Chen Xian's two new Zhuangzi, Xiangshui Village is at the foot of the mountain in the north, surrounded by a large forest, there is only one road leading to the new Zhuangzi, the path that the woodcutter hunter stepped on in the past, Chen Xian sent people to transplant thorny shrubs, if someone wants to bypass the new Zhuangzi and directly attack Xiangshui Village, they have to pass through several miles of dense forest.

In response to this possibility, Chen Xian also trained his soldiers in dense forest warfare, in which the advantage of muskets was greater than on the open plains.

There was originally a forest in the south of Qingyazhuang, but it was all opened up into farmland by Chen Xian, and now it is almost the same as the Yang family's field, leaving only a forest belt tens of meters wide in the middle.

In view of the advantages and disadvantages of these terrains, Chen Xian also formulated a corresponding battle plan.

Qingyazhuang and Xinzhuangzi are the focus of defense because they do not have terrain advantages.

In Chen Xian's operational planning, the responsibility for defense belongs to the militia, not to the regular soldiers.

The so-called regular soldiers are graduated apprentices who have been personally trained by Chen Xian.

The militia, on the other hand, are workers in construction teams and agricultural cooperatives who are rejected by Chen Xian because of their age.

But Chen Xian did not give up on them completely, he sent some apprentices to open night schools for these workers.

Every night, the workers were taught by lighting bright torches of pine resin in the classrooms, and Chen Xian stipulated that those who could pass the night school graduation exams would receive a three-percent increase in their salaries.

Attracted by this regulation, the motivation of these workers to attend night school was quite high.

Chen Xian didn't expect these workers to learn much, and he let these workers go to night school, naturally in order to brainwash them.

Workers who have graduated from night school, that is to say, who have been brainwashed, will be organized to exercise in the morning to learn basic military skills, and those who do morning exercises will eat a better breakfast and receive a stipend, which will soon be regarded as an honor.

After a brief education in military discipline, Chen Xian issued arquebuses to the workers and taught them how to use them.

The workers who had completed their training in musket shooting were Chen Xian's militia.

Because of the abundant water power, Chen Xian moved most of the factories and his office to Xiangshuizhuang, that is, most of the regular army was in Xiangshuizhuang, so Chen Xian arranged most of the militia in Xinzhuangzi and Qingyazhuang.

After seeing the beacon fire, Chen Xian immediately handed over the defense of Xiangshuizhuang to Li Song and more than a thousand young students under age in accordance with the plan.

He himself personally led the only battalion of regular troops and quickly rushed to Xinzhuangzi.

Soon after Chen Xian arrived in Xinzhuangzi, the soldiers who were stationed on the mountain in the north also rushed to Xinzhuangzi according to the plan.

Through these two sentinels, Chen Xian knew the specific situation of this army that suddenly arrived.

There were 3,500 men in all, of which about 2,000 infantry were in the front, about 400 cavalry in the middle, and about 1,000 infantry in the end.

Based on the position of the army at the time of the sentry's observation, the speed of its march, and the time when the sentry returned from the mountain, Chen Xian deduced that the army should have entered the range of Xizhuangzi at this time.

After another half hour or so, the scouts sent by Chen Xian when he first arrived in Xinzhuangzi returned.

The scout brought more detailed intelligence.

The 2,000 infantry who took the lead in the enemy were dressed in armor as high as more than 30%, which should be elite soldiers, and the last 1,000 infantry were not armored, but each of them held a weapon in their hands that was somewhat similar to the three-eyed musket, but the weapon did not have a tip in front of it, and the handle was much shorter.

With these three-eyed guns, the origin of this army is about to come out.

Chen Xian was not surprised that Peng Yibin would bring people from Flying Tiger Village to take revenge, what surprised him was that the other party brought so many people!

If Yang Miaozhen hadn't deceived Chen Xian, almost half of the power of Flying Tiger Village would have been here.

At this time, Chen Xian couldn't help but regret that he hadn't developed the cannon earlier.

At this time, Chen Xian finally figured out one thing, in the case that there is no guarantee of survival, too long-term consideration, sometimes it is equivalent to death.

But there is no regret medicine in this world.

At this time, I could only drag a few small cannons for experiments

Thanks to Chen Xian's research on cannons, they went hand in hand from the beginning, although the refining of materials was still in the experimental stage, he had already used the blister copper he purchased and about 10% tin to refine the bronze, and cast a few small cannons to test the firing data of the cannons.

Chen Xian directly followed the modern European method and divided the specifications of the cannon into one-catty cannons, two-catty cannons, and three-catty cannons according to the weight of the shells fired......

In the Age of Discovery, the mainstream of cannons was cannons, that is, cannons that relied on solid projectiles to kill, and the power of this cannon, in the case of the same range, was directly proportional to the weight of the shells it fired.

In the test stage, Chen Xian cast two one-pound guns, two two-pound guns, and one three-pound cannon to test the range, charge, ballistics, recoil, and strength of the cannon to obtain data to design larger guns and larger gun carriages.

In the process of test firing, the relationship between the strength of the barrel, the length of the barrel and the power of the cannon can also be checked...... and so on.

The online writer's database contains a lot of pictures and drawings of cannons and gun carriages of Napoleon and even earlier, Chen Xian was born in mechanical design, and his drawing skills are not weak, and when the mobile phone is powered, he drew simple sketches according to the drawings and saved them.

When designing the gun carriage, he reconstructed it directly from these sketches.

After several efforts, he succeeded in restoring a gun carriage that could withstand the recoil of the cannon, mainly with wooden structures and supplemented by iron components.

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Chen Xian stood on the defense tower of Xin Zhuangzi, which was more than ten meters high, looking at the plain in the distance.

The terrain of the Yiyuan Plain is flat, and Chen Xian's new Zhuangzi is relatively high, and he can clearly see the West Zhuangzi in the distance when he stands on the twelve-meter-high defense tower of the new Zhuangzi.

There is a large open space around Xizhuangzi, which is the farmland opened up by the people of Xizhuangzi, and the outer part of the farmland is a dense primeval forest that is integrated with the lush mountains.

When that army entered the farmland of Xizhuangzi, it appeared within the scope of Chen Xian's realization.

Next to the West Zhuangzi, an army, lined up in a long snake, was passing through the farmland north of the Zhuangzi.

A cavalry stopped not far from the east gate of Zhuangzi to prevent the people in Zhuangzi from having any ideas.

Such a scene made Chen Xian's heart more vigilant and nervous.

For an army of more than 3,000 people, it is difficult to imagine what Xiao Zhuangzi with a total population of only more than 5,000 dares to think, but this army is still so meticulous, which undoubtedly shows how cautious the leader of this army is.

The leader of this army had already passed hundreds of meters through Xizhuangzi, but its tail was still not visible.

Chen Xian stared at this army and hesitated for a few minutes, then made up his mind fiercely and went out to fight!