Under the city of Liping Mansion, Hao Bonian took a few officers up a small dirt slope, and then said to the city of Liping Mansion in the distance to see how to fight this time to try the battle.

"My lord, this Liping Mansion City looks thicker than Xingquan Mansion, the city wall is much higher than Xingquan Mansion City, and judging from the banners on their city heads, I am afraid that there are many defenders, and it is estimated that there are at least two or three thousand people!" A middle-aged major said to Hao Bonian.

Hao Bonian nodded slightly and said: "This city wall is indeed thicker, and there are more defenders, but among the defenders under their banners, there are not even three or four out of ten wearing the standard uniforms of the Ming army, and the regular army in the city is afraid that there are less than a thousand people!" ”

Speaking of this, he glanced up at Major Chen, and then said: "You are also the old man who came with Director Zeng at the beginning, this court system still needs to be remembered, and the word "adult" should not be mentioned again!" ”

Hearing Hao Bonian say this, Major Chen was immediately slightly stunned, and then reacted and said, "The ministry is guilty!" ”

Hao Bonian's word "adult" should not be mentioned again, because in the new regulations of the Tang New Army promulgated at the same time as the previous army expansion, it has been clearly stipulated that in official documents, officers must not be called by general adult, character, number, alias, and other messy informal titles, but must be called military positions.

In order to facilitate the exchange of official documents, otherwise, you are prone to confusion when you come to a certain adult in the official official document, after all, there are more people with the same surname, and many officers' names or something, people may not know, you must even bring the name with the surname, and then bring the detailed military position, so that the people in the Privy Council, or Your Majesty, know who is who.

For example, Hao Bonian, the official official title of his subordinates should be 'Colonel Hao Bonian, commander of the First Step Corps', and if you usually call him, you can refer to it as colonel, regiment commander and other military positions and ranks.

Although this regulation is only for official documents, but the army is also officialdom, and the above have asked for it, and the people below will naturally do something to correct the past, such as even in private, they have begun to stop calling the word 'adult'.

So much so that now the word 'adult' has become the exclusive domain of civil officials.

Although Hao Bonian is currently the highest-ranking officer in the Tang New Army, and he is also trusted and reused by Li Xuan, the more he is like this, the more careful he becomes, after all, he is not ambiguous in big things, even in some small things, he is strict with himself, but he does not have the slightest mistake that can be blamed.

After all, Hao Bonian also knew that although he was reused by His Majesty, he couldn't be like Fang Xi and that person, and when he made any choice, he was shameless and took showing loyalty as the starting point.

During the second battle of the Lanjiang River before, Fang Xitong made a conservative choice, but it was once in danger and almost broke a big thing, which made many people quite dissatisfied.

But this time, when the four infantry regiments were established, Fang Xitong still became the commander of the third infantry regiment, which made many people a little unconvinced, such as Major Chen in front of him.

thinks that Fang Xitong is just mediocre in ability, and he just blindly pats his ass of loyalty, so he got the position of the commander of the Third Infantry Regiment, this Fang Xitong is simply Wang Wenhua in the military, and he can't do anything except pat himself.

Major Chen thought that even if his bottom line dropped by half, he would not be able to be so shameless as Fang Xitong.

As for Hao Bonian, although he said that he would not have any negative impact on Fang Xitong, he also knew that his superiority was different from Fang Xitong.

The latter relies on loyalty, and he relies on military exploits!

Although the battle merits sound more reliable, but it also gives him more pressure, he can't make mistakes, once he makes mistakes, then this great future in front of him will be aborted.

He also wants to become the first general in the new army of the Tang Dynasty, well, the real general rank, such as major general, instead of the previous random general title.

Therefore, he always demanded the strictest requirements of himself and his subordinates, and did not give others a chance to find fault with him.

However, the conversation between Hao Bonian and Major Chen was not affected by this sentence, and after Major Chen reacted, he quickly changed his words: "Regiment Commander, if we try to attack, let the second battalion of the post department go, we just did a lot of training related to attacking fortifications some time ago!" ”

Hao Bonian nodded slightly and said: "It's okay, wait for the others to look at your second battalion, and tell the people below that this is just a tentative attack, and it is not advisable to use too much force, and if you test out their virtual reality, then you will complete the task!" ”

Major Chen said: "Understood! ”

The Datang New Army wants to launch a tentative attack, but the posture it puts on is not like a tentative attack at all, because even if it is a tentative attack, it needs to be foolproof, the three infantry battalions of an infantry regiment are actually put out, and the artillery units are also beginning to prepare to fire artillery.

Pose in a position to prevent the unexpected!

But the posture of the new army of the Tang Dynasty frightened the Ming army in the city, because from the perspective of the Ming army, these pseudo-Tang thief armies were trying to attack, and this was completely a posture to prepare for a general attack.

Look at their artillery, there are at least 20 large cannons and small cannons, and the three cannons inside can be known at a glance to be heavy artillery, which gives these Ming troops great psychological pressure.

They are not stupid, let alone stupid people who have not seen firearms and used cannons, at least there are more than a dozen bowls and mouth cannons on the head of this Liping Mansion.

But even if they just look at the size, they are only a few dozen catties or a hundred catties of bowl cannons, and there is no way to compare with the three respect cannons of the pseudo-Tang thief army.

People's heavy artillery, like the thousand-pound general cannons of the imperial court border army and the naval division, even needs to be pulled by several horses to go to the battlefield, and then a group of people shout hard to be able to push to the gun position, and then there are seven or eight people who serve this artillery.

It's like a bowl cannon on your side, and two or three people can operate it.

The disadvantages of this artillery are not small!

In addition to artillery, the neat infantry phalanx of the puppet Tang thief army outside the city also gave them great pressure.

Whether it is in the age of cold weapons or in the age of muskets, to judge the basic quality of an army, you can basically see it by looking at their array.

Although it is not necessarily said that an army that can be quickly listed and neatly organized and moves consistently is a strong army, because many armies are still useless, but any army with strong combat strength must have an incomparably neat formation.

Because the formation is the most basic condition for the formation of the army in the era of cold weapons and muskets, there is no battle without the formation.

The neatly formed pseudo-Tang thief army knows at a glance that it is not easy to mess with!