Wanli 1592

Chapter 866 The cold wind is rustling
Deng Zilong is eating hot pot comfortably, while Li Wen is waiting in the cold wind.

Half an hour, not coming.

An hour later, still not coming.

The sound became louder every time, and the movement became louder, but no one came.

People kept looking at those senior candidates with very resentful eyes, and fine beads of sweat oozed from their foreheads, but they dared not let go.

Li Wen himself knows that if the rebels really want to play with them, what if they go to sleep and the rebels kill them?

Niu Bingzhong came back from the outside to appease the army, and reported to Li Wen very embarrassed.

"Governor, don't we wait any longer, it's almost an ugly hour, and the rebels still haven't called, are they just harassing our army?"

Li Wen didn't speak, and a senior officer opened his mouth to refute Niu Bingzhong: "Niu Zongbing, how do you know that the rebels are not trying to harass our army to let our army relax their vigilance and attack our army? What if we all go to sleep, the rebels But suddenly you called, what do you tell us to do? Just sit and wait for death?"

Niu Bingzhong wondered: "But now it's cold outside, the wind is howling, the soldiers' clothes are not thick, and there are many people who are shivering from the cold, and there is a lot of resentment. The general is afraid that this will damage the morale of the army, and it will not be conducive to fighting! "

Li Wen thought for a while.

"Tell the Huotou army to boil hot water and distribute it to the sergeants. The more this is the case, the more sleepy you are, the more you can't relax your vigilance and go to sleep. The rebels may kill us at any time. If we relax our vigilance, we will lose everything. Niu Zongbing, the rebels can afford to lose, but we cannot afford to lose!"

Li Wen stared at Niu Bingzhong, and Niu Bingzhong had no choice but to agree to leave and let the Huotou army boil hot water.

Leaving the house lit with charcoal fire, a gust of cold wind blew in. Niu Bingzhong couldn't help tightening his robe. Looking around, there were many soldiers shivering from the cold. In order to keep out the cold, a large number of soldiers huddled together To keep warm, I have to stay outside to blow the air in this cold night, what if I get sick?

Zhang Yanshou, Niu Bingzhong's deputy chief soldier, followed up from behind and asked, "General soldier, what does the governor say? Can you let the brothers go back? If this continues, these brothers probably won't even think about going on their way tomorrow. They will be sleepy." died."

Niu Bingzhong sighed.

"Ask the fire head to boil some hot water for these brothers! The governor said to wait until the rebels come to attack."

"Continue to wait?"

Zhang Yanshou said in surprise: "It's so cold, what's the use of just a bowl of hot water? It's as if you didn't wear these winter clothes. The brothers are almost frozen, wait? Those rebels are just here Are you harassing us to prevent us from getting a good night's sleep? How can we fight in such a dark night? They also want to sleep, right?"

Niu Bingzhong shook his head.

"What's the use of saying this to me? I want to believe it, but the governor doesn't want to. This is not in Ningxia. There are people in charge. Keep your mouth shut and stop yelling, do you hear me?"

Zhang Yanshou closed his mouth helplessly, sighed and left.

Niu Bingzhong also sighed deeply, looking at the soldiers shivering from the cold, his brows were furrowed.

At four o'clock in the ugly hour, the shouts of killing gods and the sound of war drums sounded again, and the soldiers in the city were almost numb, not only mentally numb, but also physically numb from the cold. Basically, there was no movement, almost the same as before. Around the time of Xiang, the sound of the war drums disappeared again, and the silence was restored again.

Then Niu Bingzhong heard the sound of many soldiers around him sneezing, one after another, and many soldiers complaining.

Looking at the current situation, Niu Bingzhong couldn't bear it anymore. When he came to the room where Li Wen was, he begged Li Wen: "Governor, please allow the general to lead troops out of the city to look for the enemy! Continue to be beaten like this." If the harassment continues, the morale of the army will be low, and the morale of the army will be unstable, and the battle will be weak, so please agree with the governor!"

Before Li Wen could answer, a senior officer shouted angrily: "Out of the city? Out of what city? The rebel army has set up a net outside the city. As soon as you go out of the city and light a torch, the rebel army will be able to see you, a shower of arrows How can you take the initiative to attack when you don’t even know how you died?”

Niu Bingzhong said with red eyes: "But the sergeants outside are shivering from the cold wind, and they can't stand it anymore. If this continues, a large number of soldiers will get sick, and their combat effectiveness will drop sharply, which will be bad for future battles, Governor!"

"Presumptuous! How can you speak like this in front of the governor? You are clearly unwilling to work for the governor!"

That high-ranking student took off his hat as soon as he took it off.

"Can't stand it after only one night? What does the imperial court support you for?"

Another senior participant continued to criticize.

"You are clearly greedy for life and afraid of death!"

Another high-ranking member followed closely behind.

"You fart! It's not you who are starving and freezing in the cold wind outside! You will roll back after staying outside for a quarter of an hour!"

Niu Bingzhong couldn't help it, he sprayed it back, which immediately aroused the fury of the senior participants, who opened their mouths to spit out a sentence of unbearable words, how could Niu Bingzhong be the opponent of so many people?

In the end, Li Wen couldn't stand it any longer. He slapped the table and shouted angrily, "Shut up! This is a battlefield! This is not a vegetable market! Is it a place for you to shirk responsibility from each other? It's ridiculous!"

As soon as Li Wen made a sound, no one else dared to speak out, then Li Wen looked at Niu Bingzhong with red eyes, and said coldly: "I have ordered the Huotou army to boil hot water for the soldiers to keep out the cold. When soldiers are needed, raise soldiers for a thousand days and use them for a while, if you can’t do this little thing well, what’s the use of you?”

Niu Bingzhong closed his eyes in pain.

"You will know your mistakes in the end."

Finally, he said this.

"It's good to know the mistake, don't make it again! Go down!"

Niu Bingzhong thanked him and stood up, then left the house.

After Niu Bingzhong left, the senior participants said some ugly words in a few words, which made Li Wen frowned.

"Enough! Don't talk anymore! If you have the time, why don't you go to the city wall to see what's going on outside! It's been more than two hours, why haven't the rebels come to attack?"

Senior Candidates, you look at me, I look at you, no one knows what to say, Li Wen got angry when he saw it, and directly ordered three high-level Candidates to go to the city wall to check the situation.

In this way, until dawn, there was no sound of shouting for killing gods and war drums outside the city, and the army in the city waited until dawn under Li Wen's order, and then Li Wen sent people out of the city to look, and searched the surrounding area. I didn't see any troops, only a large number of traces of being trampled in the middle of the forest, which proved that the rebels had come.

The rebels came, but never attacked, that is the only conclusion.

Faced with this conclusion, Li Wen didn't know how he was feeling, but one or two of the senior officers were full of words, "The governor's defense is good, the rebels only dare to make noise and dare not attack. It's because our army defended properly." The reason for this” made Li Wen feel a little confused.

Whether he did the right thing or did the wrong thing, Li Wen didn't have much feeling in his heart.

But the next bad situation caught Li Wen by surprise.

(End of this chapter)