Chen Zongqi was assigned a good errand, and Bai Yuanjie transferred him to garrison the riverside west of the Xinjiang Bridge, and this place had no chance to engage the enemy.

At least when the enemy attacks the bridge, they can use their bows and crossbows to shoot at the enemy on the other side, but no one can hit anyone.

With the lesson of being repulsed in the first attack and losing soldiers, Li Yayuan's offensive to attack Xinjiang Bridge became very cautious, and he only tried to attack twice in a month and a half, and was repelled by Deng Zilong's battalion soldiers both times.

Although the firearms of Deng Zilong's battalion were not as strong as Chen Mu's, whether they were artillery, bird guns or rockets, these battalion soldiers were much more ruthless than Chen Mu's banner army when they fought the rebels.

Everything has its own rules, the enemy is nearly 200 paces, and the longbow is fired in a volley; The enemy is nearly 100 paces, and the crossbow is fired; Wait until the enemy is close to fifty paces, and then move forward; At a distance of thirty paces, Deng Zilong stepped forward with his own arrows, and the quick gun first released a gun, and then fired a volley of fire guns and bird guns.

After a volley, the smoke filled the air, and the gunner shoved the tip of the gun into the barrel. Deng Zilong waved his long knife and rushed straight up, using the fire gun as a short hammer and a fast gun as a spear, and hundreds of battalions of soldiers screamed while killing, and forcibly drove the thousands of enemy troops who stormed the Xinjiang Bridge back to the foot of the mountain.

Twice.

Chen Mu had never seen such a fierce person at all, as the commander who took the lead in the charge, he pressed the rebels from beginning to end from the momentum of the rainbow to the defeat of the rout. Killed alive into the formation and then walked out alive, except that the knife in his hand might be replaced by another weapon, there was no change at all.

In the two battles, he personally killed 26 people and boosted the morale of his subordinates until they repelled the enemy army and won the victory.

This Deng Zilong, who is not rude in speech and demeanor at all but claims to be a rough man, used two charges to let Chen Mu understand where he was rough!

Compared with him, Chen Mu's command of the battle was just a joke.

Chen Zongqi on the west bank of the Xinjiang River tasted the sweetness of strict military law, and later he knew that the hurdle he had crossed on the Xinjiang Bridge that day was actually the only way for every outstanding general in this era to take charge of the army at the beginning.

Only when the rewards and punishments are full of prestige can a general be truly qualified to command an army.

This is not difficult to understand for Chen Mu, and it corroborates with the relatively mature incentive theory of management in later generations, reward is the positive reinforcement in the reinforcement theory, and punishment is the negative reinforcement in the reinforcement theory.

On the Xinjiang Bridge, executing the soldiers who fled for fear of war and rewarding the war profits and money is undoubtedly the most direct and effective way of negative reinforcement and positive reinforcement.

After that, Chen Mu could clearly feel that whether it was the flag army or the village warrior, they obeyed his words, not only in orders, even if he said a word at will, his subordinates did not dare to be lazy in the slightest, and the effect of strengthening was far greater than that of training with queue orders for more than a month.

Although the rebels suffered more than 1,000 casualties at the Xinjiang Bridge in three battles, this was only a drop in the bucket for Li Yayuan's huge force. Far from cheering up the defenders, the protracted standoff and successive victories were demoralized.

The price of Deng Zilong's fierce attack and rush was that the battalion lost more than 100 casualties and lost nearly a quarter of its troops; The experienced banner army under Chen Mu also suffered nearly half of the losses, and although there were many new township warriors, they were far inferior to the banner army in terms of training battle formations and weapon skills.

The high morale of the outnumbered enemies, the wounded and dead allies, the long-running homesickness and the bulging of their pockets gradually destroyed their high morale.

"General Yu's reinforcements haven't arrived yet."

At the beginning of June, Chen Mugang in the Chinese army tent heard Bai Yuanjie say this sentence happily, and the next moment there was a whining horn sound outside the tent, and the war drums roared, causing several people to hurriedly run out of the tent.

