In the dense forest, the birds and beasts were frightened away by the continuous gunfire in the distance, and under the dense branches, in the distance of a thousand steps from south to north, the heavily armed Ming army was nervous.

The Ming army was only three miles away from the battlefield, and a hundred paces of bushes away was the battlefield where the Indians and Spanish half-breeds were fighting, so that their ears were filled with the roars and screams of different languages, but they could not try to observe the situation on the battlefield.

Many of them were on the battlefield for the first time, and although they had practiced countless tactical moves in Beiyang, they couldn't escape the nervousness in their hearts.

"General, the Westerners are still not out of the cavalry?"

The same is true of Baihu, who is a junior officer, who became anxious before he started, and had been waiting for this moment for too long, and a Baihu came to the sick seedling under the tree and complained to the sick seedling who closed his eyes and recuperated: "If you don't attack, they don't have many cavalry, and if you don't attack the natives, you will be defeated!" ”

Even if they didn't see what the battlefield was like, they could imagine where the aborigines would be opponents against the elite Spanish legions.

It is not defeated yet, compared to relying on a large number of troops to support it, and if you can't attack for a long time, you will always lose.

Shao Bianjiao was very calm, sat cross-legged under the tree and twisted the Buddhist beads in his hand, turned his head and rolled his eyes to look at the hundred households named Zhen Kaiyuan beside him, and sneered: "There are not many cavalry? ”

"It's not much, the two wings are in the middle of a hundred heads, all of them are heavily armored elite cavalry, rushing over unless we are in the woods, we have few spearmen, and we will be flattened when we go out to form a formation, not to mention whether the spurs can stop the cavalry, even if they are stopped."

"With your stabbing skills, the enemy's three formations can take advantage of the situation to cover and kill...... Ever been on the battlefield? ”

Sick Yang'er has the posture of a general, and pointed out to the hundreds of households under his command: "What Shao Shuai wants is the rout of the local people, only if the local people are defeated, the heavy cavalry of the Western Army will take advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, and separate it from the large array of the land division, that is our chance, and we can kill a few fewer people." ”

He had fought several battles with Shao Tingda, and he was close to the center, so he knew better how the main general thought about the battle situation in the war, and said to Baihu: "If you have time to panic here, go and take care of the Shenwei machine arrows carefully, and that big thing will follow the army later." ”

The twelve hundred households lined up from north to south to east, the sick seedling was the last, he glanced at the hundred households who were ordered to leave, and then twisted the Buddha beads in his hand again, he was not exceeding the soul that died on the battlefield, he was not a monk, he was just borrowing Buddha beads to count.

The new type of machine arrow has a maximum range of three and a half miles in elevation, and the propellant burns out between eight and twelve breaths, and then the explosive explodes, one arrow can blow up a radius of five steps, but the twelve combined rockets will be scattered within a radius of twenty to a hundred paces depending on luck.

In addition to the nearly tenfold increase in the range of the newly made Divine Machine Arrow, the rest of the power, accuracy, and stability have not improved in the slightest compared to the previous one, and even because of the longer range, it is relatively more accurate.

Lu can release more than fifty catties of gunpowder with twelve divine arrows at a time, and he can make ten gates and five catties of Zhenshuo General fire a salvo, but the power is far inferior.

Sick seedlings pout, rich people play things!

Useful in battle, though.

There was a low horn sound in the distance, and it seemed that the shouting of killing was even stronger, and the changes in the situation on the battlefield were most clearly changed in the eyes of Shao Tingda on the southwest mountain, and from his position, the entire battlefield situation was clear at a glance.

One-sided slaughter.

The Spaniards' various companies formed a military formation, unlike the Ming army, which was accustomed to directly placing the chariots and horses on the front, Herrera put the two companies in the front, and the rest of the formation was slightly delayed, and the gap between the phalanxes seemed to be deliberately left for the enemy to attack.

If you don't see their way of fighting, I'm afraid that Shao Tingda will also lead the army to rush into the gap with his head covered.

In fact, it was a bait and a trap, a glass of poisoned wine, clear and tempting, drunk and pierced.

