open sea

Chapter 760
The guerrilla flag army crossed the mountains and mountains, even if they were alone and easy to move, traveling day and night was still not as good as the Western Army's large troops marching on official roads with good road conditions.

When the scouts arrived at the Nangu Road, the guard Shao Tingda was already deploying defenses... a hundred households dispatched to the halfway up the mountain, and six hundred households entered the trenches of the barrier wall that had been repaired. The flag army rushed to the position with a big wheel of artillery.

Shao Tingda glanced across the wide canyon for nearly four miles, and muttered in his mouth: "The cannon is loaded with 75 breaths, and with 75 breaths, I can run [-] steps, [-] steps and [-] steps...what the hell is [-] steps!"

The soldiers next to him inquired and galloped out with the wooden sign. After a while, they inserted the wooden sign by the tree four hundred steps away, and waved their arms high to Shao Tingda.

Shao Tingda couldn't help smiling, he knew where [-] paces was, but he was angry with himself, but seeing that the flag soldiers had all run out, he followed along and shouted loudly: "[-] paces, it's [-] paces away. !"

After yelling, Shao Tingda turned to the Banner Army and asked, "Have the reinforcements from the Marshal and Lao Fu come yet?"

He needs guns, more guns.

Reinforcements are needed too, more reinforcements.

At the port twelve miles west of Nangu Road, Lian Dou stretched his arms and shouted, shrugged his shoulders and pressed his waist knife, and took small quick steps towards the east. The pro-guard flag army hurried to Nangu Road.

Juniper on the horse's back tightened his hair scarf, took the high-top hat from his hand and buckled it on his head, the iron armor covered with blue cloth with dragon patterns made a crisp collision sound, he turned his head to face The cavalrymen waved their hands, and the horses paced forward with neat small steps.

At the Daojun Temple in the north of the port village, Chen Mu walked out of the temple with his helmet in his arms, with the scent of incense left by worshiping the gods on his body. He turned his head and told the local aboriginal temple, who had only taken office for a few days, in Spanish: "A burnt nose doesn't look good. After the battle, someone will burn another one."

As he spoke, he put on his helmet and said, "Let's go."

Outside the temple gate, more than ten cavalrymen were ready to go, and all the civil servants who saw him off were solemn and cautious. Only Zou Yuanbiao was crying, like a husky mixed with wolves.

Chen Mu bowed his hands to all the civilian officials in the military mansion, turned his head and turned back, staring at Zou Yuanbiao: "What's wrong with you?"

"Master, the cornfield, Du Heizi has entered the cornfield!"

This is nonsense, the cotton field is too low, the sugarcane field is too hard, only the corn field can hide people and horses, and it is close to the open area at the mouth of the canyon, it is an excellent ambush area, juniper does not take cavalry there Where can I go?

Chen Mu turned his head and pointed at Zou Yuanbiao, and ignored him. He got on his horse and left the port village with his own soldiers, flags and drums, and two cannons of General Zhenshuo. Go to the coast to escape the battle.

Nobody stays in the solid harbor building.

The two-story building with white walls and orange tiles is too eye-catching in a residential area built of mud, wood and wheat straw. Although it is a good natural high point, it can be used to observe the battlefield other than Shao Tingda's position. But that's not wise.

In this era, there were only two places in Europe that could independently cast long-barreled iron cannons, England and the Netherlands, but everyone could cast bronze cannons. Although the performance was slightly better, bronze cannons were many times more expensive.

It is worth mentioning that the Hongyi cannons in history were salvaged from Dutch warships, and there were no problems in imitating iron casting. This was an achievement that could only be achieved by a very strong metallurgical process in that era.

The artillery that usually weighs a thousand catties, except for monsters such as stone-shooting cannons, usually has a distance of only four hundred steps in combat, but it is not surprising that its maximum range reaches six or seven miles. Beaten in the building.

What if it's right?

Zou Yuanbiao was stared at by Chen Mu, and he didn't understand what was going on, but seeing Jun Song leading Chen Mu's family cavalry into the green cornfield, he felt very blocked, and his eyes glanced at Almansa and A The two of Costa stared at the changes in the Ming army, and they were even more angry.

"Hurry up and take the people away, you're just dawdling here, you're the one who provoked this war!"

Almansa had a strange feeling about the Ming army. He felt that literati like Zou Yuanbiao were Ming nobles. Not to mention bossing around the banner army, even talking to him and Acosta was like calling a servant.

Treating most of the status people is like ordering servants; treating the 'common people' in their mouths without status is like teaching their children... Oh, by the way, Zou Yuanbiao can still speak well, Chen Mu will scold him, but he thinks this It was not because Chen Mu was the Marshal of the Ming Army.

By coincidence, Almansa did not act surprised by accepting Zou Yuanbiao's order to "assign and persuade the people to leave", but asked with a strange expression when Zou Yuanbiao waved his arms to let the aborigines leave: "General Chen's father, is the Is it the great nobleman of the dynasty?"

Zou Yuanbiao just glanced at him, thinking that this Europa savage must have been fooled by lard, what is there to inquire about about Chen Mu's genealogy?

In the messy village, the aborigines experienced an experience they had never experienced before. They were always worried that the Western army would fight back. Although the Ming army occupied this place for a short time, they were very friendly to them. Assign them what to do.

Even if labor is needed, wages will be paid on a daily basis, and it is promised that there will be a fixed market here in the future, and these scraps of silver will allow them to purchase decent household items, clothing and food.

What's more, the land was given to them. Although the work of clearing Zhang's fields was still going on, most people hadn't got the land yet, but it was enough to be grateful that Chen Mu released all the captives and let them choose to stay or stay.

The only regret is that the artillery fire on the night when the church was attacked was destroyed. It seems that the Ming army did not intend to rebuild it.

They have been ruled by the Spaniards for decades, and their beliefs are as necessary as food and water, but no one dares to advise Zou Yuanbiao... In fact, most people do not always have the opportunity to see Zou Yuanbiao.

People feared that the invasion of the West would end all this, making it all like a short dream, waking up and going on to live out their lives as slaves to the Spaniards.

Unexpectedly, the Ming army would choose to take them to escape the flames of war in the news of the attack of the Western army. Those who were willing to go were taken away, and those who were not willing to go were forcibly taken away. They formed a long migration team on the beach. The Ming army did not specifically Send troops to protect them.

Before leaving the village, more than 20 village chiefs on the yellow book followed Zou Yuanbiao's entourage to receive spears, swords and shields, and bows and arrows in the war. Escape the battlefield with the young.

The grassroots organization of the Ming Dynasty, which had tended to disintegrate by this year, was revived in the New World on the other side of the ocean.

Until the echo of artillery bombardment came from the distant canyon, people knew that the war had begun.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)