After Zhao Lie got this exact news, he immediately ordered the army to advance at full speed, striving to rush to Zhuozhou before Jiannu, and being able to defend the city was of course the least consumption. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhao Lie will not think that he defeated the Mongols, so he arrogantly thought that he could defeat Jiannu, which was an infantry cavalry armed with strict military discipline and relatively sophisticated armor, and more than ten years of conquest made most of the soldiers of Jiannu are warriors who are good at fighting and daring to fight, and after Nurhachi and his son integrated into a country, it is not comparable to the Mongols who have divided into countless tribes.

Li Lu, Han Jian, Guan Ming and other thousands of generals are urging the infantry to speed up the pace of the march, the cavalry arrived in Zhuozhou is only less than half an hour, the infantry and artillery team need more than an hour, after all, the road is potholed, once the cannon of hundreds of catties is trapped, it has to be carried out by the horsemen, which is the most time-consuming and laborious.

Zhao Lie walked all the way and found that the population of Zhuozhou was denser than that of Gu'an, but most of the people in the villages near the official road went to the empty buildings and fled, only some old people stayed in the village, many homes were burned down or looted, and many traces could be seen at a glance that they were done by Beiyu and Jiannu.

In the desolate winter world, only the Broken Army rushed westward with the sound of iron colliding.

When it was less than two miles away from Zhuozhou, Zhao Lie received an urgent report from the scouts in front, and the Jiannu sentinels increased greatly, and fought with the scouts of the Broken Army many times, and the scouts suffered a lot of losses, so they could only move back, and the faint smoke and dust rose in the north, and it was expected that the Jiannu Brigade was only less than ten miles away from Zhuozhou.

Zhuozhou city has a long history of building the city, as early as two thousand years ago, there are Zhuoyi in the Yan Kingdom, the Ming Dynasty Jingtai was covered with bricks, and there are more than nine miles around the city. The city was two feet six feet high. Two feet wide. The moat is two feet wide, and it is the city of Nanjing Jixiong.

The arrival of a large number of soldiers outside the city naturally knew that on the highest drum tower in the city, Zhizhou Li Heng and Zhuozhou Wei commander An Yongde were looking at the movement outside the city.

Since the first day of November, the police message has reached Zhuozhou, and the subsequent news that Jiannu has captured Zunhua and arrived in Beijing. Li Heng and An Yongde immediately ordered 1,500 guards to prepare for war, and at the same time gathered villagers from all over the country, recruiting 2,000 young and strong people from them to protect the city together.

In the past half a month, Jiannu sentinels have been attacking Zhuozhou, but poor Zhuozhou only has more than 100 warhorses that can be used, so the scouts are no longer out of the city, Zhuozhou has completely become an isolated city, and the news of the last half month is unknown.

It's just that half a month ago, an artillery team of Furlong Robot brought some outside news.

"Lord Li, this is the army of the Ming Dynasty. The state city was saved. An Yongde said in a trembling voice.

For the old and weak, most of them have not experienced the battle formation. The commander who has no confidence at all, these days are really difficult, he is not a civilian official, he still has a little knowledge, and knows that the combat strength of such soldiers is weak, if Jiannu storms the state city, I am afraid it will be a hard battle.

At this time, I was overjoyed to see reinforcements.

Li Heng didn't say anything, and looked at the tea time again, the army was only less than a mile away from the city, "Lord An, sure enough, it is my Ming official army, and the banner is Jinghaiwei of Denglai Town." ”

At this time, Li Heng finally smiled.

"Jing Haiwei, the guards are soldiers," An Yongde said in surprise, "My lord, how can these soldiers be well-trained and well-trained. ”

An Yongde said in his heart, these officers and soldiers are all black iron armor, and the team is neat, at first glance, they are the uniforms of the soldiers, how are they guards.

"This," although Li Heng is a civil official, however, the three guards in Zhuozhou are close to the left, and he also knows what the guards look like, they are all ragged and withered soldiers, and the guards can be so strong, Li Heng, who was just about to send someone out of the city to contact, also hesitated.

