Eight hundred and fortieth chapters grab the beach
In central Luzon, on the beach west of Manila, 2,500 Spanish soldiers defended themselves with matchlocks.
Manila is actually located on the east side of Manila Bay. Although the entire bay is large, the entrance to the bay is very small. The narrow part of the entrance is only 20 kilometers wide, and there is an island in the middle. On the island in the middle of the entrance, you can
Monitor all ships entering and leaving the bay.
Therefore, as soon as Li Laosi's fleet entered Manila Bay, the beacon tower on the south bank of Manila Bay relayed the news of the Han invasion. Before Li Laosi's team landed in Manila, the white people in the Spanish Royal City rushed out with matchlock guns.
Snipe the Tigers on the beach who want to go ashore.
This is a beach landing battle.
Half of the Spanish soldiers were musketeers. These soldiers stood in the front row of the square and used matchlocks, which are old-fashioned muskets. The relationship between the Dutch and the Spanish was not good, and most of the time they were in
The Spanish were in a hostile state, so the Spanish did not obtain the technology of the Mini rifle from the Dutch.
Because they had never fought against the Tigers, the Spaniards had not learned how to install a scope on their rifles. Of course, for a musket that lost its accuracy at a distance of 100 meters, it was meaningless to install a scope.
These arquebusiers were not armored. They wore black wide-brimmed hats, ammunition pouches slung across their bodies, and short leather boots.
Another type of arms of the Spaniards is the antique pikemen.
These pikemen stood in the back row of the Spanish square, holding spears more than three meters long, wearing helmets on their heads and iron plate armor on their bodies. However, as soldiers, their plate armor was very simple. It was actually made of a chest
It consists of an armor and a back armor. There are also two skirt armors at the waist, but the overall protective effect is obviously not as good as the previous steel full-body armor of Huben Army.
In fact, the soldiers of the Huben Army no longer wear full body armor. The Huben Army that invaded Japan a few months ago did not wear armor. With the rate of fire of the breech-loading gun, it is almost impossible for the enemy with cold weapons to rush into the Huben Army formation.
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However, the Kingdom of Spain, which had never fought with Li Zhi, also arranged musketeers and pikemen staggered on the beach to form the famous "Spanish Grand Square." This square formation was Spain's way of dominating the world in the last century.
It's a sharp weapon, but in this century, it's as ridiculous as an antique.
Especially in front of the Tiger Army.
Li Laosi observed the Spanish formation with a telescope and smiled.
What the prince said, that the Kingdom of Spain is falling from the glory of the last century, seems to be true at all. Compared with the ambitious Dutch, Spain only has cruelty and shamelessness. Technically,
They are already far behind the times.
Lu Hu's ironclad ship could not drive directly to the beach, otherwise the ship would run aground on the beach. The ship stopped more than two miles away from the coast. Because of the ups and downs of the waves on the sea, the muzzles of the naval guns swayed up and down with the waves.
, and there is no accuracy against enemies more than two miles away.
Li Laosi simply stopped the naval guns from firing, put down the sampan, and let the infantry carry breech-loading guns and rocket launchers to directly attack the beach.
Twenty ironclads dropped forty sampans, carrying 800 people, to attack the Spanish square on the beach.
Francisco, the governor of Manila, knew that the enemy was coming and personally went to the beach to direct the battle, hoping to repel the enemy. Although it was obvious that the Ming Dynasty's Tiger Army attacked Manila because Francisco massacred the Han Chinese in the Eighth Company, but as a discrimination against the yellow race
As a white man, Francisco never regretted the massacre order.
Francisco even believed that if all the Han people in the Eighth Company had not been killed, he would have been attacked by the Han people on the beach from both inside and outside. Although the Han people in the Eighth Company did not have firearms, if they attacked the Spaniards from behind with kitchen knives, they would also cause damage.
A certain degree of confusion.
When he saw that the Huben Army only sent 800 men at a time to attack the beach, he showed an expression of joy.
