The Ming Marines and the Spanish Army also met the Dutch Army.

The first to discover the Dutch Army were the scouts of the Ming Marine Corps.

The Ming Army's operations are still intelligence-first, but it seems that the Netherlands does not pay attention to this at this time, and the scouts have not found any traces of the Dutch scouts along the way.

"According to the report, it was found that a large number of red-haired fans were gathered in the plains ahead, about 30,000 people."

At this time, after the scout reported the military situation to Zhang Jin, the commander of the Ming Marine Corps, Zhang Jin couldn't help asking: "30,000 people are gathered in the plain, but what are the fortifications, equipment and morale?" ”

"Back to the general, the red haired fan does not have any fortifications, the morale is quite strong, and the equipment is the same as these Franc machine people, it is also a spear and a musket, but the formation is quite tight."

After the scout answered, Zhang Jin fell into deep thought: "Our army now has about 20,000 people plus the army of Fu Langji, what is the purpose of this Hongmao Fan who only sent 30,000 people to gather on the plain, could it be that there is an ambush and deliberately lead us deeper?" ”

"There is no such possibility, there is no concealment around, and there is no one to hide in a hundred miles," the scout team replied.

"Then what are these red-haired fans for", when Zhang Jin said, Jack, the commander of the Spanish side, came over and asked the interpreter to speak: "Your Excellency General, since the other party has gathered in front, let's rush up to fight a decisive battle now, but they seem to be 30,000 people, and our chances of winning don't seem to be great." ”

"What kind of battle, go to the army to fight, and not fight, whether these red-haired fans are really waiting for us to fight a decisive battle on the plains with 30,000 people, or deliberately set up a routine for us to drill, we can't take it lightly, the infantry battalion listens to the order, and your troops immediately look for high ground to build fortifications and bunkers to prepare for an ambush, the cavalry battalion listens to the order, and your department leads five hundred horsemen to lure the enemy, pretending to be defeated, and luring these red-haired fans to our ambush circle, when the infantry battalion and the team of the Francophone machine come out, give the enemy heavy losses, when the enemy is panicked, The cavalry battalion went out to pursue the remnants of the enemy, so as to achieve the goal of completely annihilating the enemy army. ”

After all, they were fighting in a foreign territory, and they did not understand the language and were not familiar with the geographical situation and the combat habits of the Dutch army, so the best way Zhang Jin could think of now was to lure the enemy into the depths of the enemy, so as to achieve the goal of not being in a passive battle.

But Rao is such a simple tactical command, Jack, the commander of the Spanish phalanx, who is also a friendly army, said that he did not understand this, and it can be said that he did not understand: "Your Excellency, General, why don't we just rush up and compete with the hostile fire to see whose weapon is the best, why do we have to do anything to lure the enemy into defeat, can we win in this way, isn't it that we can win as long as we can win in any way?" ”

Zhang Jin didn't understand Jack's question, and now he only asked the interpreter to tell him to obey the command.

"Okay, I'll follow the command", this Jack had to follow the Ming Marines led by Zhang Jin to continue to advance.

Zhang Jin led his main force to build improvised fortifications on a high ground and prepared to ambush the Dutch army, while the 500 cavalry of the marines came to the Dutch army camp.

As soon as the Dutch army saw the appearance of the Ming cavalry, they hurriedly raised their flintlock pistols to form a formation.

The Ming cavalry rode over and fired a few shots, killing several Dutch troops on the spot, and then the Dutch army had already begun to release guns.

The crackling ones were put directly towards the Ming army.

The cavalry of the Ming army directly threw a few war knives, abandoned a few war horses and kettles, cloaks, and even silver dollars and ran back.

As a European army, these Dutch armies did not have much experience in land warfare, and they thought that the Ming army hurriedly retreated because they saw that there were many people on their side, so they hurriedly chased after them, and they did not forget to pick up the belongings that the Ming army had thrown on the ground.

However, as soon as they entered a high ground, the Dutch army found that a large number of Ming troops were lying here relying on the high ground as cover, so they were busy preparing to reorganize their formation and shoot at the Ming army.

But the Ming Marines have already fired the cannon first, and the artillery carried by the Marines is a light field gun that is easy to carry and transport, generally a three-pound gun and a six-pound gun, but because of the breech-loading rifled gun, the firing speed is very fast, basically as soon as the Dutch Army appears in the firing range, the first round of shells has been fired.

But the Dutch Army was still standing in place in a daze to form a phalanx, and the Dutch coach Iverson said confidently: "The other side is obviously inferior to us in numbers, although we want to rely on the terrain as a cover, but our firepower is more intensive, but we must prevent its heavy cavalry from breaking through from both flanks, the pikes in front, the muskets in the rear, forward!" ”

However, at this time, the artillery of the Marine Corps had already shot over, although the number of artillery of the Ming Marine Corps was not much, only about ten, but the Dutch Army formed a phalanx to give the Ming artillery a chance to kill intensively.

The shells exploded directly, and the Dutch Army also raised their shields to block, but the shells exploded directly above them, and in an instant, several Dutch soldiers were blown away, and the whole person fell out directly, and was even stabbed to death by the spear on his side.

"These fools! Even though he knew that there was an artillery attack, he didn't lie down to avoid the cover, and continued to fire at Lao Tzu! ”

Zhang Jin shouted, and the Daming Marines continued to fire a round of artillery bombardment.

The entire Dutch army camp was in chaos, and the commander-in-chief of the Dutch army, Iverson, was also greatly surprised, he wanted to say that his army could resist several artillery live attacks, but he still couldn't help exclaiming: "What kind of artillery is this, why is it so powerful, push our artillery up, and counterattack!" ”

The Dutch phalanx was also its own light artillery brigade, but it was usually in a squadron, but the commander-in-chief of the Dutch army, Iverson, did not expect that the Ming army would first use artillery attacks instead of musket fires like the Spanish or heavy cavalry breakthroughs like the French, so it was only then that he thought of counterattacking with artillery.

But when the artillery team of the Dutch Army began to stuff gunpowder into the smoothbore guns, the Ming Army had already fired a second round of artillery, followed by the third round, and the entire Dutch Army phalanx had been blown to pieces.

Fortunately, the Dutch army has always emphasized discipline and did not immediately rout, but at this time it was no longer possible to organize a tight phalanx, and the Ming army did not want to waste shells all the time, so when the Ming army fired shells, the Ming infantry battalion had already begun to shoot.

The dense guns and bullets swept over, and the Dutch army in front of the phalanx was put down in an instant, and the entire Dutch army's phalanx was in chaos, and the infantry and cavalry simply rushed over: "Kill!" ”

At this time, the commander-in-chief of the Dutch Army, Iverson, did not react at all, he was surprised why the artillery of the Ming army was so sharp, when he saw that the infantry had already fired, and at such a distance, most of his troops were shot.

"My God, what kind of musket is this, and why can it shoot so far!"

(End of chapter)