Chapter 619 Capture of Manila
The bombardment of the mortar cannon greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers in Donghai Town. Looking at the smoke-filled city of Manila, the soldiers were shocked.
Since the Jiangbei defeat, the morale of the soldiers in Donghai Town has been a bit sluggish.
Now, the soldiers have won successive victories during the southern expedition. Seeing their sharp equipment, they gradually regained their confidence. From generals to soldiers, they have recovered a hint of arrogant look down on the world.
While the soldiers in Donghai Town were in excitement, the Spaniards in Manila fell into despair.
Manlik originally wanted to hold on for months with his strong fortress and wait for the Mexican Governor to send reinforcements to come, perhaps he could turn the situation around and force the Chinese to retreat.
But now it seems that if the Chinese were allowed to shell the castle, the castle would not be held for long before it would fall.
That night, the Spanish in the city carried gunpowder out of the city, trying to raid the artillery array in Donghai Town and destroy the mortar cannon.
At the fourth update, the gate of Manila City quietly opened, and 300 Spanish soldiers, under the cover of night, launched a raid on the Ming army's artillery formation, but Tang Tong was prepared.
After all, he was a veteran of the Ming Dynasty. He fought all his lifelong battles, and was familiar with military books and understood various war examples in China over the past dynasties. He had long expected that the Spanish would launch sneak attacks.
After thousands of years of war, the ancestors had basically completed all the tactics and strategies they could complete. As soon as the Spaniards left the city, they were surrounded by soldiers from Donghai Town. After several rounds of gunfire, half of the 300 people died, and the rest became prisoners.
In the next few days, the Spaniards, who failed to attack, completely gave up their plans to sneak attacks out of the city and hid in the city to endure artillery attacks. More than 2,55 people in the city were captured when they left the city and were killed by flowering bullets. There were as many as 1,000 people in total. The morale was extremely low and he no longer fired artillery and could not fight back, allowing Donghai Town to bombard.
Donghai Town reacted from the city, and saw that the Spanish in Manila City had collapsed morale.
Tang Tong then decided to launch a general attack and kicked down Manila City with the last kick.
On the night of August 23, Donghai Town stopped shelling, and all the shield vehicles, long ladders, siege hammers and other equipment that Donghai Town prepared to attack the city were in place.
The next morning, the soldiers of Donghai Town had breakfast early and arranged each camp in the number.
The soldiers of Donghai Town, who had been raising their energy for many days, were full of morale when they watched Manila being bombed for several days, and were ready to take down the Spanish colonists and run the fortress for more than 70 years.
At this time, Zhao Ming also came out of the commander's tent, rode his horse in front of the military formation, constantly raised his whip to greet the soldiers, using this to inspire morale. When Zhao Ming walked around and returned to the central army's flag, Tang Tong hurried forward to salute, "Prime Minister, it's getting late!"
Zhao Ming Wenyu smiled and nodded, "Then let's start!"
Tang Tong immediately clasped his fists and bowed, then rode his horse away from the central army, held the horse in front of the army, pulled out the sword and pointed forward, and shouted angrily, "Attack!"
"Boom boom boom" Below the city wall, the Ming army's mortar cannon array roared again, shooting at Manila City, while the soldiers of Donghai Town carried long ladders and pushed shields into the trench and advanced along the trench to two hundred steps below the city wall.
Donghai Town first dug the moat of "zhi" and pushed the city down. When approaching the city wall, it dug horizontal trenches to connect each moat of "zhi".
Now the front trench was filled with three thousand soldiers from Donghai Town. The trench was full of trench helmets. The soldiers held their weapons tightly and waited for a command to jump out of the trench and launch a charge.
In the tunnel, the mortar cannon continued to roar. After three rounds of smashing, the top of Manila was already filled with smoke and dust.
In the trenches, Han and Chao Xuan drew out their battle knife, waved forward with great force, and shouted loudly: "Attack!"
With a command, the soldiers of Donghai Town immediately climbed out of the trench along the short ladder in the trench, picked up the musket with bayonets, jumped out of the trench, and rushed towards Manila City.
Equipment everywhere was pushed out from the slope, and the soldiers in Donghai Town were as strong as rainbows.
The Spanish soldiers on the city wall quickly shouted loudly. The soldiers hid behind the city wall, extended their muskets from the shooting hole, fired guns, and jumped out of the trench, and were shot to the ground one after another.
However, Spanish people on the city wall were in a sluggish manner, and only sporadic musket shooting could not stop the soldiers in Donghai Town who were coming to charge.
Soon, the soldiers of Donghai Town formed a shield wall with shield chariots under the city wall. Musketeers stood behind the shield wall and fired guns, bombarded the city wall, and suppressed the Spaniards.
A Spanish soldier was just showing half of his body and was about to raise his shot when he was hit by a musket and screamed and fell to the top of the city.
At this time, Donghai Town held a knife and shield, and carried the soldiers who were climbing the city ladder, and took the opportunity to rush down the city.
As the trench advanced two hundred steps below the city, the Spaniards on the city did not fire a few shots or fire a few shots, and the soldiers of Donghai Town rushed to the city, raised their stairs, and then climbed upwards.
The soldiers who were confident in Donghai Town were extremely brave. The soldiers climbed to the edge of the city and immediately lit a grenade and threw it to the city. With a loud "boom", an explosion occurred on the top of the soldiers in Donghai Town. Two Spanish soldiers were overturned by the explosion and fell directly to the city.
The soldiers of Donghai Town immediately roared, and their feet were rubbing, and they rushed to the top of the city, pulled out their battle knife and jumped up, and began to fight against the Spaniards.
On the battlefield, the more you are afraid of death, the more you may die first, the less you are afraid of death, and sometimes you can survive.
In a moment, the soldiers of Donghai Town attacked the city one after another. On the first wall, the soldiers of Donghai Town were already scattered like ants.
After a moment of battle, the first city wall of the Spaniards was declared lost, and the remaining soldiers retreated to the second and third city walls.
At this time, after the mortar of Donghai Town was lifted up the anti-cannon, it began to shoot the city wall behind, and the soldiers of Donghai Town, which occupied the first city wall, also threw grenades hard.
The former sea overlord, the first generation of Spanish soldiers from the Empire of Sun-Down, were not able to fight back under the attack of Donghai Town. Soldiers were constantly blown away by explosions and fell with screams and screams.
Soon, soldiers in Donghai Town rushed up the second fort wall and launched an attack on the third fort wall, which is the General Office of the Philippine Governor's Office in Spain.
The sound of cannons outside was rumbling and the sound of killing was shocking. There was already a mess in the General Office of the Governor's Office.
Spanish Governor Manlik and the colonial authorities were all anxious as ants on a hot pan, thinking hard about the strategy of defending the enemy, but found that there was no way, so he could only pray for God's blessing.
At this time, outside the door of the official hall, a "bang bang" sounded suddenly, and the Spanish soldiers outside the door were shot down.
Immediately afterwards, the gate of the official hall was blasted open. The brigade was wearing red armor, a disc helmet, a musket, and a battle knife. He was fierce and fierce. The soldiers of Donghai Town, who were red-eyed, swarmed in.
Without saying a word, the soldiers in Donghai Town picked up the musket and shot it. They saw some civilians and shot them to death on their desks.
Chapter completed!