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Chapter 52: Attacking the Fortress

On the archway of East Street, Xinjiang Town, the wooden door was tied up from the town and it was difficult to open from the outside.

The rebels had a lot of troops, but yesterday they had several close forces with Wu Duan's army, with great casualties and many deserters. Now most of them have left the town to attack the camp, and there are only a few hundred left. They can find that even fewer soldiers attacked the army camp at the Zhendongwei at the first time. Just shooting with a hard bow on the roof, they were beaten by the bird gunman led by Chen Mu and they were beaten to the ground and pissed.

The biggest problem left is how to pass through this gate of wooden signs based on the archway.

"Breaking open this dick door!"

Deng Zilong, who participated in the battle to tackle the Japanese in the Southeast, had more experience than Bai Yuanjie and others. He asked someone to hollow out a piece of wooden stake. He tied more than a dozen wooden sticks outside and stood slanted outside the door with dozens of steps. He received dozens of kilograms of gunpowder from his subordinates, and put them in large stones to form a simple mortar cannon. A angrily scolding ignites the lead, and a moment later, a sound of a loud noise--the wooden door of the archway and the wooden mortar cannon was completely broken into wood chips.

Chen Mu only felt that the camp soldiers were so rich!

When Chen Zongqi was still complacent about carrying fifty small wooden tubes on his body, Deng Zilong's camp soldiers and bird gunmen each carried three kilograms of gunpowder and a hundred and fifty lead balls before the battle.

The troops of the camp and guards roared in and swept across the houses on the east street of Xinjiang Town. When the rebels saw them blowing up the wooden door at the intersection, they threw down their weapons and fled in scattered their weapons. They shouted loudly from their mouths: "The Ming army has entered the town!"

"Mingjun is here, run away!"

"Come on the front army quickly and be surrounded!"

There were chaos everywhere, and Chen Mu led the flag army and the township to investigate the town from door to door, and be careful to be ambushed. Although neither Deng Zilong nor Bai Yuanjie seemed to have such a warning in his heart, he still thought that being careful was the best. After all, he was dealing with thousands of enemy troops, and if there was a mistake, he would have to pay the price of life.

Later he realized that this was not because Deng Zilong and Bai Yuanjie were careless, but because their judgment was stronger than Chen Mu.

The rebels were really panicked and lost the armor all over the ground and could not be fake. Some people even knelt on the ground and begged for mercy when the soldiers were about to catch up with them. In a blink of an eye, Xinjiang Town announced its breakthrough.

The Ming army entered the East Street and left the West Street in Xinjiang Town, proudly conquered, captured more than 200 riot troops, and seized more than a dozen war horses that the rebels had no time to take away.

After rushing out of Xinjiang Town, Deng Zilong and Bai Yuanjie joined forces, with more than a thousand soldiers. They sent a flying cavalry to run west. After a moment of looking back at the situation, they said, "Wu Duan has retreated ten miles and reorganized the defense line. More than a thousand enemy troops occupy the camp!"

At this time, even Chen Mu could see that the offense and defense were easy!

The rebels' rear Xinjiang Town was captured, and they had no danger to defend and could only hide in the former camp of Wuduan. At this time, the Wuduan army was informed by Bai Yuanjie's previous order to inform them to attack the rear of Xinjiang Town and retreated with the tactic of winning. Although they lost a camp, they passed through the valleys on both sides. More than a thousand troops from the east and west were left with all the rebels in Xinjiang Town surrounded the camps previously set up by Wuduan to resist stubbornly.

"Is it meaningful to resist?"

Chen Mu led the Township Yong Banner Army to encircle outside the southwest corner of the camp, and directed the Township Yong to lay out wooden signs and put them in front of the formation to provide shooting cover for more than a dozen bird gunmen. A barbarian camp sergeant was pricked out of the gun spear outside to prevent the enemy's charge. It was seen that the soldiers of the Barbarian Camp under Bai Yuanjie and the soldiers of Deng Zilong camp each carried a Fran machine cannon and pushed them to the front of the formation.

