The Asian shooting tournament became a complete military deterrent in the eyes of the Duke of Alva.

Before the start of the competition, the old duke's mentality was still very relaxed, although he and Acosta and others did not have any fancy decorations and the space was not too spacious, but it was still much better than the bullfighting performance in Madrid.

They just kept sighing, how could there be so many people in Changsheng!

In the past, when the Spanish ruled here, no one paid attention to the fact that there were so many people, because the vast majority of them did not belong to the 'people', and it was remarkable that those banquets and balls could have hundreds of people, and how could it be like a contest of victory, where the endless number of people sat on the terraces built by the Indians, and the people were full of people.

Spanish bullfighting is derived from Roman fighting animals, and the Roman Caesar, who ruled them, liked to fight bulls on horseback, and this tradition has been carried on by the royal family and nobles.

Fei Lao Er didn't like it very much, and his father didn't like it either, after all, the Spanish king of Habsburg was earned by beautiful men, and the royal family was really an outsider, but Duke Alva, a great nobleman of the previous dynasty, was different, and they were keen on bullfighting since childhood.

However, the game in Spain has nothing to do with civilians.

The old duke was curious about the true strength of the Ming army, and although he had been observing the Ming soldiers from afar on the border for some time, so much so that his permanent officers knew when the Ming army changed guards on the border, he had never seen the Ming army shoot or fight.

The people who really saw it died.

The lucky ones who were lucky enough to save their lives from the fiasco were more keen to infinitely exaggerate the strength of the Ming army than to describe the actual situation, as if this would make their fiasco more glorious.

I don't know how long later, just as Duke Alva was about to drink the wine he had brought with his glass, Brother Acosta beside him reminded: "Someone in the command room has come out!" ”

The so-called command room is Chen Mu's small house.

The brightly clad pro-army two left and two right, accompanied by a low horn sound, the huge dragon red sun flag was unfurled, followed by the entire school field around the terraces of the flag army all over the place to blow the horn, in front of the four huge war drums in the school field walked up several brave and healthy shirtless wrestlers, drumsticks heavily on the drum surface.

Boom!

Knock knock!

Then the drums continued to beat, accompanied by rhythmic and majestic war drums, and the sound of horses' hooves could be heard in the distance.

The three teams of Ming cavalry slowly paced their horses in a phalanx, but they hurriedly turned their heads and looked, and Alva's old heart seemed to shout loudly, that's it!

That's what he wants!

It was a phalanx of three hundreds, all dressed in red uniforms, with a lock of red ponytail hanging down to their backs at the top of their helmets, helmets, breastplates, and iron arms shining in the sun, and their legs sandwiched between the horse's belly were covered with armor skirts with dragon patterns, and each of them raised their heads slightly, slowly undulating with the bouncing steps of the horses.

They carried cavalry guns on their shoulders, and they had cavalry knives at their waists, and on the side of each phalanx there was an officer with a cuirass carved with a beast motif pacing his horse, and the officer's waist knife had been drawn out of his hand; At the front of each team were two horsemen with the same animal motif on their chests, but they looked slightly different from the officers on the outside, with a small flag on their helmets.

The top ten and last ten cavalrymen of the entire phalanx had a flag behind them, and they also looked like officers, and the ten cavalrymen in the sixth row of the team did not have a banner on their heads and backs, but their cuirass also had animal patterns.

Duke Alva narrowed his eyes, turned his head and whispered to Acosta: "The cavalry phalanx of one hundred and thirteen people, there are thirty-three officers. ”

Saying that, Alva was a little puzzled, and turned to the old governor Almanza, who had lived with the Ming army, and asked: "It seems that the war report does not mention that the Ming army has cavalry that fights with long muskets, in Taxco they used pistols, bows and arrows, sabers and long knives, and in the battle of the gorge they attacked our knights with spears. ”

Almantha was also blindsided by this question, and shook his head and said, "I haven't seen these people either!" ”

In fact, the people are still those people, and the cavalry is still those cavalry, but they have changed their weapons.

Almansa may never know that every Beiyang cavalry is a good infantry before becoming a cavalryman, and then a cavalryman.

There are no infantry in Beiyang who are not skilled in shooting, they can use all kinds of weapons on horseback, although the skills may not be so professional, the discipline is enough to destroy everything.

As the Spanish nobles spoke, their uniform cavalry had entered the school field, and their ranks had changed, starting with the first officer, everyone quickened their pace a little, and marched along the edge of the circular school field, and discharged a long snake, and the footsteps of the war horses were still stepping on the war drums, and after rounding half the school field, they shot at the huge wooden targets painted with white paint and rings at the mouth of the valley at a distance of twenty paces.

The drums beat slowly, the horses walked slowly, and the successive guns were slow.

But the sound of drums, hooves, and guns always sounded at the same time.

Just as people were still watching intently as the cavalry team walked out of the smoke of gunpowder and slowly reloaded on horseback, the Beiyang infantry of the same three hundred households at the entrance on the other side had already entered the school yard with almost the same outfit and structure to the sound of war drums.

The only difference was that their uniforms were dark blue, and they did not ride horses.

The silent infantry walked slowly to the middle of the school field, this time the school field finally came out of the voice, the chief flag officer of the infantry phalanx was shouting the password, and at the same time the military musicians in the square were beating the waist drum with the sound of war drums, and when they were about to walk to the middle of the school field, the suona also sounded, followed by the passionate music with the war drums, so that the entire school field was cheered up in the continuous sound of guns.

"What kind of military music is that, so loud?"

The old duke felt that the sound of the war drums of such a big man could not be heard after the strange thing sounded, and suspected that there was something wrong with his ears, and he just wanted to touch his ears, but found that Almanza's hand was faster than his, and simply stopped his movements.

Acosta replied: "Yo, they are called suona, and Mr. Fu, who likes to gamble, said that the section just now was the prelude before they started the war, and this instrument can blow people from life to graves...... Anyway, it means that when I first heard it, I didn't know what it meant, and when I understood it, I was already in the coffin. ”

"It is said that in the Battle of the White Horse River, the phalanx of the legion was defeated in such military music."

The momentum is too majestic, the section of the infantry phalanx out of the suona was personally selected by Chen Mu, and the Tang Dynasty Guqu General ordered it to be changed, and it was called Tianxia Datong.

Not to mention how proud Chen Mu next door was when he heard this sound.

As long as the suona in Lao Tzu's array is not broken, who dares to fight with me?

Guotai Min'an!

Accompanied by the change of infantry formation, Duke Alva, who knew the ins and outs of the song, sighed: "After I leave, let the garrison of the New World not think about fighting the Ming army." ”

"Perhaps, in Spain, we can ask some Ming army officers to train soldiers for the king, and maintain a few more big trades, so that the relationship between the two sides is closer, and try to talk to Chen Mu."