At this moment, the smoke and dust in the north of the city were heavy, and there was a faint sound of horses' hooves like thunder, An Yongde was shocked and said in a trembling voice, "Jiannu is here." ”

"It's really a slave." Li Heng's face immediately turned pale.

"I haven't seen so many cavalry in the army in all my years, it's not Jiannu or something." An Yongde said in a hoarse voice, his face full of panic.

"How is this good, there are thousands of my officers and soldiers outside, let them into the city quickly." Li Heng was in a hurry.

"No," An Yongde stopped Li Heng, "If it is my Ming official army outside, I can't open the city, the infantry army enters the city slowly, and before they finish entering the city, Jiannu will arrive, and then the tail will pursue, and the state city will not be protected." ”

Li Heng suddenly realized that he almost made a mistake.

"My lord, the only way to do this is to close the city gates and keep the people of the city safe." An Yongde arched.

"Okay, it's a pity, I'm thousands of generals." Li Heng said regretfully.

"My lord, the lower official will go to Dongcheng immediately and tell him not to open the city." An Yongde didn't care about nonsense, and hurriedly went downstairs.

In fact, these two are self-inflicted, Zhao Lie has no intention of entering the city at all, because Jiannu is only four miles away from the city, and the broken army has no time to enter the city.

Zhao Lie immediately observed the terrain of the eastern city, on the left side of the official road outside the east gate was a large area of low bushes, that is, most of the people were high, this was the best cover, it was impossible for the war horse to pass through quickly, and the broken army only needed to guard the front and the right flank.

Zhao Lie immediately ordered to start the formation in the middle, and all the cavalry were placed on the right flank, and the left side was guarded by two hundred generals. In the rear are the baggage teams, backed by the moat.

Jiaxin and Etuhun who were mixed in Zhao Lie's guards looked at the Jiannu Brigade on the opposite side with complicated thoughts, they all had the same hairstyle, however, the armor on their bodies was very different from the past, they hadn't seen each other for a few years, and the Jiannu Brigade was now complete in armor and majestic, and the slightly shabby team from a few years ago didn't seem to be the same.

Jia Xin, Etuhun and others have been helping to train horses and cavalry in Shidao for the past two years, and they were not gathered to set off together until some time ago.

Today, when they met with their sworn enemies in the past, they were also shocked by Jiannu's soldiers, and looked into the distance wordlessly.

Li Heng looked at the outside of the north city in a daze, only to see that the Jiannu men and horses were spread all over the fields outside the north city, the stars on the armor were flickering, and many unruly riding armor were shouting or whistling at the city monsters, ignoring the young men in the city as if they were nothing.

Seeing them doing all kinds of actions flexibly on the horse, Li Heng sighed secretly. It turns out that everything in the book is true. They were as smooth as they were on flat ground right away.

At this time. A dull trumpet sound came from the Jiannu brigade, and the brigade began to turn to the east and gallop towards the eastern city.

The more Li Heng looked at it, the more cold he became, and he suddenly felt that he was very lonely on the drum tower, he immediately went downstairs and rushed to Dongcheng to enter the Demen, anyway, An Yongde was there, and there was always a cronie to guard it.

Zhao Lie looked at the cavalry of the Jiannu Brigade that was gradually emerging from the northwest. From the binoculars, I can clearly see that their rough appearance is very different from that of the Ming people, their eyes are fierce, there is no cowardice of the Ming people at all, their complexions are black and red, their hair is heavy, and their bodies are strong.

Most of them were on their horses with their sideways undulations, and the leather whips in their hands whistled to signal their mounts, and almost all of the Jiannu cavalry were wearing armor, iron armor, chain mail, armor armor, and most importantly, leather armor.

Their armor was red, yellow, red, and yellow, but there were many different styles of armor. At a glance, you can tell that either you built it yourself or it was captured from the Ming army, only the high lightning rod is more consistent.

More than three miles away from Zhao Lie's army array. The Jiannu Brigade began to stop and began to form a team, and the smoke and dust dissipated a lot at this time.

