Under the tremendous pressure on the battlefield, as long as one person fires, others will also be tempted to fire.
And since the distance between the arrays on both sides is not far away, even the well-trained elites of the Spanish Army cannot complete the loading again.
In other words, if Zhu Hongyu's plan succeeds, the few people who went to lure him will almost certainly die.
But he was able to gain great advantages for himself at a very small cost.
In the late Ming Dynasty, the Qing army often used this method to deal with the Ming army's guns.
During the war, people were sent to lure the Ming army to fire. As long as one person could not help but fire, all the musketeers of the Ming army would not be able to help but empty their muskets one after another.
Even if they can't see the enemy at all!
When the musketeers who were the greatest threat to the Qing army's heavy armor fired their empty guns, it was time for the Qing army's Manchurian heavy infantry to pounce on them.
Facing the heavy Manchurian attack of the Qing army, the Ming army musketeers who had fired their muskets would naturally end up being unilaterally massacred!
What makes Zhu Hongyu feel a little frustrated is that this trick is useless against the Spaniards.
However, Zhu Hongyu's frustration did not last long.
A few people went out and a few came back, killing and wounding several Spanish soldiers without causing any damage to his own side. What else could he find fault with?
No loss, no loss!
The distance between the two sides continued to close, and Zhu Hongyu sent out several waves of decoy skirmishers.
Seven or eight Spanish soldiers were shot and killed in succession.
But the Spanish are never fooled!
They lined up in neat steps, puffed out their chests proudly, and bravely faced the incoming bullets with their chests.
When Oscar saw this scene, he roared with rage.
"Despicable, simply despicable!"
"These damn Chinese pigs don't have any pride in being soldiers. Their methods are really mean!"
Oscar was really disgusted by the tactics of the Liberation Army.
Although Europe now has the prototype of queuing to kill, he has never seen this method of baiting and shooting in front of the formation.
Since the opponent came up in scattered groups, with the accuracy of musket shooting in this era, a single person could not threaten the opponent at all.
But if it is a volley, it can kill the enemy's skirmishers.
But now that they have fired a volley, they will suffer a big loss later when the two sides receive troops and shoot head-on.
As the distance between the two sides gradually narrowed, the skirmishers from the Liberation Army who came out to lure and attack also withdrew.
"The enemy is nearly a hundred meters away!"
"Everyone has it, guns raised, ready to shoot!"
The Spaniards were ready to shoot.
Zhu Hongyu ordered the front row of the Liberation Army to hold their guns and continue to move forward.
I want to wait until 50 meters before approaching and shooting!
However, the Spaniards had already opened fire.
At this time, the tactic of advancing from 20 meters to shoot and then bayonet had not yet been invented.
A common tactic in the West is to shoot in line at a distance of 100 meters!
Naturally the same is true for the Spaniards!
Bang! Bang bang! Bang bang bang!
As if to vent the grievances he had just suffered, the Spaniard pulled the trigger desperately.
Buckshot rained down, one after another.
Gunpowder smoke obscured the battlefield, and under the dense rain of bullets, soldiers of the Liberation Army were constantly hit.
The screams sounded one after another!
I don’t know who started it first, but the Liberation Army also opened fire.
There is no volley of guns, no rounds of fire, and no fifty-meter advance shooting!
The two sides were hundreds of meters apart and began a fierce exchange of fire.
The gunfire from the Spanish side was quite orderly, everyone fired at almost the same time, and rows of lead bullets were densely packed like rain.
The gunshots from the Liberation Army were crackling together!
From time to time, people around him fell down after being hit by lead bullets. The lead bullets spun out a large hole in their bodies, shattering their skin, flesh, bones, and internal organs.
The bloody scene caused the soldiers of the Liberation Army to get into a mess, firing continuously and not obeying the command at all!
These soldiers, who were just miners a few days ago, have never seen this scene.
Some people only loaded gunpowder and fired, which could only make a sound; others only loaded lead bullets without gunpowder, so naturally they could not fire.
Someone even punched out the ticket!
The Liberation Army was in chaos in front of the formation. If Zhu Hongyu hadn't been struggling to maintain it on the front line, the Liberation Army would have collapsed.
The two sides exchanged fierce fire, and people on the Liberation Army side kept falling to the ground, ten, fifteen, twenty...
Casualties continue to rise!
Although there were casualties on the Spanish side, with people constantly being shot and falling to the ground, since the Liberation Army did not fire in volleys, their casualties were not as great as those of the Liberation Army.
The battlefield was filled with smoke, blocking everyone's sight. The Liberation Army could only see its own casualties, but could not see that the opponent was constantly falling to the ground.
Gradually they couldn't hold on any longer!
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Oscar laughed proudly.
Although he could not clearly see the situation on the battlefield, he could tell from the increasingly sparse gunshots on the opposite side that the Chinese rebels were about to be defeated.
"Great Spain is invincible!"
"Brave young men, fight for Spain and destroy those damn Chinese!"
"Follow my orders and charge!"
Oscar ordered the Spanish soldiers to charge.
The Spanish musketeers retreated, and the spearmen began to advance with their spears.
Capello also sent the Japanese ronin warriors around him to come forward to help.
These Japanese dwarfs held long and narrow Japanese swords and rushed to the front of the Spanish square formation without fear of death, heading towards the formation of the Liberation Army.
In the Far East, Japanese samurai have always been good mercenaries. They are fierce and brave, and are skilled in sword skills. Once the affiliation is established, they will be loyal to their masters.
It is favored by many forces.
Whether it is Western colonists such as Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands, or Eastern sea masters such as Zheng Zhilong.
They all have a soft spot for Japanese samurai!
Many people like to keep some Japanese samurai around!
The same is true for the Scotch family. Cappello raised more than a dozen Japanese samurai as his guards and loyal dogs.
Now, he has sent out these loyal, fierce, and good at hand-to-hand combat Japanese samurai!
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Zhu Hongyu heard that the Spaniards' musket fire had stopped, and knew that the Spaniards were about to press forward and fight hand-to-hand.
He ordered in a hoarse voice.
"Everyone has it, organize the formation!"
"The musketeers fixed their bayonets, the spearmen, and the sword and shield soldiers were ready to meet the enemy!"
"..."
The soldiers around him were panicked under his orders, but they responded quickly.
There are spears like a forest, with sharp spear points pointing forward!
The sword and shield soldiers and the musketeers with bayonets were also well prepared to engage the enemy at close range.
As long as an enemy breaks through the blockade of spears, it's their turn to engage.
The injured soldiers were dragged to the rear of the array, and a specialized medical team transported the wounded soldiers to the mine.
Zhu Hongyu, holding a musket with a bayonet, still stood on the front line.
In fact, it was fortunate that Zhu Hongyu was on the front line, otherwise the Liberation Army would have collapsed just after the musketry exchange.
After all, the Liberation Army was just a newly formed army, and it didn't have much combat experience. It only lasted less than ten days of training.
Zhu Hongyu is already very satisfied that they can persist until now and perform like this on the battlefield!
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