Chapter 570 Unbelievable
"The new musket is really powerful!" Looking at the results of the match, Alexander was very pleasantly surprised.
Originally, when he developed the flintlock gun at the Royal Academy of Sciences, he actually refused in his heart.
After all, the use of matchlock guns has reached hundreds of years. If soldiers change the use of firearms, the cooperation of other people also needs to be trained, which will affect the combat effectiveness of the troops, especially in Normandy and the French Civil War.
However, after using the flintlock, he fell in love with this musket.
Strong resistance to weather, fast launch speed, easy to control, although the current cost is a bit high, but you can still try it.
Moreover, with the three-stage shooting, the speed should not be too fast to catch the Spaniard, who has always been known for his speed and proficiency, by surprise.
I saw that the first raised phalanx, the two sides shot at each other, and then slowly approached. In less than ten minutes, when the distance was less than ten steps, the Spaniards had already suffered heavy losses, and two-thirds of the soldiers fell.
The crackling sound was so touching to Alexander's ears, it was the taste of victory.
After the phalanxes came into contact, the long spears began to poke each other. It looked like children fighting. You poked, I poked, and stabbed each other.
Thousands of pure white spears, from a distance, look like toothpicks, fine and thin, from time to time some unlucky ghosts are poked, and they fall to the ground.
And this kind of scene has long been expected by both parties.
Under the spears, the Spaniards sent short soldiers with spears on their heads, holding machetes, squatting forward, and went to chop the long legs of the Englishmen.
England did not show weakness, and began to send swordsmen to fight each other.
The upper and lower sides fought at the same time, which was very intense.
At this time, the phalanx with the largest number of people left at the end has a big advantage, almost twice the strength of the opponent. The phalanx leader Robin frowned and shouted loudly: "Surround them, attack with all your strength—"
Afterwards, the Spanish phalanx, no matter how elite they are, will inevitably lose. No matter how hard they struggle, it will only take half an hour.
So, Alexander set his sights on the two small Spanish phalanxes that came later. Although they were in armor, they were in the same situation and suffered heavy losses.
This kind of aggrieved style of play made the Spaniard complain endlessly.
Go ahead! It means dying, being slaughtered.
Back off, you will be overshadowed by the opponent's cavalry, strangled by the infantry regiment and the cavalry together, but the time of death is relatively late.
Moreover, the Spanish army has a very high obedience rate, even if it is dead in front, it cannot retreat.
As the commander, General Battier knew the result of retreating, which would be more terrifying than confrontation, and total annihilation was inevitable.
The Spanish army has been rampant in Europe for decades, and victory is the norm, so how can it retreat?
So, even though the front phalanx had already told them with **** lessons that failure was doomed, the other two phalanxes still moved forward firmly with tears in their eyes.
As expected, under the surprised eyes of England, the Spanish soldiers lay on the ground with tears in their eyes. Few people fled the battlefield, only those who surrendered and those who died in battle.
This is the first time that the Spaniards have completely retreated in the face of almost the same battle formation.
This is different from the previous years when the Germans played a 7-1 match at the gate of Brazil in the World Cup in Brazil.
So, when he saw General Battier, Alexander only saw the old man with a blushing face and a face of dissatisfaction, and he shouted: This is an unfair battle, absolutely unfair.
The same was true of the other captured Spaniards, with their heads bowed, mixed with shame and resentment.
Alexander laughed at it. He understood that Spain's defeat at this time was only temporary. After that, the two countries must have fought frequently, but he didn't understand that Spain would hate England for centuries.
Finally, Alexander began to enjoy the fruits of victory.
Spain killed no more than 2,000 people, injured more than 4,000, and more than 5,000 were captured, including General Battier, who led the Spanish phalanx.
The British side was also having a hard time. The precise shooting methods of the Spanish veterans made the English people also uncomfortable. More than 1,000 people died in the battle and 2,000 were injured.
The reason why the damage was so high after the victory is inseparable from the tenacious fighting spirit of the Spaniards, especially General Shane Battier's final defense, which took more than an hour, and Alexander had to send all his troops to fight fiercely. attack.
As for the captured armor, muskets, spears, and horses, there are too many to count, especially the unscrupulous plundering by the Spaniards in the Netherlands, which made the English soldiers bleeding from their wounds a fortune.
"Go, tell His Majesty the King that we have won!" Alexander looked at the Spanish soldiers being drawn into a string, and then at the blood and corpses on the ground, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Under great pressure, he did not break through the city of Arras, but just waited for work and met the Spaniards for a while, thus establishing the Netherlands' victory in one fell swoop.
Southern Netherlands, major cities, at this moment, the number of remaining Spanish is only 8,000 to 9,000 people, and they are still relatively poor troops, suppressing law and order. This is the only remaining force of Spain in the Netherlands.
The English will occupy the most fertile land in Europa, making Europe fear England.
But he would not have thought that more than 10,000 cavalry from Austria and Hungary had already arrived, only a day away from the city of Aras.
The news of the victory spread to London, and the entire palace, the city of London, and even the United Kingdom became a sea of joy in an instant.
Who is Spain, the overlord of Europa for decades, the world's number one army and navy, suppressing any country that tries to challenge him, the Spanish phalanx has become synonymous with fear.
This time, with the same strength, the United Kingdom had already planned to lose the army, but who knows, it won in the end, a complete victory.
His Majesty the King announced that 50,000 pounds will be awarded to the winning hero.
The United Kingdom government announced that the winning army will purchase land from Normandy at a lower price.
However, several newspapers reported repeatedly, announcing this event to the whole country.
United Weekly: Victory? Just go faster!
London Daily: The victory of the United Kingdom Army will prove that Spain is no longer suitable for its role at this time!
Scotland Daily: Triumph of the Kingdom, Fall of the Overlord.
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So people seem to have forgotten that the Spanish standing army still has 20,000 to 30,000 people, but this time, it is only 10,000 people.
(end of this chapter)