The fierce battle at Honxon Temple has begun!

Even if the Shimadzu family were willing to let go, the California governor de Velasco, who was supervising the war, would not just watch these Japanese work as foreigners. After rejecting Zhu Cihuan's request for a duel (Zhu Cihuan didn't know about it at all), he

He moved his headquarters to the front line less than 300 steps north of Honxun Temple City - he knew that the Ming army coming over the mountains did not have artillery, so he came to press forward with a full line.

His command post pushed forward. The two temporary infantry regiments below and the 1,200 people from the Shimadzu family had no choice but to push forward. The six 6-pound cannons were even more bullying, pushing directly into the distance.

The front line of Hongxunji Temple was less than 150 steps away, and it was just a matter of inserting bayonets into the barrels of the guns.

As soon as the cannon was pulled closer and the man hit it, the pressure on Zhu Cihuan immediately increased. Baoke Zhenghui no longer dared to drag Zhu Cihuan to show his face, but invited him back to the main hall to ponder the matter of his death poem.

He set up his own formation in the courtyard and commanded the defense on behalf of Zhu Cihuan.

After another round of shelling and long-distance shooting from heavy matchlocks, before the smoke had dissipated, a fusiliary phalanx from the Shimazu Army rushed towards the gap in the wall that had expanded to nearly thirty paces wide.

This time, the Shimadzu family became serious and advanced quickly with the help of the gunpowder smoke that had not yet dissipated. The Shimazu family warriors who formed the phalanx did not shoot. There were only a few selected groups of sharpshooters walking on both sides of the team.

He continued to use relatively accurate shots to provoke Zhu Cihuan's guarding warriors who were guarding the gap to open fire.

These marksmen are all in groups of three. One of them has the best marksmanship and is responsible for shooting, and the other two are fast reloaders and are responsible for loading bullets. In fact, they are applying the Japanese three-stage shooting method to snipers!

However, Zhu Cihuan's samurai guards are not vegetarians. Most of them have experienced the Toyotomi War in Japan and have gained experience. Therefore, no matter how the other party seduce them at this time, even if they knock down several of their own warriors, the remaining

Everyone refrained from firing - in fact, the tactics they adopted were also three-stage shooting. Half-kneeling against the collapsed earth wall were 30 sharpshooters, each with a light matchlock gun loaded with bullets and a lighted match.

(It was also an imitation of the Spanish light matchlock gun), and just waited quietly. It was not until the Shimadzu family's group rushed 30 steps away that they fired the first round of volleys, knocking down more than a dozen Shimadzus immediately.

Tsu Samurai.

The Shimazu army did not continue to attack despite the opponent's firepower, but stopped advancing and began to fight back with flintlock rifles.

The two sides fought back and forth for several rounds, and the center of the battlefield was filled with smoke. The visibility dropped for a while, and then there was no accuracy anymore.

The Shimazu family set up a phalanx with a not wide front (because the gap was only twenty or thirty steps wide). Each soldier carried a large straw bag filled with soil, which was used to fill the trench.

After a few rounds of fighting, the Shimazu musketeers in the first two rows stopped shooting, and instead lay down and crawled forward.

The two rows of musketeers at the back took a few steps forward and began to fire randomly with their flintlocks, creating smoke to cover the warriors who were crawling forward to fill the trenches. When the warriors who were filling the trenches returned, the warriors who were now firing were

Then we have to climb up and fill the trenches... This method of covering the trenches with muskets is not something that ordinary troops can do.

However, the Shimazu army did not intend to fight desperately. They just filled the trenches step by step, so the troops did not press too far forward and stopped thirty steps away. Even if the smoke came again, they could not resist the enemy's bullets.

It means moving forward a little bit.

The warriors who were crawling forward were moving forward at a snail's pace. His Highness Naiyoshi had already taken care of them, and they had to crawl more carefully. Everyone knows what that means...

Therefore, the Shimazu Army's offensive lasted from the afternoon to the evening, charging in four waves, but they did not completely fill the trench that was dozens of steps long and several feet wide to the north of Honsunji Temple.

