"Fire arquebus," yelled Captain Juan Carlos.
Although it was unclear whether there was anyone below, everyone was there, but from the roar of the mountain and the tsunami-like shouts of death, they opened fire in the darkness in panic.
Between the battlements, a flash of fire appeared, and the Spaniards lined up in three lines and took turns to shoot.
Most of these matchlocks missed their targets, because in such a dark night, no one could be seen at all. Even if the hit is a blind cat encountering a dead mouse. It's all about character that gets shot.
"Grenade, launch." Major Simon ordered. The shooter standing behind the three rows of musketeers immediately pulled the trigger. As the match rope fell, the medicine pool was ignited.
Bang bang bang! The huge recoil made these shooters unable to help but squat down. Then a black powder grenade with a long pole was shot out. These primitive rifle grenades weighed about five to six hundred grams, and the black powder charge was about three hundred grams.
Because it is a super-caliber rifle grenade, the projectile is outside the barrel and does not need to withstand bore pressure, so it can be charged with more charges.
One by one, the rifle grenades drew a parabola, landed at a distance of about a hundred meters, and exploded one after another.
Dozens of these rifle grenades immediately fell into the attacking attack group. In this era, there are no skirmishing tactics, only intensive attacks by a sea of people. Therefore, the pirate group also charged intensively.
None of Yang Fan's opponents could force him to adopt a horizontal formation or a sparse formation.
Boom boom boom, more than thirty rifle grenades exploded in the crowd. The pirates screamed and were blown down in large pieces. However, not many were killed on the spot. Because pirates wear linen robes on the outside and plate armor on the inside. Many people were injured.
However, the fire from the explosion of the rifle grenade illuminated part of the area under the city wall. Provided lighting and target designation to Spanish soldiers on the city walls. Suddenly, the heavy matchlock guns on the city wall came rushing towards the exposed pirates.
These heavy matchlock guns have extremely high muzzle velocity, and at this distance, the energy exceeds six thousand joules. It's impossible to block it with plate armor.
More than seventy pirates were shot by heavy matchlock guns and fell to the ground one after another. A hole was punched out of their plate armor. The lead bullets penetrated here and tore out their internal organs. He was beaten to death directly.
This heavy-duty matchlock gun could kill a person no matter where it hit the human body. The torso part is certain to die. The limbs will be directly smashed, and it will be very difficult to stop the bleeding.
The pirate officers were shouting loudly, asking them to engage the enemy as quickly as possible and run forward as hard as they could.
Although this kind of heavy matchlock gun is powerful, it is difficult to load and is more time-consuming and labor-intensive than ordinary matchlock guns. Longer intervals between launches.
After three rounds of matchlock shooting, the attacking pirates had rushed to the bottom of the city wall. Ladders were set up on the edge of the city wall, and steel hooks were firmly hooked on the city wall.
The pirates did not rush to the city, but first threw a hand grenade.
The city wall was suddenly burst into flames. The Spanish musketeers who were shooting in three rows were blown to death and fell to the ground in a mess.
At this time, each team leader took the lead, holding steel knives in their mouths, using both hands together, quickly climbed up the ladder, and climbed in through the crenellations of the city wall.
As soon as Hu Qiming jumped down, he saw a dozen heavy musketeers around him who were rolling around and wailing after being blown up. Two of them, who were not injured, drew their knives and slashed at him.
Hu Qiming is an old pirate, and he is even more proficient in using knives.
He remained calm in the face of danger and used his knife to block the two incoming swords. He took out the revolver with his left hand and fired two shots at the two unlucky guys.
The two shots opened a small hole in the chest of the two officers. Although the officers all wore half breastplates. However, it was directly penetrated by a steel-core pistol bullet at close range.
Seeing the two men fall to the ground, he immediately pulled the trigger on the four people nearby. The four men fell down in response. Revolvers are still very reliable. The biggest advantage of this gun is that it will not jam.
When a pistol is used on the battlefield, it must be between the enemy and ourselves at a distance where we can clearly see each other's faces. At this distance, reliable and highly directional weapons have an advantage.
The nine people behind took the opportunity to climb over the city wall immediately.
The two pirate groups quickly rushed to the city wall and boarded the city one after another.
The Spaniards used spears and swords to stab and chop the pirates who climbed the city. The pirates had small bucklers in one hand and wild goose feather knives in the other to resist the attacks on the city.
Soon a large number of pirate infantry climbed onto the city wall. The musketeers had no ability to defend themselves and were chopped to death by these pirates like melons and vegetables. The remaining ones screamed in fear and immediately ran away.
The officers shouted at the top of their lungs, ordering them to fight back and fight the pirates hand to hand.
But apparently no one listened to them. Their matchlocks were very heavy and heavy, and they didn't even have bayonets. What could they use to fight these barbarians?
To rush forward is to be massacred. Therefore, everyone refused to step forward.
A large number of pirates were climbing into the gaps in the city wall that were shelled.
A green signal flare was raised above the city, and Yang Fan said excitedly: "The climb to the city was successful. There is no problem in taking over Manila City."
Then, the city gate was opened and a large number of pirates swarmed in.
The entire Royal City of Manila was full of pirates charging and killing, as well as Spanish resisting.
Because there are more people on the pirate side, the record is better. I don't think much of these Westerners.
I think their strength is just that.
Once the pirates have efficient organizational capabilities and the weapons provided by Yang Fan, these people are extremely unstable and dangerous elements, and their combat effectiveness immediately increases.
At this time, there were fires everywhere in the Manila City. Groups of pirates, Spaniards, and their mercenaries were chasing and killing each other in every building and on every street, and they were fighting to the death.
There were flashes of explosive flashes from grenades and rifle grenades. The dull gunshots of the heavy matchlock guns were sometimes dense and sometimes silent.
Until midnight, the fire in the entire Intramuros lit up the night sky. Looking from the balcony on the side of the ship, the Intramuros in Manila in the distance burned half the sky red.
The Governor was forced to retreat into the Manila Cathedral with his guards and the last remaining soldiers of more than a thousand people, as well as more than 800 Spanish businessmen and people.
After dawn, two pirate groups had already entered the city. They basically control most of the city. The last Spanish stronghold, the Manila Cathedral, was besieged.
In the morning, people came from the front to ask for instructions on how to deal with these people who were finally besieged.
Now that they are all concentrated in a small area. You can use heavy mortar bombardment to break open this last fortress bit by bit. Moreover, they are all soldiers here, and they have no scruples about using weapons.
Because there are no people of Ming Dynasty here.
Spanish immigration law stipulates that only legal "white people", peninsular Spaniards, Spanish-Malay-Chinese mixed-race people and Spanish-Malay mixed-race people are allowed.
Based on racial discrimination and Spanish social ethics, only white men can marry non-white women; white women cannot marry non-white women. Any non-white woman who marries a Spanish man is automatically and legally classified as "white".
Naturally, they can also live in the royal city with their husbands. However, unless adopted, illegitimate mixed-race children born between Spanish men and locals cannot live in the Intramuros.
Only home to the Malay-Chinese mixed-race community.
Moreover, the Spanish implemented very unfair taxation: white people were exempted from paying taxes; local indigenous people had to pay basic taxes; Han mixed-race people had to pay twice the basic taxes; Han people had to pay four times the basic taxes.
This resulted in almost no Ming people in the city. At most some mixed races.
Yang Fan looked at this information and said with a sneer: "If there are Han people here, I still have some scruples. Since they drove all the Han people outside, then I can't blame them. Use heartless cannons. Fire every quarter of an hour. A forty-pound bag of explosives. Until they surrender."
