1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 213 Attacking Luzon: Attacking Cavite ([-])
Cao Xiong watched the 300-odd marines land on the shore one after another, and then disappeared into the dense forest, without speaking for a while.The place where they landed is located in a tidal flat eighteen kilometers southwest of Manila, Philippines, less than five kilometers away from the Cavite shipyard.

The landing marine soldiers need to rush to the vicinity of the Cavite shipyard in the evening, wait for an opportunity to capture the nearby castle, and quickly control the shipyard.

And Niu Hu led the remaining [-] marines to pretend to be Chinese servants, take a captured Spanish merchant ship, and sneak into the port of Cavite in the evening, and then control the dock forts and forts separately with the sneaking marines.

If the plan to mix into the Cavite port fails, the Han-Dutch coalition forces will choose a nearby beach, force a landing, and attack the Cavite shipyard.

Niu Hu closed his eyes, and ran through the plan in his mind from beginning to end.In fact, this plan is very rough and full of loopholes.

Docking on a captured Spanish merchant ship, if the Spaniards were a little more serious and boarded the ship for inspection, they would definitely find the presence of the Marine Corps.Because half of the Marine Corps soldiers pretending to be servants of Ming people have no hair.

Even if the adventurous landing is successful, can all the marines with cold weapons and some servants of the Ming Dynasty defeat the Spanish soldiers in the forts and fortresses.

Although there are only more than 130 Spanish musketeers stationed in the Cavite port fort and nearby fortresses, they still have more than 500 Luzon native servants with complete armaments and strong fortresses.This battle will be the most dangerous battle that the Hanzhou Marine Corps will face.

But Niu Hu did not hesitate at all. As Cao Xiong said, once Hanzhou has acquired the craftsmen of the Cavite shipyard, Hanzhou will immediately have the ability to build warships by himself, creating a solid foundation for combat readiness to break the potential blockade of the Dutch in the future. .

Some sacrifices are necessary.

The evening sun shines on the port of Cavite, and the sparkling water seems to be coated with a red halo.The Spanish soldiers on the watchtower on the shore leaned lazily on the wooden frame behind them.

Although the Dutch have launched an attack on the Philippines, they believe that those businessmen who are good at calculating will not risk huge losses to attack the heavily fortified Manila and Cavite shipyards.They would only attack weak Spanish towns, or harass, for a while, those strong colonial strongholds.

Two Spanish-marked merchant ships sailed over from the open sea, with two Spanish officers standing on the bow, and five or six Ming servants followed behind them.

Heck, the Spanish soldiers on the watchtower laughed. Once these small colonial officers were assigned to the servants of the natives or the Ming Dynasty, they actually had a particularly large spectrum.In daily life, seven or eight servants are needed to serve.

The Spanish soldiers on the watchtower waved their flags and signaled to the pier on the shore that their own people were coming.

"Second Lieutenant Fabian, why did you come back with someone?" On the pier, a port manager asked with a smile.

"The Dutch who besieged the city of Holy Name Jesus ran away. Therefore, the officer ordered us to return to Cavite to strengthen the defense capabilities here." Second Lieutenant Alvaro Fabian replied with a stiff expression.

"Oh, thank God!" The port officer at the dock made a cross on his chest, "Those disgusting merchants must be afraid of our great kingdom army....They won't come to us."

"No,...probably not." Second Lieutenant Álvaro Fabian said with his head down.

At this time, the servants of the Ming people on the two merchant ships had already disembarked one after another, clustered together on the pier.

"Second Lieutenant Fabian, your camp should be on the right side of the fort." Seeing the two hundred servants who landed, a Spanish officer scattered towards the forts on both sides, and he couldn't help but reminded loudly: "You need to send these Ming servants to the fort. The human servants regrouped and brought them back to camp."

"Oh, I know, I know." Second Lieutenant Álvaro Fabian glanced back at the few Ming servants behind him, "I have an important situation right now and I need to report to Major Lopez. ... I will wait until I come back." The whole team." As he spoke, he led a dozen or so Ming servants towards the fortress.

"Oh, damn Ming people. Don't you know how to form a team?" The Spanish officer walked quickly to a group of Ming people's servants and shouted loudly: "You pigs, don't go that way anymore. There It's the fort, return them all to me..."

Tian Dongyan put a dagger on the Spanish officer's waist, causing his mouth to open wide in shock.

"You..., how dare you..." The Spanish officer said incoherently, "How dare you smart people..."

"Shut up!" Tian Dongyan looked at the Spanish officer who was still trying to speak, and said viciously: "Shout again, you are dead!"

Tan Zhongfu also leaned over, holding a short knife against the back of the Spanish officer.

The Spanish officer was terrified, the servants were about to rebel!Those bright people who have always been weak are going to kill people!

Second Lieutenant Álvaro Fabian led a dozen Ming servants and walked slowly to the front of the fort.

Zhang Nianchun looked around while walking.Twenty or thirty Spanish musketeers stood at the head of the city, pointing and pointing at them, and burst into laughter from time to time.

