Chapter Ninety-Six: Oath
Every country and every person can simply copy the Spanish phalanx, but no one can make their phalanx as powerful as the Iberian Peninsular's phalanx.
It's like not every army can still stay alive and charge forward after being nearly halfway overwhelmed by a dense pile of buckshots.
Because no one else had the Spanish warriors who were fanatical, confident, heroic, fearless, high morale and collective spirit.
The Tiger Squat Cannon fired at close range like a fierce wind swept through the spear array, and the wind composed of lead tore through the formation, giving the first two rows of spearmen nearly annihilation, especially when they were hit by an average of three lead shots and had not yet fallen, the birdmen who had been waiting for a long time behind the wooden fence heard the sound of the cannon and pulled the trigger in unison.
Bang bang, bang bang!
The incessant sound of guns cast a layer of gunpowder smoke in front of Lin Manjue's battle, and the two silent armies were separated by the smoke of gunpowder, attacking and defending on the other, but at the same time they could hear the other officer's orders in completely different languages.
On the one hand, they have conquered the Americas in a hundred battles, and on the other hand, they have won one victory after another, and their morale is like a rainbow, and they all have an almost blind belief in their victory.
When the smoke cleared, rows of Spanish spearmen fell, and the wooden fence was struck with holes, but no one took a step back.
The four or five metre long spears had wobbled beside the wooden fence and stabbed at the battalion soldiers, and it was difficult to injure the cuirass battalion soldiers in their posture with their spears, but this harassment was easier than any way.
The spearmen in front put down their spears, drew their long swords at their waists and rushed towards the wooden fence in the spear forest, and the back row of spearmen followed closely, disrupting the Ming army's obstruction with a new row of spears, and the phalanx of musketeers on both sides kept firing lead at the Ming army's position.
Their spear phalanx was heavily damaged, but the casualties were significant, and they resisted most of the attack, bringing the friendly forces behind them into close and close to enemy forces, and hand-to-hand combatβno one in the world could resist the phalanx head-on long before they landed in New Spain.
Because they are Spanish conquistadors from the Iberian Peninsula!
"Put it on for a while!"
Lin Manjue drew his handcuff, and the first soldier released a handcuff at several Spanish soldiers who had crossed the gap in the wooden fence behind the wooden fence, and pulled out the hand axe at his waist and said, "Stop them, Xiucai!" Retreat with the five sentry swords and beat the Xiyi swords to death! β
In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen Spanish soldiers crossed the wooden fence and were immediately besieged by more battalion soldiers, most of the soldiers in the front camp were armed with handcuffs, holding knives in one hand and guns in the other, and their fighting talent was not much stronger, but no one could fight them at this distance.
With the sound of a dozen short guns, the battalion soldiers of the Sabre in the smoke of gunpowder had already fought with the last few Spanish soldiers under the leadership of Lin Manjue, and in the blink of an eye, they were killed in the wooden fence, and he ordered: "Take the guns!" β
The captured Spanish muskets attached to the wooden fence finally came in handy, and without the need for charges, the battalion crouched and leaned against the wooden fence, put on the fire rope wrapped around their hands, and then raised it and shot it in front of the wooden fence without looking, not even daring to show their bodies.
They had spears like a forest on their heads, and the soldiers with eyes saw through the cracks in the wooden fence and saw that someone wanted to climb the wooden fence, so they stabbed their swords and swords out of the gaps, sometimes they worked, and sometimes they could only hear the sound of gold and stone.
Even if they were proud of their solid armor, they couldn't take advantage of this regular army of Xiyi.
A wooden fence made of a fish raft became a life-and-death line between the two armies, and the soldiers in armor squeezed and dragged each other on both sides of the wooden fence, the Ming army did not want the wooden fence to be overturned, and the Mendoza company struggled to overturn the wooden fence in order to attack the enemy position.
In the fight, the archers of the two armies fired at each other in the rear.
