Win the Ding 1617

() When we watched Huangyan Island become a bag with a full stomach of grievances and bitterness, we raised our heads and looked hundreds of kilometers ahead, eh?what is that?Manila? !

Looking at the city of Manila through a telescope, this is a city located on the seashore. The sea is outside the city. There are piers built by the sea, and tropical plants can be seen everywhere swaying their vigorous vitality.

On the sea far away from the pier, large and small warships and armed merchant ships are moored, noisy voices, chaotic sailors, and heavily armed soldiers are boarding the ships quickly, preparing for the upcoming gluttonous feast.

On the pier, many natives and Spaniards were either driving chariots or preparing to carry.The attitude is relaxed and leisurely, as if going to a banquet.

The Spaniards in the city were notified by the Governor, and soon a fleet of Ming Kingdom brought in a large amount of Ming Kingdom commodities.

He, in his capacity as the Spanish governor in Luzon, will distribute these commodities.

Everyone knows what the governor is going to do, but it doesn't matter, isn't Spain's prosperity based on the massacre and plunder of barbarians?The bustling streets of Madrid are piled up with the bones of the Incas.

Here, just over 20 years ago, there were incidents of plundering and massacres against those hardworking and wealthy Chinese. The reason and basis was that they might become the internal support of the Ming Dynasty to attack Luzon.However, it turned out later that it was just a rumor.

However, after this incident, the colonial authorities implemented the so-called residence permit system for the Chinese. The Chinese who did not believe in Christianity paid eight pesos a year, plus five riyals as a tribute, and 10,000 riyals as a tribute. house tax.Through such plunder, the Luzon government can earn [-]+ pesos a year.

Of course, many of them are not accounted for.

A guy who looks a bit old-fashioned is bragging about his great achievements in the past among a group of Spanish women. To slaughter the largely unprepared peaceful inhabitants.

"Thank you, Governor Don Perez, for allowing me to enjoy the glory and pleasure of distributing the wealth of those Easterners before I go to see God!" Chinese residents surrounded by Spanish soldiers with cannons, "They are the worker ants of our empire. After they create wealth, we, like crushing ants, crush them to death, and then enjoy the wealth they created for us."

Soon, countless white sails appeared on the distant sea level, and the Spaniards and Luzon natives on the pier couldn't help cheering. They knew that the stolen goods, oh no, a feast of wealth distribution was about to begin start.

"The residents of Manila that day were all in a peaceful and friendly manner, waiting for Governor Lee's commercial fleet at the pier, and when they saw Lee's cargo fleet approaching the city of Manila, they issued a message Heartfelt, enthusiastic cheers. However, to their great surprise, General Lee's fleet, after the cargo ship passed through the strait, the so-called blasters and armed ships that served as the flank and rear escort, suddenly headed towards the peninsula. Fire the fort above."

"Unprepared, the soldiers and officers on the fort suffered heavy casualties. According to subsequent statistics, about 40.00% of the personnel stationed on the fort were injured or died in the first round of artillery fire."

These are the comments and accusations made by Spanish historians on the Manila crossfire incident.

"Before our commercial ships entered Manila Bay, the Spanish authorities in Luzon intended to carry out a pirate attack on our commercial fleet. For this reason, their forts were prepared for combat. And, before my escort formation found out, The shells have been reloaded, ready to intercept the artillery when my escort formation enters the narrowest part of the strait. At the same time, the Spanish warships and garrisons in Manila have also been mobilized. The soldiers have boarded and the warships have raised their sails. Dear Spain Colleagues, please tell me that the predecessors of your country dispatched more than 20 ships of various sizes and nearly [-] soldiers to meet our cargo fleet. What is the purpose? Is it Did you come to shout a warm welcome?!"

This was the response of Chinese academics at the same international forum.

"My lord, the Spanish forts are aiming at us! They are moving their cannons!" A sentry reported after observing, "Has Blanco's ship entered the port yet? Is there a stick of incense?" Li Xiuxiu looked at the candlestick and said: "Li Brother, the stick of incense has been burnt," Li Shouhan stood up abruptly, "Signal rocket, general attack!"

