When Manodi arrived at the barracks, there was no sign of the gunfire sliding.

With the help of the faint light of the fire # gun when it was fired, Manodi saw that there were figures everywhere, and everywhere there was this faint fire, and there was a dense sound of gunfire.

"Who is the Ming Army? Why is it so messy? Which general was in command of the battle? ”

"Lord Governor, the fire is too dim to see."

"Shout at the soldiers and see where our soldiers are." Or Manodi is smart, and he can't see his face or clothes clearly in the night, but his voice can be heard.

The soldiers gathered around Manodi shouted to the soldiers who were shooting: "Your Excellency the Governor is here, where are our soldiers?" ”

At first, the soldiers were so focused on shooting that they didn't hear the shouting at all, but the Portuguese soldiers were shouting more and more, and they finally heard it clearly.

"Me!"

"Me!"

"Me!"

……

The guns were still fired, but the voices of Portuguese soldiers were everywhere, and inside and outside the tent, a piece of first-person in Portuguese.

"What's going on? Why are the soldiers so scattered? I can't see clearly in the night, why is there a scuffle with the Ming army, I want to punish the officers who command the battle. "Ma Nuodi is angry and angry, now the situation of the Ming army is unknown, as long as they are driven away, what kind of stupid pig is this, he actually expects to destroy all the Ming army in the night, and still fights with them, haven't they learned the art of war?

"Your Excellency, this is not the case!"

"What's wrong? If you have a fart, let it go! "Manodi is an impatient, and the situation of the soldiers is very critical now, and he is not used to this too rational fool.

"Your Excellency Governor, why didn't we find the Ming army - if it was a melee with the Ming army, how could the fire # guns shoot freely if they were so close?"

"No Ming army? What exactly are you going to say? ”

"Probably...... Probably ......"

Manodi understood, "Could it be that our soldiers are the ones who shoot?" ”

“……”

"Didn't they see the shadow of the Ming army, so they fired their guns indiscriminately?" Manodi's brain "buzzed", he couldn't believe such a reality.

(9)∴dǐng(9)∴diǎn(9)∴小(9)∴語,.2≈3.≥os_(); "Lord Governor, I can't see clearly at night, and I haven't misunderstood them......"

"Misunderstanding? How is that possible? Although he didn't want to believe it, he gave the order, "Let our soldiers stop shooting." ”

The Portuguese soldiers were clamoring again, but the gunfire was sparse until it died down completely.

"Could it really be that our soldiers are shooting at each other?" Manodi was stunned, "Let their commander come over." ”

"Your Excellency the Governor......"

"Your Excellency the Governor......"

"Your Excellency the Governor......"

……

Several Portuguese commanders of all levels who commanded the battle came to Manodi, and in the huge light of the torches, they did not understand why the face of the Governor could form ice.

"What about the Ming army? Where is the Ming army? ”

"It's not the Ming army on the other side......" Before the unlucky guy finished speaking, he understood what Ma Nuodi meant.

"Smack, smack!"

Two clear slaps beat this unlucky guy to the ground.

If he hadn't arrived in time, the barracks would have been in chaos to catch up with the fratricidal shooting competition, "Take it down, and punish it after dawn." ”

"Your Excellency the Governor......" The unlucky guy still wanted to defend himself.

"Get out!" Manodi's answer was only one word.

The unfortunate man was escorted down by the soldiers, and Manodi began to comfort the wounded soldiers, and when he examined them, he found that the soldiers who were killed and wounded under the fire # guns far outnumbered the soldiers in the explosion, "these fools, also worthy of being called commanders......"

"Your Excellency the Governor, there are no corpses of Ming soldiers."

"The Ming army didn't enter the city at all, you were scared half to death by your own people," Manodi finished speaking, and felt that something was wrong, "What's going on with the explosion at the beginning?" ”

That's the cause of tonight's chaos, and the root cause must be found.

The Ming soldiers on the balloon seemed to hear Manodi's question, which only they could answer.

Another ten "10,000 enemies".

There was a bomb that exploded not far in front of Manodi, but fortunately the density of soldiers here was too large, and they used their bodies as shields for Manodi.

The tragic situation happened right in front of Manodi's eyes.

Soldiers were full of flesh and blood, some broke their arms, some couldn't find their thighs, some lost their eyeballs, ears and noses, and more soldiers covered their chests and backs with their hands, but the blood still gushed out from their wounds like a spring, and turned into a trickle of mountains and down their arms and fingers.

The soldiers at the center of the explosion were even more in ashes, and they couldn't find even a decent vertebrae, only a trace of ghosts, which spread through the air with the smell of sulfur.

After a short period of pain and numbness, those wounded soldiers cried in pain and called their mothers, beating their chests and feet, choking the heavens and the earth, and the sky was cracking.

As the supreme commander of the Portuguese army, Manodii was still not afraid of danger, he commanded the soldiers to rescue the wounded, and on the other hand, he searched for Mingjun's spies in the barracks, and made trouble until dawn, but still found nothing.

The ten fires in the sky had long since drifted to the west with the wind and slowly fell in the military camp of the Ming army.

