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- The pirates are a group of unruly guys, and only blood can teach them discipline! Naturally, Li Zhe didn't expect that a few words and so-called benefits could tie their hands and feet.
In the next few days, Li Zhe trained these guys to master the operation of the rifle without any live ammunition training. The process was extremely harsh, whipping was commonplace, and corporal punishment was readily available. It was only after I personally executed one of them that these guys learned to be in awe and slowly learned how to shoot. The modern m14 rifle was used by these guys. In his hands, the effect was only slightly better than that of a matchlock gun. As for the array line, it was impossible to line up even if these guys were killed. This was what Li Zhe finally achieved.
Looking at this, Li Zhe's original plan to smuggle a batch of heavy arms in the future has become a little dull. The more advanced the things of this group of waste, the more difficult it is for them to understand. On the contrary, they are not as primitive as rifles. The artillery is better for them to master. It seems that even modern pirates probably have to compete for jobs! Most people may not be able to do it directly.
But the strange thing is that in the process of Li Zhe training pirates, the more harsh and cruel the pirates became, the more convinced they became, especially when Li Zhe personally knocked all of the hundred big men to the ground and crawled on them. After being unable to get up, all the pirates became convinced of Li Zhe. The bald king, who was rebellious at first, is now the most loyal to Li Zhe. It seems that these people are all typical patients with Stockholm Syndrome and cannot survive without fighting!
The storm in Manila is getting tighter. All citizens have been strictly prohibited from going out, and white people have entered the castle and the royal city! Don't dare to wander outside. The Santiago Castle and the military port are also heavily guarded. Ordinary people cannot get in at all. The situation is about to break out!
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??On the sea twenty miles outside Manila Port.
A huge Galen warship sailed forward. Li Huamei's slender figure stood upright on the Zhenhai, her black and red cloak rustling in the strong wind.
Behind him is an endless line of pirate ships, including lucky ships, sand ships, and Western ships. All kinds of sails cover the sky and the sun. Like mountains and seas pouring towards Manila Bay.
The sails of the pirate fleet cover most of the ocean. If you count, there may be hundreds or even thousands of ships! Although most of them are small boats of dozens of tons, they form a front on the sea that is dozens of miles wide. With the force of the strong wind, the sails are inflated and shot in one direction like countless sharp arrows. , the momentum is terrifying!
Before the war. Li Huamei's mood is a little subtle!
It can be said that Li Zhe's gold and silver played a big role in the siege of Manila. Without such a mountain of gold and silver, it would have been impossible for Li Huamei to produce so much just based on his reputation in Nanyang in the past two years. Helper's. In addition to Li Huamei's own hometown, there are other ships sent by the Chinese pirate leader out of face, and most of them are guys hired by Li Huamei with gold and silver!
The pirates are extremely realistic characters. Father and mother are not as good as money. After all, a major event like the siege of Manila is no joke. The lesson learned from the failure of the great pirate Lin Feng decades ago is not far away. In the eyes of the pirates, it was almost courting death. How could he succeed? And it¡¯s Li Huamei herself. I am not optimistic about the possibility of success in this battle!
What kind of people are pirates? To put it bluntly, those are things that bully ordinary people. The targets are merchant ships, fishing boats, and poor merchants and common people! Fighting against the regular army never yields good results. What's more, the opponent this time is the Spanish Royal Fleet, which has been traversing the ocean for decades!
In a head-on battle with the foreign fleet, the possibility of success is really almost zero! This is the experience that countless pirates have gained through life and death with their own flesh and blood. There is a reason why you bosses are not optimistic about it. They must be responsible for their men. Even if they really hate the Spanish for killing the Chinese, they will only lose their teeth. , swallow it with blood!
Li Huamei is really not optimistic about it!
However, every time Li Huamei wants to quit, when she wants to retreat in her heart, she will think of Li Zhe's high-spirited face at the Manila port, that kind of self-centered demeanor, that kind of self-reflection that arises spontaneously. of joy! He really wants to capture Manila!
Li Huamei doesn¡¯t know why Li Zhe has so much confidence and is willing to invest so much of his family property in a business that is a loss no matter what! Although reason told Li Huamei that was not feasible. But in the end, Li Huamei did it step by step, recruiting sailors, expanding his subordinates, purchasing enough guns and ammunition, and almost wiping out the stocks in the nearby ports on the ocean! And in addition to these, Li Huamei also had to use a large amount of gold and silver to hire other pirates to expand his team.Step by step, we finally built such a huge fleet that has never been seen on the Luzon Sea since Prince Lin Feng sent troops to Manila! There are more than 400 small and medium-sized sailboats, a total of more than 3,000 people!
Although most of the ships came just to make up the numbers and were of no use in naval battles, waving the flag and shouting always succeeded. That's how the pirates finally plucked up the courage to fight Spain!
All of this is for Li Zhe, just think of it as something you owe him! Li Huamei thought to herself.
"General!" The shout woke up Li Huamei's distracted son. Above him, the lookout on the mast dozens of meters high shouted loudly. "The foreign Japanese fleet is coming out!"
Li Huamei nodded lightly and signaled to the bald old Li. Upon seeing this, Old Li immediately became excited.
"Brothers, hang up the battle flag and send a signal to the brothers behind! This time I'm going to have a big fight with the foreign devils!"
In the sky above the warship, the battle flag of a huge bloody phoenix rose slowly!
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A group of various strange screams replaced the battle horns, and the pirates became busy and excited one by one! These passionate low-level pirates are not at all worried about the coming war!
Less than ten miles ahead is Manila¡¯s sailing warship!
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The flagship of the Manila fleet, the Courage, is an eight-hundred-ton Clark-type sailing ship. On the towering ship's floor, Commander Pizarro held the monocular telescope in his hand and looked at the pirate ship opposite from a distance.
"These hateful monkeys who can't be killed! They've come to Manila again. Didn't the battle decades ago teach them enough lessons?"
The adjutant walked up to Pizarro, his face full of worry: "General! There are so many pirates and we have too few people. If they surround us and fight, even though our ship is big, it will be too much to bear." .¡±
Due to the insufficient power of ship's artillery, naval battles during this period were still mainly based on gang-hopping warfare. The number of warships and sailors could still determine the situation on the battlefield to a certain extent. Spain, an empire that was already faltering, had not yet learned to use artillery as the main method of fighting like its more backward brother England. Cannon giant ships are far from becoming mainstream.
Pizarro did not look back,
"No! We will not fight them directly on the sea. Since these monkeys will never learn a lesson, let our cannons teach them a lesson again!. We retreat to the harbor, with the support of the harbor forts Fight them, huh! These small boats, the cannons on the port can knock over a dozen of them with one shot! Even if there are more, it's just a waste of more ammunition!"
"Oh! That's it! General, I have to admire your wisdom! At this time, the cannon on the fort is undoubtedly the best way to solve the problem." The adjutant bowed and signaled to their commander.
Pizarro had a shy belly and a look of lust on his face. This was how Spain repelled Lin Feng's attack last time. This time, of course, it will be no exception! - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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