open sea

Chapter 779
The deep horn sounded again and again on the battlefield, and the long echoes in the canyon paused in everyone's hearts.

When the five phalanxes of the Western Army entered the firing range first, they put the fork of the heavy-duty matchlock gun in front of them 150 steps away, and followed the military order to shoot a row of gunpowder smoke.

Heavy heavy muskets have unparalleled lethality. Although the calibers of each musket handmade in different places are different, the weight of the projectiles is generally between five yuan and one tael. The wooden shield in front of the army, and wounded or even killed the armored Ming army bird musketeer behind it.

With just one volley, Shao Tingda saw at least three flag soldiers in front of his formation fell to the ground, but the Ming army's muskets were too far away to catch them.

Fortunately, the Western Army is still moving forward.

Except for the two phalanxes with about [-] heavy musketeers each standing on the right flank of the central army to load ammunition, the rest of the front army phalanxes are still advancing steadily. Several phalanxes stand a hundred paces away. Ordinary matchlock guns and a few flintlock guns scattered towards the front of the Ming army.

"Don't panic, let's wait for them to go a little further, and give them a few small flag arrows, and the gunners don't shoot!"

A few round and long wooden tubes were placed on the shield, and more than a dozen small flag arrows were shot at the enemy from various positions in front of the formation. In the eyes of Chen Mu who was on the general's platform behind, the small flag arrows exploded all over the enemy's phalanx in an instant. There was a puff of gunpowder smoke.

However, the shooting of small flags and arrows did not interrupt the deployment of the western army. Even when the attention of the central army was completely attracted by the phalanx corps constantly bursting out of gunpowder smoke, a large number of infantry on the two wings of the enemy army were enveloping knights and light cavalry and moving forward slowly. Moving, it seems that they want to strangle the Chinese army in an outflanking formation that strikes at the same time.

"The artillery is ready, let it go!"

General Zhenshuo's cannon roared again, and the solid iron bullets blasted towards the phalanx scattered by musketeers a hundred paces away in the huge air concussion. The shoulder of the powder gunner, the matchlock gun was hit and flew obliquely into the sky.

The iron bullets that landed continued to roll, seeming to break the four spearmen's legs on the rolling route without any effort, causing confusion for the phalanx soldiers behind them to dodge the bouncing shells, and finally stopped at the end of the bloody road .

At the same time, the cavalry on the left wing of the western army hadn't made any moves yet. The mercenaries who carried long swords and wielded square halberds had already surrounded from the side under the leadership of the vanguard musketeers. Move the two centurions to the right.

On the right flank of the Western Army, the knights in heavy armor were much more daring. They rode in groups of three or five with huge lances, followed by their respective entourages and light cavalry. Conscripts composed of ten men, even in the New World, the nobles' habit of using farmers and soldiers to go to the battlefield in the past has not changed.

It's nothing more than that their peasants and soldiers have changed from Spanish peasants to New Spanish peasants.

Shao Tingda did not increase the defensive force for the left wing. There were originally Fu Yuan and his [-] banner troops under his command, and Hei Yunlong's [-] cavalry army behind him. The relatively strong strength should be able to withstand the enemy's first attack.

Fu Yuan pursed his lips as he watched the Western Army approaching from a distance, swallowed slowly, raised his hand and said, "The tiger crouches to load the guns, the swords and shields step forward, and the bird gun team prepares."

He saw that the soldiers in front of the knights were equipped with a lot of bows and crossbows, and he put his hand on the hilt of the sword, slowly gathering the soldiers of the three hundred families under his command, ready to fight.

The left wing of the Ming army began to mobilize, and the Spanish right wing army also accelerated. The heavy armored knights were delayed and approached from the right, and the large number of light cavalry was divided into two formations. hit.

The galloping Spanish light cavalry, with a spear under its ribs, suddenly accelerated at a distance of no more than [-] steps, passed through the area where the Western Army and the Ming Army fired each other, and charged directly at Shao Tingda's troops. At the same time, four soldiers from the Chinese Army In addition to the musketeers in the phalanx, a large number of spearmen and sword and shield soldiers also moved forward quickly.

"Bird shooter is ready!"

Shao Tingda's side had just issued an order, and the hundred households who commanded the soldiers with swords, shields and spears shouted: "Swords and spears!"

In the army formation, the sword shield and spear horizontal team located on the left and right of the bird gunshou took a step forward. The sword shield hand held the tiger-head round shield horizontally in front of the body, and raised the waist knife above the head in a posture. Behind them, the infantry general Zhang Wujun formed The hard spears were thrust out from the gaps in the front row, and the thick spear tails hit the thighs that took a lunge, forming a forest of spears.

When the light cavalry approached a hundred steps, they had increased their horse speed, galloping like the wind, kicking their horses' hooves like thunder, and covered the Ming army with a whistling, galloping enough to take away the spirit of the three armies.

However, they seemed to notice the two trenches and the forest of spears in front of the Ming army's musketeers when they rushed forward. The cavalry that had formed a cone formation suddenly became chaotic, and some riders who saw the spears behind wanted to turn around. However, they were surrounded by left and right, and some cavalry in front didn't want to turn, but were led by the horses to run to one side.

The charge of the cavalry array slowed down immediately, and at this moment, following the order of the bird gun Baihu, a row of bird guns was in the direction behind the trench, and a single volley knocked down several riders on the galloping horse.

But most of the cavalry were led by the horses and jumped into the trenches. Some hit the spears to stop the charge or fell off the horses. More cavalry easily crossed the two low trenches and rushed into the infantry line from the side.

Holding the waist knife, the sword and shield hands were all short, and let the forest of spears behind them stretch out to assassinate the enemy cavalry, while they rolled between the horses' hooves, raising their knives and slashing everything they saw.

The battle on the left wing started at the same time. When a large number of conscripts formed a square formation and approached the Fuyuan Department, the Ming army had successively fired small flag arrows, general flag arrows, and bird guns. The tiger squatting cannon was nailed to the front of the formation, and was almost fired at the oncoming Western infantry.

The sprayed scatter was like a flower of death blooming from the muzzle of a gun, and a large amount of lead bullets were shot into the Western Army's phalanx. At the moment when the smoke cleared, it even made people feel that the entire phalanx was beaten to death by the tiger squatting gun salvo. Vague.

Hei Yunlong in the left rear was very anxious when he heard the battle of the front army, he rode his horse around in circles, and finally heard the order from Chen Mu on the general platform amidst the sound of horseshoes, he raised his long knife and shouted: "The horse army got on their horses, and each hundred households pressed the enemy line from the side to the middle to guard against the enemy cavalry."

As soon as the military order sounded, all the riders who were ready to go turned on their horses one by one, carrying their spears upside down and arrayed up on the left. The knight with the huge spear in his hand advanced towards them with the same thought.

"Stay horse!"

Facing the knights rushing forward with heavy armor from a distance, Hei Yunlong picked up three hundred cavalrymen, and the words that were often talked about in the cavalry science training in the lecture hall flashed in his mind-the cavalry met on a narrow road and charged each other. Situations rarely happen in combat.

In the battle between cavalry and cavalry, the rout often occurs during the charge.

"Hundreds of cavalrymen obey orders, don't use pistols, and after the hedge, the general with the highest official position will continue to gather and counterattack. No one is allowed to fall behind, and those who are timid will be killed until the enemy is dispersed!"

The horseshoes pounded, and the iron-walled cavalry of the Ming army charged against the Spanish knights!

(End of this chapter)