Bao Derong was anxious until the people on his side rushed over and began to enter the position. He felt a little relieved.

Bao Derong knew that if the opposite side was really a regular Spanish army, then the manor would definitely not be able to do the same as the previous few times to defeat the natives. There were only a hundred people who were truly available on his side. This was all the armed forces of the General Affairs Office in Luzon, and the others were ordinary people who had just picked up their weapons for a few days.

That's right, although these new recruits have been baptized on the battlefield, they are far from being real soldiers due to the previous joking war.

In the Ming army, an ordinary person needs to go through at least half a year of training to become a soldier. After half a year, these soldiers are just new soldiers. Compared with veterans, they are far from enough experience and ability, and more importantly, their mentality on the battlefield.

A veteran who has experienced many battles can walk around in the face of the fierce battlefield situation and be calm. No matter how outstanding a recruit performs in training, he cannot achieve this in actual war. The panic in his heart and the complex changes in the battlefield make it impossible for them to be as good as they are in training.

If it were the New Army of the Ming Dynasty, the requirements for becoming a qualified soldier would be stricter. This is naturally due to tactical reasons. The combat methods of hot weapons are completely different from those of cold weapons. The New Army of the Ming Dynasty must advance in a rain of bullets and bullets in a manner that is ready to die, and maintain a good fighting rhythm and efficiency. This is simply extremely difficult for ordinary soldiers to do.

Bao Derong now does not expect to be able to repel the opponent, but only hopes to stay as much as possible. When the soldiers on his side quickly entered the front line and were preparing to fight, Bao Derong had already figured out why the Spanish suddenly appeared here.

As the intelligence officer of the General Affairs Office, Bao Derong's judgment and analysis were extremely strong, otherwise he would not have become the highest-level official of the General Affairs Office in Luzon.

Thinking of the situation at the port yesterday and the previous judgment, Bao Derong was sure that the reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty had arrived. Now that the troops were at the city, the Spaniards did not block the confidence of the Ming army. It was precisely because of this that the Spaniards were afraid, or feared.

Based on Bao Derong's understanding of the Spanish, he knew very well what the Spanish were. These Spanish must be worried that once the Ming army invaded Manila and discovered that Manila was massacre against the entire Chinese, thus attracting revenge.

Before, Bao Derong had learned about the Spanish's plans from Russell and other channels, and knew that the Spanish were preparing to shift all the responsibility to the natives. Now, because the Ming fleet came too suddenly, and the natives did not completely solve the Chinese in Manila, they failed to take down the manor after several attacks, resulting in nearly 20,000 people continuing to stick to it.

These people, including Bao Derong himself, are witnesses and parties involved in this Manila massacre. Once they are rescued by the Ming army, all the plans of the Spaniards before will be completely lost. At that time, even if the Spaniards want to argue, they will not be denied with absolute evidence.

In order to avoid this situation and to protect yourself, the Spanish rushed to the front desk at this time and went straight from behind the scenes.

It seems that the Spaniards are planning to solve the owners of the manor at one time to cover up the truth. So Bao Derong is very clear in his heart that once he loses the defense line, these nearly 20,000 people will be massacred by the other party without hesitation.

When the manor gathered urgently and Bao Derong no longer had any backup plans and directly pulled out all his strength, the Spaniards also began to move.

With a melodious sound of the horn, the Spaniards began to assemble. In just over a dozen minutes, the Spaniards formed three columns. Judging from the flags they cast, this should be the force of a regiment, which is more than a thousand people.

The Spanish phalanx is famous and once shined in Europe in the 17th century. This battle formation, which was derived from the ancient Roman phalanx and reformed, was called one of the most powerful battle formations.

According to the normal arrangement of Spanish large square arrays, the entire square array is composed of three columns, with spear companies and musket companies. At first, the square array had other troops, but with continuous evolution, it finally formed a proportion of musket companies accounting for 75% and spear companies accounting for 25%, thus having greater power.

