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Chapter 732 Devil
A Beiyang Banner Army fell.

The hundred households holding the flag at the front of the queue touched their chests and abdomens up and down, only feeling the smooth arc of the breastplate and the pattern of brazed braze.

And of course my own beating heart.

Too scary!

After a distance of 150 steps, several gunshots came towards the army formation. Standing at the front of the formation, the helpless Baihu had a tall back, and in fact, his hand holding the flagpole was sweating greasy.

Fifteen steps behind him are two chief flag officers on the left and one on the right, and five small flag officers on the left and right behind the chief flag officer. Only seeing them standing on a single stand like himself Only the figure in front of the battle gave Baihu some comfort.

At this time, Baihu was very envious of his deputy. Baihu, the deputy banner, five other small banner officers and the military doctor were all behind the long snake formation, so they didn't have to be shot.

"Chen Shuai's formation is extremely wicked. Although the officers are supplemented by the preaching function in the formation to ensure that the army formation will not collapse to the greatest extent...but the fucking officers are easy to collapse first! '

Baihu walked forward in a very weird posture, taking the standard flag-handling posture that the Beiyang Military Mansion had practiced countless times, holding a triangular dragon flag inlaid on his chest, and striding forward to the beat of the drummers in the army formation, But the head is tilted backwards, scanning to the left for a while, and scanning to the right for a while.

He looked at it three times, and indeed only one bannerman fell, and the bannerman behind took a big step to fill the space in front, and the military doctor at the back of the army quickly stepped forward to inspect the injury, and if he died, he left it alone for the time being. Untie the armor, bruise with wine, and bandage with medicine, and then don't have to step forward to follow the team.

Because it is stated in the Beiyang Military Medical Exercise Code that the casualties will not be broken during the battle, and the military doctors only need to continue to go forward to find the wounded and bandage them.

The distance between the formations of the two sides shortened more slowly than expected. The Ming army kept moving forward without firing guns. However, the mixed-blood legion tried to parallel the Ming army. The two rear phalanxes moved southward, and only the first small phalanx moved toward the south. The Ming army shoots.

The musketeers in the front row take two steps back after shooting, and take advantage of the gap in the queue to retreat to the end of the musketeers and charge the spearman next to the spearman. Constantly pouring firepower on the Ming army's hundred-household team.

This made their fire very consistent, and despite extreme inaccuracies at long distances, the continuity of fire was maximized.

However, the Ming army was advancing faster than they were retreating, the distance between the two sides was constantly shortening, and extremely strange situations appeared on the battlefield, which made both sides uncomfortable.

The hundred households of the Ming army were constantly being shot by the Spaniards. Although the Spaniards did not have many muskets and their long-range accuracy was poor, it still made people anxious when one or two subordinates fell from time to time.

The mixed-race people felt even more uncomfortable. The hundreds of households of the Ming army who wore breastplates and skirts on the uniform dark blue military uniform gave people a sense of oppression. Sometimes they clearly saw bullets hitting each other, but they just paused and continued. forward.

Even if someone was shot in the face and fell on their backs, the entire army formation did not cry out or fear, and everyone continued to move forward without changing their faces, holding muskets but not firing, and no one even shouted during the march, like a group of devils, only drum.

There is no music, no tunes, only a powerful and coherent sound that seems to beat the rhythm of the heartbeat - silently moving forward.

As they began to fight, the Southern Hundreds, under Shao Bianjiao's order, ran northward from behind the fighting Hundreds, trying to press the Spanish formation to the southeast towards the river, where the only small bridge was. .

Shao Bianjiao left the four hundred teams in the rear, and stood facing west. Under the leadership of the engineers, they took out short shovels from the carrying gear hanging on their backs, and dug a lying hole on the spot.

The riders who ran over couldn't fool Shao Bianjiao, even he was surprised that the Spanish army didn't break out after the rocket bombed. When battling the third company, he used binoculars on the mountain to see clearly with his adoptive father.

And Herrera withdrew another hundred steps to the east. Obviously, the western army wanted to pinch them. For Shao Bianjiao, the combat thinking of the two sides was contradictory, and he had to jump into it even though he knew it was a trap.

