Chapter Ninety-Eight: Collapse

Chen Mu was frightened by the Spanish knight's charge, and he had to shoot something to suppress the shock.

As soon as he ordered the order to support the cavalry on the left flank to the eight guns of his subordinate artillery group, he turned his head and picked up his binoculars and continued to keep an eye on the battlefield - his cavalry had suffered in the hedge.

This estimate is very accurate, although the Beiyang cavalry has extremely high discipline and strict training, so that they are not afraid in the charge, and can continue to assemble after the charge to prepare for the next charge, but there are too many cavalry who fall in one encounter.

The original slight advantage in strength was also leveled after a charge, and Chen Mu roughly estimated that his side would fall this time at least two hundred.

The Spaniards also fell from their horses, but not many were really poked to death, and after dodging the trampling, at least forty fallen cavalrymen stood up as if nothing happened, and scattered their swords towards the Ming cavalry they saw in their eyes.

In the hot summer, the warriors wore three layers of armor inside and three layers outside, all of which were good in terms of protection and shock absorption to be worthy of the danger of facing the armor removal wind, not to mention the knights, which are different from the common people's creatures, even if these infantry riders in Beiyang have experienced more than a hundred times falling off their horses, as long as they are not bad, they can still fight again after being knocked off their horses.

Then Chen Mu saw his subordinates show superb maneuvers on the battlefield - these mounted stabbed cavalry were formed in the middle of the battlefield where the cavalry of both sides gathered together.

At first, a cavalryman with a broken leg knelt on the ground with a spear, and he was unable to get up and fight again, so he could only fend off a knight in plate armor who had come to seek revenge and armed to the teeth, but as the flag officer, he shouted for the help of two horsemen who moved freely, one of whom had somehow picked up the iron shield of the Spaniards to protect him.

When the knight also gathered two accomplices to ask for his life in a menacing manner, before he could show his years of honing all kinds of skillful skills such as accurately piercing the enemy's eye socket with a long sword, he was killed by the handcuff that the general banner of the Ming cavalry who had calmed down and pulled out of nowhere.

With the command of the officer, the dismounted Ming army gathered more and more, those who were injured and could not move were dragged over and handed to the spears to block the front, the people next to them picked up round shields on the battlefield strewn with corpses, and the other dozen dismounted riders who moved freely put on a miniature version of the wheel firing array, one by one standing in front with their handcuffs.

I just want to save my life on the chaotic battlefield.

Before becoming the Beiyang cavalry, each of them was the best infantry bird and spearman, so they obtained the qualification to become the Beiyang cavalry, more than half a year of infantry training allowed them to easily list the battle formation under the command of the officer, and kill the knights who came to fight one after another with round shooting.

Their training taught them that there was only a chance of survival if they were united by their officers on a chaotic battlefield.

After the nine knights lay on the ground, the rest of the Spanish knights did the same, and several of them were armed with expensive reed pistols, relying on the corpses of men and horses to form fortifications and shoot at each other, but the short barrels of both sides determined that it was impossible to hit each other as long as they did not approach ten paces.

The battlefield was stalemate, seeing that the Ming army was gathering more and more, and the Ming cavalry on the other side also regrouped to complete the charging formation, these dismounted knights began to panic, and turned back anxiously to find their own cavalry.

When they turned around, they saw that several cannonballs flying from afar had landed accurately in the knights' formation, and even before the cannonballs fell, the knights were nervously discussing whether to continue to assemble and hedge.

It seems that it is better for these elite divisions to turn their heads and attack the flank of the Ming army than to charge each other, which is close to collective suicide, although the Ming army's reserves are tightly guarded on the flank, but the Ming army's central army's formation close to the left flank still has some loopholes.

The debate revolved around whether the attacking Ming infantry would be pursued by the Ming cavalry, but they were waiting, and several respected knights agreed that if the enemy cavalry continued to charge us, then we must also meet them until they were all scattered before we could do anything else.

But if the Ming army ignored the cavalry and directly attacked the Indian conscripts they brought behind, then they could also slaughter the Ming infantry with their hands and feet.

The knights still feel that their lives are a little more expensive, and they can't afford to fight with these Ming fools.

Then the cannonball came, smashed in the cavalry formation assembled in one place, the war horse could not be stopped, and the plate armor at the peak could not be stopped, and it would be injured and killed if it was touched, but the distance of three hundred steps accurately crushed several bloody roads, so that the high knights and lords were scattered in an instant.

At this moment, although the cavalry of the Ming army fell close to thirty percent, they regrouped under the command of the Black Cloud Dragon, turned back to the Western army conscripts who were covering behind them, and fired their handcuffs for a while, and charged again when the shells fell into the enemy formation.

Although more than half of their spears and long soldiers were destroyed in a single charge, the rest of the men drew their spare weapons on horseback and charged again with a platoon of cavalry with Ming swords.

The sudden artillery bombardment made the knights lose their formation, and they were scattered in small groups in the face of the cavalry assault of the Ming army's large corps and could not quickly assemble to deal with it, and several of the knights located on the outer edge of the cavalry rushed to Shao Tingda's left flank, some avoided the mountain road on the left, and even rushed towards Chen Mu's main formation.

"Let the artillery team support the cavalry and bombard the infantry behind it, the middle army and the right flank can still resist, and the victory is on the left flank!"

Chen Mu held the telescope tightly on the platform, and the smile on his face disappeared very quickly, and the riders who had already planted the flag in the audience went to give the order.

He wasn't worried about the lost knights trying to rush into his face, and Rendou's own soldiers had already set up a formation behind the earthen ramparts to protect the artillery team and the platform, maybe at some cost, but he could hold it off - it was the wrong direction.

On the central army and the right flank, the two sides fought in phalanxes and lines, and the Ming army had few soldiers but many birds, supplemented by light tiger squat artillery and heavy Zhenshuo artillery, which had already beaten back the Spanish phalanx that was trying to attack three times.

They had to pay a great price to get close, and losing a large number of spearmen in the course of a confrontation made it pointless for them to rush into close combat - whenever the musketeers approached as the Ming soldiers did at close range, once they reached the distance that the Spanish soldiers could bear, their spearmen would drop their spears and use their swords at their waists to try to climb over the trenches to engage the Ming in hand-to-hand combat.

But at this time, they first had to break through the firepower of the Ming army at least one round of fire, and when they got closer, they found that they were facing three columns of horizontal teams with swords and shields in front and spears in the back.

Chen Mu could see that the Spaniards retained their strength on their left flank, while the Chinese army relied on several times the strength advantage to prevent Shao Tingda from relaxing, and was ready to wait for an opportunity to kill Shao Tingda's troops when he was tired, because everyone knew that Chen Mu did not have more troops to rotate the Chinese army.

But now it seems that the knights of the right wing of the Western army will be the first to collapse.