Chapter 42

The casualties were counted by Mr. Storyteller, and they were minimal.

Seventeen people were killed in the engagement, three of them died from the longbow throw, and a quick gunner under Deng Zilong's command was shot in the eye by the blasted iron and could not survive; In addition, there were more than 30 wounds, and the armor was very useful, but it was mainly Wei Balang who broke up the enemy's morale with one shot, and then the small flag arrows, bird guns, and fast guns gave the enemy a wave level blow.

When it comes to close combat, the enemy forces that charge the most fiercely and have the highest fighting spirit are almost dead; The cowardly ones also ran about the same; The remaining group in the middle of the group did not have a high fighting spirit, but they did not run away and ran around in the smoke of gunpowder, and they were caught by Deng Zilong, and the long knife on the tip of his eyebrows was cut randomly, and he fought more and less.

Almost at the touch of a button.

They are very profitable.

Grabbing more than fifty black captives, they were fierce and fierce with weapons, but they also obeyed when they put down their weapons, and squatted on the ground obediently, as if there were invisible shackles on their feet, which made Chen Mu wonder that even if they didn't let go of people to guard them, they wouldn't escape.

Perhaps these able-bodied and tall men were accustomed to fighting for the tribe, and after defeat, they were sold to whites, and then they were sold by whites to others, and they were asked to do whatever they wanted.

Perhaps because they crossed the sea, perhaps because the slaves were cheap, their armor rate was surprisingly low, in addition to the seven sets of plate armor that were taken off the corpses, the most were hundreds of Western-style iron helmets, some of which were also tied with red tassels, more than 30 muskets, several crossbows of different standards, more than 200 longbows, more than 200 iron spears, and some broken Japanese armor, Malayan armor and Indian ...... Turban?

The last thing was useless, and the poor and crazy banner army pulled down these coarse cloths and stacked them in a large pile, and was ordered by Chen Mu to wrap them back.

Although he was also a little puzzled, there was Sikhism at this time?

But he still told the flag army, "This is faith, and it should be respected." On the battlefield, each is the master, and taking the lives of others is unavoidable, but the turban should be wrapped well. ”

"Others insist on doing things for a lifetime and a half, and there is no need to sabotage."

The same is true for a large number of Christians, the gold and silver crosses were collected by the banner army, Chen Mu called out to Sun Ao, who was urging his subordinates to return the cross, "Just let the banner army tie a wooden shelf in front of their corpses." ”

"True piety doesn't care what material it is."

Chen Mu weighed the bag full of gold coins in his hand, there were twenty-five kruzados in it, he didn't quite understand the purchasing power of this thing, so he put it in his arms and didn't make any plans, the real loot was not here.

It's Ho Jing O, and it's also two centipede ships.

"Qianhu, you asked Yoshiko to take the ship, his origin is unknown." Deng Zilong sat on the high stone steps of the church foundation with Chen Mu with the knife that had been wiped clean, with a smile on his face, and said, "Aren't you afraid that he will take the boat and run away?" ”

Chen Mu didn't worry that Li Dan would run away in two boats by himself, but then he thought about it that there was no need. Chen Mu was limited by his official status and did not have so much autonomy in his behavior while enjoying power, but he revealed his thoughts about the sea to Li Dan.

The six words of Xiangshan Qianhu Chen Mu are far more important to Li Dan and those behind him in the long run than the two centipede ships.

Their pirates were also incorporated into the Chen Jiajun's operational lineage in this operation, and besides, ...... Chen Mu smiled: "Dan'er is a smart person, I believe him." ”

Deng Zilong pursed his lips, and felt more and more that the three souls and seven spirits behind the smiling face of Shangguan Qianhu he followed were full of cunning and cunning.

Dan'er is a wise man, and I believe in him. ’

This is said loudly, why don't you just say that forty or fifty old and sick people can't drive two centipede boats?

Why don't you just say that Chen Lan was instructed to take two chief sailors to sail the open sea?

If people are not smart, they will definitely be played to death by you!

