Kuterei half-knelt behind Yin Feng, grabbed the bodies of two indigenous soldiers and placed them over their heads.
"Puff, puff, puff..." A burst of arrows fell like raindrops. There were dozens of arrows stuck in the ground around Yin Feng. The rain of arrows knocked several Chinese soldiers who had no time to hide and fell to the ground. Some people let out a cry of pain.
He screamed in agony. At least ten arrows were inserted into the human shield that Coutre desperately raised.
The pregnant woman was shot in the shoulder by an arrow and was screaming sharply.
Yin Feng let go of the girl's soft body in his arms and did not notice that the girl's body was shaking; not because of fear, but because of excitement.
He stood up and ordered: "Quick, carry them away! Let's go!"
Cutre threw away his human shield, fired a shot in the direction of the native soldiers with his revolver, then grabbed Yin Feng and quickly dragged him away from the mountain pass.
When they turned around and returned to their position on the hillside, the Pampanga archers fired three more rounds of arrow rain. However, because the sky was completely dark, they could not see the direction of Yin Feng and others at all, and the arrow rain continued to fall.
At the mountain pass, Yin Feng and others could no longer be touched at all.
Yin Feng's sailors carried two women and several wounded men, and surrounded Yin Feng back to the parapet fortifications. Yin Feng did not notice that there was a pair of eyes full of hot and affectionate eyes secretly watching him in the night.
As soon as Yin Feng returned to the fortification, he immediately said to Cutre: "Light the torch and throw it to the front of the fortification!"
He turned to the black man Magaro and said: "Old Ma, go ahead and pay attention to the enemy's movements. They will retreat immediately as soon as they enter the mountain pass."
Then, he said to everyone: "Get ready to fight, brothers. As long as we repel this attack by the natives, we will gain one night!"
Referring to the results of the emergency training in the afternoon, all sailor musketeers stood in a small square formation of 5X10 and guarded the central part of the fortification. The first two rows of sailors wore armor and swords and short swords; the remaining 50 were armed with bamboo spears.
Soldiers with long weapons such as guns were divided into two double rows on both sides of the musketeer team; in addition, more than 10 temporarily trained musketeers were left behind the central musketeer team as a reserve team. In fact, various front-loading equipment were used.
There are only more than 60 Chinese musketeers, and they have more than 80 guns. Behind the central array, more than 10 Tseng family members serve as auxiliary soldiers of the musketeers, where they are responsible for loading more than 20 matchlocks.
Ammunition. In this way, the number of muskets that the central array can fire in turn is more than 70. The entire parapet fortification just blocks the entire exit of the valley.
This arrangement exhausted Yin Feng's energy. Except for Yin Feng's own Sailor Musketeers, the training time for others was too short, especially the members of the spear formations on both wings, who completely lacked organization and discipline. Yin Feng had to tell them the final
Simple mechanical tactical actions: when the enemy comes up, stab them to death; at the same time, try to get closer to your comrades around you. Fortunately, these people have been through battles for a long time and have seen blood, and they all voluntarily stayed to guard the mountain pass.
, facing the Spanish muskets and the indigenous bows and arrows, they did not lack morale and courage to fear death.
The Spanish colonists have suffered a total of no less than 300 casualties in this "biological rebellion" incident (the Spaniards were too lazy to count the casualties of indigenous people and Japanese); this is already higher than the number of casualties among the Spanish colonists in history.
The casualties were more than doubled, and two-thirds of the casualties were caused by Yin Feng's Sailor Musketeers.
Therefore, the Spanish army acted very carefully this time. The first step was to let the brave and fighting Pampanga people take the lead and serve as cannon fodder.
Under the orders of Spanish officers, the Pampanga people rushed into the valley with torches. The narrow mountain pass forced the Pampanga infantry array to be disrupted. These indigenous soldiers rushed into the valley almost in chaos. In the first 100 steps,
No resistance was encountered within the range. When the mountain road began to widen, Yin Feng could already see the shadowy crowd in the night behind the fortifications. Magaro emerged from the darkness in front, climbed over the parapet, and shouted loudly
Said: "80 steps!"
Uneasy about the spearmen on both wings, Coutre supervised the formation on the left wing of the musket formation. Yin Feng ordered without hesitation: "Fire!"
"Bang!"
The musketeers in the first row had been aiming for a long time. At this moment, they pulled the trigger almost simultaneously and pressed the match rope against the mouth of the gunpowder pool, causing the gunpowder to deflagrate and then detonate the propellant in the barrel. The projectile was pushed out of the gun with a huge thrust.
mouth, whizzing forward until there is an obstacle in front of it blocking the way, the projectile will tear through and smash everything in the way without hesitation.
The musketeers used the retreat reloading tactic, except that the first row retreated to the end instead of loading ammunition. Instead, they directly handed the guns back, and the auxiliary soldiers in the last two rows quickly supplied muskets with loaded ammunition; 5 rows of matchlocks fired in turns
, it almost fires once in less than 10 seconds.
Since the Pampanga indigenous soldiers were in the dark, the front and rear ranks were relatively far apart. Unfortunately, the mountain road was so narrow that there were no more than a dozen people standing in the front row at a time. Musket bullets were fired continuously.
