Tan Tai wanted to avenge the first victory and then the defeat in the Yuyang ambush, and this time it was even more ferocious.

Lu Xiangsheng used his troops well, but Tan Tai was not a martial artist, after learning that the city of Zunhua had set up three strongholds inside and outside the city, the Tartar soldiers pounced on them in three ways and attacked the two earthen platforms outside the city and Zunhua City at the same time.

In this way, Zunhua is equivalent to opening up three local battlefields, and the three battlefields are all extremely tragic. Lu Xiangsheng's forces were limited, and they mainly took a defensive position.

The Tartars were the opposite, they knew that Lu Xiangsheng's troops were limited, and they concentrated all their forces with great momentum and were bound to win.

For the two Tutai cities outside the city, Tan Tai sent two Gushan Ezhen to lead the headquarters to attack, one Niu Lu of the Tartar is about 300 people, five Niu Lu is a Jiala, about 1,500 people, and five Jia La is a solid mountain, that is, about 7,500 people.

The remaining more than 10,000 men and horses, Tan Tai personally commanded, attacked Zunhua City.

The ratio of forces between the two sides in these three battlefields is 7,500:1,500, 7,500:1,500, and 10,000:2,000.

This means that Tan Tai has deployed heavy troops in three places and launched a fierce attack on the Ming army, so that they cannot care for each other.

In the face of a five-fold enemy onslaught, the Ming army relied on favorable terrain and a strong ancient city to defend to the death. Both sides used bows and arrows, firearms, and red-coated cannons, and the battle was filled with gunsmoke.

The Tianxiong Army really lived up to its reputation, this kind of relative-style military chain, one person gave his life, and everyone gave up his life, repelling the onslaught of the Tartars again and again.

But when the war reached the third day, the ancient city of Zunhua that Lu Xiangsheng held was fine, but the two strongholds outside the city could not support it.

The reason is that the Tartars have too many troops, and their eight-foot high earthen city is improvised, and it is all some earth and stones, broken bricks and stones. There was no moat, but a deep ditch was picked, and there was not even water in the ditch. There is no strong city gate in the land reform, and there is no golden gate for the suspension bridge.

Therefore, after a long time, it was impossible to stop the Tartars' crazy attack. The red-coated cannons of the Tartars are also very powerful, and now they are not inferior to the artillery fire of the Ming army.

During the Nurhachi period before Huang Taiji ascended the throne, that is, in the Later Jin period before the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the artillery fire of the Ming army was overwhelmingly superior. Whether it's a fire gun, a bird gun, a three-eyed gun, or a red-coated cannon, the Tartars don't have it, and they don't give a damn about it.

They all relied on bows and arrows, and rode horses to charge collectively. For the firearms of the Ming Dynasty, they believed that as long as they could break through the fire defense line, the Ming army would have to be slaughtered.

Therefore, they were good at field warfare and came and went like the wind, while the Ming army defended with firepower superiority and strong fortifications.

As early as the Battle of Salhu, the Ming army was defeated, and the Later Jin army captured a large number of military supplies of the Ming army, including firecrackers and artillery. Huang Taiji, who was very scheming, began to study this weapon of the Han people.

After the outbreak of the Battle of Ningyuan, the Tartars suffered a great loss, and Nurhachi died soon after being injured, and Huang Taiji inherited the throne after a power struggle and changed the name of the country to Tiancong.

In the battle of Ningyuan, although the Tartars were defeated, the victory on the local battlefield made them also capture a certain amount of firearms, and Huang Taiji also reused the great traitor Tong Yangxing to imitate the Han artillery for them.

In the Battle of the Daling River in August 1631, the Tartars used powerful artillery for the first time, and the Ming army suffered a strategic defeat. In the following two years, Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, who were equipped with the most artillery, led their troops to surrender to the Tartars and became shameful traitors.

In this way, by 1936, that is, the year when Lin Yi crossed over, Houjin became the Qing Dynasty, and the artillery power of the Qing Dynasty developed rapidly, and the artillery advantage of the Ming Dynasty actually no longer existed.

