After dawn, everyone got up, all of them were sturdy men, except for a few of Xiong Tingbi's attachés, the rest of the people's physical strength recovered, boiled some boiling water on the bonfire, and everyone ate dry food with water, Liu Zirui sighed: "I don't want to suffer from Rongxing, but it's like this." ”

Xiong Tingbi said with a smile: "This official patrolled all over Liao in the thirty-sixth year of Wanli, and it was almost like this, but there was no enemy at that time, everyone was very at ease, and the feeling of walking was different. ”

Han Xu also sighed in his heart, the ancients endured these hardships, it is difficult for future generations to imagine, he recalled more than 200 years ago, the Chinese ancestors used bamboo guns to expel the tyrannical yuan, all the way forward, to restore the bitter cold land of Liaodong, and with 200 years of time to operate, although the loss of the vast territory of the slave Gandusi, it is also the operation of Liaodong and the mainland, you must know that in the early Ming Dynasty, there were almost no Han people in Liaodong, and there was no base supply, and later generations always said that the predecessors were useless when talking about the army, in fact, I experienced it myself, and I knew how difficult these things were!

After a while, Xiong Tingbi walked around in Dongzhou Fort, everywhere is ruins and broken walls, those rubble can be faintly seen ambushed everywhere, Houjin at this time has not carried out an exterminating slaughter of the whole Liao Han people, but after each battle, there must be very heavy casualties, Dongzhou Fort and Magenshan Fort were taken by the division of troops when Nuerhachi attacked Fushun, the residents of the city were either killed, or forcibly moved away as Baoyi Ahha, and became slaves under each banner, the fate of these people is very tragic, and there is not one survivor in ten.

After a week of patrolling, everyone's mood is not very good, Xiong Tingbi is also silent, his plan for the next two years is to stabilize Liaoshen first, practice the elite cavalry to harass Houjin, and then regain Fushun after the ability to fight with Houjin to re-establish the border defense line, it is expected that at least five years later, the side wall will be actively invited, but after seeing the situation in front of him, Xiong Tingbi also can't wait to advance the timetable in his heart, but unfortunately, as a strategic supervisor, Xiong Tingbi knows that it is impossible.

After the hour, everyone left the fort and began to set off along the avenue towards Fushun Pass.

At this time, the sky was bright, the sun was excellent, there was no yesterday's wind and snow, the march felt much more comfortable, and the horses were running with great strength, but the crowd was silent, and few people laughed.

Near noon, several rangers appeared on the distant horizon.

The snow-covered ground makes people's eyesight very good, and they can look far away, of course, this small group of Ming troops also sent sentry cavalry in front, but this place is a flat river, and the sentry cavalry has not yet returned, and the opposite cavalry has been seen here.

"This should be the Eastern Sentinel Cavalry." He Shixian was a little uneasy, he whispered a few words, and more than a dozen family members galloped forward on horseback.

This is the middle ground between Dongzhou Fort and Fushun Pass, and it is also biased towards Fushun Pass. Since the previous fiascos of the Ming army, few people have been able to come here, Xiong Tingbi is indeed a light horse this time, but if it is not so, it will not be able to quickly turn people's hearts, this trip is still too risky after all, the atmosphere in the team immediately became solemn, Han Xu was also a little surprised, in his expectation, such weather and the recent strategic goals of the Ming and Jin sides, there should not be such an encounter.

At this time, the sentinels of the Houjin side also discovered the cavalry team, and at the same time, the sentinels of the two sides were close to each other, and the sentinels of the Ming army began to speed up their horses and rush forward.

Houjin blew the conch horn and began to attack.

The sentry cavalry on both sides were very brave, and they were very close to each other in an instant, the Ming army was slightly more numerous, and He Shixian sent reinforcements up later, and the sentry riders waved the weapons in their hands and rushed forward.

Forty paces apart, the Houjin Sentinel began to shoot arrows.

Far away, it seemed that the sound of the bowstring collapsing could be heard, and more than ten Houjin Sentinel Riders fired arrows continuously, and the light arrows kept flying into the air and then swept down quickly, Han Xu and the others could see locust-like bows and arrows flying in mid-air from miles away.

Most of these arrows fell on the war horses of the Ming army's sentry horse, and the sentry horses that rushed forward fell one after another, some horses were shot at the vital point, rolled on the snow and fell to the ground, and the horse people fell to the ground seriously, and some of the sentry horses were alert, rolling in place when they fell off the horse, trying to reduce the damage, even so, it was difficult to get up for a while to recover combat effectiveness.

