The two legs compete with the four legs of the Tatar cavalry, which is like a tortoise racing against a rabbit, but the tortoise starts first, and it depends on who reaches the finish line first.

After trotting all the way, the Yulin Acropolis is in sight, and the end is approaching.

In the end, the officers and men of the Beijing battalion who escorted them had to shout the trumpet to move forward, because the carriage was too heavy to drag the artillery, and some of them had to go up to push it by hand, which greatly slowed down the speed of the march.

"It's okay, it's okay, the bridge over the moat is still there, hurry up, hurry up."

Song Shu also knew that he was in a hurry at this time, he secretly complained to himself in his heart, why didn't he listen to that kid again, and rushed overnight last night? This is good, I have to pick up my life and play it, and I don't know if I am in a hurry until the Tatar butts chase after me...... It's just in time!

Shen Xi sat in the carriage and kept looking back at the road from the carriage window, and reported that the Tatar cavalry had been chasing, but at the moment, it seemed that the Tatars were not so fast, and it was estimated that there were still one or twenty miles to go.

After seeing the east gate of Yulinwei, and even the three big characters of "Zhenwu Gate" on the city gate could be clearly read, the officers and soldiers were already glad that they had escaped death.

But before they reached the city gate, the arrows on the city were waiting first, so that a group of soldiers did not dare to come forward.

"Hurry up and spread the news, just say that we are from the Beijing camp, and escort Lord Qincha and the artillery to arrive."

Song Shu rode on his horse and raised his head to shout to the city tower. At this time, he hated to fly over the city wall and enter the city, but unfortunately it backfired, and the defenders in the city did not buy it.

Although you people are wearing the uniforms of the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers, the Tatars disguised as the Ming officers and soldiers have cheated more than once or twice, even if I don't open the city gate, no one will blame me, otherwise who will lose the city?

Song Shu was annoyed and scolded loudly...... Have you ever seen a Tatar running all the way with a cannon?

The little colonel on duty at the head of the city hesitated a little, and poked out his hair and said that he would send someone to report immediately, but as for whether the top would let him go, he didn't know.

Song Shu was annoyed when he heard this, and made up his mind that after entering the city, he would arrest these guys in the city and torture them, where did Lao Tzu look like a Tatar?

"Open the city gate, the Beijing camp is coming, open the city gate!"

After about a quarter of an hour, there was still no movement on the city, and there was dust and smoke approaching in the sky in the distance, and the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp in front of the city gate were a little panicked and made loud noises.

At this time, the defenders at the head of the city replied in a thick tone: "There is an order from above, the thief army is coming, and the city gate is very important, and it is not allowed to open it without permission!" ”

When the news came, Song Shu couldn't help but come forward to negotiate again, but the people at the head of the city just admitted death, the Tatars were about to be killed, and the city gate said that it couldn't be opened.

"Your uncle, Lao Tzu worked hard to send him a cannon, and if he didn't come out to greet him, he didn't even open the city gate."

When the group of soldiers in the Beijing camp heard that they were blown up, they said nonsense.

Shen Xi saw that he had not opened the city gate for a long time, got down from the carriage, and was furious after asking about the situation: "Do you still have the heart to argue with them?" The Tatars are coming...... I'll talk about it! ”

"You're going to have a fart!"

Song Shu thought so in his heart, but he still had the attitude of giving it a try, and watched Shen Xi step forward.

I saw Shen Xi standing under the head of the city and shouted: "I am a Qincha, I have the emperor's order, wait for the city gate to be opened quickly." ”

No one in the city responded with words, and directly shot two arrows at Shen Xi, but they didn't mean to kill Shen Xi, the two arrows were far away and shot on the ground two or three feet away in front of Shen Xi.

Song Shu raised his head and scolded and said, "You city gate guards don't want to live anymore!?" ”

Shen Xi glared at Song Shu viciously, if it weren't for the group of you people dragging their feet, they would have entered Yulinwei last night, why would this be the case?

Song Shu looked at Shen Xi and said, "Lord Shen, you can quickly get an idea." ”

Shen Xi thought to himself: "Now that you remembered that I was here, why did you go earlier?" Being in Datong Town is equivalent to escaping death, and we don't have a long memory, and no one can save us at this time. ”

"If you have any ideas, get out of the east of the city quickly, let's go around the south of the city and go west, and see if we can enter the city through another city gate!"

