The battle was extremely fierce, and it can even be said that it was tragic, the casualties on both sides were not light, and the Portuguese army that attacked the left battery head-on because of the terrain, could only attack one battalion and one camp in turn, and the attack was quite resolute, but in the face of the powerful firepower projection of the Qing army, not only did it not work, but it was beaten to the ground, and the corpse lay on the ground, but it never even touched the edge of the fort, which was really miserable, but at the same time, The Qing army responsible for blocking the defenders of the St. Paul's fortress also suffered a lot of casualties, although with accurate archery, but also to the Portuguese a lot of casualties, but because of the terrain, the powerful firepower projection ability is difficult to give full play, several fierce battles, it can be said that the enemy killed a thousand, self-damage 800, nearly an hour of fierce fighting, casualties have been as many as seventy or eighty people, gradually some can not support, fortunately, the blockade of the machine gun can still work, for a while and a half will not have to worry about the Portuguese dare to charge.

At four o'clock, the fierce battle has been carried out for an hour and a half, the battle is still stalemate, but the situation has obviously begun to develop in the direction that is not conducive to the Qing army, there is no other, the death and injury of officers and soldiers is still a trivial matter, the most important thing is that the ammunition is already insufficient to know that the Qing army is a long way to come, the ammunition carried is not much, although before the war, Wang Kuan has ordered the surplus ammunition as much as possible to the defenders of the two batteries, but after all, it is not an unlimited supply, such a fierce battle, the consumption of ammunition is undoubtedly amazingNo, only half of the more than 30 machine guns that were clinging to the front were still firing, and if they fought for a while, I am afraid that even the remaining 10 or so machine guns would have to stop firing, and the situation was obviously not very good.

"Attack!"

Although he couldn't see the situation where the fierce battle was, as soon as he heard the roar of the machine guns gradually thinning, Wang Kuandang realized that the ammunition on his side was obviously insufficient, and he didn't dare to wait any longer, and with a wave of his hand, he had already issued the order to attack, and at that moment, more than 2,000 soldiers rushed out of the hidden place with shouts, rushed into the city of Malacca like a tide, and quickly intercepted the lurking position of the main force of the Qing army on the west side of St. Paul's Hill to the rear of Major General Gotat Sanders. Malacca, a city across the battlefield from the battlefield, is an ancient city, although it has been conquered by the Portuguese for more than 100 years, but there are still a lot of natives gathered in Malacca, these people naturally cannot live in the Famosha Castle, and they can only build houses on the left and right sides of the castle and live together, at the time of the fierce battle, the residents of the city have long been frightened to retract back to their homes, and there are few traces on the streets and alleys, but it is convenient for the main force of the Qing army to raid the action.

"Shoot, shoot!"

As soon as the Qing army suddenly attacked, the defenders on the tall walls of Famosha Castle panicked, regardless of whether they could hit or not, and desperately began to shoot indiscriminately, and the guns crackled into a circle, although they did not cause much damage to the Qing army's charge, but it effectively informed Major General Gortat Sanders, who was commanding the attack on the mountain, that there was trouble in the back.

"Quick, order the whole army to shrink and hold on to the church!"

On the corner tower of the church of Santiago, Major General Gortat Sanders was originally holding a monocular to observe the defense of the Qing army's position on the mountainside, when he suddenly heard the sound of gunfire behind him, and was suddenly taken aback, and hurriedly turned the telescope back, and saw that countless Qing troops were rushing along the street like a tide.

"Withdraw to the fortress!"

It was not Major General Gortat Sanders who was frightened by the main force of the Qing army, but Colonel Robert Ferdinand was also panicked, for fear of losing the way back, and did not dare to entangle with the defenders of the fort any longer, and with a wave of his hand, he had already issued an order to withdraw his troops.

Colonel Robert Ferdinand's headquarters was in a favorable terrain, and the withdrawal operation was very smooth, except for the more than 50 corpses that were killed in the battle, the rest were all smoothly withdrawn to the fortress of St. Paul, but the headquarters of Major General Gortat Sanders was not so lucky, and only the more than 800 people who were on standby at the foot of the mountain were successfully withdrawn into the church, and the soldiers of the battalion that was attacking the mountain were all dumplings by the main force of the Qing army, and a bloody battle was carried out, and none of them were spared, and more than 100 people died on the spot. The rest were taken prisoner.

"Send a report to the main force of the fleet that our army has completed the task of dividing the enemy's forces, and ask Commander He to send troops to Malacca immediately!"

