open sea

Chapter 672 Morale
The local natives didn't really trust the open ships floating on the shore in the distance, even though they had just sent someone to drive away the two small Spanish sloops docked on the jetty.

If they hadn't also had black hair, yellow skin, and a pair of black eyes, the lobbyists sent by Magui might have been killed immediately.

All the aborigines in the south of the Yi tribe have completely different sensitivities from the aborigines in the north. They are more suspicious and fierce.

Ma Gui didn't know the reason for this, but he had some guesses from himself, why the northerners would send food to them who were docked on the shore and invite them to enter the village.

And the natives of the South who see them and throw their spears?

Because this is the battlefield.

The envoy of the commander-in-chief seemed to have been detained by the natives, and he stood beside the native commander, looking helpless, looking towards the ship from time to time, hoping to get help.

Magui's flag army was fully armed on the boat, but they didn't disembark, they just stopped on the shore and watched the situation of the siege from a distance.

An hour had passed since the first failed attack on the village, and it seemed that the aborigines were preparing to organize a second attack. They made more torches and prepared more sticks and branches as fuel.

Each team also organized a group of siege soldiers with leather wooden shields and iron axes at the front.

Seeing that Ma Gui shook his head, what a pity!
He had seen this kind of wooden shield with indecipherable patterns painted by the aborigines in the north, and his people even used a short steel knife to change three sides.

The one-inch thick wooden shield is covered with one or two layers of buffalo or bison hide, which is the kind of huge bison that Magui's subordinates encountered in Majiagang.

It is the best quality cowhide that Magui has ever seen. The inner layer of the finished cowhide shield also has thick and dense high-quality cow hair produced by bison in winter. It can only leave scratches when cut with a knife, and the arrow pierces through the cowhide. Finally, some of the impact will be offset by ox hair.

But what's the use of it?

This thing can only have a chance to block the blunderbuss from fifty steps away, and according to the knowledge that Magui and others learned on Kuwu Island, the Spaniards' heavy blunderbuss with brackets charge nine coins, and their flintlock blunderbusses It only costs three dollars to charge the medicine.

The distance from the siege of the camp by the aborigines was [-] paces away. Ma Gui believed that the Spaniards in the city had no brackets to use bird guns, but they were mounted on wooden walls. They should be the kind of powerful heavy guns.

Even a good-quality skinned wooden shield is impossible to block the blunderbuss at such a close distance as a siege.

It seems that the aborigines also knew Magui's worries at this time. They were not for the siege of the city. A large group of soldiers rushed to the city from all directions with torches, and after paying some casualties, they threw countless torches under the wooden village. The bow and arrow shot back at the wooden village for a while, and then retreated.

These aborigines are the soldiers with the most morale that Ma Gui has encountered. He said to Ma Jin: "We are on the Nine Sides. If we want the Banner Army and battalion soldiers to fight with such casualties, at least half of them must be sent to supervise the battle. Those who retreat will be cut and fired." Offer a reward."

As he said that, Ma Gui raised his finger and pointed to the outside of the wooden village, repeatedly attacking the aborigines who used torches and firelighters as weapons to attack the wooden village in turn.

"There is no supervision, no reward, no threat, everyone is willing to do so."

Ma Jin didn't interrupt, raised his hand and said, "Pao, Xiyi is firing the cannon!"

In the thin green lens like emerald, the Spanish soldiers guarding the camp lifted two small cannons up to the opening of the city, two pieces of gunpowder smoke exploded, and the shells slammed into the besieged aborigines in the distance.

After a while, two more cannons fired from the top of the city.

Ma Gui and Ma Jin looked at each other, and said together, "Fran cannon."

The Franco cannons used by the Ming army came from Portugal. In just a few decades, they were found everywhere from Guangzhou to the nine borders of northern Xinjiang. The advantage of light weight and killing feet.

But one thing needs to be said is that the Fran cannons of Western European countries are different from the Fran cannons of the Ming Dynasty.

In Western Europe, the name of this gun is Veuglaire, which belongs to the breech splicing gun. The manufacturing method is the same as that of splicing wooden barrels. It is made of wrought iron bars and reinforced with iron hoops. It is a small and medium-caliber gun on land, and it is a rotary gun on a ship.

Rotating guns are defensive guns that do not occupy the deck gun positions, but are nailed to the ship's side and can rotate up and down, left and right.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Frang machine was a type of cannon, which was cast and formed. All kinds of large and small artillery, even the breech-loading guns used by Liaodong cavalry, can be collectively referred to as the Frang machine.

The General Zhenshuo built by the Xuanfu now also has the Franco style.

Ma Gui was a little puzzled by the fact that the Westerners took out the Franco cannon at this time, and frowned, "Could it be that they are lax in defense and the artillery is still in the warehouse?"

In any case, the appearance of the Fran cannons frightened the aborigines a lot, and dealt a heavy blow to their morale. Although the shells did not really kill many people, it made the aborigines army appear fearless during the charge. Symptoms of collapse.

Soon, the Banner Army, who was a lobbyist, ran all the way over and waved fiercely at the boat on the beach.

Ma Gui's face was still stern, showing the seriousness of the coming war, he raised his right hand and said: "The whole army disembarked, the tiger squatted in front and the musketeers behind, lined up on the shore!"

The Spaniards had already noticed several large and small ships docked by the sea when the two small boats on the trestle bridge were captured, but they had no choice but to watch the Ming army take away their ships.

Everyone prayed in their hearts, hoping that this bright ship was some thieves who came to steal the ship—at this time, no one wanted to care about the value of the two sloops.

But their prayers were in vain. The big ship lowered the small boat, and the small boat came ashore carrying soldiers and horses. The tall Huangming flagpole plunged into the sand, and the Ming army wearing standard armor quickly lined up in four lines.

The 22 Liaodong Army raised horses and lined up, and then they were ordered to spread out into two wings under the leadership of Ma Jin. On the one hand, they formed a faint encirclement camp with the aborigines, and on the other hand, they also carefully guarded against the aborigines.

21 soldiers from the Xuanfu and Suncheon Banners stood at the front, carrying blunderbusses on their shoulders, and behind each of them were two Yanian soldiers who also wore standard cloth armor.

However, not every Yanian has weapons. Some of them are issued with waist knives, bows and arrows, and a few clever men also hold bird guns on their shoulders. Gunpowder boxes, shell boxes, and long shields.

On the side of the team is a mixed team of 33 Jurchen hunters and North Korean shooters. They have already dispersed. They have little room for performance in this battle, but they may be useful when capturing prisoners.

The army advanced [-] steps forward and barely stopped on the ground with solid soil. The eight tiger squatting guns were supported by iron claw nails and iron hoops on the gun body at a suitable angle, and were nailed to death by two large iron nails. An inverted U-shaped double-pointed stud was used to go into the ground to hoop the gun tail.

The Ya Nian soldiers, who could not understand the language, carried a long card and a large shield to cover in front of the musketeer, and the bird guns formed a burst formation. In the middle of the army formation, Ma Gui's gong hand tapped lightly.

Qi!
Amidst the loud and crisp sound, the fire ignited.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)