At the beginning, after Wang Tingchen led his troops to storm and seize Anding City, the gateway to Lanzhou, the northwest entered a cold winter, and the imperial court called on the governors of various places to make every effort to help the immigrants, and at this time it also spread to the northwest borderland.

Li Banghua, who was sitting in the northwest, and Yuan Chonghuan, the trilateral governor who had stabbed countless baskets, did not dare to neglect Emperor Chongzhen's will.

Including the governor of Shaanxi, Hong Chengchou, also realized the importance of properly resettling immigrants from outside the country.

Once these hungry people, who were finally encouraged to go to the Saiwai Separate Fields for resettlement, once they die more or simply return in large numbers outside the Saiwai, then the situation in the northwest, which has basically settled down, will collapse again in an instant.

Instead of spending countless money and food soldiers and horses to suppress the encirclement and suppression, it is better to take out part of the money and food at this time to rescue and relief.

What's more, after Mu Suman and the thieves went west, they had been compressed in the remote western border, and the threat posed to the core areas of Guanzhong and Hanzhong was basically negligible.

In this way, after taking Anding City, the courtiers of King Wu'anbo, who intended to directly attack Lanzhou, were stopped by Li Banghua, the minister of military aircraft who was sitting in Pingliang City.

In the following month or so, Wang Tingchen of Wu Anbo personally led the main force of the Fourth Town of the Guards Army and the Yang Shien Department of the Shaanxi Army and other friendly troops to collect prisoners on the spot in Anding City, and consolidate the occupation of Anding City and some dangerous and important places around it, but at the same time, they also continued to send Liu Xingzhi, Mengruhu, Hu Dawei, Wu Sangui and others to lead the army to the west and south to the near sentinel in turn.

Although the large-scale siege battles between the two sides did not happen again, the sentinel encounters in these two directions did not stop occurring every now and then.

And every sentinel encounter, it was an overwhelming victory for the official army.

Wang Tingchen's approach exerted tremendous pressure on the thieves in Lintao and Lanzhou, making Gao Yingxiang in Lanzhou City and Zhang Xianzhong in Lintao City always nervous.

If it weren't for Wang Tingchen himself who was worried that the army had left the city for protection, and the grain and grass in the army needed to be transported over the mountains and mountains for long distances, and he was afraid that the supply would not be available, then Lintao City, which was only more than 200 miles away from Anding City, would have fallen into the hands of the officials and soldiers before the Zhengdan of the fourth year of Chongzhen.

On the morning of the third day of the first month of the fourth year of Chongzhen, the sky was as gloomy as ever, as if God was holding back a heavy snowfall, but it never fell.

On the morning of this day, it was the turn of the fierce general of the fourth town of the Guards Army, Meng Ruhu, to lead the team to the south to patrol the outpost.

Although the weather was gloomy, it was rare that there was no strong wind, and he was as fierce as a tiger with his own subordinate officer Yizi Mengxianjie, holding a musket with a bayonet, and galloped on the mountain road leading to Lintao in Anding.

Fierce as a tiger since childhood, accustomed to the use of spears and hard bows, originally disdained firearms, thinking that the use of firearms is a coward's practice, and the real hero is to use spears and hard bows to charge into battle.

In the original history, he died in the encirclement of the enemy army like this, and his identity at that time was already the chief military officer personally promoted by Emperor Chongzhen.

In this life, after the training of the martial arts hall, and also after the Chongzhen Emperor served as an attendant military attache by the side of Emperor Chongzhen, in the post-formation training of the 3,000 battalions reorganized into the fourth town of the Guards a few months ago, Meng Ruhu honestly accepted the adaptation, and replaced the used spear with a musket.

However, he still stubbornly used a deliberately lengthened bayonet, and converted his Chongzhen-style front-loading flintlock smoothbore gun into a spear.

And his subordinates soon followed the same example, adding a long bayonet to the Chongzhen musket, which could only fire one shot immediately, and transforming it into a musket that could immediately engage in white-knuckle combat.

After such a modification, the accuracy of Chongzhen's musket was greatly affected.

On the morning of the third day of the first month of the fourth year of Chongzhen, fierce as a tiger with hundreds of knights, galloping on the mountain road leading to Lintao in Anding, just when he rode over a hillside, he saw a group of people sent by Luo Rucai to contact.

The general who came from Lintao City with Li Xing's head to contact and ask for surrender was none other than Luo Rucai's henchman Wu Ruyi.

At this time, Wu Ruyi was leading a few cronies, half-sitting and half-lying on the side of the mountain road, resting in a leeward place.

During the Chinese New Year, they were rushing to the mountain road, and they hadn't eaten enough for many days, and there were no horses to travel in the past, Wu Ruyi and a few people wanted to be unable to get up quickly.

In this way, they set out in the dark on the night of the first day of the first lunar month, and walked to the northeast city of Anding for a night, and then another day and a night, and they did not meet a living person on the road.

At this time, he had just stopped at the foot of the hillside, ready to rest his feet and climb over the hill in one breath, but as soon as he sat down to rest, he heard the sound of horses' hooves.

Wu Ruyi was about to open his mouth to speak, but suddenly heard a "bang" gunshot!

It turned out that the fierce tiger suddenly saw someone not far away, and without asking a question at all, he shot at them!

