open sea

Chapter 57 Lin Pao
"Load, fire, let go!"

The gunner covered his ears and shrank to the side. The violent recoil of the cannon seemed to vibrate the solid bridge body of Xinjiang Bridge. Amid the deafening sound of the cannon, the huge projectile flew nearly two miles, cleverly dodging all the enemy ships, and stabilized. Fell into the water like an old dog.

Chen Mu's ears kept buzzing. He saw people around him opening and closing their mouths wide open. He couldn't hear the surrounding noises. He could only stand on the bridge and keep turning his head. Bounce! Aim!"

The four Fran cannons have already fired a round. If it is a Fran cannon that weighs a thousand kilograms, it may still be able to make achievements in this battle, but this little guy who only weighs a few hundred kilograms is obviously not enough to look at, and it can be shot out Four to five hundred steps, even the shadow of the enemy warships could not be touched.At present, there is only one cannon in Chen Mu's armament that can hit the enemy, but it is much more difficult to hit the enemy's warship two miles away than to miss it.

In the middle army on the bank next to the Xinjiang Bridge, Bai Yuanjie raised his sword and shouted: "Let Wu Duan's soldiers block the gap on the bank, and don't let them land from the south bank!"

Li Yayuan's troops were separated, countless boats approached the Xinjiang bridge on the water, and there was also dust from the marching army at the foot of the mountain far away on the north bank.

The roar in Chen Mu's ears gradually weakened, and the voices of people around him slowly returned to his ears. The gunner held up the torch and looked at him eagerly, waiting for his order, but Chen Mu waved his hand to tell him not to fire the cannon, and the bridge was silent for a while. It was a little scary, and then the flag army's speech became chaotic.

Sometimes the pre-war plan is useless. They planned to defend the bridgehead, and they can defend the Xinjiang Bridge with the courage of Chen Muqi's army.With the help of both artillery and rockets, it is only a matter of course to repel the enemy's several charges.

But when Li Yayuan's warship stopped two or three miles away in the river to cover the river, and the smoke and dust billowed in the forest under the mountains on the other side, none of them knew where Li Yayuan would attack from, and defense naturally became nonsense.

"Chen Zongqi, Qianhu asked why you didn't fire the cannon?"

The messenger with a small flag on his back rode his horse through the wooden barrier of the trench, went straight to the bridge head, saluted and asked questions, holding the rein in his hand and preparing to mount the horse.Chen Mu didn't say much, and said: "When I go back to Qianhu, I can't shoot accurately. If I shoot more, I'm afraid the cannon will be damaged. Let's shoot closer."

Compared with the poorly airtight Franc cannon, the airtight cannon made Chen Mu even more worried about exploding the chamber. This cannon was stuffed with too much gunpowder, and it couldn't be fired continuously. If this cannon was expected to destroy Li Yayuan's ships The ship, I am afraid that the guns will be useless before the ship is sunk.

From a distance on the river, there are two or three hundred small boats stacked on top of each other. It's impossible to hit them, and I'll hit your mother!
"Each small flag manages its own flag army well, watch those lead wires on the bridge, don't let people step on it!"

The small flags hurriedly sent orders that Shao Tingda and the others were military households in the past, but now they had the slightest official authority, and no one was ambiguous when they spoke harshly. It didn't take long for the bridge to become quiet again.

Wei Balang has no official authority. After this boy ordered people to be silent, few people listened. He pulled out the knife a long time ago, his eyes kept looking at the neck of the non-stop military household, and he thought of something and put the knife back. In the sheath, holding the tassel gun, seeing that the height was about the same as the military household's neck, he nodded in satisfaction.

This dead boy gestured at the man's neck with the tip of the gun expressionlessly, who would dare to speak!
On the north bank of the Xinjiang Bridge, it was Chen Mu's idea to put lead pellets into the rocket to increase its damage after seeing the rocket earlier. He put a few catties of gunpowder in a wooden bucket and buried it on the ground, put a wooden board on top, sprinkled floating soil and put it on the shore. The pebbles picked up by the side are used for mines when the enemy troops attack the bridge.

