In Guteng County, Thanh Hoa Province, the sea breeze in the early morning is full of tide and bones.

The thunderous and tsunami-like sound of artillery exploded along the coast, collapsing the bridge that had gone from the east of the county to Tongning County, and then the huge fleet gathered from all over the coast lined up in the shallow sea and bombarded the wooden villages on the shore alternately.

Chen Mu, who was standing on the side of the ship, had one word in his heart: Quick!

Time is not money, but time can be silver, good wood, cotton and grain, the sooner you can conquer Thang Long.

He knew very well in his heart what the imperial court had decided to enter Annan for.

The artillery shells bombarded the military village left and right, and in the telescope, there was chaos everywhere in the military village, and the soldiers ran around with weapons.

This is the lesson left by Deng Zilong, before Chen Mu's fleet came, the earliest military village of the Northern Dynasty was installed near the beach, and was bombarded by Deng Zilong's fleet, and the later military village was withdrawn to three miles away.

This distance is still within the range of the battleship's heavy artillery, but it is difficult to hit accurately, even if Chen Mu personally goes into battle.

Guteng County is separated by two rivers, the width of the north and south and the east and west is not more than ten miles, and it is connected by two bridges to the northwest Thanh Hoa Fuzhi and Tongning County, like a small island.

Although the island is small, it has thousands of garrisons, because this is an important fulcrum for the siege of Thanh Hoa Fucheng, the collapsed Dongqiao River is deep, and the west river is very shallow, even the war horses can swim through.

Shao Tingda suggested that after killing the garrison of Guteng County, he should set up a formation along the river on the west bank, garrison the enemy army according to the bridge, and shoot the enemy army from a distance with artillery.

The artillery bombardment of the ships did not stop, and the 2,000 banner troops of the military government and the guard landed on the shore in an orderly manner in a small boat, and immediately formed a formation without doing anything else, and another boatman rowed the boat back to meet the follow-up Shao Tingda troops.

The reckless insect did not forget to abandon his housekeeping skills, and the whole Nanyang Guard only had a knife player in his banner army array, so that the sword and axe were round and shielded, which was the best choice for the rushing team.

This is exactly the shortcomings of Chen Mujun's guards, although their firepower is fierce, but the fatal thing is that they can't clash, even if they pursue, they have to stabilize the formation and press up, and they can't wait to engage the enemy from beginning to end.

After all, thirty steps away is the time when their combat power is at its best, and within thirty steps, they can't find anyone alive if they want to fight.

The spear and shield man can block the enemy, but he may not be able to stop the war elephant in the hands of the enemy, he needs a phalanx to stand in front of the military guard.

"This battle is best without war elephants, there are war elephants, if the artillery team can kill the enemy war elephants, the enemy army will definitely follow the war elephants to attack closer, you must lead the soldiers to stop their momentum."

"If the artillery team fails to kill the war elephants, we will have to use the old dangerous methods."

The army array assembled, Chen Mu pointed to the military village that was bombarded by the ship cannon in the distance and said: "The death squad will cut off the trunks of the elephants, let them go crazy, and then run fast and let them step on their own." ”

Although this possibility was very small, Chen Mu had to be cautious, and he shouted: "This battle may go down in history, I don't want to bear the name of losing the battle against the soldiers, so that the banner army is careful." ”

War elephants roam all over the world, but the Central Plains Dynasty rarely misses the war elephants.

Recently, such as the Northern Song Dynasty bed crossbow sweeping the Southern Tang Dynasty elephant array, Chen Mu didn't want his elite soldiers to sink in front of the war elephants.

Shao Tingda clenched his fists heavily, gritted his teeth and left to prepare his sword and axe hands, and his banner army was also equipped with spears and bird guns, but there were more sword and shield hands.

After the flag army was ready, the artillery fire stopped for a while, the flag army was divided into five posts to attack, and the enemy army also showed its figure in various parts of the camp, with strong bows and crossbows and firearms, and farther on the other side of the river, there were also enemy troops from Thanh Hoa Fu City who had rushed to help.

Among those troops rushing to help, there was a huge figure of war elephants.

