If Tong Hu was still commanding the soldiers of the model army now, then several squads would definitely be able to cooperate well, and before the casualties were saved, they would definitely be able to use firepower to crush those natives to raise their heads. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoAnd judging from the gunshots just now, there are only seven or eight guns on the opposite stockade at most.

It's just that now he is not a model army soldier, but just some militia. The amount of time these people have been trained, and the intensity of their training is completely incomparable to that of a model army. Therefore, the mastery of these combat skills, which have relatively high requirements for organization and training, will naturally not be very good. So a few natives behind the earthen wall on the opposite side once again came out and fired at the militiamen who were running towards the gunners who had fallen to the ground.

It's just that the training level of the natives seems to be a little worse, and these shots are aimed at the people who are running, and it is more and more difficult to hit, and the natives who fired the shots are also afraid of being shot by the Chinese, so they don't dare to aim for a long time, and as a result, these shots are missed, and no one hits.

It's just that these few shots startled a few people who were running up, some immediately fell to the ground, some stood there, not knowing whether to continue running forward, and some wanted to turn around and run back.

"Stupid! They're going to load the bullets! Hurry up and take the opportunity to go up! Tong Hu shouted.

When these men heard this roar, they finally understood, and hurriedly ran towards the three-pounder gun, and then raised their hands and feet, and lifted the four gunners who were lying on the ground and did not know whether they were alive or dead, and ran back.

The training of the natives was indeed not very good, and their loading speed was even slower than Tong Hu expected. It wasn't until a few militiamen were almost out of range with their gunners that someone showed their heads on the earthen wall and was ready to shoot at them.

Tong Hu had already put the militia in order, he divided the militia into three groups, at this time, he had already advanced with a dozen militiamen to about sixty steps away from the earthen wall, ready to shoot, so before the native man could shoot, Tong Hu fired a shot.

At this distance, Tong Hu's shot already had a relatively good hit rate, and this shot hit the head of the native, and the head of the native's head suddenly exploded like a watermelon. The native fell backwards, and as soon as he let go of his hand, the gun fell off the earthen wall.

Tong Hu handed the gun in his hand to a militiaman who was following him, and at the same time took another loaded rifle from his hand, and then moved two steps upwind, avoiding the smoke caused by the shot he had just shot, and was ready to shoot again.

Tong Hu's shot obviously scared those natives, so after a long time, no one dared to show their heads. Tong Hu waved his hand, and more than a dozen militiamen with flintlock pistols took the opportunity to take a few steps forward, and then half-crouched down, ready to shoot.

The more than a dozen militiamen were ready, and then a dozen or so militiamen with guns came up from behind, all the way past those militias who were aiming, and even over where the artillery was, and then half-crouched down and prepared to shoot.

At the same time, two militiamen ran over with mules, and under the cover of the militiamen's fire, they would drag the cannon back until it was relatively safe, and then open fire.

Apparently, the natives behind the earthen wall had also noticed this attempt by the militiamen, so they began to show their courage and shoot at the militiamen below. The militiamen also opened fire on the natives behind the earthen wall. Compared to the unobstructed militia, those natives are covered by earthen walls, only above the shoulders, and relatively speaking, of course, more difficult to hit. But on the other hand, these natives obviously did not have much training, so both the accuracy of shooting and the speed of loading were much worse than those of the Chinese militia. Of course, more importantly, they had too few muskets. Compared with the nearly 100 muskets in the hands of the Chinese militia below, there are only ten muskets in the hands of those natives, and they are all old-fashioned arquebuses, and the difference in firepower density between the two sides is too great. Therefore, in this round of fire, although the natives were completely suppressed, although they risked their lives to fire below, they only wounded one Chinese militiaman, and they themselves were killed four.

Relying on such a firepower advantage, the young men of the Chinese militia successfully dragged the three-pounder gun back.

"Okay, step back one at a time. The first one is the first to retreat. Seeing that the three-pounder cannon was retreating, Tong Hu gave such an order.

The three-pounder gun was withdrawn to a distance of 100 paces, a relatively safe distance, although theoretically the bullets fired from the arquebus were still quite lethal at this distance, and if they hit the torso, they would be enough to kill someone. However, at such a distance, the probability of a hit is already small. This is like the bullets fired by the AKM automatic rifles of later generations, which theoretically kill people after flying out for two kilometers, but the nominal effective range is only 500 meters, and in fact, if you want to hit the enemy with one shot at a distance of 400 meters, you have to rely on luck. The same is true for smoothbore arquebuses, and at such a distance, if you want to hit the target accurately, you really need the luck of the smoke from the ancestral tomb.

