Chapter 802: Entering the Governor's Palace
The 800 cavalry were almost completely annihilated, while the casualties of the Wulin Coalition were only in double digits, almost 1 to 10 casualty ratio.
I have to say that in this martial arts world, in terms of melee combat, the Ming Dynasty has an absolute advantage in fighting with Western countries.
Let's say that after annihilating the 800 cavalry, Zhang Xiao began to plan to attack the city.
Choosing to attack the city at night is naturally the best, which is conducive to giving full play to the advantages of the Ming army's masters.
If it was daytime, the dozens of cannons and hundreds of foreign guns on the castle would inevitably cause heavy damage to the Ming army, but it was different at night.
Speaking of night battles and sieges, I'm afraid that any small soldier in this Ming army can arrange good tactics for you - does the Ming army do less of this kind of thing?
Ugly, the south gate of the castle.
Twenty soldiers dressed in mercenary uniforms, who did not know where they came out of the city, came to the south gate in a neat procession.
There were about fifty Portuguese soldiers guarding the south gate, and it was a little inexplicable to see these mercenaries coming.
One of the officers came up to inquire about it, only to notice that the local mercenaries looked a little strange.
Although the other party is also an Asian face, I always feel that it is different from the usual locals.
He was about to ask, but he didn't want to say anything, when a cold blade slashed through his neck, and his head flew up.
It was Li Daliang who made the shot.
Li Daliang went out with the army this time, and he basically didn't play much, because he didn't need to play at all.
However, the capture of the South Gate was of great importance, so Zhang Xiao sent him to lead this assault team.
In addition to Li Daliang, there are also Lai San'er, Meng Hu, Meng Wei, Chen Jing and Kongtong Ersheng and others, all of whom are first-class good players.
After Li Daliang made a move, they naturally followed suit.
For a master of their level, it is not too difficult to lead twenty people to kill fifty creeps.
The difficult thing was that the nearby soldiers heard the movement and quickly came over to reinforce it.
In order to prevent the other party from shooting, Li Daliang and the others did not kill all the creeping troops in front of them, but left twenty or thirty people as meat shields, so that everyone was intertwined, and it was difficult for the creeping army to shoot.
In addition, Li Daliang and the others were also very clever enough to extinguish all the torches in the vicinity with stones, and for a while the south gate was pitch black, and they could only see the figure and couldn't tell who was who.
Squeak!
The gates were soon opened!
Someone lit a red signal firework.
A group of hoplites who had been waiting for miles immediately rushed over!
That's right, the equipment of this group of cavalry was stolen from the Portuguese cavalry, and there were more than 400 horsemen!
Let's say that on the south gate, as soon as I saw the city gate open, the city defense officer of the creeping army could no longer sit still, and immediately ordered to shoot.
Indiscriminate shooting!
Bang bang bang!
Countless bullets flew towards the dark place at the city gate.
The screams rose and fell, and then the fighting came to an abrupt end.
The creeping army could not see the situation there clearly, and continued to shoot for the sake of safety.
Bang bang bang!
Bang bang bang!
Until it was completely silent—save for the faint moans of the dying man.
The torches were lit again, and the creeping soldiers boldly walked over to see a pile of corpses of the creeping soldiers lying on the ground, as well as four bodies that looked like mercenaries but did not look like mercenaries.
And the invading enemy army has disappeared at all!
Only the two gates were in a state of concealment.
The commander knew on his toes that the intruders were hiding behind the door.
However, the sound of approaching cavalry could be faintly heard outside, and he had to close the gates at once, rather than entangle with the invaders.
"Close the gates!"
He shouted with grapes.
Several creeping soldiers went up to close the city gate, but they didn't want to explode with a "bang", and one of the city gates bounced back violently as if it had been hit by a giant tree, and actually swept down four or five creeping soldiers who went to close the gate at once.
At that moment, it was Li Daliang who made the shot.
He slapped the city gate with his Soul Snatching Palm, and his power was extraordinary.
The Portuguese may not be able to figure out how one person's strength can be so great.
The Ming army masters who were hiding behind the city gate came out again, and the two sides were entangled again.
This time, the commander who had ordered the indiscriminate shooting was also in the scuffle, and finally no one dared to give the order to shoot for the time being.
But there are more and more creeping troops, and there are only a dozen masters left on Li Daliang's side, and they are obviously outnumbered.
Lai San'er shouted excitedly and asked Meng Hudao, "Old Meng, did Grandpa Guo and you fight against thousands of enemies like this? How about we have another one today, haha!"
Meng Hu laughed, "Great!"
Meng Wei was speechless, his heart was different this time, after a while, this group of red-haired people killed red-eyed people and fired a musket salvo, and no one could stand.
Fortunately, the cavalry this time was very powerful, unlike when Luo Wenyu was late, and the more than 400 cavalry were killed immediately.
When the Portuguese defenders saw these heavy cavalry, they thought they were their own people, and they were stunned for a moment.
However, they were very puzzled, the outside had been heavily surrounded by the Ming army, how did these cavalry get in?
And some of the wise men cried out at the head of the city, and asked who they were.
But these cavalrymen don't care at all, if you want to be stunned, you can be stunned, let's rush in!
As a result, it was not until more than a hundred cavalry rushed into the city gate that the Portuguese defenders on the city walls determined that these guys were uninvited guests and hurriedly began to counterattack.
But where is the time?
After the heavy cavalry entered, they easily rushed through a bloody path, and then began to fight back.
There were only more than 2,000 men and horses in the castle, and there were only more than 500 creeping troops at the south gate.
The heavy cavalry was followed by infantry with large shields, which entered through the south gate shortly after the heavy cavalry entered.
Completely overwhelming.
To be honest, this kind of siege warfare is really pediatric compared to fighting Tartars.
Speaking of which, a city guarded by more than 2,000 people is not much defense in the Central Plains. Before the coalition army attacked the city, which time was the opponent's defenders not tens of thousands?
When the Ming army entered the city, Meng Wei quickly rushed to the city wall with a group of good men to disrupt the dense musketeers at the head of the city and reduce the casualties of the follow-up infantry.
For a time, there were shouts and killings mixed with Portuguese and Chinese, but soon the shouts of Chinese completely swept the battlefield.
European-style castles are generally very small, and may not even be considered a small city compared to the cities of the Central Plains.
After the army entered the city, it quickly broke through the defense line and quickly reached the governor's palace.
Governor Nelson didn't even have a chance to set up street fighting, and within a quarter of an hour of his knowledge of the breach of the South Gate, the Ming army of about 800 men surrounded his governor's palace with great strength.
Outside the door, a captured Portuguese officer shouted inside, "Your Excellency, we are surrounded, please surrender." The Ming army has promised to guarantee your personal safety. ”
Governor Nelson sat in the Governor's Palace, knowing that he had lost everything.