"Brother Guan, you come with me to go up there and have a look." Bai Jiawang pointed to a low mound next to him and said to Guan Ernan, who was following him, and several other light cavalry. It was a sparse mound with a few half-dried miscellaneous trees and half-man-deep weeds, about twenty or thirty feet high, and when you climbed this mound, you could see a large area in front of you at a glance.

"Well, I'll go with you!" Guan Ernan said as he jumped off the horse. There is an old word in front of Guan Ernan's "Guan", but in fact, he is not very old, in fact, he is only 19 years old, but he is indeed more mature, looking at his face, telling people that he is already twenty-eight or nine, and most others will not suspect it.

Guan Ernan jumped off the horse, handed the reins to another light cavalryman, then pulled out his saber with his backhand, and followed Bai Jiawang towards the top of the mound.

The mound was not high, and the two men climbed up in a few moments. Standing on top of the mound, looking into the distance, there are faint lilac mountains, and a little closer are the earthy, dry plains. There was a dead silence on the vast plains, and there were no people in sight, only a whirlwind whistling through and whistling up puffs of dust. On the right side of the hill, there was a dry river, and on both sides of the river there were some sparse trees, some of which were also half-dead, and some of which were still green.

A little nearer, not too far below the knoll, was an abandoned village, not so large that it was even surrounded by a wall. It's just that this wall didn't play a role in a previous military disaster (maybe it was a certain raid by Jianzi, maybe it was a looting carried out by the officials and soldiers by taking the opportunity to resist Jianxin, or maybe it was a rogue, or something), Zhuangzi was broken, and the people in Zhuangzi were either slaughtered or plundered. This can be seen from the traces of the fire that burned Manzhuangzi.

Now there are only some roofless earthen fences in this village, and there is a family with a courtyard wall in the middle, which was probably a big family in the past, and now there are only roofless earthen fences and weeds all over the yard.

"Captain, look at that yard, is there something in it?" Bai Jiawang was holding a telescope and looking out at the dry ditch in the distance—sometimes, the rogue or Jian's scout cavalry liked to hide in the shade to rest—when he suddenly heard Lao Guan say this.

"What, where?" Bai Jiawang put down the binoculars and asked.

"There, behind that wall in that big yard!" Guan Ernan pointed over there and said.

Bai Jiawang raised his binoculars again and looked over there, and at this moment, two people suddenly stood up from behind a big stone in the grass more than ten steps away, these two people pulled their bows, and two arrows immediately shot over. But it turned out that there were two Qing soldiers who also went up to the hill to look into the distance, but they saw Bai Jiawang and them first, so they hid behind the big stones in the grass next to them, but at this time, they suddenly stood up and attacked them. Fortunately, they used bows, not crossbows. When shooting, you need to stand up to open the bow. It also gives their opponents a chance to dodge.

Guan Ernan shouted loudly and flashed to the side. It was just too close, and the arrow came in a hurry, and he just dodged the vital point, and the arrow still pierced his left shoulder at once.

Guan Ernan screamed in pain, rolled on the spot, and rolled behind a tree. While sticking the saber in his right hand into the ground, he reached out and grasped the shaft of the arrow on his shoulder, and with a strong squeeze, he broke the shaft in two, and shouted: "There is a jian, come and help!" At the same time, he squinted his eyes and looked at Bai Jiawang, but saw that Bai Jiawang was hit by an arrow in the chest and fell to the ground, but he was already unconscious. Bai Jiawang's attention was all in the telescope just now, but his reaction was a little slower than Lao Guan's.

The two Jianxuan had already rushed over at this time, Guan Ernan endured the pain, stood up, pulled out the saber from the ground, and before he could put the posture in place, a knife light slashed over.

Guan Ernan leaned back, raised the saber up, and put his left hand on the back of the knife, only to hear the sound of "bell", and the opponent's knife slashed at his knife.

The opponent slashed such a knife with the force of rushing over, so this knife was extremely powerful. Guan Ernan's hands barely blocked the knife, but he was hit by this person, and he couldn't help but kick back several steps. Just stood firm, but heard a "bang" bowstring sound, and then there was another pain in the leg, but another arrow was shot.

At this time, the sword with the knife approached again. Guan Ernan knew that with his current situation, he was afraid that if he couldn't support his teammates to rush over, he would be killed by others. But his leg was wounded, and if he turned around and fled, he was afraid that he would die faster. But he could only hold the knife and glared at his opponent.

The one on the opposite side with the knife took the knife in his hand, and then took a big stride, leaned over, and stabbed straight to Guan Ernan's chest, Guan Ernan endured the leg pain, flashed to the right, and at the same time used the knife in his hand to the left, reluctantly sealed the knife outside, and was about to return the knife to fight back, but saw that the Jianshen jumped off, and jumped to the side, and at the same time he heard a "bang" bowstring sound.

