Bursts of bullets rained down on the mountain road known as the New Maling Road by the merchants, beating the chaotic Spaniards until they howled like ghosts and screamed again and again. The cry spread out of the valley and reached the ears of the Yin family cavalry who were lurking on a densely forested hillside. These Yin family cavalry are the Junggar cavalry who followed the Yin family's three thousand-household princes. They number about 3,600 and are governed by three thousand-household princes respectively. Each Qianhuhou has 1,200 subordinates, but only four to five hundred are subordinates of that Qianhuhou. The rest are from the Yin family's great Khan Zhu Celing, but are managed by three Qianhuhou.
In the woods, three thousand and hundreds of Yin family cavalry and their horses were still recharging their strength. They were originally lying in ambush in a hidden valley nearby. After the Spaniards entered the ambush circle set by the merchant infantry through the valley entrance, they rushed over to occupy the favorable terrain and prepare to launch the second wave of ambush. Because we were rushing in a bit of a hurry, and the road was not easy to walk, the uphill and downhill trips were quite tiring for the horses, so there were not many people around at the moment, so the horses had to let them slow down.
Of course they had heard the intensive gunshots coming from the north, and they all showed excited expressions. These Yin cavalry are all "all-round cavalry", equipped not only with bows and arrows, sabers, carbines, breastplates, but also grenades and rifled guns! It is an all-around cavalry that can do everything from riding on to dismounting, killing people, shooting, throwing bombs, but is not good at anything.
But now they have rifled guns and cork bullets (minie bullets), and their marksmanship is quite accurate, so they have become very powerful.
In theory, rifled guns and cork bullets can be used to snipe enemy artillery, and the cavalry is highly mobile. If there are hundreds or thousands of "sniper cavalry" running around on the battlefield, specifically looking for enemy officers and artillery, is this battle still a sure win?
Today, the Yin family cavalry setting up an ambush outside Xinmaling Road are all under the unified command of Cering Dunduobu, one of the three thousand households of the Yin family. Although this Qianhu Marquis of Celing was the last of the three thousand households of the Yin family to arrive in the New World, he could not stand up to his father Galdan's brother. He was Zhu Celing's nominal cousin. To the Mongolians who pay attention to blood origin, he was Of course he is the number one prince of the Yin family!
Moreover, his military talent is obviously higher than that of Dugar Alabutan and Danjin Omu. Among the Yin family cavalry, he is the only one who knows how to combine rifled guns with cavalry.
So while others were busy serving the war horses, he was busy running between the positions of the hundreds of households, explaining the order of shooting and cavalry assault to the hundreds of households below, and sometimes helping the people below to set up formations and ambush. . It’s been a busy time!
When the Spaniards rushed out from the mouth of the Xinmaling Road Valley in the north, he had just arranged the cavalry of the twenty-one hundred families participating in the ambush. The hills near Seagrass Beach are neither very tall nor steep, but they are very suitable for ambush. The only drawback is that the vegetation is well preserved and is virgin forest that has never been cut down, which is not conducive to cavalry formations.
In addition, there are no big trees on this hillside starting from the middle of the mountain. They have been cut down and used for construction of some major projects... And from the hillside with trees to the mountain road below, there is still about 100 trees. A distance of two hundred steps.
Therefore, Cering Dunduobu could only disperse the cavalry in groups in the woods east of the Maling Road exit, and asked these cavalry to dismount first and shoot from a long distance with the rifles in their hands. After first loading three or two rounds of bullets, they hit Spain. After the people's formation was completely confused. From right to left, the cavalry charges were launched one after another. They should not charge too fast, otherwise they would easily step on tree roots. After rushing down the hillside, they would have to adjust their formations to form horizontal formations.
The difficulty of the impact is quite high!
After the deployment was completed, Ce Lingcai flew back to his central army located high on the hillside. Before he could even take a breath, the Spaniards were already running out of the Malingdao Valley in chaos.
