open sea

Chapter 673 Driven
The large custom-packed powder barrel was clumsily stuffed into the muzzle of the tiger squatting gun by Yanian recruits. Two Suncheon flag soldiers stuffed the medicine thread into the tail of the gun. There was a thunderous roar outside the wooden village.

Hundreds of Sanzi were blasted into the air in an instant, drawing a parabola at the highest point and falling into the camp inside and outside the camp like hail, causing screams.

Tiger squatting guns are useless to buildings. Even the simplest wooden camps, the camps built by rough logs are still not destroyed by tiger squatting guns, which are used to kill people. Embedded deep into the wall.

As for the soldiers wearing high helmets, mail armor or plate armor in the camp, the ability of the tiger squatting cannon to cause confusion is obviously greater than the fatal ability. If you are unlucky, you will be smashed with black noses and faces or your forehead on the spot. Only suffered very severe shock and minor injuries.

The real power of the tiger squat gun is suppression, and it also brings disaster to unarmored enemies.

For example, soldiers in the battalion transporting defense weapons, artillery shells, and logs with bare arms in the battalion, the flying stones fell quickly from a very high height, and the lethality was no less than that of a blunderbuss shot from a hundred steps away.

The eight tigers squatted down and fired the first volley. Three unlucky Spanish soldiers were killed on the spot. More than [-] soldiers guarding the northwest were injured to varying degrees, and eleven of them were unable to continue to participate in the battle.

The company commander in the battalion was a retired captain who had fought against Ottoman. A few years ago, he traveled across the ocean with a sword. He got gold in South America and bought a full set of black Milan plate armor. You can only hear a jingle on your body, but it can't hurt it in the slightest.

The only thing is, he is not used to wearing the helmet covering the faceplate every day, but with his sensitivity to battle, seeing that unknown army laying a stake on the strange light artillery outside the camp, he still took off a piece of the helmet from the soldier's head. The deputy high helmet is buckled on the head.

Originally, no one thought that the cannonballs would hit them. In the imagination of normal people, the artillery would bombard the Muzhai Gate first, but judging from the caliber of the light cannons carried by that army, the Muzhai Gate could not hold up to a single shot, let alone Say eight cannons.

Although the captain did not believe that this kind of artillery with a large caliber and a very thin wall could shoot out the shells without blowing up the chamber, but as a Spanish officer with professionalism, he still ordered the soldiers to prepare for hand-to-hand combat after the gate of the village was breached .

He put on the helmet only to lead the troops to kill the only two remaining cavalrymen in the wooden village—whether the navy of any country has landed in New Spain, the governor must know this news.

This saved his life.

Who would have thought that someone would shoot shotguns at the Walled City!The trajectory of this howitzer is too curved!

Shotguns were occasionally used in the European war, but no one put the howitzers firing shotguns so close together and so focused on the target.

This will cause the shotguns to collide in the air, and when they fall on the enemy, they will have little power.

Three scatter fell on the captain's high helmet, and two of them collided with other scatter in the air when they fell. Only one, to the captain, was like being hit by a small hammer on the top of the head, making him almost faint past.

When he took off his helmet in a daze, the edge of the high helmet had been smashed out, and there was a sticky feeling flowing down the side of his forehead, and he subconsciously raised his hand to touch it, but the experienced captain didn't waste time to look.

His next move was to skillfully take off his plate armor gloves, tore up his shirt sleeves and bandaged them up on his head. At the same time, he did not forget to shout to the village: "The wounded soldiers leaned on the wall of the village to bandage their wounds. Don't panic in the bunker, they have no way to break the city!"

At this moment, the captain heard a wounded soldier shouting in struggle: "It's the Chinese Empire, the Ming army! It's the Ming army!"

Ming army.

These two words have a much greater impact on morale than eight tiger crouching cannons firing at the same time.

Not many soldiers in New Spain have actually seen the Ming army, but there are also no one who does not know that there is a Ming army in the other direction of the world.

Everyone who saw the Ming army died.

The Battle of the Philippine Islands and Guam wiped out four aboriginal legions, two mixed-race legions, and one Spanish legion in the governorship of New Spain. Two escort fleets and a treasure transport fleet disappeared.

Even the musketeer attacks, which continued to shoot at the natives, were halted in the face of news from the Ming army.

The captain saw the most impious of his men kissing the crucifix.

Blood flowed from his forehead and blinded his right eye. At some point, the monks accompanying the army holding the cross flagpole had already climbed to the top of the city, and walked up to the captain expressionlessly.

"The Spaniards will never surrender!"

Captain: "???"

"The Spaniards will never surrender!"

The monks are strong-willed, even in old and new Spain, no one is stronger than them, because they are the guardians of secrets.

All New Spaniards knew that their exploration of North America was disorderly, because the north faced more risks than the south, and the brave exploration of adventurers has several legends.

Florida has the Spring of Immortality, South Carolina has a Diamond Mountain, Texas has the Kingdom of Glen Quavila, Arizona has seven cities full of wealth.

This is called 3G, for Gold, God, Glory.

Behind the legend is that the kingdom needs a large number of adventurers to spontaneously protect the hegemony of the Gulf of Mexico and compete with the French on the North American Eastern Front—the country’s finances have collapsed, and the Christian League is also facing the aggressive invasion of the Ottomans. to explore, but they need America.

Anyone from any country would like to perpetuate these legends as long as they set foot on this land, because it is beneficial to them.

everyone.

The captain knew that they couldn't surrender, not because they were different, but even if they surrendered, the aborigines would not leave them alive.

If there were children among them, some of the natives would raise their children and recruit captives into their own tribe after the sacrifice ceremony, but they had no children.

Going out of the village to attack is also not feasible. The captain does not think that they can defend against the attack of the Ming army while facing the attack of the aborigines.

"Cheer up, it won't take long for reinforcements to arrive!"

Magui's subordinates had no school shooting, they had no professional artillery, and among all the banner troops who operated the tiger squatting, there was only one banner soldier from Suncheon who barely received a little training on ballistics in Kuwu Island.

There were many bannermen like him originally under Magui's command, but most of them were transferred to the Japanese battlefield by the imperial court in the year when the news was cut off. Those who followed Magui by chance mostly froze to death or starved to death in the northern ice field, even if they did not die The falling disability also stayed at Shuihufeng.

There is only one Suncheon Banner Army left who can be said to have a little understanding of artillery.

Even so, when the tiger squatting gun was loaded for the second time and bombarded the wall of the village, it still beat the soldiers on the wall so that they dared not raise their heads, although few people were injured.

But Ma Gui faced the direction of the aborigines, raised his right arm and slowly pushed towards the Muzhai.

When the Spanish soldiers were suppressed by the tiger crouching guns and could not fight back outside the camp, and the aborigines rushed towards the wooden village, Ma Gui turned his head and said to the soldiers of the Jurchen Korean formation who had no deployment order: "Cut down a few trees in a while, Take out the little hollow core."

"The natives here are very useful. Let's see if we can drive them to fight south."

(End of this chapter)