Fernando Island (Sao Tome Island) in the Gulf of Guinea, the golden coastline of West Africa.
"kill!"
"Great Persian warriors, kill every Spaniard on the island!"
Korbanda stood on a warship, and his whole body roared.
After enduring the humiliation and burden in West Africa for more than a year, the time has finally come to fight back.
The warships purchased by the Persian Empire from the Ming Empire finally arrived in West Africa, and the Spanish are now busy fighting the pirate alliance in Europe.
Naturally, the Persians would not miss such a great opportunity and launched a counterattack against the Koreans.
The Fernando Island in front of you, formerly the Portuguese island of Sao Tome, is the most important island on the entire golden coastline. It has a large area, a humid climate, fertile land on the island, and a large amount of fertile land, which can not only grow sugar cane but also
Growing food.
Coupled with the excellent natural harbor and the solid colonial strongholds built by the Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish, this is definitely one of the best colonial strongholds on the golden coastline.
As long as this island can be captured, plus Darius Island to the north, which originally belonged to the Persians, Persia can radiate the entire Gulf of Guinea.
So this time, the Persians did not even call the Koreans and planned to eat alone. The Persians were salivating over this island and wanted to get it so much.
Of course, there is another reason, that is, this island is the most important colony of the Spanish on the golden coastline. Capturing this island can have a huge impact on the Spanish colonial rule in West Africa.
At this moment, more than twenty Spanish warships surrounded the port of Fernando Island.
The powerful Miyun artillery from the Ming Empire continued to pour artillery fire on the island. The shells roared in the sky, but hit the port and the castle on the island heavily.
While the artillery fire was attacking, small boats loaded with Persian soldiers quickly began to land, preparing to take over the island in one fell swoop and uproot the Spanish colonial stronghold here.
"Fire! Fire!"
Naturally, the Spaniards on the island will not sit still and wait for death.
There were forts everywhere, and the Spanish defenders fought back with artillery fire desperately.
They knew very well that once the Persians captured it, every Spaniard on the island would definitely die.
The conflict between the Persians and the Spaniards began with the island of Darius and the city of Cambyses.
Back then, the Spaniards kept almost none of the Persians in these two colonies. They either killed them or sold them as slaves to the Ming Dynasty. They still don't know which corner of the Ming Dynasty they were in.
Out of revenge, when Korbanda led his army to West Africa, he also carried out bloody killings against the Spaniards in the colonial strongholds. The grievances between the two sides were deep.
"Dong dong~"
The sky was filled with artillery fire and smoke, and shells came and went, causing bursts of wailing.
However, the Spaniards on the island soon realized clearly that they could not defeat the Persians without any advantage in military strength.
As more and more Persians landed on the island, they continued to attack the port, fort, and castle. The Spanish defenders, who had less than 2,000 people left, had to retreat step by step back to the castle.
Prepare to rely on the strong defense of the castle to fight a protracted war with the Persians.
The castle on the island is built against the mountains.
It was first built by the Portuguese, and later the Japanese snatched it from the Portuguese and used a large amount of cement to reinforce it. In the hands of the Spanish, they used a large amount of reinforced concrete to reinforce and heighten it, and built a large number of defensive bunkers.
and fort.
And as the Spanish's most important colonial stronghold on the Gold Coast of West Africa, the Spanish also considered many factors in advance.
There is a large amount of food stored in the castle, as well as underground wells and powerful forts. The castle can be relied on to hold on for more than a year.
Even if there are tens of thousands of enemies attacking this castle, they can't even hope to capture it in a short time.
Korbanda disembarked from the ship and landed on the island again.
The last time I came here, I came to make a surprise attack on this island, but the result was a disastrous defeat and heavy losses.
This time, it was a massive attack. A frontal attack was bound to capture the island.
"This castle is difficult to fight!"
After finding a hillside and carefully looking at the castle in front of him with a telescope, Korbanda couldn't help but frown.
When they first launched a sneak attack on this island, they lost countless Persian soldiers in the open space in front of the castle.
