1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 177 The First War in Hanzhou ([-])
Niu Hu stood on a high slope, carefully observing the Spanish army on the opposite side.

Seeing the sudden appearance of the Marine Corps and the two township barracks, the opponent seemed a little flustered, especially the more than 1000 native servants in the front team.There were even quite a few natives who turned their heads and ran back, causing the somewhat shaky formation to become even more chaotic.

"Raise the flag! Blow the trumpet!" Niu Hu stopped waiting and gave the order immediately.

Raising the flag and blowing the trumpet is to send a signal to Jianye City to launch a full-scale assault immediately.

"Fire! The township barracks will leave the city!" Zhang Nianchun, as the commander in the city, saw the signal from outside the city, drew out his long knife, pointed forward, and ordered loudly.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The artillery that had already been ready to go off at the top of the city roared immediately.

"Fire!" Almost at the same time, Niuhu outside the city also gave the order to shell.

More than 20 artillery pieces inside and outside the city started a large-scale bombardment towards the Spanish army under Jianye City.

"Oh, God!" Captain Petar Veron heard the roar of artillery from the top of the city, his face was pale, and his right hand kept crossing his chest.

In a moment, more than a dozen projectiles slammed into the Spanish team, knocking down more than ten people in an instant, and then more than a dozen bloody cracks appeared in the crowd.

At the same time, more than a dozen projectiles also flew from the rear of the Spanish army. Although they were only small 3-pound and 4-pound cannons, they also plowed out more than a dozen bloodstains.

"After five rounds of shelling, the marines are ready to attack! The township battalion is ready to outflank the right side!"

Tan Zhongfu held the musket tightly, with his mouth half open, gasping for breath, and his eardrums were buzzing from the cannon.He kept his eyes on their platoon leader, waiting for his command.

Sanada Taketa drew out his long sword, his eyes fixed on the gesture of the captain on the right front.With each round of shelling, his adrenals gradually rose.Any powerful enemy will be crushed under such fierce artillery fire.

My Hanzhou is mighty, my Hanzhou will win!
"Attack!" Just as the fifth round of shelling stopped, Niu Hu stretched out his hand and waved forward.

"Attack!" Li Fade swung the long knife forward in his hand.

"Attack!" Sanada Takeo roared, pointing the long sword forward.

Tan Zhongfu followed his teammates, holding a musket, and began to charge forward slowly with small steps.

The artillery of Jianye City also stopped, and a battalion of rural soldiers lined up under the city and began to slowly approach the Spanish army.

Captain Petar Veron is undoubtedly a very lucky man. The several rounds of shelling in Jianye City caused at least more than 100 casualties in front of the team, and one of the shells almost flew past his side.After the shelling ended, he was unscathed.

Through the smoky city wall, Captain Petar Veron found a group of heavily armed musketeers approaching slowly.

"Form! Form!... The enemy is coming!" Captain Petar Veron shouted loudly.

Several nearby Spanish officers also noticed the situation on the opposite side, kicking and dragging the scattered soldiers, trying to restore the chaotic army formation.

"Get ready!" Taketa Sanada raised his long sword high, staring at the scattered Spanish servants on the opposite side.

"Let it go!" Sanada Taketa swung his long sword fiercely.

Tan Zhongfu pulled the trigger subconsciously, feeling his hands shake, and the musket had been fired.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!..." More than 40 muskets in the first row of the Marine Corps rang out, and a puff of smoke rose in the formation.

Tan Zhongfu immediately took out the cleaning rod and began to clean the barrel, then applied the medicine, compacted it, took out the projectile, put it into the barrel, and compacted it again...

"Bang! Bang! Bang!..." The teammates behind him had passed Tan Zhongfu one after another, stood still, and fired their guns.

The Marine Corps only fired four volleys, and the more than 1000 native servants of the Spanish rear team collapsed.They dropped their spears or clubs and fled back in swarms.

The front team of Captain Petar Veron only lasted for less than 10 minutes. After three rounds of shooting against the rural barracks that rushed out of Jianye City, the formation was dispersed by the native servants who retreated from behind.

"Damn it, don't need any formations! The whole army charges!" Seeing that the Spanish army was scattered, Li Fade commanded loudly, holding a long knife.

Captain Petar Veron, struck in the stomach by a pellet, fell to his knees in agony, and the musketeers in front irresistibly began to run backwards, dropping their cumbersome arquebuses, and speeding past their commander .

"No, they are not a group of pirates! This is an army, comparable to the army of the Kingdom of Spain!" Captain Petar Veron murmured.

Qi Dalu was extremely excited at this time. The wilderness outside Jianye City was full of escaped Spanish soldiers.Marines and township barracks were also scattered everywhere, waving muskets and long knives, ordering the defeated Spanish soldiers to put down their weapons and kneel to the ground.He waved the musket in his hand, smashed a fleeing Spanish soldier to the ground, then threw it to a rural soldier behind him, and continued to chase the rout.

