open sea

Chapter 170 Borrowing a Knife
Grenade is really easy to use.

Especially in the seven or eight steps deep city gate, after a dozen or twenty firecrackers wrapped in prefabricated pig iron fragments and with a huge charge were blown up in the gate, the Japanese pirates who had just rushed to the Urn City did not even make a wail.

There is no one alive.

This was expected by Chen Mu. He knew the effect of what Mr. Chen made. If one or two exploded in front of the formation, although it has been tested that the maximum damage can be more than four steps, the actual combat lethality is still not enough, even if it is prefabricated. Because of the uneven force on the paper shell when it exploded, generally only one of the five circles of fragments can be completely exploded, and sometimes even the upper and lower circles are left to wrap around the paper shell that was blown in two.

The fragments that really exploded are surprisingly lethal, and they are basically useless without armor.

Even if it is thrown into an armored enemy army, the lethality is still considerable, not to mention that the large-charge grenade exploding in the formation will have a great impact on the morale, vision and even sense of smell of the army.

Just look at Hu Liangpeng's appearance.

The city gate is pierced through, like a big pipe, and you can still hear the echo if you shout inside, let alone so many grenades exploded inside.

At that time, Hu Liangpeng was relying on two layers of iron armor, inside and outside, holding a big knife to rush outside the city gate, and no one could open it. How could he know that the knife was only half lifted, and there was a big light in front of him, and then there was a loud noise like someone It was as if a cannon had been fired in front of him, and it was still the kind that made a huge fuss.

Immediately after the handle of the knife in his hand sank, Hu Liangpeng, who was so shocked that his eyes were full of gold stars, saw that the Japanese pirate who was still three steps away just now hit the tip of the knife by himself, and died completely.

There is no need to ask why, the blood holes in the back of the Japanese pirate's head clearly explained that even Hu Liangpeng himself was blown to shame, not to mention that if the Japanese were not in the way, those few iron pellets would have hit him face off.

"Chen Qianhu!"

Chen Mu, who was about to chase the enemy, suddenly heard people shouting in unison on the tower, and the banner soldiers listened to him and filed away. He raised his head, and saw the torches shining high on the generals in various official robes standing among the shelled battlements. Officers, some he has seen and some he has not, but he knows one of them.

Participating general Wang Rulong.

I saw Wang Rulong's long arm crossing the parapet wall and pointing directly at the direction of the river bank. He said urgently to Chen Mu at the bottom of the city: "The hanging gate of the Weng City has been lowered, and the bandits are sealed off and cannot enter the city. Just keep the army and lock the city gate. The Japanese bandits cannot mess with Guangzhou City !"

"Qianhu just chase the Japanese pirates quickly. Many warships newly built in Xin'an are in the hands of the thieves. You must snatch a few, otherwise Guangdong will be in a situation where there are no ships available! Go, go!"

Chen Mu looked at it with binoculars for a long time during the day. Although there were many large ships in Zeng Yiben, he could see them clearly without the military-style big blessing ships. When Wang Rulong said it, Chen Mu's mind seemed to be a mess, and he folded his hands and shouted in surprise : "Shen Jiang take this seriously?"

Wang Rulong's eyes widened, and he scolded: "How could Wang tease you when you are so impatient! Xin'an only sent the letter half an hour ago, and yesterday the thirty newly built warships were burned and looted by the bandits Zeng!"

Chen Mu stopped talking, ignored Wang Rulong, twisted his body and waved his saber and cursed inwardly, sent Long Junxiong who was by his side to chase after him, told Deng Zilong about this, turned his head to Hu Liangpeng and the flag army who led his family to follow closely Huang Dexiang, who had arrived, handed over his hands and entrusted: "Mr. Huba, Huang Qianhu, I will leave the city gate to you, and Mr. Chen will go after the Japanese pirates!"

"Shi Qi, you take my hundreds of households to chase the enemy and seize the ship with Deng Qianhu! I will catch up with you on the shore!" Chen Mu ran two steps away, then turned his head and said solemnly to Shi Qi: "If you can stay, Send them to the west, if you can't keep them, grab as many big ships as you can!"

