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Chen Mu was frightened by the Spanish knight's charge, so he had to shoot something to suppress the shock.

As soon as he ordered someone to convey the order to support the left-wing cavalry to the eight artillery pieces of the direct artillery team, he turned his head and picked up the binoculars and continued to keep a close eye on the movement of the battlefield-his cavalry suffered a disadvantage in the hedge.

This estimate is very accurate. Although the Beiyang cavalry has extremely high discipline and strict training, so that they are not afraid during the charge, and they can continue to gather to prepare for the next charge after the charge, but there are too many cavalry who fall from the horse in one confrontation.

The slight advantage in troops was also equalized after a charge. Chen Mu roughly estimated that at least [-] people fell from his horse this time.

There were also quite a few Spaniards who fell from their horses, but not many were actually stabbed to death. After avoiding being trampled, at least forty fallen cavalry stood up as if nothing had happened, and scattered and stabbed at the Ming army riders they saw in their eyes.

In the hot summer, soldiers wear three layers of armor on the inside and three layers on the outside. They are all excellent in protection and shock absorption to be able to face the danger of unloading wind. Let alone knights, which are different from ordinary people, even riders from infantry like Beiyang They have all experienced more than a hundred times of falling from horseback before they are today. As long as they are not bad luck, they can still fight again after being knocked off their horses.

Then Chen Mu saw his subordinates display superb operations on the battlefield—the cavalry whose mounts were stabbed to death formed an formation in the middle of the battlefield where the cavalry of both sides gathered together.

In the beginning, a cavalry general flag with a broken leg was kneeling on the ground holding a spear. He was unable to stand up and fight again, so he could only fend off a knight in plate armor who came to seek revenge and was armed to the teeth. Officer, he yelled for two free-handed riders to come to his aid, and one of them had picked up a Spanish iron shield from somewhere to protect him.

When that knight also assembled two accomplices to claim his life aggressively, before he had time to show his proficiency in piercing the enemy's eye socket with a long sword accurately, he was killed by this calm cavalryman. Zongqi took out a pistol out of nowhere and killed him.

Under the command of the officers, more and more Ming troops dismounted from their horses. Those who were injured and unable to move were dragged over and handed spears to stand in the front. A dismounted rider who can move freely puts up a miniature version of the burst formation, and stands in front of them one by one holding a pistol.

I just want to save my life on the chaotic battlefield.

Before becoming the Beiyang cavalry, each of them was the best infantry musketeer and spearman. Only then did they qualify to become the Beiyang cavalry. More than half a year of infantry training allowed them to easily form a battle formation under the command of an officer. Shoot and kill the knights who came to fight one after another.

Their training let them know that only by uniting with the officers on the chaotic battlefield can they have a chance of survival.

After the nine knights lay down on the ground, the rest of the Spanish knights followed suit. Several of them were equipped with expensive spring wheel pistols, relying on the corpses of the horses to form a fortification to shoot at each other, but the short barrels of both sides decided that as long as It is impossible to hit the opponent without approaching ten steps.

The battlefield became stalemate. Seeing that the Ming army gathered more and more, and the Ming army cavalry on the other side also regrouped to complete the charge formation, these dismounted knights began to panic, and looked back anxiously for their own cavalry.

They turned their heads and saw several shells flying from a distance accurately landed in the formation of the knights. Even before the shells fell, the knights were nervously discussing whether to continue gathering to hedge.

Compared with charging each other, which is close to collective suicide tactics, it seems that it is better for these elite divisions to turn their heads and attack the Ming army's flank. There are still some loopholes.

Everyone's debate revolved around whether the Ming army's infantry would be chased by the Ming army's cavalry. In fact, they were waiting. Several highly respected knights agreed that if the enemy cavalry continued to charge us, then we must also fight until the end of the day. They all broke up to do other things.

But if the Ming army ignored the cavalry and directly attacked the Indian conscripts they brought behind them, then they could also slaughter the Ming army infantry freely.

The knights still felt that their lives were worth a little more, and they couldn't afford to fight these fools of the Ming Dynasty.

Then the artillery shells came, and hit the cavalry formation assembled at one place. The horses couldn't stop it, and the plate armor in its peak period couldn't stop it. A bloody road was opened, and the smashed army formation of the noble knights scattered in an instant.

At this moment, although nearly [-]% of the cavalry of the Ming army fell from their horses, they regrouped under the command of Hei Yunlong, turned around and fired at the conscripts of the Western army who were hiding behind him, and charged again when the shells fell into the enemy's line. The flag officer on horseback waved the battle flag left and right, leaned the wind-driven flag against his right shoulder during the charge, and galloped forward with his shoulders low.

Although more than half of their spears and long soldiers were destroyed in a single charge, the remaining people pulled out spare weapons on horseback, led by a row of cavalry with Ming-style battle swords, and launched another charge.

The sudden bombardment caused the knights to lose their formation. They scattered in small groups and were unable to gather quickly to respond to the cavalry assault of the Ming army. Several groups of knights located on the outer edge ran towards Shao Tingda's left flank and avoided the mountain road on the left. Yes, there were even those who rushed towards Chen Mu's main formation, and they almost scattered like birds and beasts in a panic. Only a hundred people could really muster up the courage to charge against the Ming cavalry again.

"Let the artillery support the cavalry and bombard the infantry behind. If the central army and the right wing can withstand it, the chance of victory lies in the left wing!"

Chen Mu was holding the binoculars tightly on the stage, with a smile on his face and then disappeared very quickly, and sent the order to the riders who had already had their flags on their backs.

He wasn't worried about those lost knights wanting to rush to his face. Lian Dou's personal soldiers had already set up a formation with spears and blunderbuss behind the earth barrier to protect the artillery team and the general's platform. Maybe it would take a lot of effort. Some cost, but he could hold back—it was the wrong direction.

On the central and right flanks, the two sides fought fiercely with phalanxes and lines. The Ming army had fewer soldiers but more blunderbusses. Supplemented by light tiger squatting cannons and heavy-duty Zhenshuo cannons, the Spanish phalanx that was trying to attack was beaten back. three times.

They need to pay a huge price to rush to the front, and losing a large number of spearmen in the confrontation will make it meaningless for them to rush to close combat-whenever the musketeers imitate the appearance of the Ming army approaching and shooting Approaching slowly, once they reach the distance that the Spanish soldiers can bear, their spearmen will drop their spears and use the long swords around their waists to try to climb over the trench and fight the Ming army hand-to-hand.

But at this time, they first had to break through at least one burst of firepower from the Ming army. When they got closer, they realized that they were facing a three-row line with swords and shields in front and spears in the back. The flag army with spears and sticks loaded the thorns on the bird guns and came in a surprise attack.

Chen Mu could tell that the Spaniards were preserving their strength on their left flank, while the Chinese army was relying on several times the superiority of troops to prevent Shao Tingda from relaxing, and was ready to wait for an opportunity to attack when Shao Tingda's troops were exhausted, because everyone knew that Chen Mu didn't have more troops to send to the Chinese army. Army rotation.

But now it seems that the right-wing knights of the Western Army will be the first to collapse.

(End of this chapter)