open sea

Chapter 481 Reinforcement
In Guteng County, Tsinghua Prefecture, the sea breeze in the early morning is full of tidal waves, penetrating to the bone.

Thunderous and tsunami-like cannons exploded along the coast, knocking down the bridge from the east of the county government to Tongning County, and then the huge fleet gathered from all over the coast lined up in the shallow sea, and alternately bombarded the wooden villages on the shore.

Standing on the side of the boat, Chen Mu only had one word in his mind: Hurry up!

Time is not money, but time can be silver, good wood, cotton cloth and grain. The sooner Thanh Hoa is recovered, the sooner Thang Long can be captured.

He knew very well in his heart why the imperial court had decided that the three parties would enter Annan.

The artillery shells bombarded the left and right sides of the military camp, and in the telescope, there was chaos everywhere in the military camp, with soldiers running around with their weapons in hand.

This is the lesson that Deng Zilong taught them. Before Chen Mu's fleet came, the earliest military camps of the Northern Dynasties were located near the beach. They were violently bombarded by Deng Zilong's fleet, and the later military camps were all withdrawn three miles away.

This distance is still within the range of the battleship's heavy artillery, but it is difficult to hit accurately, even if Chen Mu goes into battle in person.

Guteng County is separated by two rivers, the width from north to south is less than ten miles from east to west, and it is connected to Qinghua Fuzhi and Tongning County in the northwest by two bridges, like a small island.

Although the island is small, Chen Bu has garrisoned thousands of troops, because this is an important fulcrum for the siege of Tsinghua Prefecture. The collapsed east bridge and river are deep, while the west river is so shallow that even war horses can swim across it.

Shao Tingda suggested that after repelling the garrison in Guteng County, he would form an array along the river on the west bank, defend the enemy army according to the bridge, and shoot the enemy army from a long distance with artillery.

The bombardment of the boats and artillery did not stop, and the two thousand flag troops of the military government guards landed on the shore in a small boat in an orderly manner. They formed formation immediately without doing anything else, and another boatman rowed the boat back to meet the follow-up troops of Shao Tingda's troops.

Mang Chong didn't forget to let go of his housekeeping skills. The whole Nanyang Wei only had sword and poker players in his flag army. Using swords, axes and round shields was the best choice for the formation team.

This is the shortcoming of Chen Mujun's guards. Although their firepower is fierce, the most important thing is that they cannot conflict. Even if they pursue, they must hold their formation and press down. They wish they could not engage the enemy from the beginning to the end.

After all, thirty steps away is the time when their combat power is at their best. Within thirty steps, even if they want to fight, they can't find a living person.

The spear formation and shield hand can stop the enemy, but it may not be able to stop the war elephant in the enemy's hands. He needs a square formation in front of the military guard.

"This battle is best without war elephants. If there are war elephants, if the artillery team can kill the enemy war elephants, the enemy will surely follow the war elephants and attack. You have to lead your troops to stop their momentum."

"If the artillery fails to kill the elephant, we can only use the dangerous old method."

The army was assembled, and Chen Mu pointed to the army stronghold that was blasted out of the gap by the ship's artillery in the distance and said: "The death squads will cut off the trunks of the elephants, make them go crazy, and then run quickly, let them walk on their own."

Although this possibility is very small, Chen Mu had to be cautious. He shouted: "This battle may be recorded in the annals of history. I don't want to bear the name of the opponent's failure in the battle. Let the banner army be careful."

War elephants roamed all over the world, but the Central Plains Dynasty rarely failed to fight against war elephants.

Recently, such as the bed crossbow in the Northern Song Dynasty sweeping the elephant array in the Southern Tang Dynasty, Chen Mu didn't want his elite soldiers to be crushed in front of the elephants.

Shao Tingda nodded heavily and cupped his fists, gritted his teeth and left to prepare his swordsmen. His banner army was also equipped with spears and bird guns, but there were more swordsmans and shields.

