The sun sank low, and the Taino village was no longer peaceful. In the vast sea wind came the reek of blood and the smell of gunsmoke. At this moment, two bands of armed men with utterly different faiths—neither of which could truly be called an army—met across ten thousand miles in eastern Long Island of Cuba and began a sudden slaughter!
"Fire!"
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!..."
At Francisco Pinzon's shout, more than twenty Matchlock Muskets fired one after another, shooting toward the center of the village over a hundred paces away. Then the lead balls neatly avoided every Taino spearman and, with no accuracy whatsoever, struck the ground before the longhouses and huts, kicking up a great choking cloud of dust and grass!
At the end of this fifteenth century, the first "smoothbore matchlock gun" (Arquebus) fitted with a match ignition device had already been invented forty years earlier in the Kingdom of Castile. However, the standard "heavy matchlock gun" (Musket) commonly seen in later film and television, used in the Spanish tercios—the earliest prototype of the "Bird Gun"—would still have to wait another thirty years before it truly appeared.
As for the battle that made the heavy matchlock gun famous, that would have to wait until 1525, during the Battle of Pavia between Spain and France in the Italian Wars. In that battle, the Spanish army, which had widely equipped itself with heavy matchlock guns, successfully defeated the French cavalry at the peak of the Middle Ages, and made the proud French lose their king once again. From then on, the age of knights officially came to an end, and the process of firearm adoption among the countries of Europe advanced swiftly and irresistibly. As for the present, it was still on the edge where old and new