Lord of Ming Dynasty

How many times he did not hit the port again.

Just for this day, the Spaniards transferred their manpower and warships to the opposite coastline thousands of miles away. hiding in the dark mountains.

Soon the people in the villages around several ports were brought under control, about a thousand people. Don’t look at this as a seaport, and it will be the narrowest place of the Panama Canal in the future, but now some of them just pass here to South America. .

Most of the population is concentrated in the coastal area of ​​ten to twenty to thirty kilometers. Apart from the Mexicans, the inland people are some Han Chinese or Indians. These people are only a few thousand in the entire inland area, so Zhuang Lin and the others hide in the inland area. The Spaniards spent a lot of time on a conquest, and sometimes they had to give up the conquest to allow Zhuang Lin and the others to survive.

This is also the experience that Zhuang Lin and the others have summed up after several years of summarization. It is all blood and tears.

Looking at the innocent-looking Han descendants of several generations who hated them, Zhuang Lin looked at them indifferently. He really wanted to kill these people. They were so kind to them back then, but what would these people do to repay them? , actually colluded with the Mexican natives, stole and robbed them, and brought Mexican horse bandits, robbers, and pirates to attack them, and then brought the Spaniards to annihilate them. How much hatred is this.

For this reason, Zhuang Lin lost nearly [-] Han soldiers. They were elite sailors who had fought many battles. There were also nearly [-] soldiers and horses recruited in the past, but these people were robbed by the Mexicans in the end, and many were killed. They don't analyze why they live so hard because they are not up to date, because they are not united, but they blame Zhuang Lin and the others for coming to resist and help them, which brought disaster to them, and brought Spaniards and Mexicans Because of their anger and hostility, they already regarded themselves as Mexicans. Zhuang Lin was blind and believed them.

But he is not going to kill them, the consistent policy of the New Qin Empire is waste utilization.

Building requires hands.

Zhuang Lin held the binoculars commanded by his captain, which had survived many catastrophes, and looked at the Spanish port town in the distance. recovered.

The population seems to have increased a lot, the residents seem to have thousands of people, the Spanish regular army soldiers, there are about a few hundred people, the auxiliary Mexicans have about two to three hundred people, and there seem to be many people on the merchant ships in the port, but Zhuang Lin knew that once a fight broke out, no one on the merchant ships would go ashore to help the port city except the Spaniards. They would just hoist their sails as soon as possible and escape from here. Everyone learned the lesson.

Naturally, there are dozens of remaining elite soldiers who have been brought with them in recent years. In fact, the Han people who can be officers can command the troops to deploy and attack.

He didn't need to do this thing. These people can be said to be the most miserable people in the current New Qin Empire, and they can also be a company commander. This is also the foundation of his status in the past few years.

The remaining [-] infantry lined up and slowly pressed towards the port city. Although the number was small, they were the elite accumulated over the past two years.

Tomorrow, if it succeeds, there will be [-] servitors, that is, the organized people, coming here. They will carry back the supplies they robbed here. They are on the road at the moment, only fifty miles away from here. up.

They are still fifteen miles away from the town. After the soldiers were organized, the five hundred cavalry broke away from the team and headed towards the port town in strands.

Intercept and kill all the idle people on the periphery, loot their houses, and eliminate any enemies that threaten them.

After observing for a while, Zhuang Lin thought that there was no threat, and then quickly drove the horse to follow the running infantry.

Half an hour later, five miles away from the enemy, the town was in chaos.The loud bell is calling the enemy's team, and at the same time notifying the Spaniards or other people in the port to hide and run for their lives, they all know that this is the bell of the coming war.

Naturally, there are dozens of remaining elite soldiers who have been brought with them in recent years. In fact, the Han people who can be officers can command the troops to deploy and attack.

He didn't need to do this thing. These people can be said to be the most miserable people in the current New Qin Empire, and they can also be a company commander. This is also the foundation of his status in the past few years.

The remaining [-] infantry lined up and slowly pressed towards the port city. Although the number was small, they were the elite accumulated over the past two years.