The castle is extremely strong, and there is an open land in front of it. No matter how many soldiers pass by, they will only be defeated. Unless they can blow open the gate of the castle or blow up the walls of the castle, they can enter.
Other than that, there is no way to capture this castle.
While Korbanda was thinking, the mighty Persian army attacked the castle, hoping to capture the castle in one fell swoop and kill all the Spaniards here.
Accompanied by the rumbling sound of cannon fire, hundreds of cannons poured out their fury at the castle. Cannonballs hit the castle heavily one after another, leaving many buildings inside riddled with holes and devastation.
However, it does not have much impact on the strong city walls. The city walls reinforced with reinforced concrete are stronger than imagined and are not afraid of cannonball attacks.
When the Persian army rushed to the castle, intensive gunshots rang out from above the castle. Along with billowing smoke, countless Persian soldiers fell one after another.
"Bang~bang~"
Rows of Persian soldiers marched in neat steps, aiming their muskets at the Spanish on the castle, hoping to suppress the Spanish attack.
But it was soon discovered that the Spaniards could hide in the bunkers on the city wall.
With only rows of small gun holes left in the bunkers, the Spaniards could shoot unscrupulously, but it was difficult for the Persians to cause harm to the Spaniards hiding in them.
The battle was very fierce, and countless corpses were left under the castle. In the end, they had to retreat, and they could only watch the Spaniards on the castle cheering arrogantly.
"Alas~"
Korbanda couldn't help but sigh.
He immediately ordered the fearless attack to stop. The soldiers in his hands could not just die in vain. He had to think of a good way to attack the bunker.
Anyway, there is plenty of time. The Spaniards now have no time to take care of the colony and can slowly think of ways to attack the castle.
The Persians surrounded the castle tightly and sent people to quickly control other parts of the island. On the one hand, they also tried various methods to break the castle.
Night raids, sieges, explosive charges to blow up the city gates, building tall siege ladders, etc., every day and night, various methods were used in turn, constantly trying to break through the castle.
However, the Spaniards inside the castle were like hedgehogs, always firmly guarding the castle, which made the Persians' eyes red with anger, but there was nothing they could do.
The battle lasted for more than a month. Finally, through a slave on the island who was familiar with the internal structure of the castle, he quietly sneaked in some people through the sewage channel at night, and then used these people to occupy a place.
city wall.
The Spaniards even blocked the city gate with earth and rocks. They could not open the city gate. They could only occupy a part of the city wall and combine it with ropes and ladders.
After a fierce battle, the Persians finally entered the castle.
This battle was extremely brutal, and the Persians paid a heavy price to capture the castle.
In order to retaliate against the Spaniards, Corbanda ordered all captured Spaniards to be beheaded, even children, in order to retaliate against the Spaniards.
After capturing Fernando Island, the Persians did not stop.
Then he sent his troops north and retook the island of Darius in just one day, and took another three days to recapture the city of Cambyses.
Wherever the Persian army went, as long as they saw the Spaniards, they would kill almost all of them without mercy. Even if they surrendered, they would never let you go.
In just a few months, under the strong attacks of Koreans and Persians on the Gold Coast of West Africa, Spain continued to lose a large number of its colonies, and even here in the Gulf of Guinea, not a single Spanish colony was left.
The combined fleets of the Koreans and Persians were not satisfied with this. They continued to sweep northward along the coast of West Africa, and even threatened to attack the Spanish mainland.
The situation on the Gold Coast took a turn for the worse, and the news soon spread back to Spain, making the whole country furious. The Spanish side had just won the Battle of England and were preparing to enjoy the fruits of the victory.
Something big happened in the West African colonies over there. If left alone, all the colonies will be lost by then, and the Persians and Koreans will really come to the Spanish homeland.
It's really urgent. The multi-front battle is already quite difficult for the Spaniards, but the Spaniards are also deeply angered by the mass killings of the Koreans and Persians. Like an angry bull, they threaten to make the Persians and Koreans bloodthirsty.