The Ming army pressed up, but as soon as they fought, Zhao Ming saw that it was difficult to win.The range of the Spanish artillery was farther than that of the Ming army, the flintlock pistol was powerful, the firepower was stronger than that of the Ming army, and the soldiers wore plate armor, and the Ming army's bird guns were really difficult to break the armor.Zhao Ming originally expected that after the front army pressed up, he would disrupt the formation of the Spaniards with a horizontal array of musketeers and platoon guns, but he didn't want to line up the Ming army in a horizontal formation, and the firepower output was actually inferior to the Spaniards when the whole platoon was full of firearms.The Spanish phalanx with a phalanx of pikes in the center and musketeers at the four corners.That is to say, on a frontal line of the same length, suppose there were ten soldiers, six spearmen in the middle, and two musketeers on each side, and the Spanish phalanx could only shoot four muskets on one side.The Ming army was horizontal, assuming that it was also ten soldiers, but all of them were musketeers, and theoretically when firing, the Ming army's platoon of guns had more advantages, and it should be able to defeat the Spanish phalanx with platoons.However, after the battle, Zhao Ming found that although the Spaniards had fewer musketeers in the front than the Ming army, they were powerful, long-range, fast loading, and strong armor defense, while the Ming army was mostly arquebuses, with slow rate of fire and small power, it was difficult to penetrate the Xiyi armor, and the firepower was not dominant.Zhao Ming saw that the Ming army did not have an advantage and could not achieve the goal of defeating the Spanish phalanx, so he immediately gave a decisive order to let the front army retreat.A rapid sound of gold sounded, and the Ming soldiers lost their shield carts, set up the wounded, and then retreated.In the first round of attacks, the Ming army was first bombarded by field bronze cannons, and then fired by flintlock guns, losing forty or fifty men.These are the elites of the Ming army, and many of them are still sharp soldiers in the army, and they died so much at once, which made Zhao Ming feel a pain in his flesh.In the Spanish phalanx, Franco was also a little surprised, he found that the army in front of him was more elite than the Chinese army he had encountered before, and was equipped with a large number of muskets.If the Chinese army in front of it had been scattered under the bombardment of the Spanish, it would have had the courage to brave the bombardment of artillery and muskets to press the phalanx and shoot at the Spanish soldiers.The Chinese, wielding backward weapons and carrying bows and arrows, could not even approach the phalanx and were routed by muskets.Just now, the platoon of guns fired by the Chinese army, but the armor of the Spanish spearmen was dented, and seven or eight people were killed and more than ten were injured, which surprised Franco.However, in any case, the Chinese in front of them were defeated, they were very brave, but they were still no match for the Spanish soldiers.Franco drew his slender command sword and shouted in Spanish, "Pursuit!"
”The Spanish soldiers immediately lowered their spears to form a fan, and marched forward in unison, intending to drive the retreating Ming army to break the Ming formation.At this time, Zhao Ming waved his hand, gritted his teeth and shouted, "The horse army attacked and stabilized the position." ”The Chinese army ordered the flag to wave, the war drums sounded, and the left and right wings of the Ming army, each galloped out of 200 cavalry, divided into two groups and directly pounced on the two wings of the advancing Spanish phalanx.Seeing this, Franco could only order the phalanx to stop the pursuit, form a formation in place, and prepare to deal with the Chinese cavalry.Two Ming cavalry galloped towards the phalanx of the Spaniards, and the horses of the Thousand Households Rowan Yao saw the Spaniards stop, the musketeers raised their muskets, and the spearmen in the middle turned their spears, and the spears of the oblique stabs were ready to meet the impact of the Ma army, and their nerves suddenly tensed."
Bang bang bang" A burst of muskets rang out, and the Spanish musketeers began to shoot.Almost at the same time, Luo Wenyao pulled the reins of his horse, the war horse neighed, and before entering the range of the flintlock pistol, he made a detour and turned around and left the Spanish phalanx.The muskets of the Spaniards had a long range, and the three-eyed guns equipped by the Ming army and horse army were not as long as the flintlock pistols, so it was naturally difficult to harass them on horseback, and galloping in front of the phalanx would only become the target of the musketeers.Although with the speed of cavalry, the horse army could withstand certain casualties and rush to the front of the Spanish phalanx, but it could not disrupt the opponent's spear formation, so the horse army did not rush into battle, but only forced the Spaniards to stop, buying time for the retreat of the front army.At this time, under the cover of the cavalry, the front army successfully retreated to the main formation and immediately regrouped.Zhao Ming glanced at the battlefield, his face was gloomy, and he immediately waved his hand, "Retreat!"
”At present, the Ming army did not have the means to restrain the Spaniards, the cannon was not as good as the people, the guns were not as good as the people, the armor was not as good as the people, although the troops were large but it was difficult to win, Zhao Ming did not want the guards to suffer too many casualties, so he decided to retreat.In the battle just now, Zhao Ming already knew the characteristics of the Spaniards' military formation, and there was no need to fight for both now.The command flag waved in the army, the five armies in the front and rear, left, center and right, all turned backwards, the soldiers slowly retreated backwards, and the horse army galloped behind, and whenever the Spaniards wanted to pursue, they galloped up and forced the Spanish phalanx to stop.In the Spanish phalanx, Franco watched the retreating Ming army, and his own side was an infantry army, under the threat of cavalry, he could not pursue with all his strength, and could only watch the Ming army retreat to the city of Tamsui Youqianhu.Zhao Ming retreated to the camp and did not enter the city, and the city was a horn to each other, and the Spaniards did not dare to attack rashly when they saw it.At noon, Wang Dana summoned thousands of tun troops, who came from the west, and the tun troops of the thousands of households and hundreds of households of Tamsui Wei rushed to reinforcements one after another.At the same time, the gunboat Zhenhai sailed out of Tamsui Harbor and cruised in the distant sea, threatening the Spanish warships on this shore.The Spaniards, who had just set up camp, saw that the Ming army was gathering more and more, and Franco saw that he was in danger of being surrounded and annihilated, so he immediately ordered a retreat and returned to the city of chicken coop.This sudden encounter did not break out in a big fight, the two sides only carried out a trial, the Spaniards knew that there were Chinese elites on the island, and Zhao Ming also saw the gap between the Ming army and the Spaniards.In the evening, a thousand Spaniards, under the watchful eye of the Ming army, withdrew to the warship.The Ming army tried to attack several times, but was repelled by the artillery of the Spanish warships at sea, and the five battleships lined up in a straight line at sea, and the side guns roared, controlling the beach, and the Spanish soldiers took small boats, rowing back to the battleships in batches.Zhao Minglema stood two miles away from the beach, outside the effective range of the naval guns, watching the Spaniards retreat to the sea, seeing the fleet going east, his expression was solemn, and he waved his hand half-loudly: "Summons the generals, go back to the city to discuss matters!"
”On the Spanish flagship, Franco, the commander of the fleet, stood on the deck and saw the Ming troops on the coast in the distance withdrawing, and his expression also showed a solemn expression.The Ming army has an elite on the island, and if Spain wants to continue to attack the Chinese Tunzhuang as before, I am afraid it will not be easy.Franco looked at the coast, waved his hand and ordered: "Herald the fleet to return to the city of San Salvador!"
I will inform Your Excellency the Governor that this expedition has met the elite soldiers of the Chinese, and the Empire should immediately organize a larger-scale attack while there are not many Chinese elites on the island, quickly defeat the Chinese, and establish the Empire's rule in Taiwan!
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