Chapter 604: The duel between the array and the array
Peng Zhuze led a group of generals to fight outside the city, but the fire in front of him was not very lethal.
Compared with the Northern Expedition back then, there were more than 10,000 casualties at every turn, and the current Hua Dynasty has been sharpening its sword for ten years, which is no longer what it used to be, and hundreds of casualties are enough for the main general to feel pain.
These soldiers only had to practice, eat and wear every day, and the court spent their lives, and each Spanish soldier only needed two escudos (monetary units) per month to sell his life.
In the Hua Dynasty, the cost of arming a sailor soldier was a hundred taels of silver. Every year, nearly 10 million taels of silver are used on the water division, but fortunately, now the imperial court has money, and the water division has made far more money from the territory opened up by the water division.
Relatively speaking, the infantry and cavalry spent less, especially the Jingbei Army, and even made a profit...
On the Ob River, it can be said that it is now the world's largest arms trading place, where the Jingbei Army sells weapons to the Tsarist rebels, making them inseparable from the east and west.
"This bird city doesn't look very good, and it's really hard to fight! It's a pity that the artillery of the naval division of this general can't be transported, and it can't keep up with the speed of the army, otherwise it will be around the point first, and the three or five months of bombardment will be blown into scorched earth. Peng Zhuze cursed hatefully.
Wu Bangrui, the commander of the Manraka Navy Division next to him, was originally an old general of Zhu Dadian, and he was the deputy chief soldier of Jinhua in the late Ming Dynasty, and he fought countless battles large and small, and he was also a little worried about this situation. He looked at the relatively magnificent city of Madrid in the distance, and said in a deep voice: "Headmaster, we have already committed a taboo by waiting for the lone army to go deeper. Now attacking the enemy's stubborn city, this place is the capital of the foreign chieftain, and there is no one or two loyal people in the country.
If the reinforcements of the foreign chieftain arrive and surround you and me, even if these 20,000 sons are good at fighting, it will be difficult to retreat. ”
Peng Zhuze wrinkled his eyebrows, and the people around him looked at him without speaking, waiting for the lord to give an order.
"Alas! The foreign chieftains who entered the damn naan were beaten in the face, and they couldn't get out, I really don't know how they hit Luzon. If these Bird Yang chiefs dare to come out, Lao Tzu will let them fight for a while and not fight back. Forget it, get ready to withdraw your troops. ”
Peng Zhuze grumbled and prepared to continue the guerrilla campaign everywhere to kill and injure the Spanish army.
At this time, the southern city of Madrid slowly opened, and all the Chinese soldiers were obviously stunned...
The South Gate Opens?
You must know that 20,000 people cannot besiege the city, many city gates are empty, and they can go through other gates if they want to escape, but why is the south gate open?
The generals' expressions were very exciting, and they all turned their heads to look at Peng Zhuze, Zhu Wannian turned the spear in his hand in a circle, and asked, "Headmaster, did they hear it, and they want to earn a ready-made charge?" ”
Peng Zhuze pinched his chin and said, "With my experience in fighting for so many years, Chief Yang is about to surrender, which is not easy to do... When His Majesty came, he issued a holy decree that we should destroy the royal family of the foreign chieftain. It is impossible to disobey the holy will, and if they surrender or kill us, the Western countries will not dare to trust us. ”
Peng Zhuze analyzed for a moment, the soldiers under him had already been prepared, and their grassroots officers were all high-achieving students in the martial arts hall, and even if there was no order, they would make changes at any time according to the situation on the battlefield.
Suddenly, the Spanish soldiers who came out from the opposite side shot, and Peng Zhuze was slapped in the face again, but his face was not angry but happy.
"Haha, they are going to fight in the city, my God, this is not the blessing of the saints, God has appeared, and I want Lao Tzu to make another contribution?"
When the Spaniards took out their phalanx, and the infantry regiments became the standard formation of the Spanish army, the sword, shield, and halberd men disappeared. Instead, infantry regiments of spearmen and arquebusiers were called the "Spanish phalanx".
This kind of military reform has made the era of cold weapons in Europe completely history, looking at the square formations, even Peng Zhuze is a little contemptuous.
The formation is all about flexibility and efficiency, what is the use of such a boxy to facilitate the enemy's shooting?
Peng Zhuze wronged them a little, and the reason why the Spanish phalanx became what it is now is because their musket technology is not as advanced as that of the Hua Dynasty.
Due to the limitations of technology, the rate of fire of the arquebus is extremely slow, basically three rounds in two minutes, and the accuracy is not high, in order to improve the lethality of the arquebus, the Spaniards at that time invented the heavy arquebus, this kind of musket to the rear seat of his force, a single soldier without a bracket is difficult to withstand and aim for a long time.