The battle behind Tong Hu does not have much suspense in Tong Hu's opinion, although at this distance, the hit rate of the untrained Chinese militia artillery has obviously dropped a lot, but, anyway, it is nothing more than a matter of firing a few more cannons, and even Tong Hu is more willing to shoot a few more cannons at this distance, because those natives are still constantly firing at the cannon with their arquebuses, wanting to try their luck. This gave the artillerymen the opportunity to solve them directly with shells. In Tong Hu's opinion, it is much safer to destroy the enemy by artillery bombardment at a long distance than to go into the stockade and fight at close distance to deal with these guys.

After two quarters of an hour of artillery preparation, the wall had been broken down in several places, and many natives had been killed near the wall. Tong Hu noticed that there were no more natives shooting at them near the wall. And Mr. Song's face on the side gradually changed a little, he knew that with so much gunpowder, Mr. Song, who was in charge of the accounts, was afraid that he was a little distressed. Then said:

"Alright, almost, don't fight. Cannon. Get on the bayonet, we're on! ”

The battle that followed went very well, as too many of the able-bodied natives had been killed by the cannons near the wall. However, in the later battles, the militia found a number of Tessie-style swords, apparently from the Spaniards as well.

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"Lord Wu, the Spaniard named Elber is here again." A servant reported to the new Manila tribune, Wu Tiande.

"Oh, then let him wait in the living room for a while, and then go when the official has changed his clothes."

In fact, Wu Tiande's official position of the so-called "protector of the people" was completely sealed by the Zheng family casually, and it was not reported to the imperial court at all, so naturally there was no legal official uniform of "protector". However, in addition to being the "protector" of Manila, Wu Tiande is also a thousand generals in the Zheng family's army. This official position is recognized by the imperial court, so it also has official uniforms. Wu Tiande's so-called change of clothes means changing into the official uniform of this military attaché.

Wu Tiande also knew why the Spaniard came. He must have come because of the recent series of attacks by the Chinese against the local natives. At the beginning, when he proposed to the Spaniards that the assets of the Chinese looted by the natives must be returned, and that the natives who participated in the massacre of the Chinese must also be severely punished, the Spaniards refused to come forward to force the local natives to hand over their property and murderers on the grounds that the natives were barbarians and could not reason with them, and the Spaniards could not control them. Nowadays, most of these Spaniards come to the door......

While thinking like this, Wu Tiande got dressed and went to the living room, and sure enough, he saw Elber waiting there.

"Mr. Wu, you Chinese must immediately stop the attacks and massacres against the law-abiding and peaceful residents." As soon as he saw Wu Tiande, Elber said with a calm face.

"Peaceful residents?" Wu Tiande said with a sarcastic smile, "Will the peaceful residents have so much property stolen from our expatriate homes in their hands, and will they participate in your massacre of the Chinese?" ”

"The problem now is that your diaspora is slaughtering them, not the other way around! Spain is a place where the law is spoken, and you expatriates cannot be allowed to openly rob their homes! "If you don't stop doing this, we'll have to take drastic measures to avoid further deterioration and loss of control!" ”

"Mr. Elber." Wu Tiande also said with a straight face, "When I asked you to recover the stolen goods from those locals and punish the murderer, what did you answer me, you won't forget, right?" You have made it clear that you will recover your property and punish the murderers, and you will do it yourself! And now you have come to talk to me about this. As for drastic measures, you can give them a try. If you are going to tear up the peace treaty between us and start another war, I can only say that we are willing to accompany you. We will play with you for as long as you are willing to play! ”

Wu Tiande knew that the Spaniards had begun to take a posture of ignorance in order to bring the Chinese and the locals into conflict. In this way, the power of the Chinese can be contained, and secondly, they can also take advantage of such contradictions. When they first owed the "Peace Treaty", the Spaniards had always been worried that the armed Chinese would not dominate in the future, so they had to find a way to use the local natives to contain the Chinese. Wu Tiande also knew that most of the so-called drastic measures taken by the Spaniards were not directly waging war against the Chinese, because this would cause war. Most of their so-called drastic measures are to arm the local natives and then let them fight against the Chinese. However, Wu Tiande did not intend to prevent them from doing so, because although this was not necessarily a good thing for the local Chinese, it was definitely a good thing for the interests of the Zheng family that he really represented. Not to mention how much the Chinese in Luzon would have to spend on the Zheng family's arms after such a fierce battle, and after the battle between them and the natives who were obviously superior in numbers intensified, they had to effectively integrate internally in order to continue to gain the upper hand, and the Zheng family could also use this opportunity to gain control of the entire Luzon Chinese.