The battle on the riverbank was more difficult than Chen Mu imagined.

In the battle outside the south gate of Guangzhou Prefecture, the banner army of Xiangshan occupied an absolute advantage, so that the morale was like a rainbow, and the hundreds of households led the banner army to pursue at the end of the rank.

The birds and guns were no longer able to form a line of guns, and the marching guns raised their heads to avoid their own front flag army and hit the approximate position of the fleeing pirates, which seemed to be a volley of cannons all the time, but could not actually cause many casualties to the enemy, which could only make them more alarmed.

But this is very good in Chen Mu's opinion, even after a short engagement with the Japanese invaders, the various banner armies still maintain a phalanx in the pursuit, and the night makes the banner army more timid and makes them doubly united, it is foreseeable that after this battle, the formation and defense will become the fixed pattern of the banner army of Xiangshan.

They can be called elite soldiers!

The good situation lasted until the Japanese army was driven to the shore.

As the uncrowned king of the South China Sea in this era after Wu Ping, Zeng Yiyi has never fought against such a high-morale and extremely strong military force, just in the earlier battle of Chaozhou Mansion, Yu Dayou relied on a slightly weaker battalion to rely on strong command to fight a battle situation that made him feel even more suffocated.

Zeng Yiyi knew what the officers and soldiers wanted to do - force his men into the river, seize his boat, and even capture him.

Naive!

Although the purpose of looting the city of Guangzhou failed, and a large number of pirates were shot and defeated by the official army, Zeng Yiyi did not see much distress on his face, and with him raising his hand on the three-masted Dafu ship far from the shore, the sound of conch conch came from the ship one after another.

Even if he was distressed, Zeng Yiyi was only distressed by the seven or eight hundred bird guns that fell on the shore, and he was not distressed by those sea coars.

Most of the bird guns were snatched by him after the victory of the coastal attacks on the officers and troops in the past two years, and in the hands of his more than 3,000 subordinates, there were more than 1,500 bird guns, which constituted a land firepower that the officers and troops could collapse at the slightest touch.

Now that at least half of them have been left in Guangcheng, Zeng Sanlao must be distressed, but those who died are not his people, it doesn't matter to him.

There are more than 3,000 pirates, and there are only 800 people who can really be regarded as Zeng's men, most of them are on the warships cruising on the shore, and the ones sent to loot and siege the city are only small pirates and maritime merchants who are attached to them, which is not considered to be broken.

As the whimpering conch sounded on the ships of the pirates, the large ships raised their sails and lifted anchor, and swam to blast the Franco's cannons ashore, paying special attention to the guns that had brought them great deterrence on the hillside.

The warships in the river were illuminated by firelight, which was Zeng Yi's specialty, using the warship Franc machine gun to fire a salvo, whether it could be accurate or not did not matter at all, no army could withstand the flying artillery fire from all directions.

Haikou can't do it, and neither can the Xiangshan Banner Army.

With only one salvo of naval artillery, Deng Zilong's banner army was beaten back, and at most ten shells really fell into the formation, but the banner army was frightened by the artillery and did not dare to advance, and even the military formation was unconsciously retreating as a whole.

The only difference was that they retreated to the river, so that even though many of them were killed by their own guns, more pirates fled to the river, pushing small boats into the river, regardless of the pirate ships.

This is the usual tactic of the pirates, if you win, you will be like a swarm of beasts, and if you lose, all birds and beasts will be scattered, and the officers and soldiers will not be able to chase after them.

The boats, which had been swimming in a circle, bombarded the shore again with their Franco cannons, this time not at the officers and soldiers, but at the small boats that were still docked on the shore, and the sails of the boats were blasted out of the holes, and then sailed away.

Deng Zilong was helpless, so he could only angrily thrust the long knife on the tip of his eyebrows into the ground, and gritted his teeth at the shadow of the Haikou ship walking down the river.

When Chen Mu arrived with his soldiers, the night battle to seize the city had ended, and the firelight should shine on the corpses and weapons outside the city until the river bank, including the Xiangshan Banner Army, and more Japanese robbers.

Chen Mu untied the iron arm guard of his left hand and ordered to the left and right: "Order all departments and hundreds of households to clear out the remnants of thieves, and don't want a single living mouth!" The injured were sent to Shao Baihu and gathered for a moment of rest! ”

Untied the beaten and deformed arm guard, the heart guard was also thrown aside by him, and the forearm of his left hand was high and swollen.

When leading the army to seize the door, Chen Mu only felt that his left arm was cold, and when he asked Zhang Han for orders, the pain became more and more unbearable.

It's not a big problem, so I asked people to find two pieces of wood to make a simple splint, and even if the wound cut by the broken arm guard is cleaned up after a little cleaning, Chen Mu has time to check other places...... I felt sluggish during the battle, and I only felt pain everywhere when I was idle, but I didn't suffer any major injuries, nothing more than hitting him in the right shoulder when the family soldier was fired upside down by the Fran cannon, leaving a bruise mark.

It was the heaviest casualty among his men in several years, and they were nearly broken by Franco's cannons, with few killed but nearly half wounded.

They basically did not engage the Japanese in a hard-to-earth battle, and 90% of the casualties were directly hit by artillery fire, and a few were killed by their own artillery injuries.

"Come and get the book."

Taking advantage of the banner army to clean up the battlefield and execute the remnants of the enemy, Chen Mu sat cross-legged and rested for a while, and asked the soldier to take out his notes and write down a line on it, the cannon should be thickened, the smelting should be improved, and the gun carriage should also be improved.

Seven guns fought a battle, and there were still three left, only one was slightly deformed by the direct fire of the Japanese cannons, and the remaining three were blown up.

The danger is too high, and this durability is not even as good as the artillery made by the Ministry of Industry in the Ming Dynasty.

The craftsmen of the Ordnance Bureau were very serious in the process of forging the cannon, and there was only one biggest problem, the cannon was too light, the wall was too thin, and the good effectiveness shown in the test was not enough to maintain the need for greater intensity in battle.

"Thousands of households, three hundred and seventy-two wounded in the banner army, sent to Shao Baihu." Fu Yuan sighed with psychological imbalance on his face, and whispered to Chen Mu: "Lao Shao was promoted to a thousand households in Shunde by the military gate...... Chino, you're hurt? ”

Fu Yuan, this guy is lucky, this battle has been smooth all the way, he has not been injured at all, and his subordinates have won a good job, but he complained a lot after a battle, and when he was talking, he saw that Chen Mu's arm was swollen and a large piece, and he hurriedly greeted the military doctor to be courteous.

"It's okay, go find me a heart shield and bring me a helmet."

Anyway, everyone is the old pillar under Chen Mu's hands, he will use it when he catches people, and when Fu Yuan brings a helmet and heart goggles, he smiled and said: "That's the reckless worm has good luck a little earlier, you hundreds of households in Guanghai and Guangzhou have a lot of meritorious deeds, and after the war, you are at least a deputy thousand households." ”

"Sooner or later!"

"Ask all departments, are you resting, you are resting and going on the road with Chen, march eighty miles in a hurry, and be sure to rush to Shunde before dawn!"

The arm on his hand was hung on his neck with a silk cloth, and the pain and exhaustion invaded Chen Qianhu's spirit, but at this moment he was full of motivation - the exploits of his subordinates to promote Qianhu were enough, and it was enough for him to recapture the Guanghai Acropolis and Guangzhou Mansion to retreat from the enemy, but this was not enough.

For him, if he doesn't catch or kill Zeng Yi, he will fight this battle in vain!

"Let's go!"