open sea

Chapter 734 Reinforcement
The most dangerous battle is still going on.

"Raise the gun!"

The three hundred teams under Shao Bianjiao's direct command have fallen into a melee. Although the rear reserve team and the northern blockade team have fought for the living space under the iron heels for some of them, the surrounding area is still surrounded by scattered Spanish light cavalry, constantly squeezing The formation oppressed them to retreat westward.

The hand-to-hand combat, which should have been dominant, became very unfavorable to use bayonets against spearmen after the formation was chaotic. Only the well-equipped armor and small flags and other officers commanded the subordinates to use small formations and fight and retreat to not be defeated immediately.

Even so, knights wielding maces or rapiers continued to wreak havoc on the battlefield when they were shot down, like those ancient warriors of the east, who were invincible across the battlefield.

Except for firearms, cold weapons are helpless against these tin cans. Although their attacks sometimes fall on the good protection of the Banner Army, the Banner Army is not like the knights who can protect their armpits. To the back of the thigh.

Only that position is not under the protection of the plate armor, of course there is the crotch, but the crotch is on the front, and knights with high martial arts skills can properly protect their own lifelines by wielding weapons in most cases.

However, there was also an accident. Shao Bianjiao saw with his own eyes a flag soldier stabbing a blunderbuss to a knight's crotch. The talented man thrust his dagger into his throat.

Three hundred households of the reserve team joined the battle to make the situation a little better. Most of the banner troops came roaring with guns, and the banner troops behind threw grenades into the enemy phalanx, successfully repelling one phalanx.

"Major General, another phalanx is coming from the north, let the three hundred households from the west join the battle! The enemy team alone won't be able to hold it!"

"north?"

Relying on his armor, Shao Bianjiao jumped into the Spanish phalanx and knocked them over with a knife. He was pushed out by a spear again, and shot the galloping cavalry with his hand, and retreated to the back of the army with a little boost of morale.

He no longer dared to go forward to fight, and was facing an unprecedented critical situation. If he was trapped in the enemy's line, the thousand or two hundred subordinates would die here, and they would not even be able to escape.

Hearing the words of the messenger running from the north, Shao Bianjiao raised his eyes and looked north, only to see the dark figures and the chaotic battlefield: "How many people are there, and how far is it?"

"Five hundred steps, five or six hundred people in two phalanxes!"

"Is that why the aborigines can't fight? They can't even delay!"

At this time, Shao Bianjiao also knew that he couldn't blame the aborigines, so he said decisively: "The soldiers on the west side can't move, and I don't have any soldiers to rush to help. Let Zhen Baihu hold it. If they defeat this side, I will lead people to flank them!"

The messenger was about to run back with his fists clasped, Shao Bianjiao pointed to the scattered quiver on the ground and said: "Lead someone to collect the rockets behind the formation and take them to the north. I don't need them anymore. Be sure to hold the northern line of defense and tell your hundreds of households that half An hour, half an hour, the east has not won, I will allow him to retreat!"

"As ordered!"

Shao Bianjiao gritted his teeth, stuck his waist knife in the grass under his feet, recharged the guns, and walked towards the place where the flag army and the knight under the horse were fighting fiercely in the army formation.

Only through personal experience can Shao Bianjiao know what cooperative combat means in the banner army drill code. If they carry spears and artillery in this battle, they can completely suppress the enemy from the beginning to defeat, but at this time they are completely defeated by the enemy's spears , suppressed by the cavalry.

Herrera's three companies were about to collapse after three rounds of firing, but the fighting spirit was reawakened by the cavalry rushing into their lines, causing the Ming army to fill in the reserve team and still be at a slight disadvantage.

The existence of the light cavalry made every musketman on the front line tremble with trepidation. No one dared to shoot with a musket, and they all held the well-stabbed bird musket to guard against the cavalry charge. In fact, every officer could see that the light cavalry dared not charge straight The formation was just constantly swimming around the periphery, but none of them dared to risk their lives.

