Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 478 Riding against Riding

Although Li Wan was basically leading infantry before, he was also very familiar with cavalry. Especially the Ming Army paid great attention to the training of officers, so everyone was updating their knowledge.

When the Ming cavalry rushed over, the Spanish cavalry also came. The one who intercepted them was a light cavalry, also equipped with flintlock carbines, and mainly using sabers.The number of Spanish cavalry is actually less than that of the Ming army, which is enough to show that Spain is actually quite confident.

Li Wan was a little annoyed: "What's the matter, doesn't it show that we are the Ming army?"

In fact, at this time, the Spaniards really didn't recognize the cavalry of the Ming army led by Li Wan. After all, they were not the Spanish colonial troops in Luzon, and they had never experienced the Ming army.Although Spain is quite frightened now, and there are rumors that the Allied Forces of the Five Nations are about to attack them, many Spanish soldiers still think that the fear of the Chuanming Army is a bit exaggerated.They have never seen the real Ming army, and feel that even if they are strong enough, they are still very strong as Spanish soldiers.

The cavalry of the Ming army galloped wildly, and the Spanish light cavalry had already entered their range. Li Wan was very wise and ordered: "Advance with them, don't touch, keep a distance that is beneficial to us and shoot."

Although the accuracy of riding and shooting is not very good, but with such a big target, it is possible to hit a man or a horse.

There was a crackling gunshot, and the Ming army cavalry formed a well-trained cavalry formation, shooting at the Spanish light cavalry who rushed to intercept, and even several people fell off their horses.

The morale of the Spanish light cavalry immediately stagnated. The Ming army cavalry fired more than 100 meters away, and their carbines often fired at a distance of three to forty meters. The Ming army fired outside their range.

More intensive gunshots rang out, and several cavalrymen with submachine guns among the cavalry of the Ming army, regardless of the distance, poured a hail of bullets towards that side, and the dense bullets directly took away a lot of Spaniards.

This cavalry-to-cavalry conflict was completely beyond the expectations of the Spaniards. The Ming army cavalry who came did not entangle with each other like traditional cavalry, charging and close combat.They directly used their muskets to attack the Spanish light cavalry at a completely unreasonable distance. It didn't take long for the Spanish cavalry to lose more than one-third of their strength.Even if they didn't all die, they fell off the horse and were injured.

The Spanish cavalry officer was scared. He tried to lead the light cavalry to withdraw in another direction, but the Ming army cavalry who had avoided contact with them just now stuck up again. Anyway, they kept a certain distance and followed you and shot. The Spanish cavalry who had no choice but to be targeted by the Ming army.

The Spanish commander-in-chief, the Duke of Carasena, also saw the problem.

"The weapons of the Ming army have a longer range than ours?"

"And he can hit it very accurately at this distance."

"No wonder Europeans are rumoring that the Chinese have experienced a revolution in weapons technology and have weapons that are far more advanced than ours."

The little noble officer beside him was a little worried: "Your Excellency, what should we do?"

If their attack is held back by the Ming cavalry, which is only more than 200 people, then not only will they not be able to capture the fortress and achieve their purpose of destroying the supplies of the coalition forces, but they may also be attacked by subsequent reinforcements.

The Duke was very hesitant: "If we go after this cavalry, it is very likely that they are a bait to lure us into being fooled; but if we just withdraw like this, our mission will fail; it will be very annoying to ignore him at all..."

With just such a moment of hesitation, the Spanish cavalry over there had basically been completely wiped out by the Ming cavalry led by Li Wan.The Spanish cavalry finally broke down completely, fleeing in different directions, without any organization.

Li Wan was quite enjoyable. The high-speed maneuverability and impact of the cavalry were still different from that of ordinary infantry.The fighting style of the Ming army cavalry directly destroyed the enemy.

"There is no response yet? It seems that the military thinking of the Spaniards is really very old. It doesn't matter. Let's surround them and make trouble for them!" Li Wan said, ordering the Ming cavalry to start fighting in the Western Army. Peripheral activities of the position.

They were cavalry on horseback, coming and going like the wind, wandering outside the Spanish positions, and the Western Army ignored them, so they came up and shot at the Spanish soldiers on horseback.It was like a shooting game in an amusement park. This group of Ming army cavalry stood on their horses, holding guns in both hands, and opened fire at the soldiers of the Western army.

The Spanish Army's phalanx turned around to face them, but their cavalry had been knocked out by this side, which meant that their flanks were still lost.

The Spanish infantry, who were ready to form a phalanx, were just about to beat the army drums and move forward, but the Ming cavalry of this group of chicken thieves did not charge, and shot at them from a distance of 200 meters outside.Soldiers of the Western Army kept being shot and fell to the ground. According to the code of practice, the private soldiers behind should fill up, but when they were advancing, the cavalry of the Ming Army pulled the reins again, changed places, and continued to bully the Western Army over there. infantry.

The Duke of Carasena was very angry: "Call me the artillery and shoot them with cannonballs!"

It is not easy to mobilize the artillery. The artillery is at the front to attack the fortress, while the Ming army cavalry is behind. If they want to pull the artillery out, it means that the siege battle will be abolished.

In fact, even without the well-equipped Ming cavalry, on the European battlefield in this era, if the army has lost the protection of its own cavalry, then its formation will be repeatedly harassed and attacked by the cavalry, which will become quite troublesome.Even if the line infantry has something like a hollow formation, it is only used to defend against cavalry.The mobility and impact of cavalry still scares the infantry of this era.

The Duke of Carasena in Spain was only very angry by this cavalry, but he didn't keenly realize that the turning point of the battle had already appeared.They were killed by more than 200 Ming army cavalry in a short period of time, causing more than 500 casualties, which is really unreasonable.

And just when the Western Army tried its best to deal with the cavalry unit led by Li Wan, Qian Erlang rushed to the battlefield with the main force of the Ming Army.Qian Erlang even ventured to leave the baggage and artillery to walk slowly behind, leaving some infantry for protection, and rushed to Penamarker with the main force of the army.

"Although there is no cannon, I still have a machine gun!"

Hundreds of heavy machine guns, as well as light machine guns that the Ming Dynasty had just begun to equip, gave this unit a terrifying firepower.

(End of this chapter)