Shao Tingda thought that he would also be bombarded with artillery, and he had thought about it since the first time he turned off the cannon and issued a threat in the city of Guangzhou, and he was very afraid of this situation.

One shot came, regardless of whether you wore armor or rode a horse, everyone was gone.

When this scene really happened in front of his eyes, why did he want to laugh so much?

The forward cavalry of the Western Army assembled a thousand paces away, and the canyon four or five miles wide was not wide, nor narrow, and they seemed to think that it was a relatively safe distance, because the Ming army, hiding in the trenches of the barrier wall, did not give up their defensive advantage to launch a surprise attack on them.

Under the cover of cavalry, some of the first to arrive, some of the unarmoured aborigines and mercenaries, who appeared to be a rabble, cleared rubble on both sides of the official road and tried to clear the defenses laid by the Ming army.

There are no defenses.

The Ming army dug three trenches ten steps outside the barrier wall trench, and alternately laid out the grass outside the horse rejection and the official road from fifty to two hundred steps to scatter thistles, but there was nothing outside the two hundred steps.

Originally, Shao Tingda wanted to lay some simple mines, but this idea was rejected because the Ming army's spare gunpowder in the port was not sufficient.

The most important order of the baggage fleet returning to the Ming Dynasty was to bring enough saltpeter in the autumn, it was saltpeter, he didn't even want gunpowder, there was no shortage of sulfur and charcoal here, and transporting saltpeter would allow them to make more gunpowder.

The Ming army still had a lot of food, and the crops of Asia and the turkeys running everywhere greatly enriched their diets, and the most serious problem they faced was the shortage of gunpowder.

After Deng Zilong left with enough gunpowder for a major naval battle, the port of Acapulco, which had the largest reserves of gunpowder, ran out.

Of course, the gunpowder used by the flag army is still sufficient, but even if you count the two warehouses of Jincheng Zhuangyuan Bridge and Majiagang in Maxian, their spare gunpowder is not enough to make the fleet fully armed again.

This time, the Western Army launched a large phalanx and used a formation of thousands of musketeers in front, more spearmen in the back, and sword and shield men in the middle, completely handing over the two wings to the cavalry, which was huge.

Between the vast phalanx and the gap between the two flanks of light cavalry, more than a dozen soldiers pushed four Fran cannon carts at the front of the formation.

Four-wheeled, wrought-iron bar-type small-caliber Franc machines, mounted on small gun wagons the size of four small wheels, in front of a huge army formation that looked more than 5,000 in the congested canyon.

Shao Tingda fought with Chen Mu, and only saw a similar situation when he went to the battlefield to suppress the rebellion for the second time, but even at that time, Chen Mu, as the general banner, had bowl cannons and big Franco cannons under his hands.

Originally, Shao Tingda still felt that he needed to bombard them with eight guns and ten catties in his hands, and try to damage the enemy's artillery team before the battle, but look at this posture...... He didn't think the four cannons were worth wasting gunpowder on them.

But the gunpowder packs, skids, and shells had been stuffed into the chambers of the Western army when they had stopped a thousand paces, and his artillery had to blast out of this array.

Shao Tingda crossed his arms and looked at the four Franco cannons on the opposite side with a telescope from behind the barrier wall, and said to the left and right: "Tell the artillery team not to rush to bomb, wait for the enemy to advance and hit people, and then put it at 600 steps to fight again, this small cannon is wasted, and it may not be accurate." ”

"Tell the ministries that the enemy will crouch down as soon as the enemy fires artillery."

The order was given like this, in fact, the flag officer under his command knew what to do, he was just worried that there would be unnecessary casualties caused by the flag officer.

After all, in the Ming army's drills, the maximum firing range of a small-caliber Furlong cannon like the one used by the Western Army was only two miles away.

Bernal rode a tall pure white-haired war horse back and forth in front of the battle, he knew that the Ming army had set up fortifications in the gorge, but this fortification looked very rudimentary, so he hoped to persuade him to surrender directly, but according to European habits, he rode over to meet the Ming commander and did not dare to do so.

After all, judging from the previous battles, the Ming army does not seem to have this habit.

Finally, he sent a rider, and he rode alone, carrying the New Spain cross flag, to the middle of the two armies and looked at this side, and the meaning was obvious.

Shao Tingda also sent a rider who knew Spanish over, and soon came back with a complaining face, and reported to Shao Tingda: "General, those who persuaded them to surrender, said that they had 10,000 troops, cannons or something, and there was a lot of nonsense. ”

"Hair ...... Don't bang yet, the military doctor will get me a white flag and pen and ink, aren't they happy to wave the flag! ”

Shao Tingda didn't believe that the Western Army had 10,000 troops, and the troops on both sides were basically clear, who could fool whom!

It didn't take long for the white cloth to be delivered, and Shao Tingda drew a panda head with a wave of his hand, and asked the rider to send it to the other side, saying, "Tell them, wave this when you surrender, iron-eating beast." ”

He still happened to hear Zhao Shizhen talk about the ancient Jin Dynasty when it surrendered, and he felt that waving such a flag on the battlefield was very stupid, and it was a good helper to humiliate the enemy army.

The flag was handed over to the cavalry, and Shao Tingda did not forget to tell him two words, saying: "Give him the flag first, and then tell him to surrender, don't stay too far away with the knife in your hand, and wait for him to go back first." ”

The process of the two sides surrendering the flag did not draw their swords and cut each other as Shao Tingda worried, that is, the Spanish riders in the telescope were stupid, and they looked at the panda flag for a long time, and then they had no choice but to return to the battle.

The Europeans have never seen the rolling.

The negotiating cavalry did not react much to the lowering of the flag, but Bernal threw the white flag to the ground in a fit of rage, and gave the order to bombard the enemy line as the horse's hooves stepped down.

The Spanish gunners next to the four Franc guns had already prepared, and the fire rope was wrapped around the long-pole odd-shaped weapon to ignite the gunpowder, and in the blink of an eye, the Franc machine with the muzzle of the cannon fired the shell into the distance.

Shao Tingda's infantry with cover protection did not react to the firing of these small cannons, but they all squatted down according to the military order to withdraw their heads that might be exposed outside the barrier wall, and what they were really afraid of was the horse team of the Black Cloud Dragon behind them.

As soon as they heard that they were going to fire artillery, these horse soldiers looked at each other, but they did not dare to move with the military order, and only waited for the Black Cloud Dragon to give the order, and then the entire cavalry team turned out to form a horizontal team at the mouth of the canyon, beat the horses, and retreated backwards, until they withdrew two or three hundred paces and went around to the side of the valley mouth, so they were relieved.

However, as soon as he bypassed, the black cloud dragon couldn't suppress his curiosity, and he hit his horse and leaned towards the valley mouth, he wanted to witness the battle with his own eyes.

The shells whistled towards the Ming position, and the Spanish artillery over there had already unloaded the smoking gun and replaced it with another cartridge ready to fire.

A cannonball flew crookedly into the mountain wall, and then fell down heavily, smashing a hole in the earth; A cannonball the size of a child's fist smashed a horse and leaped more than 30 steps and fell to the ground; The other one was very simply embedded in the Ming military fortifications more than a dozen steps in front of it, perhaps because of the angle of incidence, but the bullet did not bounce.

Only the last one was very accurate, and it hit the wall where Shao Tingda was, and the two made a strange sound when they collided.

Syllable!

Shao Tingda, who was half-squatting on the ground with a knife behind the barrier wall, smiled, although the barrier wall built by wood, cement, and sand and stone structure was not thick, and it was also built to guard against Spanish heavy muskets, but it still has an incomparable defense against this small-caliber Fran cannon!