After a long three-day journey, the last cavalry to announce the decree finally returned.

He reported what he had seen and heard on the Great Wall to Wang Zezhi, and Wang Zezhi was silent for a long time after listening to it.

In the end, he stared at the inscription in his hand, which was sent by Geng Ruqi, asking him to go to support Datong.

Wang Zezhi got up in a hurry, and he decided to organize people to support Datong.

He took the newly formed more than 1,000 cavalry as the vanguard and hurried frantically.

However, all the roads to Datong were patrolled by Tartar rangers, and it was difficult for his cavalry to break through the blockade.

Wang Zezhi didn't want to take the risk, so he went to Xi'an Fort, which was fifty miles away from Datong Mansion.

This fort is surrounded by mountains and rivers, the terrain is dangerous, and it is a good place to defend the city.

The soldiers and civilians here have been evacuated, and Wang Zezhi easily occupied this place.

After he came to Xi'an Fort, he observed the terrain everywhere, ordered the sergeants to dig trenches on the spot, put thistles on the spot, and when it was dark the next day, the second group of sergeants rushed over with light supplies.

As soon as these people arrived, they dug trenches, laid traps, and buried gunpowder according to Wang Zezhi's instructions.

By the third day, most of the men had arrived.

After these years of development, the real people under Wang Zezhi's command have reached more than 5,000 people.

It's just that there are some bandits who are guarding everywhere, and these people have been called back at this moment.

In addition to leaving 1,000 elite guards, Wang Zezhi brought out all the remaining 4,000 soldiers.

In addition to the sergeant, he also brought enough food and grass, and of course artillery was indispensable.

He had in his hand a red-coat cannon, fifty furlong cannons, and fifteen tiger squat cannons, which were captured from Wenju and also from loaches.

He left the red-coated cannons, fifteen furlong machine guns, and five tiger squat cannons in the battalion, and brought out all the other artillery, which was thirty-five furlong machine guns, ten tiger squat cannons, and more than enough to defend a county town.

After four days, Wang Zezhi finally arranged the position of Xi'an Fort, and after doing these things, Wang Zezhi began to listen to the information collected by the sentinels who stayed in Datong Mansion.

In the past few days, the Tartars have stormed Datong Mansion several times, although they have climbed the city wall several times, and even blasted through the north and south gates with artillery, but the soldiers defending the city are extremely tenacious and kill them again and again.

The Tartars were so angry that they stripped the women and people who were coming from all over the city, put their heads on the ground, and buried them in a row in the ground, thus angering the soldiers who defended the city.

The soldiers defending the city finally couldn't bear it anymore under this stimulus and lined up outside the north gate to meet the enemy.

Geng Ruqi followed Zhang Honggong's advice, relying on the artillery and bows on the city wall to support, and the front row was equipped with shield carts and muskets to block the Tartar cavalry charge.

The shield array was followed by a musket team composed of three-eyed guns, followed by spear and shield soldiers, sword and shield soldiers, so as to ensure that the city gate was foolproof.

Geng Ruqi listened to Zhang Honggong's suggestion, and his confidence increased greatly, and the other soldiers also praised him.

The soldiers defending the city met the battle with angry soldiers, and Lin Dan Khan was a little impatient.

Because, he originally wanted to come here to plunder some population, grain and grass, but he wanted to implement the strategy of clearing the wilderness in the entire Datong Mansion, but he had nothing to gain.

Lin Dan Khan, who originally did not have much food and grass, had already had the intention of retreating, so he had to fight this battle quickly.

Seeing them go out of the city to meet the enemy, Lin Dan Khan could no longer suppress his desire to fight, and ordered to start charging.

The battle between Lin Dan Khan's tens of thousands of elite cavalry and the angry defenders began.

"Bang Bang Bang~"

The artillery on the ramparts was the first to bombard.

However, Lin Dan Khan's cavalry was too many, and the speed of the cavalry was fast, and they soon rushed into the range of muskets.

The musketeers behind the shield carts began to shoot in turns, with four musketeers behind each shield cart, reloading ammunition as they fired.

However, they underestimated the speed of the cavalry.

With just a dozen breaths, the cavalry rushed into the shield car formation, and the car was destroyed and killed in an instant.

The shotgunners behind the shield cart were slaughtered by the cavalry in a frenzy.

In less than half a pillar of incense, the shield car array was destroyed, and the musketeers behind the shield were all killed, and the three-eyed gun was also slaughtered in a round of attacks before it could shoot a single attack.

