Chapter 59: First offense
"Brother Mu, I'll bring you the cannon back!"
Shao Tingda, who returned from the charge, was full of pride, if it weren't for the black face burned by the smoke and fire, his proud expression would have been very powerful.
The momentum of the hundred tigers rushing together is indeed huge, first using mines to blow up the morale of the enemy's rear formation, and then using the hundred tigers to kill and injure the front army of the rebel army, one person escaped with a hundred people, not to mention that the enemy army fled more than one person, the rear did not know whether it was Bai Yuanjie or Deng Zilong who beat the drums of the charge, Chen Mu's banner army rushed the enemy down the Xinjiang Bridge, and took advantage of the situation to chase and kill Erli.
The rebel general in the armor of the Ming army was a straw bag, his own army was scattered and wanted to stop the defeat with a call sign, Shao Tingda They rushed to more than 20 steps before they wanted to escape on horseback, and Shao Tingda, who was holding a seven-star arrow and ignited, shot the horse to death, and was captured after falling to the ground.
After chasing out Erli, the flag army was stopped by Chen Mu, who was charging with him, and assigned Shao Tingda to take the flag army and more than a dozen villagers to the mountainside to see if the enemy's artillery was crushed, and then led the flag army back.
Chen Mu himself didn't expect Shao Tingda to really be able to carry the enemy's cannon back, and he was amazed when he looked at the black-faced reckless worms surrounding the two copper cannons, and said, "Brother Mu, you said that those dogs will blow us up with this thing, and they will also hit stones!" ”
One of the two copper cannons is a three-hundred-pound Franc machine, and the other is an old-fashioned two-hundred-pound bowl-mouth mortar cannon. Just as Bai Yuanjie came over to inquire about the casualties, Chen Mu asked: "Qianhu, the rebels will also make artillery?" ”
"The guards can't make cannons, and the rebels will be a fart! These two cannons are estimated to be raised by the son of a bitch, which guard Li Yayuan hit. ”
Bai Yuanjie walked two steps around the bronze cannon, looked at the inscription on it, pointed and said: "This Franc machine with a bent barrel is newly made in the 30th year of Jiajing, and the bowl cannon is an old object in Yongle Nian, and it can still be used." It's a good thing the rebels didn't take this to fight you in close combat! ”
Bai Yuanjie was terrified after speaking, and said to Chen Mu: "The bowl mouth cannon is not used for long-range shooting, you put this on the riverbank and half-back, and there are more piles of gravel under the bottom to sprinkle the soil and bury it to tamp it, put the gunpowder first, put a big stone bomb, and then sprinkle dozens of gravel, wait for the enemy to get close to two or three hundred steps and let it out, and prick him up!" ”
Chen Mu heard Bai Yuanjie say with a smile on his face, the bowl cannon is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, the barrel is short, and the range used to fire the cannon is not far and not accurate enough, but if it is a scattered bullet, it will be different, the big stone bullet hits a hundred steps, and the small flying stone splashes two or three hundred steps, it is really a dozen and a piece.
It's just that I'm afraid of accidental injury.
"By the way, Qianhu, do you want to hand over the profits?"
Chen Mu didn't understand how the spoils of the Ming army were distributed, in the past, they fought under Bai Yuanjie, Bai Yuanjie was the biggest official, and now with Deng Zilong, who knows how the spoils should be divided.
"If you want to hand it over, you first replenish the weapons and armor of your subordinates, pick out Sancheng and send someone to Deng Jiang, and hand over the copper cannon with the barrel and the rest of the things."
After that, Bai Yuanjie took two steps closer and whispered to Chen Mu: "Your people clean up the battlefield, you have the final say on how many things, just hand over the useless." There are also treasures, silver, and valuable items on the rebels, remember to let the banner soldiers who worked hard take them back. ”
Chen Mu was still immersed in the joy of returning the bowl cannon to himself, and when he suddenly heard Bai Yuanjie say this, he realized that in addition to the armor left on the battlefield, those corpses were also one of the necessary means to clean up the battlefield and get the spoils of war.
He didn't have anything to be afraid of this, he was afraid of it twice, and he was mostly in awe of destroying it three times, so he was used to it.
Chen Junye thought that this matter had to be done by someone he could trust, so he summoned five small flag officers and asked them to do it personally.