Ce Ling quickly took out his binoculars and took a look. Only after taking a look did he realize that the "Spanish elite soldiers" who had been shot by more than 3,000 rifled guns for less than half an hour were already in a mess. This was the first time they had encountered such a beating. The fast and accurate rifled gun has been stunned for a long time. Where is the queue? In order to escape quickly, many soldiers even threw their spears and flintlocks away without knowing where they were. Such "elite soldiers" actually wiped out big countries like the Aztecs and Incas with hundreds or thousands of them. I really don't know if these Spanish "elite soldiers" themselves died, or if the indigenous empires of the New World were just too weak. ?
Just when Ce Ling was a little confused, groups of Spaniards who had just escaped from the valley were already at his feet!
If you don't fire, they will run away!
"Signal rocket! Fire rocket!"
When the Spanish army was ambushing in the valley just now, because the surrounding area was relatively quiet, they were able to use the cannon to issue the order to attack.
Now it was no longer possible, the sound of gunshots inside and outside the valley became audible - there were still some "short-legged" Spaniards trapped in the valley, firing guns desperately to resist!
Who can hear the trumpet blast again now? All we can do is launch rockets!
With a piercing scream followed by a roar, the Spaniards who had just rushed out of the valley once again became a living target and were knocked over many times.
"Count, there are merchant musketeers on the mountain!"
When intensive gunfire rang out again, Garcia, who had arrived at Count San Crist's side at some point, dragged the count's horse and ran south while yelling at the count.
Earl St. Chris, who had long been accustomed to defeats, still managed to maintain the composure that a good general should have. He turned his head and looked at the east hillside, breathed a sigh of relief, and laughed.
"Count, why are you laughing?" Alfonso Garcia didn't understand.
He has never lost so many battles, so how can he know the "happiness" of losing a battle?
"I'm laughing at those barbarians!" Count St. Chris shouted, "Look at the gentle hillside there. Any European military strategist... would have ambushed a cavalry on the hillside. Then we But it’s so miserable!”
We are already miserable!
Alfonso Garcia thought to himself: "I was being used as a target by others from a high position! And I couldn't fight back because our muskets couldn't hit them as far as they did..."
As soon as he thought of this, someone beside him was shot and fell to the ground screaming.
"Earl, let's go quickly and get out of here."
Alfonso Garcia pulled the count and wanted to leave here as soon as possible. At this moment, he suddenly heard the cry of war horses, followed by the "puff" sound of Ti hitting the ground, and then he saw groups of lancers pouring out of the woods on the hillside - holding long guns, Lancers wearing breastplates and "bird feather helmets"!
When Count St. Chris saw this scene, his mouth suddenly opened wide and he couldn't say anything.
He was speechless, and the Spanish soldiers running around him all screamed in despair.
"The cavalry is the cavalry of the barbarians."
"By God, they ambushed the cavalry on the hillside."
"This is the end of us."
"Run!"
run? Can two legs run better than four?
Seeing groups of four-legged Yin family cavalry rushing out of the woods on the hillside, they then held their spears flat and launched a dense charge formation, as if they were moving one by one against the stone wall, rumbling towards them. The pressure came over, and Earl St. Chris really felt an unreal feeling. Where are you? Is it really in America? Who are those people wearing breastplates, holding spears, and wearing bird-feather helmets? Are they really the wealthy merchant natives of America? Why do they look so similar to French cuirassiers and Polish hussars?
Also, did they really lose 50 or 60 percent of their population due to smallpox?
"Count, mount your horse quickly... You cannot fall into the hands of the Shang people! You killed hundreds of thousands or millions of their people with smallpox!"
Garcia's shout directly brought the dizzy Earl of St. Chris back to reality. In reality, he is not afraid of being captured by the French or Poles! He is the noble Count of St. Chris. The French and Poles dare not do anything to him. It is nothing more than a ransom... If not, double it! He has defeated good generals for a long time and has rich experience in this area.
But these merchants have a blood feud with him!
After catching him, why should he be subjected to all the ten tortures of the Shang Dynasty?
At this moment, one of his good guys brought a war horse to him in time, and then Count St. Chris remembered that he also owned a horse!
Since you have a horse, ride it quickly! Riding a horse is faster, so you can escape faster.
