1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 211 Attacking Luzon: Trap ([-])

"Sir, sir, I want to see your battalion commander, or your captain!" Qu Shaorong saw several soldiers from the Hanzhou Marine Corps approaching, and struggled to stand up.

Seeing this, the guarding Sulu soldiers slammed the straw on Qu Shaorong's back. The damned Spanish servant is so dishonest after being captured.

After the Spanish support fleet threw more than [-] Chinese and Luzon native servants five kilometers south of the city of Holy Name Jesus, they turned and fled.The more than [-] landing troops lingered on the shore for a while, and finally, under the leadership of several Spanish officers, walked cautiously towards the city of the holy name Jesus.Maybe, you can find an opportunity to rush into the city amidst the siege of the coalition forces.

However, before reaching the holy city of Jesus, the Han-Dutch coalition forces came up with the remaining [-] native soldiers from the Sultan Kingdom of Sulu and Majindanao.With several rows of musket salvos, the Spanish servants quickly collapsed and fled in all directions.

But Qu Shaorong did not escape with a few companions, but voluntarily surrendered to the chasing coalition forces, hoping to return to the Hanzhou barracks and report the information his Luzon had detected.

However, the rough work of capturing and guarding prisoners was naturally handed over to the natives by the Han-Dutch coalition forces. They spent their time in a corner of the battlefield, watching the situation around them, and discussing with each other what they had gained in the city.

"Captain, after we finish here, are we going back to Hanzhou?" Tan Zhongfu asked.

"That's not necessarily the case!" Captain Tian Dongyan looked in the direction of battalion commander Niu Hu, then turned his head and said, "We have only hit two castles in Spain, and we haven't seriously damaged their army. Pass. Perhaps, the Grand Commander and the Dutch will find another Spanish town and try to fight."

"Oh." Tan Zhongfu was a little disappointed. His backpack was already filled with the Spanish confiscations. If he returned to Hanzhou, although he would not be able to buy anything, it would be good to keep it as a dowry for his newborn daughter. of.

"However, if we want to fight the Spanish castle again, we'd better get more natives to come over." Tian Dongyan said: "In this way, we Hanzhou soldiers don't have to sacrifice too much."

Although the breakthrough of the Holy Name Jesus City mainly relied on heavy artillery and the desperate charge of the natives, the Hanzhou Marine Corps also inevitably suffered casualties in some street battles after entering the city.After the battle, five Marines were killed and 16 were injured. Most of them were wounded by Spanish soldiers who were stubbornly resisting when they seized the government offices in the city, and some were injured by rout soldiers hiding in houses.

But their casualties are insignificant compared to the loss of nearly 900 natives.

"Captain, there are some prisoners over there who look like Ming people." Tan Zhongfu vaguely heard the cries of the prisoners over there in Chinese, and looking at the clothes, they were not natives of Luzon.

"Come on, let's go and have a look!" Tian Dongyan greeted several soldiers under him, and walked over with muskets in hand.

"I'm from Hanzhou!...I'm from the Black Clothes Guard of the Hanzhou Navy!" Qu Shaorong saw a few soldiers from the Hanzhou Marine Corps approaching, and while avoiding the whipping of the natives, he shouted loudly shouted.

"Captain, that man said he was from Hanzhou!" Tan Zhongfu reported to Tian Dongyan, looking at the Ming man who was kicked to the ground by the natives.

"Huh?" Tian Dongyan was also taken aback, how could there be Hanzhou people in Luzon?
He walked up to him in a few steps, kicked the native who was still being violent, then bent down, looked at the Ming who fell on the ground, "Are you from Hanzhou?"

"I'm from Hanzhou!" Qu Shaorong wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, looked at the Marine Corps officer in blue and black uniform in front of him, and said with a smile, "I'm from the black guard!"
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"Commander, we have found a black-clothed guard who is lurking in Luzon." Niu Hu came to Cao Xiong's boat and reported, "He has important information."

"The guards in black? Why are you here?" Cao Xiong was a little surprised, remembering that they were all arranged in Manila.

"He came here with the Spanish support fleet." Niu Hu said, "He told me an important piece of information, and I felt a little strange, so I brought him here specially."

"Commander!" Qu Shaorong looked at Cao Xiong excitedly, "Your subordinate, Qu Shaorong, the black-clothed guard, met Grand Commander!"

"Not bad, not bad!" Cao Xiong nodded with a smile and said, "You black-clothed guards were able to infiltrate the Spanish army in a short period of time. You have some skills!"

"The subordinates dare not take credit for it. It was Captain He Qinghe of our Luzon detachment who carefully organized and planned to allow his subordinates to sneak into the Spanish army."

"It's all my Hanzhou good boy!" Cao Xiong said: "When you return to Hanzhou, I will reward you well!"

"Thank you Commander!"

"Captain Niu said, do you have an important message to tell me?"

"Return to the Commander." Qu Shaorong said: "Ten days ago, I boarded two warships that had just been built together with the servants of the Ming Dynasty, and first stayed on a small island for three days. Afterwards, we joined a The huge fleet converged and headed south."

"Five days ago, I boarded an abandoned castle with the Spanish army. I heard from my companion Ming that this place was originally the Zamboanga castle in the southernmost part of Spain. It was captured and destroyed by our Han-Dutch coalition forces a month ago."