When the guard ordered the whole ship to fire, Major Juan was urging the soldiers to load the ten 24-pound coastal defense guns and get ready to fire.

"Boys! If you want to go back to Spain and be able to afford a nice manor and have the most beautiful women in the nearby villages in your bedroom, hit those yellow monkeys on the sea with me. Let's have a lesson!"

Those artillerymen with naked upper body laughed wildly and loudly, which was his answer.

"Hey, what are Lieutenant Colonel Jose and the others doing?" Major Juan looked into the distance, Jose had already found time to run down the fort, and the few people who accompanied him ran madly to the hills outside the city. Jose had seen it before. With the range, power and speed of the rocket, staying in the Governor's Mansion and the fort is suicide, and the safest place is outside the city.Running wildly, José prayed to his Lord that General Lee would not use his dreadful artillery while I ran to safety.Oh God!Please forgive my ignorant cousin!Look at the face of my pious aunt.

"Whoosh" a rocket rushed into the sky, exploded, and scattered into beautiful fireworks!

"Major! You!" A sergeant pointed to the puffs of white smoke that suddenly rose from the sea and reported to him.

Before the words fell, dozens of scorching tracks appeared in the eyes of the observation post.

In a short moment, the trajectory turned into a fire dragon with teeth and claws, accompanied by a sharp and piercing sound that almost made people crazy, and came straight to the fort!

On the turret, Perez was listening to the panting Blanco's report, and the signal rocket caught his attention: "What is this?"

Major Juan's experience is much richer than his. "The enemy is about to attack, all the forts are ready!" As soon as the words fell, Juan saw a scene that he would never forget in his next life. In the blink of an eye, at a distance of more than 3500 meters from the fort, Hundreds of fire dragons were sprayed out from the side of the Gale Ship in an instant. They were indeed fire dragons, fire dragons with flames and white smoke, without the roar of cannons and sharp whistles of shells, and strange screams, fire dragons Basically, he came straight towards the fort. Juan's instincts trained in the battlefield saved his life. He jumped from the fort into the sea. Perez opened his mouth wide and couldn't close it. Dozens of rockets had already hit The middle turret was inserted into the ground around the turret, and then a huge explosion and flames rose into the air, and the smoke and flames flooded the turret.

Jose watched from the hills outside the city. As he expected, there was only one round of shelling. 30 forts were blown up by rockets like chickens in a wooden barrel. The remaining fortresses began to counterattack, but, Only one shot was fired, and the second round of rockets has already flooded the sky.There were explosions of ammunition from the turret everywhere, and the soldiers' stumps and flesh splattered everywhere. Some soldiers screamed and turned into running fire men, but fell to the ground within a few steps, and the gunpowder in the turret was also detonated. A series of sacrificial explosions were triggered, and the huge explosion blast even blasted the 24-pound cannon into the sky.Driven by the air waves, the thick cannon barrel is as light as a bamboo dragonfly in the hands of a Chinese child.

Zhang Xiaohu stood on the deck with great interest, watching the gunner launch the rocket. When he saw a soldier shake the handle, the gun mount immediately began to rotate towards the target, his expression changed. When another sailor shook the handle, the gun mount When he started roughly aiming at the target, his eyes were bigger than a bell. When the two loaders loaded four rockets in the blink of an eye, he wanted to goug his eyes out.He calculated that a rocket launcher can be fired four to six times in the time it takes for the Hongyi Cannon to fire one shot.What's even more frightening is that when the Gale Ship was traveling at high speed, the gunner hit the fort on the mountain that was almost invisible with just one round of shooting. Fifty-five forts were completely destroyed by the second round of rocket fire. It wasn't that the Spaniards were not strong enough, but that Li Shouhan's rockets were too powerful. He never even dreamed of having such a terrifying weapon. It's about to spurt blood.

A thought suddenly popped up in his mind, "Go to him? What he has done has completely exceeded the scope of rights that a general of a thousand households should have. If in the future, he..." Zhang Xiaohu laughed.He wants to gain a great future for himself, not to be a little pirate leader.

"Maybe, I will have such a tyrannical fleet under my command in the future!"