This time, Huang Taiji sent Azig and Amin to lead 100,000 Tartars to attack the Ming army, and also brought a certain number of red-coated cannons.

They used artillery to attack the city and plunder the land, and fought a tough battle, and the Ming army was defeated one after another, so they occupied more than a dozen cities in a short period of time and hit the vicinity of Gyeonggi in one go.

On the current Zunhua battlefield, the artillery fire of the Ming army bombarded the Tartars, and the artillery of the Tartars also aimed at the artillery positions of the Ming army to fiercely return fire.

The two sides shook each other, the ground shook, the smoke billowed out, and the flames soared into the sky. Both sides suffered heavy casualties, but the Ming army was weak after all, and the contrast between the two sides was too great.

The two earthen fortifications outside the city barely lasted for two days before they were bombarded into ruins by the Tartars, and then the Tartars broke through the artillery defense line and attacked the Ming army's platforms.

Liu Chongzhen, the chief military officer, held the city, fought bloodily and did not retreat, and finally the whole army was annihilated, Liu Chongzhen was hit by three arrows and eight swords, and fell in a pool of blood.

After Liu Chongzhen was killed in battle, the Tartars cut off his head, and in this way, the city platform outside the Zunhua Zuo City fell.

Immediately after that, the Tartars attacked the city platform on the right, and in a white-knuckle fight, there were only two or three hundred people left in the more than 1,000 Ming troops.

Seeing that this place could not be defended, the deputy commander-in-chief Luo Dai was also injured and led his men to retreat into the city.

At this time, Zunhua City also fought for three days and two nights, Tan Taiqin led more than 10,000 Tartars, stormed this ancient city, the cannon roared, and many battlements on the city wall were blown down.

Heavily armed Lu Xiangsheng personally went to the city to command the battle, three days and two nights, he only ate three meals, slept only more than two hours of sleep, thanks to his excellent martial arts, his body bones were like iron, the battlement mouth was blown up, he rushed to repair overnight, and repelled the attack of the Tartars many times.

After three days and two nights of fierce fighting, more than half of the 2,000 Tianxiong troops in the city were killed and wounded, plus the two or three hundred remnants brought by Luo Dai were defeated, and now there are only 1,000 people in the city who can fight, and the two earthen city platforms outside the city have all fallen, and there is only one lonely city left in Zunhua.

What's worse is that the cannons and guns have lost their ammunition and become scrap metal, leaving only a few bows and arrows, and now the defense of the city is all limited bows and arrows, and bricks and stones, and a lot of abandoned houses have been picked, and some trees have been cut down to make rolling logs, so I hope that the city will be defended.

It was only a matter of time before they ran out of ammunition, and Lu Xiangsheng knew what was waiting for them next? But he vowed to live and die with the city.

I don't know what happened to the battlefield in the west? Lu Xiangsheng was just about to send someone to investigate, Zhang Hua took two relatives into the city, saw Lu Xiangsheng, briefly described the battle situation in Qianxi, and presented Lin Yi's handwritten letter.

After Lu Xiangsheng read this letter, he was happy at first, because Lin Yi designed the grain and grass warehouse that burned the Tartars, and this battle was fought too beautifully.

Then he scolded Zu Kuan, who only knew that his troops were poorly disciplined, robbed everywhere, burned people's houses, and raped women. Lu Xiangsheng has persuaded him more than once, he listens to him for a while and doesn't listen for a while, and Lu Xiangsheng can bear it.

But this time, he actually led his troops to escape, which is really killable but not staying!

But Lu Xiangsheng can only get over his addiction, relieve his anger, and the whip is beyond his reach, Zunhua is already too busy to take care of himself, and he really can't control the battlefield in Qianxi.

Lin Yi and they only have more than 1,000 people left, how can they hold Qianxi?

He thought of what Gao Qiqian said again, and after thinking about it, he replied to Lin Yi with a letter, in which he praised Lin Yi's loyalty and resourcefulness, he didn't have to worry about Zunhua, he would leave it to him to move to the west, so that he could do it himself in the future, and he could make his own decisions at critical moments.

