open sea

Chapter 480 Qinghua
Chen Mu's first battle went well, and he led his troops to Yanzhou along the sea where Ruan Juan's retreat route was several minutes away.

On the boat, Bai Yuanjie's subordinates sent the news that Yu Dayou's troops went out of the town of Nanguan to fight fiercely with the Mo family in the area of ​​Lang Son.

The Ming army who left Zhennanguan was stuck at the east gate of Shenglong and could not advance an inch. Relying on their familiarity with the location, the soldiers of the Mo Dynasty not only failed to capture them, but fought several battles after successfully ambush Yu Dayou.

The battle report said it was a big battle, but the actual situation was not a big battle in Chen Mu's view. The Mo family sent troops to the north, but the number of troops was not too many, and the exact number of troops to fight between the two sides was even less.

There were seven battles in half a month, all of which were small local battles between hundreds or even thousands of troops.

The casualties were even less, the total number of Ming army's seven battles was less than [-] casualties, and the generals of the Mo family were similar, close to evenly matched.

The Ming army's armored artillery was a little better, but Mo's was more familiar with the terrain, and his results were not much different.

The biggest reason for the limited results is that the terrain in that area is too dangerous and not enough for a big battle.

"Annan Kingdom is high in the west and low in the east, and there are mountains in the north of Thang Long. Lang Son is the land of the key. If you capture Lang Son, Thang Long will be able to spread the battle." Chen Mu discussed with the left and right generals in the cabin of the Chihai Ship. Pointing to the channel of the tea case book: "Yu Shuai wants me to send a fine army to cut off the enemy's food road from the rear."

"Yu Shuai originally wanted Bai Shuai to send a boat, and he sent Deng Quan to lead the army through, but Bai Shuai meant to use our soldiers."

A country that has existed for a long time, its borders must be surrounded by natural dangers, and the same is true for Annan. The west and north are all high mountains as natural barriers, and the richest Thang Long area is firmly protected by the plains.

However, like the Central Plains, its long coastline is its biggest weakness.

From the letter, Chen Mu could see that Marshal Yu's battle strategy had also changed. If he wanted to let it pass, he would definitely have to divide his troops into five outposts to break through the stronghold.

This time, he chose a simpler strategy, transporting troops by sea and attacking the enemy's rear.

"I go!"

"Master, why not send me!"

As soon as Chen Mu said this, all the Shao Tingda, Lou Qimai, Huang Dexiang and others who belonged to Deng Zilong's subordinates all called for the battle, but Deng Zilong was not in a hurry with a smile, and said to the generals: "Don't invite the battle, you can't invite yourself in this battle inside."

The generals were greatly puzzled, Chen Mu raised his head and smiled and said: "General Wuqiao's words are not bad, you can't invite them, honestly follow Chen to fight Qinghua, someone has been invited to this battle, this kind of belief is in vain In Bai Shuai's hands, can I let you go?"

Only then did everyone suddenly realize that, yes, there is Bai Yuanjie who is anxiously waiting for the battle in Qiongzhou Mansion, and he is about to turn gray.

"Bai Shuai has led the fleet to Xin'an Mansion to help Yu Shuai break through Langshan Mansion, and everyone will follow Chen to break the siege of Qinghua as soon as possible. After Yu Shuai breaks through Langshan, he will not be far from Binglin Shenglong City gone."

Lang Son Mansion can be described as a barrier to the east of Thang Long. With Lang Son Mansion, Thang Long will be safe. Once Lang Son is broken, it is only a matter of time before Yu Dayou besieges Thang Long.

Of course, that was a normal way of fighting. If it was just as aboveboard as Chen Mu said, his army should not have landed in Nghe An, and directly attacked the empty Thang Long from the mouth of the Red River.

Of course, such a victory is not convincing, and there will be endless rebellions after that.

Therefore, the victory he pursues must not be a little tricky, he wants to shock, not just victory.

