Chapter 253: Bloody Battle in the King's City
h2> there was chaos in Manila again, and countless crazy natives attacked the Chinese in the city, they smashed open the Chinese shops and residences, and wantonly murdered, robbed, raped and plundered.
The pirates and Chinese at the head of the royal city looked at the tragic scene under the city with grief and indignation. Although those Chinese businessmen betrayed them, at this moment, everyone's hearts still gave birth to a sense of sadness for the death of a rabbit and a fox.
The natives gathered again under the royal city at the shouts of their chieftains, who had just finished a killing feast, and all had a terrifying madness in their eyes.
In the distance, a group of Spanish officers had already ordered their servants to set up parasols and set up elaborate tables and chairs. They sat there leisurely sipping their coffee, watching the natives burn and loot as if they were watching a play.
Enrique turned to the group of Spanish officers and retinue behind him and smiled: "When the natives kill all the Tatars in the city, let the artillery help them." If you rely on these lowly natives to capture the royal city, it is estimated that it will take a few years later, haha......"
Several adjutants standing next to him heard Enrique's order and immediately turned around and ran out. Hundreds of heavy cannons that had been removed from the ship had been pushed under the royal city by the natives.
"Boom...... Boom ......"
In the distance, more than 100 heavy cannons from Spain had already roared, and one after another scorching solid cannonballs smashed into the head of the royal city with a terrifying roar.
He Wu knew it was broken when he heard the cannon fire, and the Franky artillery began to shoot. If the natives had been supported by artillery fire, they would no longer have been able to defend the city as calmly as they had begun.
He shouted: "Hit *, all hide......"
The Chinese at the head of the city were immediately in confusion, and began to run around in panic, and a few of them were frightened, and jumped off the city wall with one step, and fell into the royal city, and several of them fell miserably.
The pirates were very calm, these men who died at sea, every time they jumped off the ship, they were all faced with a rain of bullets, so they had already chosen a hiding place, and they were holding their heads in their hands under the heavy stone wall.
He Wu held a scimitar and used the back of the knife to whip the chaotic Chinese around him. shouted and scolded: "Don't run around, you will die faster if you run around, why do you lie down......"
But no matter how he scolded and beaten, he still couldn't control the feelings of these Chinese soldiers, and finally he pulled a Chinese soldier who was crying loudly and threw himself on the city wall with him.
"Bang...... Bang ......"
One after another, the scorching solid cannonballs smashed the city wall, collapsing countless scattered gravel, and some Chinese soldiers who were still running around were instantly swept by the rubble, and their bones were broken and their heads were broken and bleeding. The two unlucky eggs were directly smashed by the cannonballs, and most of their bodies were smashed.
There were also shells that went straight over the city and smashed into the royal city, and several buildings were smashed into huge holes, and the city became chaotic, and there were cries and shouts everywhere.
After this round of shelling, the city was covered with rubble, blood and wounded, and the wounded Chinese soldiers screamed fiercely, and those who were not injured were all frightened, lying there trembling, and did not dare to raise their heads for anything.
The Chinese soldier who was pressed under He Wu covered his head, "Ah...... Ah......h He Wu was so angry that he dragged him up from the ground, and his hand was a big-eared melon seed.
Gu Hua was stunned, and he stopped shouting, but there was still a look of fear on his immature face, and there was a look of despair in his eyes. The shelling just now had scared him so much that he just wanted to be an ordinary small trader like his father in this life, and he never thought of going to war.
He Wu took Gu Hua's neck and shouted into his ear: "After a while, the city will be broken, and your father and sister will be finished, they will kill all your family members and spoil your sisters, one by one, until they are killed by the scourge of life." You're a fucking shit, and you're going to die headfirst. ”
His voice was very loud, and many Chinese soldiers at the head of the city could hear it clearly. The surroundings were also quiet suddenly, and behind them were their families, and only by guarding the royal city could their families survive.
He Wu pushed Gu Hua away violently and shouted loudly: "What are you doing in a daze, carry the wounded down, hurry up...... Frankie is going to fight again*. ”
After listening to He Wu's words, the Chinese soldiers at the head of the city began to get busy. Gu Hua stood there dumbfounded, thinking about his father and little sister, he shook his drowsy head, and began to silently follow everyone to clean up the rubble at the head of the city.
"Boom...... Boom ......"
There was another roar in the distance, and the situation of the Chinese soldiers in this round of shelling on the city was much more stable. After each shelling, he took the initiative to take care of the wounded and cleaned up the damaged fortifications with the pirates.
The Spanish shelled more than a dozen rounds in a row, smashing the city to pieces, and more than a dozen artillery pieces were damaged. The natives under the city also cheered loudly when they saw that the head of the royal city was ravaged by artillery fire.
The Spaniards began to urge the natives to order the natives to attack the city, and a group of leaders hurriedly organized the natives to start the siege, this time the natives listened to the Spaniards' advice, and did not only attack the front of the royal city, but concentrated all the natives and attacked the city at the same time on all sides of the royal city.
Countless natives carrying ladders rushed up from all sides of the royal city. Originally, the manpower was insufficient, so He Wu had to mobilize all the young men in the city to go to the city, and the pirates were distributed everywhere to command the Chinese to defend the city.
The Spanish artillery roared incessantly, and rounds of shells whistled towards the royal city, and even the Spanish galleons in the river next to Santiago joined the bombardment.
In the face of the tidal waves, rounds of muskets fired from the city, buckshot artillery, and pots of hot oil and boiling water were constantly pouring down from the city.
Although the natives have very poor combat effectiveness, they can't stand the crowd. Several sections of the city had missed several times, but they were all desperately killed by a group of fierce pirates led by He Wu.
