When Manotti came to the barracks, the gunfire showed no signs of thinning.
With the help of the faint flame of the fire gun, Mano Di saw that there were human figures everywhere, with such faint flames everywhere, as well as intense gunfire.
"Who is the Ming army? Why is it so messy? Which general is commanding the battle?"
"Your Excellency, the fire is too dim to see clearly."
"Sell to the soldiers and see where our soldiers are." Manoty was still clever, unable to see his face and clothes in the dark, but his voice was audible.
The soldiers surrounding Manotti shouted to the shooting soldiers: "My Lord Governor is here, where are our soldiers?"
At the beginning, the soldiers did not hear the call because they were too focused on shooting, but more and more Portuguese soldiers shouted, and they finally heard clearly.
"I!"
"I!"
"I!"
…
The gunfire did not cease, but the voices of Portuguese soldiers were everywhere, inside and outside the big tent, a piece of Portuguese first person pronouns.
"What's the matter? Why are the soldiers so scattered? The night is not clear. Why do I fight with the Ming army? I have to punish the officer who commanded the battle." That's it for driving away. What stupid pig is this, who is expecting to wipe out all the Ming forces in the dark and fight with them. Haven't they learned the art of war
"Your Excellency, things are not right!"
"What's wrong? Just let it go!" Manotti is impatient, and now the soldiers are in a critical condition, he can't understand this too rational fool.
"Your Excellency, why didn't we find the Ming Army—if we were fighting with the Ming Army at such a close distance, how could the musket shoot freely?"
"There is no Mingjun? What are you going to say?"
"Maybe...maybe..."
Manotti understood, "Are all our soldiers shooting?"
"..."
"Didn't they see the Ming army's shadow and just fired guns indiscriminately?" Manuo Di's brain "buzzed", he couldn't believe this reality.
"My lord Governor, I can't see clearly at night, nor did they misunderstand..."
"Misunderstanding? How is it possible?" Although Manotti didn't want to believe it, he gave an order, "Let our soldiers stop shooting."
The Portuguese soldiers clamored again, but the gunfire became thinner until it ceased completely.
"Is it true that our soldiers are shooting at each other?" Manuo Di was stunned. "Let their commander come over."
"Your Excellency..."
"Your Excellency..."
"Your Excellency..."
…
Several Portuguese commanders at all levels who were in command of the battle came to Manotti one after another. In the huge flame of the torch, they did not understand why the governor's face was cold.
"Where is the Ming Army? Where is the Ming Army?"
"The opposite is not the Ming army..." The unlucky man understood what Manotti meant before he was finished.
"Flap, pop!"
Two clear slaps slapped this unlucky person in the eyes.
Manuo Di was still angry. If he hadn't arrived in time, the barracks would have been chaotic enough to catch up with the cannibalistic shooting competition. "Take it and wait until dawn for punishment."
"Your Excellency..." The hapless guy wanted to defend himself a few words.
"Go!" Manotti replied with only one word.
The hapless guy was detained by the soldiers. Manotti began to appease the wounded. During his inspection, he found that the soldiers whose casualties were under the musket far exceeded the soldiers in the explosion. "These idiots are also worthy of being called commanders..."
"Your Excellency, there are no dead soldiers of the Ming Army."
"The Ming army didn't enter the city at all. You were scared to death by your own people," Manotti said, feeling something wrong again. "What's the beginning of the explosion?"
This is the cause of the chaos tonight, and the root must be found.
The Ming army soldiers on the balloon seemed to have heard Manotti's question, which only they could answer.
There are another ten "Enemies of Ten Thousands".
A bomb exploded not far in front of Mano Di. Fortunately, the density of soldiers here was too high. They used their bodies as a shield for Mano Di.
The tragedy happened in front of Mano Di's eyes.
Soldiers flew around, some with broken arms, some without thighs, and others with eyeballs, ears and noses. More soldiers covered their chests and backs with their hands, but the blood was still like spring water. Their wounds spewed out and turned into a trickle of mountains, flowing down the arms and fingers.
The soldiers in the center of the explosion were even more wiped out, not even a decent vertebra was found, only a trace of ghost, as the smell of sulfur diffused in the air.
What broke Manuo Di's liver and intestines most was the screams of the wounded soldiers. After a brief period of pain and numbness, the wounded soldiers cried and called their mothers, beat their chests and feet, screamed the sky and choked the earth, and the sky broke.
As the supreme commander of the Portuguese army, Manotti was not afraid of danger. While he commanded the soldiers to rescue the wounded, while looking for Mingjun's spies in the barracks, he rioted until dawn and still found nothing.
The ten fire spots in the sky drifted to the west with the wind, and slowly fell in the military camp of the Ming army.
"My lord Governor, I found a strange phenomenon." One of Manotti's soldiers saw that everyone was busy in the middle of the night, but did not catch a Ming army spy. Not only did he think of the sparks in the sky over the past few days.
