Chapter Seventy-Three: Catching Turtles

Chen Qianhu is still good, well, except for Shu Wu, he has no talent, and the flag officer's mouth is too stinky.

Zhang Han's face was not embarrassed for too long, and he almost pushed Chen Mu, who was running out, into the tent and asked him to change his armor, "Don't care about the old man, go and change your armor, you must not let the thief enter Guangzhou City!" ”

Chen Mu was wearing armor, and the inner lining of his armor was a finely made riveted knee-length half-sleeved chain mail, at this time, the thieves blew up the city gate of Guangzhou, obviously not allowing him to wear the slightly cumbersome fish scale armor and scale armor armguards with various parts, so he first ordered the assembly of the left and right, and then did not hesitate to bow to Zhang Han and said: "The old military gate is offended!" Come on, put on armor for the military gate! ”

Not to mention Zhang Han, it was just that several family members outside the tent were stunned for a while, and only then did they put on the armor of Zhang Han in the tent, Zhang Han still had to struggle to give an order, but saw that Chen Mu, who had received a bronze medal from the hands of the soldiers and hung it on his chest, had already ordered loudly: "The Xiangshan Banner Army listens to the order, and the officials all look at us and others, I hope you will fight to the death with Chen, kill all the thieves who seized the city, and you will be rewarded for your merits after the war!" ”

Chen Mu shouted and walked, military orders were issued one after another, and even Bai Yuanjie and Chen Lan of the garrison Shunde and Li Dan of Xiangshan Haojing sent people to inform them of the battle situation at this time.

This is the first time in Chen Mu's military career that the battle has changed from tactics to strategy, and multiple troops and horses are fighting together, which is a test for every leader. In his vision, Bai Yuanjie and Chen Ling are the first line of defense at sea, blocking the Pearl River estuary and blocking the waters from Nanhai County to Dongguan; Li Dan is the second line of defense at sea, from Heung Shan Ao to the waters of Tan An Tuen Mun, one is to round up the fish that slip through the net, and the other is to ensure that overseas pirates are not allowed to enter the Lingding Ocean.

With two layers of defense down, as long as the land battle can kill and injure the enemy to the greatest extent, the outcome of this battle is already doomed!

The momentum of the attack of the brigade was not heard nearby, Chen Mu was extremely excited, and asked Deng Zilong and Sun Ao to gather the sergeants, and led a few personal soldiers to run towards the hillside without torches.

He was worried that the Japanese would unload the Franc cannon on the ship, and the torch would be the target - although the Franc machine was light and not enough to kill, it was also relative to the warship, not to mention that he was not wearing armor, he just wrapped his body in armor so that he couldn't walk, and he was done with a beating!

"The bowl cannon is close to bombing?"

Chen Mucai ran up the hillside, and saw that countless torches outside the south gate were burning one after another, and a large number of Japanese robbers lit torches outside the city gate, and then crowded outside the city towards the urn city to kill, and it didn't take long to hear a clang, and a very heavy loud noise fell in the urn city, followed by another cannon sound, but the outside of the city did not pour in much.

Obviously, the defenders of the city reacted in time, and the previous heavy loud noise was the defenders lowering the iron hanging door in front of the inner city gate, followed by the sound of the cannons approaching with some large-caliber artillery.

In Chen Mu's opinion, it is nothing more than a mortar cannon, or a wooden cannon that Deng Zilong used when attacking Xinjiang Town.

The cannon was very light, so that Chen Mu was worried about the safety of its use, and he was worried about the explosion with the increase in the number of shots, and when he bombarded the Japanese camp, Chen Mu ordered the artillery to stay away from the cannon after lighting the seal - when he went back, he would improve the new gun carriage and artillery, so that the barrel of the cannon was longer and the gun body was thicker.

Although it didn't look so safe, but the speed was brisk, the banner army was led by hundreds of households in the rear to complete the assembly, Wei Balang had already led the artillery team to set up a row of artillery carriages along the edge of the official road outside the city wall, at this time the Japanese were gathering outside the city gate, and the torches made them live targets, just waiting for the ammunition to be loaded, Wei Balang immediately ordered: "Release!" ”

There is no need to adjust the angle, in Chen Mu's drill code, it is written that in the face of this kind of battle three or four hundred paces apart, the angle of keeping the cannon open and slightly raised can allow the shell to bounce again after the hit, causing more damage in the enemy's dense formation.

