In the southeast corner of the Salton Basin, the contact zone between the Chen-Han North American Expeditionary Force outpost and the Spaniards.

The corpses of men and horses were covered all over the battlefield, and more Spanish cavalry were crammed into this cramped place, unable to speed up and not be able to spread out quickly - only one battalion of defenders was in the convex expeditionary position, how big could a battalion of defenders be? - I can't break through the blockade of artillery fire and the fire of the guns in front of me. Charging forward is! In the end, he had to turn his horse's head and flee diagonally towards the wings.

Pan Chang watched this offensive and defensive battle with satisfaction, which was very good. A thousand Spanish cavalry who attacked remained at least half.

Although the total strength at his disposal was only this battalion guarding the stronghold and a militia. However, he used the militia to put a thousand Spanish cavalry into a trap, and he could achieve at least 500 results, which is the strength of a cavalry battalion, and a team of militia did not say that all of them died, even if they were really killed and wounded, this battle Pan Chang would have earned.

That group of militia is the men and horses of the second team of the Yanzi Battalion, if they are really killed and wounded, Pan Chang will definitely not be able to explain to the master behind the family. Although Chen Shaolin [Chen Erbao's second son] said generously to Pan Chang before leaving the station that there is no need to scruple, Pan Changzhen made a team of people miserable, and he would definitely offend people.

But this battle is just an appetizer before this 'big meal'. The real big scene is yet to come.

It's summer, and in the hottest season of the year, the Spaniards finally can't hold on. Raise your army and attack the west coast of North America.

The officers and soldiers of Chen Han's expeditionary force in North America don't know if they have heard some news in China at this time, anyway, they know that the Franco-Spanish alliance and the Continental Army have just won a battle on the west coast of North America.

- Battle of Yorktown.

Seven thousand British lobster soldiers and German Hessian mercenaries were captured, more than two hundred cannons, twenty-four transports and a large number of carriages were captured by the enemies of the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the British themselves scuttled at least a dozen transports.

This battle, which took place in September and October of the Western calendar last year, was of great significance in the North American theater, and from the perspective of the original time and space history, it was a decisive battle, and it was the last 'campaign' scale operation launched by the British army on the North American continent.

And now France and Spain will not know the weakness of the British next, but the war situation is predictable, and the British are in big trouble. Taking advantage of this favorable opportunity, a large number of Spanish troops were transferred back to Mexico from the West Indies, and then the '100,000 army' of Daban Duck was completely formed.

This is the main reason why the big plate duck launched an attack at this time, and the British after the Battle of Yorktown were like losing their souls, or losing confidence in victory, and they were powerless.

Because in this battle, not only the main force of the British Army, but also the British North American Fleet that came to relieve the siege were destroyed.

Convalis commanded more than 7,000 British troops (including more than 2,500 Hessian mercenaries) to defend Yorktown, Virginia. The Franco-American alliance led by Washington and the French veteran Rochambeau went south to Virginia, and the reinforced French fleet also flew from the West Indies under the command of the French naval commander, Count de Grasse, into the Chesapeake Bay, into the sea outside Yorktown, and repelled the reinforced British fleet, forcing some of the ships that were transporting materials to the British army in Yorktown to be trapped in the harbor, and the French almost completely controlled the sea control of the east coast of North America.

It can be said that this war has the significance of a decisive battle on land and sea.

But who knows what the future holds?

Dabanya saw through the essence of the British's 'end of the crossbow' was first, and they were also completely desperate for the intention of joining forces with the French army to attack Chen Han's North American Expeditionary Force, so they took this opportunity to launch a counterattack on the west coast of North America.

Because an army force with a size of tens of thousands of people always defends and does not attack, it is also very material and financially expensive.

The economy of the Spaniards was destined to last long. Don't expect to wait for the war with the British to be completely over before they come to wrestle with the Chinese, if they really waited until then, the army gathered around Mexico City would have collapsed long ago.

By three o'clock in the afternoon, Pan Chang saw at least a hundred artillery pieces appear on the offensive position opposite. Standing on the high observation platform, Pan Chang could see clearly, every cannon opposite was shining with a metallic dark sheen in the sun.

