Although the mortar cannon does not look good, but the iron bowl cannon is still very scary, bang one or two taels of gravel like hail smashed on the enemy archers on the opposite shore, on the ground, on the river, did not kill many people, a hundred paces away from the bowl cannon at best to send the shells over, not high, the stone is also difficult to kill people, at most the enemy is injured.

The momentum is huge, but the killing is insufficient.

"Don't worship, the Xinjiang Bridge can't be defended, you quickly lead someone to move the cannon to the back and move it to Qianhu!" Chen Mu's current mind is how to keep these cannons, even if he can't keep them, he can't let the cannons be snatched by the rebels, otherwise it will be difficult to take them back, "Fu Yuan, send someone to tell the leader of Wu, let him resist the enemy with peace of mind, Chen Mou will lead the troops to the east coast!" ”

"Those with swords and spears and bows are lined up in array...... Go east first, and then line up over there! ”

The flag army has been seriously attritional, and the era of listing the formation has gone with the death and wound of the old soldiers.

At the sound of an order, more than 30 banner troops lined up, and the townsmen hurried towards the east bank.

In Chen Mu's opinion, the Xinjiang Bridge is difficult to hold. The cold reality once again taught him a lesson, people who can gather a crowd in any era and make a huge impact, even a small thief, are not good at it.

He is like an afterthought, at this moment, he can see Li Yayuan's deployment clearly - mobilize three thousand-man troops to attack the Xinjiang Bridge from the land, and exchange the cost of nearly 2,000 casualties for the negligence of the Ming army's fleet on the river, and when the Ming army uses most of its forces to defend the Xinjiang Bridge, the water and land attack at the same time.

The strategy is not clever, and even clumsy, so clumsy that even Chen Mu, a straw bag who does not know the art of war, can see through it.

But no matter how clumsy it is, as long as it works, it is enough for Li Yayuan.

From the beginning of the garrison of Xinjiang Town, due to the huge disparity in the strength of the two sides, the initiative in the battle was always in the hands of Li Yayuan. There is only a thousand days to be a thief but there is no reason to prevent thieves for a thousand days, Li Yayuan said that when to attack, then no matter whether the Ming army is sleeping, eating, or, they have to raise their weapons to face the battle, and they are afraid all day long.

On the other hand, the rebels, no matter what they eat, drink, and Lazar, the Ming army can only wait for them and dare not attack.

No matter what kind of strategy Li Yayuan uses, they can only bear it. Now they had no more sergeants to use except a hundred and ten small boats on the river and a hundred and ten barbarian battalion sergeants resting on the shore.

Deng Zilong's battalion ran towards the riverside like Chen Muqi's army.

Behind them, Bai Yuanjie waved the command flag, and the whining horn between the military drums and the fleet of the barbarian camp resounded, which shocked Chen Mu's figure who ran to the east - this tune, Bai Yuanjie's military order is, attack!

The flags were unfurled, the boats moved together, and the soldiers of the barbarian battalion resting on the shore also rushed to the water, quickly boarded the boat, and sailed straight to meet the rebel fleet in the river to the east, which was several times their size.

The two fleets were dozens of zhang apart, and there were already rebels standing on the bow of the boat throwing feather arrows with longbows, and the two sides were driving fast on the river, seeing that they were about to crash into one place in a moment, but they didn't see the barbarian camp sailors firing arrows at the enemy, which made Chen Mu, who was sprinting on the shore, anxious, and secretly scolded Bai Yuanjie for being so rich but too picky for the barbarian camp!

If he had equipped the barbarian sailors with dozens of bird guns earlier, where would there be such a dilemma, and the sailors would have been forced to sail towards the enemy ship with arrows, obviously using old methods such as ramming or jumping gangs.

It is undeniable that whether it is a collision or a gang jump, it is a very brave tactic that does not live up to the style of a warrior, but this requires a premise, and the premise that the strength of the two sides is not much different.

The barbarian battalion and the rebels are only in the warship, if those plank-reinforced fishing boats can be called warships, they are four times different from the rebels in the warship alone, what can they do to fight the enemy!

