Just like a stimulated honeycomb, the attacked Guan Ning army also used bows and crossbows and various firearms to return the color, but the white smoke blocked the view, so that they did not notice that the cavalry who had just fired at them had retreated to the flank and rear, when the smoke was blown away by the wind, they saw that the enemy who was originally on the river bank was retreating to the flank and rear, and they all thought that the enemy was overwhelmed by their own fierce fire. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The soldiers made a drum noise and rushed to the riverbank.

As had been agreed, the cowardly light cavalry dispersed to the flank and rear, and as they retreated, they turned sideways and fired at the enemy soldiers on the shore with bird guns and bows and arrows. They were divided into small groups of twenty or thirty horsemen, and took turns to shoot at the enemy, and when the enemy pursued, they retreated, luring them away from the group, and those who were provoked to break away from the ranks were soon besieged on all sides and fell. These fires are cold and skillful, as if they were shooting wild beasts on a daily basis.

However, soon the Guan Ning army discovered the enemy's tricks, with the sound of drums and the wave of flags, the formation became tighter, firearms and crossbowmen appeared in the four corners of the hollow phalanx to cover the foot soldiers lined up in a dense formation, and the cavalry retreated into the hollow phalanx, dismounted to recuperate, first, to avoid the enemy's sight, second, to save horsepower, and wait until the enemy's horsepower was almost exhausted before giving it a fatal blow. Hazar also saw the enemy's intentions, and immediately issued an order with a sound of the hammer, telling the cavalry to retreat, take turns to dismount and rest, and feed the horses, the battle lines of the two sides were separated, and the battlefield gradually calmed down.

"The thief army doesn't know the truth of our army, it seems that it can be delayed for another half an hour, is there any news of the general?" Hazar jumped off his horse and asked Suppilon.

"Not yet!" Kupilon handed over a bag of horses** and observed the enemy formation not far away: "They have their own selfish intentions to make it like this, but there are not no wise people in the Guanning army, and after a long time, you will find that our army is actually not much, so you have to find a way to delay time!" ”

"And what do you do?" Hazar asked, taking a sip of mare's milk.

"Mintae!" Curb shouted.

"The last general!" A young man beside him answered, only to see that he was dressed in iron armor, covered with a pale yellow woolen robe, and hung a knife, a bow bag, and a hulu on the wide cow belt around his waist.

"You pick a few strong men who are good at riding and archery in the flag, and go to the enemy formation to challenge and delay as much time as possible, understand?"

"Yes!" Mintae stood up after a thousand calls, ready to go to the challenge. Hazar on the side also understood the intention of Curb Pilon, and said with a smile: "Good way, but you can't let your people specialize in beauty, a few of you can go together, and wait for the dispatch!" ”

"It's good!" Ji Bilong smiled: "These are the personal guards of the King of the Guards, and they must all be the warriors of a thousand!" ”

Hazar smiled and did not speak, and he and Suppilon took dozens of horsemen and went out to watch the battle. I saw that Mintai led nine horsemen to the place where the enemy army was about a stone's throw away, and Le Ma shouted loudly: "The soldiers on both sides have no grudges, why kill each other?" Wouldn't it be beautiful for you to choose ten people over there and fight with us to decide the winner? ”

Seeing this, the sergeants and soldiers on the side of the Guan Ning army also shouted in agreement. Most of the generals have seen the messenger of the decree not long ago, and the morale is not high, not to mention that for these soldiers, this is a completely meaningless war, since Liu Cheng has occupied the Beijing division and won the approval of the imperial court, the victory and defeat are already clear, not to mention that Liu Cheng did not hold them accountable, so why continue to fight?

"Dog thief!" Dorgon scolded in a low voice, "This must be a delaying tactic, I want to delay the time, but I have to fight!" He turned to glance at the guards behind him and shouted, "Whoever wants to come forward to fight, I have a reward!" ”

Mintai shouted a few times, and then saw the enemy rush out of the formation of ten horses, about half an arrow to stop, led by a gray horse, wearing a copper bubble nail with copper cotton armor, the horse stepped forward and shouted: "Do you want to fight one-on-one or in a group?" ”

Min Tae listened and thought secretly: "The general asked me to delay as much time as possible, if the group battle is only a matter of a moment, it is better to be one-on-one!" Thinking of this, he said loudly: "Naturally, it's one-on-one, how can the group battle be capable!" ”

The knight on the opposite side had a few words with his companion behind him, and a knight on a black horse stepped forward. Min Tai kicked the war horse, then ran forward, he was very good at riding, ran a few steps and then opened the bow at the person who came to shoot an arrow, the person who came to avoid the arrow, then rushed over with a spear, at this time the two sides were only more than ten steps apart, Min Tai did not have time to shoot again, so he put the bow on his right arm, raised the spear to stab back, but did not want the spear to be caught in the right leg, for a while can not be drawn, seeing the shining spear tip on the opposite side, hurriedly pulled the reins of the wrong horse to avoid, the two horses just avoided a stab in front of the face.

