July 20, 19th year of Chongzhen, Tianjin Wei.

The number of Huaxia troops guarding here was not large, and after the Jingshi fell into the hands of Wu Sangui, this place was always occupied by Li Yan. Li Yan went to Shanxi, and in order to facilitate the reception of refugees near Jingshi, Yu Guozhen sent someone to take over Tianjin Wei. However, the place of takeover was limited to the area of Tianjin Weihe and Jinghai to the south to the eastern boundary of Shan', that is, the east bank of the canal, and as for the west, it was only the scope of the reconnaissance and cavalry activities of the Huaxia Army.

Now there is only a battalion guarding here, and there are not many people, and their most important job is only to settle the people who escaped from Wu Sangui's rule, and then load them on ships and transport them to Tamna, Yangkou or Qingdaokou, and then transfer them to Dayuan Island.

In the past three years, the number of immigrants from Jingshi and Shandong'dong has reached more than 2 million, and the flat areas along the coast and rivers have been quickly developed and managed, and the local indigenous people, after three conflicts with the immigrants, have either moved deeper into the mountains or have begun to try to contact the immigrants.

After all, Chinese immigrants are different from white European immigrants, much more tolerant than them, this is the Taoist unity of the Chinese nation, the unfavorable will be self-improvement, things are extremely smooth and virtuous, that kind of rampant mentality, is the chronic disease of the small people of the island.

The battalion guarding Tianjin Wei is named Nie Lin, and he was sent here, which can be described as a lone army, but Yu Guozhen personally ordered the general, which is inseparable from his prudence. He himself knew this, so after receiving a secret order from Yu Guozhen at the beginning of the year, telling him to pay attention to the movements of Wu Sangui and Jianyu, at least two companies of the battalion he led were always in a state of combat readiness.

"Wu San kneeling this turtle son, his father was really prescient, but fortunately he was not named Wu Si kneeling, if Wu Si kneeling, wouldn't he have to surrender to us again...... I don't want this traitor to join us! ”

Ding Sheng nagged in Nie Lin's ear, but Nie Lin ignored the chatter.

They rode more than 20 horses in a group, slowly moving south along the canal, which is a homework that Nie Lin must do every day. Although the period of his tour is not long. It's only more than 20 miles, but after walking every day, Nie Lin feels more at ease.

"Shhhh Don't make a sound. ”

Ding Sheng was still nagging about it, but Bai Ning on the other side booed, and then this Huaxia Army soldier who was born as a horse thief. He turned over and fell to the ground, listening to the movement.

With the expansion of the Huaxia Army, those who joined it were no longer pure young immigrants. Like Bai Ning, he was actually born as a rogue horse thief, once followed Zhang Xianzhong, and was later captured in Huguang, because he was young, he was transferred to half-time work and half-service after serving a year of hard labor, and because of his outstanding performance, he finally joined the Huaxia Army. He followed Zhang Xianzhong to fight everywhere when he was a child. Therefore, he is familiar with horse nature, is a very good scout, and now he has also become Nie Lin's guard.

"Discovery?" Nie Lin asked with a frown.

"More than thirty horses, about a mile away from here, blocked by crops."

The crop blocking their view was corn. Because of the large number of people who fled or died, large areas of land near the canal in the North China Plain were planted with corn. Nie Lin heard that it was more than thirty horses, he looked around, and judged that the other party would definitely come along this road, so he said to Bai Ning: "You go back and send the alarm first." Spread the word that I ordered the whole city to be under martial law, all the staff were on duty, and the rest of the people were ambushed in the cornfield with me! ”

Bai Ning answered, quickly got on the horse, and then turned around and ran back, Nie Lin and the rest scattered into the cornfield.

It was only a short time before they arrived.

"Yes...... Wu San's kneeling guy actually ran here, and the gift sent to the door could not be received. Nie Lin saw the clothes on the other party's body and smiled slightly.

In terms of numbers, there were less than twenty people around Nie Lin, but everyone was not a little afraid, just a little nervous - after all, they hadn't fought seriously for three years.

The musket was loaded, aimed, ordered, fired.

The sudden sound of gunfire in the cornfield shattered the surrounding silence, and among the thirty or so horsemen, six were immediately shot and fell off their horses, and some of them were shot, but they were not critical, so they could still lie on their horses. The rest, knowing that they were attacked, fired their bows and arrows or muskets back into the cornfields, turned their horses' heads and turned away.

Nie Lin scolded in his heart, "Run fast", but in his mouth, he ordered to shoot for the second time.

This time it was free fire, and seven more people fell off their horses, and the rest fled back the way they came, but the muskets used by the Huaxia army had a long range, which was enough to shoot through the bullet again in the process of the enemy's escape.

This time, however, only three people were shot down.

"Cleaning the battlefield, did anyone get hurt?" Nie Lin said loudly.

"Haha, Dabao, this fool twisted his legs."

"Nonsense, I accidentally twisted while doing tactical evasion moves! Wounded in battle! ”

Hearing such a response, Nie Lin smiled slightly, and Fang Cai's nervousness was completely gone. They loaded their ammunition and pointed their guns at the fallen enemy, two of whom were still moving, and did not seem to be dying.

