Seeing that the Jiangnan Group was completely unprepared, the team leader Lin Huanong felt relieved and waved his hand, asking the pirates to quickly climb the ladder and go in.

Bamboo ladders were placed on the wall, and the pirates swarmed up. Then they pulled bamboo poles cut on the road over the top of the wall, placed them inside the wall, and slid down to the ground along the bamboo poles.

After I stepped onto the ground, there was still no movement from the people inside, not even the barking of a dog.

Seeing that more and more people entered safely, Lin Huanong felt relieved and sat on the wall to give orders.

"Don't crowd here, move forward." He whispered to the people who went in first.

The fog was so thick that one could hardly see one's hand in front of one's face. However, this also gave the pirates courage, so they held their swords and guns tightly and groped their way forward.

After walking about 500 meters forward, the people behind me had basically arrived.

Only Lin Zhiling and Lin Zhiying and their men were left behind, and no matter how the people from the Wuyang Trading House urged them, they refused to move forward.

"A thief needs a lookout. We have to watch outside. What if someone steals our way out?" Lin Zhiling argued.

Lin Huanong was about to scold.

"Ah!" Suddenly a scream from inside the wall broke the quiet dawn.

Then, screams could be heard one after another, mixed with the muffled thumps and the sounds of sharp weapons breaking flesh...

"Stop quickly, there is a pit ahead!" Finally someone noticed the problem and hurriedly stopped and shouted behind him.

"No, it's a big ditch!" someone corrected.

But with more than 10,000 people in, it was too crowded, so how could they stop? The people in the front couldn't even stand under the strong push, so they could only keep moving forward.

"ah……"

'Plop', 'Puff'...

The screams continued, and Lin Huanong's scalp went numb. Damn, the Jiangnan Group was like a bunch of pigs, and they must have discovered it.

There was no need for him to keep quiet now, he shouted, "Stop it, damn!"

As if to confirm his guess, he saw a little fire flashing in the distance. Amid a burst of dense gunfire, the pirates gathered in front screamed and fled.

"There's an ambush!" the pirates screamed after realizing it belatedly.

This shout was more effective than anything else. The pirates immediately turned around and their forward momentum stopped at once.

The people behind him scrambled to climb the wall, but the wall was too high to climb up with bare hands. There was no ladder, only a dozen bamboo poles to climb up little by little, how could they all reach the top?

These people were lucky. Gunshots rang out one after another, and people in the front kept falling down with screams. Many people in the middle were pushed down and trampled to death in the chaos.

"Idiots, stacking people up like a pyramid!" Lin Huanong roared and reminded these stupid pirates.

The pirates woke up as if from a dream. The people at the back pushed up those in front, and those at the top pulled up those below, and they tried their best to climb up the wall.

The last group of people were dumbfounded. They pushed everyone else up, so who would support them? They quickly lay on the ground and trembled.

Fortunately, the enemy had no intention of attacking us, and the range of the musket was limited. As long as we stayed a little further away from that big ditch or pit, we would be basically safe.

But in the recent period, it is certain that hundreds of people have been lost.

Lin Huanong was pushed down the wall by the crowd just now, and he didn't dare to go up again. He also often played with the matchlock gun, and knew that the range of this thing was random, and a bullet might be able to shoot a mile away and kill him directly.

"What the hell is going on?" The pirates vented their anger on him.

"Isn't this fucking obvious?" Lin Huanong said angrily, "The enemy has dug a trench inside and ambushed the musketeers beside the trench!"

"No, how can you dig a ditch in the yard?" The pirates couldn't understand. Ditches are not dug like that. "It should be dug outside the yard!"

"Unless," someone with quick thinking thought of a possibility. "The purpose of building this wall is not to keep people out, but to prevent people from escaping!"

"That must be the case! They are clearly setting a trap for us to fall into!" Lin Zhiying immediately echoed loudly: "It seems that they knew we were coming!"

"..." These words were like a basin of cold water, extinguishing the pirates' false fire. No matter how angry Lin Huanong was, he refused to enter the wall again.

If they had taken advantage of the fog to go in and harvest a wave, they would have been able to cheer up. But seeing that the other side had been prepared and had dug traps waiting for the prey to come, they immediately became timid.

Before coming here, it wasn't just Lin Daoquan who told his men that safety came first.

No matter how much the reward is, you have to be alive to receive it!

Fortunately, the main task along the way is to tie down the enemy's energy and disperse the enemy's forces. Making such a big fuss can also be considered as a diversion, right?

After all, these people were not his subordinates, and Lin Huanong did not dare to fight them seriously, so he could only comfort himself in this way.

Then he quickly adjusted his mindset and ordered, "Then be safer. Find a way to break through this wall first! This is safe, right?"

"That's fine." The pirates were very obedient when it came to matters that didn't threaten their lives, and they immediately began to chop at the wall. Seeing that it didn't work, they started to throw rocks at it. They even chopped down a tree, and several people held it together to attack it.

