As soon as Lieutenant Colonel Gustana gave the order, the herald ran to the vicinity of guns No. 7 and No. 8, told the gunners to turn their guns and fire at the top of the hill on the east side.

At this moment, they heard a terrible howl in the eastern sky, which was very different from the sound of the mountain artillery they were familiar with, and before the artillerymen could react, a violent explosion sounded over their position.

It turned out that after Xu Deping finished reporting the target of the explosion point, Zhao Menggang ordered his subordinates to adjust the muzzle of the cannon and fire the cannon again, Zhao Menggang knew that the shell landing point was already very close to the enemy's artillery, so he ordered his subordinates to use rapid fire, and the number of shells increased.

After two adjustments, this time the shell was very accurate, and one shell fell directly to the left of the No. 5 gun more than five meters away, and the violent shock wave instantly covered the No. 5 gun.

The structure of the Spaniard's mountain cannon was like this, the steel cannon body was erected on a wooden gun car, and the shock wave did not blow up the steel, but it caused a lot of damage to the gun car, and the shock wave directly lifted the wheels away, and the gun body smashed heavily on the ground.

The shells of the mortar have a large dispersion range, and the shells of this type of HP-1 mortar made by Lin Fei have a dispersion diameter of 80 meters, which means that the shells may explode to a considerable area around the No. 5 gun.

This rapid-fire artillery shell used half of the explosive shells, half of the anti-personnel shells, the blasting shells hit the cannon, the anti-personnel shells killed people, the explosive shells blew up an artillery truck, the anti-personnel shells were not to be outdone, the scattered anti-personnel fragments not only scratched the body of the gun, but also cut people into pieces.

The Spanish artillerymen hurriedly screamed and ran down the hill, and at that moment, a blasting shell landed next to the ammunition box, and the explosion detonated the piled up shells, and suddenly there was an extremely violent explosion, and the earth shook with it.

Spain is also a European power that dominates for a while, and the artillery is still very military-literate, so they placed the shells more than 30 meters away from the artillery, so that even if the shells explode, they will not hurt the artillery, so these exploding shells did not cause damage to the artillery.

Lieutenant Colonel Gustana heard the explosions one after another, and knew that his position was being hit like never before, which made him feel extremely ashamed and angry, because they were the Royal Spanish Artillery Battalion, and they had always been beaten by others, and when had they been hit by others? When has such a shame been suffered?

Lieutenant Colonel Gustana, ignoring the danger, rushed out of the command post, personally came to the artillery position, looked at the dead bodies all over the ground, a cannon that had been blown to the ground, and a bunch of blown up shells, and suddenly jumped like thunder, and shouted: "Turn the muzzle of the gun, open fire to the east, quick, fire!" ”

The Spanish mountain artillery could not rotate 360 degrees, and the gun carriage had to be turned around if it wanted to fire, which added time to the artillery to turn around, and during this time, two more gun trucks were blown up by shells, and the guns fell heavily to the ground, and many of the artillerymen who were shouted back by Lieutenant Colonel Gustana were killed on the spot.

Lieutenant Colonel Gustana's lungs were about to explode, he personally ran to the No. 7 gun, and followed the artillerymen to turn the gun, Lieutenant Colonel Gustana pointed to the eastern mountain with his hand, and said loudly: "The shells are coming from that side, aim there and fire!" ”

The artillerymen couldn't see anyone at all, but they still aimed at the peak and opened fire, and the shells flew over whizzing and exploding in the woods on the top of the mountain, at this time another major advantage of the mortar designed and manufactured by Lin Fei was reflected.

The mortar is placed on the ground, the muzzle is aimed at the sky, the angle of fire is very large, so the trajectory is curved, which allows the mortar to hide behind the mountain and fire, the shell can bypass the shelter of the mountain and fall on the enemy's head, but the mountain artillery of the Spaniards is not good, the mountain artillery itself is a howitzer, and the trajectory of the howitzer shell is relatively straight compared to the mortar shell, and it cannot bypass the shelter of the mountain.

So in this artillery battle, Lin Fei's mortars could hit the Spaniards' position, but the mountain artillery on the Spaniards' position couldn't hit Lin Fei's mortar position no matter what!

The only hope that the Spaniards could hit was the sniper team at the peak, but unfortunately, the sniper team hid on the summit in the other direction under Lin Fei's order, the Spaniards couldn't think of it at all, and a group of individual soldiers were hidden in the woods a thousand meters away, and it was impossible to be discovered.

The Spanish artillery could not find the sniper team, but the sniper team keenly found the No. 7 gun that fired back, Xu Deping immediately sent a message to Zhao Menggang that a Spanish artillery was firing back, and then reported the distance and direction.

When Zhao Menggang heard this, he immediately sneered, thinking to himself that the Spaniards still dared to shoot back, could they hit us? Can't spare them! So Zhao Menggang ordered his subordinates to take the No. 7 artillery gun as the target of the key attack and concentrate fire to knock him out.

