open sea

Chapter 764
A company in Spain has [-] to [-] soldiers, but at this time no one knows how many people are running forward, and they didn't shout stupidly, they just moved forward step by step with their weapons in hand.

The loud sound from the stone-shooting cannon frightened Fu Yuan so much that the hairs on his face stood up. His leg armor skirt was hit by the barrier wall, and he almost rolled and crawled behind the barrier wall in the middle.

Leaning against the wall for a while, listening to the huge stone bullets hitting, bouncing, and rolling in the canyon road until there was no more sound, he let out a long breath, touched his body and turned his head to the left and right and shouted: "Is anyone hurt?" , did anyone hurt anyone?"

Reports of the flag army's ups and downs came from around to report safety, and no one died or was injured because of it.

Following Fu Yuan, he heard the footsteps of thousands of people echoing in the canyon.

"Prepare to defend!"

In fact, when the Spaniards were preparing to attack, many bannermen under Fu Yuan were leaning against the barrier wall and taking a nap, but at this moment, they all woke up after hearing the military order, each of them grabbed their weapons and ran to the trench, dripping with mud. Wet trenches, put the bird gun out of the perforation.

Hei Gulongdong couldn't see anything even ten steps away.

Fu Yuan opened his eyes and looked forward as hard as he could, as if he was hoping to find the incoming enemy troops as soon as possible, but in fact he couldn't see anything.

When the Ming army picked up the artillery shells from the Western army in the evening, they hung up the bells immediately. It was difficult to get these bells from Hei Yunlong's hands, but at this time it did not have the slightest effect.

The generals of the two armies, who are familiar with the sky, can tell that there will probably be a shower tonight, and the wind will make the horse's bell ring non-stop. It is impossible to identify where the enemy is going based on this.

"Tell the commander-in-chief and General Shao that the western army is attacking. Have the cannons been wiped properly? Put [-] paces of ammunition and push the cannon carts to the front!"

The artillery of the Ming army also used gunpowder packs. At first, a hundred households in Nanyang, in order to prevent the problem of filling too much gunpowder in the panic before the battle, wrapped them in paper like the gunpowder cartridges of birds. Later, the gunpowder maker in charge of the warehouse found that ordinary paper was easy to get wet. , I replaced it with oiled paper.

Gunpowder, skids, and shells are packaged together and stuffed into the barrel of the gun. When firing, the package is pierced through the lead opening, and the primer is poured in to ignite the launch.

This method was further refined into different gunpowder for different ranges when Chen Mu Beiyang was training troops, and prepared in advance to deal with the amount of gunpowder for each range, as well as solid bullets and scattered barrels.

Fu Yuan didn't plan to fire the cannons when the enemy entered [-] paces, he was waiting.

Accompanied by the creaking sound of the wooden carts of the artillery team struggling to push the artillery forward, Fu Yuan suddenly laughed, and said to the left and right: "Bring five general flag arrows, we are afraid, they are more afraid than us."

The Banner Army is afraid of the enemies in the dark, maybe they are not afraid of the Spaniards, but the Spaniards in the dark, and the darkness scares them much more than the Spaniards.

Spaniards are nothing to be afraid of.

Not long after, the flag army fetched the general flag and arrows packaged in wooden shooting tubes, Fu Yuan patted the general flag and arrows carved with dragon patterns and said with a smile: "Isn't it just for tomorrow, let's invite the wind to come and see them Where did you go!"

Banner soldiers couldn't understand his nonsense words, but it didn't affect other people's understanding - because the guerrilla general of the Ming Dynasty Dongyang Army immediately picked up the tube and set off a big firework on the barrier wall.

There is no magic arrow, otherwise the lighting effect of something that can fly a thousand steps is better.

The arrow of the general flag whirled in the air and shot out more than [-] steps and exploded in the air. The flash of light made the flag army barely see the dark shadow of a spear in the distance.