"Mother Diulei, how come it's so strong?" However, it was all in vain, the wall remained motionless.

The pirates were not discouraged and came up with a new idea. Since they couldn't push it down, they could flatten it, which would have the same effect.

Then they looked for stones everywhere and piled soil under the wall with their hands...

Lin Huanong is almost sick of watching this. So, why are you playing me here? You just want to be a coward and let the other two take the lead? Your acting is too poor!

But isn't he acting? The red-haired devil brought so many people with him, and he was trying to trick others into dying first. Who can't see that? Let them chew this hard bone on their own? I can't help him either...

~~

The people in the middle had similar experiences and mental journeys. After being dealt a heavy blow, both the traitors from the Wuyang Trading House and the pirates were reluctant to move in, waiting for the red-haired devils to show their skills.

At six o'clock in the morning, Fernando finally led the team over the new mountain and arrived at the wall.

He listened carefully to the north, but there was no gunfire or shouting.

"They haven't arrived yet, have they?" The adjutant frowned and said, "What a bunch of slow pirates!"

"Impossible." Fernando shook his head. "We have traveled twice as far as they have and have arrived here. They must have arrived earlier."

"Why?" The adjutant asked in confusion, "I'll send someone to contact them immediately."

"I don't know, no need." Fernando shook his head and said, "It's too late!"

It was already daybreak, who knew when the fog would clear? The defenders must have been on high alert now. Once the fog's cover was lost, the casualties on the attackers would surely increase dramatically.

Besides, he had consumables specifically for exploring the way, so he ordered the slave camp to be the vanguard and attack first to test the waters.

As per custom, the Portuguese promised the black slaves freedom and then drove them up the wall!

Despite their nice words, these human traffickers don't even dare to give weapons to the slaves, and there are fully armed supervisory teams following behind them. Anyone who dares to retreat will be killed immediately.

The black slaves naturally had no choice but to charge forward with bare hands under the drive of the supervision team.

The location of the trench was soon discovered at the cost of human lives.

The screams were the signal, and dense gunfire followed, and these poor people fell one after another on the land of a foreign land.

But this account cannot be blamed on Jiangnan Group!

Unlike the other two groups, the Portuguese came for real. Fernando didn't care about the lives of the black slaves and ordered them to either find a way to fill the trench to make a path within half an hour, or let the supervising team throw them all in and fill the trench with their bodies.

Of course, this was not the time to make things difficult for the slaves. He ordered the Annan mercenaries to lay down their weapons, search for stones, and bring them into the wall for the slaves to use to fill the pit.

In fact, the trench was not deep, only about two meters, but it was filled with sharpened bamboo thorns. With the help of the Annan mercenaries, the black slaves braved the hail of bullets and forcibly filled a path in half an hour.

However, Fernando did not let them go. After all the troops entered the wall, he ordered the supervision team to continue driving the black slaves to clear the way.

This trick is very useful when dealing with an opponent who also has a musket, because the musket is too troublesome to load.

Although the fog had not yet dispersed, it was already daybreak, and visibility had improved to 40 to 50 meters. He could finally see that the enemy's musketeers were hiding in the blockhouses in front and behind the bunkers made of sandbags.

"Filho da porra!" Fernando had the same feeling as Lin Huanong. How could they build fortifications inside the courtyard wall?

What a pervert!

He thought that there would be a smooth road after crossing this trench!

But it’s just the beginning…

~~

What does it mean to fortify a base? Young Master Zhao retreated tactically. If he just wanted to build a forward base, why would he need to summon 10,000 craftsmen and migrant workers from Jiangnan and bring so much cement?

From the day he decided to build the base on the easy-to-attack but difficult-to-defend Nan'ao Island, he had been waiting for the red-haired devils to come and take action. With cement, a magical object that can turn a high gorge into a flat lake, Mr. Zhao can naturally turn a thoroughfare into a natural barrier!

But the Portuguese really had no way to retreat, and Fernando quickly suppressed his frustration and drove the black slaves forward with a more ferocious posture!

Following behind the black slaves were 3,000 Annan mercenaries. Unlike those pure consumables, Annan was divided into north and south and had been at war for decades. So these monkey-like little guys were born and raised in war, and made a living by fighting. Naturally, they were cunning and brutal, and quite capable of fighting.

Therefore, the Portuguese had high expectations on them and spared no expense in arming these monkeys. It was up to them to attack the enemy!

And for some reason, those Annan people, who are monkeys in human form, seem to be particularly excited about attacking the Ming people. But in any case, it's good.

In Fernando's opinion, the scene of thousands of people rushing forward under dense gunfire was still very spectacular.

He knew that with the current firing rate of the muskets, it was simply not possible to withstand such a cluster attack!

ps. Post first and correct typos later.