Chapter Ninety-Six: Three Eyes
Ma Gui shivered in the Northeast New World, and Chen Mu was so hot in the southwest that his clothes were soaked.
Thirty miles south of the ancient city of Baigu, his army backed the Baigu fortress built by the Portuguese, preparing for a major war that would change the situation in the 50 years of Sanxuan, Liuwei.
The north coast of Baigu Fortress belongs to the ancient city of Baigu, which is also called Bago, it is the ancient capital of the Baigu Dynasty of the Mongol nationality in the past, and it was the Buddhist center of the whole Sanxuan and Six Comforts, since the Mang clan broke the Meng people with a cruel army, it became the capital of the Donghu Dynasty here.
Mang Yinglong was extremely brutal during the war conquest, but after the conquest was not bad for the Mon people, he recruited the Meng soldiers to fight for him, and still regarded this place as the national capital.
However, Mang Yinglong really couldn't imagine that the Ming army actually attacked his lair from the sea - the only drawback of Bai Gucheng was that it was too close to the coast, and once the enemy came from the sea, it was too vulnerable to attack.
Usually, it is very rare to set up a formation with your back to the river and the sea in a war, and even if you break the boat, there are not many people who can play this hand well.
But Chen Mujun is different, the sea is like their hometown, no one can defeat him at sea, but the land is full of dangers for him.
At this time, the roads and farmland north of the fortress were dug out by the banner army dozens of ravines, barricades and traps, and pits were also dug in the tropical dense forests, and mines were hidden in ambushes.
Between the vertical and horizontal ravines, it is where Chen Mujun's camp is located, and the entire position consists of the outermost forest secret outpost, the inner gun trenches, surrounding the camp, and then to the south is the fortress with many artillery and shallow sea ship guns.
In Chen Mu's opinion, the only flaw is that the range of his ship's guns is still too close, and the warship is deployed here, in addition to remembering a little deterrent effect, the biggest significance is that when the battle situation is unfavorable, his soldiers can fight and retreat into the sea.
It is embarrassing to say that Bai Gucheng is much bigger than Chen Mu imagined, if it weren't for the disaster of war, their current garrison camp is where the market of the trade port is located, and the surrounding area is extremely prosperous, but at this time, there is no prosperity to see, and they can only see the camp fence and murderous soldiers.
The fortress full of exotic Portuguese Manueline style has been transformed by Shao Tingda and Chen Mu successively, and the reckless knife and axe hand blew up the fortress inside and out with grenades, and embedded fragments can be seen everywhere on the wall, and the high wall on the south side has been bombarded by Shi Qi with artillery to enter without opening the door.
The holes blown out by the powder cartridge are now barely held up with wood and stone to prevent the building from being unstable.
Chen Mu's transformation was more thorough, the roof of the fortress was ordered by him to be removed, and now hot air balloons and fuel are piled up on the top floor to alternately observe the enemy's deployment and offensive; The bottom layer was knocked out by the flag army with a series of guns, and there lived a hundred families of personal soldiers, and the middle layer between the top and bottom was his Chinese army account.
With his hand on the Portuguese female wall, Chen Mu stood at the entrance of the battlement and looked north with a divine eyepiece, raising his finger to point to the pagoda that could be faintly seen in the distance
The sharp Bai Gucheng said to Deng Zilong and the others beside him: "General Lin's herald said that Bai Gucheng has recently sent four thousand troops to the north, and he has defeated three of them, and the last one has a war elephant, and he doesn't dare to touch it." ”
"I estimate that Mang Yinglong's side was beaten by Liu Shuai and Yu Shuai and lost a little, Mang Yingli's junior is big-hearted, he didn't come to beat me for half a month, and he actually had the leisure to increase troops to the north?"
Lin Manjue's headquarters was not in the camp, Chen Mu never wanted Lin Manjue to stay in the camp, that is, his guerrillas, wherever he went, he had to stab the enemy's ass with a burning stick, otherwise it would be a waste of talent.
