"It's a nightmare, I hope I wake up from it soon!"

Coquela muttered to himself, then glanced at Lieutenant Gonzalez, who was standing there without daring to breathe, with beads of sweat on his face: "Lieutenant, it seems that you are not as good as you think you are, and what you bring is not good news, but complete bad news. ”

Gonzalez couldn't answer.

"Now you still have a chance to make up for your mistakes, I give you three hundred, no, two hundred, no, one hundred and fifty men, you go to support the battery, take back the docks. If you can't do that, then get ready to hang on the gallows. Coqueira said coldly.

"Yes, Your Excellency." Gonzalez couldn't refuse.

One hundred and fifty soldiers is the limit that Coquela can allocate to him, you must know that in the entire Spanish royal city, there are only 1,500 soldiers, and if you mobilize all the men who can be mobilized, the number is only about 1,900!

Fortunately, however, there were still native soldiers and Japanese mercenaries available in the barracks outside the city, and Gonzalez ended up commanding 500 soldiers, all armed and slaughtering the battery.

At this moment, the battle for the fort has reached a fever pitch, after taking four batteries in a row, the Spaniards who retreated from the lost batteries are all concentrated in the fifth battery, they have gathered about 500 men, and are suppressing the artillery of the Tiger Guard with heavy artillery fire, and at the same time blocking the approaching Tiger Guard with dense bullets.

This was the most critical moment, taking this highest battery, and the remaining batteries of the Spaniards were under its attack, holding on to the terrain. The Three Thousand Tiger Guards were confident that they would repel any counterattack from the Spaniards and cover the landing of the main fleet in port. But if you can't take the highest battery, you will always have to be suppressed by it, and when enemy reinforcements arrive, you may have to be flanked from both sides!

The person responsible for tackling the fortifications is Du Zhishan.

He originally belonged to Gu Jiaming's Third Regiment - now the Third Brigade, because of his military exploits. He was transferred to the Teaching Brigade, which was also a sign of imminent promotion. Although his name is kind and kind, he is a man of iron and steel. Failed to get close on two consecutive occasions. After being repulsed by the enemy's dense fire, he was in a hurry and lifted the helmet used to protect his head directly away.

"Hirohito!" He said to his team's instructor, "I'll take people up." If I die, you will continue with someone, that is, Jianyu, we have all broken through head-on, and we can't lose the face of the tiger guard in front of these white-skinned fans! ”

"What do you mean by that?" Meng Guangren was a little puzzled.

"That's what it means!" Du Zhishan unbuttoned the military uniform on his body again, tied it around his waist, and hung a full eight palm thunders - after the battle of Shan'dong and Haihe in the eleventh to twelfth years of Chongzhen, according to the situation on the battlefield, Yu Guozhen asked the Xinxiang Weapons Research Institute to start researching grenades, because of the improvement of chemical technology. The zipper trigger fuse was developed, and with this thing, a new weapon made of pig iron was developed, and the palm mine was developed"In this era, grenades were not a novelty. Among the European ** teams, there are specialized grenadiers. However, the palm thunder produced by Xinxiang is superior to its European counterpart in terms of power and manufacturing process.

It has been half a year since the successful development of the palm mine, but it has not yet been tested on the battlefield in actual combat. In a sense, the battle in the South China Sea was also an actual combat test for a series of new equipment and weapons in Xinxiang. Yu Guozhen has invested heavily in the research and development of new weapons, taking the modification of muskets as an example, although he has now made a flintlock pistol, but it is still front-loaded, but the research on the rear-loading has also lasted for three years. The study of yellow powder has been studied since the beginning, and now it has begun to emerge.

The largest research institute in Xinxiang is the Weapons Research Institute, although there is no old man like Song Yingxing in charge, but with a new talent like Jiang Youzhong, the effect is not bad at all. If in the eyes of the ignorant Jianlu, Xinxiang's new weapons emerge in an endless stream, as if they appeared out of thin air without any warning, but the middle and high-level figures who have changed Xinxiang know how much price they have to pay.

This is also inevitable, Yu Guozhen is using just ten years to complete the accumulation that should have been completed in a hundred or even one hundred and fifty years, which not only costs a lot of money, but also has to sacrifice human lives when necessary.

"You're going like this?" Seeing Du Zhishan's appearance like this, Meng Guangren knew that he was going to work hard, so he hurriedly untied the clothes on his body and handed it over: "Double armor!" ”

The southern climate was hot and prone to overboarding, so they wore not the kind of cuirass that was difficult to take off, but an inlay armor hung by a chain of buckles. While the inlay armor was easy to take off, its protection was reduced compared to the cuirass, so even the double armor could not block the Spaniards' muskets at close range. Its function is nothing more than to prevent the abrasion of flying debris.

The other tiger guards also untied their armor one after another, so that the charging comrades could have a little more hope of survival in the face of enemy firepower.

Wearing double armor, Du Zhishan took a breath, he was not without fear, but when fear reached the extreme, it could make people desperate. In an instant, his eyes turned blood-red, and then he stuck a sapper shovel in his back and strode out of cover.

