The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 686 The Trebuchet Shows Its Power (Ask for a monthly ticket at the end of the month)
After completely occupying the Nancheng Fort, without the threat of artillery, the second wave of warships of the Ming army has already approached.

Only ships with less than a thousand materials can go from the south bank, otherwise they will be blocked by the bridge connecting the north and south banks.

Zhao Dashan had already planned and divided the boats, the big boats went to the north bank, and the small boats went to the south bank.

As soon as the second wave of ships arrived on the south bank, the real infantry battalion of the Ming army came down. First they lifted the 6-pound gun, then the continuous ammunition, and then the 12-pound gun. They did not bring the 24-pound gun because it was too difficult to get off the ship. Moreover, the walls of the castle of Santiago are as thick as ten meters, and any artillery is useless.

The next thing is to lift the trebuchets from the boat. These trebuchets will be assembled after disembarking. There will also be craftsmen and auxiliary soldiers. They will also try to cut down new and larger trebuchets locally, mainly to see the difficulty of attacking the castle of Santiago.

As the Ming army occupied the north and south banks, the Jurchen and other coalition forces began to advance with the cooperation of the Ming army.

At this time, the cannons on the north side of the fort had been fired red and needed to rest, and the city of Manila was broken and bruised everywhere.

The massacre of Chinese in Luzon had just ended in less than two months at this time, because the Chinese did not attack Manila this time, and there were only about 500 Spanish defenders in Manila, and more than 300 indigenous defenders.

There are also nearly a thousand Westerners, a large number of natives, and Japanese soldiers who are looting Chinese property and maintaining the post-war order.

It took them several months to mobilize the local aborigines to clean up the corpses, so this time is when the guards in Manila City are at their lowest.

Of course, for Zhao Dashan and Xu Erxian, they would rather be in Manila where all their forces are concentrated.

If the local [-] soldiers and horses were all in the city, Zhao Dashan and Xu Erxian would be able to fight and wipe them all out.

More than half of them are outside the city now, and it may be dragged into a long-term trial in the future.

Chang Jiangang's 2nd Infantry Battalion landed behind the 3rd Battalion (Mongolian-Man-Fan Allied Forces).

When Chang Jiangang's men went ashore, the front three battalions had already cleaned it up. At least 3 people had been killed along the coast.

Chang Jiangang didn't have the time to care about these things, he immediately said: "Batu".

"In" the Mongol Batu Dian Dian Dian Dian Dian Ding brought people over.

"Take a team of thousands of people, go to the city along the east, rob—er——take back all the wealth of our Ming people, and those who dare to resist, kill Wuhe."

"No." Batu immediately ordered 1000 people to go east. He remembered Chang Jiangang's words in his heart, grab, oh no, take back all the wealth of the Ming people.

While rectifying the soldiers and horses, Chang Jiangang waited for the heavy soldiers.

This time they brought [-] luggage, and the luggage was divided into two, with half landing on the south bank and the other half landing on the north bank.

After the next ship arrived, Chang Jiangang boarded the next ship directly, and followed this ship to the east, because this ship was also full of his soldiers and horses.

Their boat sailed east, as far north as Fort San Diego, and then disembarked.

There are two bridges in the middle, connecting the north and south banks. Even tall ships can't pass them, but their boats are just right.

And before entering the port, they furled the sails and let down the masts.

Fort Santiago here is less than 100 meters from the sea.

As their ship passed, the artillery above also fired at them fiercely.

But Fort Santiago is not a fort for coastal defense, and the cannons on it are relatively small. Although they hit Ding Yi's three ships back and forth, they did not do much damage.

Their boat quickly passed Fort Santiago, and then disembarked at a distance of 500 meters, and other boats stopped after them.

The defenders of Fort Santiago knew that something was wrong and fired wildly at them.

But at this time their ship was already far away from Fort Santiago, and it was basically impossible to hit it again.

Chang Jiangang's infantry disembarked first, followed by the heavy soldiers, carrying artillery and catapults.

During the whole process, it took more than half an hour for all the luggage and equipment to disembark, and Fort Santiago was bombarded all the time, because the distance was more than 500 meters, only two shots were hit.

The infantry disembarked quickly, and the unlucky baggage soldiers were killed and injured more than a dozen baggage soldiers, losing a cannon and a catapult.

Not long after Chang Jiangang's first wave of infantry disembarked, crazy shouts came from far away.

He looked through the binoculars and was stunned. It turned out that it was a group of black-painted local aborigines, armed with knives, guns and other cold weapons, rushing towards them under the command of several Xiyi.

There are more than 200 indigenous people in this wave, and most of them look similar to those of the senior officials, with darker skin, very short stature, and armed with outdated weapons, not even armor.

"Chen Fengshan, it's really annoying that the bureau that led you killed them all." Chang Jiangang cursed.

At this time, he was forming a team to haul the luggage off the ship.

Without saying a word, Chen Fengshan set up his own game and rushed forward with Lumi guns and spearmen.

The result is naturally one-sided, completely equivalent to a massacre.

The local aborigines only know how to charge foolishly, and here they shoot with guns, bang bang bang, four consecutive hits against infantry, almost endless.

Your cavalry's four-stage attack on the Lumi gun has a chance to rush in front of you, but the infantry has no chance at all.

