The Spanish colonial army moved westward along the Salton Basin, and Gao Pingshan neither issued an order to block it, nor did it order the troops to go south.

According to the plan of the staff of the First Army, our army had a complete geographical advantage and could sit back and watch the Spaniards take the initiative to send them to the door.

Whether they were moving west along the barren and waterless Salton Basin, or directly north through the Salton Basin, the First Army could easily cope with them.

For example, in the current situation, the Wehrmacht could block the western edge of the Salton Basin, delay the Spanish march, and then send an elite force through the Salton Basin to attack the Spaniards' rear.

- There can't be many elite troops, but if they are really elite. In a regiment or so.

Because the harsh natural environment of the Salton Basin really can't allow a large infantry force to cross safely, especially after they pass through the Salton Basin, they have to fight a hard and long battle.

"Seying, if I want to make trouble for the Spaniards, but not standing still. Do you have any suggestions? Gao Pingshan asked.

"Is the commander afraid that the Spaniards will be alert?"

"I'm afraid that the southbound troops won't be able to cross the Salton Basin in time and block the Spaniards' retreat?"

This time the American War, Emperor Chen attached great importance to it. Several of his generals were sent by him to the Americas.

The American garrison army is also divided into two corps, the first corps is Gao Pingshan, the second corps is Huang Jie, and Chen Qi sits in the rear.

Several emerging young Zhuang factions in the army, such as Wei Baocheng, Deng Yun, Chen Wei, Dong Wei, Pan Chang, Shen Shiying, etc., were all incorporated into the American garrison army, and these people behind were the backbone of Chen Han's army in the next twenty years, and Chen Ming would not let them leave the war for a long time.

Now the 'Shiying' in Gaoping Pass is Shen Shiying.

He can be listed on the list of young Zhuang factions, not because of his father, but because of his own ability in staff planning. Shen Shiying is a bit like Bertier, with exuberant energy and careful thinking, a cautious attitude, and a talent for sifting through the chaos.

Although the Spanish colonial army on the other side was very aggressive in strategy, limited by the strength of the Wehrmacht on the national border, Santiago was very careful about his reconnaissance and operations. He ordered the cavalry to reconnoiter non-stop, including several military positions in the rear on the edge of the Salton Basin. This not only greatly embarrassed the Wehrmacht's scouts, but also made it much more difficult for the Wehrmacht's southbound troops to achieve their goals.

Before Shen Shiying could say anything, Gao Pingshan shook his head first. "Go ahead with the plan!" After all, the entire set of battle plans was carefully designed and scrutinized by the entire staff department, and Gao Pingshan's staff officers had all thought of it, and the strategy formulated was also the crystallization of N after many considerations. His own mind couldn't think of a better way in a short time.

Thirty or forty miles south of Dingnan Town, the Spanish cavalry troops galloped down the road on horseback.

It was the southernmost settlement of what is now the state of Xu, originally a small town founded by the Spaniards called Said, but now it has become a semi-military 'frontier' town.

The distance between the Spanish colonial army and Dingnan Town was still seventy or eighty miles, but it was normal for the cavalry to put thirty or fifty miles out of their reconnaissance range. The scope and density of these people's activities have always been large, and Santiago is a man who is very cautious in execution, which greatly contradicts his strategic audacity.

Santiago is such a person.

The cavalry were quite tired, but the elite Spanish cavalry with a keen sense of smell had quickly sensed that something was wrong.

The road in front of them was lined with trees on both sides, and it was a place of grass and trees.

Several Wehrmacht scouts hidden in the bushes stared at the Spaniards galloping in with their eyes. The Spanish cavalry at the head seemed to sense something, and at the moment when the team was about to step into the trap, they jerked the reins.

Amid the cry of Herod's horses, half of a cavalry squad of twenty or thirty men turned over and dismounted, and half of them turned back to their horses' heads and retreated some distance.

I saw a Spanish cavalryman take out a stick more than a meter long from his horse, stick it in the ground, and then insert it again, and then after a muffled sound, there was a half-meter square depression on the road ahead, and there were five or six palm-sized traps around it.

The Spanish cavalry quickly set up their muskets around the perimeter, but the Wehrmacht scouts, who had been in ambush in the depths of the woods, had already fired at the cavalry that was close at hand.

Their numbers were obviously small, because the gunfire was sparse, but they fired with great accuracy, one shot at a time, and soon five cavalry units were killed on the spot, and the other two were wounded.

"It's a rifle. Damn it, let's get out of here. ”

A Spanish lieutenant shouted loudly, he knew very well the ecological environment of this terrain, which had been separated from the Salton Basin, the water flow was dense, the vegetation was overgrown, and it was out of the current road, which was a forest. In such an environment, dealing with a few enemies with flintlock pistols, while they themselves are only holding flintlock pistols, this is undoubtedly an act of sending them to death.

Retreat was the best option, even if it cost them dearly.

Since the gunfire of the 'hunters' rang out, Santiago almost instinctively chose a more conservative strategy, strengthening his vigilance and sending more reconnaissance cavalry. He had to wait until the cavalry troops brought back the exact news before deciding to fight.