It took less than an hour for the blaster fleet to completely clean up the fort, neat and orderly, just like a navy reviewing a target.Of course, a lot of credit for this is attributed to the ammunition that exploded on the fort. The rockets only aroused their enthusiasm.

I don’t know if Jose’s prayer was heard by his Lord. His lovely cousin Viscount Don Pérez did not die. He was thrown into the sea by the storm and was rescued by Major Juan in the sea. .

"Our warships! Our warships must drive these terrifying brilliant warships out!" The hurricane power of the rocket taught Perez a vicious lesson. , while arranging the seaweed on his wig and robe, he issued a new order as the supreme commander of Spain in Manila.

The captains on the warship also saw the destroyed forts one by one, emitting thick smoke like torches, and couldn't help feeling anxious, "Our guns don't seem to have such power..."

"Rush up! Get close to them! What is our Spanish Imperial Navy best at?! It's jumping from side to side!" Perez pulled out his command knife.

Several captains and commanders greeted José's pious aunt countless times in their hearts, but they had no choice but to organize their subordinates to be ready to attack the tyrannical enemy.

"Boys! For the honor of the Spanish Empire! Prepare your muskets, knives and axes! Charge to the evil and powerful enemy!" A captain shouted loudly to his subordinates on his warship Although there seemed to be a hint of despair in the voice.

Seeing more than a dozen warships and armed merchant ships rushing towards Governor Li's fleet, Perez couldn't help letting out a long breath, "Praise you! My Lord!" Major Juan, "Major Juan, I order you now to return to Manila City with me and organize the defense of the city!"

With the wind in full sail, the Poseidon on which Perez and Major Juan were riding, surpassed the Ming cargo ships that were still slowly driving on the sea at an unprecedented speed, and returned to the dock in Manila City.

On the pier, the Spaniards and Luzon natives who were happily waiting for the distribution of stolen goods just now have fled without a trace, leaving only countless beautiful shoes, folding fans, and perfumed handkerchiefs discarded on the ground. , hat with veil.

Those seemingly indestructible forts in the distance just now turned into ruins where homeless people and wild dogs can't find a flat place to defecate and pee.

Those brilliant warships like raging dragons, my God, are they really demons who escaped from hell? !With the screams of a series of ladies, all the people woke up like a big dream, flee!Escape to your own home!Close the door, lock the windows, and hide the gold pesos at home.

"Thank God, we are still alive!" Perez's first thought was this sentence after he stepped on the pier.

"Oscar! Captain Oscar!"

Infantry captain Oscar ran over upon hearing the sound, "My lord governor, I'm here!" While running, he straightened his crooked armed belt and saber.

"Go! Take your troops and drive those! Drive all the Chinese from the eighth company to the pier! Also, aim the cannons at the top of the city at the pier, and prepare to fire to prevent the Ming navy from landing!"

"But, Governor, those are ordinary Chinese, not soldiers..."

"That's enough! It's enough for them to be from the Ming Dynasty! I don't believe that their Zheng Fu army will open fire on its own people!" Perez was wrong about this point. In fact, the Ming Dynasty's army, especially The army of this era treats its own people much more harshly than the enemy.To put it bluntly, the so-called abandoned citizens of the Ming Dynasty and cunning people were used to block the offensive of the Ming army. Even the Ming army itself would occasionally engage in mutiny and pay disturbances.

However, what he met was Li Shouhan.

The battle on the sea is still going on strangely.

It is said that the battle is going on strangely because of the positions of the fleets of both sides.

The Spanish warship that passed by Li Shouhan's cargo ship changed its old habit of going up to check these ships full of valuable cargo when they saw them in the day, and rushed towards the direction of the strait.

They could see very clearly that the ships of the Ming Dynasty Navy entered Manila Bay through the channel of the North Strait, and destroyed the forts on the peninsula one by one while entering. Their terrible shelling, while passing as soon as possible, is the time to test the level of a country's navy. To put it bluntly, the artillery level of the Spanish army is much higher than that of the defenders.Under such circumstances, using technical equipment to make up for the lack of technical level, Li Shouhan's rocket's rapid aiming and general shooting advantages emerged.

