Under the gloomy sky, a large number of refugees once again flooded the official road, and among them, nine war horses and a carriage were particularly conspicuous, and this group was Lu Yan and his party who planned to go to Quang Ninh to defect to Mao Wenlong.

After drinking with Cao Wenzhao, he immediately left Liaoyang City with his sister and his party.

He knew that Liaoyang City might be under martial law at any time, and even if he wanted to, he couldn't leave.

Joining the cowardly Xue outside the city, they immediately ran all the way to Quang Ninh.

"Young master, do you say Liaoyang can hold it?"

Zhang Xiaoyi said with some concern.

"Can't hold it!"

Lu Yan said categorically.

Hearing Lu Yan's words of affirmation, Zhang Xiaoyi was a little surprised, and he said a little unconvinced: "Young Master, why are you so sure?" Liaoyang is the first fortified city of my Liaodong guards, with many soldiers and generals. Since Taizu, our dynasty has been operating Liaoyang for more than 200 years, how can it not be kept. ”

"Because those literati don't know how to fight at all! They will only send soldiers to die. ”

Lu Yanyan said with a sneer.

Why were the Ming and Song dynasties weak? It's not because the emperor is worried that those military generals will wear imperial robes, so he desperately suppresses the martial artists.

Treat the warriors as mules and horses, and don't give them grass.

Otherwise, in the Ming and Song dynasties, how could the Han people be so weak.

"Young Master, are you saying that Lord Yuan Yingtai can't fight?"

"That's right, he doesn't know how to fight at all!"

"Actually, I don't think it's difficult to fight, as long as you can't hold on, how can Liaoyang City not be able to hold it."

Lu Yan glanced at Zhang Xiaoyi with some surprise, and then said meaningfully: "Actually, it is difficult to say that it is difficult to fight, and it is easy to say that it is simple. If it can't be held, Liaoyang City will definitely not be lost, but it may be reprimanded by the imperial court, and even lose its official position and be dismissed, and the people in other places will also suffer. ”

The reason why Liaoyang fell was because Hachi made a gesture of attacking Shanhaiguan along the thousands of mountains southwest of Liaoyang.

Fearing that the Jurchens would break through the Shanhai Pass, Yuan Yingtai had to send the defenders of Liaoyang City to fight the Jurchens in the field.

As a result, the defenders in the field were defeated, and the Liaoyang defenders were also naturally lost.

The reason why Yuan Chonghuan was able to achieve Ningyuan's great victory was that he could not hold on, and at the same time use the Hongyi cannon to attack the Jurchens.

Of course, the consequence of this is that the people of other places will suffer, such as the massacre of thousands of soldiers and civilians on Juehua Island.

Among them, Lu Yan does not want to judge.

Because no matter how you choose, it's a painful decision.

If you want to solve all this, that is, there must be a force that can defeat the Manchu Eight Banners in the field, and this army does not seem to be in the Ming Dynasty.

Lu Hongsleeve listened quietly to their conversation in the carriage, and she found that Lu Yan had changed a lot since she came to escape.

has become more confident, more assertive, and his eyes always have an inexplicable look in his eyes, which is almost the same as the person who only knew how to fight bravely before.

She didn't know if it was because of the war or what, but she thought it was a good thing.

But the biggest headache for her was that Lu Yan insisted on joining the army, no matter how she persuaded Lu Yan to change her mind.

This made her let out a long sigh, and it seemed that this matter could only be slowly figured out.

They slept on the road and slept on the road, and by the afternoon of the next day, they were not far from Quang Ninh.

At this moment, they suddenly noticed a large amount of smoke rising from the sky in the distance.

"What's going on?"

Lu Yan grabbed the horse's head and asked.

"Someone must have burned down the house there."

Mo Zhigen is very experienced, so he said.

"Burning houses?"

Lu Yan looked puzzled.

Who would have nothing to do to burn down their house?

"It's supposed to be the rebels killing people."

Suhe, who was a little silent on the side, said.

When they went west, they didn't do much of this kind of thing, so they could see it at a glance.

"Rebels?"

Hearing his words, Lu Yan couldn't help but start thinking about Zhilai.

This place is the rear of Liaoyang, and there should be no Jurchen cavalry, so the only possibility is a rout.

"Young master, let's not be nosy, it's important to hurry."

Zhang Xiaoyi hurriedly said, there is no reason to talk about it with those routs, they will only use the knives and guns in their hands to tell you what is reasonable.

Lu Yan hesitated for a long time, and then said: "Let's take a look, if there are too many chaotic soldiers, we will leave it alone." If there are only a few rebels, we will persuade them to leave, and if they will not listen, we will kill him. When the road is uneven, he should draw his sword to help. ”

Speaking of which, he actually found a feeling of ancient chivalry.

Lu Hongsleeve had the intention to oppose it, but after all, he still didn't stop him, always opposing his opinion would affect his prestige in the team, and she could see that even if she objected, Lu Yan would not change his mind.

So the group rode towards the village, and when they came to a distance of about a kilometer from the village, they found a man dressed as a peasant running out of the village in a panic.

The man was startled when he saw them, quickly stopped, and then began to turn around and run.

"Young Master, what should we do?"

Zhang Xiaoyi asked.

"Morrigan, you go and get him back, remember not to hurt him."

Lu Yan thought for a while and said.

"Yes."

