The war in Jiangan was more difficult than Chen Mu thought.

The Xiangshan Banner Army had an absolute advantage in the battle outside the south gate of Guangzhou Prefecture, and the morale was as strong as the rainbow. The hundreds of families of all the troops led the ranks of the flag army to pursue.

The bird guns and other people could no longer form a gun platoon line. After loading the gunmen, they raised their heads and avoided their own front flag troops and rushed to the general position of the Japanese pirates. It seemed that they were firing cannons at every moment, but in fact they could not cause much casualties to the enemy, which could only make them even more panic.

But this seemed very good to Chen Mu. Even after a brief battle with the Japanese pirates, the flag army remained square in pursuit, which made the flag army even more timid at night and made them double their unity. It can be foreseen that the formation of the formation of the attack and defense will become the final pattern of the flag army in Xiangshan.

They can be called elite soldiers!

The good situation continued until the Japanese pirates were defeated and driven to the shore.

As the uncrowned king of the South China Sea in this era after Wu Ping, Zeng Yiben had not fought with such high morale and strong combat power. In the earlier battle in Chaozhou Prefecture, Yu Dayou used his weak battalion and strong command to fight a more suffocating battle situation.

Zeng Yiben knew what the government army wanted to do - forced his men into the river, seized his ship, and even captured him.

Innocent!

Although the purpose of looting Guangzhou City failed and sent a large number of pirates to be shot and killed by the official army, Zeng Yipeng could not see much distress on his face. He followed him on the three-masted Dafu ship far away from the shore, and the sound of conchs came from the ship.

Even if he felt sorry for him, Zeng Yiben just felt sorry for the seven or eight hundred bird guns falling on the shore. He would not feel sorry for those pirates.

Most of the bird guns were stolen after he had won the coastal attack on the government army in the past two years. In the hands of more than 3,000 bird guns, they formed land firepower that caused the government army to collapse at a glance.

Now that at least half of it is left in Guangcheng, Zeng San Lao must be heartbroken, but the people who died who are not him do not care about him.

More than 3,000 pirates were truly considered to be the Zeng family. Most of them were on warships swaying on the shore. Those who were sent to loot and attack the city were just small pirates and merchants who were dependent, and they were not considered to be damaging.

As the whimpering conch sounded on the pirate ship, the large ships raised sails and anchored, swam and rushed the Fran machine cannons toward the shore, especially focusing on the cannons on the hillside that brought them huge shock.

The strings of the warships in the river were illuminated by fire. This is Zeng Yiben's specialty. It doesn't matter whether they can shoot the volley with the warship Fran cannon. No army can withstand the fire of flying artillery from all directions.

The pirates cannot do it, nor the Xiangshan Flag Army can do it.

With just one ship's cannon fire, Deng Zilong's flag army was repelled, and at most ten shells fell into the formation, but the flag army was frightened by the artillery and dared not advance, and even the military formation was retreating unconsciously as a whole.

The same is true for the pirates covered by artillery shells. The only difference is that they retreated to the riverside. In this way, even though many people were killed by their own ships and cannons, more pirates still fled to the riverside and pushed the boat into the river. Regardless of the pirate ships, they all fled in scattered everywhere.

This is the usual tactic of pirates. If they win, they are like beasts gathering. If they lose, they are all birds and beasts scattered, and even the official army cannot chase them.

The pirates who had been wandering around again bombarded the shore with Fran's cannons. This time the target was no longer the official army, but towards the small boats that were still docked on the shore. The boards and sails were knocked out of holes, and then they set sail and left.

Deng Zilong was helpless and could only angrily insert the long sword on his eyebrows and gritted his teeth at the shadow of the pirate ship walking along the river.

When Chen Mu arrived with his family soldiers, the night battle to seize the city was over. The firelight shone on the outside of Guangcheng to the bank of the river, including the Xiangshan Flag Army, and more were Japanese pirates.

Chen Mu ordered the left and right while removing his left and right iron arm guard, "I ordered all households to eliminate the thieves and not even a single living person! The injured were sent to Shao Baihu and rest for a moment to gather!"

He removed the deformed arm guard, and the heart guard mirror was thrown aside by him, and his left forearm was swollen.

When Chen Mu led his army to seize the door, he felt a chill on his left arm. When he asked Zhang Han for orders, the pain became more and more unbearable. When he removed the arm guard, his whole arm was shaking so much that it was 80% broken bones.

The problem was not big. I found two pieces of wood to make simple splints. I cleaned up the wounds cut by the broken arm guard for a while and then cleaned them up. Chen Mu had time to check other places... He felt dull when he was fighting, and when he was idle, he felt that it hurt everywhere, but he was not seriously injured. It was nothing more than that his right shoulder hit the soldier when he was shot back by the Fran machine cannon, leaving a blood mark.

This was the worst casualties of his subordinates in a few years. They were almost disbanded by Fran's machine cannon. There were not many casualties but nearly half of them were injured.

They basically did not fight head-on with the Japanese pirates, and 90% of them were killed by shelling and hit directly, while a few were injured and killed by their own artillery.

"Come and hold the book."

While the flag army was cleaning up the battlefield and executing the remaining enemies, Chen Mu sat cross-legged and rested for a while, asking the family soldiers to take out his notes and write down a line of words on it. The closing cannons must be thickened, the smelting needs to be improved, and the cannon carriages must be improved.

There were three left in one battle with seven cannons, and only one was unlucky, but the Japanese pirates were slightly deformed by direct shooting of the cannons. The remaining three were all exploded.

The danger is too high, and this durability is even worse than the artillery made by the Ministry of Works of the Ming Dynasty.

The craftsmen of the Military Weapon Bureau were very serious in the process of forging guns. There was only one biggest problem: the shutdown gun was too light and the wall was too thin. The good effect was not enough to maintain the need for greater intensity in combat during the test.

"Qianhu, 372 injured in the flag army, have been sent to Shaobaihu." Fu Yuan sighed with a psychological imbalance on his face and whispered to Chen Mu: "Old Shao was promoted to Qianhu in Shunde by the military... Are you injured?"

Fu Yuan was lucky. He was fine all the way through the battle, and he was not injured at all. His subordinates were not bad at all. He just complained a lot after a battle. As he was talking, he saw a large swelling of Chen Mu's arm, he hurriedly called the doctors to show their attention.

"It's okay, go find me a heart protection mirror and bring me a helmet."

Anyway, everyone is the old pillar of Chen Mu's hands. He used it if he caught someone. When Fu Yuan brought the helmet and heart protection mirror, he smiled and said, "That's the reckless man who has good luck earlier. You hundreds of households in Guanghai and Guangzhou have made many achievements in both battles. After the war, you will be at least a deputy thousand households."

"It's a matter of time sooner or later!"

"Ask each department if you have a rest. After resting, go on the road with Chen and march for 80 miles. Be sure to arrive at Shunde before dawn!"

The arm on his hand hit the arms around his neck with silk cloth. The pain and fatigue invaded Chen Qianhu's spirit. At this moment, he was full of motivation - his subordinates were enough to promote Qianhu's merits. He took back Guanghai Acropolis one after another, and Guangzhou Prefecture retreated to the enemy and moved upwards, but this was not enough.

For him, if he doesn't catch or kill Zeng Yiben, he will be in vain!

“Depart!”

Good morning!
Chapter completed!