Chapter 581 is unbelievable
"The new musket is indeed very powerful!" Looking at the results of the match, Alexander was pleasantly surprised.
Originally, when the flintlock pistol was researched at the Royal Academy of Sciences, he actually refused in his heart.
After all, the use of arquebuses has reached hundreds of years, and if soldiers change their use of firearms, the cooperation of others also needs to be trained, which affects the combat effectiveness of the troops, especially in Normandy and the moment of the French Civil War.
However, after using the flintlock pistol, he fell in love with the musket.
It is resistant to the weather, the launch speed is fast, and it is easy to handle, although the cost is a bit high at the moment, but it can still be tried.
And, with a three-stage shot, it was not too fast to catch the Spaniards, who had always been known for their speed and skill, off guard.
I saw that the first raised phalanx, the two sides fired in unison, and then slowly approached, and in less than ten minutes, less than ten paces apart, the Spaniards had already suffered heavy losses, and two-thirds of the soldiers fell.
The crackling sound, to the ears of Alexander, was so moving, it was the taste of victory.
After the phalanx touched, the long spears began to poke each other, looking like children fighting, you poke, I stabbed each other.
Thousands of white spears, from a distance, look like toothpicks, fine and numb, and from time to time an unlucky ghost is poked and falls to the ground.
And this kind of scene has long been expected by both sides.
Beneath the spears, the Spaniards sent their short soldiers to begin to carry spears on their heads, holding scimitars, crouching forward, and went to chop the long legs of the English.
England, for its part, did not show weakness and began to send swordsmen to fight each other.
The battle between the top and the bottom at the same time was fierce.
At this time, the last remaining phalanx with more people had a greater advantage, almost twice as many as the opponent's strength, and the leader of the phalanx, Robin, frowned, and shouted loudly: "Surround them, attack with all your strength-"
Subsequently, the Spanish phalanx with two fists and four feet, no matter how elite it is, it will inevitably show a losing trend, and no matter how much it struggles, it will only take half an hour.
So, Alexander's eyes were on the two small Spanish phalanxes that followed, and although they were in armor, they were in the same situation and suffered heavy losses.
This kind of aggrieved style of play made the Spaniards complain.
Go ahead! It means to die, to be slaughtered.
Retreat, you will be covered by the opponent's cavalry, and you will be strangled by the infantry regiment and the cavalry, and the time of death will only be relatively late.
Moreover, the Spanish Army had an extremely high rate of obedience, and even if the front was dead, it could not retreat.
As the commander, General Battier knew that the result of retreating would be even more terrible than a battle, and total annihilation was inevitable.
And the Spanish Army has been rampant in Europe for decades, and victory is the norm, how can it retreat?
Therefore, even if the phalanx in front had already told them with the lesson of blood that defeat was doomed, the other two phalanxes still moved forward firmly with tears in their eyes.
As expected, under the surprised gaze of England, the Spanish soldiers lay on the ground with tears in their eyes, and few people fled the battlefield, only those who surrendered, and those who died in battle.
In less than two hours, this battle between the phalanx and the phalanx ended in a complete victory for England, and the new weapons and three-stage shooting of the British side made the Spaniards suffer a lot, even if the will to fight was tenacious, but the Spaniards still could not avoid defeat.
This was the first time that the Spaniards had suffered a total defeat against the same formation.
This is similar to a few years ago, when the Germans played seven to one in the World Cup in Brazil, at the door of Brazil, they were simply humiliating the football kingdom nakedly, slapping Brazil in the face hard, and they were all swollen.
So, when he saw General Battier, Alexander only saw the old man with a blushing face and a disapprehensive look, and he shouted: This is an unfair battle, absolutely unfair.
The same was true of the other captured Spaniards, their heads bowed, ashamed and resentful.
Alexander laughed, he understood that Spain's defeat at this time was only temporary, and that the two countries must have been at war more frequently after that, but he did not understand that Spain would hate England for centuries because of this.
Eventually, Alexander began to enjoy the fruits of his victory.
The Spanish lost no more than 2,000 killed, more than 4,000 wounded, and more than 5,000 were taken prisoner, including General Battier, who led the Spanish phalanx.
The British were not happy, and the accurate shooting methods of the Spanish veterans made the English equally uncomfortable, with more than 1,000 killed and 2,000 wounded.
The reason why the damage was so high after the victory was inseparable from the tenacious fighting spirit of the Spaniards, especially the final defense of General Battier, which consumed more than an hour, and Alexander had to send all his large army over for a fierce attack.
As for the captured armour, muskets, pikes, and horses, they are too numerous to count, especially the unbridled plundering of the Netherlands, which made the English soldiers who were bleeding from their wounds a fortune.
"Go, tell Your Majesty that we have won!" Alexander exhaled as he looked at the Spanish soldiers who were being pulled into a string, and then at the blood and corpses on the ground.
Under great pressure, he did not break through the city of Aras, just to wait for the rest of his work and meet the Spaniards, thus laying the foundation of the Dutch victory in one fell swoop.
South Netherlands, major cities, at this moment, the remaining number of Spaniards is only eight or nine thousand, which is the only remaining Spanish power in the Netherlands.
And the English will occupy the most fertile land in Europa, so that Europe, feared England.
But he would not have imagined that more than 10,000 cavalry from Austria and Hungary had already arrived in the dust, and that it was only a day's distance from the city of Arhas.
When the news of the victory reached London, the entire royal palace, the city of London, and even the United Kingdom became a sea of joy in an instant.
Who Spain is, the hegemon of Europa for decades, the number one army and navy in the world, suppressing any country that tries to challenge him, the Spanish phalanx has become synonymous with fear.
And this time, with the same forces, the United Kingdom had already made the intention of the defeat of the army, but who knows, in the end, it was actually victorious, a complete victory.
His Majesty the King has announced that £50,000 will be awarded to the victorious hero.
The Government of the United Kingdom announced that the victorious army would buy land from Normandy at a lower discounted price.
However, several newspapers reported it one after another, announcing this major event to the whole country.
United Weekly: Victory? It's just going faster!
London Daily: The victory of the United Kingdom Army will prove that Spain is no longer fit for its role at this time!
Scottish Daily: The victory of the kingdom, the withering of the overlord.
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Therefore, people seem to forget that Spain's standing army still has 20,000 or 30,000 people, and this time, it is only 10,000 people.