Lord of Ming Dynasty

Why are the Spaniards so obedient and stop fighting.He saw the Spaniard's ships shuttle back and forth outside the port, coming back from the outside from time to time and then leaving. They were all small, fast clipper-type scout ships.

He returned to a merchant's mansion in a town that had not been damaged by gunfire, and waited for the officer to report.

"My lord, we have to leave here. We don't have enough fighters. Even if we temporarily train the young and strong, our total fighters are only 200 people left, and only [-] wounded infantry and artillery after the battle. The remaining people are either wounded, women, or old people. We have detected that the nearest Mexicans have come from two directions fifty miles away. They are not far from us. The Spaniards must have received the news a few kilometers away, and their large regular army has been mobilized, and within three days, we will be surrounded."

Zhuang Lin touched the few beards under his chin. It was a difficult problem. Now there were so many wounded and dead soldiers and civilians around him, as well as thousands of captives. Where would these people be taken? It was really a problem. I looked at the port and found that the Spaniards would not leave or beat them. It took a lot of thinking about what the problem was when they fell to the ground.

How about grabbing a few boats and loading them back?

But he is not reconciled, how to deal with the Han people living in the mountains and the families of the mercenaries they have been friends with for many years?If they leave, among so many people, the Spaniards can always catch one or two wounded or family members who slipped through the net. At that time, the Spaniards will wipe out them again, and those who are unarmed will be miserable. The Spaniards are not good people. Kindness will definitely be exterminated. Even if some people are alert, most people cannot escape.

Most of the family members and people there are old people, women, and children. There are only a few young adults. Most of the young adults have been transferred here to help soldiers and horses transport food and supplies, ammunition, feed horses, raise horses, and carry the wounded. In the end, the body of the dead person had to be brought back to the family members, which can be described as an all-out effort.

If I leave these family members and go away, then this group of young adults will be dispersed, and they may hold grudges. Except for the dozens of surviving soldiers around me, the rest are recruited locally. When the time comes, they will betray , may also suffer.

"Send someone to negotiate and see what's going on with them. Have the prisoners been interrogated yet? Is it that difficult? Don't they speak at all?" Zhuang Lin suddenly felt annoyed.

After sending out a few more cavalry, the officers, company commanders and some young and strong leaders of the temporary establishment gathered together in a while.

"Sir, we should withdraw. Most of the captives have formed a team and dispatched guard troops. The young and strong have formed five teams to be responsible for guarding. Soldiers from two companies are responsible for assisting the young and strong in guarding and escorting. The rest of the young and strong Escort the wounded and corpses with some lightly wounded soldiers and go first, the combatants stay behind, one cavalry company explores the way, and the other cavalry company is responsible for walking with the brigade together with the artillery and the baggage platoon."

"How many enemy weapons and equipment have we seized this time?" Zhuang Lin asked.

"A total of 1705 Chinese-style 36 muskets were seized, and they are still in the warehouse. It seems that the Spaniards are not used to them. This time we accepted them with a smile. There are also 78 Spanish flintlocks that are more than [-]% new. guns, three hundred captured Mexican arquebuses and backward flintlocks, nine ten-pounder field guns, three eighteen-pounders, twelve twelve-pounders, thirty-six six-pounders, three-pounders [-]. [-] barrels of gunpowder barrels. More than [-] solid shells and various shells."

Zhuang Lin was a little discouraged. With these old guns and cannons, he only needed to bring a company of New Qin Empire artillery, six 75mm artillery, a battalion of New Qin Empire infantry and a company of cavalry to kill all the Spaniards and soldiers here. The Mexicans took this small port, but they didn't expect to take the original weapon of the master weapon and return the master weapon. It took so much energy and casualties, and almost 3000 people were killed and injured before they won. Eight hundred Spanish regular troops, five A militia of a hundred immigrants, and three hundred Mexicans helped guard the town with soldiers.

The weapons found at the beginning were those on the merchant ships and merchants, and belonged to merchants from other European countries. Of course, he will not return them now, because he has offended them anyway.

"Sir, after many inquiries and interrogation of the captives, it turned out that the main fleet of our New Qin Empire was the main fleet that defeated the Spanish fleet. Leader Molin has arrived."

"What?" Zhuang Lin stood up, climbed the stairs, and looked at the Spanish fleet with a telescope in the attic outside. He was the fleet commander of the New Qin Empire. Now, if you observe carefully, you can see that Spain It looked like most of the main battleships could not be activated, but most of the small boats were saved, but most of the main battleships were in dilapidated condition. The reason why they did not escape was that most of those battleships had lost their combat effectiveness. They might have escaped by luck. The ability to escape is gone, unless they give up those capital ships.

