The Indian Fusiliers of the Aztec Republic are about to undergo a truly severe test!
And it wasn’t just one round, but a whole 19 rounds!
Although they had long learned the hollow phalanx under the guidance of military advisors sent by the Ming Dynasty, before today, they had never encountered cuirassiers on the battlefield who dared to attack the hollow phalanx. After all, the cuirassiers are a "noble soldier" here in New Spain, roughly equivalent to knights. Anyone who can become a cuirassier must be a "second-class native white"! Indo-Europeans can only serve as thankless light cavalry. And those "second-class native whites" who can become "knights" are also the best in their class. They are all colonial masters. Their families have big estates, and the lives of many maids are so precious! How can you just use it to fight?
So today, the soldiers of the third battalion of the Aztec Republic Army faced a real attack by the cavalry for the first time!
In the first wave of cuirassiers led by the Duke of Villahermosa just now, 200 Indian warriors from the fourth team of the third battalion of the Aztec Republican Army had already emptied the bullets in their fusiliers. , now the second wave of German cuirassiers have rushed forward again, it is definitely too late to reload bullets, it seems that they can only carry it with the flintlock rifle with bayonet in hand!
As the distance gets closer and closer, the more than a hundred German cuirassiers have spread out into two rows, one in front and one behind. Now you can see what those Indians wearing ridiculous tiger hats in front are doing? The Indians standing in the first two rows had given up loading and desperately picked up the flintlock rifle with a bayonet that could only be used as a short spear!
The Indians in the third row seemed to have their flintlocks on their shoulders. They lowered their heads and didn't know what they were busy with.
But no matter what they are busy with, as long as they can't conjure up an extra-long infantry spear, there's nothing to be afraid of!
Although Europe is now in the process of replacing long spears with bayonets, no one is so radical as to eliminate long spears. After all, the effectiveness of long spears in resisting cavalry is not comparable to that of flintlock rifles with bayonets.
So when these German cuirassiers confirmed that their opponents really only had flintlocks and no spears, they all shouted excitedly: "Victory! Hula! Victory! Hula"
As they shouted, the war horses under their crotches spread their hooves and sprinted at full speed. These war horses have been strictly trained and have already put life and death aside. Even if there is a hedgehog-like phalanx in front of them, they can still move forward blindfolded. Charge forward!
Just when the German cuirassiers thought they were sure of victory, the Indians in the third row who had lowered their heads just now and didn't know what they were doing suddenly calmly took out the already lit weapons. Wooden handle grenade!
"cast!"
Following an order from a Ming army officer who was in charge of the team, more than sixty "butt" smoking wooden handle grenades soared into the sky, drawing a very beautiful parabola in the air, and landed impartially. The German cuirassiers who were charging at full speed were ten steps ahead!
Seeing the grenade falling, the Indians in the first two rows who were a little panicked immediately became excited and shouted in unison: "God bless us, Amen!"
As soon as the "Amen" was spoken, the dozens of wooden-handled grenades exploded one by one, and the timing was quite accurate. The clouds of smoke were about to hit the German breastplate of the Indians' hollow phalanx. A grenade flew up and exploded in the middle of the cavalry team, and it was so painful!
Although the power of these grenades filled with Korean and Japanese gunpowder was limited, and it was impossible to completely blow up the momentum of the German cuirassiers' charge with a roar, they still caused great chaos and reduced most of the charge kinetic energy.
The horses and people hit by the shrapnel from the grenade all screamed and neighed. Some of them were directly hit by the fragments. Either the knight fell from the horse and hit the ground heavily, or both the man and the horse were injured. Horses that overturned, were either injured or frightened, ran away randomly, or even jumped in circles.
And those cuirassiers who were not injured by the grenade fragments were also a little panicked - why were these Indians still throwing bombs? They don’t follow martial ethics!
The cavalrymen panicked, and of course the team dispersed. The horses' charging momentum also weakened, and some cuirassiers simply went around the wings of the phalanx. But there were still twenty or thirty cuirassiers who persisted until the end, and they bravely slammed into the Indians' bayonet array with their men and horses!
This is a real head-to-head confrontation!
This group of German cuirassiers were indeed brave enough. Without dodging or dodging, they drove their horses directly into the Indians' bayonets, betting on who would give in first! The bet is your life! Either the Indian was knocked out by the collision of the war horse and fell half to death (or possibly completely dead) or simply trampled to death by the horse's hooves, or a sharp bayonet penetrated the chest of the war horse.
One side is a human life, the other is a horse's life, it depends on whose life is tougher!
