open sea

Chapter 60
Chen Zongqi was assigned a good job, and Bai Yuanjie assigned him to guard the riverside to the west of the Xinjiang Bridge. There was no chance of fighting the enemy in this place.

It would be wrong to insist that there was none, at least when the enemy attacked the bridge, they could use crossbows and blunderbuss to shoot each other with the enemy on the other side, but no one could hit the other.

Having learned the lesson of being repulsed at the first attack and losing troops, Li Yayuan became very cautious in attacking Xinjiang Bridge. He only tried to attack twice in half a month, and Deng Zilong led the battalion to repel both times.

Although the firearms of Deng Zilong's battalion were not as powerful as Chen Mu's firearms, whether it was artillery, bird guns or rockets, these battalion soldiers were much more ruthless in fighting the rebels than Chen Mu's banner army.

Everything has its own rules, the enemy is close to [-] paces, the longbow salvo; the enemy is close to [-] paces, the crossbow shoots; When the knife came forward, the quick gun fired a blunderbuss first, and then the fire blunderbuss and bird blunderbuss fired a volley.

After a round of salvo, gunpowder smoke filled the air, and the quick shooter stuffed the tip of the gun into the barrel.Deng Zilong swung his long knife and rushed straight up, using the firecracker as a short hammer and the quick gun as a spear, hundreds of battalion soldiers screamed as they killed, forcefully driving the thousands of enemy troops who stormed Xinjiang Bridge back to the foot of the mountain.

twice.

Chen Mu had never seen such a fierce person at all. As the commander-in-chief, he took the lead in the charge, pressing hard from the beginning to the end to defeat the rebel army from a fierce hand-to-hand fight to a crushing defeat.Entering the formation alive and then coming out alive, there is no change except that the knife in hand may be replaced by another weapon.

In the two battles, he personally killed 26 people, boosting the morale of his subordinates until he repelled the enemy and won the victory.

This Deng Zilong, who is not at all rude in his speech and behavior but claims to be a rough man, used two charges to let Chen Mu understand how rough he is!
Compared with him, Chen Mu commanding the battle is just a joke.

Chen Zongqi on the west bank of Xinjiang tasted the sweetness of strict military law. Later, he realized that the hurdle he had crossed on the Xinjiang Bridge that day was actually the only way for every outstanding general in this era to take charge of the army. , People call punishment prestige and reward faith.

Only when rewards and punishments are prestige, can a general be truly qualified to command an army.

This is not difficult for Chen Mu to understand. It is mutually confirmed with the relatively mature management motivation theory of later generations. Reward is positive reinforcement in reinforcement theory, and punishment is negative reinforcement in reinforcement theory.

On the Xinjiang Bridge, the execution of soldiers who feared war and ran away, and the reward of war trophies were undoubtedly the most direct and most effective way of negative reinforcement and positive reinforcement.

After that, Chen Mu could clearly feel that no matter whether it was the Banner Army or the Xiangyong, obeying his words was not just an order, even if he said a word casually, his subordinates would not dare to be lazy in the slightest. Come big.

Although the three battles caused the rebels to suffer more than a thousand casualties in Xinjiang Bridge, this was just a drop in the bucket for Li Yayuan's huge force.The long confrontation and successive victories not only did not inspire the defenders, but their morale was getting low day by day.

The cost of Deng Zilong's fierce charge was that the battalion lost more than a hundred casualties, and lost nearly a quarter of its strength; and Chen Mu's experienced banner army also suffered a loss of nearly half. The battle formation and weapon skills are far inferior to the banner army.

The huge number of enemies, the injured and dead allies, the long-term return from the expedition, and the gradually bulging pockets gradually destroyed their high morale.

"General Yu's reinforcements haven't arrived yet."

At the beginning of June, just as Chen Mu heard Bai Yuanjie say these words in the tent of the Chinese army, the next moment there was the sound of horns and drums outside the tent, causing several people to rush out of the tent.