This is a decent conductor.

Santiago didn't act on his own – forward or backward. However, he had no idea what tricks the Chinese intended to use against them. His heightened vigilance, apart from halting the pace of their own marches, did not do him any advantage.

Of course, he also made some minor changes to the Scout Cavalry, such as changing their weapons to rifled guns. At the same time, the cavalry also brought him new discoveries - several deformed buckshot warheads, which seemed to be a little different from the usual lead bullets they used.

It's just that the cavalry units of the Spaniards used rifled guns to shoot at the Wehrmacht scouts and snipers, which was completely amateur and professional, and the consequence was not only to deliver food or food. The number of Spanish casualties soon exceeded a hundred, and the morale of the cavalry units was low.

Santiago was nervous from such a round of peripheral harassment. The attack did not only come from the front, he tried to send people to the rear continuously, and the soldiers sent out were also ambushed. Suddenly, their Spanish colonial army was 'caught between the front and the back'. If Santiago could still be at ease in this situation, if he wasn't stupid, he would be the god of war.

The war began in Area 24, marked on the Wehrmacht operational map.

This area is the grave prepared by the Wehrmacht for the Spanish colonial army in Santiago. All kinds of design elements have been calculated for a long time. Santiago deployed his troops and arranged positions, although they were very quick and regular, but they could not stop this battlefield was preset by the Wehrmacht.

There was no scene of artillery bombardment in the war. While the artillery of the Spanish colonial army opened fire indiscriminately and bombarded the blocking positions, the Wehrmacht artillery was preparing for a saturation strike.

You must know that at the beginning of this year, the American garrison completed a new outfit, and now the rifles they hold are all Mini rifles of the advanced flintlock era, and some of their cannons are expensive and heavy hexagonal guns.

The Spaniards have more face than the Russians.

In order to deal with them, Chen Ming upgraded all his armed forces in the Americas. He really didn't have any more hands in his hands now, except for a breech-loading pistol that wasn't going very well.

Today's American garrison is Chen Han, and it is also the most powerful army in the world, although their total number is less than 50,000 horses.

Gao Pingshan had only thirty hexagonal guns in his hands, 45 guns accounted for sixty percent, 60 guns only had a pitiful four, and the remaining eight were 75 guns with the largest caliber. Yes, the way hexagonal guns are counted can no longer be based on the weight of the shells, but on the size of the caliber.

The so-called 45 cannon is a caliber of 45mm, that is, about one inch and three, but the shell is more than four pounds, which is very close to three catties.

The caliber of the traditional spherical artillery has reached 2 inches, that is, nearly 5 centimeters and 50mm, just one pound of guns.

The gap between the two is just too big.

The shell of the hexagonal cannon was a twisted cylindrical with sharp corners, much larger than a pure round shell.

However, the range and accuracy of the hexagonal gun was much higher than that of the traditional front-loading smoothbore gun. The rules of the latter could not be applied to the former, so Chen Ming simply made a decision, and the caliber was calculated.

So in the Chen Han military industrial system, the smallest 20 guns began, 30 guns, 45 guns, 60 guns, 75 guns, and a series of gun types came out one after another. And Chen Han's hexagonal cannon with the largest caliber is 75 guns.

Gao Pingshan had a full thirty hexagonal cannons in his hands, so they could completely suppress their opponents.

Under the command of the school-fired balloons, no matter how beautifully the artillery positions of the Spaniards were set up, no matter how many willow rattan frames were piled up, they were all in vain.

The penetration of cylindrical shells is much higher than that of conventional spherical shells.

The Spanish colonial army didn't know anything yet, they were still digging trenches. At the same time, the artillery of the Spanish colonial army was still bombarding the Wehrmacht, and the logs hit by iron bullets broke off at the waist, and the positions were dusty......

But things were decided the moment the hexagonal cannon and the Mini rifle were transported to the Americas.

If even the Spanish colonial army could do this, the Russian army, which was one level stronger than the Spanish army in the European military circles, should have been pushed back to Urumqi, to the northeast and north China.

In the battle of the Sino-Western American War, Chen Ming's biggest purpose was, of course, to plunder the wealth of Spain. But while accomplishing this biggest goal, he was also advertising the Mini rifle and the hexagonal cannon, telling all the people in the world how advanced Chen Han's weapons were and how powerful the force was. Let Westerners all have an unchangeable fact in their minds - the Mini rifle is much better than the smoothbore gun.

Let Westerners no longer dare to peep at China, and let them fear China from the bottom of their hearts.

At the same time, after the advanced nature and combat effectiveness of the Mini rifle have been verified, its importance will not need to be said. So, what should the Russian Empire, which stole China's advanced weapons technology, give an explanation?

Chen Ming was looking forward to St. Petersburg's reply.

Therefore, in this war in the Americas, Chen Ming asked for crushing.

The garrison of the Americas and all the military forces of the Americas, when fighting the Spaniards, must play an invincible momentum that completely crushes the opponent!