Chapter 54: Rockets
It was much easier to defend Xinjiang than to attack Xinjiang, and as long as there were no enemies, they would never-ending to strengthen the Xinjiang Bridge.
After discussing with Deng Zilong, Bai Yuanjie's barbarian battalion cruised on the river by boat as a naval army to play their strengths, and Deng Zilong's battalion was on the southwest bank of Xinjiang Bridge to defend it.
I don't expect them to resist the enemy, I just hope that the enemy situation will be discovered earlier.
Although Chen Mu's general banner belonged to Bai Yuanjie's subordinates, they were not good at water warfare, so they temporarily belonged to Deng Zilong's department to be responsible for land patrol.
Chen Junye accidentally became a marginal person, Bai Yuanjie on the water was afraid that he would drown himself, and Deng Zilong on land did not assign him defense. It can't be said that he is not assigned, Deng Zilong made a request to him, and assigned him two battalion soldiers who were proficient in banner orders and orders, so that he could practice the Ming army drill well.
Of course, Deng Zilong didn't say the word codex, but used the order, but for Chen Mu, this is the code of this era.
Because after Deng Zilong tried, he found that Chen Mu's general banner could not be integrated into the defensive sequence of the battalion at all, and the order did not work.
Chen Mu understands the command of a fart, he will dance the small flag and a few simple military orders, which are all things in the memory of the original owner of the body, but he does not know how to use them in battle at all, and he is even more confused in training, it's not that he can't command, he can't command concisely and formally, or his command is too concise!
"Hit the guy in yellow, hit the guy who cuckolded!" - This is the Commanding Officer.
"Rush to the rock, don't run around! Raise your spear and slash with your sword! "βThis is the command of the spearman.
As for changing formations or something, Chen Mu had never trained his subordinates. When practicing in the rice field next to the yamen of the Qingyuan Wei General Banner, Chen Mu was accustomed to letting the sergeants of each small banner fight in a row, and the bird guns would shoot the target, thirty steps, fifty steps, seventy steps; The swordsmen and spearmen also fought in a row to cut down tree stumps and stab scarecrows, stipulating quantity and strict quality.
As a result, his current manpower, whether he is a new soldier who does not understand four or six or an old soldier who has died for a lifetime, cannot be integrated into the drill, defense and duty of the regular army in this era.
It stands to reason that Chen Mu's command ability should be classified by Deng Zilong into the range of wine bags and rice bags, but on the contrary, Chen Mu can lead troops to fight.
Bai Yuanjie cared about the result, so what he saw was that Chen Mu led the troops to have a set, each flag performed its own duties, the bird and the gun were extremely stable, and the knife and spear hand stabbing were all superior, not to mention that the march was extremely obedient to Chen Mu's orders.
The key point is that Chen Mu is not the main combat force in the Qianhu of Qingcheng, his primary task is farming, and as long as he is more reliable than other general banners in battle, it is enough, so he has never been held accountable for the problem of military training.
But Deng Zilong is different, he started from recruiting troops to fight Jiangxi anti-thieves, Fujian and Guangdong Japanese robbers, and in his eyes, Chen Mu, the general banner, and the military households led by Chen Mu are all fools.
A group of soldiers with superb combat skills and orders and prohibitions, but they all belong to a general who does not understand and gives orders indiscriminately, which is simply a pearl and a secret investment.
However, this group of soldiers was trained by this general, and he could only understand his messy military orders. Beating a three-way drum in their ears is not as effective as Chen Mu shouting at the top of his throat - do you say this is annoying?
"Chen Zongqi, you have to learn the order, so that your flag army can understand the military order." Deng Zilong, a rough man, was full of pain in his eyes when he said this, and his hatred of iron and steel was difficult to describe in words, "When you become a thousand households, a general, and lead hundreds of subordinates, can you still use shouting to give them orders?" β
In fact, Chen Mu's first reaction was not gratitude, he felt that it would save trouble to give his unique command experience to Shao Tingda and them?