The Spanish on the opposite side did not expect the firepower of the Ming army to be so fierce. Their matchlock guns were not as good as the Lumi guns in terms of range and power.

Followed by the Ming army's pursuit, the Xiyi and the aborigines frantically ran for their lives, leaving countless corpses along the way.

Chen Fengshan didn't dare to chase too far forward, as the artillery range of Fort San Diego was just ahead.

He went back with the whole team, waiting for most of them to gather.

After a while, all the luggage and personnel disembarked. Chang Jiangang gathered [-] soldiers and horses, and sent [-] to sweep around the south bank. The auxiliary soldiers followed them with artillery, trebuchets, and some craftsmen. West attack Fort Santiago.

Fort Santiago is the strongest defensive castle in Manila. It has been built for 15 years. Originally, Xu Erxian wanted to bombard it with the ships on board. Later, he thought about it, this fort could be kept for his own use, so he didn’t use heavy artillery.

Including the forts they seized at the port, they were all burned with gasoline and not bombarded, just to maintain their integrity.

Chang Jiangang arrived at the front of Fort San Diego at this time. After looking through the binoculars, he could only shake his head.

It is definitely useless to use artillery. It is said that the wall is ten meters thick and it took 15 years to build it, which is unimaginable.

The 42-pounder naval gun is useless.

Xiyi pervert, build the castle so thick?Good thing they have a secret weapon.

"The trebuchet, quickly install the trebuchet." He immediately ordered the craftsmen to assemble the trebuchet.

The trebuchet is being installed here, and the guard on the Fort Santiago, the Spaniard Donas, is also looking around with a telescope.

He saw that the Ming army disembarked a lot of artillery, and there were many soldiers and horses, but the Ming army deliberately kept a long distance. They fired a lot of cannons and failed to hit a few shots. In order to deal with the Ming army's siege for a while, he could only order to stop Shelling, cooling the artillery.

"Is this the Ming army? Why did it stop?" a subordinate asked him.

Donas shook his head: "It must be the Ming army, and we are here to take revenge."

"It seems to be assembling something?"

"Don't worry, our Fort San Diego is unbreakable."

The subordinates were noncommittal, their Fort San Diego was indestructible, but the food in the fort was limited.

If the Ming army cannot be expelled, they will run out of ammunition and food sooner or later.

But the Ming army didn't seem to want to besiege them for a long time.

I didn't even want to come to surrender.

Less than half an hour later, they saw in horror that the Ming army had formed 1000 small trebuchets [-] meters away.

"They can't cast this far, right?" Someone asked in horror.

Is the trebuchet that far?Of course they haven't seen it before, after all, no one here will use it.

Of course, Ding Yi's trebuchet was not that far away. The trebuchet he brought was relatively small, with an effective distance of only 100 meters.

"Reload." Chang Jiangang ordered at this time.

Thirty trebuchets are lined up, each ten meters apart.

The ten units in the first row all loaded the petrol bombs, and then began to be pushed forward by the supply soldiers.

The artillery of Fort Santiago in the east is five.

And they pushed ten movies in a row at the same time.

When the distance reaches 500 meters,
Boom, the artillery above rang.

This trebuchet was relatively small and surrounded by flat ground. The Ming army in front was deliberately slow. After entering 500 meters, as long as they heard the sound of artillery, everyone pushed forward quickly.

Whoosh, whoosh, the first wave of five shells flew over, none of them hit, and all flew over the trebuchet.

Donas on Fort Santiago's expression changed drastically.

The Ming army then slowed down and pushed forward slowly.

Before the second wave of artillery sounded, it had been pushed to 300 meters.

Boom, the second wave of artillery from Fort Santiago rang out.

Some people from the Ming army rushed away because they saw the trajectory of the shells falling.

Katsa, one was hit by a stone thrower, and the other jumped up from the falling shells, and rolled to the ground.

Two cannons were lost in the second wave, but Xiyi was quite accurate.

The remaining eight cars continued to move forward, and the other ten cars in the rear began to push forward.

When approaching the last 100 meters, the Ming army suddenly accelerated, and then began to face Fort Santiago, igniting and releasing.

Boom, almost at the same time that the Ming army's heavy soldiers threw the petrol bombs, the opposite side also fired.

Bang bang, three trebuchets were knocked down this time.

Of the eight catapults, five were thrown inside the walls of Fort Santiago, and three were thrown on the surface of the walls.

Donas stood in the wall, watching strangely a black thing flying in the air, he was a little puzzled.

Why did the Ming army use catapults instead of cannons?

What is this?
Under his gaze, bang, the petrol bomb fell into the city wall.

Boom, the next moment, a huge flame spread in all directions, and the entire wall was instantly enveloped in flames.

"Ah..." the Xiyi inside the city wall screamed, and the front fort almost instantly lost its ability to attack.

The fire also ignited nearby powder kegs.

Boom, a place in the north of the city suddenly exploded, the artillery on it was overturned, and there were screams and cries everywhere.

Donas was pretty smart, he was standing in the tower, and the flames were burning outside, so he couldn't enter the tower for a short time.

But at this time his face was all green.

Three of the five cannons on the city wall were engulfed in fire.

The Ming army threw something, and after it exploded, flames were burning everywhere.

In fact, there were still cannons that hadn't been burned, but the nearby Xiyi soldiers didn't dare to stay there, and ran into the tower one after another.

(End of this chapter)