Chapter 122: Into the City
Mutafi roared loudly, the steel knife in his hand bleeding continuously.
There is his blood, but more than that, it belongs to someone else.
At this moment, his face was hideous, and he roared loudly.
He didn't understand how the pirates got into the city.
According to the agreement, he led a team of mercenaries to raid the city wall and let the Ming army enter the city, hoping to use the strength of the Ming army to resist the Spanish army, so that the mercenaries could calmly plunder the wealth of Laoag City.
And things have been going in the direction he expected.
The Spaniards in the city were indeed resisted, allowing the mercenaries to indulge in the plunder.
Until they met the pirates.
"Ahh Mutafi raised his knife and fell, and a pirate's round head flew out with blood.
The blood had already soaked through his clothes, and at this moment, he had already killed his red eyes and his face was hideous.
"Head, it wasn't the Ming army who entered the city at all, those Ming people were so cunning that they let pirates into the city." An Arab mercenary leader roared.
If it is still impossible to see who let these pirates into the city, then these mercenary leaders don't need to be mixed.
"Okay, Lord Liu, good calculations." Mutafi laughed angrily and laughed repeatedly.
Mutafi chose to conspire with the Ming people, and the reason why he chose Liu Yu instead of Xiao Wu.
On the one hand, the mercenaries have had such cooperation with the Viganming army, and they are familiar with it again.
But more importantly, compared to the scheming Xiao Wu, Liu Yu, a young man in his twenties, will be easier to fool than Xiao Wu no matter what he says.
Although Liu Yu had been put on the side of the Vigan fleet before, Mutafi still didn't take this young man in his early twenties seriously.
I didn't expect to be calculated by this Mingren Houye.
Thinking of this, Mutafi was stunned, and a mouthful of old blood welled up in his heart.
The figure staggered and fell, and was held up by the sharp-eyed men on the side.
"What about Mutafi now? There are so many pirates out of nowhere. A South Asian-looking mercenary leader glanced at Mutafi with dissatisfaction.
"What else, kill?" Mutafi pushed the mercenary away and said with a hideous expression.
If the opposite side is the Ming army, then Mutafi can also talk to the Ming army by virtue of friendship.
At least you don't have to face each other with life and death.
At least the Ming army, like the Spaniards, was afraid of death.
But the pirates in front of them are different, they are fierce and not afraid of death.
Especially for the treasures of gold and silver.
And the mercenaries are doing it to the pirates for these things.
There is simply no peace between the two, especially if both sides kill the red eye.
The mercenaries were clearly at the upper hand, and they took cover all the way, banishing the pirates from block to block with their guns and eagle cannons.
The pirates were also red-eyed, and after it became clear that they couldn't kill the mercenaries, they set fire to them.
Many of the mercenaries who were caught off guard were burned by the fire, and even died directly in the fire.
If there is a tragedy, it is the inhabitants of the city.
At first, the mercenaries only plundered the rich merchants, not because of how noble they were, but because the inhabitants did not have much money and were not worth plundering.
The mercenaries have lived in the city of Laoag for many years and are familiar with the situation in the city.
Therefore, after the rebellion, he rushed directly to the neighborhood where the wealthy merchant tycoon was located.
However, the pirates were different, they did not know the situation in the city, so they could only run around, and the war with the mercenaries naturally spread to the civilian area.
Fortunately, most of the pirates were pinned down by the mercenary Spaniards and did not disperse into the city, causing enough damage to spread the entire city.
The rebellion continued throughout the night, until early in the morning the mercenaries were able to suppress the pirates with their superiority in organization and firearms.
The pirates suffered heavy casualties and were forced back to the vicinity of the Lasag's residence, and just as the mercenaries thought they were in danger of victory, the Spanish army, which had been holding its ground, went straight out of the residence.
directly copied the mercenary's back path and stabbed the mercenary from behind.
The Spaniards hated these capricious mercenaries more than the pirates who set fires all over the city.
So the Spaniards, who had gathered their forces in the second half of the night, saw that the mercenaries were gradually suppressing the pirates, so they attacked decisively.
