More than 10,000 Manchu men and horses slowly approached the Tiger Pass, of which one-third were cavalry, and the rest were infantry. At the front were the Eight Banners Cavalry, all of which looked mighty and extraordinary.

"Stampede"

The footsteps are getting louder and louder, and the enemy forces are getting closer. However, the guards on the top of the city tower were not afraid of this, because now Liu Xia was waiting with them on the top of the gate, and with Liu Xia's existence, they were not afraid!

On the ancient city wall, a huge brand new yellow dragon flag on a black background flutters in the wind, this flag not only represents the existence of the Pingbei Army, but also represents the courage of the Pingbei Army to protect the homeland in the face of death.

"Archers! The musketeers are ready! "The five hundred musketeers have returned to the Tiger Prison Pass, and at the same time, a thousand people of the pro-guard regiment are equipped with muskets, and the personnel of the munitions department, according to the **recipe provided by Liu Xia, are much more powerful than before. The power of the natural gun is also much greater.

The main thing is that guns only need a month or less to train for shooting, but it is very difficult for a bow and arrow to shoot accurately, and it takes two or three years, or even longer.

"When the enemy came, he repelled them all! Let these Tartars know that our Pingbei Army is not easy to bully!

Azig halted his army five miles from Tiger Prison and then rolled out dozens of cannons from behind. I saw that the swarthy muzzle of the cannon was aimed at the Tiger Prison Tower.

"General! They're going to shell us! ”

Many generals turned their eyes to Liu Xia, Liu Xia frowned, and said, "Wang Xiaotong!" ”

Before Liu Xia's voice fell, Wang Xiaotong squeezed in from behind those generals, and hurriedly said anxiously to Liu Xia: "General, general, they use red-clothed cannons, but they can't beat them, the range of cannons is not so far, they should just scare us." ”

Wang Xiaotong said, and many people breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, after all, more than a dozen cannons bombarded the Tiger Prison Pass together, and the Tiger Prison Pass could not resist even if it was strong.

Liu Xia said coldly: "Since they are like this, then we can't be beaten so passively." Wang Xiaotong, you give the order to go down and push out half of the cannons on the top of the tiger prison to shoot at the counterpoint. ”

"General, why half?"

Liu Xia sneered and said, "How can General Ben not know what is going on in Azig's head? It's just using the cannon attack to find out the number of artillery in my Tiger Prison? Come and don't be rude, since Azig dares to bomb us, then we can't blindly endure it, but we can't completely expose the bottom line, so let's take out half of it first. ”

The generals suddenly realized after hearing this, Wang Xiaotong hurriedly went down to prepare, and now there are forty artillery pieces on the Tiger Prison Pass, including twenty tiger squat cannons and twenty red-coated cannons. The Tiger Squat Cannon is mainly a close-range attack, while the Redcoat Cannon is mainly a ranged attack.

At the same time, the two sides aimed their swarthy cannons filled with pills at each other, and it only took a single order to spit out flames and iron eggs with dozens of earth-shattering sounds.

"Shoot!"

"Boom! Bang! ”

Azig's artillery landed heavily a few hundred meters before it reached the walls of Tiger Prison Pass, blasting a large crater into the ground. At the same time, the red-coated cannons shot out from the Tiger Prison did not hit Azig's camp.

The two armies just fired at each other's cannons, and did not make any further moves.

At the same time on the same day, in the Minxiang area.

Wang Wenkui was frowning in the camp, before he wanted to pull the two defeated generals down and cut them down, but when he was about to cut them, he found that there were not many generals around him, and there was no way for him to lead the troops to fight alone, so he was exempted from the death penalty of the two generals, but the living crime was inescapable. Wang Wenkui made the two of them a hundred boards, which can be regarded as punishing them for the crime of leading troops.

Now the two of them are still in the camp and can't get out of bed, which also aggravates the disgust and anger of the generals towards Wang Wenkui.

At this time, Wang Wenkui had been forced back thirty miles by the soldiers of the Lion Regiment and the New Regiment. Also ten miles away from Wang Wenkui is the camp of the Pingbei Army.

When the Pingbei Army fought with 5,000 men and horses in the north and south, hundreds of men and horses were killed and wounded, and a total of 3,000 enemy troops were captured at the same time. Now the captives have been taken to a camp outside Hangu Pass, and now that the war is not over, these captives cannot be treated normally, and they have to be released to mutiny, so everyone is in a hand and anklet.

These captives will be reformed in the new regiments after the war, and then assigned to the battalions and regiments to replenish the regiments with new blood.