So far, Chen Mu's subordinates, including Wei Balang's artillery, have all twelve hundred households advancing towards the bank, forming a formation where Sun Ao and Wei Balang live on the south bank of the river, Deng Zilong chases and kills the Japanese in the northeast, and Shi Qi leads the army to the north of Deng Zilong. The subsequent battle swept towards the Japanese pirates they had defeated.

But Chen Mu didn't go there, he was going to ask for an order to lead a dozen family soldiers straight to the west, where Governor Zhang Han was.

Mr. Zhang is so conspicuous, he stood on the hillside where Chen Mu peeped at Zeng Yiben's warship during the daytime battle, surrounded by not only Shao Tingda's troops from the Hundred Households Office, but also people from the Thousand Households Office in Shunde, guarding the left and right with open fire guards , wearing his brand-new fish scale armor full of style, as if the entire Guangchengnan battle situation is under his control.

"Chen Qianhu?" Seeing a group of soldiers rushing forward from a distance, Shao Tingda led the flag army and quickly formed a defensive formation to protect Zhang Han in the center. When he got closer, he recognized that it was Chen Mu who immediately gave way to the passage. When Chen Mu saluted, Zhang Han took the lead and asked: "At the time when we are fighting against the pirates, why did Qianhu not lead the crowd to chase after the enemy?"

Zhang Han's tone was not very good.

What Chen Mu didn't know was that just half an hour ago, Zhang Han, the governor after he led the crowd forward, ordered Shunde Qianhu to lead the army to help in the battle.

In Zhang Han's view, Wufu should be galloping on the battlefield like Chen Mu. It's not proper for a dignified thousand households to follow behind his bad old man. How could he know that Shunde Qianhu followed him not to protect him but to fight timidly, even if he took orders? Still moving forward slowly, and even the flag army fled in front of the battle, making Zhang Han extremely annoyed watching from behind.

In a fit of anger, Zhang Han ordered Shao Tingda, the hundred households in Xiangshan, to lead the troops to take down Shunde Qianhu, Deputy Qianhu, and more than a dozen deserters who fled. Zhang Han also asked, "In Xiangshan, do you have deserters?" What will happen?"

Shao Tingda has only two advantages, one is brave and daring to fight and rush, and the other is that he looks reckless but is careful. He knows how much competition the guards of Guangzhou Prefecture have for them, the meritorious families from Xiangshan Institute.

Even though Qianhu in Shunde was tied up and knelt on the ground, his eyes still glared at the Baihu who dared to detain him and even smashed him with the handle of a knife with his own hands. Then Shao Tingda showed a simple and timid smile and said: "I also I don’t know, when Brother Mu was serving as the General Banner, there were more than 20 deserters during the Xinjiang War. Brother Mu said that it was their first offense..."

Shao Tingda paused as he spoke, looking at Qianhu in Shunde as if he were looking at a dead dog, and then said to Zhang Han very smoothly: "I killed them all with guns, and said that the first offender left a whole body."

Killing does not require a blood knife.

Shunde Qianhu and those deserters were all executed without leaving any corpses. Zhang Han ordered Shao Tingda to gather the Shunde Qianhu Banner Army, and ordered him to lead the army to support Chen Mu in rescuing the besieged city of Guangzhou.

It's just that Zhang Han didn't expect the following things. Without the stalemate, siege, and confrontation he imagined, the battle of Xiangshan Qianhu was too coherent. From his point of view, it was Xiangshan Qianhu advancing, Japanese pirates retreating, Japanese pirates being beaten, The Japanese pirates were defeated.

When Chen Mu ran over, Shao Tingda had just dealt with the deserters by military law and collected troops, and was promoted to Shunde to try thousands of households. The incident happened suddenly, and Zhang Han reported the letter of appointment to the Ministry of War after the war.

"I came back from the humble job to ask for orders from the army!" Chen Mu panted heavily, his arms were wrapped with torn clothes, and his chest shield was dented by something. He was sweating profusely and looked embarrassed, but his expression was extremely determined, and his words were decisive. , Said: "Zeng Yiben snatched the newly built warships of the Guangzhou government and hid them elsewhere. I begged for orders from my humble post. After driving away the enemy army, I went to Shunde to board the ship overnight to fight with the bandits again, and take back the warships of the Guangzhou government!"

"He went farther to Xin'an by going out of the river, and the low-level official road is easy to travel by land. Before dawn, he can rush to Shunde to board a boat to chase the enemy!"

(End of this chapter)