Geng Juyi and Wu Shijue, who were standing in the Indian formation, had their hearts in their throats. They were now hiding in the hollow square formation, and they were also trapped in the hollow square formation. If they couldn't bear it, the square formation would Breaking, there was chaos all around, and it was difficult for those on horseback to escape as fast as they could!
Even if they can run away, today's battle for Don Carmen's estate will be defeated. The current Aztec Republic is "new". Although the republic is doing well, it is a grassroots country after all, and the various ethnic groups within it are... There are clear distinctions between each other. Although there are not many conflicts between the major ethnic groups of Han, Japanese, Ryukyus, Indians, Indo-Europeans, and native whites, they are not mixed into a group either.
In the words of later generations, this country has not yet formed a national identity and is still in a loose state!
Once a country suffers a disastrous failure, it is likely to fall apart!
As a short, terrifying "bang bang bang" sound sounded, the first wave of impact was over. Geng Juyi only saw that an Indian boy wearing a tiger skin hat had been hit by a "flying man", and headed towards him It flew over here, and with a final bang, it fell heavily to the ground. It hurt to hear the sound!
Geng Juyi quickly got off his horse, went forward and squatted down, helped the young Indian up, held him in his arms, and asked with concern in Spanish: "How are you, kid? Can you still hold on?"
The Indian was hit hard by a tall Iberian horse and fell hard. On the surface, there seemed to be no wounds, but the inner injuries were serious, commonly known as internal injuries! Now my whole body hurts everywhere, and I was about to lose consciousness, but I found that I was being hugged. I endured the pain and opened my eyes, and saw Geng Juyi's concerned expression.
"President, I'm fine." The young Indian had attended military school in the army and knew some Chinese. Now he started to speak Chinese, "Did I stop the Spanish bandits?"
Geng Juyi raised his head and looked forward. The front line had not collapsed. Most of the Spanish cavalry had retreated. Only three or five were left. They charged too hard and were now surrounded by Indians. They were holding the bayonets on their flintlock rifles. Poke them again!
"Blocked, blocked the child, we won!" Geng Juyi said loudly. As he spoke, he lowered his head and looked at the young Indian again, and found that his face was pale and red blood was flowing from the corner of his mouth. He looked like he was about to die.
At this time, Geng Juyi realized that he still didn't know his name, so he quickly asked: "My child, what is your name and where is your home?"
"My name is Yin Shengli! I have no family, I am an orphan, and a slave. Now, the Republic is my home."
These are the last words of an Indian martyr!
His surname "Yin" is a homophone of the first pronunciation of "Inca", "Yin". In the Aztec Republic, many Indians who began to be sinicized took "Yin" as their surname.
Most of these Hanized Indians were originally slaves. The slavery practiced by Spanish colonists in the New World has a nice name, "entrusted guardianship system", which means that the Indians have low intelligence, backward culture, and no ability to self-govern. The Spaniards must be the entrusted guardians and guardians of their lives. Production and living.
Theoretically, if an Indian under entrusted guardianship works for the entrusted guardian, the entrusted guardian must also pay wages, and there are limits on the tribute that the entrusted guardian can collect from the Indians.
But in the actual implementation process, the entrusted guardian is usually the slave owner, and he is also the most vicious slave owner!
Because the entrusted guardian is a "roving official" and is difficult to inherit, they have no ownership rights over the area and population under guardianship. At the same time, the Spanish government did not supervise them very much and could not control them. They simply allowed them to expropriate and exploit the Indians in their territory.
If those entrusted guardians were simply slave owners, serf owners or feudal lords, the situation would be better. After all, one's own "property" still needs to be protected, but they are not!
Therefore, it is not without reason that this Spanish New World colony later had a smaller population!
Among the Indians enslaved by these vicious entrusted guardians, the worst offenders were of course the Indians who were forced to mine. Every treasury and silver mine located in the Spanish colonies were filled with corpses covered with bones. pit!
However, the Roman Church and the Habsburg family, which are supposed to be responsible for all these crimes, have never apologized to the Indians in history. Is this probably the real extermination?
But now, it has only been less than 200 years since the Spanish colonized the New World, and the Indians have not yet been spiritually extinct. Therefore, those who identify most with the Aztec Republic and are most willing to devote themselves to the Republic are these original entrusted guardians. slave!
The Indian warriors who made up the second and third battalions of the Aztec Republican Army all came from several gold and silver mines in the Sierra Madre Mountains. Before they were liberated, they were all slaves of Spanish guardians!
Therefore, they have the deepest hatred for Spain and the strongest love for the Republic!
In today's battle, these Indians are all determined to die!
