Chen Mu was not afraid of anything, but he was afraid that Juniper on the right wing would have a muddy brain, so he led the cavalry to break into the enemy formation first.

The second monk of Juniper who received the order was puzzled, and the chicken paws reached into the helmet and scratched the hair between the sideburns, and the boss muttered unwillingly: "If you don't call Chong, you won't call Chongbei, what do you do to scare me!" ”

As he spoke, he shook his head and looked at the enemy army slowly pressing in front of him unwillingly, and beckoned to the four hundred households of his subordinate cavalry: "The commander has an order, tell us to retreat four hundred steps, regardless of the enemy troops on the right flank, and wait for God to scare them and scare them back." ”

Juniper also knew in his heart that the decisive victory in this battle did not lie with him, and he was only a little worried about the Chinese army when he retreated at this time.

Just as he was about to assign a cavalry to tell Shao Tingda that he had received the news that he had been ordered to retreat, he turned his head to look at the rear general, but saw that he was supposed to be sitting under the umbrella of the commander, and at some point a heavy cannon had been placed under the umbrella of the commander.

The muzzle of the cannon was raised high towards the east, making him hurry to search for Chen Mu's figure on the battlefield.

He couldn't find it, Chen Mu's combat armor was too low-key, so low-key that people could see at a glance that he was wrong when it was approaching, but he couldn't find it from a distance no matter what-even the breastplate of the ordinary flag army had a regimental beast pattern, but Chen Mu's battle array cuirass didn't have anything.

The whole Beiyang is just this one.

However, Shao Tingda couldn't let Juniper warn him of the situation, because Chen Mu's horse team arrived soon.

No matter how General Manghu thought about it, he couldn't imagine that he summoned reinforcements, but he summoned the commander-in-chief, and was commanding the infantry to change their defenses for a short time to repel the attack of the four companies in front, when he heard the banner army behind him who was temporarily resting and shouting happily: "Reinforcements are coming!" ”

Turning around, Chen Mu, who was in the dust, took the lead, threw his horse whip and galloped straight to the rear of the position, and asked, "How are the casualties?" ”

"Brother, why are you here?" Shao Tingda was stunned for a while, and even forgot to call the marshal, and then reacted and hugged his fists and said: "Report to the marshal, nearly one percent of the casualties have been repelled, twelve enemy attacks have been repulsed, the shells have been exhausted, the trenches have been filled with enemy corpses, and the position cannot be held!" ”

Chen Mu's heart was put back in his stomach, and he raised his eyes to look forward, Shao Tingda's subordinates had two Zhenshuo general cannons with copper shells bulging, and a few tiger squats were discarded on the position, and most of the artillerymen who operated the artillery also joined the infantry battle with bird guns at this time.

There were also a small number of artillerymen pushing the four Zhenshuo guns back fifty paces, and together with the wounded soldiers, they formed a third line of defense, but it seemed that they could not be used, and when he came, he had not even begun to dig the foxholes, and only built a few artillery forts.

"How do I get here? Won't I come back and wait for the enemy to besiege me? Chen Mu didn't finally breathe a sigh of relief until this time, and the remaining tiger squats in front of the formation all shot out solid big bombs, he briefly closed his eyes and deduced the advance of the Black Cloud Dragon and the Lotus Dou Department in his mind, and said to Shao Tingda: "Hold him back for a while, the Chinese army will retreat three hundred steps alternately, don't mess up!" ”

It's better not to come when this reinforcement comes, Shao Tingda clenched his fists and shook his head and said: "My department can still stop him three more times, as long as the tiger squat cannon is not finished, they will not dare to rush up!" ”

Speaking of this, General Mang was complacent, this battle was not the first time that his subordinate banner army fought with guns, but this time his subordinates were more skilled, and even a few hundred-man teams with guns and spearmen rushed out of the position, knocked the enemy back and retreated to the back to collect the spurs, and then lined up to shoot at the Spaniards.

Shao Tingda pointed his fingers and whispered: "They can put fewer and fewer guns!" ”

The Spaniards' muskets were not fired in rotation, and the ammunition consumption was very uneven, especially in the face of the battle of Shao Tingdabu, the birds of the two countries were almost two different arms.

Spanish musketeers rarely wore armour, cotton armor was considered good, most wore shirts alone, and only those armed with heavy muskets wore chain mail and cuirass.

