Just when the Jimo camp in the south of Shandong held a mobilization meeting, Lieutenant Colonel Huang Sitong Huang, who had just thwarted a new round of attack on Jiannu on Changsheng Island on the west side of the Liaonan Peninsula, was cleaning up the corpse of Jiannu lying on the beach with his soldiers.

Wiping the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve, Huang Stone looked up at the sun hanging overhead. Liaodong in May of the Western calendar is still a little cold, but it is still a little hot to work in the afternoon sun.

Huang Stone unbuttoned the sleeves of the neckline, held the shovel in his right hand, and shook the clothes with his left hand to shake quickly, allowing the sea breeze to take away the heat from the clothes.

At this moment, his gaze passed over the hundreds of soldiers on the beach and looked at the land of Liaodong a few kilometers away. Facing the defensive position of Changsheng Island, Jiannu built a two-kilometer-long camp - Huang Stone guessed that it was a narrow camp built along the coastline - so he could only bully Huang Sitong's fire battalion and rock battalion and could not fight on flat ground.

Huang Stone turned his head to look at the field artillery on the beachhead, thinking that if he gave himself a landing field, the narrow camp of Jiannu could be cut in two at once.

Just as he was thinking about it, a soldier came to report that he had captured a Jiannu who was still alive, and that Wu Jianjun was interrogating him, and asked General Huang (Note 1) to take a look.

Huang Stone agreed, put the shovel on his shoulder, and walked out of the beach like an old farmer who had just returned from the field, stepping on the blood-stained red and black sand. Behind him, the soldiers were still diligently digging a deep pit to bury Jiannu's body and concentrate on cremation. The dug sand can be covered on the blood-soaked sand to prevent the stench from emitting a long-lasting stench in the future.

Wu Mu (Note 2) interrogated prisoners of war in Jianzhou at the back of the beach. When Huang Si passed, the blood stains had not been cleaned up, and there were still some blackened stains in the corners and other places.

During the first wave of landfall a few days ago, the barrier was occupied by Jiannu. Due to the tactics of luring the enemy into depth, Jiannu once attacked the island to a depth of one kilometer.

And then... Jiannu had no experience in landing warfare and did not understand the importance of building a landing ground at all. Half an hour after landing, there were still only messy rafts and sampans on the beach, and the soldiers who were supposed to go to the island were still wandering on the mainland, and the whole scene was as chaotic as the spring outing of the Boy Scouts of the Ao Song Dynasty.

So Huang Stone, who had been waiting impatiently, ordered a counterattack. Gunboats departing from the ports in the north and south of the island went around to the east and lightningly destroyed a pile of wooden boats on the beach and on the opposite coast. At the same time, the defenders on Changsheng Island also began to push back, squeezing the Jiannu onto the beach, and shooting the hundreds of Jiannu on the island in front of the thousands of Jiannu on the opposite bank.

Bypassing an observation post on the other side, Huang Sitong pushed open a door and saw Wu Mu and Wu Gonggong, who was happily torturing prisoners of war.

This loyal supporter of Wei Changgong lost power after the death of Wei Gonggong, but fortunately Huang Stone was willing to shelter him, refusing to hand him over to the Jinyi Guard, who had come to arrest the important criminals, and leaving him on Changsheng Island.

Wu Mu saw Huang Stone coming in and hurriedly saluted.

Huang Stone greeted him, then clasped his hands to his chest and watched with a smile as Wu Mu continued to handle the captive.

The man had already been wounded when he was captured, and Wu Mu had taken him and treated the wound to prevent the unfortunate man from losing too much blood and braiding his braids—which were still firmly on his bald head now.

Wu Mu put a rag on his hand, lifted his head with the man's braid, pulled the male duck's throat and said, "Say, name, age, place of residence, which flag?" What is the name of the flag owner? Gushan Ezhen Niu Lu Ezhen and other slave chiefs also said it again. ”

The man tried to break his head out of Wu Mu's clutches, and after a few attempts, it did nothing but tear his scalp to the point of redredness.

He had no choice but to give up his plan to torture himself, grinned at Wu Mu, and suddenly spit out a mouthful of blood.

Well, and then he was dodged by Wu Mu, who had been prepared.

Wu Mu had a cold smile on his face, and he held a small pair of tweezers in his right hand and pierced the man's wound and stirred it vigorously.

Huang Stone calmly watched the captives and let out a beastly scream. When the Ao-Song people had not yet set foot in Liaodong, when he was fighting a tug-of-war with Jiannu, he saw countless villages that had been razed to the ground and civilians who had been killed by Jiannu. Such a painful and dark experience made him feel no pity at the moment, and even some faint pleasure.

