Chapter 53: Annihilation
Shao Tingda was not as miserable as Chen Mu imagined.
Since the cavalry of the Black Cloud Dragon appeared on the battlefield, almost overwhelmingly destroying the morale of the Spanish phalanx.
When the rout appeared in large numbers in the battle formation, the muskets that more banner troops on the northern and eastern fronts threw into the western front were fired, and the legionnaires in the hidden forests of the western army did not know when to withdraw from the battlefield, and the battle was already nearing its end.
All that remains is to hunt down the fleeing enemy and gather the surrendered troops.
"General, I found it! This should be their 300 household chiefs! ”
On the battlefield strewn with corpses, the Black Cloud Dragon rode his horse back from the southeast bridge, wiping his sword with the collar of his linen shirt torn from the unlucky Western soldier.
Hearing the banner army shouting, he raised his eyebrows and glanced at the flag army in the distance, holding a sword in his hand, and at the same time carrying a heavy red feather pendant, a helmet with gold trim and a red belt, slowly bowed his head.
"Moved to the car. He also told him that the establishment of 300 people under the command of the Western Army is called a company, and the general is called a company commander. ”
The black cloud dragon said to the cavalry attendant who was carrying a saber and a spear under his horse, and only then could he pull the stiff muscles on his face slightly and pull out a smile, and raise his eyes to look south, the camp that originally belonged to the Spaniards was now plugged in? Word flags.
The Ming army got a lot of good things there, the main general Shao Tingda and the baggage soldiers of the former army fleet were counting the baggage harvested in this battle, and the former governor of this land, Almanza, was dealing with the captured merchants of Herrera's company for the Ming army.
The carriages behind the Black Cloud Dragon carrying the corpses of Spanish half-blood officers were obtained from the camp.
Farther away, the place where the battle broke out most fiercely, it was also Shao Bianjiao's preset battlefield, where most of the corpses of the Ming army's fallen soldiers were located, and there were also banner troops who were counting and converging.
Shao Bianjiao was not there, he led four hundred households that could continue to fight in the forest to defend in case the retreating Spaniards counterattacked again, and sent scouts to the west to find out where they were going.
Although Herrera's body has been found, the Spanish company in the forest has a large number of troops, and six or seven hundred people still have the strength to fight, so people dare not let down their vigilance.
What's more, the Ming army also had to take the official road to the west, and after suffering the loss of this battle, Shao Tingda ordered to find out the danger as soon as possible and retrieve the artillery and long weapons left in the west.
The artillery must go through the official road, and the artillery carriages of the Ming army and the artillery trucks of the Western Army do not match, and it is too troublesome to repair them.
The black cloud dragon outside the camp turned over and dismounted, and glanced back at the carriage that piled up corpses, and the flag army on both sides of the gate outside the Qimei wooden gate that could only prevent the war horses from crossing the gate had been driven back from all corners of the battlefield neatly arranged the corpses of the Ming army soldiers in three rows.
The Black Cloud Dragon turned its head slightly, and couldn't bear to look at it, they could defeat a legion from the most powerful country on the other side of the ocean, but at this moment, they didn't even have a mat to cover the bodies of their own fallen soldiers.
"Thirty-seven, including Herrera, the bodies of thirty-seven generals have been found, and Mr. Ah ......"
Black Cloud Dragon's words came to an abrupt end when he stepped into the military tent, because the atmosphere inside was very strange.
The tent that originally belonged to Herrera was large, with four men in addition to two soldiers standing with swords.
The table and chair that were originally placed on the side of the camp tent were moved to the center to sit upright, and the hand pressed the agarwood telescope breastplate in the center to depict Shao Tingda, the commander of the Golden Lion Regiment.
Sitting on the left side, the right hand supports the table with the elbow, the red and black stripes under the armor fill the shoulder pads, and the left hand with two fingers missing from the bandage is pressed on the table by the former governor Almanza, who is wearing a three-color feathered soft hat.
Standing beside the military sketch table stood two master and servant, the first of whom was tall but lean, wearing knee-length padded fluffy earth-colored trousers, a pair of high-waisted brown cowhide boots, and a gold-threaded linen shirt with an exaggerated raff collar.
and the young servant with a rudimentary abacus next to the merchant.
The abacus entered Europe from Pope Sylvester II in the 10th and 11th centuries, who thought he was a very inclusive and talented scholar who learned a lot from the most religious countries and promoted the abacus imported from the most religious countries in Europe.
After his death, he was judged to be an evil pope and a fallen monk, and a century later, the Crusades, which lasted for two hundred years, began.
However, because the abacus entered Central Asia from the Silk Road, the Chinese did not use the abacus to calculate the square, and the generation in the process of circulation was not as good as the generation, and now Europe still uses the abacus to calculate addition and subtraction.
This disadvantage in the East does not hinder the love of the abacus in Europe, and all merchants in this era are using it to calculate, but the traditional addition and subtraction algorithms can no longer meet the growing trade needs of the Mediterranean, and European mathematicians are trying to find a way to solve this problem, and it is urgent to create new and more efficient algorithms.
What made Hei Yunlong's words cut in his throat was precisely because of the four people in the manager's tent, in his consciousness, at this time, this Westerner businessman should have been taken away from all the goods and left here in disgrace.
All the goods are already the trophies of the Ming army, and if you make a profit or a loss, you will lose money, right?
The weird thing about it now is that the three people in charge are laughing, and they are laughing quite happily, so that Black Cloud Dragon doesn't know whether to tell the information or not.
The merchant who accompanied the army was the first to smile at the black cloud dragon who entered the camp tent, and said in Spanish: "It can be seen that you are the outstanding commander of the cavalry corps of the Ming Kingdom, and the humble merchant would like to pay high tribute to you, and congratulate you on leading the cavalry to win or lose this war." ”
"I hope you will allow me to introduce myself rashly, I am Ender, the Fugger family from Germany, who have their own territories in Peru and New Spain, and run all the industries that the New World has to offer."
Black Cloud Dragon was very dazed, he could understand Spanish, but Ender spoke too quickly, with a fake smile on his face that made people guess the intention, and brought a lot of strange words that he didn't understand, and finally understood the guy's last name, not even the first name.
"Brother Fu, good name."
He nodded slightly, said a word, and then turned to Shao Tingda again to clasp his fists and salute, and stopped talking: "Shao Shuai, the corpse of the Western Army is like a general, and it is placed outside the camp gate." ”
Shao Tingda didn't have any objection to Hei Yunlong's hearing of Ande's surname as Fu Ge'er, he also listened to it like this, seeing Hei Yunlong's eyes glancing at Fu Ge'er, he waved his hand and said, "It's okay, it's not a secret, and then said." ”
Hei Yunlong nodded and said: "There are a total of thirty-seven corpses of generals, counting two surrenders and one prisoner, a total of forty, there should be few generals left in the Western Army." ”
"Forty?"
Before Shao Tingda could speak, Almansa stood up first, shook his head and said: "Wrong, wrong, only eight officers and eight company captains are officers in the twenty-nine permanent establishment of the legion, and three company captains are still alive, and there are not so many officers, I'm afraid the general has confused the knights and officers." ”
As he spoke, he got up and said to Shao Tingda: "General, I'll go and see their identities and identify them." ”