, Pampanga indigenous soldiers fell down in rows on the 100-meter road trying to approach the parapet. One minute after the Chinese musketeers opened fire, the five rows of fallen indigenous soldiers in front were scattered all over the 50-meter-long road, completely
The road between the valleys was blocked.
The sky is getting darker and darker, and the road under your feet cannot be seen clearly, and it is already covered with the corpses of your companions. The charge of the indigenous soldiers has stalled, and there is no impact speed at all. And the person holding the torch is a living target, always
The first one was shot dead. The native soldiers were trapped on the road between the valleys and were slaughtered without cover. The whizzing bullets knocked them to the ground one by one.
As more and more native soldiers fell, there were fewer and fewer torches in the team, and the entire road in the valley fell deeper and deeper into darkness. The sailor musketeers continued to fire lead in the direction of the mountain road.
Bullets, firing continuously and without interruption.
Finally, the road between the valleys completely fell into the darkness, and only the flash of musket fire illuminated the open space in front of the parapet. As the noisy screams of the indigenous soldiers gradually became lower, the footsteps of the indigenous soldiers were chaotic and seemed to be gradually fading away.
Yin Feng did not dare to let down his guard and threw several torches forward, illuminating a large area in front of the parapet fortifications. In fact, no one could rush to the area illuminated by the fire.
While the muskets were being loaded with ammunition, Yin Feng raised his hands and shouted: "Cease fire!"
Each of the musketeers fired more than 10 times non-stop, pouring nearly a thousand rounds of bullets into the dark valley passage. When the gunfire stopped, all that could be heard from the front were the screams of the injured and the cries of the dying.
Moaning. They looked into the dark night.
Coutre's order with a strange accent came. The left wing of the musketeers, a spear team mainly composed of brothers from the pirate gang, now began to climb over the breastworks, then climbed up the pit, and cautiously moved towards the mountain pass, removing all the people lying on the ground along the way.
The injured native soldiers on the ground were killed one by one. They advanced slowly, never letting go of any survivors under musketry bullets.
In this way, the Pampanga native soldiers abandoned more than a hundred corpses and withdrew from the mountain pass in disarray.
In the evening of that day, the Spanish army's first attack on the North Pass of Dalun Mountain, and the last attack of the day, failed. Only two spearmen in Yin Feng's team were shot aimlessly by arrows shot by the Pampanga indigenous soldiers.
Shooting wounds, plus those killed and wounded in the mountain pass before sunset, a total of 3 dead and 5 wounded.
Those Chinese soldiers who had experienced the Battle of Del Monte Monastery and the Siege of Manila simply could not believe their eyes; with such small casualties, hundreds of indigenous soldiers were killed. If the Chinese rebels had all fought like this earlier
France, the Spaniards were already finished.
A member of the Zhao family from Zhaojiao in Haicheng walked up to Yin Feng excitedly: "Captain Yin, I'm Zhao Tie. This gun team still has such a fighting method. Although our Zhao family has been a military family for generations,
But it’s unheard of! Did this style of fighting come from Westerners?”
Yin Feng was loading ammunition into his flintlock gun, and said with a smile: "My men are indeed taught by veterans of the Folang Jifan people, but this method of maintaining continuous blunderbuss firepower and constantly shooting at the enemy.
We should also have it in the Ming Dynasty. As far as I know, in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Prince Mu used this method of warfare when he conquered Yunnan, but no one studied it in detail like the Westerners did. So after a hundred years of peace in the Ming Dynasty, the military preparedness was depleted. This kind of tactics
The method of warfare has long been unknown to anyone.”
He suddenly thought: "Your Zhao family is a military household, but there are people serving as soldiers in Wuyu Water Village, Chief Shen Yourong?"
Zhao Tie shook his head: "I have lived in Luzon for two years, and I don't know the situation in my hometown. Before I came here, I heard that there was General Shen, a lord who can fight."
Yin Feng nodded and saw that the attacking spear team had retreated, bringing back many swords, spears, spears and other weapons, as well as many bows, arrows and shields. He went up to greet him loudly: "How are you doing, have the indigenous soldiers escaped?
?”
The brothers all said excitedly: "Run away, run away with your tail between your legs!"
"It's so unsatisfactory, captain, before we even took action, the brothers from the gun team had already driven them all away!"
"Captain Yin, leave some for our brothers to practice next time!"
"Brother Yin, if these natives don't fight, we will fight as many as they come!"
Yin Feng smiled, knowing that today's battle was just the beginning; the Pampanga native soldiers were experimental cannon fodder, and when the Spaniards went into battle, it would be a real fierce battle. In order to let everyone rest well, he prepared for tomorrow
In preparation for the fierce battle, the clever Mai Xiaoliu and Magaro led the people to set up several traps and dig several traps between the mountain passes and valleys. At the same time, based on the wooden fence left by the Spanish,
Another fence was set up on the mountain path 50 steps in front of the parapet, and Coutre led a reserve team of musketeers composed of Tseng family members and Chinese Christians to keep watch there.
There was no talking all night, the Spaniards were not interested in conducting any night raids, and Yin Feng and others were happy to have a good sleep.
In the camp of the Yinfeng Guards, there are still more than a dozen Chinese refugees resting. They all arrived at the mountain pass in time in the evening. After nightfall, they could not travel at night in the mountains with unknown terrain, so they had to stay
arrived at the camp. This included the two women who Yin Feng personally rescued.