Chapter 936: A Miserable Defeat (1)
It's a pity that they still couldn't escape the pursuit of the Ming cavalry, because the Ming army didn't have a war horse, simply relied on foot to pursue, and it was impossible to throw away the rifles and bullets in their hands to finally let the British soldiers escape.
It was precisely because of that time that Yan Yingyuan applied for a war horse from the Ming court on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, and now the Ming army has a war horse, forming an iron cavalry and then chasing and killing, even if the British soldiers throw away the flintlock pistol in their hands to reduce the load, it is impossible to run past the four legs of the war horse.
They were also overtaken by the Ming cavalry.
"Smack! Syllable! ------"After the Ming cavalry caught up with the British soldiers, they did not hesitate to shoot at them.
"Poof! Burst! Poof---- "As one British soldier after another was killed in the rout.
The British soldiers were terrified as if they were being chased by death, and they fled even more desperately, however, the difference between the two legs was not something they could escape by fleeing with their lives.
The Ming cavalry outflanked them from both sides, quickly crossed them and took them directly in front of them.
"Smack! Syllable! -----The Ming cavalry, which was in front of the fleeing British troops, opened fire on the British soldiers intensively, killing dozens of British soldiers at the front.
"No!" The British soldiers tried to continue to flee from both sides, but unfortunately there was also a group of Ming cavalry blocking the front, blocking their way.
"It's over! God, we're completely finished! Duke William was panting and looked desperate.
He also happened to be in the middle of this group of British soldiers, and in the face of being chased by the Ming cavalry and intercepted on three sides, Duke William felt that he could no longer escape.
Duke William sat on the ground with his buttocks, he was nearly fifty years old, he was desperately fleeing in order to escape for his life just now, he was already very tired, and he was also very embarrassed, since he couldn't escape, then he could only honestly wait in place to be captured by the Ming army.
Seeing that Duke William did not give the order to resist, the other British soldiers faced the muzzles of the Ming cavalry, and raised their hands in fear, kneeling on the ground and surrendering, after all, not to mention that they no longer had the will to resist, even if they wanted to resist, but the flintlock pistol in their hands had already been abandoned by them, and without weapons in hand, any resistance was useless and could only be slaughtered.
There is no doubt that the Duke of William, along with a group of British soldiers, was captured by a group of Ming cavalry that pursued them.
Duke William was captured by the cavalry of the Ming army, and the fate of the other four commanders, such as the Marquis of Orlang and the Marquis of Arretoleca, was not much better, because they also could not outrun the cavalry of the Ming army.
The Dutch commander was captured by the Ming cavalry immediately after the British commander, Duke William, along with a group of Dutch soldiers.
Immediately afterwards, the commander of the Portuguese army and a group of Portuguese soldiers were also caught up by a team of Ming cavalry, but the fate of the commander of the Portuguese army was even worse, because when he caught up with him by the Ming army, he was very unwilling to be captured like this, and found that after being blocked by the Ming cavalry, he subconsciously escaped from his arms with a flint short commander, facing a Ming cavalry, intending to resist.
The Portuguese commander-in-chief's approach is worse than stabbing a hornet's nest!
In the face of resistance and threats, the Ming cavalry could not care who the other party was, at least two dozen rifles fired at the body of the Portuguese commander.
"Poof! Burst! Poof----- "The bullet continued to penetrate the body of the Portuguese commander, causing his body to tremble, and blood splattered from where the bullet had entered, and from the back as the bullet came out.
In just one or two breaths, the body of the Portuguese commander was beaten into a hornet's nest.
The body of the Portuguese commander lay to the ground, dead and unsightly.
Seeing the miserable fate of the commander of the Portuguese army, a large number of Portuguese soldiers next to him knelt on the ground in fear, raised their hands high, and surrendered to the Ming cavalry.
The Ming cavalry successively captured the commander of the British army, the commander of the Dutch army, killed the commander of the resisting Portuguese army, and captured thousands of soldiers of the Three Kingdoms who followed them.
However, the Marquis d'Orlan, the commander of the French army, and the Marquis de Arrettoleca, the commander of the Spanish army, had not yet been captured.
In addition, more soldiers of the Five Kingdoms fled in all directions, and the Ming cavalry was only 20,000, although there were nearly 10,000 Ming infantry in pursuit, but it was impossible to capture more than 200,000 of the Five Nations Alliance at once.
When the commander of the Portuguese army was killed, the soldiers of the five countries who were captured by the Ming army were actually less than 40,000.
After the Ming cavalry taught the prisoners to the Ming infantry who came later, they continued to pursue the remaining five-nation alliance rout.
With the passage of time, more and more of the Five Nations Alliance forces were killed and captured by the Ming army, but the Marquis of Orlan, the commander of the French army, and the Marquis of Yaretoleca, the commander of the Spanish army, were never found.
The captured Five-Nation Alliance has more than 80,000 soldiers, and the scope of the Ming army's pursuit is rapidly expanding and getting bigger and bigger. Of course, the main targets of the Ming cavalry were the Marquis d'Orlan, the commander of the French army, and the Marquis of Arletoleca, the commander of the Spanish army.
"They must have fled in the direction of the Atlantic!" Feng Houdun said firmly.
Although the army continued to capture a large number of soldiers of the Five Nation Alliance, but never found the French commander Orand and the Spanish commander Arrettolyca, Feng Houdun thought that during the battle of Canada, the French commander fled to the river, got on the boat, and finally escaped from the coastal direction in the fleet. Orlang has such experience and will definitely take advantage of it. As for the Spanish commander-in-chief, Panama has been colonized by Spain for more than 150 years, and many Spaniards are familiar with the terrain of Panama.
Feng Houdun personally led a group of hundreds of Ming cavalry to pursue in a straight line towards the Atlantic coast, if Orlang and Yaretoleka really fled to the Atlantic coast, then as long as Feng Houdun led a group of Ming cavalry to the coast quickly, they could not escape.
"Boom -----" war horses galloped, along the way, even found some of the five countries alliance rout, as long as those five countries alliance rout did not directly stop the road ahead, Feng Houdun and others did not pay attention to it, non-stop gallop towards the Atlantic coast.
After all, the value of a commander in chief of the Five-Nation Alliance is much stronger than hundreds or thousands of ordinary soldiers.
Panama is not very far from Panama City, and if you waste too much time, it is likely that Orrão or Aretoleka will escape.
The commander of the Spanish army, the Marquis of Arlettoleca, did not know, but the commander of the French army, the Marquis of Orlan, was indeed as Von Houden thought, desperately running over the mountains and mountains towards the Atlantic coast.
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