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Chapter 117 The First Battle
Old Anshan.

Although it is a mountain, the actual altitude is not high. It is just that during the recent rainy season, the muddy mountain roads have brought many difficulties for the Banner Army to climb the mountain.

"Lao'an Mountain is flat, let the soldiers be careful of the traps, the shield hand is in the front, and the musket hand should be more energetic."

Chen Mu did not sit firmly in the Chinese army, he, Deng Zilong, and Sun Ao each led a team, and marched side by side from Qijiang Mountain Road and Huangliangdu Mountain Road to reduce casualties.

Even so, as the small flags in the front line walked so fast that no one could be seen, the small flags in the back line had already moved hundreds of steps away, and there was no sound in the quiet forest on both sides. This atmosphere was enough to make the new soldiers under the banner tremble. Only the military formation can bring them a sense of security.

Chen Mu didn't feel this way.

As a leading general, perhaps he can only reach the qualification line of the cold weapon era, but the battles he has experienced in the past year, all the battles of bandits, Japanese pirates, and rebels, let him experience this era. All enemies that may be encountered outside.

It's old fritters.

'Within hundreds of steps, there is no suitable place to set up an ambush. '

Chen Mu said to himself in his heart, squinting his eyes and looking at the mountainside in the distance. The mountain road turns and climbs in the forest. That position is very suitable for attacking the mountain army with a volley of birds.

"Order Fu Yuan, tell him to be careful there, and the soldiers will follow me."

Chen Mu leads three hundred households and is still his most capable subordinates, Shi Qi, Fu Yuan, and Lou Qimai. Although the bravest and most capable Shao Tingda is not there, they still have an absolute superiority in force and are not worried about it .

Wei Balang also followed Chen Mu, and now only Chen Mu and a few hundreds of households are called Balang. In the eyes of others, this half-sized man holds the power of the Banner Army, and they all call him "Balang". Little Baye.

Xiao Hachiro heard Chen Mu's words, turned his head, and ordered the flag army to come out from the side of the road, and ran forward to pass the order, and then Long Junxiong led twenty soldiers to follow Chen Mu forward a few steps.

"Reload and string the blunderbuss, hold it steady, and pay attention to the mountain road in front of you."

Each of the hundreds of households has two separate small flags of bird guns, and the matchlocks wrapped around their arms have been ignited, and they are marching forward with long guns and short guns loaded with medicine.

Chen Mu's personal soldiers are stronger than them, they are all old soldiers who have followed from Beishan, and they all have Guan's flintlock guns in their hands. Long Junxiong and Qi Zhengyan also wear guns on their waists just like Chen Mu's, just in case of emergencies .

With an order, the family soldiers prepared their short guns, held their chests obliquely, and were ready to go.

In this situation, there is no need to worry about scaring the enemy. In fact, the best way to deal with it is to directly pull out the family soldiers and shoot a volley to seize the opportunity when encountering an unpredictable place.

However, because the three mountain roads attacked the mountain at the same time, Chen Mu was worried that the sound of the volley of birds and guns would cause misjudgment to the other two groups of soldiers and horses, so he could only act cautiously.

Fu Yuan received the order, and the Hundred Household Banner Army in front was carefully divided into two batches, and the two bird gun small banners were mobilized to the rear, and the sword and spearmen were protected by shields and spearmen.

Although Fu Yuan had never had any outstanding performances on the battlefield, he had never lost the chain. This time, he left the two-flag bird musketeer directly to Chen Mu to lead, and he rushed forward with the sword and spear hand, hoping to Quickly cross this dangerous mountain road.

Just when Fu Yuan's troops were about to pass the turning point, a sudden change occurred!
The sound of shouting and killing suddenly sounded from the mountain road they couldn't see on the other side, and then there was an earth-shattering loud noise, which was mixed with shouts that Chen Mu couldn't hear clearly—it was the sound of gunpowder explosion!

"Not good, the enemy is on the other side?"