"Oh, Second Lieutenant Fabian, why are you back?" Near the city gate, a Spanish officer said with a smile, "I don't think so, you escaped from the city of Holy Name Jesus! Haha..."

"No..., no, I didn't escape back." As he spoke, Second Lieutenant Alvaro Fabian glanced sideways at a bright man next to him, as if he was the only one who could understand Spanish.

Wang Li'an felt guilty for a while when Lieutenant Álvaro Fabian saw it like this.

I have been in the Philippines for six or seven years, and my parents and relatives have all emphasized that I should not provoke the Spaniards and just live my own life.On weekdays, even if he sees a Spanish old man in Manila, he is afraid in his heart.

More than a month ago, Wang Li'an was forced into the army by the Spaniards with a group of Ming people, and he saw the brutality of the Spanish officers. More than 200 servants of the Ming Dynasty were tortured and executed by Spanish officers and soldiers in various names during the training, which greatly frightened them, the servants of the Ming Dynasty.

"Holy Name Jesus City has been breached." Second Lieutenant Álvaro Fabian said quickly, "So we withdrew."

"Ah? The Holy Name Jesus City was breached?" The Spanish officer was taken aback, looked at Second Lieutenant Álvaro Fabian, and then burst out laughing, "Hahahaha..., Second Lieutenant Fabian, what did I do before?" I've never seen you so funny!"

Wang Li'an's face was pale. He heard what the Spanish officer on the opposite side said. Second Lieutenant Fabian told him that the city of Holy Name Jesus had been breached.

Seeing Wang Li'an's expression was wrong, Zhang Nianchun immediately stabbed the dagger in Lieutenant Fabian's back a few points.

"Hmm..." Second Lieutenant Álvaro Fabian snorted, his back straightened, and his expression was painful.

"Second Lieutenant Fabian, what's the matter with you?" The Spanish officer on the opposite side saw that something was wrong, looked at Second Lieutenant Alvaro Fabian suspiciously, and then looked at the dozen or so bright servants behind him.

"You go out!" The Spanish officer pointed to Zhang Nianchun and the others. How could Ming servants enter the castle? They could only stay in the camp outside, as cannon fodder when the enemy attacked, delaying the enemy's rapid landing.

And there seems to be something wrong with their appearance, as if their hair has been cut.Was it baptized?
Zhang Nianchun looked behind him, the pier was more than 500 meters away from the castle, if they mobilized at this time, they don't know if Niu Hu would rush over in time, they only had a few short knives and a few wooden spears in their hands.

"Second Lieutenant Fabian, you need to manage your subordinates well!" Seeing that Zhang Nianchun and others ignored his scolding, the Spanish officer was a little annoyed, "You must let them withdraw, if Major Lopez sees , will definitely be very angry!"

Second Lieutenant Álvaro Fabian looked at Zhang Nianchun next to him in embarrassment, with an expression of no reason on his face.

"Do it!" Zhang Nianchun shouted in a low voice. Although he couldn't understand what the Spanish officer was saying, he felt that he might be repelling them.

He slashed Lieutenant Alvaro Fabian on the back of the neck, knocked him to the ground, then jumped up to the Spanish officer who had just yelled at them, stabbed him in the stomach, and stirred him vigorously. Twice, he pulled him aside with his left hand, and rushed towards another Spanish soldier with a gun.

More than a dozen marine soldiers drew out their short knives one after another, raised their wooden spears, and stabbed at the Spanish soldiers near the city gate.

Several Spanish soldiers on the city wall heard the movement below and stretched out their heads to look around.Suddenly seeing a dozen Ming servants attacking the Spanish soldiers, they raised their muskets and fired down.

"Bump! Bump! Bump!" Several gunshots rang out, and several marine soldiers who were still at the gate of the city fell down.

"Rush in! Rush in!" Zhang Nianchun shouted loudly.The enemies at the gate of the city had to be killed before the Spanish soldiers in the city reacted. Otherwise, when a large group of Spanish soldiers came over, the city gate would definitely be blocked, and the marines at the pier would come to support in time.

"Do it!" Niu Hu heard gunshots from the castle, shouted, straightened his wooden spear, and rushed towards the fort 30 meters away.

The Spanish soldiers at the fort on the pier were wondering why gunshots were heard in the castle, and suddenly saw the servants of the Ming Dynasty who were in a state of disarray rushing towards them with wooden spears.Well, what's the situation?What are these smart servants going to do?
"Go to hell!" Niu Hu stabbed a Spanish officer with a surprised look in the abdomen with his wooden spear. The officer's body waved his hand, and the spear hit the head of another officer who had pulled out his rapier.Behind him, more than a hundred marine soldiers rushed up with wooden spears.

"Gentlemen, follow me to attack!" Tian Wu (former Japanese wandering samurai Sanada Taketa) held a wooden spear and led more than [-] marine soldiers to charge directly towards the castle.

(End of this chapter)