"Reload, ignite, release!"

The gunner covered his ears and shrank aside, and the fierce backseat of the cannon seemed to shake the solid body of the Shinjiang Bridge, and the huge projectile flew nearly two miles in the deafening cannon sound, skillfully dodging all the enemy ships, and falling into the water as steadily as an old dog.

Chen Mu's ears kept buzzing, he saw that there were people around him with their mouths wide open and kept opening and closing, and he couldn't hear the sound around him, so he could only stand on the bridge and keep turning his head, and shouted through vision: "Reload again!" Aim! ”

The four Furlong cannons have already fired one round, and if it is a thousand-pound Furlong cannon, it may still be able to make a contribution in this battle, but this kind of little guy who is only a few hundred catties is obviously not enough, and he can fight four or five hundred paces, and he can't even touch the shadow of the enemy's warship. At present, only one of Chen Mubu's ordnance cannons can hit the enemy, but it is much more difficult to hit the enemy's warship two miles away than to miss.

On the shore of the Chinese army next to the Xinjiang Bridge, Bai Yuanjie raised his sword and shouted: "Let Wu Duan's soldiers go to plug the gap on the shore, and don't let them land from the south bank!" ”

Li Yayuan's troops divided the road, countless boats on the water approached the Xinjiang Bridge, and there was also dust raised by the march of the army at the foot of the mountain in the distance on the north bank, and the defenders could not really know how many enemy troops there were, and the previous arrangements were all chaotic.

The roar in Chen Mu's ears gradually weakened, and the voices around him slowly returned to his ears, and the gunner looked at him with a torch, waiting for him to give an order, but Chen Mu waved his hand and asked him not to fire the cannon first, and for a while the bridge was a little scary, and then the words of the flag army became chaotic.

Sometimes the pre-war plan is useless, they have calculated to defend the bridgehead, and they can use Chen Muqi's military township to defend the Xinjiang Bridge bravely. With both artillery and rocket backing, it was only a matter of course to repel a few enemy charges.

But when Li Yayuan's warships stopped in the river two or three miles away to cover the river, and the smoke and dust billowed in the forest under the mountain on the other side, none of them knew where Li Yayuan would attack from, and the defense naturally became nonsense.

"Mr. Chen, Qianhu asked why you didn't fire?"

The herald with a small flag on his back rode his horse through the wooden barrier of the trench, and went straight to the head of the bridge to salute and ask questions, holding the reins in his hand and preparing to mount. Chen Mu didn't say much, and said: "Go back to thousands of households, you can't fight accurately, fight more for fear of damage to the cannon, and then fight when you get closer." ”

Compared with the poor airtightness of the Fran cannon, the airtight cannon made Chen Mu worry more about exploding, this cannon was stuffed with too much gunpowder, and it could not be fired continuously, if you expect this cannon to destroy Li Yayuan's several ships, I am afraid that the cannon will be scrapped before the ship is sunk.

From a distance on the river, I can see a large area of two or three hundred small boats stacked on top of each other, which is not accurate, and I will beat you up a!

"Each small flag should take care of its own flag army, take care of those leads on the bridge, don't let people step on it!"

The small flags hurriedly issued orders, Shao Tingda and the others were all military households in the past, but now they have the slightest official authority, and no one is ambiguous when they put out cruel words, and it didn't take long for the bridge to be quiet again.

Wei Balang has no official authority, and few people listened to this kid's silence, so he had already pulled out the knife, and his eyes kept talking about the neck of the military household, and he put the knife back into the sheath again without knowing what to think, and then he put the knife back into the sheath, holding the tassel gun, and looked at the height of the military household's neck, so he nodded with satisfaction.

This dead child gestured at the neck with the tip of a gun with an expressionless face, who would dare to speak!

On the north bank of Xinjiang Bridge, Chen Mu had the idea of loading lead pellets into rockets to increase the lethality after seeing the rocket earlier, burying a few catties of gunpowder in a wooden barrel and burying it in the ground, putting a wooden board on it, sprinkling floating soil and putting the pebbles picked up on the shore, waiting for the enemy to use the mines when attacking the bridge.

The artillery fuse was too short, so it could only be buried on the ground next to the 'mine', and the exposed ones dug out small fire tunnels and spread them to more than 20 steps under the stone fence on the side of the bridge, and spilled more gunpowder than a mine, which made Chen Junye feel distressed.

