In the middle of Luzon, on the beach west of Manila, 2,500 Spanish soldiers defend themselves with arquebuses. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Manila is actually located on the east side of Manila Bay. Although the whole bay is large, the mouth of the bay is very small, the narrow part of the mouth of the sea is only 20 kilometers wide, and there is an island in the middle. On the island, in the middle of the estuary, it is possible to monitor all ships entering and leaving the bay.

Therefore, as soon as Li Laosi's fleet entered Manila Bay, the beacon tower on the south shore of Manila Bay relayed the news of the Han invasion. Before Li Laosi's party landed in Manila, the white men in the Spanish royal city rushed out with arquebuses and sniped the tiger army on the beach who wanted to go ashore.

This is a beach-grabbing landing battle.

Half of the Spanish soldiers were musketeers, who stood in the front row of the phalanx, using arquebuses, which were old smoothbore guns - the Dutch did not have a good relationship with the Spaniards, and most of the time they were in a state of hostility, so the Spaniards did not get the technology of the Minnie rifle from the Dutch.

Having never fought against the Tiger Army, the Spaniards did not learn the trick of attaching scopes to their rifles. Of course, for a smoothbore gun that loses its accuracy at a hundred meters, it makes little sense to load a scope.

The arquebusiers were unarmoured, wearing black wide-brimmed hats, carrying ammunition packets and short leather boots on their feet.

The other type of Spanish soldier was the antique pikemen.

These pikemen stood in the back row of the Spanish phalanx, armed with spears more than three meters long, helmets on their heads, and iron plate armor on their bodies. However, as soldiers, their plate armor was simple, and was actually composed of a cuirass and a dorsal armor. There are also two pieces of skirt armor at the waist position, but the overall protection effect is obviously not as good as the previous steel full-body armor of the Tiger Ben Army.

In fact, the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army no longer wear full body armor, and the Tiger Ben Army that invaded Japan a few months ago did not wear armor. With the rate of fire of the rear-loading guns, the probability of the enemy rushing into the Tiger Army with cold weapons is almost zero.

However, the Kingdom of Spain, which had never been at war with Li Zhi, also staggered musketeers and pikemen on the beach, creating the famous "Spanish Grand Phalanx". This phalanx was Spain's weapon of global domination in the last century, but in this century, it is as ridiculous as an antique.

Especially in front of the Tiger Army.

Li Laosi used a telescope to observe the formation of the Spaniards and smiled.

What the prince said that the kingdom of Spain is lying in the glory of the last century is not false at all. Compared to the ambitious Dutch, Spain had nothing but cruelty and shamelessness. Technologically, they are already far behind the times.

Lu Hu's ironclad ship couldn't drive directly to the beach, so the ship would run aground on the beach. The ship came to a halt more than two miles off the coast. Because of the undulations of the waves on the sea, the muzzles of the ship's guns swayed up and down with the waves, and they were not accurate against the enemy more than two miles away.

Li Laosi simply asked the naval guns not to fire, put down the sampan boats, and let the infantry carry rear-loading guns and bazookas to directly attack the beachhead.

Twenty ironclad ships laid down forty sampan boats and carried eight hundred men to storm the Spanish phalanx on the beachhead.

The Governor of Manila, Francisco, knew that the enemy was extraordinary and personally went to the beach to direct the battle, hoping to repel the enemy. Although it is clear that the Tiger Ben Army of the Ming Kingdom attacked Manila because of Francisco's massacre of the Han Chinese, as a white man who discriminated against the yellow race, Francisco never regretted the massacre order.

Francisco even believed that if the Han of the Eighth Company had not been killed, he would have been attacked by the Han people inside and outside on the beach. Although the Han Chinese of the Eighth Company did not have firearms, if they attacked the Spaniards from behind with kitchen knives, it would also cause a certain degree of confusion.

When he saw that the Tiger Ben Army had only sent eight hundred men to attack the beachhead at a time, he showed a happy expression.

Francisco had heard about the Tiger Army, which was said to have a fierce firepower that surpassed the level of European armies. It was with this firepower that the Tiger Army was able to conquer Korea and Japan.