Seeing that all the generals were wilting like eggplants beaten by frost, Deng Zilong laughed lightly, then curled his lips and said to Chen Mu: "Shuai Chen, let's talk about the battle in Qinghua, Mo Jingdian fought stubbornly on the coast, although our army did not suffer much losses, Couldn't even log in."

"Floating at sea is not a long-term solution."

Deng Zilong was very powerful in Yanzhou, Ruan Juan gathered nearly ten thousand defeated troops on the way to flee north, and was chased and beaten by Deng Zilong as he passed through Yanzhou, and he forced to wipe out the defeated army that had finally gathered from the Nghe An battlefield.

If he didn't dare to lead the army deep into the hinterland, Ruan Juan might not even be able to leave Chuzhou.

But this time Lin Manjue did not do well in blocking the enemy in Qinghua, so he was left with no chance of attacking.

The Annan people are not arrogant Spaniards, and when they saw the Ming army, they did not dare to send a centurion to run around the ground. The Chen Bu camp was very good. There is no way to start.

Even when Deng Zilong led the fleet to the coast of Qinghua, they set up their camps on the shore. Before Chen Mu arrived, Deng Zilong did not dare to let his subordinates suffer too many casualties. down.

"Mo Jingdian is a well-known general of the Mo family, and there is nothing worthless under his fame. This has been shown in his battle with General Lin."

As Chen Mu said, in fact, Mo Jingdian and Lin Manjue had never fought, not even once, but obviously they had already made a move, "He made sure that General Lin came from the sea, and he didn't have much luggage, so he didn't fight. When he went south to attack, he was cleared by the Southern Dynasty, without food and villages, so he didn't take advantage of it."

"But now that Mr. Chen is here, with more than [-] soldiers in his hands, he can fight him hard. He thinks that we dare not do anything to him because of his large number of people."

When Deng Zilong heard this, he quickly persuaded: "Commander, the enemy army has elephants on the shore, so it's hard to deal with them."

Just kidding, what kind of personality is Deng Zilong?If it is easy to fight, it will be Chen Mu's turn. He has already rushed ashore with his troops. Tired and fled back, there are no less than [-] today."

"There are a lot of guns and cannons, although they are not as good as mine, but a strong attack will cause too many casualties. Besides, it is not difficult to get to the shore, but it is difficult to march to the northwest. Their war elephants are like walking on the ground in the difficult road, and the guns are hard to hurt. , only close combat."

Deng Zilong shook his head and said: "If you only fire the gun once, you may not be able to kill the elephant. If the elephant is not dead, the banner army will definitely die. If the battle formation cannot be organized, it will collapse if it is scattered."

This is a lesson bought with blood and tears.

Chen Mu had also seen the majesty of war elephants in Nghe An, but the war elephants were not attacking his formation. He asked, "How about using cannons? If you pull out thirty cannons, you can't kill all the war elephants?"

Deng Zilong heaved a sigh of relief, looked at Chen Mu with extremely resentful eyes, and said, "It must be able to shoot accurately, the whole army, the only artillerymen who can shoot accurately at [-] paces are the military guards."

To put it bluntly, there are very few skilled artillerymen in Nanyang. The old artillerymen of the Xiangshan Qianhu Institute in the past are now Chen Bazhi’s subordinates. Skilled veteran artillery is even more powerful.

But there are no other places for these most precious people, and they are all serving as military officers in the military guard.

"The military guards are elite field fighters." Deng Zilong knew the combat power of these people, he said: "Instead of using the military guards and fighting with the troops stationed on the shore, it is better to let the troops below land all the way from the southwest, at most half a month's journey away. , can also pull out the soldiers along the way, and the same will be the case when the army lands again."

"Don't worry, I will personally meet their war elephants tomorrow." Chen Mu shook his head and said solemnly, "If you can't succeed tomorrow, it won't be too late to step back and use Wuqiao's will to attack them!"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)