Wanli 1592

Chapter 430

A gunshot not only scared Chen Longzheng, but also scared Hughes's own people. No one expected that Hughes would shoot suddenly, and he still shot at Father Matteo Ricci. Of course, the position was not favorable. Matthew's body, but the ground under his crotch, that is, such a short distance, a bullet was deeply embedded in the ground, and Hughes had a ghostly expression on his face, which was very penetrating.

Matteo Ricci never expected that Hughes would shoot at him. After being frightened, his liver and gallbladder split, and he passed out directly. It seemed that he was dead, so in the eyes of others, Matteo Ricci He was shot to death by Hughes, or scared to death. In a word, this blame belongs to Hughes, and no one can escape.

Hughes didn't expect Matteo Ricci to be so cowardly, and he was scared to death. He didn't have any relevant mental preparations, so he heard a soldier beside him exclaim: "Father Leach is dead!!"

Then all the soldiers looked at Hughes with extremely shocked eyes.

You are so courageous, you are so courageous, you actually killed people from the Holy See!Get killed in front of so many of us!
Hughes panicked for a while, stepped back a few steps, and shouted: "I didn't kill him! He scared himself to death! I didn't kill him! Don't talk nonsense! Whoever talks nonsense will kill him!"

After finishing speaking, this guy snatched a lit matchlock gun with his hands, lifted it up to the sky, and there was another "bang", which shocked all the Spanish soldiers. No one continued to shout, and they all looked at him in horror.

Hughes panted heavily, looking at the soldiers around him, his mind went blank.

Just now.

"bang bang bang bang"

A series of gunshots scared Hughes to the ground, and his ears were full of panic and screams, as well as uninterrupted gunshots. After waiting for a while, Hughes looked up, Beside him lay seventeen or eight soldiers who were lying on the ground and bleeding all over.

The Chinese shot?The Chinese are attacking us?

He looked around again and saw that almost all the soldiers in the surrounding area were running around, panicked and completely out of order, not to mention using obstacles to stop the Chinese. It's the sound of bullets hitting objects.

"Hughes! The Chinese are attacking! The Chinese are attacking us! What should we do? Didn't you say that there would be no war? What's going on now?!"

Hughes' deputy rushed to Hughes' side at once, lying on the ground and grabbing Hughes' collar, he yelled wildly, making Hughes dizzy for a while, and finally woke up, listening to the gunshots next to his ears He screamed, gritted his teeth, and shouted: "Organize a counterattack immediately! Counterattack immediately! If we don't counterattack, we will die here! Counterattack immediately! Only by counterattack can we hope to survive!"

The deputy didn't want to argue with Hughes about the previous matter at this moment, and he couldn't negotiate with the Chinese, so he could only fight and fight for a way out.

"When I get back to the Governor's Mansion, I must sue you to a military court! You bastard!"

This deputy's head is much clearer than that of Hughes. When Hughes hit Matteo Ricci, he knew that the situation was not good. Matteo Ricci was clearly trying to prevent the two armies from fighting. This damn army leader knew In war, is his brain a pig brain? !

The deputy crawled up and got up, and quickly went to the back, trying to avoid the shooting range of the Chinese and organize a counterattack. After running a few steps, Hughes suddenly shouted: "Send someone to the Chinese village behind to pull Help! They have muskets too, they can save us!"

The deputy was taken aback, raised his head slightly, and looked at Hughes suspiciously. In the next second, a bullet accurately shot into his cranial cavity from his forehead, and Hughes saw him shaking After a while, his expression became dull, and then he fell directly to the ground, revealing the back of his head that was smashed.

"what!!!!!!!"

Hughes yelled hysterically.

Outside the Spanish position, Chen Long was passing the rifled gun he had just fired to the guard behind him, and the guard immediately handed over a loaded firearm, and then he took out the small wooden hammer and started rattling. Chen Long was hammering bullets into the muzzle of the gun he was shooting.

Chen Longzheng's marksmanship is good. This guy likes muskets. When Xiao Ruxun arranges soldiers to shoot with live ammunition every day, he must join in the fun and fight along with him. There is no way, Xiao Ruxun gave him a quota of twenty rounds of ammunition per day to make him enjoy himself. Who ever I think this guy is not just playing around, but is seriously studying marksmanship. Xiao Ruxun's third rifle is for him.

Twenty rounds of ammunition were fed to him every day, and now Chen Long was looking like a sniper.