The original Spanish platoon was based on a regiment with a force of about 3,000. After evolution, the platoon was adjusted. Just like now, it is a platoon composed of a regiment, but its number has been greatly reduced, basically around 1,000 to 1,200 people.

What's even more terrible is that through the Qianli Mile Mile, Bao Derong saw that the Spaniards also brought cannons. Although these cannons were not as good as the six-pound cannons and twelve-pound cannons used by the Ming army, they could only shoot three pounds of shells according to their weight, and the cannons were extremely bulky and inconvenient to move, so they could only shoot at the predetermined cannon position.

But you have to know that cannons are cannons, and even the more backward cannons are not comparable to ordinary muskets.

Moreover, the effective range of the Spaniard's cannon is about 350 yards, and the farthest can be reached about 430 yards, which means that it can cross a distance of nearly 320 meters to give the opponent an effective shooting. Even within a range of 400 meters, it can also play a certain role.

Because the Spaniards had already arrived near the manor last night and then set up positions while the manor was not discovered, from the distance, the Spanish artillery positions could already reach the manor position, which was a huge threat.

When he discovered this, Bao Derong couldn't help but feel angry at his negligence. If he had discovered this in advance last night, he would have sent someone to stop the other party from setting up the cannons. It was too late now, but fortunately, due to the bulkiness of the cannons and the difficulty of transportation, the Spanish were not many cannons, only three, and such cannons could not be used for continuous and long-lasting shooting.

Not long after, the Spanish commander finally issued an order to attack. The first thing that roared was the three cannons. With the sound of the roaring cannons, the shells roared towards the manor position, and fell on the solid fortifications with one shot. Although the fortifications were piled up by soil and wood, the powerful kinetic energy still lifted the shells hard. Then the shells still jumped forward with kinetic energy, and all objects blocking them were directly hit.

Since Bao Derong ordered everyone to hide in advance, the Spanish cannons did not cause any casualties. Except for some damage to the external part of the fortification, everything else was fine.

But as the Spaniards continued to fire shells, one after another kept coming, and finally casualties were caused.

The fortifications where several soldiers were hiding were finally defeated due to the successive shelling. After all, these fortifications were not really built by the Ming army, and the conditions on the manor were limited, so their strength could not meet expectations.

A shell changed direction while knocking down the fortifications. It flew past two soldiers directly. One soldier didn't even say a sound and his head was cut off on the spot. The headless corpse fell directly to the ground like a wooden stake, and blood spurted out more than ten meters away. The other soldier was even more unlucky. The shell that hit the head hit him directly hit him. His whole body was broken into two pieces, and his lower body disappeared into flesh mud, while his upper body flew a few meters away but was not dead for a while. He cried in pain and despair, grabbed the soil on the ground with both hands, looked at himself who had lost his lower body in fear, and asked for help in vain, trying to crawl towards his comrades.

This terrifying scene scared all the other soldiers. The soldiers who were still extremely brave at the beginning of the shelling did not expect that this battle would be so cruel. This was something they had never seen before. After all, they were not considered qualified soldiers.

His face was pale, and his hands holding the weapon kept trembling. Some even vomited on the spot. Some even trembled their legs and looked around and bit their lips tightly. At this time, as long as someone took the lead, they would probably throw their weapons and run away without looking back.

When the recent officer saw that the situation was wrong, he immediately decisively pulled out the musket from his waist, and without hesitation, he directly deducted the plate machine to the soldier who had lost half of his body but was not dead.

With a gunshot, the soldier's head was hit by a musket, and the crying stopped instantly, and the body lay there and stopped moving.

"I'm sorry, brother." The officer said to the dead soldiers in his heart, and then shouted at the others: "Why are you still standing there? Keep the defense line and do your business well. Where can I die in this war? You must know that once you lose the defense line, it is not only you, but even the family and compatriots in the manor will die! Think about the massacre in Manila these days, and look at the Spanish who are now extremely vicious and anxious! Why do they appear here? Because they know that our Ming fleet has arrived, they are trying to completely eliminate us before our army rescues, and thus erase our existence!"
Chapter completed!