Chapter 639: Confrontation

"General, the Portuguese warships are going to escape. Read"

At the port of Marka City, two warships turned south, and the flagship captain Gong Ying shouted immediately.

He frowned, and after the translator sent by the Portuguese went back, there was no movement.

Now, the two warships chose to escape again.

This operation confused him a little, but after thinking about it for a while, he figured out the key.

The Portuguese warships escaped only because the Portuguese generals had no confidence in defeating them at sea, and they escaped only to preserve their strength.

As long as the warships left, they could successfully land on Yizhou and attack Marka City.

He believed that the Portuguese generals must have considered this.

Then he chose to do this, and there was only one reason, that is, he was confident that he could withstand their attack in Marka City.

"Don't they know the power of Yanzhou firearms?" Zhou Yi asked a question in his mind.

Or, they think their firepower is better than that of Yanzhou.

Shaking his head, Zhou Yi decided to let the Marines land first, and then respond according to the battlefield situation.

Under his order, the troop transport ship sailed to the port of Marka City.

The Marines landed smoothly from the troop transport ship.

Then, a field gun and mortar were hoisted from the warship.

All the soldiers went ashore, and he said to the Marine Captain Pan Chang: "This battle is left to you."

"Yes, General." Pan Chang replied yes.

Then, he took a small boat to the shore.

Originally, he was Bai Shang's deputy general, responsible for training the Marines.

After the training, he was supposed to return to the Royal Palace's personal army, but Zhou Yi had set his sights on him during the Northern Expedition of Dasong.

So he asked the King of Yan to keep him in the Marines.

After landing at the port of Marka City, Pan Chang immediately reorganized the soldiers and ordered them to march to Marka City in a marching formation.

Although a bastion with a red city wall can be seen standing on the ground in the distance from the port.

But there is a road of more than ten miles from the port to this bastion.

There were farmlands on both sides of the road leading to Marka City.

What surprised them was that rice seedlings were growing on these farmlands, while in the cold Yanzhou, wheat was planted on the land.

In the village at the end of the farmland, the people of Dasong could be vaguely seen looking over here, and then disappeared like rabbits.

Along the way, they did not encounter any resistance, and they stopped about 1,500 meters away from Marka City.

Picking up the telescope, Pan Chang looked towards Marka City.

At this moment, the walls of Marka City were full of soldiers, and thirty artillery guns were aimed at them.

"I never thought that one day it would be our turn to attack the bastion. After observing for a while, Pan Chang smiled bitterly.

The huge bastion of Marka City is similar to the outer wall of Yanguan they saw. He knows the power of this bastion.

Just thinking about it, he suddenly saw an amazing scene.

The gate of Marka City opened, and a team of Frank soldiers lined up and walked out.

These Frank soldiers wore uniform blue military uniforms, which were completely different from the Dasong uniforms. They were more like the shorts worn by the people.

They also wore hats similar to sailboats on their heads.

After leaving the city, the Frank soldiers lined up in front of the city gate. Then, another 18 field guns were pushed out and continued to move forward with the team.

Seeing this scene, Pan Chang was not nervous, but excited.

He followed Bai Shang to fight in the battlefield, experienced battles of all sizes, and was a veteran on the battlefield.

Naturally, he was not nervous at all.

Moreover, the gunpowder used by their marines this time was the yellow gunpowder that had just been produced in Yancheng.

Before setting off, they had tested the power of this yellow gunpowder.

As the data provided by the Arms and Arms Department showed, their rifles can now effectively kill the enemy within 350 meters, and stray bullets can also hurt the enemy within 600 meters outside the effective range.

At the same time, the power of both artillery and mortars has been greatly improved.

"You are really asking for death. "Captain Pan sneered and immediately changed the formation of the Marines according to the formation of the Portuguese soldiers.

In more than ten minutes, the Marines were arranged into a large horizontal column 300 meters wide, with three rows in each column, just like the Portuguese soldiers.

There were eight such horizontal columns, advancing in a staggered manner.

On the top of Marka City, Steven looked at the advancing Yanzhou soldiers and whistled, "It's time to hunt. "

Although he was surprised by the Yan Wang soldiers, who were holding flintlocks with bayonets and field artillery that were almost the same as theirs.

He was still confident that he could defeat these Eastern natives.

Because he believed that the Western firearms would not lose to the Eastern natives.

In his opinion, the muskets used by these Yan Wang soldiers were at most similar to the Western firearms imitated by the Japanese.

And the flintlocks they used were well-made, and were by no means comparable to the crude products made by the hands of the Japanese native craftsmen.

Their hard steel barrels allowed them to load more gunpowder in their gun chambers, and the mirror-like smooth barrels allowed bullets to be fired without any hindrance.

All this allowed their flintlocks to reach an effective range of 150 meters.

This was basically the limit of the Western flintlocks.

If they wanted to improve it again, they could only replace the yellow gunpowder that was born not long ago in the West.

But because such flintlocks were enough to deal with the Eastern natives, the Portuguese army did not equip them with this more powerful gunpowder.

Even so, as the army considered, he believed it would be enough.

This time, he would beat the Yan Wang army into a pulp.

With a smug smile on his face, Steven was ready to observe a massacre of Yanzhou soldiers.

On the battlefield, as the two armies got closer and closer, Pan Chang immediately dispatched 600 soldiers to form skirmishers and dispersed forward to attack.

This was their brand new tactic.

Facing the Western Land army for the first time, he naturally had to use it to test the power of this tactic.

And the main tasks he gave to the skirmishers were to harass the French soldiers in front and to attack the French artillery.

No matter how far the range of the musket is, it is not as far as the artillery. The two armies advanced in dense formations, and the French artillery could still pose a threat to the soldiers of the royal palace.

After receiving the order, the skirmishers were like a handful of sand being scattered on the ground, dotted all over the battlefield.

They were in groups of three, distributed in front of the queue.

When they were close to 350 meters, these skirmishers raised their rifles and aimed at the French soldiers.

"Bang, bang, bang..." There was no thick white smoke on the battlefield.

Only a slight blue smoke rose, but it did not affect the vision.

When using yellow gunpowder, they were told that one difference between yellow gunpowder and black gunpowder is that yellow gunpowder is smokeless gunpowder.

In this way, they would not be blocked by thick smoke on the battlefield, affecting their shooting.

As the gunshots rang out, the marching Portuguese soldiers suddenly fell down sporadically.

Seeing this scene, the Portuguese generals who followed the team were immediately surprised.

But without Steven's order, they could only move forward.