Chapter 942: Escape from South America
The bloodied corpse of the Portuguese Brazilian Supreme Commander lay to the ground, his eyes wide open, and he must have died blindly. Nature's Sounds
Regardless of whether the Portuguese Supreme Commander of Brazil died or not, after his death, Portuguese rule over Brazil collapsed even faster, and all the remaining Portuguese lost the will to resist and fled in the direction of the Atlantic coast.
Even in the process of rout, as long as they were caught up by the Ming army, their first thought was not to resist the Ming army, but to immediately raise their hands and surrender to the Ming army.
It was originally expected to take about ten days, but by the eighth day, the Ming army had already advanced to the Atlantic coast, and all of Brazil's territory had been almost completely captured by the Ming army.
The sound of "booming ----" war horses galloping, first a group of Ming cavalry appeared, followed by a large number of Ming infantry armed with machine guns and rifles, and they also appeared to kill the beach together, to annihilate a large number of Portuguese who were about to board the ship and escape.
At the same time, hundreds of field cannons, which had been concealed in advance, were pushed out and aimed at the Portuguese warships on the sea.
There were many more field artillery pieces that were constantly being pushed out, also aimed at the Portuguese warships on the sea.
It seems that the Ming army was prepared in advance to kill it in one fell swoop.
"Boom! Rumble! Boom ----" more than 30 Portuguese warships on the sea immediately opened fire on a large number of Ming troops rushing out.
Hundreds of shells fell into the Ming army, killing and injuring many Ming soldiers, causing a certain degree of casualties to the Ming army.
And the artillery of the Ming army also began to face the Portuguese warships on the sea.
"Fire!"
"Boom! Rumble! Boom -----" hundreds of field artillery guns of the Ming army fired a salvo.
These hundreds of Ming artillery guns did not disperse the bombardment, but concentrated their firepower to bombard three of the Portuguese battleships first, and at this distance of a thousand meters, the Ming artillery's artillery skills were swung to the limit, almost one out of every six or seven shells directly hit the hull, and at least fifteen shells directly hit the hull of the Portuguese battleship.
The artillery shells of the Ming army were very powerful, and the Portuguese battleships were all wooden, and it was entirely possible that they would be directly sunk if they were hit by five or six Ming artillery shells.
Therefore, most of the hulls of the two Portuguese battleships were directly blown apart, the hull was tilted, and they were about to sink, and the other battleship that was also hit was also heavily damaged, although there was no sign of sinking, and it was definitely unable to escape the next bombardment of the Ming army.
The sudden appearance of the Ming army, and the rapid sinking of two Portuguese warships, and the heavy damage to one, instantly shocked the entire Portuguese fleet and the large number of Portuguese who were boarding the ships.
Confusion! Incredible chaos!
The Portuguese, who had not yet boarded the ship, frantically crowded onto the ship.
Even the Portuguese fleet on the sea was in chaos, the gunners were urgently replacing the shells, and the hull was rotating, intending to turn the cannon on the other side of the hull that had not yet opened the cannon to aim at the Ming army on the shore.
However, the degree to which the artillery of the Ming army changed shells was obviously faster.
"Bang!" New shells were quickly pushed into the chamber by the Ming troops.
"Boom! Rumble! "Boom -----" because a lot of newly pushed cannons have been added, this time the number of Ming artillery artillery that fired towards the sea reached nearly 200, and there are still cannons being pushed out later, and I don't know how many cannons the Ming army has prepared.
The shells exploded on the surface of the sea.
"Bang! Boom! Bang ----" huge pillars of sea water were blown up one after another.
There were also many shells that hit the hull of the Portuguese battleship directly, causing the hit battleship to burst into flames, splinters of wood to fly, and some cannons and the bodies of Portuguese sailors were swept into the sea by the blazing waves of the shells.
This time, three Portuguese ships were sunk, and several more were heavily damaged.
The third artillery bombardment of the Ming army, coupled with the newly launched artillery, reached the scale of nearly 300 cannons, and such firepower was no less than the firepower of the ten Shenwei-class warships of the Ming Dynasty.
And the firepower equivalent to ten Great Myojinwei-class warships is more than enough to fight against the Portuguese American fleet of more than thirty warships.
Shells continued to explode on the sea, and Portuguese warships and ships were sunk.
The Portuguese warships were also constantly counterattacking, killing and wounding some Ming soldiers and blowing up some Ming artillery.
This was just an engagement between Ming artillery and Portuguese warships on the sea.
On the beach, a large number of Ming infantry had also taken into range the large number of Portuguese on the beach who had not yet had time to board the ship.
"Da Da Da -----"
A dense network of machine guns and rifles slaughtered a large number of Portuguese on the beach.
"Poof! Burst! Burst! "After one Portuguese man after another was hit by bullets, their bodies lying on the ground, their blood staining the entire beach.
Because all their warships were pinned down by the Ming cannons, the Portuguese on the beach, who had not had time to board 6, could only be slaughtered continuously in the face of the Ming army, and soon more than 2,000 Portuguese were slaughtered on the beach.
"Boom, boom, boom-----" The artillery of the Ming army was still violently bombarding the Portuguese warships and Portuguese ships on the sea.
One by one, Portuguese warships and ships sank under heavy artillery fire from the Ming Dynasty.
In the face of such an attack, the Portuguese fleet was obviously unable to hold on, and neither could the entire Portuguese fleet.
"Set sail! Set sail! Get out of here! The Portuguese general, who commanded the evacuation, roared and told the fleet to immediately withdraw from the coast.
It's a complete abandonment of the rhythm of the large number of Portuguese on the beach who haven't had time to get on the 6.
Sure enough, when all the ships began to sail offshore and into the depths of the Atlantic Ocean to avoid the Ming army, the abandoned Portuguese on the beach went crazy, crying and cursing incessantly.
It's a pity that it was the bullets of the Ming army that responded to them.
"Poof! Burst! Burst! "The Portuguese were still slaughtered by the bullets of the Ming army, and the blood had almost penetrated the sand on the beach and flowed into the sea.
Abandoned by the fleet, with no hope of evacuation, and facing the slaughter of the Ming army, the remaining tens of thousands of Portuguese soon chose to surrender to the Ming army.
After the surrender of the Portuguese on the beach, the attention of the Ming army was all on the evacuated Portuguese fleet on the sea.
"Boom! Rumble! Boom -----" The Ming army came with a total of 400 cannons, and at this moment all 400 cannons had been pushed out, and they all fired fiercely at the fleeing Portuguese fleet on the sea.
In the huge pillars of sea water that were blown up one after another, along with the continuous sinking of ships, the Portuguese fleet finally escaped from the range of the Ming artillery in great embarrassment, but when they completely escaped from the range of the Ming artillery, more than 20 warships and more than 30 ships were sunk, and the losses were heavy.
"Go on the offensive and take all of South America!" After the Ming army conquered the whole of Brazil, it continued to attack the British and French colonies in the northeast of Brazil, as well as the Dutch colonies located in the westernmost corner of Brazil, near the Atlantic Ocean, as well as Argentina, Chile and other places.
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