The Spanish soldiers made a big circle around the perimeter of the gold mines, did not find a single Luzon, and did not even grab anything. In a fit of rage, he set fire to seven or eight villages and then withdrew to the seashore. There, there were gunboats as cover, which allowed them to spend the night peacefully.

The sun sets in the west and night comes. Some of the Spanish soldiers pitched their tents on the beach, while others returned to their ships and slept in cramped cabins. Bonfires were lit around the camp, and sentries with muskets walked around and around, guarding against enemies and possible beasts.

Two or three miles away from the Spanish army camp, Liao Yiming and Lu Aniu and seven or eight other Luzon youths were observing the movements of the camp under the cover of night. Seeing that there were fewer and fewer people moving around the camp, and the speed of the sentry patrols began to slow down, showing some fatigue, Liao Yiming asked everyone, "Are you all ready?" ”

"Ready, Brother Liao!" The crowd replied in whispers.

"Good!" Liao Yiming nodded, "Everyone knows the danger of this operation, if you don't want to do it, it's still too late to quit." ”

"Brother Liao, don't worry, we have all thought about it and fought with Hongyi." Lu Aniu took the lead and said.

"Alright, now I'll hand out things to everyone, and the target is those ships in Hongyi." Liao Yiming pointed to the big boats docked on the shore and said.

The young men stepped forward, took a tightly wrapped oiled paper bag from Liao Yiming's hand in turn, and then walked down the beach, dived into the water, and rowed towards the Spaniard's big boat. These young people grew up by the sea, have excellent water surnames, and even swim at night without any obstacles.

The sea was dark and heavy, and the waves were constantly crashing against the beach and the boats, making bursts of noise, drowning out the sound of Lu Aniu and the others paddling. Occasionally, a few Spanish sentries faintly saw a black shadow flashing in the waves, and they also thought that it was just a wave, and they did not think that it would be an enemy who came to sneak attack.

In the era of cold weapons, such a sneak attack by a small detachment was insignificant for a large army. Even if the enemy were able to infiltrate the camp and launch a surprise attack, how many people would they be able to kill? In front of thousands of people, there was only one fate for a small detachment to infiltrate, and that was to annihilate the entire army.

Due to the slackness of the Spanish sentry, Lu Aniu and his party swam to the side of the big ship without risk, they divided the work among themselves, each stared at a boat, came to the side of the boat, and began to hang the oiled paper bag on the hull.

These oil-paper packets are specially made with sharp nails that can be nailed to wooden boats with a single tap. As soon as everyone had nailed the oiled paper bags, they turned around and swam desperately towards the place where they had started. They remembered that Liao Yiming had explained that this thing would explode from time to time, and if it exploded, all the Spaniards would be awakened, and it would be too late to escape at that time.

The group completed the task of hanging explosives on the gunboat and swam back to Liao Yiming's side, and more than half an hour had passed. Liao Yiming saw that the personnel had arrived, so he ordered to return, and Lu Aniu said: "Brother Liao, why haven't you blown up yet?" Otherwise, let's wait for the explosion before we leave. ”

Liao Yiming said: "When it explodes, it will be difficult for us to get out." Think about it, can the Spaniards not search around? They had muskets that could hurt people from hundreds of paces. ”

"It's okay, Brother Liao, how can they find us here." Lu Aniu insisted.

Young people are doing such a task for the first time, and they are not sure what the final result will be. In addition, if they can really sink the enemy ship as Liao Yiming said, how can they be willing to miss such a wonderful scene? There has been such a feat, and when I was talking about it, it was endless to talk about.

Liao Yiming guessed what the young people thought, smiled helplessly, and said, "Okay, but we can't stay here, let's take a few hundred steps back, so that there is also a buffer room." ”

Everyone took a few hundred steps back as they said, came to a mound, and looked at the Spanish camp with round eyes, Liao Yiming brought a telescope, and the young people took turns using this telescope to observe the enemy ships, waiting for the moment of the earth-shattering.

"Boom!"

Without warning, a thunderclap suddenly sounded on the sea, and the fire reflected half of the sky. Without the help of a telescope, it was clear that a Spanish ship was engulfed in flames at once, and it shook violently on the surface of the sea, its mast visibly tilting to one side.

"Blown up, blown up!"

"It's my boat!"

"That's right, it's Xiao Liu's boat!"

The young men jumped to their feet, and the young man who was in charge of hanging the explosives on the boat turned red and proudly accepted the congratulations of his companions.

Liao Yiming distributed oiled paper packets to the young people, each containing several pounds of yellow explosives, as well as a simple detonator that detonated with a delay. With Xu Guangqi's technology, it is not yet possible to accurately control the time of delayed detonation, but it is enough to have a delay effect.

