Chapter 576: Fighting hard

The sound of muskets sounded, and in front of the "Spanish team", rattan soldiers fell down. However, the three thousand teams were not too big on the front of the battlefield. At best, it was a queue of 500 people. According to the proportion of Huazhou, it was at most 250 musketmen fired there.

Even though the loading speed was very fast and the gaps flowing out of the team were large enough, the musketman's wheel shooting never stopped, but there was a time interval between them.

These rattan soldiers are not those cavalry who don’t even dare to collide in formation and run away directly. They are extremely brave. They can see the small flag, the general flag and the Baihu are commanding the charge in the middle of the team. When the people in front fall, the people behind speed up their pace. If the rattans cover their bodies, they don’t have to be so careful.

In the battle to touch the musketeers in Huazhou, there were not many opportunities for spearmen to fight, because there were also horses on their side. After the volley of muskets and cannons made the opponent lose their morale, the cavalry would launch a charge. At this time, the spearmen would just follow behind and beat the dogs in the water.

There are very few situations where face-to-face fighting is required. The rattan soldiers rushed to the front of the spear, and the opponent's spears were stabbed in rows, and there were also rows of rattans here. They rushed to the front and turned sideways. If the first spear was not accurate, they had already rushed into the position of the spear pole.

The next step was to cut down with one knife. The rattan soldiers who rushed fast broke the spear, and some people cut down the spear tip and put it on the iron sleeve of the wooden pole. However, the spearmen in the first row could no longer maintain a neat line. After the musketeers in the second row fired, the spearmen in the second row hurriedly added up. Although this delayed the opponent's offensive, their musketeers could not keep up.

The number of rattan soldiers was far more than three thousand. After the initial pause, the brigade of rattan soldiers began to slowly gather around.

The drum sound inside the Zhangzhou team changed again, and there was a loud horn sound. The three thousand men's team began to slowly change the formation, from the original facing only to the front to a circular formation, like a hedgehog, all over the body, spearmen were all over the periphery, and musketeers gathered inside.

However, the rattan soldiers outside were no longer afraid of this thorn. Now the two sides were already close to fighting. After the distance was closer, the power of the spear soldiers was weakened a lot. The people on the outermost side were already fighting with broken sticks, and some were also hacked to death by the rattan soldiers.

Nowadays, the enemy is mainly killed by the second row of spearmen in the cracks and the musketeers' volleys. As they were fighting, some rattan soldiers discovered something was wrong. The team they fought with were not foreign troops. Face-to-face combat was clearly Han people.

Originally, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty had a sense of strangeness and mystery to foreigners, and they always shrank a little when fighting, because the Westerners did not belong to humans for most people at that time. At this time, they looked like Han people, and the inexplicable courage of the rattan soldiers increased greatly and they attacked even more vigorously.

The troops outside the city were actually a mixed team of two thousand Huazhou troops and the Netherlands soldiers. At this time, Yang Shitou was watching from the city. He originally thought that the Ming army could be suppressed by these three thousand people in such a field battle under the city, but he did not expect that this was the case. Yang Shitou patted his forehead dejectedly, knowing that he might suffer a big loss this time.

In the troops under the city, many spear soldiers standing in the inner circle have begun to let several sword and shield soldiers cut off their spears that were too long to facilitate hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. Their spears are too long and cannot be used flexibly in such close combat. If someone breaks into the inner circle, it will be a big trouble.

The fire of the musketeers cannot be continuous, because the spear soldiers in the outer circle are fighting desperately, while the rattan soldiers outside are squeezing inside desperately. The two sides are in a mess. If the fire of the musketeers is afraid of accidentally hurting their own people, they can only choose the target carefully.

As the rattan soldiers pressed forward, the Ming army's brigade gradually surrounded, and the Ming army's own spearmen and axemen began to gradually take the bench forward.

The damage these people caused to the team was actually greater than that of the rattan soldiers. The rattan soldiers only opened the gap, but the people behind them expanded the gap more and more.

The musket soldiers in Huazhou gradually faced each other's soldiers. The Huazhou soldiers were bound by military law, and the other was the matter behind their families. There was no one who dared to surrender or escape. After the musket soldiers cleaned the last bullet in their muskets, they rushed forward with the muskets in their hands.

The musket at this time is not as precise machinery as later generations. It is easy to be destroyed by impacting too hard. The musket at this time is actually a big stick composed of a heavy hollow iron rod and an equally heavy wooden support. It is also waving with great lethality.

