Weng Yuan, Chang'an Township.

Even Bai Yuanjie didn't expect that they were sent out by Yu Dayou to fight, the first battle!

Perhaps because of the telescope, Yu Dayou sent Bai Yuanjie as the vanguard to lead the headquarters of the barbarian battalion to supervise the army, sitting in Chang'an Township, and supervising Yu Dayou's more than 3,000 troops to attack Xinjiang Town under the rule of Chang'an Township, Wengyuan County.

Chen Mu was stunned for a long time when he heard Bai Yuanjie say this order, in his thoughts, no matter what, it would not be their turn to supervise Yu Dayou's army, but when he hurried for two hours and took a boat along the river to stop in the middle and lower reaches of the river to join the front army, he understood.

It was past noon when Bai Yuanjie and Chen Mu got the order, and when they parked the ships on the riverbank, the sky was getting dark, and the sentry who led the way walked not long before they joined the leader of the supervising army.

This army of soldiers and horses traveled faster than them by land, and now they have set up camps, set up wooden bases, and are waiting for them to cook in pots.

In the camp, Chen Mu, who followed Bai Yuanjie to the Chinese military tent, saw the cannon of this era for the first time. At the gate of the wooden fortress where more than 400 battalions were stationed, two artillery pieces with a cannon body close to two meters were erected, and when Chen Mu passed by, several firefighters were taking out a foot-long barrel from the barrel of the cannon chamber with an open cavity in the middle and rear parts, and wiping the cannon body with a long wooden pole tied to a cloth.

Bai Yuanjie said that it was called the Franc machine gun, and most of the guards called this a sub-mother cannon, which was fished out and imitated by the Guangdong Navy Division after winning the Hongmao Fan naval battle for many years. This kind of cannon has a fast rate of fire, but for some reason it can't hit far, usually only five or six hundred paces, and even the best-cast Franc machine can only hit three miles.

Chen Mu knew why this was just at a glance, because the air tightness of the Franc machine gun used for the quick replacement of the sub-cannon barrel was not good, and the power of the explosion after igniting the gunpowder could not be concentrated and exploded, and the range was naturally not far away.

In addition to these two artillery, the entire camp is nothing strange in Chen Mu's eyes, the equipment rate of the bird gun is not high, he only saw a dozen shots, more of them are fire guns and fast guns like long soldier spears, in fact, the fast guns are firearms when they pull out the gun head, and the gun head is similar to the role of a bayonet, but the loading is similar to the fire gun, which is not as convenient as the bird gun.

The firearms were about one-fifth to one-third of the battalion soldiers, and the rest were traditional cold weapons such as broadswords and spears.

Outside the military tent, the battalion general personally greeted Bai Yuanjie to show respect, unexpectedly, he was always a middle-level military attache who was in his thirties and older than Bai Yuanjie, with a standard national character face and a very heroic face, and a strong physique could be seen under the standard armor, and when Bai Yuanjie and others approached, he took two steps forward and hugged his fists and said: "Deng Zilong, the general manager in Xiaguangdong, has seen Bai Qianhu." ”

In terms of official rank, Bai Yuanjie's deputy Qianhu is half a level higher than Deng Zilong's general, but the military attache is already so difficult under the suppression of civilian officials, usually they don't pay attention to these vulgar etiquette, they are all for meritorious service, but there are not so many factions and things like civil officials, Bai Yuanjie returned the salute with a smile and brought Chen Mu and other attachés into the account.

When he arrived in the account, Chen Muli was behind Bai Yuanjie's seat, and his mind was still thinking hard, who is Deng Zilong? He felt that this name was very familiar, but he couldn't remember what kind of exploits it had, only that Deng Zilong later participated in the battle of Wanli to aid the dynasty.

