The cavalry was dispatched and galloped towards the southeast, Deng Chunhua knew that his task was not to launch an assault, but to launch a pursuit at the moment when the opponent's position collapsed, and not give the opponent a chance to reorganize the army!

At this time, Christine's heart was on fire, it was unthinkable for a brigade to fight against the strength of a division of the opponent without any fortifications, not to mention that Gobalton's terrain was higher than his own position, and the enemy launched an attack with all his might, which increased the difficulty of blocking. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In one day, for a whole day, the Fifth Brigade suffered heavy casualties, and was beaten without the power to fight back!

"Bastard, why haven't this Grace's reinforcements arrived yet?"

Christine yelled angrily.

Joaquín on the side replied: "Christine, we must not go on like this, we can't resist the opponent's offensive at all, if we continue to fight, once the opponent launches a more powerful offensive, we may be wiped out here!" ”

It's just that what can you do if you don't continue to fight? Once the blockade here is abandoned, then the entire Dinallan Bay will be in danger, and the danger will be huge, and it may all fall into the hands of the enemy, and when the time comes, if the enemy forces at sea also complete the landing, I am afraid that the entire Luzon Island will be in danger of capsizing!

"After holding out for an hour, if Grace's reinforcements still can't dare to come, then we will withdraw immediately!"

Christine replied.

"Hold out for an hour? Christine, what are you thinking? We have been resisting here for nearly eight hours, from Ding Alan City to here, it is only twenty kilometers, Grace's reinforcements march at full speed only three hours, even if it is slower, five hours, it is enough to support them to get here, plus the time for us to report the credit, six or seven hours, enough to reach our position, now they have not seen a trace, who knows what Grace is thinking? Do you want our Fifth Brigade to be wiped out here? ”

Joaquin said angrily.

"Bastard! Presumably, the Fifth Brigade, the entire Philippine Islands is the most important, this is the core interests of our Kingdom of Spain, and we must not give it up, because we retreated and lost the entire island of Luzon, and we are the sinners of the Kingdom of Spain! ”

Christine shouted angrily.

Joaquin was stunned, the national interests were above all else, and if it was true that Spain lost Luzon because of the retreat of the Fifth Brigade, he would definitely not be able to bear such a responsibility!

"But how long can we hold on? Three hours? Four hours? Hold on until dawn tomorrow? ”

Joaquin said astringently, "Christine, I think we should save our strength and retreat back, even if we really lose the Dingalan Bay behind, as long as our troops are still there, then we are not afraid, we can make a comeback, concentrate all our forces, and have a decisive battle with the opponent, but if we lose the entire Fifth Brigade here, it will be a heavy loss for the kingdom, we are in the Philippines, there are less than five infantry brigades in total, after the Fifth Brigade and Grace's Eighth Brigade were severely hit, Is there still a chance to turn the tide? ”

Christine fell silent for a while, yes, Joaquín is right, Joaquín is not a bloodless coward, but a wise and brave officer, his analysis is reasonable, once the fifth brigade is completely annihilated, then if you want to defeat the opponent in the future, it will be even more difficult, just here, the opponent has a reorganized division, who knows how many infantry there are on the sea of Ding Alan Bay?

"Okay, since that's the case, then the army is ready to retreat, preserve its strength, wait for the three brigades of the seventh and eighth brigades to meet, and then have a decisive battle with the enemy!"

Christine replied.

The Fifth Brigade is in Kafan, which is relatively close to here, but the Seventh Brigade is far away from Manila Bay, and it will take at least five or six days to enter from Manila to Dingalan Bay. The attack was so sudden that the Spanish army was completely unprepared, and the various units were scattered on Luzon and several other small islands, and it was too difficult to fully assemble the army.

Taking advantage of the retreat of the opponent's attacking forces and the fact that the new offensive had not yet been launched, the Fifth Brigade retreated in a southeasterly direction and headed straight for the city of Ding Alan.

Christine also grasped the timing very well, and in the gap between attack and defense, she was just right to get rid of the opponent's pursuit as much as possible!

However, Christine simply ignored that the opponent still had a cavalry behind him, and the Fifth Brigade retreated to the southeast on the whole line, but now the cavalry regiment is on the east side of the Fifth Brigade, only two kilometers apart, and the Fifth Brigade has just retreated when it was discovered by Deng Chunhua!

Deng Chunhua excitedly threw the telescope directly on the ground, and roared angrily: "Brothers, the enemy army has begun to retreat, they can't resist it, and they attack on all fronts!" ”

The cavalry of more than 800 people launched a thunderous blow towards the Fifth Brigade and smashed down on the Fifth Brigade with a force of ten thousand pounds!

Although the Spanish Fifth Brigade was retreating, the team was still relatively neat, and although there were heavy casualties, the formation was not chaotic; However, in the face of the sudden assault of the cavalry regiment, they still couldn't parry, after all, they didn't have heavy machine guns, after all, their artillery also suffered a heavy blow in the city, and in the retreat, the artillery could not threaten the enemy again.

In this way, the fifth mile, which had just retreated less than five or six miles away, was beaten hard by Deng Chunhua's cavalry, and the fifth brigade was completely cut into two ends, and it was impossible to take care of it at all!

Rushing into the position of the Spanish army, Deng Chunhua began to attack unscrupulously, and the entire Spanish Fifth Brigade now only has about 3,000 people with combat effectiveness, and in the face of the strong impact of the cavalry, the officers and men of the Fifth Brigade, whose morale was not high, could not support it even more, and completely collapsed!

Christine and Joaquin did their best to restrain the troops and prepare for the battle, but at this time, the gunfire in the rear also rang out intensively, and the main force of the first division began to pursue, and it was only two miles away from them.

Where do Christine and Joaquin dare to fight, the two of them commanded the remnants of the defeated army and did not dare to continue to entangle, and retreated with all their strength towards the southeast, as for the bulky artillery and baggage, they couldn't take care of it, so it was important to save their lives first!

Deng Chunhua's cavalry continued to slaughter, he was too happy to kill, but he neglected to block the enemy, at this time the opponent was entangled is the biggest task, the cavalry only cared about the enemy, but the biggest task was left behind!

In a big battle, the 5th Brigade again threw down hundreds of corpses, and the rest fled.

"Smack!"

Luo Bicheng caught up, slapped Deng Chunhua hard, and roared: "Damn bastard! Don't you know how to entangle your opponent? It was because of your mistake that at least two thousand Spanish infantry were released in one go! ”

(To be continued.) )