Chapter 848: The Royal City of Spain
The choking mushroom cloud was still hovering over the beach, and the Spanish soldiers had killed nearly 2,000 people in the blink of an eye. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoWhere is the remaining hundreds of people still have a trace of fighting spirit? One by one, they scattered in all directions in a panic.
Only the governor of Manila, Francisco, did not flee, clutching the severed arm of the guard on his chest, and shouted hoarsely, as if he had gone mad.
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Several officers rushed over, trying to carry Francisco to retreat. But Francisco was under the spell, roaring and struggling so frantically that the officers couldn't lift him up. In the end, the Spaniards had to abandon the governor, abandon him, and flee to the Spanish royal city.
When the Tiger Army commandos came ashore, Francisco seemed to suddenly come to his senses, got up and fled to the east. But at this time, where will the Tiger Army let go of this Spanish butcher? The soldiers aimed at Francisco's thigh and snapped fire.
Francisco was shot in the thigh, screamed and fell forward, falling into the sand.
The soldiers rushed forward and tied up the lame governor of Manila.
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Hundreds of Spanish soldiers who were still alive fled to the "Spanish Castle" west of Manila.
After the Tiger soldiers landed, they then pursued Manila.
The whole Manila was very depressed because the Han people of the Eighth Company were killed. More than a month later, the smell of the bloody massacre still lingers in the city of Manila, and the soldiers of the Tiger Army can still see patches of blood on the stone bricks in the streets and alleys as they pass by the empty Eighth Company.
One can imagine how the women and children of the Eighth Company died tragically under the bayonets of the Europeans on the day of the massacre.
Passing by the Eighth Company, 5,000 Tiger Ben soldiers were full of hatred and slaughtered outside the Spanish royal city.
The Spaniards also tried to make a final resistance using the cannons on the city walls.
The answer of the Tiger Army to Spain was cannonballs. The heavy twenty-four-pounder cannon was removed from the ironclad ship, aimed at the city cannon on the city wall, and began to bombard.
The Spanish soldiers with only a few hundred people left could only operate a dozen guns, but the Tiger Army brought a hundred heavy guns from the ship at one time, and the difference in firepower was very large.
After only three rounds of fire, more than half of the more than 100 Spanish gunners who operated the guns were killed by the 24-pound flowering shells, and all the artillery was dumbfounded. In the roar of Fanjiazhuang's cannons, flames and shock waves exploded on the city walls one after another, and the Spanish defenders were blown up as if they had experienced a disaster movie.
Li Laosi spent his time standing on a hill four miles away from the royal city, using a telescope to observe the movements in the royal city.
Obviously, the whites in the royal city knew the sins on their hands, and knew that the yellow race would not let them go after attacking the royal city, so they all went out. Not only were hundreds of soldiers guarding the city walls, but countless middle-aged people, the elderly, and even underage children who could hold guns went to the city to "defend" the royal city.
The addition of these civilians brought the number of defenders on the walls to more than two thousand.
Every time a soldier or militia member was wounded by the fire of the Tiger Army, a white woman from the city went up to lift the wounded and went down to rescue them.
Li Laosi even saw a dozen white women and two artillerymen forming an artillery group, operating a city defense heavy artillery at the head of the city, trying to fire at the rifled guns of the Tiger Ben Army.
This is no longer an ordinary war, because of the blood feud of the Eight Company Massacre, this is a bloody battle to the death. Women, children, and women, young and old, were involved in the war.
However, the efforts of these white people, in the face of hundreds of years of equipment gap, are like mantis arms as a car.
One after another, the flowering bombs were fired at the top of the city, as if countless huge fireworks were being unleashed on the bodies of the defenders. The blast blew up one Spaniard after another.
Li Laosi saw an officer shouting at the surrounding soldiers and militiamen, as if to encourage the Spaniards to fight to the end. As a result, a shell exploded next to him, and he was suddenly hit by the shock wave, flying into the air like a thrown sandbag, and then fell more than ten meters away with a thud.
Li Laosi saw another rifled cannon shell shoot into the feet of four Spanish women carrying the wounded. With a flash of sparks, four Spanish women were blown away along with their wounded on stretchers. By the time the flames of the explosion were extinguished, there were no living people around.
A cone-shaped flowering catapulted into the battlement wall of the city wall, smashing the battlement wall to pieces in one fell swoop. Li Laosi saw that behind the collapsed battlement wall were actually hiding two old Spanish men, with white hair and arquebuses in their hands. Then only a flash of fire was seen, and the two old men were engulfed in the flames of the explosion of the flowering bomb.
On the city wall, the screams were endless, and flesh and blood were flying.
If they hadn't known that they had more than 20,000 Chinese donations in their hands, and that this war was a bloody battle that could not be surrendered, the Spaniards would have admitted defeat long ago.
However, the blood debt came first, surrender was also death, and the Spaniards could only hold out to the end.
But the flowering shells fired by a hundred heavy guns were so ferocious that in an hour, almost a quarter of the walls of the small Spanish royal city were destroyed. The Spanish soldiers and militia did not dare to resist on the walls. They retreated and fled into the buildings in the royal city, attempting to engage in a final street fight.
It's a pity that the equipment of the Tiger Ben Army is too advanced, and any battle is to seek death.
The Tiger Army carried out 500 mortars, climbed the walls of the royal city, and began to bombard the buildings in the royal city.
The mortarists did not know which building contained the recalcitrant Spanish soldiers or militiamen, and since the entire royal city was full of white men and women, the gunners were ready to blow the entire royal city into ruins.
The royal city, which housed thousands of colonists, was originally not large, with an area of only one square kilometer. The royal city has only been built for more than 30 years, most of the places are vacant land, there are not many buildings in the city, and it will not take much time to blow them all up.
The buildings in the royal city were like fragile building blocks, and the heavy mortars smashed through the roofs and exploded.
Building after building collapsed in the sound of explosions, and I don't know how many sinful Spaniards were crushed to death in those ruins.
The Spaniards had never seen such firepower.
This is not the firepower that this era should have. The Spaniards fought all over the planet and had not heard of such weapons and cannons.
Soon, they collapsed. Women and children fled from the crumbling buildings under white flags, while hundreds of adult Spanish men rushed to the eastern wall in desperation.
The small number of tigers on the eastern city wall gave these men some loopholes, and they jumped off the city wall and fled into the coconut grove outside the royal city.
Li Laosi stood in the middle of the western city wall, looked at these fleeing white people, and nodded.
"Good escape. If he didn't flee, Ben had no reason to attack the Malays outside the city. ”
Chai Shengjin, the head of the regiment under Li Laosi, asked, "Uncle, what should we do with these women and children?" ”
Li Laosi said: "His Royal Highness has an order, all Spanish men will be killed, and all women will be enslaved and sold to the bitter cold Liaodong. ”