After the Banner Army was ready, the artillery fire stopped for a while, and the Banner Army soldiers were divided into five posts to attack forward. The enemy army in Qinghua Fucheng has rushed to help.

Among the troops rushing to help, there were faintly huge figures of war elephants.

Chen Mu ignored them, and the army marched forward. Shao Tingda cut through the thorns and thorns, and cut a path in the bushy beach forest for the flag army to pass through. Go straight to the camp.

"Don't dare to fight and don't flee to Qinghua, I'm determined to defend to the death." Chen Mu looked at the enemy camp that was getting closer and closer, and drove away the artillery team: "Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up before the enemy's reinforcements Set up your formation before you arrive!"

The reinforcements were still more than ten miles away from Guteng County. Chen Mu, who entered the forest road, couldn't see there, or even his subordinates advancing in the forest, so he couldn't help feeling uneasy.

Fortunately, the road in the forest was not long, and there were soldiers paving the road with wooden boards at the difficult place. The speed of travel was not slow, but they passed the road in a short time and reached the outskirts of Guteng County.

If this county were placed in Guangdong, it would be a capital. When Chen Mu was in Xiangshan, he went to Huangliangdu to suppress bandits, which was bigger than here, so there is no city here, and the county government is nothing more than a big camp. Now, in order to deal with their surprise attack , and built two more camps around the government office.

Out of the forest path, the nearest camp is only five or six hundred paces away from the field, which is muddy, which is not conducive to the movement of the army.

Chen Mu's artillery team did not plunge into the field head-on. Thirty artillery pieces criss-crossed in front and back. .

When reinforcements arrived, they were likely to rush out.

Not far away, Shao Tingda rushed out from the forest with his troops, looked left and right, fixed his eyes on the reinforcements from the Northern Dynasties who were several miles away, and did not panic. Mu Youyi ran towards the camp of the Guteng County Government.

The messenger quickly ran across Tianlong, and said to Chen Mu: "Report to the commander, General Shao said that the enemy army is rushing, and it is already a tired army, so you should give him a blow."

Chen Mu nodded and smiled, the artillery team was still heading in that direction, and ordered the messenger to report back: "Let General Shao's artillery squat to attack the camp first, and make them more anxious."

On the other side of the woodland, his flag army was still slowly coming out and forming formations in the field. Zhang Shijue knew very well that none of them would take on the mission of pursuit. The muddy field would give them an advantage in blocking the enemy's charge.

Although he has been in the army since the military mansion guard, he has not seen anyone who dares to charge towards the army mansion guard flag army - he is looking forward to it.

Chen Mu's army was in disarray, the camp in Guteng County saw that he was short of new soldiers and horses, even hundreds of infantry under the leadership of the general rushed towards Shao Tingda's troops, standing at intervals of more than [-] steps and throwing a rain of arrows with more than a hundred big bows.

At the same time, the Wankou Cannon, Frangji and other artillery in the city blasted towards Shao Tingda's troops. The interval of more than [-] steps has exceeded the range of the Wankou Cannon and the Little Frangji. Only their imitated General Cannon can hurt Shao Tingda. underlings.

However, they had very few general guns, more than ten guns of various types were fired, and only one shell landed in front of Shao Tingda's troops, which was not as good as the rain of arrows fired by salvo.

Although most of the feathered arrows were blocked by the shield, there were still sporadic feathered arrows falling on the unarmored shoulders of the flag army, causing several screams to the army formation.

But Shao Tingda is not without means, he has guns, 500 people have ten 80-jin big tigers squatting, this distance cannot threaten the camp, and it is just right to beat the enemy troops who rushed out.

The sound of cannons exploded outside the village. The tiger squatting cannons that were intended to bombard the camp were used on the attacking enemy troops. A large number of scattered pieces were blasted into the air and then fell down. Dozens of corpses fled back to the village.

The flag and drums were set up behind Chen Mu, and his artillery was still facing the northwest direction. If he didn't see the battle on the flank, he only stared at the enemy reinforcements from Qinghua Fucheng.

They are getting closer.

(End of this chapter)