open sea

Chapter 729
In the dense forest, birds and beasts were startled away by the continuous gunshots in the distance. Under the dense branches, at a distance of a thousand steps from south to north, the nerves of the heavily armed Ming army were tense.

The Ming army was only three miles away from the battlefield, and a hundred steps away from the bushes was the battlefield where Indians and Spanish mixed blood fought, so that their ears were filled with roars and screams in different languages, but they could not try to observe the situation on the battlefield .

Many of them are on the battlefield for the first time. Although they have practiced various tactical moves countless times in Beiyang, when they go into battle, everyone can't escape the hurdle of nervousness.

"General, are the western cavalry still out?"

The same is true for Baihu, who is a junior officer. He became anxious before the start. He had waited too long for this moment, and a Baihu went to the sick seedling under the tree to rest his eyes and complained: "Why don't we attack?" , They don’t have many cavalry, and if they don’t attack the natives, they will be defeated!”

Even if they didn't see what the battlefield looked like, they could still imagine that the aborigines were no match for the elite Spanish army.
It has not been defeated yet, compared to relying on a large number of troops, it will always be defeated if it cannot be attacked for a long time.

Shao Bianjiao could hold his breath very well, sitting cross-legged under the tree, twisting the beads in his hands, turned his head and rolled his eyes to look at the hundred households beside him named Zhen Kaiyuan, and sneered: "There are not many cavalry?"

"That's not too much. The two wings cover a total of more than a hundred horses. They are all heavy armored cavalry. Unless we rush over in the woods, we have few spearmen. If we go out to form an formation, we will be trampled flat, not to mention whether the spears can be stopped. Cavalry, even if it is stopped."

"With your bludgeon stabbing skills, the enemy's three soldiers can take advantage of the situation to cover up and kill them... Have you ever been on the battlefield?"

The sick young man has the appearance of a general, and he pointed out to the hundreds of households under his command: "What Shao Shuai wants is the defeat of the natives. Only when the natives are defeated, the heavy cavalry of the Western Army will take advantage of the situation to cover up and kill them, and separate them from the army. Our chance is to save a few people from dying."

He has fought several battles with Shao Tingda, and he is close to the center again, so he knows better how the general thinks about the situation in the battle, and said to Baihu: "If you have time to panic, go and take care of the arrows of the Shenwei mechanism, that big thing will be needed later. Follow the army."

The twelve hundred families lined up from north to south to the east, and the sick child was at the end. He glanced at the hundred families who were ordered to leave, and twisted the prayer beads in his hand again. He was not fighting for the souls that died on the battlefield. Chaodu, he is not a monk, he just borrows the Buddha beads to count.

The maximum range of the new mechanism arrow is three and a half miles in elevation angle, and the propellant will burn out between eight and twelve breaths, and then the explosive will explode. One arrow can blast a radius of five steps, but twelve rockets will be scattered depending on luck. Between twenty and a hundred steps in a radius.

Except for the nearly ten-fold increase in the power of the new God Machine Arrow, the rest of the power, accuracy, and stability have not improved at all compared to the previous ones, and are even relatively inaccurate due to the longer range.

Lu Yong's 50-link magic machine arrow can release more than [-] catties of gunpowder at one time, which can make a volley of ten five catties of general Zhenshuo shoot once, but the power is far inferior.

The sick child twitched his lips, a plaything for the rich!
It's useful in combat though.

The low-pitched trumpets sounded from a distance, and it seemed that the shouts of killing were louder. Shao Tingda, who was on the southwest mountain, saw the changes in the battlefield situation most clearly. From his position, the entire battlefield situation was clear at a glance.

One-sided slaughter.

The Spanish companies formed an army formation, unlike the Ming army which is used to directly displaying the army of horses and horses. Herrera placed the two companies at the front, and the rest of the square formation was slightly pushed back. It is to deliberately leave a gap for the enemy to invade.

If he hadn't seen how they fought, Shao Tingda would probably lead his army into the gap with their heads covered.

But in fact, it was a bait and a trap, a glass of poisoned wine, so clear and seductive, that it passed through the intestines.

