Chapter 304 Array
Carlos's judgment on the enemy's military force was very mature. The army gathered from the western suburbs of Bordeaux was indeed led by two earls. This army belonged to two families with marquises, Rauszan and Alesm. Most of these knights were from the family branch, but they were not affiliated with the family.
More than half of the knights came from the Absolute Knights stationed in the city of Bordeaux, and the one who paid them was the third son. Therefore, although they were from these two marquises, the one who was as loyal as these marquises was the third son.
As the second son, no matter how large the family is, they cannot give them fiefdom and enough glory, but the Knights' Order of Hun Lao San can.
On the wall of the basin, he looked at the army figure gradually emerging on the distant horizon. He remembered Carlos's earlier introduction to the French Knights. He watched the ornate knights who appeared in the jungle in the telescope lined up and rode out on the wall, jumped out with spears and stomped out, and nodded slowly.
The policies and environments of each country are different, but people are not different, so they always strive to be the best.
The various Spanish legions and mercenaries were all short of knights without fiefdoms, and the French provided an opportunity for this group of people.
In Chen Jiujing's consciousness, he had to face more than a hundred martial artists.
Several miles apart, the enemy troops from Bordeaux began to form a formation. The knights who gathered together slowly dispersed and led the entourages who held the colorful flags behind them into a platoon of dozens of cavalry as Carlos said.
The barons brought knights and knights and entourages, and the weapons used were different, but they were five or six horses in each row, five or six rows, with people next to people and horses next to horses. Ten cavalry teams lined up in a row and stood silently on the battlefield.
More infantrymen walked out of the forest and arranged square formations from the knights before, but their inappropriate appearance was a group of bitterness compared to the knights. Their uniformity and equipment were as messy as the queue they assembled, and they were also lined up in front of the formation in a mess. Twelve square formations of three or four hundred people were also arranged in a mess.
Then the artillery was late, and more than thirty mules and horses appeared on the edge of the battlefield with a cannon, and were led by the artillery and moved forward, and finally scattered in a position that was even more forward than the infantry.
Chen Jiujing put down his telescope and licked his lips unconsciously, turned his head to look at the ship cannons covered with the protruding part of the bastion, "Be the head cannon?"
It seems funny, but the French's first cannon is very useful. At least the infantry front formed by Juan, Aji and Salazar collectively retreated.
The French artillery was arranged at the location of the front line of the front army, and they would eat shells if they did not retreat, but their artillery was on the bastion four miles away and could not provide them with firepower.
It's a mercenary again, so it's normal to retreat.
Chen Jiujing's front line had three 300 infantry phalanxes on each wing of the front line, and there were only two phalanxes close to the edge in the middle, which completely gave up the center. However, the rear line was strengthened in the middle, and fourteen Spanish mercenary infantry companies opened their positions under the wings of the cavalry led by Franco, which looked better than the French army.
The position under the basin was the Baishan Camp led by Kangguru. More than a hundred cavalry were trenched in the basin. The Jurchen heavy infantry stood densely inside and outside the trenches outside the basin. Four Korean bird guns and 100-person teams were placed in the trenches on both sides. This was the only firearm unit in the Baishan Camp.
Their muskets were fewer than those of mercenaries, and the mercenaries' phalanxes were all the same as those of the Spanish regular army. They were probably composed of 60% spearmen, 10% sword and shield infantry, 10% archers and 20% musketeers.
The Korean guerrilla Huang Xi of Baishan Camp also stood at the top of the city with a divine eyepiece overlooking the battlefield. After the French were deploying the formation, he raised his arms and said to Chen Jiujing: "General, they don't know some of their artillery, but they seem to be mostly Franchise aircraft. If you go forward a mile, the artillery gunners under the artillery can bombard the army."
"No hurry."
Chen Jiujing raised his hand to stop Huang Xi's idea of bombarding the enemy on the attack road, and said: "We have an advantage in artillery, so there is no need to rush to fire. Wait until they enter the five-jin cannon range, and then set it off. The ten-jin cannon and the sixteen-jin cannon will be left at the gate of the army."
For this battle, the North Korean soldiers of Baishan Camp specially unloaded the two thousand-material ships from light to heavy and pushed them to the top of the city. If it weren't for the twenty-pound cannons weighing more than 3,000 kilograms that were too heavy and difficult to transport, Chen Jiujing even wanted to move all the things to the city wall.
Baishan Camp is not a direct Beiyang army after all. We accept the loss of bird guns and muskets, but we must not suffer losses on cannons, otherwise it would be a loss of the duties of the Beiyang Military Mansion!
If the French commander of Bordeaux had a telescope that could see the black holes in the bastion, he would be pissed to death.
They brought thirty-six field guns, all of which were breech guns with Franz or wedge gun tails, sacrificing range and power in order to achieve rapid firing.
The Ming army was better. The ships that could not turn around were equipped with four-wheeled cannons, and General Shuo, who was placed on the top of the city. In this basin, there were French craftsmen who had no time to escape, who were driven to build second-wheeled cannons for them under the supervision of the soldiers in Baishan Camp.
If this battle is to be dragged back, Chen Jiujing's cannon will complete the transformation of the ship in the field.
However, during the conversation between Chen Jiujing and Huang Xi, a strange and funny situation appeared on the battlefield.
The French army took a hundred steps forward, and the Ming army's Xiyong Camp retreated one hundred steps backwards in the front.
The French sent several cavalrymen carrying the flags in front of the formation and walked forward with helplessness for a hundred steps, and they were very sad.
The cavalry received the order to shout to the enemy before the war. According to common sense, the nobles would talk to the other generals after the formation was completed when the formation was completed. If the negotiation was not right, the battle started. However, because Chen Jiujing did not appear last time, the Count who led the army was unwilling to reduce his value and go to the front to talk to the Ming soldiers, so he sent several riders.
But the formation seemed to be unable to end. The front army kept retreating, but before they could start the war, what did you think you kept retreating?
Logically speaking, someone appeared in front of the formation carrying a flag, so it was time for the opposite side to send someone to contact him, but no one from Mingjun paid attention to them.
Every time the cavalry took a few steps forward after taking a horse, they were full of energy and planned to make a shout that the enemy could hear, and the opposite side retreated in unison.
There was no way, the French army's formation also moved forward.
One retreated and the other advanced, which made the two French Count Commanders laugh and cry... After retreating from the coastal castle, there were only three miles left, and the army would enter the Ming Empire artillery shooting range.
"Stop leaving, stop and stop. We have already rushed a long way. If we dragged it like this with them, the soldiers would not have the strength to fight. Sir Lauzan, please send someone to Bordeaux to send the military tent. This battle looks like it will be very...
Before he finished speaking, there were loud bangs, and smoke burst out from the bastion in the distance. More than 30 artillery shells rushed towards the infantry formation at the front of the battlefield. In an instant, the horses raised their hooves and the military formation was in chaos.
"Fight without declaring war?"
Chapter completed!