Rumble!

In the early morning, the two Franco-cannon guns pushed forward to the mouth of the valley down the mountain, and bombarded the arrow tower of the mountain guard tower a mile away. With a roar, the smoke at the foot of the mountain was filled, and the bronze Franc machine gun sat back fiercely, and the projectile suddenly shot out and accurately hit the forest on the mountain with a parabola, sweeping off several small trees along the way, and panicking the small village in the mountain.

Talking about accuracy with the cannons of this era is not nonsense!

Although the black powder is not powerful enough, it is powerful enough.

In Chen Mu's eyes, the Francophone bombarded out, and there was movement when the camp on the opposite hill landed, even if the people closest to the shell hit point were dozens of meters away, they would still panic and hug their heads and run around, looking for places to hide, shouting everywhere.

Deng Zilong's experienced gunners unscrewed the ears to the right side with their ears, then threw the smoking empty guns aside, replaced them with gunpowder and shells loaded in advance, and then fired, bringing a chicken, flying and dog jumping to the mountain again.

Chen Mu and they were stationed in Beishan, and Deng Zilong was stationed in Nanshan, they did not block the retreat of Wu Duan, but flashed out of the gap in a two-phase attack, which was only two miles apart. The situation was similar over there, the same Franc cannon kept bombarding the hill, firing five shots in succession, and the gunners behind the two guns only rested for a moment.

The bronze cannon body was red from the explosion of gunpowder, and it would have exploded if it continued to explode.

Hearing is false, seeing is believing.

In Chen Mu's view, in this era of coordinated combat of hot and cold weapons, the biggest advantage of artillery is not the terrible lethality, but the terrible morale suppression it brings to the enemy. In the case of the extremely poorly organized rebels, artillery bombardment by their guard towers and arrow towers would cause their scouts to observe the situation and reluctantly line up a large group of foot soldiers to scatter out of control.

If this is not a battle but an ordinary encounter, at this time, it is only necessary to send their banner army to rush over, and they are brave enough to easily fight a crushing battle against several times the enemy.

Beishan to the north, can't go far is the new river water, and it is precisely because of the river guard that Bai Yuanjie is leading the troops to guard here, his subordinates except for Chen Mu, the landlubber of the general banner, the more than 400 Tanren warriors in the barbarian camp are all natural sailors, fighting on the water, no one can beat them.

At this moment, many of the sergeants of the barbarian battalion like Chen Mu, who had seen the bombardment of the Fran cannon for the first time in their lives, were silent and did not dare to come out, and cautiously watched the artillery repeat the actions of loading the gun, firing the cannon, cleaning the gun breech, and loading the gun again.

The roar of artillery is similar to the power of heaven and earth.

"Qianhu, do you see it? Just two Furlong cannons. Chen Mu vigorously grasped the bones of the wolf, showing white intent, and pointed to the mountain beside Bai Yuanjie and said: "Suppress the hundreds of enemy troops on the mountain, and we will also get some artillery in the banner army in the future!" ”

Bai Yuanjie's eyes were scorching, even if he didn't have Chen Mu's insight beyond the times, how could a martial artist who could stand out in this era be a general, nodded calmly, and said slowly without knowing what he was thinking: "You don't know how expensive this cannon is." ”

"Your 300 acres of land can only grow one such cannon a year, and it will be abandoned in less than two years."

Bai Yuanjie explained to Chen Mu: "The copper cannon is light, but the cannon chamber is soft and useless, the more you hit the cannon chamber, the bigger it gets, and ordinary military craftsmen can't make it well, so you can fire a few catties of gunpowder." When I was a child, Qingyuan had artillery, the old ones were broken, the new ones were not repaired, and they couldn't afford to make up for them. ”

Chen Mu pursed his lips, in his opinion, Bai Yuanjie's five hundred troops, at least ten such Franc machine light artillery, whether it is loaded or mules and horses, they are dragged all over the ground, the siege can quickly destroy the fortification, and the field battle can hit morale, this is the way to win. But at the moment, he also knew that such a situation was basically impossible, just like Bai Yuanjie said, his 300 acres of private land can only grow a Franco cannon in a year, which means that this thing costs at least 100 taels of silver, 10 guns and 3,000 taels, where can he get it?

"But having a cannon is better than nothing, Bai heard that General Qi built a tiger squat cannon in the southeast, and he was lucky enough to see this war. It is inevitable to buy guns, so let's see what guns are suitable for you to buy. Bai Yuanjie said with a grim expression, and waved at Chen Mu to stop him from continuing to speak, "Silence, Wu Duan is going to attack!" ”

As soon as Bai Yuanjie's words fell, the chaotic rogue formation of the former army only two miles away from them raised a whining buffalo horn, and the shoddy low ladder was carried by the soldiers, and when he heard the order, he burst out with a huge shout of killing and rushed towards Xinjiang Town in the low area of the river valley, which made Chen Mu look sideways, and his morale was absolutely available!

Wu Duanjun began to charge, Bai Yuanjie also turned around and waved the order flag, and ordered: "When Wu Duan engages with the enemy in the town, we will wait for the formation to attack the mountain, Chen Zongqi listens to the order, and orders you to lead the crowd from the left side of the mountain to fight the front!" ”

There is a military order, which is different from ordinary chatter, Chen Mu hugged his fists and responded, returned to his head and said: "The flag army listens to the order, line up!" ”

Chen Mu's army, except for the rest of the Bird Gun team, may not be very high, but listening to the order to line up this kind of thing, his subordinate flag army is absolutely beautiful, more than 50 people quickly lined up when they heard the voice, the bird gun team and Chen Mu were in the center, the sword player was in the front, the archer was in the back, and the spears on both wings formed a horizontal formation that lacked a wide range of vertical strikes.

Their opponents lack firearms, so they need to be protected by a knife player on the following attacks, and an enemy archer in depth will give them a catastrophe. If you are facing an enemy with many firearms, you need a narrow and deep vertical formation to counter the firearms such as firearms.

On the surface, Chen Mu seems to have been in battle for a long time, but in fact, this is the first time he has participated in a huge local battle of nearly 10,000 armies on both sides, and his heart is beating fast, but the pride in his heart and the unbearable support of the enemy make him pretend to be calm.

Every banner army is like this, and the battle formation can unite them together, maintain a high morale, and give silent support to each other.

How bold people are!

After Chen Mu's department, Bai Yuanjie's barbarian camp also listed the military array, his subordinates were more cold soldiers and lacked hot soldiers, and the bows and crossbows were less than three or four out of ten.

Wu Duanjun rushed to the camp of Xinjiang Town in the valley for a short time, and a short ladder was set up on the simple wall, and several units of the army were divided into several groups of Japanese soldiers who were attached to the Japanese with swords and no armor, shouting to kick the ladder up the wall, and then started a fight with the rebels guarding Xinjiang Town!

Rumble!

The mountain climbing road is divided into three points, Chen Mu led the army from the left side of the mountain to rush up, and most of Bai Yuanjie also followed, they wanted to take advantage of the situation to take the cottage that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, not only to respond to the offensive of the Wuduan army, but also to threaten the Wuduanjun who might rebel after the war after taking the cottage.

More than 10 artillery soldiers left outside the battalion continued to fire artillery on the right side of the hill to bombard the enemy village.

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