As the sun gradually rose, after the 40,000 Western troops began to move, on the other side of this wilderness, in the camp of the expeditionary force of the Hunghitizgan Kingdom and its allies, the 20,000 soldiers of the Eastern Army had all eaten breakfast, and walked out of the camp tents one after another to arrange the troops before the battle.

As if to correspond to Cortés' deployment, the traversers placed the Aztec army of Emperor Cuauchtmoc on the right flank and the Tlaxcala warriors of Sicato Lesser on the left flank, just in time for the Aztecs on both sides to kill the Aztecs and the Tlaxcalans to kill the Tlaxcalas. As the core force, the expeditionary force of the Kingdom of Hungshutizgan was deployed on the central front and was personally supervised by Crown Prince Wendehei. As the supreme leader, Director Ma naturally sits firmly in the rear and is closely protected by the most elite Hongxiu Tizgan warriors.

Navaez, the one-eyed dragon, also joined the fight against the Cortés gang with a Spanish army, and was placed on the central front. Some of his men were the remnants of the Cuban expedition, but many more were from his recent enemy, Castillo, Cortés' general, a motley mercenary recruited from the Spanish colonies in the Caribbean islands with the help of the governor of Hispaniola.

Previously, Cortés had brought most of his mercenaries to attack the city of Tenochtitlan, but a small number remained in Veracruz. These rabbles had no friendship with Cortés, and the reason why they crossed the ocean to Mexico was purely to make a fortune. They can follow Cortez to fight in order to make a fortune, and naturally they can also slash their swords at Cortez in order to make a fortune.

Thus, after Baron García, the commander of the fleet on the island of Hispaniola, changed his attitude, most of the mercenaries, with the exception of a few of Cortés' cronies, who were all about milk and motherhood, immediately accepted the "high-priced" employment of the traversers without restraint - each of them was given a bundle of "precious" oriental silk - and turned around and attacked his old employer, Cortés, under the leadership of the one-eyed dragon Navaes, who was thirsty for revenge.

The killing of their fellow Spaniards, who had already done it once before in Puerto Veracruz, didn't mind doing it again at all.

By this supplementary route, Navaez had recovered to six hundred men, but only three horses, much to his concern.

“…… Dear gentlemen, although your army is better equipped, it is only half the number of the other side. Moreover, Cortés has about two hundred cavalry, and we have only three horses, and he will surely use this assault liliang skillfully to find our weak points to strike...... So, before the war begins, let's send someone over again to persuade us to surrender! The fleet of Hispaniola has now fallen to us, and Cortés has no way out, even if he himself is determined to fight to the end, at least among his men, there should be some people who will be shaken! ”

The one-eyed dragon Navaez once again repeated the same old tune and brought up his plan to surrender - as the so-called poor people must have something to hate, this unlucky guy's biggest problem in personality is that at the critical moment when he needs to let go the most to fight, he always can't distinguish between priorities and priorities, and looks forward and hesitates at an inopportune time, which leads to Zuihou's missed opportunity.

Therefore, the traversers who tried to use this battle to shili Liwei on all sides did not consider his surrender at all.

“…… Mr. Navaez, let's wait until we win this battle! Otherwise, the other party will not consider it at all. ”

Under the sweltering summer sun, Wang Qiu, who was sweating profusely, waved his hand disapprovingly while pouring mineral water into his mouth, "...... Rest assured, we're in control! ”…,

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As the sun rose higher and higher, the war drums finally rang out.

The two large armies began to advance slowly, moving closer to each other.

According to the practice of primitive societies, the prelude to the outbreak of war is always a long-range attack like a storm.

Although the way humans kill their own kind from long ranges, first from stones to javelins, from javelins to bows and arrows, then artillery and muskets, missiles and bombers, has become more powerful and has a longer range, but in essence, they are all the same long-range strikes.

The Chinese rocket weapons, which had impressed Cortés in the city of Chorula - of course, not a beautiful impression - in order to cope with the rocket attack of the other side, Cortés placed all thirty shipborne guns newly obtained from the island fleet of Hispaniola on the central front. And having learned the lessons of the last time the guns were captured, trailers were built for these guns to facilitate timely maneuvering.

According to his assumption, before the opponent starts a white-knuckle battle with his side, he will inevitably endure several rounds of solid bullets and shotguns, and even if he is not crushed and defeated, at least the array will be disrupted and the combat effectiveness will be weakened.

In this way, the Spanish mercenaries with the strongest combat effectiveness under their command will have the opportunity to break through from the center and cut through the enemy formation in one fell swoop.

It is a pity that the five centuries of military jishu generation difference will always bring only despair to the backward side.

Cortés underestimated the range of modern rockets, even the civilian version, and underestimated the "ammunition stock" in the hands of the traverser.

With the explosion of a series of large artillery battles as a signal, before the Spanish gunners began to prepare for reloading, the enemy had already begun to bombard.

First of all, when the two armies were still far apart, there were 500 "flying water pipes", whistling across a distance of more than three kilometers, and smashed on the heads of the Cortés expedition and its indigenous allies, blasting them out of the way, and their flesh and blood flew everywhere.

