The next morning, before the rising sun had time to emit its heat, the air was cool with a rare tropical feeling, and the midnight fog in the mountains and forests finally had the meaning of dissipating.

Shao Tingda crossed his waist and held the general's belly greedily breathing in the fresh air, the cave not far away was emitting heavy steaming smoke, and the soldiers stepped forward with a wooden bowl and said, "Tiger Master, snake soup soup." ”

The soup was boiled in the cave last night while there was a fog in the mountains, and it was heated again in the morning, and if it weren't for the fog, no one would have dared to make a fire to cook.

They were so close to the Western Army that they didn't need a telescope to see the smoke rising from the Herrera Legion garrison.

Shao Tingda took the soup bowl, looked at the snake meat and chicken in the soup and took a sip with satisfaction, and said: "There was a scout report last night, and the Westerners sent two teams of people to the valley mouth in the west, it should have found me, huh...... It's so fresh, and this big chicken soup tastes good. ”

It is foreseeable that in the future, the Ming army will have a good life in this small life, and the products are very rich, and half of the seven-day military rations they brought with them have not been eaten up to now, and they basically will not encounter a disaster year.

The cost of garrisoning here is fifty percent lower than that of Nanyang, of course, this is a case of not fighting against the natives, and if you are like Spain, if you are constantly fighting with the natives in Peru, the cost is ten times higher.

When the war was over, he would find a few relatives from his hometown to come over and build a chicken farm, where the big chickens could fly, but the meat was more and the feathers were longer...... No, in the future, there will be six guards near Mexico, and each hundred households will have to raise chickens!

"Time is tight, why haven't they done it yet?"

The Reckless was wise to move his army quickly to the southwest of Herrera's garrison, taking the opportunity to move their army through the danger zone in a single day, and if his decision was to be made a day later, the march would be seen by the scouts sent by the Spaniards.

Now the situation is different.

They had already passed through the danger zone, and although the artillery was on the other side of the hill and there was no support, the cavalry of the Black Cloud Dragon had already reached the southeast of Herrera, and although his position was only six or seven miles away from the western army, this area was deceptive.

They were surrounded by mountains to the west and mountains to the south, and as Herrera suspected, even if Shao Tingda and Herrera switched positions, he would think that the enemy army was in the valley to the west, not the mountains on this side.

"General soldier, the major general has found enemy movements on the mountain, please go up!"

Before the soup was finished, Shao Tingda hurriedly swallowed the meat of the soup base in his mouth, handed the wooden bowl to his soldiers, and walked quickly towards the mountain.

Because of the terrain, although they did not need to climb too high, their own camp was higher than the Herrera garrison on the plains, and the Ming army craftsmen set up a simple lookout on the mountain, and the sick seedlings and scouts monitored the movements of the Western army on the mountain.

By the time Shao Tingda ascended the lookout, the sun had already begun to heat up, and although the cotton military uniform was breathable, the first trial armor was still very dry.

"Father, nearly a thousand of them scattered out of the camp and went west."

Shao Tingda took out the agarwood binoculars and looked in the direction pointed by the sick Yang'er, and could only see the empty official road to the west of the camp, and the place to the west was blocked by the dense jungle, so he couldn't see the enemy's movement clearly.

"At this time, we still divide our troops, now we have a greater advantage, they should go to find us, the road to the west can't go, if their army makes a move, we will go south of the camp."

Shao Tingda was still pointing out the strategy on the watchtower, and suddenly saw smoke and dust rising from the western military camp in the distance, the north gate was opened, and a phalanx of troops was formed outside the camp, and the plain grassland next to the river bank was advanced.

The phalanx consisted of two or three hundred people, four squares, the solid spearman in the middle held a heavy spear, and the musketeers on the periphery of the spearman Shao Tingda could not see clearly due to the distance, but he could clearly see that there were four small phalanxes in the four corners outside the phalanx, which seemed to be composed of musketeers.

There was a gap in the middle of the various formations, and there were several teams of more than ten musketeers who walked to the woodland to the west, covering the two flanks of the phalanx with heavy cavalry, and at the front of the large array, scattered small two-wheeled artillery carriages were pushed out of the military formation in a single row - Shao Tingda fought with the Westerners many times, and for the first time saw a representative Spanish phalanx.

Daunting.

The most fundamental reason is that Shao Tingda has no artillery in his hand, and his artillery was left on the side of the mountain because it was difficult to cross the mountain, which made him hate to put his fist on the guardrail of the watchtower, and said: "This kind of military formation, it is difficult to achieve results from behind, and it is necessary to have artillery!" ”

He only needs ten artillery pieces, even if it is just a two-pound small cannon, and he can shoot through it with a ricocheting projectile, and two vertical jumps of the cannonball can smash through a phalanx, but he has no artillery.

Without artillery, this kind of military formation could be used against enemies from all sides, and even cavalry attacks from the flanks and backs were not necessarily useful, and could only be fought in regular battles...... But Shao Tingda can't afford it, he's just a little bit of a person.

Sick Yang'er also frowned, and asked, "What about the tiger squatting cannon?" ”

"It's not okay for tigers to squat, they are all wearing cuirasses, and they also have cotton armor at the worst, eh!" Shao Tingda turned his head: "How many rockets do we have?" ”

"One hundred and forty small flag arrows and forty total flag arrows in the old system; The newly made Shenwei Organ has one six-link launcher and 48 rockets. ”

The so-called old small flag arrow general flag arrow is the kind of rocket with an arrow shaft loaded in a single wooden barrel in the past, and the new Shenwei machine arrow is a rocket without an arrow shaft with a tail spin after Zhao Shizhen and Chen Mu's improvement.

The new rocket has a longer range, and the new rocket is about the same as the old general flag arrow in terms of power.

Shao Tingda turned his worries into joy: "That's okay, they stand so closely, some fight." ”

Immediately after Shao Tingda, he found a question: "Did they not leave troops in the camp?" We can only see horses, why can't we see people? ”

"Someone, the child just saw a man who looked like a merchant passing, and he didn't see anyone with weapons."

Shao Tingda nodded slowly, and said: "I'm afraid we have to fight this battle, Lao Hei's cavalry is probably useless against this hedgehog array, no matter how many troops the natives have, it will be difficult to win against this thing, and the order is for the soldiers to prepare to pull out the camp, and we will go to the south of their camp first." ”

"These standard-bearers stay on the mountain, you go to command each hundred households, I am here to watch the movement of the enemy, everything is under the command of my command, do not blindly go into battle, wait for the enemy's cavalry on both wings to go out and then attack the camp."

"If they are lucky, they will fight not far from the camp, and they can place Shenwei arrows on the walls of the wall, and when the infantry approaches, they can fire at the enemy's phalanx, killing and wounding the enemy, and the smoke of gunpowder will disrupt their square feet."

Seeing that the sick Yang'er hugged his fists in response, Shao Tingda took a deep breath, raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder heavily, and advised: "Remember not to release the gun too early, the enemy army is standing very densely, and there is armor to support it, and the rotation attack must be the first to take the lead!" ”

A relaxed smile appeared on the sick Yang'er's face, and said, "Father, don't worry, the child knows!" ”