As the battle continued, although the pirates and Chinese at the head of the city suffered many casualties, the natives under the city suffered heavy casualties, and the corpses piled up around the royal city were stacked on top of each other, and the morale of the natives also dropped to the lowest point.
They no longer had the same madness as they had at the beginning, no matter how the leaders shouted and drove away, they all made a symbolic attack, and then turned around and scattered, and the Chinese at the head of the city were temporarily relieved.
He Wu stood at the head of the city and looked at the natives who had returned again and again, he knew that the next step was to attack the Francis, the attack of the natives consumed a lot of their ammunition, and the attack was close to half a day, and the pirates and Chinese at the head of the city were exhausted.
Enrique got up from his seat, turned back to the group of Spanish officers behind him, and said, "Gentlemen, the time is almost up, let these monkeys attack for a few more days, and they will not be able to take the royal city." Ordered the artillery to concentrate on bombarding the gates of the royal city, and the natives continued to attack, allowing the mercenaries to take advantage of the chaos to blow the gates open with gunpowder. ”
The Spanish artillery began to bombard the city gate intensively, and the frequency of the shelling increased sharply, and countless solid shells smashed into the wall on the gate of the royal city.
He Wu braved the artillery fire and lay on the head of the city holding a monocular, looking at the Franky army in the distance, they had begun to assemble, and they were constantly moving towards the royal city.
The natives began to attack again, although they were still attacking the city around the royal city, but He Wu could clearly feel that the direction of the Franke's attack this time was the front of the royal city, and it was mainly concentrated in this section of the gate of the royal city.
He turned around and asked people to retrieve the pirates from several other directions, knowing that this was the main battlefield next. The natives attacking the frontal walls also became frenzied.
They stared at them with red eyes, howling and rushing up, as if they had been beaten with chicken blood. Several rounds of scattered shells were fired at the head of the city, and hundreds of muskets were concentrated in several volleys, but they were still not scattered.
A column of Spanish infantry musketeers came up, they lined up in a neat line, and the soldiers in the front row held heavy smoothbore arquebuses with a caliber of more than 20 millimeters.
The Spanish infantry companies were armed with two types of arquebuses, one was the heavy smoothbore arquebus, which accounted for a small percentage of the musketeers, and the other was the light arquebusier, which was the main force of the infantry phalanx musketeers.
Although this heavy smoothbore arquebus has a heavy body, the reloading process is very cumbersome. However, the power of this heavy smoothbore arquebus is very large, the weight of lead bullet is 50 grams, the effective range can even reach 250 meters, and it can still penetrate the armor.
The Spanish soldiers, who stood behind the natives, calmly propped up their wooden branches, and fired a volley of fire at the head of the city.
The regular army of Spain was definitely not comparable to ordinary armies, they seized the gap after the artillery fire at the head of the city, quickly caught up, and only one salvo pressed the head of the city to the point that it could not raise its head, and many Chinese who could not dodge were killed and wounded by this round of powerful lead bullets.
With the support of the Spaniards, the natives under the city became even more crazy. The pirates and Chinese at the head of the city were so beaten by the continuous volleys of many Spanish musketeers under the city that they could not raise their heads, and they even had to risk being shot in the head by reloading.
The firing speed of the city's artillery suddenly slowed down, and the natives began to calmly set up ladders and howl towards the city, but as soon as they reached the city, they were beaten down by a volley of muskets.
He Wu and a group of pirates braved the continuous musket salvo under the city, and successfully loaded several heavy guns with scattered bullets, although the angle was adjusted, but when the final ignition was fired, several fierce pirates died.
"Boom...... Boom ......"
The roar of several heavy cannons, and the hot scattered bullets fired by several heavy cannons, hit several huge fans under the city, and swept the ranks of Spanish musketeers alive.
More than a hundred Spanish musketeers were blown to pieces on the spot and fell upside down. More than 100 Spanish musketeers lost their arms and thighs, and they were lying on the ground screaming loudly.
The formation of the Spanish infantry musket queue was chaotic, but under the command of the commander, they calmly dragged the wounded and retreated neatly, and the natives under the city could not bear it when they saw the Spanish retreating, so they turned around and fled in all directions.
The pirates and the Chinese at the head of the city cheered loudly when they saw the enemy retreating like the tide of the sea. He Wu was also very excited, but he suddenly saw more than a hundred tall figures in the indigenous crowd, standing out among the dwarf indigenous monkeys.
He instinctively felt a sense of crisis, as if something was wrong, but he couldn't say it all at once.
There was an earth-shattering loud "boom", and the entire city wall shook, and the pirates and Chinese on the city wall were dizzy by the loud noise under their feet, and many people's ears were bleeding.
He Wu's eyes were dark, and a mouthful of salty blood seemed to accumulate in his chest and was about to spurt out. Nothing could be heard in my ears except for the roar of "buzzing".
The gate of the royal city was blown to pieces by the accumulation of gunpowder, and the sandbags piled up in the hole of the city gate were blown everywhere, and the huge and heavy city gate had been blown up, and the pirates and Chinese at the head of the city were shocked at this time and temporarily lost their combat effectiveness.
Countless natives were rushing forward for their lives, and when they heard the loud noise, they all turned to watch. When they saw that the gates of the royal city had been blown to pieces, they immediately cheered loudly with excitement.
They turned around and rushed back in the direction of the royal city, and the Spanish army also organized a square team and quickly killed in the direction of the royal city gate. Three hundred Polish hussars were the first to rush out of the ranks, constantly flying up the natives who were in front of them, galloping all the way. R1152