Chapter 405: Sniper Tactics
After seeing that his troops were not on the same line as their teammates, and were a little protruding, Governor Schroeder secretly said that it was not good.
Other Taixi governors are far away from the mainland, but he has lived in the land of Daming for several years, and has learned a lot of careful thinking of Orientals.
Although there were also losses in the front, it was definitely not as heavy as the phalanxes of other countries, because he was a human spirit, and seeing that the formation of the Huaxia Army was spread very wide, he immediately ordered the formation of his phalanx to spread out a little, so the soldiers who were half a meter apart from each other were now one and a half meters apart from each other, unlike the Huaxia Army with a distance of two meters from each other, and about one and a half meters between the front and back.
The Huaxia army is so spaced because their leader is Zhang Qiang, the traverser, knows that the greater the dispersion, the lower the probability of being hit, but he does not dare to spread too much, if the enemy cavalry suddenly charges, then there will be crying, such a distance, an order, can be quickly gathered, judging from the training level of the Huaxia army, the enemy's mind has just risen, his phalanx can quickly gather, with bayonets against the enemy's cavalry rushing over.
The gunfire will not stop because of Zhang Qiang's thoughts, nor will it stop because of Schroeder's deliberate study, will not stop because of the careful thinking of the coalition forces of various countries, and will not stop because of their respective losses, and the war is still going on rapidly under the adjustment of the commanders of both sides.
As soon as the adjustment was completed, the Huaxia Army gave the Portuguese a big surprise.
The formation of the musketeers of the Huaxia army was quickly adjusted to a phalanx of one hundred and twenty columns in five elements, so the adjustment was because the enemy on the opposite side suffered too much loss, the battle line was not so wide, and the Dutch had been disabled, although there were still more than three hundred people fighting, but they really could not be called a threat, so the Huaxia army on the right flank quickly pulled the wounded soldiers away, and then reorganized the formation, facing the Dutch and Portuguese queues at the same time.
In this way, the overall queue is widened, the formation is thinner, but the firepower is more concentrated, and because the battle line is narrower, the phalanx becomes more loose, so the top shooters are given room to play, they can hide in the third row, or the fourth row can hit the enemy, because the teammates in front of them leave enough space for bullets to pass through.
The Portuguese arquebusiers kept falling to the ground, and the musketeers of the Huaxia army kept falling to the ground, but the Huaxia army fell one, and the opponent fell two, and then the Huaxia army fell one, and the opponent fell three, four, until the Portuguese found that they could not regroup.
Because they found that the officer who commanded them kept falling, and the officer who replaced him fell again in less than a salvo, and in the end they did not know how to act, and no one dared to take over the command.
So the salvo turned into free fire, and the gunfire was chaotic, but the gunfire on the opposite side intensified, because the officers on the opposite side not only continued the salvo, but also someone secretly hit the officers of the phalanx behind them.
By the time Schroeder discovered this, his front-line arquebus phalanx had almost lost control, and almost all of his junior and mid-ranking officers had died. With more than six hundred arquebusiers left, Schroeder panicked.
Quickly mobilize the Indian arquebusiers they recruited later to help.
Mobilize cold weapons troops to prepare to storm the enemy, take advantage of the fact that they have not yet collapsed, and make a last stand.
"Whew——," A bullet slashed past his ear, and Schroeder was stunned.
What's the situation, he's still a hundred and twenty meters away from the enemy.
Stray bullets, must be stray bullets, and the smoothbore gun is not unable to shoot far, but cannot be accurate, this is a fact that he has long understood as a former high-ranking Portuguese officer.
"Ahh
"Ah——," One of his heralds was just about to convey his order to the phalanx of the Japanese in the rear, when he died.
No, what's going on, Schroeder is a little worried, will the next bullet hit him?
As he pondered, his guards had loyally surrounded him in the middle.
The tall war horses, and the guards were tall and strong men, which really caused problems for the enemy's shooters.
However, the Indians were miserable, and soon the Indians collapsed, and the pikemen who went up also collapsed, which directly led to the fact that even the Portuguese native troops who had suffered heavy losses had no intention of fighting, and they began to consciously stop their advance, and secretly moved backwards to widen the distance from the enemy.
"Cavalry charge, cavalry charge." Schroeder didn't care now, he already felt threatened, he didn't want to die in front of the battle like the Spanish governor, and he didn't want to be hit like the Dutch governor Eichi.
On the side, holding on until now, only a hundred Dutch arquebus units and those cavalry, equipped with heavy armor, were ready to take advantage of the musketeers' kung fu to open the situation and attack the enemy's formation, the cold weapon troops were also panicked, and the heavy armor did not guarantee that they would not be killed by the enemy, and they also suffered heavy losses.
In fact, they have only collapsed until now, and they are already considered the best army in the world.
The Spanish army could not bear it anymore and lost more than three hundred men, and their arquebusiers were only more than four hundred remaining, and the rest were also cold weapon troops.
The British were already all cold-armed troops, and they were retreating step by step under the threat of the Chinese arquebus phalanx.
