Chapter 264 Manila Offensive and Defensive Battle (5)
Makun didn't even want to shoot against the Spaniard on the mail, and came five hundred meters away and shouted, "Pull up the cannon and level it for me!"
The artillery company behind tried hard to push up ten artillery pieces and aimed at the sentry tower.
Captain Diego on the mail tower was frightened to death when he saw so many cannons opposite him. He pulled a soldier and said, "Go back to the Governor's Office to report to the Governor, saying that the Chinese are coming!"
Seeing the soldier running back quickly, Captain Diego sighed and said, "The enemy's strength is not something we can compare to, surrender!"
As soon as Ma Kun was about to fire the fire, he saw a white flag shaking from the wardrobe. "Damn it, surrender before he could fight? Do these guys still have a sense of honor?"
The Westerners who Makun didn't know had different fighting wills and Easterners. Westerners would not persist in a battle that would be defeated. And Easterners advocated the last person to fight.
Regardless of the Spanish who came out to surrender, Makun handed them over to the follow-up troops and led two regiments to the city gate.
When I came to the city gate, I found that I had received news in the city. The city gate was closed. However, outside the city, there was a large infantry phalanx with a population of about the same number as my own.
The Spanish made a typical Spanish pike phalanx, with about two thousand people forming a square array of ten columns. In front were spearmen holding four-meter spears, on both sides were swords and shields, and behind were musketeers.
Ma Kun was stunned when he looked at the formation opposite. He was also Zhu Hongsan's first non-commissioned officer, and was extremely familiar with this formation. Unlike the Spaniards, they had musketeers. In the past, there were no musketeers here, so they had to rely on hand grenades to fight close-range.
Seeing that the opponent was prepared, Makun also restricted his subordinates to form two regiment-level square formations. Unlike the enemy, he had artillery on his side. The Spaniards' artillery was all on the city wall, but they were all some Flang machine cannons, with limited power and range.
The Spaniard opposite was very chivalrous and gave Marquin time to organize the team. Seeing that the team was organized, the Spanish square began to move.
The Spanish commander of the command team, Carlos, said to the chief of staff behind him: "See, the Chinese army is also well-trained, and this should be their elite troops."
"Mr. Colonel, I wonder why these Chinese people were wearing the same military uniforms as those of the British? Are they trained by the British?"
"It is impossible. In East Asia, there are the Dutch and our world. The British are all in India, and their tentacles cannot reach so far."
The Chief of Staff nodded, and he agreed with the colonel. "Sir Colonel, you find that the Chinese are not wearing armor at all, and the musketeers are not protected by swords and shields. Do they think that musketeers can win a battle alone?"
"These Chinese are weird and ordered the sword and shield soldiers to rush forward after the enemy's first round of muskets fired. I believe that under the impact of our elite sword and shield soldiers, the Chinese will not last long."
The Spaniards lined up in close platoons, and this kind of live target was the favorite of artillery soldiers. The first round of strikes started with artillery soldiers. The first round of live ammunition caused nearly 100 people to lose troops in Spain. The Spaniards were amazed at the range of Chinese artillery and began to speed up their progress.
Soon, the Spaniards entered the shooting distance of the musketeers. The first row of musketeers fired volleys, and the spearmen in the front row of the Spaniards fell to the ground one after another.
Commander Carlos behind was shocked, "What kind of musket do they use? Why are the shooting distance so far?" You should know that the Spaniard's melee gun was only fifty meters away, but now it is 150 meters away from the Chinese.
When Carlos saw the Chinese second row of musketeers starting to fire, the soldiers on his side were knocked down one after another. He couldn't sit still and shouted: "When the Chinese loaded, let the sword and shield soldiers rush up!"
The two armies are now 150 meters apart, which is the fastest sprint in later generations, and it takes sixteen seconds to run, not to mention that each of the Spanish sword and shield soldiers wear heavy armor.
In just two minutes, the Chinese shot six volleys. At a distance of more than 100 meters, the thin armor of the Spanish sword and shield soldiers could not stop the lead bullets of the musket. After the smoke spread, Carlos saw his sword and shield soldiers lying all over the ground in the positions of the two armies, and the farthest soldier was still fifty meters away from the Chinese.
This battle cannot be fought. I don’t know what spells the Chinese have. Their muskets have such a long range and their loading speed is so fast.
Seeing the neat Chinese team on the opposite side began to advance with the drum beats, Carlos grabbed the chief of staff and shouted: "These Chinese are devils, we cannot win, and order all the troops to withdraw to the city!"
Ma Kun didn't expect that the opponent would run away in the first round of volleyball and couldn't help but curse: "The combat effectiveness of these guys is not as good as that of the Annan people. At least the Annan people have persisted until the third round of volleys."
