open sea

Chapter 987
Carlos's judgment on the enemy's force was very mature. The army gathered from the western suburbs of Bordeaux was indeed led by two earls. Most of them come from offshoots of the family, but they are not affiliated to the family.

More than half of the knights came from the Knights of Pardon stationed in Bordeaux, and they were paid by the third brother, so although they came from the two marquis families, they were as loyal to the king as the third.

As the second son, no matter how large the family is, they can't give them fiefs and enough glory, but the third son's order of pardon knights can.

With a telescope on the wall of the bastion, I looked at the figure of the army that gradually appeared on the distant horizon. I remembered Carlos’s introduction to the knights of the French amnesty earlier, and watched the ornately decorated knights lined up on the wall before the dense forest appeared in the telescope, holding spears. Leaping out with pony steps, he nodded slowly.

The policies and environments of each country are different, but people are the same, and they always strive to be the best.

The various legions and mercenaries in Spain have no shortage of knights without fiefdoms, and the French provide an opportunity for these people.

In Chen Jiujing's consciousness, what he had to face were more than 100 martial arts practitioners.

A few miles away, the enemy troops from Bordeaux began to line up. The knights who gathered together slowly dispersed, and led the followers who held up the colorful flags behind them into a square team consisting of ten and dozens of knights as Carlos said.

The baron leads the knight, the knight leads the retinue, and the weapons they use are different, but they all have five or six cavalry in a row, five or six rows, people next to people, horses next to horses, ten cavalry squads lined up, Stand silently on the battlefield.

More infantry came out from the forest and formed a phalanx in front of the knight squad. However, compared with the knights, they looked like a group of miserable haha. Their clothes and equipment were as messy as the queue they assembled, and they were in a mess in front of the formation. Similarly, twelve square formations consisting of three or 400 people were lined up.

Then the artillery arrived late, and more than [-] mules and horses appeared on the edge of the battlefield, pulling the artillery one by one. They were pulled forward by the artillery and moved forward, and finally dispersed and placed in a position further forward than the infantry.

Chen Jiujing put down the binoculars and unconsciously licked his lips. He turned his head to look at the naval artillery all over the protruding part of the bastion, "The headshot?"

It seems funny, but the French's headshots are very useful. At least the infantry front formed by Juan, Aji, and Salazar retreated collectively.

The position where the French artillery was placed was only three miles away from the front line of the army. If they did not retreat, they would eat shells, but their artillery was on the bastion four miles behind them, unable to provide them with supporting firepower.

It's a mercenary again, it's normal to retreat.

Chen Jiujing's front line had three infantry phalanxes of 300 soldiers on each wing, and only two phalanxes near the edge in the middle, leaving the center completely out, but the rear line was strengthened in the middle. Fourteen Spanish mercenary infantry companies were in the middle. The guard of cavalry led by Franco spread out on both wings and looked better than the French army.

The position under the bastion is the Baishan Battalion led by Kang Gulu. More than a hundred riders are stationed in the bastion, and the Jurchen heavy infantry stands densely in the trenches outside the camp. Gun Centuries, this is the only firearms unit of the Baishan Battalion.

They have fewer muskets than the mercenaries, and the phalanx of the mercenaries is also formed in the same way as the Spanish regular army. They are probably composed of six spearmen, [-]% sword and shield infantry, [-]% crossbowmen and [-]% musketeers. .

Huang Xi, a North Korean guerrilla from the Baishan Battalion, also stood on the top of the city with his goggles and overlooked the battlefield. After the French formed their formation, they raised their arms and said to Chen Jiujing: "General, their artillery is somewhat humble, but it seems that most of them are Francophones. , and advance one mile further, the gunners under the humble command can bombard the army formation."

"Not urgent."

Chen Jiujing raised his hand to stop Huang Xi's idea of ​​bombarding the enemy on the way to attack, and said: "We have the advantage of the artillery, so we don't need to rush to release it. We will release it when they get within the range of the five-jin cannon. The ten-jin cannon and the sixteen-jin cannon will be left for later." Soldiers are approaching the city."

The North Korean soldiers of the Baishan Battalion specially unloaded the two thousand-load ships from light to heavy and pushed them to the head of the city for this battle. If it weren't for the 3000-jin cannon weighing more than [-] catties, it was too heavy to transport, and Chen Jiujing even Move all that stuff to the city wall.

After all, the Baishan Battalion is not a direct-line army of Beiyang. We admit that it suffers from the blunderbuss and muskets, but it must not suffer from the artillery, otherwise it will be called losing the duty of the Beiyang army!

If the commander-in-chief of the French army in Bordeaux also had a telescope to see the black hole of the gun on the bastion, he would be very angry.

They brought 36 field guns from Bordeaux, all of which were breech-loading guns with Francophones or wedge tails, sacrificing range and power for rapid fire.

The Ming army was lucky. The ship that could not turn around used four-wheeled gun carts to install 64 light and heavy generals. General Zhenshuo placed on the top of the city. In this bastion, there were still French craftsmen who had no time to escape. What about the wheel gun?

This battle will be dragged on, and Chen Jiujing's guns will be transformed into field battles.

However, during the conversation between Chen Jiujing and Huang Xi, a strange and funny situation appeared on the battlefield.

The French army marched a hundred steps forward, and the Ming army's Xiyong battalion retreated a hundred steps in unison.

The few cavalry sent by the French to carry the flag also followed helplessly and walked a hundred steps forward. They were very melancholy.

The cavalry were ordered to shout to the enemy before the battle. According to common sense, the nobles would talk to the other general after the formation was completed, and then start the fight if the negotiation failed. The count was also unwilling to lower his value to go to the front to talk to the soldiers of the Ming army, so he sent a few riders.

But this formation seems to be endless. The former army has been retreating, and the war has not yet been said. What do you think you have been retreating?
It stands to reason that if someone appeared in front of the battle carrying a flag, the opposite party should send someone out to make contact with them, but no one from the Ming army paid any attention to them.

Every time the cavalry just hit their horses and took a few steps forward, mustering up their breath and intending to shout for the enemy to hear, the opposite side retreated in unison.

No way, the formation of the French army also moved forward.

One retreated and the other advanced, making the two earl commanders of the French army dumbfounded... and there were only three miles left to retreat from the coastal bastion, and the army would enter the firing range of the artillery of the Ming Empire.

"Don't go any further, stop everything, we've already traveled a long way, and the soldiers won't have the strength to fight with them anymore, Sir Lauzan, send someone to send Bordeaux over here. The fight looks like it's going to be very..."

Before the words were finished, there were several loud bangs, and gunpowder smoke exploded from the bastions in the distance, and more than [-] shells blasted towards the infantry phalanx at the front of the battlefield. .

"Fight without declaring war?"

In the noisy surroundings, Sir Alessim, who was half-speaking, was stunned. He immediately pulled off the helmet visor with the bat on it, drew out the sword at his waist, and said to the orderly servants waiting by the side: "Move forward, and the artillery will return fire!"

(End of this chapter)