When the two horses were staggered, Mintai suddenly stretched out his left arm, hugged his opponent's waist, and dragged the opponent from the saddle with horsepower, and pressed it on the saddle. The man struggled with all his might, but without the freedom to draw his sword, Mintai put the horned bow on his right arm and put it around the opponent's neck, and the tight bowstring immediately strangled the enemy's throat, but after a few moments the knight was paralyzed. Mintae pulled out his short knife and slit his opponent's throat, then threw it on the ground, shouting, "But there is anyone else to fight me?" ”

Seeing this, the knight on the opposite side couldn't help but be furious, and another horse rushed up to catch and fight. After winning two battles, Min Tai came back to change horses to rest and watch the battle, and the knights he brought were either the elite of the yellow flag, or the cowardly guards around Liu Cheng, compared to the opponent, whether it was martial arts, archery, war horses, and weapons, they all had an advantage, so the opponent died seven people, and only three people died here, and the soldiers here shouted in unison, and time passed so imperceptibly. Seeing that it was almost past the time of Shen, Mintai suddenly felt a tremor under his feet, and he immediately realized that this was a large group of cavalry about to arrive, and knew that reinforcements were coming, so he jumped on his horse and said in a loud voice: "Our side has already won, what are you going to do!" ”

The remaining three knights on the opposite side exchanged glances, and rushed over with a whistle, and Mintai's side hurriedly met them, and the three of them fell and died in a short time. Min Tai took off the helmets of several people, only to find that he was generally a Jurchen, and he couldn't help but feel sad, and sighed: "I can't imagine that it is my own compatriots who died under my sword!" ”

At this time, Yue Tuo's main force had arrived, and when the Guan Ning army saw this, their morale was low, and they hurriedly retreated to the other side of the river beach. Due to the late day, the enemy's formation was very tight, and there were red-coated cannons as cover, so Suppilon did not send troops to pursue. Yue Tuo lined up the army along the rocky beach, placed the artillery team on a high post not far from the rocky beach, and then sent people to summon Wu Sangui and Zu Kuan to discuss.

It was already sunset, and wisps of smoke were rising on both sides of the rocky beach, and dinner was being prepared on both sides. Yue Tuo placed his old camp under a high post on the west bank of the rocky beach, and the artillery team was placed on the high post, where he could clearly overlook the enemy camp and the rocky beach separating the two armies. After a day's rapid march, Yue Tuo himself and his guards were quite tired, but he still gathered all the generals to hold a military meeting for the upcoming battle.

"General Wu!" Yue Tuo didn't talk nonsense, and asked directly: "Do you think there is a way for Xiong Wencan to surrender without a fight?" ”

Wu Sangui hesitated for a moment, and replied in a deep voice: "Tell Da Baylor, Xiong Wencan imprisoned the generals and killed the angels, which is extremely rebellious, I am afraid it will be difficult to make it surrender without a fight." ”

Yue Tuo nodded: "Since that's the case, then I can only see you on the battlefield!" Pass the order, all armies strengthen their defenses tonight, beware of enemy troops coming to steal the camp! ”

Wu Sangui's heart moved: "Big Baylor, I have a suggestion for tomorrow's battle!" ”

When Yue Tuo heard this, he smiled with interest: "Oh, you said come and listen!" ”

"Xiong Wencan imprisoned the generals, the army's heart must be unstable, it's good that he is personally in charge of Shanhaiguan, but the nine gates must be empty, if you send an army to go to the nine gates and go around to the back of Shanhaiguan, the army's heart will be in chaos!"

"Oh?" Yue Tuo hurriedly inquired when he heard this, Wu Sangui knew that this was the time for his meritorious service, and hurriedly described it in detail, it turned out that this nine gates were located about 15 kilometers west of Shanhaiguan A Great Wall, and it was also an extremely important pass, unlike other passes, the nine gates were not built on Yanshan, but on the Jiujiang River, which was a "Great Wall on the water". Compared with the nine gates of Shanhaiguan, the terrain is much more steep, and it is not suitable for the passage of the army.