"Lord Governor, the enemy army sent a large number of scouts to hunt down most of the scouts we sent out. We don't know where the enemy is now. ”

A soldier knelt on the ground with his head down, his body trembled a little, he didn't dare to look at Wang Wenkui at all, you must know that Wang Wenkui was slightly dissatisfied with the people in the army, up to the generals, down to the soldiers who wanted to kill them, and beat them if they wanted to, as long as they did not conform to their wishes, they could basically be sentenced to death. This soldier knew that he would not listen to what he said, but he could not help but report, if he did not come to report because he was afraid, he would die even worse when Wang Wenkui found out, and he might even affect his family, and even be accused of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country.

Wang Wenkui's face was dark when he heard this, and the anger went straight from the bottom of his heart to his brain, but he thought that there were not many generals around him, and his life now had to rely on the protection of these generals, so Wang Wenkui suppressed the dissatisfaction in his heart and did not punish this general, so he waved his hand and said: "Go down, go down!" ”

The general didn't expect Wang Wenkui to be so good at talking today, and the heart hanging in his heart finally fell heavily, bowed to Wang Wenkui, and ran out quickly.

"Hmph, dog, when the official returns to Shaanxi and has someone to protect him, and when he is safe, you should all be killed, one by one is not good, if you hadn't corrupted the official's army by thousands, it would not have caused the morale of the army to plummet and become a defeated army."

Wang Wenkui also imposed all his dissatisfaction on these generals, in Wang Wenkui's opinion, these generals are just unwilling to serve him, so they are defeated again and again, they just don't want him Wang Wenkui's official position to be promoted again, that is, to oppose him Wang Wenkui.

The scouts of the Lion Regiment cleaned the Shaanxi army scouts scattered on the field, and after making sure that there was no one, the soldiers of the Lion Regiment and the Recruit Regiment began to quietly approach the Shaanxi army.

Chen Liu's task for them was to force Wang Wenkui to a dead end this time, drive Wang Wenkui out of Min Township, and fight until Tongguan Pass, and then I caught turtles in the urn.

Wang Wenkui didn't know the news that Tongguan had been broken at this time, if he knew that Tongguan had been lost, then Wang Wenkui would have been stunned, because if Tongguan was lost, then he would not be able to go back to Shaanxi, except for the desperate fight of the peaceful northern army, that was surrender, but surrender, Wang Wenkui did not think about it at all.

In a tent near the edge of Wang Wenkui's army, several generals were secretly discussing things at this time.

One of the generals in his forties said: "Wang Wenkui treats us brothers like this, why do we still have to fight for him? Since Wang Wenkui's old immortal came to Shaanxi, I don't know how many brothers who were born and died before were killed by him in various names, so we might as well surrender to the Pingbei Army! After all, the Pingbei Army is also the army of the Han people, and there are many troops in the Pingbei Army who surrendered before, and now they are all mixed well. ”

"Alas, let's take a look again, see if the Pingbei army can withstand the attack of Azig and Duoduo's 100,000 army, if Liu Xia can't stop the 100,000 army in the Tiger Prison Pass, even if we surrender Liu Xia, what's the point? In the end, will he become a prisoner of the Qing army again? Moreover, and it was an army of 100,000, Liu Xia's army deployed in Tiger Prison Pass must be less than 20,000, and it was a little difficult to block the 100,000 army! ”

"What Lao Qiao said is reasonable, if we surrender now, maybe we will become prisoners of the Qing army again in a few days, and this time the Qing army will capture us again, maybe we will not have the good luck to continue to serve as generals in the army as last time. Maybe the Qing army will behead us all in a fit of rage. ”

"Yes, we surrender to survive, if we can't survive, what are we going to surrender for?"

"Okay, everyone be quiet, don't be listened to by Wang Wenkui, you must know that not only our army is in this army, but also Wang Wenkui's descendants of 2,000 people."

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps outside, and the people inside the tent suddenly stopped talking.

I only heard a voice from outside: "General, the general is urgent!" ”

"Urgent? Could it be that the Pingbei Army is attacking again? Come on! ”

"General Hui, I just got the news that the Pingbei Army is only three miles away from our camp. Wait a while, and the Pingbei army will attack. ”

"What! Why didn't you come and report earlier! What do you scouts eat! How to wait until the enemy hits the door and then find out! ”

The scout was also full of grievances, and said: "General Hui, it's not that the little ones don't inquire about the news, it's just that the enemy army sent a large number of scouts and killed all the scouts of our army, so we can't find out the specific actions of the Pingbei Army at all." ”

"How is this good, come on, hurry up and blow the horn for battle! At the same time, at the same time, I went to inform Wang Wen...... Your Excellency the Governor. ”

"Yes!"

"Woo woo woo ~ ~~"

The horn is in the sky, and the loess is flying. Thousands of Pingbei troops attacked from afar, black uniforms like guards of death, coming to reap lives.

"The Pingbei Army is here! The Pingbei Army is coming! ”

From time to time there were shouts in the barracks.

"Quick, quick, defend! Can't let them break through the wooden walls! ”

"Kill !!"