"What's the phenomenon?" Manotti's eyes were full of bloodshot eyes, and he obviously didn't sleep well. What made him even more exhausted was the tragedy of the Portuguese soldiers. These soldiers followed him to the east to make a fortune, but now they lack arms and legs, even if they can. To save your life, you will definitely spend the rest of your life in desolation.
What he considers the most now is those Ming army spies who see the dragon and see their heads but are not interested in any strange imagination, so he didn't even raise his head, and continued to frown, thinking about where the Ming spies were.
"The bombs of the Ming army may have fallen from the sky." Seeing that Manotti had no interest in what he said, the soldiers hesitated a little, and made their own judgment.
"Falling from the sky?" Manotti suddenly raised his head, his eyes rounded with an unbelievable look, "What did you say?"
"Your Excellency, after the explosion, I saw a few sparks drifting westward in the sky, but I have never seen such strange sparks at low altitude before." The soldiers gritted their teeth and said what they had discovered. Came out.
"Spark? It might be a meteor or something." Manodi still couldn't believe it.
"These sparks drifted westward, about where they were at the Ming army’s barracks. If it were a meteor, the Ming army would inevitably have a riot. In fact, the Ming army was very calm all night." The soldier originally thought it was strange. I feel that the doubts are getting bigger and bigger, "Besides, it is impossible for a meteor to fly so low."
"I heard that there was a Kongming lantern before Ming. Could it be a firearm?" Manuo Di also believed a little. Without finding the Ming army spies, he could only believe that the Ming army came from the sky.
"Your Excellency, it must be, it's no wonder that the Ming army only besieged the city, but didn't launch an attack." The soldier was even more affirmed of his judgment, and he was somewhat proud of his meticulous observation.
"Okay, let the order go on. If you see this kind of spark again, shoot it down with a musket." Manodi finally gave the order, and he felt very headache for the strange firearms of the Ming army.
After dawn, Manode counted the losses in the explosion last night. More than 300 soldiers were killed and 500 wounded soldiers. The ammunition detonation was detonated, and the ammunition of the rifle suddenly became tense.
Manotti was extremely angry. It was not terrible to fail. The big deal was to surrender. What he feared most was the casualties of the soldiers. A battle last night cost him more than 800 soldiers. He didn't even see the shadow of the Ming army. Some soldiers were casualties under their own muskets.
In fact, for Manotti, failure is not terrible. If you fail, you can start all over again, but once the soldier is sacrificed or disabled, he will never come back. Moreover, the ammunition depot was bombed. He saw advanced firearms. It becomes a decoration. If the soldier has no ammunition, no matter how advanced the firearm is, it will not even be as good as a fire stick.
While Manotti was disappointed to count the losses, and behind a few buildings without being noticed, a few feathers cut through the city and landed in front of the Ming army’s camp. The arrow was a blank paper with a special mark. Let’s talk about a few words.
Zheng Zhilong took the paper ball handed over by the soldiers and wrinkled his head. "The balloon attack method may not be effective in the future. The altitude of the balloon flight is not enough. The Portuguese army's musket may burst the balloon."
Once the balloon is burst, it will leak. Under the pressure of the atmosphere, it will fall from a high altitude. There is no way. The balloons of the Ming army were mainly used to deal with the northern nomads. At that time, their opponents were their bows and arrows. When we arrived in the south, it seemed that the Firearms Bureau needed improvement.
But even if the Firearms Bureau is in Beijing, even if it can improve, it will not send new balloons to Nanyang for a while.
"Commander, I have a way to blow up the fort on the Portuguese army gate." Zheng Xing is not only Zheng Zhilong's nephew, but also Zheng Zhilong's subordinate when he was a pirate. Under Zheng Zhilong's influence, he always likes to think, so The brain is better.
"Oh? What can you do?" Zheng Zhilong was overjoyed. He knew that Zheng Xing always used his brain and had many ghost ideas, and it would often have miraculous effects at critical moments.
"You don’t need to place soldiers on the balloon, just calculate the angle and let it float towards the city gate. If the Portuguese army’s bullet breaks the balloon, the balloon will fall at the gate. Fortress." Zheng Xing meant, the front of the "ten thousand enemy" is equipped with an ordinary bomb. When it hits the ground, the firing pin will detonate the bomb, and then the bomb will detonate the "ten thousand enemy".
"However, once the balloon is captured by the Portuguese army, it is not revealing our military secrets? Besides, how do you know that the "ten thousand enemies" will definitely explode at the gate of the city?" Zheng Zhilong feels that the value is just a plan. It is really difficult to implement. .
"Commander, don't worry about secrets. Once the'ten thousand enemies' explode, the balloon will be broken and the Portuguese army will not be able to obtain valuable technology." Zheng Xing thought about it more and more and felt that this method was feasible, his eyes flashed with a sly light. "Anyway, Malacca Cheng will be breached sooner or later. If the secret is revealed, then..." He made a decapitating gesture.