The gunfire was still like popping beans, and the rain of bullets, combined with the smoke from the grenades and the dust from the 6-pound shells, raised clouds of smoke on the hillsides on either side of the long valley.

After the sound of gunfire, cannons, and explosions, there was a shout of killing!

The corpses of the Spanish infantrymen, dressed in improvised half-body plate armor, lay like mustard on the hillside. The place close to the Ming army's defense line is even more layered and shocking. But the follow-up troops of the Spaniards continued to pour into Canggu!

Five regiments, nearly 13,000 officers and men, repeatedly stormed the mountain pass north of Canggu leading to the Central Valley, and when one regiment was repulsed, another regiment would take over and launch a new offensive. Obviously, Don. Huang. José was not willing to give up his Provisional Third Regiment.

Originally, he estimated that the Ming army coming from afar would not have many supplies, even if his ambush plan could not succeed, as long as he could jam the south entrance of Changgu and block them for three or five or seven days, he would be able to win a complete victory. However, he miscalculated for a while, so that the third regiment that undertook the task of luring the enemy was surrounded with a lot of supplies and livestock, once those supplies and cattle fell into the hands of the Ming army, then the Battle of Changgu could be fought for half a month or even twenty days!

Although Don. Huang. Jose was confident that his army would be able to hold the southern entrance to Long Valley, but he still didn't want his main force to be pinned down on the Northern California front for twenty days or more.

Because now St. Francisco, Castel Angelo, and Castel San Diego are all very empty! The area around Angel Castle is especially dangerous! Because there are no easy straits to defend and there are beaches full of easy landings, an angel castle alone cannot be defended.

As soon as the Ming army's fleet transports the landing force to attack there, then it is possible that the tide of the war in California will be completely reversed!

So Don. Huang. While José was deploying at the south exit of Hase (he still wanted to prepare with both hands), he did his best to launch a fierce attack!

In order to be able to repel the Ming army defending the north entrance of the valley, he even pulled the six 6-pounder guns assigned to De Bellasco to the battlefield of the valley to bombard the Ming army guarding the hillside.

However, the Ming troops guarding the slopes on both sides of the north entrance of the valley had already dug a lot of foxholes, so the effect of the shelling was very poor, and several defenders could not be killed at all. The New Spanish infantry, which had no effective artillery support, became a live target for the Ming Young Guards soldiers who were condescendingly firing, knocked down like mowing grass by the lead bullets of the flintlock pistols, and even if they could rush up against the fire of the flintlock pistols, they would be repelled by the grenades that rained down and the bayonet charge of the Ming army.

The wooden-handled grenades used by the Ming army are actually not very powerful, and it is difficult to kill people at once, but those grenade fragments flying everywhere rub or touch anyone will inevitably be injured, and if the wound is not treated in time, a life will be confessed sooner or later......

And the grenades that exploded everywhere and the screams that raged one after another were too great a blow to the morale of the New Spaniards, so their attacks always did not last long, and they were repulsed by the bayonet counterattack of the Ming army.

Don, who hadn't slept much all night. Huang. Jose's eyes were already a little dark, and his throat should have screamed and inhaled too much gunsmoke, but he still insisted on supervising the battle on the front line.

Under his supervision, the infantry of the New Spanish Army did their best, especially the flintlock musketeers from the Shimazu family. Every time these Japanese charge forward, even if they are blown up by a grenade of the Ming army, they can get up and continue to fight! Moreover, the results achieved by these Japanese soldiers were also quite satisfactory, they were able to rush to within twenty or thirty steps of the Ming army's position with lead bullets and grenades, and then use flintlock pistols to shoot at the Ming army, each time they could cause certain casualties to the Ming army.

And when the Ming army launched a bayonet attack, this group of "dwarf soldiers" would also be fearless in white-knuckle combat. You must know that the Ming soldiers in black clothes are very tall (they are all selected northland teenagers, raised with good food and drink, and of course their size is not small), and they are very good at hand-to-hand combat when they look at it!