"Tiger Guard, Wan Sheng!" He shouted in a hoarse voice, and the man rushed forward.

This time he directly led a team of tiger guards to rush forward, according to the military system of the tiger guards, a team of 145 people, including three sheds of musketeers, one shed of pikemen - in fact, the musketeers can also be deployed in a long spear formation, and the pikemen can also be skilled in the use of muskets, plus the team leader, team deputy and instructor, health officer, communicator, and guard directly under the team. But the soldiers brought by Du Zhishan this time, there is no such difference, without exception, they did not carry muskets, but brought sapper shovels and grenades.

This is the blitz to the death!

Tiger guards rarely organize death squads, especially against rogues, they don't need to organize at all, but this time they are facing the Spaniards with strong firepower, and without death squads, it is difficult for them to break through the opponent's defenses. Meng Guangren watched Du Zhishan charge forward, watching one tiger guard after another fall from the gun, he was anxious, ran to the fire support battalion, and shouted at the battalion: "Don't feel sorry for your cannons, bombard me and suppress the fire of the Spaniards!" ”

Before he could finish speaking, the battalion was pressing him down, and both of them fell to the ground at the same time, and then they heard a "buzzing" sound overhead, and then the ground trembled. Meng Guangren looked sideways and saw a shell from the enemy rolling and jumping on the ground, wading out of a deep ditch.

The place where the artillery battalion is located was originally the focus of the opponent's bombardment, and the artillery battalion was spitting, scolded and said: "Don't worry, Lao Tzu doesn't believe it, there are more capable of artillery than Lao Tzu in this world...... Brothers, if you don't exert any strength, let Lao Tzu bombard the Spaniards with the one in your crotch! ”

The Tiger Guard Artillery Battalion responded with a bang, and they also knew that the value of the Tiger Guard's life was far better than artillery!

The artillery battalion was greeted, and the Tiger Guard musketeers in various positions also began to rush under the enemy battery, holding a palm mine in each hand, and threw it directly. After two bangs, the enemy on the fort was dumb for a while, but then, Du Zhishan felt that something seemed to be wrong with his body, and he didn't know whether he was bruised by fragments or directly shot, but he felt that it did not affect his actions, so he ignored it and rushed upward.

The palm thunder in his hand kept throwing, and under the brave onslaught of him and the Decisive Tiger Guard, the Spaniard finally faltered. It was a force that was not afraid of death, and they also had more advanced firearms than the Spaniards, and they could even suppress a battery in the density of their artillery fire!

But at this moment, a firing hole in the turret began to spit out tongues of fire, and one of the fastest tiger guards suddenly fell. Du Zhishan threw the remaining palm thunder on his body through the shooting hole, but was immediately thrown back by the people inside. If it weren't for Du Zhishan's feet to kick the palm thunder away, he was afraid that he would blow himself up. There is no palm thunder in his hand, and several tiger guards beside him, just like him, have thrown away all the palm thunder, this kind of crisis, if the Spaniards are given a chance to breathe, maybe they can regain their fighting spirit!

Du Zhishan didn't think about it, so he rushed to the shooting hole, he originally wanted to block the shooting hole with his body, but he saw a musket sticking out of it - the muskets at this time are all front-loaded, and a shot needs to be cleared and loaded, so the enemy in the shooting hole has prepared several guns for rotation. Du Zhishan's body reacted before his brain, he grabbed the musket with all his might, and snatched it out of the shooting hole!

Then he turned the muzzle of the gun, regardless of whether the musket was arquered or flintlocked, and pulled the trigger towards the shooting hole, and there was a loud bang, and there was a short, high-pitched cry of pain!

"Wan Sheng, Tiger Guard!" Throwing down the gun, Du Zhishan rushed through the shooting hole, untied the sapper shovel on his back, and jumped onto the battery.

After him, Tiger Guards rushed up, and the Spaniards on the batteries lined up, their muskets pointed directly at the Tiger Guards. Du Zhishan was about to rush with a shovel, and then when he saw the white smoke flashing in front of him, his body trembled and flew backwards.

He tried to keep his balance in his body, but for some reason the strength was running out of his body, and he glared at the Spaniards with some unwillingness, he was so close to these enemies that he could no longer attack.

In his last vision, he saw a series of more than twenty palm mines fall into the Spaniard, who was reloading his ammunition, and he fell from the high turret, and the blue sky came into his eyes, but he could no longer see anything.

"Wan Sheng, Tiger Guard!"

One by one the heroic tiger guards fell, one by one the evil enemies also fell, whether it was their own or the enemy's blood, did not stop the advance and assault of the tiger guards, when Gang Sales arrived, all he heard in his ears was the sound of "ten thousand victories", he had not had time to figure out whether he was trying to recapture the fort, or temporarily retreating, and saw dozens of remnants of the defeated soldiers fleeing from the fort rolling and crawling, behind them, was the turbulent iron flow of the Chinese people! (To be continued)