Lord of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 943 Let You Taste the Power of Shore Cannon

Although Gerald Pick is annoyed, he also knows that he can't offend these two guys now. In these two countries, the Spaniards are okay in the Far East, but they are not rivals when the two join forces.

It is a wise choice to debunk this article.

But he was not kind, and said to Ike: "This time I only brought 35 troops, 150 natives, 500 armed merchant ships, [-] merchant ships, [-] warships, [-] warships, you know, The main navy of the Nanyang Kingdom went to fight Manila. Manila was almost destroyed. The coalition fleet lost [-] warships and [-] armed merchant ships. We lost at least [-] warships, [-] warships, and ports. There are more than [-] merchant ships, so this time the main attack needs you to do the main attack, and we cooperated."

"15 gold coins," Ike said.

"A quarter of a million gold coins," said the British governor, too.

"At most 15, [-], no more." Gerald Pick said.

"Okay, deal," Ike was very satisfied. Although they initiated the alliance, it was to help the Spaniards obtain the sovereignty of Luzon Island at this time, so they have to pay, right?

The British governor said: "We sent [-] troops and [-] warships to attack. You sent [-] troops and [-] natives were responsible for transporting shells and supplies, carrying supplies for us, and at the same time covering us with warships."

"Okay," said Gerald Pick, who can use money to solve the problem instead of rushing up with their warships and warships. You must know that beach landing is a kind of battle with heavy casualties. Spain's population and strength here are originally insufficient. This time Although the battle did not cause much loss, the future pattern is that the three countries will compete for territory here, so it is a little bit less loss.

After the three agreed, the attack began at noon. The British attacked from Wright Island, and the Dutch attacked from the front port.

And their Spanish fleet watched the excitement ten nautical miles away.

An hour later, the sun was in the middle of the day, and the hot weather made people feel hot even with the sea breeze blowing.

The Dutch attacked first, and the battleship approached the port for one nautical mile, and bombarded the fort on Cebu Island outside the port.

Nearly a hundred warships, more than 2000 cannons can be used to bombard cannons, using solid bullets and flowering bombs, flames are everywhere near and on the fort, and limbs are flying, but the enemy's fort still does not give in, and fights back stubbornly. One nautical mile from the port, just within the range of the fort, and it is still an effective range.

Boom, boom, boom, the fort's counter fire is obviously more accurate than the cannons on the ships on the sea. In less than an hour of shelling, the Dutch lost fifteen warships, sunk five ships, and seriously injured ten ships. , the others were slightly injured, the enemy's cannons and shore artillery actually had hundreds of them, not only forts, but also behind some hidden hills. Fire from the fort hit.

Dutch Governor Ike and Spanish Governor Gerald Pique were very surprised. The enemy was hiding in the unprotected hilly area and in the woods, using the fort as bait. No wonder the firepower on the fort did not seem to be much. They thought it was in this way.

However, since those shore artillery were exposed and there was no protection from the fort, their fate was tragic. As the battle progressed, their thoughts were also confirmed. After the artillery fire was transferred, the enemy's hidden shore artillery was continuously hit. Fire, explosion, the enemy's concealed firepower was gradually destroyed, but the firepower on the fort was successful again.

Five warships rushing to the shore were sunk, fifteen were damaged, two warships were sunk, three were severely damaged, and had to withdraw from the bombardment.

When it was dark, nearly 45 warships were lost here, and as many as 50 were injured, including the warships that rushed to the beach to join the shelling. Open fire, all the others are misfired, either they were destroyed, or there was no artillery to operate. In such a battle, the morale of the Han people must not last for a long time, so in fact, many artillerymen ran away.

The Dutch used warships to cover the merchant ships and sent soldiers to the shore in the dark. After losing two warships and another warship, the enemy's artillery completely misfired, so the Dutch became more daring and continuously sent supplies He and the peasants, as well as the aborigines transported from Wright Island, and the indigenous peasants transported from Malacca were all sent to the shore.

Merchant ships approached the shore, transporting soldiers and artillery in rowboats and rafts.

In the middle of the night, they gathered 500 civilians and 1000 soldiers, and when they were about to advance inland, suddenly a large number of artillery shells opened fire, and the shells smashed into the crowded beach like a rain of bullets. The merchant ships gathered less than [-] meters away from the shore opened fire. The violent artillery fire caused nearly [-] people to lose their lives. Fifteen merchant ships capsized and two warships were severely damaged.