Chen Mu ignored them, and the army marched forward, Shao Tingda's knife and axe hand was currently cutting through thorns and thorns, cutting a passage through the bushy beach and forest for the flag army to pass, and the path that was stepped on next to it was handed over to the artillery team to march, and the soldiers and horses rushed straight to the camp.

"I didn't dare to go to war and didn't flee to Thanh Hoa, I made up my mind to defend it." Chen Mu looked at the enemy camp that was getting closer and closer, beat his horse to drive the artillery team and said, "Hurry up, hurry up and set up the formation before the arrival of enemy reinforcements!" ”

The reinforcements were still more than ten miles away from Guteng County, and Chen Mu, who entered the forest road, couldn't see that side, and couldn't even see his subordinates advancing in the forest, so he couldn't help but feel uneasy.

Fortunately, the road in the forest was not long, and there were soldiers who saw the difficult place in front of the plank, and the speed of the march was not slow, but it was only a moment to pass the road to the outskirts of Guten County.

If this county is placed in Guangdong, it is a capital, Chen Mu went to Huangliang to suppress bandits when he was in Xiangshan, so there is also no city here, and the county government office is just a big camp, and now in order to deal with their surprise attack, two more camps have been built around the office.

Out of the forest path, the nearest camp is only five or six hundred steps away from the field, which is muddy and not conducive to the movement of the army.

Chen Mu's artillery team did not plunge into the field in one fell swoop, the three guns were staggered in front and back, and the muzzles of the guns were facing northwest, at this time the Qinghua reinforcements had crossed the river and rushed towards this side, and the enemy troops in several camps were also ready to move.

When reinforcements arrive, they are likely to burst out.

Not far away, Shao Tingda led the troops to rush out of the forest, looked left and right, and did not panic after fixing his eyes on the reinforcements of the Northern Dynasty a few miles away, but smiled easily, whispered a few words to the left and right heralds, and led the troops to run towards Chen Mu's right flank in the direction of the Guteng County Governance Camp.

The herald ran quickly across the ridge and said to Chen Mu: "Report to the commander, General Shao said that the enemy army is in a hurry, and it is already a tired army when it comes, so it is better to give it a head start." ”

Chen Mu nodded and smiled, the artillery team was still facing that direction, and let the herald report back: "Let General Shao's tiger squat artillery attack the camp first, so that they can be more anxious." ”

On the other side of the woodland, his banner army was still slowly coming out, and he was setting up a formation in the field, Zhang Shijue knew very well that none of them would take on the mission of pursuit, and the mud of the field could give them the advantage of better blocking the enemy's charge.

Although he had become an army since the military government guarded, he had never seen anyone dare to charge at the military government flag guard—he was looking forward to it.

Chen Mujun's formation was scattered, and the camp in Guteng County saw that he was short of soldiers and horses, and even hundreds of foot soldiers under the leadership of the general rushed towards Shao Tingda's department, and stood up every 300 steps to throw more than 100 big bows to shoot arrow rain.

At the same time, the bowl-mouth cannon and the Franco-rang machine in the city blasted towards Shao Tingda's department one after another, and the interval of more than 500 steps had exceeded the range of the Wankou cannon and the little Franco's machine, and only their imitation of the general cannon could hurt Shao Tingda's subordinates.

However, their general artillery was very few, and more than ten artillery pieces of various types were released, and only one shell fell in front of Shao Tingda's department, which was not as good as the rain of arrows fired in a salvo.

Although most of the feathered arrows were blocked by shields, there were still sporadic feathered arrows that landed on the shoulders of the banner army, bringing a few screams to the military formation.

But Shao Tingda is not without means, he has artillery, 500 people have ten big tigers of more than 80 catties, this distance can not threaten the camp, and the enemy army that rushed out is just right.

The sound of artillery exploded outside the village, and the tiger squat cannon that wanted to bombard the camp was used on the attacking enemy, and a large number of scattered people were bombarded into the air and then fell down, and the enemy formation was beaten into a mess, and they no longer dared to organize an offensive, leaving dozens of corpses and fleeing back to the village.

The battle drum was set up behind Chen Mu, and his artillery was still facing the northwest direction, as if he had not seen the battle taking place on the flank, he only stared at the enemy reinforcements from Qinghua Mansion City.

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