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Chapter 783 Counterattack
Chen Mu was not afraid of anything, but he was afraid that Juniper, who was on the right wing, would lose his mind and lead the cavalry into the enemy's formation first.

Monk Jun Zhang Er who received the order was puzzled, he stuck his chicken paws into his helmet and scratched the hair on his temples, and the boss muttered unwillingly: "If you don't call it Chong, then don't call it Chong, what are you trying to do to scare me!"

As he said, he shook his head and looked at the enemy army that was slowly pressing forward, and waved to the four hundred households of the cavalry under his command: "The commander-in-chief has ordered us to retreat four hundred steps, regardless of the enemy army on the right, and wait for God scare them, scare them off."

Jun Jun also knew in his heart that the decisive victory of this battle did not depend on him, and he only felt a little worried about the Chinese army when he retreated at this time.

Just as he was about to assign a rider to tell Shao Tingda that he had been ordered to retreat, he turned his head and looked at the general platform behind him, but saw that a Zhenshuo heavy artillery had been placed under the canopy of the coach at some point.

The muzzle of the cannon was raised high towards the east, causing him to quickly search for Chen Mu's figure on the battlefield.

He couldn't find it. Chen Mu's combat armor was too low-key, so low-key that people could see that he was wrong at a glance when he was close, but he couldn't find it from far away—even the breastplate of ordinary banner soldiers. They all have group beast patterns, but Chen Mu's battle formation breastplate has nothing.

This is the whole Beiyang.

But Shao Tingda couldn't ask Juniper to warn the situation, because Chen Mu's cavalry would arrive soon.

No matter how he thought about it, General Manghu never imagined that he summoned the reinforcements, but he summoned the commander. He was commanding the infantry to switch defenses to repel the attack of the four companies in front, when he heard the temporarily resting banner army behind him shout happily: "Reinforcements!" coming!"

Turning around, the dusty Chen Mu took the lead, whipped his horse and ran straight to the rear of the position, and asked, "How about the casualties?"

"Brother, why are you here?" Shao Tingda was stunned for a moment, even the commander-in-chief forgot to call out, and then reacted and clasped his fists: "Return to the commander-in-chief, nearly [-]% of the casualties have been defeated, and the enemy's twelve attacks have been repelled. The trenches are all filled with enemy corpses, and the position can no longer be defended!"

Chen Mu's heart was put back in his stomach, and he raised his eyes and looked forward. Shao Tingda's subordinates had two general Zhenshuo cannons with bulging copper casings, and a few tiger squats were discarded on the position. Join the infantry battle with a blunderbuss in hand.

There were still a small number of artillerymen pushing the four General Zhenshuo's cannons back fifty steps, building a third line of defense with the wounded soldiers, but it seemed that they couldn't catch up. When he came, he hadn't even started digging the foxholes. Only a few artillery forts were built.

"How do I come here? Am I going to stay here and wait for the enemy to attack?" Chen Mu finally let out a sigh of relief. The remaining few tiger squats in front of the formation shot out solid bullets. Mumu deduced the advancing situation of Hei Yunlong and Lian Dou in his mind, and said to Shao Tingda: "Hold him for a while, the Chinese army will retreat three hundred steps alternately, don't mess up!"

It would be better if the reinforcements had not come, Shao Tingda clasped his fists and shook his head and said, "My department can stop him for three more battles, as long as the tiger squatting cannons are not finished, they will not dare to rush forward!"

Speaking of this, General Mang is complacent. This battle is not the first time his subordinates have fought with the guns, but this time his subordinates are more proficient. There are even a few centurions who rushed out with the guns and spears. Position, beat the enemy back, retreated to the back, received the thorns, and then lined up to shoot at the Spaniards without losing the wind.

Shao Tingda pointed his fingers and whispered: "The guns they can fire are getting less and less!"

The Spaniards' muskets did not fire in bursts, and the consumption of ammunition was very uneven. Especially in the face of Shao Tingda's fortified battle, the gunners of the two countries were almost two different types of arms.

Spanish musketeers seldom wear armor, and cotton armor is considered good. Most of them only wear shirts alone, and only those warriors equipped with heavy muskets wear mail and breastplate over cotton armor.

At the same time, because the phalanx combat involves training about quickly entering the phalanx and getting out of the phalanx quickly, the ammunition they carry is often not too much.

