open sea

Chapter 48
boom!
In the early morning, two Fran cannons pushed forward to the mouth of the valley at the foot of the mountain, separated left and right, and bombarded the watch tower and arrow tower in the mountain one mile away.There was a roar, gunpowder smoke filled the foot of the mountain, and the copper-cast Franco cannon slammed back fiercely. The projectile shot out suddenly and accurately hit the forest on the mountain with a parabola, sweeping away several small trees along the way, and the small village in the mountain was shocked. .

Talking about precision with the cannons of this era, isn't that nonsense!

Although the power of black powder is not enough, its momentum is large enough.

In Chen Mu's eyes, when the Francophone bombed out, there was movement immediately in the camp on the opposite mountain. Even if the nearest people were tens of meters away from the impact point of the shell, they would still rush around in a panic, looking for ways to escape. The place, yelling everywhere.

Deng Zilong's experienced gunner unscrewed the ear of the blunderbuss to the right, then threw the smoking empty blunderbuss aside, replaced it with a blunderbuss that had been loaded with gunpowder and shells in advance, and then fired, bringing another flight to the mountain. The dog jumps.

Chen Mu and the others were stationed at the North Mountain, and Deng Zilong was stationed at the South Mountain. They did not block Wu Duan's retreat route, but flashed through the gap in a two-phase attack posture, and the distance was not more than two miles.The situation over there was similar. The same Franco machine gun kept bombarding the mountain, firing five shots in succession. The gunners behind the two artillery pieces only took a break for a while.

The copper-cast cannon body was all red from the explosion of gunpowder, and it would explode if it continued to bombard.

seeing is believing.

In Chen Mu's view, in this era of coordinated operations of hot and cold weapons, the biggest advantage of artillery is not the terrible lethality, but the terrible morale suppression it brings to the enemy.As far as the rebellious army with an extremely low degree of organization is concerned, the artillery bombardment next to their sentry towers and arrow towers will make their scouts carelessly observe the situation, and the barely lined up large group of infantry will lose control and scatter in all directions.

If this is not a fortified battle but an ordinary encounter, at this time, they only need to send their banner troops ready to charge forward. They are brave enough to easily fight a defeating battle against several times the enemy.

Going north from Beishan, you can't go far to the Xinjiang River. It is because of guarding the river that Bai Yuanjie is leading his troops to guard here. Apart from Chen Mu, the landlubber of the general banner, the more than [-] Danren warriors in the Manliu Camp are all Born sailors, no one can beat them when fighting on the water.

At this moment, like Chen Mu, many of the sergeants of the Barbarian Battalion, who saw the bombardment of Fran's machine gun for the first time in their lives, were silent and did not dare to vent their breath. They carefully watched the artillery repeatedly reloading, firing, cleaning the barrel, These actions of pretending to be a gun.

The artillery roared like the power of heaven and earth.

"Qianhu, did you see that? It's just two Francophone cannons." Chen Mu was holding the Japanese blunderbuss with all his strength, showing whiteness. He pointed to the mountain beside Bai Yuanjie and said, "Suppress hundreds of enemy troops on the mountain, and after that Let's get some artillery in the Banner Army too!"

Bai Yuanjie's eyes were burning. Even if he didn't have Chen Mu's insights far ahead of his time, how can a warrior who can stand out in this era be an ordinary person? He nodded calmly, and said slowly, "You don't know how powerful this cannon is!" expensive."

"On your [-] mu of land, you can only grow one such cannon a year, and it will be useless in less than two years."

Bai Yuanjie explained to Chen Mu: "Bronze cannons are light, but the barrels are soft and useless. The more you shoot the cannons, the bigger the bores. Ordinary military craftsmen can't make them well. One cannon cannon has several catties of gunpowder. When I was young, there were cannons in Qingyuan. The old ones were bad. If you don’t make up new ones, you can’t fight them if you make up for them, and as time goes by, Qingyuan doesn’t even have a flag army that can handle cannons.”