At the same time, because the phalanx combat has training on quickly entering the phalanx and quickly coming out of the phalanx, they often carry not much ammunition.

The Ming army's bird guns are different, because the weight of helmets, breastplates, arm bindings, armor skirts, ammunition, bird guns, and spurs together over fifty pounds makes them not good at marching quickly, just as Shao Bianjiao likes to march forward in unison to oppress the enemy on the banks of the White Horse River, but they are very physically demanding to run, so the Ming army bird guns like to fight positional warfare the most.

On several occasions, the Western companies that Shao Tingda's troops had forced back in the battle had been rushed to the side of the trenches and crossed a ditch reinforced with a few fences and shields, only to be repulsed by the sword spearmen and perhaps even the Ming army bird gunners who had been stabbed with guns.

In particular, a tiger squat cannon with a door nailed to the other side of the trench rushed to the position, and this kind of large-caliber short and thick cannon could almost tear the first few people in the front to pieces, bringing a great blow to morale.

Every time in order to save a large number of spearmen in the company, it was necessary to rely on the musketeers to suppress the Ming army's charge by shooting backwards, so that they could retreat with their whole body.

The Western Army was in a paradox in the frontal battle, and if it wanted to approach the trenches, it would need more musketeers, which was easy to do; But once they had passed the trench, more spearmen were needed, but the spearmen all fell as they approached the trench, as if they would never be able to take their position.

It was precisely because of this way of shooting backwards that some of the musketeers had run out of ammunition, but some still did not fire a shot, which caused the formation to constantly change back and forth, which greatly affected the coherence of the attack.

"The cavalry on the right flank has retreated, and the left flank of the Western Army will soon press up, and if they don't withdraw, will they wait to be beaten? Alternately retreat, and I'll help you flank them for a while. ”

Chen Mu was very pleased that the tenacious juniper could act according to orders at this moment, and the cavalry on the right flank had retreated, but Chen Mu, who was trapped in the battlefield at this moment, was not sure whether the Western Army would be pressed as he imagined.

Without the superiority of the generals, he felt like a blind man, caught in the fog of war, and all the enemy's deployments had to rely on guesswork, which made people feel uneasy.

However, Bernal also carried out his offensive on the left flank completely, seeing that the garrison artillery of the backbone of the Ming army was gradually slowing down, and there was no longer a heavy artillery bombardment, his six companies composed of mercenaries and caravan mercenaries all pressed up to the left flank, hoping to seize the gap to encircle the Ming army from the flank.

When they easily occupied the flanks ceded by the Ming army without a fight, Shao Tingda's Chinese army also retreated in an orderly alternating manner, and the four guns of the Chinese army sprayed solid iron bullets that were about to be cut off at the pressing enemy.

More and more companies of the Western Army crossed the trenches, and the Spanish heavy musketeers propped their forks on the trenches, and a column of Western spearmen and sword and shield soldiers climbed over the trenches under their cover, and the formation squeezed towards the Ming army.

Shao Tingda's central army was also caught in an unprecedented difficult battle when the flanks were attacked.

Until a sound of guns exploded behind the Western Army, when the first Ming cavalry on horseback wielding a long-handled Guan knife slashed over the two Western Army infantry standing in front of him from the flank of the Western Army and jumped into the trench, indicating that the right flank of the New Spanish Army had been completely defeated.

A large number of peasant soldiers wrapped in knights stepped backwards to break through their own lines, followed by the Ming cavalry, and then they killed the Chinese trenches one after another, dividing the slightly disjointed Spanish phalanx in the charge, and their war horses did not stop for a moment, from the left flank across the surging Chinese army of the Western army, until the various army formations along the way were cut apart, and rushed straight to their right flank occupied by Western mercenaries.

The morale of Shao Tingda's troops, who had only been suppressed for a moment, was greatly shaken, and the various banner troops under the order of the chief general shot the lead pellet in the empty hand of the bird, inserted the spear and rushed forward in formation.

Behind them, Chen Mu led his headquarters to less than 100 horsemen to slowly and methodically reload ammunition in the handcuffs, drew his sabers and escorted the infantry and then drove forward.

On the far right side of the battlefield, Juniper, who received the signal to attack, slammed his knife into the belly of his horse and shouted: "The enemy army has been defeated, what are you waiting for, follow me to chase and kill the enemy army!" ”

The Ming army's foot soldiers, who had accumulated their grievances from morning to night, launched a full-scale counterattack on the western army's defensive line!