The gunners of the artillery company immediately changed the muzzle pointing and fired shells at gun No. 7, at which time Lieutenant Colonel Gustana's attendant suddenly came to report: "Your Excellency, the commander of the garrison, General Raceno, has called, and he asked you to answer the phone personally. ”

It turned out that Raceno originally planned to flee back to Manila, but after escaping to Zamboanga, it was just in time for the Sultan of Yagurur to attack Zamboanga, Zamboanga's original garrison commander was just a colonel, and Raceno was a brigadier general, so Raceno replaced the original garrison commander and became the supreme commander.

Lieutenant Colonel Gustana ordered the gunners to continue firing, and then ran to the command post, just as Lieutenant Colonel Gustana left the gun, suddenly a shell fell near gun No. 7, and after a cloud of smoke, all the gunners turned into dead bodies, and the shell also detonated the shell that was not fired in the chamber, and after a muffled sound, gun No. 7 was disemboweled.

Lieutenant Colonel Gustana secretly rejoiced that he had escaped, and hurried to the command post, and as soon as he put the phone to his ear, he heard Raceno roaring inside: "Why is there artillery on your position? ”

Lieutenant Colonel Gustana hurriedly said: "There are unknown enemies who are firing at us, and we are returning fire. ”

Raceno asked, "What is the current situation of your losses?" ”

Lieutenant Colonel Gustana replied: "Four artillery pieces were blown up, as were a number of shells, and some people were killed, but it is not clear how many." ”

As soon as Raceno heard these words, he immediately shouted on the phone: "Hurry up and remove the artillery from the position, do you hear it!" ”

Lieutenant Colonel Gustana exclaimed: "What? Take it down? You can't withdraw it! This is at stake for the dignity of our royal artillery, and we are now returning fire. ”

Rachenor said sharply: "The enemy's preparations are obviously better than ours, if you stay on it any longer, you will wait for death, withdraw quickly, otherwise I will send you to a court-martial!" ”

Lieutenant Colonel Gustana hurriedly said: "Yes, I understand, I will lead the artillery company to withdraw." ”

One of the major features of the mountain artillery is that it is easy to disassemble, so it is still possible to withdraw it, and Lieutenant Colonel Gustana hurriedly called the herald and said: "Give an order immediately to disassemble the artillery and withdraw it." ”

The herald ran out to convey the order, and the Spanish artillery immediately began to disassemble the artillery under fire, the training of the artillery was stricter than that of the infantry, and the treatment was higher than that of the infantry, so the artillery had a more tenacious will to fight, and was able to disassemble the artillery under the threat of death, and in the process of dismantling, two more guns were blown up.

Xu Deping, who was at the observation point, saw that the Xibaya artillery was disassembling the artillery, and immediately said to Zhang Chuang: "Captain, the Spaniards are preparing to retreat. ”

Zhang Chuang immediately said: "Your Majesty has instructed you to notify the Spaniards as soon as they find that they have lost their combat effectiveness, and now that they are going to retreat, it is obvious that they have lost their combat effectiveness, so we will immediately inform Your Majesty." ”

Zhang Chuang turned his head to look at the members of the sniper team in the distance and said, "Fire signal flares, red, five." ”

The location of the sniper team was not close to Lin Fei, so it was inconvenient to use a telephone line, so a signal flare was used as a communication tool, and a soldier immediately fired five red bullets, and the signal flare was seen by staff officer Li Tianqian, and he hurriedly went to the command post to report to Lin Fei: "Your Majesty, the sniper team has launched a signal flare, red, five." ”

Lin Fei slapped the table excitedly and said loudly: "Okay! Order the 1st and 2nd Battalions to march on Mount Shengtai! ”

At this time, it was 6:25 p.m., it was already dark, the soldiers of the first and second battalions lit torches and began to march towards Shengtai Mountain, Lin Fei picked up the phone and ordered Niu Dalong and Niu Dahu to lead the troops to move to their positions.

The Spanish artillery was still well-trained, and it only took about fifteen minutes to dismantle the mountain artillery, and during this time, two more mountain guns were destroyed, so the Spaniards took the remaining two mountain guns down the mountain, Lin Fei instructed the sniper team, and when the Spanish artillery lost its fighters, it indicated the location of the fortifications of Mount Santai for the artillery company, and let the artillery company continue to bombard the fortifications of Mount Santai.

The sniper team reported the location of the trenches, and the shells flew towards the trenches one by one, and Lieutenant Colonel Gustana hurriedly reported to Racello: "General, the mysterious enemy is bombarding our trenches!" ”

Racello's heart was shocked when he heard this, and he thought to himself that the bombardment of artillery positions was to destroy the artillery, which I can understand, but what to do with bombardment trenches? Could it be that they are going to attack Mount Shengtai? Once Mount Seongtai falls into the hands of the enemy, the enemy can set up artillery positions on it, and the entire Zamboanga city will be under enemy artillery fire!

Raceno hurriedly said: "Hurry up and send someone to reconnoitre, is there any infantry moving towards the Holy Terrace?" ”

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