The mortar bombardment greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers in Donghai Town, and looking at the smoke-filled Manila City, the soldiers were shocked in their hearts.Since the Jiangbei fiasco, the morale of the soldiers in Donghai Town has been a little low.Now, in the process of the southern expedition, the soldiers have won victories one after another, seeing that their equipment is sharp, and gradually regaining their self-confidence, from generals to soldiers, they have recovered a trace of arrogance that looks down on the world.While the soldiers in Tokai Town were in a state of excitement, the Spaniards in Manila fell into despair.Manrique had hoped to hold out for months with a strong fortress, waiting for reinforcements from the Mexican Viceroyalty to arrive, perhaps to turn the tide of the war and force the Chinese to retreat.But now it seems that if the Chinese are allowed to shell, the castle may not last long and will fall.That night, the Spaniards in the city, carrying gunpowder, went out of the city and wanted to raid the artillery position of Donghai Town and destroy the mortars.On the fourth watch, the gate of Manila City was quietly opened, and three hundred Spanish soldiers, under the cover of night, launched a surprise attack on the Ming artillery array, but Tang Tong had already prepared.After all, he was a veteran of the Ming Dynasty, had fought all his life, and was familiar with military books and knew various examples of warfare since the Chinese dynasties, so he had long expected that the Spaniards would carry out a sneak attack.Thousands of years of war, the ancestors of the tactics and strategies that can be completed, basically finished, the Spaniards just out of the city, surrounded by the soldiers of Donghai Town, several rounds of guns down, half of the 300 people died, and the rest became prisoners.In the next few days, the Spaniards, who failed in the sneak attack, completely gave up the plan to go out of the city to sneak attack, hid in the city and endured the shelling, more than 2,500 people in the city, were captured out of the city, and were killed by the flowering bombs, a total of as many as 1,000 people, and their morale was extremely low, and they even stopped firing back with artillery, and let Donghai Town bombard.Tokai Town reacted from the head of the city and saw that the Spaniards in Manila City had collapsed.Tang Tong then decided to launch a general attack, and the last kick was to knock down the city of Manila.On the night of August 23, the artillery bombardment of Donghai Town was stopped, and the shield carts, long ladders, battering rams and other equipment that Donghai Town had prepared for the siege of the city were all in place.In the early morning of the next day, the soldiers of Donghai Town had breakfast early and lined up in the camp according to the number.The soldiers of Donghai Town, who had been recuperating for many days, watched Manila being bombed for a few days, and their morale was high, and they were ready to take this fortress that the Spanish colonizers had operated for more than 70 years.At this time, Zhao Ming also came out of the tent, rode in front of the military formation, and constantly raised the horsewhip to greet the soldiers, so as to boost morale, and when Zhao Ming turned around and returned to the Chinese army, Tang Tong hurriedly stepped forward and saluted, "Prime Minister, it's not too early!"
”Zhao Ming smiled and nodded, "Then let's start!"
”Tang Tong immediately hugged his fists and saluted, then left the Chinese army on his horse, restrained his war horse in front of the military formation, pulled out his war knife and pointed forward, and shouted angrily, "Attack!"
”Under the city wall, the mortar artillery array of the Ming army roared again, hanging and shooting at the city of Manila, while the soldiers of Donghai Town carried a long ladder and pushed a shield cart into the trench, and advanced along the trench to two hundred steps below the city wall.Donghai Town first dug a "zigzag" moat, advanced to the city, and dug a horizontal moat near the city wall to connect the various "zigzag" moats.Now the front trench is already crowded with 3,000 soldiers from Donghai Town, and the trench is full of moving saucer helmets, and the soldiers hold their weapons tightly, and when they give an order, they will jump out of the trench and charge.Inside the tunnel, the mortar continued to roar, and after three rounds of continuous smashing, the head of Manila was already billowing with smoke and dust.In the trench, Han Chaoxuan fiercely pulled out his sword, swung it forward, and shouted loudly: "Attack!"
”At the sound of the order, the soldiers of Donghai Town immediately climbed out of the trench along the short ladder in the trench, picked up the musket with bayonets, jumped out of the trench, and rushed towards the city of Manila.The equipment everywhere was pushed out from the slope, and the morale of the soldiers in Donghai Town was like a rainbow.The Spanish soldiers on the city wall hurriedly shouted, the soldiers hid behind the city wall, stretched out their muskets from the shooting hole, released their guns to shoot, and the soldiers of Donghai Town, who jumped out of the trench, were shot to the ground one after another.However, the morale of the Spaniards at the head of the city was sluggish, and only sporadic musket fire could not stop the influx of soldiers from Donghai Town.Soon, the soldiers of Donghai Town, under the city wall, formed a shield wall with shield carts, and the musketeers stood behind the shield wall and fired their guns, bombarding the head of the city and suppressing the Spaniards.A Spanish soldier was barely half exposed, ready to raise his shot, when he was hit by a musket and fell from the city screaming.At this time, Donghai Town held swords and shields, carried the soldiers who climbed the ladder, and took the opportunity to rush to the city.As the trench advanced two hundred paces below the city, the Spaniards in the city did not fire a few shots, and the soldiers of Donghai Town rushed to the bottom of the city, erected a ladder, and then climbed up with their feet.The soldiers climbed to the edge of the city, immediately lit a grenade, and threw it on the city, with a loud bang, and an explosion occurred above the heads of the soldiers in Donghai Town, and two Spanish soldiers were overturned by the explosion and fell directly from the city.The soldiers of Donghai Town suddenly roared angrily, their footsteps rubbed, and they rushed directly to the city, drew their swords and jumped up, and began to fight with the Spaniards.On the battlefield, the more afraid of death, maybe the first to die, the more afraid of death, sometimes you can survive.In a moment, the soldiers of Donghai Town attacked the city one after another, and on the first city wall, the soldiers of Donghai Town were already full of ants.After a short battle, the first wall of the Spaniards was lost, and the remnants of the army retreated to the second and third walls.At this time, after the mortar cannon of Donghai Town raised the cannon, it began to shoot at the city wall behind, and the soldiers of Donghai Town, who occupied the first city wall, also threw grenades with all their might.The former overlord of the sea, the soldiers of the first generation of the Spanish Empire on which the sun never sets, were attacked by Donghai Town, and they had no power to fight back, and soldiers were constantly blown away by the explosion, screaming and falling.Soon, the soldiers of Donghai Town rushed up to the second fort wall and launched an assault on the third fort wall, which was the headquarters of the Spanish Philippine Governor's Office.Outside, the sound of artillery rumbled, the sound of killing shook the sky, and the office of the governor's palace was already in chaos.The Spanish governor Manrique, and the senior staff of the colonial authorities, were as anxious as ants on a hot pot, and they tried hard to defend themselves against the enemy, but they found that there was no way at all, so they could only pray for God's blessing.At this time, outside the door of the official hall, a sudden "bang-bang" volley of gunfire rang out, and the Spanish soldiers outside the door were shot down.Immediately afterwards, the door of the official hall was violently blown open, and the brigade wore red armor, wore saucer helmets, held muskets, and held war knives.Without saying a word, the musketeers picked up their muskets and fired, and when they saw some civilians, they were shot dead on their desks.Manrik turned around and ran, "bang bang bang" a gunshot rang out, rising clouds of blood mist, Manrik and several high-ranking officials, all shot in the back, howling, and fell to the ground.()