Fan Che'er touched his chest in horror, when the gunshots rang out on both sides, he felt a sudden sharp pain there, at first he just turned around and ran for his life, without thinking carefully about what happened, and now there was no gunfire behind him, he remembered the incident, touched it, and did not touch the wound, which made him feel a little more relieved.

Looking back, the ambush was already far away, he asked the horse to slow down, and then looked at the surrounding robes and companions, a total of thirty people came out, but now there are only eleven people left, in addition to those who were shot down, there are also those who have run away.

Fear is written on everyone's face.

"What do you say when you go back?" Someone stubbornly said, "Which of you saw how many people ambushed?" ”

"I just glanced back, and I only saw a dozen or so people, but I can't count how many there really are, there should still be some hidden in the cornfields on both sides, a total of ...... It should be equal to our numbers. ”

Fan Che'er knew that this was an exaggeration, and the number of gunshots just now could be heard, and the number of people on the other side definitely did not exceed twenty. However, the strength of the Chinese army's combat power is unparalleled in the world, and if it is slightly exaggerated, it can increase its own face, and it is easier to go back and explain to the general.

"***, start a war with Yu Guozhen...... I really don't know what the Lord thinks. Someone muttered.

"Shut up, Hugh is talking nonsense." Fan Che'er roared, and everyone was in the same place.

"Give back." Fan Che'er said again.

Just about three miles away from them, Wu Sangui stood up on his horse, held a telescope, and looked over here.

Beside him, were more than five thousand horsemen. Wu Sangui's march could not take care of the crops, so the more than 5,000 horsemen scattered in the fields, tossing large patches of corn into shape.

The grain that could be harvested at the sight was spoiled into mud, and a small number of sergeants still felt a little sorry in their hearts. Wu Sangui didn't care about so much, his mind was all in the telescope.

An adjutant general beside him said: "Listening to the sound of gunshots, it should be from the Huaxia Army, *** is alert, we are still more than ten miles away before we are discovered!" ”

"It's good to be found here." Wu Sangui snorted, quite complacent in his heart.

The intelligence system of the Huaxia Army is very developed, and Wu Sangui and Jianyu have suffered losses more than once, and in the past few years, they have been able to detect some examples of their subordinates being bribed every year. In order to conceal the intelligence system of the Huaxia Army this time, Wu Sangui spent a lot of thought, initially saying that he wanted to learn from the Huaxia Army to engage in confrontational exercises, and then suddenly went south, ran wildly all night, and the forward arrived more than ten miles away from Tianjin Wei.

It's a pity that the equipment of his troops is still inferior to that of the Huaxia Army, otherwise he can compete with Yu Guozhen.

Soon, the scouts retreated, and less than half of the thirty horsemen remained, and some of them were wounded, and all of them were very depressed, which proved that they had suffered in the contest with the other party.

"What's the matter, you just came to report, didn't you say that you found the enemy's traces, why are you so embarrassed?" Wu Sangui asked a little unpleasantly.

Fan Che'er hung his head: "It's not that the brothers are not angry, it's really that the Huaxia army is too cunning, they ambushed in the cornfield, and the number is equal to our army." ”

"Tsk."

Wu Sangui smacked his lips slightly, there was no need to ask about the other party's casualties, and the result of asking was only to make people sad.

"However, judging from the enemy's situation, it should only be a team of patrol reconnaissance horses, which is only ten miles away from Tianjin Wei, and only encountered the reconnaissance cavalry of the Huaxia Army here, which shows that the Huaxia Army is not on guard." The deputy general beside Wu Sangui said with a smile: "Congratulations to Master Hou, really established a special honor, since Yu Guozhen's uprising, I have never heard of anyone who can take the city guarded by his subordinates, Master Hou is clever, unparalleled in the world!" ”

This sycophant is really clumsy, not to mention that Wu Sangui has not yet entered Tianjin Wei. Wu Sangui glared at this guy fiercely, thinking in his heart that such a guy who can only shoot horses would be better to use less in the future.

"Target, Tianjin Wei, the whole army - attack!" He drew his sword and pointed in a southeasterly direction.

The five thousand cavalry immediately got on their horses, and they were mighty and pressed towards the Tianjin Guard.

After a while, he arrived at the place where the two forwards had encountered, looking at the corpses on the ground, especially the two corpses that were clearly repaired after asking, Wu Sangui knew in his heart that the suddenness of his attack had ended here.

This made Wu Sangui's heart slightly nervous.

"Let the strikers be careful of ambushes." He said to the heralds: "Every other pillar of incense, report to me the enemy's situation." ”

The forward's report is always "everything is going well", and even under the Tianjin Acropolis, it is still "everything is going well". This made the slight nervousness in Wu Sangui's heart turn into uneasiness: the geographical location of Tianjin Wei is so important, it is impossible for Yu Guozhen not to pay attention to it, so the success so far, is it that Yu Guozhen has some conspiracy?

"What is the situation of the defense of the Tianjin Acropolis?" He said to the heralds, "Let the strikers come quickly—we'll hurry up too!" ”

He was so eager that he arrived at the front almost at the same time as the herald, and when he arrived, he himself could see the walls of the Tientsin Guard without the need for the striker to report. Outside the west gate of Tianjin Wei, he was surprised to find that the city gate was wide open, and there was no trace of artillery at the head of the city, not even a human figure.

Tianjin Weixiang is an empty city! (To be continued)