Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 315 The Not Heroic Spaniard
The Battle of Manila kicked off in a way that the Spaniards didn't expect, and it also proceeded quickly in a way that the Spaniards didn't expect.

Lieutenant Ramos lowered his body in fear, and the hail of bullets from the shore made him and his soldiers unable to raise their heads.

"What should I do, what should I do?"

Horrified, Ramos looked at the soldiers around him, whether they were Spaniards or Mexicans, they all looked cowardly at this moment, and no one dared to stand up and fight back at the Ming army with their muskets.The low walls or earth barriers where they were hiding could hear the sound of bullets. No one would suspect that as long as they exposed themselves, they would be killed by the oncoming bullets.

Not far away, several soldiers who had put down carts as bunkers fell in their own blood. The bottom of the cart in front of them was riddled with holes. The wood could not stop the heavy attack of the Ming army. Machine gun bullets.

"My God, why can Chinese muskets fire so many bullets!" Ramos couldn't imagine how these weapons would bring about changes in military tactics. All he could think of was the army he led , There is no way to prevent these Ming soldiers from going ashore.

Ramos carefully wanted to turn sideways to see how much the Ming army had rushed up.

However, Ramos was destined to be extremely unlucky today, a bullet happened to hit him and directly hit his left arm.

"Oh no! Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ! Fuck, it hurts!" Ramos began to wail. He was never really injured. real danger.But when he faced a really difficult battlefield, Ramos didn't have the courage he imagined.

"My arm, my arm, don't, I don't want amputation!" In this era, if you are shot in your limbs by a bullet, even if you treat the wound and take out the bullet, there is still a possibility of serious infection and the doctor has to Amputee.

Ramos had seen those poor soldiers held there without anesthesia by several people, and the doctor took a small saw and sawed off their arms or legs, and they became disabled from then on.

Ramos wept, overwhelmed by his pain and heartbroken by the tragic fate he might face.

"Surrender quickly, surrender quickly, we can't fight anymore!" Ramos yelled, and the officer beside him took out a white handkerchief from a calfskin bag, and began to wave it desperately.He was afraid of being hit, so he only dared to stretch out one hand and waved there, and his body was still firmly hidden under the low wall.

"Who speaks the Chinese language? Do you know how to say 'we surrender'?"

After asking for a long time, I found that no one would say it.But at this time, the Ming army had rushed over, and the Ming army had obviously discovered that the Spanish army here had completely lost the courage to fight, and many people were hiding there crying like children.

Using the only two sentences of Spanish he had just learned on the ship, the Marine Corps officer shouted: "Put down your weapons and raise your hands!"

Spanish people are very snappy to do.

Ramos still fell to the ground and howled, he cried and begged: "Oh God, kind Chinese officer! Oh, I hurt so much, it hurts to death! Please, I am their commander, I am a nobleman! Oh look For God's sake, no, for your Chinese God's sake, whoever he is. Help me, I don't want to die! I can pay you a ransom! A thousand pesos, how about a thousand pesos ! Good Samaritan, help me!"

The Marine Corps officer didn't understand what he said, but he could roughly guess what he meant by looking at the way his nose was bubbling into his mouth. In addition, he was dressed in military uniform, like an exaggerated peacock, so the judgment His identity should be unusual.

"Medical soldier, treat this guy!"

A medical soldier wearing a white armband with big red words "Save" came up, carrying a small first aid kit, inspected the injury casually, and said, "It's nothing serious, take out the bullet and give an injection of antibiotics, The treatment of the wound is over. Company commander, do you want to fight?"

The Ming army has a complete medical care system, and even the hospitals of the military system have the highest level of medical care in the entire Ming Dynasty at this time.Bai Mingxiu obtained emergency medicines such as sulfonamides and antibiotics from the system, and the troops also extracted ingredients from opium to make anesthetics.Relying on the antibiotics obtained from the system, Daming No. [-] Pharmaceutical Factory has gradually been able to produce a small amount of this life-saving medicine.It's just that the output is not high at this time, and the price is expensive.

Although it was quite expensive medicine, the officer still nodded and allowed him to be saved.In the battle just now, no one on their side was injured, so he simply let the medicine be used.

Ramos didn't know what the other party was doing at all, but seeing the medical soldier taking the bullet for him, he still knew that the other party was saving him.Because of the mess, the medical soldier gestured to several captives to hold Ramos down.Ramos thought he was about to be amputated, and screamed in fear.As a result, he was slapped several times by the medical soldiers.

An antibiotic can be used for him, and the anesthetic will not be wasted.

Fort Santiago didn't even survive two hours before the Ming army attacked.

The loss of the Spanish army was not small, but the damage to the castle was not serious, so Meng Hui simply moved his headquarters into the castle.

When the soldiers searched the castle, they also found a lot of money.

Meng Hui frowned and said, "It's less than expected, only tens of thousands of pesos."

Diplomat Liang Haisheng, who was able to speak Spanish, chatted cordially with the financial officer in Manila and learned about the situation.

"The finances in Manila itself are not very good. You can't expect these robbers from Europe to be honest. Businessmen are evading taxes, the local Catholic Church is also extorting money, officials are corrupting, relying on a little tariff or something , will not make Manila a rich place at all.”

1 peso contains 24.3 grams of silver, which is less than half a tael of silver.Although the Navy's expedition to the Philippines was funded by the Ministry of War of the Lizhengyuan, Meng Hui still hoped to support the war with war and directly make up for the navy's expenditure locally.The dispatch and maintenance costs of a few naval warships alone are quite a lot.Plus the cost of personnel, equipment, etc., that is a lot of expenses.How to put it, a small military expenditure of 100 million taels cannot be escaped.

If Meng Hui's search for less than 100 million Mingliang in the Philippines, then the Ming Navy's operation this time is equivalent to a loss.

Liang Haisheng said optimistically: "Don't worry, these big military officers, big businessmen and nobles will not be short of money, especially the church."

(End of this chapter)