"We must rush to the exit of the strait as soon as possible, and block the strait when their fleet has not completely passed through the strait. No matter how high the price is, we must annihilate them here!"

This is the oath and determination of the captains.

"After the Ming navy is wiped out, none of these cargo ships full of valuable cargo will be able to escape! By then, no matter how big our losses are, we will be able to make up for them!"

However, if the captains knew that the Gale Ships opposite at this moment had an amateur commander, I don't know if they would still be able to laugh.

"Anyuan! Dingyuan! You two ships, adopt the method of double-ship crossing into the port, and cover alternately! Advance!"

Anyuan and Dingyuan, the two blast ships at the front of the fleet, aim at the aggressive and aggressive Spanish fleet to the maximum extent, trying to use their own advantages of fast ships, many guns, and fast guns to maximize their advantage. The advantages of fast launch, large number and accurate shooting of the ship-borne rocket launcher defeated the Spanish fleet.

The fleet entering the port using the double s route soon encountered the Spanish warship.

Unlike other people's passionate and heroic sacrifices, Captain Carlos's awareness is not so high. In his opinion, even if he is a prisoner and loses a battle, he can use gold coins to redeem his freedom and honor. However, If a precious life is lost due to impulsiveness, no amount of gold coins can be exchanged for it.Even if the battle is won, you will not be able to enjoy the fruits of the battle victory.How to survive on the battlefield is the most important thing, this is the creed of Captain Carlos.

Under his instruction and suggestion, his Sea Jackal slowly sailed at the end of the team.

From his position, he can have an unobstructed view of the dynamics of the entire battlefield.

Zhang Xiaohu, the amateur temporary commander of the opposite fleet, oh, this position is a temporary title given to him by Li Shouhan after he swore allegiance to Li Shouhan (this kid who is about the same age as his nephew). "Let me show you what you can do by fighting a battle first!" His fangs like the terrible nickname "Tiger Shark" were revealed.

"Hmph! The last time the blaster and the fleet were fighting, it was against Lao Tzu, but after three years of feng shui, who would have thought that I could command so many blasters?! Or with the fleet of Hongmaoyi? !” He stood on the podium, holding the monocular in his hand, staring at the galloping Spanish fleet.For this trip to Manila, Li Shouhan put in a lot of effort to equip every ship with binoculars for easy observation and command.He swears that when he goes back, he must set up a glass workshop!

"Ranger! How far is the Spanish fleet from Anyuan and Dingyuan?!"

"About three thousand paces!" cried the observer on the mast.

Soon, the scene that was staged in front of Zhang Xiaohu not long ago also appeared in front of Carlos.

"What are they going to do?"

Carlos was surprised to find that the two front enemy ships quickly moved to the flanks, making room for the two ships behind.Immediately afterwards, the four ships seemed to be under a unified order, and slowly adjusted their sides, forming a sideways posture against the enemy.

Seeing this situation, the captain of the Carlos ship couldn't help laughing loudly.

"These yellow-skinned monkeys, what are they going to do? Don't they know that our Spanish navy likes others to fight with us the most!?"

Carlos, however, sensed a hint of danger very sensitively, "Quick! Quick! Lower the sails on the mizzen mast on both sides!" Lowering the two sails, it was as if the car had shifted down and let off the accelerator. The distance has been extended for a while.

In other words, the squadron is a little closer to the four ships including Anyuan and Dingyuan!

"About [-] steps!" The rangefinder reported the distance of the enemy ship again.

"Send the signal! Two ships are in a group, Anyuan and Dingyuan each lead a ship, Anyuan's group will continue to conduct circumnavigation shooting, and Dingyuan's group will conduct cross-shooting! Fight for the sea area for the subsequent ships to rush out of the strait! Be sure to let the warships of the Hongmaoyi people lose their formation after the first round of shooting! Then, each ship breaks in and forms a team for cross-shooting!"

After receiving the order, Chu Dalei, the acting captain of the Dingyuan, sneered, "Which wicked guy gave this order? In this way, how many ships will there be floating on the sea?!"

