After a whole day and a night of shelling, the Manila Castle was bombarded to the ground, the castle was scarred and full of cracks, several forts of the castle were specially taken care of by the Ming artillery, the forts were devastated, the forts were in a mess, a once majestic cannon was smashed to the ground, turned into a pile of useless scrap copper and rotten iron, the battlements of the fort became a pile of rubble, and the mutilated corpses of the gunners fell to the ground.

Wang Yu stood on a high platform, picked up a telescope to observe the Manila Castle, he saw that the battery that posed the greatest threat to the besieging troops had been razed to the ground, so he gave the order: "Prepare to attack the city!" ”

The war drums rumbled, and the shield carts full of sandbags were pushed out by the indigenous cannon fodder, and behind the indigenous cannon fodder, followed by the Banshilan native soldiers and Han people with steel knives, they were responsible for guarding the indigenous cannon fodder. Those Banshilan native soldiers, even more hard than the Han people, they treated their compatriots more ruthlessly than the Han people, only by doing so, can they show their loyalty to the Ming Empire.

"Hurry up!" A native soldier supervised more than a dozen natives pushing carts. Of the indigenous cannon fodder in those carts, only two were young men, and the rest were women, old people and children.

It can be said that the effect of the artillery bombardment of the Ming army was quite good, after all, after a whole day of heavy shelling, the Manila castle was already in pieces, and almost all the heavy artillery was destroyed. Moreover, the Spanish soldiers of this era did not have the experience of dodging the shelling, and when the heavy mortar shells fell, the Spanish soldiers hid in the strong fortresses, thinking that the strong fortress could protect their safety. Who knew that when the shells fell, there were only cracks on the outside of the castle, but inside the castle there was rubble flying sideways, killing and injuring the Spaniards hiding inside like shrapnel.

The Governor of Manila emerged from the basement and burrowed into the fortress. He found that the castle was covered in blood, rubble, dead bodies and badly wounded soldiers lying on the ground.

"Damn! The cannons of the Ming people are too powerful! The Governor of Manila scolded. He did not expect that the losses of the army would far exceed his expectations.

"At this point, we can only resist to the end! If we fall into the hands of the Ming people, they will unceremoniously cut off our heads! The priest who was standing on the side said.

Du Du nodded with a gloomy face: "Let the brothers cheer up and prepare to meet the enemy!" ”

Inside the castle, muskets protrude from their shooting holes, and crossbowmen set up crossbows. The remaining Spanish gunners pulled out the working cannons from the rubble and mounted them. However, there are not many artillery pieces that can still be used, only five guns remain, and the rest of the cannons have either been smashed flattened or smashed out of the cracks, and can no longer be used.

"Fire!" The Spanish artillery commander Rodriguez gave the order.

The five remaining heavy cannons spat out tongues of fire in turn, and the whistling shells smashed into the advancing shield carts. Only the sound of wooden planks shattering was heard, and three shield carts were hit, which were immediately shattered and turned into scattered pieces of wood, and there was a scream behind the shield cart, and the aboriginal cannon fodder of the cart flew with flesh and blood.

"Reload the shell!" Rodriguez shouted.

The Spanish gunners nervously cleaned the chambers and loaded them with gunpowder and shells. However, these remaining artillery pieces are all giant heavy guns similar to the Hongyi cannon, those cannons were originally naval guns, the loading is very cumbersome, and the loading speed is very slow. The light artillery of the Spaniards, because they were all copper artillery, was shelled by the Ming army, none of the light artillery survived, and the thin copper barrel was hit by shells or stones, and it was deflated at once, and all of them became a pile of scrap copper.

Seeing that the three shield carts were destroyed, some of the indigenous cannon fodder screamed in fright, dropped the shield cart and turned to run.

"Kill!" The native soldiers behind couldn't help but brandish their steel knives, slashing like chopping melons and vegetables, and slashing all the aboriginal cannon fodder who threw away the shield cart and ran back.

The king of Banshiran shouted, "Don't be afraid, the Spaniards are slow to reload!" Just lean on and get into the dead end of the cannon and you'll be fine! ”

The aborigines' cannon fodder pushed the shield cart and slowly approached the city wall. The Spanish, black, and indigenous soldiers at the head of the city opened fire one after another, and the dense bullets and arrows rained down like a torrent of bullets, but the indigenous cannon fodder was covered by shield carts, and the Spanish fire interception did not have much effect.

"Boom, boom, boom" The artillery of the Ming army once again roared, and the overwhelming shells smashed towards the remaining heavy artillery of the Spaniards. Dozens of shells were concentrated on one point, and they hit a gun emplacement, solid shells and flowering shells rained down, and this gun position was smashed to the ground, one of the shells hit the powder keg, causing the ammunition to detonate, only to hear an earth-shattering loud bang at the head of the city, and a large part of the battery collapsed in the smoke of the fire.

The Ming gunners nervously loaded the gunpowder and shells, and before the Spaniards could load the shells, dozens of Ming artillery guns roared again, and a round of shells fell on the second gun position of the Spaniards, destroying the gun position.

"Well played!" "The Spaniards have five cannons left, and we have destroyed two more, leaving only three!" ”

Before the Ming army carried out the third round of shooting, the three remaining cannons of the Spaniards finally fired a second salvo, and the whistling cannonballs fell in the shield car formation, because the distance was already very close, none of the three shells missed, all fell into the shield car formation, smashed over the three shield cars, and more than 30 indigenous cannon fodder flesh and blood flew everywhere.

"Up! Keep going! The soldiers who followed the cannon fodder shouted.

The king of Banshiran shouted, "Just go up! The artillery of the Ming army will soon take out the artillery of the Spaniards! ”

The aborigines pushed the shield cart to the castle, and there was a natural moat outside the Manila castle called the Pasig River. The natives approached the Pasig River with their shield carts, and then some people carried sandbags and threw them into the river.

Manila Castle is also known as San Diego Castle, this is an unusually strong castle, in real history to the World War II period, the United States and Japan Pacific War, in which the Battle of Manila, the U.S. military dispatched bombers, all failed to raze the castle to the ground, armed to the teeth of the U.S. military It took five days to conquer the castle, which shows how strong the castle is, and it is simply impossible to use the artillery of this era to raze the castle to the ground.

When the aborigines left the shield cart and threw sandbags, a dense barrage of bullets and arrows was fired from the castle, and a large number of natives screamed and fell into the moat with sandbags.