However, it was not Chen Mu's turn to fire this time. He was supervising his subordinates' bird gun team to continuously shoot accurately on the rebels who were exposed on the wall of the camp and shooting arrows outward. Arrows were shooting everywhere on both sides, and the wooden sign in front of him kept the sound of "Doudou" being shot. It seemed that in the sight of the rebel crossbowmen, they were the number one target of Arrow Rain.

"Be careful of the arrows and release them!"

Bang! Bang bang!

Although he had only participated in the war three times, Chen Mu had noticed a reality that he had never considered before. Firearms were not invincible. In the past, he had a little understanding of the Ming Dynasty, and even stubbornly believed in his inherent memory that since the Ming Dynasty had bird guns and cannons, why didn't the entire army be equipped with bird guns and cannons? Can it be defeated by the Jurchens in this way?

In fact, if the Ming Dynasty people really had this idea, they would definitely be defeated.

Accurately fired bird guns are very important, and major-killing cannons are also important, but relying solely on these two things is not enough to win the war.

Chen Mu's bird gun team, Shiqi's commander, has achieved great success in the battle in Xinjiang Town. On average, three lead balls can kill an enemy, and five arrows can be shot out of the long bow flag may not be able to hit an enemy, and even if it hits, the long bow may not cause the enemy to lose its combat power.

However, the shooting speed of the bird gun is too low. The bird gun team shot for a round, and the longbower had already thrown out four or five arrows. It could not hit the enemy, and it could make the enemy timid and give the bird gun team an opportunity to take advantage of.

Boom! Boom!

With two cannons, one side of the camp was blasted out of the gap by the huge impact of the shells. The rebels who were trapped in beasts drove out the spear from the gap dance sword, and then were shot into a sieve by the rain of long bows and arrows. Then the two Fran machine cannons roared again and crushed a bloody path. Deng Zilong raised his sword and shouted: "Don't kill those who surrender!"

The soldiers shouted loudly: "Those who surrender will not kill, and those who surrender will not kill!"

The huge roar shook the battlefield, suppressing the tragic cry in the camp. The rebels retreated like a tide on the village wall. Not long after, for more than ten days, after empty handed, walked out of the gap in the camp, carrying a few heads in his hand and walked into the Ming army formation with dust on his face. Then he entered the camp to convey the news of the Ming army's surrender. On the quiet battlefield, you could hear the jingling sounds in the camp, and hundreds of people threw down their weapons and walked out of the camp slowly.

"Long live my emperor!"

I don’t know where the camp soldiers shouted this first, and then thousands of Ming troops in Xinjiang Town sang like a tsunami, singing long live the emperor like a tsunami. Everyone raised their weapons over their heads, and some even danced.

Chen Mu had no time to join this grand carnival of the Ming people, as if he had become an omitted back. He took off his iron hat and pulled out the crossbow arrow embedded in the top of the helmet and threw it aside. He sat down slowly with a wooden sign, squinted his eyes and looked at the dazzling sunlight in the air, and breathed a long sigh.

His back was soaked, and he just wanted to wait for the war to finish and find a place to wash it.

Shao Tingda came over and counted his life under the sword, and pulled the hole cut by the rebels on his left arm and said with a wink: "Brother Mu, look at Bai Qianhu's stupid dick for me, what's this thing? With such a big hole, Grandpa Shao has to let Dr. Cheng sew two stitches when he goes back!"

No one is more active than Wei Balang. It seems that I remember the last time Heiling was slapped by Bai Yuanjie because of Chen Mu's injury. The boy held the Japanese knife in one hand and held the linen washed in his arms with the other. He circled around Chen Mu several times, and then said a little disappointed: "Oh, why is the General Flag not injured?"

It was like losing the opportunity to please Chen Mu.

Why didn't the rebels cut off this dead child?

In Xinjiang Town, the Ming army's dragon-inlaid red sun flag was erected.

Note:

1. The red sun flag inlaid dragon is just a type of Ming army flag. It comes from the "Japanese Pirates Picture Scroll" by the Ming Dynasty painter Qiu Ying. It is both southern army and its ritual system is generally similar.
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