And he didn't have an eight-pound cannon, a ten-pound cannon, or even a five-catty cannon. Otherwise, if you move the ten-pound cannon forward, you will be able to cover the entire artillery position of the opponent.

Pan Chang neatly ordered the troops on the position to withdraw. God willing, the militia of the Yanzi battalion came back in formation, although they lost thirty or forty lives, but if they hadn't died so much, the Spaniards would not have plunged into the whole set so easily.

Now Pan Chang chooses to retreat, the position is too small, and hundreds of artillery bombardments can't afford it. Also, the strategic location of the position doesn't matter, it's an outpost. The reason why it was set up was also because the headquarters of the expeditionary force wanted to measure the level of the Spaniards.

Now, Pan Chang already knows.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

It had not been more than an hour since the defeat of the cavalry, and the entire position was shrouded in the smoke of iron bullets and explosions.

After twenty minutes of shelling, a red crowd filled the entire position.

Europeans are not stupid.

Some of the 'things' that happened on the battlefield in China were really ignored at the beginning. But when China is shouting to the whole world step by step, and they despise China's 'military' with the old eyes, then the Europeans will be in arrears of IQ.

Compared with the same period in the original time and space, concentrating fire on cannons like this is already a skill point lit up by the entire European military community. A scene that only appeared during the Napoleonic Wars appeared early on the battlefields of Europe and North America. Although the military generals of Europe are not yet able to use this trick as art as Napoleon did, who will not use it in a tough battle?

Pan Chang was still holding the telescope motionless, he wanted to continue to watch, looking at the 'fireworks' that were about to bloom in the field in a moment!

The presence of flowering shells in European artillery has also increased, which is another inspiration that the Eastern War has brought to the Western world.

At a position not far from Pan Chang's second-line position, a mouthful of individual rocket artillery was 'ready to go' in the trenches. All it takes is for the flare to rise into the sky, and they will stand up and launch the rockets in their hands with a whizz.

Then he fled back as fast as he could. At the same time, Pan Chang's counterattack will also come.

This is the closest expeditionary force position to the main position, a second-line position, and if Pan Chang wants to fight the Spaniards in the outpost, then his reserves and reinforcements will be placed here. This allows for both rapid reinforcements and the ability to respond to defeated troops. The spacing of the rear brackets also significantly limited the artillery power of the Spaniards. Because he has in his hands some two- or three-pound small cannons, and rocket troops, the range is really limited.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the expeditionary force to counteract and the effect was good. As soon as they poured into the position of the expeditionary force, the Spaniards were excited and launched a victorious pursuit of the retreating expeditionary force, but the elated Spanish army was first bombed by small cannons and rockets that had been prepared for a long time, and then was beaten by the main force of the Yanzi battalion that was ready to attack.

But it's all hors d'oeuvres, and the real big dishes and hard dishes are all on the back.

The total strength of the Spaniards really reached the level of '100,000', as soon as they struck, they were a division as the vanguard, and the army major general José de Rivera led 6,000 men as the vanguard, although the cavalry unit suffered heavy losses, and then one of the pursuing regiments suffered heavy losses, but this did not make José fear and worry, and there were still 30,000 people behind him. They are the Eastern Route Army.

José has lost a lot of people, but as long as he can play a role in the rest of the day, he doesn't have to take too much responsibility. José is well aware of his 'failures', so the most important thing for him now is to turn defeat into victory, and he must catch the enemy in front of him in order to make His Excellency the Doge turn a blind eye to his defeats.

When several thousand Spaniards attacked the main position on three sides, all artillery fire was used to bombard the expeditionary force. At an observation post somewhere in the position, Pan Chang's hand holding the telescope was also sweating nervously.

There's nothing cheap to take advantage of now.

The range of the artillery was not enough, and the range of the rockets was not enough, and the Spaniards had to be careful if they wanted to reach them. And more importantly, the two armies are about to have a tough battle between you and me.

His mission is to lure the enemy. It was necessary to firmly attract the enemy and prepare for a counterattack by the rear troops. To put it bluntly, they are just a bait, but Pan Chang's 'bait' first used the 'bait' to transfer a small Spanish fish.

A very solid fortification was set up on the main position, although they were all civil structures, but the position built by Pan Chang was very solid, consisting of three 'kou' zigzag trenches with a total length of more than five miles, and there were communication trenches dug between them, and the small artillery and rocket artillery in his hands were hidden in the trenches.

