Zhang Chong wanted to speak and stopped, and finally shook his head without saying much, and chased Gan Xingzhi away.

However, Li Tianyang was immersed in the reverie of the next battle, and did not notice the hesitation and other deep meaning in Zhang Chong's eyes, and thought that Zhang Chong was more because of the guilt and ambivalence of Li Tiansheng, a student.

The first step of the battle began, the five "Yang Fan-type" warships from Hongmen staying in the port of Apa with a total of nearly fifty guns with a power of more than thirty-two pounds, after a volley, stood high in the southwest boundary of Apa Town to the Li manor, and suddenly there was an earth-shattering sound, and then a very large-scale tremor.

In front of the Shark Man, the Hongmen warriors showed the highest level of artillery shooting in this era, and in the hands of the most elite gunners of the Shark, they did not dare to guarantee that they could hit and approach the target shelling, and in the hands of the Hongmen soldiers, almost three-fifths of the artillery were fired in the most central residential area of the Li Manor.

In the midst of the earth-shaking situation, Yuan Chengwu and his team members suffered a heavy blow, although they had been prepared for the artillery of Hongmen, and distributed their manpower among the land and simple fortifications around the manor, but as the central point, the defenders around the Li Mansion still sent heavy troops.

In the wall of the Li manor, which was seriously impregnated by others, several large and small gaps had already appeared in three consecutive rounds of artillery fire, and at the same time, the walls in some sections were already crumbling, and they would collapse with just one more shell.

Zhu Juan was placed in the cellar that Li De had dug earlier, and the vibrations above her head from time to time made her whole face turn pale.

Over the years, Zhu Juan has been committed to forming gangs, relying on the convenience of staying by Li De's side, wanting to save some strength for her son, but until now, she still never thought that it would eventually cause Li Tianyang and Li Tiansheng to kill each other.

Although Zhu Juan has some bottom, she is a weak woman in this era after all, and the years of hard work in the rivers and lakes have broadened her horizons, but it will not make her a great man as powerful as Empress Wu Zetian.

However, thinking that the situation under her control finally came to this point, Zhu Juan wanted to reconcile the contradictions between Li Tianyang and their brothers, but when her son confided in him what he had suffered over the years, Zhu Juan could no longer speak.

thought that he knew his son very well, but when he suddenly looked back, Zhu Juan realized that the patriarch himself had never really understood his son, who he was proud of and relied on.

At this moment, the only thing Zhu Juan can do is to silently pray for Mazu's blessing in the letter, so that his son, who is fighting with his brother on the ground, can be safe and secure and win a big victory in one fell swoop!

Li Tiansheng and Yuan Chengwu, more than a dozen middle-level leaders, were also in a mess at this time, their faces were covered with dust and dirt, and there were even a few unlucky ghosts with blood stains on their bodies, and they seemed to have a few minor injuries on their bodies.

It has always been rumored at sea that Hongmen's artillery fire is fierce, but it is not until now that Yuan Chengwu and his people have truly experienced how powerful and accurate Hongmen's so-called ferocious artillery fire is.

Even in their hearts, they compared in their hearts, the artillery of the Hongmen fleet and the most powerful Spanish Invincible Fleet they had ever seen, which one was stronger, and it seemed that this Hongmen faintly surpassed the artillery fire of the Spanish foreign fleet.

Combined with the geometric ballistics calculation formula, standardized gunpowder filling system and artillery shells, Hongmen is more accurate than Westerners, which is why Yuan Chengwu thinks that Hongmen's artillery is more powerful.

"What's the situation outside, everyone has no casualties, right?"

The grizzled Li Tiansheng, at this time, saw where there was still that polite appearance, and the whole was a little better than a beggar, and asked Yuan Chengwu with an embarrassed face.

"Fortunately, although the opponent's artillery fire is powerful, our brothers' layout is scattered, and the loss is not big!"

Yuan Chengwu replied calmly, although he didn't expect the Hongmen fleet to be so powerful, but it had come to this point, and they also had no way to retreat, Yuan Chengwu could only go all the way to the dark, ignoring his own losses, and after the shelling, he reorganized his subordinates to garrison.

"Let our brothers fight back, and the artillery placed on the wall can't just be a decoration, it's time to make them shine."

Li Tiansheng was nervous and nervous at this time, it was not the first time he had been on the battlefield, but this battle was the most thrilling thing he had ever experienced in the battle, it seemed that as long as he didn't pay attention, he would turn into a piece of blood and mud with these flying artillery fire.

"It's been ordered a long time ago!"

Yuan Chengwu responded, this time in the battle, more command responsibilities fell on Yuan Chengwu, and Yuan Chengwu himself was relatively stronger, so as the commander of the battle, no one objected.

"But the young helper, you also have to be prepared for hand-to-hand combat immediately, the wall of our manor has been opened by these rounds of artillery fire, and there are still a few gaps, and when the shelling is over, they will come in!"

"Okay, got it!"

Li Tiansheng sighed in his heart, but replied calmly on his face.

In the first competition, he had already lost to his brother, and his own team, which had an advantage in numbers and geography, suffered a small loss without even seeing the opponent in actual combat.

In the next battle situation, if Li Tianyang continued to exert artillery suppression like this, I am afraid that Li Tiansheng and they would have to withdraw from the manor and retreat deeper inland!

However, after Li Tianyang and their actions made Li Tiansheng and Yuan Chengwu breathe a sigh of relief, after destroying the geographical wall of the Li manor with artillery fire, Li Tianyang and them stopped the artillery attack and began to send a small team to test the attack on their own front.

Li Tianyang did not intend to use artillery to consume Li Tiansheng's strength from a distance, because what Li Tianyang needed was not a Wild Shark Gang that was disabled by himself and greatly weakened, what he needed was a powerful group that could clamp down on the Spanish colonists in Manila.

He didn't want to see the farm that his father had worked so hard to build all his life turn into ashes in his hands and cease to exist.

Of course, in his subconscious, he also kept a hand, afraid that this shell without long eyes would accidentally injure his younger brother and make himself bear the notorious reputation of killing his brother.

(End of chapter)