The Ming army's blunderbuss players were different. Because the helmet, breastplate, armbands, armor skirt, ammunition, blunderbuss, and blunderbuss weighed more than fifty pounds together, they were not good at marching quickly, just as Shao Bianjiao didn't like the Baima River. They march forward in unison to oppress the enemy, but it takes a lot of energy for them to run, so the Ming army bird musketeers like to fight positional warfare the most.

The company of the western army that Shao Tingda's troops forced back in the battle was rushed to the side of the trench several times, and crossed a small amount of fences and shields to reinforce the soil ditch, but was killed by swordsmen and spearmen, and maybe even Ming who had been stabbed with guns. The army bird musketeers repelled.

In particular, a tiger squatting cannon nailed to the other side of the trench rushed to the position. The shots fired by this large-caliber, short and thick cannon could almost tear the first few people apart, which brought a huge boost to morale. hit.

Every time in order to save a large number of spearmen in the company, it is necessary to rely on the musketeers to suppress the Ming army's charge by shooting backwards, so that they can retreat completely.

The Western Army fell into a paradox in the frontal battle. If you want to approach the trenches, you need more musketeers, which is easy to handle; but once you rush through the trenches, you need more spearmen, but the spearmen are all approaching the trenches Falling in the process, the result seems to never be able to seize the position.

It is precisely because of this way of shooting backwards that some of the musketeers among them have run out of ammunition, but some still have not fired a single shot, which makes the formation of troops constantly change back and forth, which greatly affects the continuity of the attack.

"The cavalry on the right has all retreated, and the left wing of the western army will soon press up. If they don't retreat, are they waiting to be beaten? Retreat alternately, and I will help you block them on the flank for a while."

Chen Mu was very pleased that the stubborn Juniper could obey orders at this moment. The right-wing cavalry had already retreated, but Chen Mu, who was caught in the battlefield at this moment, was not sure whether the Western Army would be as he imagined. Pressed as expected.

Without the advantage of the general, he felt like a blind man, caught in the fog of war, and all the enemy's deployments had to rely on guesswork, which was disturbing.

However, Bernal also fully implemented his offensive on the left wing. Seeing that the defensive artillery of the Ming army's backbone force gradually slowed down, and there was no longer any heavy artillery bombardment, his subordinates were composed of mercenaries and caravan mercenaries. The six companies all pressed up to the left flank, hoping to seize the gap and surround the Ming army from the side.

When they easily occupied the flank surrendered by the Ming army without any battle, Shao Tingda's central army also retreated alternately in an orderly manner.

There are more and more companies of the Western Army crossing the trenches. The Spanish heavy musketeers propped the forks on the trenches, and a row of spearmen and sword shield soldiers of the Western Army crossed the trenches under their cover, pressing against the Ming army. come over.

Shao Tingda's central army also fell into an unprecedentedly difficult battle when the flank was attacked.

Until a burst of gunshots exploded behind the Western Army, when the No.1 Ming cavalry on horseback wielding a long-handled Guandao cut down from the Western Army's flanks, the two Western Army infantry who stood in front of them jumped into the trench, showing that The right wing of the New Spanish army was completely defeated.

A large number of peasants and soldiers surrounded the knights and stepped back to break through their own lines. Immediately after, the Ming army cavalry rushed to the trenches of the Chinese army one after another, dividing the Spanish phalanx that was slightly out of touch in the charge. Their horses did not stop. The Chinese army, which was crossing the western army's surging attack, cut open and split the various army formations along the way, and rushed straight to its own right wing occupied by the western mercenaries.

The morale of Shao Tingda's troops, who were only suppressed for a moment, was greatly shaken. Under the command of the general, the banner troops shot the lead balls in the empty-handed blunderbusses, inserted the thorns and rushed forward.

Behind them, Chen Mu took the less than a hundred cavalry from his headquarters to slowly load the ammunition in the pistol, drew out his saber to lead the infantry, and then ran forward.

On the far right side of the battlefield, Juniper, who received the attack signal, clamped the horse's belly with a knife and shouted: "The enemy is defeated, what are you waiting for, follow me to kill the enemy!"

The infantry of the Ming army, who had accumulated the grievances of the positional battle from morning to night, launched a full-scale counterattack to the Western Army's defense line!

(End of this chapter)