A large number of Igorots gathered under the city wall, holding up long ladders and trying to launch an attack.
The Liberation Army changed its artillery from solid bullets to shotgun shells!
The Franco machine gun also started roaring!
The smoke is thick and the cannons are roaring!
The walls of the Liberation Army camp were filled with densely packed corpses.
The explosions of sky-shaking thunder also kept sounding, and fire and gunpowder smoke continued to explode.
Under the city wall, the indigenous archers kept bending their bows and setting arrows!
From time to time, soldiers of the Liberation Army were hit by arrows. Fortunately, they were wearing armor, and the bows and arrows used by the natives were crude hunting bows, so there were not too many casualties.
However, Zhu Hongyu also suffered the bitter consequences of selling ironware at will!
The Igorot people are obviously much better armed than the Pampanga people!
Although the bows they used were crude hunting bows, most of their arrows were made of iron.
The iron tools they bought from the Liberation Army some time ago are now in use.
But if you want to ask Zhu Hongyu, does he regret it?
the answer is negative!
He did sell iron weapons to the Igorots, so that the Igorots used the iron weapons to attack the Liberation Army.
However, in this willing transaction, the Liberation Army also obtained a large amount of urgently needed supplies.
If it were not for these Igorots to help him collect so many supplies, the Liberation Army would probably have food supply problems now, and it would be impossible for the muskets and artillery to fire with all their strength without regard to the consumption of gunpowder.
Therefore, everything has two sides!
Everything depends on whether the effort is worth it compared with the gain. You cannot easily define what is right or wrong about something!
The artillery in the fort opened fire with all its strength, and shot shells continuously.
The crackling sound of gunfire made a group!
The Igorots who were attacking the city kept falling down and turned into corpses.
On the other side, the forts upstream and downstream of the river noticed the movements in the camp.
The forts downstream had to deal with attacks by the Pampanga people and natives and had no way to intervene.
However, the forts upstream never had a chance to fire. When they finally saw an opportunity to perform, they naturally would not let it go.
Boom! Boom!
The two cannons on the downstream bastion fort opened fire, and two shells were fired at the Igorots who were attacking the camp.
The charge of the artillery was a bit low, and the shells landed dozens of meters away from the Igorot array.
The shells rolled on the ground and spun forward!
Splashing up a lot of sand!
Then it stopped a few meters in front of the Igorot array, and the kinetic energy carried by the shells was completely consumed.
Boom! Boom!
Not long after, there were two more cannon shots!
The two cannonballs headed towards the Igorots. After the test firing just now, the accuracy of the cannonballs was guaranteed, and they fell into the crowd of Igorots without mercy.
The cannonballs spun and rolled, leaving limbs and limbs flying everywhere in their path!
The two shells killed six or seven people at the front and rear, plowing a bloody ditch in the crowd before finally running out of kinetic energy.
The shell was covered in blood and broken limbs, leaving a shallow crater in the ground that would never move again.
Just like the Pampanga and Spanish people were blocked under the bastion by the Liberation Army, the Igorots were also unable to open up the situation under the walls of the Liberation Army camp.
Facing the towering city walls of the Liberation Army, there were dense volleys of musketry, continuous explosions of sky-shaking thunder, and double firepower strikes from the city walls and bastion forts.
The weapons used by the Igorots to attack the city were only long ladders and bows and arrows!
It is impossible for such crude weapons to truly threaten the security of the Liberation Army's camp.
Gunfire and explosions sounded one after another, and the battle seemed lively, but it was just a unilateral massacre of the Igorot natives by the Liberation Army.
Although there are casualties from time to time on the Liberation Army side, it does not affect the overall situation!
The black lizard looked at the towering, hard, unshakable city wall in front of him, and the expression on his face gradually showed a trace of regret.
He feels so stupid now, really stupid!
Without getting enough benefits, he was very reckless and led his people into a hopeless war!
The Spaniards suffered a bloody blow in front of the fortifications of the Liberation Army. You can imagine how difficult it was to attack the fortifications of the Liberation Army.
Where did he get the courage to lead his people into this big pit?
Seeing his people being killed continuously, the blood soaking the ground under the city wall soft, the expression on the black lizard's face became more and more desperate.
"damn it!"
"damn it!"
"damn it!"
"Attack, keep attacking, don't stop!"
"Kill!"
Although the Black Lizard was saddened by the casualties of his tribe, he could only continue to give orders, asking his tribe to launch an attack regardless of casualties.
The Igolots from several tribes including the Giant Wood Tribe continued to gather under the city wall, and then retreated with heavy losses under the blows of thunder, muskets and artillery, and then gathered again and were beaten back again...
They keep giving their lives, but they get nothing!
Seeing that his people suffered heavy losses, Black Lizard could not order his people to withdraw, and felt extremely sad in his heart.
Not that he was very loyal to the Spanish.
But their surprise backstab today has severely offended the Liberation Army.
If this battle cannot be won and the Liberation Army is wiped out, the Spaniards will at best withdraw from the mountains and forests.
The Liberation Army will definitely be unable to retaliate against the Spaniards!
But what about them?
Their tribe was in the mountains and forests, not far from the Liberation Army's camp. The Liberation Army wanted to retaliate, and they couldn't escape even if they wanted to.
Once the Spanish retreated, they would have to face the revenge of the Liberation Army alone.
The consequences are obvious!
Therefore, Black Lizard must not retreat. Now that he has chosen to take a side, he must not change his position again.
He could only pray that his side could hold back a certain amount of troops from the Liberation Army, and then allow the Spaniards to open up the situation in the direction of the downstream bastion.
This is what Black Lizard is thinking now!
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The sound of artillery booms on the battlefield!
There were more than a thousand soldiers of the Liberation Army, eight to nine hundred Spaniards, four thousand Pampanga people, and three to four thousand Igorots.
Tens of thousands of people were crowded in the small river valley, fighting fiercely.
Cries of killing resounded throughout the valley, and the river was already stained red with blood.
Smoke filled the entire river valley, and the smell of blood was tantalizing.
An unknown number of people fell in front of the bastions and city walls of the Liberation Army. The corpses that fell first had been trampled into pulp by their own people.
The internal organs and flesh and blood have long been indistinguishable!
Zhu Hongyu personally stood on the city wall to direct the battle, mobilize troops and transport the wounded.
He didn't go forward to fight in person because it wasn't that time yet!
Although the current battle situation is fierce, there is no need for him to personally take risks.
Even if Zhu Hongyu just stood on the city wall and did nothing, he could greatly boost the morale of the Liberation Army.
Although the battle is fierce, the Liberation Army is not in danger now.
The best example that proves this point is that the families of the Liberation Army are still doing jobs such as taking care of the wounded, transporting supplies, and cooking for the army in safe areas in the city.
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