Seeing the Spaniards retreating to the city one after another, Makun immediately organized artillery to bombard the city gate. The city wall built by the Spaniards was completely incomparable to the city of Central Plains. The city wall was only two meters high, and the city gate was just a layer of iron wooden boards, and it was blown away in less than half an hour.
After entering the city, Makun ordered a regiment commander to lead a team to the port fort to support Zhang Hai's navy, and the remaining regiment began street fighting with the Spaniards.
The Spanish's fighting will was completely incomparable to the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty. After seeing the Chinese entering the city, they did not resist much, and they all raised white flags to surrender.
Wang Jinbao used to be a bandit, and knew that the resistance was the most intense when the city was broken. He didn't expect that he would win so easily now, which made him very depressed.
The Zhao brothers next to him said, "Sir, the Folang Ji people are like this. They never make unnecessary resistance. They surrender immediately if they see it."
"Damn it, I have never seen such a shameless nation!"
The Zhao brothers looked at each other and said, "Sir, the city is from us Han people now. Can we go to seek revenge on the natives?"
"By the way, I forgot this matter. Do you have enough staff? I'll give you another thousand people?"
"No need, thank you sir. There are more than 5,000 remaining Han people in the city. We must kill all the natives this time!"
So far, Spain has slaughtered the Han people four times in the Luzon natives. Each time, tens of thousands of Han people were killed, countless women were raped, and countless assets were robbed. The hatred between the Han people and the indigenous people is simply irreconcilable.
Wang Jinbao didn't care about it at the beginning, didn't he just kill a few people? Are the natives still considered humans? Then the urban area of the natives was in great trouble. At the beginning, only some local Han people began to retaliate against and kill people. As more and more Han people joined, it turned into a planned massacre.
Some of the indigenous people were relatively rich. After some new troops entered the city, they saw these rich people sneakily killing two families at the beginning, and then snatching away valuable things. However, when the large new troops entered the city, they began to massacre the indigenous people in a planned and organized manner.
Under the organization of grassroots company-level officers, the new army, led by local Han people, divided the urban areas where the indigenous people lived into ten districts. First, drove the indigenous people out of the door and robbed all their gold and silver, and then took the indigenous people from one district to the river and shot them collectively. Later, they felt that killing like this was too troublesome, so they started killing people directly in the city.
Most of the grassroots officers in Zhu Hongsan's team were bandits and refugees, and they were familiar with this kind of massacre. Soon, more than 10,000 indigenous people were killed in three years, and then some soldiers targeted the Spaniards.
The Spaniards also played a disgraceful role in previous massacres, but after all, they were not the ones who took action. When Wang Jinbao first entered the city, he also guaranteed their wealth and life safety. Unexpectedly, the Chinese people are back on their word and act against them.
At this time, no matter how much chivalrous spirit is, the Spaniards immediately took up their weapons to resist when they saw that their family and life were threatened, and immediately entered the battle in the city.
The battle lasted overnight, and most of the people of this era had night blindness and could not see clearly at night. However, Zhu Hongsan's soldiers did not have this shortcoming and took advantage of the night battle. In addition, the main commanders of the Spanish were captured one after another, and no one organized resistance in a planned manner. The resistance was finally suppressed at dawn.
After dawn, Fu Wenlong entered the city. He was originally happy, but finally took over Manila. From now on, this place will be the headquarters of his own Governor of the South China Sea. After more than 200 years of construction by the Spanish, Manila is the leading city in Nanyang, and it is very prosperous.
But the more Fu Wenlong walked into the city, the more he found that something was wrong. People were inevitably killed in war, but too many people died. There were dead bodies everywhere, and more than 100 people were corpses on the spot within the range that Fu Wenlong could see.
When Fu Wenlong left Dongguan, Zhu Hongsan told him that Manila was very prosperous and should be accepted in full. If the Spaniards surrender, don’t abuse them. The Spaniards were all taken to Guangdong, and Zhu Hongsan would have great use.
Zhu Hongsan's plan was to use these Spanish people to establish a complete scientific research system. The Chinese were not short of skilled craftsmen, but the rules for the formation of science and inheritance of craftsmanship. Therefore, many ancient technologies were lost to later generations. Among these Spanish people, there were a large number of nobles, missionaries, and teachers. They received a good systematic education, so these Spanish people were determined to be Zhu Hongsan.
Entering the inner city, which is the Spanish residential area, Fu Wenlong saw a large number of Spanish people being killed, and many women were not covered in clothes, and seemed to have been humiliated. This was completely contrary to Zhu Hongsan's wish.
Fu Wenlong found Wang Jinbao angrily, and asked when he met: "What's going on at this time? Why is the city massacre?"
Wang Jinbao didn't expect that this would be the result. He fought all night last night, but in the end he didn't have enough staff and borrowed a thousand sailors from the navy before he could barely suppress them.
Chapter completed!