"The target is twelve miles away, two basic medicine packs, and solid bullets are ready!"

Soon, as bursts of milky white steam rose from the artillery position, the five hundred breech-loaded naval guns that had completed the cooling work, under the orders of the gun commanders, immediately changed the ratio of the propellant packs.

to change the range and target of the artillery.

"put!"

"Boom boom boom boom..."

In an instant, amidst the roar of artillery, five hundred solid black pig iron bullets rushed towards Madrid's seemingly extremely solid city wall.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Although there is no huge noise when the explosive bomb explodes, the kinetic energy brought by the heavy pig iron solid bullet due to the huge energy generated when the gunpowder burns cannot be underestimated, not to mention that hundreds of solid bullets were dropped at the same time.

.

Therefore, all of a sudden, the entire southern city wall of Madrid was shaken by the earth and rocks were flying everywhere.

Speaking of which, although the city walls built by these European Westerners were similar in height to the cities of the Ming Dynasty, their city walls were much thinner than the brick-clad rammed earth city walls of the Ming Dynasty that were often several feet thick.

The thickest city walls in Europe are only two or three meters thick, and some are as thin as just over half a meter.

Therefore, even though they used sturdier stones to build the city, their ability to withstand artillery bombardment was far inferior to the brick-clad rammed earth walls of the Ming Dynasty.

However, as the saying goes, everything has two sides. Precisely because their city walls are relatively poor in resisting artillery, in order to meet the needs of siege, the development speed of artillery technology is much faster in Europe than in the East.

Of course, this was in the original history before Wang Bing came to this world. After Wang Bing appeared in the Ming Dynasty in this time and space, the current Ming Dynasty is far ahead of them in terms of artillery and gun technology.

"The target remains the same, two basic medicine packs, replaced with explosive ammunition!"

Just as the southern city wall of Madrid was being blown up and rocks were flying everywhere, the second round of shelling was replaced by explosive shells.

The reason for this is that after the expeditionary force occupied Seville, Zhang Weixian and a group of artillerymen specially developed the siege method after studying the characteristics of the walls of these Western barbarians.

First, use solid bullets to knock out some cracks in the city wall, and then use the explosive impact of exploding shells to expand these cracks. In this way, the city-breaking effect is much stronger than simply using solid shells and exploding shells.

"Rumble, rumble..."

Soon, the second round of explosive bombs exploded on the city wall.

"Wow!"

Sure enough, as expected, the solid bullets and blooming bullets only bombarded each other alternately for one round, which was at the weakest top of the city wall. At this time, some places had already been blown down.

"Come again, change to solid bullets!"

"Replace with explosives..."

Soon, under the constant bombardment of the Ming army's artillery with explosive bullets and solid bullets, a section of the city wall about dozens of feet long was already cracked and crumbling, which shocked the defenders who were hiding at both ends of this section of the wall.

Terrified.

…

"Your Majesty, the Ming army's artillery is too fierce. The city wall and Madrid may...may not be able to defend it. Please Your Majesty and the Queen temporarily move the capital to Valladolid!"

Just as the southern wall of Madrid was crumbling, the Spanish Royal Palace, located on the hill on the left bank of the Manzales River in the west of Madrid, had just learned that its "lovable man" Rodrigo had died in battle, but a new piece of bad news had arrived.

Felipe III here.

However, before he could ask this time, Duke Francesco of Lerma thoughtfully gave him a countermeasure, 'move the capital'!

However, only Francisco himself knows whether this response is due to loyalty or selfishness for his own life.

"No, Your Majesty cannot retreat! If Your Majesty retreats, the morale of the army and the people will definitely decline. In this case, Madrid will really be unable to hold on. As long as Your Majesty stays and defends, even if the city is broken, so what? We are familiar with it.

The terrain allows us to fight them in street battles..."

Upon hearing that Duke Lerma's proposal to 'move the capital' was actually an escape, many Spanish officials, including Espada, the former mayor of Seville, spoke out against it.

"Why do you have to keep His Majesty in the street fighting? Do you want His Majesty to die on the battlefield? Or do you want to dedicate His Majesty to the people of the Ming Dynasty?"

Staring coldly at the officials who opposed the 'move of the capital', Francisco, the Duke of Lerma, once again showed his majesty as Spain's most powerful minister after his failure in the Battle of Seville.

!

"You are slandering me. When will we..."

"It was you who asked His Majesty to surrender before. Now you know that the city is about to be destroyed, and you want to keep His Majesty here. Don't you want to dedicate His Majesty to the people of the Ming Dynasty? Come here, escort Your Majesty and the Queen out of the city. Anyone who dares to stop them,

kill!"

Calling a group of attendants, and then taking the cavalrymen of the Royal Cavalry who had escaped from the city before for a surprise attack, Francisco took Felipe III and his wife and fled out of the city, even the crown and scepter.

Didn't even care.

…

"Two basic medicine packs, blooming ammunition..."