The Spaniards did not have rockets, and although their artillery fire was strong, the iron bullets and flowering shells of this era could not help the well-built trenches. In order to strengthen the trenches, Pan Chang's regiment cut down thousands of trees in the surrounding area.

At the end of the battle in the afternoon, the Spaniards also dug a trench around Pan Chang's department that night, Pan Chang would not let the enemy live so peacefully, but the Spanish garrison was too sufficient, and all of them were repelled after several harassments. If it weren't for the Spaniards' unsuitability to fight at night, they could even launch a counterattack.

And the bravery of these colonial troops in fighting is beyond Pan Chang's imagination.

Pan Chang had previously regarded these people as a rabble. But this afternoon, especially at dusk, one after another of the Spaniards poured up, retreated, and retreated, and retreated, as if fearlessly wounded, storming the defensive positions of the expeditionary force again and again. Either break through the enemy's positions, or shed the last drop of your blood in the attack after attack.

Pan Chang didn't know how this 'rabble' suddenly broke out, could it be that the Spaniards organized a team of warlords?

The ratio of casualties on both sides remained roughly 1:3, and the casualties of the expeditionary force on the defensive were much smaller than those of the Spaniards.

But the Spaniards received new reinforcements early the next morning, and their main force of 30,000 was rapidly approaching the battlefield. This was one of the attacking forces of the Spanish Eastern and Western armies, the Eastern Route Army, with a total strength of 40,000 men, slightly less.

In the two-day fierce battle, the expeditionary force lost a small 1,000 men, the Spaniards lost about 3,000, and counting a small fish caught by Pan Chang before, their loss was 4,000. That's a big number, and the Spaniards are definitely a big deal compared to the total number of battles on the battlefield in the thirteen states.

Because as far as the strength of Chen Han's North American Expeditionary Force is concerned, if you come and go normally, they are also at the level of thousands of people. Losing a few thousand people at once is already nerve-wracking.

Gunshot wounds in this era were difficult to heal completely, and the Spanish wounded soldiers did not know how many would die in the following days.

Pan Chang didn't know the specific situation in the Spanish army, they also captured a hundred and ten prisoners, but luckily, all the soldiers they captured were low-status soldiers, and there were no noble officers. But he felt that the Spaniards' Eastern Route Army would not be good either. Four thousand people, which is already one-tenth of the strength of this army, has already touched the warning line in the hearts of many people.

You know, this army was always a colonial army, not a Spanish army that was really made up of people from the peninsula. The Mexicans are also deeply estranged from the people of the peninsula, and it stands to reason that they will not fight to the death for Spain. Even if there is a certain percentage of the peninsular army in this army, their patchwork rabble can never compare with the pure Spanish army 'psychological' and combat effectiveness, right?

Under the huge casualties, even some people in the expeditionary force were fluctuating. The regiment under Pan Chang, with the Yanzi battalion, has a total strength of only 3,000 people. Now the losses have been seen by more than one-third, of which the number of dead soldiers has reached forty percent, and the morale of Pan Chang's regiment has also dropped to a certain extent.

However, the middle- and high-ranking officers of the Pan Chang Regiment of the Expeditionary Force were firm-minded, and they knew very well what the headquarters was fighting in mind.

Another Spanish Western Route Army was now facing resolute resistance from an expeditionary force.

And the main forces of the expeditionary force have now arrived.

In this way, the high-level and middle-level officers in the army are all as strong as iron and unswerving. This obviously greatly alleviated the vacillation of the morale of the military within the army and stabilized the morale of Pan Chang's troops.

But the loss of four or five hundred people a day was really beyond the bottom line that his army could bear, and Pan Chang's army was already in a very dangerous situation. The Spaniards didn't want to fight slowly, and the loss of 4,000 men in two days was really beyond their psychological endurance. However, they have a strong foundation and a lot of capital, and like Pan Changtuan, the attitude of the senior generals among them is very resolute.

If you continue to fight so hard, if it takes another two or three days, Pan Chang's group will be over.

However, as a pawn in the overall war, Pan Chang and the others are not qualified to know the specific military arrangements, and all they can do is to firmly carry out the orders of the headquarters.