"Spain killed all the natives stationed there. Then the Spaniards ordered me to wait for the servants of the Ming people and the natives of Luzon to unload more than a dozen heavy cannons from the ship and rebuild a temporary fort."

"Two days ago, more than 400 Ming people and Luzon natives, including me, were loaded onto the ship and discarded in a shoal on this island in a hurry. Finally, they were defeated by the Han-Dutch coalition forces this morning and became prisoners."

Cao Xiong blinked, Qu Shaorong's words seemed to be a simple support operation by the Spaniards, and there was nothing strange about it.

"Commander, the Spaniards have organized a huge support fleet." Niu Hu said, "There are thirteen large and small ships."

"Yeah." Cao Xiong signaled him to continue talking.

"However, there were only five Spanish ships that came here to support yesterday."

"Ah."

"The Dutch sent nine armed merchant ships in pursuit of the Spanish support fleet."

"Huh?" Cao Xiong heard that the strange thing was why the Spaniards hid their eight warships, but only sent five ships over, and hurriedly put down the landing troops, turned around and ran away.

"The Spaniards must have set a trap to lure the eight Dutch armed merchant ships somewhere and wipe them out!" Niu Hu said in a deep voice.

"The ambush location must be the Zamboanga port that we once captured!" Cao Xiong said with a solemn face: "The Dutch returned a ship this morning, and they came back with two merchant ships. Therefore, the eight armed Merchant ships, I'm afraid there will be more bad luck than good luck."

"Zhou Luo, immediately go and invite Major Barek, the temporary commander of the Dutch fleet." Cao Xiong turned his head and ordered.

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When the Dutch fleet entered the port of Zamboanga, it immediately launched a fierce artillery battle with three Spanish ships and temporary coastal defense batteries.

After more than half an hour of fierce fighting, the Dutch discovered that the so-called two main Spanish battleships had extremely low combat capabilities. Not only were their firing speeds slow, but their accuracy was extremely poor, and they were even inferior to the combat capabilities of the Hanzhou Navy.

The temporary fort at the pier showed a high level of shooting.The artillery fire is very violent, and the artillery is often used to focus on a certain target of the Dutch fleet and concentrate the bombardment.

"Try to avoid the shore fire artillery!" Lieutenant Colonel Jamie Bacona ordered: "First deal with the enemy warships, and then leave the battle."

At this time, one Dutch armed merchant ship was seriously damaged and withdrew from the battle, and two more ships, the ship's mast and the midship, were hit by more than a dozen rounds, and more than [-] people were killed or injured.

But the results of the Dutch fleet are also remarkable. The two main Spanish warships were battered, and one of them even broke two masts.They seem to be using their own existence to cover the temporary forts on the shore docks to bombard the Dutch fleet.

The Dutch fleet worked hard to swim in the harbor, tilting more artillery fire on the Spanish warships, hoping to sink the two main battleships and an armed merchant ship in the shortest time.

Lieutenant Colonel Jemini Bacona is extremely excited at the moment, if his side can wipe out the Spanish support fleet at the cost of one warship being injured.Then, the strength of the Spanish fleet in the Philippines will drop to another level.

Perhaps, in the future, the Dutch East India Company only needs to send eight to ten armed merchant ships, which is enough to block the Philippine trade routes, and even directly block the port of Manila, preventing the Spaniards from leaving the port, completely cutting off their peace with Mexico. European connections.

The three Dutch warships fired a beautiful salvo at the outermost Spanish main battleship, and several shells hit it below the waterline.Amid the cheers of the Dutch sailors, its hull began to heel slowly.

"In another 10 minutes, another Spanish warship may be sunk. Then, can we look for an opportunity near Manila?" Lieutenant Colonel Jemini Bacona showed a proud face. smile.

The Dutch fleet began to concentrate all its firepower on another main Spanish warship and armed merchant ship, and it was bound to sink them all in this harbor.

However, the temporary turret on the pier fired a spectacular salvo while the Dutch fleet was swarming together, smashing the two Dutch armed merchant ships at the front to pieces and flying one of the warships into pieces. The upper deck of the ship was almost cleaned, and several officers in the captain's cabin fell to the ground in an instant.

Lieutenant Colonel Jemini Bacona looked angrily at the temporary fort position on the shore. These damned Spaniards would come up with such a stupid way to fight.But I have to admit in my heart that this method is very effective. Most of the damage to the Dutch fleet was caused by the temporary fort on the shore.

"Order the ships to distance themselves!" Lieutenant Colonel Jemini Bacona ordered: "Take turns to move forward and launch artillery strikes."

Don't damage too much here, otherwise, it will affect the next military operation.Damn it, if I knew it, I should have brought an army here.Lieutenant Colonel Jamie Bacona was a little annoyed, and couldn't solve the temporary fort at the dock in the first place.

"Lieutenant Colonel!" Suddenly, the watchman on the ship shouted loudly, with a trace of panic in his voice, "Lieutenant Colonel, a Spanish ship has been spotted at the rear of the fleet."

Lieutenant Colonel Jamie Bacona's expression changed immediately when he heard this, and he turned his head and looked behind him. At the entrance of the harbor, there were seven or eight ships with heavy sails, rushing towards their rear team.

"This is a trap..." Lieutenant Colonel Jemini Bacona's face turned pale.

(End of this chapter)