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Chapter 52 Attacking the Stronghold
Xinjiang Town East Street Memorial Archway, the wooden door was bolted from the inside of the town, making it difficult to open from the outside.

The rebel army had a lot of troops, but yesterday they fought with the Wuduan army for several battles, resulting in heavy casualties and a lot of deserters. Now most of them have left the town to attack the camp, and there are only a few hundred left behind. They can find the soldiers of the Zhendong guard army in the first place. Fewer raids.After only shooting with a hard bow against the roof for a while, Chen Mu led the gunners to beat the crap out of him, and he didn't know where to run.

The biggest remaining problem is how to pass through the door with wooden signs based on the archway.

"Blast this door!"

Destroying the city and attacking the fortifications, Deng Zilong, who participated in the battle against Japan in the southeast, was more experienced than Bai Yuanjie and the others. He had someone hollow out a section of wooden pile, tied it with more than a dozen wooden sticks, and stood obliquely outside the door for a dozen steps. Dozens of gunpowders received dozens of catties of gunpowder on their bodies, and put large stones into them to form simple mortars.A curse ignited the fuse, and a moment later there was a bang—the wooden door of the archway and the wooden mortar were all shattered into sawdust.

Chen Mu only thought that the battalion soldiers were so rich!

When Chen Zongqi was still complacent about carrying fifty small wooden barrels on his body, Deng Zilong's battalion bird musketeers each carried three catties of gunpowder and one hundred and fifty lead pellets before going out to battle.

The battalion guards rushed in, sweeping across the houses on the East Street of Xinjiang Town. When the rebels saw them blowing open the wooden door at the intersection, they threw down their weapons and fled in all directions, shouting loudly: "The Ming army has entered the town!"

"The Ming army is coming, run!"

"Tell the former army, they are surrounded!"

Everywhere is flying around, Chen Mu led the flag army and the township brave to search the town door by door, beware of ambushes.Although neither Deng Zilong nor Bai Yuanjie seemed to have such a warning sign in his heart, he still thought it was best to be careful, after all, he was dealing with thousands of enemy troops, and if he made a mistake, he would pay the price with his life.

Only later did he realize that it was not because Deng Zilong and Bai Yuanjie were careless, but because their judgment was stronger than Chen Mu's.

The rebels really panicked and lost their armor all over the ground. Some even knelt down and begged for mercy when the battalion soldiers were about to catch up with them. Xinjiang Town was declared broken in a blink of an eye.

The Ming army entered from the East Street and exited from the West Street of Xinjiang Town. They took over two hundred rebel troops and surrendered more than a dozen horses that the rebels had no time to take away.

After rushing out of Xinjiang Town, Deng Zilong and Bai Yuanjie joined forces. There were more than a thousand soldiers, and they sent scout horses and galloped westward. Entire defense line, more than a thousand enemy troops occupy the camp!"

At this time, even Chen Mu could see that the offensive and defensive situation was easy!

Xinjiang Town in the rear of the rebel army was breached, and they had no danger to defend and could only hide in Wu Duan's previous camp. Withdrew the army backwards by means, although a camp was lost, but through the valleys on both sides, and more than a thousand soldiers from the east and west, all the remaining rebels in Xinjiang Town surrounded the camps that had been set up at the end of the Wu Duan and resisted stubbornly.

"Stubborn, does it make sense?"

Chen Mu led the Xiangyong Banner Army to besiege outside the southwest corner of the camp, and commanded Xiangyong to draw up wooden signs and line up in front of the formation, providing shooting shelters for more than a dozen gunners. When the army charged, the sergeants of the Man Liao Battalion and the soldiers of the Deng Zilong Battalion under Bai Yuanjie each pushed a Franco cannon to the front of the formation.