No one could be seen at all, and the five-foot-long spears that were hundreds of paces away stood upright in a square formation. The moment the fire was lit, it was easy for people to ignore the rows of musketeers and sword-shield soldiers in front of the spearmen.

It is easier to ignore the stragglers mixed with aborigines, mercenaries and down-and-out knights walking in the dark on the slopes near the mountain wall on both sides of the road. They are Bernal's carefully selected sharp fighters.

The phalanx is the main force, but no one would naively think that the spear phalanx is suitable for attacking fortifications.

Fu Yuan took this opportunity to mobilize the flag army. The resting Shao Tingda's troops were awakened by the sound of gunfire, and the flag army, who had just slept in their clothes for a moment, was ready to go and headed to the front line led by hundreds of households from various ministries.

The marching flag army used torches to reflect a two-mile-long fire dragon between the camp and the Nangu crossing. On the other side of the port, the cavalry of the Heiyun Dragon Department stood quietly with their horses in the cotton field outside the camp, waiting for the order to attack. The galloping marshal's personal soldiers arrived , Immediately sent an order: "General Black, please have a look at the commander's order!"

Hei Yunlong, who was eager to fight, read the warrant and said nothing. He nodded to the orderer, turned around and waved to his subordinates to dismiss him.

There is only one sentence in the warrant: the horses return to the stables, and the horse troops return to the camp.

As for Chen Mu, he had already rushed to the front line with his own soldiers and cavalry.

He hadn't passed halfway through the valley road, and the Ming army's second salvo of artillery fire was heard from the valley road. The sound of the artillery was mixed with the sound of birds and guns being fired, and the battlefield was already in a mess.

The lead shot pierced through the turf covering the barrier wall like raindrops, mixed with the sound of the lead shot hitting the wood, which was the sound of the bullet penetrating the canopy.

Fu Yuan, who was crouching sideways behind the wall, held a blunderbuss in one hand and raised the other to cover the fallen palm leaves on the front of his helmet, grinning his teeth and muttering in a low voice: "Xiyi's blunderbuss hit really far—don't panic! The enemy is still on the second floor. A hundred paces away!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of blunderbuss firing came from the edge of the right wing. Although the blunderbuss of the Ming army was first imitated from Portugal, it is not much different from the Spanish arquebus, and the sound is similar, but it is still very easy to distinguish.

The firearms used by the Western Army are very orderly but do not deliberately pursue the rhythm. They are released row by row randomly, with short intervals; the Beiyang Banner Army fires in rotation to ensure the continuity of firepower. Even the same row will be released in several groups. Therefore, it is not so neat, but the interval between each row and each formation is the same, and the guns will not stop when they are fired.

"Which Hundred Household Department is that!"

Before Fu Yuan had time to blame, he heard more flag soldiers on the left wing firing their guns, which made him suspicious.

It is not surprising that a hundred households fired their guns in a panic. The left and right wings fired their guns almost at the same time, and the sound was still very neat. It was not because the flag army was attacking in a panic. Something bad must have happened.

Relying on the gap in the parapet wall to form a female wall, he pretended to look at the two wings, and saw that the right wing was very close to the position, and the musket lights alternated. It was obvious that the enemy had already touched within [-] steps of the formation, and the situation on the left wing was even worse. , someone has already approached within thirty steps.

"Report! General, there are enemy soldiers on the right flank approaching a hundred paces, stepping on a barbed wire and only being discovered. The name of a hundred households is small to report. The right flank is about to fight. Please send reinforcements to plug the gap!"

"I already know, tell the right-wing general, reinforcements will arrive soon."

Fu Yuan pursed his lips and nodded. The news made his face numb and a little scared. If it weren't for the barbed caltrops on the gravel road on the two wings, at this moment, his flag army on the two wings would have been fighting with the enemy.

The reinforcements had already arrived, Fu Yuan's pupils reflected Taniguchi's flag army holding torches, it was Shao Tingda leading his troops rushing here.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)