Chapter 96 Charge
The low trumpet sounded again and again on the battlefield, and the long echoes suddenly came to everyone's heart in the canyon.
When the five Western Army formations entered the range first, they supported the fork of the heavy convex gun in front of them at 150 steps and fired a row of gunpowders with the military order.
The heavy heavy musket has unparalleled lethality. Although the caliber size of each musket handmade in various places is different, the weight of the projectile is generally between five cents and one liang. It is probably possible that the power can easily shoot through the wooden shield blocking the Ming army from the distance of the position, and injure or even kill the Ming army bird gunner in armor behind it.
With just one volley, Shao Tingda saw at least three flag soldiers falling to the ground in front of his formation, but this distance from the Ming army's musket was not as powerful as that.
Fortunately, the Western Army is still moving forward.
Except for the two square arrays with about 100 heavy musketeers each standing on the right wing of the central army, the remaining front military formations were still steadily advancing forward, and several square arrays stood apart from a hundred steps away, scattering the Ming army formation with ordinary combs and a small number of flintlock rifles in their hands.
"Don't panic, let's wait for them to move forward a little further and give them a few small flag arrows. Bird Gunners don't shoot!"
Several round and long wooden tubes were mounted on the shield, and more than ten small flag arrows were fired from various positions in front of the formation to the enemy. In the eyes of Chen Mu on the rear, the small flag arrows burst out smoke from all over the enemy's phalanx.
However, the small flag arrow shot did not interrupt the deployment of the Western Army. Even when the central army was completely attracted by the phalanx army that was constantly exploding smoke, a large number of infantrymen on both wings of the enemy were slowly moving forward, as if they wanted to strangle the central army in an encirclement formation with simultaneous attacks.
"Archive, let it go!"
General Zhenshuo's cannon roared again, and the solid iron bullets roared at the square array scattered by the musketeers a hundred steps away. The ten kilograms smashed the chest of the front musketeers cleanly and neatly, and then destroyed the shoulders of the musketeers loading the musketeers. The musketeers were hit and flew into the sky in a slanted manner.
The landing iron bullet continued to roll, and seemed to break the four spearmen's legs on the rolling route without any effort, causing chaos in the rear of the troops dodged left and right to avoid the bombing shells, and finally stopped at the end of the bloody road.
At the same time, the cavalry on the left wing of the Western Army had not made any moves. The mercenaries carrying long swords and wielding phalanxes had already surrounded themselves from the side under the leadership of the vanguard musketeer. Shao Tingda's troops were short of strength and could only appoint Shao Bianjiao to lead two teams of 100 people to move to the right wing.
On the right wing of the Western Army, the knights in heavy armor were much more bold. They rode three or five with huge cavalry spears, followed by their respective entourage light cavalry, and pressed forward. There were often dozens of recruits in front of them. Even in the New World, the habit of using peasant soldiers to go to the battlefield in the past remained unchanged.
It was nothing more than their peasant soldiers who had gone from Spanish peasants to New Spanish peasants.
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Shao Tingda did not increase his defensive power to the left wing. There were originally Fu Yuan and his 300-house flag army under his command, and there were 900-horse troops under Heiyunlong. He was relatively strong and should be able to withstand the first attack of the enemy.
Fu Yuan looked at the Western Army troops approaching from a distance and pursed his lips, swallowed slowly, and raised his hand and said, "Tiger squatted cannons, put on loose pieces, knife and shield, and the bird gun team was ready."
He saw that the soldiers in front of the knights were equipped with many crossbows, and his hands were pressed on the hilt of the sword, slowly assembled the soldiers of the three hundred and hundred families under his command, ready to fight.
As the left wing of the Ming army began to mobilize, the Spanish right wing army also accelerated, and the heavy armored knights approached from the right side, and the large number of light cavalry were divided into two formations, one followed, and the other suddenly stabbed towards the central army.
The Mercedes-Benz Spanish light cavalry had a spear under his ribs, and suddenly accelerated at a distance of only 200 steps. They crossed the Western Army's front and the Ming Army's shooting areas, and rushed straight towards Shao Tingda's troops. At the same time, in addition to the musketeers, the four square formations of the central army also moved forward quickly.
"Bird Gunner is ready!"
Shao Tingda's side had just ordered that Baihu, who commanded the sword and shield hands, shouted: "The sword hands are ready!"
The sword and shield in the military formation were located on the left and right of the bird gunner. The sword and shield spears were taken forward one after another. The sword and shield hand placed the tiger-headed round shield in front of him, and raised the knife and posed forth. The infantry behind them handed out the hard spears of the 5th army formation from the cracks in the front row. The thick spear tail pressed on the thighs that were taking the lunge, forming a forest of spears.
When the light cavalry approached a hundred steps, they had already added up their horse speed, galloping like wind, and the horse's hooves were like thunder, whistling in front of the Ming army, rushing and snatching the aura of the three armies.
However, they seemed to have noticed the two trenches and spears in front of the Ming army's bird gunman when they rushed to the front. The cavalry team that had formed a cone formation suddenly became in chaos. The rider who saw the spears behind wanted to turn but was wrapped left and right. The cavalry in front didn't want to turn but was led to the horse and ran to the side.
The charge of the cavalry formation immediately slowed down. At this moment, with the order of the bird guns, a row of bird guns shot overturned several people in a volley behind the trench.
However, most of the cavalry were still led by war horses into the trench, and some hit the spear to stop rushing or drop off the horse. More cavalry easily crossed two low trenches and rushed into the infantry front from the side.
The sword and shield holding the waist knife were all short, letting the spear behind him hand out to assassinate the enemy cavalry. They rolled among the horse's hooves, lifting their swords to chop everything they saw.
The battle on the left wing started at the same time. When a large number of recruits formed a square formation and approached Fu Yuan's army, the Ming army had fired out small flag arrows, general flag arrows, and bird guns. Seeing that they could not suppress the enemy's rushing force, tiger squatting cannons were nailed in front of the formation, almost facing the face toward the Western infantry that was rushing towards them.
The sprayed sparse seeds were like the flower of death blooming from the muzzle, which shot a large piece of lead bullet into the Western Army's quarrel. The moment the smoke dissipated, it even made people feel that the entire quarrel was hit by the volley of the tiger squatting cannon.
Heiyunlong was in the back of the left wing and was anxious to listen to the front army fighting, and he rode his horse uneasy and kept wandering around. Finally, he heard the order from Chen Mu on the general's platform in the sound of horse hooves. He raised his long sword and shouted: "The horse army will get on the horse, and hundreds of households will press the enemy from the side to squeeze into the middle to guard against the enemy cavalry."
Chapter completed!