Chapter 402: Fierce Battle Fire

The sailors and crews of the Spanish Expeditionary Force were exhausted after many days of sailing at sea, especially after the order to rest for three days on the flagship, and these people ran to the deck one after another, wine, indigenous women, and maybe something else.

The attitude of the Portuguese soldiers who welcomed them in the following line made them even less vigilant, and when the wide-eyed Count Sandino fell to the ground, they had not yet reacted.

But the Portuguese officer who came out to meet him paid no attention to the short sword inserted in the earl's body, and ran in the direction of the cargo, and the people who followed Sandino off the ship reacted, and shouted and shouted there, some drew their scimitars and bayonets, and some took out their arquebuses and prepared to shoot, but because such a scene was not expected, many preparations were not made, and the arquebuses could not be fired in a hurry.

The gunfire rang out immediately, and all the Spaniards on the dock were suddenly knocked over, and I don't know when it started, a team of musketeers had already come out of the stacked goods, quickly stood in three rows, and began to fire, and the Spanish sailors were caught off guard,

After all, the regular army was extraordinary, and immediately some officers began to give orders, and the more than a hundred people on the dock could not take care of it, but under the cover of the side of the ship, the people above began to return fire with arquebuses, and more importantly, the ships on the shore had artillery on them, and this artillery was enough to raze the entire dock to the ground.

But the officer who gave the order then changed his face, and the goods covered with tarpaulins and canvases on the dock were removed from the coverings, revealing their true faces, and the swarthy cannons were facing the ships moored in the harbor, and the people standing behind the guns were already holding torches towards the primer.

And the guns on the ships have even just begun to charge, and the arquebusiers who are standing there to shoot have long been scattered, and the sharp-eyed officers on the flagship even saw that the people who operated the guns were also "Portuguese", could it be that Spain and Portugal were already at war on the European continent!

And in Malacca, there were at most 600 Portuguese soldiers, why did they have more than a dozen artillery pieces on the docks, and they were such powerful artillery.

There was no room for him to think about it so much, there was a loud bang, the entire dock was trembling, the power of the nine-pounder cannon was vividly exerted at such a close distance, the five-hundred-ton sail warship could be said to be a behemoth, but the structure of the Spanish ship had a characteristic at this time, that is, there were tall ship buildings, which had not changed until thirty years later, after the large-scale appearance of the Galen ship.

The tall ship tower was the best target at this time, and the second roar of a dozen guns had already smashed the flagship leaning on the dock to pieces.

The ships of the Spanish fleet were all sailing, and the port was like hell, full of cannonballs, broken planks, and screams.

The artillery on the dock does not need to be corrected, but it needs to be constantly loaded and fired, and it will have the best effect, even if the Spanish ships in the port have been prepared to shoot, but for the naval guns, it is almost impossible to complete the task of hoisting, but if they fire at this time, the shells can only fall on their own ships, what to do, can only sail the ship out of the port.

At this time, the quality of the cast cannon was not so reassuring, after the five cannons, the soldiers behind the cannon were already pouring water on the barrel with a bucket that had been prepared long ago to cool down the artillery, but one small cannon was very inopportune and fired in other directions of the dock.

And there was no goal, not to hit a boat, not to beat people, but to beat a few large fences piled up on the edge of the dock, which were filled with wood chips and straw and other things, and I don't know what the use was, after the fence was broken, these things were floating on the sea.

Three ships had already sunk in the sea, and it was very troublesome for the immobile sailing ships to enter and leave the port, but now the ships of the Spanish Expeditionary Force had fought back sporadically.

After firing six rounds from a dozen guns on the pier, it was necessary to slow down the frequency of firing, otherwise it would definitely explode, and the fire of the enemy ships began to roar, and one of the gunners in the middle was smashed to the ground, and the three people behind were also caught by ricochets, all killed.

However, even so, every round of artillery fire on the dock will hardly miss a shot, but the scattered naval guns are not so efficient, and the constantly moving ships, the pressure of the artillery fire on the shore, and the hastily organized artillery team cannot guarantee the quality of the shooting.

So even if there were casualties among the artillery on the pier, the exchange ratio was still absolutely favorable to the artillery on the pier, which is a famous saying in later generations: the artillery of the fortress is always a nightmare for the battleship.