On the other side of the Xinjiang Bridge, the rebels once again assembled thousands of people, intending to cross the Xinjiang Bridge again.

Now it is the turn of Wu Duan's subordinates to join the rebel army to guard the Xinjiang Bridge. Wu Duan looked up the bridge with one hand on his waist, and said to Bai Yuanjie, Deng Zilong, Chen Mu and others: "It is no match for a mere thousand people. Deng Bazong and Chen Zongqi If they can stop them, Wu's child is not bad, and Shiqiao is enough to defeat them!"

"You don't need to worry too much, and go back to the tent to rest. In less than half an hour, there will be news of the defeat!"

As he spoke, Wu Duan strode towards Xinjiang Bridge, assuming he wanted to personally supervise the battle.Now guarding the Xinjiang Bridge is Wu Duan's subordinate Wang Shiqiao, who was the first miner to follow Wu Duan, with some courage and aggressive style.

As for what he said about sending back the victory report in half an hour, it is not a lie. Although Wu Duan's army is a rogue rebel army, its strength is not weak. There are hundreds of bird guns, very majestic.

"Qianhu, my subordinates see that the rebels are quite poor, why does the Wuduan Army have so many weapons?"

Chen Mu asked Bai Yuanjie, but Bai Yuanjie didn't know, but Deng Zilong who was beside him knew something, looked at Wu Duan's back and said with a smile: "Don't underestimate this grassroots bandit."

"Before you surrender to General Yu, he had tens of thousands of horses to harm Huizhou. He did all kinds of crimes by attacking the county and got a lot of money. When General Qi was begging for Japanese, he was afraid that he would be attacked by the enemy and the imperial army, so he sent someone to send 200 people to the Japanese pirates. Two silver taels." When it came to this amount, Deng Zilong shook his head, obviously envious, he paused for a while before continuing: "The Japanese bandits were defeated later, how can they live with him, they are the Japanese in his hands."

"He sent people to Haojing to buy those firearms from Hongmaofan. After joining General Yu, he reduced his men to 800, all of whom were capable and powerful. Chen Zongqi, you'd better go to the riverside to take care of the artillery team, if the artillery is snatched by him, the seven or eight hundred of us alone won't be able to stop him."

The six cannons, one Hundred Tigers and the rest of the rockets that can be used today are all used by Chen Mu's Xiangyong.In case Wu Duan snatched the cannon with bad intentions, they could only run away. I'm afraid Xinjiang Town is not something they can defend.

Thinking of this, Chen Mu hurriedly responded, greeted Bai Yuanjie and Deng Zilong, and ran towards the river with Wei Balang.

Before running halfway, there was already a battle on the bridge. The brave and naive Japanese pirates under Wu Duan jumped out after the battle. They were powerful but also stupid. Most of them were submerged in the crowd after getting some cheap.

On the contrary, Wu Duan's blunderbuss team fired a volley at the beginning of the battle and overwhelmed everyone, and the results were remarkable.

Different from the bloody fight on the bridge, Chen Zongqi’s position is another scene. To Shao Tingda, who only knows how to dance knives and shields, the Wankou Cannon is 100% metaphysics. When Chen Mu came over, this idiot was kneeling with a torch Kowtow to Wankou Pao on the ground.

He was still muttering, "There are Japanese pirates on one side and rebels on the other. Gods of the five directions will bless you, let me kill them all with one shot, and the world will be peaceful, and the world will be peaceful!"

boom!
Chen Mu didn't even have time to say, this Shao fool took half of the cannon buried in the soil and aimed it at the bowl-mouth cannon on the other side to hit the Japanese pirates on the bridge. It was a beautiful dream!

As the cannons fell, the sound of a conch horn suddenly sounded on the river east of the Xinjiang Bridge. Chen Mu was frightened immediately. He turned his head and saw that the fleet of ships that had been standing still for more than a month in the distance on the river moved!

Note: Hao mirror, that is, Macau.

(End of this chapter)