open sea

Chapter 519 Three Eyes
Ma Gui was shivering from the cold in the New World in the Northeast, while Chen Mu was soaking wet in the heat in the Southwest.

Thirty miles south of Baigu City, his army is backed by the Baigu Fortress built by the Portuguese, and is preparing for a big battle that can change the situation for 50 years.

The northern coast of the Baigu Fortress is entirely Baigu City, which is also called Bagu. It was the ancient capital of the Baigu Dynasty of the Mon nationality in the past. The capital of the Taungoo Dynasty.

Mang Yinglong was extremely brutal when he conquered the war, but after the conquest, he treated the Mon people pretty well. He recruited Mon soldiers to fight for him, and still regarded this place as the capital. Fortified City.

However, Mang Yinglong really couldn't imagine that the Ming army would sneak attack on his old lair from the sea. The only shortcoming of Baigu City was that it was too close to the coast. Once the enemy came from the sea, it was too easy to be attacked.

Usually, it is very rare to deploy formations with their backs to the river or the sea in wars. Even if the boat is broken, there are not many people who can play this hand well.

But Chen Mujun is different, the sea is like their hometown, no one can defeat him at sea, but land is full of dangers for him.

At this time, the roads and farmlands north of the fortress were dug out by the Banner Army with dozens of ravines, roadblocks and traps, and pits were also dug in the tropical dense forest to hide ambushes.

Between the vertical and horizontal ravines is where Chen Mujun's camp is located. The entire position is surrounded by the dark sentries in the outermost forest, the trenches of the musketeers inside, and the camp, and then to the south are many artillery pieces and shallow sea ship guns on the fortress.

In Chen Mu's view, the only shortcoming is that the range of his ship's guns is still too short. The deployment of warships here, in addition to thinking of a little deterrent effect, the greatest significance is that when the battle situation is in a bad situation, his soldiers can fight and fight. Just retreat into the sea.

It is shameful to say that Baigu City is much bigger than Chen Mu imagined. If it was not disturbed by the disaster of war, their current garrison camp should be located in the market of the trading port, and the surrounding area is extremely prosperous, but at this time, all the prosperity is gone. All that could be seen were the barracks and the murderous soldiers.

The fortress full of exotic Portuguese Manuel style has been remodeled by Shao Tingda and Chen Mu successively. Mang Chong’s knife and ax hand blasted the inside and outside of the fortress with grenades, and embedded fragments can be seen everywhere on the wall. The high wall on the south side What's more, Shi Qi bombarded him with artillery, so he didn't even have to open the door.

The holes blown out by gunpowder cartridges are now barely supported by wood and stones to prevent the building from being unstable.

Chen Mu's transformation was more thorough. He ordered the roof of the fortress to be ripped off. Now hot air balloons and fuel are stacked on the top floor to alternately observe the enemy's formation and offensive; There are a hundred households of personal soldiers, and the middle level between the upper and lower levels is his Chinese army account.

Putting his hands on the Portuguese-style female wall, Chen Mu stood on the crenel and looked north with his god's eyeglass. He raised his finger and pointed to the faintly visible Buddhist pagoda in the distance.

The pointed Bai Gucheng said to Deng Zilong and the others beside him: "General Lin's messenger said that Bai Gucheng had sent four thousand-man troops to the north recently, and he defeated three of them, and the last one brought a war elephant. He dare not bump."

"I guess Mang Yinglong was defeated by Liu Shuai and Yu Shuai. This junior in Mang Yingli has a big heart. He hasn't come to beat me for half a month, so he still has the heart to send more troops to the north?"

Lin Manjue's headquarters was not in the camp, and Chen Mu never wanted Lin Manjue to stay in the camp. That was his guerrilla team, and he had to poke the enemy's ass with a fire stick wherever he went, otherwise it would be a waste of talent.

"This time, General Lin can be regarded as sweeping away Annan's despondency. He didn't gain much, but he was able to win the enemy immediately. If he had artillery, even war elephants would not be able to stop him." He was not worried about the situation of the siege. On the contrary, he was very interested in what Lin Manjue had in his hands, and said, "I'll let the supply fleet come over next time and show me the blunderbuss. This blunderbuss is really powerful."

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Chen Mu turned to look at Shao Tingda, who had already shaved off his hair, eyebrows and beard. If it was his younger brother, he would definitely think that Lin Manjue was brave and extraordinary, and he would not think about it at all. Kill the generals of the enemy army first, and wait for the hand-to-hand combat, there is still no defeat, let alone they can't beat us with white swords."

This is not Chen Mu's bragging. From Shao Tingda's battle with Mo Jingdian in Annan and the defense of his army stronghold, his subordinates showed high discipline and high organization when fighting hand-to-hand. Nothing goes wrong.

Fighting with guns and cannons, other people's strong bows and crossbows are no match; in close combat, the military guards are even more invincible. He said to Deng Zilong: "But the Zongfan army, even with the same weapons, was almost defeated by the defense many times during the defense. If the enemy has broken through, if the reserves hadn’t been left behind, the fortress should be defended now.”

Deng Zilong didn't take this situation seriously, but he was even more worried, saying: "With a small number of soldiers defending the siege of several times the army, there is no advantage of a strong city, and only relying on field fortifications, it is already a strong army to be invincible - to put it bluntly. It’s not easy to hear, but the national defense army is talking about reforms, and it is very difficult to find out which thousand households can match the fighting strength of the overseas suzerains and vassals, but I think they are too strong rather than too weak.”

"Breast armor, armbands, guard feet, iron shin, and hat are armor; short knives, single swords, spears, blunderbusses, and cannons are weapons; Deputy Banner Officer, preaching, these are military officers; they are no different from the Nanyang Army of the Guochao Dynasty. Chen Shuai said that the combat power is weak, but it is weak because his officers are not as powerful as those of the military guards. The military guards have lecture halls they do not."

"But the imperial court has such combat power, only the military guards are [-]; the vassal army is slightly weaker, but the weak ones in the Southeast Asian countries, such as Ryukyu, have [-]; many other tributary countries have three guards."

"In particular, Nanyang is determined to forge ahead, has the prestige of the celestial dynasty, and controls the banners and military orders to prohibit them. This is something that the Guangdong capital cannot do. The so-called weak cadres and strong branches are talking about the current situation."

Deng Zilong was in the midst of a war, but his thoughts had already jumped out of the war, he said: "My subordinates advise, you must not send the students of the lecture hall to the Tribute National Guard like a military guard!"

"You reminded me!"

Chen Mu nodded his head heavily. He was talking about the current situation of the army. Of course, the Nanyang Army has not reached the situation of ten thousand to one hundred thousand, but it is not an exaggeration. Because of his strong military force, he turned Zhongnan into a market, but he didn't think about deeper things. Now it seems that he has a lot of problems.

Don't rely too much on the vassal army. It is fundamental that Ming has a strong guard army.

"I've made a note, let's not talk about this, wait until Burma is pacified, and then come up with a solution; it's too long to be stuck here by Mang Yingli, take advantage of the emptiness of the defense, and order Yangon Baishuai, three Lu Qijin, we are going to counterattack Bai Gu."

"The name of this battle is not the Battle of Baigu, but the Three-Eyed Gun."

Chen Mu raised his hand and slammed it heavily on the female wall carved with shell ropes by the Portuguese: "Three-eyed blunderbuss on the sea!"

(End of this chapter)