Mo Youjing, who is thirty years old, was born in a military household in Gansu, and his appearance is not good, short and stocky, and his face is black and red. Ｘ

In terms of appearance, he is not as tall and powerful as Liu Zhaoji, dignified in appearance, handsome, and lucky, as soon as he graduated from Wutang, he was appointed by the emperor to become the military attache of the imperial attendant, and a few months later, he served as the deputy commander of Tian Cewei, and also obtained the female official in the palace beside the queen as he wished.

In terms of eloquence, Mo Youjing is not smiling and silent on weekdays, nor is he like Lu Hualin, the commander of the Gongwei Division, who is also one of the commanders of the Four Divisions of Tiance Guard, who is exquisitely and articulate.

Therefore, since this Mo Youjing was appointed by the emperor to enter the Tiance Guard, and became the commander of the main army of the Tian Ce Guard, he has never been inconspicuous.

Although there is nothing particularly outstanding and does not stand out in front of the emperor quickly, it is definitely impossible to find fault with the office.

However, after working together for so long, Liu Zhaoji knows how powerful this Mo Hejing is in governing the army and leading the troops.

Compared with the Guerrilla Division, where everyone is competitive and brave and fierce, the Regular Soldier Division is 500 people like one person, Wen Drum is like a wall, no one dares to look back, Wen Jin is like a wall and retreats, no one dares to take the lead.

In this regard, Liu Zhaoji, who has always been very high-spirited, also admits that he can't do this.

On the morning of 29 May, 5,000 Yi and Miao native soldiers led by Shuixi Tuguan Wu Huo collided headlong with such a thick iron plate.

Tushuai Anlong stood at the head of the east gate of Shuixi, personally commanded the men and horses to squeak open the city gate, and then watched the five thousand most elite Yi Miao native soldiers under his command, quietly go out of the city in the early morning mist, and slowly approach the camp of the official army not far away.

In his mind, as long as 5,000 Yi Miao native soldiers, who were good at hand-to-hand combat, attacked the camp of the official army, then the more than 2,000 Han officers and soldiers who arrived under Shuixi City a few days ago would be dead.

Fifty steps, one hundred steps, one hundred and fifty steps.

Seeing the Yi Miao native soldiers under his command rushing out of the city gate, in groups, getting closer and closer to the camp of the official army, while the official army in the fog on the opposite side did not move, An Long's hanging heart finally relaxed.

However, just as a pleased smile appeared on his face, in the official barracks opposite, there was a sudden "bang" The sound of fire came out.

"Are the officers and soldiers ready?"

Before the smile on An Long's face bloomed, it immediately froze again, and his heart suddenly hung up.

Of course, the officers and the army are prepared.

More than 1,000 people under Wang Guozhen's command have been building camps until the second half of the night, during which Liu Zhaoji, Mo and the Tiance guards under the command of Jing all set up tents on the mountain road behind the camp and rested quickly.

In the second half of the night, just after the ugly hour, the camp was roughly built, Liu Zhaoji and Wang Guozhen changed shifts, and let the Guizhou soldiers under Wang Guozhen, who had worked hard for almost a night, go to rest, while he and Mo Youjing, together with Tian Cewei's men and horses, hurriedly ate dry food and entered the camp.

The camp was also simple, with only a half-man high earthen wall, except for the small watchtowers on both sides, and a fence lined with earthen walls, and shallow ditches that could hardly be used outside the earthen fence.

This is distributed on both sides of the earthen wall, because otherwise there will not be enough earth and stone to build a half-man's high earthen wall.

is such a fortress with earthen walls and fences, in the eyes of An Long, Wu Huo and others, it can be taken in one go, but in the eyes of Liu Zhaoji and Mo Youjing, it is enough to hold on.

On the concave front, about 400 paces, Mo and the 500 musketeers under the command of Jing were all leaning against the earthen wall, sitting with their guns in their hands, closing their eyes and resting, waiting for the enemy who might attack the camp.

Of the 500 rangers under the direct command of Liu Zhaoji, 400 continued to rest in the battalion, and a team of 100 musketeers was assigned to keep watch and watch near the watchtower and fence at any time.

And in the larger gap where the earthen wall fence can flow out, every dozen steps, is a small tiger squat cannon of more than 100 catties.

The six-hundred-pound general cannon, of course, Liu Zhaoji and Mo Youjing had no way to carry it over the mountains and mountains with the army just by manpower, but the small tiger squat cannon of more than 100 catties was brought in by Mo Youjing.

The tiger squat cannon weighing more than 100 catties is naturally useless for attacking the city, but it is a sharp weapon to defend such a simple camp.

This is also where Liu Zhaoji and Mo Youjing dare to be so confident.

When Tiance Guard was on duty in the Forbidden City, of course, he was not equipped with heavy firearms such as artillery.