The lead wire of the artillery is too short, so it can only be buried on the ground next to the 'landmine'. If it is exposed outside, a small fire path is dug out and spread to more than 20 steps below the stone railing beside the bridge. The gunpowder spilled is more than a mine, but It hurt Lord Chen Jun badly.

The fire path is covered with wood chips, and floating soil is sprinkled on it, so as long as the enemy cannot see it before charging, it will not be trampled on behind.

"Mangzi asked your people to move towards the bridge, Fu Yuan rode a horse and took the two of them to the bridge to watch the mountain road, and if they found the enemy's situation, report back immediately." Chen Mu looked at the boat parked in the river a few miles away. The team frowned, and said, "I think the boat is scaring people, Li Yayuan definitely wants to hit Xinjiang Bridge!"

The rebels didn't have any high-end goods, and the two or three hundred boats parked in the river were nothing more than similar in shape to the Danren fishing boats of the Manliao camp. It can only support a few people, at most a dozen or so ships, and this navy is less than [-] people. It is foolish to think of breaking through the defense line from the shore based on this alone.

Of course, it is also possible that Li Yayuan did not know that Xinjiang Town had been breached. His warships originally wanted to reinforce the only way to guard Xinjiang Town, otherwise it would be unreasonable to send so few people here.

But the chances of him not knowing are very small. Now all the defenders are focusing on the fleet two or three miles away, and even the Chen Mu Banner Army has turned their guns to face the river. The sudden killing came, and the consequences were unimaginable.

"This gang of birds and monkeys, do you want to fight or not!" Shao Tingda sent two flag soldiers to the opposite bank, and when they came back, they held their knives and scolded everyone, and complained to Chen Mubai: "Brother Mu, If you keep staring at him like this, Qi Ding won't be active until the evening, how can these idiots fight against him?"

What Shao Tingda said was reasonable, they prepared for the enemy to attack aggressively, and they fought back majestically, but they never thought about the current situation.The enemy army is not eager to attack, but they are eager to defend.

Very early on, Chen Mu had learned to "go all out, then decline, and exhaust three times", and it seemed that the way to solve this exhaustion strategy was either to stand up to it, or to relax, and there was no other way.

At this moment, Bai Yuanjie sent someone to send an order, saying: "The soldiers take turns to defend, keep an eye on the enemy, and the rest take a rest."

"The longbow flag is on duty, and the rest sit where they are. The armor must not leave the body, and the soldiers must not leave the hand." Chen Mu put down the stone in his heart a little, and ordered to the banner army: "The gunners and gunners load the firearms, and tie the matchlocks. Hands, don't be careless!"

Not long after, the heavy soldiers brought rice for the soldiers to eat. There was no need to think about meat and vegetables. Everyone had a little sauce and some hot soup.With the battle approaching, even Chen Mu's soup and rice were no different from that of the Banner Army.

The Banner Army, who had been starved for a long time, sat in two rows leaning on the stone railing. Chen Mu just took two mouthfuls of his rice bowl and had no time to swallow it. Jiang Qiao yelled loudly and ran back.

"What is he shouting?"

Chen Mu couldn't hear clearly, and Shao Tingda's rice bowl beside him was thrown aside, he got up with a knife and said, "It seems that you want us to run up the mountain?"

In less than ten breaths, Fu Yuan rode his horse on the bridge. Seeing him panicked, Chen Mu finally could hear what he was shouting. Fu Yuan turned around and pointed to the opposite mountain and shouted: "General Banner, they have Cannons, there are cannons on the mountain!"

The chill rose from the tailbone to the Tianling Gai, Chen Mu looked in the direction Fu Yuan pointed, and saw two fires and gunpowder smoke rising from the forest halfway up the mountain, and then heard a faint loud noise.

boom! -
Note:
Mechanically fired mines.

"The frying process is made of pig iron. On an empty stomach, put the medicine and pestle into it, put it into a small bamboo tube, thread the fire line inside, and use a long line to pass through the fire tank outside. Dozens of them are buried in the pit, the medicine tank is connected to the steel wheel, and the soil is covered. , so that the thieves don't know, step on the engine, it shakes up, the iron pieces fly, and the flames soar into the sky." - "Fire Dragon Classic" in the early Ming Dynasty

　Good morning friends, don't be late today!

　　
　
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