"Be quiet!" Liao Yiming had a smile on his face and exhorted everyone.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! ”

The Spanish camp was blown up, and all the soldiers sleeping on the boats and on the beach were awakened, and they were running blindly without knowing where the enemy came from. The gunboats quickly lifted anchor and began to sail off shore, believing that the attack was coming from the shore and that the farther they went, the safer they were.

"Boom!"

The time-delay device on another ship was time-lapse, and the moving gunboat shook violently as if pushed by something, throwing several soldiers who were standing on the side of the ship looking overboard. The explosion caused a large opening on one side of the ship, and the sea water gushed into the hold, and the ship began to tilt, and the people and goods on the deck fell into the sea with a clatter.

The fate of this latter ship is even more sad than that of the previous one. The previous ship was on the shore, the water was very shallow, and the waves were smaller. The latter ship had already driven a little further into the middle of the sea in order to escape the attack from the shore, and the explosion occurred in the deep water, causing even more alarming waves and capsizing the ship faster.

"Where is the enemy!" Kevin ran out of the command ship's cabin and shouted at the soldiers. But no one could answer his question, because the explosions of the two ships were so sudden that no one knew who caused them and how.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Explosions rang out one after another, each of which caused a boat to tilt and then capsize. The officers and men of the ship, which did not explode, also saw the clue, and the captain quickly ordered the boat to turn around and drive the boat back to shore so that the soldiers could escape to shore.

Liao Yiming provided limited explosives, and not all ships were covered with explosives. But no one dared to sit on the ships that had not yet exploded, and the soldiers jumped from the boats and hid far away, for fear that the terrible explosion would affect them. As for those soldiers who have fallen into the sea, their life and death can only be determined by heaven. Some people are lucky enough to be able to hold on to a broken plank, and there is some hope of survival. Those who fell into the sea with their bare hands were exhausted before they could swim back to the shore, and one by one they sank into the vast sea.

"Pentura, didn't you say that the Luzon people only have some cold weapons, what's the matter with all this gunpowder?"

Kevin, who managed to escape ashore, found Bentura and lashed out at him. Kevin really couldn't help but be angry, he came to Lanchu with a complete fleet, and he didn't even see the face of the opponent, so he lost half of the ship, which was too big. And the reason why he suffered was that he believed the nonsense of Ventura, and believed that the Luzon people did not have firearms at all.

In fact, even if Bentura told the truth, Kevin could not have imagined that his opponent would use this method to sneak attack. Since all the ships with the explosives were sunk, and the evidence such as the oil paper packets was destroyed in the fire, Kevin still does not know how his opponent blew up so many of his ships. In the history of European naval warfare, there seems to have never been a precedent for such a ship to be blown up, and with the power of traditional black powder, it is still very difficult to blow through the planks of such a sea ship.

"Captain Kevin, this must be ......Chinese the hell," replied Bentulla, stammering back, an explosion that was all too familiar to Bentura. When they were cowering in the guards' barracks, an explosion like this toppled the entire barracks, knocked them unconscious, and left them prisoners without resistance.

At this moment, Ventura suddenly had a feeling that his escape from the Chinese might be just a bureau set up by the other side, and the purpose of this bureau was to trick the Spanish fleet and destroy it. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but shudder: the strength of the other party is really unfathomable, and if he stays in this place any longer, I am afraid that it will be more than lucky.

However, at this time, where did Ventula dare to bring up the matter of leaving? Even if he wanted to go, there was nowhere to go, and Kevin wouldn't let him go.

Lu Aniu and the others watched the excitement, and when the ships that should be bombed were all blown up, everyone's interest dropped, and then they quietly left the lurking place and returned triumphantly. As for how to brag about it after returning to the residence, there is no need to go into details. Hearing that the Spaniards suffered a big loss with just a few young men, the villagers of Luzon were confident that they would eventually defeat the Spaniards.

The Spaniards tossed and turned for a night, and when the day dawn was counted, they found that more than 300 people were killed or missing, and that seven ships had been lost, five of which were warships, which made Kevin's heart so distressed that he was dripping blood. With such a powerful Spanish fleet, so many ships were killed on the shore, what is the face of the Invincible Armada?

The Spanish army, having suffered a major defeat, did not dare to go to the Luzon for revenge, but strengthened its garrison. Kevin had the soldiers build a few small forts along the shore, and set up deer barricades, and added sentry posts to the remaining warships and merchant ships. He then sent a letter to the supreme commander of the fleet, informing him of what had happened here, and asking the headquarters to send him new gunboats.

While there was a commotion on Lanchu's side, the Lu patriarch, who was protected by several soldiers of the Kanyu Battalion, had already crossed the ocean and came to Songjiang Mansion. (To be continued.) )