Chapter 1667: The Fall of Lisbon

The Tianxiong army has experienced a hundred battles, and its combat power is unparalleled in the world!

In less than a quarter of an hour, three infantry battalions, one cavalry battalion, and three or four thousand people rushed to the docks, and under the leadership of Deputy General Qiu Ruixiong, they took the lead in attacking the Lisbon battery!

At this time, the Lisbon battery only got the news that the four batteries were stationed in Lisbon, two infantry battalions and four artillery battalions, and there were a lot of troops, but because the sentries on the lighthouse did not transmit the signal, they did not find any movement, and when the artillery battalion found the movement, the Tianxiong army of the fourth battalion had already rushed to the dock and began to attack the battery.

Not only the infantry of the Tianxiong Army, but almost all the Tian-class battleships that stopped at the front opened fire, aiming at the battery in Lisbon and launched a fierce attack, hundreds of naval guns opened fire at the same time, and a shell smashed towards the battery, setting off a burst of flames on the battery, and the earth-shattering explosion blew the battery into a sand and gravel!

The Portuguese soldiers on the four forts were all alarmed, and they woke up from their sleep one by one, and some of them were unlucky enough to go directly to the explosion of the shells to see Lord Yama.

The commander of the battery, López, also woke up in his sleep, ran out of the barracks quickly, and shouted: "Someone, someone, what's the matter?" Where is the battle taking place? ”

A soldier hurried over and shouted in a panic: "General, no, there are enemies everywhere, all four batteries have been attacked by the enemy, at least thousands of people, and a cavalry is rushing towards our battery, and a huge fleet has appeared in the harbor, which is launching a fierce artillery bombardment on our battery!" ”

López was so frightened that thousands of people attacked Lisbon? There is also a huge fleet, and I didn't even get the slightest bit of information in advance, where did the enemy army come from?

"Quick, give the order, go all out to fight, go all out to fight, you must withstand the enemy's attack, immediately ask for help from the capital, ask for immediate support from the army, and ask for support from the naval fleet!"

As he spoke, López ran towards the top of the fort, condescendingly, and looked outside the port, only to see that above the port, there were warships everywhere, large and small, at least two or three hundred......

I drop God! What the hell is going on?

López is about to cry, so many warships, suddenly attacking the port of Lisbon, the battery is caught off guard, where can it withstand the attack of others?

The Portuguese troops on the four batteries all moved and prepared to fight, but at this time, the vanguard of the Tianxiong Army had already begun to board the battery, and the guns rang out, not giving the defenders of the battery a chance to open fire!

The Portuguese garrison's two infantry battalions and four artillery battalions, together with more than 2,000 people, collapsed in an instant under the thunderous blow of the officers and men of the Tianxiong Army, and they were beaten down before they had time to stop the resistance.

López still wanted to resist with all his might, but the Tianxiong army didn't give him a chance at all, and before López could react, a shell exploded next to López, directly blowing López out and dying, without López's command, the four batteries were even more panicked, and all the Portuguese defenders were driven off the batteries, and the four batteries all fell into the hands of the Tianxiong army in less than an hour.

Zhao Xin, the commander of the second town, personally led the Tianxiong army to occupy the fort, and immediately launched an attack on the city of Lisbon, without giving Lisbon a little time to defend, the infantry guns unloaded from the battleship continued to carry out fierce artillery bombardment in the city, and the elite cavalry of the Tianxiong army rushed straight into Lisbon and rushed towards the Portuguese palace!

The soldiers were bloodless, there were more than 8,000 infantry stationed around Lisbon, and there was no time to stop it, the Tianxiong army entered the city, and the entire palace guard army only organized a wave of resistance and completely gave up, and after dozens of shells were fired at the palace by artillery, King Alfonso IV obediently ran out of the palace with a white flag, kneeling on the ground and asking for surrender.

Originally, although the Portuguese were not strong, they were not so vulnerable, but this raid was too sudden, there were no clues, the Spaniards were unguarded, only less than an hour, the fort was lost, and in two more hours, the Ming army entered the city of Lisbon, leaving no time for the Spaniards to prepare, and the garrisons of the various departments had just completed the assembly, and before they had time to fight, the palace was already surrounded by the Tianxiong army, and the attack of the Tianxiong army was too fierce, By the time the garrisons were ready for battle, Alfonso IV had already left the palace and surrendered.

The captured Alfonso IV had to order, all the garrisons of Lisbon City laid down their arms, surrendered to the Ming army, the time just arrived at noon, the whole Lisbon was completely controlled by the Tianxiong Army, fortunately, the Tianxiong Army did not commit any crime against the civilians of Lisbon, but just controlled the city to prevent the army from mutiny, and the civilians watched the city of Lisbon change hands, who would dare to make trouble?

"You guys, how could the fleet of your Ming Empire suddenly appear in the Western Ocean? Isn't our expeditionary combined fleet attacking the South Seas and the hinterland of the Ming Empire? How can it be! ”

Alfonso was shocked.

Zhao Xin sneered: "Combined fleet? Hehe, just with your hundreds of thousands of Western coalition troops, you want to destroy the Ming Empire, you can't help but look down on yourself too much, don't you know that our Ming Empire is only the elite of the Tianxiong Army and the Tianwei Army, and it has exceeded more than 100,000? In addition, there are 60,000 Beijing battalion troops, 200,000 local garrisons, 60,000 navy, and a total strength of more than 500,000 people, all of whom are divisions of a hundred battles. Combined fleet? The current combined fleet has been wiped out, and as for the armies of various countries, they have now become prisoners of our Ming Empire, and even, the monarchs of your Western countries will become prisoners of our Ming Empire one by one! You're just the first! ”

Alfonso almost fainted, the entire Western coalition army, that gathered at least one-third of the combat power of the entire Western Ocean, one-third, more than 150,000 elites on land and sea, all of them were annihilated, and the entire Western Ocean was greatly injured......

Zhao Xin shouted coldly: "Alfonso, don't say that we don't give Portugal face, the Kingdom of Portugal, everyone, one counts as one, one person compensates ten taels of silver, the silver is not enough to make up the gold, we will leave if we have enough, otherwise, we will turn your Lisbon into a purgatory, and kill no one left!" ”

(End of chapter)