open sea

Chapter 328 First Battle
It is very common for plans to fail to keep up with changes. The strategy of military warfare is to speculate on the most likely changes based on limited information in order to prepare in advance, just like counting a few more moves in chess.

The art of war is the art of the mind. From this perspective, the book of war may also be the earliest psychology book.

Because if you miscalculate one wrong step, the rest will be useless, and if you are right, you may not be able to win the war, but if you always miscalculate, you will definitely not be able to save your life in the war.

For example, Chen Mu didn't expect that the Spaniard would not leave before entering his preset battlefield for ambush.

"It's better to take two more steps and take two less steps. I've dug the trenches. What's the matter with these bastards stopping here!"

Probably Shi Qi's rocket made the Spanish captain anxious, or maybe it was because of the distance from Panthea City and the speed of the sea in his heart that the Spanish captain, who had been through battles, was no longer eager to pursue.

It is more likely that he finally realized that he would never be able to catch up with this physiological human army. Seeing that it was getting late, the more than 2000 troops he led were composed of Luzon, Sulu, Japanese, and Malays. There was a long dragon parked on the side of the road, and he took out the food he carried with him and ate it.

The Spaniards even set up small tents in the middle of the queue, and it seemed that they were going to rest here for the night.

The road twists and turns and is blocked by dense forests. Even if it is only a few miles away, Chen Mu tried his best to become a tree-climbing general, but he can only look through the binoculars to see the smoke in the distance covered by the tree shadows, and he cannot see the Spaniards. layout.

"The scouts who came back said that they didn't seem to have arranged it. People just rested by the tree by the side of the road, and the Japanese in front were singing and dancing happily." Shao Tingda also seemed helpless, and said: "They also released the scouts, Stepped on two landmines, walked three miles and went back."

Chen Mu patted the soil on his body, looked at the flag army hiding in the trenches and bushes, opened his hands helplessly, and said: "There is no way now, the artillery is useless, can the night attack win?"

The small narrow road on the outskirts of Luzon is not far away from dense forests. This section of the road is winding and winding. If it is far away, the shells cannot be fired, and if it is close, the artillery will block the follow-up troops.Where is the biggest problem?
The reason is that Chen Mu can't wait until tomorrow.

It's not that Deng Zilong is waiting at sea, if Deng Zilong is alone, the biggest problem is to send someone back to Panthea City, and tell Deng Zilong who is returning to Hong Kong tomorrow to go south.

The key is that there are 500 people in Shiqi!

They almost stopped here, it was nothing more than the fact that the Spanish allied forces had settled on the road for a mile or so, and Shi Qi's men were burrowing through the woods on their left and right at intervals of one or two miles.Whenever there was a disturbance, and the Spaniards found Shi Qi first, Shi Qi would definitely not be able to stop him, and he still had no way to retreat.

The only way to reverse the situation is to strike first.

"Shi Qi is very smart. Now he should ask his subordinates to go a little further south and get behind the enemy. That would be the best; You fought them—could you win?"

This question seemed a bit difficult to Shao Tingda.

He squatted on the ground, let the sick child pick up a stick, wrote and drew on the ground, pondered for a long time and raised his head and said: "I think we can win."

Chen Mu clapped his hands, gritted his teeth, and opened his hands to summon his subordinates to form an army. The Eight Hundred Banners gathered troops, "Then do it!"

The sick child is an orphan, about the same age as Hachiro.After his mother died of illness, his father voted for Li Yayuan, and the sick child was sent to Yingde Nursing Home.

Shao Tingda obeyed orders to execute his father, who was a prisoner, on the battlefield. On the way back after victory, he went to Yingde to take a sick boy by his side. Mother died of illness.

The Banner Army who had withdrawn from Manghu Mountain redistributed the ammunition, leaving three small flags to guard the artillery. About 200 people walked from the forest to the side of the Xiyi Garrison Road. Chen Mu chose to kill directly from the Central Army to block the enemy army. the way forward.

Chen Mu only has more than 300 people in his hands, and these people are all the most experienced gunners in his family, pushing a two-pound cannon in three formations and marching along the path towards the enemy.

He also divided his troops into three groups, walking two centurions through the bushes at intervals of more than ten steps. In the middle of the road, he personally led the centurions to push the artillery and walked over in a dense formation. Xiaoqi arrows, Lei Xiaoqi in the palm of the back, and all behind are gunners.

The distance is not very far, although it is dark, a large group like them can't get close when walking, and they are only a mile away from the enemy's rest in the front line before they are discovered by the sentry hidden in the tree, and the sound of Luzon in the forest People shouted loudly, and the front of the battle became bright.

A series of gunshots sounded like popping beans, and Sentinel fell from the tree.

Chen Mu waved his hands expressionlessly and ordered, "Set up the formation, move forward, and prepare to meet the enemy; Xiaoqi, if the formation is disrupted, each lead his subordinates to form a small formation to fight, don't panic."

In the distance, Japanese people shouted cursing and yelling. The commotion was still far away. Chen Mu didn't go into what he was talking about. To the light of the torch from far to near.

"Stop and raise the blunderbuss, the small flag and arrows are ready!"

Seeing that the field of vision was still clear dozens of steps ahead, Chen Mu issued an order, and Long Junxiong led his servants and strong men with large shields to protect him, while the flag soldiers in front of him raised their guns one after another and formed a burst formation.

The bushes and palms on both sides made the deployed soldiers a little scattered, but both the enemy and the enemy were the same, and no one could form a large formation in the tropical rainforest.

Especially the ronin who rushed over first, there was no formation at all, dragging the knife and raising the blunderbuss, screaming and rushing out. Pushing the gunpowder, he abruptly stopped the momentum, retreated a few steps behind, and packed himself in the crowd.

The Japanese soldiers on the left and right scrambled to help each other, the long arrow on the chest exploded with a bang, and the flying iron fragments killed several people immediately, only the leader of the ronin who was shot by the small flag arrow turned pale, but was not hit by the iron bullet, just the arrow The cluster was pushed a few inches inward by the explosion, and the death was not ugly.

The ronin hired by Spain were accustomed to weapons like small flags and arrows along the way. Although they killed a lot, the rest were not afraid. For a while, the morale was extremely high.

Chen Mu is surrounded by old soldiers, who have gone all over the world to kill the Japanese pirates and attacked the Tatars. This kind of momentum cannot scare them. Following the orders of the banner officer, the banner army who was the first to face the charge retreated step by step. In the blink of an eye, the first three rounds of bird guns with the fastest firing rate were released.

Amidst the gunpowder smoke, the former surfers fell down, and several caught fish rushed forward with superhuman bravery, and a few flaming round melons were thrown out of the gunpowder smoke, which exploded behind them, and they were beaten thousands of times in the sky full of iron fragments. riddled with sores.

"Left wing burst, release!"

Chen Mu's eyes flickered, he really might not be able to take good care of a big battle, but as long as there is such an army in such a narrow area, there is no one who can win against him!
The guns on the left and right wings were released in turn, and when the smoke cleared in front of the eyes, the ronin in front were retreating, and the Luzon soldiers in the back were advancing. There was a chaos on the trail, the two-pound gun was pushed forward, and the boomer blasted in the middle of the road. There was a sound, and grape bombs exploded all over the sky. This was the signal for the ambush to attack.

All of a sudden, the flag troops in the dense forest shouted to kill, and the ambushes on both sides of the forest were facing each other in the middle of the road, and the enemy's guns were released, officially starting the first battle of the expeditionary army on the island!
　Good morning, it's a new month!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)