The Spanish soldiers circled around the gold mine, but did not find a single Luzon man, and they did not even grab anything. In anger, they set fire to seven or eight villages, and then withdrew to the seaside. There, there were cannons
The boat served as cover and allowed them to spend the night safely.
The sun set and night came. Some Spanish soldiers set up tents on the beach, while others simply returned to the ship and slept in the narrow cabin. Bonfires were lit around the camp, and sentries held muskets and went around.
Wander around the area, guarding against enemies and wild beasts that may appear.
Two or three miles away from the Spanish army camp, Liao Yiming, Lu Aniu and other seven or eight Luzon youths were observing the activities of the camp under the cover of night. He saw that there were fewer and fewer people walking around in the camp, and sentries patrolled
The speed also began to slow down, showing some fatigue. Liao Yiming asked everyone: "Is everyone ready?"
"Ready, Brother Liao!" everyone replied in a low voice.
"Okay!" Liao Yiming nodded, "Everyone knows the dangers of this operation. If you don't want to do it, it's still too late to quit now."
"Brother Liao, don't worry. We have already thought about it and will fight Hongyi." Lu Aniu took the lead in expressing his stance.
"Okay, now I will distribute things to everyone, and the target is Hongyi's ships." Liao Yiming pointed at the large ships docked on the shore and said.
The young people stepped forward and took a tightly wrapped oil paper bag from Liao Yiming's hand. Then they walked down the beach, dived into the water, and rowed towards the Spanish ship. These young people all grew up on the seaside.
Excellent water properties. Even when swimming at night, there is no obstacle.
The sea was dark. The waves kept hitting the beach and the ships, making bursts of noise, drowning out the sounds of Lu A Niu and others paddling. Occasionally, some Spanish sentries faintly saw a black shadow flashing in the waves, and they also felt that
It was just a wave, and I never expected that it would be an enemy coming to attack me.
In the era of cold weapons, this kind of sneak attack by a small team was insignificant to a huge army. Even if the enemy could sneak into the camp and launch a sudden attack, how many people could be killed? In front of thousands of people, one person
There is only one outcome for a small team sneaking in, and that is the entire army being annihilated.
Due to the slackness of the Spanish sentry, Lu Aniu and his party swam to the side of the big ship without any risk. They divided the work among each other, each of them stared at a ship, came to the side of the ship, and began to hang the oil paper packets on the hull.
These oil-paper bags are all specially made with sharp nails. They only need to be hammered lightly to be nailed to the wooden boat. After everyone nailed the oil-paper bags, they immediately turned around and headed desperately towards the starting point.
Swim away. They remembered what Liao Yiming said. This thing will explode from time to time. If it explodes, all the Spaniards will be awakened, and then it will be too late to escape.
A group of people completed the task of hanging explosives on the gunboat and swam back to Liao Yiming. More than half an hour had passed. When Liao Yiming saw that everyone had arrived, he ordered to return. Lu Aniu said: "Brother Liao, what's the matter?
It hasn’t exploded yet? Otherwise, let’s wait until it explodes before leaving.”
Liao Yiming said: "When it explodes, it will be difficult for us to escape. Think about it, can the Spanish not search around? They have muskets and can hurt people from hundreds of steps away."
"It's okay, Brother Liao, there are crows everywhere, how can they find us?" Lu A Niu insisted.
It is the first time for young people to carry out such a mission, and they are not sure about the final effect. In addition, if they can really sink the enemy ship as Liao Yiming said, how can they be willing to miss such a wonderful scene? Has this ever happened?
A feat that will lead to endless conversation when it comes to picking up girls in the future.
Liao Yiming guessed what the young people were thinking, smiled helplessly, and said, "Okay, but we can't stay here, so we should take a few hundred steps back so that we can have a buffer."
Everyone followed the instructions and stepped back a few hundred steps, came to a mound, and looked at the Spanish camp with wide eyes. Liao Yiming brought a telescope, and the young people took turns using the telescope to observe the enemy ships, waiting for
A shocking moment.
"boom!"
Without warning, a thunder suddenly sounded on the sea, and the fire lit up half the sky. Without the help of telescopes, everyone could clearly see that a Spanish warship was engulfed in flames.
It was shaking violently on the sea, and the mast tilted obviously to one side.
"It exploded, it exploded!"
"That's my boat!"
"That's right, it's Xiao Liu's boat!"
The young people all jumped up. The young man in charge of hanging the explosives on the boat turned red and proudly accepted the congratulations of his companions.
Liao Yiming distributed oil paper bags to young people. Each paper bag contained several kilograms of yellow explosives and a simple detonator for delayed detonation. With Xu Guangqi's technology, it was not possible to accurately control the time of delayed detonation.
, but it is enough to have a delay effect.