Although the Japanese dwarfs could not take advantage of hand-to-hand combat at all, they could still inflict losses on the Ming army with their ruthlessness in fighting to the death.

So by the time the battle had been fought until the morning of September 11, it had already been discovered that the Japanese could fight the Don. Huang. Jose began to draw out the "Japanese battalions" attached to the regiments (in fact, there were only two flintlock companies with Japanese samurai as the main force) to act as the main force, and let them take turns to attack and repeatedly attack the Ming positions.

After adjustments, the offensive of the New Spanish army on the afternoon of the 11th was significantly strengthened, and after paying heavy casualties, the Ming army was finally pushed back from their first line of positions.

But Don. Huang. There were not many Japanese in the five regiments at his disposal, and after relying on them for almost a whole day, he found that the losses of these "Japanese battalions" were a bit heavy. Each battalion had lost seventy or eighty Japanese samurai, and the combat effectiveness had been greatly weakened, and morale had become a little low.

Another round of attacks was over, and watching a battalion that had just been thrown into it was driven down the mountain by the black Grim Reaper-like Ming army, Tang. Huang. José sighed and put down his monoculars, his expression a little gloomy.

Now that it's getting dark, and the Japanese seem to have run out of strength, is it possible to lose the battle of the Flood Valley?

If you lose...... I'm afraid California won't be able to save it!

The Marquis of Gaspara on the side squinted his eyes and listened, and after a while he said to Don. Huang. "Duke, and the sound of gunfire and explosions coming from the other side of the Central Valley, it seems that the 3rd Regiment is still holding out!" said José. ”

"How much longer?" Tang Dynasty. Huang. José's face turned pale, "It's going to be dark again...... Those Japanese are not very good at night fighting! ”

"Perhaps we will be able to hold out until to-morrow...... said the old marquis, "and we have made some progress in the daytime battle to-day, and we can now order our troops to halt their attacks and set up their defenses on the spot." As long as you resist the night attack of the Ming army at night, tomorrow during the day will be the last chance.

If we can't beat it, our fortress at the south entrance can be completed, and Honshoji Temple should also be able to be built. When the time comes, we will be able to transfer some troops back to defend Angel City. ”

"How's the fight going over there?" Tang Dynasty. Huang. Jose suddenly remembered that there was a battlefield behind him!

"It's going well," a staff officer said, "the trench filling was completed in the morning, and in the afternoon the Shimazu army's army had already broken into the temple several times, but unfortunately it was repulsed by the enemy before it could gain a foothold." ”

"That's not easy!" Tang Dynasty. Huang. Jose nodded, "These Japanese are indeed very strong in combat!" ”

He didn't know that the Ming army guarding the Benxun Temple and the Ming army in the Flood Valley were not the same thing at all...... In his mind, the guards of the prince of the Ming Dynasty would definitely not be worse than those "men in black".

Tang Dynasty. Huang. José said: "Marquis Gaspara, you bring the cavalry to replace de Velasco, and order him to send all the Japanese soldiers out to me!" ”

Marquis Gaspara asked, "Duke, without the samurai of the Shimazu family, what can I do to attack Honshoji Temple?" ”

"Don't attack," Don. Huang. Jose shook his head, "Just keep watching...... You have a cavalry regiment, are you afraid that you can't stand the infantry of more than a thousand people? ”

"Of course that's fine."

Tang Dynasty. Huang. Jose took a breath and said, "If you can't break through tomorrow, then the third regiment will be saved...... At that time, half of the troops will be used to defend the south entrance of Hase, and the rest of the troops will be used to fight the Honshoji Temple, so there should be no problem. ”

Marquis of Gaspara looking at Don. Huang. Jose was a little sluggish, so he had to comfort: "Duke, if we can capture the Ming Dynasty prince in the Benxun Temple, maybe we can use him as a bargaining chip to negotiate with the Ming Dynasty in order to reach a favorable peace treaty." ”

Tang Dynasty. Huang. Jose exhaled, "Let's talk about it then...... As long as you can hold the flood valley and take the Honxun Temple, everything will not be a problem! ”

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