In this regard, Gil'an couldn't cry or laugh,

What was the courage that made these Han Chinese troops recklessly launch a sneak attack on the Spanish army?

Do these Han people really think that they can sneak attack the Spanish army with heavy rain, just like the Filipino natives attacked Mingcheng with heavy rain?

If it was in the past, with heavy rain making the army's firearms unusable, so that a surprise war could indeed turn defeat into victory,

But he led a field army armed with flintlock muskets!

"It looks like I'm overestimating these Han Chinese." Gil An smiled bitterly, and then suddenly his face turned cold, and said,

"Order the musketeers to assemble, and the spears to cover the front and the flanks."

Following Gil'an's order, the Spanish soldiers in the nearby camp urgently assembled.

A large number of Spanish musketeers, under the command of the lieutenant, walked out of the camp with flintlock muskets that they carried with them,

They assembled in front of the main tent, the canvas tent shielded from the rain, and the Spanish musketeers calmly loaded the gunpowder.

Beside them, a Spanish pikeman in armor armed with a spear was guarding them.

Thunder rolls in,

The fighting became more and more intense, and finally the Spanish avant-garde troops could not resist the defeat and retreated.

Hundreds of Ming soldiers rushed from the outskirts of the camp in the heavy rain.

At this moment, it was only a few dozen paces away from the musket team led by Gil'an.

With this distance of dozens of paces, the musketeers can be loaded and fired once, Jill silently calculated.

"Order the pikemen to disarm and encircle the enemy flanks." Gil'an suddenly gave such an order, and the adjutant screamed.

"Colonel, this is not in accordance with the regulations of the field." The adjutant looked at Gil'an, who suddenly changed the battle order in front of him, incredulously.

"Captain, I don't need you to teach me the rules of field warfare yet." Gil Ann scolded.

The pikemen on both sides who had not yet assembled rushed to the two wings of the Ming army in a panic at this moment.

Gil'an also suddenly remembered a very important thing when he did this.

The Spanish artillery is still in the hills,

Because the artillery was too heavy, six Saiko guns and dozens of artillery pieces were all on the hill not far away.

If the Han army dares to attack its own camp, then it is bound to attack the artillery on the hill.

Therefore, he must now completely annihilate the invading Ming army, so as to immediately support the hills.

It was impossible to quickly annihilate this Han army with tedious musketeers, and it was necessary to outflank the pikemen in order to annihilate the Ming army in the shortest possible time.

A round of musketeers should be able to scare these Han Chinese, right?

Gil'an looked at the approaching Han army, and Gil'an breathed a sigh of relief.

But in an instant, Gil'an's face that had just relaxed froze,

Flash of thunder,

With that thunderous light, Gil An seemed to see that the Ming soldiers who rushed towards him were holding in their hands as if they were not the expected broadswords and spears, as if they were in the hands of his own people.

It's a musket!

"Boom!"

A thick bolt of thunder and lightning streaked across the night sky,

Sparks bloomed in the rain......

The Spanish soldier's eyes widened in horror,

Several bullet holes appeared on his body inexplicably, and blood and rain pooled and flowed down.

Gil Ann was stunned,

The Spanish musketeers present were also stunned,

Why could the Ming army use muskets on rainy days?

"Oh no," Gil'an's face turned pale,

Attacking the Spanish musketeers' defense line was naturally the First Association of the Shenji Battalion,

These days, the firearms department has worked overtime to produce more than 20 self-generated firearms.

Now the Ming army has more than 40 self-generated firearms,

When storming the Spanish musketeers' lines, a total of more than 30 self-generated muskets were successfully fired.

In an instant, more than twenty Spanish musketeers in the first queue were knocked over.

"Kill!"

Liu Yu, who rushed to the front, shouted,

Behind the First Association, the long knife soldiers who had already been prepared swarmed out and killed the musketeers who were in a chaotic formation.

"Kill a Franc machine man, and reward 20 taels of silver." Liu Yu shouted.

"Kill!"

"Kill these Hongyi." For a while, the sound of the Ming army's killing was shocking, and its momentum even overshadowed the rumbling thunder, and even the Spanish pikemen who came over on the side were terrified when they heard it.

The Spanish musketeers gathered more than fifty men under the command of Gilan, and the first salvo of the Ming army killed and wounded about twenty musketeers.

Under the cover of the Shenji Battalion, Liu Quanqin led 50 long knife soldiers less than twenty steps away from the Spanish musketeers.

