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Chapter 763 Night Attack
Shao Tingda couldn't help it. The news of the Western Army's attack had already delayed his banner army's meal. Seeing that their small cannons couldn't smash the barrier wall, what else would they eat if they didn't take advantage of this moment?
It can't be at night, so I will be hungry.

Adhering to his brother Chen Mu's consistent concept of making the Banner Army eat well, even during the battle, Shao Tingda was unwilling to let his subordinates starve. Not only did his Banner Army eat when the Western Army's artillery attacked, After it got dark, Chen Mu also specially sent someone over to order hundreds of households in the luggage, and added a meat dish to the front-line flag army.

Bison Beef Spicy Sauteed Cactus.

All local materials were used. Three of the giant bison brought by Magui from Majia Port were slaughtered. All the onions and peppers that could be harvested from the Spanish plantation were sent to the port warehouse, and all the cacti everywhere were put to use. Let the flag army have a full meal.

The herd of bison running around in North Asia is a good thing, but unfortunately there are too few of them. Magui's fleet only brought a dozen bison that were caught in traps and tied up. It's not difficult.

200 years ago, Mu Ying used three rows of musketeers to overthrow war elephants in Yunnan, which proved that no animal, no matter how big it is, could fight against hordes of humans. Can't deal with formed humans.

But it is difficult to catch, and even more difficult to domesticate.

Chen Mu planned to resume military training at the Dongyang Army Mansion. He was eating beef every day on the northern grasslands.

"General Lin is behind the Western Army?"

If Chen Mu was a little worried about the situation due to the Spaniard's thunderous attack, then he was not at all panicked after receiving the news from Lin Manjue who sent people across the mountains and mountains.

However, the information sent by Lin Manjue was also mixed. Although Bernal said that he had 1 soldiers in the persuasion before the war, neither Shao Tingda, who commanded the defense at the front, nor Chen Mu, who was in the rear, believed that the Western Army really had [-] soldiers. .

But Lin Manjue's news proved this statement. Bernal really assembled an army of [-] people, but it had the opposite effect. Chen Mu's staff led by Zhao Shizhen laughed at Bernal even more.

"1 people, Marshal, he only has four small Francophones with 1 people, and he even blew up two!"

In this defensive battle, Zhao Shizhen danced more joyously than anyone else. Chen Mu heard him bring up the Thunderbolt gun he designed on the day of his debriefing at Xu Da Temple in Juyongguan more than once.

"Commander, if our army has Thunderbolt guns at this time, we only need to put thirty brackets on the barrier wall, wait for the enemy to come close, and release him two hundred guns in a blink of an eye, supplemented by six hundred banners. Its thousands of troops rushing forward will also be repelled!"

"Really don't say it." Chen Mu found that the Western Army did not have large-caliber heavy artillery, and then returned to the small port building. He looked away at the quiet night outside the window, and said to Zhao Shizhen: "I found that Chang Ji, your ability to talk about war on paper is getting better and better. gone."

Zhao Shizhen was right, if there were dozens of multi-barreled Thunderbolts to arm the front-line flag army, and two on each side of each barrier wall to form crossfire, not to mention the speed of fire alone would be able to scare the Western army back.

"After this battle is over, I will allow you to build your Thunderbolt in the Ordnance Bureau. I have never thought about it before."

Chen Mu leaned on the window sill and curled his lips: "I never thought we would be on the defensive side."

Offensive weapons that heavily affect mobility are not needed, or the complicated production is not suitable for Chen Mu in the era of Nanyang Minister.

Artillery will solve everything, if not, add a little more caliber.

Even now, Chen Mu thinks that this concept is correct, but if there are some thunderbolts, it can be of great help in some battles.

The flames from the canyon in the distance caught Chen Mu's eyes in an instant, causing him to hold his breath suddenly. He hammered his hand on the window rail almost instinctively, and blurted out: "They dare to fight with me at night, are they crazy?"

Before they finished speaking, the sound of cannons sounded like thunder from the sky, making Chen Mu understand that it was their own cannons that fired.

And judging by the sound, it is very likely that the twelve Zhenshuo generals in Shao Tingda's hands bombarded together, without even a school shot, and blasted out all at once.

If it is a cannon, even if there is an echo from the canyon, it is difficult to hear what the sound is at Chen Mu's position, and he will only feel a little movement. However, Shao Tingda has many heavy cannons in his hand, enough for the port to hear. Clearly.

The artillery is powerful, but the artillery fired next to the artillery is not so decent. On the other side of the canyon, the artillery with cotton plugs in their ears followed the gestures of hundreds of households to light the fuse. He yelled "Ah" with his mouth open, fell to the right side, and flipped into the earth trench bunker next to the artillery in a standard Ming Army artillery maneuver.

Some people are even acting, and they lose their strength as early as when they fall down, and roll in the dirt pit in a standard way.

Then the moment the cannon was ejected, a huge air wave stirred up the dust around it, and the smoke and dust echoed wantonly in every corner of the artillery position, and the twelve shells roared [-] steps away like overwhelming momentum.

The shells didn't hit anyone.

Fu Yuan was terrified.

During the day, Shao Tingda hid behind the barrier wall for a whole day, and went to sleep when it was dark. Shao Tingda came to take over the duties of the frontline general. There seems to be a huge shadow moving slowly here, and the sound of wheels turning in the distance can be heard when lying on the clean ground with legs crossed.

He was so frightened that he didn't even bother to lift his pants, and immediately ordered the artillery to fire.

It was not that the Ming army was unprepared to deal with the night attack of the Western army, although everyone, including Chen Mu, believed that the Western army might not launch a night attack—in this era, the cost of night attack was too high.

Even among the well-fed Beiyang army, at least [-]% of the banner troops could not see ten steps away at night, let alone the Spanish army, whose food was not even half that of the Beiyang army.

He knew what that sound was. Only strange and cumbersome things would make loud noises when pushed on the ground, and there were also huge shadows hidden in the darkness. They could only be the only stone-shooting cannons that caused serious damage to the ships of the Ming army.

Fu Yuan never thought that the Spaniards would be crazy enough to bring this thing to the canyon battlefield!
That would kill them all!

In fact, when the artillery of the Ming army blasted out, the stone-shooting artillery had just been pushed to the distance of [-] paces, and the carefully selected night attack troops did not enter the range of [-] paces. It was impossible for the artillery of the Ming army to hit anyone. .

However, the momentum of the simultaneous bombardment of the twelve artillery pieces still inevitably affected the situation on the battlefield.

The troops attacking at night thought they had been discovered. The merchant guards who pushed the stone-shooting guns did not dare to push the guns forward at all, and ignited the guns in a panic. Slide and roll on the ground until it stops in the middle of the battlefield.

With the blast of the stone-shooting cannon, four companies of Spanish soldiers launched a night attack on the Ming army's position!

(End of this chapter)