Then, as the distance between the two sides approached, the large rocket fireworks bombs ordered by the Liuyang Flower Cannon Factory also began to exert their power -- because this battle was a decisive battle, and the fireworks bombs had a shelf life, and they were easy to get damp and deteriorate after a long time. Therefore, the traversers did not spare ammunition at all, and fired 6,000 large fireworks shells in the first round, and fired five rounds in a row......

For a time, the "rocket storm" composed of 30,000 rounds of firefire bombs and nearly 10 tons of modern gunpowder filled the entire sky with writhing black shadows and red flames, and also completely shrouded one side of the battlefield in gray-white gunsmoke. The deafening screaming made people's eardrums sour, and the pungent smell of gunpowder choked everyone's cough. And at the other end of this battlefield, a terrible sea of fire and blood has formed.

-- Although these civilian versions of rockets are always in an irregular Brownian motion in the sky, and it is basically useless to play the game of accurately sniping a single target, covering strikes have always been the strong point of rocket weapons.

Accompanied by a dazzling burst of firelight, the fireworks, which had been transformed by the expert Maimaiti, burst one after another, and the iron nails, steel balls and lead wires pre-tied to the body of the bomb to enhance the lethality flew everywhere in the dense crowd, like cutting wheat, overturning and sweeping down the pieces of unlucky eggs.

All of a sudden, the Spanish gunners, who had been blown up to the ground and scattered, ignited their guns one after another, regardless of the fact that the enemy had not yet entered the effective firing range, and then were disappointed to see that the enemy was almost unaffected -- the range of artillery in this era was generally only about one kilometer, and the effective killing distance was even shorter. And because the Cortez expedition had to go over the mountains, most of the guns carried were the lightest eagle guns. In the Age of Discovery, this thing was mainly used to bombard enemy ships and jump gangs with shotguns during broadside battles, and the range could hit 200 meters was considered good. …,

What's worse is that in the case of almost the difference in hit rate, the rate of fire between the two sides is hundreds of times different.

-- As long as a light modern rocket is placed on the ground, roughly aimed in the direction, and then the electric lighter switch is pressed, or a match is struck directly to ignite the fuse, it can "boom" into the sky, and then nothing needs to be done.

And every bombardment of the old artillery, it is necessary to clean the chamber in advance, restore the gun position, reload the propellant and shells, and the frequency of the bombardment must not be too fast, so as not to overheat the barrel and cause the bore to burst......

In this way, the interval between each bombardment of an old 16th-century gun is enough for the slowest soldier to fire five rockets. In addition, the Spaniards only had a total of thirty artillery pieces, while the "RPG rocket shooters" under the command of the Traveler numbered hundreds or thousands......

Thirty solid shells against 30,000 rockets, such a huge difference in firepower is really desperate enough.

As a result, after two or three rounds of fruitless counterattacks, the Spanish artillery positions, which were the "key objects of care", were completely overwhelmed by hundreds of rockets, accompanied by the roar of a powder keg being detonated, and became a raging sea of fire.

As the distance between the two sides approached about 200 meters, the "female migrant workers" of the RPG unit of the Expeditionary Force of the Hongxiu Tizgan Kingdom also fired the "Drill Sky Monkey" rockets they were distributed.

In order to obtain the maximum lethal effect, according to the orders of the "gods and men", this time they no longer pursued the accuracy, and launched them one by one with steel pipe guides, but each of them took rows of dozens of "drill monkeys" and directly inserted them into the ground to ignite, and tens of thousands of them were released at once -- anyway, the battle lines of both sides stretched for several miles, and there was no need to think about the problem of aiming at all, as long as the direction was not wrong, they would definitely be able to hit people......

For a moment, the overwhelming rockets flew like raindrops, the sunlight was almost obscured by the billowing smoke, and the countless orange-red tail flames that had been dragged out illuminated the tumbling smoke...... As an unlucky ghost facing the direction of the advance of the "PRG troops", the central front of the Western Army withstood the most intense rocket bombardment in a short period of time and was almost smashed alive.

The Spanish adventurers recruited from the colonies of the Caribbean islands, although they were also very frightened by this meteor shower, had seen the great scene of artillery bombardment, and at least they were not frightened to collapse.

But the problem is that the other part of the central front of the Western Army, that is, the Indian Native Miscellaneous Army that was fooled by Cortez, does not have such a good psychological quality. When they saw the thunder flashing in the sky and the flesh and blood flying everywhere, they were already frightened, thinking that the gods were angry, so they fled in pieces before they could engage in battle, and even disrupted the array of the Spanish expedition.

In order to prevent his own army from collapsing without a fight, Cortés had no choice but to use the cavalry as a warlord, shouting and slashing hundreds of deserters with his sword, but he could not completely stop the collapse of the central front. Zuihou, he could only drive the relatively reliable Spanish mercenaries to the top, forcing and coercing these cowards, and continued to push forward indiscriminately.