The Spanish musketeers are interesting, they seem to be in the position of an independent army in normal combat, which causes their training habits to be used in warfare, the front row of musketeers to fire backwards, the second row of musketeers standing behind them continue to fire, after firing continue to retreat to the end of the line, and fire in turn.
This was very effective against infantry attacks, with a steady stream of fire and a back-and-coming phalanx allowing them to avoid the enemy and kill effectively.
But now, after fighting, they retreated to the sea at the end of the group.
There, ordinary light muskets could no longer hit the Ming army's guns, and of course, the Ming army's gunners could not hit them, which seemed to be a loss for the Ming army, because although the Spanish heavy muskets had a low hit rate at this distance, they could kill people just as much as they hit.
But the Ming army actually didn't suffer a loss, because Lin Xiao, the talented man who commanded the guns, raised his hand and shouted loudly: "Don't fight if you can't beat the birds, help the three guys first, and the wounded soldiers adjust the artillery and bombard their guns!" β
Lin Xiao didn't forget that they still had two cannons.
The two two-pound cannons that were originally intended to be sent to the sea were adjusted by the wounded soldiers, and the shells were loaded as early as the beginning of the war.
Although the two-pound cannon is now the most unpopular small cannon on the ship, the field battle is still the main force of artillery, only one cannon fell on the edge of the musketeer phalanx to smash the formation out of the gap, and at the same time, the bird gun team joined the battle, so that the pressure of Lin Manjue, who was difficult to resist, was suddenly lightened, and a row of guns hit the Spanish phalanx soldiers outside the wooden fence to suffer losses.
They were too close.
With more than half of his men killed or wounded, Mendoza did not dare to continue the attack with victory in sight, so he ordered the damaged musketeers to take cover, leaving corpses all over the place, and retreating in an orderly manner towards the shallow boat.
Mendoza was very clever, he took advantage of the difficulty of language to give orders before retreating, and by the time Lin Manjue noticed the retreat of the enemy army, there were only a dozen spearmen in the pursuit, and hundreds of enemy troops were already pushing small boats and preparing to leave.
"Set up a cannon and shoot at the ship!"
At this time, it was useless to fight again, not to mention that they had no heavy artillery outside, so they could only watch the enemy troops board the big ship and drift away.
Although the enemy army left, Lin Manjue couldn't feel the slightest ease when he looked at the wounded soldiers all over the ground, and assigned two teams of uninjured subordinates to make up for the enemy troops on the ground with spears, and shouted to the rest of the people and ordered: "Pull up the shark boat, quickly, the enemy on the island must have heard the sound of cannons, and we will be floating on the sea later, quickly!" β
It was only a dozen miles from here to the port, not to mention that the garrison was not far from them, and he only had two hours if he was fast.
Although they repelled the enemy in this battle, their morale was extremely low - because dozens of robes were killed, which was the worst casualty after they landed on the island.
Lin Xiao grabbed the spear and stabbed it into the neck of the Spanish soldier, in case the dead body sat up for the second time, and began to turn into a dark red blood-stained red spearhead, he said to Lin Manjue not far away: "Uncle, after a few years of fighting, I am not afraid to kill the enemy in the future, but why is this?" β
"The neighbors who were supposed to farm in Pingyuan to support their families were born, if the thieves invaded the township, they would die in battle, no one would know if they died on this overseas island, and the corpse capital could not be sent back, and the nephew still didn't know that the marshal started a war with this and let that tribute, why?"
Lin Manjue tucked the fine gray hair under the bun, rubbed the axe on the shirt of the enemy's corpse, slowly tucked it into his waist, looked at Lin Xiao who was full of confusion and did not answer, pointed his fingers and turned over the hidden boat, and said: "Pull the boat up, push it into the sea, take the corpse with you, and then come back to get wood to make a coffin." β
"I, Lin San'er, swear to the heavens, as long as I don't die, I will take them and all of you home, but not now. This place is seven thousand miles away from home, and we have no way but to kill the thief - to bring the thief's ears. β
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