On the other side of the Xinjiang Bridge, the rebels once again gathered thousands of men and horses, wanting to get down the Xinjiang Bridge again.

Now it is the turn of Wu Duan's subordinates to be guarded by the rebels, Wu Duan looked at the bridge with his waist in one hand, and said to Bai Yuanjie, Deng Zilong, Chen Mu and others: "The enemy is not a thousand people, Deng Jiangzong and Chen Zongqi can stop them, Wu's baby is not bad, Shiqiao is enough to defeat them!" ”

"You don't have to worry too much, and go back to the tent to rest, and in less than half an hour, the good news of the defeat will come!"

As he spoke, Wu Duan strode towards the Xinjiang Bridge, looking at the posture to personally supervise the battle. Now guarding the Xinjiang Bridge is Wu Duan's subordinate Wang Shiqiao, who is the first miner to follow Wu Duan, and some of them are brave and fierce.

As for what he said about the good news that came back in half an hour, it is not a lie, although Wu Duanjun is a rebel army, but the strength is not weak, especially the number of equipment can almost reach the proportion of the Ming army, more than 2,000 people carry hundreds of bird guns, very majestic.

"Qianhu, my subordinates see that the rebels are quite poor, why are there so many firearms in Wuduan?"

Chen Mu asked Bai Yuanjie, Bai Yuanjie didn't know, but Deng Zilong on the side knew something, looked at Wu Duan's back and said with a smile: "Don't underestimate this grass coward." ”

"Before you surrender to General Yu, he has tens of thousands of horses and horses to cause trouble in Huizhou, attack the county and do all kinds of evil, and get a lot of silver. When General Qi was begging for the Japanese, he was afraid that he would be attacked by the enemy and the imperial court soldiers and horses, so he sent someone to send two hundred taels of silver to the Japanese Kou. When talking about this number, Deng Zilong shook his head, obviously very envious, and paused before continuing: "That group of Japanese bandits was defeated later, and it is not possible to come to him, it is those Japanese people in his hands. ”

"Those firearms were all purchased from Hongmao Fan by sending someone to Haojing. After surrendering to General Yu, he reduced his subordinates to 3,600, each of which was the most powerful, and although he did not pass through the battle array, he was fierce in battle. Chen Zongqi, you still go to the riverside to take care of the artillery team, if the artillery is robbed by him, we alone will not be able to stop him. ”

The six artillery pieces that can be used now, a hundred tigers and the rest of the rockets are all used by Chen Mu's Xiangyong. In case Wu Duan has bad intentions and snatches the cannon, they can only escape, I'm afraid Xinjiang Town is not something they can defend.

Thinking of this, Chen Mu hurriedly responded to the order, said hello to Bai Yuanjie and Deng Zilong, and took Wei Balang towards the riverside.

Before he was halfway through, the bridge had already been engaged, and the brave and simple Japanese under Wu Duan jumped out one after another after the battle, and their combat strength was also stupid, and most of them were drowned in the crowd after getting some cheap.

However, the bird's team under Wu Duan's subordinates fired a salvo at the beginning of the battle, and the results were remarkable.

Different from the bloody battle on the bridge, Chen Zongqi's position is a different situation, the bowl cannon is 100% metaphysical to Shao Tingda, who only knows how to dance the knife and shoot the shield, Chen Mu came over, this fool was kneeling on the ground with a torch and kowtowing to the bowl cannon.

There are still words on his lips, "On the one hand, the rebels, the gods of the five parties bless, let me kill them all with one shot, the world is peaceful, the world is peaceful!" ”

Rumble!

Chen Mu didn't have time to say, this Shao fool took half of the cannon buried in the soil and pointed it at the bowl mouth cannon on the opposite bank and wanted to hit the widows on the bridge, and he dreamed of it very beautiful!

The sound of the cannon fell, and the sound of a snail horn suddenly sounded on the river east of the Xinjiang Bridge, which frightened Chen Mu when he landed, and turned his head over, and the flotilla of ships that had been stagnant for more than a month in the distance on the river moved!

Note: Ho Mirror, i.e. Macau.