Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 868 The confrontation between the Ming army and the coalition army!

In the morning of the next day, scouts from both sides fought back and forth in the wilderness more than ten miles away from each other's camps.

Since the scouts of the Ming army have higher skills and better equipment, they have a clear advantage overall and continue to compress the space for the coalition's scouting.

So, before noon, the coalition commander Juan had to order the entire army to advance northward to solve the problem of the compressed space for investigation.

After Zhu Cijiong heard the news, he ordered the scouts of the Ming army to shrink, and prepared to let all the troops wait for work in the prepared positions.

Juan can become the chief general of the Spanish army with tens of thousands of people and the commander of the coalition army, so he is naturally not a mediocre and incompetent person.After he learned of this situation, he ordered the army to re-campaign at the selected reserve location.

At this time, the distance between the two armies was less than ten miles.

In the afternoon, scouts from both sides began to fight around the battlefield, continuing to compete for the scouting space, but neither side's armies moved.

And so waited until night fell.

Neither side risked night raids, which in this day and age are often a last resort.

Although many successful night raids have been recorded in the history of many cultures and have been recited by later generations, there are far more failed night raids in the entire history of warfare.

In this way, both sides restrainedly waited until the next day.

The coalition forces continued to advance northward, and the various ministries dispersed one after another, forming a faint fan shape, intending to encircle the Ming army's position.

"If we really let them surround us, then the battle will be passive." Fang Yuanzhang reminded.

Zhu Cijiong nodded, "Then take the initiative to march and defeat them!"

After speaking, Zhu Cijiong issued orders one by one, and the various ministries of the Ming army immediately acted according to the orders.

The most prominent one is the third battalion of Dingwang's pro-army led by Wang Jinbao, also known as the vanguard battalion.

Of course, their equipment is second only to the guards in the Prince Ding's army.

Woo~woo!
With the sound of the Ming army's horn, the Pioneer Battalion advanced in a semi-fan shape with the whistle as the unit, seized more than a dozen favorable terrains in front, and built a temporary position.

At the same time, the servant army of tens of thousands of people also launched a charge to this place under the urging of the Spanish supervising team.

The cowhide drums in the team were rumbling, and the Indian warriors rushed forward with strange screams like wild beasts in the jungle.

The Pioneer Battalion, as a rapid assault force, did not carry bright cannons, but had hundreds of tiger crouching cannons.

When the Indian soldiers entered within [-] steps of the Ming army's temporary position, Wang Jinbao immediately ordered to fire.

With the clearer sound of tiger crouching guns, a burst of shotguns splashed out, causing the Indian servants rushing to the front to fall in pieces, and also stagnating the momentum of the rear servants.

Seeing how powerful the Ming army's tigers squat and cannon, no one is willing to rush to die.

But the Spanish warlord team didn't want to see a shrinking servant army, and immediately ordered them to continue attacking.

"What are you afraid of? Mingren's artillery only has one round. As long as you are brave enough and run fast enough, you can rush in and chop off Mingren's head!

General Juan had said before the war that a celebrity's head can be exchanged for a silver coin!
But if someone does not obey orders to advance, or escapes, he will be shot on the spot! "

Under the threat and lure of the supervising team, nearly ten thousand servants burst into strange noises again, and rushed towards the various positions occupied by the vanguard battalion.

The Ming army was not polite. During a dozen posts, the gunners loaded the shotgun as quickly as possible and continued to shell.

The musketeers also shot in groups or in groups after the Indian warriors rushed into range.

There were too many servants, and after suffering heavy casualties, someone finally rushed to their attacking distance, either with bows and arrows, or with spears, to fight back against the Ming army.

Bows and arrows can't break through the defense of the enlightened army's cotton armor at all, and naturally they can't hurt the Ming army.

Throwing guns is okay, but unfortunately, there are too few Indian soldiers who can successfully throw the short guns in their hands and hit the Ming army. Hit down.

After suffering heavy casualties, the Indian slave army finally rushed into the Ming army's position, and fought hand-to-hand with the Ming army as they wished.

It is a pity that the Ming army wore iron helmets and cotton armor, and the flintlock guns with bayonets could be used as short spears. They often carried waist knives and small round shields on their bodies, and they were all fierce and fierce.

On the other hand, most of the servants only had animal skins, at most made leather armor.The weapons are just ordinary cold weapons, not sophisticated.The food he eats on weekdays is also very average, and even when he is hungry, his physical fitness is naturally average.

Therefore, a soldier of the Ming army can often fight three or five soldiers of the Indian slave army.

The most important thing is that not long after they rushed into the Ming army's position, other Ming troops behind them came up to meet them. After a severe beating, most of the servants were killed directly, and the rest also retreated in a panic.

When the frontal battlefield was fiercely fought, Antoine also led two thousand cavalry from around to the side according to the plan, preparing to look for opportunities to attack the Ming army's flanks.

Domingo led [-] Portuguese soldiers to go around far away from the other direction, attempting to attack the Ming army's rear.

Juan knew that this battle had reached a critical moment, and only by achieving breakthrough results from the front could Antoine's cavalry find opportunities from the side.As for the Pu army behind Domingo, it will become a "fatal blow" that will defeat the Ming army.

Therefore, he forced the remaining [-] servants to continue charging, and at the same time pressed all the [-] Spanish infantry he led, not only as a supervisor of the servants, but also as a follow-up force to attack the front of the Ming army's position.

As for the [-] French infantry and the [-] Portuguese infantry, they were kept around as a supervisory team and reserve team.

In the exciting marching music of Spain, tens of thousands of Spanish soldiers were divided into three infantry regiments to form three improved Spanish infantry phalanxes.

The firearms of the traditional Spanish infantry phalanx accounted for only [-]%, mostly spearmen, supplemented by a small amount of sword and shield soldiers.

However, in order to adapt to the age of firearms, the improved Spanish infantry phalanx has as many as [-]% musketeers, and it is also equipped with artillery companies.In addition, the sword and shield soldiers were completely eliminated, and the spearmen were changed to contradictory hands, and they only accounted for [-]%.

Seeing the extremely well-organized three Spanish infantry phalanxes moving unswervingly northward in the rear, the fear in the servants' hearts drove them to continue charging northward.

Only some Indian warriors, such as Huabao, had different expressions on their faces, secretly communicating something——

They are actually not that many in number, so they are waiting for an opportunity, a chance to fight back!

Above the battlefield, a miniature bird's-eye-view drone is circling the sky at a slow speed, recording all the scenes below.

In the camp of the Ming army, Aimee Zhu looked serious.

Through the first-person perspective of a bird's-eye drone, she really saw the cruelty of war.Even though she had seen a lot of dead people fighting before, this person's expression was still a bit ugly.

Even so, she still insisted on watching the war with a bird's-eye view drone, and informed Zhu Cijiong, who was commanding the battle ahead, of some important information.

"Tell me, Brother Wang, that a Portuguese army of more than 1000 people has circled behind our camp from the west, and is likely to attack the camp.

In addition, there is a nearly 2000 French cavalry on the west side of the battlefield, and it seems that they are preparing to attack the flanks of the front position! "

Following Aimee Zhu's words, Ming Mei immediately took out a walkie-talkie and relayed these words to Zhu Cijiong's liaison officer.

At the same time, Zhu Cijiong stood on a lookout car behind the Ming army's position in front of him. Through the binoculars, he saw three Spanish infantry phalanxes marching northward firmly, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"It's finally time for you." He put down the binoculars, and said to the orderly at the side: "Send the king's military order, and the artillery team fires at the intended target! In this battle, the king will break the backbone of the Spanish army in America!"

(End of this chapter)