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Hearing the lookout¡¯s shout, Commander Alfonso quickly turned around and looked back. Unfortunately, he was on the ship¡¯s deck and because of the angle, he did not see the fleet the lookout mentioned!
"There are twenty medium-sized Galen ships, about seventeen nautical miles away from us!" The lookout shouted again at this time!
Hearing this number, Commander Alfonso finally breathed a sigh of relief, but he soon discovered something was wrong!
"What are these yellow-skinned monkeys going to do? Twenty medium-sized galenic ships dare to attack us? This is obviously impossible. If they are really so brave, why did they abandon Manila?" Commander Alfonso looked puzzled. Talking to himself!
"Perhaps this is just a merchant fleet from the Ming Dynasty. They don't know what happened here, so they crashed in!" Adjutant Jose shrugged and expressed his guess!
"Maybe! But the current situation is too abnormal. Tell those merchant ships to keep their formation!" Commander Alfonso frowned and issued the order!
"Damn it!" Adjutant Jose said helplessly: "It's too late, those greedy guys broke away from the formation and went after the Ming people's ship!"
Commander Alfonso quickly used his binoculars to observe the surrounding ships. Sure enough, as Adjutant Jose said, many of the merchant ships following the fleet had broken away from the formation and turned towards the fleet behind them!
"These damn idiots!" Commander Alfonso put away his telescope and cursed bitterly!
But faced with this situation, Commander Alfonso had nothing to do, because most of these merchant ships did not belong to Spain, so he had no way to control these guys!
At this time, most of the Dutch have landed ashore, and they are happily heading towards Manila City, because according to legend, Manila City has countless gold treasures!
Commander Alfonso felt that this battle was simply incredible. Everything was so weird that it always made him feel uncomfortable!
Just when Commander Alfonso was praying that all this was just his imagination, a three-masted sailboat with smooth lines appeared to the south of Alfonso's fleet!
"It's the clipper ship we encountered in the Strait of Malacca!" Adjutant Jose also noticed the ship and quickly recognized it!
"What is it going to do?" Commander Alfonso frowned even more tightly!
"These Ming people are so strange, they are like wizards, they always like to do weird things!" Adjutant Jose said with a little helplessness!
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At this time, a dull explosion came from the direction of Manila. As an experienced commander, Alfonso immediately recognized that it was the roar of a twelve-pound cannon!
"Damn it! The Ming people abandoned the port but set up a defense line in Manila. It seems that our coachmen are going to suffer a lot!" Commander Alfonso said with concern!
In fact, Commander Alfonso feels more fortunate. If his fleet attacks Manila this time, the soldiers of the Kingdom of Spain will be lost!
"I hope our friends can win as soon as possible!" Adjutant Jose also said insincerely!
In fact, the Dutch are suffering a tragic blow under the city of Manila!
In the past, after waiting for the shore, the coachmen at sea did not encounter any resistance, and they happily planned to take over Manila, a city full of treasures!
So 1,500 Dutch soldiers lined up in two squares and marched towards the city of Manila. The square formations used by these soldiers were a typical configuration of spears and muskets!
The Dutch phalanx has a very unique feature, that is, the spearmen are in the middle and the musketeers are on both sides. The purpose of this is so that when attacked, the musketeers can flexibly hide behind the spearmen!
However, what disappointed General Van Peel, the commander of the Dutch fleet, was that most of the soldiers who followed him to the East this time were "blank slate soldiers", that is, soldiers who were not equipped with heavy armor!
According to European tradition, soldiers need to provide their own weapons and armor, so the army of any European kingdom likes the most fallen nobles because although these people are no longer glorious, they still have money to buy enough weapons and armor!
But there are only so many declining nobles, so more of the army is civilians. These people have no money to buy weapons and armor, so they can only appear on the battlefield as a blank slate!
But even so, General Van Peel still had enough confidence in his army, so he commanded the army arrogantly and marched along the harbor.?Onwards the wide concrete avenue leading to Manila City!
During the march, General Van Pel was very interested in the gray concrete road, and even poked it a few times with his sword. As a result, the sharp sword only poked a few white spots on the road!
As for the endless rice fields on both sides of the avenue, they did not attract General Van Pel¡¯s attention at all. Anyway, he was here to grab gold this time, not food!
When General Van Pel commanded the army to rush five hundred steps away from Manila City, ten black cannons suddenly appeared on the originally empty city top of Manila City!
But even when they saw those cannons, the Dutch did not feel scared, because experienced soldiers knew that the distance of five hundred steps was no longer the best shooting distance for large-caliber artillery!
General Van Pel even sneered and said to his subordinates: "These yellow-skinned monkeys don't know how to use cannons. Maybe they think these cannons are just bigger muskets!"
Captain Van Pel¡¯s joke was immediately applauded by his men, and everyone laughed easily, but their laughter did not stop the cannon from attacking the city!
With several roars, three cannons on the top of the city opened fire, but these three large-caliber cannons fired not heavy projectiles, but tiny lead bullets!
Although these lead bullets are called "small", they are only compared to twelve-pound cannonballs. If you look at them alone, these one or two-weight iron lumps are not too small!
The use of 12-pounder cannons to fire shotshells was not the first initiative of the Ming army, but the standardization of 12-pounder cannon shotshells was a major innovation for the Ming army in the use of artillery!
The standard shotshells used by the Ming army were one- and two-weight lead shot. These lead shot were neatly arranged in canvas bags of specified caliber. The shotshells used by the twelve-pounder gun weighed thirteen kilograms and five taels per bag, which was exactly 200 pieces. Buckshot!
When firing, the gunner will load the fixed gunpowder bag into the artillery, then insert a wooden board suitable for the caliber, and finally stuff the shotshell bag into it!
When the cannon is fired, the wooden board and the shotgun bag are all sprayed out of the barrel. The huge kinetic energy will easily tear open the shotgun bag, causing the lead bullets wrapped inside to scatter like raindrops!
The lead bullets ejected from a large-caliber artillery are even more powerful than the bullets of a Mini rifle. When a pack of 200 lead bullets flies over a distance of 500 steps, the area spread is quite considerable!
Six hundred lead bullets fired from three twelve-pound cannons flew into the Dutch square in the blink of an eye. The Dutch soldiers without heavy armor protection were like rag dolls in front of these fast-flying lead bullets. Fragile!
After those lead bullets pass through the body of a Dutch soldier, they will pass through the bodies of the second, third, and even fourth soldiers without any hindrance, and finally they will exhaust their kinetic energy and become embedded in the ground or the body of a certain Dutch soldier. !
In this round of shelling, at least three to four hundred soldiers fell in a pool of blood, but before the Dutch could react, three more roars of artillery were heard, and a bloody storm broke out in the Dutch phalanx again! (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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