It also gave the Spaniards and the Dutch a slap in the face.

They didn't expect the enemy to ambush them here.

The Dutch team that landed was in disarray. Many people rushed to the rowboats and rafts, rowed hard, and rowed towards the merchant ship.

The enemy's shells fall in a large area every 2 minutes. Ike estimates that the enemy has at least [-] cannons firing, and the scatter is very large. The enemy has at least [-] soldiers and horses. They are all old-fashioned artillery, but the caliber is quite similar So those old cannons of their eighteen-pounders to nine-pounders.

Many indigenous people could not get the rowboats, boats, and rafts, so they jumped into the water and swam to the merchant ships. In the second wave of enemy attacks, more than 30 merchant ships were damaged. Many merchant ships were also in chaos. They desperately raised their sails and turned Leaving this place of death, some armed merchant ships fired back. Ike ordered the retreating warships and warships to drive three miles to the shore immediately. While firing, they moved forward. The enemy was two or three miles away. For ten miles, although there are torches and piles of fire everywhere, they can't hit the enemy, or even if they can be hit by artillery, they can't do much damage to the enemy.

Ike said to Gerald Pick: "We need your help to let your armed merchant ships approach the shore to pick up soldiers."

Gerald Pick said calmly: "No, I think that the soldiers should be ordered to attack, ahead of the attack, the enemy's troops are small, and the artillery fire rate is slow, we should attack forward, I will immediately let the armed merchant ships put [-] natives into the army Fighting, we should be able to finish the enemy at dawn."

Ike calmed down and thought about it carefully. The enemy seemed to be thundering loudly, but in fact it was raining lightly. The artillery bombardment only caused confusion for them, and it was not the soldiers who attacked. This proves that the enemy is also afraid of their warships and warships at sea. Firepower, so they can only be led to land, but on land, according to their intelligence, the enemy's strength seems to be running out.

"Okay, let your soldiers and horses attack immediately, and the artillery bombards the enemy's artillery positions."

Chapter 944 Failure

Sure enough, Gerald Peake's conjecture was accurate. Zheng Keshuang was worried about the enemy's warships and the artillery on them, so he did not dare to let the ambush fire approach the coast. But even so, if the enemy's warships and warships approached the coast, then they would They will also be bombarded by the enemy. They are all old-fashioned cannons, as well as cannons dismantled from armed merchant ships. They cannot counter the artillery on enemy warships at all.

The closest they are to the coast is no more than one mile, and the farthest is no more than three miles. The artillery on the enemy's warship can hit more than ten miles away at the farthest, and it can hit three miles away at the nearest.

He has only [-] soldiers and horses here, of which [-] soldiers and horses are Han soldiers, and [-] soldiers and horses are indigenous soldiers and horses who are close to them and some indigenous people who have sinned, Han people.

Two thousand of the five thousand soldiers and horses were artillerymen, all of whom were wounded and innocent people who had been evacuated from the fort. This ambush was proposed by him.

He fled here, Zheng Zhi was in charge of the port and the city, and he was in charge of attacking the enemy on land and preventing the enemy from entering the shore.

A blow, according to the scouts who reported back, only inflicted 2000 casualties on the enemy, and the enemy was just confused. Next, he will meet the enemy's counterattack.

As soon as he thought of this, the enemy had regrouped, and the Dutch soldiers were driving the natives towards them. The nearest native soldiers fought back with bows, arrows and machetes.

He ordered all the native soldiers to rush up.

2 people fought in the dark night for nearly two hours, and then there was no movement. When the scouts reported back, their 1 people either escaped or all died in battle. The remaining Dutch soldiers and horses were about 3000 people, and More than 2000 indigenous people rushed to their side.

The nine-pound gun and the general gun in front, the artillerymen who raised the guns had already started to fire on the enemy. A round of solid bullets did not kill many enemies, but was covered by the enemy's battleship and the artillery on the warship. The artillerymen who were still resisting reloaded. After two rounds of grape bullets, they drew out their knives and guns and fought with the enemy. The resistance of hundreds of people only wiped out more than a thousand natives of the enemy, and the rest came towards them again.

