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Chapter 54 Rocket
It is much easier to defend Xinjiang Town than to attack Xinjiang Town. As long as there are no enemies, they will endlessly reinforce Xinjiang Bridge.

After discussing with Deng Zilong, Bai Yuanjie and Deng Zilong decided to divide the soldiers and horses into two parts. Bai Yuanjie's barbarian battalion took a boat to swim on the river and used their strengths as a water army. Belonging to the rebellious army, neither Bai Yuanjie nor Deng Zilong could trust their combat effectiveness and vigilance, but they were in large numbers, so they were used on the shore highlands where it was difficult to disperse the guards.

Don't expect them to resist the enemy, just hope to discover the enemy's situation earlier.

Although Chen Mu's general banner belongs to Bai Yuanjie's subordinates, they are not good at water warfare, so they temporarily belong to Deng Zilong's department to be in charge of land patrol.

Master Chen Jun accidentally became a marginalized person. Bai Yuanjie on the water was afraid that he would delay him and drown himself, and Deng Zilong on the land would not assign him defense.It can't be said that he won't be assigned, Deng Zilong made a request for him, assigning him two battalion soldiers who are proficient in flag orders, and let him practice the Ming army drills.

Of course, Deng Zilong didn't say the word exercise code, but used the command, but for Chen Mu, this is the exercise code of this era.

Because after Deng Zilong tried it, he found that Chen Mu's general banner could not be integrated into the battalion's defensive order at all, and his orders could not be understood.

Chen Mu understands the orders of the ass, he can wave small flags and a few simple military orders, these are the things in the memory of the original owner of the body, but he doesn't know how to use them in battle, and he is even more confused when it comes to military training. It's not that he doesn't know how to command, it's that he doesn't know how to command concisely and formally, or that his command is too concise!
"Hit that one in yellow, hit that one in cuckold!"—this is the commanding gunner.

"Rush to that rock, don't run around! Put up your spear and cut with your knife!"—this is the commanding sword and spearman.

As for changing formations, Chen Mu had never trained his subordinates.When practicing in the rice fields next to the yamen of the General Guard Banner in Qingyuan, Chen Mu used to let the sergeants of each small banner fight in a row, and the musketeers would hit the target with thirty steps, fifty steps and seventy steps; Fight in a row to cut tree stumps and thorn scarecrows, stipulate the quantity and strictly control the quality.

This has resulted in the fact that his current manpower, no matter the new recruits who don't understand or the old soldiers who have escaped death, cannot be integrated into the drills, defenses and on-duty of the regular army of this era.

It stands to reason that Chen Mu's command ability should be classified by Deng Zilong into the range of wine bags and rice bags, but it happens that Chen Mu can lead troops to fight.

Bai Yuanjie cared about the result, so what he saw was that Chen Mu had a good way of leading troops, each banner performed its own duties, the blunderbuss hand released the blunderbuss extremely steadily, and the spearman's sword technique was excellent in stabbing, not to mention that the marching army was extremely Follow Chen Mu's orders.

The key point is that Chen Mu's role in Qingcheng Qianhu is not the main combat force. His primary task is farming. Apart from farming, it is enough that he is more reliable than other general banners in wars, so he has never been investigated for his military training.

But Deng Zilong was different. He started his career by simply recruiting soldiers to fight Jiangxi rebels and Fujian and Guangdong pirates. In his eyes, the general banner Chen Mu and the military households led by Chen Mu were all idiots.

A group of soldiers who are highly skilled in combat and who prohibit orders belong to a general who doesn't know what to do and who gives orders randomly.

However, this group of soldiers was trained by this general, and he could only understand his messy military orders.It would be better if Chen Mu yelled at the top of his voice to knock a tee drum next to their ears—do you think this is irritating?
"Chen Zongqi, you have to learn the orders and let your banner troops understand the military orders." When Deng Zilong, a rough guy, said this, his eyes were full of grief, and his hatred of iron cannot be described in words, "Wait When you become a general of a thousand households and have hundreds of subordinates, can you still give them orders by shouting?"

In fact, Chen Mu's first reaction was not gratitude. He felt that it would save trouble if he handed over his unique command experience to Shao Tingda and the others?

