The Spanish cavalry was obviously not as fast as the Japanese artillery shells, and the Ming artillery regiment pulled by Li Chenfang was used on the battlefield for the first time*.

Although the navy had a number of them, they had not had time to use them in the war against Batavia, and they spent so much money to buy them, so naturally they could not be left in the hold of the ship to get wet. Therefore, when Li Chenfang came to support the Japanese army with an artillery regiment, several naval officers offered to borrow the army's artillery to test the effect*.

Considering the Navy's support for the Army in the Nanyang Islands, Li Chenfang naturally would not refuse the Navy's proposal. The so-called * is actually divided into two parts for filling.

A part* is filled in the chamber of the cannon, the same as when firing a solid shell, and the function of this part* is to expel the shell out of the chamber with an incendiary explosion. The difference between * and solid bullet is that the inside of * is a cavity, filled with * and iron nails, iron balls, etc.

Solid bullets use their own kinetic energy to kill and damage enemies, which is actually no different from a large lead bullet. The lethality of * lies in the fact that when it reaches the enemy's airspace, the internal * is ignited and exploded, so as to rely on broken shrapnel, iron nails, iron balls and other anti-explosive points near the explosion point.

Unlike solid bullets, if the *filling and wooden block partition are not placed correctly, causing the *inside* to ignite prematurely, it is very easy to cause an explosion. Therefore, the guns that fire * are all guns with short barrels or mortars.

With the assistance of the naval gunners, the 9 catties and 12 catties* fired by the artillery regiment were basically successfully launched, and there was no explosion incident. However, only half of the explosions were successfully ignited, and the time of the explosion was accurately calculated, and the explosion was exactly about one-third of the enemy's explosion*. In other words, for every 10 shots*, only 1-2* can achieve the best explosion effect.

Although the success rate was so low, the naval officers who watched the battle were very satisfied with the results. In their opinion, the effect of using the flock as a target on the battlefield is much better. A correct detonation of the enemy's head* can immediately clear a 2-3 meter radius of an open space, and the men and horses in this open space have little hope of survival. And the people in this circle 3-5 meters from the point of the explosion were almost all injured.

This shot* is completely worth the accumulation of 20 solid bullets, and if it is on the deck of an unavoidable ship, one shot* can set the tide of the deck battle.

While the Ming naval officers were enthusiastically discussing the use of this *, the left flank phalanx of the coalition forces had been completely defeated by the Ming artillery fire. The natives, who had been undisciplined, had completely lost their courage under this almost miraculous artillery fire, and most of them began to move closer to the military formation, while a few simply fled to the rear.

By Rivera. The cavalry unit sent by Captain Antonio to the left flank, although most of these cavalrymen were wearing plate armor that covered their bodies, they could not stop the penetration of shrapnel and iron balls.

Even though a few lucky ones escaped the shrapnel attack, their massive mounts were not so lucky, and after the horses fell, the heavily clad Spanish cavalry was crushed under the belly of the horse.

Although some of the cavalry kept asking for help from their comrades, most of the cavalry who did not enter the artillery firing area had already reined in their horses and fled directly in the direction of the royal city of Manila. Obviously, these cavalrymen have decided that there is no way to turn the war around, and what they have to do now is not to rescue their comrades, but to save their own lives first.

Looking at the chaotic state of the enemy army on the opposite side, the Maori Katsuya didn't know where his opportunity had finally come. He drew his command knife and shouted to his subordinates: "Gentlemen, for the sake of Lord Taiko, for the sake of your family, show your courage, the enemy is in front of us..."

After shouting, the Mori Katsuya rushed out first, and his men immediately followed the captain to the smoke of gunfire, looking for the left flank of the enemy army that had lost his command.

At that time, the three battalions of the Maori Wing were inserted into the left flank of the coalition forces in a column formation, while the three brigades under the command of Takano Heita continued to maintain a horizontal formation and pressed towards the left flank of the opposing side.

At this time, the left flank of the coalition army not only lost the formation of the phalanx, but even the basic organization had been disrupted. The soldiers could not find their officers, and the officers could not find their own soldiers, so everyone could only follow the flow to the phalanx, hoping that the army's phalanx could protect themselves.

Only a very small number of natives, Japanese expatriates, and Spaniards who are usually familiar with each other have formed small groups one after another, and they want to have a little self-defense ability in such a chaotic situation, so as not to be coerced by human traffic.

However, for the Japanese army, such a small organized group was obviously the first to be eliminated. Under the fire of the Japanese army's platoon guns in teams, the small groups that had just gathered on the left flank of the coalition army were quickly defeated.

Occasionally, when a few Allied soldiers were not killed, the captain of the Japanese army would order his men to meet the blood and use bayonets to deal with the natives or Spaniards.

A soldier of the Maori Wing Aaoka was about to follow the order to stab a coalition soldier wounded in the leg when the half-kneeling soldier suddenly begged him for mercy in Japanese, saying that his parents were immigrants from the Satsuma region and that he had only been forcibly recruited by the Spaniards.

The soldier was stunned for a moment, and when he was about to turn back to ask his officer for instructions, the squad leader Okamoto had already walked over quickly and slashed the wounded soldier to death, and severely reprimanded the subordinate: "Don't be distracted on the battlefield, no matter what the other party says to you, before the officer's order is issued, give me a lot of energy."