"Good shot!"

"Second Pao!"

"Hello Three Cannons!"

. . . . . . .

"Hello Qipao!"

The seven rocket launching platforms have all been loaded and adjusted.

"Fire!"

Soon, the sea was filled with the iconic sharp whistling sound of the rocket, and the white eyes at the tail crossed the air and formed a white track between the sea and the sky. The life and death books written off by these Spaniards.This is where the improved version of the carrier rocket differs.

"Oh my God! What is that?!!" Carlos saw fire dragons rushing straight at the flagship of the squadron. Smoke and red flames, occasionally mixed with faintly audible explosions, it should be that the gunpowder depot on the ship was detonated by the damn fire.

On the flagship, hundreds of sailors, gunners, sailors, and soldiers jumped into the water to escape.The flagship behind them has become a slowly sinking fireball.

"My God! My God!" Carlos opened his mouth wide enough to stuff his own fist into it.As a veteran who had participated in the Armada, he was very familiar with the combat methods of the British Navy. The artillery bombardment of those Albion pirates sent countless heroic Spanish soldiers into Poseidon's palace.

However, these terrifying orientals facing us must have used a kind of terrible witchcraft, otherwise, our great Spanish imperial warship, so tall, majestic and sturdy, how could it catch fire after only a few shots? , burning, exploding? !If the British want to sink the warships of the empire, they can't do it without a hundred guns!And these Orientals sank the powerful warships of the empire with just a few shots.On the Zhenyuan ship, Li Xiuxiu was peeling the lychees with her dexterous little hands, and the lychees were as beautiful as crystals.

Li Shouhan thought the weather was hot, so he extravagantly installed water-cooled air conditioners on his flagship. Of course, only his bedroom and war room had them.When the blast ship is running, a special waterwheel and windmill will use the wind and speed of the ship to pump seawater into the water tower, and the water pipes will lead into the room to cool down.When Zhang Xiaohu entered this war room for the first time, his eyes were red with envy.

Later, Li Shouhan changed to a new flagship, this water-cooled and air-conditioned blast ship, and he got it as his own command ship in a shameless manner.

"Oh, open your mouth." Li Xiuxiu put a lychee into Li Shouhan's mouth. Li Shouhan was sitting on a chair, happily watching the battle with a binoculars.

A galloping ship drew a beautiful figure-eight, passing by the side of a Spanish warship.

"Oh, it's the Columbus!" Carlos screamed.

The Columbus seemed to be very lucky, it was too close to the blast ship.

"Fire!" The gunner roared, and the impatient gunners waved the fuses in their hands to the quills on the fuse.

"Boom!" With a muffled roar, the bronze cannon on the emplacement shot out a stream of flames, and fired the twelve-pound shell.Then, the gun body was quickly pushed backward by the huge recoil force, and was stopped by the dense rope net behind the gun emplacement. In the gun bore, several other gunners fired the charge packs into the gun bore nervously and orderly, and then stuffed a round wooden board in front of the charge packs to prevent gas leakage.Immediately afterwards, the shells wrapped in cotton cloth were stuffed into the barrel. The 12-pound bronze cannon and its powerful recoil have a great impact on the blaster, even fatal.In order to solve this problem, Li Shouhan added a muzzle brake to the muzzle of the bronze cannon, and set up a blocking rope net behind the gun position, so that the blaster can easily fire the cannon without being affected.

"Five guns are good!"

"Listen to my password! Fire!"

More than a dozen shells were enthusiastically kissing those tall Spanish warships like a Spanish girl.

"We also need to practice how to shoot the cannon. We won't set fire to all these warships of Frangbots." Acting captain Chu Dalei had a stingy expression of a small landlord on the corner of his mouth. "Although these ships are not as fast as the Gale Ship, they are better than none."

A dozen shells hit the Spanish battleship Columbus as hoped.The thick oak boards were not able to withstand the power of the twelve-pound bronze cannon, and were pierced by shells. The irregular wooden fragments became accomplices in killing Spanish soldiers and sailors. Several sailors were pierced by wood fragments on their faces and heads. Drenched with blood, they tossed and screamed on the deck.The Columbus also counterattacked, but the speed of the blast ship was almost 20 knots, and most of the shells were emptied, and only three or five shells hit the blast ship.