Guan Ernan didn't care about where the arrow came from, he just rolled blindly on the spot, but he happened to dodge the arrow. Just this roll, but it stirred another arrow inserted in the leg, and I couldn't help but feel a sharp pain, and I almost fainted. The arrows shot by Jianshen have barbs, so they can't be pulled out directly. The shaft of the arrow is left outside, and if there is a slight movement, the whole arrow will shake with it, and the arrow will move in the flesh, which is extremely painful. After Guan Ernan was hit by an arrow earlier, he immediately broke the arrow shaft with his hand, in order to prevent the arrow shaft from being left outside to aggravate the pain. But at this time, Guan Ernan couldn't care about this, he gritted his teeth and was about to get up, but the Jian Yan with the knife made another big jump, and the knife in his hand slashed down again. Guan Ernan held the knife with both hands and blocked the knife, but he didn't prevent a kick from flying under the Jianji, but he kicked him again. Guan Ernan rolled on the ground, and the knife fell to the side.

When the Jianxuan saw it, he laughed, and was about to rush up again, when he stabbed Guan Ernan, but suddenly heard a "bang" gunshot. Then the sword shook, and the knife in his hand fell to the ground, and then a stream of blood poured out of his chest, and from his nose and mouth, and then he fell to his knees, and then fell face to the ground and died.

Then, in a burst of shouts of killing, more than a dozen light cavalry rushed forward with knives and flintlock muskets.

The man with the bow and arrow looked at the number of people here, and he didn't care about the man who fell to the ground, he just threw down his bow, turned around and ran down, and when the light cavalry rushed to the top of the knoll, this guy had already run a long way. Several hussars fired at him with their rifles, but they all missed.

At this time, I saw that from behind the high courtyard wall of the abandoned Zhuangzi, more than a dozen Jianzi cavalry suddenly came out, and these Jianzhi cavalry urged the horses, came out of the Zhuangzi, and greeted the Jianzi. The slope on this side of the hill is very small, and the cavalry of Jianshen can even charge up directly on horseback.

"Quick, take the captain and Lao Guan, let's go down! Launched! Vice Captain Jia Ming shouted. He knew that with the dozen or so people on his side, and they didn't have long weapons, if they fought on foot, they wouldn't be able to defeat almost the same number of Jianxian cavalry no matter what.

A light cavalryman picked up Lao Guan and carried it on his back, while the other cavalryman carried Bai Jiawang on his back and ran down, and a few who took a horse pistol stayed behind and put two more shots, but they also turned their heads and rushed down.

Just a few steps after they had rushed down, a dozen or so cavalry had already rushed up the mound, but this side of the mound was quite steep, and they did not dare to rush down on horseback. Then they turned around and descended down the mound from the other side.

By this time the hussars had already rushed down from the hillock, and they immediately got on their horses, drew their swords, and were ready. The deputy captain, Jia Ming, together with a light cavalryman, tied Bai Jiawang's body to his horse. Bai Jiawang was shot in the chest at close range by Jianxuan's heavy arrow. The light cavalry had only one very light piece of armor made of wrought wire, which could barely block light arrows, and could also defend against some sword cuts, but it could not stop heavy arrows fired with a strong bow at close range. And when Lao Guan was fighting with that Jianxuan, the Jianxuan who shot Lao Guan's leg took the time to make up for Bai Jiawang, so Bai Jiawang was already dead at this time.

"Vice Captain, what should I do?" A light cavalry asked.

At this time, Jia Ming had already tied Bai Jiawang's body, he glanced at Lao Guan, who was barely sitting on the horse, frowned and said, "Zhang Guoqing, you take the captain and Lao Guan back and report the situation here." Brothers! Let's go and cut down those gills and avenge Captain White! ”

The hussars who had already mounted their horses shouted: "Avenge Captain White!" ”

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On this day, the light cavalry of the model army that quickly marched to Beijing and the scout cavalry of Jianxuan, who was also approaching Beijing, continued to fight, and the two sides were injured by each other, and at the same time both sides also discovered each other's whereabouts, Zheng Sen immediately made a decision to let Guo Huaiyi continue to rush to Beijing with a battalion of dragoons, he estimated that Li Zicheng did not have the courage to continue to stick to Beijing at all, and at this time the strength in his hands was not even enough to quickly overwhelm Jiang Xuan, as long as his troops appeared, Jiang Huang was anyway, Li Zicheng estimated that he would only transfer in immediately. On the other hand, he made the decision to take the remaining main force to meet Jianxuan and defeat the opponent in the field battle. And Jianzhi doesn't seem to have any intention of avoiding it. On the morning of the next day, the main forces of the two armies met on the banks of the Chaobai River near Tongzhou. A big war is inevitable.