At this moment, Li Xian's wishful thinking could not be suppressed, and many soldiers and officers came out to see the situation, and then they all took up arms and fought back.

At this point, the only way to change the sneak attack into a hard attack is to fight hard with these Macao defenders.

Fortunately, these Portuguese soldiers used ordinary flintlock smoothbore guns, that is, revolvers and other pistols that could fire continuously (the revolver came out a few years ago, and it was not yet popular), as for the guns in the turret, it was okay to attack the enemy at a distance, and it was useless to deal with these close enemies.

As for Li Xian's side, the fourth-order and third-order can rush in with a smoothbore gun, even the second-order martial artist is holding an iron shield and weapons, and it is not a problem to deal with these ordinary people.

The guards here are all elite soldiers, armed with rifled guns, air rifles, revolvers and other repeating weapons, and the advantage in weapons is extremely obvious.

In the past, when the merchant ships were plundered, it was also the warriors who rushed in with iron shields and pistols, and the escorts used fire to cover them, and it was not much different from the attack battery.

Under the attack of the fourth-order and third-order masters, the defenders of the fort were already somewhat crushed, but as the warriors and guards of the Aegis Alliance rushed in, they were quickly suppressed, and the entire fort was also under the control of Li Xian's side.

However, the sound of gunfire and grenade explosions sounded indiscriminately, and the defenders of Macao realized that the enemy was attacking, so they woke up from a dream, and they got out of the bed one after another, and went up to the city wall, and even the ships anchored in the harbor outside the city also started one after another, and some even foamed at the side of the fort.

"Damn, I had to do it. Li Xian gritted his teeth and said, this time he will attack Macau City head-on, and the casualties will be difficult to control.

The advantage now is that the Macao Fort has fallen into the hands of Li Xian, and the more than 30 military artillery pieces on it can be used.

Li Xian has a keen sense of five senses and six senses, and his eyesight is amazing, and he is the most outstanding sharpshooter of this era.

Li Xian asked his subordinates to push out all the artillery, let his subordinates reload the cannons, and then personally control the artillery, and carried out artillery bombardment before the artillery on the city wall could react.

The artillery of the Macao Fort, the Guia Fort, and the A-Ma Fort add up to more than 60 artillery pieces, gathering more than 60% of the artillery in the whole of Macao, and they also control the commanding heights, and they have the advantage of a surprise attack, so they can easily suppress the batteries in the city.

More importantly, the forts at this time were different from the forts of later generations, they were all open-air forts, without solid walls and roofs, and their resistance to shelling was extremely weak.

And Li Xian's side happened to have a sharp weapon against these open-air batteries, which was the Congreve rockets captured from the British.

This kind of rocket artillery has a maximum range of 1,900 meters, an effective range of 1,200 meters, and can explode after falling to a designated place.

This kind of rocket artillery can be fired with a simple launcher like a ladder, and at this time, dozens of launchers are fired at the same time, and after the rocket shell falls on the fort in Macao, it will explode violently, injuring the defenders and potentially detonating the gunpowder on the fort.

The artillery battle lasted about 30 minutes, and the artillery of the defenders of Macao was all silent, and it was no longer possible to fire.

There are many merchant ships moored in the harbor of Macao, and I can't help but secretly complain when I see this, it is extremely troublesome for modern ships to raise their sails, and it usually takes more than two hours, and just these more than 30 minutes are not enough for the ships in the harbor to raise their sails and go to sea, that is to say, they are completely exposed to the fire of the battery.

Those who tried to run out or even fire artillery made the three batteries controlled by Li Xian clean up very badly, and finally realized that they hung up the white flag and stopped moving, and obediently waited for the battle here to end.

The first round of fighting was over, and Li Xian's side controlled the three batteries on the outskirts of Macao and destroyed the artillery combat ability of the defenders of Macao, but Li Xian was not very satisfied with the result.

There were originally more than 150 defenders of the Macau Fortress on this side, but after the rapid advance on Li Xian's side, more than 60 people were killed on the spot, and the remaining 80 or more were wounded or captured.

Li Xian took people to the warehouse where the prisoners were held, and after examining them, he suddenly ordered: "Pick up all these people's clothes." ”

When these captives heard such a strange order, they thought of some bad places, and they couldn't help but change their faces and wanted to bargain, but how could the escort team care so much, and after a while, they stripped off these people's clothes and piled them up in front of Li Xian.

Take out these clothes and let the four great masters and some masters change into them, but Li Xian secretly scolded himself in his heart, if he thought of this trick earlier, it would make the people of the big fort feel confused, and maybe he would be able to take this fort silently.

Then, Li Xian ordered the fort to be shot with artillery wherever there was a fire near the city wall

After a round of shelling, the defenders of Macao did not dare to light oil lamps or torches, and it was almost pitch black.

Only then did Li Xian become satisfied, and took seventy or eighty of the strongest warriors to the city wall at night.

The walls of Macao are tall and sturdy, but they can't stop the fourth-order grand masters, even the average third-order masters have light skills, and they can also climb up with gecko swimming wall skills and the like.

As soon as the four Grand Masters stomped their feet, they went up to the city wall, and then hung down the ropes they had brought and let the people below climb up.

Li Xian and the others chose the most remote and uninhabited area of the city wall, and it was not until the people here climbed more than half of it that the defenders reacted, this was someone who wanted to climb the wall.

Immediately, dozens of defenders rushed with weapons, but there were more than a hundred of them from this side, and dozens of iron bumps fell between them, leaving them dead and wounded at once.

The grandmasters sent by the Sanyuan Temple have been using grenades to deal with the corpse soldiers in the blessed land for several months, and the ability to throw bullets is very good, and there are even masters who have compiled a secret book for throwing grenades, and it is very easy to deal with these small soldiers.

Li Xian shuddered as he watched from the side, the physique of the third-order grandmaster was between seven and nine, and there were some exercises to improve his strength as an aid, and the throwing distance of the grenade reached between one hundred and twenty meters to one hundred and sixty meters, which was longer than the effective range of ordinary smoothbore guns.

What's even more terrifying is that these grandmasters have a protective body, and ordinary bullets can't break through the defense even if they are hit by three or four shots, which can be called the strongest army in this era, and there are almost no weapons that can restrain them.

Only when a large number of rifled guns are used together can they somewhat compete with this kind of formed grandmaster-level grenadiers, but with the strength of the grandmaster, they can also avoid rifled gun bullets to some extent.

"In fact, if these grandmasters wear heavy armor or hold an iron shield in one hand, they can greatly improve their defense against bullets, and even if they encounter rifled spearmen, they can also be restrained. Li Xian muttered secretly.

However, it is very difficult to cultivate to the grandmaster level, and most of the masters above the third order are very rich, and it is just a beautiful dream to establish a formed grandmaster-level grenadier unit and go to the battlefield to be cannon fodder.

The people who went up to the city wall were all warriors at least the second order or above, and their strength was very strong, so they jumped down the city wall at this time and went directly to the city of Macau.

"Pull down the brim of your hats, come with me. "Li Xian has been to Macao many times before, and he has carefully observed the terrain here, and he is very familiar with the roads here, so he should lead the way first.