open sea

Chapter 51
On the night of the first day of attacking Xinjiang Town, Chen Mu led his troops to spend the night in the stockade in Beishan, Xinjiang Town.

Yesterday, Beishan was the first to pacify. It took an hour for them to capture the cottage, and it was dark before Nanshan heard the sound of a cannon.Originally, Chen Mu thought that this battalion was nothing more than that, and the result was not as fast as their guard army. Who knew that Deng Zilong sent the battalion at night to talk about casualties, and Deng Zilong's battalion only suffered [-]% casualties.

Apart from the two cannons, the battalion's armaments were only on par with Bai Yuanjie's, and they didn't have as many guns.With the same gains, the casualties are still lower than theirs, even if it takes a little more time, it is worth it.

It was only later that Chen Mu found out that Deng Zilong did not attack the stronghold by force, but found an easy ambush in the mountains, lured them out and wiped them out in one fell swoop. When they reached the top of the mountain, they didn't need to attack the stronghold, and the remaining dozens of people surrendered directly.

They fought fast, but Xinjiang Town at the foot of the mountain was not so easy to calm down. The shouting and killing last night continued until the first half of the night.Even when it was dark, Wu Duan led the crowd to fight the enemy twice, and almost captured Xinjiang Town twice, but his success fell short, so he had to withdraw from Xinjiang Town at the end.

The early morning mountain fog woke Chen Mu up early, and sleeping with his clothes on made him feel sticky and uncomfortable. He scratched his back and walked around the cottage with a restless face. It didn't take long to see Shao Tingda with the same expression from resting Walking out of the room, he saw Chen Mu and asked, "Brother Mu, it's so early!"

Beishan is beautiful. Looking north from the top of the mountain, it is the direction of Qingxi in Shaozhou Prefecture. The Beijiang River is like a blue belt separating the mountains.Through the hazy mountain fog in the distance, the Xinjiang bridge bridges are bathed in the first ray of sunlight.

In the silent dense forest, the sunlight pierces through the hazy fog, and beams of light shine through the branches and leaves.The fresh air filled with mud penetrated into the tip of his nose, which might make Chen Mu's upset mood much better - because this is just a fantasy.

If it wasn't for the hundreds of dead bodies piled up outside the cottage that smelt just one night before digging a hole, if it wasn't for the bloody smell still pouring into the nose at night through two layers of sackcloth, if it wasn't for an even more tragic scene at the foot of the mountain. A fierce fight awaits him.

It was supposed to be a really good fucking morning!

Damn rebels!
Damn Li Yayuan!

"There are too many insects in the mountains, I can't sleep because of itching all over, and I wake up so wet in the morning." After Chen Mu said, Shao Tingda nodded wantonly, obviously also suffering from the mountain insects.At this time, it was time for the Night Banner Army to change defenses, Shao Tingda pointed at the Fran machine gun and said, "Brother Mu, fire another shot and wake everyone up. I think it's time to attack the town again."

Chen Mu thought about it, so he walked towards Franji Cannon.

Yesterday evening, the Bronze Cannon was brought up by the barbarian army, and Chen Mu fired a few shots into the town under the instruction of Deng Zilong's gunner.The firearms of these days, regardless of whether the blunderbuss or the cannon, look the same, it is easy to fire the shells out of the blunderbuss, but the process of loading the ammunition is more complicated.

But it is too difficult to get it right.

Chen Mu is already very proficient in using blunderbuss calculations, but he can only achieve accurate shooting within thirty steps, aim at a target as big as a person within fifty steps, and be sure to hit eight out of ten shots; Weigh it, if it is close to a hundred steps or a hundred steps away?Master Chen Jun didn't even have to weigh it - just follow the fate.

At this distance, the accuracy that can be improved by personal skills is very small, basically close to the upper limit of the precision of the bird gun, and it is difficult to improve it.

The same is true for artillery, but because the shells are large and the targets are usually large, the acceptable range of accuracy is greater.

There were not many soldiers waking up in the cottage. Chen Mu walked up to Frangji and was about to observe the town. Suddenly, he saw people in the town in the clouds and fog, as if a densely packed army was marching. Looking at Wu Duan's camp, it was very quiet, and everyone was obviously asleep, which made him tremble suddenly. He hurriedly adjusted the angle of the muzzle, and shouted to Shao Tingda: "Trches, get the torches!"