"The eight golden locks leave a door for people to break into by themselves." Deng Zilong sighed with emotion, and then said: "Qianhu, this time the war profits, give me two hundred taels of silver, find a familiar warcraftsman in Guangzhou Mansion to shoot some quick guns, what kind of things are you to set it down!" ”

"Use the bird gun, the master of the institute has been doing it, you see these guns, there are big guns and small guns, as well as the guns of the wheel and the fire, they are all innovating and improving."

Chen Mu put several arquebuses and flintlock pistols of different shapes beside him, and said that he sat on the stone steps with some difficulty and took a heavy arquebus with a fork frame that was close to seven feet for Deng Zilong to see, and said: "This gun, the projectile that shot out weighs one or two, and the iron armor that pierces the long card and shatters the small flag every eighty or ninety steps is right next to me." Without that long card, the iron armor can't stop it, and people will be beaten through. ”

Saying that, Chen Mu picked up a two-foot-long handcuff again, and lifted the snake rod, the top of the snake rod was not a fire rope but a flint, Chen Mu used great strength to pull the stiff trigger, and the flint hit a spark on the anvil, "This is safer than the fire rope, but there are still some problems, either the fire is small or it is difficult to pull, and it is not easy to aim." ”

"This! Exquisitely crafted and expensive to build. ”

When Chen Mu said this, he had already picked up another captured bird gun, which was very different from other bird guns in shape, and the wooden handle was carved with exquisite patterns, which was obviously very valuable, and the position of the gun machine was an exposed disc, and it was also through mechanical energy to make the flint fire, but the cost was much more expensive than ordinary flintlock guns, and it was more reliable.

"Look at that cannon, I don't think there are ten catties of shells, ten catties of projectiles, knocking over seven or eight people every few hundred steps, and the flesh and blood will blur wherever they hit, such a powerful cannon with such a range, we must have it, but not much, at least I haven't heard of it in Guangdong. And just Haojing, three forts - twelve. ”

Chen Mu took a deep breath and slowly exhaled it, tore off a piece of paper from the book book of Shiqiji's military casualties, and then turned out a small bag from the war trophies around him, twisted out the familiar tobacco shreds, rolled them in the paper, lit them and took a puff, coughed twice and threw them into the soil and stepped on them.

"Ahem, that's choking!" Raising his hand to disperse the smoke, he said to Deng Zilong: "The times are changing, and the people of the entire Ming Dynasty can't feel it, only us and those pirates, other people's ships are getting longer and stronger, and other people's cannons are getting bigger and more fierce. ”

Deng Zilong is not a person who can accept new things so quickly, looking at those strange-shaped birds and guns for a long time without speaking, after a while, he pointed to the church foundation under Chen Mu's feet, and said, "Qianhu has taken a fancy to this land as a yamen?" ”

"This feng shui is not good, the five elements belong to fire, and everything is easy to burn." Deng Zilong pointed to the opposite side, the earliest Portuguese town hall, and said: "It's good, there is a lack of water and wood, so use it as a yamen." ”

Chen Mu was amazed and said in surprise: "You know how to tell fortunes?" ”

Deng Zilong shook his head, and said with a smile of remembrance on his face: "My ancestor went up to the public to do things, and when he grew up, he made a living by showing people the land, and almost starved to death. got the guidance of a master, passed on the art of martial arts, let me give up literature and practice martial arts, and then I took the martial arts test and called myself a rough person; In fact, Deng is also shallow and reasonable, he is a disciple of Yangming's faction, and he can also draw a plan. ”

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The church is St. Paul's Church, which caught fire three times and burned the cathedral to the ground of an archway.

Teacher Deng Zilong is Luo Hongxian, the champion of Jiajing for eight years, a great geographer in the East, and his achievements in psychology are very high, and Deng Zilong can't beat Old Man Luo, so he was beaten and became an apprentice.

The method of drawing the plan is inherited from the predecessors, that is, the scale of the map, and Luo Hongxian has made a breakthrough compared with his predecessors.

Luo Hong first created the map symbol legend, and the existing "Guangyu Map" used 24 kinds of geographical symbols for the first time, interested friends can take a look.

Deng Zilong is not only a military strategist, but also a feng shui scholar and poet with family roots, and is the author of "Feng Shui Theory", "Formation Zhizhi" and "Heng Ge Ji".

Because Luo Hongxian had passed away at this time, he would not appear in the book, so I would introduce him a little more.