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

Several gunshots rang out in a row, so frightened that Wu Ruyi lay on the ground and didn't dare to raise his head, and at the same time shouted hoarsely:

"The chief officer of the army spares his life! The chief of the officers and soldiers spares his life! We are Han people who want to surrender! We are Han Chinese sent by Cao Cao to surrender! ”

Although Wu Ruyi is the leader of Luo Rucai's command, he has always been a figure who can bend and stretch, and at this time, seeing that the other party is not only an official and soldier with a musket, but also a large number of people riding a high-headed horse, he is afraid that he will be killed in a daze and die unjustly.

As soon as the gunshot rang out, he immediately led a few cronies around him, lying on the ground and shouting loudly together, and the sound spread far and wide along the mountain road.

Fortunately, the musket of the cavalry under the command of the fierce tiger was greatly affected, and in the face of thousands of thieves, although one shot could be killed at will, but in a situation like now, the two sides are separated by a large distance, and the other side is a few people lying on the ground, and none of the officers and soldiers have hit.

Fierce as a tiger heard the other party shouting, and what came out was his familiar northern Shaanxi accent, which he heard really clearly, and at the moment he held a gun and stood on the hill, and his hundreds of subordinates also stopped suddenly.

Wu Ruyi breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, and hurriedly threw away the weapons in their respective hands, and at the same time threw out Li Xing's head, and shouted again:

"Official! The small one is a piece of iron Wu Ruyi under Cao Cao's account! We are the envoys sent by Cao Cao to ask Wu Anbo to surrender! We brought a greeting gift! Li Xing, Li Xing's head! ”

Of course, Meng Ruhu knew who Cao Cao was, and at the same time, thanks to the fact that he had served as a military attache in front of the imperial chamberlain for a period of time, he had more or less heard the name of Li Xing, a traitor to the Shaanxi army.

As for Wu Ruyi, Cao Cao's "piece of iron", he has no way of knowing where this person is sacred? !

However, seeing that those people dropped their bows and knives, they were as fierce as a tiger and didn't say much, and waved their hands at Yizi who was riding a horse in front of him, and at this time, Meng Xianjie, who was sixteen or seventeen years old and looked like a doll, grabbed the belly of the horse and galloped towards the place where Wu Ruyi and the others were lying down.

The distance of 200 steps was approaching in an instant, and the fierce Xianjie was bold, and he did not get off the horse, so he hid in the horse and picked up the needle, carried Li Xing's head in his hand, and then turned around with the horse, and returned to the slope in an instant.

Meng Xianjie was originally an orphan outside Yulin City, and when he was ten years old, he was adopted by Meng Ruhu, who was also an orphan and had the same tragic background.

Originally, he was as fierce as a tiger and just thought that he lived a precarious life every day licking blood from the knife edge, and recognizing a son could be regarded as leaving an heir for himself in the future, and after he died, he could also have a person who burned incense and paper money for himself.

However, what he never expected was that he, a rude man from outside the world, could also enter the emperor's eyes, and after the end of his study in the martial arts hall, he became a military attache in front of the imperial chamberlain, and he was personally married by the current emperor, and married a delicate female official in the palace from the side of the queen's mother.

What is especially rare is that the female official in the palace he took home was not only a big girl with yellow flowers, but also gave birth to a big fat son Meng Xiandeng in his first child.

Although after he left the post of military attache in front of the imperial court, he has been fighting with the army, and he does not have much time to return to the Viscount's Mansion outside the Bei'an Gate of the Imperial City of Beijing that the emperor rewarded to see the mother and son.

But compared with the previous situation of lonely souls and wild ghosts, now he is as fierce as a tiger, after all, he has a home, a mother and son who think about him every day, and a family member who makes him miss every day.

And after having his biological son Meng Xiandeng, Meng Ruhu no longer resolutely refused the request of his adopted son Meng Xianjie to join the army and make contributions.

This time, Meng Ruhu followed the 3,000 battalion of men and horses to help the officials and troops in northern Shaanxi, and specially asked for leave to return to Yulin City, and brought out the righteous son Meng Xianjie, who had been fostered in the home of his former colleagues in Yansui Town before entering Beijing.

When the 3,000 battalions were reorganized into the fourth town of the Guards Army this time, with the approval of the courtiers of King Wu Anbo and the imperial history of the supervising army, Meng Xianjie, who had just turned over 15 years old, received the credit of his adoptive father who was as fierce as a tiger, and was not only officially incorporated into the fourth town of the Guards Army, but also became the commander of the first standard battalion, and held the pro-army team of his adoptive father who was as fierce as a tiger.

At this time, Meng Xianjie rode out on horseback, picked up Li Xing's head, and immediately handed it over to the hands of the fierce tiger.

However, whether they were as fierce as a tiger or as fierce as a tiger, including all the officers and men of the First Standard Middle Battalion of the Fourth Town of the Guards Army behind them, none of them had ever seen Li Xing.

I saw that the fierce tiger carried Li Xing's head in his hand, squinted his slender eyes and looked at it, and he didn't care, and threw it to his righteous son casually, and then shouted to the left and right:

"Tie this piece of iron to Lao Tzu! Take it back and hand it over to Dashuai to dispose of! ”