Chen Mu couldn't even bear to look at those strong and powerful barbarian camp sailors, as if the next moment they would be swallowed up by the huge array of rebels grinding their teeth and sucking blood.

He was wrong.

Forty or fifty steps away from the enemy ship, when the sailors of the vanguard ships of the two sides could already see the hideous expressions of the sailors on the opposite side, the wooden boxes were pushed out of the small cabins of the five barbarian ships, and after setting fire, dozens of rockets scattered towards the enemy ships, almost instantly blooming with extraordinary light, and the rockets shrieked and shot towards the enemy ships.

When the arrow is nailed to the enemy's hold, the gunpowder on the rocket ignites the oil pack, and a small piece of fire oil flows down the arrow and the burning oil is attached to the ship, although an arrow may only burn a palm-sized mark, and even if it adds up, it is really limited.

Most of the dozens of rockets were stuck in the first few ships of the rebels, and some of them ignited and some did not, which was not good, but it could cause some confusion to the rebel fleet.

Then Bai Yuanjie waved the command flag again, the military music changed tone, and the five barbarian boats that released rockets accelerated violently towards the rebel formation in five directions, rowing and maneuvering very vigorously, and even the sailors who were exposed earlier hid in the cabin, making people not know what they wanted to do.

The archers of the rebel boats shot at the brute boats, and in a very short time, the five brute boats were shot like five large hedgehogs swimming in water.

After the five barbarian ships, the rest of the barbarian battalion slowed down, separated from the middle to the left and right, and the archers who came out of the cabin took fifty or sixty paces to draw their bows and arrows at the enemy ships, and continued to approach the rebel fleet slowly.

Just as the five barbarian ships filled with arrows were about to plunge headlong into the enemy fleet, the four sailors in the cabin rushed out and jumped directly into the river.

Immediately after, the five barbarian ships that had penetrated into the enemy's ship formation exploded one after another, and the flames soared into the sky!

"The ship is loaded with gunpowder!"

Just as Chen Mu thought, the five barbarian ships that drove into the enemy's ship formation were not only loaded with gunpowder, but also a huge amount of gunpowder and countless flying stones of 100 catties, which exploded in an instant, causing unimaginable damage to the enemy ships in advance.

In addition to the gunpowder flying stones in the cabin, the exploding ship not only injured people with flying stones, splashed huge sparks, and the flames burned wherever they touched.

Bai Yuanjie put fierce fire oil in the boat, which was the usual trick of the Ming army or ancient China in water warfare - fire attack.

Chen Mu turned his head, Bai Yuanjie still waved the order flag calmly, as if all this had already been done in his chest, and at this time, the skyrocketing fire on the river was only expected, and then conveyed the order to retreat to the barbarian camp on the river.

After all, this war will depend on land warfare to find out!

However, this was enough, the fire attack destroyed more than ten vanguard ships of the enemy, and the burning hulls of the fishing boats made the rebel fleet unable to advance an inch in the river for a moment, which was enough to make Chen Muqi's army and Deng Zilong's battalion soldiers set up a position on the shore according to the trench and wooden barriers.

Everything is ready, just wait to stop the enemy!

Concentrate:

"Gaonu County has water that can be burned" - "Hanshu Geography"

"There is a mountain in the south of the county, and the spring water comes out of the stone, which is as big as a ju, and it burns extremely brightly, and it is not edible. The people of the county call it stone paint" - "Later Han Shu County National Chronicles"

Petroleum, once known as 'stone paint, stone grease, stone grease water, fierce fire oil' was widely used in ancient China for lighting, lubrication, fuel and military purposes, and was processed into a solid product stone candle in the Song Dynasty.

In 1521, in Jiazhou, Sichuan, when digging salt wells, oil-bearing formations were drilled, oil shafts hundreds of meters deep were dug, and oil was extracted as salt fuel. It was the world's first oil drilling shaft.

As an aside, the 'inedible' in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, as well as the 'inedible' or '...... of food' in various ancient books, lead people to infinite reverie, and the ancestors have the courage to practice true knowledge.