Chief of Staff Gu Xin recognized Emperor Zhang Ping'an's judgment of the Spaniards. He still used the intensive military formations of decades ago on the battlefield to fight against the Chinese army, which were full of firearms. The result of today's battle is conceivable. Of course, no one dared to speak loudly before the battle was over. Gu Xin still handed over the military arrangements of the General Staff to Emperor Zhang Ping'an for review. However, Zhang Ping'an was too lazy to even look at it. He pressed the stack of newspapers on the chair. He sat on the newspaper and was afraid that the wind would blow away. Not far from the command platform was the command position of the artillery battalion commander Yang Meimei. Emperor Zhang Ping'an saw Yang Meimei turn over and take dozens of artillery battalion staff and guards to the southern artillery formation, and he kept nodding secretly. Emperor Zhang Ping'an believed that this sister Yang was commanding artillery more and more orderly, and he was going to the southern heavy artillery position to command the enemy's artillery attacks.

It took an hour and a half to form the Spanish army. The Chinese army had more than 10,000 soldiers crossing the river. The General Staff also ordered the Gao Chenggong unit of the personal barracks to enter the east bank of the river to prepare for crossing the river. Now the small boats crossing the river are loaded with ammunition and supplies and are continuously transported to the Chinese army positions on the west bank. The biggest threat to the Li Qing Water Department of the personal barracks is the artillery hidden behind the Spanish. The artillery in these bunkers escaped the last fire of the Chinese army. They were firing some cold guns from time to time to interfere with the construction of the Chinese army's positions. The Li Qing Water Department of the personal barracks was built on the Spanish defense line. Because time was too tight, they could only use enemy corpses and stones that were smashed by their own artillery to temporarily build a half-man-high guard wall.

While waiting for the Spanish to gather, the Chinese artillery battalion almost did not fire again. The Chinese artillery battalion waited for the Spanish army to charge and then wiped out the enemy in the field. The only support cannons in the middle of the Spanish outer defense line were still firing several shots from time to time. Unfortunately, these smooth-bore cannons were too accurate. These solid cannons either flew directly into the river when they were high or they were too close. They could only hear the shells drilling into the soil and making a harsh scream. Spanish Governor Francisco had high hopes for this counterattack. He hoped that the Spanish army would drive the troops on the bank of the Chinese army into the river. The officers and soldiers from various Spanish divisions who came to participate in the war had realized the dangerous situation and anxiously waited for Governor Francisco to launch an attack order.

A crisp bronze horn came from the east gate of Manila. Governor Francisco issued a general attack order. The subsequent sound of war drums urged six Spanish phalanxes to enter the battlefield two miles away. With the inspiration of war drums, the Spanish soldiers advanced neatly under the command of the officers on the left side of the army. The five thousand-man phalanx is a military formation covering an area of ​​one mile. The six Spanish formations looked like moving carpets from afar. The flag was waving and speared like a forest, and fifteen drummers beat the pace. The spears in the Spanish formation were very distinctive. This spear of four meters long extended to the soldiers, but this arm was not only long but also killing people. Yang Mei, the commander of the Chinese artillery battalion, who entered the southern command position, climbed up the command platform panting and jumped to the team to issue a series of military orders.

The heavy artillery group of the Chinese army in the south, under the command of the commander Yang Meimei, bombarded the Spanish attacking military formation. The heavy artillery was amazing. Even if the shells did not hit the Spanish formation, the shrapnel produced by the explosion would cause casualties to the Spanish. In particular, there were thirty heavy artillery* accurately hitting the dense army formation, and one shot could blow more than a dozen people near the explosion point into pieces. The Spanish drummers lost their calmness in the face of such powerful explosions, and the drums they knocked out began to become chaotic. The heavy artillery had just completed the first round of bombing, and more than 300 eight-pound cannons on the east side fired in turn, and then followed by the six dense Spanish army formations into scattered formations. Even so, the Spanish still gritted their teeth and insisted on striving for the complete formation, and they still used unified steps to press forward to the east.

Under the repeated bombardment of Chinese military artillery, the only thing that changed the Spanish was to speed up the march. The Spanish only walked out for only one mile, and the six military formations lost 30% of the soldiers, and the sparse military formations were no longer as high as a forest spear, like a swaying reed. Li Qingshui, the commander of the personal military camp who was patrolling the defense line, saw that the enemy military formation became more and more chaotic, his eager mood gradually became colder. Li Qingshui secretly scolded Yang Meimei's artillery camp in his heart. According to the attack speed of the artillery camp, the headquarters could not eat much meat until the war was fought. Finally, the Spanish army formation was approaching the range of the Chinese army muskets. The anxious Li Qingshui ordered the soldiers to cross the defense wall and directly exchange fire with the enemy. The Chinese army artillery camp artillery happily harvested their lives in the enemy military formation, and shot them accurately on the Spanish road forward.

