"Your Majesty, the Ming people are coming with great force, and the Portuguese and Dutch are accomplices. Why don't we surrender temporarily..."

Because of the destruction of the Armada and the defeat of the Battle of Seville, after hearing Felipe III's inquiry, many people stood up and said that for the sake of "the safety of people's lives", it is better to "take it easy"

'Surrender temporarily.

"Your Majesty, Madrid has strong city walls and we have tough soldiers. We will definitely be able to repel these invaders. How can we just open the city and surrender!"

To everyone's surprise, when many people suggested 'temporary' surrender, Duke Francesco of Lerma, who had always given people the impression of only playing tricks of power and amassing money and corruption, now looked impassioned.

He stood up and firmly expressed his determination to "resist the war" to the end.

"Your Majesty, Duke Lerma is right. We in Spain have the most powerful army in Europe. Now we are fighting to defend the city. How can we surrender without a fight! I am willing to sacrifice my life for your Majesty to resist these Ming invaders.

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After Duke Francesco of Lerma, another favorite of Felipe III, a former aide, and now a member of the Council of State, Secretary of Parliament Rodrigo also quickly stood up and patted his chest to greet Felipe.

The third generation showed his loyalty.

I have to say that when it comes to loyalty, sometimes the 'loyal ministers' are really not as good as the 'fools'. Just when many people proposed 'temporary' surrender, these two favorite ministers who knew Felipe III's temperament very well,

However, dissatisfaction and anger could be seen on Felipe III's seemingly dull face.

Therefore, in line with the principle of showing loyalty as early as possible, Francisco and Rodrigo, the two most trusted favorites of Felipe III, immediately stood up to support him without much thought.

"Your Majesty, I am willing to fight to the death with the Ming army!"

"I am willing to live and die with Madrid..."

With Francisco and Rodrigo taking the lead, their comrades immediately followed their example and expressed their loyalty one after another.

Thanks to the many accomplices of the two jesters, the call for war immediately overwhelmed the call for surrender.

"Very good. We can conquer the Indians in the New World with 168 people. How can we defeat tens of thousands of Ming people with the same yellow skin using the city?"

In this way, amidst the calls for a main war, Felipe III quickly put the Ming army's ultimatum behind him and issued an order to defend Madrid to the death.

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"Third brother, look at it. I just told you not to bother with that. Not only was it wasting time, it almost trapped our nephew in the city!"

Just when Felipe issued the order to defend Madrid, outside the city of Madrid, it was seen that less than a quarter of an hour was left before the ultimatum time given, but there was no response from the city. Qi Zhenzong couldn't help but complain a little.

"Second uncle, don't worry. How dare those Spaniards detain us, hehe!"

Bai Hui, who didn't care about the dangers he encountered before, quickly defended his father.

"Since we won't shed tears until we see the coffin, let's do as they wish. Lao Zhang, I'll fuck them hard!"

Ignoring Li Chengming's complaint, Wang Bing turned to look at Zhang Weixian, who had been waiting impatiently.

"General, just watch, hahahaha!"

After finally receiving Wang Bing's order, Zhang Weixian, who was gearing up, immediately galloped towards the artillery position that had been arranged.

"Brothers, let's get to work. The general has orders to kill them hard, hahahaha!"

Before the horse could stop, Zhang Weixian abandoned the reins and jumped off the horse.

No way, he, the 'artillery commander' of the Habayashi Guards, used to command small mortars such as the Tiger Crouching Cannon. Now he finally had the opportunity to command this real artillery bombardment. How could he not be excited?

"Let's give these Xiyi ghosts a few rounds to enjoy themselves first!"

Instead of bombarding the city walls of Madrid as soon as he came up, Zhang Weixian immediately targeted the city.

"The target is fifteen miles away, three basic medicine packs, and ready to explode!"

After hearing Zhang Weixian's order, a group of Royal Navy artillerymen who had temporarily transferred from sea to land, under the command of the gunner, immediately loaded the shells according to the distance that had been observed long ago, at the maximum shooting distance of the artillery that had never been used on the ship.

Come.

"put!"

"Boom boom boom boom..."

A moment later, accompanied by the thunderous roar of artillery, five hundred flintlock shells immediately rose into the sky and fiercely rushed towards the city of Madrid.

"Rumble, rumble, rumble..."

In an instant, a blast of artillery shells that was more violent than the roar of artillery came from the city. Even from a distance of more than ten miles, the army outside the city could be clearly heard.

"Target, the charge remains unchanged, and the explosive shells are waiting!"

Just as the first round of five hundred artillery shells exploded one after another in the city, the loading of the second round of artillery shells had already begun on the artillery position.

Since this is not a field battle, there is no need to consider the continuity of firepower. In addition, the firing speed of the breech-loaded naval gun is much faster than that of the front-loaded gun. Therefore, Zhang Weixian did not adopt the three-stage attack method of batch firing. Instead, he directly used the method of firing in batches.

The most powerful artillery salvo tactics were adopted, a salvo of five hundred artillery pieces!

"Boom boom boom boom..."

Soon, the second round of shells came out with roar again and rushed towards the previous target. At this time, the smoke and dust caused by the first round of shelling gradually rose from the city.

"Even if the Ming people's artillery can hit farther than ours, how did they manage to fire a second time so quickly?"

Looking at the Ming army's artillery that was far beyond the range of the artillery at the head of Madrid, and also had artillery that fired at an unknown number of times faster than theirs, although they had already known about it and experienced it personally, Conde and Van Linberg still couldn't help but feel...

Doubts and curiosity abound.

There is no way, the Ming army is too strict about the confidentiality of these artillery. Even though they are allies now, they are still not allowed to watch, let alone come into contact with them.

As for stealing technology, it's not that they haven't thought about it, but usually these artillery pieces are covered with gun jackets and closely guarded by artillerymen. Even during this battle, because outsiders like them are present, there are also specialized personnel.

Guarded by security forces.

Therefore, in the end, the two greedy people could only ask Wang Bing directly, wanting to spend a lot of money to buy this technology. But Wang Bing's answer was 'Ming Dynasty's top secret, it will not be sold out'.

Therefore, looking at the extremely fast shelling of the Ming army's artillery, not to mention what the Spaniards in the city thought, anyway, they were drooling with envy.

"What are our artillery doing? Are they sleeping? Why haven't they fired back yet?"

Just when Conde and Van Linberg were envious of the Ming army's artillery, Felipe III in the city was furious at the inaction of his own artillery.

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