The fourth volume of the sharp blade out of the sheath Shenzhou moves

The clouds are gloomy, the long-singing eagle is swept across the sky, the flying figure overlooks the earth, and the spreading banner stretches in.

The cavalry roared and galloped in front of the road, a suit of armor with swords and axes exposed, looking at the outline of the city in front of them, and across the field of vision, a group of more than 2,000 cavalry lined up and waiting.

Jinzhou City under the scorching sun seems to be a phantom illuminated in the realm, and it is also like an illusory scene of a mirage.

The city seems to fold in the heat wave, or it seems to float on the surface of the lake, and if you throw a pebble, the whole scenery will be shattered in an instant, and it will never exist again.

Hu Handong rode in front, Xiao Liu and others followed, they were less than three miles away from Jinzhou City, and even the city gate and low city tower, and the continuous city wall could be seen very clearly.

There seemed to be some small black dots on the top of the city, like guards, but they looked sparse and not dense.

Hu Handong put down the monoculars and grinned behind him: "In the end, we are the fastest." ”

Xiao Liu smiled and said proudly: "Don't you want to think about why we are the fastest, we don't collect at night, we are the elite of the army, and we are the top soldiers, that is what Qin Du said personally." ”

Hu Handong scolded with a smile: "You weren't even as good as a dog in the past, but now you're very arrogant?" ”

But it was only for a moment, Hu Handong suddenly sighed again: "Your fucking literacy, two medals, you will definitely enter the military academy after the war, and when your mother sees you next time, Lao Tzu will have to salute you and say that Shangguan is good." ”

Xiaoliu couldn't cry or laugh in an instant, and didn't know what to say.

The whole team of twelve people, each wearing a six-petal iron helmet, wearing two layers of iron armor, the outer layer is iron scale armor or piercing armor, Hu Handong alone wears a bright silver cuirass, the front and back are the whole iron block, the best protection ability.

Xiao Liu was wearing a piercing armor, and the armor pieces of the armor were much larger than the iron scale armor, and the armor leaves were fixed with animal tendons

The blades of the iron scale armor are too small, it is very laborious to wear, and it is more difficult to manufacture, and the blades of the armor are larger, and one scale armor can make three armors, which greatly shortens the time.

The protection of the two against the bow and arrow is the same, the difference is that the scale armor is denser, and the protection against stabbing and slashing exceeds that of the piercing armor.

Twelve men began to run along the city, and the rest of the small groups of horsemen also arrived.

This is the outskirts of Jinzhou, full of Han villages and farmland, if it weren't for Hu Handong and Xiaoliu's team who had been here before, they would have had the illusion that they were in a mainland town south of the Great Wall.

The villages were empty, and the avenues and paths were overgrown with weeds.

Jinzhou, where nearly 100,000 people once lived, has been almost empty, and it is the best place on the Liaodong Peninsula, with fertile land, lush water and grass, and extremely high harvests.

The Han people multiplied here, farmed and traded, and there were a large number of craftsmen to build weapons and siege equipment for Jiannu.

Even in history, Lin Dan Khan also wanted to obtain the Han people in Jinzhou to supplement the strength of the tribe, but Lin Dan Khan's bad luck was that he immediately encountered the catastrophe of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, and the farmland of Jinzhou suffered great losses, which seriously weakened the strength of the Chahar Department.

At this moment, the Han people were originally only about half of the population at the peak of their prime, and most of them were continuously moved away by Huang Taiji, and most of the remaining Han people were stubbornly loyal to Jiannu.

There are also some people who are unable to leave their homeland, and whether Jinzhou is in the hands of Jiannu or Han Chinese, it is irrelevant to them.

The important thing is that this is already their home, with their own houses, courtyards and land, and even decades of memories.

When the war came, these people still did not pay attention to it, preferring to stay at home and hide.

The cavalry gathered more and more, and some officers caught up.

The officers were generally not very happy, and today the meritorious performance of Li Xiang, Fang Peilun and others has been seen by the whole army, and the army is boasting about the bravery and arrogance of the battalion and the training battalion.

A group of iron-clad infantry officers were completely famous today, which caused the rest of the cavalry officers to be very unhappy, and they also thought that they could make themselves famous in such a battle.

A hundred household commanders gave an order to go, and decided to send a small flag to reconnoiter near the city gate first, and reconnoiter the situation on the city head at close range.

There was no way for the cavalry to attack the city, they could only surround and garrison, or annihilate other cavalry who dared to come to their aid.

Xiaoliu's team was lucky to receive the order, and everyone began to gallop towards the city.

"Cheer up." Xiao Liu rode wildly, and shouted wildly: "The dog will jump off the wall when he is in a hurry, and the rabbit will bite when he is in a hurry. ”

Geng Zhongming will definitely have some equipment to defend the city, such as small artillery or giant crossbows, they had many Han craftsmen who built quite a lot of equipment, who knows what will be left at the head of the city?

Jinzhou City is the city where Geng Zhongming lives, it is still much smaller than Lushun, the radius is less than five miles, the city wall is about three zhang high, the bottom base is only rammed earth, and the outer wall is covered with bricks.

Due to its disrepair, the walls are full of broken places, and many of them have grown quite long weeds.

The weather in the afternoon was no longer so violent, and after a long ride, the cavalry and the horses rested for less than half an hour, and their physical strength recovered a lot.

A small group of cavalry gradually increased their speed, the muscles on the horses shook violently, everyone felt the wind whistling in their ears, the people and horses fused into one, and the scenery in front of them was rapidly approaching......

Soon, approaching half a mile from Jinzhou, Xiao Liu began to look up at the head of the city from time to time, and there were indeed many people standing behind the city wall, which made him a little worried.

Today's battle at the mouth of the river shows that once the Tartars are desperate, they can still bring certain casualties to the troops, although now that the Tartars are eliminated, Xiao Liu does not want to fight a siege battle.

Shaking his head, Xiao Liu no longer continued to think about this thing that made his head hurt.

The cavalry ran faster and faster, and did not come out of the other side of the city wall as expected, not far from Fuzhou in the northwest direction.

According to the intelligence of the Military Intelligence Department, Fuzhou also gathered about 40,000 Ming troops, which is all the remaining strength of Kong Youde, and it is estimated that there are only about 3,000 soldiers.

It's just that all these 40,000 people are pulled out, and it is estimated that they are not Qin Du's opponents, and the only feasible way is to stick to the city or abandon the city and flee.

The consideration of the chamberlain was to rely on the cavalry to bite the other party tightly, to control their escape route to the north, and at least to make the other party feel that it was dangerous to leave the city.

This is also the reason why the attendant room did not make a detour regardless of the casualties, and crossed the river directly at the mouth of the river and crossed the river in a bloody battle with nearly 5,000 Tartars.

The cavalry galloped closer and closer, and the figures on the head of the city became more layered, calling Xiao Liu, they felt strange that this group of people did not seem to have a few armor soldiers.

There didn't seem to be a handful of people with weapons, no bows and arrows, no crossbows, not to mention the guns and bed crossbows that everyone feared.

"Be careful." Hu Handong warned: "Maybe the traitor army put away the armor soldiers and strong crossbows, and then use them when we get closer." ”

"Not really." Xiao Liu shouted against the strong wind: "It should be that we are galloping cavalry, and whatever equipment they want should be kept and used when the infantry comes to attack the city." ”