Just when the order was issued, the situation on the front line changed again. I don't know whether it was the grenade or the Spanish cavalry scurrying in the army formation. There were also routs.

The two crippled flags led their troops to withdraw from the front line. The existence of the officers allowed the rout soldiers to regroup after being restrained in the front line. Although they could not be assigned to go back to fight immediately, they could still form a second line of defense in the rear.

The small flag and arrow in the north exploded, and it didn't take long before the sound of musketeers came. This time, the musketeers in the Spanish phalanx did not retreat while charging, they charged while advancing, and the Ming army in the north did not stand still. When he was beaten, he just didn't release the blunderbuss, and only fought back with small flags and general flag arrows.

When the two sides approached to the position where the palm thunder could be thrown, the Ming army suddenly counterattacked with bird guns in rounds. The Spaniards were not used to this tactic and were caught off guard. Rows of soldiers fell down, so that the officers did not dare to order an attack.

The infantry company that they rushed back to help was exhausted. In a short period of time, they fought with the Indians, chased them for three miles, and then retreated several miles in an emergency. Hundreds of people were shot down, and they could only retreat out of the shooting range for a short rest.

But the Ming army was threatened by cavalry, and they also did not dare to attack, so they could only miss the opportunity and watch the phalanx get farther and farther away from them.

In the end, it turned out that the blocking team in the north repelled the western army first.

Soon Shao Bianjiao followed the light cavalry of the Western Army back to the south of the battlefield, ushered in another formation contraction, and the flag troops in three directions shrank into a hollow triangle formation to prevent the cavalry of the Western Army from attacking from behind.

Then gunshots came from the forest to the west, and more Spanish reinforcements arrived, starting a gun battle from the forest against the three centurions hiding behind the half-length trench.

The battlefield was full of dead bodies, and not long after, the aborigines also sent troops from north to south, but they did not come to aid the Ming army, because the company that fought against them was left behind in the north and retreated, 1000 Many people fought for a long time around the phalanx of less than [-], from north to south.

Further north, there were still more Indians fighting against Bernal's regiment, which had withdrawn from Puerto Vallarta.

The battle on the west bank of the river was chaotic and stalemate.

Herrera didn't realize that in such a good situation, his artillery unit composed of dozens of veterans had been wiped out without knowing it.

The heavy sound of horseshoes knocked on the battlefield again, and Hei Yunlong led hundreds of Beiyang cavalry brigades to sweep over. With the helmet and guns on the scarlet tassels that fell to the back of his head, the horses raised their spears and stabbed the few Spanish light cavalry off their horses. , Then drew out the saber and swept across the rear of Herrera's army like a whirlwind.

One after another, the heads flew into the air.

The Beiyang cavalry riding Mongolian horses were not fond of fighting. They quickly abandoned the Herrera Legion, which might plunge them into a fierce battle, and turned around to attack the three Spanish phalanxes that had just been repelled in the north.

After the three reorganized phalanxes exchanged fire with the Ming army, there were not many musketeers left. At this time, they all set up their spears. Hei Yunlong and all the cavalry made gestures to slow down, and the military music changed accordingly.

The company commander in the phalanx showed a mocking look at the Ming army, and the infantry didn't carry spears. Isn't that stupid?
Forming a phalanx and setting up spears, no matter how powerful the impact of cavalry is, even the knight master will be discouraged by it. Of course, there are many knights who dare to charge into the phalanx, but that kind of idiot will eventually disappear.

This is the correct lesson for infantry against cavalry.

Hei Yunlong, who was walking along the periphery of the phalanx just a few steps away from the spear formation, pulled the corners of his mouth and raised his hand to gesture to his subordinates.

If the musketeers of the Spanish phalanx hadn't died in the process of shooting against the Ming army, or if the Beiyang cavalry of Hei Yunlong hadn't put their knives into their sheaths and pulled out their handguns in unison.

The sound of gunshots sounded, and the smoke of gunpowder enveloped the Spanish phalanx.

(End of this chapter)