"Yu'er."

Seeing his nephew fall into the mud, Liu Quan hurriedly stepped forward.

Several pro-soldiers hurriedly helped Liu Yu up.

Liu Yu waved his hand,

The tension and exhaustion of several days made Liu Yu, a person whose soul comes from modern times, a little unbearable.

However, the joy of beating away the Spaniards and the excitement of picking up equipment kept him going.

"Uncle, I'm okay."

He gritted his teeth and stood up again.

The whole camp gradually quieted down, and the Ming army gradually took control of the entire Spanish camp.

Li Daoan walked over,

"Why, the Spanish general escaped." He asked.

"Yes, the firearms of the Francophile are indeed powerful." Liu Quan nodded and sighed.

"General Li, what's the matter, the pikemen have also broken through?" Liu Yu looked at the empty front door of the camp.

A large number of corpses of Ming soldiers lay on the muddy ground, and the blood soaked the entire front door of the camp.

"These Franc machines are dressed in iron armor, and their swords are invulnerable, and they form a phalanx and directly rush through our defenses."

"Those Franc machine people are covered in iron armor, but it reminds me of the iron army under the command of the country's surname." Li Dao'an has palpitations,

The combat power of the Spanish pikemen was indeed amazing, and they carried the Ming army's arrows under the absolute weakness of the number and forcibly broke out of the encirclement set by the Ming army.

Many Ming soldiers were killed by the spears held by pikemen.

On the entire battlefield, the corpses of pikemen were the least, scattered under the cluster of arrows.

And the corpses of the Ming soldiers fell in a pile.

"Chop off the banner of the Francophile and put up the banner of the Ming Dynasty." Li Daoan ordered.

Not far away, the soldiers of the Ming army cut off the flag of the Spanish garrison and erected the flag of the Ming army.

Inside a large indigenous camp a few miles from the Spanish camp.

All night, the soldiers listened in horror to the gunfire and fighting coming from a nearby Spanish camp.

Due to Bolu's serious injuries and still in a coma, the entire Shengfan camp fell into an embarrassing situation where no one could command.

And today's siege battle has caused heavy losses to the soldiers of the major tribes.

Out of resentment towards the Spaniards. and dissatisfaction with Bleux.

Several tribal generals tacitly ordered that the troops should not leave the camp.

Didn't you Spaniards treat our soldiers as cannon fodder?

Then the Ming army will let you Spaniards fight it.

Of course, what they never dreamed of was that the Spanish soldiers led by Gil'an were defeated by the Ming army in one night.

When the flag of the Ming army was raised in the Spanish camp.

Both the Tagalogites and the Bangbangya were in despair.

The fear of being dominated by the artillery of the Ming army once again came to my heart, and suddenly the camp was in chaos.

The alliance of several tribes collapsed in an instant.

Even the Spaniards were defeated, so what was the use of staying on their own.

Early in the morning,

Hundreds of soldiers took refuge in the dense rainforest, fleeing to nowhere.

Boru's own soldiers watched as the Bang Bang Ya and others fled the camp,

Knowing that the general situation was gone, Bolu's personal soldiers had no choice but to flee in a hurry under the leadership of several Spanish village chiefs on their backs.

"Newspaper,"

"Seeing that our army hung up the bright flag, the Shengfan soldiers scattered and fled, and our army has occupied the Shengfan camp." A herald returns.

Lee Do-an laughed,

"This life has long been a frightened bird, and seeing my flag hanging on the camp of the Francophiles, I really did a bird and beast."

"Don't you have to send an army to chase and kill?"

"I'm worried about the convergence of Ikuban and Franc Jiren." Liu Quan said worriedly.

Yesterday, Liu Quan was deeply impressed by the firearms of the Franco-Rang machine man and the ferocity of Bolu's own soldiers.

If you can take the initiative to attack and completely wipe out the two groups before they converge, Mingcheng will undoubtedly be much safer.

"No need, we have lost too much in this battle." Li Daoan shook his head.

"Besides, the Luzon rainforest is intricate, and if you go deeper, you risk extinction." Li Daoan analyzed.

Looking at the exhausted soldiers under his command, Liu Quan sighed and gently retracted the long knife from its scabbard.