The Spanish soldiers who were really unable to stand being unilaterally massacred by the Chinese military artillery were no longer allowed to press the officers to pick up their weapons and rush towards the Chinese army. In fact, most of the Spanish grassroots officers were killed or injured in this artillery attack, and it was normal to lose control. The soldiers of the Li Qingshui team of the Chinese army's personal military camp used a double platoon to fight the long snake formation. The musketeers in the front row shot in a kneeling position, while the rear row shot in a standing position. Li Qing

There were also three thousand warriors left as reserves. It is the tradition of the Chinese army to retain the battle reserves. Even the most intense battlefield leaders will leave the reserves to prevent any accidents. The Spanish musket is a flintlock rifle, and the formula of the firing* is different from the medicinal pool* of the musket, so it needs to be loaded separately when firing. The slow and complex loading process after firing caused great trouble to the Spanish soldiers, and they are often hit by dense bullets of the Chinese army during the loading process.

Zhang Ping'an, the emperor of the Chinese Empire who was watching the battle from a distance, sat comfortably in the chair and watched the one-sided massacre of the Spaniards. He silently calculated the limit of the Spanish's tolerance in his heart. At this time, Ximen Qing, the commander of the Beihai Province, was not, but Chu Liuxiang licked his face and climbed onto the emperor's command platform. But when he heard Chu Liuxiang, he said in a stingy tone: "Your Majesty's wise battle of magical martial arts will determine the world. From now on, there will be no foreign barbarians in the South China Sea of ​​the Empire!..., Your Majesty! The battle is about to be finished and the headquarters has not yet been opened. At least you can leave a mouthful of soup for the ministers!"

"Hahaha! I really forgot you if you don't come. Well, don't stay here, your army will just cross the river and listen to Li Qingshui's dispatch!" There is no suspense in this battle. Emperor Zhang Ping'an still let Chu Liuxiang's army go up to practice.

In this battle, there were still many small boats prepared by the personal barracks. The Beihai Province Army robbed Gao Chenggong's errands from the personal barracks. They excitedly rushed to cross the river to the front line. However, the Beihai Camp Army, who asked for errands in front of the emperor, only saw corpses floating on the ground after getting ashore. Even the injured Spaniards were lying on the ground one by one, would rather pretend to be dead to get rid of the fate of death. This scene made Chu Liuxiang feel very heartwarming.

Chu Liuxiang was still a little unwilling, so he found Li Qingshui, the commander-in-chief on the front line to command the battle, and begged him to throw some leftovers out. Today, Li Qingshui's army made the greatest military achievements in the battle, and Chu Liuxiang was the emperor personally issued an order to go to the front line to assist in the battle. Li Qingshui had to give the emperor some face. After thinking for a while, Li Qingshui ordered Chu Liuxiang's army to attack the enemy in depth, and strive to take down the outer defense line east of the Spaniard before dark.

In fact, after the Spanish counterattack army was destroyed, the Spanish Governor Francisco had already planned to give up the outer defense line. He had just ordered the withdrawal of the Spanish bastards from the periphery back to Manila, and 20,000 soldiers of the Chinese army Chu Liuxiang's troops rushed over in a scattered formation. After a big defeat, all the soldiers on the Spanish outer defense line were frightened, and who would have received a order to retreat to fight the Chinese army?

I have to say that Chu Liuxiang is surprisingly lucky. He almost rushed into the deep defense line of the outer periphery with the butt of the Spaniard. The cannons on the Manila city walls were afraid of hitting their own people and did not dare to fire. Without the threat of enemy artillery, Chu Liuxiang's troops easily and happily took down all the bunkers outside the Spaniard city. Just when Chu Liuxiang was planning to continue pursuing, the General Staff sent people to issue military orders to release the remaining enemies into the city.

As a veteran general of the Chinese Army, Chu Liuxiang still did not have the courage to disobey the military orders of the General Staff. After all, the military orders of the General Staff were given by Emperor Zhang Ping'an. When Emperor Zhang Ping'an saw more than 10,000 soldiers of Chu Liuxiang's army were infiltrated into the enemy's bunker defense line, he immediately issued an order to stop the pursuit. Zhang Chi was important in fighting, and the Chinese army that had won a complete victory had no need to beat the fallen dog. This could not only reduce the casualties of the Chinese army, but also allow the defeated Spanish soldiers to bring back the news of the main force's destruction to the defenders in the city. As a veteran in the battlefield, the emperor Zhang Ping'an knew very well that the three men became tigers, let alone the thousands brought back the real news. This was not the end. The emperor Zhang Ping'an, who had always been very obsessed with the intelligence department, called Zhang Wuji, the commander of the intelligence department, and asked the intelligence department to send people to meet the indigenous people west of Manila City.

It is said that the emperor Zhang Ping'an was extremely angry at the natives' massacre of the Han people in Sulu. If the natives want to calm the anger of Emperor Zhang Ping'an, they must take the Spanish heads to atone for their sins. That night, Zhang Wuji, the commander of the Intelligence Department, personally led the A Thousand City Housings to a circle and ran to the Navy Land Camp station west of Manila City, and released several indigenous prisoners to convey the news of peace talks. The indigenous elders who had been forced into a desperate situation by the Chinese army were naturally ten.

Cherish this life-saving straw. Without Zhang Wuji's words, the two sides quickly reached all cooperation matters. With the hidden stakes of the indigenous legion, the Chinese army began to arrange the next military operation. Emperor Zhang Ping'an ordered Chu Liuxiang's troops to take the initiative to attack Manila City, and the logistics battalion was responsible for tying the long ladder to siege the city and place it in a conspicuous position for the Spaniards to see it, increasing the pressure on Spain and attracting its heavy troops to the east wall.
Chapter completed!