At this time, a military trumpet suddenly sounded in the dock square of Dili Port, accompanied by the rhythm of drums and wooden drums, a group of musketeers, shield-bearers and spearmen appeared in the square, and the soldiers were under the command of a group of officers, lined up in a neat rectangular formation on the dock square, obviously this was aimed at an anti-landing military arrangement ahead.

Orne's reaction was quite quick, and it probably took him less than ten minutes to gather more than five hundred soldiers in the dock square, these soldiers were very well armed, and they lined up in a dense column side by side, forming a rather typical phalanx of Spanish pikemen.

In front of the phalanx are the shield bearers, behind are the spearmen, on both sides of the phalanx, there are two other long phalanxes of musketeers of about a hundred people, three rows of musketeers with arquebuses, in the shouts of the officers are nervously loading the medicine pool **, stuffing lead bullets into the chamber, and the smoke from the burning of the arquebus fills the perimeter around the phalanx.

"Oops! Quite well-trained! ”

In the cockpit of the Pride, Li Sanduo looked at the dock with a telescope and suddenly smiled.

"Orne is not a fool, he is quite up-to-date, and the formation of the Thirty Years' War in Europe is very fast, no wonder the local natives can bow down!"

Zhu Beiguo also took the telescope to observe beside him, he originally thought about getting over the addiction of cannon today, but unfortunately there were more wolves and less meat, and there were only a few cannon positions, and as a result, Zhu Lixu and a few other "old men" were pushed down by a group of warlike young people.

At this time, the two three-inch naval guns and two 20-millimeter machine guns of the Pride were operated by Peng Qiang, **, Zhou Rui, Ai Rush and others with the best shooting skills, who not only had experience in many battles, but also did not have asthma or vomiting because of the bloody scene.

So Zhu Xu, the "old men", could only stand in the cockpit and watch the play on the foredeck.

According to the preconceived plan, if Orne deployed anti-landing soldiers near the pier, then the attack should be prioritized, but our firepower and range should be understood by Orne as late as possible.

Because, if you want to occupy Dili according to the conventional way of playing, you must first take the east and west batteries overlooking the city, but the consequence of this is that the opponent's pikemen and musketeers will be scared away, which will make Orne retain his strength, which may turn the subsequent battle into a war of attrition, which is very unfavorable to our side.

According to Sun Lao, anyway, the fort doesn't have long legs, it can't run away, but people can. So when everyone saw the three phalanxes gathered near the dock square, everyone laughed wickedly.

There are probably more than 700 people in total, right?

Well, counting the defenders of the fort and the team that was transferred out to block the tribes to the east, great, these soldiers in front of him are almost all of Orne's strength!

So a rare opportunity arose!

Now, we have the conditions to wipe out the rebels' army in an instant, so that we can end this war as soon as possible.

It seems that Orne is indeed planning to crush the landers into the sea with superior forces, but now he will know who will crush whom,

Depend on! The meat is so fat......

At this moment on the deck of the Pride, the crew was gearing up and excited......

According to the battle plan, the first to appear was the Nicole's naval guns, and four of the ship's eight three-inch naval guns were to be used to suppress the fire of the two batteries on the east and west of the port of Dili, which were the most powerful striking force in the New World.

The purpose of the bombardment was to render the two batteries ineffective at the first opportunity, while the Pride was to fire on any resistance that appeared on the docks, striking both sides at the same time, and after these tasks, the flotilla would approach the docks, bring the soldiers of Pimont and Degus ashore, and provide close cover for the landing force.

Obviously, this was a fairly well-thought-out battle plan, and for this reason Nicole and Pride lent all the lifeboats to Pimont and Degus, which proved to be not only sturdy, but also fast, much stronger than the small sampans of the era.

Now, the phalanx of musketeers and spearmen that Orne had assembled in the dock square unexpectedly increased the odds of victory for the battle plan, and it was expected that they would eventually be the ghosts of the Pride 20mm cannons.

At this time, everyone was waiting for the sound of cannon from Nicole.

Ten minutes later, with a long whistle, the Nicole was activated, and in order to improve the accuracy of the ship's guns, the Nicole approached Dili Harbor for another kilometer, and at this distance, the soldiers on the two batteries in Dili Harbor finally noticed a large dark shadow gradually emerging from the dense fog in the distance.

However, the soldiers on the fort did not realize the danger at this time, they first stared blankly at the sea, and then curiously asked each other about their companions, many of them rubbed their eyes, still not believing what they were seeing—a huge smoke-emitting fortress appeared on the sea in the distance? That should be a mirage, right?

Apparently it was a mirage, and the only plausible explanation that one could draw from the limited knowledge of the world, and no matter what the shadow was, none of the soldiers on the two batteries thought it was a ship.

However, as time went by, the "castle" actually got closer and closer, and it actually moved!

At this time, the soldiers on the battery suddenly realized that the shadowy thing in the distance was an unknown thing, and at this time, people's sixth sense came into play, and they suddenly felt that some kind of danger was imminent, and many people began to get nervous, including the officers who commanded the soldiers.

However, it takes time for people to go from psychological tension to taking action to avoid danger, and apparently the other party did not set aside this time for them, but after a few moments, there were suddenly a few flashes of light in the dark shadows, and after a few breaths, a piercing whistling whistle came from far and near, and crossed the ears of the soldiers, followed by a series of violent explosions......

This was a salvo of nine naval guns on the front and rear decks of the Nicole, in addition to straddle fire and deviation, a total of two three-inch ** accurately hit the battlements of the West Battery, and the cracked masonry instantly scattered in all directions, knocking down several soldiers who were standing nearby in a daze, and the shock wave from the explosion tore a large flag on the battlements, and the flag fluttering in the wind was embroidered with a lion's head, which was the symbol of King Orne, and now this flag fluttered in the air and rolled a few times, With half of the flagpole and weakly landed on the beach below the fort.

No one was mentally prepared for this sudden event, neither the officers nor the soldiers, they were still in a daze at this moment, because they really couldn't understand why, no one thought that the moving black shadow could accurately fire cannonballs at the battery at a distance of two leagues!

However, when a new round of strikes arrived after a few breaths, it finally became clear that the other side was indeed shelling us!

The confusion quickly turned into panic, and finally into a rout, and by the time a series of huge explosions enveloped the West Fort for the third time, the soldiers stationed at the fort had long since collapsed without a trace.

In order to improve the efficiency of the shelling, Captain Gu arranged for three crew members with good eyesight to observe on the lookout, in addition to the military low-light telescope, there was also a military field gun scope, which was the weapon and equipment provided by Anna to the Nicole before the crossing.

Su Gaofei, Li Dewei and the nursery, who have the best eyes in the crew, are now on the lookout of the Nicole, they can clearly observe the situation of the West Fort with only a high-powered low-light military telescope, when a gust of sea breeze blows away the gunsmoke, the lookouts found in the telescope that there is no one on the West Fort, and they can even see the empty Fort and a few soldiers lying on the ground through the gap in the battlements, as well as a bronze cannon that has been shaken away from the gun emplacement, and the rest is a mess on the Fortment.