Everything points to disaster.

The Japanese have occupied the Acropolis of Guanghai, and the lives of more than 3,000 people in the city are more than auspicious.

"Shi Baihu drove a centipede boat to lock the coast, and Hachiro led his troops to burn all the boats of the Japanese along the coast, and no one wanted to leave here."

With an iron face and an order to the banner army, Chen Mu turned his head to look around the siege position, and said to Bai Yuanjie: "This Japanese army is a Japanese defeated army, and it was hired with a book of silver, and there are more than 600 soldiers and armor, if there is no movement in the city, we will have to wait for reinforcements, when will the reinforcements come?" ”

"How do you know?" Bai Yuanjie was stunned, raised his finger to point at the Acropolis, and said: "Bai fought with them for a while, and only then did he estimate that there were more than 400 enemy troops. ”

Don't mention it!

Chen Mu shook his head and said: "The pirate Xu Jinmei came to attack Haojing, and the pirate Xu Jinmei went to me to seek revenge and demolished a fort in Haojing, if he hadn't arrived yesterday." ”

He didn't dare to think of such a record, several battles in Qingyuan were mainly troops, and the impact of tactics and firepower on both sides was minimal in the battle of dozens of people, and the key to winning the victory was discipline, who had more morale and who listened more to orders, who could win.

A few more guns in a battle of hundreds of men and a few more cannons in a battle of thousands of men cannot play a decisive role.

But when the amount of firepower accumulates into a qualitative change, everything is different.

A salvo of dozens of small flags and arrows can directly kill and injure dozens or hundreds of people in the front line of the enemy, a salvo of two or three hundred bird guns can cripple the entire military formation, and a reciprocating salvo of sixty-eight Francophone cannons can directly bombard thousands of pirates who have not had time to organize an army formation two miles away.

Achieve maximum victory with minimal casualties.

The situation of the military struggle has changed, and for Chen Mu, this change stems from firepower.

Bai Yuanjie didn't know how many pirates had invaded Haojing, and seeing that Chen Mu was leading only five hundred troops, he was a little worried.

"The reinforcements have arrived, I originally thought that we could have 2,000 troops, but you only have 500, then we only have 1,500 troops to attack Guanghaiwei." Bai Yuanjie shook his head lightly, "It's difficult, I tried to attack for a while, the Japanese are very well defended, they already have a kind of big gun to hold, like a cannon, and they got seven or eight cannons from Guanghaiwei to put them on the city, and they can't attack it." ”

Chen Mu thought that he had heard it wrong, looked around the besieged camp, and said in surprise: "There are only three hundred, and there are only three hundred people in each thousand households in?" ”

Bai Yuanjie has 700 people, he has 500 in his hands, and the total strength is 1,000 and 5, doesn't that mean that in addition to his Xiangshan Thousand Households, the rest of the reinforcements from all over the country only made up 300 people!

He thought that Guanghaiwei sent a letter asking for help, and the reinforcements gathered at the Acropolis would require at least three or four thousand soldiers!

Bai Yuanjie didn't want to reply, he also had a fight when he came over.

When they came, they were so rampant that they went out of the city to intercept the reinforcements of the Qianhu of Hailang, Zhaoqing Prefecture, and then turned around and came back to Lianzhan Xinhui and Shunde 2,000 Households Two 3,400 Banner Army, if it weren't for Bai Yuanjie to lead the army to join the battlefield, the two thousand households would not even have 300 people left.

"They are all defeated, otherwise they can still gather 3,000 troops, and it is useless to make up them!"

Bai Yuanjie sneered as he spoke, and pointed to the military tent not far away with a complicated face: "Xinhui still has two hundred battleable banner troops, and the deputy thousand households who led the troops in Shunde were directly put down by the Japanese Kou, and the gun was hit in the chest, and the flag army collapsed at the touch of a pig running out of the circle, and was cut down by the Japanese Kou one by one. ”

Saying that, Bai Yuanjie looked at Zhang Yongshou, who was holding Chen Mu's telescope and looked east and west in a new way, and whispered with disgust on his face: "It's not as good as my deputy Qianhu." ”

Chen Mu smiled at this, in all fairness, Zhang Yongshou is okay, although he can't compare with people like Bai Yuanjie and Deng Zilong, but now he is competent to lead troops.

