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Chapter 156 The Coffin
There are more ills than good luck.

Japanese pirates have occupied Guanghai Weicheng, and more than [-] people in the city have lost their fortunes.

"Shi Baihu drove a centipede boat to lock up the coast, and Hachiro led his troops to burn all the Japanese pirate boats along the coast. No one can leave here."

With a stern face, he gave the order to the banner army, and then Chen Mu turned his head to look around the siege position, and said to Bai Yuanjie: "This Japanese bandit is a defeated Japanese army. It was once hired with a lot of money. There are more than [-] soldiers and armors in the city. If there is no movement here, we have to wait for the reinforcements, when will the reinforcements come?"

"How do you know?" Bai Yuanjie was stunned, raised his finger to point at the Weicheng, and said: "Bai fought with them for a while, and then estimated that the enemy army is more than four hundred. You knew it before you came here?"

Don't mention it!
Chen Mu shook his head and said: "The pirates came to invade Haojing, and the pirate Xu Jinmei came to seek revenge on me and tore down one of Haojing's forts. If it wasn't for him, he should have arrived yesterday."

He didn't even dare to think about such a record. The few battles in Qingyuan were dominated by troops. In the battles with only a few dozen people on both sides, the impact of tactics and firepower was minimal. The key to victory lies in discipline. Who has more morale? Whoever obeys orders more wins.

A few more guns in a battle of hundreds of men, or a few more cannons in a battle of thousands of men, does not play a decisive role.

But when the quantity of firepower accumulates to form a qualitative change, everything is different.

A volley of dozens of small flags and arrows can directly kill dozens of hundreds of people in the enemy's front line; Thousands of pirates who had no time to form an army were blasted away.

Achieve maximum victory with minimum casualties.

The situation of the military battle has changed. For Chen Mu, this change stems from firepower.

Bai Yuanjie didn't know how many pirates had invaded Haojing. Seeing that Chen Mu led only five hundred troops, he felt a little worried.

"The reinforcements have arrived. I thought we could have [-] troops, but you only have [-]. Then we only have [-] troops to attack Guanghaiwei." Bai Yuanjie shook his head lightly, "It's difficult, I tried to attack for a while, the Japanese pirates The defense is very strict, they have a kind of big guns in their arms, like cannons, and they have seven or eight cannons from Guanghaiwei and put them on the city, so they can't attack."

Chen Mu thought he heard it wrong, looked around the besieged camp, and said in surprise: "There are only three hundred people, and there are only 300 people in each thousand households in Kinki?"

There are 700 people in Bai Yuanjie's department, and he only has 300, and the total force is [-]. Doesn't that mean that except for his Xiangshan Qianhusuo, the rest of the reinforcements only have [-] people!

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

Bai Yuanjie didn't even want to answer, he came here for a fight.

When they came, the Japanese pirates were rampant. When they left the city, they first intercepted the reinforcements from Hailang Qianhu Office in Zhaoqing Prefecture, and then turned back to Lien Chan Xinhui and Shunde Erqianhu Office. There are not even 300 people left in the two thousand households.

"We're all defeated, otherwise we can gather [-] troops, it's useless!"

Bai Yuanjie sneered as he spoke, and pointed to the military tent not far away with a complicated face: "Xinhui still has [-] battle flag troops, and the deputy Qianhu who led the troops in Shunde was directly knocked down by the Japanese pirates, and hit his chest with a gun. The flag army collapsed at the first touch, like pigs running around in circles, and was hacked and killed more than half of them one by one by Japanese pirates, and now that Qianhu is still lying in the tent, it is estimated that there is more danger than luck, and the difference is too far away."

As he said that, Bai Yuanjie looked at Zhang Yongshou who was looking around curiously with Chen Mu's binoculars, and whispered with disgust on his face, "It's not as good as my deputy Qianhu."

Chen Mu just smiled at this. In all fairness, Zhang Yongshou is not bad. Although his talent is incomparable to people like Bai Yuanjie and Deng Zilong, he is still competent in leading troops now.

He's more interested in, "How far?"

Zhang Yongshou didn't hear Lao Bai laughing at him, but he heard Chen Mu's words. He turned his head and handed out the binoculars to Chen Mu, pointed to the city and said, "Look at the city, the Japanese wear different clothes, but don't worry about iron armor and leather armor. Paint the same color, even if they are worried about farming like our guards, one of the seven or eight of them will be led by a veteran, and those people will fight fiercely and unstoppably, and they will have morale if they lead the farmers and soldiers."

This Chen Mu knows more than others, that is, the Japanese low-level samurai, who has been wielding a sword since he was a child, and his goal in life is to serve in the battlefield.

If in the early Ming Dynasty, the Weisuo Banner Officers were comparable to them, but since the Onin Rebellion started the Warring States Period in Japan, it has been chaotic for a full 100 years. The 200 years of Taiping is really incomparable.

"It's not just that." Bai Yuanjie shook his head with emotion, raised his finger to Weicheng and said, "For this kind of stuff, at most they are routs and bandits. They all know the art of war—there are only a few guards who understand the art of war. Let them compose poems." good."

Chen Mu thought so.

Some of these Japanese pirates knew the art of war. Before the Ming army could gather reinforcements from all walks of life, they knew the disadvantages of their troops. They first concentrated their forces and took risks to go out of the city to intercept them many times, and successively defeated thousands of reinforcements from various guards.

The common point of several battles is that the local Japanese have formed a force advantage with more hits and fewer.

Although their total strength is only about [-], they cut down half of the strength of the Ming army before the actual battle.

"There are only six Franc cannons in all the guards, and they can't beat the Japanese. Now you can talk about it." Bai Yuanjie was very energetic when he mentioned the siege, and asked Chen Mu: "Now you and I are the masters, the siege The casualties will definitely not be small, and the siege will take more than a month to siege, so make up your mind."

"Can't wait a month."

Chen Mu rejected the decision to besiege the city without even thinking about it. Normally, he would definitely choose to besiege the city.The soldiers and civilians in the city are already in bad times, and at this time, they must first pay attention to their own flag army to reduce casualties.

But he can't wait, one is for revenge, and the other is to guard against Zeng Yiben.

"There is no news from Zeng Yiben. He must be attacking Guangzhou in the near future. He has no time to waste time with these fools. He must fight quickly." Chen Mu gritted his teeth, squinted his eyes at the Acropolis, and said bitterly : "And don't kill them, only kill them, let them be buried with the soldiers and civilians of Guanghai Wei."

Killing lives is aimed at defeating them, and killing them is aiming at total annihilation.

If you want to fight a war of annihilation in a field battle, you need at least ten times as many troops to think about it.

As for the siege and want to annihilate?
"Then you have to break through the city gate first. The Japanese have demolished the houses in the city. The door openings are full of bricks and wood, so they can't be opened by bombardment." Go clear, take the opportunity to climb the ladder, but the casualties will not be small."

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

The difference is nothing but more and less numbers.

"Don't go to the city unless you have to. Bomb it first, wait for me to find a few coffins around, dig a tunnel and send it under the city wall, and then fill up the hole."

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

"Let's take down the city first."

　Let's post the two chapters together from the day after tomorrow, and wait a few days to save the manuscript for a few chapters, and add more later.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)