alley suffered a catastrophe in an instant, even if they were not killed, they were also shocked to bleed to death.
As soon as some of the natives rushed into an alley, they found that the Chinese on the opposite side had set up more than a dozen Franco machine and mother cannons, waiting for them.
Enrique's trick really worked, and a large number of natives poured into the alleys of the royal city, and the originally arranged street battle plan was severely tested. Song Tao and Wang Xiaojie both threw themselves into the battle and went around fighting fires. Their ammunition is running out. Although the natives suffered heavy casualties, the Spanish army forced the natives with muskets and spears in the rear, and slowly advanced into the city.
Now in the outer city of the city, many streets are intertwined with pirates and Spaniards, and the pirates take advantage of the location and familiarity with the terrain, so that every step forward of the Spaniards takes a long time.
In such a complex environment, the attacking side is simply too miserable, fortunately, the Spaniards have a large number of cannon fodder, and they can afford it for the time being, but it is impossible to achieve a quick victory. (To be continued)
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