Except for Shi Qi, all four went, leaving the dog-headed military division to come and report the casualties.
"Six of the spear and spear were killed and five were wounded, two were killed in the Bird Flag, four were killed in the Longbow Banner, four were left in the sword and card players, and twenty-six were killed and wounded in the village. The general banner, four banner soldiers, and seventeen township warriors, all those who escaped were captured...... Kill them all? ”
Chen Mu was touched by the hanging of the old lame man on the martial arts field in front of the Qingyuan Wei Hundred Households, but on the battlefield, blood poured into his nose along the air, and the inevitable casualties became a number.
"Remember them, the fallen flag soldiers, tear a piece of cloth and write it down." Chen Mu just raised his hand to say a word to Shi Qi, and then paused for a moment before continuing: "The escaped Xiangyong, get them over and have a meal together on the bridge, the battle is in a hurry, and the meal is not finished." ”
Seeing that Bai Yuanjie was on the side, Shi Qi didn't dare to say more, nodded and went down to find the Huotou Army to get food.
Bai Yuanjie said to Chen Mu: "If the law is not reasonable, if you are reasonable, you can't be reasonable, do you know this truth?" ”
"I know." Chen Mu smiled, a little reluctantly, "What I said is military law, if you don't kill them, no one will be afraid and no one will listen, and the soldiers will not be able to take them, right?" ”
Bai Yuanjie nodded solemnly, glanced at the rebel fleet that was still not moving in the distance facing the river, slowly exhaled, patted Chen Mu on the shoulder and walked a few steps towards the Chinese army, and then turned his head and said: "After eating, you lead the troops to guard the river beach, and then the Xinjiang Bridge will be guarded by Deng, you can rest." ”
"After the battle, Bai invites you to go to the best painting boat in Guangzhou to drink."
After speaking, Bai Yuanjie didn't stay any longer and left Xinjiangqiao. But even if he returned to the Chinese army, he looked at the Xinjiang Bridge from a distance - he was a person who came over, and he knew that this hurdle was not easy to overcome.
Chen Mu picked up the rice bowl he had put down earlier from the bridge railing, slowly eating the taste and chewing wax one bite at a time, Shao Tingda sat on the ground and ate his mouth, and said to him, "Brother Mu should marry a wife and have a son, so that if he dies, he will not lose the blood of his ancestors" and so on.
If Shao Tingda said such an unlucky thing in normal times, Chen Muzhun kicked him in the ass twice, but at this moment, he was not in the mood, so he only asked Shao Tingda: "How much silver is there to clean the battlefield?" ”
"There is not much silver, more than 20 taels for hundreds of people, but Tongbao has picked up tens of thousands of pieces, and I haven't counted them." Shao Tingda shook his head with a look of disgust, and said: "Just these more than twenty taels, and ten taels were snatched from the rebel leader, oh no, they were brought - Brother Mu, these rebels are poorer than me!" ”
"Isn't that! You Shao Xiaoqi is a person who has seen the world, killing bandits and robbers, and the reward is soft, can the rebels compare with you? ”
Chen Mu said and put down the clean rice bowl, raised his foot and kicked Shao Tingda's buttocks sitting on the ground next to the stone fence, and took a look at the twenty-one fugitives and Xiang Yong who were eating and chatting in two rows, shook his head and said: "Don't just take money and don't work, take people to take down all the fugitives, and kneel in the north with a big tie." ”
Shao Tingda only knew what Chen Mu was going to do at this time, his eyes widened but he didn't dare to send it in, so he saw Chen Mu nodding and turning around with his hands behind his back.
"Birds, assemble, raise the guns to the north!"
"Twenty-one banner soldiers and township warriors, fled in fear of battle, and their crimes should be beheaded. Miss you and other first-time offenders, and leave a whole corpse with a blow. ”
"Put!"
Bang! Bang bang!
Chen Mu didn't look back, but he heard the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, and then Shi Qi picked up his command again and gave the order to the bird's hand, shooting four rounds until there was no sound behind him. Chen Mucai finally let out a long breath, turned his head away from looking at the corpse that fell to the ground, gritted his teeth and said to his subordinates: "This battle has more than 20 taels of war profits, thanks to your desperate efforts to survive, silver money - reward!" ”