"Lord Governor, I have noticed a strange phenomenon." One of Manodi's personal soldiers saw that everyone was busy in the middle of the night, but they didn't catch a single spy of the Ming army, and not only remembered the sparks in the sky in those days.

"What phenomenon?" Manodi's eyes were bloodshot, and he obviously didn't sleep well, but what made him even more physically and mentally exhausted was the miserable condition of the Portuguese soldiers, who had followed him to the East to make a fortune, but now they were missing arms and legs, and even if they could save their lives, they would surely spend the rest of their lives in desolation.

What he thinks about the most now is those Ming army spies who don't see the head and the end of the dragon, and he has no interest in any strange imagination, so he didn't even raise his head, and continued to frown, thinking about where the Ming army spies were.

"The bombs of the Ming army may have fallen from the sky." Seeing that Ma Nuodi was not interested in his words, the soldiers hesitated a little, but still made their own judgment.

"Falling from the sky?" Manodi raised his head suddenly, his eyes widened, and he looked incredulous, "What did you say?" ”

"Lord Doge, after the explosion, I saw a few sparks in the sky drifting westward, but before, I had never seen such strange sparks in the low sky." The soldier gritted his teeth and told what he had discovered.

"Starfire? Maybe a meteor or something. Manodi still couldn't believe it.

"These sparks drifted westward, about the whereabouts of the Ming army's barracks, if it was a meteor, the Ming army would inevitably have a riot, in fact, the Ming army was very calm all night." The pro-soldier originally just thought it was strange, but after such an analysis, he himself felt that the suspicion was getting bigger and bigger, "Besides, it is impossible for a meteor to fly so low." ”

"I've heard that there were Kong Ming lanterns in the Ming Dynasty, is this also a firearm?" Ma Nuodi also believed a little, and in the absence of finding the Ming army's spies, he could only believe that the Ming army came from heaven.

"Lord Governor, it must be, no wonder the Ming army is just besieging the city, but not attacking." The pro-soldier affirmed his judgment even more, and he was a little proud of his meticulous observations.

"Okay, pass the order, if you see this kind of spark again, shoot it down with a fire # gun." Manodi finally gave the order, and he was also very troubled by the strange firearms of the Ming army.

After dawn, the losses in the explosion last night, more than three hundred soldiers were killed, and five hundred soldiers were wounded, the ammunition depot was detonated, and the ammunition of the fire # gun suddenly became tense.

Ma Nuodi was extremely angry, it was not terrible to fail, it was a big deal to surrender, what he was most afraid of was the casualties of the soldiers, a battle last night, so that he lost more than 800 soldiers, and he didn't even see the shadow of the Ming army, most of the soldiers were killed and injured under the fire # guns of their own people.

In fact, for Manodi, failure is not terrible, and if you fail, you can start all over again, but once a soldier is sacrificed or disabled, he will never come back, and the ammunition depot is blown up, and the advanced firearms in his eyes have become decorations.

At the same time that Ma Nuodi was disappointed to clear the loss, behind a few buildings that were not noticed, several feathers cut through the city and landed in front of the Ming army's camp, with white paper with special marks on the arrows, and a few words were written on them.

Zheng Zhilong took the paper ball handed over by his own soldiers and frowned, "The way of balloon attack may not be effective in the future, the altitude of the balloon flight is insufficient, and the Portuguese army's fire # gun may burst the balloon." ”

Once the balloon is burst, it will leak, and under the pressure of the atmosphere, it will decline from a high altitude, no way, the balloon of the Ming army, which used to be mainly against the northern nomads, the opponent at that time, was their bow and arrow, and now to the south, it seems that the firearms bureau needs to be improved.

However, the Firearms Bureau is in Beijing, and even if it can be improved, it will not send the new balloon to Nanyang for a while.

"Commander, I have a way to blow up the fort on the gate of the Portuguese army." Zheng Xing is not only Zheng Zhilong's nephew, but also Zheng Zhilong's subordinate when he was a pirate before.

"Oh? What can you do? Zheng Zhilong was overjoyed, he knew that Zheng Xing had always loved to use his brain, and there were many ghosts, and at critical moments, there were often miraculous effects.

"There is no need to place soldiers on the balloon, calculate the angle, let it float towards the city gate after it rises into the air, if the bullets of the Portuguese army break the balloon, the balloon will fall at the city gate, and the 'ten thousand enemies' can just blow up the fort near the city gate." Zheng Xing's meaning is that the front part of the "10,000 enemies" is equipped with an ordinary flowering bomb or something, and when it lands, the firing pin will detonate the flowering bomb, and then the flowering bomb will detonate the "10,000 enemies".

"However, once the balloon is captured by the Portuguese army, is it not a leak of our military secrets? Besides, how do you know that the '10,000 enemies' will #explode at the city gates? Zheng Zhilong felt that the value was just a plan, and it was not easy to implement it.

"Commander, don't worry about the secret, once the '10,000 enemies' explodes, the balloon will be shattered, and the Portuguese army will not get valuable technology at all," the more Zheng Xing thought about it, the more he felt that this method was feasible, and a cunning light flashed in his eyes, "Anyway, Malacca Cheng will be breached sooner or later, if the secret is leaked, then ......" He made a head-killing gesture.

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