After exterminating the Portuguese army that attacked the mountain, Wang Kuan did not wave his army to attack the church of Santiago, nor did he attack the castle of Famosa, but commanded his subordinates to divide the soldiers into two routes, one with the main force to surround the church of Santiago, and the other way dug a trench at a distance of more than 200 meters from the castle of Famosha to block the possible attack of the enemy troops in the city.

"Order: The main force of the fleet will go out of Famosha Castle in front of him, and no artillery will be fired without an order, and in addition, the headquarters of the commander of the Hazakh Division will be requested to land on the left side of Famosha Castle immediately and annihilate the enemy everywhere as soon as possible!"

The main force of the fleet led by Ho Lin had set off from Temasek as early as two days ago, and had sailed not far from Malacca last night, and as soon as he received a call from Wang Kuan, he immediately set sail towards Malacca, and arrived near Famosha Castle at noon, with He Lin's order, four "town" ships and four "Wei" ships slowly sailed to the sea in front of Famosha Castle, lined up, all gun portholes were fully open, and rows of black holes of guns were obliquely aimed at Famosha Castle, but no cannon fire was fired. Two other "Zhen" ships and eight "Wei" ships covered the twelve troop transports and baggage ships in a harbor to the left of Famosha Castle and began a tense landing operation.

In the face of the strong military deterrence of the main fleet of the Qing army, the defenders of Famosha Castle, who only had more than 700 troops left, did not dare to open fire at all, nor did they dare to go out of the city to obstruct the landing operation of the Qing army, and could only watch the two infantry brigades of the Fifth Army of the Qing Dynasty disembark one after another.

"Report to the division commander, the second and third regiments of the first brigade have been assembled, please instruct the division commander!"

At the end of the day, after nearly an hour of rushing to board, the 1st Brigade without the 1st Regiment and its artillery equipment had successfully landed on land, and had completed the assembly not far from the small wharf.

"Give you half an hour, you can't take the church, come and see you yourself!"

The battle plan had already been drawn up, and Asha was too lazy, so he just waved his hand and gave the order murderously.

"Yes, mission guaranteed!"

Although the first regiment of his command remained in Temasek, Lu Yanda did not think that it would be difficult to take the Santiago Church, which was held by more than 800 people, and confidently responded, trotted back to the front of the array, and after the order, more than 2,000 officers and soldiers lined up in a neat line, pushing all kinds of artillery and swaggered towards the Santiago Church, without taking the defenders of Famosha Castle close at hand.

"Order: The artillery battalion fires, and the enemy artillery position is knocked out by Lao Tzu first!"

At the moment of Shen Shi, after taking over the defense area of the Marine Corps, Lu Yanda quickly commanded all the officers and soldiers to arrange an attack formation, and without saying much, he did not even send people to surrender, and he had already brazenly issued an attack order.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

According to the normal establishment of the Qing army, the brigade artillery battalion has a medium anti-aircraft artillery company and two light infantry artillery batteries, each company has nine guns, all of which are the latest models of artillery, and when it comes to the degree of advancement, it is definitely the first in the world, whether it is the rate of fire or the firing range, or the power of the shells, far beyond the Western countries, this pass is bombarded down, and the artillery position arranged by the Portuguese in front of the church is even if it is caught in a sea of fire, countless shrapnel swept around, and the stumps and broken arms flew in the air. The poor Portuguese did not even make a tactical move to counterattack, and all the artillery was destroyed, and the gunners were killed and wounded, and those who were lucky enough to escape all crawled into the church.

"Adjust the position of each gun, target: church, five rapid fire, hit me hard!"

After a while, the smoke of gunpowder cleared, looking at the messy enemy artillery position, Lu Yanda spat on the ground with disdain, waved his hand, and gave the order to attack again.

The church of Santiago is made of blue-striped stones, and it goes without saying that it is solid, if it is replaced by Portuguese artillery, even if it is bombarded indiscriminately, it may not be able to achieve great results, but in front of the artillery of the Qing army, this solidity is just a joke, there is no side, the integrated shells of the Qing army are filled with smokeless gunpowder, and the conical flowering shells are filled with high explosives, the power is so great, it is definitely not a small stone can be stopped, often a cannon past, can gnaw a big hole in the wall, The five rounds were fired down rapidly, the front of the huge Santiago church was already dilapidated, and most of the Portuguese soldiers hiding behind the window lattices were blown into a pile of rotten meat, and the battle had just begun, and the battle damage on the Portuguese side was as much as 300 yuan, and the fundamental reason was that the Portuguese underestimated the power of the Qing army's artillery.

"First regiment, sortie!"

Before the smoke cleared, Lu Yanda had already issued a brazen order for an assault, and then saw more than a thousand Qing officers and soldiers rushing out of the array with a roar, rushing towards the ruined Santiago Church like a tide......