"Order the army to return to the city immediately, and the Shenji Association will leave cover to clean up the battlefield." Li Daoan left Liu Yu and his Shenji battalion behind, and hurriedly led the soldiers back to Mingcheng.

To say that staying is also Liu Yu's spontaneous behavior.

The Spaniards left in a hurry, leaving behind a lot of good things in the huge camp, except for ordering the remaining Ming troops to clean up the battlefield and carry the corpses.

Liu Yu also personally led the soldiers to search for the objects left by the Spaniards in the camp.

The Spaniards made a deep impression on Liu Yu and the Ming army present.

Both pikemen and grenadiers and musketeers inflicted heavy casualties on the Ming army, and this was when the Spanish army was attacked and the commander miscommanded.

Looking at the Spanish weapons left behind, Liu Yu broke out in a cold sweat.

"By this time, the Spanish army was already equipped with grenades." Picking up the metal balls discarded by the Spaniards in the camp, Liu Yu sighed.

It was a uniformly sized metal sphere, with an apparent grip protruding from the bottom of the sphere, and an arquebus on the side.

Although there are some differences compared to modern grenades, they are really not much worse.

If it weren't for the rain soaking the arquebus, I'm afraid that the Ming army would have suffered heavy casualties with the help of grenadiers.

In Gil'an's main camp, Liu Yu seized a map of the Luzon garrison and the letter that Gil'an had written to Governor Juan.

Since the Shenji Battalion absorbed a lot of local Han Chinese in Luzon as soldiers, Liu Yu was not afraid of not being able to read Spanish.

found a Han man who could understand Spanish, and translated the text in the letter to Liu Yu in 1510.

Liu Yu was also amazed.

For Europe, which has already sailed, the current Ming army is indeed too backward.

In fact, if it weren't for the mistakes of the Spanish commander and this heavy rain, the Ming army really couldn't beat the Spaniards.

For the Ming army, it was imminent to carry out military restructuring.

Liu Yu picked up the letter and made up his mind.

After this battle,

Although the Spanish army did not give full play to its maximum combat power, Liu Yu still sensed the strength of the Spanish army.

The musketeers armed with flintlock muskets fired from a distance as the main attacking force, and the pikemen in heavy plate armor used the plate armor and spears to block the incoming cavalry to protect the musketeers.

And the grenadiers used grenades against incoming enemy troops, and could even be used in siege battles.

Each class works closely together to inflict maximum damage on the enemy.

Comparatively, the Shenji Camp is much shabby.

Not to mention the money-burning arms like pikemen, even Liu Yu didn't think of preparing grenades.

The Ming army could have followed the example of the Spanish army and added grenadiers and pikemen to the army.

The manufacture of grenades was relatively simple, although in the seventeenth century the performance of black powder was poor, basically one explosion was in half, but its momentum could make the cavalry frightened, and could better protect the musketeers.

At the same time, it must be equipped with a spear,

For the Ming army, it was impossible to rely on firearms in its fullest.

Neither arquebuses nor smoothbore flintlock pistols have too long a range, poor accuracy, and more importantly, the reloading is too cumbersome, and the most important thing on the battlefield is time.

What if the Tartar cavalry rushes over while you are reloading?

Installing a bayonet on a self-fired gun?

In any case, the bayonet and musket are not as long as the spear,

The Ming army still had to prepare standard cold weapons.

And a spear is the best option.

As for the protection of the Ming army,

I vaguely remember that during the period when the surname of the country was Ye, there was an iron army under his command, brave and good at fighting.

Although the current Ming army can't afford to prepare such heavy armor, the phalanx composed of armor and spears may be able to block the attack of the Eight Banners cavalry and protect their own firecrackers.

When counterattacking the continent in the future,

In the south, it is true that you can rely on the naval division and the terrain of the south of the Yangtze River to restrain the cavalry of the Eight Banners, after all, it is recognized that the combat effectiveness of the Manchu Tartars declined after entering the customs.

But when you have to go to the north, there is no terrain to rely on, and there are endless plains everywhere, how to face the Tartar cavalry.

At that time, it was not enough to form cavalry, and it was still necessary to rely on infantry to decide the outcome.

For the current Ming army, it is very important to follow the example of the Spaniards to form such a multi-class army with pikemen, musketeers, grenadiers, archers, etc.