Tomorrow, if it succeeds, there will be [-] servitors, that is, the organized people, coming here. They will carry back the supplies they robbed here. They are on the road at the moment, only fifty miles away from here. up.

They are still fifteen miles away from the town. After the soldiers were organized, the five hundred cavalry broke away from the team and headed towards the port town in strands.

Intercept and kill all the idle people on the periphery, loot their houses, and eliminate any enemies that threaten them.

After observing for a while, Zhuang Lin thought that there was no threat, and then quickly drove the horse to follow the running infantry.

Half an hour later, five miles away from the enemy, the town was in chaos.The loud bell is calling the enemy's team, and at the same time notifying the Spaniards or other people in the port to hide and run for their lives, they all know that this is the bell of the coming war.

After observing for a while, Zhuang Lin thought that there was no threat, and then quickly drove the horse to follow the running infantry.

Half an hour later, five miles away from the enemy, the town was in chaos.The loud bell is calling the enemy's team, and at the same time notifying the Spaniards or other people in the port to hide and run for their lives, they all know that this is the bell of the coming war.

The first thousand and 410 chapter three Zhuanglin Department desperate situation 3

Now it can't be taken back, [-] infantry and [-] cavalry have been released, leaving only [-] elite soldiers and a few personal guards who have followed for many years.

Zhuang Lin could only follow the infantry forward bit by bit. The battle ahead was in full swing. The infantry used the few arquebuses, bows and arrows, broadswords, and spears to fight the enemy, and then several teams besieged several Spaniards. Or the Mexicans, after killing them, snatched the weapons, and then handed them over to a team, with this team as the main force, and other teams cooperated to advance bit by bit.

The scattered Spaniards and Mexicans who had time to return to the castle contributed a lot of weapons and equipment to everyone. Soon the cavalry was besieged, and nearly two hundred scattered Mexicans were wiped out. The team had two hundred flintlock guns with good firepower. They also carried a small arsenal of Mexicans, wiped out the homes of some businessmen who were doing business here, and seized property and weapons from their homes.

In less than an hour, about 800 men were replaced with captured flintlocks and some good matchlocks, and even some good quality six-pounders. Fifteen hundred infantry, divided into ten companies, two Artillery platoon, an infantry supply platoon, a total of eleven companies of soldiers.After losing about a company of infantry, the port and town were nearly taken.

About nine of the ten companies were equipped with captured armament, and two artillery platoons were replaced with shotguns, which were soon replaced by three twelve-pounders captured by the Mexicans and Spaniards, six of which had been left outside. Six-pounder solid-bullet artillery, and six three-pounder squat guns they carried.

The four cavalry companies of the cavalry battalion were still pinning down the enemy's castle. Some lightly injured cavalry and infantry platoons organized manpower to search for the dead and injured, gathered them, and transported them outside the town for resettlement.

The New Qin Empire learned from the Huaxia Empire. It has a systematic method for the transportation of supplies, the management of the wounded, and the cleaning of the battlefield. These villages and forests have done a good job.

The outside is basically under control, but there are two thorny ideas, one is the dock on the port, and the other is the castle. There are many ways to attack the Chinese Empire, but the bad thing is that the enemy has a lot of troops. Zhuang Lin's idea is to attack Withdrew after the end, but couldn't take down the castle, and the gains were not great. Although some weapons and equipment and some financial resources were harvested, this was not enough, and even the losses of the wounded and the dead could not be recovered.

He looked at the sea, and the enemy's warships were already attacking the port. They were about to bombard them. If it weren't for the fact that there were still many Spaniards and Mexicans in the town, the Spaniards would have bombarded them long ago.

"Quickly, push those captives to the pier so that they can't bombard our troops until we take down the castle." Zhuang Lin now only wants to take down the castle as soon as possible. With the siege artillery and coastal defense artillery on the castle Enough.

The guards around him immediately ordered two soldiers to ride on horseback to inform the infantry.