The eighth master of the guard is a natural murderer, he is not afraid of heaven and earth, he is afraid that he will not learn anything while sitting in Mengxue, but he can get into the artillery drill code compiled by Chen Qianhu, and in order to read the drill code, he has learned more words than he learned in half a year in Mengxue before.

Boom Boom!

Bang!

It was still blown up, and although the artillery was already standing some distance from the artillery, there was still one unlucky banner soldier who was killed by the huge fragments of the artillery breech. This scene had a psychological shadow on the other artillerymen, who were extremely afraid of artillery.

But for Chen Mu, six shells blasted out towards the Japanese Kou!

"Hachiro, take the artillery over there, and Sun Qianhu headquarters will go with you to guard against enemy reinforcements! Fast! ”

Chen Mu ordered loudly, pointing to the south side of the hill closer to the river, he saw with his own eyes a round of artillery bombardment directly disrupted the momentum of the enemy's surging attack on the city, if it weren't for those torches that lit up the city in the night battle, he wouldn't have seen the situation three or four hundred steps away.

The Japanese invaders gathered more and more outside the city, and Chen Mu had only one thought in his heart, that is, to seal the outer city gate, and at most seven or eight hundred enemy troops could pour into the urn city, as long as he could block them in the urn city, with his small number of troops, he might not be able to withstand Zeng Yi's sea bandits' vow to fight back.

"Huang Qianhu, I'll bother you to fight a tough battle later."

After hearing the order, Wei Balang immediately called the hundred households of the soldiers to bring people to lead the load, and immediately transferred the artillery carriage to the place ordered by Chen Mu, and Sun Ao was also ordered to lead the army to escort it.

Hearing Chen Mu call him, Xinhui Qianhu Huang Dexiang immediately jumped in his heart, and immediately responded: "Chen Qianhu, you say, Lao Huang must do it!" ”

"After I attack with Deng Qianhu, I will directly attack the Japanese outside the city gate, and I will only fight with the rebels at the urn city gate for a moment to make a gap, you have to lead the banner army to guard the city gate and suffocate them inside!"

Huang Dexiang slapped the armor on his chest with a loud sound, and immediately ordered to summon the flag army to follow behind Deng Zilong, and his headquarters didn't need to say too much, Chen Mu assigned Shao Tingda to say: "Mang, you lead the flag army to protect the old army, and hundreds of households listen to the orderβ€”β€”"

Chen Mu arched his hand to Zhang Han, the old governor wearing his armor, and then turned around and did not give an order, and the eight hundred households lined up in a phalanx, and spread out a large area of people to form the usual attack formation of the thousand households in Xiangshan.

Chen Qianhu chuckled, took out his waist knife and took a deep breath, raised his head, raised his chest, raised his knife, and stepped forward.

Deng Zilong, the deputy of Qianhu on his side, raised the long knife above his head, reflecting the bright red and yellow color of the torch held high by the Chen family, slowly waved it down, and there was a herald in the formation who shouted hoarsely: "Forward!" ”

"Forward!"

"Forward!"

All the departments and hundreds of households ordered, each department stepped on firm steps to go to the battlefield hundreds of steps away, in front of the formation, each flag army held high torches, guns lit fire ropes, and there were also birds behind their backs, holding small flags and arrows to prepare, and more spearmen weighed the palm of the thunder to follow the order forward, outside the city gate of the Japanese army found them at intervals of two or three hundred steps, bursting out a little bird gun.

There are soldiers holding a few long cards in front, Chen Mu is not afraid, and continues to lead the army forward, until there are more guns on the long cards, Chen Mu finally raised his left hand, and the command behind him fluctuated, and the flag army did not know how long they waited, and finally heard the familiar order.

"Little Banner Arrow!"

Whoosh, whoosh!