Shells and rockets whizzed by, shaking the entire city of Manila.

The Chinese people in the city climbed to the roofs of their houses, they waved strips of cloth and towels, shouted wildly, and some even took out the self-made Ming flag and waved it desperately, draped it on their bodies and cheered.

The local natives were frightened, hiding in their homes and hugging each other, shouting boldly, but at every sound of the cannonball, they shrank their necks in fright, as if a cannonball had landed on their heads.

The natives who were doing the work had a feeling in their hearts: the end is coming!

This unprecedented power left them horrified, completely insane and overwhelmed.

The Dongfeng rockets fired into the city were not indiscriminately bombed, but were targeted at several military camps, ammunition warehouses, governor's palaces and other valuable targets in Manila City according to the detailed military deployment in the city provided by He Bin, a Jinyi guard lurking in the governor's palace.

For the Spanish and indigenous soldiers, this was the first time they had tasted the art of artillery falling from the sky, and a large number of Spanish and indigenous soldiers were killed in all directions.

From time to time, the ammunition piles of the Spanish colonial army burst into columns of smoke in the city, and stumps and broken arms flew all over the sky.

In the horror that they had never seen in their lives, the nerves of the colonial army completely collapsed, and there was only one thought in everyone's mind: to save their lives and live!

Whenever a long tail flame fell, the Spanish soldiers felt that this thing was coming for them, and they were desperately running and trying to find a place to hide.

By the time of the fifth round of attacks, there were basically no people in several barracks, only corpses all over the ground, and wounded struggling and groaning.

In other words, it is basically broken up, and it is estimated that there is no establishment anymore.

Several foreign devils watching the battle from the side of the Ming army exchanged their heads from time to time and whispered about it, while Anthony, the governor of the Netherlands, kept writing and painting in his notepad.

Anthony believes that the Ming army has greatly thrown off the European army in firearms, and their gunners are skillful and orderly.

Especially the killing weapon with a long tail flame, the range is so long, it is still a parabola, it is simply an artifact!

During the observation group, Anthony, the governor of the Netherlands, asked the Ming army around him and said, "Dare to ask the general, what kind of weapon is this kind of firearm, what kind of weapon is that long in your army?" ”

"This is called Dongfeng Rocket, which was independently developed by my Daming!" The Praise Officer replied.

Anthony nodded slightly, and it could be seen that the Ming officer was quite proud in his language.

In order to get more information about this equipment of the Ming army, Anthony lowered his posture and continued to ask: "Dare to ask the general, how far is the range of the Dongfeng rocket?" ”

Zan Hua replied: "Far away! ”

Anthony: "How far is it?" ”

Praise painting: "Far away means very far away." ”

Anthony: "Can you be more precise?" ”

"Absolutely!"

I saw Zanhua open his arms and gesture at the Ming army's artillery array and city wall in the distance: "It's probably so far!" ”

Anthony suddenly had a black line.

He sighed in his heart, "This is a good thing! If I get it in the Netherlands, I will definitely go to the next level in military power! Maybe you can go up two floors! ”

The small setback didn't make Anthony let go of the discussion of this big killer, and he decided to find a chance to get this thing!

Next, there are endless things that shocked Anthony and other foreign devils, in addition to the excessive range of the so-called Dongfeng rockets, the range of the muskets of the Ming army is also extremely terrifying!

They fired volleys from far below the city, constantly suppressing the Spanish army at the head of the city.

They also unexpectedly found that there were still a small number of soldiers in the Ming army, raising guns on the side to shoot at the enemy at the head of the city!

The poor Spanish soldiers were like rats nesting in the battlements and did not dare to raise their heads, allowing the vanguard army of the Ming army to approach the castle and build ladders and climb the walls.

The walls of Manila are only five meters high, and it is conceivable that even if the Ming army did not have a special siege ladder, it was only a matter of time before they could climb the walls with these improvised ladders.

"The tactics and weapons of the Ming army are too advanced, we must learn from the Ming Dynasty!"

Weddell, the Governor of the East India Company, looked at his assistant with a solemn expression and said seriously.

The assistant was like a chicken pecking rice, constantly nodding his head, deeply touched by this, in his eyes, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was no less than that of the new model army of the protector Cromwell.

The New Model Army was highly disciplined, unified in command, advanced in equipment, brave and good at fighting, and defeated the royal army in many battles, making it the strongest army in Britain at present.