Count St. Chris quickly held onto the saddle, stepped on the stirrups, and climbed onto his horse. The few good guys under him who were still alive also got on their horses and followed him to continue their escape to the south. Garcia took the lead, waving his horsewhip vigorously as he moved forward, hitting the Spanish mercenaries who were blocking the count's escape, and shouted loudly: "Get out of the way, let the count go first!"
It didn't matter what he shouted. Everyone below knew that the Count of St. Chris was about to run away, so they quickly shouted: "The Count has run away, the Count has run away..."
The count has run away, but the Spaniards below are still embarrassed? Run quickly!
The Spaniards, who had no intention of fighting in the first place, had no reason to fight desperately this time. They all threw off their armor and armor and ran southward in chaos. Since the terrain in this area is still hilly, it is just a little more open than in the Xin Maling Road Valley. But more than 4,000 people fled in a swarm and still blocked the road. The Yin cavalry commanded by Cering Dunduobu turned on the "hunting mode". After a wave of lance assaults, they plunged their spears into the chests of some Spaniards and began shooting arrows into the Spaniards' backs. !
This is called tail pursuit. It doesn't mean to kill many Spaniards, it just wants to drive them away as frightened prey... As long as they are driven for dozens of miles, these Spaniards will not have the strength to fight even if they are not exhausted. Now, all I can do is wait for my head to be cut off!
Since ancient times, infantrymen have suffered such a tragic fate when they were chased by cavalry when they were defeated!
The 6,000 and several hundred Spanish infantrymen who followed the Count of San Cristo were killed and wounded in the new Maling Road. Although the remaining 4,000 people escaped from the Maling Road, they were defeated by Ce Ling Dun. Dobu's cavalry were first shot with guns, then charged, and finally were treated as prey and driven for dozens of miles. By the next morning, almost all of them were either killed or captured. This army It’s completely finished!
However, Count St. Chris still has hundreds of cavalry with him, 500 infantrymen in the commercial port of Sea Prairie, and 20 Spanish sailing ships on the sea...
As long as he can return to Sea Grassland, or the City of God, he will be able to escape and ascend to heaven.
Although the losses in this battle were a bit heavy...but he felt that the smallpox he released should have killed hundreds of thousands of Shangfang people!
And smallpox is not a problem that can be solved in one wave. The Indians who were hit by the smallpox released by the Spanish ancestors often suffered from two rounds of epidemics. If combined with some other Old World infectious diseases, hundreds of people would die within five years. Ninety percent of the time it's not a problem.
At most, 50% to 60% of the population of Shang Fang Kingdom has died, so their army can still maintain combat effectiveness. But when 90% of their population has died, can they still fight?
Thinking of this, Earl St. Chris became proud again, and actually laughed wildly again.
"Hahaha......"
Alfonso Garcia, who was dozing on the horse after running all night to protect the Count of San Cristo, lost his energy and woke up when he heard the Count's laughter.
He quickly raised his head and looked around, fearing that some ambushes would pop out of the woods on the roadside - yesterday afternoon he made thousands of Shang's cavalry laugh with his smile, why was he laughing now?
But after looking around, Garcia felt relieved. Because he found that there were no woods around, it turned out that they had fled to the commercial port of the City of God... As long as they entered the commercial port, they would be safe.
He looked up again at the commercial port in the distance. The flag of blood and gold was flying high. It seemed that there was no problem.
Garcia breathed a sigh of relief and said to Count St. Chris: "Count, we have arrived in the City of God!"
"It seems that God has not abandoned us." The Earl of St. Chris also saw the flag flying over the commercial port. He made the sign of the cross on his chest, and then waved his riding crop without hesitation and whipped the horse under his crotch. He ran all night, and the Andalusian horse, which was almost dying, galloped towards the commercial port.
After running for a while, he suddenly found that the flag symbolizing the rule of the Kingdom of Spain quickly slid down the flagpole, and then saw a large flag with square characters on it, slowly rising up.
What's going on?
Why did you change the flag?
As soon as he thought of this, a loud "boom" sounded in his ears! Then a ball of hot air rushed from behind him. The power of the hot air was so great that it knocked him off his horse!
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