In terms of both equipment and organization, the Spanish army was the strongest in terms of equipment and organization in the city of Laoag.
Even arrogant mercenaries and fierce pirates could not gain an advantage over the Spanish army.
In the first half of the night, thousands of pirates were defeated in the face of a Spanish defense line of hundreds of men.
After the musketeers had completed the three-stage battle, the grenadiers stepped forward to intervene, followed by pikemen in heavy plate armor.
A set of tactics down, clean and neat.
Once made the Ming army suffer, not to mention the pirates and mercenaries who were far inferior to the Ming army in terms of equipment and organization.
The mercenaries fought side by side with the Spaniards and knew the fighting power of the Spanish army.
When the pikemen rushed towards them in a phalanx, the mercenaries gathered in the street immediately dispersed.
Some hid in alleys, others climbed over the walls and reached the homes of civilians.
This gave the pirates a chance to escape.
They stumbled back under the walls, and a night of bloody fighting was fruitless.
In the first half of the night, he fought a bloody battle with the Spanish defenders at the Laoag residence, losing more than 100 pirates.
In the second half of the night, he fought with mercenaries in the neighborhood and lost more than 200 people, plus those who escaped.
Now there are only more than 500 pirates left who have taken refuge in the camp of the city wall, and it can be said that there are heavy losses.
Of course, the mercenaries were also distressed, and they lost more than 100 people in the middle of the night in a bloody battle with the pirates, plus the attack on the port where the Spaniards were stationed, etc., they also lost 300 people in one night.
The Spanish army suffered the smallest losses, and although it suffered a surprise attack, the Spanish lost only 150 men thanks to the advanced equipment and the high-quality command of the non-commissioned officers and lieutenants in the ranks.
And this is still the case that the Barr suffered a sneak attack and sank, and a large number of sailors were killed and wounded.
The three sides of Laoag suffered losses of varying degrees after a night of bloody fighting.
This made the leaders of the three parties feel very annoyed.
The pirates were cowering in the walled camp, and several pirate leaders were gathering their men.
The mercenaries also stopped chasing pirates and turned to besieging the Spanish army.
Surprisingly, the Spanish army did not take it as soon as it was good.
The hundreds of Spanish colonial troops in the residence launched several charges towards the periphery, trying to get in touch with the Spanish troops in other strongholds.
The mercenaries naturally knew what the Spanish army was thinking.
Like the pirates, they surrounded the Rawag Mansion with the advantage of numbers.
Because the Spanish commander was worried about the heavy casualties of the troops, he took the initiative to withdraw his troops after several unsuccessful breakthroughs.
But when the mercenaries returned to the area around the Laoag residence, they were frantically pursued by pirates.
At this moment, the mercenary leaders were really furious.
The pirates, the Spaniards were flanked back and forth, such a scene was unexpected by the mercenary leaders present.
The Spanish officers were happy to see the mercenaries fighting the pirates, and took the initiative to withdraw into the line of defense, so that the mercenaries in front could reinforce the rear.
The mercenaries changed from the back team to the front team and went to the pirates again, but the mercenary leaders were very puzzled, obviously the mercenaries had stopped chasing and killing these pirates, and these pirates actually dared to continue to fight with the mercenaries who were obviously stronger than themselves.
The pirates were also quite depressed, they had just retreated from defeat, and they planned to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, so that the Spaniards and mercenaries could fight well, who would have thought that the Ming army would enter the city at the most critical moment.
By the time the pirates shouted to enter the city, the soldiers of Huben had already taken control of the city walls.
Seeing that the pirates were defeated and retreated to the city, these Ming soldiers who were not afraid of big things continued to rush forward with the pirates.
Of course, the pirate, who had just been beaten half-dead by the mercenaries, did not agree.
However, out of fear of the Ming army, and the deputy general Wang Tong personally led the soldiers of the First Association to supervise the battle.
Looking at the cold mouth of the Ming army's gunners, the pirates had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue to kill the mercenaries.