The fire tunnel was covered with wood chips and sprinkled with floating soil, so that as long as the enemy could not see it before the charge, it would not be broken from behind.

"Mangzi asked your people to move towards the bridge, Fu Yuan rode a horse and took the two of them to the bridge to keep an eye on the mountain road, and quickly report back when they found the enemy." Chen Mu thought about it, looked at the fleet of boats parked in the river a few miles away, frowned, and said, "I think the boat is scaring people, Li Yayuan definitely wants to hit the Xinjiang Bridge!" ”

The rebels don't have any high-end goods, and the two or three hundred boats parked in the river are only similar in shape to the barbarian camp Tanren fishing boats, and it is even very likely that Li Yayuan also has a group of Tanren people who can't live a good life in his hands to participate in the rebellion, and the boat can only carry a few people, at most more than ten boats, and this naval army is less than 10,000 people.

Of course, it is also possible that Li Yayuan did not know that Xinjiang Town had been breached, and his warships originally wanted to strengthen Xinjiang Town to guard the necessary way, otherwise it would not make sense that he only sent so few people to come.

But the odds of him not knowing it were very small, now all the defenders' attention was focused on the fleet two or three miles away, and even Chen Mu's banner army turned their guns to face the river, if the enemy attacked from the other side of the bridge, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"These birds and monkeys, whether they can fight or not!" Shao Tingda sent two flag soldiers to the other side, and when he came back, he puffed up his sword and scolded everyone's hearts, and stepped forward to complain to Chen Mubai: "Brother Mu, if you keep staring at it like this, you won't have any energy in the evening, where can these stupid dicks be stopped?" ”

Shao Tingda was right, the preparation they made was that the enemy army attacked violently, and they fought back majestically, but they never thought about the current situation. The enemy forces are in no hurry to attack, they are in a hurry to defend.

Very early on, Chen Mu learned 'one drum, then decline, three and exhaustion', it seems that the way to solve this kind of tired strategy is either to stand up, or can only relax, and there is no other way.

At this moment, Bai Yuanjie sent someone to give an order, saying: "The soldiers take turns to defend, keep an eye on the enemy, and the rest will rest for a while." ”

"The longbow and banner are on duty, and the rest are seated in place, and the armor shall not leave the body, and the soldiers shall not leave their hands." The stone in Chen Mu's heart was put down slightly, and he ordered the flag army: "The gunners and gunners should load the firearms, and the fire rope should be tied to the hands, so you must not be careless!" ”

It didn't take long for the baggage soldiers to bring rice for the soldiers to eat, the meat and vegetables were not to be thought about, each person had a little sauce with some hot soup, and they were finished if they could eat it, and no one cared about whether they ate well or not. Approaching the big war, even Chen Mu's soup and rice are no different from the flag army.

The banner army, which had long been hungry, sat in two rows leaning on the stone railing, and Chen Mugang didn't have time to swallow it when he took two mouthfuls of the rice bowl in his mouth, and saw Fu Yuan riding back on horseback and running away with a net towel on his head, and ran back shouting loudly across the Xinjiang Bridge.

"What did he shout?"

Chen Mu couldn't hear clearly, Shao Tingda's rice bowl beside him was thrown aside, and he got up with a knife and said, "It seems that you want us to run up the mountain?" ”

But for more than ten breaths, Fu Yuan stepped on the bridge, looking at his panicked appearance, Chen Mu could finally hear what he was shouting, Fu Yuan turned around and pointed to the opposite mountain and shouted: "General flag, they have cannons, there are cannons on the mountain!" ”

The chill rose from the tail vertebrae to the Tianling Gai, Chen Mu looked in the direction pointed by Fu Yuan, and saw two fires and gunpowder smoke rising in the forest halfway up the mountainside, and then heard a faint loud noise.

Rumble!

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Concentrate:

Mechanically fired mines.

"The bombing is made of pig iron, on an empty stomach, with a pestle and a pestle, into a small bamboo tube, through the fire line inside, and with a long line through the fire trough outside, choose the only way to go, and bury dozens of people in the pit, and the medicine trough is connected to the steel wheel, and the soil is covered, so that the thief does not know, step on the engine, shake up, the iron is like flying, and the flames are soaring to the sky." ——The Book of Fire Dragons in the early Ming Dynasty