Eight hundred and forty-eighth chapter King of Spain
The choking mushroom cloud was still hovering over the beach, and nearly two thousand Spanish soldiers were killed in the blink of an eye. How could the remaining few hundred people have any fighting spirit? They all fled in panic.
Only Francisco, the Governor of Manila, did not escape. He grabbed the broken arm of the guard on his chest and shouted at the top of his lungs, as if he was crazy.
"ah!!"
Several officers rushed over and tried to lift Francisco to retreat. But Francisco seemed to be possessed, roaring and struggling wildly, making it impossible for the officers to lift him. In the end, the Spaniards had to give up the governor.
Leaving him behind, he hurriedly fled to the Spanish Royal City.
When the Tiger and Ben army commandos landed, Francisco seemed to suddenly wake up, got up and fled to the east. But how could the Tiger and Ben army let go of the Spanish butcher at this time? The soldiers aimed at Francisco's thigh and opened it with a snap.
One shot.
Francisco was shot in the thigh, screamed and fell forward into the sand.
The soldiers rushed forward and tied up the lame Governor of Manila.
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Several hundred Spanish soldiers who were still alive fled into the "Citadel of Spain" west of Manila.
After the soldiers of the Huben Army landed, they pursued them into Manila.
The whole of Manila was in a state of depression because all the Han Chinese in the Eighth Company were killed. More than a month later, the bloody smell of the massacre still permeated the city of Manila. When the soldiers of the Tiger Army passed by the deserted Eighth Company, they could still walk in the street.
Pieces of blood were seen on the stone bricks in the alley.
One can imagine how the women and children of the Eighth Company died tragically under European bayonets on the day of the massacre.
Passing by the Eighth Company, 5,000 soldiers of the Tiger Army fought outside the Royal City of Spain with hatred in their eyes.
The Spanish also tried to use the cannons on the city walls to mount a last-ditch resistance.
The Huben Army's answer to the Spanish was artillery shells. The heavy twenty-four-pounder guns were removed from the ironclads and aimed at the city defense artillery on the city wall and began bombing.
There were only a few hundred Spanish soldiers left who could only operate a dozen cannons, but the Tiger Army brought a hundred heavy cannons from the ship at one time. The difference in firepower was huge.
After only three rounds of firing, more than one hundred Spanish gunners operating the cannon were killed by 24-pound explosive shells, and all the artillery misfired. Amidst the roar of Fanjiazhuang's cannon, flames and shock waves erupted one after another.
Exploded on the city wall, the Spanish defenders seemed to have experienced a disaster movie scene, with their flesh and blood flying everywhere.
Li Laosi stood on a hill four miles away from the royal city in a leisurely manner, using a telescope to observe what was going on in the royal city.
Obviously, the white people in the royal city knew that they had serious crimes on their hands, and knew that the yellow people would not let them go after they invaded the royal city, so they all mobilized. Not only were hundreds of soldiers guarding the city wall, but there were also countless middle-aged men who could hold guns.
People, the elderly, and even underage children took to the top of the city to "defend" the royal city.
The addition of these civilians brought the number of defenders on the city wall to more than 2,000.
Every time a soldier or militiaman was injured by the Tigers' artillery fire, white women in the city would go up to lift the injured and go down to rescue them.
Li Laosi even saw a dozen white women and two artillerymen forming an artillery group, operating a city defense heavy artillery at the top of the city, trying to shoot against the rifled artillery of the Huben Army.
This is no longer an ordinary war, because of the blood feud of the Eighth Company Massacre, this is a life-and-death bloody battle. Women, children, old and young, are all involved in this war.
However, the efforts of these white people are like a mantis trying to defeat a chariot in the face of the equipment gap of hundreds of years.
Explosive bombs were fired one after another at the top of the city, as if countless huge fireworks were released on the defenders. The air wave of the explosion blew away one Spaniard after another.
Li Laosi saw an officer shouting to the surrounding soldiers and militiamen, seeming to encourage the Spaniards to fight to the end. As a result, a shell exploded next to him, and he was suddenly knocked away by the shock wave, like a thrown
It flew into the air like a sandbag, and then fell with a plop more than ten meters away.
Li Laosi saw another rifled cannon shell shot into the feet of four Spanish women carrying the wounded. Sparks flashed, and the four Spanish women and the wounded on their stretchers were blown away. When the flames of the explosion extinguished,
, there is no living person around.
A cone-shaped explosive projectile hit the wall of the city wall, smashing the wall into pieces. Li Laosi saw that there were two old Spanish men hiding behind the collapsed wall, with white beard and hair, holding match ropes in their hands.
gun. Then there was only a flash of fire, and the two old men were engulfed in the flames of the exploding bomb.
On the city wall, screams could be heard endlessly, and blood and flesh were flying everywhere.
If they hadn't known that they had more than 20,000 blood donations from the Eighth Company Chinese, and that this war was a bloody battle that could not be surrendered, the Spaniards would have surrendered long ago.
However, blood debt comes first, and surrender means death. The Spaniards can only persist until the end.
But the explosive shells fired by a hundred heavy guns were so fierce that after an hour of explosion, almost a quarter of the wall of the small Spanish Royal City was blown down. The Spanish soldiers and militiamen did not dare to resist on the wall. They retreated.
He went down and fled into the buildings in the royal city, trying to carry out the final street fight.
It's a pity that the equipment of the Tiger Army is too advanced, and any battle is a court of death.
The Huben Army carried out 500 mortars, climbed onto the wall of the royal city, and began bombarding the buildings in the royal city.
The mortarmen didn't know which building contained recalcitrant Spanish soldiers or militiamen. Since all white men and women in the entire royal city had joined the battle, the gunners were ready to blow the entire royal city into rubble.
This royal city, which accommodated thousands of colonists, was originally not very large, with an area of only one square kilometer. The royal city was built only more than thirty years ago, and most of the area was open space. There were not many buildings in the city, and it would not take long for them to be destroyed.
The buildings in the royal city were like fragile building blocks, which were smashed through the roof by mortars and exploded with a bang.
One building after another collapsed amid the explosions, and no one knew how many guilty Spaniards were crushed to death in those ruins.
The Spaniards had never seen such firepower.
This is not the firepower that should be available in this era. The Spaniards have fought all over the world and have never heard of such weapons and cannons.
Soon, they collapsed. Women and children fled from the crumbling buildings under white flags, while hundreds of adult Spanish men desperately rushed up the east wall.
The number of tiger soldiers on the east wall was small, which allowed these men to jump off the wall and escape into the coconut grove outside the royal city.
Li Laosi stood in the middle of the west city wall, looked at the fleeing white people, and nodded.
"Well done. If you didn't run away, Uncle Ben would have no reason to attack the Malays outside the city."
Chai Shengjin, the regiment leader under Li Laosi, asked: "Uncle, what should we do with these women and children?"
Li Laosi said: "Your Highness has ordered that all the Spanish men be killed and all the women be beaten into slaves and sold to the bitter cold Liaodong."
