Chapter 115: A dilemma

When the Spanish soldiers heard this, they quickly turned their heads to look, and suddenly their morale fell into the crotch of their trousers, because when they saw their commander, half of his head was knocked off, and his brains collapsed far away, and he fell straight to the ground, and he could not die again.

"Ha Lu Ha! Finally caught this bastard! I stared at him for a long time just now, but I didn't find a chance, so I killed him now! The sniper withdrew his wolf's fang rifle from the hole and said triumphantly to the musketeers beside him.

It turned out that this sniper, who had been staring at the commander of the Spanish infantry all this time, had killed three ordinary soldiers, but he never took the opportunity to take this guy down.

This time he took the initiative to jump out, grabbed a command knife, and immediately saw that he was a leader, so he was immediately targeted by this sniper, and after aiming for a while, he waited for him to assemble the team and was about to attack.

"Give you a good job! Just do it, whoever dares to show their heads and kill whom, see how bold they are, and dare to come up and attack our forts, let them come, as many as they come, and kill as many as they want! Grandma's, I don't know what the meat of these foreign devils tastes like......" Feng Twelve happened to pass by, patted the sniper's shoulder vigorously, and said triumphantly.

After hearing this, everyone felt a chill in their hearts, how could Feng Twelve think of this problem, usually they don't lack meat to eat! This guy is actually curious about what human flesh tastes like, it seems that this guy has too much contact with those native auxiliaries, and it is best to stay away from him in the future.

Many people subconsciously avoided Feng Twelve, and despised this barbarian in their hearts.

The little courage that the Spaniards had just mustered disappeared as their commander was shot in the head on the spot, and they all rushed behind the reef in a hula, and now they had no commander, and could no longer organize any effective attack, so they could only lean their backs against the reef in fear, and pray to their God in their hearts.

Through the telescope, Anthony saw the efforts of these infantrymen, which finally came to naught, and his heart sank completely into the deepest part of the trench, becoming cold.

He knew that his plan to send troops to attack the fort had failed completely today, but the price of failure was too high, nearly 200 infantry and sailors were left on the island where the fort was located, and now they didn't even have any ships to escape, only the remaining two boats had abandoned the people on the island and fled back to the sea first, except for letting the big ships of the fleet dock, it was estimated that he could get these soldiers back, and he had no better way to do it.

But it is too dangerous to put the big ship on it, it is tantamount to asking them to put a cannon on their head and open fire, if they come over and not only do they not save these soldiers, but they sink a few big ships, then they will be completely miserable this time.

If he paid such a loss, it is estimated that even if he returned to Manila, he would be immediately arrested by the Governor, and then dragged out and hanged, and he could not afford to sink several large ships.

So he was in a dilemma, don't save it! That's more than a hundred soldiers! If they don't save them, the remaining infantry will probably riot on the spot and fire directly at him!

But to save it, he was afraid of paying a greater price, which made him really embarrassed and wanted to cry, but he couldn't find a solution.

At this time, the infantry officer on his ship rushed to him and pleaded with him in a loud voice: "Your Excellency, the plan to send the infantry to attack the battery has completely failed, and the soldiers will not be able to capture the battery at all, now please send a ship to bring them back at once!" If it's too late, I'm afraid they will all be killed on the island by these savage Chinese pirates! ”

Anthony's mouth was bitter as if he had eaten coptis, and he didn't know that he should say that the gods and horses were good, and that the matter had come to this point, and he could only take a risk, so he comforted the infantry officer, and ordered one of the ships in the fleet to sail closer to the island of peace, as close as possible to the island of peace, and to carry a few small boats in the fleet, but no longer the dinghy of those boats, but the sloops of relatively large tonnage, to try to rescue the soldiers who were trapped on the island.

As for the other ships, they used all their firepower to bombard the Heping Island battery, and even if it could not destroy the battery, at least it would obscure their view, so that these soldiers could withdraw to the ship and escape to heaven.

The sound of artillery on the sea surface became more intensive, and the big ships kept spitting flames towards the battery, smashing the shells into the battery, and a cloud of dust and smoke rose on the island, and the battery shook violently from time to time in the shelling, and finally another corner suddenly collapsed under the fierce bombardment of the enemy, and the other cannon window actually made a ghostly mistake, and drilled into a cannonball, and directly broke a twenty-four-pounder gun in the gun window, injuring many soldiers and villagers in the fort. Moreover, he almost detonated a box of gunpowder packs that had just been put on the fort, which shocked everyone into a cold sweat.