But I saw him squatting next to a tree, using the tree as a cover, holding a gun, aiming with one eye, and pointing the muzzle at the Spaniards' position. When he saw anyone who was upset, he would shoot over, and the shot was quite accurate, from just now to now Already three people fell under his guns, and the suppressive firepower of the 250 arquebus soldiers hadn't killed [-] people yet!
Okay, stand up again, recklessly, as if you are about to shoot yourself with a gun, it's you, let's go!

One pull of the trigger, another shot, a bullet directly charged at Chen Longzheng's target, and within Chen Longzheng's field of vision, the man fell down and never got up again.

In the sight of the soldiers around Hughes, Hughes just raised his gun to fight back against the Chinese, but when he stood up, he was knocked down by a bullet. The bullet pierced Hughes' neck and killed Hughes on the spot. Si died, and he lay on the ground, bleeding all over the floor.

The Spanish soldiers' will to fight collapsed.

"Sir! The Spaniards are in flight!"

Soldiers watching the battle came to report to Chen Longzheng.

"I know! The fusiliers immediately rushed to shoot accurately, and the bird guns followed closely. Try to wipe out these Spaniards without letting a single person escape! The guards come with me to see how Mr. Li is doing! If you want to see people die, you need to see corpses! Such a big man can’t just say he’s gone! The Spaniards who killed him today! He didn’t even let Mr. Li go!”

Chen Longzheng rushed over with his troops with red eyes. The shooter with the rifled flintlock pistol rushed to the front. After crossing the obstacle, he squatted on the ground and shot accurately. After a round of salvo, more than 30 Spaniards were shot down. A very small number of people are stubbornly resisting, and most are fleeing.

The Ming army's musketeer team had finished changing the ammunition, and rushed up to cover, and fired two rounds of volleys. Although they were not accurate, they still had momentum. One round of volleys and two rounds of volleys also killed seven or eight unlucky people. Well, these unlucky bastards were directly beaten into a sieve, with blood holes all over their bodies.

This time the Spaniards really fled. The main general and deputy generals were all shot to death, and the rest were suppressed by the Ming army one-sidedly. Who still has the will to fight?I don't know who took the lead, a group of people screamed and ran back. From a distance, a large group of people were fleeing, as embarrassing as they could be.

Chen Longzheng didn't intend to let them go. He gave an order, and the Ming army chased after them. Once the bullets were finished, they couldn't change the bullets immediately, so they didn't want their guns. Many people just dropped their guns and pulled them out from behind. The machete rushed forward and slashed. Many Spaniards didn't hear the gunshots and thought that the Ming army had stopped chasing them. But when they looked back, they saw the Ming army rushing up fiercely with a machete. .

With a slash, a human head fell to the ground, and with another slash, half of the body was separated. Most of the Spaniards were not killed by guns, but were chased by these gunmen with machetes and chopped to death with knives. A small group of fleeing flintlocks was targeted by the fusiliers who had loaded their ammunition. At a distance of 150 meters, they fired a volley of fifty rounds, eleven or twelve people fell to the ground, dead.

In this way, two hundred Spanish soldiers were successfully wiped out by the Ming army, and this small-scale encounter ended in less than half an hour.

Chen Longzheng won a complete victory in the first battle when he was just a fledgling, and the battle loss ratio was astonishing. According to the statistics after the battle, only three people in the Ming army suffered minor gunshot wounds, but the skin was scratched by bullets, and two people sprained their feet during the pursuit. , another unlucky fellow tripped while crossing a Spanish barricade, fell headlong and fell unconscious, only to wake up after the battle.

One person didn't die, and two hundred Spaniards were cleaned up in this way, and the battle loss ratio was nothing.

But at that time, Chen Long was not in the mood to taste the fruits of his first victory in commanding a war. He and several Ming soldiers surrounded Matteo Ricci's "corpse" mournfully, watching the paralyzed Ricci with his eyes closed and silent. Falling to the ground, the sadness in my heart is beyond words.

The friendship between him and Matteo Ricci is still very deep. Not to mention the friendship when they translated and compiled the "Elements of Geometry" together, but also the one year of sailing on the sea together. The two stayed together day and night, talking about the 5000 years of China And the history of the Renaissance in Europe, thanks to Matteo, Chen Long is the second Chinese after Xiao Ruxun who knows Europe like the back of his hand, knowing Spain, Portugal, France and England.

Not only that, he also set off a wave of Chinese enthusiasm in Europe, became a guest of European nobles, and enjoyed unparalleled hospitality. All of this would not have been possible without the help of Matteo Ricci.

