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Chapter 96 Swear

Every country and everyone can simply copy the Spanish phalanx, but no one can make their phalanx have the power to be as powerful as the phalanx composed of the Iberian Peninsula.

Just like not every army can still keep its vitality and charge forward after being overturned by dense lead for nearly half.

Because others do not have Spanish soldiers who are fanatical, confident, brave, fearless, high morale and collective spirit.

The tiger squat cannon fired at close range like a strong wind swept across the spear formation. The strong wind formed by leads tear open the formation, giving the first two rows of spear soldiers a near-demonstration. Especially when each of them was hit by three leads and had not yet fallen, the bird gunners who had been waiting behind the wooden fence heard the sound of cannons and pulled the trigger.

Bang bang, bang bang bang!

The continuous sound of guns cast a layer of smoke in front of Lin Manjue's formation. Two silent troops attacked and defended while attacking, but at the same time they could hear the opponent's officers ordering in completely different languages.

One of them conquered America through many battles, while the other side won consecutively and was full of morale. They all had almost blind beliefs about their own victory.

When the smoke of gunpowder gradually dissipated, rows of Spanish spearmen fell down, and the wooden fence was hit and the ground was riddled with holes, but no one took a step back.

The four or five-meter-long spear was shaking and staggered by the wooden fence, stabbing the camp soldiers. It was difficult for them to hurt the camp soldiers wearing breastplate in their posture of setting up spears, but this harassment worked simply than any other method.

The spearman in front put down his spear, pulled out his long sword from his waist and rushed towards the wooden fence in the spear forest. The back row of spears followed closely, disrupting the Ming army's block with a new row of spears. There were even musketeers on both sides who fired guns and kept firing leads at the Ming army's positions.

Their spear phalanx was heavily damaged, but these casualties were meaningful. They resisted most of the attacks and made close contact between friendly troops and enemy troops. Long before they landed in New Spain, no one in the world could resist the phalanx head-on.

Because they are Spanish conquerors from the Iberian Peninsula!

"Use the spar gun for a while!"

Lin Manjue drew out his hand gun and led the way to release a gun at several Spanish soldiers who had crossed the gap in the wood fence, and pulled out his hand axe from his waist and said, "Stop them, scholar! Take the five-sentence gunman back and kill the Western-Japanese gunman!"

In the blink of an eye, close troops were connected, and more than a dozen Spanish soldiers crossed the wooden fence and were immediately besieged by more battalions. Most of the soldiers in the front camp were carrying handguns, holding swords and the other handguns. The fighting talent was not much stronger, but no one could get a gun at this distance and still fight with them.

With more than a dozen short guns sounded, the battalions with swords in the smoke were already fighting with the last few Spanish soldiers under the leadership of Lin Manjue. The crowds of people killed them in a blink of an eye. He ordered: "Get the gun!"

The captured Spanish muskets on the wooden fence were finally handy. Without the need to load medicine, the battalion soldiers crouched behind the wooden fence, put on the fence wrapped around their hands and raised them to shoot at the wooden fence without looking at them, and they didn't even dare to expose their bodies.

On their heads were spears like a forest. The ingenious soldiers saw someone trying to climb the wooden fence and stab the sword out of the gap. Sometimes it worked, and sometimes they could only hear the sound of metal and stone.

Even if they are proud of their solid armor, they will not be able to gain any advantage against this regular Western army.

A wooden fence made of a fish raft became a line of life and death between the two armies. The soldiers in armor squeezed and dragged each other on both sides of the wooden fence. The Ming army was unwilling to let the wooden fence be overturned, and the Mendoza company tried hard to overturn the wooden fence in order to attack the enemy's formation.

During the fight, the shooters of the two armies shot each other from the rear.

The Spanish musketeers were very interesting. They seemed to be an independent army in normal combat, which caused their training habits to be used in wars. After firing, the front row musketeers retreated, and the second row of musketeers standing behind continued to fire, and after firing, they continued to retreat to the end of the team and fired one by one.

This is very effective in the face of infantry attacks. The continuous shooting and continuous retreating phalanx allow them to avoid the enemy and effectively kill.

But now, as they fought, their team retreated to the sea at the end.

There, ordinary light muskets could no longer hit Ming army gunners, and of course, Ming army gunners could not hit them either. This seemed to be the Ming army at a disadvantage, because although the Spanish heavy muskets hit a low hit rate at this distance, they could still kill people when hitting.

But the Ming army was not at a disadvantage, because Lin Xiao, a scholar who commanded the gunman, raised his hand and shouted loudly: "If you don't have the bird gun, don't hit it. Help the three masters first. The wounded soldiers adjust the cannons and bomb their gunman!"

Lin Xiaoke didn't forget that they still had two cannons.

The two two-jin cannons that were originally scheduled to be fired at the beach were adjusted by the wounded soldiers. The shells were loaded as early as the beginning of the war. At this time, gunpowder was sprinkled at the medicine hole, and the distance was only a hundred steps. The two cannons were almost aimed at and immediately bombarded out, with a huge momentum.

Although the two-jin cannon is now the least popular small cannon on the ship, it is still the main force of artillery in the field. Just one cannon fell on the edge of the musketeer phalanx and smashed the formation into a gap. At the same time, the bird gun team joined the battle, which made Lin Manjue's difficult-to-resistance pressure suddenly lighter. A row of gun bullets hit him and caused the Spanish phalanx soldiers outside the wooden fence to suffer a lot.

They are too close.

Half of his subordinates were killed and injured. Mendoza saw victory but did not dare to continue attacking. He could only order the damaged musketeers to cover them, leaving behind corpses everywhere, and retreating orderly towards the shallow sea boat.

Mendoza was very smart. He used the convenience of verbal dissatisfaction to issue orders before retreating. When Lin Manjue noticed that the enemy was retreating, only a dozen stragglers were within the pursuit range, and hundreds of enemy troops were already pushing the boats to leave.

"Plant a cannon and shoot on the boat!"

At this time, it would be useless to fight again, not to mention that they did not have heavy artillery outside, so they could only watch the enemy's troops get farther and farther away after boarding the ship.

Although the enemy left, Lin Manjue could not feel at all relaxed when he saw the wounded soldiers all over the ground. He assigned two teams of uninjured subordinates to use spears to make up for the enemy on the ground, shouting and ordering to the rest of the crowd: "Pull up the shark boat, hurry up, the enemy on the island must have heard the sound of cannons, we will float on the sea behind, hurry up!"

There are only a dozen miles from here to the port, and the garrison is not far from them, so if he is fast, he will only have two hours.

Although they repelled the enemy in this battle, their morale was particularly low - because dozens of robes were killed, this was the most tragic casualty they had since landed on the island.

Lin Xiao stabbed the Spanish soldier's neck with a spear in order to prevent the dead body from sitting up for the second time, and began to turn into dark red blood stained the spearhead. He said to Lin Manjue not far away: "Uncle, for a few years in war, the younger generation is not afraid of killing the enemy, but why?"

"A neighbor who should have farmed and raised his family in Pingyuan will live in. If the bandits invade the village, they will die in battle. No one knows that they will die in this isolated island overseas. The corpse cannot be sent back. My nephew still doesn't know that the general went to war with this and asked that tribute. Why?"

Lin Manjue gathered his white hair from his bun, rubbed his hand axe on the shirt of the enemy's corpse, and slowly retracted his waistband. He looked at Lin Xiao, who was confused and did not answer, pointed at the hidden ship and said, "Pull up the ship, push it into the sea, take the body, and come back to get the wood to make a coffin."
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