Immediately afterwards, the cavalry began to frantically charge the spear and shield soldiers. Rape Chinese

When the first row of cavalry rushed in, the men and horses smashed on the spears in front of the shield.

The cavalry's momentum stagnated, and the pikemen behind the shield raised their spears one after another, and the battle was very miserable.

In just one day, the Tartars lost more than 10,000 men, and the losses of the defending sergeants were equally heavy.

On that day, except for Zhang Honggong and Geng Ruqi, all the civil and military generals above the fifth rank were killed in battle.

The reason why the two of them survived was because Geng Ruqi had a Fubiao camp of more than 2,000 people, and Zhang Honggong had his more than 5,000 Jin troops to defend to the death.

The two of them fought until the combined forces of less than 2,000 survived.

The Tartars stormed the north gate and slaughtered the city, and the soldiers of the city fought hard to intercept it and entered the fierce street fighting.

Until this time, the Tartars had already attacked the Kuixing Tower in Datong Mansion.

With Kuixinglou as the boundary, the Tartars occupied the north of the city, and the defending soldiers occupied the south of the city, and the men and horses on both sides entered a tug-of-war with each other.

Lin Dan Khan saw that he was about to capture Datong Mansion, and he didn't want to retreat even if there was not enough food and grass.

Otherwise, when he went south this time, he neither captured the grain and grass, nor captured the Datong Mansion, which would be a joke in the city, which would have detracted from his majesty.

Therefore, Lin Dan Khan concentrated all the troops besieging the city to the north gate and concentrated his forces to attack Datong Mansion.

On the other side, Geng Ruqi and Zhang Honggong held Datong Mansion to the death, because Lin Dan Khan withdrew the Tartar soldiers who surrounded the south gate.

Reinforcements from various prefectures and counties that came to support one after another were able to enter the city from the south gate to join the battle, and the two sides fell into a stalemate for a while.

Wang Zezhi listened to the report and fell into deep thought, he is more than fifty miles away from Datong Mansion here, should he give up Xi'an Fort and join the defense of Datong Mansion?

After careful consideration, he decided to hold on to the Xi'an Fort and attract some of the Tartars to come and besiege it in order to relieve the pressure on Datong Mansion.

However, how to lure the Tartar soldiers to come became a problem, and he had to call his generals for a small meeting.

"My lord, I'm going to fight." When Wang Zezhi was distressed, Tuomu volunteered and came to ask for battle.

"You? Is there any way you can lure the Tartar over? Wang Zezhi asked suspiciously.

"Our Tatar and Son are only Jin Lin Dan Batur is a feud, obey the rules of the grassland, under the witness of the immortal heaven, if I challenge him, he must fight, otherwise he is a coward and will be spurned by the warriors of the grassland." Tuomu said with hatred.

Wang Zeyi was stunned, there was still this kind of rule, he really didn't know, he had never seen this kind of rule in any history book.

"Okay, I'll give you five hundred fine horsemen, and you go and bring the Tartar soldiers over." Wang Zezhi no longer hesitated, and immediately ordered.

For no other reason, the situation in Datong Mansion is critical, and it can no longer wait, and there is a danger of falling if it continues to wait.

Therefore, whether what Tuomu said was true or not, he had to give it a try, even if it was a dead horse as a live horse doctor.

"Yes."

Dragged the wood and left.

It took them three hours to finally arrive at Datong Mansion.

I saw that the Datong Mansion was raging, and the shouts of killing were everywhere.

Dragged the wood and galloped towards the station where Lin Dan Khan was.

"Stop, who's who?"

The Tartar sentry looked at the Mongol in his eyes and asked in Mongolian.

Although they didn't take direct action for the sake of their fellow Mongols, they still looked at the mop wood vigilantly.

Tuomu said in Mongolian: "I am a warrior of the steppe, Tatar Tuomu, under the witness of the Immortal Heaven, I want to challenge the stingy, greedy and timid son of Lin Dan Batur, will he, a coward, dare to fight?" ”

The Tartar Sentry wiped his complexion and immediately turned back to report it.

A moment later, Lin Dan Khan walked out of the camp and personally led a large army to suppress him, and he wanted to wipe out the five hundred people of Tuomu in an instant, only in this way could he establish his prestige.

"Kill!"

Seeing Lin Dan Khan rushing towards him, Tuomu shot an arrow, turned his horse's head and headed towards Xi'an Fort.

After Lin Dan Khan saw that his cavalry vanguard had fallen from his horse with an arrow, he felt that his majesty had been seriously challenged, and he angrily led 10,000 men in desperate pursuit.