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Chapter 402 Swear
Everyone in every country can simply copy the Spanish phalanx, but no one can make their phalanx as powerful as the phalanx formed by the Iberian Peninsula.

It's like not every army can keep alive and charge forward after being nearly half shot by dense lead bullets.

Because others do not have Spanish fighters who are fanatical, confident, brave, fearless, high morale and team spirit.

The tiger squatting gun fired at close range and swept across the spear array like a gust of wind. The gust formed by the lead tore apart the formation, and nearly wiped out the first two rows of spearmen, especially when they were hit by an average of three lead each. But before they fell down, the musketeers who had been waiting for a long time behind the wooden fence heard the sound of the guns and pulled the triggers in unison.

Bang bang, bang bang!

The continuous sound of gunfire covered the front of Lin Manjue's formation with a layer of gunpowder smoke. The two silent armies were separated by the gunpowder smoke, attacking and defending at the same time, but at the same time they could hear the officers of the other side giving orders in completely different languages.

On the one hand, they have conquered the Americas after many battles, and on the other hand, the morale is like a rainbow after successive victories, and they both have almost blind faith in their own victory.

When the smoke dissipated, rows of Spanish spearmen fell, and the wooden fence was riddled with holes, but no one took a step back.

The four- to five-meter-long spears were staggeringly placed beside the wooden fence, stabbing at the battalion soldiers. It was difficult for the battalion soldiers wearing breastplates to be harmed by the posture of their spears, but this kind of harassment was worse than Either way works simply.

The spearmen in front put down their spears, drew their long swords around their waists, and sprinted towards the wooden fence in the spear forest. The musketeer phalanx of the gun kept firing lead at the Ming army's position.

Their phalanx of spears was badly damaged, but the casualties were significant, and they withstood most of the attack, keeping the rear friendly and enemy at close quarters, and close at hand--long before they landed in New Spain, there was no People can resist the phalanx head-on.

Because they were Spanish conquistadors from the Iberian Peninsula!
"Use the cannon and fire it for a while!"

Lin Manjue drew out his pistol, and the first soldier fired a blunderbuss at several Spanish soldiers who had climbed over the gap in the wooden fence. He drew out the hand ax around his waist and said, "Stop them, Xiucai! The gunner with five whistles retreats, and beats the gunman from Xiyi!" die!"

In the blink of an eye, a dozen or so Spanish soldiers jumped over the wooden fence and were immediately besieged by more battalions. Most of the soldiers in the front battalion were carrying guns, with a knife in one hand and a gun in the other. Their fighting skills were not that strong, but no one could At this distance, he still has the strength to fight them.

With the sound of more than a dozen short guns, the battalion soldiers carrying swords in the gunpowder smoke had already fought with the last few Spanish soldiers under the leadership of Lin Manjue. They were killed in the wooden fence in a blink of an eye. He ordered Said: "Take the gun!"

The captured Spanish muskets on the wooden fence finally came in handy. They didn’t need to be charged. They didn't dare to show their bodies.

There are forests of spears on their heads. Seeing someone trying to climb the wooden fence through the gaps of the wooden fence, the thoughtful battalion stabs out the sword and saber through the gap. Sometimes it works, and sometimes they can only hear the sound of gold and stone. .

Even if they are proud of their solid armor, they can't take advantage of this Xiyi regular army.

A wooden fence made of fish rafts became the life and death line between the two armies. Soldiers in armor squeezed and dragged each other on both sides of the wooden fence. The Ming army did not want the wooden fence to be overturned. Then they tried their best to overturn the wooden fence in order to break into the enemy's position.

During the fight, the shooters of the two armies fired at each other in the rear.

The Spanish musketeers are very interesting. They seem to be an independent army in normal battles, which caused their training habits to be used in war. The front row of musketeers retreated after firing, and the second row of musketeers standing behind them continued. Launch, continue to retreat to the end of the team after shooting, and launch sequentially.

This is very effective in the face of infantry attacks. Continuous shooting and retreating phalanxes allow them to avoid the enemy and kill effectively.

But now, fighting and fighting, their team retreated into the sea at the end.

There, the ordinary light muskets could no longer hit the Ming gunmen, and of course the Ming gunmen couldn't hit them either. This seems to be a disadvantage for the Ming army, because although the Spanish heavy muskets have a very low hit rate at this distance, they can still hit them. The same can kill people.

But the Ming army did not suffer, because Lin Xiao, a scholar who commanded the gunners, raised his hand and shouted: "If you can't hit the bird guns, don't hit them. First, help the three, the wounded soldiers, adjust the artillery, and bombard their gunners." !"

Lin Xiao didn't forget that they still had two cannons.

The two two-pound cannons that were originally going to be fired towards the sea were adjusted by the wounded soldiers. The shells were loaded as early as the beginning of the battle. At this time, gunpowder was sprinkled into the gunpowder holes. Come out with great momentum.

Although the two-pound cannon is the most unpopular small cannon on the ship nowadays, it is still the main force of the artillery in field battles. Just one cannon landed on the edge of the musketeer square to break the formation. The pressure on Lin Manjue, who was struggling to resist, suddenly eased, and a row of bullets hit the Spanish phalanx outside the wooden fence.

They are too close.

More than half of his subordinates were killed or injured. Seeing that victory was in sight, Suniga dared not continue to attack. He could only order the damaged musketeers to cover, leaving corpses everywhere, and retreated to the shallow sea boat in an orderly manner.

Suniga was very smart. He took advantage of his language barrier to issue orders before retreating. When Lin Manjue noticed that the enemy was retreating, only a dozen rear spearmen were within the pursuit range, and hundreds of enemy troops had already pushed back. With the boat ready to leave.

"Fire the cannon and hit the ship!"

Fighting again at this time is useless, not to mention that they don't have heavy artillery outside, and they can only watch the enemy troops drift away after boarding the big ship.

Although the enemy army left, Lin Manjue couldn't feel relieved when he saw the wounded soldiers all over the ground, so he assigned two teams of uninjured men with spears and short soldiers to mend the enemy army on the ground, and shouted to the rest: "Pull the shark boat up!" Hurry up, the enemy army on the island must have heard the sound of the guns, we will be floating on the sea later, hurry up!"

It is only a dozen miles from here to the port, not to mention that the garrison is not far from them, and he only has two hours if it is fast.

Although they repelled the enemy in this battle, their own morale was extremely low—because dozens of Pao Ze died in battle, which was the worst casualty they had suffered since they landed on the island.

Lin Xiao held the spear and stabbed it through the neck of the Spanish soldier, in case the dead body sat up for the second time and began to turn dark red blood stained the spearhead. He said to Lin Manjue not far away: "Uncle, after fighting for several years, the younger generation is not afraid Kill the enemy, but why?"

"The descendants of the neighbors who were supposed to farm and support their families in Pingyuan, if bandits invaded the village, they would die in battle. No one would know if they died on this isolated island overseas. The corpses would never be sent back. My nephew still doesn't know that the commander-in-chief started a war with this person. That tribute, why?"

Lin Manjue brushed his fine gray hair in a bun, rubbed his hand ax on the shirt of the enemy's corpse, and slowly put it back into his waistband. Seeing that Lin Xiao, who was full of confusion, did not answer, he pointed at the hidden boat and said: " Pull up the boat, push it into the sea, take the body with you, and then come back to get wood to make a coffin."

"I, Lin San'er, swear to God that as long as I am alive, I will take them and all of you home, but not now. This place is seven thousand miles away from home, and we have nowhere to go except to kill the thieves—kill the thieves Put your ears on."

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)