In Shao Tingda's eyes, the huge army of the aborigines seemed to be 8000 to [-] people, which was simply innumerable. Not long after the Spaniards left the camp, they loomed from the forest, and then attacked from the north and northwest toward the western army formation.

Musketeers, archers, and infantry with wooden shields, axes and spears, all tribes are also forming formations, which are a hollow square formation consisting of four square formations on four sides, and the open space in the middle is reserved for Their general walked forward slowly.

The two armies approached slowly for a long time, and more than a hundred cavalry of the aborigines were behind the formation, and slowly moved south along the river bank at the easternmost end of the battlefield.

Compared with the soldiers of the Spanish Mixed Blood Legion, the aborigines' armaments are too crude. They only have a few breastplates, almost all of which are equipped on the cavalry. Armor is different.

They used two pieces of cotton armor cloth tied on the chest, front and back with ropes to protect the neck above the thighs, and many of them were simply shirtless.

Even the generals in the middle of each phalanx have very simple weapons. Although they are dressed in full costumes like the generals of various countries, their full costumes are hats with feathers and animal heads, and animal skins made of metal on their waists. A skirt or cloak decorated with bones, the only real protection is the two breastplates on the chest.

Each general has a different attire, but the same thing is that they are all covered with tattoos.

When the aboriginal army attacked the mixed-blood phalanx outside the formation of the two independent armies, Shao Tingda even felt that the Ming army might not be needed for this battle. so.

There was a gap of about a hundred steps between the two phalanxes, and each was isolated. Before the musketeers could shoot, they were attacked by countless feather arrows, which caused great harm to the musketeers who lacked armor. trouble.

In a blink of an eye, the musketeers in the northwest corner of the west formation and the northeast corner of the east formation fell under the rain of arrows, and even the third-tier musketeers outside the spearmen were killed.

The western army could only bombard the approaching aborigine army formation with Franco cannons made of wrought iron bars. Although the range was only [-] paces, the aborigine army formation was very dense, which ensured that every cannon could hit accurately. Smash several people or even dozens of people.

When the distance was closer, the musketeers on both sides began to shoot at each other, and the Spaniards had more muskets. Within the range of the muskets, the aboriginal army began to suffer casualties, although they surrounded the two army formations in a semi-encircled formation. But in fact, this just maximizes the firepower of the Spanish phalanx.

Shao Tingda could only see gunpowder smoke on both sides of the two phalanxes, and the aborigines outside were almost stepping on corpses and approaching.

An aboriginal phalanx retreated, and another aboriginal phalanx rushed forward. It was difficult for them to rush forward and start hand-to-hand combat amidst the continuous shooting of the musketeers.

The Spaniards' musketeers did not shoot in bursts. Except for the initial volley, they began to shoot at random. Whoever loaded the gunpowder first would shoot first, but they had a lot of musketeers to ensure that the firepower was dense enough.

The real massacre began after the encirclement.

A large number of aborigines poured into the gap between the two phalanxes, and the aboriginal army tried to wrap the two phalanxes and continue to attack the rear phalanx. This kind of combat thinking is not a problem even in Shao Tingda's view—where is there a phalanx? Can it maintain its combat power after being besieged?

The ensuing fight changed his mind.

When the two sides approached, the spearmen in the center of the phalanx put down their spears, and the musketeers withdrew into the interior. The hedgehog-like spear formation prevented the aborigines from entering. among the aborigines.

Spears and muskets came out together, clearing a path of blood in the middle of the formation in a blink of an eye, and then began to retreat, while the three phalanxes at the back began to attack forward at the same time, continuing to squeeze the aboriginal army in the middle of the phalanx.

Only then did Shao Tingda understand that it was not the aborigines who surrounded them, but they divided and surrounded the aboriginal army.

The firepower between the various phalanxes would not cause accidental injury due to the distance, but it could hit the aborigines very well. In a blink of an eye, the aboriginal fighters who survived the frustrated front-line army began to retreat, and then turned into a rout.

The heavy trumpet sounded, and the heavily armored cavalry on both wings of the Western Army roared out.

Shao Tingda raised his hand, took a deep breath, and said, "Raise the flag, it's our turn!"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)