Morrigan said.

With that, he took the lasso from the other one, and chased after the man.

Seeing this, Lu Yan still felt a little novel.

The Mongol army would equip its troops with such things as lassoes, but Mozhigen and Sukh told him that there were many strange things in the Mongol army, and that many of them had their own personal skills, and that lasso was just one of the most common ones.

It wasn't long before the sound of horses' hooves sounded again in the distance, and then the back of Mozhigen's horse led a man and ran towards him.

The man's upper body was tightly covered by the lasso, and he could only follow Mo Rigen to this side with a helpless face.

"This good man spares his life, don't kill me."

After coming to Lu Yan's place, this person saw at a glance that Lu Yan should be the leader of this group, so he quickly knelt down and kowtowed.

"What's your name? What's going on up ahead? ”

Lu Yan asked.

"You're not with the routs?"

The villager said with a look of surprise.

"We were passing by, and we noticed that there was smoke everywhere and wanted to see what was going on here."

Lu Yan said truthfully.

Only his words, the villager secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

When I first saw these people, I saw that they were all dressed in armor, coupled with strong bows and crossbows, they were even more like Qiu Ba than Qiu Ba, but I didn't expect that they were not Qiu Ba.

"The little Li Afu is from Lijia Village in front. This morning I don't know where a group of routs came, and after they entered our village, they went around looting things, and some of the villagers were unwilling, so they killed them, and my brother was wounded by them. ”

The more Li Afu spoke, the more sad he became, and finally he lost his voice and became painful.

"How many men did they have, how many cavalry, how many infantry, and what weapons did they use?"

Lu Yan continued to ask.

Li Afu choked up for a while, and then said: "There are about thirty of them, one of them is riding a horse, he has a three-eyed gun in his hand, and the others are either holding knives and guns, or they don't even have weapons. ”

"Do they have birds?"

Lu Yan asked again, he had always been a little afraid of the power of the musket.

"Probably not."

Li Afu thought for a while and said.

"Are you sure you can handle this rout?"

Lu Yan said to the cowardly Xue behind him.

Although there were a little more of those routs, he felt that these cowards should still be able to deal with them.

"I don't think there's a problem, it's just a rout, maybe they'll run away."

Mo Rigen's answer really didn't disappoint him, and he agreed after just a little thought.

"Okay then, you guys just prepare and drive that group of Ming troops out of this village in a while. If it doesn't work, pull out. ”

Lu Yan said.

"Young Master, can the five of them do it? And these people are court officials? ”

Zhang Xiaoyi said with some concern.

"The officials and soldiers of the imperial court cannot rob the common people's things."

Lu Yan said angrily, "And they can't beat and run, how can those infantry catch up." ”

The cavalry will always have the upper hand in this, and the infantry will never be able to force the cavalry into a decisive battle.

Li Afu was stunned, could it be that they planned to send five people to fight more than 30 Ming troops, are these people crazy?

The cowardly Xue examined their weapons, and several of them changed into unridden Mongolian horses, and then raced into the village.

Lu Yan asked Zhang Xiaoyi to hide with his sister, and he followed them from a distance with Li Afu to see that they planned to deal with the Ming army.

Mo Rigen and Su He observed the terrain outside, and then took those cowardly Xue into Lijia Village, which was not large, with only more than 30 households.

Soon they found two Ming soldiers leading two sheep at the entrance of the village, and it was obvious that they planned to kill the sheep and sacrifice them.

An old man next to him was begging them on his knees, but they kicked him aside.

Seeing this, Lu Yan suddenly remembered a sentence in the history books.

Thieves are like combs, and soldiers are like grates.

It is said that sometimes the officers and soldiers hurt the people more than the thieves, especially in the late Ming Dynasty, because the soldiers did not have enough to eat, did not have warm clothing, and the military discipline was extremely corrupt, and in the process of pacifying the rebel army in the late Ming Dynasty, they harmed the people a lot of times.

The sound of these cowardly horses' hooves alarmed them, and when the two Ming soldiers found out about cowardice, they immediately let out a scream, and then fled towards the village.

Mozhigen and Suhe immediately slapped their horses and rushed over, drawing their waist knives at the same time.

They quickly caught up with the two Ming soldiers, and then took advantage of the momentum of their horses to knock the two Ming soldiers into the ground spitting blood from their mouths.

At this time, the three cowardly Xue Xue arrived just in time, so the horses trampled on the two Ming soldiers, trampling them to the point of spitting blood and dying.

The movement here soon alarmed the Ming army in the village.

Several Ming soldiers on the street who were scolding and scolding with the copper coins snatched back in their arms were stunned when they saw this, but soon they shouted for help and ran towards the village.

Seeing this, the three cowardly Xue in the back quickly bent their bows and arrows, and then shot at those Ming soldiers, and soon those Ming soldiers were hit by arrows one after another.

More and more Ming troops rushed out of the house, and when Mozhigen and Suhe saw this, they retreated towards the entrance of the village while shooting arrows at those Ming troops.

When a man dressed in military attaché's clothes heard the screams outside, he cursed angrily, picked up some scattered silver from Lizheng's house and put it in his arms, rushed out of the house, and mounted his war horse to escape.

At this time, a personal soldier stopped him, "My lord, there are only five enemies, and we can kill them with a fight." ”

Hearing his words, the officer was stunned for a moment.