Dominate the Country

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More than 20 rafts, carrying more than 100 volunteers, these are the militia from the first county of Ruzhou, and there are 20 to 30 constables brought by Li Zhao from the state government. The leader is Zheng Guanwei!

Wei Qing on the shore looked at Zheng Guanwei with envy and hatred, who stood on the bow of the boat with a knife, like a general leading the army to war. Just because Zheng Guanwei was famous for his sword, he won the competition over Wei Qing who was good at using bows and arrows. This group of people was going up the river, going around to the back of Fenghuangtai to land, and joining forces with the main force in front of Fenghuangtai to attack the Chen family mobs.

Li Zhao felt that the leader needed to be more brave and heroic, and Zheng Guanwei, who was playing with a big knife, obviously had a higher image score than Wei Qing, who was shooting arrows with a bow. So in this job competition, Zheng Guanwei won, and Wei Qing lost.

In front of Wei Qing, Li Zhao also looked at the volunteer soldiers sliding slowly on the lake with great confidence. This was a strategy he had thought about for a long time and decided after discussing with the leaders of the militias in various counties, dividing the troops to take a detour and attack from the front and back.

The total strength of the militia is certainly not 800 people, but there are 600 people. How many people can the Chen family have? How many people will the Chen family place here in Fenghuangtai? 100? 200? Li Zhao didn't think there would be many people on the opposite Fenghuangtai, otherwise they wouldn't have so few people to disturb.

In the past two days, the Chen family sent people to shoot at the camp with muskets every day. They really killed one.

Since setting up camp outside Fenghuangtai, the militia has been cutting trees. They have to make long ladders for attack, and they also have to make rafts. In two days, they made more than 20 barely passable rafts and 30 long ladders.

Of course, thirty long ladders could not be deployed at once to attack the front. The small Phoenix Terrace was only fifteen or sixteen feet wide. This was because this was the place where three streams met and a node that divided the upper and middle reaches of the Yinma River. From here, the road would only become narrower and narrower.

As long as there was a battle, there was a possibility of damage. These thirty long ladders also included backups.

On the Phoenix Terrace, Chen Ming, Chen Erbao, and everyone else were looking at the more than twenty small rafts rowing from downstream with an idiotic look. Li Zhao didn't expect that the Chen family had a cannon, right? Although the cannon equipped on the Phoenix Terrace was a tiger squat cannon that weighed only forty pounds with a gun mount.

The cannon was 2 feet long from head to tail, with 7 iron hoops added around it. The cannon head was supported by two iron claws, and there was an iron tripod, weighing 36 pounds in total.

This was the tiger squat cannon in the hands of the Qi family army in the Ming Dynasty.

The tiger squat cannon cast by the Chen family has some improvements over the tiger squat cannon in Qi Jiguang's hands, mainly in the gun mount, which can be adjusted up and down, which is much better than the tiger squat cannon in the Ming Dynasty, so the weight has increased instead of decreased, and it is a little bigger.

The tiger squat cannon can be loaded with 100 small lead bullets or small stones weighing 5 qian each time it is fired, and a large lead bullet or large stone bullet weighing 30 liang is used to press the top. When firing, large and small bullets fly out together, making a thunderous sound, and the lethality and radiation range are very large. It can be said to be an extra-large shotgun.

If used to bombard dense combat formations, it will be more effective than the two-jin cannon to suppress the enemy's human wave offensive.

The range is very short, and the lethality is mainly concentrated within ten feet. Put it elsewhere, this is a short leg that is not even comparable to a grenade, but in this broken place of Fenghuangtai, the effective lethality of ten feet can already block the surface of the Yinma River. Now the surface of Yinma River has shrunk by half. It is not just shrinking from one side, but shrinking from both sides, which is equivalent to helping the Chen family in the first place. The range of activities of the militia on the water surface is narrower.

Chen Ming felt sorry for the volunteers on the rafts. How miserable will they be when they die later?

Fenghuangtai only needs to let these people row to the front, and then the eight-door tiger squat cannons "bang bang bang", and a burst of cannons will probably be able to clear more than 20 rafts. While scaring Li Zhao and others, they also made deadly enemies with the people of the state capital.

This is more than a hundred lives!

Chen Ming did not want to immediately be surrounded by the Qing Green Camp soldiers and the attention of the big officials in Kaifeng Provincial Capital. So he only planned to use two tiger squat cannons, as well as a batch of muskets and hunting bows for this pit.

The latter is the weapon that Chen Erbao and his group of tough guys equipped themselves. They traveled between Xiangxian and Lushan, and the Chen family equipped all of them with breastplates and some muskets and pistols. But many people still did not put down their hunting bows.

Tumenji is a mountainous area. Isn't it normal for the surrounding mountain people to go up the mountain to hunt? Even if the people here don't know how to use hunting bows, they have seen this kind of inferior weapon made by the mountain people. Compared with the regular military bows of the Green Camp, hunting bows have a short range, poor accuracy, and are prone to fatigue, which means that their service life is short. Chen Erbao and his men still carry hunting bows, which can only be said that they are used to using them.

"Ming Shao, the militia is attacking!"

Just as the rafts on the surface of the Yinma River were paddling upstream towards Fenghuangtai, the militia's large forces also set out. Chen Ming raised the monocular telescope and could already see the long ladder carried by the volunteers in front.

After waiting for two days, Li Zhao finally made a big move!

Chen Ming looked at the militia approaching Phoenix Terrace step by step without caring. Their speed was slower than the raft team in the river. The raft team stopped about a hundred meters before Phoenix Terrace and waited until the main force of the militia arrived.

Chen Ming analyzed this scene from a deep meaning. The militia's actions could shake the confidence of the guards of Fenghuangtai. In the eyes of the militia, they were the absolutely dominant party. Of course, dividing the troops to encircle them would shake the will of their enemies to fight. In addition, it could make their own people truly realize their own advantages. It was just that it was hard to say whether Li Zhao and others could think of this aspect. It was more likely that the raft team was afraid of death and wanted to rely on the land offensive to attract the energy of the guards so that they could take the opportunity to break through Fenghuangtai. Otherwise, they would be intercepted by the Fenghuangtai defenders.

A sense of heroism gathered in Zheng Guanwei's chest. When he waved his sword again and ordered all the rafts to paddle forward, there were only two words in his mind-to make merit and join the army. After the suppression of the mob this time, the state government would definitely ask for merit from the higher authorities, and he, Zheng Guanwei, would definitely be one of them. He would definitely be able to get an official position by taking the opportunity to join the army. The feeling of leading soldiers was definitely not comparable to practicing martial arts in the countryside.

At this moment, Zheng Guanwei felt that he had found the true meaning of life. But when the hormones in his head calm down, whether he can still maintain his current feelings is another matter.

Men cannot resist the explosive feeling of "swinging a sword to cut through the clouds", but there are many things in this world that cannot be resisted.

When Zheng Guanwei calms down, he will first find that he is already thirty-five years old.

"Boom boom..." Two thunderbolts sounded in the clear sky, and two clouds of gunpowder filled the short city wall of Fenghuangtai.