The artillery arranged in stages began to fire, and the enemy began to stop and use the artillery to shoot at them. The musketeers on both sides fired at each other. Because there are trenches here, the casualties are not bad, but the enemy is miserable. The artillery bombardment of the battleships and warships, but because of the trenches and scattered layout, the enemy was unable to cause heavy casualties.

Zheng Keshuang led his servants to supervise the battle behind him, and killed all those who dared to escape.

Fighting until dawn, the enemy retreated, and about 1000 Dutch soldiers fled in a panic.

Zheng Keshuang immediately asked people to hang the still usable artillery on the carriage hidden behind him, pulled it away, and withdrew to the city with the remaining more than 2000 soldiers and horses.

Back in the city, the shore artillery purchased from the Ryukyu Kingdom in the residential area of ​​the port is fighting fiercely with the enemy's warships pouring into the port, and Zheng Zhi doesn't know where he went. He won't know until he pulls Zheng Zhi's housekeeper over. , the British landed from the side of Wright Island, and fought fiercely all night, eliminating all resistance there, and they are already heading this way, in a small town fifty miles away, with [-] Japanese servants led by Zheng Zhi The soldiers and horses composed of the army and the Han people fought fiercely.

The steward told him that this place would be under his command when he came back to block the attacks of the Dutch and the Spaniards.

At the same time, the steward told him that the reinforcements from the Ryukyu Kingdom would arrive at noon, and let him support him until noon.

Zheng Keshuang looked at the chaotic ports and cities everywhere, and calculated how many soldiers and horses he had. Where are the three thousand coastal artillery in the residential area of ​​the port? Where are the retreated artillery and newly recruited young people? In the evening, there were 100 and 3000 remaining soldiers and horses, plus the [-] family servants led by the steward, there were more than [-] soldiers and horses in total.

There were more than 5000 sailors and soldiers who retreated from the ship at the port, [-] of which were taken away by Zheng Zhi, and [-] more soldiers and horses could be recruited.

There are also sporadic [-] Japanese servants and Southeast Asian servants in the city to counter the rebellion, led by [-] Zheng Zhi's servants.

It seems that there are many, but while fighting sporadic resistance, mainly the rebel remnants of the indigenous residents and those Han businesses that were wiped out, and maintaining law and order in the city, although it is useless, some warehouses, some important personnel Homes and mansions need to be guarded, and some important strongholds and street intersections need to be guarded. It cannot be completed without two thousand soldiers.

The enemy landed from the beach more than ten miles away. After yesterday's blocking, the operation should have ended this morning. They are rushing towards this side. The enemy is composed of native soldiers and Dutch, carrying cannons, and may even strengthen the Spanish soldiers , The soldiers and horses looked at no less than [-] soldiers and horses yesterday, and they could only resist steadily.

He called the steward over and told him: "Take a thousand family members and two thousand Japanese servants in the city to stop the enemy outside the city, and do your best. If you can't do it, send someone back to tell me, send someone Send a few more, send a few more waves, so as not to be intercepted on the road. Bring you fifteen nine-pound guns."

The housekeeper nodded resolutely. He served the Zheng family from the beginning, and he was very loyal to Zheng Zhi later on.

The steward took away the soldiers and horses in the city, and Zheng Keshuang immediately sent his bodyguards and 500 people to the city to recruit strong men to form a patrol team to stabilize the city. The native soldiers who were still willing to fight for them managed to gather 1000 soldiers and horses.

He also asked the officials of various Nanyang Kingdoms to ask for [-] households. He opened Zheng Zhi's arsenal here, equipped them, and took his soldiers and horses to the port. The residential area of ​​the port is only a mile and a half away from the port. The remaining warships and warships are still resisting, and the shore artillery artillery is also constantly firing at the enemy's warships rushing into the port. The enemy's artillery is much more powerful than the counterattack. There were [-] soldiers left, and they came just in time, if they were a quarter of an hour later, the rest of them would have fled.

Zheng Keshuang looked at the warships and wreckage of both the enemy and us floating on the sea. There were still many enemy warships capable of fighting on the sea. Merchant ships entered the port under the cover of warships and began to land. The flag is the Spanish soldiers and horses.