The British Governor Macconjie had already made the maneuver he should have made, and the cavalry charged.
The cavalry of the two men charged backwards, no more than five minutes apart, but the results were different.
The British cavalry won suddenly, but was blocked by the pikemen covering the left and right of the Chinese army, blocked by the chasers of the Chinese army, and the cavalry of more than 500 people was blocked by pikemen and 200 hunters.
The two sides fought together, and the cavalrymen piled up men, horses and horses, and died a few paces opposite the pikemen, or were led away by the chasseurs, killed by short firearms or bows and arrows, and killed by sabers, and the remaining dozens of horsemen turned and fled.
And the cavalry of the Portuguese, seemingly fierce, seemingly invincible lancers, could face a phalanx of musketeers who had no opponents.
Continuous fire strikes, heavy five rows of musketeers lined up, hundreds of cavalry like delivering food, constantly being knocked off the horse, two hundred meters of the charge distance, the Portuguese cavalry only one horse rushed to the Huaxia army, knocked a few musketeers away, and then was pierced into a bloody hedgehog by more than 20 bayonets.
"Defeated—" Governor Schroeder said blankly, as his heart fell from the sky.
With his defeat, the entire coalition army collapsed.
Turn around and run away.
The arquebusiers phalanx of more than 4,800 people, survived in the end, and there were not more than 1,000 or so people who could turn around and escape, and the 2,000 Indian arquebusiers who came up were supplemented, which was also the last surviving 10,000 Indian arquebusiers of the coalition army, and now seven or eight hundred people were also killed, and the rest of the people lost their guns and competed with those cold weapons troops to see who could run faster.
"Knock knock—" The war drums of the Huaxia army became urgent.
The whole army began to pursue, and all the cavalry and all the people who could move were exhausted, and they charged forward together.
The loud military horn also sounded at this time, which was the real horn sound of the Chinese army's charge.
Three days ago, they were chasing the Ming army, the Ming army of the Longwu Imperial Court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and today it was the Huaxia army that had just come to a hard-fought duel with them, and the troops of less than 4,000 people pursued them.
"Surrender and don't kill, kneel and beg for mercy," no country and any nation lacks soft bones, and the guys who abandoned the secret and surrendered to the light among the captives prepared by Zhang Qiang were sent out by Zhang Qiang after the troops chased them out, and shouted behind the troops.
Shout in their language.
"Steady, steady," Dekang shouted to his men in anguish.
But how can it be stabilized?
There were constant attacks on their unused force by the English and Portuguese cavalry, and even the cavalry of the Governor's personal guard.
The remaining arquebus troop of nearly two thousand men, and the wanderer ronin fighting troop of two thousand men.
In the end, the Spanish troops, who had suffered heavy losses, unceremoniously disrupted their formation with cavalry armed to the teeth, and then the arquebusiers vented the humiliation of defeat on their heads and opened fire, and the remaining 200 or so arquebusiers of the Dutch in the back followed suit and attacked them.
This can't be blamed on people, who let them block the main road back to the county seat, at least you get out of the way and let them go back to the camp.
Where is the camp where you fled back to the first trench?
Behind is the cold weapon troops of the surging countries, they have not been fully used, at this time they have become the main force to slaughter the Japanese, the Japanese have to fight with these murderous deserters, Dekang family closed his eyes in pain, this is the main force of his Daimyo army, it is the elite.
Several loyal samurai protected the head of the family and dragged him to flee with the already chaotic Japanese daimyo's army.
The hunters of the Huaxia army in the back were like the Mongols playing Rome to let you, hanging from afar, like driving a flock of sheep, driving them from all sides, seeing where they were concentrated, rushing up, a bow and arrow rapid shooting, or a short fire shot, they scattered and fled again, and they did not dare to gather together again.
The infantry of the Huaxia Army in the rear pursued while tying people with ropes, strung all the fleeing enemies who surrendered on their knees with ropes, and then handed them over to a cavalryman with ten soldiers to escort a group of about 100 prisoners back to the camp.
There were always musketeers scattered in the rear to form four battalions, maintaining this formation, running forward, fanning to guard against the enemy's counterattack, and at the same time enclosing the enemy in a small circle driven by the cavalry, within a radius of about two or three miles, the enemy could only run to the front, not to the sides or in all directions.
Huaxia Jun has a great appetite.
Dozens of special marksmen had already broken away from the formation, quickly interspersed, and rode their horses to the camp built by the Ming army in the past, located in the first line of defense, under the camp in front of the first trench, and shot at the enemy soldiers defending the city who were also panicked on the camp.
In less than a quarter of an hour, when the enemy fled all over the mountains, the defenders of the camp also abandoned the camp in a panic, and then fled in the direction of the county seat.
Zhang Qiang looked at Xuanyuan Longfei, who was following the enemy behind the enemy and personally participating in the interception and killing of the enemy with his personal guards, nodded secretly, and said, "Good job." ”
Then, under the protection of twenty guards, he returned to his original station, and he had to think about things further afield.
(End of chapter)