"In the next is the Japanese Gang Trouble, I recruited to kill thieves, and I have only read some books in recent years, and I can't compare to the origin of thousands of families, Deng is very vulgar, so I don't talk to Bai Qianhu politely. At the moment of war, we are chatting while eating. ”

Deng Zilong opened the marching map hanging behind him, and introduced to Bai Yuanjie straight to the point: "The general army of this battle ordered us to wait for the supervising army to attack Xinjiang Town, Xinjiang Town is bordered by rivers in the north, in a long and narrow valley, surrounded by high mountains and mountains, and the peaks are undulating, easy to defend and difficult to attack. ”

Specialized!

Chen Mu watched Deng Zilong explain the situation against the shoddy grass line marching map of the era behind him, and only had the idea of 'professional' in his heart. This is a ruthless man who has seen many battles. And Deng Zilong previously said that he was recruited to kill thieves with the army, which means that he killed the general official position in real battles, which means that he has fought a lot of hard battles to the death to get to where he is today, which is very powerful.

"Today, the scouts have found out that the north and south valleys outside the town are occupied by the enemy, and there are arrow towers and sentry posts forming a cottage, and each other is guarded by the horns and the west; The town is located in the middle of the river valley, and the thieves drove the people of the town to the east, and set up a group of thousands of rebels to garrison here. The general army ordered us to wait for the supervising army to break the town, in order to capture Xinjiang Town, the estuary of Wengyuan and Heyuan, so that the army could break Yeloudan in the south and west, and then join forces to attack Li Yayuan in the north. ”

Bai Yuanjie motioned for Deng Zilong to continue, Chen Mu listened quietly behind him, secretly calculating the difficulty of achieving this mission, and couldn't help but admire the strong heart of this Qianhu and Guangdong general who was not surprised. Was this done by a human being? Thousands of rebellious troops have been discovered, what kind of victory are these two big brothers who each lead more than 400 people?

Then I heard Deng Zilong say: "It is not difficult to defeat them, it is difficult to make the front army obey the order to attack without rebelling, and it is difficult to hold the counterattack of Li Yayuan's enemy on the other side of the river after capturing Xinjiangzhen." ”

"The former army will rebel...... Bai Yuanjie could grasp the point of Deng Zilong's words better than Chen Mu, pushed the table and rice bowl back slightly, and asked, "Which soldiers and horses are they under General Yu?" ”

"Look at Deng, I forgot to say that there are more than 3,000 soldiers in the front army, stationed at the mouth of Dongwuli Creek, not a guard, not a battalion, but a Japanese and barbarian." Deng Zilong tapped his fingers on the table and said: "When General Yu was fighting against the Guangdong Wokou, Wu Duan, the leader of the barbarian soldiers in Huizhou, was defeated seven times, and then surrendered by himself, and was assigned to General Yu's subordinates. ”

Bai Yuanjie gasped, Chen Mu didn't expect that their friendly army was actually a group of more than 3,000 pirates, but he couldn't speak. What was already a difficult situation turned out to be even more tricky.

If the more than 3,000 Japanese invaders defected, they would have to fight against an enemy army composed of nearly 10,000 pirates, barbarian soldiers, miners, salt laborers, and peasants with less than 1,000 men.

This is basically equivalent to seeing all the rebel forces of the Ming Dynasty except for Hu Lu in one battle, and Chen Mu didn't dare to imagine the consequences.

At this moment, a battalion soldier entered the account and reported, saying: "The general, the front army has arrived." ”

As he spoke, someone lifted the curtain of the tent, and the leader with a large pocket on his head, wearing a cloth robe covered with iron armor, and a silverware decoration around his waist stepped into the tent, and looked around the tent with unruly eyes with clear contempt, and said with a smile: "A general general, a deputy thousand households, General Yu sent you to control, I really look down on someone in my army!" ”

"Okay, let's show you what someone Wu is capable of." Wu Duan didn't pay attention to these people in the tent at all, stood in the middle with a big thorn, and gave orders: "You just intercept my back road, keep up with the grain, grass and arrows, and put a few cannons on the two mountains tomorrow, and Wu's children will take down Xinjiang Town!" ”