Nearly twenty paces, the Ming army sentry began to play the three-eyed gun, this heavy fire gun is the standard configuration of the Ming army in Liaodong, three guns, after lighting the fuse, you can take turns to cast, but the medicine is not good, the closure is also poor, the power is too weak, and it is useless to cast it before it is close.

The continuous sound of fire guns sounded one after another, the snow splashed on the battlefield, the white smoke billowed out, mixed with the shouts of men and the neighing of horses, and the small-scale outpost battle of less than twenty people was very fierce and tragic.

Although the power of the three-eyed gun is not high, after all, it has some effect after all, and the golden whistle rider has also been bombarded with a few people, and the team is even rarer.

The two sides quickly abandoned their firearms and bows and arrows, and each raised his long soldier in his hand and rushed against each other.

The galloping war horse soon narrowed the distance between the two sides, the person was very bumpy on the horse, and at the same time to aim at the target, the surrounding scenery quickly swept in front of him, only the fierce enemy in front of him, the war horse galloped like flying, and the weapons in the hands of the enemy on the opposite side were more and more clearly visible, at this time, it was the biggest and strongest test of manhood!

Those who are not brave cannot be the elite of cavalry!

Han Xu was far away, and his heart was shaking, he was very strange in his heart, he didn't feel afraid, on the contrary, he was eager to try, maybe something deep in his heart had been awakened, at this moment, he was just willing to go into battle to fight, a good man should have been like this, galloping and stabbing, and the head of the captives stepped on the soles of his feet!

The formation of the two sides was very open, Han Xu saw that many people were uninjured after hedging, not even the horses were injured, and some people were stabbed, fell off their horses, and fell heavily to the ground, some people were trampled by the galloping horses, and they would inevitably die on the spot, and some people struggled to stand up, but they couldn't do anything for a while.

Many people's spears and spear shafts were broken, or the hedging was too strong and forced to be discarded, after the hedging, the difference in the number of the two sides was revealed, the Ming army was still numerous, and after the adjustment, they rushed back, and the Houjin side began to withdraw to the two wings.

"Capture the old trick!" He Shixian saw that the sentry wanted to pursue, but his face changed, and he immediately ordered someone to blow the horn and summon the sentry to return.

The Ming sentinels gave up the pursuit, and the fleeing Houjin soldiers turned around instead, pulling their bows on their horses and began to harass the Ming army with light arrows, and some even stood up and used heavy arrows to shoot at those Ming sentinels.

They fled to both sides, originally to lead the Ming army sentry to chase after them, as soon as the people dispersed, they turned around on the horse and fired back and sideways, using bows and arrows to consume the opponent, and then turned around and fired back, He Shixian fought with them many times, knowing that the cavalry was so skillful, the Ming army was not fooled, these Houjin riders had to ride their horses back, but shot a few arrows, the reinforcements sent by He Shixian were already near, divided into two wings to cover these Houjin riders, when they saw this, there was a strong man with a black flag on his back shouted a few times, and the rest of the Houjin cavalry converged into a unit, Begin to really retreat.

Such a retreat must discard the wounded soldiers on their side, but also lose the head, the Ming army has not beheaded the Houjin much, one is that the Houjin is mainly cavalry, it is difficult to pursue, and the Ming army is defeated more and less victorious, where will the defeated soldiers be beheaded? The second is that Houjin has always attached importance to collecting the bodies of the fallen soldiers on his side, and if the battlefield snatches back the bodies of his comrades and brings them back, he can share the wealth of the deceased according to the system, so that in the future, Jin will not easily give up the war dead and wounded.

After seeing the Jin soldiers really withdrew, more than a dozen horsemen of the Ming army rushed to the horse together, all the horses were clustered together, the head of the horse and the people were crowded together, the people and the horses were panting, when they ran to the battlefield just now, these people rushed to jump off the horse, each of them took out the ladder knife and rushed forward, there was a Ming army first pressed a seriously injured Houjin wounded person began to cut off the head, but unexpectedly another person next to him came to pull the braid of the wounded soldier, the ladder knife slashed a few times in succession, blood splashed, the neck bone clicked and broken, the person had already snatched the head in his hand, his face was splashed with blood, But he grinned.