"Damn! Why is this happening!" Carlos slammed his fist on the steering wheel, "Why is the enemy's artillery fire so fast! So ruthless!?"

"Captain! The enemy is too close to the USS Columbus! I just took a look, and it is less than [-] yards! It is the best range for artillery fire! Even if the enemy did not use their terrible artillery, such a distance, Ordinary artillery is enough to smash the deck of the ship!"

What's more, the artillery on the opposite side is not a cast bronze cannon, but a forged bronze cannon.Although the caliber is only twelve pounds, the error between the shell and the bore is comparable to that of the artillery during the Civil War in terms of precision. Coupled with the buffer provided by the wood and the powerful thrust of the chestnut gunpowder, it is extremely lethal The range and destructive power far exceed that of an eighteen-pound artillery.Li Shouhan, who is more stingy than any other local rich man, in order to maximize the effect of the existing equipment, used the twelve-pound bronze cannons that were forged in advance to maximize the use value.

A shell deviated from its trajectory and skimmed the Columbus's mainmast sail.The hot shells ignited the sails and melted the rigging.As the rigging was disconnected, the sails on the mainmast slumped to the ground, and the Columbus began to spin on the sea.

"The rear main gun! Fire!" Chu Dalei typically took advantage of your illness to kill you, without any chivalry, "Don't worry about this broken ship, let's move forward and split the fleet of Frang Robots!"

Throwing the Columbus, which had lost its mainmast power, to the follow-up ships, Chu Dalei's Dingyuan and Anyuan and other four blast ships continued to frantically execute the battle plan.Split the Frangler fleet composed of more than a dozen warships and armed merchant ships, use your own speed advantage to break into the enemy ship formation, and bombard the enemy ship with rockets or ship-borne artillery during the advance process, causing the enemy ship to lose part of it Combat power is then handed over to the friendly ships behind, while the fourth vanguard ship continues to search for the next group of victims on the sea.

"Captain, what should we do?!" The bosun asked Carlos' opinion with a slightly trembling voice. It was the side of the ship rubbing against the side of the ship, and the excited Spanish soldiers were ready to fight, but the intensive artillery fire from the enemy shattered the courage and desire of the soldiers.He clearly saw through the binoculars that a shell almost swept across the bodies of dozens of soldiers and sailors from the side of the ship, bringing countless pieces of flesh and blood and painful screams, cursing and groans. fell into the sea.

"What should we do?! What should we do!? Raise the sails! Go back! Go back to assist the defenders on the Manila Fort and defend the sacred territory of Spain!" Carlos is worthy of being an excellent subordinate of the governor, and he can cooperate with the governor at critical moments. Maintain a high degree of consistency, and have a very clear view of the battlefield situation.

However, after he had fully sailed and galloped towards the city of Manila for a certain distance, his hands holding the binoculars could not help but tremble again!

"Damn yellow-skinned monkey! Scoundrel! Despicable slave trader!" He scolded loudly, digging out all kinds of dirty words that could be found in his mind.

A sailor on the mast loudly conveyed the latest enemy situation.

"The enemy fleet is found in front of our ship! Form a battle formation!"

It was the schooner and lucky boat that passed them by just now.

Behind him, Chu Dalei's Dingyuan was chasing after him like a mad tiger. Chu Dalei could see clearly that in today's Manila Bay, only this enemy warship has not been hit.

"Sail down! Sail down! Raise the white flag!" At the most critical moment, Carlos fully carried forward the noble concept of a knight's life above all else.

The blaster almost brushed against Carlos's nose, passing the side of the Sea Jackal, and the waves splashed onto Carlos' uniform. He clearly understood the fast and perverted warship opposite, the sailors Their contemptuous smiles.

What the bosun saw was the double gun deck below the side of the ship, the densely packed gun ports, and the weird seven protruding platforms.

"I hope that our Manila Fort can protect our city of Manila. Our Lord Governor, I hope you can protect the citizens of Spain."