"My lord, what is wrong with us following the emperor's will and retreating to Datong Mansion?"

In the Datong Mansion, all the civil officials and military generals above the fifth rank gathered together.

On the seat headed by Geng Ruqi, he stroked his beard, and his face was solemn.

The emperor ordered all the forts and fortified walls to retreat to Datong Mansion, and it was impossible for Geng Ruqi, as the governor of a province, not to know about such a big move.

"May I ask Li Qianhu, have you ever witnessed the content of the holy decree with your own eyes?"

"This..." Li Qianhu was frightened into a cold sweat, as soon as he heard that the Tatar army of 100,000 was about to go south, he retreated south with people without saying a word, as for the content of the holy decree, he really didn't confirm it.

"Are you guilty?" Geng Ruqi said in a deep voice.

"The last general... What will be the sin in the end? Li Qianhu also wanted to argue, after all, he didn't do it alone, all the forts in the entire Datong Mansion did it.

It's wrong, the law doesn't blame the public, and he can't do anything to him.

Besides, even if he hadn't confirmed the truth of the decree, he wasn't guilty.

Because doubting the truth of the decree is a sin in itself.

"Stubborn, come on."

Geng Ruqi was furious, these people didn't even know the truth of the holy decree, so they retreated with the soldiers and the people, making the whole Shanxi people panic.

As the governor of a province, Geng Ruqi cannot escape the blame.

If the emperor blames him, he will bear the brunt and will be removed from office and investigated.

He must not carry this pot, if he does, Yi Chongzhen's urine will not let him go.

"Newspaper, beacon warning, Tartar hundreds of thousands of troops pressed the border."

As soon as Geng Ruqi was about to dispose of Li Qianhu, a spy came to report.

His face froze, and without saying a word, he ran out of the county government and went up to the city tower to watch.

I saw that the beacon fire of the warning stretched for several miles, and the wolf smoke was everywhere.

The sentinels who stayed behind at the beacon rode back, and hundreds of Tartars howled behind them, teasing them like cats and mice.

Because of their well-made horses, they ran fast, and from time to time laughed and shot a few arrows.

Whenever they shot arrows, a sergeant would fall from their horses.

Geng Ruqi's eyes were split, and he shouted angrily: "Open the cannon, shoot them for me." ”

"My lord, it's not yet in range." Zhang Honggong stepped forward and bowed and said.

Geng Ruqi's face sank, and he clung to the city wall.

Zhang Honggong, who was behind him, stared at the chasing Tartar, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he shouted: "Open the cannon." ”

"Bang Bang Bang~"

The dull sound of the red-coated cannon sounded, and the chasing Tartar seemed to have expected it, and suddenly turned his horse's head and rode away to the sides.

The cannon was still fired at the same angle, missing a single Tartar.

"Hahaha..."

The Tartars laughed and stripped several of the sergeants who had survived the arrows and dragged them back and forth on their horses.

"My lord, the last general will ask for battle." Li Qianhu looked at the arrogant appearance of the Tartars, glared angrily, and knelt on the ground to ask for battle.

"The last general will fight."

"The last general will fight."

On the city wall, so the military attachés above the fifth rank knelt down to ask for battle, and Geng Ruqi squinted his eyes and looked at the tartars under the city.

He felt that these Tartars were provoking him to abandon the fortified city and open the door to a field battle.

"Look, look, a lot of tartars."

Sure enough, as he expected.

In the north, there were more and more tartars, forming a sea of people, and from the city wall, there was no end as far as the eye could see.

"Hiss~" The generals who had just invited to fight gasped, for fear that Geng Ruqi would send them out.

With so many people, how can this be fought?

There are only a few hundred Tartar sentries under the city, and they can be destroyed by dispatching a thousand horsemen at will, but now it's different.

There are not 100,000 Tartars all over the mountains, but 50,000 or 60,000.

The enemy army pressed the border, Geng Ruqi, the governor of Shanxi, was their backbone, and at this moment, both civil officials and military generals were looking at him, waiting for him to give an order.

