Chapter 91: Stepping into the World Stage Ten
The battlefield in the harbor was filled with white smoke from musket salvos and choking residues of gunpowder. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"Quick, put the artillery here, you two come over and help push it up this slope!" A large Han officer with a somewhat slanted boat-shaped cap on his head, commanding the artillery captured from the Spaniards, placed on the position in the harbor!
After the initial charge was broken by the naval guns, the Indian soldiers quietly played with the Spanish soldiers through various obstacles, until the captured and the Han Empire's own artillery were brought up!
Thanks to the hit rate of the artillery in this era, even if the commander on the Spanish warship saw that the Han Empire was arranging scattered artillery positions, it was difficult to bombard, and it was not as good as the results achieved by bombarding the Indian soldiers' front!
After all, there are only a few artillery pieces, but the Indian soldiers are in groups, thousands of people are placed on the position, even if they are crooked, it is easy to kill the other Indian soldiers around!
The Self-Defense Forces of the Americas, which almost occupied the city of Monterrey, seized a large number of muskets and ammunition used by the Spaniards, and directly came to change clothes on the spot and carried flintlock pistols!
The reserves of a port colonial city are enough for most of the soldiers of the Self-Defense Forces of the Americas to use flintlock pistols!
It can be said that there is no gap between the current American Self-Defense Forces and the Spanish soldiers in terms of weapons!
Of course, if the Self-Defense Forces of the Americas really set up a position to fight the Spaniards alone, they would still be defeated, and the gap between the training of the army and the quality of the officers at the grassroots level is too great!
However, in the battle at the port now, the Han Empire is in absolute upper hand, even if the Spaniards rely on the bombardment of 3 warships, they can only barely support the crumbling defense line, and those Spanish soldiers at this time are in the heart of holding on for a while to escape, not for victory!
It is conceivable that it is not easy for those Spanish soldiers to continue to stay in their positions!
Although the guns were more efficient at bombarding the Indian infantry, the commander of the battleship had to give the order to turn the muzzle of the guns and point at the Indian artillery positions that were being arranged!
He knows what the biggest threat to his side is!
The battleships in the harbor can be said to have greatly weakened their maneuverability, and the narrow harbor does not allow the battleships to carry out any evasive operations at all, and it can be said that it is no different from a fixed battery......
In this way, the pressure on the Indian soldiers was greatly reduced, and even a short charge was made when the naval guns focused on the artillery positions!
The Indian soldiers who came up in a surge of killing, killed those Spanish soldiers who had no heart to fight, and kept retreating, if it weren't for the sea behind them, there was no way to retreat, these Spanish soldiers would have collapsed long ago......
Fortunately, the Spanish battleship, which was always observing the port battlefield, turned its artillery around again, and fired several volleys to repel the attack of the Indian soldiers again!
A 'cemetery' where the corpses of Spanish and Indian soldiers are intertwined!
When the guns of the Spanish warships turned their attention to the Indian soldiers, the artillery positions of the Han Empire were finally arranged, and they launched ferocious fire at the huge Spanish warships!
In order to end the battle as soon as possible and reduce their own losses, the Han officers used all the captured flowering shells!
The captured flowering shells are distributed among all the guns, and the number of each one is not large, but if one of these flowering shells enters the wooden sail battleship, it is a fatal internal explosion!
Even if the explosive power of black powder is average, it has a direct destructive power against the keel of a wooden sail battleship!
In just half an hour, after the rapid artillery fire fired all the flowering shells, the three Spanish sail battleships were beaten with two wounds and one sunk!
Compared with the losses of the Spaniards, the Han army, which had only destroyed a dozen artillery pieces, can proudly claim that they won this artillery battle!
The Spanish battleship that caught fire finally couldn't withstand the huge pressure and began to leave the port!
After seeing the Spanish battleship retract its artillery, the Han commander in the rear shouted to the herald: "Attack with all your troops!" ”
As the order of the herald was given, the Indian soldiers erupted in a passionate shout!
"Long live the Han Empire!"
"The Han Empire will win!"
"Long live His Majesty the Emperor!"
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The already shaky Spanish front, under this kind of momentum, did not hold up for even a minute, and then collapsed!
The desperate Spanish soldiers knelt on the ground and raised their weapons to surrender, and the Spaniards waiting on the dock to board the ship either scolded the Spanish battleship that left, or knelt on the ground and cried bitterly.
The Indian soldiers who rushed up treated the Spaniards with different expressions in a very consistent manner, taking the butt of their rifles, pulling them up and escorting them away......
Of course, if there are well-behaved Spaniards who know that they kneel on the ground and raise their hands, the butt of that gun can still be dispensed with!
There were even many Indian soldiers who ran to the shore of the dock and fired their empty guns at the Spanish warships that were running away in disarray, twisting their butts and taunting, venting their anger that they had been suppressed by those naval guns before!
A man in black civilian clothes stood beside the Han officer with the rank of colonel, that is, the commander of the port raid, coldly looked at the scattered Indian soldiers at the dock, and said coldly: "It seems that the military discipline of these Indians still needs to be strengthened, and those people on the shore of the dock don't need to consider joining the American Field Army this time." ”
The colonel officer smiled and nodded, not deliberately flattering, but also showing enough importance to the words of the man next to him!
With the occupation of the port, all the resistance of the Spaniards disappeared completely, and under the strength advantage of the Indian soldiers, the city of Monterrey was quickly stabilized, and the streets of Monterrey were full of patrols, Indian soldiers carrying pigeon battle flags, and all the landmark buildings were planted with the military flag of the Han Empire, replacing the original Spanish flag!
Spanish residents were ordered to stay in their homes temporarily, until 3 days later, the basic order of Monterrey City was restored, and they were allowed to go out on the streets, at this time, the streets and alleys of Monterrey City were already full of announcements written in Spanish script, which clarified how merciful Zhao Dutian of the Han Empire was, as long as the big guy was willing to accept the rule of the Han Empire and be a 'good citizen' with peace of mind, he could live in peace and stability, and the Han Empire would not interfere in the lives of civilians except for taxes, of course, faith was counted!