The arquebusiers could not be equipped with long weapons that were good for hand-to-hand combat with cold weapons, and the fire disconnection caused by the arquebusier's slow shooting technique allowed the enemy to quickly approach the arquebusier in this turmoil, slashing and killing, thus defeating the arquebusier.
To protect the musketeers, Spain equipped the musketeers with spearmen, who made up half of the entire formation. In this way, the famous Spanish phalanx was formed, which made the Spanish phalanx have both long-range firepower and good hand-to-hand combat ability.
In the matter of formations, the gap between the East and the West is still too big, and their Spanish phalanx, although famous, is not powerful, at least not in front of the Chinese army.
Gonzalo de Córdoba was the real man who, in front of Philip IV, angrily denounced that there was no man in the whole country, and that 10,000 people outside did not dare to face it.
He is not very old, but the title is not small, he has always been the darling of Madrid, and he is the dream lover of countless noble ladies.
Córdoba's military uniform is open on the chest, revealing sexy chest hair, a few strands of blonde hair fluttering in the wind, and with a handsome face, it looks like a duck in Madrid.
What's even more amazing is that there are three musicians around this guy...
These three people carried musical instruments on their backs and played a song from time to time, which matched Córdoba's words and deeds, and looked very stylish.
This is not original to Córdoba, there are these three musicians in the configuration of the Spanish formation...
An attendant, a standard-bearer, three musicians, a clerk, a clergyman and a barber. This is the standard configuration of the captain of the Spanish army.
In this era, when Europeans fought wars, in the eyes of the Han people, it was like a joke...
He had already figured out how glorious it would be to win this battle and become a legend for all of Europe.
Córdoba had been on the battlefield and even to the sea, and in his opinion everywhere except Europe was backward and native.
The big soldiers around him were a little disgusted, and the superiority of this boss, combined with his aristocratic tone, should have appeared at the banquet, not on the battlefield.
The Chinese army launched a counterattack on the spot, and the opening of the foreign chief was simply a great gift from heaven, and all the Chinese soldiers knew one thing very well, and these people were not their opponents in the field.
They were warriors of gold and silver, and there was no other country in this era where soldiers trained every day to fight war.
Before Córdoba could give the order, the Spanish phalanx had already begun to advance, and the only few encounters made them very afraid of the Chinese army in the strange formation in front of them, those people were strictly disciplined, orderly in advance and retreat, and more importantly, advanced firearms.
The Spanish troops, wielding spears like giant crabs with many claws, rushed towards them with their teeth and claws.
Peng Zhuze put away his relaxed look, no matter who the opponent is, since he is on the battlefield, he must cheer up.
For the generals, the lives of tens of thousands of people under his hands are in his own hands, and he must not be sloppy.
With a wave of the order flag, Peng Zhuze's general orders were passed down to various armies, and countless small formations of mandarin ducks slowly approached, forming a large formation with small formations as units.
This is called the mandarin duck chain array, the ring is closely linked, taking care of each other, advancing and retreating to a certain extent, and Zhang Chi is appropriate.
On the walls of Madrid, the Spanish royal nobles all looked at their last hope, a mixed army of Spanish aces and an improvised army of slaves, peasants, artisans, vagabonds, and prisoners. There were 100,000 people in Madrid, but they fell behind in momentum.
All of them stood nervously against the wall, more like a gamble in their eyes than a war.
If they win, they will be the saviors of the whole of Europe, and if they lose, I am afraid that they will not even be qualified to be slaves.
In Madrid under the scorching sun, the weather is still a little cold, and there are corpses lying on the outskirts of the city filled with gunsmoke.
The air blew, all of which were smoke mixed with bloody gas, Peng Zhuze sniffed deeply, and grinned: "In the fairyland of Suzhou, after being the principal of Laoshizi for a few years, Lao Tzu even feels restrained when he is panting. The battlefield is where we men should be, comfort, comfort! ”
As his last comfortable voice fell, the sound of drums and horns sounded, and the three armies moved.
The sound of drums rained down like a pound on the hearts of the Spaniards on the other side, who had killed the hearts of other countries many times abroad, beheaded kings and chieftains, enslaved their men, seized their women, castrated and sold their children.
Feng Shui takes turns, and the sky spares whom.
Because of the atrocities of the Spanish governor of Luzon, the Chinese army marched west to Madrid, and now they are facing the same situation.
