"This ....." Cao Wenzhao was also a little stunned for a while, now are you the boss or am I the boss? The first time Lao Tzu assigned a combat mission, you complained so much, how can you fight this battle?

Besides, I have heard for a long time that today's Beijing camp is composed of a bunch of scoundrels, isn't this scolding show your strong point?

"Commander Lin Du is not satisfied with this errand? Then why don't we change it, we send people to scold the formation, and you lead people to prepare to engage the bandits who rushed out? Cao Wenzhao snorted lightly.

"No need, just follow General Cao's orders, and I'll send someone to scold the formation." It's not that Lin Jianyue doesn't know what virtues his soldiers are, if you want to say that it's okay to fight a good fight, wave the flag and cheer, let them fight with the powerful bandits, I'm afraid that they will be embarrassed and thrown home.

Cao Wenzhao despised these uneducated and unskilled children from the bottom of his heart, and after contacting them, he had no intention of relying on them to suppress the bandits.

Then they discussed some details before they rested.

In the afternoon of the next day, Mo Li received a report from the soldiers, saying that a group of hundreds of officers and troops had appeared outside the north city gate, but they did not attack the city, but only scolded under the city, and all of them were cavalry.

Mo Li smiled secretly, these officers and soldiers are really naïve, do you think that if you scold me, you will go out of the city to fight, it's really funny.

Mo Li said: "Don't pay attention to him, just tell the horse commander and the brothers to guard the city gate and the four city walls, no matter what they scold, no matter how many people and horses the enemy has, don't open the city to fight!" ”

"Yes!" The soldier took the order.

Mo Li thought about it, but he was still not at ease, and decided to go to the North City Gate to see what was going on in person.

Guan Feng said: "My lord, just go to the last general, you are the commander of the whole army, just command in the center, you don't need to go to the city wall in person, it's dangerous!" ”

Mo Li said dissatisfiedly: "Joke, I'll go to the city tower to observe the enemy's situation, what's the danger?" Besides, we have so many brothers. ”

Guan Feng thought about it, so he called his own soldiers and followed Mo Li to the north gate with Lin Guo and others.

Outside the north gate is an open field, about four or five miles away, is a forest.

Mo Li stood on the city tower and looked at it, but saw that a mile away from the city, hundreds of officers and cavalry were holding swords and guns and scolding loudly in the open space, pointing at the soldiers of the Fuxing Army on the city wall and scolding all kinds of ugly words, the scene was very strange.

In the woods behind, I could vaguely see some heads surging, as if they were ambushing soldiers.

Mo Li looked at it for a while, then turned to Ma Jinzhong and said, "Commander Ma, tell the brothers that they must stick to the city wall and never take the initiative to fight!" Violators will be dealt with by military law! ”

"Yes! Rest assured, the last general will guard the city gate and will never go to battle without permission! Ma Jinzhong said loudly.

Mo Li nodded and said: "Lingchuan City is a high wall, it is easy to attack, and now that the New Year is approaching, these officers and soldiers of the imperial court must not have the heart to fight, and they are bent on going home for reunion, as long as it is delayed for a while, the officers and soldiers will not be able to attack it, and they will retreat." ”

"Your Excellency has a point." Guan Feng echoed: "Especially the ruffians in the Beijing camp, when we entered the king of Jingqin with the superintendent last year, we used to deal with these scumbags, they were as timid as rats, afraid of the enemy and cowardly, and they were simply mud that couldn't support the wall!" ”

Mo Li looked at the officers and soldiers who were scolding vigorously under the city, and couldn't help but think of the time when Cao Bianjiao came to attack Heiyun Village some time ago, he also made people scold the officials and soldiers, but it had little effect.

This Cao Wenzhao is also true, don't you know that the scolding array is no longer popular in this era, and it is not the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang can scold Wang Lang to death.

Suddenly, Mo Limeng remembered that Cao Wenzhao was known as the world's best general, could he not think of anything he could think of? Is there something strange about this?

At this moment, a dense burst of gunfire was suddenly heard from the direction of the south city gate, and even the sound of shouting and killing could be faintly heard.

The original article is here! The officers and troops under the city were just a pretext to attract attention and attract firepower in front, but Cao Wenzhao's real main force quietly bypassed the north city gate and went back to the south city gate to attack the city.

Mo Li figured out this verse, and then ordered: "Guan Feng, Ba Laodao, quickly take the brothers and go to the south gate with me!" ”

At this moment, Cheng Qingzhu is commanding nearly a thousand soldiers to open fire on the officers and soldiers who are constantly pouring under the city.

There are a total of twelve Fran cannons on the tower of the South City Gate, which are roaring incessantly at the moment, and cannonballs are smashing towards the officers and soldiers who are surging like a tide.

Although the armament of the revival army was very strong, because the officers and troops came from the north, in principle, the southern gate was not as important as the northern gate, and the number of troops was smaller than that of the northern gate.

Moreover, most of the soldiers under Cheng Qingzhu's command are newly recruited disaster victims, lacking sufficient training, and most of the soldiers are not very proficient in the operation of flintlock pistols, let alone accurate shooting.

Although most of them were new recruits, the discipline of the Fuxing Army was strict, and the soldiers defending the city were also hurriedly firing at the officers and soldiers under the command of officers at all levels.

Even if the recruits are not on the right track, they can't stand up to such a dense pouring of fire dragons, hundreds of flintlock pistols or arquebuses, plus hundreds of archers to form a network of firepower, even if it is a blind fight, it will hit some extremely unlucky officers and soldiers.

Therefore, from time to time, officers and soldiers were hit by ammunition or shot by long arrows during the charge, and fell down in a miserable howl.

But the other officers and men continued to charge without fear, one after the other. Someone kept falling, and then the soldiers behind stepped on his corpse and continued to advance.

Moreover, the firepower configuration of the officers and troops was not bad, and Cao Wenzhao sent all the chariot battalions under his command to cover the cavalry and infantry attacking the city. Dozens of Fran cannons also smashed at the revival army on the city with angry cannonball flames, and the momentum was very terrifying.

It's just that the soldiers of the Fuxing Army are on the defensive side, with the city wall as a cover, the chance of being shot is naturally smaller, but it has also caused a lot of casualties, after all, Cao Wenzhao has put more than 20,000 troops under his command into this siege battle, such a powerful force gathered in such a small corner of the south city gate to start a battle, the intensity of the firepower can be imagined.

Cao Wenzhao was riding a white horse about two or three miles away from the city at this time, and he finally saw the power of this bandit's firepower, and was deeply shocked by it.

Originally, when Han Chong talked about how powerful the firepower of this bandit was, he was still a little skeptical, in his opinion, bandits are bandits, how can they be more advanced than the equipment of the official army?

But now I can see with my own eyes that their muskets don't need to be ignited at all, and somehow bullets can fly out of the barrels, and the shooting time is much shorter than that of arquebuses.

Well, this bandit must be exterminated as soon as possible, or who will be able to clean them up when they become the climate?