I'll remember you, Ichiro Kobayashi and the others. Next, if you kill less than 3 enemies, you're ready to be punished. ”

Kobayashi Ichiro nodded tremblingly, and then followed the team with the reprimand of Captain Okamoto. In the next battle, he finally stopped listening to what the enemy shouted at him, but mechanically performed assassination actions one by one.

Tens of thousands of training sessions in the training ground made his movements extremely skillful, and the enemy troops in front of their team found that neither they begged nor resisted to let these Japanese soldiers let them go, so they could only attack their own formations again and again, hoping to hide in the crowd and hide.

These routs were a disaster for the coalition forces and the right flank. The already deformed army and the phalanx on the right flank finally completely collapsed under the impact of the routers.

Kobayashi Ichiro rushed forward with the team, either loading ammunition and shooting, or simply stabbing them in the back with a bayonet, and the corpses fell in the white smoke, and his feet began to gradually become muddy.

Kobayashi Ichiro only glanced at the corner of his eye, and knew that it was blood that had soaked the land, and he felt as if he was walking in hell, and the terrible shouts around him did not sound like the sounds of humans.

The more frightened he felt, the more he didn't dare to leave the group. It wasn't until the soldiers in the front row suddenly stopped that Kobayashi Ichiro had time to look ahead, it turned out that they had broken through the entire array of coalition forces, and there was already a river ahead.

A large number of coalition soldiers desperately jumped from the river bank into the water, trying to swim to the opposite side. But the 100-meter-wide Marikina River was clearly not so easy to cross, and many exhausted coalition soldiers sank into the water with each other in their arms, while many more were washed downstream.

The heads of people floating on the surface of the river are like scoops of water. Kobayashi Ichiro subconsciously loaded his ammunition and wanted to shoot, but the squad leader Okamoto grabbed his muzzle and said, "That's enough, Kobayashi Ichiro." The war is over, and the Southern Barbarians have fled. ”

Kobayashi Ichiro looked to the right a little dazedly, and sure enough, the remaining coalition soldiers rushed towards the woods to the south like a flock of frightened pheasants. Behind them were discarded weapons and armor.

Li Chenfang and other officers of the Ming army, who were standing on the high ground to the north, were obviously extremely satisfied with the outcome of this battle. Listening to the sound of "onboarding" coming from the battlefield, Li Chenfang said to the adjutant on the side: "Let Maori Katsuya and Sanada Yukimasa clean up the battlefield, and Takano Heita will lead the wing to pursue until the royal city of Manila, and then camp outside the city..."

The order given by Li Chenfang was quickly and methodically transmitted to all Japanese military wings, and after five or six years of running-in and training, the command structure of the Ming army had completely taken the form of regularization.

Perhaps for some outstanding military commanders, the art of command requires talent. But for the junior officers of an army to ensure that they remain calm in the heat of battle on the battlefield and can carry out the orders of the rank correctly, it requires not only daily study of the rules, but also the blood of the enemy and their own soldiers.

Nurhachi raised troops against the Ming, and the most outstanding thing was not to defeat the elite troops mobilized by the Ming army from the north four times, but to sweep away all the lower-ranking officers of the elite troops in the north of the Ming army. The loss of this group of lower-ranking officers of the Ming army caused a fault in the command system of the Ming army.

Before Chongzhen established a military academy, the officers of the Ming army were all cultivated and matured little by little through constant warfare with the northern nomads. The loss of this group of lower-ranking officers made the officer training system formed by Qi Jiguang's training in Jizhen completely disappear.

This is why, during the Apocalypse, the imperial court invested so much resources and money, but it was never able to train an army that could fight with the Houjin field, because the backbone of the Ming army was interrupted by the Houjin. After that, no matter how much the imperial court tossed, it was okay for the Ming army with soldiers and generals to fight a dozen peasant rebels, and let them fight against the Houjin Eight Banners that had grown up, which would be a defeat and a defeat.

Later, the reason why the Jin Eight Banners resisted the war was that Nurhachi imitated the establishment of the Ming army and established a lower-level officer system with Niu Lu Ezhen as the core in the war to unify the Jurchen tribes. In this way, no matter how big the losses of the Jurchen soldiers are, as long as this officer system is still there, it can continue to fill it with soldiers, so as to quickly restore its combat strength.

After Chongzhentai, the core of the military reform policy was to rebuild the command system and officer training system of the Ming army. The former can also improve the command art of generals through simulated operations, but for the latter, officers who have not experienced war are obviously not enough to use against the military system of the Later Jin.

Fighting with overseas countries is a whetstone that Chongzhen used to train the officer system of the Ming army. Facts have proved that in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the officer system of the Ming army finally began to gradually mature. These young officers, who had experienced wars overseas, were gradually becoming the backbone of the Ming Army, enriching the strength of the new-style army.

Of course, in this process, the blood shed by overseas countries is the key to laying the foundation of this new Ming army. However, in the eyes of young officers like Li Chenfang, this blood is still extremely valuable. The blood of the Wanderers, Spaniards, and Natives is better than the blood of the Lumines.

Before returning to the manor behind him, Li Chenfang suddenly turned back to the adjutant beside him and ordered: "Find someone to erect a stone tablet between today's battlefields, and engrave this sentence on the face: Li Chenfang of the Ming Dynasty sacrificed for the Ming people who died in the Manila Massacre in 1603." ”

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