In this attack on the port, the Marine Corps suffered considerable losses. Nearly a hundred soldiers were killed or wounded. Among them, more than 40 soldiers were dead, and more than 20 soldiers were seriously injured. It may be possible to save them. Even if it can be rescued, I am afraid I will leave the battlefield.
Seeing the first time the Marine Corps suffered such a large casualty, Zheng Xing was very angry. While arranging soldiers to clear the port and preparing to dock the South China Sea Fleet, he used the port’s Spanish shore artillery against the Spanish ship still stationed near the port. The ship is just a shelling. He vented all his anger on these lifeless ships.
Several ships in Spain could have prevented Zheng Zhilong from logging in by relying on shore artillery. Now the target of shore artillery is them. Facing the solid shells of shore artillery, they only have to be beaten. A large number of Zheng Zhilong’s ships are in the open sea. They are If you want to escape, there is no way on the sea. They really have to face off with Zheng Zhilong's fleet. I am afraid that they will die faster. The naval guns of the South China Sea Fleet fired bombs.
Zheng Xing commanded the gunner and directed continuous shelling at the Spanish ships. The Spaniards had no choice but to play a white flag, but the white flag was destroyed by a solid bullet when it appeared on the ship, and Zheng Xing had no choice but to miss it.
The ship was forced to turn and started firing solid rounds toward the shore.
The target of the shore artillery was too small, and the hit rate of the naval artillery was too low. Besides, Zheng Xing didn't care about the damage of the shore artillery. These shore artillery could only fire solid rounds, which was captured by Da Ming, and only got a pile of rotten iron.
The Spanish artillery in the port hits the Spanish ship parked in the port. This is a big joke. I don't know what Spain thinks on the ship.
Regardless of what the Spaniards thought, Zheng Zhilong saw that the Spanish ships were already scarred, and his fleet began to join the artillery bombardment until all the Spanish ships sank and disintegrated.
After the South China Sea Fleet docked, ten artillery pieces were removed from the transport ship, transported to the city of Santo Domingo, and handed over to the brigade commander Jinhui.
In the city of Santo Domingo, in addition to the hired workers of the Han and indigenous people, and nearly a hundred Spanish merchants, there are only about a hundred real soldiers. If it were not for Zheng Xing to reduce the casualties of the Marines, the Jinhui would only encircle but not fight. Now I am afraid that they are all broken. City.
Bored, Jin Hui was impatient to wait a long time ago. He flaunted his might under the city and even made the soldiers urinate at the guards at the head of the city as a sign of teasing, but the guards just didn’t leave the city. At last, a Chinese citizen came over and asked. Which country's army are they.
Jin Hui pointed to the Sun and Moon flag and proudly announced to the Han people at the head of the city that he was a soldier from Daming.
The "Han people" on the front of the city, heard that it was the Ming army, did not say a word, and fled back to the front of the city in fright.
With the artillery from the transport ship, Jin Hui was not going to spend the night outside the city. He immediately set up the artillery outside the relatively open North City Gate.
Seeing that the Ming army was about to attack the city, the soldiers on the west side of the city's tooth-extracting army immediately attacked the city, intending to destroy the Ming army artillery outside the city.
However, the Spanish artillery fired solid rounds, and the threat was far lower than the open rounds. Originally, the Ming army outside the city did not know the location of the Spanish artillery. The huge flames emitted when the solid rounds left the chamber just pointed out the Ming army’s artillery. the goal.
The two sides shelled each other within a quarter of an hour, and there were two artillery pieces on the head of the city. There were more than half of the Spanish artillery killed and injured by the bombardment, and even the number of people firing solid bullets was not enough.
Seeing that the Spanish artillery could not suppress the Ming army outside the city, Gehrman had to let the remaining gunners withdraw from the city head. The soldiers who had guarded the city head also followed the city, leaving only the empty city head, leaving the Ming army alone. Shelling.
Jin met with Spain’s artillery had stopped firing, thinking that all the Spanish artillery had been destroyed, he issued a new combat order to the artillery: “Adjust the muzzle, the target is the city wall and the city gate.”
The flower bombs rained down on the city wall as if they didn't need money.
Gehrman was still wondering in the city: "Why did the Ming army's gunner suddenly lose sight, so that the city head doesn't fall well, why all the blooming bullets fall on the wall?"
"Boom..."
With a loud noise, the northern city wall collapsed with an opening that was ten feet long. The dust raised when the earth wall collapsed was higher than the flowering bomb.
Gehrman understood: The Ming army was going to blow up the city wall. No wonder the bombs fell on the city wall instead of on the top of the city. How come the accuracy of the Ming army’s artillery is so high
Jinhui did not ask the soldiers to attack the city immediately. In order to reduce the casualties of the soldiers entering the city, he stretched the flower bomb forward two hundred steps, first sweeping away the Spanish defenders near the gap in the city wall.
As soon as the artillery fire stopped, the Ming army was like a hungry wolf seeing the flock, clamoring one by one towards the gap in the north wall.
There were no Spanish soldiers in the gap, and the Ming army was about to enter the city like a tourist.
Gehrman was already convinced that it was Daming's army outside the city. He no longer expected to be forgiven by the Ming army, nor did he expect to escape from the Ming army's gun. "Organize my brothers, don't let the Ming army enter the city."
