open sea

Chapter 730 Then
At first, Herrera, who saw a big victory in his hands, didn't notice the visitors from the Ming Dynasty pouring out of the dense forest behind him.

Because the aborigines did not break through their lines, everyone in the mixed-blood legion focused their attention on the front. At the beginning, the Ming army walked out of the dense forest very far and lightly, so no one noticed the changes in the rear.

Shao Bianjiao was the first to walk out of the forest. As the main general of the battlefield, he was not in the middle of the formation, but led a hundred households at the end of the formation, and walked out from the dense forest in the west at the southernmost end of the battlefield.

No one wants to fight with a sloppy image, and the hundreds of households under Shao Bianjiao's command reached an agreement before going out to give the Banner Army five minutes to sort out their appearance.

But even so, the embarrassment of walking through the dense forest after landing could not be cleaned up in a short while. Although they were not in rags when they came out of the forest, their appearance was far from when they first left Beiyang.

Some were carrying big round wheels, some were carrying axles, some were carrying cart frames, and some were carrying arrow rests. All the households were leading a few small donkeys with all kinds of rockets on their backs. It was so messy in the jungle. Get out.

Suddenly bright.

Everyone didn't speak, but only communicated with gestures. Zhen Kaiyuan, a hundred households behind Shao Bianjiao, quickly commanded the flag army to set up a burst formation, and a small flag soldier quickly assembled the rocket vehicle, and the twelve rockets were inserted into the launch platform.

After finishing all this, Shao Bianjiao finally breathed a sigh of relief, and several flag bearers behind him carefully took out military flags of various colors from their arms, strung them on long poles in their hands, and issued orders to the other hundred households who were still hiding in the forest.

They are the only long soldiers among the twelve hundred households. This is also the disadvantage of this Ming army. It is very difficult to walk through the primitive jungle with only a few flagpoles. Long soldiers, they may have been exhausted by now.

This is their very fatal disadvantage. Without long soldiers, it means that they need to use bird guns to win. Even if they are equipped with gun thorns, they can only have a slight advantage in length when facing short soldiers, and they cannot compete with the Spaniards' long soldiers. Spear confrontation.

So Shao Bianjiao has a plan to win by hitting the big luck. If possible, he wants to shoot Herrera directly to death with a rocket three miles away.

This is also the reason why he is not in the central army at this moment and ran to the right flank. After all, the weapon he used was not a heavy artillery. If it was a ten-jin heavy artillery, it is possible to achieve this goal by collecting five guns and firing a salvo from three miles away.

But the weapon he wants to use is a rocket, which has little to do with the shooter's talent, basically it can be fired when it is almost aligned.

It's Schrödinger's precision anyway.

Whether the cannon is fired accurately or not can be known when the shell flies out, but this is not the case with the rocket.

Even if the rocket flies out, no one knows whether it will hit accurately or not until the rocket hits the ground. Before it hits the ground, no one knows whether it will hit or not.

This kind of thing... Shao Bianjiao felt that he had to do it himself. He had to release the 48 newly-made magic machine arrows by himself, so that he would not blame others in his heart if he could not shoot correctly.

Good for everyone.

The biggest problem is not the accuracy of the rocket, the key is that Shao Bianjiao doesn't know where Herrera is.

Under normal circumstances, the generals of the Ming army would be in the central army, but whether the generals of the Western army also had this habit, Shao Bianjiao didn't know.

What if the family is with the cavalry?

He looked to the north through the binoculars. The three phalanxes behind the Western Army did not move after the victory, and did not join the team that took advantage of the victory. This saved him a lot of energy. The distance is exactly the maximum range of the rocket.

"Western Army formation, Western Army stronghold, rocket launcher, three points and one line... we have to move two hundred steps to the east."

Shao Bianjiao talked about the distance himself, and commanded the hundred households to move eastward. At the same time, he ordered the first three hundred households to prepare to seize the military stronghold, and the remaining eight hundred households assembled on the left side of the military stronghold.

Groups of flag troops walked out of the forest and marched slowly behind the Western Army. Although the Herrera Legion fighting in front hadn't noticed their intention until this time, the bell of the Western Army's camp was ringing .

The bell the size of an iron bucket was rang again and again by the rope connected to the ram by a monk-like person. The first few hundred households who approached the military village immediately stopped and looked at the army formation where Shao Bianjiao was. They were found !
"That's it, stop the arrow chariot!" Shao Bianjiao's expression also changed. He only thought about not letting the Herrera Legion in the north find out, but he forgot that there were also people staying behind in the Western Army camp, so he simply boarded the arrow chariot Quickly adjusted the launch position, and did not forget to order the flag bearer: "Order the four hundred households of the former army to form a round attack formation and prepare to meet the enemy!"

"Go and show me where the rocket landed!"

Although the accuracy of the rocket is beyond the control of manpower, there is still a general direction. Right now, his army formation is still dozens of steps away from the three-point line. Shao Bianjiao is afraid that the three phalanxes left behind by the Westerners will make some moves. Even when the rocket is empty, adjust the position and immediately jump off the arrow cart and pull off the trigger connected to the side of the shooting platform next to the cart.

This thing is also flint.

The iron and stone collided, sparks ignited the rocket, and the sound of chirping sounded on the launch platform. Amidst the sharp whistling sound, the rockets one after another rushed forward at an oblique angle to the sky, and then fell heavily due to the gunpowder and fragments. The warhead reached its highest point six or seven hundred steps away, and then fell down.

Not every rocket can fly that far. One of the rockets may have been sprayed in the wrong direction when it was launched from the platform. It was far from flying so high. In front of a monk in the military camp.

The medicine was not burnt out, even if it landed on the camp tent first to make a hole, it still slammed on the ground, knocked the monk to jump around his legs, and then ran out from another place, slamming left and running in the camp.

Most of the rockets still landed steadily on the heads of the three companies of the Western Army according to the preset direction according to the trajectory. Whether they can blow up people is another matter, at least the direction is roughly correct.

In fact, within eight or nine breaths, one explosion sounded in the north after another, Shao Bianjiao ignored it, and he was so busy asking the left and right flag troops to help him put the next rocket into the firing platform.

The rockets falling from the sky really reminded Herrera that the enemy was coming from behind. No one expected such a shocking change. Just as the ears heard the screaming sound, the rockets were scattered all over the sky when they looked back, smashing down with overwhelming force.

Through the scattered rockets, people could see the edge of the jungle not far away. At some point, an army in dark blue uniforms was standing in a neat formation. Their flags were unfurled, with words that Herrera couldn't understand written on them.

Everyone knows that the Ming army is coming!

A rocket fell straight at Herrera, who fortunately had a musketeer beside him.

I don't know whether to say that the musketeer was unlucky or a lucky star. The rocket hit his high-topped helmet like a missile. The huge momentum deformed the high-topped helmet, and naturally the head under the helmet couldn't be kept.

The rocket iron warhead with rough prefabricated fragmentation process could not withstand such a large force, and the fragment layer outside the iron shell of the explosive broke through cracks in the deformed helmet.

Herrera thought it was an unknown projectile weapon of the Ming army, looked at the musketeer who was smashed to death with lingering fear, and at the same time laughed in her heart at this kind of weapon that was as powerful as it was small and rare.

Then it exploded.

(End of this chapter)