The fierce battle on the side of Honjoji Temple has begun!

Even if the people of the Shimazu family were willing to release the water, the governor of California, De Velasco, who oversaw the war, would not have watched these Japanese grind foreign workers. After rejecting Zhu Cihuan's request to go head-to-head (Zhu Cihuan didn't know about this at all), he moved his headquarters to the front less than three hundred steps north of the city of Benxun Temple - he knew that the Ming army that had crossed the mountains and mountains did not have artillery, so he came to press on the whole line.

His headquarters stepped forward, and the two temporary infantry regiments below and the 1,200 people of the Shimazu family had no choice but to press forward, and the 6 6-pounder guns were even more bullying, and they directly reached the front line less than 150 steps away from Honshoji Temple, and they almost had to insert bayonets into the barrels.

As soon as the cannon approached and the people were on top, the pressure on Zhu Cihuan's side suddenly came up. Baoke Zhenghui no longer dared to pull Zhu Cihuan out to show his face, but invited this person back to the main hall to ponder the matter of the poem, and set up a formation in the courtyard to command the defense instead of Zhu Cihuan.

After another round of shelling and long-range fire from heavy arquebuses, before the smoke had cleared, a phalanx of flintlock muskets of the Shimazu army rushed towards the gap in the wall, which had widened to nearly thirty paces wide.

This time, the people of the Shimazu family got serious, and they quickly advanced with the smoke of gunpowder that had not yet dissipated. The Shimazu samurai who formed the phalanx did not shoot guns, and only a few groups of selected marksmen walked on both sides of the line, constantly teasing Zhu Cihuan's escort samurai who were guarding the gap with relatively accurate shots.

These marksmen are all threes, one of whom has the best marksmanship and is responsible for shooting, and two of whom are very fast and specialize in reloading. In fact, it is to use the Japanese three-stage shooting method to snipers!

However, Zhu Cihuan's samurai guards are not vegetarians, most of them have experienced the Toyotomi Fall War in Japan, and they have all experienced it. So at this time, no matter how the other party seduces, even if they knock down several of their own fighters, the rest of the people can't bear to fire - in fact, the tactics they adopt are also three-stage shooting, and the half-kneeling against the collapsed earthen wall are 30 marksmen, each with a bullet in their hands, a light arquebus (also imitating a Spanish light arquebus), just waiting quietly. It wasn't until the Shimazu family's brigade rushed 30 paces away that they roared into the first salvo, and immediately knocked down more than a dozen Shimazu samurai.

And the Shimazu army did not continue to attack under the fire of the other side, but stopped advancing and began to return fire with flintlock pistols.

After a few rounds of back and forth between the two sides, the center of the battlefield was filled with gunsmoke, and the visibility came for a while, and then there was no accuracy.

The Shimazu family had set up a phalanx with a small front (because the gap was twenty or thirty paces wide), and each soldier carried a large straw bale, which was full of dirt, which was used to fill the trench. After a few rounds of fighting, the musketeers of the Shimazu family in the first two rows stopped shooting, but fell down and crawled forward.

The two rows of musketeers in the back took a few steps forward and began to fire indiscriminately with their flintlock pistols, creating smoke to cover the samurai who were crawling forward to fill the trenches. When the samurai who filled the trench returned, the samurai who were firing now had to climb up and fill the trench...... This set of muskets to cover and fill the trenches is not something that ordinary troops can play.

However, the Shimazu army did not mean to be desperate, but just filled in the trenches step by step, so the troops did not press too far forward, and stopped thirty paces away. Even if the smoke hits again, it doesn't mean to move forward in the face of the enemy's bullets.

And those samurai who are crawling forward are moving forward at a rapid pace, His Royal Highness Naiji has taken care of them, and they have to climb carefully, everyone understands what it means......

Therefore, the offensive of the Shimazu army lasted from the afternoon to the evening, and only four waves rushed back and forth, but they did not completely fill the trench that was dozens of paces long and several zhang wide to the north of the temple.

