open sea

Chapter 401 Price
The sergeant major of the Mendoza Phalanx, the commander of the Suniga company, and Captain Suniga led his sergeants to find traces of the enemy while patrolling the island.

The first trace was that they saw a few small rafts on the sea from a distance, and there were people fishing on the rafts. Seeing that they actually supported the raft and tried to escape.

After approaching, they found that there were actually people living on the edge of the island, on the coast just north of the port. These people seemed to be wearing armor and possessing weapons.

Could it be...Ming Army?
When his small boat descended from the big boat and rushed towards the shore, he saw a dozen fishermen who had just fled to the shore and a few scattered people on the shore. Captain Suniga thought that he was favored by God—this was This battle has lasted for more than a month, and no one has ever been able to catch the enemy.

He will lead his company here to accomplish this glorious feat!
However, as the [-] sergeants of Suniga Company got closer and closer to the shore in small boats, the situation on the shore seemed a little weird.

"There were more than a dozen people on the bank just now, right, Father?"

With an arquebus in one hand and a foot on the bow of the boat, Suniga, who was wearing a precision-forged breastplate and a high helmet with intricately carved knight patterns, turned his head and asked the chaplain holding a Bible in one hand and a cross in the other: " Did you see, the people they are preparing to attack seem to be... more and more!"

On those huge rocky slopes with shrubs, one after another Ming soldiers with their helmets and armor came out with blunderbuss and spears, and quickly organized the army under the command of Lin Manjue.

Those 'fishermen' who supported the raft back to the shore were not in a hurry to escape after they got ashore. They used the ropes to pull the raft up to the sandy rocky beach and leaned against the soft-looking shrubs.

The bushes are just a camouflage, and there are wooden frames nailed in by the Ming army long ago. The half-person-high raft looks like a parapet from the other side, and a row of Ming soldiers half-kneel behind the raft and set up the fire rope. gun.

A simple fortification to prevent the enemy from landing on the coast was built in a very short time. The closer they got, the more frightened Suniga, who was about to attack the beach, felt—this seemed to be a scam, an ambush.

The Ming army he saw in his eyes had put down their spears, their waist knives and long swords were in front of them, they had handguns on their waists, bird guns in their hands, captured matchlock guns on their backs, and bird guns loaded with gunpowder. Leaning on the raft, each of them is wearing a breastplate and a headband.

In the past, they did not have so many muskets, nor did they have so many armors. The most they had was the single-sided breastplate that Chen Mu equipped for junior sergeants, but now it is different. Dozens of them wear the one-piece breastplate seized from the Spaniards. , the other part wears two old breastplates front and back, and the other part wears a Spanish high helmet on its head.

That's all, it doesn't matter.

Can your people come out of stone?very good.

Suniga believed that his invincible company would be able to overwhelm their crude defensive position, kill or capture dozens—no, hundreds of bloody heretics now, and then take a closer look at how those stones thing.

But how could the fucking stone pull out the cannon!
First, the bushes were lifted and the roots were thrown aside, revealing the artillery carts hidden inside, and then the Ming army clumsily dragged and carried hundreds of catties of two-jin cannons and Lightweight tiger squat, then repeat this action.

Lin Manjue thought it over clearly. He didn't care whether the use of artillery would be discovered by the enemy's large forces. If these enemies were not eliminated, they would die now. As for other things, he had to wait until the battle was over before he could think about it.

Five overturned shark boats transported two two-pound guns, mainly using tiger squats, and the dense enemy small boats were still twenty or thirty steps away from the coast. The Spanish soldiers who couldn't wait even bravely jumped out of the small boats , Holding the matchlock gun high, he walked towards the shore.

"The gunners line up, listen to the sound of the cannon and fire the guns."

"The gunner charges the powder, loads the shotgun, and the tiger crouches into the shotgun!"

Compared with the two-jin cannon, Lin Manjue prefers to use the tiger squat on land. This is the only "cannon" he can come into contact with when he was in Pingyuan County. The two-pound artillery is much easier.

Nail the tiger claws, and after loading the gunpowder, the Nanyang-produced scatter tube can be directly inserted into the muzzle, and the firing can be completed, which is much less troublesome than the two-pound cannon.

The range of the tiger squatting cannon is not close, and it can hit four or five hundred paces, but that can only disrupt the formation. If you really want to cause damage, you have to get close to the battle.Qi's army was guarding the southeast, and when they gave them the tiger crouching gun, they specifically told them that it was a weapon to prevent the enemy from approaching and charging.

Now, that's exactly the case.

Captain Mendoza landed on the coast. Seeing that the Ming army had placed two artillery pieces behind the formation, he did not panic. He methodically ordered dozens of musketeers from his subordinates to line up and fire at the enemy formation.

Their muskets had already been installed on the ship. At this time, a row of heavy musketeers propped their spears on the ground, set up the heavy heavy muskets, and obeyed orders to release the two heavy cannons one after another at the rear of the formation.

As for those lightweight tiger squat guns, they were directly ignored by the Spaniards. What use can such gadgets be?

In the smoke of gunpowder, more spearmen had already lined up and raised their spears or set them up.

The movements of their spears are very professional. In the long war, the Spaniards used the spears very well, and summed up a set of training methods for infantry with spears.

The right hand of the infantry holding the spear is stretched back, the back of the hand is facing upwards to clasp the tail of the spear and press it down, while the left hand is holding the spear against the chin, so that the four or five meter long spear forms a lever between the two hands to save more effort. Under the cover of the left and right musketeers, they marched towards the enemy.

If facing the defensive posture of cavalry or enemy charging, they will step on the tail of the spear under their right foot, hold the spear in their left hand, and be ready to draw out the short sword around their waists for close combat with their right hand at any time.

Nearly a hundred light and heavy muskets were fired into Lin Manjue's formation. In an instant, lead pierced the wooden boards or the muffled groans and screams of men being shot were everywhere, but many battalion soldiers who were shot were still standing, doing what they should do, even Several people struggled to fire back after being shot.

On the soil slope behind, several gunners loaded with two-pound guns were shot down on the spot by piercing through their breastplates. They were the main targets of the heavy gunners.

The wooden fence made of rafts in the front blocked most of the bullets of light muskets. Even if there were some bullets that penetrated the wooden boards and hit the battalion behind, most of the weakened lead bullets could be blocked by the breastplate, but were injured by the deformed breastplate. It is also inevitable.

The distance between the two sides was only forty or fifty steps, and it was already very good that the armor could not be pierced.

"Tiger crouching cannon, let it go!"

Without Lin Manjue's reminder, the gunners under his command had already placed the tiger squatting cannons at a low angle suitable for firing. With an order, the six tiger squatting cannons made loud noises in the gap in the middle of the wooden fence formed by the raft. As they came out, the paper seal was torn open under the air pressure of the chamber, followed by the iron shell of the loose tube for a ride, and dozens of lead pellets in it rushed towards the spearmen who formed a dense formation unabated.

They will pay the price for belittling the Tiger Crouch Cannon.

(End of this chapter)