The Spanish musketeers, who had already been prepared for a long time by the Shenji battalion to fire a salvo, were already panicked and lost the cover of the pikemen.

At this moment, the Spanish musketeers, who had loaded their ammunition, had no choice but to fire indiscriminately at the Ming soldiers.

The Ming army rushed at the musketeers with rattan shields in hand, and although eight or nine Ming soldiers were shot in the face and fell to the ground in the torso, the threat of the musketeers was nothing more.

"Not good, quick, grenadiers!" Gil Ann shouted.

"Colonel, the rain is too great for the grenade inquiring fuse used by the grenadiers to ignite." The adjutant reminded.

"Lost, the company of musketeers is gone." Jir'an's mind went blank at this time,

At this moment, the Spanish musketeers have already fled in all directions,

Although the musketeers at this time could also use bayonets to stuff their guns into the guns to fight the Ming army in close combat, but with the ruthless methods of the Ming army, these musketeers soon collapsed and fled in all directions.

The musketeers themselves are under the protection of the pikemen, relying on flintlock muskets to shoot the attacking enemy, if the enemy withstands the first volley to the musketeer,

The pikemen parried the attack, and the musketeers, protected by the pikemen, quickly reloaded their ammunition again to kill the enemy with a second shot.

Gil'an miscalculated,

He didn't expect that Liu Yu deliberately did not show the Shenji Battalion during today's city battle, causing Gil'an to mistakenly believe that the Ming army only had arquebuses, and the Ming army could not use firearms against the enemy in rainy days.

The conceited Gil'an immediately ordered the pikemen to surround and outflank,

The Spanish musketeers, who lost the protection of the pikemen, were beaten by the Shenji Battalion led by Liu Yu and fired before the Spanish musketeers were reloaded, and the swordsmen led by Liu Quan behind them were only twenty paces away from the musketeers.

At such a close distance, in the face of the impact of the Ming army, it was naturally a big loss.

For the Ming army, the musketeers who posed the greatest threat were killed by the Ming army under Liu Yu's forbearance and Gil'an's conceit.

And Jill was still stunned on the side, unable to return to his senses for a long time.

"How can these Orientals have flintlock pistols, who sold them, Portuguese, English ......"

"Also, why didn't they use it today in the face of the indigenous Filipino attack?" The corners of Gil'an's mouth twitched, and he spoke incoherently.

"Officer, the Han people are rushing over." The adjutant next to him desperately pulled the commander who was stunned by a round of gunfire from the Ming army.

Commanding the grenadiers who stayed behind, he said:

"You take cover here and stop the enemy from continuing the attack."

The grenadier commander on the side nodded,

Command your men to form a line of defense,

To say grenadiers,

to be a characteristic of Western military affairs,

In the army, select the best arm strength to serve,

It is responsible for throwing explosives such as grenades, which are hollowed-out metal spheres filled with black powder.

It has a good effect on siege warfare and against the impact of the opposing cavalry.

However, this class also has limitations, such as rainy days,

The heavy rain extinguished the fire,

They won't be able to play what they do best.

The climate in Southeast Asia is humid and abnormal, especially when heavy rains come.

Both the Ming army and the Spaniards had strict moisture-proof specifications for gunpowder.

Therefore, when the gunpowder was taken from a sealed powder keg, the gunpowder was not damp under the protection of strict moisture-proof means.

When the grenadiers' fire ropes were usually carried by themselves, they had already been soaked by the rainstorm.

It can be said that in this night raid, the Spaniards fought quite fiercely,

First of all, the musketeers were shot first by the Ming army because of carelessness,

And the grenadiers were useless due to heavy rains.

At this moment, they were naturally blocked in front of Liu Quan and his long sword soldiers as meat shields.

When the pikemen nearby saw this, they just wanted to turn back,

Unexpectedly, the shouts of killing outside the camp were overwhelming,

The pikemen commander turned around and saw hundreds of Ming soldiers outside the camp wielding spears and broadswords rushing in directly.

"Kill." The main force of the Ming army led by Li Daoan also arrived.

"Kill a Francophone man, and reward fifty taels of silver!" Li Daoan roared,

"Kill!"

"Fifty taels!"

Hundreds of soldiers of the Ming army rushed forward,

They screamed, wielding spears or broadswords, and charged at the Spanish pikemen without hesitation.