"This time, half of the blooming bullets and half of the solid bullets, let's blast them together!"

Just when Francisco was forcibly suppressing a group of officials and escorting Felipe III and Margaret out of the city, Zhang Weixian, outside the south city of Madrid, interrupted the orders of a group of artillery commanders and ordered them to

The flowering bullets that arrived were replaced with half and half solid bullets to be fired together.

"Bah, bah, bah..."

"Rumble, rumble..."

Soon, hundreds of artillery shells mixed with solid bullets and explosive bullets hit the crumbling city wall again.

"Boom...boom!"

Finally, after dozens of rounds of shelling, the crumbling city wall could no longer hold up and collapsed. Amidst the huge clouds of dust rising into the sky, a huge gap dozens of feet long appeared in the eyes of the coalition forces.

"Instruct all armies to attack according to the original plan!"

As the city wall collapsed, and before the smoke and dust cleared, with a wave of Wang Bing's hand, the "Four Nations Allied Forces" who had been waiting for a long time rushed towards the huge gap in accordance with the previously planned order of entering the city. Then,

Then they headed towards their respective divided battle zones.

"Bah, bah, bah..."

Soon, when groups of troops with different skin colors and costumes passed through the diffuse smoke and appeared in the city of Madrid like the gods of death from hell, the sound of firecrackers and shouts of death resounded in the blink of an eye.

The whole city of Madrid.

Of course, whether it was the sound of gunfire or the cry of killing, almost all of it came from the Allied Forces of the Four Nations entering the city.

There was no way, since the Ming Dynasty Expeditionary Army landed in Spain and suffered numerous defeats, the reputation of the Ming Army had already spread back along with the defeat of the previous Seville counterattack point.

In addition, before the city was broken, Felipe III had already taken the lead in escaping. So at this moment, all the Spanish defenders in the city had lost their fighting spirit. It was too late to escape, so they had no intention of fighting.

Therefore, after the army entered the city, except for a very small number of people, the vast majority either turned around and fled, or simply chose to surrender.

Of course, there are exceptions to everything. After the army was divided according to the previously divided battle zones, the Portuguese and Dutch troops led by Conde and Van Linberg, as well as the "Seville Security Army" encountered considerable resistance.

There is no way, since ancient times, whether in the East or the West, people who betray are extremely hated and disgusted.

In the eyes of the Spaniards, whether it is Portugal, the Netherlands, or those "little Moors", they are all traitors to their own country. If I can't defeat the people of the Ming Dynasty, can I not defeat the traitors like you?

Therefore, naturally, the Portuguese and Dutch armies and the "Little Moors" became the targets for the Spaniards to vent their grievances.

But no matter what, with Felipe's escape and the entry of the armies of the four countries into the city, the Spaniards were completely defeated. Even if there was an occasional struggle, it was just a final reflection, which did not help the overall situation, and failure was a foregone conclusion.

…

"How is it? What are the casualties of the soldiers?"

In the Spanish Palace Square on the hill on the left bank of the Manzales River in the west of Madrid, Wang Bing looked at the palace building in front of him. Wang Bing couldn't help but turn his head and look at Qi Zhenzong and other generals from the Yulin Guards and Shenji Battalion.

The Royal Palace of Spain was originally the Moorish Castle of Magritte and later a military fortress of the Kingdom of Castile. In the 40th year of the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty, Felipe II built the capital from Toledo.

After arriving here, it became the royal palace of Spain.

In the original history, in the twelfth year of Yongzheng of the Pig Tail Dynasty, the palace was reduced to ashes by a fire on the Christmas Eve of these Westerners. So the later Felipe V spent two years on the site of the original palace.

In sixteen years, a new palace was rebuilt which is one of the best preserved in Europe.

Of course, these are all things in the original history. In this time and space, with the arrival of the Ming Expeditionary Force, it is conceivable that the subsequent European history will no longer be the same as in the original history.

After all, the influence Wang Bing has now is not the weak little butterfly he was when he first came to this world.

"Haha, don't worry, third brother. Felipe has run away. Their soldiers surrendered one by one faster than we can fire, so there will be no casualties. But those Portuguese, Dutch and 'Little Moors'

, I don’t know why, but the fight was quite fierce... It’s a pity that we didn’t catch the ‘shoehorn’ king that our nephew mentioned.”

Upon hearing Wang Bing's inquiry, Qi Zhenzong first smiled relaxedly, and then shook his head in annoyance.

"Haha, don't worry, he can't run away. Didn't you notice that Prince Wei did not enter the city with us? Hahahaha..."

At the end of September in the twenty-seventh year of Wanli of the Ming Dynasty, as the Spanish Royal Palace was occupied by the Ming Expeditionary Force, Madrid, a city always known as the 'Gateway to Europe', was immediately declared to have completely fallen into the hands of the Ming Expeditionary Force.

At this point, the whole of Europe has truly ushered in the third "great arrival" of Eastern power after the Huns and Tatars!

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