Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1240
The formation of the two armies was completed, and the Ming army had an absolute advantage in terms of strength and equipment.

In Asia in the middle of the seventeenth century, even the Ming Dynasty, which had been declining step by step, had never lost a foreign war, but now the new Ming Dynasty, which is in full swing, is within its sphere of influence and at its doorstep , How could he lose to Xiyi who came from thousands of miles away.

Looking at the large formation of the Ming army in front of them, the vigor exuded by the soldiers who have been fighting for a long time made the proud Caucasians feel a little fear.

Wood is a little worried about his two wings, the combat power of the native soldiers of the Sultanate, he also knows that they are definitely not the opponents of the Ming army, but as long as he defeats the Ming army's central army before the two wings are defeated, he can avoid Failed, won big.

The Ming army on the opposite side does not look weak, but Wood believes that the impact of two hundred war elephants is unstoppable. He only needs to charge the war elephants to disrupt the formation of the Ming army, and then the artillery bombards, the musketeers press on, and a few rounds of guns You can defeat the Ming army.

The Dutch have traveled all over the world, and have not encountered an enemy that cannot be dealt with by a few rounds of guns.

Wood realized that he had to strike first, and he could not let the Ming army attack his wings first. At this time, he slowly pulled out his pistol, and suddenly pulled the trigger. The flint sparked, and with a "bang", he immediately ordered: " War elephants attack!"

"Moo~" The two hundred elephants raised their long trunks, made harsh noises, and began to charge forward.

The huge elephant legs stepped on the ground, and the ground trembled immediately, and the accelerated elephants, like trucks, crashed into the Ming army's position.

As the elephants advanced, the Dutch musketeers lined up in three rows. Immediately following the advance, the soldiers on both wings also slowly swept forward. The opportunity for the Ming army to rearrange.

"Fire!" Li Dingguo roared when he saw the war elephant knocking away the weeds in front of him, like a ferocious ancient beast, charging towards the formation. The aura was really frightening.

Hearing the sound, the flag officer of the Chinese army raised a yellow flag high and shook it back and forth. The artillery array on the right-wing hillside immediately roared, and the hilltop was instantly covered by thick gunpowder smoke.

On the artillery formation, the commander of the Ming army waved the flag downward, and the gunner holding the torch immediately ignited the priming powder, and the fifty artillery pieces lined up in a line suddenly spewed out a cloud of white smoke, and the gun carriage with two wheels immediately retreated. , almost exited the gun pit, the wheels turned to a high place, and fell heavily into the gun pit with the artillery.

The charging elephants were rushing forward, and dozens of shells on the top of the mountain rushed out of the gunpowder smoke, passed over the heads of the Ming army, and shot into the elephant formation.

The shells smashed into the ground like a meteorite, and the earth splashed on the road where the war elephant charged.

With a tragic long hiss of "Moo~", an iron bullet hit the back of the war elephant. With a scream, the war elephant suddenly fell heavily to the ground, causing the vegetation to splash and the ground to shake.

Wood sneered. These war elephants plugged their ears with cotton and covered their small eyes with cloth. After they were frightened and frightened, they would only charge forward more frantically and tear the Ming army's formation to pieces.

The speed of the war elephants was very fast, and they rushed towards the splashed mud and vegetation.

Seeing that the shelling had no effect, Li Dingguo couldn't help but grimace, but Chen Youlong, the commander in front of the formation, was calm and composed. He kept his eyes on the elephants. When they rushed two hundred steps away from the formation, the Ming army did not raise their guns to shoot. .

Chen Youlong has been fighting in Yunnan and Guizhou for a long time. He knows that these huge monsters, with thick skin and thick flesh, cannot be knocked down by bows and arrows and firecrackers for a while, and they will only be knocked away by these giants.

"Scatter!" Just as the war elephants galloped to 150 paces in front of the formation, Chen Youlong suddenly drew his sword and roared.

The guards behind him immediately waved a flag to the left and right. The soldiers of the Ming army behind him, holding guns in both hands, felt relieved, and immediately took the division as a unit. A gap appeared, and the soldiers moved quickly, leaving the gap for the charging behemoth.

In a short while, the Ming army formation changed from an iron plate to a comb, leaving countless gaps.

The giant elephants ran in panic under the artillery fire, and ran into the formation of the Ming army in the blink of an eye, but the scene that Wood was looking forward to did not appear. The frightened war elephants passed through the gaps of the Ming army, and only a few The war elephant hit the Ming army, and the huge impact immediately knocked the soldiers of the Ming army into the air, knocked over the baggage vehicles behind the formation, and scattered rice all over the ground.

"Come together!" The giant elephant passed through the gap, and Chen Youlong shouted again. Behind him, he waved the flag back and forth, and the scattered Ming army immediately resumed their formation.

"Come on!" Immediately afterwards, Chen Youlong yelled again, and the soldiers of the Ming army pushed forward amidst the sound of drums and flutes, to meet the pressing Dutchmen.

After the war elephant rushed past the Ming formation, a group of Ming troops behind turned around and chased after the war elephant's buttocks, chasing and killing them.

Seeing this, Wood's face twitched, but at this time, he had no time to change his tactics. The Dutch soldiers following the elephants were already close to the bright formation.