The Duke of Villahermosa, who has retreated to a safe area, still doesn't know what kind of enemy he has encountered? But he still witnessed the second round of cavalry charges being repelled by the Indians.
But it doesn’t matter, there are still 18 rounds left!
Under the pretended calm gaze of the Spanish Duke, the charge of the third team of German cuirassiers began again! At the same time, the Indian fusiliers who were preparing to meet them had already completed reloading quickly.
What awaits them will be a volley of musket fire!
"Bang the drum, move forward!"
On the other side of the battlefield, Zeng Yangxing, who commanded a total of 4,000 fusiliers, had also discovered that Geng Juyi on the left wing was trapped, so he no longer allowed his fusiliers to use dense rain of bullets to kill the Spanish left wing. The soldiers decisively gave the order to charge with bayonets.
In the previous musket exchange, Zeng Yangxing's 4,000 fusiliers had the upper hand. Because their opponents only had 1,600 men, including 400 pikemen, and there were only 1,200 real musketeers. What's even worse is that the Spaniards are not yet equipped with cavity ammunition, so they have no skirmishers capable of long-range and accurate shooting.
After several rounds of shooting between the two sides, the Spanish front line was already riddled with casualties, littered with corpses and wounded people rolling in pools of blood. Fortunately, the smoke filling the battlefield became thicker and thicker, blocking the sight of both sides, so the shooting accuracy on both sides was lost. Otherwise, the more than a thousand Spaniards would have been shot dead.
But now, the once nurturing boss was about to die, and he had no patience to slowly grind it out with the enemy, so he simply let his fusiliers push forward against the Spanish bullets.
The Spaniards on the opposite side found that their opponent suddenly stopped shooting and shouted the slogan "Kill the Western thieves and go to heaven". They immediately knew that something was wrong - the enemy was coming!
That’s thousands of people!
So he didn't care about the smoke ahead, and just fired desperately, trying to use the firepower of the flintlock gun to block those damn Aztec Republic troops.
However, as the barrels of their muskets became hotter and hotter, the German mercenaries' firing rate gradually slowed down, and the shooting organization disappeared, completely disrupting the guns.
Amidst the sound of musketry, the soldiers of the Aztec Republican Army continued to fall. But the remaining people are still moving forward and unfolding. Using the cover of the smoke, Zeng Yangxing adjusted the formation of his men from one large column to two large horizontal formations. One of them was just going up front, and the other was going around the left wing of the Spanish army. And the one going up and just fronting was, of course, Two fusilier battalions composed of Indians!
The designations of these two battalions are the 7th Aztec Battalion and the 8th British Battalion. Among them, the Indians also suffered greatly and had deep hatred!
Since there is a grudge, it is time to take revenge now! Only by taking revenge will the Aztec Republic rise!
The 2,000 Republican troops pressing up from the front were moving faster and were already 50 steps closer to the Spaniards, but the signal to stop the advance had not yet been heard.
At this time, there was another flash of fire ahead, it was Spanish mercenaries shooting! Zeng Yangxing, who was marching behind his own formation, felt his heart tighten, and then he saw some more Indians in the front row falling down. But the vacant positions were quickly filled by soldiers in the back row.
All the Indians just shouted the slogan "Kill the bandits and go to heaven" and moved forward firmly with firm steps! He walked forward with an indomitable momentum. Not to mention this momentum in the New World, even on the battlefields of Europe and China, I am afraid it can only be possessed by the first-class elite soldiers!
The German mercenaries in Spain were already in panic, not only because the Indians on the opposite side were not afraid of death, but were about to shoot them in the nose with muskets! Even more because the other two Han infantry battalions have been forced to their left flank!
There is absolutely no one on the left wing to defend. It is really impossible to draw out anyone!
What to do now? Are you facing enemies from both sides? Is it difficult to see God?
Also, why hasn’t the Aztec left wing collapsed? Can't we take down 4,000 German mercenary infantry and 2,000 German cuirassiers? Are those people really German? Why is it so useless? If the French couldn't defeat them, couldn't the Indians win?
Just as they were thinking of this, the German fusiliers who were about to be outflanked suddenly saw a horrific scene that they would never forget for the rest of their lives (they were running out of money, there was not much left in their lives).
The Aztec musketeers had already rushed to the open space less than 20 steps away from them. A gust of breeze blew by, and most of the smoke dissipated. So everyone could see that the enemy's flintlock guns had been laid flat, and there were rows of black holes. The gun is pointed at them!
More than a thousand Germans felt numb all over and stared blankly ahead. It was too late to escape. The only thing waiting for them now was to be shot.
(End of chapter)
