"Did you read that right?"

The remnant sun was like blood, and in the twilight, Chen Mu tried his best to look at the southwest sea, and could only see the low-hanging clouds and ink-colored sea in the distance.

The letter cannon exploded, thousands of yamen galloped to each hundred households, the flag army in the house next to the road buckled the iron hat and grabbed the bird and ran out of the door, the mother-in-law holding the child followed the door, called her husband to hand out the child, opened his mouth but could not speak, the hoarse cry of the small flag was heard in his ears, the peasant woman looked at her lover's face in a panic, grabbed the child and ran into the house.

The night of Xiangshan rang out one after another because of this, mixed with the peasant women behind the door to suppress their whimpering weeping.

"How dare you be wrong! It's true, on the fort to the west of Haojing, you can see a lot of black smoke rising from Guanghaiwei's side, billowing like fire! ”

Chen Mu's face was very stiff, he pursed his lips tightly and frowned, the sky was already dark, and the defenders on the Haojing Fort saw that the beacon fire was nearly an hour ago, and now there was no news from everywhere, what should he do?

The duty of guarding the Thousand Households is not to rescue without authorization, can he just watch and wait for the friendly army hundreds of miles away to be attacked, but he is indifferent?

The soldiers are in chaos, no one in the Xiangshan Thousand Households has experienced the distant police, and the most experienced ones are Chen, Bai, and Zhang from Qingcheng, but their experience is the experience of serving as the general banner of a hundred households, and they don't know how to control the overall situation.

Everyone is as anxious as ants on a hot pan.

"Send cavalry, cavalry, ride on horses and cross the border to Xinhui, to Xinning, to ask!"

Chen Mu put on his armor and stood in front of the yamen of a thousand households with a calm face, raised his finger to the sky for a while, looked around and said to Deng Zilong and Sun Ao: "Nine hundred households, rotate to guard, each hundred households are on duty for four hours, we are in rotation to change duties, first led by Sun Qianhu, Deng Qianhu will go after four hours, and Chen will take over after eight hours." ”

"Cheer up the spirit of duty, the enemy is at present, and if you don't pay attention, you have to lose your head. The rotation went to sleep, and sent someone to keep an eye on the hour - Brother Bai. ”

Chen Mu was categorical when he gave the order to the flag officer under his command, but said that he would have to discuss it when he spoke to Bai Yuanjie on the side, and said: "I think we have to have a flag army that can be pulled on the battlefield to fight at any time, and the brothers of Qingcheng have a good rest, once they are warned, they can hold weapons to form a formation to resist the enemy, so arranged, why do the two brothers think so?" ”

Zhang Yongshou smiled and took a step forward and was about to say something, but was interrupted by Bai Yuanjie, who stepped forward first, and hugged his fists and said: "Guests are as they please, Qingcheng assists in the defense of Xiangshan, and he takes Chen Qianhu's orders as the main one, and receives orders under him." Qingcheng Thousand Households Banner Army, camp and rest! ”

Bai Yuanjie and Zhang Yongshou never competed in official positions when they got along with Chen Mu on weekdays, they were all called Erlang Chang Erlang for a short time, but at this time, Bai Yuanjie obviously didn't want to lose the prestige of his old subordinates, so after giving the order, he hugged his fists again and pulled Zhang Yongshou away.

Chen Mu was stunned for a while before he realized what Bai Yuanjie meant, turned his head and ordered the banner army behind him: "Push out the cannon and match the mules and horses, don't care if it's a Japanese or a pirate, if you dare to come, you can bombard him." ”

The unknown enemy is the most terrifying, this little half a year first defeated the Fanyi sailors in Haojing, and then trained in Xiangshan to prepare for the army, the banner army under his command can be called the best soldiers, and even the small cannons are equipped, so that Chen Mu swelled up to think that he has this army in his hands enough to be ready to deal with any enemy.

Guanghaiwei's beacon fire made him ring the bell in his heart, but it wasn't the case.

He has fought tough battles, fought defensive battles, attacked mountains and kicked camps, and guarded thieves according to the river, he understands.

But not every enemy rushed towards his line like a barbarian in the mirror, but more of a battle he hadn't tried.