They originally wanted to line up their guns to defeat the chaotic Ming army after the war elephants broke into the Ming formation, but now they had no choice but to shoot at the Ming army.

"Boom boom boom!" On the battlefield, there was a sudden boom of artillery.

The entire formation of the Ming army began to move forward, and at the same time the formation of the Dutch also moved forward.

The shells fell in the open area between the two armies, splashing the mud, and some shells fell into the advancing queue, directly overturning the soldiers of both sides who were lined up neatly.

Li Dingguo used binoculars to observe the battlefield. The enemy's left and right wings were in a defensive posture. The Dutchmen in the middle lined up in several vertical formations of three rows. The same is true for the Ming army. They walked slowly under the enemy's artillery fire. When the shells fell in the formation, the soldiers still held the guns in both hands and pushed forward.

"Order the cavalry, destroy the Heyi artillery array!" Li Dingguo saw that the artillery hidden by the Dutch suddenly opened fire, and the shells penetrated into the bright array, and several gaps appeared in the infantry's front line.

Although the soldiers of the Ming army still lined up to meet them calmly, the shelling from Heyi undoubtedly caused some confusion in the formation of the Ming army.

The Ming army had many cards, but Heyi was almost the only one left. Cannons bombarded the infantry, and then a row of guns defeated the Ming army's middle army.

Although the artillery of the Ming army was also bombarding Heyi's infantry, since the Ming army had enough troops and cavalry, why not use it?
Li Dingguo gave an order, and the cavalry of the Ming army guarding the hillside on the right wing immediately dispatched thousands of people, roaring around the infantry battlefield, and charged towards the Heyi artillery formation that was billowing white smoke.

At this time, the two armies approached quickly, and the two sides pulled the distance to within 150 steps in the waist-length weeds, but neither of the two armies fired a shot first.

Suddenly, the advancing Heyi people and the Ming army stopped almost at the same time. The Ming army lined up with thousands of people, raising their fire guns, and the Dutch on the opposite side also raised their muskets.

The commanders of both sides waved the flags almost at the same time, the whistle and drums in the army sounded at the same time, and the gunshots of "bang bang bang" rang out together.On the infantry fronts of the two armies, a long smoke line immediately filled the air, and a large number of soldiers were shot and fell to the ground at the same time.

"Second team, come on!" The general of the Ming army shouted all over his body, and the gunners in the first row immediately retreated, nervously loading ammunition.

When the gunners in the second row were raising their guns to shoot, the gunners in the third row were already holding guns in both hands and were ready to take their place.

The soldiers on both sides, just a hundred steps apart, stood and shot at each other, and shot each other to death.

This requires great courage and rigorous training, and it is clear that the Ming army has these qualities.

Under the volley of guns, the soldiers on both sides kept falling to the ground, but after three rounds of volleys of guns, the Dutch immediately panicked after finishing playing with three axes.

The Ming army on the opposite side did not collapse under their volleys of guns like the enemies they had encountered before. Instead, they beat the Dutch to the ground in the same way.

The Dutch are all over the world, relying on gunboats at sea, and killing them on land with volleys of guns. They haven't encountered problems that can't be solved by a few rounds of volleys of guns. But today, when they encountered each other, they fought more than three rounds with volleys of guns, but their opponents still did not flee. The more brave they were, they were immediately stunned.

The Dutch's fighting power is still good. Although they found that the volley of guns was not effective, they still shot forward in a row, but the soldiers of the Sultanate on the two wings were much more amateurish.

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Under the bombardment of three rounds of guns and artillery from the Ming army, these soldiers who rushed forward were beaten back immediately.

"Kill!" Liu Wenxiu and Yu Youming on the two wings roared almost at the same time, and the soldiers of the Ming army immediately inserted thorns on the firecrackers, or drew out their sabers, shouting like a flood of beasts, and swept towards the Dutch's two wings.

At the same time, more than a thousand cavalrymen of the Ming army roared towards the artillery array of Heyi. The cavalrymen bombarded with three-eyed guns and knocked down the gunners. He was immediately killed and fled in all directions.

This time, the two wings of the Dutch were defeated by the Ming army, and the platoon of guns in the middle lost the support of the artillery.

No matter how Wood mobilized his troops and how he commanded them, in front of the overwhelmingly superior Ming army, if he played three tricks without any effect, it meant that he would definitely fail and the outcome of the defeat could not be reversed.

There were less than two thousand musketeers, and under the shelling of the Ming army, people were constantly being smashed to pieces. The Dutch were surprised to find that the Ming army's volley shooting and rifle coordination were more proficient than them, so it was impossible to fight up.

The Ming army shot, retreated, and loaded step by step. The Dutch lost their personnel and there was a vacancy, but the three rows of shooting became chaotic.

"Go!" The Ming army saw that the two wings had swept past, and immediately changed their shooting strategy from standing still in the middle, and started shooting while walking. As the distance narrowed, the casualties of the Dutch increased again. The Ming army who came finally collapsed and lost their morale.

At this time, no one listened to Wood's command anymore. Facing the unstoppable murderous aura of the Ming army and the momentum of landslides, the frightened Dutch rushed to escape for their lives, but at this time the Ming army on both wings had already outflanked them come over······
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