Under the blue sky and white clouds, there was a burst of gunfire in the northeast of Puna Bay, which made the birds and beasts in the nearby mountains and forests hide far away for fear of harming the pond fish.

The Spanish army had a numerical superiority and was pressing forward step by step. The Chinese Imperial Army took into account the opponent's artillery, and whenever the opponent's artillery approached, it took the initiative to choose to retreat.

Although the combat quality of the Chinese Imperial Marine Corps was high, the Spanish colonial army had an absolute advantage in numbers, so the casualties on both sides increased sharply, and it became more and more unfavorable to the Chinese Imperial Marine Corps.

Castro was smug, it seemed that the Chinese army was not very good.

Soon, the marines under the command of Kong Ze suffered nearly 100 casualties and had to choose to retreat.

Here, the Spanish army also suffered 150 or 60 casualties, but this is only a drop in the bucket compared to the total of more than 30,000.

The retreat of the Chinese Imperial forces prevented the Spanish from engaging in a hand-to-hand battle, which soon exceeded an hour as the time of the exchange of fire between the two sides increased.

At this time, the speed of the Spanish army slowed down, and they were still equipped with Mushkert arquebuses, and their arms that had been holding the muskets for a long time were so tired that they were sore, and the firing time had also increased from one shot a minute at the beginning to one fire every five or six minutes now, and even many Spanish soldiers had to use brackets to shoot, and the advance of the Spanish army slowed down.

On the other hand, the Chinese Imperial Marine Corps soldiers, equipped with new rifles, have long since solved the weight problem, and after more than an hour of fierce fighting, the speed and quality of shooting have been maintained.

As a result, although the number of Spanish troops was the majority, the number of projectiles per unit of time** decreased sharply. As a result, the number of casualties among Spanish soldiers began to climb.

The bodies of several Marines who had not had time to be taken fell into the hands of the Spaniards, and one of the Spanish soldiers showed Castro the rifles used by the Marines.

Castro played with it for a while, and kept praising it, secretly saying that the Chinese Empire's weapon-making level and craftsmanship were already much ahead of the Spanish Empire.

Looking at the retreating Chinese Imperial Army, Castro was thoughtful.

"Your Excellency, Commander, I feel that this army of the Chinese Empire seems to be retreating slowly and deliberately"

The adjutant next to him suddenly reminded Castro's nerves for a moment, and then relaxed again.

"I think they're waiting for reinforcements"

"Will the other side's reinforcements affect our army?" The adjutant said: "I will send another group of people to make a detour and attack the enemy's flank."

"Even if their reinforcements come, it's only 10,000 people."

Castro didn't look scared, but still adopted the adjutant's idea. At this time, your own forces are superior, and it will be desirable to send another team of men and horses to make a detour and attack the enemy from the flank.

"They surprised me too much, it was really the ancient Eastern Empire, and it was indeed very mysterious"

Castro thought for a moment and said, "Okay, you can mobilize two thousand soldiers and raid the enemy's flank, and we will destroy this enemy first."

The adjutant received the order and hurriedly went down to make arrangements.

Soon, a Spanish army of more than 2,000 men left the brigade and quietly bypassed a jungle and penetrated the right flank of the marines.

Kong Ze was anxiously waiting for the notice from the rear base camp, but unexpectedly, a large number of enemies appeared on the right flank.

Kong Ze was shocked, knowing that once the right flank was hit, the entire formation would fall apart, and the annihilation of the entire army was imminent.

Hurriedly mobilized hundreds of soldiers on the right flank to quickly shrink to block the enemy and prevent the opponent from breaking into the formation of the Chinese army and causing chaos.

However, he knew that a few hundred people would not be able to stop the other party, so he had to order the rear team of the whole army to change to the front team, turn around and retreat quickly.

The Spanish army on the front reacted slowly, and did not expect the Chinese imperial army to turn around and run so quickly, so they fought to catch up.

Castro in the back was also stunned, but he didn't expect the sneak attack army to be detected by the other party, resulting in the result that the other party no longer fought and ran away.

For this, Castro regretted it very much and urgently ordered the whole army to pursue.

So, a fierce battle turned into a chase.