At the moment, it is not clear whether the target of the Tatar cavalry is Yulinwei or their team of artillery, if it is them, it will be more dangerous, but if the target of this group of Tatars is Yulinwei, or if it is a raid along the way, they do not mean that they will inevitably die, in the end, under the city wall, there are more than 300 littered officers and soldiers of the Beijing battalion, and most of the Tatars will not take the initiative to come to fight.

After all, the Tatar cavalry composed of tribes, they also have to live, the purpose of their coming to the Ming Dynasty is to plunder, so that the wives and children of the family can spend the winter, in the eyes of the Tatars, it is extremely unwise to kill a thousand enemies and lose three hundred, and there are more people than the Ming Dynasty that is looking for death.

So a group of people were surrounded by the soldiers of the border army at the head of the city, and transported artillery to the south of the city like a lost dog, but unfortunately when they arrived in the south of the city, they still gave the same answer: the city gate will not be opened.

"Lord Shen, otherwise, we will use artillery to blast at the city gate, and blast the city gate open to his mother!" Song Shu was already angry at this time.

Shen Xi glanced at Song Shu, you are really not afraid of being beheaded all over the house!

Bombarding your city gate with artillery, do you think you have too many family members?

"This is the Franco cannon, not for siege!" Shen Xi didn't have time to talk nonsense with Song Shu, although he himself had the idea of using artillery to blast at the city gate.

If you can't open the city gate, I'll bang the city, it's okay to drag you to accompany the funeral, right?

The faint sound of horses' hooves could already be heard in the distance, and it was not known whether it was the heralds or the Tatars who had killed them, and by this time a group of people were already in a hurry and panicked on the road again...... If you can't get in at the south gate of the city, you can go to the west of the city, and if you can't get in at the gate of the west city, then it's futile to go north, and you can only find a place to hide in the west temporarily.

For that reason, if the Tatars were aiming at Yulinwei, with their thousands of cavalry, they would at most line up in the east of the city to wait for the arrival of follow-up troops, and if they went west, they might not be able to avoid being discovered by the enemy.

Shen Xi glanced into the distance, this place in northern Shaanxi was extremely desolate, fortunately, there were a lot of grass and trees in the west of the Yulin Acropolis, Song Shu said with a little surprise on his face: "Let's hide in the woods!" ”

"Hide in the woods, go up the mountain!"

Shen Xi pointed to a hill two miles away.

This hill is about 100 meters high, facing the direction of the city is a very long gentle slope, which can be pushed up the mountain with artillery, the only regret is that in autumn and winter, the leaves of the trees on the mountain have long withered, and the bare land is uncovered.

"My lord, it's too conspicuous there, and we're asking for trouble when we go up." Song Shu has begun to regard himself as a subordinate at this time, not that he admires Shen Xi much, but because he thinks that if this errand is messed up, he will not be able to come out of the top cylinder, and Shen Xi needs to bear the main responsibility.

Shen Xi said: "Listen to me!" ”

Yu Niang came over at this time and said: "Lord Shen, if we go up the hillside and are surrounded by all sides, I'm afraid we will ......."

"Still surrounded by people? Thousands of Tatar cavalry came, and one of us counted one, who could run away? ”

One sentence made Yu Niang speechless, a group of Beijing garrison soldiers and horses transporting artillery, encountered Tatar cavalry, this is simply incomprehensible...... Anyway, Hengzhi is a death, and there is just the artillery transported, so he may be able to barely fight, but this Lord Shen doesn't seem to have mentioned the artillery at all.

Shen Xi didn't forget, but he found that if he wanted to give full play to the power of artillery, he had to occupy a favorable terrain, and looking at the terrain around Yulinwei, only the hills west of the city could be used to block the enemy.

As for whether it is encircled or not, it doesn't matter, even if there is no water and food? They don't plan to fight a protracted war, so are those Tatars preparing to besiege the city for a long time and can't help?

"Up the hill...... Lord Shen has an order, go up the mountain! ”

Song Shu thought that these rabbit cubs under his command would definitely be in a mood, but he didn't expect that it would be very useful to bring out "Lord Shen" at this time, because these soldiers also found out that the Song deputy Qianhu who had "one heart" with them was useless, and it was Lord Shen who saved our lives last time in Datong Mansion, but unfortunately we didn't understand his old man's intentions, and he had to rest last night, and as a result, the last thirty miles became a ghost gate.

Now at this critical juncture, Lord Shen said that we will go wherever we go.