Of course he didn't say that. What Deng Ba always said was right, so he had to listen.What's more, Chen Mu also heard the implication. Deng Zilong was praising him, thinking that he has the ability to take on important positions, and he can't be restricted by the current order. It would be bad to lead troops to harm people in the future.

"When this battle is over and you return to Guangdong, Deng will send you a copy of General Qi's "Ji Xiao's New Book", which is his work on the southeast Pingwo. It is very unique for training and leading troops. It will be of great benefit to you after reading it As Deng Zilong said, he suddenly asked, "Chen Zongqi can read, right?"

Chen Mu wanted to read Ji Xiao's new book for a long time, and nodded repeatedly. He was stunned when he heard Deng Zilong's question, and then continued: "I'll read the characters."

Are you kidding, Mr. Chen enjoys preferential policies for college students enlisting in the army, who can be blamed for being illiterate!

"It's good to know how to read, and good to know how to read."

Speaking of Deng Zilong, he walked away from the bridge of the bridge where Chen Mu practiced soldiers with his hands behind his back, and muttered to himself as he walked, "For those who can read and read, how can they be rougher than Mr. Deng when they shout military orders?"

I don’t blame Chen Mu for the gap in knowledge. Most of his strengths come from his knowledge and experience after 400 years, and his weaknesses are the normal performance of Chen Mu, a small flag official in this era.He is only a little better than a serf, and he is a small banner official who can be hereditary because of the glory of his ordinary ancestors. Isn't it nonsense to expect him to have some family background!

"Hey! It's been a while since I met Brother Mu, come and see what I'm holding in my hand!"

Chen Mu, who followed the bannermen of the battalion under the headquarters of Guangdong to learn military drills by the Xinjiang River for almost half a month, saw two small fast boats coming from the west of the Xinjiang River from a distance, and he could recognize them as barbarians from a long distance away. Liaoying's simple nail-board-reinforced civilian boat, let Shao Tingda ask if there is any news from Qingyuanwei, who would have known that after a while, this foolish bastard would drive over in a boat and stop on the shore, holding two big elders in his hands The wooden box showed off as he walked.

"What is this, Donnie Yen's Fourteen Powers of Ming Dynasty?"

Chen Mu took a wooden box from Shao Tingda. On the box was a beautiful simple big dragon. The simple wooden box painted with tung oil looked like a work of art. When Chen Mu saw Bai Yuanjie coming down from the boat, he hurriedly put down the wooden box. She cupped her hands and saluted, "Thousand households!"

Bai Yuanjie nodded at him, waved to the boat and ordered people to unload the utensils, then turned to Chen Mu and said, "What are the Fourteen Powers of the Ming Dynasty? Bai has never heard of such utensils, and the name is quite good.

This is a swarm of rockets, loaded with 32 arrows, can shoot an enemy at [-] paces.Mr. Yu's artillery arrived at some unknown time, so Bai sent someone to take out some old firearms from Qingyuanwei's arsenal. The gunpowder was all new, and I will give you five tigers' arrows out of their holes, and try to ignite them. "

As he spoke, Bai Yuanjie handed another round wooden box with the mouth of a bowl to Chen Mu, and asked him to light it on the other side.

Although Bai Yuanjie repeatedly explained that the arrows of the five tigers out of the hole can be fired with a fire in their arms, Chen Mu still stubbornly put this object on a stone and set it up. For Chen Zongqi, all gunpowder weapons in this era are It's extremely scary, either hurting the enemy or yourself, or hurting the enemy or yourself!
Open the front cork to reveal five arrows shining with cold light, stretch your arms far away and hold the torch to light the fuse.

Whoosh!Whizzing!

clap clap!Snapped!

In the blink of an eye, five feathered arrows shot out in volley with a palpitating shrill whistle, crossed the river a hundred paces wide and nailed them to a tree a dozen paces away on the opposite bank, and another one flew no more than [-] paces away. He fell into the river in just a few steps, and after a short time of two breaths, there were a few soft popping sounds.

Chen Mu stared fixedly at the few pieces of faint gunpowder smoke rising from the opposite bank like firecrackers, and swallowed his saliva.

"Fleeing, flying monkey?"

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Note: According to the "Military Preparation System", people in the Ming Dynasty were able to distinguish and make 'push medicine' and 'explosive medicine'.

(End of this chapter)