The Xinjiang Town rebels want to sneak attack in the early morning!
Changing the blunderbuss and inserting the fuse, the process was quickly used by Chen Mu. After finishing these, he grabbed the torch and stretched it far away to ignite the fuse, and then ran to the side.

Just a few steps away, there was a loud bang behind him!
boom!
Chen Mu almost leveled the Franco cannon, aimed at the halfway up the Nanshan Mountain and ignited the fuse. The shell drew a parabola in the air and fell straight towards Xinjiang Town, which was nearly a thousand steps away.

He doesn't know how to shoot, but he knows the parabola and the reference object. He fired a few shots yesterday so that he has recorded the approximate landing points of the shells with reference to several cliffs on Nanshan, so this shot landed in Xinjiang Town Village almost without any suspense. A hundred steps outside the door, he accurately smashed into the scattered formation of the rebels' sneak attack.

Xinjiang Town had a radius of five miles, and was awakened by a cannonball, as if the morning fog in the mountains had been dissipated a little by the gunpowder smoke.

"Reload!"

Shao Tingda was stronger than Chen Mu, and it took no effort to lift the ear of the gun. Chen Mu had just removed the red gun with his armor on his side, and unblocked the barrel, and he had already installed the new gun on his side.

Seeing that the enemy army was still running in a panic and did not leave the area, Chen Mu immediately lit the fire and fired another cannonball.

At this time, not only the sergeants of the Manliu Battalion resting in the cottage and the flag troops under his command were awakened by the sound of the cannon, even the soldiers of the Deng Zilong Battalion on the Nanshan Mountain fired their cannons at Xinjiang Town down the mountain after Chen Mu fired the first cannon fire. No matter how dull Wu Duan's army was at the bottom of the mountain, they were all awake at this time. From the top of the mountain, they could see densely packed Japanese pirates and rebel troops gathering inside the walls of the village, preparing to defend against the enemy's attack.

Bai Yuanjie put on his helmet and walked over to Chen Mu, looked down the mountain and asked, "A fight started?"

"Thousand households!" Seeing Bai Yuanjie coming, Chen Mu let the Franco machine gun go to Deng Zilong's gunners, and said, "The enemy troops in Xinjiang Town are going to attack Wu Duan's barracks. Get up and defend the fort."

"Shouzhai, he still has less than 2000 people. Shouzhai is enough, but it is difficult to win." Bai Yuanjie raised his hand to polish his beard under his jaw, waved to the flag soldiers of the Man Liao camp: "Show a semaphore to General Deng. , attack!"

After the break, it was naturally the enemy's rear that was broken. Chen Mu could understand a lot of words about military affairs after being in the army for half a year. What's more, the owner of his body had a semaphore in his memory, so he immediately asked : "Qianhu, are we going to attack?"

Bai Yuanjie nodded, and ordered the Manliao Battalion to gather with the Banner Army and Xiangyong, and said to Chen Mu: "Xinjiang Town must be captured today, otherwise the night will be full of dreams. If Li Yayuan in Heyuan receives the news to attract troops to help, he will not even be able to take Xinjiang Town. There is no danger."

The re-replenishment of Chen Mu's banner army and Xiangyong combined more than [-] people. Although the barbarian battalion suffered losses, there were still more than [-] sergeants. The march of the attack.

Of course, Bai Yuanjie didn't forget to send someone to run down the mountain road to inform Wu Duan who was sticking to the camp.At the same time, Deng Zilong agreed with Bai Yuanjie's suggestion and led his troops from Nanshan towards the east of Xinjiang Town.

Two soldiers and horses from the two mountains in the north and the south rushed towards the same destination. Wu Duan's army stood firm in the camp, resisting the rebels who stepped up their attack because of the surprise attack.

After attacking the camp for more than an hour, seeing that the camp could not be attacked for a long time, the rebels were exhausted, and when they were in a dilemma, Wu Duan led the army to open the door and abandon the camp behind the camp, obviously showing signs of defeat. The morale of the rebel army, which was on the verge of collapse, picked up again, and the soldiers led the army in pursuit of Wu Duanbu.

And more than 20 miles behind them, under the reinforced archway at the East Street of Xinjiang Town, two armies from the Qingcheng Institute and the Guangdong Battalion joined together and launched an attack on Xinjiang Town from behind!

　good morning friends!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)