However, for the Ming army, who were skilled in cold weapons, it was still useless. The musket soldiers had their own solutions. I don’t know who started to put the broken spear tip of the spear handler on the ground into the barrel of the gun, and used his musket as a short spear.

Some parts of the military system in Huazhou are inherited from the Spanish army, and the military pay received by the musket soldiers is 30% more than that of the spearmen. In contrast, the training of musket soldiers is also more difficult than that of the spearmen. Since the military pay is relatively higher, it also means that the military rank of musket soldiers is slightly higher. Many spearmen’s wish is to become musket soldiers. All musket soldiers have a foundation of cold weapons, and even have a better foundation of cold weapons than spearmen.

After turning the musket in his hand into a short spear, the captain and commander in the team gathered people again. The Huazhou soldiers relied on the front line to complete everything by combining. The spear soldiers who were still fighting outside and some musket soldiers had been abandoned by the people in the inner circle. All musket soldiers were gathered and loaded ammunition, and the soldiers who had already stuffed the tip of the spear into the muskets to defend in the circle.

There were more than 3,000 people leaving the city, and at this time there were more than 1,500 people left. Yang Shitou was already in a hurry in the city, but the total number of troops in the city was only 5,000. There were only 3,000 people left after leaving the city, and there were only more than 1,000 people left. He had to guard all parts of the city, and it was also a lot of trouble to gather in a hurry.

Deng Minyue stood in the front behind, waving the order flags repeatedly. After all, he was a general who had been in charge of many years. He knew how the situation should be handled. On one side, he felt a little happy, but on the other hand, he was secretly surprised by the strength of the other party's army. The remaining 60% of the people were still fighting to the death.

You should know that the rattan soldiers are the five thousand soldiers he trained, and there are tens of thousands of soldiers from the Ming army outside. The current state of these soldiers can be called a fierce attack. Moreover, the officers tried their best to dispatch and command, and the formation was not chaotic, but the people who were besieged were actually defending them.

The muskets of soldiers in Huazhou were fired at the fastest frequency. The muskets in the hands of soldiers outside the hands and the spear tips were not as long as the spears of the Ming army. In this way, they were fighting to the death.

The circle narrowed, but the defense was tightly guarded. A circular open space was formed between the Huazhou soldiers and the Ming army. The soldiers behind were rushing forward, but were knocked back by muskets, and the bodies kept falling in front of them. At this time, the Ming army was already aroused by blood and a group of people surrounded and attacked desperately.

"Take all the things in my hand in it and kill the people inside!"

A Qianhu shouted at the top of his voice, and the people holding spears and axes from behind were crowded up. Even if the rattan soldiers retreated, they could not retreat. They were forced to squeeze in front of them, and the muskets still hit the top of the line. When they fell to the ground in the first round, the people behind were pushed up again.

The distance was already close enough. The spears, guns, axes and other things behind were all thrown over. The musket soldiers were wearing light armor or cloth clothes. They were caught off guard and fell a lot. No matter how well-made the muskets in Huazhou were, they could not withstand such high frequency shooting. In just a short time, five muskets had been blown up, and the soldiers in Huazhou could only take the muskets to fight with each other.

At this time, the gate of Zhangzhou City slowly opened, and Yang Shitou finally concentrated all the forces that could be concentrated in the city and rushed towards the Ming army's brigade.

But what can these more than a thousand people be of use? Even though they are veterans from Yizhou, Deng Minyue was not vague and mobilized nearly 6,000 soldiers to entangle this group of people.

Yang Shitou and others had more than 200 muskets in their hands. Although they were in the array, they were at best long-range support. Yang Shitou and his personal soldiers were all wearing iron-leaf armor, holding big swords and spears in their hands, and attacking the Ming army desperately. They were all powerful soldiers who were good at fighting cold weapons. The Ming army was killed and retreated step by step, but the advantage of the Ming army was revealed in this way. There were a large number of reserve teams. One group of people retreated, and the other team made up for it. They attacked back and forth without rest. There were always new forces leading to you.

The Ming army was unwilling to let the two sides join. Although the Huazhou army was difficult to deal with, everyone could understand the current situation. As long as the central government was wiped out, the reinforcements outside would not last long. However, if the two gangs were allowed to join together, there would be a fear of a change at that time. Yang Shitou also understood in his heart, so he fought to the death and could not retreat.
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