For heavy artillery, untreated gun emplacements do not meet the standard of regular shooting. Therefore, when the cannon has not yet reached the preset gun position, there are already soldiers wearing sapper armbands and artillery armbands, who move to the gun position in advance and start to deal with the ground urgently.

The Houjin soldiers in history, after recruiting the Dengzhou rebels and getting the 18-pounder cannon of Kong Youde's department, had the ability to attack strategic fortifications.

However, the naval artillery of the Westerners, the primitive troops of the Houjin are naturally very troublesome to use. Not only did you have to dig the muzzle of the gun before each shot, but it also took more time to reset it after firing, and it was inefficient to fix the gun with something like a wedge.

In this way, there is no need to talk about the hit rate and the like, and it can be used to bombard the enemy's city during the siege, or to blindly attack the opponent's large army formation during a big battle.

Naturally, the cannon produced by the traverser could not be so crude. Although they are all naval heavy artillery, and the 24-pounder guns that are used to siege the city today, they are complete with high-end accessories, gun carriages, self-developed hoes, and even various pitching and sighting systems.

However, the preparation of high-end goods is still quite cumbersome. After the 3 siege cannons were in place, it took almost half an hour to get into firing.

At this moment, the sand eagle resisted the chest of the Portuguese, and the people in the fort were terrified.

During the whole process of the heavy artillery rushing and taking position, in fact, the Portuguese were not idle, and they organized several counterattacks one after another. However, no matter what counterattack, it was a shameful failure in front of the rifled guns + elite shooters who were on standby. After all, the business of dying as soon as you show your head is not something that anyone can do indefinitely.

The biggest result of the Portuguese was that they were self-taught, and they used the kind of blind fighting that they learned from Uncle Hei in later generations, who did not show their heads and raised their guns, and blindly killed rats, which generally caused a small number of casualties among the siege troops. Unfortunately, this was the limit of what the Portuguese could do, and this time they were defeated in a confrontation with the new forces, missing the best opportunity to suppress the siege.

While the Portuguese were anxious, He Rubin, who was watching the game from afar, also saw that the Portuguese were gone.

In the previous confrontation time, He Rubin himself was actually quite nervous. He had already seen the power of the fortress before, but with his knowledge, he could not find a solution.

I didn't want to be in this confrontation time, but the Portuguese were stubbornly suppressed by the "stragglers", and they had no power to fight back until the cannon came to the door. Now everyone can see that the "Ming Army" is actually at ease and occupies an overwhelming advantage.

And He Rubin's depression is here: he has faintly realized that his family is outdated. The battle between the red-haired people and the soldiers and horses of the Cao family is like a giant fighting each other, which has its own set of truths, which seems to be an understatement of the air comparison, but in fact it is far more dangerous and powerful than the Ming Dynasty's tactics!

Exhaling lightly and putting down the clairing mirror in his hand, He Rubin took out his handkerchief again and wiped the cold sweat that broke out slightly on his forehead: "I don't mean that the firearm tactics have been used here." Today's sincerity is an eye-opener, it is rare and strange to be! ”

"If you are interested, you can go to the camp to have a look and give you some advice."

Zhang Dongdong's words are no longer modest. I'm not afraid that you will come to study, but I'm afraid that you will close yourself off from the country and hold on to the incomplete. The more you research, the more you know, and the less impulsive you will be in the future.

When He Rubin heard this, he didn't show his displeasure, but nodded solemnly: "I'm going to bother you." ”

Just as the two bigwigs were colluding, the cannon sound sounded in front. The first shot opened the gate of the outer fort of the Fortress.

The Outer Fort was built by the Portuguese after the situation worsened. The most important function of this type of outer fort was to protect the main gate of the fort, and in the Ming Kingdom, this kind of building was called the Urn City.

The outer fort is rectangular in shape, and is actually a small courtyard enclosed by three walls. Although the walls of the temporary building are also thin, this kind of structure is very useful in traditional siege warfare, and the besieging party cannot observe whether the enemy troops inside the city are out, and even after attacking the outer fort, they will be hit by three-dimensional attacks from above and from the front.

Prior to this, because of the intention of showing deference, the fort built by the Portuguese not only had a main gate facing the direction of the Ming Kingdom, but also did not have artillery at the head of the city. Now these are problems, but the Portuguese are trying to make up for it.

However, all the repairs were so weak in the face of the 24-pounder long-barreled heavy gun.

The 24-pounder gun, which was only 200 meters away from the outer fort in a straight line, penetrated the main gate of the outer fort for the first time. The extremely kinetic iron ball smashed a large hole in the gate with support bars and iron bars behind it, and wooden debris flew everywhere, and the Portuguese soldiers hiding in the fort were caught off guard and killed and injured several people, and the scene was a mess.

After the first shot hit, the other two cannons, which received the parameters, opened fire. Soon, after four or five rounds of artillery fire, the gate of the outer fort and the nearby wall were torn apart.

Because they did not take into account today's brainless suppression, the Portuguese deliberately lowered the height of the fort wall when building the outer fort, so as to form a three-dimensional strike with the rear forts.

