open sea

Chapter 471
Yu Dayou got up again and led the general army officer of Guangxi, stationed in Nanguan.

Chen Mu sent his adopted son Chen Jiujing to send a modest gift to Yu Shuai, and at the same time asked about the coalition's thoughts on attacking.

Chen Mu had forgotten that this was the first time that Yu Dayou had been reinstated as the commander-in-chief. Anyway, whenever there was a difficult war in Lingnan, Yu Dayou was always in the dismissed position before the war started, and Yu Dayou was always in the position when the war came. Military officer.

And what Chen Mu can do is to send some gifts to congratulate Yu Dayou every time he is dismissed;

It is also difficult to choose a gift. When you get back up, the gift should be light, the less valuable the better. A few books and a pen must be mere formality, otherwise Yu Dayou will not accept it.

It was much easier when he was demoted. Yang Qingluan took the ugly, unique and cheap jewelry directly to the backyard of Yu Dayou’s house and gave it to the old lady. livelihood.

Everyone praises Yu Dayou's integrity, but no one cares about how the Yu family lives.

As for Liu Xian's side, Chen Mu didn't send anyone to ask, they were too far away to meet each other, but Yu Dayou sent troops from Zhennan Pass, which borders the coast to the south, and he could have some support regardless of the supply or the strength of the troops.

Yu Dayou is a veteran, and the suggestion to send it back to Chen Mu is to postpone the attack for half a month, spread the message first, and send it to the people and soldiers in Annan. military justice.

Regardless of who came to Annan, the government is tyrannical, the land is small and the population is small, and it is impossible to support soldiers without heavy taxes.

Not to mention the season of war, just follow the tax rate of the peace period of the Ming Dynasty. It’s not like I didn’t try it during the Chengzu period. I only collected 7 taels of silver a year, and I couldn’t even support [-] troops. How could it be possible to support Mo’s [-] soldiers?

Yu Dayou asked his staff to write a call to action and sent it to Nanyang. Chen Mu wanted to laugh when he saw it.

He felt that if the call to action was changed to another name, it could also be used to crusade against the Li clan. It is estimated that the call to action spread to the south of Annan, and the old officials of the Li clan would be afraid when they saw it.

Among other things, under the instigation of the Nanyang military government, the three provinces of Yunnan, Guangdong, and Guangxi fought fiercely. Liu Xian recruited more than [-] soldiers in the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan. land.

After laying out the defense for Burma, Liu Xian led his troops to move to Lin'an Prefecture in Yunnan Province, recruited five chieftain soldiers, crossed the border in April of the second year of Wanli, and marched into Xuanguang.

Yu Dayou of Guangxi is much less troublesome. He is the commander-in-chief of Guangxi, has the seal of General Conquering Man, and sits in Nanguan.

The people from the three counties of Gaopingdi sent troops to infiltrate westward pretending to be merchants, posting proclamations along the way to disturb the morale of the troops.

In late April, vanguard general Wang Shike led an army of [-] soldiers out of Zhennanguan. He commanded Qi Jimei, Yang Zhao, and others to conquer Eastern Zhejiang Bird Gunners, Huguang Yongshun Hook Swordsmen, and [-] wolf soldiers.

Compared with Yunnan and Guangxi, Chen Mu was slower. After all, he did not have a direct land route to transport supplies, and no one allocated food, grass and military equipment to him, so he relied on his own planning.

From Liu Xian's letter to attack Burma together, the Nanyang Military Government conscripted [-] Hexingsheng Dafu ships, and transported them to Qiongzhou and Malacca.

At the same time, troops from all sides were mobilized. Three thousand households and four thousand families were dispatched by the military guards, and the fleet was moved to Qiongzhou. Lead the fleet into Qiongzhou.

In addition, the Shi Qi Department led thousands of households into Malacca to take over the military affairs of the customs. He has nothing to do with the subsequent Annan War and is preparing for Burma.

