open sea

Chapter 761 Rolling
Shao Tingda thought that he would also be bombarded by others. He had thought about it since the first time he turned off the cannon and showed his power in Guangzhou Fucheng. He was very afraid of this situation in his heart.

Once the gun comes over, don't care whether you wear armor or ride a horse or not, everyone is gone.

When this scene really happened before his eyes, why did he want to laugh so much?

The frontier cavalry of the Western Army assembled thousands of paces away. The four or five mile wide canyon was neither wide nor narrow. They seemed to think that it was a relatively safe distance, because the Ming army hiding in the barrier trenches did not Give up your defensive advantage and attack them.

Under the cover of the cavalry, some aborigines who arrived first, who lacked armor and weapons, and mercenaries who looked like mobs at first, cleaned up the gravel on both sides of the official road and tried to clear the defensive facilities set up by the Ming army.

There are no defensive facilities.

The Ming army dug three trenches ten steps outside the trenches of the barrier wall, alternately placed Jumas from fifty to two hundred steps, and scattered barbed wire on the grass outside the official road, but there was nothing beyond two hundred steps.

Originally, Shao Tingda wanted to plant some simple landmines, but this idea was rejected because the Ming army did not have enough spare gunpowder at the port.

The most important order for the supply fleet returning to the mainland of the Ming Dynasty was to bring enough saltpeter in autumn. It was saltpeter. He didn’t even want gunpowder. There was no shortage of sulfur and charcoal here. Transporting saltpeter would allow them to make more gunpowder.

The Ming army still had a lot of food. The crops in Asia and the turkeys running around greatly enriched their diet. The most serious problem they faced was the lack of gunpowder.

After Deng Zilong led the fleet to leave with enough gunpowder for a large-scale naval battle, the port of Acapulco, which had the largest gunpowder reserves, ran out of gunpowder.

Of course, the gunpowder used by the Banner Army is still sufficient, but even including the two warehouses at Zhuangyuan Bridge in Jincheng and Majiagang in Ma County, their spare gunpowder is not enough to fully arm the fleet again.

This time, the Western Army chose a large square formation and used thousands of musketeers in front, more spearmen in the back, and swords and shields in the middle. The two wings were completely handed over to the cavalry, and the momentum was huge.

In the gap between the mighty phalanx and the light cavalry on both wings, a dozen soldiers pushed four Franco cannon carts at the front of the formation.

Four doors, wrought iron bar-type small-caliber Francophones, mounted on four small artillery carts as big as small wheels, placed in front of a huge army formation that looked like more than five thousand in the congested canyon.

When Shao Tingda fought against Chen Mu, he only saw a similar situation when he went to the battlefield to suppress the rebellion for the second time, but even at that time, Chen Mu, who was the general banner, had Wankou guns and Dafulang machine guns under his hands.

Originally, Shao Tingda felt that he needed to use his eight ten-jin general Zhenshuo to confront them, and try to destroy the enemy artillery team before the battle started, but judging by this posture...he didn't think these four small artillery pieces were worth wasting gunpowder and gunpowder. They boom.

But gunpowder packs, skids, and shells had already been stuffed into the gun barrels when the Western Army stopped for a thousand steps, and his artillery had to blast out for a while.

Shao Tingda looked at the four Franco cannons with binoculars from behind the barrier wall with his arms folded, and said to the left and right: "Tell the artillery team not to rush to bombard them, wait for the enemy to advance and hit them, and then put them at six hundred paces before Hitting, bombing, this small cannon is a waste, and it may not be accurate."

"Tell the ministries to squat down as soon as the enemy fires."

The order was issued in this way. In fact, all the flag officers under his command knew what to do if he didn't order it. He was just worried that some flag officers would ask for help and cause unnecessary casualties.

After all, in the Ming army's drill code, the maximum range of the small-caliber Franco cannon used by the Western army was only two miles.

Bernal rode a tall, pure white horse back and forth in front of the formation. He knew that the Ming army had set up fortifications in the canyon, but the fortifications looked very simple, so he hoped to persuade them to surrender directly, but according to the European custom, he rode over to meet the Ming army. The commander didn't dare to meet him.

After all, judging from previous battles, the Ming army did not seem to have this habit.

In the end, he sent a rider to ride to the center of the two armies holding the New Spain cross flag and look at this side. The meaning is obvious.

Shao Tingda also sent a rider who knew Spanish, and he came back with a grumbling expression and reported to Shao Tingda, "General, those who persuaded him to surrender said that they have [-] troops, cannons and so on, and they talk a lot of bullshit."

"Fa... don't make a fuss, the military doctor will get me a white flag and pen and ink, aren't they willing to wave the flag!"

Shao Tingda doesn't believe that the Western Army has [-] troops, and the strength of both sides is basically clear, who can fool who!

Not long after, the white cloth came, and Shao Tingda drew a panda head with a brush, and asked the rider to send it to the other side, saying: "Tell them to wave this when you surrender, iron-eating beast."

He still accidentally heard Zhao Shizhen say that when the Jin Dynasty surrendered in ancient times, they would raise the bamboo-eating Pixiu. He felt that waving such a flag on the battlefield was very stupid, and it was a good helper to humiliate the enemy.

When the flag was handed over to the cavalryman, Shao Tingda did not forget to give a few words of advice, saying: "Give him the flag first, and then tell him to surrender. Hold the knife in your hand and stay away from it too far, and wait for him to go back first."

The process of the delivery and lowering of the flags between the two parties did not draw swords as Shao Tingda feared, but the Spanish riders in the binoculars were dumbfounded. They held the panda flags and looked at them for a long time before returning to the battle helplessly.

Europeans have never seen rolling.

The negotiating cavalry didn't have much reaction to the lowered flag, but Bernal was different. He threw the white flag on the ground angrily, and at the same time stepped on the horse's hoof, he gave the artillery an order to bombard the enemy.

The Spanish gunners next to the four Franco cannons had already made preparations, and the matchlock was wrapped around the long-rod odd-shaped weapon to ignite the gunpowder.

Shao Tingda's infantry, protected by bunkers, did not respond to the firing of these small cannons. They just squatted down according to the military order and retracted their heads that might be exposed outside the barrier wall. What was really afraid of them was the cavalry of Hei Yunlong behind them.

As soon as they heard that they were about to fire the cannon, the horsemen looked at each other, but they were restricted by the military order and did not dare to move around. Only after Hei Yunlong gave the order, the entire cavalry formation formed a horizontal formation at the mouth of the canyon and retreated. The Taniguchi side was relieved.

But as soon as he went around Hei Yunlong, he couldn't restrain his curiosity, and rode his horse to explore the valley mouth, he wanted to witness the battle with his own eyes.

Cannonballs whizzed towards the Ming army's position, and the Spanish artillery over there had already unloaded the smoking gun and replaced it with another cartridge, ready to fire.

A cannonball flew crookedly to the mountain wall, then fell heavily and made a crater in the ground; a cannonball the size of a child's fist smashed through a horse, jumped more than thirty steps and fell to the ground; On the other hand, it was embedded into the Ming military fortification more than a dozen steps very simply, perhaps due to the angle of incidence, the bullets did not bounce.

Only the last one was very accurate, and it hit a section of the barrier wall where Shao Tingda was. When the two collided, they made a strange sound.

Bang!
Shao Tingda, who squatted on the ground with a goose feather knife behind the barrier, smiled. Although the barrier wall made of wooden bones, cement, and sand and stone was not thick, it was also built to guard against Spanish heavy guns. Machine guns still have unparalleled defense!
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