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Chapter 410 Ambush

The login went smoother than Sanchez imagined.

During the entire landing, the Spanish army encountered no resistance, not even symbolic sporadic resistance.

This made Sanchez very happy.

It seems that he adopted Li Dan's suggestion and led a large army to attack Wuzhushan Island was a very wise choice.

The Ming army had transferred all its forces to coastal prefectures and counties. Wuzhushan Island was like a piece of fat on a chopping board. Sanchez cut it as much as he wanted.

"Governor General, I suggest that we advance to the island immediately so that we can take over the Ming army's warehouse."

Li Dan believed that the Ming army's warehouse on Wuzhushan Island must have a lot of important supplies, such as firearms, armor, and bows and crossbows. The Ming army would definitely not have time to move all these things away!

"Well, I'll send my order, and the whole army will approach the island!"

Now Sanchez sees how Li Dan looks and likes him, and he feels that he should adopt such a reasonable suggestion made by Li Dan immediately.

At Sanchez's order, the Spaniard immediately formed a square formation and advanced steadily.

Just as Sanchez was thinking about his next battle plan, he suddenly heard a roar.

A huge iron bomb flew over and hit a team of Spanish phalanxes. For a moment, smoke of gunpowder rose, and broken limbs and broken arms flew away. The air was filled with a bloody smell.

Before Sanchez could react, several more iron bombs flew over, blowing the Spanish soldiers into scattering.

"It's an enemy attack! There's an ambush!"

Someone was the first to shout, and the Spanish soldiers shouted in horror.

There is no doubt that they were trapped. The island was not as empty as they saw. The damn Ming army was hiding in the dark and was now igniting artillery to attack them!

"Your Excellency the Governor is in ambush!"

Li Dan's reaction was quite fast. He immediately helped Sanchez up and said, "The gunner should be ordered to fight back immediately!"

Sanchez was so angry that he jumped straight: "Even if there are gunners, the artillery is on the ship!"

It's not a big deal about Sanchez. The cannons on Spanish ships weigh thousands of pounds, which is very inconvenient to move. This time, the landing was so smooth that he certainly wouldn't think about moving the cannons off the ship.

Now the army's formation is in chaos and the soldiers are scattered everywhere. It is a problem for Sanchez to maintain the formation. How could he send some soldiers to move artillery?

"Does go!"

Sanchez pushed Li Dan away and shouted loudly at the officer of the guards, "Retreat, collect the soldiers and retreat!"

At this moment, Sanchez just wanted to return to the ship and leave this damn island. As long as he was on this island, soldiers would be constantly lost.

These are the most elite soldiers trained by the Spanish Empire, and they must not die in vain on this damn island.

"Governor General, you must not retreat. We have already landed and take down this island in one go. If we retreat at this moment, will all our efforts be wasted?"

Li Dan dissuaded in horror: "The Ming army just fired a few shots, just bluffing."

Sanchez was angry and saw that Li Dan was still resolute and kicked him hard.

"Damn it. If it weren't for you, why would this Governor be so bluffing? Have you ever seen such bluffing?"

Although Sanchez didn't know how many artillery the other party had, it can be roughly guessed from the momentum that there were at least dozens of them.

These guns should be heavy artillery and are of the same magnitude as those equipped on the Spanish fleet.

If you drag on like this, the Spanish army will definitely lose its strength.

Li Dan was kicked down by Sanchez, but a feeling of sadness arose in his heart.

Ning Xiu, this must be Ning Xiu’s trick!

Why did he fall into this man's hands again? Could it be that God sent this man to deal with him?

No, he doesn't accept his fate, he doesn't believe in his fate!

"Governor General, let's go back to the ship first and make a decision after the survey is clear!"

Since Sanchez has made up his mind to return to the ship, it doesn't make any sense for Li Dan to dissuade him. He now only hopes that the other party can calm down a little and send a sentry to see what happened on the island after the army returns to the ship.

"Let's talk about it then, retreat first!"

"Retreat, the Folang Jimen retreated!"

Qi Wen sighed: "Mr. Ning is really a god-looking thing."

He paused for a moment and waved his hand and ordered: "The musket team is ready, the spear formation is ready!"

These are two ace troops specially trained by Ning Xiu. Both the two have a good effect on infantry formations and cavalry.

At the moment, the Spaniards were in a hurry to evacuate, and the formation was already scattered. Qi Wen thought that all he had to do was to harvest the lives. After the messenger raised the flag, a five hundred spear team rushed out from the rear of the Spaniards. On both sides of them were two musket teams, each with only three hundred people.

"go ahead!"

The spear array pushed forward steadily, although it was not fast, it gave people a great pressure.

The musket team moved forward with the spear formation. Their mission was to use firepower to suppress the auxiliary spear formation to crush the enemy troops in the front.

Since the Spaniards had turned into front troops at this moment, Sanchez could not see the Ming army's spear formation that cut off their retreat route at the first time.

But soon a personal army officer reported to him.

Sanchez was very frightened and quickly took out his telescope to observe.

I saw a team covered in iron armor stuck on a low slope a few hundred meters away, cutting off their only way to retreat to the ship.

"Your Excellency the Governor, now is not the time to hesitate. You must recklessly attack the Ming army's obstruction."

Sanchez glared at Li Dan fiercely: "You don't need to teach me!"

After saying that, he ordered: "Let the musketeers cover it, the army must break through the Ming army's blockade."

It is very difficult to mobilize an army of tens of thousands of people, let alone in such a narrow space.

The Spanish army was ambushed, and its morale was at its lowest point, and the army's execution ability also declined a lot.

After Sanchez gave the order, the army did not form a formation to meet the enemy's breakthrough, but still scattered in a group.

Soon these scattered soldiers rushed to the range of the Ming army.

The muskets held by Ming soldiers were the Lumi gun mass-produced by Ning Xiuming craftsmen. The effective range of this musket is about one hundred steps.

Now the muskets line up to shoot, knocking down dozens of Spanish soldiers in each round.

The Ming army musket team used three-stage shooting. After the first row of fire, the soldiers automatically retreated to the tail of the team to load gunpowder, while the soldiers who had already loaded gunpowder came to the first row to shoot. When the musketeers in the third row finished shooting, the second row was on the top of the top.

Three-stage shooting can solve the problem of long-term reloading of gunpowder by the mezzanine, allowing the musketeers to play a role at every moment.
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