Fu Jinbiao took more than 20 cavalrymen with him, and blocked the Spanish soldiers who fled to the distance.With the help of the horse's posture, the long knife in his hand easily cut the necks of those soldiers who dared to turn around and resist.For the soldiers kneeling down and begging to surrender, they didn't even bother to stay, and rode their horses to continue chasing the broken soldiers who tried to escape into the forest.

Such a situation gave him the illusion that during the chaos in northern Shaanxi, those refugees seemed to be scattered in this way, causing their cavalry to hack and kill wantonly.

However, not in Hanzhou.Shangguan explained that the mines in Heishan City are very short of people.Let's grab some coolies and go back!
"Have the Spaniards arrived at the camp by the sea?" Niu Hu turned his head and asked a Marine Corps orderly.

"Deputy Captain Tong hasn't sent anyone back to report yet!"

Dozens of soldiers were still stationed in the Spanish landing camp. Tong Maohui, the deputy captain of the second company of the Marine Corps, led more than 50 marines and township soldiers, and had already rushed there before the battle started.If nothing else, it should be done by now.

"Damn it, in order to deal with the Spaniards' attack this time. We have hoarded a lot of combat supplies since we prepared in March. As a result, from the artillery battle at the pier yesterday to the end of the battle at Jianye City at noon today, there is no change. More than two days!" Hu Wenjin said with a smile on the top of the wall: "Let all of us worry in vain!"

"Commander Hu, the Spanish warships are still at sea." Pan Qifeng said, "It's too early to end the battle."

"Master Pan, although the Spanish warships are still at sea, they can't come to Jianye City, can they?" Hu Wenjin said, "Just wait, at most five or six days before they have to leave!"

"What Commander Hu said is true." Pan Qifeng said with a smile and cupped his hands.

"Master Pan, tonight you have to ask a few cafeterias to prepare some sumptuous meals, so that the people of Jianye City can have a good time. Oh, and don't forget our brave soldiers who killed the enemy!"

"I'll do it right now!" Pan Qifeng promised.

"Xiao Tian, ​​you guys are well prepared this time!" Cao Xiong looked at Qi Tian with a smile on his face in the Commander's Mansion, "This battle can be said to be a complete victory!"

"We have been preparing for this battle for three months. Moreover, the Spaniards underestimate the enemy, so we should win it." Qi Tian responded with a smile.

"I heard from Lao Yu that you just heard that the Spaniards are coming, but you just calculated and said we will win?"

"Uncle, there are some things that can be calculated and quantified. War is also possible. The number of troops, weapons, training levels, command levels, and even the so-called morale of the enemy and us. In addition, there are the potential for war, resources, Internal integration, external support and other factors. Take these things out for comparison and calculation one by one, and you will get a probability of winning or losing."

"Since you know we will win, why do you still make so many preparations?"

"Calculating a probability of winning or losing can only mean that we have a great chance to win the war, not that we must win." Qi Tian said: "During the course of the war, there will be many accidents that can affect or reverse the war. For example, during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, in the battle of Feishui, according to the comparison of strength, Fu Jian should have a high probability of winning the war."

"However, the actual situation is that Jin defeated more than 20 (in fact, only more than [-]) Qin troops with only [-] troops, which enabled Jin to make a northern expedition to the south of the Yellow River, and made the north fall into a situation of fragmentation again."

"Our Hanzhou is still very weak. Therefore, we cannot fail. If we lose once, we may never recover. The Spaniards are different, they are strong. Although they lost this time, they may only need a year or two of preparation , can organize a larger expedition!"

"Fourth, do you mean that Spain will fight again? We Hanzhou and Spain will have a long war?" Qi Dajiang asked.

"Yes!" Qi Tian looked at Cao Xiong, nodded and said, "Either the Spaniards have wiped us out, or they think they are powerless to continue the fight. Otherwise, our Hanzhou will always be at war with the Spaniards."

"As far as I know, there aren't many Spaniards in Luzon, right?" Cao Xiong asked.

"Although there are not many people in Spain in Luzon, the population of Hanzhou is much larger than ours. And they have colonized Luzon for more than 50 years (in fact, Spain began to colonize the Philippines in 1565), with a long history, they still control Luzon Song tribes, large and small, have hundreds of thousands of vassals."

"The Spaniards are thousands of miles east of the mainland, and they still occupy a large area of ​​territory. They have millions of people and can support Luzon at any time.... Not to mention that it is a big country no less than the Netherlands in Europe. Oh, by the way, the Dutch were also once ruled by the Spanish."

The faces of Cao Xiong and Qi Dajiang became a little ugly, and together, we will die with that Spaniard.Unless, people don't want to fight with you.

"However, don't worry. The Spaniards will come to Hanzhou to attack us. No matter how many they come, they will give us their heads!"

(End of this chapter)