Chapter 264: Manila's Offensive and Defensive War (5)

Marquin didn't even want to shoot at the Spaniards on the watchtower, but when he came five hundred meters away, he shouted, "Pull the cannon up and blast it for me!" ”

The artillery company in the rear struggled to push up ten guns and aimed them at the watchtower.

Captain Diego on the guard tower saw that there were so many cannons on the opposite side, his face turned green with fright, and he pulled a soldier and said: "You quickly go back to the Governor's Mansion to report to the Governor, saying that the Chinese are coming!" ”

Seeing the soldier running back quickly, Captain Diego sighed and said, "The enemy's strength is not comparable to ours, surrender!" ”

As soon as Ma Kun below was about to open fire, he saw a white flag waving above the watchtower. "Damn it, surrender before you fight? Do these guys still have a sense of honor? ”

What Ma Kun didn't know was that Westerners and Easterners had different will to fight, and Westerners would not persist in fighting a battle that was bound to be lost. And the Orientals worship fighting to the last man.

Ignoring the Spaniards who had come out to surrender, Marcun handed them over to the follow-up troops and hurried to the city gates with two regiments.

When I came to the city gate, I found that the city had received the news, and the city gate was closed. Outside the city, however, stood a large phalanx of infantry about the size of his own.

The Spaniards made a typical phalanx of Spanish pikemen, about 2,000 people, forming a phalanx of ten columns, with pikemen with four-meter spears in their hands in front, sword and shield men on the left and right, and musketeers behind them.

Ma Kun looked at the formation on the opposite side and was stunned, he was also the first batch of non-commissioned officers of Zhu Hongsan before, and he was extremely familiar with this formation. Unlike the Spaniards, they had musketeers, who had no musketeers on their side before, and had to rely on hand grenades to fight at close range.

Seeing that the opposite side was prepared, Ma Kun also restrained his subordinates to form two regiment-sized phalanxes, and unlike the enemy, there were artillery on his side. The Spaniards' artillery was all on the city walls, but they were all Franc cannons, which were very powerful and had a limited range.

The Spaniards on the opposite side were very chivalrous and gave Marquin time to organize the team, and seeing that the team was organized, the Spanish phalanx began to move.

Carlos, the Spanish regiment commander who commanded the team, said to the chief of staff behind him: "See, the Chinese army is also well-trained, this should be their elite troops." ”

"Mr. Colonel, I wonder why these Chinese wear the same military uniforms as the British? Could it be that they were trained by the British? ”

"Impossible, on this side of East Asia, it is the Dutch and our world, and the British are all in India, and their tentacles can't reach so far."

The Chief of Staff nodded, he also agreed with the Colonel. "Mr. Colonel, you found that the Chinese did not wear armor at all, and the musketeers did not have the protection of sword and shield soldiers, did they think that they could win a battle with musketeers alone?"

"These Chinese are strange, ordering the sword and shield soldiers to wait until the first round of the enemy's musket salvo to rush forward, I believe that under the impact of our elite sword and shield soldiers, the Chinese will not last long."

The Spaniards formed a tight formation, and this kind of live target was the favorite of the artillerymen. The first round of strikes was started by artillery. The first round of live ammunition caused nearly 100 fighting casualties on the Spanish side. The Spaniards, while marveling at the range of the Chinese artillery, began to speed up their march.

Soon the Kung Fu Spaniards entered the firing distance of the musketeers. The first row of musketeers fired a volley, and the pikemen in the front row of the Spaniards fell to the ground.

Commander Carlos in the back was taken aback, "What kind of muskets are they using?" Why is the firing distance so far? "You must know that the Spanish arquebus shot at a distance of only fifty meters, but now it is a full hundred and fifty meters away from the Chinese.

Carlos saw that the second row of Chinese musketeers began to fire, and the soldiers on his side were knocked down, he couldn't sit still, and shouted: "Let the sword and shield soldiers rush up while the Chinese are loading!" ”

Now the distance between the two armies is one hundred and fifty meters, and even the fastest sprint in later generations will take sixteen seconds, not to mention that the Spanish sword and shield soldiers are each wearing heavy armor.

In just two minutes, the Chinese fired six volleys, and at a distance of more than 100 meters, the thin armor of the Spanish sword and shield soldiers could not stop the lead bullets of the muskets. After the smoke cleared, Carlos saw his sword and shield soldiers lying on the ground in the middle of the positions of the two armies, and the farthest soldier was still fifty meters away from the Chinese.

This battle can't be fought, I don't know what spells the Chinese have, their muskets have such a long range, and the reloading speed is so fast.

Seeing that the neat square of the Chinese on the opposite side began to advance with the beat of the drum, Carlos grabbed the chief of staff and shouted: "This group of Chinese is the devil, we can't win, order all the troops to withdraw to the city!" ”

Ma Kun didn't expect the other side to run away in the first round of guns, and couldn't help but scold: "The combat effectiveness of these guys is not as high as that of the Annanes, at least the Annanites still hold on to the third round of salvos." ”

Seeing that the Spaniards had withdrawn to the city, Ma Quinn immediately organized artillery to bombard the city gates. The city wall built by the Spaniards is completely incomparable with the fortified city of the Central Plains, the city wall is only two meters high, and the city gate is just a layer of iron-clad wooden planks, which was blasted open in less than half an hour.