In April, Liu Xian had already dispatched troops, and Chen Mu's army was still nestled in Qiongzhou. He only sent Lou Qimai's fleet and more than [-] fishing boats from Guangxi to sweep the ships along the Mo's coast, looking for a suitable place to land along the coast.

Because the man he sent to Tsinghua to discuss the coalition with the old ministers of the Li clan came back and told him that Tsinghua had been captured by Mo Jingdian, the famous general of the Mo clan. Where did Li Shi's battle line go?

At the end of April, Guangxi Yu Dayou's troops had left Zhennan Pass, and Chen Mu quickly sent the new information he received to Zhennan Pass via Lianzhou, Guangdong.

General Mo Jingdian of the Mo clan dispatched [-] troops to besiege Thanh Hoa, and sent General Nguyen Juan to Nghe An to threaten Hue, almost destroying the Li clan.

But this is a golden opportunity for the Ming Dynasty.

On May [-]rd, Chen Mu went to the altar to worship in Xigang, Danzhou, Qiongzhou Prefecture. He personally led the warships and soldiers into three groups, and sailed towards Annan.

Chen Mu's main fleet sent troops to Nhe'an to face Ruan Juan, Deng Zilong's troops broke through Yanzhou in the northern part of Nhe'an, and the last route was Lin Manjue, the "Marine Captain" under Chen Mu's command who had just gotten familiar with a full set of new military uniforms in Guangdong.

"General Lin, the place where you are going is the most dangerous. It is the area bordering Qinghua in the north of Yanzhou. At this time, it is under the control of General Mo Jingdian of the Mo family. After landing, the south of you is where General Deng cuts off the retreat of Ruan Juan's troops. On the battlefield, to the north of you is Qinghua surrounded by Mo Jingdian's tens of thousands of troops."

"You don't need to fight to the death. Commander Bai has already cleared the sea of ​​enemy ships first. The coast is all my fishermen's warships. You can find everything you need within ten miles of the sea. There is only one target."

There is still a hundred miles away from the coast, and the three huge fleets have not yet separated. Chen Mu summoned Lin Manjue to the Chihai ship, pointed to the spread out map and said: "When Mo Jingdian goes south, if I have not defeated Ruan Juan, I will You try to delay its trip to the south, just a few days."

"If you can't delay, you can sail around to the rear of the enemy army, ask Commander Bai to help him, and cut off his food supply. In the frontal battle, Chen and General Deng will fight."

Although the place Lin Manjue went was dangerous, as long as he was not surrounded and had a fleet to help him along the coast, maneuvering was not a problem.

Hearing Chen Mu's order made Sanlao Lin feel a little relieved, the bearded man trembled with a smile, and said: "Chen Shuai's general is much more relaxed than Guam."

"Easy is easy. It's a pity that the war didn't give you time to familiarize yourself with ordnance. Now you can only get familiar with it during the war." Chen Mu patted Lin Manjue on the shoulder and said, "If the flintlock is not suitable, I will be on your ship I have prepared matchlock guns, if it doesn’t work, I’ll change it back.”

As Chen Mu said, the family soldiers took out a wooden box from the cabin, and after opening it, there was a beautifully decorated flintlock pistol in it. It’s a new thing in rounds, after firing a round, the hand turns the magazine, which can release six guns.”

"Although it has been made as refined as possible, there is still some air leakage. It can barely break through armor in ten steps. Without armor, it can hit fifteen steps. No matter how far it is, it is not accurate. Use self-defense."

This gun is extremely valuable regardless of its skill, but only by its decoration. Lin Manjue accepted the gun and thanked him: "Thank you, Commander, for giving me the gun!"

It is too time-consuming and labor-intensive to build this, and it is not worth the cost to install the flag army, but it is not bad for the generals to defend themselves for another year or so.

Chen Mu nodded and said, "Go, General Lin, take care of them for me!"

He looked at the endless sea, and he was going to join the battle too! -
The earliest actual flintlock revolver was manufactured in 1597. The magazine is integrated with the firearm and can be rotated but not removed. It is now in the Mehaugen Museum in Lillehammer, Norway.

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