Francisco had heard about the Tiger Army. It was said that the firepower of this army was very fierce, surpassing the level of European armies. It was relying on this firepower that the Tiger Army conquered North Korea and Japan.
But after all, it was just an internal fight among the yellow people. Francisco did not believe those rumors on the sea. He did not believe that the overall combat effectiveness of the Tiger Army could surpass the Spanish soldiers.
Noble Spanish soldier.
The Huben Army only sent 800 men at a time to attack the beach. These men had to face the fire of more than a thousand matchlock guns, and they were bound to be defeated by the guns of the Spanish square.
Francisco stood in the center of the phalanx and shouted orders. The drummers beat the small cowhide drums. The officers shouted loudly and directed the entire phalanx to press towards the beach to face the elite Tiger and Ben troops approaching in sampans and boats.
At a distance of 500 meters, 400 meters, 300 meters, 200 meters, at a distance where the faces of the Spaniards could be seen clearly, the Tiger Army opened fire.
Although the Jin-O style rifles are equipped with scopes and can shoot more than 400 meters on land, they cannot shoot that far on a bumpy ship. The so-called miss is a thousand miles. On the small sampan, with the waves,
The muzzle of the gun kept shaking, and shooting at a distance of 400 meters was basically inaccurate.
The Tiger Army chose to fire at a distance of two hundred meters. At this distance, the riflemen could rely on their own skills to compensate for the bumps of the waves.
Seeing the Tigers' shooting, Francisco felt happy.
The distance of two hundred meters is also the shooting distance of European matchlock gunners. Although the matchlock gun can barely hit the humanoid target at a distance of one hundred meters, in a large-scale battle, the target is not a person, but an army. As long as the target is in
The stray bullets that diffuse and fly randomly at a distance of two hundred meters can kill enemy soldiers.
Therefore, when shooting at a distance of 200 meters, Francisco was confident that he could suppress the 800-strong army with his numerical advantage.
There were about 400 people on the small sampan of the Tiger Army shooting at the Spanish on the beach. Although the aim was low due to the bumps of the waves, they also knocked down 30 to 40 Spanish musketeers.
The Spanish's 1,200 arquebusiers had already loaded their bullets, and the 300 people in the first row began to fight back.
There was a burst of wood chips flying on the small sampan 200 meters away, and an unknown number of bullets hit the hull of the sampan. Francisco saw several Tiger Soldiers being shot and falling down.
Francisco laughed. He believed that the next time the Tiger Army would fire would be at least thirty breaths later. The more than a thousand arquebusiers on his side would continue to fire in turns, firing a hail of bullets every eight breaths. Although every
The damage caused by one shot is only one-fifth of that of Huben's army, but with four rows of rounds, the overall firepower is about the same as that of Huben's army.
Moreover, there are 1,200 arquebusiers on our side, while the Tiger Army only has 800 people.
Francisco felt that victory in this tidal flat defense battle was just around the corner.
Francisco's excitement soon faded, however.
What he saw through the monocular made him feel like he had fallen into an ice cave.
In the monocular he was holding, he saw the soldiers of the Tiger Army opening the rifle from their buttocks, gently loading the bullet into the gun, and then closing the bolt. Then, he loaded the rifle next to the bolt.
After picking up a small object, the soldiers of the Tiger Army raised their rifles again.
What technology is this?
"Lord! This is impossible!"
Francisco yelled in panic, as if shouting could only express his anger and surprise.
"This is impossible!"
Even though the soldiers of the Tiger Army had begun to aim here, Francisco still didn't believe what he was seeing.
"Pap-pap-pap-pap!"
The gunfire of the Tiger Army's platoon rang out again, even before the Spaniards' second platoon fired. This time, the Tiger Army's soldiers seemed to have begun to adapt to the bumps, and their hit rate was higher. I don't know how many Spanish soldiers were killed.
The Spanish formation was in a state of disarray, and the killings from breech-loading rifles caused a certain amount of chaos.
What surprised Francisco even more was that after the riflemen fired their rifles, the yellow soldiers in the back row raised hundreds of barrels and pointed them at the Spanish square here.