But this time it is not Chen Mu's turn to fire the cannon. He is supervising his subordinate blunderbuss team to shoot accurately at the rebels who are exposed on the wall of the camp and shoot arrows outwards behind the wooden bunker. The sound of arrows being hit by 'Duodole' kept coming out of the wooden sign. It seemed that in the sight of the rebel crossbowmen, they were the number one target of the arrow rain.

"Be careful with the arrow, let it go!"

boom!Boom!

Although he had only participated in the war three times, Chen Mu had already noticed a reality that he had never considered before, that firearms were not invincible.In the past, he knew a little about the Ming Dynasty, and even stubbornly thought in his inherent memory that since the Ming Dynasty had bird guns and artillery, why didn't the whole army equip them with bird guns and artillery, so that they could still be defeated by the Jurchen?

In fact, if the people of the Ming Dynasty really thought like this, they would definitely be defeated.

Accurately shot blunderbusses are very important, as are cannons that cause heavy damage, but relying on these two alone is not enough to win a war.

Shi Qi's blunderbuss team under Chen Mu's command achieved a lot in the battle of Xinjiang Town. On average, three lead pellets can kill an enemy, and five arrows shot by the Longbow Banner may not be able to hit an enemy, let alone Even if it hits, the longbow may not make the enemy lose its combat power.

But the rate of fire of the blunderbuss was too low, and the blunderbuss team shot a round, and the longbowmen had already thrown four or five arrows, which could not hit the enemy, but also made the enemy timid, giving the blunderbuss team an opportunity to take advantage of.

boom!boom!
Two cannons sounded, and the side of the camp was blasted out of the gap by the huge momentum of the shells. The rebels who were desperate to fight rushed out of the gap with long knives and spears, and then were shot into a sieve by the rain of long bows and arrows, and then the two Fran cannons roared again , crushing a path of blood, Deng Zilong raised his knife and shouted: "The surrender will not be killed!"

The battalion soldiers shouted: "The surrender will not be killed, and the surrender will not be killed!"

A huge roar shook the battlefield, suppressing the tragic cries in the camp, and the rebels retreated like a tide on the wall. Not long after, for more than ten days, they walked out of the gap in the camp with bare hands, and walked in with a few heads in their hands. The Ming army was in the formation, and then entered the camp to convey the news of the Ming army's surrender. On the silent battlefield, a clanging sound could be heard in the camp, and hundreds of people dropped their weapons and walked out of the camp slowly.

"Long live my emperor!"

I don't know where the battalion soldiers shouted this first, and then the entire Xinjiang Town Qianming army chanted Long Live the Emperor like a mountain roaring and a tsunami, everyone raised their weapons above their heads, and some even danced.

Chen Mu had no time to join in this grand carnival belonging to the Ming people, as if he had become a back that had been omitted, he took off the iron hat and the crossbow embedded in the top of the helmet and threw it aside, leaning on the wooden sign and slowly sitting down , Squinting his eyes to look at the dazzling sunlight in the sky, he let out a long breath.

His back was soaked, and he just wanted to find a place to wash himself off after the battle.

Shao Tingda leaned over and counted how many lives he had taken in this battle with a knife, and winked at the gash on his left arm that was made by the rebels, "Brother Mu, look at that stupid bastard of Bai Qianhu's subordinate who made it for me. , What the hell is this! With such a big hole, Grandpa Shao will have to ask Dr. Cheng to sew two stitches!"

No one is more active than Wei Balang, as if he remembered the last time Hei Ling was slapped by Bai Yuanjie because Chen Mu was injured and missed the time. Chen Mu turned around several times before he said in disappointment, "Oh, why didn't the general flag get hurt!"

It was like a lost opportunity to please Chen Mu.

Why didn't the rebels hack this dead child to death!

In Xinjiang Town, the flag of the Ming army inlaid with dragons and red sun was erected.

Note:
1. The inlaid dragon and red sun flag is just a kind of Ming army flag. It comes from the "Japanese Pirates Picture Scroll" by Qiu Ying, a painter of the Ming Dynasty.

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