Chen Mu curled his lips. In his opinion, Bai Yuanjie's 3000 troops must have at least ten of these Franc machine light guns. No matter they are loaded on ships or mules and horses, they will be dragged all over the ground. Siege can quickly destroy cities. Field battles can damage morale, and this is the way to win.But at the moment, he also knows that such a situation is basically impossible, just like what Bai Yuanjie said, he can only grow one Franc cannon a year in his [-] mu of private land, which means that the cost of this thing is at least a hundred taels of silver. [-] taels for ten doors, where can he get it?

"But having a cannon is better than not having one. Bai heard that General Qi built a tiger crouching cannon in the southeast. Maybe he will be lucky enough to see it in this battle. Buying a cannon is a must. Let's see what kind of cannon is suitable." Bai Yuanjie As he said that, his expression froze, and he waved to Chen Mu to stop him from continuing to speak, "Shut up, Wu Duan is about to attack!"

As soon as Bai Yuanjie finished speaking, the buffalo horns sounded from the messy bandit formation of the former army not more than two miles away from them. The crudely made low ladder was carried by the soldiers, and when they heard the order, there was a loud cry of killing. Xinjiang Town in the low valley rushed towards it, which made Chen Mu look sideways, and his morale was definitely available!
Wu Duan's army began to charge, and Bai Yuanjie also turned around, waved the command flag, and ordered: "When Wu Duan engages the enemy in the town, we will line up to attack the mountain. Chen Zongqi obeys the order and orders you to lead the people from the left of the mountain to fight forward. Array!"

With a military order, it is different from ordinary chats. Chen Mu clasped his fists in response, turned back and held up the Japanese gun and said: "The flag army obeys the order, line up!"

Chen Mu's army, except for the bird gun team, may not be very powerful, but the banner army under his command is absolutely beautiful, and more than fifty people quickly lined up after hearing the sound. In Mu Juzhong, sword players are in the front and archers are in the back. The two wings are lined with spears and spears, forming a horizontal array that lacks a wide range of vertical strikes.

Their opponents lack firearms, and they need sword players to protect them from the bottom. If they are deep enough, the enemy's archers will give them a disaster.If you are facing an enemy with many firearms, you need a column with a narrow width and a large depth to fight against direct firearms such as fire blunderbusses and bird blunderbusses.

On the surface, Chen Mu seemed to have been in battle for a long time. In fact, this was the first time he participated in a huge local battle with nearly ten thousand troops from both sides. His heart was beating fast, but he was only pretending to be calm because of his inner pride and the unbearable support of the enemy.

Every flag army is like this, and the battle formation can unite them, maintain a high morale, and give silent support to each other.

What audacity!

After Chen Mu's troops, Bai Yuanjie's barbarian battalion also formed an army formation. His subordinates had many barbarians who were cold and short of hot soldiers, and their bows and crossbows were less than three to four out of ten. Surrounded by Chen Mu's troops, it was obvious that Chen Mu's flag army was used as a front arrow, and after attacking the mountain, they pursued it with the ease of the barbarian battalion.

Wu Duanjun rushed to the Xinjiang Town camp in the valley for a short time, and a short ladder was built on the simple wall of the village. Several Japanese pirates wielding Japanese knives without armor were separated from the army, shouting to step on the ladder. The wall, and started a fight with the rebels guarding Xinjiang Town!

boom!
At three points on the mountain climbing road, Chen Mu led his army up from the left side of the mountain, and most of Bai Yuanjie followed closely behind. They wanted to take advantage of the situation to take down the easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack cottage. Later, he threatened the Wu Duan army who might rebel after the war.

More than a dozen artillerymen left outside the camp continued to fire on the right side of the mountain, bombarding the enemy's village.

Yu Dayou's battle against Li Yayuan and Ye Danlou, and the battle of Xinjiang Town kicked off!

(End of this chapter)