It seems that this is the main battleship fleet of the Spaniards, at least the main fleet here.

They can't go, they want to go ashore, but there are not so many combat-ready army soldiers to open the situation, and it seems that their combat personnel have suffered heavy losses.

Zhuang Lin rubbed his chin, "Don't go, let people prepare to seize the ship, all artillery, each artillery is equipped with four young men, find some prisoners who are willing to help us, help transport ammunition, and push the coastal defense artillery to the enemy's range Inside, let those captives dig bunkers, and the remaining captives go to build fortifications around the entire town, and we will stick to it here." He ordered all the officers below.

But some people said: "Sir, our combat power can't resist the reinforcements surrounded by the enemy. Within three days, if we can't get rid of the enemy, we won't be able to run away. Without ships, we can only fight to the death. It is very difficult for us to fight." Those who captured the enemy's ships, even if they were lucky enough to capture one or two, would not be able to hold so many wounded and soldiers, weapons and supplies, and besides, we still have many family members and people in the mountains?"

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The entire small port of Panama was blocked. In the open sea, the ten three-remodeled ironclad II warships led by Morin, plus thirty steam engine warships, and more than a dozen auxiliary sailing ships, totaled 50. Many warships blocked the incomplete Spanish fleet in the port, which can explain why the Spaniards stopped attacking Zhuang Lin and the others.

Because they were not only seriously injured and unable to leave, they were short of personnel, especially marine personnel, but they were also blocked by Molin's fleet and could not escape. Unless they abandoned the ship before Zhuang Lin attacked the castle, otherwise, they could only Just like now, there is no way to advance or retreat.

On the outer sea, the sound of cannons gradually approached the port, and all the Spanish warships that could still fight frantically fled to the port. Zhuang Lin also ordered the artillery to bombard the Spanish warships in the port.

The Spaniards began to fight against the fort, and they didn't say anything at this time. Some artillery shells fell into the town, causing many accidental injuries.

Zhuang Lin ordered the prisoners and wounded to be moved to hide behind the valley where warships far from the port could reach, and the soldiers continued to repair fortifications on their respective positions.

Throughout the port, shells flew randomly, dozens, hundreds, and thousands of kilograms of solid shells, shell fragments almost filled the beach, the port, the place near the sea, there were smashed and broken wooden houses everywhere, everywhere The corpses of the captives who were smashed to death and the corpses of merchants or soldiers, the soldiers hurriedly retreated to the protected artillery holes and some stone houses, only a few orderlies rode their horses to avoid the shells, and Zhuang Lin's Orders are communicated everywhere.

The merchant ships of the merchants who did not escape in the harbor caused disaster, most of them were sunk and scattered in the sea water. The merchants who fled to the ship due to avoiding Zhuang Lin, the merchant ships who did not escape were met by the Spaniards. Different blows, it seems that the Spaniard is also desperate.

This side is not done, the enemy over there is getting closer, more and more Mexican cavalry appearing in the field of vision, almost more than [-] people, and the Mexicans also have a lot of infantry, but it is messy, like a parade, gathering Fifteen miles away, tents were being pitched everywhere, looking for camps. The Spanish cavalry who arrived first kept appearing within five miles. Because there were few cavalry here, they only conducted a small amount of investigation and did not engage in cavalry battles with the enemy.

However, from some peaks, the enemy's activities during the day can still be seen.Not many regular Spanish troops came, at most a thousand, but there were quite a few cannon fodder soldiers from the Mexicans.

Almost the entire town, within thirty miles of the port town, was occupied, and some destroyed villages became camps for these Spaniards and Mexicans.

Zhuang Lin looked more and more solemnly. He didn't know if Mo Lin and the others could arrive in time. 1000 people were not enough to deal with these more than [-] troops. Three or five cavalry were stationed in some separate houses in the outpost. Observe the enemy on the opposite side, this is for early warning at night, and the defensive position retreating three miles behind is gradually taking shape under the labor of captives and militiamen.

Maybe these fortifications can't withstand many enemy attacks, but they can always consume some of the enemy's shells and ammunition. This is Zhuang Lin's idea.

The fortifications are relatively simple. According to the terrain, a section is dug here, and a section is dug there. There are potholes dug everywhere, and some sandbag fortifications are piled up. Anyway, this is the outermost fortification. Some defenses like barbed wire, this is to prevent the enemy's cavalry from charging.

The 100 meters in front of the fortifications are full of potholes. If the enemy cavalry dare to charge up, the wisdom from China can make them stumble. This method has been used by Zhuang Lin many times to deal with Mexican horse bandits and Spanish cavalry. caused heavy losses to the enemy.

