Chapter 26: Confusion

"Ugh!" Lin Xu opened his eyes suddenly,

There was a commotion in my ears,

He raised his head and looked suspiciously at the street outside the shed, and there was a burst of shouts of killing not far away.

"Uncle Lin, what's wrong." He asked hurriedly.

"I don't know, it may be that the soldiers are attacking the city again." Listening to the screams not far away, Uncle Lin also had a sad face,

I just repelled the soldiers today, who would have thought that the soldiers would attack the city again tonight.

"Absolutely, yes, it must be a soldier." Several men on the side also cowered and leaned to the side.

"How is it possible, today we pulled away hundreds of corpses outside the city, and these soldiers rushed up without fear of death." Uncle Lin frowned, and his face was very ugly.

"You don't know, the West Gate was blown down by the cannon of the Franc Man, and a few of us were called by the soldiers to repair the city." A guy said.

"The Franc machine man has witchcraft, and I heard that even the general Huang Liangji, who defended the city, was killed by the witchcraft cast by the Franc machine." Several people whispered.

"Uncle Lin, what should I do, Shengfan must have attacked!" Lin Xu jumped up with a spirit.

Not far away, the shouts of killing were getting closer and closer, and even the footsteps were more and more clearly audible.

"Shengfan has entered the city, and everyone has to die." There were bursts of sobbing from the crowd.

"Instead of waiting to be hacked to death, it's better to rush out and fight with them." A young man gritted his teeth and took out a machete and said angrily.

"That's right, that's right, the Ming army defended the city, but it was our lives that were protected."

"Now that Shengfan has entered the city, we will hack this group of beasts to death with the Ming army."

Seeing that someone took the lead, a few more people stood out in the crowd.

But before they could get out of the shed, another scream came from the crowd.

"Look, it's the Ming army, they're here to save us." One of the people had sharp eyes, and in the faint moonlight, he could see clearly the shining armor of the visitor.

"It's not a soldier, it's the Ming army." The crowd was agitated.

Many people secretly breathed a sigh of relief, it was not good to be a soldier, and if it wasn't a soldier, he could still live for some moments.

Before the man could get out of the tent, an arrow came at him, hitting the sharp-eyed man in the eye.

"Ahh

The man lay and rolled in pain.

Everyone present was taken aback by the scene.

Lin Xu sat on the ground, and the man who was hit by the arrow was lying beside him, twitching all over, and he had already died of pain.

"What's wrong?" A few brave young men walked out of the shantytown, and today they also helped the Ming army defending the city to carry gunpowder, wood and other utensils.

"What's wrong, why are you killing people indiscriminately."

"Is it a raw soldier attacking?"

But before these people came back to their senses, a Ming army led by them directly slashed over with a knife.

"Kill, hehe."

"The city is about to be broken, why is Lao Tzu desperately defending the city for you."

With a scream, bloody heads rolled to the ground.

"Brothers, Huang Liangji is dead, why should everyone be sent to death."

"Yes, we will take advantage of the chaos to get out of the city, and we will go to the sea and be happy."

The Ming Jun present laughed, and his distorted face looked so cold under the projection of the firelight.

The big knives shook brightly, and traces of blood could still be seen on the blades.

"Run, the Ming army kills people."

Like frightened birds, all the people in the streets scattered and fled.

"These untouchables must have hidden gold and silver, search for it."

The soldiers of the Ming army cut down people when they saw them like terrible ghosts asking for their lives, and many people were cut down to the ground by them.

Some of the people who were not yet dead and still had a little strength lay on the ground, letting out a wail.

The whole town is like a Shura field. Civilians running in all directions, Ming soldiers slashing and slashing frantically.

As everyone knows, they also fought side by side this morning to resist the invasion of Shengfan.

But at night, they took off their hypocritical faces, revealing faces that were even more hateful than they were born.

"Don't kill her." Lin Xu took a wooden stick and hit a Ming soldier directly.

The Ming soldier's cotton armor was knocked hard, and the man turned around and stared at Lin Xu with a fierce gaze.

Under his knife, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl was whimpering, and a middle-aged man in his forties and fifties was lying beside him.

The man was dripping with blood, and he saw that he was getting more out of breath and less air in.

Lin Xu stood tremblingly, looking at the tragic situation on the street.

"Why is this happening?"

"Didn't they defend the city to protect the people?"

The soldier sneered, carrying a bright big knife and walking towards Lin Xu step by step.

"Xu'er, run." Uncle Lin hugged the soldier's thigh and shouted.

"Uncle Lin," Lin Xu stood there stunned.

"Run!" He screamed.

"Dog thing, let me go." The soldier fiercely slammed the handle of the knife on Uncle Lin's head.

Wisps of blood flowed from his head,

"Run," Uncle Lin, who was covered in blood, cried out miserably,

"Uncle," the riotous crowd carried Lin Xu and kept retreating.

"Let me go!"

The soldier shouted, and the strength between his wrists increased.

But those big hands were still dragging the soldiers' legs.

The whole street was littered with dead bodies, and countless whimpering sounds were heard throughout the streets and alleys.

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"Bang bang bang,"

In the midst of the rain,

A spark flashed,

Once again, the musketeers of the Ichiko Battalion reloaded their ammunition and aimed it at the pikemen not far away.

With a bang, a spearman fell.

But to the surprise of the Ming troops present, the fallen pikemen stood up again.

The Ming gunners were not surprised, and hurriedly retreated.

The pikeman's heavy metal cuirass parryed the lead bullets fired from the self-fired firebolts.

Although he was slipped by the strong impact, it was fine.

"Kill." The soldiers of Mighty Town rushed up to kill them.

A spear sprinted past, and the soldiers of the Ming army were directly overturned before they charged.

The heavily armored pikemen are arguably the most central part of the Spanish Phalanx mode.

The heavy metal cuirass can easily withstand the fire of bows and arrows and light firearms.

The spear in hand is both offensive and defensive,

They formed a first-line queue, like a silver white wave constantly pressing towards the Ming army.

"Oops." Liu Yu looked solemn,

A hoplite like a pikeman has little to offer unless he has a heavy arquebus that can handle it calmly.

The Shenji Battalion was indeed equipped with heavy arquebuses, but they could not be used at all in heavy rain, and Liu Yu did not carry them.

"Bypass the pikemen and attack the main camp of the Francs." In the rain, Liu Yu shouted.

The pikeman's heavy sheet metal armor gave the soldier incredible defense, but at the same time greatly limited mobility.

"I can't beat you, can't I outrun you?"

The Ming soldiers scattered in an instant, ignoring the threat of pikemen, and rushed in the direction of the main Spanish camp.

Due to Gil'an's miscommand, the musketeers were no longer a threat at this time, and the grenadiers were useless on rainy nights.

Unlike pikemen, who were equipped with luxurious plate armor, grenadiers had only one long sword to defend against Ming attacks.