Besides, this time Matteo Ricci took the painstaking efforts to lead people to run three places. They went to the Philippines and Guangzhou, then went to Guangzhou and then went to Myanmar, and then went to the Philippines. There are almost [-] people, with a lot of white beards, and their bodies have long since faded. He is young and still running around, what do you think he is doing this for?Isn't it still for Lord Xiaohou?
So a conscientious little old man died like this, who said he was not wronged?
Chen Longzheng couldn't help but shed tears. He remembered the details of getting along with Matteo Ricci. He was very sad for a while. He stood up and told the soldiers beside him: "Put Mr. Li's body away, and let's take it back to Burma. He was killed because of our affairs, we have to be merciful to him, and when we go back, ask Xiaohou to preside over the cremation, leave a burial in Burma, and send the ashes back to his hometown, people always return to their roots.”

The soldiers bowed their heads and obeyed: "No!"

A few soldiers lifted Matteo Ricci's "corpse" carefully, and just after he lifted it up and took a few steps, Matteo Ricci's "corpse" suddenly opened his eyes and opened his mouth to shout a sentence in Chinese.

"Don't shoot! Don't shoot! Tilong! Don't shoot!"

Chen Long was about to command the soldiers to chop off the heads of these Spaniards and build a temple in Beijing to pay homage to Matteo Ricci. As a result, Matteo Ricci howled at the top of his voice. Chen Long was startled and carried Matteo Ricci's "corpse" The four soldiers were even more terrified. When they let go of their hands, Qiqi jumped back and raised their guns to shoot.

"Fake Corpse!!!!!!"

"Ouch! My old waist!!!"

Matteo Ricci has been in Myanmar for a long time and is used to speaking Chinese, especially because he has a bad back. He has the same problem with Yuan Huang. He asked Xiao Ruxun to give him a cupping massage at the top of his voice, but Matteo Ricci did not dare to ask Xiao Ruxun to give him a cupping massage, but he also learned this sentence, and he often said "my old waist!" 』

This time the voice saved his life.

The person who scammed the corpse still complained about his back pain?
The soldiers who had just raised their guns were stunned and looked at each other, not knowing what to do for a moment. Chen Longzheng rushed over in three steps and two steps, threw himself on Ricci's side and shook vigorously.

"Mr. Lee? Mr. Lee? You're not dead? Are you still alive?"

Matteo Ricci just woke up, but Monk Zhang Er couldn't figure it out.

"Of course I'm not dead, Ti Long, you want me dead that much?"

Chen Long was sure that Matteo Ricci was not dead, and immediately shouted: "Mr. Li is not dead! Mr. Li is not dead!"

Then he yelled at Matteo Ricci: "I saw you being shot just now, and thought you were really dead. Mr. Li, you scared me to death! If you are gone, how can I talk to Xiaohou?" Tell me!"

Matteo Ricci looked confused, looked at the messy battlefield, and suddenly woke up, remembering that he had shot Hughes unconscious.

"You didn't shoot, did you? Tilong, you didn't shoot?"

Chen Longzheng's expression changed.

"Western people deceive people too much, they knocked you out, Mr. Li, Mr. Li, you are Xiaohou's official, and you are Xiaohou's face. When they hit you, they hit you in Xiaohou's face, and they hit me in the face A mere small state dares to be so rampant, how can I spare them?

All the 200 Westerners below the leading officers were killed by my soldiers, leaving no one behind!This is what happens when they dare to disobey me, Daming!Mr. Li, don’t worry, don’t worry, I will send you back to Burma safely, this time you have made a great contribution, Xiaohou will not treat you badly, Mr. Li, you... Mr. Li?Mr. Lee?Why are you dizzy again?Mr. Lee? "

Matteo Ricci heard what Chen Longzheng said, looked at the mess on the ground and the corpses of the Spanish soldiers, and suddenly realized something, then froze for a moment, looked at Chen Longzheng's innocent face, then became anxious, didn't come up in one breath, and fainted again passed.

This frightened Chen Longzheng. Chen Longzheng thought that something happened to Matteo Ricci this time, so he quickly asked someone to lift Matteo Ricci and settle him down. He sent several people to escort Matteo Ricci back to the port ship. There were Burmese on board. He led his own troops and continued to go deep under the guidance of the guide, and he insisted on rescuing the more than 3000 lost compatriots.

(End of this chapter)