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Chapter 26 Bastion

It was not Chen Mu who led the night attack, but the Spanish.

Deng Zilong's fleet was siege outside Manila Bay. Several western ships failed to break through and retreated to the port. The shore artillery fired at Deng Zilong's fleet, which was pursuing his right-tail, causing the fleet to bombard each other with the shore artillery.

The bombardment of artillery on Deng Zilong's fleet and the city walls created a lot of noise, and the interval was not long, and the sound of shore cannons counterattack became dense.

The shore artillery attacks are dense, and there are only two possibilities. Either Deng Zilong has led the fleet to attack the shore, or the Spanish in the city mobilize large-caliber artillery in the city to attack the fleet.

No matter which possibility, Chen Mu needs to launch a raid to support the fleet.

The three flag army formations walked from the path to the open ground, facing Manila in the dark, and naturally also facing the Luzon Legion that Salcedo stayed in the world. The commander of them was a team led by Captain Goiti, the commander of Manila.

When the elite flag army walked out of the forest to form a murderous battle formation, the Spaniards were not afraid. In fact, their enemies looked really powerful.

"General, the Spanish are brave enough to let their subordinates put the musketeers outside and the spearmen form a large formation to defend against your impact."

Pinto explained the Spanish formation to Chen Mu on his way to Manila. He was knowledgeable and knowledgeable, because Portugal was also an expert in using this formation.

Chen Mu thought he had seen the Spanish formation in Macau and was too weak to be vulnerable, but in fact, nothing he saw in Macau was.

The best military formation consists of experienced mercenaries and adventurers. They are all professional outlaws. In addition to their skills, there are weapons. The four-corner small square formation uses a messo-gun, and there is a row of heavy musketeers on the front, supplemented by knight riders and artillery, which is the complete battle formation on the Iberian Peninsula.

The concept of a prissorption is implemented in the minds of Europeans in this era. The Spanish phalanx is also a prissorption, which will cause enemies attacking from any direction to be counterattacked by two to three musketeers.

"I probably understand. What you mean is that this square formation composed of Luzons is still fake. You just said that the formation formed was to defend my impact, and they could not defend against it."

The Ming army had three formations, and Chen Mu stood up in the middle and chuckled, waved his hand, and followed the army's artillery team to escort more than a dozen cannons to the edge of the forest through the night. There were not only two-pound cannons made in the South China Sea, but also two-pound cannons seized from the Spanish, but also field cannons, but they were slightly larger in the caliber, about four pounds.

"Let them hit it right, my son is on the right wing, don't be killed."

The military music stopped, and accompanied by the hundreds of artillery houses, the seven artillery artillery roared at the left wing of the Luzon military formation, which was frightened behind the wooden wall.

No matter whether they are Luzon or Malays, except for the silly Japanese, no one is afraid of artillery bombardment. Even the Japanese can only withstand more casualties than them.

When the first shell drew a parabola and fell into the canal of the north city of Manila, there was a riot in the military formation. The Spanish commander stood up and made a sigh and neighing sound, but the military formation could still be maintained at this time.

Immediately afterwards, large fires emerged from the forest again, and several shells smashed into the military formation. A few bounced up and smashed the flank line into a twist, and even shells passed through the entire military formation - the Luzon version of the square formation, which was short and short, could not reach its due thickness.

When the Ming army artillery bombed the flanks together, the beggar's plate array and simple fortifications could penetrate like window paper.

Seeing his army formation being torn apart by artillery fire, the Spanish captain shouted and fired a cannon. Two small cannons burst out, and the shells fell on the edge of the woodland made him feel miserable.

In this battle that took place on Luzon, they became the one with even fewer artillery numbers.

"Take! Just two cannons?"

Chen Mu turned his head disdainfully. The seven artillery on the left wing stopped just now, and the eight artillery on the right wing were bombarded again, causing direct casualties. However, the formation of torches under the night sky could obviously not be maintained stable.

The military music changed its tune, and the three-way drum sounded on Chen Mu's right side. Shao Tingda led the right flag army to move to the right. The vanguard of the vanguard trotted out to the opponent's army formation with trembling. Even if the advantage lies with them, if they have the mentality, it is probably only Mazard to beat the wolf.

Moreover, Chen Mu, who was holding the mahjong and the beating were not afraid, they were mahjong.

Before Shao Tingda, who was escorting the minion army, attacked the Western Yi positions in Luzon, a large roar suddenly broke out in the right wing of the phalanx, followed by an unexpected turn against him.

"The one who attacked the imperial army was the sky. If you rebel, you will kill me!"

Even the Han people in the formation did not react. Suddenly, there were Han people everywhere holding spears and killing the Luzon army. Many Han people didn't know where the changes came from. Then they heard people shouting and urging: "Someone rebelled, they will die, and if they don't rebelled, they will die. It's better to kill the city with the official army, so we won't have to wait for our lives after the war!"

There were shouts everywhere, and the personal will was so small that it could be ignored. Even at the beginning, only Li Dan's dozens of confidants were making excuses everywhere, followed by someone following the crowd, and there was no chance for others to weigh the pros and cons in the future.

Turning over has become a major trend. Even if you don’t want to fight with me, you are angry with the spear stabbed by the Luzons, and the military formation will immediately become in chaos.

Li Dan, the initiator of the chaos, did not let himself fall into a dangerous battlefield. He seemed to be out of the matter and watched the Ming army that had moved to the left wing approaching and even attacking the Luzons from both sides. The war outside the city had already decided the overall situation.

He looked at the bridge outside the castle, and almost burst into laughter at a glance. Under the light of fire, a group of twenty or thirty people were protecting the captain who rode a tall and strong horse from the Westerners and fighting and retreating to the bridge.

Even if the Ming people pursued, the figures of more than a dozen Japanese people who were waving the sword and jumping into battle were particularly conspicuous - who said that Zhuang Gong was stupid? This Japanese actually knew to escape by protecting the Spanish captain. This is the amulet in the melee!

The sound of cannons in the west bay of the city was louder, and the chaos in the north of the city was almost certain to be decided. Li Dan led his men to shuttle through the formation for a moment, leaving only one person to contact the officers and soldiers, leading a dozen subordinates to escape from the battlefield to the south, missing.

"Shiqi led his army to bypass the canal from the east, and cut off the rear route in the outer city; Toshixiong led his troops to help Shao Qianhu defeat the enemy troops outside the city, and I went to bomb the city gate."

This is a bastion, but the one that has not been built yet cannot stop him.

Two soldiers and horses ran out from left and right. Chen Mu commanded the artillery team to push the artillery forward and aimed at the city gate at the right distance. As a result, he found that Duke Zhuang had climbed to the top of the city and the iron gate was wide open. After Shao Tingda defeated the Luzon army outside the city, he led his army into the city without any obstruction.

The artillery that was unfavorable was not useful this time!

"Mr. Pinto, do you know what promoting cultural exchanges is?" Chen Mu made a leap around, swinging his telescope and pointed at the torch on the top of the city. His joy couldn't be hidden: "Thank you for sending me to the bastion!"
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