"Okay, okay, Gonggong Wu." After waiting for a few minutes, seeing Wu Mu instructing his little eunuch to rummage through the handsaw, Huang Stone hurriedly opened his mouth to stop the other party, "Let's use water torture, it's too slow." ”

Wu Mu nodded with some regret. He originally wanted to show off his skills in front of Lord Huang, but he didn't expect to end up with a tried and tested waterboarding.

"Let's do it." Wu Mu threw the rag stained with the blood of the captives into the bucket and asked the little eunuch to help.

Huang Stone said and went outside to smoke a cigarette. The basket outside the house contained the man's stripped equipment, including an old knife, a pair of chain mail, and a shield.

Perhaps Jiannu considered that it was difficult to use spears to fight on the island, and the people who landed this time were all sword soldiers. It seems that they are not stupid, they just have no experience.

A minute after the first cigarette was smoked, Wu Mu came out of the house: "That's a trick, our family asked several times, and I didn't lie." ”

Huang Stone nodded and motioned for the other party to continue.

"That guy is called Taktan, and he is a blue flag man." Wu Mu said as he handed a transcript to Huang Sitong with both hands, "They have recorded twenty regular soldiers, and there are more than thirty miscellaneous soldiers who voluntarily followed. Maybe they don't know how powerful we are, and there are still people who come to southern Liaoning to take the initiative. ”

Huang Sitong hastily read the transcript and felt that it was of no value, so he handed the transcript to his own soldiers: "Gonggong Wu has worked hard. ”

In addition to this transcript, what can make Huang Stone feel some interesting is the level of firearms that Jiannu has shown in the new.

He saw the seized Jianzhou firearms on a flat ground behind the fortification, including more than 30 arquebuses, two carrying guns, and two small cannons.

Artillery is nothing special. Jiannu now basically has no artillery-making skills, and the self-produced artillery is all hand-made by the Han craftsmen captured before, and the Australian and Song Dynasty intelligence agencies judge that the main battle artillery that can be produced every year will not exceed 20, which is almost half a month's output of the Honghe Arsenal in the Nanhai Governorate.

Both of these guns were the Tiger Squat Cannon of the Ming Kingdom, a very primitive shotgun, somewhat similar in style to today's mortars. The Ming State generally regarded it as a company-level support firepower - of course, the Ming State did not have such an establishment as a "company".

The arquebus was still the same, no different from the old antiques in the Apocalypse, and Huang felt that this thing might be older than him.

The intelligence system is not sure whether Jiannu has the consciousness of standardized production. The caliber of these guns varies considerably, with the smallest and largest calibers being up to five millimeters. Looking at the light source, the barrel inside is also not smooth. Huang Stone looked at the bullet that Jiannu was carrying. In order to prevent the bullet from blocking the muzzle and not plugging it, Jiannu's lead bullets are made smaller than the muzzle of the gun and visible to the naked eye, which will undoubtedly make the air tightness of the barrel very bad.

The only things that could attract Huang Stone's attention for more than two minutes were the two raised guns. Huang Stone dragged a gun up and looked at it in the sun.

It was very heavy to lift the gun, weighing more than thirty catties, and the center of gravity was unevenly distributed, and the length was amazingly more than two meters, making it difficult for one person to lift, let alone aim. In fact, the Jiannu gun seen in the battle was indeed operated by the two of them. The former serves as a human scaffold, and the latter operates the shooting.

Several soldiers showed Huang Stone the process of loading and firing. Based on the experience of the veterans and the ammunition captured from the gunmen, this large firearm was supposed to be equipped as a "small cannon" and served as a close infantry support firepower. During the fighting, some soldiers reported seeing only three or four shots fired, with five or six minutes between each time, and it is unclear whether it took a long time to reload or something else.

Huang Stone asked his soldiers to record the information on the gun, and then turned around and handed it over to the liaison officer to transport it to Lushun together with the actual gun. This strange firearm is the first time it has appeared on the battlefield, and it is necessary for Immortal Island to let friendly troops and superiors know about the situation.

And now, Huang Stone has to arrange the work of greeting Jiannu on the other side.

Note 1: Huang Stone had the title of guerrilla general in the Ming military system.

Note 2: Wu Mu, the supervisor of the army sent to supervise the army of Changsheng Island during the Apocalypse. Wei Zhongxian lost power after his death and took refuge in the army of Changsheng Island.