When the Spanish army started to reload, a stray bullet luckily flew 300 meters across the road and unfortunately injured Yin Feng. His left arm was scratched by the bullet.
Li Lihua screamed in surprise, and Yin Feng quickly raised his palm to stop her: "Don't say anything, you can't shake the morale of the army."
After simply accepting Li Lihua's bandage, Yin Feng was still commanding the overall situation immediately, which was a great encouragement to the morale of the Chinese troops.
After the first row, the Spanish troops continued to advance, shouting the slogan "For God and the King," as they marched.
The Spanish army advanced towards the Chinese army's front line amid the deafening shouts of killing, but the Chinese army soldiers remained unmoved at all. They stood motionless on the position silently like wooden stakes. The Spaniards continued to advance, each time After advancing 15 yards (about 15 meters), he stood at attention and fired a platoon attack at the Chinese army line, but the Chinese never counterattacked.
The Spanish army marched quickly to 100 yards, which was about 80 steps according to the Ming Dynasty's measurement algorithm. When it stopped again, the first two rows of soldiers fired a volley. All the musketeers of the Spanish army were in the first two rows and behind them. Then there are the spearmen and indigenous archers. The Spanish army's firearms equipment ratio is much lower than that of the Chinese company's army, so they can only push all the musketeers to the front line, and wait for the final charge to be in the two rows behind. The spearmen crossed the front row and attacked.
At this time, the Spanish army was arranged in three almost horizontal lines, basically maintaining a straight line, pushing and shouting all the way towards the Chinese army. Two of the lines began to attack the Chinese left array diagonally, and the other Moving to the right, they continued to fire at the Chinese line, but the Chinese army still held on tenaciously, neither retreating nor shooting. Even when the Spanish army entered within 50 steps, the distance was less than 80 meters. Even at a distance, the infantry soldiers of the Chinese Guards still maintained amazing endurance. Nearly a quarter of the sentry troops of the first regiment on the left wing who bore the brunt had been knocked down by this time, but they still stood firm. When they got the order, they carried it out without compromise. Even though their comrades kept falling down beside them, no Chinese soldier retreated. Without orders, they would not retreat even one step.
In the many combat meetings held in advance and at the beginning of the battle, Yin Feng had always clearly told his commanders: "You must wait until the relevant La army is within 20 steps before you can order shooting. Violators will be punished under military law. "
Lieutenant Colonel Azquita followed the central line of the Spanish army to supervise the formation. The further he rode on his horse, the more he felt guilty. The battlefield in front of him was filled with smoke and shouts of killing came and went, but it felt very absurd to him. Real feeling.
Archdeacon Flores followed him. This monk who had killed countless Chinese and led troops in battle could not believe his eyes at this time: "God, what is going on with these physiological people? Why don't they Fight back, are they all stupid?"
After the Spanish army launched another platoon attack at a distance of 50 meters, the Chinese array remained silent. At this time, even the Spanish regular army soldiers were doubting their own eyes. The muskets of the indigenous soldiers were almost pointing into the sky. Let go.
"Aren't these physiological people afraid of death? They can't shoot or what?" Captain Billagon, who was on the right wing of the Chinese army, scratched his scalp. He simply didn't know what to do. The slogans in the Spanish army's line also echoed. Down, some soldiers looked at the Chinese standing like wooden stakes, looking at them expressionlessly, almost forgetting to load ammunition.
The Spanish army was loading ammunition at this time, and a long conch trumpet sounded from the front, back and left of the Chinese line.
All the Chinese army officers who could still stand shouted the command with the loudest voice in their lives:
"Advance five steps and prepare to fire,"
The Chinese army suddenly began to move forward, while the Spanish army was reloading.
When the two armies were 20 steps apart, that is, around 10:40 a.m. that day, the front row of the three-deep Chinese army array was kneeling, the second row was slightly bent, and the last row was holding its flintlock muskets. On the shoulders of the comrades in the second row, the three densely packed muzzles of the upper and lower layers were aimed at the enemy 20 steps away. Even the eyes and eyebrows of the enemy could be seen clearly. At such a close distance, the lethality of the musket bullets can be maximized. play.
The Chinese have truly achieved the goal of not "death in silence, but breaking out in silence." "Well," with a conch sound, the entire Chinese army suddenly launched their first salvo, with nearly 3,500 muskets fired almost at the same time. , like a deafening blast of cannon.
When Lieutenant Colonel Azquita saw the Chinese army's forest of gun barrels suddenly raised, he already felt that something was wrong. He stood up on his horse and loudly ordered: "Stop..."
At this time, the Chinese began to fire a volley. Azquita's reaction at the time was: "This is the most perfect and terrifying volley that I have never seen on the battlefield..."
Lieutenant Colonel Azquita, the battlefield commander of the Spanish army, was hit by 8 bullets in the first salvo and fell off his horse and died.
The Chinese volley fire was like the flames ejected from an unprecedentedly huge bullet launcher. Thick black smoke enveloped the entire battlefield. After the volley, the Chinese troops across the board continued to step forward and reload at the sound of orders. Put the gun to your shoulder, aim...
"emission,"
Most of the Chinese use flintlock muskets and paper-packed ammunition, and the reloading speed is twice that of the Spanish matchlocks. However, because there are still some grenadiers, the auxiliary soldiers are equipped with matchlocks to concentrate the maximum firepower, and at the same time They had to form a three-row volley formation, so a minute and a half later, they started a second volley, and the effect was equally astonishing.
