Watching the formidable ship of the Franc machine man slowly depart,

Liu Yu on the distant fort let out a long sigh of relief.

In this battle, the Ming army sank ten warships, and even Fubo Town sank two armed merchant ships, and the vassal pirates also lost more than half.

The fleeing Black Flag Gang sank hundreds of warships, large and small.

Among them were quite a few three-masted galleons, many of which were sunk by the sudden appearance of the Spanish Galen.

"Immediately let Vigan send people to transport all Vigan's gunpowder and heavy artillery projectiles to Laoag." Looking at the inside of the messy fort, Liu Yu immediately ordered a personal soldier beside him.

The town of Huben raided the Spanish battery, capturing more than 50 Spanish gunners and hundreds of indigenous laborers, and a dozen 12-pounder and above heavy guns on the coastal batteries were used by the Ming artillery.

It's just that the Spaniards have almost consumed gunpowder shells under the previous battles with the pirates.

With the remaining ammunition of the fort, it can only fight about ten rounds, and Liu Yu is also gambling on this battle.

Betting on whether the Spanish fleet would be fooled, it was clear that the Spaniards were finally afraid to return to Laoag.

The Spaniards retreated, and the Ming army was not idle.

The artillery of Huben Town coordinated to the outside of the city of Laoag, and this morning the soldiers of the town of Xiaoyong forcibly attacked the city of Laoag despite the casualties of the night last night.

Although it was only a feint, the momentum of last night and the desperate assault of Talu still shocked the Spaniards in the city.

The defense of the city of Laoag focused on coastal defense, and pirates came from the sea.

Most of the Spanish soldiers were deployed to the front line of coastal defense.

Even the city's artillery was aimed at the sea, and the pirates had thought of bypassing the coast and attacking the back of the city directly inland.

But the pirates, who lacked the ability to attack the fortifications, were nothing more than a rabble, and were pressed and beaten by more than 100 Spanish artillery musketeers on the city walls outside the city, and more than 200 corpses were left behind on the first day.

In contrast, it is easier to attack the seaport of Laoag and break through from the port.

Therefore, the pirates have basically attacked by sea for a month.

The same is true, and the artillery that was originally defending the land has also been transferred to the coastal defense line.

Of course, the Spaniards never dreamed that the Ming army would attack the city of Laoag from the interior.

Although it was only a feint, he was eager to win.

In addition, there were only a few dozen Spaniards guarding the walls, and most of the rest were indigenous.

He led only 200 soldiers to attack the walls of Laoag, and the Spanish guards who were caught off guard were defeated by him.

The soldiers of the town of Brave not only captured some of the pillboxes around the city walls, but even attacked the walls of Laoag at one point.

In the end, the Spaniards, who reacted, brought in artillery to beat the soldiers back.

However, after such a commotion, the Spaniards in the city no longer dared to go out of the city.

At noon, under the gaze of the Spaniards, the soldiers of the Ming army in Huben Town pushed the artillery outside the city wall.

This sent the Spaniards in the city into a panic once again.

Seeing that the pirates who had besieged the city for more than a month finally retreated, the Ming army came again.

This made Sir Brent scold, and at the same time complained about Terry,

Obviously asked you to expel the pirates, but you were so delusional that you would swallow the Ming army in one bite, but now the pirates have run away and the Ming army is coming.

General Terry is also helpless, he can lead the fleet to annihilate the Ming army's sailors, but the warships can't go ashore, and he can't let his sailors go ashore as infantry.

Sir Brent was so disappointed with these naval officers that in addition to sending troops from the coastal walls for defense, Brent sent an envoy to the Ming army camp for the first time, hoping for peace talks.

But this time, Xiao Wu and Liu Yu, who had long been in cahoots, no longer paid attention to the Spaniards.

Send the envoy back to the city directly, anyway, your Spanish fleet was the first to fire and attack the Ming naval division.

Seeing that the peace talks could not be reached, Sir Brent had no choice but to continue to hold on.

This trap is half a month.

In the past half a month, the Ming army has transferred a large number of people from Vigan, and these people have brought gunpowder and shells.

Vigan is also a coastal defense city, and when the Spaniards temporarily withdrew from Vigan, they only brought a large number of artillery with them, and some heavy artillery that they really couldn't take away destroyed themselves.

But they left behind a lot of heavy shells, these twelve pounds, twenty-four pounds of lead bullets scattered in the fort cellar, were dug up by the Ming army who had collected the treasures of the Luo Weigan Chamber of Commerce.

Not only that, Liu Quan also pulled all the artillery mobilized by Vigan to the city of Laoag, and he himself also came to the city of Laoag to personally supervise the battle.

In the past half month, the Spaniards in the city were panicked, and the Ming army had not attacked on a large scale.

However, the Ming army continued a large-scale raid on the city of Laoag for half a month.

The Ming artillery piled up dozens of six-pound guns under the city of Laoag, and shelled the city from time to time.

Not to be outdone, the Spanish artillery guarding the walls engaged in several artillery battles on both sides, each with its own victories and defeats.

Most of the artillery of the Ming army was captured or purchased Western-style artillery, and the quality was not inferior to the Spanish artillery, especially the artillery of more than ten pounds in the city was all on the front line of Haiphong City.

The walls of Laoag were indeed strong, and even though the Spanish had built them to cope with the threat from the sea, the construction of the land walls was not at all troublesome.

The tall stone-brick walls were simply not able to penetrate the nine-pounder artillery of the Ming army.

But the Ming army was not vegetarian, and saw that the artillery could not enter the city.

Liu Yu ordered officers and soldiers to build a dam in the middle reaches of the Laoag River.

However, the flow of the Laoag River is relatively large, and the bamboo dam does not play a big role.

So Liu Yu, who was ruthless, directly asked the local Shengfan to pour all the poisons unique to the local tribe into the Laoag River.

Some tributaries of the Laoag River run through the city of Laoag.

The inhabitants of the city also depend on these rivers for their livelihood.

This is a good thing, the Ming army dumped venom in the Laoag River day and night, and many of the highly toxic substances were diluted into the river, and came to the city of Laoag along the river.

The inhabitants of the city vomited and diarrhea after drinking water, forcing the Spaniards to dig wells everywhere in the city.

The Spaniards, who could not stand it anymore, organized several counteroffensives.

However, the Ming army had already been prepared, and every time the Spanish army left the city, the Ming army was repulsed.

It's not that the Spaniards are incompetent, it's that the mercenaries they hired and the natives of the local area are not willing to fight.

Every time they engaged the Ming army, they collapsed at the touch of a button, and after several attacks, the Spaniards had nothing to gain except for leaving hundreds of corpses.

In the middle of the night, a merchant fleet, which had long been unbearable, secretly sailed out of the harbor despite the warnings of the Spaniards.

But before they could leave the port, they were discovered by the Spaniards, and the caravan, who felt that they were at a loss, slipped away directly.

Unexpectedly, the Ming army's coastal defense batteries were under onslaught.

The coastal defense batteries faced the sea, and although they could not be directly aimed at the port, there was no problem with the merchant fleet hitting the port.

Two of the six merchant ships were destroyed by the Ming army, and the remaining merchant ships fled back to the port in disgrace.

Enraged, the Spaniards hanged the merchant shipowner.

But such intimidation did not stop the fear and anger of the city's residents.

Nor can it change the fact that the Ming army is besieging the city of Laoag.