He was more interested in, "How far is it?" ”

Zhang Yongshou didn't hear Lao Bai laughing at him, but when he heard Chen Mu's words, he turned his head and handed out the binoculars to Chen Mu and pointed to the city and said: "Look at the city, the clothes of the widows are different, but don't care about the iron armor and leather armor, even if they are worried about agricultural affairs like our guards, there is a veteran in seven or eight of them, and those people are very fierce in the battle, they can't stop it, and they have morale with the peasant soldiers." ”

This Chen Muke knows more than others, that is, a Japanese lower-level samurai, and his goal in life since he was a child is to serve on the battlefield.

If at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the flag officials of the guard can be compared with them, but since the Onin Rebellion started the Warring States period of Japan, it has been chaotic for a full hundred years, and it is the period when the samurai class has high combat power, and the flag officials of the guard post compared to it have been flat for 200 years, which is indeed incomparable.

"That's not all." Bai Yuanjie shook his head with emotion, raised his hand and said to the Acropolis: "It's just this kind of thing, at most, it's a rout of the army, they all know the art of war - there are only a few Wei officers who understand the art of war, so it's okay to let them compose poems." ”

Chen Mu thought so.

There were people in this gang who knew the art of war, and they did not wait for the reinforcements from all walks of life of the Ming army to gather, and they knew that they were inferior in strength, and they first concentrated their forces and took risks to go out of the city many times to intercept them, and successively defeated thousands of reinforcements from various guards.

The common denominator of several battles is that in the local area, the Japanese have formed a superiority in the number of troops with more strikes and fewer blows.

Although their total strength was only more than 600, before the battle was really engaged, half of the Ming army's strength was cut first.

"There are only six Fran cannons in each guard together, and they can't beat the widows against the bombardment, so it's easy to say it now that you come." Bai Yuanjie mentioned that the siege was very energetic, and asked Chen Mu: "Now you and I are in charge, the siege casualties will definitely not be small, and the siege will have to be besieged for more than a month, you can take the idea." ”

"I can't wait a month."

Chen Mu vetoed the decision to besiege the city without thinking about it, if it was usual, he would definitely choose to besiege the city. The soldiers and civilians in the city are already more auspicious, and at this time, they must take care of their own banner army to reduce casualties.

But he couldn't wait, one for revenge, and the other for defense.

"There has been no news from him, he is definitely going to fight Guangzhou in the near future, and he has no time to spend time with these widows, so he must fight quickly." Chen Mu gritted his teeth, squinted his eyes towards the acropolis, and said hatefully: "And don't fight for life, only for death, let them be buried by the Guanghaiwei soldiers and civilians." ”

Fighting for life is for the purpose of defeating, and killing is for the purpose of total annihilation.

If you want to fight a war of annihilation in the field, you have to use at least ten times the number of troops to think about it.

As for the siege and annihilation?

"Then you have to break through the city gate first, the widows have demolished the houses in the city, and the door holes are all bricks and wood, and they can't be opened by shelling." Bai Yuanjie paused and said: "If you want to attack, you must first use the ship cannon to clear the widows on the city wall, and take the opportunity to climb the city by ladder, but the casualties will not be small." ”

Sometimes this is the case for generals, any decision will make his subordinates die, just like standing on the edge of a cliff and deciding to jump.

The difference is nothing more than more and less numbers.

"Don't go to the city until you have to, bomb it first, wait for me to go around to find a coffin, dig a tunnel and send it to the city wall, and then paste the hole solid."

Chen Mu looked at the Acropolis not far away, pursed his lips and clenched his fists.

"Let's take the city down first."