Although it was unclear whether there was anyone down there, everyone was there, but from the roar of the mountains and the tsunami-like shouts of death, they opened fire into the darkness in panic.
Between the battlements, a flash of fire appeared, and the Spaniards lined up in three lines and took turns to shoot.
Most of these matchlock guns failed to hit the target, because in such a dark night, no one could be seen at all. Even if they did hit, it was a blind cat encountering a dead mouse. Those who were hit had a problem with their character.
"Grenade, launch." Major Simon ordered. The shooter standing behind the three rows of musketeers immediately pulled the trigger. As the match fell, the medicine pool was ignited.
Bang bang bang! The huge recoil made these shooters couldn't help but squat down. Then they were shot out with long black powder grenades. These primitive rifle grenades weighed about five or six hundred grams and contained black powder.
The charge is about 300 grams.
Because it is a super-caliber rifle grenade, the projectile is outside the barrel and does not need to withstand bore pressure, so it can be charged with more powder.
One by one, the rifle grenades drew a parabola, landed at a distance of about a hundred meters, and exploded one after another.
Dozens of these rifle grenades immediately fell into the attacking attack group. In this era, there was no skirmishing line tactics, but a dense sea of people attacking. Therefore, the pirate group also charged intensively.
None of Yang Fan's opponents could force him to adopt a horizontal formation or a sparse formation.
Boom boom boom, more than thirty rifle grenades exploded in the crowd. The pirates screamed and were knocked down in large areas. However, not many were killed on the spot. Because the pirates wore linen robes on the outside and plate armor on the inside. Many of them were killed.
Everyone was injured by the explosion.
However, the flames from the explosion of the grenade illuminated part of the area under the city wall, providing lighting and target instructions for the Spanish soldiers on the city wall. Suddenly, the heavy matchlock guns on the city wall rushed toward the exposed pirates.
These heavy matchlock guns have extremely high muzzle velocity. At this distance, the energy exceeds six thousand joules. It is impossible for plate armor to block them.
More than seventy pirates were shot by heavy matchlock guns and fell to the ground one after another. A hole was made in their plate armor. The lead bullets penetrated from here and tore their internal organs. They were killed directly.
This kind of heavy matchlock gun can kill any part of the human body if it hits it. The torso will definitely die. The limbs will be directly smashed, making it very difficult to stop the bleeding.
The pirate officers were shouting loudly, asking them to engage the enemy as quickly as possible and run forward as hard as they could.
Although this kind of heavy matchlock gun is powerful, it is difficult to load and is more time-consuming and labor-intensive than ordinary matchlock guns. The firing interval is longer.
After three rounds of matchlock shooting, the attacking pirates had rushed to the bottom of the city wall. Ladders were set up on the edge of the city wall, and steel hooks were firmly hooked on the city wall.
The pirates did not rush to the city, but first threw a bunch of grenades.
The city wall was suddenly burst into flames. Three rows of Spanish musketeers who were shooting were blown to death and fell to the ground in a mess.
At this time, each team leader took the lead. With steel knives in their mouths and both hands, they quickly climbed up the ladder and climbed in through the crenellations of the city wall.
As soon as Hu Qiming jumped down, he saw a dozen heavy musketeers around him who were rolling and wailing after being blown up. Two of them who were not injured pulled out their knives and slashed at him.
Hu Qiming is an old pirate, and he is even more proficient in the use of knives.
He remained calm in the face of danger and used his knife to block the two swords that were coming at him. He took out his revolver with his left hand and fired two shots at the two unlucky men.
The two shots opened a small hole in the chests of the two officers. Although the officers were both wearing half-breastplates, they were directly penetrated by steel-core pistol bullets at close range.
Watching the two men fall to the ground, he immediately pulled the trigger on the four people nearby. The four men fell down in response. The revolver is still very reliable. The biggest advantage of this gun is that it will not jam.
When using a pistol on the battlefield, it must be between the enemy and ourselves at a distance where we can clearly see each other's faces. At this distance, reliable and highly directional weapons have an advantage.
