Chapter 402: Fierce Battle, Fire

The sailors and crews of the Spanish Expeditionary Force were exhausted, especially after the flagship issued a three-day rest order, these people even ran to the deck, wine, indigenous women, and perhaps something else.

The attitude of the Portuguese soldiers who were lined up below made them lose their vigilance. When the wide-eyed Earl Sandino fell to the ground, they had not yet reacted.

But the Portuguese officer who came out to greet him ignored the dagger inserted into the earl and ran towards the cargo. The people who followed Sandino to disembark, shouted there, some pulled out scimitars and stings, and some took out a mezzanine gun to prepare for shooting. However, because such a scene was not expected, many preparations were not done, and the mezzanine gun could not be fired in a hurry.

But the gunshots immediately rang out, and all the Spaniards on the dock were knocked over. I don’t know when it started, a team of musketeers had already walked out of the pile of goods, quickly stood in three rows, and started firing. The Spanish sailors were caught off guard.

After all, the regular army was extraordinary. An officer immediately began to issue orders. More than 100 people on the dock could not care about it. However, with the cover of the ship's side, the people on it began to fight back with a mezzanine. What's more important is that there were artillery on the docking ships, which was enough to level the entire dock.

But the officer who issued the order then changed his face. The goods covered with oil cloth and canvas on the dock were removed and their true colors were revealed. A dark cannon was facing the ships anchored in the port, and the person standing behind the cannon was already holding a torch and approaching the medicine.

The cannons on the ships had just begun to load drugs, and the contrailers standing there were firers scattered. The sharp-eyed officers on the flagship even saw that the gunners were also "Portuguese". Did Spain and Portugal start war on the continent?

There are also at most 600 Portuguese soldiers in Malacca. Why do they have more than a dozen cannons on the dock, and they are such powerful cannons.

He could no longer think so much. With loud noises, the entire dock began to tremble. The power of the nine-pound cannon was fully utilized at such a close distance. The 500-ton sail warship could be said to be a giant, but the Spanish ship structure had a characteristic at this time, which was the tall ship tower, which would have changed until thirty years later, after the Garen ship appeared on a large scale.

Gaogao Ship Tower is the best target at this time. The second roar of more than a dozen cannons was already smashing the flagship leaning on the dock into extremely rags.

The ships of the Spanish fleet were sailing one after another. At this time, the port was like hell, with the whistling of shells, the shattering of shipboards, and the screams of people everywhere.

The artillery on the dock does not need to be corrected, but needs to be loaded continuously and then fired out, which will have the best effect. Even if the Spanish ships in the port have already prepared for firing, it is almost impossible for naval guns to complete the task. However, if they fire at this time, the shells can only land on their own ships. What should they do? They can only drive the ship out of the port.

At this time, the quality of the cast gun was not so reassuring. After the five guns, the soldiers behind the gun had already poured water on the barrel with a long-prepared bucket to cool the gun. However, there was a small gun that fired in other directions of the dock in an inappropriate manner.

And he had no goal, nor was he going to hit a boat, nor did he hit people. He just smashed the large enclosures piled on the edge of the dock, which contained things like wood chips and straw. He didn't know what it was for. After the enclosure was broken, these things floated on the sea.

Three ships have already sunk in the sea, and it is very troublesome to enter and exit the port without motor power. However, now the warships of the Spanish Expeditionary Force have already retaliated against each other.

After firing six rounds of more than a dozen cannons on the dock, the frequency of the shooting must be eased, otherwise it will definitely explode, and the enemy ship's artillery fire began to roar. One of the gunners was smashed directly, and the three people behind were also caught by the jump, all of whom were killed.

However, even so, every round of gun shooting on the dock will hardly fail, but the scattered naval guns are not so efficient. The moving ships, the pressure of artillery fire on the shore, and the hasty artillery teams cannot guarantee the quality of the shooting at all.

So even if the artillery was casualties on the dock, the exchange ratio was still absolutely beneficial to the artillery on the dock. This is a famous saying in later generations: the artillery in the fortress will always be a nightmare for warships.