As soon as the sky darkened, the little lady of the Shimazu family had another rhetoric.

"Your Excellency, most of us East Asians are born night blind, and we can't see clearly at night when the light is dim...... Let's wait until tomorrow after dawn to fight! ”

De Bellasco had been in Japan for a long time, and he knew that many Japanese people were night blind, and he didn't know that after Shimazu's gang arrived in the Americas, they had eaten a lot of fish and meat every day, and they had already eaten up their night blindness. So he agreed to Shimazu Nokichi's suggestion, but he wouldn't make it too easy for the Shimazu family.

He nodded and said, "Then stop the attack for the time being, and build fortifications with straw bags filled with dirt 30 steps north of the wall of the temple." Tomorrow morning, we will take the newly constructed fortifications as the starting position and continue to attack the temple! ”

"Hay!"

Shimazu Naiji and several Shimazu family elders who followed her were relieved in their hearts - the warrior king of the Ming Dynasty had survived a day, so he didn't know where his "30,000 reinforcements" were?

The reinforcements of the Ming army are not available, and they dare not defect!

Now Don. Huang. José had 19,000 Spanish soldiers on hand (José brought 15,000 and de Velasco 4,000), and the Shimazu family not only handed over the hostages, but also had troops on hand that were lost to Don. Huang. Most of Jose was transferred and mixed with the Spanish soldiers, and the 1,200 people controlled by Nagi couldn't turn the sky at all!

What the people of the Shimazu family did not expect was that in fact, de Belasco was not in a hurry to eliminate Zhu Tzuhuan of Honshuji Temple, because Tang. Huang. José's plan was to encircle the point and send reinforcements.

The 2,000 people on hand of Zhu Cihuan were simply not enough for 19,000 Spanish soldiers. Huang. What Jose wants to eat is the elite main force of the Ming Army of the Americas.

And Zhu Cihuan, the prince of the Ming Dynasty, is just a bait to attract the Ming army to help.

While De Bellasco was busy encircling the point, Don. Huang. Jose is arranging reinforcements.

The battlefield of reinforcements was fought by the Minister of War of the Kingdom of New Spain, who also followed Don. Huang. José's old subordinate in the Spanish Netherlands, Marquis Gaspara, personally selected the large valley that the Shimazu family called the "Valley of the Floods."

Not only is the valley a must-go from the mountains of Northern California south to the Satsuma Valley, but the terrain inside is very complex. Some places are wide, while others are very narrow. And this wide, narrow and wide, is Tang. Huang. José is the perfect terrain to use to reinforce and annihilate the enemy.

He first divided the six temporary infantry regiments and one cavalry regiment he brought to the flood valley into two parts, and placed a temporary infantry regiment in the open area in the middle of the flood valley, using the camp left by the Ming army (Zhu Cihuan's department) to set up defenses, and the task of this regiment was to lure the enemy.

The remaining five Makeshift Infantry Regiments and one Cavalry Regiment were placed in another open area in the southern part of the Flood Valley.

Between these two open areas is a narrow passage, flanked by gentle slopes with dense vegetation that can be used for ambush. But Don. Huang. José did not place too many ambushes on the hillside, only a small number of alert troops.

The ambush on the slopes on either side of the valley is too obvious to be fooled as long as the opponent is not stupid.

So Don. Huang. José's plan was not to ambush the Ming army as they pursued the temporaneous infantry regiment through this narrow valley. Rather, it was intended to attack as part of the Ming army passed through this narrow valley and entered another open valley.

Concentrate the strength of the five temporary infantry regiments, and take advantage of the fact that the Ming army has not had time to pass through the valley and deploy its forces, and give them a head-on attack! After defeating it, the cavalry was dispatched to pursue the tail rank.

Because the flood valley was 800 miles away from the Ming army's advance stronghold, Hebian Fort, and the roads were full of mountains and forests, there were no inhabitants except for a few Indians, and the retreating Ming army could not get supplies at all.

So Don. Huang. As long as Jose won a rout, he could inflict a annihilating blow on the main force of the Ming army moving south.