From the beginning of the launch of the 18-pounder Unicorn heavy siege cannon, the Spanish infantry formation was constantly bombarded by the Han artillery, and the Spanish infantry was constantly bleeding by the Han artillery on the battlefield, consuming the vitality of the force!

The Han Guard, which had seized the position of the Spaniards' artillery, struggled to move the direction of the artillery. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Sir, how is this cannon aiming? The brothers have never learned to fire ......," a soldier with a black and gray face asked Zhao Xin.

"Don't aim, turn the direction to the Spaniards, just look at the enemy with big eyes, load the shells, adjust the maximum elevation angle, and fire, there are so many Spanish infantry, you can hit it after all!"

Zhao Xin shouted loudly at the soldiers.

Although these Han Guards are not professional artillerymen, they have learned how to load shells before, but there is a big gap between aiming and professional artillery, but it is still possible to aim at a general direction and shoot artillery.

The artillery positions of the Spaniards roared again when the Spanish infantry and the American field army were fighting, and kept pouring fire on the Spanish infantry line!

Just like Zhao Xin said, the Spanish infantry line is so dense and conspicuous, even if it is crooked, it can kill a few Spaniards!

The Spanish infantry, who were fighting hard against the American Field Army, were constantly bombarded by a large number of artillery, and the casualties gradually increased!

The Spanish commander naturally had already seen the fall of his artillery positions, but he kept gritting his teeth and insisting on not giving the order to retreat, and constantly sent people to let the troops on the front line hold on, and looted all the scattered personnel, intending to form a temporary commando team to try to regain his artillery positions!

Finally, some of the military commanders who had retreated from the front couldn't help but say to the commander: "General, the casualties of the brothers are too great, let's withdraw, if we continue to fight like this, we will be completely annihilated!" ”

I have to say that most of the Spanish crusading army was the elite of the colonial army, and in this situation of being bombarded by a large number of artillery, it did not collapse, and was still struggling to support it!

The infantry that had been replaced and defeated at the front was regrouped by the Spanish commander and sent up again!

This is also the reason why those officers could not help but complain to the Spanish commanders, which was completely sending those loyal soldiers to death!

The Spanish commander saw that the officers around him looked at him with this prayer, and he knew that he had to restore the confidence of these officers who were shaken in their hearts, otherwise it would be a real collapse!

"Everyone can see clearly, we are fighting against the murderous Indians, if we retreat, with that Zhao Dutian's character, we will definitely be pursued to the death, you know, we have gone deep into the hinterland of California, if we retreat, we will inevitably pass through a lot of dangerous terrain and forests, do you think, we can't defeat Zhao Dutian here, at that time, can we still go home safely?!

In today's battle, we must repel the Indians' attack!

Only by hurting them can we withdraw our troops safely when Zhao Dutian's men and horses suffer heavy losses!

This time it was not for the king, but for the lives of all of us, and I think no one wants their scalps to be stripped off by the Indians as trophies to show off! ”

The Spanish commander explained the current situation in one word, these officers were reminded like this, and their eyes couldn't help but show a look of despair, and everyone didn't think of this before, but some things, if they are not broken, most people would rather choose to deceive themselves and forget than face reality!

After a few minutes of silence among the surrounding Spanish officers, several people suddenly shouted: "We can lose, but we must not lose to the inferior Indians, fight to the end for the king, for survival!" ”

"For the king!"

"To survive!"

"Fight to the death!"

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As the first Spanish officer shouted the slogan of death, the blood in the hearts of the surrounding Spanish officers was completely ignited, not because of how good the Spanish commander's eloquence was, but simply because this fact was nakedly placed in front of everyone, forcing everyone to face it!

These Spanish officers, as the elite of the colonies, naturally had their own pride, and after tearing that layer of face, they called out feverishly, and spontaneously gathered the soldiers, spread this fanaticism, and rushed towards the constantly approaching American field army!

The army of this era is like this, and it is the most effective to cheer up from the top down!

After seeing that the morale of his side had risen, the Spanish commander secretly breathed a sigh of relief, gathered a group of defeated soldiers and guards, and launched an attack on the artillery position of the Han Guards!

"Sir, the Spaniards have come up!"

A soldier ran to Zhao Xin, who was busy aiming artillery, and at the same time, other company commanders also received the report!

Zhao Xin looked at the Spaniards who were charging here in a dense formation chanting slogans, and ordered loudly: "Assemble, assemble!" Formation, battle phalanx! ”

The Han Guards are not professional artillerymen, and it is not easy for them to turn to fire at artillery again in a short period of time, so they simply attack the enemy in the form of infantry!

Anyway, there are not many Spaniards rushing over than on your own!

The Han Guard, who was still struggling with the artillery a moment ago, quickly picked up his flintlock pistol and formed a horizontal phalanx in front of the artillery position!

This is the old job of the Han Guards, compared with the clumsiness of manipulating artillery, the Han Guards in line have regained their self-confidence!

The Spanish commander looked at the captured artillery positions that stopped bombardment, and a bitter smile crossed the corners of his mouth, he knew that the Spanish soldiers who had temporarily put together to attack the artillery positions might not be able to capture the artillery positions, but at least they could give the Spanish infantry who were fighting fiercely, reduce the time of being fired by their own artillery positions, the battle had reached the most intense time, and reducing the shell bombardment behind would undoubtedly make the Spanish infantry burst out with stronger combat effectiveness!

"Ready-aim-fire!"

Bang Bang Bang ......

A puff of white smoke floated up, and the charging Spanish soldiers suddenly fell, and the dense charging formation was disrupted!

"Get on the bayonet, charge!"

"Kill! Long live the Han Empire! ”

"Long live the Han Empire!"

"Hooray!"

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The soldiers of the Great Han Guards shouted exhilarating slogans and rushed to the Spaniards in disarray!

A terrible hand-to-hand battle descended on this improvised Spanish commando!