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Chapter 784 mighty
Once a rout occurs, it is difficult to stop.

There are many heavy-armored warriors in Chen Mu's personal army, but Liandou's subordinates attached to Lu Song have always had a light armed force. , They don't even wear iron armbands, and the weapons they use are mainly imitated Japanese swords from the Ming Dynasty.

In the face of the well-equipped Spanish sword and shield soldiers and knights, they often have to put in multiple times of effort to cause effective damage, but in front of the knight vassal troops composed of recruited civilians and mercenaries on the left wing, they are like ducks in water.

The knights, who were terrified by the Beiyang cavalry supported by artillery, no longer had the courage to fight to the death, and the infantry and Chen Mu's personal soldiers were even more vulnerable in the battle.

The three armies seized the spirit, even if tens of thousands of people could not fight.

When the knight lord left the vassal infantry fleeing in embarrassment, Hei Yunlong marked at least ten cavalry headquarters to attack the attacking Spanish central army from the flanks. Turning around, the army formation was washed to pieces.

The company behind did not have time to support, and the sword shield soldiers and spearmen of the company in front had just turned around, and their blades were already on their necks.

Within a thousand steps, the Ming army was like a few huge stone rollers. The Spanish elite infantry who had moved to various parts of the New World were killed and cut apart by these Beiyang cavalry who had become monks halfway.

They have no other skills, even if they were better equipped than their peers on the northern border of the Ming Dynasty, they were not an advantage in front of the European knights who had developed heavy knight armor at the peak of the Renaissance. It is not as good as the ten-year training of European colleagues, but it is more disciplined. Even if the first attack fails, they can still regroup to complete the charge again and again.

In the eyes of Hei Yunlong, his cavalry did not make any earth-shattering achievements. During the cutting charge from north to south, he saw many times that the subordinates around him lost their hands due to insufficient training and inexperience in combat. The enemy retrieved a life from under the horse.

But for Shao Tingda's Chinese line infantry, their own cavalry is no different from the heavenly army, because they clearly cut off the attack speed of the western army's phalanx after crossing the trench.

Even the experienced Spanish phalanx infantry, no one can calm down when the front and rear are all enemies, but at this moment of hesitation, it happened to be caught by Shao Tingda's infantry.

"The left formation advances, and the right formation stands still and stabs!"

The infantry of the Chinese army had just retreated halfway through the alternate cover retreat, and the left army, which was retreating while firing back with bird guns, had just retreated to the command point to provide cover for the retreating right army, when they suddenly heard the order to advance, how did the right army feel It's even more outrageous, stepping back and forth and suddenly giving way to a standstill, at such a time the brain simply can't react.

But luckily infantry don't need brains most of the time.

The habit of obeying orders has been cultivated for a long time, so that they can do what they should do before their brains can react. The chaos lasts for no more than five steps, and the left and right sides are ready to continue to accept orders. The Spanish sword and shield soldiers played in the past.

Chen Mu's subordinates fought against Spanish sword and shield soldiers when they were in Luzon, but the sword and shield soldiers in Luzon were far less well-equipped than these guys from the West Indies. They wore full plate armor and held steel swords riveted with steel plates and wood. The Spanish buckler is the elite force of the army.

But no matter how sophisticated the armed forces are, they are still powerless in the face of muskets.

These slight advantages in the Ming army are infinitely magnified in the eyes of the commander of the Western Army Bernal.

Time seemed to pass extremely slowly, and he saw himself abandoned by the few remaining knights on the right flank, like those ill-fated conscripts who were hacked and killed in head-to-head combat, and the survivors rushed in panic The formation of one's own army caused a greater collapse.

The battle situation on the left wing was very pessimistic. In fact, Bernal could not see his infantry on the left wing at all. He could only see the Ming army cavalry marching straight in in his chaotic army formation, making him think that the four companies that followed his orders to move forward It has been eaten by the Ming army.

After all—it was an army composed of a group of mercenaries and merchant guards, and it was not that reliable in Bernal's eyes.

In fact, their performance was far more tenacious than Bernal imagined.

The four infantry companies that had previously taken advantage of the retreat of the Ming cavalry to give way to advance forward were cut off by the Ming cavalry at this time. They had a steep mountain wall on the left, Ming infantry on the right, and retreating Ming cavalry in front. Behind is the charging Ming cavalry.

The cavalry squeezed from two directions forced their four phalanxes to join together. Even if they were continuously shot by Ming army musketeers, they would not dare to attack.

But they didn't surrender, and they didn't break up like those troops of noble birth, because they were so tightly chased and intercepted by the enemy that the soldiers didn't even dare to break up, let alone have nowhere to break up.

The only direction they can choose to defeat is towards the enemy formation, which looks more decent than bumping their heads against the mountain wall.

What's more, this is not a rout, but a suicide after falling into madness.

The worse thing came from the rear. In the chaos, there were two huge gunshots from the rear. Two stone bullets weighing fifty pounds were fired from the flattened stone guns, and they ran over several Ming soldiers who rushed forward. The cavalry didn't even howl, and both men and horses were smashed to pieces, and followed by the stone bullets, they rushed into the Spaniard's own phalanx with unabated trend.

The sound startled everyone. No one knew why and by whom the two stone shooting guns were fired, but these two shells from the hinterland of the formation became the last straw that broke the camel's back. Bell Gnar can no longer close the army formation, even though more than half of his soldiers still have the power to fight, no one wants to continue.

Everyone is running backwards.

The sound of the cannon also startled Lin Manjue who was in the line behind. He thought that the cannon was hitting him, but when he found that no shells fell towards him, he put his heart back into his stomach, and the pressure doubled after that.

His guerrilla army just used the advantage of bird guns to clean up the two Spanish companies, and beat the less than [-] enemies to withdraw from the battlefield from the half gap left in the valley. He hurriedly withdrew his troops and asked his subordinates to hide behind trees or stones.

Fortunately, these iron cavalry didn't seem to have any intention of fighting them fiercely. Except for a few who rushed into the formation without opening their eyes, the others ran eastward almost without looking at them.

After finally getting through this difficult moment, Lin Manjue, who had regrouped, raised his eyes and looked westward, his eyes were bigger than copper bells—people, all people.

The mighty Spanish army, some of which were still in formation, and some of which were holding their weapons in disorder, all ran towards him. From the momentum, Lin Manjue could no longer tell whether it was a rout or a charge.

Lin Manjue and his guerrilla army had never seen such a situation before. He stood for a long while facing thousands of rushing Spanish soldiers, before he finally reacted and shouted: "Formation, formation, the enemy The army is broken!"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)