"This time, General Lin can be regarded as sweeping away the decadent Tang Dynasty of Annan, he has not won much, but he can win when he meets the enemy, if he has artillery, I am afraid that the war elephants will not be able to stop him." Deng Zilong smiled as he spoke, he was not worried about the current besieged battle situation, but was interested in what Lin Manjue had in his hand, and said: "I asked the baggage fleet to come over next time to show the pole killing general, this gun is really powerful." ”
Expert.
Chen Mu turned his face to look at Shao Tingda, who had shaved off his hair, eyebrows and beard, and replaced him as an old brother, he must have thought that Lin Manjue was brave and extraordinary, and he would not think about it elsewhere at all, he smiled and said: "When the bows and crossbows and cannons are exchanged in battle, the enemy generals will be killed first, and when the short-range soldiers meet, where will there be no rout, not to mention that they can't beat us with white blades." ”
This is not Chen Mu's bragging, from Shao Tingda's battle with Mo Jingdian in Annan, as well as the defensive battle of his military village, his subordinates showed high discipline and high organization when they were in close combat, which was invincible to other armies.
Fight guns, other people's strong bows and crossbows are not opponents; He said to Deng Zilong: "It's the Zongfan army, even if it is the same armament, the defense line has been almost broken by the enemy many times in the defense, if it weren't for the reserve team to stay too much, it would be time to defend the fortress now." ”
Deng Zilong didn't take this situation seriously, but he was even more worried, and said: "With a small number of soldiers to defend the siege of several times the army, there is no advantage of fortifying the city, relying only on field fortifications, it is already a strong army to be undefeated - to put it mildly, the national guard army is talking about reform, and it is difficult to find out that the thousand households can hold on to the combat power of the overseas clan and the thousand households, I think they are too strong rather than too weak." ”
"The cuirasse, the armbands, the iron shins, the helmets, these are the armors; short knives, single knives, spears, birds, cannons, these are weapons; Command, 1,000 households, 100 households, general flags, small flags and deputy flag officers, preaching, this is the officer; They are no different from the Nanyang Army of the Nation and the DPRK, and what Chen Shuai said is weak in terms of combat strength, but the weakness is that its officers are not as capable as the officers of the military government guard, and the military government guard has a martial arts hall, and they do not have it. ”
"But the imperial court has such combat power, only 5,600 military guards; The army of the clan was slightly weaker, but the weaker ones in the Nanyang countries, such as the Ryukyus, numbered 5,600; Many of the other tributary states had three guards. ”
"Especially Nanyang is determined to forge ahead, has the prestige of the Celestial Empire, and controls the flag and military orders to prohibit it, which is something that the Guangdong Metropolitan Division can't do, the so-called weak cadres and strong branches, which is the current situation."
Deng Zilong was in the middle of the war, but what he was thinking had already jumped out of the war, he said: "My subordinates advised, you must not release the students of the martial arts hall to the tributary national guard like the military guard!" ”
"You reminded me!"
Chen Mu nodded heavily, weak and strong, he was talking about the current situation of the army, of course, the Nanyang Army has not yet reached the situation of 10,000 to 100,000, but it is not an exaggeration to say that the military government guards are 30,000 when 30,000, he has always focused on the strong army and turning Central and South China into a market, but he has not thought about anything deeper, and now it seems that he has a lot of problems.
You can't rely too much on the army of the clan, and it is fundamental that the Ming Dynasty has a strong guard army.
"I've made a note of it, let's not talk about this for now, and when Burma is pacified, I will come up with a solution; At present, it has been blocked by Mang Yingli for too long, taking advantage of the emptiness of its garrison, it is necessary to send an order to Yangon Bai Shuai, and advance in three ways, we will counterattack Bai Gu. ”
"The name of this battle is not called the Battle of Baigu, it is called the Three-Eyed Gun."
Chen Mu raised his hand and slammed it on the female wall where the Portuguese carved shell ropes: "Three-eyed guns on the sea!" ”
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