The Chinese imperial army in front ran hard, and the Spanish army chased frantically behind.

Perhaps it was because the Spanish army did not train for running for a long time, or perhaps because it was more than a hundred years after the end of the Peruvian colonial war, in short, the two sides chased for about three miles, and the Spanish soldiers were exhausted and out of breath.

On the other hand, the Marine Corps soldiers of the Chinese Empire have just warmed up, since the establishment of the army more than ten years ago, the Marine Corps has always been an important force in the hands of Deng Haonan, the Emperor of Shenwu, so the rigorous training and long-term actual combat training have honed into the hands that the Marine Corps can fight and run legs.

On Cork Hill, Marine Corps Commander Wang Zhiguo saw Kong Ze's troops through a telescope. For Kong Ze, Wang Zhiguo is very satisfied. Conze and his troops not only succeeded in delaying the arrival of the Spanish army, but also provided valuable time for the large army to prepare for an ambush. At the same time, success in attracting the Spaniards is even more important.

At this time, on Cork Mountain, Wang Zhiguo had already deployed an ambush position, and all the artillery was in place, waiting for the big fish to take the bait.

In order to give the artillery shelling coordinates and at the same time not let the Spaniards detect it, Wang Zhiguo planted explosives on the road below the mountain, and after detonation, it was the coordinates of the artillery shooting.

The explosives were buried in the central road, and the incense was used as a detonation timer. Beforehand, the scouts recorded the speed of the Spaniards' march and the time they had reached the ambush site, and then used the corresponding incense.

The Chinese panxiang was a very good timekeeper, sometimes more accurate than a clock, a great invention that came in handy at this time as a timer for detonating explosives.

After receiving the news that the base camp was ready, Kong Zefang breathed a sigh of relief and urgently ordered his subordinates to quickly enter the security zone and prepare to organize a counterattack.

Ten minutes later, the vanguard of the Spanish army arrived.

The vanguard was not what Wang Zhiguo wanted to bomb, what he wanted to bomb was the enemy's Chinese army brigade.

However, Castro only ordered 6,000 soldiers to advance quickly as the vanguard, while the pace of the Chinese army has been slowing down.

As a military commander, he knew that the Chinese brigade should not march too fast in case of a surprise attack by the enemy.

"Stop"

Suddenly, Castro seemed to sense a hint of danger, and suddenly reined in his horse and waved to stop the army from advancing.

"What's wrong?"

The adjutant urged him to come and ask.

Castro pointed to the hill next to him and said, "Why do I feel a little uneasy?"

The adjutant looked over the hill on the right and found nothing.

In a bush, Wang Zhiguo was observing the movements of the Spaniards with a telescope, and he felt anxious when he found that the Chinese army on the other side had not entered the explosion position.

"It's going forward."

Panxiang is already set up and will explode soon, and if the enemy does not move forward, then the explosion will not affect their formation. More importantly, the artillery on the hill fired at the point of explosion as a reference coordinate. If the opposing Chinese army no longer shoots at the coordinates, then there is no point in this round of shelling.

Kong Ze, who was preparing to organize a counterattack in front, also noticed that the Spaniards' central army had stopped, so he immediately ordered his subordinates to shoot at the forward troops of the Spanish army.

The distance is more than 300 meters, and it is clear that the projectiles do not know where to hit.

However, the sound of dense gunfire immediately startled the Spanish army.

Castro was thinking about a problem when he was interrupted by the sound of gunshots and hurriedly asked what was going on.

Soon the soldiers at the front came back to report that the forward troops had encountered the enemy and were engaged in a fierce battle.

Castro also thought that he had encountered the main force of the Chinese Imperial Army in front, so he no longer suspected that there was an ambush nearby, and hurriedly ordered the Chinese army to open and quickly reinforce the forward soldiers.

Seeing that the Spaniards continued to advance, Wang Zhiguo immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"Entering the Position"

With the order of the artillery commander, the artillerymen hidden on the other side of the hill quickly dispatched, bowed down and ran towards the artillery position.

The Shenwu infantry cannons were hidden by tree branches and grass, and the concealment techniques invented by the highly trained artillerymen made it impossible to see clearly under the distant hillside.

