Chapter 38 East Dawn Middle School
It's been two months.
Looking at the local natives who retreated like a tide, Yanagawa Shizuo sighed deeply.
During the battle to capture Krabi, Yanagawa Shizuo led more than 200 samurai, more than 400 Kalamba, and more than 500 ship workers of Hanyu were killed by the 200 Spanish musketeers stationed here, led by Alonso. Among them, Alonso was killed by Yanagawa Shizuo's apprentice himself.
However, looking back now, the biggest mistake he made since capturing Krabi is that he did not stop the "angry" people from killing dozens of prisoners who stayed in the Cape Castle of Krabi.
Perhaps people have long been jealous of the Spanish's domineering arrogance, or perhaps to seize the Spanish's property, anyway, the two hundred Spanish people stationed in the castle, including the krafts and grooms, all "big noses" were killed.
In fact, no more than half of these soldiers really belong to Spain, namely Castilla, Aragon, Granada and Navarra, and half of them come from Portugal, Italy/Germany/Swiss countries, and they are nothing more than mercenaries.
If these prisoners were still there, even if they were given only one meal a day, the Spaniards outside the city would not crazily use gunfire or attack with local people.
Actually, the first month was fine.
After learning that the land of Krabi was lost, the Spaniards immediately made peace with the Chinese merchants of the Eighth Company that the promise that the land of Krabi had nothing to do with them. They first drew cavalry to loot the remaining farmers in Kalamba, and then promised to the natives that the land of reclaimed belonged to them in the future, but the premise was to assist them in taking the land of Krabi.
After taking over Krabi, they were allowed to seize half of the wealth inside.
Under the temptation of houses, fields, and money, these lazy natives who used to be lazy suddenly burst out with amazing combat power. Of course, most of these people were people who believed in a certain religion under the coercion and temptation of the Moors in the past, and to some extent, they were not afraid of death.
The key is that there are a large number of Chezhidans near Manila who are still loyal to the Governor Sebastian. At the call of the bishop of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in the city and under the instigation of "killing all the pagans", nearly a thousand Japanese Chezhidans organized.
What's more, there were warships directly affiliated to the Spanish near Manila, with more than a dozen armed merchant ships. Although there were no two super sailing ships, San Jose and San Ambrose, these Garen and Carac sailing ships equipped with considerable firepower were not something that the "rebels" in Krabi could compete with.
Krabi is small and can be bombarded with cannons at sea.
The Krabi land where Dongfang Yu stationed, connected to the narrow short wall on the mainland, quickly fell. Under the bombardment of cannons, they only guarded for three days. Dongfang Yu retreated into Hanyu with the remaining farmers.
The young and strong boat house led by Mai Weiming and Lin Dalu were stronger than Dongfang Yu. He defended tenaciously for ten days. However, under the bombardment of sea artillery, some people could not help but escape. The Spaniards were very good at resolving people's hearts at this time, and the people from the Eighth Company shouted outside, saying, "This matter will only be punished, and the rest will not be investigated as long as they surrender."
Some people believed it. Ten days later, half of Hanyu's people ran away. In the end, Yanagawa Jingyun, who was still in the Krabi Castle, couldn't stand it anymore, because Nikhpur had such a big game, just for the boat workers in Krabi. They all ran away. What's the point of his hard work to provoke this battle?
So, despite his disciple's dissuasion, he picked a hundred people, all of whom were warriors who followed him back to Japan. Each of them had a musket and a long sword. With the wooden handle of Yanagawa Jingyun had never been willing to use, the thunder of the sky that Yanagawa Jingyun had never been willing to use, he went out. Under the unexpected attack of the Tiantian Thunder, under the assault of these hundred people who sacrificed their lives, Yanagawa Jingyun finally transferred the remaining Han Yu to the Krabi Castle.
The original design of Krabidi Castle was to allow three hundred soldiers to be housed, which was used to allow European soldiers with accommodation conditions far better than that of Chinese. If they were Chinese, there would be no problem with stuffing a thousand people into them.
However, the problem is that both Dongfang Yu and Hanyu people retreated in an extremely hurry and relying on the one hundred people of Yanagawa Jingyun who desperately cut off the rear, they all retreated into the castle by luck, and there was no time to evacuate the finances and food together.
Fortunately, the Spanish still have a lot of food left in the castle. If you save a little, there will be no problem to support for two months.
So, in the next month, Yanagawa Shizuo deeply felt the embarrassment of Shiroshiro Shiro and the others in the past.
Krabidi Castle was designed by Spanish designers, and it is a typical style of rhombus. However, with the strength of Yanagawa Shizuo and others, the small forts outside the rhombus cannot be guarded and can only be handed over to the Spaniards. Therefore, the Spaniards can leisurely set up artillery in the outer small fort - the standard rhombus style. In addition to the concave main fort, there is also a small fort that cooperates with each other on the outer side, which is also a rhombus in a broad sense.
