Chapter 872. Attack

Huang Degong is an army general, so using a battleship as a bunker is definitely a stupid idea! In the overwhelming artillery fire, the tall and mighty Ming battleships were weak like sand sculptures standing on the beach, and with the roar of Dutch artillery fire, the fragments of the ship's planks collapsed like huge sand grains of the waves.

Very sadly, after only commanding two rounds of shelling, Chen Xinghua could no longer stand, the deck was torn by artillery fire for more than a meter, the gun compartment was directly seen by the sun, a gun beside him was set in the deck wall, and Yang Qi's gun head swept his armor and scraped him out.

Kneeling on the ground and spitting blood, the blood on his head was dripping on his eyes, one eye couldn't even be opened, he was seriously injured, and with the support of his sense of honor, the leader of the first regiment still supported the command knife to stand up again, holding the knife and roaring miserably and miserably.

"Fire!"

But almost to his voice, another round of blazing cannonballs slashed his head and face, sawdust splashed, and dust flew and completely drowned his figure.

After all, it was a private house, and the two-story buildings in Manila could not compare with the artillery forts of the former enemy forts, and in Cohen's nervous attention, the city of Manila, which was originally neat and beautiful like a large garden, was also beaten in a mess by the rolling shelling.

In the sound of clicking, the floor slab was knocked out of a large hole of more than one meter, and the green diamond bricks inside were broken and splashed everywhere, and the gorgeous lattice glass shards crackled and smashed down, smashing the flowers and leaves of the vegetable garden unique to the Chinese in the backyard, full of desolation.

Before the trembling building survived the pain, the next cannon fire had already smashed over, and with a clicking sound, the crack suddenly expanded on the wall, and the roof, which could no longer be supported, collapsed to the corner of the back wall, and the bent steel bars were abruptly exposed like broken bones.

I don't know where the fire is blazing, black smoke is steaming up, and the huge city is soaked in a puff of black smoke everywhere.

Looking through the telescope, Cohen's wrinkled old face finally showed a relaxed smile, but in his smile, there was a sharp and piercing whistling sound in the air, in the overwhelming artillery fire of these sea crusaders, the frequency of the Ming army's artillery fire seemed to be almost negligible, but every blow was still full of lethality.

Bang~

In the huge explosion, the Dutch battleship East Indies, which was next to the flagship of the Batavia, actually came out with a small mushroom cloud, and the cannon fire from Fort St. Philip on the opposite side hit the stern of the sail ship squarely, and in an instant, the huge double-decker battleship of forty-seven meters was gnawed down like a toy gnawed by a dog, and the tail tower of the back seven meters was directly flattened at once, and the sailor's body was thrown out like a rag doll, and even one arm smashed directly beside Cohen, There are also wounded soldiers with broken hands and feet who fell on the sloping deck and cried heartbreakingly, and the raging fire, every point seems to signal that Da Ming is not easy to mess with!

It seems that the goddess of luck is particularly favored by Daming this round, and before Cohen woke up from the shock, another Overlord cannonball roared into the front of the ship's formation, just like yesterday's Spanish battleship Conquest, this French battleship was also directly penetrated through the powder compartment, and the huge explosion tore half of the ship to pieces, and in just a moment, the French sailors on those ships flew up, and finally fell heavily into the sea.

In the gurgling sound, the sea water poured into the cabin, and under the groan of the wood, the heavy bow was suddenly raised, and it fell silent towards the deep sea, more than 500 sailors, 61 meters of the main battleship, this time it was gone! Listening to the frightened cries for help of the French soldiers who fell into the water not far from him, the wrinkled old face of Michelle, the veteran commander of the fleet, couldn't help but pull it fiercely, and once again raised the binoculars, looking at the broken hulls of the Manila and the Kaihai, which were also bubbling and sinking in the harbor, he finally raised the red flag in his hand and waved it fiercely.

The first row of battleships, which were firing at the port, headed clockwise for the back of the fleet, and following behind them, dozens of twenty or thirty-meter Cavill transport clippers took their place, like sharp swordfish, and a large group of landing ships shouted trumpets and rowed their oars, and quickly rowed towards the shore five hundred meters away.

In the sharp artillery fire, the battle for the city has to rely on the real swords and guns of the army! Watching these clippers rush towards the harbor at a speed of 100 meters, Marquis Michel couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Now the French Army has become the first army in Europe, and the Spanish Army is the first army in Europe, and now it can be regarded as the second! There are also fierce Mughals, the barbarian descendants of the Mongol Empire to help in the war, more than a year ago the Western countries have been preparing for this expedition to the East, the sailors have destroyed the outer defense of Manila, with these strong warriors, it is estimated that tonight, you can divide the spoils with those bastard politicians in Fort San Philip, right?

