Chapter 778: Hanging the Spanish Mercenaries (1)
The Ming army was about to march to the city, and the Marquis of Larsi, after promising with the king of Burma, confidently pulled his 7,000 Spanish invincible army out of the city, ready to meet the Ming army outside the city and defeat the Ming army!
7,000 Spanish soldiers carrying flintlock pistols newly equipped by the Spanish Empire in recent years stepped out of the city gate of Rangoon with high spirits, and lined up outside the gate of Yangon, waiting for the arrival of the Ming army.
Inside the city, the Burmese king apparently did not trust the Marquis of Larsi's army of 7,000 Spaniards.
In order to be able to defeat the Ming army smoothly, the Burmese king also gathered all the large army in his hands at the moment, about 64,000 people. 30,000 were from Taungoo with him, 10,000 were the original defenders of Yangon, and the other 20,000 were recruited by his geniuses, but in such a short time, there was an army of 60,000 people, and it was not easy for the Burmese king.
The Burmese king planned to rush out his army of 64,000 men as soon as the Marquis Larsi's Spanish mercenaries showed that they were invincible, and together they would defeat the Ming army.
In order to witness the battle with his own eyes, the Burmese king also ventured to hide quietly in an inconspicuous place on the upper floor of Yangon.
Outside the city, the Marquis of Larsi had his Spanish army ready.
Seven thousand Spanish infantry lined up in a three-stage strike phalanx in front, and behind were twenty fourteen-pounder cannons, which could fire fourteen-pound shells, which was thirteen pounds of the Ming Dynasty!
If you calculate in detail, the red-coated cannon sold by the Portuguese to the Ming Dynasty was a sixteen-pounder cannon, and the red-coated cannon imitated after the Ming Dynasty was an eighteen-pounder cannon, and the weight of one pound was slightly less than the weight of one catty.
Looking at his 7,000 troops, looking at the twenty fourteen-pounder cannons behind him, Viscount Larsey looked proud and confident.
You know, his army was not only equipped with the most advanced flintlock pistol in Europe, but also with the best fourteen-pounder cannon in their Spanish Empire, which is believed to be the best cannon in Europe.
The flintlock pistol can be fired with flint, both the rate of fire and the range are much stronger than the original arquebus, if you compare, the combat effectiveness of the 10,000 flintlock army can be compared to the combat effectiveness of the 20,000 arquebus army, and the combat effectiveness of the 7,000 army of Viscount Larsi is naturally equivalent to the 14,000 arquebus musket team a few years ago.
The armies he used to defeat African and Native Americans were arquebuses and muskets, so he could have achieved that kind of results. Natives are natives, even if the Ming Dynasty is quite mysterious and not ordinary natives, but he still believes that except for a few countries in O'Barro, there is no army that is the opponent of their Spanish army.
And what made the Marquis of Larsey even more proud was the twenty fourteen-pounder cannons.
Although the 20 14-pounder cannons fired only 14 pounds, in terms of the power of the shells alone, they were not as powerful as the 16-pounder cannons of that year, but the reason why these 20 14-pounder cannons became the best cannons in Spain was that they weighed less than 2,000 catties, while the original 16-pounder cannons weighed 3,500 catties.
The weight of the whole cannon was reduced by more than 1,500 catties, while the shells fired were only two pounds less, and it was obvious that the new 14-pounder gun, which was less than 2,000 catties, was more suitable to follow the army to fight all over the world, which is also the origin of the title of the best cannon in Spain.
With a fourteen-pounder cannon and a flintlock musket, as long as it doesn't rain, the cannon and the flintlock musket team are simply a perfect combination, and the Marquis of Larsi really can't think of any army that can defeat them except for the army with the same equipment, so the invading army of the Ming Dynasty will definitely be beaten all over the ground by him.
Under the extremely confident waiting of the Marquis of Larsey, the army of the Ming finally appeared.
The sound of "booming" war horses galloping faintly came, getting louder and louder, and the earth seemed to be shaking.
After a while, as a bright yellow five-clawed golden dragon flag appeared, the endless Daming Iron Horse galloped out.
Yangon is a large city in Myanmar and the most important town in southern Myanmar, in order to prevent a sudden attack by the enemy, there is a wide and flat place in front of the Yangon city gate, which is also suitable for the battlefield of the two armies.
The Ming army rode from the open area under the city of Yangon.
Thousands of iron horsemen galloped in, mighty and mighty, with an astonishing war killing.
"Maiga, this is the army of the Ming Dynasty?" Marquis Larsi's eyes widened as he looked at the Daming Iron Cavalry that appeared in front of him, according to the King of Burma, there were about 80,000 Daming Iron Cavalry.
80,000 cavalry, in the whole of Europe, except for the Ottoman Empire, there is no country that can form so many cavalry legions, not even their Spanish Empire.
And what surprised Marquis Larsi the most was the evil aura emitted by the Daming Iron Cavalry, as long as a general with a little experience could see that the Daming Iron Cavalry in front of him was definitely the most elite army in a hundred battles.
"Hehe, but it's a pity, the musket team is the nemesis of the cavalry, and the cavalry will not be able to exert their original mobility when they encounter the musket team, and the Ming army will definitely be defeated!" After Viscount Larsey was surprised, he smiled, still full of confidence, and said indifferently.
Although the Ming army in front of him was obviously different from the indigenous armies of the barbarian worlds he had encountered in the past, this was an army that also belonged to the civilized world, but civilization was different from civilization, and under the muskets and cannons of his Spanish army, cavalry was useless.
The Marquis of Larsi never thought that although the Ming army was cavalry, it also had a full-standard rifle, and the rifle of the Ming army was much stronger than the Spanish flintlock pistol, after all, the flintlock pistol had been eliminated by the Ming army.
What's more, the Marquis of Larsi couldn't imagine that not only did he have twenty cannons, but the Ming army brought more cannons, and the Ming army's cannons were much more powerful than what he called the best fourteen-pounder cannon in Spain.
Blame the king of Burma, in order to fool the Marquis of Larsi to help him repel the Ming army, did not reveal the details of the Ming army to the Marquis of Larsi, not only did he not tell the Marquis of Larsi that the Ming army also had muskets, but also did not tell the Marquis of Larsi that the Ming could let the artillery follow the cavalry to march quickly.
The lack of too much information made the Marquis of Larsi form a blind confidence in the face of the Ming army, and he didn't know what kind of expression he would have when the Ming army really showed his strength in front of him.