Moreover, the will to fight of the 'Portuguese' fighters who operated the guns on the pier was staggering, they did not spare their lives, they were not afraid of the shells whistling around them, they reloaded their ammunition and fired them without hesitation, and they did not even shout loudly, but only fired silently.

There is a very well-protected bunker not far away, and the naval guns can't hit this place at all, but here you can clearly see the situation on the battlefield. Lin Zhi, the commander of the Yizhou fleet, was in this bunker, followed by more than a dozen officers.

Jiang Feng's idea of establishing a naval army is to use those who have experience as much as possible, Li Guangtou's subordinates, the Lin family, and the Xia family's clansmen have all become the backbone of the naval army, but most of Li Guangtou's subordinates are operating merchant fleets and shipyards, and there are many things to deal with logistics.

Most of the water forces of the Lin family and the Xia family are in the army, and because of their maritime experience, they are all promoted quickly in the water army system, so in the past few years, except for more than 100 people from the Netherlands who have become instructors and officers of the water army, the rest of the positions are basically monopolized by the Lin family and the Xia family.

Of course, Jiang Feng also has a means of checks and balances here, the Lin family followed Jiang Feng the earliest, so it was a foregone conclusion in Huazhou, but the Huazhou fleet was mainly a member of the Xia family, Yizhou and Fujian face each other across the sea, and the Xia family operated very well here, but the fleet in Yizhou was mainly from the Lin family.

Both have each other's considerations, both have fears, and with reasonable income, the Lin family and the Xia family are both loyal to Jiang Feng.

Lin Zhi is also an outlier in the Lin family, his brothers and his clan are like to rob and do business at sea, but he reads military books about the navy at home, but China has little theory about the navy since ancient times, but after joining the Jiang family's navy, those Netherlands from Europe told him a lot, and also solved many of his doubts and conjectures about naval warfare.

With such a study and a background in a maritime family, he was naturally promoted quickly in the army, he was already the representative of the Lin family in the navy, and he also lived up to expectations, and had several beautiful experiences in exterminating the pirates and pirates at sea, which added glory to the clansmen.

However, the generals of the navy should be on his flagship, but Lin Zhi is on land, and in the harbor of Malacca, except for the Spanish ships fighting fiercely near the port, there is no longer any ship of the Yizhou fleet, Lin Zhi looked at the battlefield intently, and said with some surprise:

"I can't imagine that the Dutch soldiers are so brave in battle!"

The people in the bunker were all Han, so Lin Zhi didn't have much consideration when he spoke, and a man dressed as a captain in the back said:

"Lord Commander, when the subordinate was training in Dengzhou, I heard from General Instructor Jason that they Dutch people have a deep hatred for these Francos, and many of their parents and relatives died under the knife of the Francois soldiers, and they have not forgotten this hatred at any moment!"

Hearing his subordinates say this, Lin Zhi couldn't help but pat the wall with his hand to express his admiration, but at this time, the artillery battle on the port gradually fell into an even balance.

As the Spanish ships moved, the artillery fire above became more and more calm, but the artillery positions on the pier were obviously prepared for a long time, and the fortifications were quite solid, and despite the casualties, there were still ten guns to fire, and in that section of the shooting, four ships had been sent to the bottom of the sea, two warships and two armed merchant ships loaded with soldiers, and the sea was full of soldiers struggling to survive, broken wood and floating corpses of ships.

At this time, someone ran into the bunker where Lin Zhi was, and the loud report said:

"Commander, everything has already hit the sea."

Hearing this order, Lin Zhi's face showed a happy smile, and he said to the herald on the side:

"Blow the trumpet!"

Several officers of the Spanish fleet were already red-eyed, desperately ordering the artillery to fire shells, but the sound of horns from the roaring battlefield still stunned them, of course, the ship's artillery fire would not stop, but the artillerymen who controlled the shore artillery suddenly stopped manipulating the guns.

More than a dozen artillerymen took out large bows from the fortifications, lit fire on the arrows, and drew their bows and arrows. A dozen men bravely stood out of the fortifications, and one of them died in the fire, but the rest shot the arrows anyway.

It was only then that the Spanish sailors in the midst of the artillery battle realized that there was a layer of straw and broken wood floating in the harbor, as well as black oil stains, and a pungent smell of sulfur floating in the harbor.

More than a dozen flaming arrows fell on the surface of the sea, and the sea burst into flames......