It's not that he didn't think of directly leading the army across the border to aid Guanghaiwei without receiving an order, and according to his current mentality of being a general under the seat of the governor of Liangguang, he would go over to do whatever he wanted.

The problem is that he doesn't have this ability, just a night battle, an encounter in the march can jam him, and if he loses, can he really not bear the responsibility for the defeat?

It's too comfortable, and the troops, finances, and positions are all blown up like balloons, and I'm a little carried away.

Chen Mu shook his head, this mentality is not good.

Zhang Han is in a high position, he is his overstepping boss, and he has the opportunity to directly command him with the trick of the mirror, can Zhang Han really take him as a cronie general, and cross the border without authorization and love talents?

No way.

He Chen is at best a late born of Mu En, a viceroy's disciple, and he is a good friend when he says a few words, and he treats him because he didn't miss it, and people who are also more talented and powerful than him can make mistakes three times and four times, and he can't be wrong once.

He doesn't look down on those who are also guard officers, and they still know that when they encounter the enemy, they will burn the beacon and the enemy's platform, will he?

Chen Ye knows how to fight.

"It's better to walk on thin ice."

He was not the only one who released the fast horses, some of the horses ran much faster than him, and the cavalry of the Governor's Mansion was in an urgent situation, and they changed horses from various post stations along the way, and found out the news of Guanghaiwei overnight, and the riders sent early the next morning carried a flying report from the Governor's Yamen.

"The Japanese besieged the Guanghai Acropolis, plundered the city, and dispatched the Xiangshan guards to quell the thieves."

It was already dawn, and as soon as the signal from the Governor's Mansion was issued, Chen Mu had nothing to say, leaving the three hundred households of Sun Ao's department, who was on duty last night, to stay in the thousands of households, and ordered the army to be reorganized for war.

The army did not move, and the flag army that went to cross the border to get the letter last night rode back, and the riders who had not closed their eyes all night were almost tired and tired, telling Chen Mu the same situation.

"Qianhu, it's a real beacon fire, Xinhui and Xinning have received the order of the commander to mobilize more than 300 banner troops to go to the Guanghai Acropolis, Guanghaiwei is in great danger, the command of the commander did not say how many enemy troops there are, but he also sent a request for help to the surrounding guards, battalions, and the governor's yamen, not an ordinary thief!"

At this time, there is no need to say that if it is an ordinary thief, Guanghaiwei has a high David City, and there is no need to light a beacon fire at all.

Even if there are hundreds of Haikou invaders, it is always not difficult to mobilize the Guanghaiwei Banner Army, even if it cannot be expelled and resisted, so why bother

Xiangshan and Qingcheng unified the banner army, and several thousand households gathered to discuss and set a battle strategy.

Lu Lu led Bai Yuanjie to Xinning as a follow-up reinforcement.

Chen Mujun took two centipedes, two fortune boats, and five clippers to take the Taishan Guanghai Acropolis from the sea to help.

Sending Bai Yuanjie away, the Xiangshan Seven Hundred Banner Army boarded the ship in full gear, and sailed in the wind, before crossing the strait between Xiangshan and Haojing, he saw thick black smoke rising from the light blue sky and white clouds.

It wasn't black smoke, it was wolf smoke from the mirror.

Rumble!

Boom!

The familiar loud sound came from far and near, and the Haojing ferry was full of people, jumping and waving.

"Something happened to Haojing, drive over!"

Chen Mu, who was on the bow of the centipede, heard the thunderous cannons in the sky, and his heart jumped, could it be that those Francophiles disobeyed the discipline and led the fleet to kill back?

He still made a mistake, he thought that after the Shangshang of Haojingao left, there would not be much fanyi, and only three hundred banners would be left to take care of him, so where would he be an opponent?

"Ordered all ships, guns and ammunition, I'm afraid Fanyi has come back."

Who knows, just approaching the shore, there are dozens of banner soldiers gathered here at the gate to protect the tax collector Zhu Xiang, Bishop Francis and others, and they see their own fleet jumping and shouting: "Qianhu, the Japanese Kou Xu Jinmei is coming, and Leader Li will not be able to resist!" ”