So soon thousands of Spanish immigrants and Mexicans, as well as immigrants and villagers from other countries in some towns, foreigners were escorted to the pier for guarding. , Zhuang Lin ordered to intensify the attack on the Spanish castle.

In the middle of the night, the method of excavation was used to advance to 50 meters below the city wall, but it was impossible to advance here. We had to use artillery and muskets to shoot at the Spaniards on the city wall. Then Zhuang Lin sent a group of blasters to climb the steep , The root of the rugged city wall sent the blasting explosives under the city wall, killing dozens of captured villagers and slaves, and dozens of newly joined death squad soldiers.

More than a dozen well-trained soldiers and three Han officers also died under the city wall.

If we talk about European castles, they are really hard to beat. Many of the castles in Europe described by Zhang Qiang in later generations are Lingbao, and they are different from the eastern cities. Reciprocating, steep and difficult to climb, and their castles are generally built on steep cliffs, built according to the terrain of the mountain, never flattening the surroundings, and there is water, moat, or running water flowing into the castle, which is difficult to cut off.

The base of the castle is relatively wide, with a wide field of vision, and the artillery layout is much more reasonable than that of the Easterners who are good at using bows and crossbows. There are almost no dead spots for shooting.

And when you enter Huaxia and other oriental cities, the terrain is flat. European castles are not inside. Try to make high ground levels and terraced fields. When you open the outer door, the inside is like a maze, and it is layer by layer. Yes, the gates are the kind that go around one by one, which is a good place for street fighting.

It can be said that Europeans have thoroughly studied defense, street fighting, and fighting in the era of cold weapons. This is because their castles are generally small and cannot accommodate many people. Tens of thousands of people, although tall and majestic, but the terrain inside is much flatter.

This is equivalent to a city within a city in the east, like an inner city, where the place is small, so you have to make great efforts to attack it.

A total of more than 300 people were sacrificed before the city wall was finally blown up. The city wall was blown into a slope. Then three companies of the infantry company under the cover of the artillery platoon paid the death of one company before attacking the city. The remaining three companies A cavalry company, five infantry companies rushed in, fought for three hours, and finally wiped out the enemy in the enemy's castle. Two cavalry companies, three infantry companies, and even the 500 people who came behind were killed. All the young and strong people were sent out before they finally took down the castle and wiped out the Spaniards and Mexicans inside.

And the Spaniards didn't know whether they were unable to attack or their battleships were short of manpower. Anyway, they didn't fire any artillery attacks from beginning to end.

When the enemy's castle was taken down, Zhuang Lin counted the number of people. Huo, 800 infantrymen injured 400 people, and 230 people were seriously injured. They were all recruits with little experience. In addition, the young and strong people who have gathered in the past few years have only [-] troops, and the cavalry company has also suffered heavy losses. Only two cavalry companies with about [-] people can still perform tasks.

That is to say, the fighting strength of the troops around him was only 700, and there were still about 200 soldiers, and nearly [-] soldiers were killed or injured in the battle.

"Send someone to find out the details of the enemy's warships. It seems that they are not in good condition. Take a few prisoners and ask them," Zhuang Lin said to the guards around him.

Only these personal guards have good water quality and can surf the sea.And to catch the enemy's warship and the sailors on the ship, you have to sneak into the enemy's warship first.

The first thousand and 410 chapter four turned out to be the arrival of the main fleet

The sky is getting brighter and the battle has come to an end. All the captives have been sent to the houses and large yards around the port. The siege artillery and coastal defense artillery of the captured castle have been pushed to the coast and aimed at the port. Spanish fleet.

Most of the Spaniard fleet is sailing ships, few of them are steam engines, and most of them are broken, as if after a big battle. At the moment, the Spaniards are working hard to repair the warships. Because the port is occupied, they can only retreat to the sea inside or outside the port. Confronted Zhuang Lin and the others across the waterway of the port and the beach outside the sea.

Except for the first two or three hours when the Spanish warships fired at the city, they bombarded the port and docks. Later, in front of the hostages, they stopped the bombardment and mostly resorted to confrontation.

This made Zhuang Lin very puzzled.