General Piles was extremely unwilling to give up. Before sending troops, he was full of confidence and insisted on teaching the Ming Dynasty a hard lesson so that the world could know that Spain was still a powerful country.

But reality poured cold water on General Piles. Although he led his troops to attack the Ming territory in the past month, the battle situation was not as smooth as expected. His army had not yet reached the core of the Ming hinterland and had been fighting continuously with the Ming army.

Moreover, although the Ming army was weaker in terms of military strength and firepower than the Spanish army, the Ming army's tenacious resistance and persistence shocked him. Without taking over Sanhe Town and ensuring logistics, the Spanish army had already been weak in attack. The lack of materials and the continuous harassment of the small troops of the Ming army in the field made the Spanish army exhausted and their morale continued to fall.

Originally, General Piles planned to grit his teeth and persevere. Whether he used his power to completely solve the Sanhe defenders in the rear or continued to attack and open the front passage, as long as he could achieve a goal, Spain still had the possibility of victory.

Who would have thought that the fire suddenly broke out in the backyard and the governor sent an order to let the entire army retreat. General Piles could not hide this news at all. Before he finally decided whether to accept the order, the Spanish fleet was wiped out. The bad news of Mansanillo's loss spreading in the Spanish army like a plague. The soldiers in the army were panic, and the morale that had been barely maintained before suddenly fell to the bottom.

In this case, it is impossible to continue attacking. General Piles scolded the governor as a fool and could only order a retreat.

But it is easy to come, but it is difficult to leave. How could the Ming army allow the Spaniards to leave so easily?

When Spain's retreat order came down, although General Piles arranged the troops to cut off the rear and asked the troops to execute the retreat order step by step, unfortunately, the panic of the Spanish army is now irrepressible. When the retreat begins, the entire Spanish army shows a scramble.

General Piles immediately felt something was wrong and immediately ordered to restrict the troops to adjust. However, before he could do this, the Ming army, which had been paying attention to the Spanish army, suddenly moved. Whether it was the Ming army defenders who fought against the main force of Spain, or the Ming army who had persisted until now in Sanhe Town, or the Ming cavalry and small groups of troops who were wandering everywhere, it seemed that they had received the order at the same time, and launched a fierce counterattack against the Spanish from all over the line.

The sudden counterattack was so strong and the action was so resolute. The retreating Spanish caught off guard. The originally arranged troops to cut off the rear did not play any role. The Ming army broke through the front in just a few rounds.

When the Ming army launched a counterattack against the Spanish from the north, south and other directions, the Spanish army without fighting began to be in chaos, and the chaos immediately spread to various units, causing the collapse of the entire Spanish army.

Faced with the collapse of the troops, General Piles was in tears. But at this time, he could no longer do anything. The only thing he could do was to escape as soon as possible.

General Piles ran away, and he ran away shamelessly without looking back.

Under the cover of the elite direct troops, the commander of the Spanish colonial army left his army and fled.

The commander's actions accelerated Spain's collapse. In order to compete for the opportunity to escape, countless Spanish soldiers ran desperately towards the rear when they came. In order to be able to run faster, they even discarded the muskets in their hands. Even the hats and gunpowder sacks hanging on their bodies were throwing them all away while running.

The defeat was like a mountain of decline, which was about the current Spanish. The Ming army, who had been suppressed and beaten, had already held their breath. At this time, it would not hurt the dogs in the water?

The Ming army coming everywhere rushed towards the defeated Spaniards. Where did the Spaniards who had abandoned their weapons still have the desire to fight? They all ran around like headless flies, looking for a way to escape.

In just less than a day, the Ming army captured nearly 10,000 Spanish troops, and hundreds of Spanish people were trampled and trampled to death by their own people during the escape. As for the Ming army, only three were injured, two of them were caused by fighting against the stubborn officers in the Spanish army, while the other was running too fast when chasing and accidentally sprained their ankle.

Three days later, General Piles fled to the starting point at a much faster speed than he had. At this time, there were only less than 4,000 troops left by his side. A large part of the four thousand people were troops originally placed behind Sanhe Town, so the number of people who actually escaped from the front line with General Piles was only a few hundred.

When General Piles first sent troops, he had nearly 40,000 troops, which were almost most of the elite troops in the Spanish colonial army.

Now only one-tenth of the 40,000 troops remain. Except for the number of casualties in the previous war, the rest are now gone. Such a crushing defeat made General Piles heartbroken.

The Ming army, which won the victory, did not stop moving forward. After several troops gathered in Sanhe Town, the Ming army continued to attack towards the Spanish situation.

Attack and defense were interchanged, General Piles has now become the beating side. He has no ability to compete with the Ming army at all, so he can only continue to retreat with the remnants, retreating directly for more than a hundred miles, and then he barely got rid of the Ming army's offensive momentum.

The news of the Spanish defeat soon reached France. Louis was stunned by the Spanish defeat so quickly and miserably.

Now, the Spaniards not only lost their advantage since the war started, but also lost their elite troops. This war can be said to be defeated so thoroughly and so neatly.

In order to save Spain's defeat, Louis had already broken his face with the Ming Dynasty, but the complete defeat of the Spanish made everything Louis had done before almost useless.

But at this time, Louis had already been on the verge of arrows and had to fire. The war between France and the Ming Dynasty really broke out. As France's governor in the New World, Louis's only way to save the situation was to defeat the Ming army on the battlefield and thus resolve the dilemma of Spain.

But it is not so easy to defeat the Ming army. Since the war officially started, both sides have not gained any advantage.

Louis was very clear about the power of the Ming Dynasty. Faced with such a situation, he continued to mobilize troops and recruited troops, and on the other hand, he quickly asked for help from the local government. At the same time, he sent his judgment of the New World back to the local government through channels, hoping that Paris could change its original view and let France escape from this meaningless war.

At this time, the happiest thing was the British who had been watching. When they received the news that the Spaniards had failed on sea and land and France had really intervened in the war, the British, who had not taken action, celebrated each other with no action, and laughed so hard that they could not close their mouths.
Chapter completed!