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Chapter 110 Siege

Watching the daunting giant ship of the Folang Jiman slowly leave,

Liu Yu on the turret in the distance breathed a sigh of relief.

In this battle, the Ming army sank ten warships, even Fubo Town sank two armed merchant ships, and more than half of the vassal pirates were lost.

The fleeing Black Flag Gang even sank hundreds of warships of all sizes.

These include many three-masted sailboats, many of which were sunk by the Spanish Garen ships that suddenly appeared.

"Immediately let Weigan send civilians to transport all the gunpowder and heavy artillery projectiles to Lavag." Looking at the messy inside the fort, Liu Yu immediately gave orders to a personal soldier beside him.

Huben Town raided the Spanish fort and captured more than 50 Spanish gunners and hundreds of indigenous workers. More than a dozen heavy artillery 12-pound or more on the coast fort were used by Ming army artillery.

However, the Spanish consumed almost the same amount of gunpowder shells under the previous battle with the pirates.

With the remaining ammunition on the turret, Liu Yu was also betting on this battle.

Betting on whether the Spanish fleet would be fooled, it was obvious that the Spanish finally became afraid to return to Lavague.

The Spanish retreated, and the Ming army was not idle either.

The artillery troops in Huben Town coordinated outside Lavag City. This morning, the soldiers of the Xiaoyong Town forcibly attacked Lavag City regardless of the casualties last night.

Although it was just a feint attack, the momentum of last night and the desperate attack of the Lu still shocked the Spaniards in the city.

The focus of the defense of Rawag City is coastal defense, and the pirates come from the sea.

Most of the Spanish soldiers were dispatched to the front line of coastal defense.

Even the artillery in the city was aimed at the sea surface. The pirates had indeed thought of bypassing the coast and directly attacking the back of Rawag City through inland.

However, the pirates who lack the ability to attack were just a group of mobs. They were crushed and beaten on the city wall by more than 100 Spanish artillery and musketeers outside the city, and more than 200 bodies were left on the first day.

In contrast, it is easier to break through from the port when attacking Lavag Harbour.

Therefore, pirates have basically attacked seas for a month.

The same is true, and artillery that originally defended against land were dispatched to the coastal defense line.

Of course, the Spaniards never dreamed that the Ming army would attack Lavag City from the inland.

Although it is just a feint attack, he is eager to win.

In addition, there were only a few dozen Spanish people guarding the city walls, and most of the rest were indigenous people.

Talu led only 200 foreign soldiers to attack the Ravag walls directly, and the Spanish guards who were caught off guard were killed and retreated.

The foreign soldiers of the Xiaoyong Town not only occupied some of the forts around the city wall, but even attacked the Lavag City Wall for a while.

Finally, the Spaniards who realized that they had brought artillery to fight the soldiers back.

However, after such a riot, the Spaniards in the city no longer dared to leave the city.

At noon, under the gaze of the Spanish, soldiers from the Ming army pushed the cannons outside the city wall.

This once again caused the Spaniards in the city to panic.

Seeing that the pirates who had been besieged for more than a month finally retreated, the Ming army came again.

This made Sir Brent curse and blame Terry,

You were asked to expel the pirates, but you had a delusion to swallow the Ming army in one go. Now the pirates have run away and the Ming army is here.

General Terry was also helpless. He could lead a fleet to annihilate the Ming navy, but the warships could not go ashore. He could not let his sailors go ashore to become infantry.

Sir Brent was so disappointed with these naval officers. In addition to drawing soldiers from the coastal walls to defend, Brent sent his envoys to the Ming army camp for the first time, hoping to negotiate.

But this time, Xiao Wu and Liu Yu, who had been in a mess, no longer paid attention to the Spanish.

Send the special envoy back to the city, anyway, your Spanish fleet was the first to open fire to attack the Ming Navy.

Seeing that the peace talks were not completed, Sir Brent had no choice but to continue to stick to it.

This sleepiness lasted for half a month.

In the past half a month, the Ming army transferred a large number of civilians from Weigan, and these civilians brought gunpowder and shells.

Weigan is also a Haifang City. When the Spaniards temporarily withdrew from Weigan, they only brought a large number of artillery, and some heavy artillery that they could not take away were destroyed by themselves.

But they left behind many heavy artillery shells, these twelve-pound and twenty-four-pound lead shells were scattered in the cellar of the fort and were dug out by the Ming army, who had collected the treasures of the Luoweigan Chamber of Commerce.

Not only that, Liu Quan also pulled all the artillery mobilized by Weigannen to the city of Lavag, and he personally came to the city of Lavag and supervised the battle himself.

In the past half a month, everyone in Spain was panicked, but did the Ming army attack on the scale?

But the Ming army continued a large-scale harassment war on Rawag City in half a month.

The Ming army artillery piled up dozens of six-pound cannons under the city of Lavag and occasionally shot the city.

The Spanish artillery guarding the city walls were not to be outdone. The two sides launched several artillery battles, each with their own victory or defeat.

Most of the Ming army artillery were captured or purchased Western artillery, and the quality was not inferior to that of the Spanish artillery. In particular, the artillery of more than ten pounds in the city were all on the front line of Haifang City. During these days, Spanish gunners could only fight back through medium and light artillery such as Saiko cannons.

The Ravague walls are indeed strong. Even though the Spanish built her to deal with sea threats, the construction of the land walls was not at all convenient.

The tall stone brick walls were not something that the Ming army’s nine-pound cannon could penetrate.

But the Ming army was not a vegetarian, and they saw that artillery attacks did not enter the city.

Liu Yu ordered officers and soldiers to go to the middle reaches of the Lavague River to build a dam.

However, the flow rate of the Lavague River is relatively large, and the bamboo dam does not play much role.

So Liu Yu, who made up his mind, directly asked the local Shengfan to pour all the poison unique to the local tribe into the Lavague River.

Some tributaries of the Lavag River run through the city of Lavag.

The residents of the city also rely on these rivers to make a living by drinking water.

Now the Ming army dumped venom on the Lavague River day and night, and many of the highly toxic substances were diluted into the river and followed the river to the city of Lavague.

After drinking water, the residents in the city vomited and diarrhea, forcing the Spaniards to dig wells everywhere in the city.

The Spaniards, who really couldn't stand it, organized several counterattacks.

However, the Ming army was prepared for a long time, and every time the Spanish army left the city, they were defeated by the Ming army.

It was not because the Spanish were incompetent, but because the merchant mercenaries they hired and the local natives had no intention of fighting.

Whenever he fought with the Ming army, he was about to collapse and attacked several times, except for leaving hundreds of corpses, the Spaniards gained nothing.

Late at night, a merchant fleet that could not bear could be held back secretly from the port despite the Spanish warnings.

But before they left the port, the Spaniards discovered that the caravans were conscious of their own losses and they ran away.

Unexpectedly, the Ming army's coastal defense fortress was discovered and attacked fiercely.

The coastal defense turret faces the sea. Although it cannot directly aim at the port, there is still no problem with the merchant fleet that is out of the port.

Two of the six merchant ships were destroyed by the Ming army, and the remaining merchant ships had to flee back to the port in shame.

The furious Spaniards hanged the merchant ship owner directly.

But such intimidation cannot stop the fear and anger of the residents in the city.
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