After entering the city, Ma Kun ordered a regimental commander to lead a regiment to the harbor fort to support Zhang Hai's navy, and the remaining regiment began to fight with the Spaniards in street battles.

The Spanish will to fight was completely incomparable with the Manchu Eight Banners, and when they saw that the Chinese entered the city, they did not resist much, and they all raised white flags and surrendered.

Wang Jinbao used to be a rogue, and he knew that the resistance was the most fierce when the city was broken, but he didn't expect to win so easily now, which made him very depressed.

The Zhao family brothers on the side said: "My lord, the Francophile people are like this, they never make senseless resistance, and they surrender immediately if they can't see it." ”

"Damn, I've never seen such a shameless nation!"

The brothers of the Zhao family glanced at each other and said, "My lord, now that the city is our Han people, can we go to the natives to take revenge?" ”

"By the way, forget about this, you don't have enough manpower, I'll give you another thousand?"

"No need, thank you, there are still more than 5,000 remaining Han people in the city, and we must kill all the natives this time!"

Up to now, Spain has slaughtered the Han Chinese four times in provoking the indigenous people of Luzon, each time tens of thousands of Han Chinese have been killed, countless women have been raped, and countless assets have been robbed. The hatred between the Han and the indigenous people is fundamentally irreconcilable.

Wang Jinbao didn't pay attention to it at first, didn't he just kill a few people, are the natives still human? Then the urban area of the indigenous people fell into bad luck, and at first it was only some local Han people who began to take revenge and kill people separately. As more and more Han Chinese joined, it turned into a planned massacre.

There are still some of the natives who are relatively wealthy, and some of the new troops entered the city and saw that these rich people had secretly killed one or two families at first, and then robbed them of valuable things. However, when large forces of the Forces nouvelles entered the city, a systematic massacre of the natives began.

The New Army, organized by officers at the level of companies and platoons at the grassroots level, led by local Han Chinese, divided the urban areas inhabited by the indigenous people into ten districts. The natives were driven out of the house and robbed of their gold and silver, and then the natives of one district were taken to the river and shot en masse. Later, I felt that it was too troublesome to kill like this, so I started killing people directly in the city.

Most of the grassroots officers in Zhu Hongsan's team are outcasts and outcasts, and they are familiar with this kind of massacre. Soon more than half of the natives had been killed in three years, and then some of the soldiers took aim at the Spaniards.

The Spaniards also played a disgraceful role in previous massacres, but after all, it was not them who did it, and they also ensured the safety of their property and life when Wang Jinbao first entered the city, but I did not expect that now the Chinese will rebel and act against them.

At this time, there was no sense of chivalry and honor, and the Spaniards, seeing that their families and lives were threatened, immediately took up arms to resist, and the city immediately re-entered the battle.

The battle lasted all night, and most of the people of this era had night blindness and could not see clearly at night. But Zhu Hongsan's soldiers did not have this shortcoming, and they took advantage of the night battle. Coupled with the fact that the main Spanish commanders were captured one after another, no one organized a planned revolt, and the resistance was finally suppressed at dawn.

After dawn, Fu Wenlong entered the city, originally he was happy, and finally took Manila, which was the residence of his Nanyang governor in the future. After more than 200 years of construction by the Spaniards, Manila is the leading city in the South Seas, and it is very prosperous.

But the more Fu Wenlong walked into the city, the more he found that something was wrong, it was inevitable to die in a war, but too many people died. There were dead bodies everywhere, and there were more than a hundred corpses on the spot as far as Fu Wenlong could see.

Zhu Hongsan told Fu Wenlong when he left Dongguan that Manila was very prosperous and should be accepted completely, and if the Spaniards surrendered, they should not abuse them, and the Spaniards were all taken to Guangdong, and Zhu Hongsan should be of great use.

Zhu Hong's calculation is to use this group of Spaniards to establish a perfect scientific research system, the Chinese do not lack skilled craftsmen, but lack the rules for the formation of science and technology, so many ancient technologies have been lost to later generations. And among these Spaniards there are a large number of nobles, missionaries, and teachers, who have received a good systematic education, so these Spaniards are Zhu Hongsan's ambition.

Entering the inner city, that is, the Spanish residential area, Fu Wenlong saw that a large number of Spaniards had been killed, and many women were unclothed, and it seemed that they had also been humiliated. This is completely contrary to Zhu Hongsan's wishes.

Fu Wenlong angrily found Wang Jinbao, and when they met, he asked, "What's going on at this time?" Why the slaughter of the city? ”

Wang Jinbao didn't expect to make such a result, he fought all night last night, and finally borrowed a thousand sailors from the navy to barely suppress it.

Seeing that the governor was angry, Wang Jinbao said: "We can't help it, who would have thought of the strategy of these Franc machine tricks to trick us into the city and then move the guys, the brothers have no choice but to fight back." ”