However, in the minds of the British at this time, the army of the Ming Dynasty seemed to be superior!

From the beginning of the siege at noon, the Ming army carried out five rounds of bombardment in one hour, and the Spanish defenders of Manila were miserable.

The Spanish soldiers defending the city were wounded and killed by artillery, and neither the governor nor the archbishop dared to stand on the walls, and all retreated to the base of the walls.

Nine of the guns on the fort were also knocked out by the Ming army, including three 48-pounder heavy guns that they were proud of.

Fortunately, the fortress was powerful, and the Ming army's shells smashed on it, leaving only a small pit.

Zhu Cihong looked at the sun, only felt a little hungry, and he ordered: "Directly blow up the Wang Ba's shell!" ”

Earlier this year, the Royal Academy of Sciences developed a more powerful yellow explosive, which, although not yet stable and not officially rationed to the army on a large scale, was much more powerful than the previous black powder.

Zhu Cihong decided to test the power of this thing Dry Ridge Fortress.

Li Yu, the right governor of the Chinese Army's Governor's Mansion, took the order to go to select the 'death squad' to blast.

He knew that in order to debug this yellow explosive, the Royal Academy of Sciences had killed people!

As soon as Li Yu said the blasting plan, Xia Wanchun, the commander of the first battalion of the second regiment of the third brigade of the Tianwu Army, immediately stood up and took the initiative to ask for help: "I'll go!" ”

Li Yu looked at Xia Wanchun, showed an appreciative gaze, and said, "This thing is something that the six relatives don't recognize, you are still young, do you really want to take a risk?" ”

In fact, yellow gunpowder was more stable than black gunpowder, and it was only because of the accidents caused by the debugging of the column during the test that it left a terrible impression.

Xia Wanchun, who was eager for meritorious service, said solemnly: "As a soldier of the Ming Dynasty, I am not afraid of life and death!" ”

The war was urgent, Li Yu didn't dare to delay, and said happily: "Okay! That's you! Go ahead and arrange it! ”

"Yes!"

Xia Wanchun gave a military salute excitedly and took the people of the headquarters to get explosives.

After a while, the yellow explosive bag was ready, and in order to successfully complete the assault mission, Xia Wanchun decided to go out himself.

He looked at the fires that appeared from time to time on the top of the city, took a long breath, and said silently in his heart: "I am not a salted fish, I am a man who dreams of becoming a colt!" ”

"Rush!"

After saying that, he picked up the first bag of explosives, braved the frantic shooting of the enemy troops on the city wall, and rushed towards the fortress like an arrow off the string.

Under the cover of Ming artillery fire and infantry fire, the soldiers of the five demolition posts of the first battalion pushed five wheelbarrows loaded with yellow explosives bags and quickly approached the city wall.

During this period, a wheelbarrow was unfortunately hit by artillery fire in the city and detonated, killing six Ming soldiers on the spot.

At this time, the moat by the city wall had been partially filled by the Ming army that had attacked many times.

Xia Wanchun methodically commanded the accumulation of gunpowder packs under the city walls, and entwined all the fuses together.

When everything was in order, he ordered the soldiers to evacuate first, and lit the fuse himself.

There was a loud "boom", the sound shook through the clouds, and even the earth trembled violently, and a huge smoke of fire and light surged over the detonation point.

Xia Wanchun, who was running, was swept away by the shock wave, and his ears were buzzing with shock, and he almost became deaf.

The Spanish governor Sarcteau, who was hiding at the battlements of the city, only felt that the roots of his ears hurt and he could not stand steadily, he staggered a few steps, and fell to the ground with a grunt.

The archbishop, who was closer to the explosion site, was even more miserable, and the whole person was shocked by a huge shock wave, and the people flew into the air.

After he fell, he was already lying more than 20 meters away from the position just now, and the shape was peculiar, I don't know whether he was dead or alive.

Some of the Spanish soldiers in the city were directly stunned, and the pestle remained there for a long time.

This explosion shocked almost everyone, even the artillery of the Shenwu Army, who had been in a hundred battles and had been playing for more than ten years, had never seen such a powerful explosion!

To their excitement, the smoke cleared, and a large hole was blown open in the city wall.

"Kill!"

The Ming army was boiling all at once, and hundreds of assault battalions in front of the army immediately launched a charge with infantry, and they got into the smoke of gunpowder, firmly holding the gap, waiting for the follow-up troops to come up.