After several days of defending, Acapulco's Ming army finally decided to attack Bernal.

Twenty-three Spanish companies formed a phalanx in the valley, the spear forest was denser than the woods, and the gunners with heavy arquebuses on their shoulders set up forks at the front of the battle formation to form the first line of fire defense.

Bernal still planned to form a defensive line with a phalanx of companies to meet the Ming army, with thirteen companies on the front line and ten companies behind him forming the backbone of the battlefield, and the mercenaries and caravan guards on the left flank were more chaotic, and in order to make up for their inferiority in combat power, more troops, including Indians, were gathered.

On the right flank, it was relatively strong, with more than 170 feudal knights and their retinues forming a formidable line, with not only shock cavalry and light cavalry, but also a large number of soldiers who also formed a phalanx, which could firmly protect the right flank and wait for an opportunity to tear apart the enemy line.

Two Furlong cannons were placed on either side of the heavy musket team in front of the line as supplementary fire, and in the depth of the company's phalanx, Bernal specially assigned merchant gunners to place the two stone shooters behind the reserve and cover them with sackcloth.

The Spaniards' army was being dispatched, and Bernal and Jesús stood side by side in front of the formation, looking up at the mouth of the valley in the distance, where the Ming army was also deployed.

At first, the five Ming army and 100 households led the infantry to rush out with neat steps, when the bright flag was planted in front of the Chinese army, they turned into a column with a large width but lack of depth of three columns, the back two rows of flag troops were flat, and the front row of flag troops used shovels to dig horse trenches.

Immediately behind them, five more infantry of the Ming army of 100 households stepped forward, only three steps apart from the front bird gunners in front of them in a horizontal formation, the front row of the banner army in front of the tiger head card horizontally, behind two rows of infantry with oblique spears.

There were 1,000 infantry in formation, the rear army rushed out one after another, the cavalry with spears paced neatly and scattered the two wings in formation, and one by one the small banners of the artillery team stood in front of the bird gun team after passing through the line, and adjusted the firing angle with the general artillery under his command.

Closer to the rear, Acapulco's militia carried logs to build a tall general platform in the rear, and the left and right pro-army infantry and cavalry stood still with their flags and drums, and the front army also divided into drummers and drummers, and the entire wartime military formation tended to be complete.

The pre-made wooden parts of the platform are quickly spliced behind the formation, and the high platform close to two zhang is quickly completed by the aboriginal militia with a large number of people under the guidance of the flag officer, the chair of the bear skin is placed in the middle of it, the imperial gift of the scarlet umbrella is covered with a large sheet, and the long banner is lined up, and Chen Muduan, who is dressed in armor, leads more than ten soldiers to the high platform and sits on the chair.

A low horn sounded behind him.

The battlefield of the wide valley road where the wind blows through the valley and blows a lot of dust is clear at a glance.

At the rear of the canyon, Zou Yuanbiao slowly withdrew from the battlefield with the militia, and formed a grain team with Zhao Shizhen to go east after the victory or a reserve to defend the port after the defeat.

Compared with the boundless and boundless huge strength of the Western Army, the Ming army's formation was really too thin, the front army composed of the chief military officer Shao Tingda and the guerrilla general Fu Yuan was only 1,600 infantry, and the left wing cavalry of Heiyunlong was only 900.

The right flank was even more weak, with only Chen Mu's 400 Jiading cavalry led by Juniper, and the squad leader of the reserve in the Chinese army was Liandou, leading an infantry team of 800 also composed of Jiading.

It's only three thousand seven hundred.

If you insist on choosing a tall man among the short people to choose an advantage, it is probably that Chen Mu has twenty tiger squat cannons carried by General Zhenshuo and the infantry of the former army.

They still have some advantages in terms of firepower to suppress the enemy's cluster charge.

Chen Mu saw the cavalry running back and forth in the small phalanx of the enemy's huge number, and it seemed that his army was weak, and the huge horse corps crowded on both wings gradually unfolded, and the more than 20 infantry phalanxes of the Chinese army were also eager to move forward.

Despite the slow pace of the march, the flags that fluttered in the infantry phalanx representing the coats of arms of the minor nobles felt overwhelming.

"Report to the marshal, the distance between the two armies is between 1,400 and 1,500 paces."

"The enemy's front line moved forward, and our army's front began to shrink."

Shao Tingda's troops began to change formations, and the appearance of the western army advancing was even more shocking in his perspective, countless spear phalanxes advanced and brought loess to the sky, and the rear army had plenty of time to march and change formations, but for the front army banner army under his command, every minute was in the race.

A thin and shallow row of horse-repellent trenches was dug up, and the banner army immediately took bundles of captured spears from Spanish native soldiers and stuck them diagonally at the edge of the trench to protect their front from being trampled by the Western cavalry.

Shao Tingda, who was neatly draped, stood behind the formation with his sword, his eyes swept over the busy and heavy atmosphere of the banner army, he knew very well the responsibility they had in this battle, facing the rush of several times the enemy's army, and his subordinates would suffer heavy casualties.

But no one could avoid it, and Acapulco took the initiative to attack not only because Lin Manjue's guerrilla army had camped behind Bernal, but also because Deng Zilong had already sent back the news that the fleet had encountered a storm, and the expected naval battle did not start.

Acapulco now faced a situation in which the Peruvian fleet could bypass Panama's Deng Zilong fleet and attack the port, at which point they would find themselves in an embarrassing situation.

In contrast, taking the initiative to attack Bernal now can at least keep the situation under the control of the Ming army.

"Shao Shuai, the enemy's front line is close to me by 800 steps!"

As soon as the herald of the banner army's words fell, the roar of the Franco's cannons sounded on the opposite side, and two cannonballs smashed down on their own military formation, smashing dust on the ground.

The advantage of the Franc was rapid-fire, and although there were only two of them left, the Western Army was still able to use its multiple sub-guns to create a coherent fire capability equal to that of many guns.

However, the defense of the Ming army's three horizontal formations against the artillery was not bad, and what they were afraid of was to face the onslaught of the Western army's armored cavalry.

Under the suppression of the coherent artillery, the front of the Western Army accelerated the speed of its advance, and after a while, with the muffled sound of shells smashing into the trench, the herald reported again: "Shao Shuai, the enemy army is nearly 600 paces!" ”

"Hold your ground, don't be afraid!"

The distance between the two armies became closer and closer, and the heralds under the stage rushed into the various formations more and more frequently, informing the front army and the cavalry on both flanks of the movement of the western army one by one.

Chen Mu looked at the division on the platform, waiting for the two armies to be four hundred paces apart, Shao Ting's front of the formation of the bird gun hand swing round firing formation, each bird gun team flank and rear there is a sword and spear team ready to swing up at any time to go up to engage the battle, the two Fran cannons of the Western Army have been blasted out, and it seems that the casualties of the dead and wounded soldiers are more than two small flags.

The Ming army also opened fire, and six solid shells bombarded out in the roar, falling in the dense phalanx of the Western army, and several vertical jumps crushed a bloody road.

With the sound of military music, the western army, holding a huge cross, began to march forward quickly, almost rushing to 200 paces away in the next round of artillery fire.

The two sides officially engaged.