Chapter 576: Bitter Battle

The sound of firecrackers sounded, and in front of the 'Spaniards' team, pieces of rattan soldiers fell, but the front of the team of three thousand people on the battlefield was not too large, at best, a queue of five hundred people, according to the proportion of Huazhou, that is, at most two hundred and fifty firecrackers were fired there.

Even though the reload speed was fast and the gaps in the team were large enough for the firecrackers to keep their rounds going, there was a gap in time.

These rattan soldiers are not those who don't even dare to collide in formation, and run away directly, they are extremely brave, and they can see the small flag, the general flag and the hundred households are in the middle of the team to command the charge, the people in front of them fall, and the ones behind them have accelerated their pace, and the rattan cards don't have to be so careful to cover their bodies.

In the battle of Huazhou touching the musketeers, the spearmen did not have many opportunities for hand-to-hand combat, because they also had horse teams on their side, and after the salvo of muskets and artillery had completely demoralized the opponent, the cavalry was about to charge, and the spearmen at this time only had to follow behind and beat the water dogs.

This kind of hand-to-hand combat is really rare, rattan soldiers rush to the front of the spear, the opponent's spear is a row of thorns, this side is also a row of rattan cards, rush to the front, the side of the body, the first stroke of the spear is not accurate, they have already rushed into the position of the spear shaft.

The next thing is to cut down with a knife, the rattan soldiers who rushed fast, this knife directly cut off the spear shaft, and some people cut down the spear tip and put it on the iron sleeve of the wooden pole, but the spearmen in the first row can no longer maintain a neat queue, and after the second row of musketeers shoots once, the spearmen in the second row hurriedly replenish it, so that although it slows down the opponent's offensive, but their own firecrackers can't keep up.

The number of rattan soldiers was far more than 3,000, and after the initial pause, the brigade of rattan soldiers began to slowly surround themselves.

The drum beat inside the Zhangzhou square team changed again, and there was a high-pitched horn sound, and the square team of 3,000 people began to slowly change its formation, from the original only to the front into a circular formation, like a hedgehog with thorns all over the body, spearmen were all to the periphery, and the fire hammers were gathered inside.

However, the rattan soldiers outside are no longer afraid of this thorn, and now the two sides are close to fighting, after the distance is shortened, the power of the spearmen has weakened a lot, and the outermost people are already fighting with severed sticks, and some people are close to the rattan soldiers and hacked to death.

The current kills mainly rely on the stabbing of the spearmen in the second row in the gaps, as well as the volleys of the musketeers. Fighting, some rattan soldiers found out that something was wrong, the team that was fighting with them was not a foreign army, and the face-to-face battle was clearly Han Chinese.

Originally, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty still had a sense of strangeness and mystery towards foreigners, and they always cringed a little when they fought, because Westerners were not human beings for most people at that time. At this time, seeing that it was the Han people, the inexplicable courage in the hearts of the rattan soldiers soared, and they attacked more vigorously.

This army outside the city is actually a mixed team of two thousand Huazhou troops and Dutch soldiers, Yang Shi is watching from the city at this time, he originally thought that with these three thousand people in this kind of field battle under the city, he can suppress the Ming army to the seaside, but he didn't expect it to be such a scene, Yang Shi patted his head very depressedly, knowing that this time he would suffer a big loss.

In the troops under the city, many spearmen standing in the inner circle have already begun to let a few sword and shield soldiers cut off their too long spear shafts to facilitate hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, their spears are too long, and they can't be used flexibly in such close combat, if they are broken into the inner circle, it will be a big trouble.

The shooting of the musketeers could not be continuous, because the spearmen in the outer circle were fighting desperately, and the rattan soldiers outside were desperately squeezing inward, and the two sides were in a mess.

As the rattan soldiers pressed forward, the Ming army's brigade gradually surrounded it, and the Ming army's own pikemen and axe men began to gradually replace the front.

The damage that these people gave to the Fang team was actually greater than that of the rattan soldiers, who only opened the gap, but the people behind them expanded the gap more and more.

Huazhou's firecrackers gradually came face to face with the opposing soldiers, the Huazhou soldiers were bound by military law, and the second was the aftermath of their families, and there were no people who dared to surrender or escape.

At this time, the fire gun is not like the later generations, it is a precision machine, and it is easy to destroy it if it is hit too hard, and the fire gun at this time is actually a heavy hollow iron rod and a large stick composed of an equally heavy wooden support, which is also tiger and tiger when wielded, and it is very lethal.