Moreover, the fighting will of the "Portuguese" soldiers who operated the artillery on the dock were shocking. They did not hesitate to their lives, were not afraid of the shells whistling around them, and reloaded ammunition and fired ignited. None of them even shouted loudly, but just shot silently.

There is a bunker with very good protection not far away, and the naval guns cannot hit this place at all, but you can clearly see the situation on the battlefield here. Lin Zhi, the commander of the Yizhou fleet, was in this bunker, followed by more than a dozen officers.

Jiang Feng's idea of ​​establishing a naval army was to try to use those experienced people, Li Guangtou's subordinates, Lin family and Xia family members all became backbones of the naval army, but Li Guangtou's subordinates mostly operated merchant fleets and shipyards, and dealed with logistics.

Most of the water forces of the Lin family and Xia family were in the army, and because of their maritime experience, they all promoted quickly in the naval army system. So in a few years, except for more than 100 people from the Netherlands who came to the Netherlands, the rest of the positions were basically monopolized by the Lin family and Xia family.

Of course, Jiang Feng also has checks and balances here. The Lin family followed Jiang Feng first, so the final decision was made in Huazhou. However, the Huazhou fleet was mainly members of the Xia family. Yizhou and Fujian were across the sea. The Xia family operated very well here, but the fleet in Yizhou was mainly members of the Lin family.

Both of them are concerned about each other and are afraid. With reasonable returns, both the Lin family and the Xia family are loyal to Jiang Feng.

Lin Zhi was an anomaly in the Lin family. When his brothers and fellow tribes liked to rob and do business at sea, he read military books about the naval army at home. However, China has had little theory about the naval army since ancient times. Instead, after joining the Jiang family's naval army, the things told by the Dutch people from Europe made him very profitable and also solved many of his doubts and conjectures about naval warfare.

With such research and background as a maritime family, he naturally promoted quickly in the army. He was already a representative figure of the Lin family in the navy. He lived up to expectations. He had several beautiful experiences of exterminating Japanese pirates and pirates at sea, which made him even more glorious.

However, the generals of the navy should be on his flagship, but Lin Zhi was on the land. In the harbor of Malacca, there were no ships of the Yizhou fleet except for the Spanish ships fighting fiercely near the port. Lin Zhi looked at the battlefield attentively and spoke in surprise:

"I really didn't expect that the Netherlands soldiers were so brave when fighting!"

Everyone in the bunker is Han, so Lin Zhi didn't care much about speaking. A man dressed in a captain behind said:

"When the commander, the lower-ranking official was trained in Dengzhou and heard from Chief Executive Jason that the Dutch people had a deep hatred with these Franchise men. Many of the parents and relatives died under the swords of Franchise soldiers. They never forgot such hatred at all times!"

Hearing his subordinates say this, Lin Zhi couldn't help but pat the wall with his hand to express his admiration, but at this time the artillery battle at the port gradually became evenly affected.

As the Spanish ships moved, the shooting of artillery on it became more and more calm. However, the artillery positions on the dock were obviously prepared for a long time, and the fortifications were built quite solidly. Despite casualties, there were still ten cannons to open fire. During the shooting just now, four ships had been sent to the seabed, two warships and two armed merchant ships carrying soldiers. The sea was full of soldiers struggling to survive, broken wood of the ship and floating corpses.

At this time, someone ran into the bunker where Lin Zhi was and reported loudly:

"My commander, everything has already hit the sea."

Hearing this order, Lin Zhi showed a happy smile on his face and spoke to the messenger beside him:

"Blow the horn!"

Several officers of the Spanish fleet were already red-eyed and desperately ordered the artillery to fire shells. However, the sound of horns from the roaring battlefield still stunned them. Of course, the artillery fire of the ships would not stop, but the artillerymen who controlled the shore artillery suddenly stopped operating.

More than a dozen artillery soldiers took out large bows from the fortifications, lit fire on the arrows, and put on the arrows. The dozen people bravely stood out from the protective fortifications, and one of them died immediately in the artillery fire, but the remaining people still shot the arrows out.

At this time, the Spanish sailors during the artillery battle discovered that there was a layer of straw and broken wood floating in the port, as well as black oil stains, and a pungent smell floating in the smell of sulfur.

More than a dozen burning arrows fell on the sea, and the sea started to burn...
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