Of course, he didn't say that, Deng was always right, and he had to listen. What's more, Chen Mu also heard the implication, Deng Zilong praised him, thinking that he had the ability to further take on important positions, and he could not be restricted by the existing orders, and it would not be good to lead troops to harm others in the future.
"When you return to Guangdong after this battle, Deng will give you a copy of General Qi's "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness", which is the experience of his southeast Pingwei, which is very unique to training and leading troops, and you will definitely be of great benefit after reading it." Deng Zilong said this, and suddenly asked: "Chen Zongqi can read and write, right?" β
Chen Mu had long wanted to see Ji Xiao's new book, nodded one after another, and when he heard Deng Zilong ask him, he paused for a moment, and then continued: "Recognize the words below." β
Are you kidding, Chen Ye's college students enlist in the army and enjoy preferential policies, who are you ignitrate, who are you buried!
"It's good to be literate, it's good to be literate."
Saying that, Deng Zilong left the bridgehead riverbank where Chen Mu was training his soldiers with his hands behind his back, and muttered to himself as he walked, "How can those who are literate and readable, shout military orders and be thicker than Deng's old coarseness?" β
I don't blame Chen Mu for the fact that there is a fault in knowledge, most of the strengths he shows come from his knowledge and experience after four hundred years, and his weaknesses are the normal performance of Chen Mu, a small flag official in this era. He is only a little stronger than the serfs, and he has been hereditary by the light of the ancestors of his contemporaries, isn't it nonsense to expect him to have any family history!
"Yo hey! I have seen Brother Mu, come and see what I am holding in my hand! β
Chen Mu, who followed the flag bearer of the battalion under the headquarters of Guangdong and had studied military order drills on the bank of the Xinjiang River for almost half a month, saw two small clippers on the west side of the Xinjiang River from a distance on this day, and he could recognize them as civilian boats reinforced by simple nails in the barbarian camp from a long distance, so he asked Shao Tingda to ask if there was any news about Qingyuanwei.
"What kind of thing is this, Donnie Yen's Ming Fourteen Potential?"
Chen Mu took a wooden box from Shao Tingda's hand, the box was painted with a beautiful simple dragon, the simple wooden box with lacquer tung oil looked like a work of art, Chen Mu saw Bai Yuanjie also walk down from the boat, and hurriedly put down the wooden box and saluted: "Thousand households!" β
Bai Yuanjie bowed his head at him, waved to the boat and ordered someone to unload the utensils contained, and then turned his head to Chen Mu and said: "What are the fourteen potentials of the Ming Dynasty, Bai has never heard of this kind of artifact, and the name is good."
This is a swarm of rockets, loaded with 32 arrows and capable of shooting an enemy at 300 paces. Mr. Yu's artillery didn't know when it arrived, so Bai sent someone to take out some age-old firearms from the Qingyuanwei arsenal, and the gunpowder was all new, give you the five tigers out of the hole arrow, take it and light it to try. β
As he spoke, Bai Yuanjie handed another round wooden box with a thick bowl mouth to Chen Mu and asked him to light it on the other side.
Although Bai Yuanjie repeatedly explained that the Five Tigers Arrow could be held and ignited, Chen Mu still stubbornly put this object on the stone and set it up - for Chen Zongqi, all weapons that use gunpowder in this era are extremely terrifying, either hurting the enemy or himself, or hurting the enemy and hurting himself!
Lifting the cork in front of him, revealing five glittering arrows, he stretched his arm and raised a torch to light the fuse.
Sou! Whoosh!
Smack! Syllable!
In the blink of an eye, five feathered arrows erupted with a palpitating shrill whistle, straight across the hundred-pace-wide river and nailed to the trees on the opposite bank a dozen paces away, and one fell into the river with no more than twenty paces, and after a short period of two breaths, there were a few gentle explosions.
Chen Mu looked fixedly at the few faint pieces of gunpowder smoke rising from the opposite shore like a firebolt, and swallowed his saliva.
"Channeling, Monkey Channeling?"
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Note: According to the "Armed Preparation System", the people of the Ming Dynasty were already able to distinguish and make 'pushing medicine' and 'explosive medicine'.