The most dangerous battles continue.

"Raise the gun!"

The three hundred-household teams directly commanded by Shao Bianjiao had fallen into a melee, although the rear reserve and the northern blocking team fought for the living space under the iron hooves for some of them, but the periphery was still surrounded by scattered Spanish light cavalry, constantly squeezing the formation to force them to retreat westward.

The white-knuckle battle, which was supposed to have the advantage, became very disadvantageous to use bayonets against the spearmen after the formation was chaotic, and only with well-equipped armor and small banners and other officers under the command of small formations fought and retreated, they were not immediately defeated.

Even so, knights wielding maces or bayonets continued to cause chaos in the battle formations when they were knocked out of their horses, and they were invincible like the ancient warriors of the East.

Except for firearms, cold weapons are helpless against these iron cans, although sometimes their attacks will fall on the good protection of the banner army, but after all, the banner army is not like the knight who even protects his armpits, and can only do his best to stab the thorn in the back of the thigh.

Only that position is not under the protection of the plate armor, of course, there is also the crotch, but the crotch is on the front, and the knights with high martial arts can wield their weapons to properly protect their lifeline in most cases.

However, there was also an accident, Shao Bianjiao saw a flag soldier stab a knight's crotch with his own eyes, that time was full of force, piercing the chain mail crotch to make the knight completely incapacitated, and the two flag soldiers took off their helmets, which allowed people to stab the short sword into the throat.

The situation was slightly better when the reserve of 300 households joined the battle, and most of the banner army roared towards it, and the banner army behind threw grenades into the enemy phalanx, successfully repulsing one phalanx.

"Major General, there is another phalanx in the north, let the three hundred households in the west join the battle! You can't hold it just by blocking the enemy team! ”

"North?"

Shao Bianjiao jumped into the Spanish phalanx with a suit of armor and slashed the two of them with a knife, and was pushed out by the spear, and killed the galloping cavalry with his handcuffs, and retreated to the back of the military formation with a little morale.

He no longer dared to go forward to fight, facing an unprecedented critical situation, if he was caught in the enemy's formation, these 1,200 subordinates would die here, and he would not be able to run.

Hearing the words of the herald running from the north, Shao Bianjiao raised his eyes and looked north, only to see the black oppressive figure and the chaotic battlefield: "How many people are there, and how far is it?" ”

"Five hundred steps, two phalanxes of five or six hundred people!"

"The aborigines can't fight like this, they can't even drag it out!"

At this time, Shao Bianjiao also knew that he couldn't complain about the aborigines, so he said decisively: "The soldiers in the west can't move, and I don't have any soldiers to help, let Zhen Baihu hold it, and if I defeat this side, I will lead people to attack them!" ”

The herald was about to run back with his fists clenched, Shao Bianjiao pointed to the quivers scattered on the ground and said: "Take someone to collect the rocket after the formation and take it to the north, I don't need it, be sure to hold the northern defense line, tell your hundred households, half an hour, half an hour The east has not won, I will allow him to retreat!" ”

"Yes!"

Shao Bianjiao gritted his teeth, stuck his waist knife in the grass under his feet to recharge the handcuff, and walked towards the place where the flag army in the army formation fought with the horsemen.

Only through personal experience, Shao Bianjiao knew what it meant to coordinate operations in the Banner Army's drill codex, if they carried spears and artillery in this battle, they could completely suppress the enemy from the beginning to the rout, but at this time they were completely suppressed by the enemy's spears and cavalry.

Herrera's three companies had been about to break up after three rounds of fire, but the cavalry had regained their fighting spirit as the cavalry disrupted their line, causing the reserves to fill the line and the Ming army still had a slight advantage.

The presence of the light cavalry made every gunner on the front line tremble, no one dared to shoot with a gun, and they all held a bird gun with a good gun to guard against the cavalry charge, in fact, every officer saw that those light cavalry did not dare to rush straight into formation, but kept wandering around the periphery, but no one dared to risk their lives.