Fortunately, the castle was built extremely strongly, and the main castle was much higher than the small castle. In more than ten days, the Spanish naval guns and land war guns caused minimal losses to the castle - although Krabidi Castle is not as perverted as Santiago Fort, it is still three meters thick as the first pass to protect the royal city of Manila. For ships staying near Manila at this time, the largest cannon was 32-pound naval gun, which is basically the second largest cannon installed on ships by major maritime powers in Europe now.
(The biggest one is naturally the forty-eight-pound cannon, which was gradually eliminated, and finally it was mainly thirty-two-pound cannons and twenty-four-pound cannons)
However, even for the largest warship in the Spanish, "Sao Paulo", it only has two layers of direct access to the artillery deck. There are only six thirty-two-pound cannons on the lower level, three on both sides. The lower level is still dominated by twenty-four-pound cannons, and the upper level is twelve pounds and eighteen pounds are arranged.
The largest artillery of other ships was twenty-four pounds, so the St. Paul became the main force in the siege.
A few days later, Sebastian saw that the 32-pound naval gun had no effect on the castle attack, so he let the natives and Japanese take over.
Although the main castle is strong, it is only two meters high, and it can still attack with a ladder.
Sebastian was also very cunning. He first used a group of fanatics to enjoy the wealth of the Chinese after victory. After his misfortune, he could go to heaven to enjoy raisins and go to heaven to go to the forefront. He also promised that he would exempt five years of "tith" (tax collected by the Spanish on pagans) by just one attack. Under these temptations, the usually lazy natives also launched a fierce attack.
Although these natives were fanatical, their combat power was average. They were soon driven down by Yanagawa Jingyun and the others, but at this time the Japanese arrived.
In this way, the two sides fought repeatedly on the east and south sides of the castle for more than ten days. Although the young and strong people in the castle were killed and injured, the natives and Japanese outside the city were even more terrible.
The Japanese continued to maintain their high enthusiasm for siege under the temptation of the Spanish king as "national" and the genre "massman", but the natives stopped.
Just now, Yanagawa Jingyun and the others repelled the last group of native people, and it was obvious that another group of Japanese people were about to come.
After several consecutive days of fighting, even Yanagawa Shizuo was extremely brave and exhausted. A dazzling scar was added to his handsome cheek. It was left by the same samurai Shisanro Arima, who was also a samurai, who gave him a fatal blow. Arima Shisanro was a descendant of the original Kerchidan daimyo Arima Seino in Nanyang. He was a fanatical Catholic, loyal to the Spanish.
However, he also killed the other party. As soon as Arima Shisanro died, the Japanese's momentum suddenly declined (Arima Haruno was a famous maritime merchant in Japan, with business spread all over the Southeast Asian region. After he was in Japan to protect Catholics and let his subordinates kill him, the Arima tribe continued to decline in Japan, but he still had a huge power in Southeast Asian region, and his descendants also had strong appeal).
After repelling the attack of the natives, Yanagawa Jingyun was a little shaky. Even the brave, he was like this, let alone others. Two of his four disciples had already died in battle, and Lin Dalu, the bravest shipyard, was also killed in battle.
The key is that in the past few days, as a large number of people in the castle died in battle, the body must not be placed in the castle in the hot weather, so they could only throw it to the north near the sea. This was also a helpless move, but it was an extremely sad level for the Chinese people, which affected morale again.
This is the current situation of the castle "rebel army".
Yanagawa Shizuo held the longer Japanese sword he often carried with both hands (the shorter ones were broken), and his eyes were a little confused. If there were Japanese people coming up at this time, he would definitely not be spared.
Strangely, he hadn't seen the Japanese attack for a long time, and Yanagawa Jingyun didn't care about it and asked an apprentice to continue staring. He staggered a few steps, fell to the ground with a "thump" sound, and he fainted.
When he was still awake, he did not think of his wife and children, Nikan, and even more so on Yanagawa's reunion.
Wang Wenhui!
He actually thought of that man!
When he got down, there was a hint of mockery on his lips, and then he started to snore - he was too tired and Sansu had no eyes closed.
Yanagawa Jingyun's fall made the rest of the castle lose their backbone. Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, their eyes full of confusion.
"Notice!"
Unexpectedly, Dongfang Yu stood up at this time. In the past few days, under the guidance of Yanagawa Jingyun, he not only learned the mesh ropes left by the Spaniards in the castle, but also learned some sword techniques in his spare time. Perhaps he was young and energetic, but now he was still energetic when standing on the castle.
Mai Weiming, who was lying beside the city wall, stood up and looked out, and no enemy attacked. He couldn't help but curse, "What a blind man."
"No", Dongfang Yu's voice was still full of energy and a little rapid, and his fingers were also pointed out. Mai Weiming struggled to get up and looked in the direction of his fingers. He saw a large number of ships sailing from the sea in the distance.
He looked carefully for a while and suddenly fell down.
Chapter completed!