open sea

Chapter 163 Looting
Chen Mu has complicated emotions towards Japanese pirates.

After his birth, he experienced the pain of humiliation brought about by China's semi-colonization by Western powers, which made it difficult for him to develop a good impression of Westerners.

Even if the westerners were as gentlemanly and friendly as they imagined, it would be difficult for him to have a good impression, not to mention that they didn't seem to be much advanced and civilized except for weapons.

It is ignorance to worship the kiln god to get ore by burning water with fire, but it is faith to mine with dynamite while holding a cross?
The attitude of the suzerain state towards the tributary state towards the world is arrogance, but is it civilization to treat people with different skin colors as animals that walk upright on two legs?

Because Chen Mu hated those barbarians, he should regard those who bravely broke the law to fight overseas in this era as heroes, and was even willing to give appropriate assistance to support them in their fight against the Western colonists.

But Guanghaiwei and the current Guangzhou Mansion let Chen Mu know why the Japanese pirates were called Japanese pirates.

The Guan Cannon slowly pushed up the high ground, and Wei Balang's soldiers used the wooden cards they carried to make simple fortifications downhill in front of the artillery formation. Sixty bird guns were used as force to defend the artillery position. The muzzle is facing the front of the Japanese pirates.

The army guarding the city has long since discovered that there is neither a governor nor a governor in the city. Yu Dayou is in Chaozhou, Tang Kekuan is in Leizhou, and the general guarding Guangcheng is Wang Rulong, who sent a flying horse to tell Chen Mu not to act rashly—on a warship on the shore There are cannons, and there are many of them.

Not far from the artillery position, Chen Mu frowned and opened the binoculars to look towards the shore.

This is definitely not good news for him. The slightly out-of-shape magnified scene in the camera told Chen Mu that Japanese pirates are setting up camp. They demolished houses in Xin'an County, transported wood and bricks from ships, and built banks and river centers. The two camps on the island were attacking and defending each other, but Chen Mu couldn't see the gunboat.

From his perspective, he could only see all kinds of small boats stranded in shallow water on the shore. Those small boats, regardless of shape or shape, had no guns on them, not even a single one.This is very abnormal. Those small boats with Arabic style or even Franco style obviously could not have been purchased from Yi merchants. Yi merchants sold everything except warships.

If it was not bought, then there is only one possibility, it was snatched by these East Asian pirates.

After the barbarian merchants get rich through the route, the first thing to do is to provide armament for their fleet. Even small ships will set up one or two cannons, even if it is a revolving cannon like the Franji, to provide basic force be on guard.

But Chen Mu didn't see it, not even a Franc machine.

"Could it be that the news about General Wang Shen is wrong?" Xinhui Qianhu Huang Dexiang was a little eager to try. The large number of friendly troops greatly boosted his courage, and he clasped his fists and said, "Why don't Chen Qianhu stay here for a while , Lao Huang led his troops to the front to find out the depths of the Japanese pirates!"

Lao Huang is very courageous.

If Chen Mu had only 150 soldiers, he would never have dared to say such a thing, and he would have taken the initiative to ask for orders to explore the places where thousands of Japanese pirates were stationed, and use his body to try where they hid the boat guns?

"No, I believe in General Wang." Chen Mu shook his head resolutely. This Huang Qianhu looks nice, but he doesn't want to see him being bombarded to death by Japanese pirates.

Once Zeng Yi came, Chen Mu was not in a hurry.

This is also a helpless move. The cannons on the turrets in Guangcheng are firing more and more urgently. At first, they only fired a cannon after a long while, but now they are fired every once in a while. Gadgets like Fran's machine and tiger squat are probably general cannons that he has never seen before.

The louder the cannon towers on the city were ringing, the more it meant that the Japanese pirates had looted everything out of range. Driven by greed, they could only venture into the range of the tower forts to loot houses, and then they were shelled by the towers.

Judging from the current quiet situation on the shore, Zeng Yiben's boat gun, which Chen Mu couldn't see, obviously couldn't hit Guangcheng either.

Chen Mu didn't know what Zeng Yiben was waiting for, but he was waiting, whether it was a battalion soldier or a guard, waiting for an early bird to try Zeng Yiben's depth.

"The key to this battle is the cannon, Zeng Yiben's cannon." Chen Mu pointed and ordered Wei Balang to move the cannon forward, "There, the army array is gathered on the back slope, and the cannon is pushed to the left. Going downhill, it’s best to see the enemy’s camp, it’s too far from here.”

They were too far away from Zeng Yiben's camp. Originally, Chen Mu planned to set up the Qimenguan Cannon a thousand steps away from the camp, and asked Deng Zilong and others to lead the army to fight and draw most of the Japanese pirates out of the camp. After a while of artillery bombardment, the former army turned around and fired with tiger squatting rockets for a while, and the enemy army was almost defeated.

But now that the enemy army has an unknown number of ship guns, Chen Mu dare not do this.

The Banner Army of the Xiangshan Institute had fought tough battles, and they were familiar with dealing with Japanese pirates. The only problem was that they had bombarded others before, but they had never been bombarded by the enemy.

One or two cannons were fine, and there were some casualties, but once like he bombarded Xu Jinmei in Haojingao, more than 60 cannons bombarded them all at once, and there was no morale.

Now Wang Rulong is in Guangzhou Mansion, the southwest of the city is Chen Mu's army and the guards gathered along the way, and the southeast of the city is Zeng Yiben's pirate army. It is not so easy to wait for the first bird. take a risk.

"Take a few soldiers and follow me."

The soldiers and horses marched and shifted their formations. Chen Mu also took Qi Zhengyan and a few soldiers to the nearest high slope. He wanted to climb the mountain to show his face and see how many people Zeng Yiben had parked on the shore and Jiangxin Island. Warships, how many guns are there on those warships!

It is said to be risky, but in fact there is no risk at all. There are only two binoculars in the entire Guangzhou Mansion, one in the hands of Bai Yuanjie and the other in the hands of Chen Mu. Except for the two of them, no one can see clearly with a pair of binoculars. There are more people inside and outside.

Not caring about the dirt on the armor, Chen Mu crouched on the top of the hill and looked at the river, only to feel that the pirates were pirates.

The small boats parked on the shore are nothing more than vassals. The real big ships sail on the river. There are two-masted and three-masted black-tailed blessing boats ranging in size from a dozen to a dozen, with more than a dozen franc machines and strange cannons. tools; the coast was originally used to catch big fish and more than 20 white boats, with five or six doors of large and small Francophones mounted on them.

In addition, there are Japanese-style Hachiman boats with small wooden houses, and Chinese-style Yalu boats that carry troops. It was almost equal to Yu Dayou's fleet, no wonder Wang Rulong told him not to act rashly, thirty or forty warships were loaded with more than 200 large and small cannons, and if they were scattered, his soldiers might be defeated before they could meet him.

"Qianhu, there is a team over there, it looks like a battalion, and they plan to attack Zeng Yiben!"

The first bird to test the waters came. To the east of Guangcheng, a battalion of 500 soldiers in the oblique spine, led by the general, formed a formation and slowly attacked the scattered pirates who were plundering all directions. Chen Mu was very excited. , waved his hand and said: "Pull our cannons out, and then push them forward, their ship cannons won't be able to hit them, and when the battle is about to start, help the friendly troops to bombard them for a while!"

　Today's update is late, because we can't always be two more beasts. Today, three chapters will be released together. I can't guarantee tomorrow, but keep working hard!
　　I didn't say good morning, it's not because of swelling, don't talk nonsense, so many readers support, I have to work harder!

　　
　
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