open sea

Chapter 351
Fort San Pedro in Cebu is not a standard star-shaped fortress. This may be a problem left over from history. Regasbi had too few resources when he first landed on Cebu Island, but to a certain extent, he also used star-shaped fortresses Shaped fortress defense system - in the opposite direction of the port.

At the beginning of the construction of this fortress, what needs to be guarded against is not the sea, but the land enemies in the other three directions, the locals of Cebu.

The sea is the direction where their own people came. Half a year ago, who would have thought that someone could defeat them in this sea?No one, it's not that the Spaniards are arrogant, but that literally no one can beat them at sea.

The soaring flames off the coast of Cebu reflected Legaspi's face red. His only remaining ship was anchored in the port. The pirates who came suddenly drove several lucky boats on rampage, throwing weapons they had never seen before, turning the shore into a turmoil. For the sea of ​​fire.

The pirates under Lin Feng didn't have any novel weapons, fire bricks, rockets, fire oil tanks, he could find all the firearms of the Ming dynasty navy before Chen Mu's improvement.

They have never been a long-distance fleet. The Ming Dynasty Navy is an unpopular offshore patrol team. Burning everything they see is the housekeeping skill of this group of people.

Of course, the process of burning the ship was also mixed with small shark boats shuttling through it, using the ship's pitiful artillery to bombard the muzzle of the low castle.It's just limited to the pirate's artillery skills. The number and caliber of the artillery itself is weaker than that of the opponent's artillery, and the hit rate is pitifully low. It's just a strong momentum.

But on land, Lin Feng and Zhuang Gong achieved extraordinary results.

The Spaniards didn't have many defenders at the port, and they had the disadvantage of lax defense. The first thing they discovered was not Lin Feng rushing into the port settlement, but a few lucky boats attacking from the sea.Just after relying on shore artillery to bombard for a while, the sound of shouting and killing came from behind.

More than a dozen Spanish soldiers rushed out of the port with spears, muskets, swords and shields, and the pirates in the loose formation shot at random with firecrackers and bird blunderbusses, leaving behind seven or eight soldiers who were shot and fell to the ground. People fired back and fought back.

Hundreds of people are a hundred guns, although no one can shoot in the dark, but after a few breaths, no one has the courage to stand up and even face the difficulties.

Lin Feng has too many firearms, this is not something that courage can solve!

Fort San Pedro was firing guns and artillery hundreds of meters away. It was impossible for the guns to hit, but the artillery could.

Lin Feng's subordinates also had formations at the beginning. Although they were not as familiar with battle formations as the officers and soldiers, they also knew the impact of battle formations on morale after a long battle, until the shells hit the sky.

The pirates held open flames and charged towards the port along the coastline. The shells passed over the wildly growing coconut trees and palms, and landed on the edge of the pirate formation, knocking down several pirates along the way.

Fortunately, the shells did not jump up and caused more casualties. Even so, the pirate battle formation was forced to disperse into teams of more than ten or even dozens of people, looting around the houses on stilts in the forest, and rushing out if they didn't know what to kill. defenders.

Lin Feng's offensive was not hindered by the artillery from the castle, on the contrary, he had expected the casualties that the artillery would cause, and he was just happy because he found that the artillery could only do limited damage to them.

The artillery here is not as strong as the Northeast Gulf port, and the shore artillery is not dense enough. With only a few rounds of artillery on top, they can kill all the Western Yi outside the castle. He calls the shots.

As Lin Feng rushed deeper into the port, the defense force of the port became less and less. Hearing the roar of artillery in the northeast direction, it was obvious that Duke Zhuang's subordinates suffered from the shelling more severely than him. Just when he was about to order to abandon the port and rush to help Duke Zhuang At that time, the iron gate of the castle on the east side of the north suddenly opened, and hundreds of Spanish soldiers ran out in formation, stabbing diagonally towards him.

At a distance of one or two hundred paces, the Spanish formation sergeants rushed across the stone bridge over the river in unison. Dozens of gunmen without armor and wearing high helmets with feathers were separated and stood facing Lin Feng's troops by the bridge, carrying muscat heavy arquebus guns.

This kind of arquebus has a small iron bracket on it, and a shoulder-high wooden bracket is fixed to the ground in the hand to support the heavy musket.

The weapons in their hands are huge monsters that came out of the city defense weapons to fight in the field. This kind of musket was first used for city defense, because the gun is 1.4 meters long, the barrel is octagonal, the caliber is twice that of the bird gun, and the bullet weight is three times. The whole gun weighs eleven kilograms and has a terrifying range of more than 250 meters.

It is the prototype of Chen Mu's imitation of the heavy bird blunderbuss in the Northern Xuanfu Military Weapons Bureau.

"Recharge, recharge!"

The captain of the Spanish company shouted an order, and his light musketeers and spearmen had formed a square formation at the bridgehead to prepare for the attack of the Ming pirates.

The gunman on the bridge bit open the ammunition jug hanging on his body, poured a pot of gunpowder and then poured another pot, so that the gunpowder was compacted and the lead bullet was stuffed into the barrel. rather than accurate aiming.

In the Battle of Pavia, Italy 45 years ago, this thing often killed several people or several horses with a single shot.But the disadvantage is also very obvious. No one can carry these monsters for hundreds of yards to deal with the intensity required for war.

"emission!"

Boom, boom, boom!

It is completely different from the crisp sound of bird guns or Japanese guns when fired. After double charge, there is one or two gunpowder, and the three eyes of the three-eyed gun can only hold so much, so that the sound made by this thing is similar to that of artillery.

A row of heavy muskets fired at the bridge with great momentum, causing Lin Feng, who was directing the pirates to fire at the enemy phalanx, to fall down on the spot.

Most of the pirates reacted similarly to Lin Feng's. Many of them didn't even want their guns, and some even turned around and ran away.Not everyone can see the weapons on the opposite side as clearly as Lin Feng. Many pirates thought that the Spaniards in the castle had pushed the cannon carts onto the bridge.

Thirty or forty heavy-duty muskets, even if the accuracy is very low, the damage is still terrible. Lead bullets lack armor. No, it doesn’t matter whether there is armor or not for this kind of weapon. After hitting the human body, the strong kinetic energy will not even cause the lead bullets to roll over. , as soon as it flipped, it protruded from another direction, and then hit the next person.

Lin Feng just wanted to let the idiots in the phalanx at the bridgehead know how powerful he is, but in a blink of an eye he was knocked down by a round of volleys and dozens of his subordinates were knocked down. The pirate who was lucky enough not to be hit was touching his limbs to check if they were still there, and saw the phalanx Inside, a spear was held high and walking towards this side, and there were more than a dozen musketeers at each corner, pumping their rods to press ammunition while walking.

It would be impossible to force the subordinates to form an formation, so what a fart!

"Everyone retreats to the port and guards them at the port. I don't believe they can reach the port!"

The smoke dissipated, and the Spanish captain commanding the heavy musketeers on the bridge was stunned to see the backs of the pirates fleeing into the darkness. The promised physiological army was high-spirited and powerful?

The invincible Spanish phalanx has not yet entered, and ran away after a face-to-face?

"Captain, they are running to the port!"

The Spanish captain didn't have time to laugh, his face turned green when he heard these words, he glanced towards the top of the city, he picked up the heavy musket very deftly with his hands and feet, and shouted loudly: "Pursuit! Don't let them get our artillery, hurry up!"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)