The guard's words have affected Gehrman's judgment. He has given up his plan to surrender. Since he must die, it is better to have a good reputation for being martyred in the city. Maybe his wife and children can still be supported by the government.
"Bang, bang, bang..."
The two armies fought fiercely at the gap in the north wall.
Spanish soldiers were scattered across the four city gates, plus the casualties under the Ming Army’s artillery just now. Now there are only 20 or 30 people in the gap. How can they resist the Ming Army’s attack like a pack of wolves
Although Gehrman personally supervised the battle, the Spaniards retreated and gradually gave up the gap in the city wall.
Gehrman was already determined. He took the musket from a wounded soldier and shouted: "No retreat is allowed. From my point of view, if I can't keep the castle, I will die for Santo Domingo. We can't become Spanish. sinner."
The Ming army did not understand Gehrman’s words. Although the Spanish soldiers understood the literal meaning of this sentence, they didn’t know why Gehrman went crazy. The Ming army was dozens of times, even hundreds of times, if the battle was unfavorable, It's really not their fault.
Without reinforcements, they are at a huge disadvantage in terms of numbers. Even if the Ming army is struggling to consume, it can also consume these Spanish soldiers.
But Gehrman is the highest official of Spain in Santo Domingo and the entire Taiwan region. The soldiers must obey his orders.
The soldiers who were about to retreat without authorization were forced to vigorously. With sparse gunshots, they once again sealed off the gap in the city wall and blocked the Ming army from the city wall.
Jinhui was furious, the city wall collapsed, and the Ming army had been opened, but his soldiers were unable to enter the city. "Grenades, grenades, blow up these desperate Spaniards. Within a quarter of an hour, we must Into the city."
The Ming army removed the grenade hanging in the main room, pulled out the lead, and threw it into the city from the gap. They used the strength of feeding, as if they were holding a grenade throwing competition, to see who threw it far.
"Boom, boom, boom..."
A large number of grenades exploded in the gap in the city wall, immediately suppressing the firepower of the soldiers who pulled the tooth from the west.
The Ming army took the opportunity to break in from the gap, and the two sides began the most brutal face-to-face shooting.
The Ming army has a huge number. The Spanish soldiers don’t need to aim at all. They can shoot a single bullet and they can hit a Ming army soldier. However, a large number of the Ming army is also beneficial. The hit rate of each soldier is not high, and the number of soldiers is too high. The effective bullets of Spanish soldiers will still exceed the bullets fired by Spanish soldiers against the Ming army.
After all, musket loading is very time consuming.
Twenty or thirty Spanish soldiers, like a line, fell one by one in front of Gehrman.
Gehrman didn't change his face, and there was no expression on his stern face. He was like a soldier, except for reloading, aiming, and shooting.
He had already prepared for his death in the city.
"Bang, bang."
Two flintlock bullets hit Gorman's chest one after another.
Gehrman loosened his hands, and the musket slowly fell to his feet. He raised his head and glared fiercely at the Ming army directly in front of him, as if looking for someone to kill him. However, he was disappointed. There were too many Ming soldiers with flintlocks, and he didn't know which flintlock came from the bullets on his body.
It doesn't matter, Gehrman remembered, it was Ming Jun anyway, and his upper eyelids began to droop.
But Gehrman turned his head slightly, trying to take a look at the soldiers beside him, his lips moved lightly, as if to explain something.
Gehrman was disappointed again.
He can no longer see the Spanish soldiers, or his soldiers are still there, it's just that they were shot one step earlier, lying on the cold ground one step earlier, and soaring to heaven to meet his common god.
The Ming army stopped shooting and used a waist knife to harvest the lives of the Spanish wounded soldiers.
They didn't know that the person who had just fallen down was Gehrman, the top Spanish official in Taiwan, and they did not know that Gehrman was scared to death by the Ming army.
If Gehrman chooses to surrender, in his capacity, the Ming army will definitely be surrendered, at least not for the time being.
Under the instigation of the guards, he felt that the end had come, and that the Ming army would surely be killed, so he chose to die for the city.
Jinhui looked at the dozen or so Marine soldiers lying on the ground. He didn't know whether it was dead or injured. His anger came faster, more vigorous and violent than Zheng Xing: "Damn, these Spaniards are really all martyred to the city. Doesn’t it mean that Xiyi will surrender if he fails to defeat it? Don’t the Spaniards have a tradition of surrendering? It’s a pity that these brothers..."
"Brigade seat, what do you do now?"
"What to do? Of course it is to enter the city." Jin Hui gritted his teeth fiercely: "If you encounter a Spaniard, whether it is a militia or a soldier, no matter if you surrender or not, you will be shot."
"Yes, brigade."
While Jinhui received the Marines from other gates into the city, it caused a bloody storm in the city.
Han and native hired workers in the city are easy to distinguish because of the difference in race. The Ming army asked them to kneel on the ground and wait for their deaths. As long as they did not threaten the safety of the Ming army, the Ming army would not raise a butcher knife at them. .
However, the Spaniards in the city, regardless of men, women, old or children, were all punishable. Although some Spaniards had used white flags and asked for surrender, the sky had gradually dimmed. In addition, all the soldiers of the Ming army suffered from rare black and white blindness. Did not see the white flag of Spain.
The sound of the flintlock gun became thinner and thinner. At dusk, it finally subsided. The Ming army soldiers wiped the blood from the waist knife and put the knife in its sheath.