The nine people behind took the opportunity to climb over the city wall immediately.
The two pirate groups quickly rushed to the city wall and boarded the city one after another.
The Spaniards used spears and swords to stab and chop the pirates who climbed the city. The pirates used a small buckler in one hand and a wild goose feather knife in the other to resist the attacks on the city.
Soon a large number of pirate infantry climbed onto the city wall. The musketeers had no ability to defend themselves and were hacked to death by the pirates as if they were chopping melons and vegetables. The remaining ones screamed in horror and immediately ran away.
The officers shouted at the top of their lungs, ordering them to fight back and fight the pirates hand to hand.
However, obviously no one listened to them. Their matchlock guns were very heavy and heavy, and they didn't even have bayonets. How could they fight these barbarians?
To rush forward would be to be massacred. Therefore, no one was willing to step forward.
A large number of pirates were climbing into the gaps in the city wall that were shelled.
A green signal flare was raised above the city, and Yang Fan said excitedly: "The climb to the city was successful. There is no problem in taking over Manila City."
Subsequently, the city gate was opened and a large number of pirates swarmed in.
The entire Royal City of Manila was filled with pirates charging and killing, as well as Spanish resisting.
Because the pirates have more people and good records, they don't look down on these Westerners.
I think their strength is just that much.
Once the pirates have efficient organizational skills and the weapons provided by Yang Fan, these people are extremely unstable and dangerous elements, and their combat effectiveness immediately increases.
At this time, fires were burning everywhere in the Royal City of Manila. Groups of pirates, Spaniards, and their mercenaries were chasing and killing each other in every building and on every street, and were engaged in a desperate fight.
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The explosions of hand grenades and rifle grenades kept flashing. The dull gunshots of heavy matchlock guns were sometimes intensive and sometimes silent.
Until midnight, the fire in the entire Intramuros lit up the night sky. Looking from the balcony on the side of the ship, the Intramuros in Manila in the distance burned half the sky red.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The Governor was forced to take the guards and the last remaining soldiers of more than a thousand people, as well as more than 800 Spanish merchants, and the people retreated into the Manila Cathedral.
After dawn, two pirate groups had already entered the city. They basically controlled most of the city. The Spanish's last stronghold, the Manila Cathedral, was besieged.
In the morning, people from the front came to ask for instructions on how to deal with these people who were finally besieged.
Now that they are all concentrated in a small area, you can use heavy mortar bombardment to break open this last fortress bit by bit. Moreover, there are all soldiers here, so there is no scruple about using weapons.
Because there are no people of Ming Dynasty here.
Spanish immigration law stipulates that only legal "white people" (Spanish: blancos) can live in the Intramuros. "White people" include Hispanic Filipinos (Spanish people born in the Philippines), Peninsular Spaniards (
Spaniards born in Spain), Hispanic-Malay-Chinese people (Spanish: tornatrás) and Hispanic-Malay people (Spanish: mestizos).
Based on racial discrimination and Spanish social ethics, only male "whites" can marry non-white women; female "whites" are not allowed to marry non-whites. Any non-Caucasian who marries a male Spanish
Caucasian women are automatically and legally classified as "white".
Naturally, they can also live in the Intramuros with their husbands. However, illegitimate mixed-race children born between male Spaniards and locals cannot live in the Intramuros unless adopted.
Only mestizo de sangleys (Mestizo de sangley) are allowed to enter Intramuros for work reasons. These people must return to their residences in the Binodo community outside Intramuros at sunset.
Moreover, the Spaniards implemented very unfair taxation: white people were exempted from paying taxes; local indigenous people (Malays) were required to pay basic taxes; Chinese mixed-race people were required to pay twice the basic tax; Han people were required to pay four times the basic tax.
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As a result, there are almost no people of Ming Dynasty in this city. At most, there are some mixed-race people.
Yang Fan looked at this information and said with a sneer: "If there are Han people here, I still have some scruples. Since they drove all the Han people outside, then I can't blame them. They use heartless cannons. They fire every quarter of an hour.