As soon as this idea came to Chen Mu's mind, he saw several shield-holding thieves jumping out from the corner of the mountain road, and knocked the two leading bannermen under Fu Yuan's subordinates down the mountain road, and then jumped out several soilmen holding Japanese swords. Thieves, slashing out randomly with Han swordsmanship, some people cut down the Zhongqi army, and some were stabbed over by spears.

The engagement happened in an instant, almost subconsciously. Chen Mu raised the blunderbuss and shot, shouting: "Raise the blunderbuss, let go!"

What he fought was not the place where he fought with the former army, but the forest at the corner of the mountain road ahead.

He had been paying attention to the woodland for too long. At the beginning of the hand-to-hand combat, his thoughts circled rapidly in his mind, regardless of whether there was an ambush or not, let's fire the gun first.

Snapped!
At the same time as Chen Mu was hitting the gun, the enemy shouted violently from the mountain road.

"Rush over, the other two mountain roads are blown up, go out from here!" I could only hear the voices of people but couldn't see the speaker because the mountain wall blocked it, "Bowmen, release the arrows!"

There was a movement in the forest, and several figures fell out of it. The ambush site chosen by the leader of the thieves was very suitable. Shooting arrows from a place in the forest that was higher than Chen Mujun's marching path could cover the troops of a hundred households with the rain of arrows. .

But the ambushing crossbowmen fell out not because of orders.

It was because at the same time as the leader of the thieves gave the order, twenty family soldiers armed with Guan's short guns obeyed Chen Mu's order, raised their guns and fired a volley, and there was a crisp sound like beans popping on the mountain road.

In the smoke, the two small-flag gunners also raised their guns to fire, but even though they had received enough training from Shi Qi, they still couldn't avoid the tension brought about by their first battle. Two or three guns failed to fire, and the remaining guns The volleys were fired one after the other, and the sound was a little messy.

Two volleys shot past, a few local thieves were shot and rolled down from the side of the mountain road, the rest of them drew their bows and set arrows, and the sparse arrows shot towards this side, shooting into the gunpowder smoke with the sound of howling wind. Chen Mu didn't know about the casualties.

He could only hear the sound of arrows piercing the ground.

"Steady the gun and charge it!"

While giving orders to his subordinates, Chen Mu reloaded the short gun in his hand, and he did not forget to turn his head and shout: "Shi Qi, Xiaoqijian!"

There is no need for Chen Mu to remind, Shi Qi is the most active among the first few small flags. His flag army followed behind Chen Mu, and immediately shouted for the four flag troops to hold the small flags Arrow rushed forward to support.

"Light it up, let it go!"

The two small flags and arrows that were well supported rushed into the forest with screams, and two balls of gunpowder smoke exploded. The tiny lead pellets exploded into one piece, and suddenly screams and screams gathered in one place, and someone fell from the forest with his face covered. He crashed out, stumbled and fell down the mountain road, and was swarmed up and stabbed to death by the banner sabers and spearmen.

The flag army gathered on the mountain road behind had been scared out of their wits, and the enemies who fell suddenly would be cut to pieces no matter whether they were dead or alive.

After the small flag arrows were released, no more arrows would fly out of the forest, and Chen Mu probably ran away even if there were still people alive, so he ordered the gunner to be on the safe side: "Raise the gun and shoot into the forest! "

Leading the family soldiers and rushing forward a few steps, I saw Fu Yuan's banner army marching forward suddenly. After turning a corner, Fu Yuan shouted loudly: "Rush over, kill this group of birdmen! Rush over, Rush over!"

When the banner troops of Fu Yuan's Department passed by, when Chen Mu led the troops through this mountain road, corpses lay everywhere at the corners of the two or three steps wide mountain road.

After the bandit crossbowman was defeated, he dropped more than [-] corpses and retreated while fighting. Wei Balang took a spear instead and delivered a fatal blow to the dying enemy on the ground. The banner troops behind hurriedly carried the wounded banner troops down the mountain go.

They had an absolute advantage in this battle, allowing the Banner Army to respond to changes in the battle situation in a leisurely manner.

When walking past Wei Balang, Chen Mu turned his head and said, "Remind me when you go down the mountain, military doctor."

　I am not important, read a book.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)