Sun Baoqiang was also dizzy, his face was covered with dust, and a piece of rubble also wiped a hole in his face, and a lot of blood flowed, making him look disfigured and embarrassed to the extreme.

"Check the damage and send the wounded and fallen brethren down first! The rest of the people are back in their respective positions! Grandma's, if you don't beat these rabbit cubs out of today, Lao Tzu won't be surnamed Sun! Sun Baoqiang shouted angrily, the villagers were very scared at this time, for fear that this fort would really not be able to withstand the cannon bombardment of the red-haired people outside, in case it was completely destroyed, then they would all be buried alive here, and some of the villagers wanted to take the opportunity to escape below, but they were immediately blocked back by the soldiers.

One of the townsmen was probably frightened and shouted to go down, but Feng Twelve went up without saying a word, drew his knife and slashed him on the spot, convulsed and fell to the ground, and after a while he stretched out his legs and died.

This completely suppressed the villagers, and no one dared to flee to the lower floors.

"Stay honest, except for those who carry the bodies of the wounded and the dead brothers, if anyone dares to shake the morale of the army again, this person will wait for the end! Go back and push the cannon honestly! Keep beating Lao Tzu!

Come on, a few of you go and clean up over there, and some more people, push that cannon out of the way first, and don't obstruct the passage!" ……”

The ship, which had been ordered to approach the island of peace and try to pick up the Spanish soldiers trapped on the island, turned around and fled again with infinite fear after receiving a dozen shells.

The more than 100 Spanish soldiers on the island jumped to their feet and shouted, some cried and some scolded, but they could not change this fact.

The Chinese pirates blocked their way out of Heping Island, and bombarded any ship that tried to approach Heping Island without exception, and a sloop finally approached the shore, but under the heavy bombardment of the sea wolf, it disintegrated directly on the shore, and more than 20 sailors on board also fell into the seawater, and several people desperately swam to other ships and escaped from Heping Island, and a few people had no hope of asking for help, so they had to swim to the island and became trapped on the island.

Looking at the battered ship, Anthony was completely dead at this time, these Spanish soldiers trapped on the island were completely helpless, at least today he had no way to evacuate them from the island, this group of Chinese pirates had too much firepower, if they continued to try, I am afraid that the result would not only not be able to rescue them, but on the contrary, even their fleet would have to get in.

So Anthony had to order to collect his troops again, withdraw from the battle, and return to the anchorage to rest first, and then he knew that the captain of the other armed merchant ship had been killed with a musket, not because they had disobeyed the order and retreated, but because their captain had died, causing the ship to temporarily lose effective command.

As a result of today's fierce fighting, they were hit by another sea wolf shell, all ships suffered greater damage, and the other 200 infantry sent were now all lost on the enemy's island.

Anthony only felt a headache, he didn't know why he wanted to take on this mission, originally thought that this time they could easily occupy a foothold in northern Taiwan, but he didn't expect that this trip to Taiwan would encounter such trouble.

After two days of fierce fighting, he failed to step into the chicken coop bay, and even the opponent's fort could not be destroyed, but the soldiers were damaged, and all the ships were damaged, two of which were beaten quite badly.

This time, the price they paid was far beyond their original plan, and whether they went back now or not, Anthony felt that he could not explain it.

Now he has found himself in a dilemma, the quality of the equipment of this group of Chinese pirates is almost comparable to theirs, except that their ships cannot compete with their Western-style galleons for the time being, in terms of artillery and muskets, the quality of the equipment of this group of Chinese pirates is quite good, and the level of training is also very high, which has been recognized by him and his men from the two days of fighting with them.

Now he had to think about what to do next, the soldiers they had sent to Battery Island (as they called it Peace Island) today were still trapped on Battery Island, and they had little chance of rescuing them under enemy fire during the day, as they had already experienced.

So he had to find a way to get these people out, otherwise he would lose so many soldiers, and that would be enough for him to be sent to the gallows.

(The condition is finally getting better!) If you have another day of water today, you won't have to do it tomorrow! It's nice not to have a fever! Hehe! )