As a result, this led to the embarrassing scene today: the rear batteries could not return fire, because the opponent under the city had a firing range.

When the defenders are very entangled, the besiegers don't care so much. Now that the fort gate had been breached, a group of soldiers quickly rushed in. Then there was no fierce fighting, except for the corpses that had been killed by the artillery fire before, the small outer fort was empty, and the Portuguese gave up this key point in advance.

There was no way, having lost the convenience of attacking the enemy troops in the fort from a high position, and the Portuguese were now tied up, and all terrain that was not conducive to playing a defensive advantage had to be caught.

The enemy retreats, and I advance.

After taking control of the outer fort, a large number of soldiers soon came to the city and pointed their guns at the city. At the same time, sappers came with explosives.

In a moment, there were a few small bangs, and then the sound of soldiers' trumpets - the wall in front of the outer fort was completely torn down and cleared out of the firing range.

After a while, first the soldiers withdrew from the outer fort, and before the people in the city could react, there were two loud bangs: the south gate of the fort had been blasted. When the smoke fell, the main entrance of the fort had become a slope made of fragments of masonry.

A shrill whistle sounded, and the soldiers swarmed up, and soon the flow of people disappeared at the top of the slope.

By this point, advanced weaponry and tactics had overwhelmed the Traveler's army, leaving the Portuguese powerless. Everything is going according to plan, without any waves.

The next moment, a dense burst of gunfire rang out, followed by a wave of shouts of killing, and then the soldiers, who had rushed over the slope before, retreated......

"What's going on? Report the situation! ”

Seeing that the soldiers who rushed in had retreated and had already gone out to the headquarters near the fort, Yu Mingjie angrily threw down the binoculars in his hand, rushed out with Wei Yuan and several other senior officers, and stopped the deputy company commander in charge of the on-site command head-on, and shouted angrily: "Yang Weili, you explain to me now, why did you retreat!?" ”

Yang Willy, who had retreated from his gray face, half of his face with a birthmark had already turned purple at this moment. Seeing that the commander was furious, the young man felt ashamed and ashamed, but the military order could not be violated, and he still told the truth honestly.

It turned out that after the first wave of troops rushed through the slope, they found that the inside of the fort had been secretly rebuilt by the Portuguese. The interior of the fort, which used to resemble a small town, is now divided by several additional walls.

As a result, the troops were fired from the flanks and back, similar to the bastion.

And that's not all. Although the defenders had the upper hand, the density of the arquebuses was not high after all, so the troops continued to charge at each other despite casualties.

Just as the troops were about to rush into the opposite battery in one go, the Portuguese defenders suddenly rushed out and blocked the way with a combination of spears and arquebuses.

Therefore, when the troops could not be deployed, the attack was flanked on all sides, and the frontal bayonets were not taken advantage of, the on-site commander Yang Weili had to give an order to retreat.

After listening to the report, without waiting for Yu Mingjie to react, Wei Yuan, who was watching the excitement on the side, had already laughed: "Spanish phalanx, huh?" This is the housekeeping method of the cheap big cousin of the red-haired devil, and today let your kid meet it. ”

After thinking about it, Wei Yuan, who had personally experienced urban street battles in later generations, shook his head and smiled: "Don't say it, in this specific environment, the Spanish phalanx can really come in handy, who let us not distribute grenades to the troops?" ...... Deputy Yang Lian, the retreat order was given correctly and in a timely manner. ”

Yu Mingjie also reacted at this time, "That's right, what the fuck is this bullshit phalanx, isn't it just a matter of a few grenades?" Alas, traitors, the affairs of this world are in the hands of traitors! ...... I said, Deputy Yang Lian, how many casualties have been killed? ”

Willy Yang: "......"

After this battle, the Cabinet, which had been accused of traitors by the front-line commanders, finally agreed to the establishment of a grenade workshop at the newly established Shijing Arsenal in Guangzhou.

The grenade production line is far from quenching the thirst of the near. After the failure of the first siege of the day, the besiegers, who had the technical superiority, quickly found a countermeasure. It's simple: a few soldiers in non-stop contact will do.

The Spanish phalanx seemed to work, but the arrangement was not so neat for movement and retreat. Later in the day, Yu Mingjie ordered the soldiers to take turns infiltrating and shooting from the slope.

This time the phalanx will die: the target is huge, and the siege soldiers only need to shoot cold guns in a lying position, which is enough to break up the phalanx with the advantage of range.

After that, as the other two walls were blasted one after another, the defenders in the St. Pauline Fort finally could not stop the cold guns fired from all directions, and began a great retreat.

This retreat gave way to the commanding heights: the heavy artillery erected on the fortress could cover the entire city of Macao.

Three days later, the Portuguese, in complete despair, finally sent people out of the city to negotiate, and Macao surrendered unconditionally.

On April 18, 1631, the ceremony of entering the city of Macao officially began, with streamers dancing and military music and soldiers wearing big leather boots shouting loud slogans.