open sea

Chapter 236 Confrontation
Bai Yuanjie sent a letter from Nanyang Wei. Although Chen Mu was not in Nanyang, the manpower left behind could ensure that Nanyang Wei would continue to follow the arrangement before Chen Mu left.

He Xingsheng's fleet made several trips, Weigang was still under construction, Qingyuanwei failed to plant Eucommia on a large scale, but they purchased a large amount of boiled Eucommia leaves from Huguang, and boiled this seemingly useless thing.

In short, everything is fine, but the son is missing.

After making a fortune with the Hexingsheng fleet in Malacca, Li Dan returned to Nanyangwei to replenish the goods, then went to Luzon, and sent someone to send a message that he would live in Luzon for a year and a half. I didn't bring a few ships, but only a group of people, and traveled across the ocean.

He said that he found Huang's stuff, but he didn't know how to grow it. He wanted to learn from Luzon Fanyi how to grow this stuff.

Nanyang Wei has really grown. In the six months since he left, all the roads paved in the past have entered into a state of vigorous development. Whether it is a commercial market, a fleet, a shipyard or a military industry, the shark boats produced by Xiangshan Shipyard are being sold to [-] materials. Going forward, the two-hundred-meter boat really turned into what Chen Mu expected, the fishing boat of the Nanyang Guards Yu.

This will be their first step in dominating Nanyang.

Compared with the Nanyang Guard, the situation in General Chen's northern defense zone is getting worse and worse.

The Tumed department really made it into the real deal.

The first to attack was Shenwu Youwei. The local defenders neither wanted to bribe the northern captives, nor were they willing to stick to the city. Returned, after the defeat, they were massacred and looted, and half of the troops fled scattered.

Then the southern part of the Beilu army entered Baoding and attacked Qingdu area of ​​Tang County.The defense of the pass was firmly guarded, but it was attacked from the front and rear. The combined forces of the two armies exceeded ten thousand. The guards of the pass could not be supported alone. On the tenth day, the officers of the Bauhinia Pass saw that no soldiers came to help them. .

The enemy's outpost is less than a hundred miles away from Jumashui.

It wasn't until this time that Chen Mu figured out who his enemy was.

It’s not Ida. The main force of Ida is still in Datong. Because of internal problems, it has not continued to go south. What Chen Mu needs to face is a tribe under the control of Alda. Soldiers and horses with more than [-] infantry and cavalry, it can be seen that its tactics are to imitate the story of the Mongolian army breaking through the Zijing Pass and fighting all the way to Xizhimen in Beijing when the civil fortress was built.

For Chen Mu, the situation is very good.

"The barbarian is really weird. Uncle was fighting with us, but grandson ran here by himself." Deng Zilong took the letter and said to Chen Mu: "Take Han Naji and his fiancée who married him and fled with a dozen people. Datong asked to surrender, the governor agreed, and the court and the Central Committee were very happy about it, so I just gathered [-] troops and went to the border to beg for Han Naji."

Chen Mu took the letter, looked at it for a while and didn't understand the relationship between the characters in it, and counted Han Naji as Alta's grandson, and his fiancée as Alta's niece as his fiancée was the daughter of the Oara tribe—in short, In the chaos, the Ming Dynasty added another important chip to my goal of negotiating peace.

"Don't care about the affairs of the court." Chen Mu slapped the letter back on the case, went out of the tent and climbed up to look in the mirror. In the misty fog, there were traces of braided cavalry running, "The enemy is getting closer, they are watching us Army formation, Wuqiao, when do you think they will attack?"

The fog in the morning was very thick, and it was not far from rain.

Deng Zilong shook his head. He didn't have any experience in fighting the Beilu, so he just said carefully: "When the rainstorm first comes, they will definitely attack; but the Beilu has been invincible in previous attacks, maybe they will attack first when their troops gather."

"Is the caltrop on the bridge ready?"

After receiving an affirmative answer, Chen Mu felt relieved. The cavalry in the mist on the other side were like ghosts who came and went without a trace. From the beginning of the enemy cavalry crossing the border, there would be a few screams at night from time to time, which brought great pressure to the defenders.

Standing on the watchtower, Chen Mu recounted the defense again. From the barbed wire on the bridge to the antler fence on the bank, he even had people wrap mines mixed with gravel in leather and bury them beside the bridge, and the fire wires were wrapped in bamboo. , but not too much - the weather is very humid, and it may not be useful when it rains.

Except for the well-waterproof artillery positions and musket trenches, all the firearms outside are not enough to rely on.

"How many small flag arrows are there?"

The blunderbuss teams of the three hundred households have all settled in the trenches. It seems that the flag army is quite used to this kind of defense. Hearing Chen Mu's question, the hundred households replied: "General, there are sixty small flag arrows, which are enough for two shots." .”

"This is different from fighting in the south. Don't fight so many at once. When you see the enemy cavalry attacking the bridge, you only need to shoot five small flag arrows." Chen Mu took a deep breath, pointed to the bridge and said to the flag army: "This battle You can't decide the victory in an instant, you will fight for a long time."

When the soldiers from the south went to the northern border, it was difficult to change their offensive and defensive strategies because of the different situations they faced with the banner army, and it was the same for Chen Mu.The small banners and arrows they used to kill and wound the enemy in the south may only have the effect of disturbing the enemy cavalry in the north, and it will not be effective if they shoot them out in a swarm.

Before the battle, fighting against an unknown enemy, even Deng Zilong, who had been in battle for a long time, became talkative, touring positions again and again.The same is true for Chen Mu, but he pretended to be calm, and kept pulling Deng Zilong and Hu Daxiong to chat and laugh happily in front of the battle, as if he had no worries about the current situation of the enemy.

In fact, every time he turned around before the battle, he had to drink a large pot of water when he returned to the military tent. The lack of sleep made his eyes bloodshot. In order not to be seen by others, he often squinted his eyes when he was outside the tent.

It's back to the previous state, with similar forces, more than half of the friendly troops lack training, accounting for [-]%!

Three days, three days passed in a blink of an eye.

There are more enemy cavalry swimming on the other side, and sometimes even a large group of cavalry can be seen circling the shore, and the morale of one's own side is even more depressed. Only more than 300 riders came back to the other side, and more than 100 of them were killed in encounters with enemy scouts.

The remaining 300 or so came back alive not because they were victorious in the encounter, but because they were lucky and did not encounter the enemy.

The heavy rain still did not fall, but the seemingly invisible fog became thicker in the morning and evening, and it was impossible to see clearly even with a telescope a few hundred steps away, but Chen Mu could feel that a large group of troops had already lined up on the opposite bank, sometimes from the singing on the grassland can reach their ears.

In order to boost morale, Chen Mu would sometimes lead his troops to fire a few guns on the opposite bank. Whether he could hit the enemy would be another matter. The purpose was to let the banner army see that he was not afraid, so as to let the soldiers The flag army under his command is not afraid.

The fear in my heart is an opponent more terrifying than the enemy in war.

On the morning of the tenth day of September, the horn finally sounded on the other side.

"Enemy attack!"

　Good morning, Chapter 2 will be updated before twelve o'clock today.

　　
　
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