A group of people fled in a hurry to the west of the city, and at this time the sky in the east was already sounding with the sound of horses' hooves, and the noise was so loud that it was estimated that it was only five or six miles away.

The Tatars didn't seem to expect that the men and horses who transported the artillery did not enter the city, but went to the west of the city, and their goal was to chase the Ming artillery team.

After the Tatars defeated the Ming Dynasty's grain delivery team in the Hequ area, they pursued all the way to the vicinity of Datong Mansion before they learned from the captives that there was such a cannon transport team.

In this case, the main force of the Tatars returned north to prepare to attack the flank of Liu Daxia's department, and at the same time sent a group of troops and horses to Yulin Wei to intercept it, preparing to seize the artillery...... They knew from the Uliangha people about the power of the Franc's cannon, and thought that they must not let the cannon enter the city.

The Tatars slowed down in pursuit, giving the group of "stragglers" a chance to escape, and a gun cart broke off on the way, and some soldiers wanted to carry it. Shen Xi shouted in the carriage: "When is it, it's important to go up the mountain." ”

"But my lord, if this cannon falls into the hands of the Tatars......"

Before Song Shu finished speaking, he was scolded back by Shen Xi: "Stupid donkey, you transport the shells, they only have artillery and a fart." ”

When Yu Niang, who came over on horseback behind, heard this, although she knew that the situation was critical, she still shook her head and smiled bitterly...... It's rare to see Shen Xi scolding, and he scolds so simply and directly.

However, Shen Xi's logic was clear when he was scolding, which showed that Shen Xi was not dizzy.

Ten guns, even if one is lost, there are still nine, and the fastest ones in front are those officers and soldiers of the Beijing battalion, they undertake the task of escorting, and they don't care about the carriage or anything, it is important to go up the mountain first, but after going up the mountain, they find a problem, there is no cover on this mountain, if they can't transport the artillery up the mountain, they are destined to sit on the mountain and wait for death.

Song Shu's intestines were blue at this time, and he thought: "Otherwise, I'd better run, being a deserter is better than losing my life." ”

Just as the deputy Qianhu who led the army was about to ride away, the Tatar cavalry had already bypassed the south of the city and went west to check the movement. If there is still no trace of artillery in the west of the city, they will naturally withdraw their troops, after all, the siege equipment is lagging behind, and no matter how many cavalry faces the city, there is no solution.

At this time, Song Shu finally realized that the target of these Tatars was not Yulinwei, but their team of artillery, no matter where they fled, they would be chased and killed, even if they slipped away, it was a "death" word.

"Lord Shen, if we leave the artillery and shells behind, those Tatars should not embarrass us!" Song Shu went to talk to Shen Xi again, suggesting that he be hindered.

"You mean to make us surrender to the barbarians?" Shen Xi said angrily.

"It's not surrender, it's just evacuation, those Tatars will always have to transport the artillery away, and there is no time to hunt us down......"

Shen Xi looked back at the direction of the road, at this time, the horse's hooves were rumbling, and the Tatars were going to kill at any time.

"Without further ado, hurry up and send the artillery up the mountain!" Shen Xi gave the final order.

Zhang Lao Wu and the others also felt that they might not be chasing after the Tatars before they could go up the mountain, so he pulled out his saber and shouted: "My lord, why don't you fight with this group of rabbit cubs." ”

Shen Xi couldn't help but think of Zhang Lao Wu when he was in Quanzhou City, Zhang Lao Wu was purely a wreck at that time, but now, he is already a responsible bloody soldier.

"Find a few people and dig a hole."

Shen Xi jumped down from the carriage and commanded, "Just dig in this path up the mountain and find a bundle of cannonballs to bury in it!" ”

Zhang Lao Wu's face was full of puzzlement, and he asked, "My lord, what is this for?" ”

"Do as you are told!"

At this time, Shen Xi could only try to make trouble for the Tatars and slow down the speed of their cavalry pursuit.

In fact, Shen Xi's idea was very simple, that is, to make simple mines, and the left and right shells were ready-made, and only needed to delay the Tatar sprint.

However, if you want to trigger a mine, you must have gunpowder as a fuse, fortunately, this line is also easy, this line transports a lot of gunpowder, as long as it is spread on the road, forming a delayed fuse, when the Tatar cavalry passes by or approaches, it will cause a small explosion, which is enough to achieve the effect of preemptively. (To be continued.) )