"Okay, General Wu, you have made a great contribution!" After listening to Wu Sangui's narration, Yue Tuo was overjoyed: "In this case, I bothered you to go overnight!" Curb Bilong, you take a thousand infantry and go with General Wu! ”

"Obey!" Suppilon stood up and took the command.

It was late in the night, and there was a sound of artillery at the high post, which was that Yue Tuo's artillery was firing at the enemy camp on the opposite bank, in order to attract the attention of the defenders and at the same time to cover up the sound of their own roundabout detachment. Wu Sangui looked up at the moon in the sky, then looked back at the enemy camp on the other side of the rocky beach, and ordered: "Pass the order, the three armies will take the bell and the horse will pick up the bell, and no sound will be made, and the target is the ninth gate!" ”

Capital.

"Lord Shousuke, Mr. Zhao asks to see you!"

"Invite him in!" Lu Boqi hurriedly stood up, he knew very well that the Mr. Zhao in his servant's mouth would only represent one person, that is, Liu Cheng's henchman Zhao Wende, when Liu Ben himself had already led the troops out of Beijing, this person was tantamount to his plenipotentiary, that is, in fact, the highest speaker of the empire. Although he was nominally the first assistant, he actually had to obey his orders, and when he thought of this, he felt a faint bitterness.

Lu Boqi walked to the door and descended one step, the lowest gesture that etiquette allowed him to make. I saw Zhao Wende dressed in green clothes, followed by four heavily armed guards walking in, he saw Lu Boqi descending to greet him, his face changed slightly, he hurriedly quickened his pace, and said with a long salute: "Lu Gong is in trouble!" ”

"Jiansheng and I are old friends, what's the trouble?" Lu Boqi smiled and stretched out his hand to grab Zhao Wende's arm, and entered with his arm, and smiled affectionately: "Don't be polite when you come to me, I heard that you don't need to pass it on when you go to King Jin, you go straight in, what am I?" ”

"Don't dare!" Listening to Lu Boqi's obviously flattering words, Zhao Wende couldn't help but feel a burst of pride, when Yang He was imprisoned, how could he have imagined that he could have today? But compared to the list in his arms, the things he did before were nothing.

The two entered the house, sat down separately, Lu Boqi was about to call someone to serve tea, but Zhao Wende waved his hand and said: "No need, Lu Gong, I came today to discuss confidential matters, please go out with irrelevant people!" ”

Lu Boqi was stunned for a moment, and then nodded: "It's okay, you all retreat!" ”

After seeing the servants retreat, the four guards who came with Zhao Wende searched the house again, and after confirming that there was no one, they guarded the door and the courtyard respectively, looking like they were facing a great enemy. Seeing this, Lu Boqi thought to himself: "With such vigilance, isn't it that Liu Cheng wants to usurp the throne?" ”

"Lu Gong, look at this list!" Zhao Wende took out a thin booklet from his arms and handed it over. Lu Boqi glanced at the other party suspiciously, stretched out his hand to take the booklet, flipped through a few pages, and saw that it was densely filled with names, all of which were the names of high-ranking officials and eunuchs in the capital, and there were thirty or forty people on each page.

"What's wrong?" Lu Boqi put down the list: "What does this list do?" ”

"This is the list of public enemies, and those on the list are to be executed and their property confiscated!" Zhao Wende subconsciously lowered his voice: "King Jin told me before leaving, I should show Lu Gong before the list is made public, if Lu Gong has any relatives and friends, as long as there are no more than five people, they can be accommodating." ”

"What?" Lu Boqi was shocked, and hurriedly picked up the list again and looked through it carefully, this time his feeling was completely different, he only felt that the thin booklet in his hand was already a thousand pounds, and his hands trembled slightly: "So many people are going to be executed?" ”

"Not bad!" Zhao Wende sneered: "These days, more than 100 accountants are busy liquidating, some of these people are in arrears of taxes, some of them are bribes, some of them merge land, and some people bully men and women, and run rampant in the township, etc., all of which are well documented. ”

"So many people have it?"

"Some of them have no evidence, but they have property that is significantly more than what is relatively good, so they will deal with it together!"

"That's too heavy, isn't it?" Lu Boqi grew his mouth in surprise, if it were according to the charges that Zhao Wende had just said, almost one of the officials and gentry of the Ming Dynasty would be counted as one, and everyone would not be able to escape. Not to mention anything else, just the various exchanges and gifts between officials, which one is not using public funds to do favors? If you want to kill even this, it will be too unreasonable.