The Marquis of Gaspara is in his fifties and is already a little out of energy. Huang. Jose has been busy for a while, and he has not had a good rest for a while, and he has to work overtime tonight, and he is really tired enough. Even if he marched on a horse, the feeling of sleepiness still came in bursts, but fortunately, this half-old man had been riding a horse for half his life, and his equestrian skills were so good that he would not fall down even if he was napping on horseback.

And most of the people who went on the road with this marquis were half-old men of a little age, and they were all a little down. If you don't fall down, you won't be a knight who came from Europe to the New World at this age. If it was one or two decades earlier, this group of people would definitely be fierce on the battlefield of the Thirty Years War, even if they fought for three days and three nights in a row, they would not be unable to withstand it, but now they are really a little unbearable.

In fact, it was not only the Marquis of Gaspara and the cavalry who protected him who could not bear the tiredness, Don. Huang. José's legion was made up of old men from the Old World and peasant soldiers from the New World. The former have rich military experience and are the backbone of the army, serving as almost all officers, non-commissioned officers, cavalry and artillerymen, but their general age, coupled with their long-term uncontrolled life, makes them not have enough energy and physical strength to bear long and hard battles. The latter, although young and full of physical strength, lacked training and did not want to fight very much.

Why do they fight? For the land? Will whites and mixed-race whites in the New World be landless?

For the knighthood? Native whites and mixed-race whites from civilian backgrounds can still get that thing?

For military pay? In fact, the whites and mixed-race whites of the New World were not short of money, and they did not need it much—they had a rich and fertile land that would provide them with everything they needed for daily life, so no one cared about the few salaries paid by the Kingdom of New Spain.

For God's sake? This is a reason why the Catholic Church in the Kingdom of New Spain did not make any less effort to incite. But most of them were taken by Don. Huang. The "Americans" that José brought to the front in California were forcibly recruited by the authorities of New Spain......

Riding on horseback, groggy and drowsy, the Marquis of Gaspara somehow thought of the "Americans" who were extremely pious when they prayed and crumbled and slippery when they trained. These people are much worse than the German mercenaries.

It would be nice to replace them all with German mercenaries......

"There is a situation!"

Just as the old man thought of the Germans, he heard the sound of shouting in German, which made him feel when he had participated in the Thirty Years' War.

When the old man seemed to be awake and a little unable to distinguish between dream and reality, a loud thunderous sound echoed in the narrow valley, and woke up the Marquis of Gaspara at once.

With this explosion, thirty or forty fires suddenly flashed on the two hillsides, and then gunfire erupted, and lead bullets rained down on a group of German mercenaries walking in front!

A heavy rain of bullets swept by, and immediately four or five mercenary cavalry planted their horses. Under the leadership of platoon commander Liu Haoyong, more than 30 soldiers bypassed the Spanish garrison, and eliminated a few Spanish sentries guarding the northern exit of the Long Valley, and finally climbed the hillsides on both sides of the Long Valley to set up an ambush, only to meet the Marquis of Gaspara.

Because it was too dark, the ambush was not very effective, and a grenade thrown out at the beginning did not blow anything, and a German mercenary saw the fire when it was ignited. Later, with the help of the grenade explosion to produce fire, there was a burst of gunfire, and four or five cavalrymen were knocked down. And the cavalry company guarding the Marquis of Gaspara numbered seventy or eighty, all armed with flintlock pistols and swords, and all wearing half-body plate armor, if they dismounted and rushed up the hill, Liu Haoyong and his thirty or so warriors would probably not be able to resist - in order to carry a little more marching food and ammunition, all of them did not carry helmets and cuirasses, and if they really wanted to fight hand-to-hand combat, they were not the opponents of those Germans.

"Grenade! Throw grenades! Liu Haoyong, who just graduated from the Nanjing Lecture and Martial Arts Hall last year, is worthy of more than ten years of military education, and he still remains calm at this time and has made the most correct decision.

He is the second generation of the canal regiment that Lu Zhenfei pulled up for Zhu Cihong, and his father worked in the new army for 15 years, and he is now retired in Pukou. And he was born in the army middle school plus the martial arts hall, and he had received about ten years of military education before getting the rank of Xiaoqi officer!

He has long been trained to become a professional and cold-blooded professional officer!

And this cold-blooded professional officer leads a group of professional soldiers with the same professionalism and cold-bloodedness...... And he is very young and energetic, even if he walks 800 miles of mountain roads, he still has an excellent state!

What is even more remarkable is that during the six to eight years of their Scouting career, this group of Young Guards soldiers not only had to exercise their bodies and practice various skills in killing enemies, but also received an education - a group of professional soldiers who had at least a primary school education and had received non-commissioned officer training. Not only will they fight, but they will also think about how to fight.

Before Liu Haoyong gave the order to drop the bomb, except for a few "sharpshooters" who were loading bullets with their hands and feet, everyone else had already taken out grenades and fire folds. Hearing the command, he immediately lit the fuse and dropped the bomb!

The rain of grenades and a series of explosions immediately gave the Marquis of Gaspara and his German mercenaries a delusion.

They encountered not a small force of the enemy, but a fairly large force, and an elite grenadier unit!

This force was able to bypass the camp of the Provisional 3rd Regiment of New Spain so quickly and occupy the exit north of Canggu...... Now it's okay, the temporary third regiment has been surrounded by the Ming army!

The old Marquis of Spain was also stunned, and with the experience he had gained in the Thirty Years' War, the Eighty Years' War, and the Franco-Spanish War, he must have crashed into the enemy's brigade. If you don't retreat, I'm afraid you'll have to see God.

Although he loves God, he is not in a hurry to see God, and it is good to be a few years late......

"Retreat! Retreat! The old man roared.

Hearing the order to retreat, the German mercenaries who were protecting him were also relieved, and they all turned around one after another, hugging the old marquis and going to Tang. Huang. José's camp ran.

And when they ran, a good encirclement of the reinforcements became encirclement of the reinforcements.

Because a whole regiment of officers and soldiers of the new Spanish Army had been surrounded, Don. Huang. To save or not to save?

"What? The northern exit of Hase was occupied by the enemy? ”

Don who slept in a daze. Huang. As soon as José was woken up from his bed, he heard the bad news that made him want to vomit blood.

How did it come to this? After sleeping for a while, one of your own regiments was surrounded by the enemy?

"Duke," suggested the weary-looking Marquis of Gaspara, "we must retake the valley at once...... Otherwise the third regiment will be finished! ”

"Immediately? But it's night! "Don. Huang. José said, "Marquis, do you think our men can fight at night?" ”

"Duke!" Marquis Gaspara shook his head, "Have you forgotten that the Third Regiment was carrying a lot of food and cattle to the middle of the Flood Valley?" ”

Tang Dynasty. Huang. José's face turned pale. Not knowing how many days to wait in the flood valley, José's 3rd Regiment passed through the Long Valley with half a month's rations, and they also carried several hundred large animals to carry their luggage, tents, and rations. These big animals are slaughtered, but they are all meat! Coupled with the rations carried by the third regiment, I am afraid that the tens of thousands of Ming troops who came from afar can eat comfortably for ten days......