Li Heng, who was standing at the head of the city, saw the majesty of Jiannu's brigade, his frightened face was sallow, his heart was beating faster, and his hands and feet were trembling.

Zhao Lie used a telescope to look at the other party's flags, he only recognized the flags of Niu Lu Ezhen and Jiale Ezhen, and he didn't know anything else, and the Manchu text on it was even more illiterate.

"Let's sing." Zhao Lie instructed that at this time, stabilizing the morale of the army was the first priority.

Huang Han turned to leave, and after a while, someone led the song loudly, and more than 4,000 soldiers of the whole army sang in chorus.

The majestic song floated across the vast wilderness, echoing for a long time.

The words of my home on the Hunliao River in eastern Liaodong reminded the Liao-dominated army of blood and tears again, resounding the relatives who had turned into white bones and the hometown that was robbed by Jiannu, this song condensed the morale of the whole army, and a tragic and bloody nature came out of the song, bursting out of the same hatred and bitter hatred.

Master Li Heng Li was also inspired by the singing, and finally stood up from the chair, held the battlements in his hand, stood up, and looked at the neat phalanx under the city with a blushing and excited face, at this time a stiff Chinese came, "Lord An, it is possible to hit the barbarians on the opposite side here, but it takes hundreds of people to transport ten cannons from the city to the city, and it takes hundreds of people for two or three hours." ”

Li Heng looked up, and it turned out to be Lu Ruohan, the interpreter and priest of the Macau Furlong machine gun team, who was invited by An Yongde to go to the city and let the artillery team transport the cannons to the city and bombard Jiannu.

However, Lu Ruohan's words immediately extinguished An Yongde's idea, okay, the daylily was cold for two hours.

"It's my brother-in-law, it's my brother-in-law, Mr. Xilao, Mr. Lu, it's my brother-in-law's soldiers." A tall blonde Frangi shouted excitedly.

He didn't understand Anyongde in Portuguese, but others could see his excitement.

"Mr. Lu, what did he say?" An Yongde asked suspiciously, did this young man have any way to resist Jiannu.

"Oh, my lord, he said that the soldiers below were under the command of his brother-in-law." Lu Ruohan said.

"Well, it's true." An Yongde was a little sluggish immediately, how could it be possible, the Ming army would marry a foreigner, I had never heard of it.

"This, I'll have to ask too." Lu Ruohan is also suspicious, Francisco's brother-in-law is indeed a Ming general, but I heard that it is in Shandong, and this place is Gyeonggi, thousands of miles away.

Lu Ruohan and An Yongde walked over, Lu Ruohan, Silao and Francisco muttered in Portuguese for a moment, Lu Ruohan turned back to An Yongde and said, "My lord, that's right, the commander of the army here is Francisco's brother-in-law, Zhao Lie, a military general from Daming Denglai. ”

Lu Ruohan also has a complicated mind, when Zhao Lie plundered Macao, he was traveling in Guangzhou as a missionary, and only after returning did he know that he had never seen it, but he didn't expect to meet the main owner here.

An Yongde was surprised, God, when will the Ming army intermarry with Xiyi, this... When An Yongde was stunned, a shout came from the baggage team below, "We are the division of King Qin of Denglai Town, and my Lord Zhao greets all the adults in the city, can there be a Fran cannon team passing by recently." ”

"I am An Yongde, the commander of the Zhuozhou Guard, and the Franz machine gun team is in the city, tell Lord Zhao not to worry about it." An Yongde shouted, but his voice was very weak in the singing, but fortunately, it was under the city gate, and it barely passed through.

"Thank you, my lord, on behalf of Lord Zhao, I would like to ask Lord An for peace." The generals below shouted.

At this time, Francisco suddenly turned around and went down to the city, An Yongde was inexplicable, Lu Ruohan explained, this Francisco man was going to fall from the city with his whole body draped to help.

An Yongde looked at Lu Ruohan with wide eyes, and said in his heart, don't be crazy about this person.

Lu Ruohan shrugged his shoulders, this Francisco is young and vigorous. (To be continued.) )

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