Because their function is basically to protect the holy car, there is no need to equip them with artillery at all.

But that doesn't mean they don't know the importance of artillery, or that they haven't been trained in loading, handling, and firing artillery.

After all, the main force of Tiance Guard was formed from elite men who were proficient in firearms from the old Shenji Battalion, and they had also undergone rigorous training in the first town of the Tongzhou Luhewan Guard.

After following Wang Yinghua, who came to deliver the decree, to Guiyang, Liu Zhaoji saw that there were still so many general cannons and tiger squat cannons in Guiyang, so he immediately put forward his own suggestions to Zhu Xieyuan.

So the general cannon and the tiger squat cannon were quickly allocated to the Tiance Guard brought by Liu Zhaoji for use with the army.

Today, the post road leading from the valley to Shuixi City has not yet been restored, and Liu Zhaoji and Mo Youjing can only carry relatively light and easy-to-carry tiger squat guns to Shuixi City.

Since taking over the defense in the second half of the night, Liu Zhaoji, Mo and Jing have been waiting with great anticipation for the Shuixi defenders in the city to attack.

Just when Liu Zhaoji was secretly disappointed in his heart, thinking that all his calculations were about to fail, he suddenly heard a crisp gunshot from the watchtower in the distance.

It was an alarm he had agreed with the musketeers and rangers who were on the lookout!

Those guerrillas on the watchtower, who have a clairie mirror that only military generals of Liu Zhaoji's level can have, will sound a warning when they find the enemy army leaving the city, and fire a warning gun when they find that the enemy army has entered within 100 steps.

Therefore, hearing this gunshot, Liu Zhaoji stood up and immediately shouted:

"The enemy has robbed the camp! Get ready for battle! Enemy raids! Get ready for battle! ”

Liu Zhaoji's loud shout soon spread throughout the small camp.

Mo Youjing, who was resting with a gun, turned over and got up, and orders were passed down one after another.

The 500 musketeers of the Tiance Guard Division also turned over, took advantage of the situation to put the muskets in their hands directly on the earthen wall, took a kneeling position to shoot, and lined up along the concave earthen wall.

The men and horses of the Tiance Guard Rangers Division, who were scattered in the camp to rest, also immediately got up and rushed with guns, and behind the five hundred musketeers of the regular soldiers, they took the posture of standing with flat-ended muskets, and stood behind the earthen fence to form a human wall.

The hundreds of musketeers who would be patrolling the sentry before also performed their duties, responsible for controlling the ten tiger squat cannons whose muzzles were directly mounted on the earthen walls.

At the same time, the sound of dispatching troops and arranging troops in the official barracks also reached the ears of Wu Xu, who was walking in front of the camp with a rattan machete in hand.

When Wu Yu followed An Bangyan to besiege Guiyang City, he had seen the firearms of the official army, and knew that Fang Cai's sound must be the gunfire of the official army.

At this time, I heard the shouts in the official camp not far away, and immediately knew that the officers and soldiers had discovered the men and horses under their command, so they no longer covered it up, but gave a loud order: "Rush with me!" Kill the officers and soldiers! ”

The Shuixi Yi Miao native soldiers have always dared not disobey the orders of the Tusi head, and at this time, their own side is in groups, and there are many people, and they have no scruples.

At this time, Liu Zhaoji and Mo and Kyoto were holding muskets, standing on the inside of the earthen wall, looking through the fence and watching the enemy rushing in the mist in the distance.

Suddenly, there was another banging of gunfire from the watchtower.

This is the alarm for the enemy advance to come within fifty paces.

With this gunshot, Mo Youjing immediately ordered: "Prepare the musket, fire!" ”

The front of the four hundred steps wide is densely packed with a total of 1,000 Chongzhen one-style flintlock muskets in the front and rear layers, Mo Youjing gave an order, only to hear the sound of gunfire bang, and the white gunpowder smoke is comparable to a thick fog, blocking the sight of both the enemy and us.

Just when the official musketeers finished a round, paused for a short time, and loaded their ammunition, Mo Youjing ordered again: "Prepare the artillery, fire!" ”

In the ten tiger squat cannons, they are all loaded with scattered bullets, and they will be dispersed immediately after they are shot, and the scattered bullets fired by a tiger squat cannon can cover the front of exactly ten steps.

The Shui Sina Wei Tuguan Wu Xu, who was in front of the charge, was killed in the way of the charge when the first round of muskets was fired.

However, the Shuixi Yi Miao native soldiers, who had lost their command, not only did not stop, but moved forward more courageously.

In the mist that had not yet dissipated in the morning, the officers and soldiers in front of them continued to attack.

The rattan plaques they were holding could not stop the fire of musket projectiles or artillery projectiles at a distance of fifty paces.

As the muskets and tiger squat cannons rang out in turn, groups of Yi Miao native soldiers,