Immediately, more than 400 grenades thrown by the grenadier, these black pottery pots and smoke fell on the heads of the already chaotic Spanish army. The "boom, boom, boom" explosion lasted for half a minute, and then, Chinese troops fired another salvo.
Within 5 minutes, the Chinese army fired three consecutive volleys. It was these 5 minutes that completely determined the fate of this battle.
The Spanish army was knocked down by 530 people in the first volley of gunfire, and the local regular army in the front company was almost wiped out; in the last two times, another 500 to 700 people were knocked down, and nearly 200 were killed by grenades. Many people, that is to say, half of the Spanish army's main force, completely lost their combat effectiveness within 5 minutes.
The entire Spanish army front began to completely collapse. The entire front was completely out of order and fell into unprecedented chaos. Almost all Spanish officers and non-commissioned officers on the front line were shot by the first two volleys. They were killed and wounded, and the grenade attack by the Chinese army grenadiers completely disrupted the Spanish army.
"Uh, ---" The threatening conch whistle sounded again.
The Chinese army began to mount their bayonets, then shouted "Kill," and attacked across the board, launching a bayonet charge.
After this series of stormy blows, the Spanish army began to completely retreat and collapsed; while the Chinese army began a hand-to-hand pursuit.
Li Kuiqi's artillery battalion also advanced rapidly and moved the artillery positions forward.
The war situation on the Northern Front has also undergone tremendous changes at this moment.
Captain Velasco took advantage of the terrain advantages on the north bank of Binondo and the excellent combat qualities of the 120 colonial militiamen - they were all veterans of the Spanish army and veterans of many battles - so he was able to defeat the Chinese company troops led by Li Xing. Blocked on the north bank of the Pasig River, Li Xing launched two forced crossings, but failed to get close to the Binondo shore. The artillery team he led had to fight hard against the Spanish artillery on the shore because they could not find a good position. Relying on numerical superiority and tenacious perseverance, they destroyed all the Spanish supporting artillery, but they also lost three field guns. If the remaining five artillery were bombarded with solid bullets, they would not be able to form a firepower density. Compared with the trenches dug and defended on Nondo Island, The veterans are not a threat; if shotguns are used, the range of shooting across the river will not be enough due to terrain reasons.
Ye Hua's troops on the middle road who were marching on the Pasig River received successive orders from Yin Feng urging them to advance quickly, and they tried their best to speed up the march. When they arrived at Binondo Island, they happened to be Yan Siqi's army, Chen Zhongji's Taiwan The indigenous soldiers on the south bank cooperated with the third regiment troops on the north bank to force the crossing in two ways.
A loud rumbling sound resounded across the Pasig River. At this time, it was also the moment when the Chinese Company's troops on the southern front fired their first salvo.
The raft fort had one thousand-pound 36-pound cast-iron cannon and two 24-pound cannons. The three guns fired volleys of shotgun shells - tens of millions of fine pieces of iron that almost swept across the small half of Binondo Island. The rafts and various small boats The sailor musketeers on boats and canoes covered the crossing troops on the north and south routes with intensive fire.
Under siege from three sides, Captain Velasco's position finally fell. He himself was wounded by Yan Siqi's army and was captured alive because he was an officer. The remaining colonial veterans and indigenous auxiliary soldiers were overwhelmed by the overwhelming superiority of the Chinese army. It collapsed under the blow. Since the waters around Binondo Island were quickly controlled by Chinese ships, most of the Spanish veterans and Pampanga indigenous soldiers had no chance to escape from the island alive. However, about a dozen veterans still managed to cross the river and board the island. The land on the south bank, however, was indeed the victorious force of the Chinese Company to greet them.
The Japanese volunteers who were defending Binon saw that the situation was not good. The remaining 200 people knelt down and surrendered to the Chinese. However, they were unlucky and encountered a company of foreign mercenaries. These people did not care about the Japanese. The killings began, and the massacre was stopped only when Chen Zhongji arrived. At this time, only more than 80 Japanese were left shivering in a pool of blood and corpses.
Although the plan to quickly capture Binondo and then capture Venanduque and copy the Spanish army's rear route on the southern front could not be implemented, the almost complete destruction of the Spanish army on the northern front was still a great victory.
After capturing Binondo, Li Xing ordered the Xue army and the indigenous soldiers under Chen Zhongji to clean up the battlefield, and led the soldiers and foreign mercenaries of the third regiment to move towards Nihonmachi. Anyway, there is no point in occupying Weinandu now. It's better to wipe out the Japanese towns. Back then, they helped the Spanish to kill many Chinese and overseas Chinese.
Yin Feng watched his troops completely defeat the enemy, and then launched a bayonet charge to chase the Spaniards. He took a long breath, jumped off his horse and faced Chen Di, An Heping and others who had just arrived and said with a smile: "We won. After three years, we finally have the results,”
He saw Da'an, the leader of the mountain tribe alliance army, sitting in a daze. He patted him on the shoulder and said, "Come up with your troops too. Don't let any enemy go."
Da'an was shocked by such a quick victory of the Chinese army, and then he came to his senses, agreed, and rushed to the battlefield with his clan members.
At the top of Manila City, Governor Aguna, Don Fernando, Bishop Benavides and others had pale faces and empty minds.