The huge number of aborigines seemed to Shao Tingda to have seven or eight thousand men, which could not be counted at all, and they loomed from the forest not long after the Spaniards left the camp, and then attacked from the north and northwest in the western army.

Muskets, archers, and infantry with wooden shields, axes, and spears, the tribes were also forming formations, a kind of hollow phalanx of four squares on all sides, with the open space in the middle for their generals to march slowly.

The two armies slowly approached for a long time, and more than 100 cavalry of the aborigines were behind the formation, and slowly pressed south along the easternmost river bank of the battlefield.

Compared to the soldiers of the Spanish Mixed Blood Legion, the aborigines were too rudimentary, they only had a few cuirasses, almost all of which were equipped on the cavalry, and the infantry had a lot of cotton armor, but it was different from the cotton armor made of clothes by the Spaniards.

They used two pieces of cotton armor cloth to tie them with ropes on their chests, backs, and backs, covering their thighs and necks, and many of them were simply bare-chested.

Even those generals in the middle of each phalanx had very rudimentary armaments, although they were dressed up like the generals of various countries, their costumes were hats with feathers and animal heads, and skirts or cloaks made of metal and animal bones were draped around their waists, and the only real protective abilities were two heart goggles on their chests.

Each general is dressed differently, but the same thing is that they are covered in tattoos.

When the aboriginal army attacked the half-blood phalanx outside the two independent army formations, Shao Tingda even felt that the Ming army might not be needed in this battle, and that a large number of natives would cut down the half-blood army, which was indeed the case at the beginning of the war.

The gap between the two phalanxes was about a hundred paces, and the musketeers were attacked by countless feathered arrows before they could shoot at range, causing great trouble for the musketeers who lacked armor.

In the blink of an eye, the musketeers in the northwest corner of the western formation and the northeast corner of the eastern formation fell in a rain of arrows, and even the three-layer musketeers outside the spearmen were killed and wounded.

The Western army could only bombard the approaching aboriginal army formation with Franc cannons made of wrought iron bars, although it was only 400 paces range, but the aboriginal army formation was very dense, which could ensure that each cannon could hit accurately and smash several or even more than a dozen people.

As the distance got closer, the musketeers on both sides began to shoot at each other, with the Spaniards having more muskets, and within the range of the muskets, the aboriginal formations began to suffer casualties, although they enveloped the two formations in a semi-encircled formation, but in fact this was the most powerful of the Spanish phalanx.

Shao Tingda could only see that the two sides of the phalanx were always filled with gunsmoke, and the aborigines outside were almost approaching with corpses.

One Native phalanx retreated, and another Native phalanx rushed up, making it difficult for them to rush to the front and start hand-to-hand combat under the continuous fire of the musketeers.

The Spaniards' musketeers did not shoot in turns, except for the first volley, and then began to shoot at random, whoever loaded the gunpowder first fired first, but they had a lot of musketeers to ensure that the fire was dense enough.

The real slaughter began after the siege.

A large number of aborigines poured into the gap between the two phalanxes, and the aboriginal army tried to wrap the two phalanxes and continue to attack the phalanx behind.

The ensuing battle changed his mind.

As the two sides approached, the spearmen in the middle of the phalanx lowered their spears, and the musketeers withdrew inside, the hedgehog-like spear formation prevented the aborigines from entering, and then the two phalanxes narrowed the gap in the middle like mincing meat, squeezing the natives who entered it.

The spears and muskets were all out, and in the blink of an eye, a bloody path was cleared in the middle of the formation, and then they began to retreat, and the three phalanxes behind began to attack forward at the same time, continuing to squeeze the aboriginal army in the middle of the phalanx.

At this time, Shao Tingda understood that it was not the aborigines who wrapped them, but the aboriginal army that they divided and surrounded.

The fire between the phalanxes did not cause accidental damage due to the distance, but it was a good blow to the aborigines, and in the blink of an eye, the aboriginal warriors who survived the frustrated front-line army began to retreat, and then turned into a rout.

A heavy trumpet sounded, and the cavalry in heavy armor on both wings of the Western Army roared out.

Shao Tingda raised his hand, took a deep breath, and said, "Raise the flag, it's time for us!" ”