The commander of the battalion had obviously not yet had time to receive Wang Rulong's warning, and he had just arrived from Huizhou Mansion or Conghua, and when he saw that the Japanese had set up camp and looted the shops and houses outside the city, he thought that he would kill them for a while, and then he would lead the troops to slash and kill the Japanese invaders.

Scattered Japanese robbers in groups of three or five carrying large bags and small bags, seeing that the officers and soldiers were too late to run, where did they dare to rush to engage in battle, and each of them scattered and ran towards the camp.

Occasionally, a bold and skilled Japanese servant summoned more than a dozen subordinates to fight with the officers and soldiers, and in a blink of an eye, more battalions rushed up and drowned in the crowd.

One-on-one, the victory or defeat between the battalion soldiers and these sea pirates who are begging for life on the knife edge may be between five and five, hundreds against hundreds, and the battalion soldiers may be defeated by the Japanese if their courage is slightly weaker, but more against less, the battalion soldiers rush up and the Japanese will die almost completely.

The battalion soldiers rushed to kill more and more bravely in the streets and alleys, followed them to kill the general all the way out of the city, counted the casualties and saw that there was no damage, but they cut off dozens of heads in two streets, and now they are a little eager to try the newly built camp outside the city.

Of course, they only wanted to try, and the Japanese did not dare to attack the camp rashly, and the siege was very different from the street battle, not to mention that their manpower was much smaller, so they were only stationed at the entrance of the street outside the city, and used firearms to shoot a salvo from a long distance against the pirates who carried large bags and small bags and threw their backs at them.

Chen Mu watched the battalion soldiers from a distance on the top of the mountain and couldn't help but scoff at this kind of operation, just that broken fire, and still wanted to hit people every fifty or sixty steps?

Not to mention, hundreds of firecrackers raised the salvo, and they could really shoot a few, some could stand up and limp away, and some could just lie on the ground and roll up.

"The messenger sent a messenger, and one rode to tell the chief that he had a cannon, and told him to be careful; Then send someone to fly to the Qianhu on a fast horse, and be sure to send it to Bai Qianhu by hand, so that Brother Bai can quickly find Chen Chaojue to discuss countermeasures! ”

Chen Mu's mind was spinning fast, this time he had broken through the coastal defense and plundered Xin'an and attacked Guangzhou Mansion, and the sea was Chen Lan's defense area, and the sailor could not escape the blame.

In all fairness, coastal defense is not like land defense, and Lingdingyang, which is hundreds of miles wide, cannot be prevented by a few boats, let alone guarding against Xin'an, Xinhui, and Xiangshan.

But this is his responsibility, and it is his fault that the coastal defense was broken by the thieves.

Chen Chaojue also helped him, and now that he got the first-hand information of the enemy's warship, he had to send someone to send it back to Qianhusuo quickly, and Bai Yuanjie contacted Chen Lan on the sea, he estimated that Chen Lan should also be about to reach the Xiangshan Sea, which would definitely rush to Guangcheng.

I'm not afraid that he will come late, but I'm afraid that more than a dozen large and small ships will rush into the gunboats of Zeng Sanlao's Wuwei Fu Boat and White Ship Boat, and they will be bombarded in a blink of an eye!

Chen Lan alone can't rely on Chen Luan, unless all the warships of the Xiangshan and Chen Lan naval divisions are mobilized in one place, and the naval battle can only be fought when the land battle kills the enemy army back.

Qi Zhengyan was extremely cautious, and sent someone to inform the battalion soldiers of the situation, and then he said: "Master Chen, I will personally send this matter." ”

With Chen Mu agreeing, Qi Zhengyan bowed his hand to Long Junxiong, ran down the hillside, looked for a fast horse, and galloped towards the road of Xiangshan Qianhu.

Outside the city, Chen Mu clearly saw in the telescope that his herald was close to the camp formation, and the one who always looked towards the hillside was obviously receiving the news, but after a pause, he continued to march towards the enemy camp, which made Chen Mu a little angry.