He wants to oppress Herrera from northwest to southeast, and must also oppress Herrera from northwest to southeast. Only in this way can the Western Army retreat to the opposite bank when it is at a disadvantage. At that time, the Western Army will no longer have a formation——Black Yunlong's cavalry is over there.

Herrera retreated a full [-] steps, and all three companies entered the combat position. More than [-] musketeers in the front all joined in the shooting, and a volley could fire [-] shots.

Fortunately, the Ming army also had four hundred teams entering the formation. Although there were fewer people, the deeper and thinner Ming army formation was close to the 800-man phalanx formed by three Spanish companies.

Now the western army can shoot down two or three flag troops in one volley. Shao Bianjiao tested the distance between the two sides with his eyesight, and it was already very close to forty steps.

Shao Bianjiao wanted to fire the blunderbuss at 800 steps. The Spaniards had less than 400 blunderbuss with more than [-] people, but his four front row households with less than [-] people had more than [-] blunderbusses. There are nearly a hundred people on the other side.

If they continue to retreat, the second burst of fire can knock down more than 50 people; if they do not retreat and counterattack, in addition to the three hundred teams defending the north behind the four hundred households, there will also be a reserve team of three hundred households behind. A hundred guns can also hit them back.

But the plan couldn't keep up with the changes.

At a distance of seventy steps, a general flag was shot in the chest by a lead shot. He patted the dent on the chest of the flag army behind him, and continued to lead the team forward as if nothing had happened. This greatly boosted the morale of the flag army and made everyone They all moved forward with more enthusiasm.

But at fifty steps, the general flag was too unlucky, and was shot down by the musket again. This time he didn't stand up again. Although he was only injured, it brought great psychological pressure to the flag army behind.

Not only was the spirit of the half-breed who had been retreating being oppressed by the Ming army, but the spirit of the Beiyang Banner Army had almost collapsed.

Shao Bianjiao walked quickly from behind the front line to the front, drew his waist knife at the right front of the front line, the musicians in the army blew the suona, and the suona changed its tone and blared for a long time, the drums of each team stopped abruptly, and the banging troops stopped.

Another short sound of the suona, the bird guns carried on the shoulders were put down, and a row of bird guns loaded with ammunition were lifted up and aimed at the front.

The drum beat stopped suddenly, and the action of the Ming army even caused the three small Spanish phalanxes on the opposite side to pause, as if they would not be able to walk without the drumbeat.

When the third suona sounded in unison, the neat blunderbuss sounded across the battlefield, and a cloud of gunpowder smoke exploded in front of the long formation of the Ming army. The front musketeer and side spearmen of the Spanish army fell in response.

Boom... Boom!

Two drum sounds, the gunners who have finished firing retreat, and the gunners in the second and third rows step forward.

The rhythm of the suona musicians blowing the bugle is extremely precise. Every four breaths, the gun is raised, four breaths are fired, and four breaths are retreated to ensure that the gunner who hits the round has enough time to aim, shoot, charge, and shoot again.

The standard of the Beiyang Banner Army is to complete a burst of fire in 36 breaths. In terms of shooting speed alone, it is slightly slower than the Spaniards’ backward shooting speed, but it is more coherent. The key is... the same width, they have more guns and more firepower. ferocious.

One shot, two shots, three shots!
Shao Bianjiao, who was not obscured by the gunpowder smoke on the right side, was overturned. The Spaniard didn't fight back or retreat, just stood there and was shot!

He is not the Spaniard who shoots so many guns from such a long distance. Each burst can make the Spaniards lie down dozens of people. The Spaniards seemed to be petrified, and they didn't do anything, and some even fled towards the Ming army's front with their hearts covered with lard.

He thought that he could use this opportunity to defeat the enemy in one go, and was about to turn his head to order the musicians to change their tactics with gestures, but when he turned to the left, his face changed color.

It was a sudden look of panic from complacent ecstasy, even the fine hairs on his face were blown up, as if there was a chill rushing from the top of the sky to the tailbone.

The extremely distorted face was stunned for a moment, and the ferocious face shouted with the greatest strength in its life.

"Up—gun—stab!"

In the sound of roaring horseshoes, sharp spearheads pierced through the gunpowder smoke earlier than ferocious armored war horses, and trampled towards the soldiers!

(End of this chapter)