This is tantamount to implicitly telling Lin Yi that whether to fight or retreat, everything is up to him to decide, and there is no need to ask him, the governor, again.

After the letter was written, it was handed over to Zhang Hua, but at this time, the Tartar soldiers came to the city, and the three Tartar soldiers were united, and the 20,000 elite of the Eight Banners surrounded Zunhua City.

It was impossible for Zhang Hua to go back to the west, Lu Xiangsheng comforted him, tonight he arranged for someone to break into the camp and escort Zhang Hua out of the city, Zhang Hua was grateful......

Tan Tai's results in the past two days are okay, although the casualties can be fifteen or six thousand people, but the Ming army strongholds on the periphery of Zunhua have all been uprooted, and there is only one lonely city left in Zunhua, and the firearms have become mute, according to which they speculated that the Ming army's artillery is out of ammunition, and the city is just around the corner to capture Lu Xiangsheng.

Just when Tan Tai was full of ambition, he suddenly received an order from Azig and Amin to withdraw his troops, Tan Tai was puzzled, he stared at the bull-like eyes, and read this secret order six times, neither mistaken, nor could the secret order be fake, but now the retreat is not a waste of all achievements? If you fight well, let the troops be withdrawn, why is this? There is not much to say in the secret order.

He was only told that the deadline for the retreat was tomorrow morning.

Tan Tai was a little confused, and while sending people to Azig's camp to find out, he ordered his subordinates to pack up their things and prepare to retreat.

The retreat of the 20,000-strong army is not just a pat on the butt, it requires a lot of preparations, tents, grain and grass, pots and pans and other military supplies must be carried, and the front is opened, and the back is broken, these must be arranged.

Only one day's preparation time was tight enough, and Tan Tai was reluctant to disobey.

In the evening, the people sent by Tan Tai came back, and it turned out that the grain and grass could not be helped, and the grain depot was burned, and the consequences were unimaginable if they did not retreat.

Tan Tai scolded his mother, how did he do it, the battle that won the battle turned out to be like this, and it was this Lin Yi who broke the big deal at the critical moment!

Tan Tai calmed down and thought about it, retreat tomorrow morning, it is completely too late, prepare the retreat during the day, use troops at night, and take Zunhua even if you don't sleep all night tonight, you can't just cheap the Ming army, you have to catch or behead Lu Xiangsheng!

After Tan Tai decided, he immediately summoned the leaders of the army to arrange the retreat and siege of the city at night......

The spies sent by Lin Yi this time only came back in half a day.

Zunhua is besieged, in danger, Lord Lu is in trouble, no wonder Zhang Hua has no news in the past few days, it turns out that he is trapped in the city.

"We must rush to the aid of Zunhua and rescue Governor Lu!" Lin Yi immediately made a decision.

Finding Zu Keyong, saving the soldiers was like fighting a fire, Lin Yi decided to immediately dispatch the army.

Let Zu Keyong stay in Qianxi, give him 1,600 men and horses, and guard two large camps, in order to prevent the Tartars from attacking, Lin Yi asked him to spread a false flag in the camp to confuse the Tartars.

Then Lin Yi galloped to Zunhua with 2,000 Guanning iron horses.

Now Lin Yi has become a veritable guerrilla commander, Yuyang, Qianxi, Zunhua, guerrilla warfare everywhere.

I ran for more than an hour in one breath, and when it was dark, Zunhua City was far away.

But Lin Yi and they were also tired, covered in sweat, panting, more than one hundred and twenty miles, all relied on the four legs of the war horse to measure, the horse couldn't stand it, the four legs shook straight, sweating like washing, some of the war horses were lying down at that time, and they had to rest their troops and horses in order to recover their combat strength.

It just so happened that the Tartars had not yet attacked the city in a big way, if there was a shout of killing, they should be able to hear it here, just taking advantage of the night to rest and break into the camp at night, Lin Yi immediately ordered......