At first glance, there were hundreds of pirates walking out of the camp, and there were thieves with long knives and shoulders striding forward, and there were two rows of widows dancing with gold fans in front of the formation, which looked quite like that.

Chen Mu grabbed the telescope and ran all the way down the mountain road and went straight to the artillery position led by Wei Balang.

Seriously, he was annoyed when he saw the widow waving a golden fan in front of the battle, this crazy and arrogant battalion soldier was always willing to move forward knowing that the enemy army had artillery, and others were going to be sent to death, and he Chen Qianhu couldn't care about it.

But these dancing wretches must die.

Chen Mu led the figures of several family soldiers to gallop on the mountain road, not only in the eyes of the battalion commander, but also those pirates who walked out of the camp could see clearly, the battalion commander didn't know what he was thinking, and the pirates were no longer calm.

They saw several guns with their muzzles exposed at the bottom of the hillside, not one or two, but in a row, and even if they couldn't see what they were, the most common ones they were fired like this were Franc machines.

Even if it's a gadget like a Franc machine, they can't stand it.

What's more, this is not a Franc machine.

"Adjust the gun position, six hundred steps and one door, put!"

Chen Mu ran to give the order, Wei Balang shouted the order on the position with the voice of a male duck at the same time, and the artillerymen on the most side inserted the fire rope into the artillery and poured in the primer to ignite it, and a moment later a loud bang was deafening under the hillside.

Rumble!

The cannon was discharged, the artillery was violently recoiled, the gun carriage was almost shattered, and the smoke and dust flew together.

Chen Mu thought that the supporting wood of the gun carriage could still be improved to unload the excess recoil to the ground, otherwise the gun carriage would rot sooner or later.

"Clear the chamber!"

Wei Baye had the momentum of an officer, and after giving the order, he only covered the right ear of the opposite artillery, although he was lower, he stood straight, and his eyes were shining and he looked directly at the Japanese position in the distance, and before the artillery smoke dissipated, Chen Mu had already heard Wei Balang raise his hand and point directly to the second artillery on the right and said: "Near!" Six hundred and fifty steps, adjust the gun position, and prepare! ”

Five-pound shells fell in the westerly direction of the Haikou formation, smashing up large clouds of dust, thirty or forty paces apart, so that the Japanese formation in the march fell sharply, but then it made them even more arrogant, and some even raised their hands and raised their knives above their heads to shake in the direction of the artillery position.

Hachiro's performance reassured Chen Mu, and he raised his binoculars again to look at the Japanese formation, and a moment later, another cannon not far away roared again.

Rumble!

The position was filled with gunsmoke, Chen Mu heard the sound of a salvo of ship cannons from the shore, even if he was thousands of steps away, he could still hear the continuous cannon sound, and in a short period of time, almost thirty or forty ship guns fired at the same time, and the sound was the Francophone that he was extremely familiar with.

In all directions and angles, the other side of the hill is raining down.

It didn't work.

The maximum range of the Franc cannon can sometimes reach four miles, which is enough to hit them, but it is blocked by the hillside on the right, and it is very unlikely that such a long-distance and small-arc murder cannon can accurately hit this side of the hillside.

Even Chen Mu's subordinates with this kind of cannon type angle range calculation cannonball can't hit such a target at such a distance, and it is even more impossible for a pirate with experience and feel alone, no matter how experienced he is!

Hit!

Chen Mu heard the cheers of the artillery on the position, turned his head to look, but he had missed the best time, and could only see through the telescope dozens of Japanese soldiers scattered along the edge of the enemy formation, and five catties of artillery shells smashed out a bloody road seven or eight steps long, smashing over many Japanese criminals.

Turning around, he saw Wei Balang pursing his lips slightly in the smoke of gunpowder, holding up the helmet that covered his eyes, slowly pulling out his waist knife and ordering loudly, "Six hundred and fifty steps, put!" ”

Five closed guns, all blasted out in unison!