"The whole city is preparing for war, fighting to the death and not retreating, there are those who dare to shake the heart of the army, they will not be spared, and those who dare to delay the fighter plane will be killed, and the garrison of Shanxi will be ordered to come to the aid of Datong as soon as possible, and the message will be sent to the Beijing Division, and the military situation in Datong is critical."

Geng Ruqi calmly gave the order, and everyone took the order and left.

In fact, Geng Ruqi was very panicked in his heart, if Datong was lost, he would be considered to have lived to the end, so Datong could not be lost.

"The Tartar army is pressing, the momentum is huge, we can't retreat, otherwise my Ming will be ruined, I Geng Ruqi implore all the princes to work together to fight the enemy thieves!"

Geng Ruqi looked around, looked at the panicked crowd, bowed ninety degrees and said.

"The city is in the people, and the city is dead!" In response, Zhang Honggong drew his saber, pointed at the sky with his blade, and shouted loudly.

"The city is in the people, and the city is dead!" The sergeants defending the city shouted loudly after him, and the shouts of tens of thousands of sergeants were like the waves of the sea, and the waves were turbulent.

Geng Ruqi stroked his beard and looked at the sergeants with satisfaction, he had no regrets in this life if he could die in battle with this group of sergeants.

"Woo woo woo~"

The Tartars blew their horns, the cavalry lined up, the infantry followed closely with siege ladders, followed by the siege trebuchets, the ballistas, and the last little more the tiger squat cannons that the Tartars did not know where to go.

The Tartars did not attack on horseback, but the cavalry kept running back and forth, raising gusts of loess and obscuring the view of everyone on the city walls.

It didn't take long for the Tartars to move.

They are like a surging torrent, coming over the mountains and mountains.

The sergeants on the city wall were all short of breath when they saw this.

Geng Ruqi tried to calm his emotions, he stroked his beard steadily with one hand, and kept shaking with the other behind his back.

"Can you fire?" Geng Ruqi asked flatly.

"Fire!" The gunner swallowed and shouted nervously,

Zhang Honggong, who was behind Geng Ruqi, looked at the overwhelming Tartars and did not answer him immediately.

By the time he could react, the nervous artillerymen had already ignited.

"Bang Bang Bang~"

Each redcoat cannon is operated by four gunners, and after firing, it is quickly cleared, loaded with ammunition, and fired again.

Although the red-coated cannon has a long range and great power, this thing is also expensive, so Datong Mansion is only equipped with ten.

More often than not, the Franc cannon, due to its high mobility and quick reloading, can be ignited immediately as long as the sub-gun is inserted.

Therefore, the most on the city wall are still the Franc cannons.

However, the range of the Franc cannon was not as far as that of the cardinal cannon.

At this moment, the sergeants on the city wall were all watching the red-coated cannons, hoping that the red-coated cannons would be able to repel the tartars.

Ten fiery cannons, with a puff of smoke, rushed into the cavalry ranks of the Tartars at great speed.

With a bang, an iron ball blew up the head of a Tartar and castrated, smashed the horse's leg of the Tartar behind it, and after reaching the ground, it bounced a few times and smashed through the cavalry's foot soldiers carrying the siege ladder.

Ten cannons, with a speed visible to the naked eye, drew ten long blood-red lines in the Tartar array.

The sergeants on the ramparts cheered, nervously waiting for them to get within reach of the Fran cannons.

"Boom~Boom~"

There were too many Franc cannons, and the sound caused by the simultaneous firing of these Franc cannons was continuous, plus the Franc cannons had many sub-guns, and the rate of fire was fast, and the cannon sounded like thunder for a while, endlessly.

The cavalry vanguard of the Tartars suddenly turned on their backs, and the foot soldiers behind the cavalry were even broken with ladders.

"Dangdang~"

The Tartar siege was blocked, and Mingjin withdrew his troops and retreated.

"The Tartars are back!"

"The Tartars are back!"

The soldiers on the city walls were thunderous, and the battle was short and brutal.

In such a short period of time, more than 1,000 people were injured by the Tartars.

Geng Ruqi stared at the retreating Tartars, they were methodical and unorganized, and they did not forget to take the corpses of their fellow clansmen with them when they left.

He knew that the battle had just begun, and that the Tartars were only tempting.