However, in the face of the Ming army, these soldiers who are skilled in cold weapons, it is still of little use, but the firecracker also has his own method here, I don't know who started it, stuffed the sharpened spear tip of the spearman on the ground into the chamber, and used his firearm as a short spear.

Huazhou's military system is also partly inherited from the Spanish army, that is, the military salary of the firecrackers is more than that of the spearmen, and the training of the firecrackers is also more difficult than that of the spearmen. The desire of many spearmen is to become firecrackers, and all firecrackers have a foundation of cold weapons, and even have a better foundation of cold weapons than spearmen.

After turning the fire gun in his hand into a short spear, the captain and column commander in the team gathered people again, and the Huazhou soldiers relied on the front line to fight, and everything was completed by relying on the combination, and the spearmen and some of the fire guns who were still fighting outside had been given up by the people in the inner circle, and all the fire guns were gathered, loaded with ammunition, and the soldiers who had already stuffed the tip of the spear into the fire guns were defending in the circle.

More than 3,000 people out of the city, more than 1,500 people were left at this time, Yang Shi was already in a hurry in the city, but the total number of troops in the city was only 5,000, 3,000 out of the city, and there were only more than 1,000 left.

Deng Minyue stood in the front line behind, waving the order flag again and again, he was also a military general for many years, knowing how to deal with the situation at this time, he was a little happy in his heart, but on the other hand, he was secretly surprised by the strength of the opponent's army, and the remaining sixty percent of the people were still fighting to the death there.

You must know that the rattan soldiers are the 5,000 soldiers he trained, and there are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Ming army outside, the current state of these soldiers and horses can be called a strong onslaught, and the officers are trying their best to dispatch and command, and the formation is not chaotic, but those who are besieged are actually holding on.

The firearms of the soldiers in Huazhou were shot out at the fastest frequency that could be reached, and the firearms in the hands of the soldiers on the periphery and the spear tip were not yet the spear commanders of the Ming army, so it was also a desperate guard battle.

The circle was narrowed, but it was tightly guarded, a ring-shaped open space was formed in the middle between the Huazhou soldiers and the Ming army, and the soldiers behind had been rushing to the front, but they were repelled by the firecrackers, and the corpses kept falling in front of them.

"Throw everything in your hand into it and stab these people inside!"

A thousand households shouted at the top of their voices, and the people with spears and axes in the back crowded up one after another, and those rattan soldiers couldn't retreat even if they retreated, and they were forced to squeeze in front, and the fire guns were still in the lead, and the first circle fell to the ground, and the people behind were pushed up again.

The distance is close enough, the spears in the back, the spears and axes are all lost, the firecrackers are wearing light armor or cloth clothes, caught off guard, and suddenly fell a lot, no matter how good the workmanship of Huazhou's firecrackers is, it can't withstand such a high frequency of shooting, in a short period of time, five firecrackers have been blown up, and the soldiers of Huazhou can only go up hand-to-hand with firecrackers.

At this time, the gate of Zhangzhou City slowly opened, and Yang Shishi finally concentrated all the forces that could be concentrated in the city, and rushed towards the Ming army's brigade.

But what is the use of these more than 1,000 people, even if they are all veterans of Yizhou, Deng Minyue is not ambiguous, and mobilizes nearly 6,000 soldiers to entangle this group of people.

Yang Shi and these people are more than 200 firearms, although they are in the array, but at best it is a long-range support, Yang Shi and his own soldiers are wearing iron leaf leather armor, holding big knives and spears in their hands, desperately impacting the Ming army's queue, they are all strong soldiers who are good at cold weapon combat, the Ming army was killed and retreated, but the advantages of the Ming army are so revealed, there are a lot of reserves, a group of people are withdrawn, and the other team is made up, and they attack in a loop, and they cannot rest, There's always a new force in front of you.

The Ming army is reluctant to let the two sides converge, although the Huazhou army is difficult, but the current situation is also clear to everyone, as long as the central annihilation is annihilated, the reinforcements from outside will not support for too long, but if the two groups of people are combined, then I am afraid that there will be variables, Yang Shishi also understands in his heart, so he desperately rushes forward and does not retreat.

In Zhangzhou Bay, behind the battlefield, the dense fog on the sea subtracted, and several huge objects gradually approached from the fog......