The sound of artillery was loud, and on the walls of Madrid in the distance, all kinds of barrels began to smoke, and the recent overload of these barrels had made these barrels show signs of exploding.
The Chinese army was in the midst of this cannon fire, and they moved forward. The outer musketeers, under the cover of the sword and shield men, raise their guns and shoot, then retreat to the back to reload their ammunition and regain their strength.
Raise your gun, shoot, change formations... Cycle.
Cordivar has now lost its desire to be in the limelight, and the army on the opposite side has not had time to get close, and it has already fallen in large pieces.
There is no hand-to-hand combat, the fierceness and bite of hand-to-hand combat, and the collision between this formation is a novel experience.
Peng Zhuze was a little anxious, he had never fought this kind of battle, and he always felt that it was a little unpleasant, although the shooting efficiency and musket quality on his side were higher than those on the other side, but it was still better to fight directly to make people feel at ease.
This kind of battle tests the psychology of the main general, standing from a distance and watching his soldiers, every advantage and disadvantage is very obvious.
"It's better to go into battle and hack a few, this kind of grinding and chirping style of play, it's really a person who is in a hurry to die!"
The Spanish nobles standing at the head of the city were like mourning at this moment, and their faces were panicked.
The disparity was so great that they had no advantage on their side except the number of people, and they fell as quickly as they were harvesting wheat.
The calm and unhurried Chinese army is like an efficient harvesting machine, how skilled are they?
The Spanish did not know that the ammunition used up for the training of these soldiers alone was enough to cover the expenses of all the Spanish armies.
By the time the two sides were still a hundred paces away, it was already difficult for the sword and shield soldiers to resist all the bullets, so Peng Zhuze decisively ordered to change the formation.
At this time, the difference between the formations came out, and the large mandarin duck formation disintegrated on the spot, turning into countless small formations interspersed with killing.
The makeshift patchwork army, which had been hiding behind, became a burden, and after they were slaughtered, they fled in panic and looked at the city gates.
Only the city of Madrid could stop these killing gods from the east, and the white-skinned people fled for their lives, but instead scattered the regular army next to them.
Although Cordiva was a straw bag, he knew that these people could not be allowed to charge at such a time, and he shouted a few words at the herald to stop the rout of the rear army.
The lower-ranking officers of the Chinese army seized the fighter planes and took advantage of the flexible characteristics of the mandarin duck formation to attack left and right.
Every time there is a collision, it is a small array of twelve people killing one, this is the Mandarin Duck Array.
The regular Spanish army tried to retreat and distance, only to find that their back road had been blocked by pig-like teammates.
Cursing and wailing were endless, Peng Zhuze put down the clairvoyant mirror and said in a condensed voice: "The rear army covers the past and breaks the city!" ”
In the fifth year of Tianxi, Peng Zhuze, the general of the expedition to the west, broke through Madrid, and the reinforcements from five European countries learned the news halfway and were at a loss for a while.
In Madrid, the reckoning is underway, and Philip IV, along with his empress, princess, and prince, is beheaded for public display.
The Spanish royal family was a member of the Habsburg family, and their family was the master of almost all the countries of Europe.
He ruled the Holy Roman Empire, the Spanish Empire, the Archduchy of Austria, the Austrian Empire, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The Emperor of Hungary, the Emperor of Bohemia, the King of Spain, the King of Portugal, the Emperor of Mexico, and the dukes of several Italian duchies were all members of the House of Habsburg.
The Habsburg family, whose ancestors were the Dukes of Alsace in France in the sixth century AD, later expanded to the canton of Aargau in northern Switzerland, and in 1020 built the Eagle Castle, named Habsburg, and gradually extended its influence to the west bank of the Rhine.
The death of Philip IV cast a shadow over the whole of Europe, but Peng Zhuze did not stop his revenge.
Almost all Spaniards with noble titles, as long as they were in the city of Madrid, were killed.
On the streets of Madrid, heavily armed Chinese troops led a group of Western traitors to arrest people everywhere.
The emperor has made it clear that if a governor's palace is to be set up here, it cannot be a simple war. It is not easy to kill people and establish their authority, and then slowly sinicize them.
Peng Zhuze sat in front of the Spanish Royal Palace, looking at the magnificent palace, the nouveau riche temperament of the Spanish royal family was undoubtedly displayed, and he wished that even the bricks were made of gold.
"Arrest all these so-called foreign chieftaincy nobles, behead the men, castrate the boys and transport the girls back to Jinling to present to Your Majesty. Inform His Royal Highness King Jing to sweep away the waterway reinforcements, and let the leather bear recruit blacks from the north, and we will also learn to raze and raze. ”