"Be quiet!" Liao Yiming warned everyone with a smile on his face.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
There was an explosion in the Spanish camp. All the soldiers sleeping on the boats and on the beach were awakened. They ran around blindly, not knowing where the enemy came from. Each gunboat quickly weighed anchor and began to sail away from the shore.
because they believe that this kind of attack comes from the shore, and the farther away from the shore, the safer they are.
"boom!"
The delay device on another ship had expired. The moving gunboat seemed to have been pushed by something and shook violently, throwing several soldiers who were standing on the side of the ship looking over the ship into the sea. The explosion shook the ship
A large hole appeared on the side of the ship, seawater gurgled into the cabin, the ship began to tilt, and people and items on the deck fell into the sea.
Compared with the previous ship, the fate of the latter ship is even more tragic. The former ship is at least on the shore, the water is very shallow, and the waves are smaller. The latter ship has already sailed towards the shore in order to escape the attack from the shore.
After traveling for a while in the middle of the sea, the explosion occurred in deep water, the waves stirred up were even more shocking, and the ship capsized faster.
"Where is the enemy!" Kevin ran out of the command ship's cabin and shouted to the soldiers. But no one could answer his question because the explosions on the two ships were so sudden that no one knew who it was.
How were these explosions created?
"boom!"
"boom!"
Explosions sounded one after another, and each explosion caused a ship to tilt and then capsize. The officers and soldiers on the ships that did not explode also saw the clues, and the captain quickly ordered a U-turn and drove the ship back to the shore in order to
Let the soldiers flee to the shore.
The explosives provided by Liao Yiming were limited, and not all the ships were decorated with explosives. But no one dared to sit on the ships that had not yet exploded. The soldiers jumped off the ships and hid far away, for fear that the terrible explosion would spread
To themselves. As for those soldiers who have fallen into the sea, their life and death can only be left to the fate of God. Some people are lucky enough to be able to hug a broken board, and there is some hope of survival. Those who fell into the sea with bare hands will not wait until they swim.
When they returned to the shore, they were exhausted and sank into the vast sea one by one.
"Ventura, didn't you say that the Luzon people only have some cold weapons? What's going on with all this gunpowder?"
After finally escaping ashore, Kevin found Ventura and was furious with him. Kevin couldn't help but be angry. He brought a complete fleet to Ranchu and lost half of it without even seeing his opponent.
Ship, this was a huge loss. The reason why he suffered a loss was because he believed Ventura's lies and believed that the people of Luzon had no firearms at all.
In fact, even if Ventura told the truth, Kevin would not have thought that his opponent would use this method to launch a sneak attack. Because the ships with explosives were sunk, and the oil paper packages and other evidence were also destroyed in the fire.
, Kevin still doesn’t know how his opponent blew up so many of his ships. In the history of European naval warfare, it seems that there has never been a precedent for this kind of ship bombing. With the power of traditional black powder, it is necessary to blow through this ship.
Planting planks of seagoing ships is still quite difficult.
"Captain Kevin, this must be the fault of the Chinese..." Ventura stammered in reply. Such explosions were too familiar to Ventura. They were huddled in the guard's barracks.
Here, just such an explosion knocked down the entire barracks, knocked them unconscious, and made them prisoners without resistance.
At this moment, Ventura suddenly had a feeling. He felt that the escape of his people from the hands of the Chinese might just be a trap set up by the Chinese, and the purpose of this trap was to deceive the Spanish fleet and destroy it. He thought
Here, he couldn't help but shudder: the opponent's strength is really unfathomable, and if he stays here any longer, he may be in trouble.
However, at this time, how could Ventura dare to propose leaving? Even if he wanted to leave, there was nowhere to go, and Kevin would not let him go.
Lu A Niu and others watched the excitement. After all the ships that needed to be bombed were blown up, everyone's interest dropped. Then they quietly left the hiding place and returned in triumph. As for how to brag after returning to their residence,
There is no need to go into details. I heard that just a few young people made the Spaniards suffer a big loss, and the villagers in Luzon became confident in defeating the Spaniards in the end.
The Spanish side spent the whole night in a state of chaos. At dawn, they counted the number of people and found that more than 300 people were killed or missing. Seven ships were lost, five of which were warships. This made Kevin extremely distressed.
It was bleeding. Such a powerful Spanish fleet was actually killed by so many ships on the shore. Where was the dignity of the Invincible Fleet?
The Spanish army, which suffered a major defeat, did not dare to seek revenge on the Luzon people, but instead strengthened its defense. Kevin asked the soldiers to build several small forts on the shore, and set up a deer village, and the remaining warships and merchant ships
A sentry post was also added nearby. Then, he sent a letter to the supreme commander of the fleet, informing him of what happened here and asking the headquarters to send him new gunboats.
While there was a lot of commotion here in Lanchu, Patriarch Lu, who was protected by several Kanyu Camp soldiers, had already crossed the ocean and arrived at Songjiang Mansion.