Even if the enemy knew about it, there was nothing they could do in the face of such fortifications. They could only rely on their strength to force the fortifications. These people are stubborn.

But Zhuang Lin also knows that this is actually nothing to Westerners. The cavalry can't get through, and the enemy's artillery is very powerful. In a destroyed village in the distance, some artillerymen pushed a field artillery specially made by the Spaniards. Teams of artillery are entering the camp, and there may be a fight tonight.

It seems that the guard posts and forward positions can't stop many enemies, and they can't delay much time. To withstand the enemy at night, you have to rely on your own soldiers retreating into the town. Now the young and strong behind are being organized, distributing weapons one by one, and attacking them. Do some simple queue training, teach how to execute orders, and declare some discipline.

At the same time, they conducted a volley, formation change, and drill for entering the position. These soldiers used the Spanish flintlock guns very easily. They are in life and death struggle every day, and they have long been proficient in how to use firearms. Yes, even if some people don't touch guns much, they will at least shoot, which is different from ordinary people.

The officers below work hard to train these young and strong, veterans and experienced soldiers, plus recruits, half of the 12 people in a squad are young and strong, plus five unemployed sailors hired at high prices from the city, one squad There are 18 people.

The original loss of troops was quickly made up, and the infantry returned to the strength of ten companies of 500 people, but the combat effectiveness was definitely not as good as before.

The trained company was quickly replaced, and then the soldiers who guarded the prisoners and helped the wounded were transferred up again. After two hours of reorganization and training, they were sent back again.

Some of the young and strong were led by the old people and women to transport supplies and take care of the wounded. A few soldiers or a squad drawn out patrolled and took care of each camp.

Under the watchful eyes of the guards and soldiers, the captives quickly helped the newly established artillery company and supply company to set up the nearest position outside the town, and built a new and relatively strong position on three sides of the town. Can the town Defending depends on whether these positions are captured by the enemy.

The cavalry helped to perfect the position at the port. What if the Spaniards wanted to disembark from the sea?

The whole town was so busy that it almost became a wind-up alarm clock.

The fortress is also being perfected and built. Perhaps the final resistance needs to be done somewhere. They used to be attackers, but now they are defenders. Many trenches need to be filled, and many places need to be made more rugged than the enemy.

On the sea, it seems that the battle is not over yet. The soldiers are organizing soldiers with good water skills, preparing to secretly take a boat to touch the enemy's warship, capture a warship, and then go to sea to contact the other side. In fact, secretly, it has long been There is a small boat out to sea, and it takes a long way to get in touch with that side.

Although the Spaniards have become the last of their strength, it seems that the main fleet is still hesitating whether to capture here. After all, Spain is still an ally with the New Qin Empire there, at least a business friend.

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However, as the battle progressed, the Spanish warships and fleets in the port, as well as merchant ships from other countries, were basically lost. The beach in the town began to become safer, but some shells fell into the town, and everyone Part of it fell into the fort of the port, where a dozen [-]-pound shore guns and two [-]-pound siege guns were lost, while the Spanish warships were getting farther and farther away, almost three miles away from the port. This has almost reached the range limit of the sailboat.

The whole port is relaxed.

But Zhuang Lin's heart is not easy, because if the main fleet is just passing by and does not know their situation here, then even if the Spanish fleet is wiped out, they will not be able to deal with these enemies on the shore. Teams organized by sailors can help them resist the enemy and retreat safely.

The battle was still going on in the outer port, the sky was still not dark, their preparation time was still very long, the town was turned into a barricade, the wounded were transferred to the Lingbao, Zhuang Lin also transferred the headquarters to the Lingbao.

The project of Lingbao was completed soon, the moat was dug again, the sea water was guided in the moat, and the wide moat assumed its responsibility again.

"Sir, the outer fortifications have been built." The soldiers came back to report.

"Well, leave [-] captives and [-] young men, and [-] soldiers guard the outlying positions, and the rest retreat to the town's second fortification. Build it quickly. After dark, we will focus on building the town's barricades. Order The troops in front, once the enemy launches an attack, must block the enemy for two hours, then retreat to the second line of defense in the town with their equipment, and let the cavalry company dispatch a company to go out to clean up the enemy who is close to the guard post."

Soon, thousands of captives were brought back to the second line of defense, and they began to help the soldiers and young adults there to build the second line of defense. This line of defense, which was only 200 meters away from the town, was the top priority.

The Spaniards have already begun to test the position of the guard post. There are Mexican cavalry running around the guard post, shooting, and driving away the guard post. All I can do is wait for it to get dark, and then I can take advantage of the chaos and escape.