But after all, it was just an infighting among the yellow race, and Francisco did not believe in those rumors on the sea, and he did not believe that the overall combat effectiveness of the Tiger Army could surpass that of the Spanish soldiers.

Noble Spanish soldier.

The Tiger Army sent only 800 men to attack the beachhead at a time, and these people had to face the fire of more than 1,000 arquebuses, and they were bound to be defeated by the volleys of guns in the Spanish phalanx.

Francisco stood in the center of the phalanx and gave a loud order, the drummer beat the cowhide drum, the officers shouted loudly, and commanded the entire phalanx to press towards the beachhead to meet the elite of the Tiger Army who came in a sampan boat.

At a distance of five hundred meters, four hundred meters, three hundred meters, two hundred meters, at a distance where the faces of the Spaniards could be seen clearly, the Tiger Army opened fire.

Although the Tsuo rifles are equipped with scopes and can hit more than 400 meters on land, they can't hit so far on a bumpy ship. The so-called miss is a thousand miles. On the small sampan with the undulation of the waves, the muzzle of the gun kept shaking, and the shooting at a distance of four hundred meters was basically inaccurate.

The Tiger Army chose to open fire at a distance of two hundred meters. At this distance, the rifleman was able to compensate for the bumps of the waves with his own skill.

Seeing the shooting of the Tiger Army, Francisco was overjoyed.

The distance of 200 meters is also the shooting distance of European arquebusiers. Although the arquebus can only barely hit a humanoid target at a hundred meters, in a large-scale battle, the target is not a person, but a force. As long as it is diffused at a distance of 200 meters, the stray bullets can shoot the enemy's soldiers.

Therefore, at a distance of 200 meters, Francisco was confident that he could suppress the 800 Tigers with his numerical advantage.

There were about 400 people on the small sampan of the Tiger Army shooting at the Spaniards on the beach. Although the aim was low in the bumps of the waves, it also knocked out thirty or forty Spanish musketeers.

The two hundred arquebusiers of the Spaniards had already loaded their ammunition, and the first row of three hundred began to return fire.

Two hundred meters away, there was a burst of sawdust on the small sampan, and I don't know how many bullets hit the hull of the sampan. Francisco saw several Tiger soldiers get shot and fall.

Francisco laughed. He believes that the next shot of the Tiger Army will be at least thirty breaths later. And the more than 1,000 arquebusiers on their side will constantly shoot in turns, and every eight breaths will shoot a rain of bullets. Although the damage caused by each shot is only one-fifth of that of the Tiger Army, the overall firepower of the four rows of rounds is about the same as that of the Tiger Army.

Moreover, there were 1,200 arquebusiers on his side, and only 800 in the Tiger Army.

Francisco sensed that victory in the battle for the defense of the tidal flats was at hand.

However, Francisco's excitement soon faded.

The sight he saw through the monoculars made him feel like he was falling into an ice cave.

In the monocular he was holding, he saw the Tiger Warrior open his rifle from his buttocks, gently stuff the bullet into the gun, and then turn off the bolt again. Then a small object was attached to the bolt, and the Tiger soldiers raised their rifles again.

What kind of technology is this?

"O Lord! That's impossible! ”

Francisco cried out in horror, as if only shouting loudly could show his exasperation and surprise.

"It can't be!"

Even though the soldiers of the Tiger Army had begun to aim at this side, Francisco still did not believe what was in front of him.

"Bang bang bang!"

The Platoon of the Tiger Army fired again, and even before the Spaniards' second platoon was fired. This time, the soldiers of the Tiger Army seem to have begun to adapt to the bumps, and the hit rate is higher, and it is unknown how many Spanish soldiers have been killed.

The Spanish formation was in disarray, and the lethal wounds of the breech-loading rifles caused a certain amount of confusion.

What surprised Francisco even more was that after the riflemen finished firing their rifles, the yellow soldiers in the back row raised hundreds of barrels and aimed them at the Spanish phalanx.

Lord, what is that?