Pinching the beard on his chin, Michelle, the sea tiger, couldn't help but relax, but it was always this total time, and Daming could always bring new surprises.

There was a boom, the bow of the Venetian Cavill clipper that was moving bounced up, and the mercenaries with arquebuses and shield axes on their backs in the bow were thrown out fiercely and scattered in a sea, crying out for help in horror and incredible horror, more than a dozen people were blown off their legs by the explosion, and the blood-stained sea level was red, and not far away, the most notorious "wolf pack" in the sea who smelled the blood, and the triangular fish fins were hideously exposed to the water.

But when the clipper next to him looked at this scene in horror, the explosions one after another suddenly exploded in the array of assault fleets, and the light but brittle clippers were torn apart by the violent explosion, and more than a row of landing craft directly crossed the sea level, and the rest turned the bow of the ship in fear, turned around and ran.

This scene was so sudden and incredible that for a moment even Michelgen, who had seawater dissolved in her blood, was stunned in disbelief, and for a few seconds, the veteran, who had a stinky and hard temper, roared in Dutch.

"Hurry up and find the Akito's fast artillery array and finish them off!"

However, a few observers anxiously looked at the telescope, but for a long time they did not find this artillery position with extremely fast rate of fire and extremely accurate hit rate.

"Commander! It doesn't seem to be a cannon, the explosion is coming from the water!"

"Explosion in the water, how is that possible?"

The old man's face contorted again, and Marquis Michel cried out in disbelief.

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Nothing seemed impossible in this magical land of the East, withstanding the heavy artillery fired from the city of Manila, and under the watchful eyes of a group of experienced and battle-hardened Dutch and Spanish admirals, several smaller flat-bottomed boats rowed back to the terrifying ship cemetery with trembling trembling, salvaged in the water with bamboo poles, and after twenty minutes, a large circle of half-sunken clay pots pulled by floating wooden barrels was pulled back by them.

Daming mines!

This thing once shined in the Anti-Japanese War back then, and now in the hands of Mao Jue, it has increased its power by several points, and it is also filled with the formula left over from the old road of Liaodong Xuankong that has been feathered and soared, the secret of the alchemist, two substances that Mao Jue does not know are filled in the clay pot, the bottom of the rushing boat hit the rope of traction, the clay pot slammed into the bottom of the boat and the bow of the ship, and the explosives mixed together burst out with this terrifying lethality.

The clay pot was packed in the barrel, a sailor with a big stone from the distance smashed over, boom, the barrel with the iron hoop was torn to pieces in an instant, and even the deck was blown apart, next to a few meters away the sailor was blown by the force of the explosion and sat on the ground, the barrel and the fragments of the clay pot pierced his body with blood, covering his face, the unlucky sailor rolled on the ground in pain.

Watching this scene from afar, a group of Western admirals, including Michelle, gasped.

Five hundred meters from here to the harbor, densely packed with mines, I don't know how many floating, dragging mines up and down like this.

In the whistling sound, another Overlord cannon cannonball smashed down, stirring up a column of water several meters high, and then exploded under the water, and the heavy capital battleships were all floating, and the Spanish admiral Placido, who had always looked down on the Dutch, turned his head with a trembling voice, and asked Michelle with a pale face.

"Commander, what should I do?"

In a group of blank eyes, an extraordinarily fierce one bloomed on Michelle's face again.

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Boom ~ Boom ~

Mines exploded one after another, columns of water splashed on the side of the ship one by one, thick explosion smoke even rose from the water, and the fragments of wood that exploded and collapsed were tragically delayed, but this time, the dense mines could no longer stop the Dutch and the Spaniards from advancing.

Because once again, Michel threw the main battleship into the battlefield as cannon fodder.

The three main battleships rushed forward in fear and blood in the captain's heart, and although the heavy battleships were scarred by the mines, they could not sink for a while.

Following them, dozens of Cavill clippers once again rushed ferociously towards Manila City.

Click~

With a huge crash, the three thunderbolts plunged directly into the body of the slowly sinking Manila with their sharp bows, but their journey ended here! The first half of the water compartment was all broken, and with the two opponents, they also slowly sank.

However, next to them, the small boats were also fiercely stuck on the shore, the Spanish army carrying Western halberds and flintlock pistols immediately jumped ashore violently and ferociously, the Mongol descendants of the Mughal Empire carried shields, scimitars and axes, and the French army also abandoned the so-called elegance, wielding thin swords and spears with a hideous face, and rushed viciously towards the city of Manila.

"Sure enough, he's a ruthless man!"

On Fort Philip, putting down the binoculars, Huang Degong couldn't help but sigh, but in the next second, his eyes, which were also slightly dim, burst out with an extraordinarily hot battle intent, and the handle of the command knife on his waist clucked!