It was only the effort of giving orders, and the situation on the front changed again, I don't know if it was the grenade or the reason why the Spanish cavalry was scurrying around in the military formation, and Herrera's remaining two phalanxes were torn apart by a few small banners led by the Ming army, and their own troops also collapsed.

The two crippled small banners led their troops out of the battle line, and the presence of the officers allowed the routers to be restrained in the line and regrouped, although they could not be assigned to return to battle immediately, but they could still form a second line of defense in the rear.

The small flag and arrow in the north exploded, and it didn't take long for the sound of muskets to come, this time the musketeers of the Spanish phalanx over there did not charge while retreating, they charged while advancing, and the Ming army in the north did not stand and be beaten, but did not release the birds, and only returned fire with small flags and general flag arrows.

When the two sides approached the position where the palm thunder could be thrown, the Ming army suddenly counterattacked with bird gun rounds, the Spaniards were not accustomed to this tactic, and were taken by surprise, and rows of soldiers fell, so that the officers did not dare to give the order to attack.

The infantry companies that rushed back to rush back to help were exhausted, and in a short time they had experienced a battle with the Indians, pursued for three miles, and then urgently retreated for several miles, and they did not have the physical strength to engage in high-intensity engagement, and they were suddenly shot by birds and fell hundreds of people, and could only retreat beyond the range for a short rest.

But the Ming army had the threat of cavalry, so they also did not dare to attack, so they could only miss the opportunity to watch the phalanx get farther and farther away from them.

In the end, it was the northern blockade that repelled the western army first.

Soon, Shao Bianjiao returned to the south side of the battlefield with the light cavalry of the Western Army, ushering in another contraction of the formation, and the banner army in three directions shrank into a hollow triangular formation to prevent the Western cavalry from launching a surprise attack from behind.

Then gunfire rang out in the forest to the west, and more Spanish reinforcements arrived, and from the woods they engaged in a shootout of the three hundred families hiding behind the half-moat.

The battlefield was full of corpses, and it didn't take long for the aborigines to send a military formation from the north to the south, but they did not come to aid the Ming army, because the company left to fight with them in the north fought and retreated, and more than 1,000 people fought for half a day around the phalanx of less than 300 people, all the way from north to south.

Farther north, there were many more Indians fighting against Bernal's legions, which had withdrawn from Puerto Vallarta.

The fighting on the west bank of the river was chaotic and stalemate.

Herrera didn't realize that in the midst of a great situation, his artillery unit, consisting of dozens of veterans, had been wiped out without knowing it.

The sound of heavy horses' hooves sounded on the battlefield again, and the Black Cloud Dragon led hundreds of Beiyang cavalry brigades to sweep in, with the scarlet tassels that fell to the back of his head with his helmet and spear, and quickly stabbed the scarce Spanish light cavalry off his horse, and then drew his saber and swept through the rear of Herrera's army like a whirlwind.

The big heads flew into the air.

The Beiyang cavalry, riding Mongol horses, was not in love with war, and quickly abandoned Herrera's legions, which might have brought them into a fierce battle, and turned around and stabbed diagonally at the three newly repulsed Spanish phalanxes in the north.

After the three reorganized phalanxes exchanged fire with the Ming army, there were few musketeers left, and at this time, they all set up their spears, and the black cloud dragon and the cavalry made a slowing down gesture, and the military music changed accordingly.

The commander of the company in the phalanx showed a mocking look to the Ming army, the infantry did not carry spears, isn't this stupid?

Form a phalanx and set up a spear, no matter how strong the impact of the cavalry, even the knight lord has to be deterred, of course, there is no shortage of knights who dare to attack the phalanx, but that kind of idiocy will eventually disappear.

This is the correct tutorial for infantry against cavalry.

Pacing along the periphery of the phalanx, only a few steps away from the spear array, the Black Cloud Dragon tugged at the corners of his mouth and raised his hand to make gestures to his subordinates.

If the musketeers of the Spanish phalanx hadn't died in the battle with the Ming army, or if the Black Cloud Dragon's Beiyang Horses hadn't sheathed their swords and drawn their handcuffs in unison.

The sound of guns rang out, and the smoke of gunpowder enveloped the Spanish phalanx.