Peeling off the camouflage, the shiny cannon body suddenly appeared.

Artillery shells, propellants, and primers have long been installed, and after the artillerymen enter the position, they only need to wait for the appearance of the explosive target at the bottom of the hill to carry out the strike.

However, Castro was a little lucky, and when he stopped for a while, so that the incense burned out, the Spaniards' Chinese army was only a third of the way.

There was a loud boom, and the explosives planted in the middle of the road exploded.

In an instant, the mountains shook and the earth trembled. In the center of the road, a wave of air more than ten meters high arched in an instant, and the earth and rocks were mixed in it, like a hill.

The surrounding Spanish soldiers were swept away by the sudden blast wave, killing and wounding countless people in an instant.

The sudden explosion caused confusion among the Spanish troops for a while, and Castro almost hung up, wiping the cold sweat on his head violently, and secretly saying that it was dangerous.

"There is an ambush and retreat quickly"

Castro's experience told him that it was definitely a conspiracy.

However, most of the nearby Spanish troops were stunned and seemed to be unable to understand, or simply could not hear Castro's shouts.

Just when the brains of the Spaniards were short-circuited, the Marine artillery units on the hill made a move.

Knock knock

The Shenwu cannon suddenly let out a roar, and one shell after another whistled into the sky, and then drew a huge parabola and fell down the mountain.

The hills along the coast of Peru were a bit small, and the 200 guns of the Marine Corps could not be fully placed, and in the end only 83 were deployed.

However, a salvo of fire from eighty-three Shenmu cannons was also quite powerful, because instead of solid shells, they used flowering shells.

The long whistling sound of the shells tore at the hearts of the Spanish soldiers.

Boom, boom, boom

The shells exploded as they fell, and the rocks shattered in all directions, and the dust flew within reach. The Spanish soldiers listened to the whistling and thought it was a solid shell, but they were not too afraid. Because the shells did not come directly, but fell in a parabola from the top of the mountain, the chance of being hit directly by such shells was too low. Those who were hit can only regret that they didn't look at the yellow calendar when they went out.

However, to their surprise. After the opponent's shell fell, it exploded.

The Spaniards have also seen the flowering bomb, that is, in the Spanish-Dutch war, the hateful Dutch used the flowering bomb to block the Spanish counterinsurgency army again and again, resulting in the independence of the Dutch.

The Spanish colonial army here, although they have not experienced it, have heard of it. Now that I have experienced it myself, I was so frightened that I cried my father and called my mother, and I hugged my head and ran away.

Not all flowering bombs will explode, and some flowering bombs will become duds when they fall. Some exploded in mid-air. The flowering projectiles that explode in the air seem to be quite powerful and very lethal.

A flowering bomb exploded when it was three meters above the ground, and the violent explosion instantly shone like the sun. The bullet casings were ruptured, fragments were scattered, and the Spanish soldiers in the vicinity were killed and wounded. The violent shock wave suddenly lifted many soldiers into the air, and their flesh and blood flew in an instant.

The Spaniards, who were attacked by the first shell, were not mentally prepared, and the dense formation caused heavy casualties to the Spanish soldiers, and each shell exploded, causing a large number of casualties. There is no way to dodge, there is nowhere to hide, and you can only use your flesh and blood to bear the heart-rending pain.

For a time, corpses were strewn all over the field, and wails were everywhere.

Castro had seen the shells, so he quickly escaped from the shelling zone and jumped to the perimeter.

At this time, more than 12,000 Spanish soldiers were still out of range of the shelling, and Castro quickly ordered them to retreat.

Frontally, part of the Spanish forward troops were also shelled, but more than 3,000 people were still in the midst of a fierce exchange of fire with Kong Ze's troops, and they were not affected.

However, the sudden shelling and violent explosion caused them to lose their square inch and lose their position.

Looking at the scene of artillery fire flying behind them and heavy casualties among their own personnel, they no longer had the belief to continue attacking, and fear replaced a qiē.

At this time, a large number of heavily armed marines suddenly poured out from the jungle on the left and attacked the Spanish army from the flank.

Nearly 8,000 marines formed a powerful firing firepower, which immediately confused the remnants of the Spanish forward army.