As soon as the sky darkened, the young lady of the Shimazu family had something to say again.

"Your Excellency, Governor, most of us East Asians are born with night blindness. We can't see clearly when the light is dim at night... It's better to wait until dawn tomorrow before fighting!"

De Velasco had spent a long time in Japan and knew that many Japanese people were night-blind. Moreover, he did not know that after Shimadzu and his gang arrived in America, they had a lot of money and food every day, and they had long since eliminated night blindness.

So I agreed to Shimazu Noyoshi's suggestion, but he wouldn't make it easy for the Shimadzu family.

He nodded and said: "Then we will temporarily stop the attack and build a fortification with straw bags filled with soil 30 steps north of the wall of Honxun Temple. Tomorrow morning, we will use the newly built fortifications as our starting point and continue the attack on Honxun Temple!"

"Hai!"

Shimazu Noyoshi and the several elders of the Shimazu family who followed her all breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts - the Ming Dynasty Warrior King had finally survived the day, but where were his "30,000 reinforcements"?

Even if reinforcements from the Ming army are not available, they will not dare to defect!

Now Don Juan Jose has nineteen thousand Spanish soldiers on hand (José brought fifteen thousand and de Velasco brought four thousand), and the Shimazu family not only handed over the hostages, but also had the troops on hand.

Don Juan Jose transferred most of them and mixed them with the Spanish soldiers. The 1,200 men controlled by Naji couldn't turn the world around at all!

What the Shimadzu family didn't expect was that de Velasco was not in a hurry to eliminate Zhu Cihuan of Honxon Temple, because Don Juan Jose's plan was to encircle the area and provide reinforcements.

The 2,000 men Zhu Cihuan had on hand were simply not enough to feed the 19,000 Spanish soldiers. What Don Juan Jose wanted to eat was the elite main force of the Ming Army in America.

And Zhu Cihuan, the prince of the Ming Dynasty, was just a bait to attract the Ming army to come for reinforcements.

While de Velasco was busy surrounding the area, Don Juan Jose was arranging reinforcements.

The battlefield for reinforcements was personally selected by the Marquis of Gasparra, the Minister of War of the Kingdom of New Spain and an old subordinate who followed Don Juan José in the Spanish Netherlands. It was called the battlefield by the Shimazu family.

The great valley of the "Flood Valley".

This valley is not only the only way to go south from the mountains of Northern California to the Satsuma Valley, but the internal terrain is very complex. Some places are wider, and some places are very narrow. And this width becomes narrower and then wider, which is Don Juan.

.This is an excellent terrain for Jose to use to fight reinforcements and annihilate the enemy.

He first divided the six temporary infantry regiments and one cavalry regiment he brought to the Flood Valley into two parts, and placed a temporary infantry regiment in the open area in the center of the Flood Valley, using the forts left by the Ming army (Zhu Cihuan's command) to set up defenses.

, the mission of this regiment is to lure the enemy.

The remaining five temporary infantry regiments and one cavalry regiment were placed in another open area in the south of the Flood Valley.

Between these two open areas, there is a relatively narrow passage. On both sides of the passage are relatively gentle hillsides with dense vegetation, which can be used to set up ambushes. However, Don Juan Jose did not place too many weapons on the hillside.

In the ambush, only a small number of warning troops were deployed.

The ambush on the slopes on both sides of the valley is too obvious. As long as the opponent is not stupid, he is unlikely to be fooled.

Therefore, Don Juan Jose's plan was not to ambush the temporary infantry regiment that had lured the enemy through this narrow valley when the Ming army was pursuing it. Instead, it was to plan for the Ming army to pass through this narrow valley and enter another open valley.

launch an attack.

Concentrate the power of five temporary infantry regiments, and give them a head-on attack before the Ming army can all pass through the valley and deploy their forces! After defeating them, dispatch the cavalry to pursue them.

Since the Flood Valley was 800 miles away from the Hebian Fort, the Ming army's advancing stronghold, and there were mountains and forests along the way, there were no residents except for a few Indians, so the retreating Ming army could not obtain supplies at all.
Chapter completed!