Bang bang bang

Rows after rows of projectiles were fired, each of which killed and wounded a large number of Spanish soldiers. Since there were not many defensive forces on the flanks, in the face of the sudden appearance of a large number of Chinese and imperial troops, the Spanish forward soldiers, who were only a few thousand people, were suddenly defeated and in disarray.

With a rain of bullets in front and flanks, and heavy artillery fire in the back, the Spanish forward army was no longer motivated to fight, and flight became the first priority.

At this time, the fifth round of shelling by the Marine artillery ended, the fire was shining under the mountain, the dust and smoke were like clouds, and the low-lying areas at the foot of the mountain were full of blood, and the remaining Spanish soldiers were desperately fleeing with their heads, while the Marines were chasing fiercely behind.

Flowering shells can only play their maximum role in this situation, but only the first few rounds of shelling worked. At this time, Wang Zhiguo had already ordered the shelling to stop, and the marines were in full charge.

The ambushed Spanish army numbered more than 18,000 people, and the shelling caused thousands of casualties, while the platoon guns of more than 10,000 marines instantly broke the forward units of the Spanish army, killing and wounding thousands of people. Thousands more abandoned their weapons and went into hiding in Tibet, all of whom became prisoners.

However, there were still five or six thousand Spanish soldiers still on the run.

Here, Castro retreated a mile and regrouped to prepare to resist a major counterattack by the Imperial Chinese army. He admitted that he had suffered a great loss from the ambush just now, but he did not think that he would be defeated, because he believed that the remaining more than 10,000 soldiers, of which about 5,000 were regular troops, and that it was only the militia that was defeated.

The next moment, however, drove Castro mad.

I saw that the army of the Chinese Empire drove five or six thousand discarded armor, and the wolf-bèi Spanish soldiers rushed towards the formation that Castro had just organized.

Castro ordered the soldiers in the front squad to fire warning shots not to let them come, but it was apparently very ineffective. These soldiers, who were blinded by the shells, did not dare to stop at all, because in their eyes, the Chinese imperialist troops chasing after them were all devils.

Bang bang bang

Castro gave the order to shoot, and the first row of Spanish soldiers had no choice but to open fire, killing many of his own people.

However, to no avail, because the Chinese imperial troops in the back also drove them with muskets.

Either at the hands of the enemy or at the hands of one's own people.

Obviously, these desperately fleeing Spanish soldiers believed that the enemy behind them would not be relenting, and they had already lost their weapons and turned around to die. And after all, the other side is his own person, and he will always be soft.

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They can ignore their shame, they know that this will break up their own army's formation. But in the face of their lives, they still chose to hell with Castro on the other side

Castro was so angry that his beard curled, but when he gave the order to shoot again, his men had already refused to carry out the order.

When he watched the scattered Spanish soldiers break up the formation in front of him, Castro already knew that he was defeated.

"Damn"

Castro was so angry that he almost vomited blood, but he knew there was no way to save the defeat.

"Withdraw"

Castro had no choice but to retreat, or run away.

As a result, Castro had no choice but to run at the front with a formation of five or six thousand soldiers in relatively full formation, followed by a scattered team of tens of thousands of people, and then behind were the soldiers of the Chinese Imperial Marine Corps with bright bayonets.

The defeat is like a mountain, and that's it.

The two sides chased for more than an hour, and a large number of Spanish soldiers were left behind, and the soldiers of the Chinese Imperial Marine Corps captured prisoners along the way.

However, at this moment, there was a thunderclap in the sky, and it began to rain in a dripping manner.

It was impossible to shoot on a rainy day, and Wang Zhiguo knew this very well, so he had to sigh that the enemy was lucky and ordered to stop the pursuit.

Castro thanked God for sneezing and killing him, and by the time he ran back to the castle, he had less than 2,000 soldiers.

For the next two days, it rained heavily, and the Chinese Imperial Marines showed no sign of marching on the city of Praias.

Castro continued to gather the remnants of his army, and after three days, only more than 14,000 people were gathered, and the remaining 16,000 people were basically either killed or missing and captured.

In contrast, the Royal Marines of the Chinese Empire suffered less than 300 casualties, which is a great victory. V