Li Xin took the crumpled and bloodstained letter, unfolded it and glanced at it, the words were sloppy, the words were obscure, and the general meaning was to explain how to set up an ambush. In ancient times, due to the blockage of communications, it was often necessary to send only one messenger just in case, but this letter did not prove anything.

Seeing all the centaurs crossing the Pigpen River one after another, a hanging heart was completely relaxed. Li Xin handed the letter back to Jiexiu.

"This matter involves heavy dà, for the sake of more than a thousand lives under my hands, I can't act hastily, the great monk is kind enough to Li Xinxin. Let's say goodbye here, we will meet again one day. ”

After saying that, Li Xin glanced at Lu Jiu and motioned for him to cross the river. Lu Jiu would not disobey Li Xin's intentions, smiled at the monk, and crossed the river. Li Xin also entered the river and ran to the other side. The one jumped straight to his feet in a hurry, but there was nothing he could do, and shouted at Li Xin's back:

"Donor, donor, please listen to the poor monk, have you seen where the ambush is located? Hey, wait, poor monk......"

Eventually, the monk Jiexiu also jumped into the icy pigpen river and waded through. The water level of the Pigpen River here is not shallow, and the shallowest part is waist-deep, coupled with the rain and snow for several days, the water level has risen again in a short period of time. The water is turbulent, the night is dark, and there is a danger of being washed away by the water if you are not careful, no wonder Li Xin is so nervous all the time.

Crossing the pigpen river, due north is Baiyangdian, to the southwest forty miles is Gaoyang, to the northwest thirty miles is Anzhou. Gaoyang City was heavily armed, so Li Xin chose to go to Anzhou, and after bypassing Anzhou, he drove directly to the line of Qingyuan, Ansu and Rongcheng.

Li Xin had his own plans, first, to stay away from Hejian Province to avoid the revenge of the Tartars for the tragic deaths of Yue Tuo and Aobai, and second, after all, the Tartar army was small in number, and it was impossible to leave heavy troops to guard the city by city, so he could wait for an opportunity to attack and recapture some of the fallen county towns, so that leading the troops to invade the rear of Dolgon's left wing army could contain its offensive against Gaoyang.

The route of the march was set to bypass from the north of Anzhou City, but when they passed by the right bank of Baiyangdian, they were met with the sky-high fire and the deafening sound of killing. Li Xin suddenly woke up to the fact that it must be the Tartars and the Ming army who could fight here. If they have met them, they must not turn a blind eye.

"Lu Jiu, quickly send someone to investigate."

After a while, there was a return from the scouts, and sure enough, the Ming officers and troops were fighting fiercely with the Tartars. But these Ming troops are different from the vast majority of Ming troops they have encountered before, almost all of them are freshly dressed and angry. For this kind of detail, Li Xin didn't have time to think about it, and led people to a high ground not far away.

At this time, you must not rush to join the battle group, otherwise you are likely to be caught up in the chaos in vain, thus losing the advantage of a surprise sneak attack.

But see the outside of the Xu Kai, the fire is soaring, the number of the two Tartars is not much, but it is extremely active, showing the left and right horns are besieging the Ming army in the middle, although the besieged Ming army is at a disadvantage, but the formation is still orderly, it can be seen that it is a formally trained elite division, and its commander must also be a long-term battle general.

What made Li Xin feel strange was that the Tartars did not seem to be in a hurry to attack and fight, but deliberately delayed time, which gave the Ming army in the middle a chance to breathe. A pair of brows tightened, where should he start. He inadvertently glanced at Kong Youde who was standing beside him, and suddenly remembered that Suning's two small iron cannons had wooden wheels, so when he left, he dragged them away with the army, which could come in handy this time.

Li Xin punched Kong Youde and pointed to the Tartar army formation with the swaying firelight in the distance.

"Brother Kong, are you sure to hit the left wing of the Tartar?"

When Kong Youde was about to ascend this slope, he had already estimated the surrounding situation, and this place was only a few miles away from the left flank of the Tartars, and when it was within the range of the iron cannon, he nodded.

"If you are within the firing range, the chance of hitting is not small, but you can't use a flowering bullet, and the lethality is much less."

Of course, Li Xin knew that the effective distance of the flowering bomb was much smaller than that of the live ammunition, but the effect of the cannon was not only to kill and injure, but also to deter the momentum. Once the shelling began, the Tartar position would inevitably be chaotic due to the turmoil in the morale of the army, and Kong Youde, the second Tartar, could always come in handy at critical moments, but seeing that he commanded several temporarily trained artillerymen, loading and aiming. After the final preparations, everyone stayed away from the cannon, and Kong Youde personally lit the fuses one by one with torches.

But listening to the roaring sound, the nearby earth trembled.

The two solid lead bullets were all shot out, Kong Youde was not frustrated, the head cannon was mostly used for correction, and the distance was far away, it was not surprising that it was empty, and immediately ordered the gunner to clean up the gun chamber, cool down and extinguish the fire, and then charge, load, compact, and correct aiming.

Although the two cannons were fired into the air, Li Xin soon discovered that the Qing army had a strange movement, and the left and right flanks had backward movements, trying to keep a certain distance from the besieged Ming army. Lu Jiu suddenly interjected.

"Isn't this tantamount to sending a message to the Tartars and telling them that we are coming?"

Li Xin shook his head, "The Tartars don't know what we are doing, so this can deter them from acting rashly." ”

As he spoke, Kong Youde lit the torch and lit the fuse at the end of the cannon for the second time.

There were two booms, and one of the cannons was hitting the left flank of the Tartars.

Because the Tartars are in a dense formation, the lead bullets roared with the high temperature of gunpowder deflagration, and the first landing point swept the intestines of the two Tartar armor soldiers through the stomach, and the shells did not stop after they landed, but continued to fly forward from the ground, and this way swept to seven or eight Tartar armor soldiers, and the limbs of those who were swept were cut off, and the heavy ones were killed on the spot, and the flesh and blood were blurred. The lead bullet took off and landed three times in the crowd of Tartar armor soldiers before stopping, killing and wounding more than a dozen people in one shot.

There was a commotion on the left flank of the Tartars, but order was soon restored under the restraint of the officers of the various divisions.

In the besieged Ming army formation, a fat man in a robe heard the sound of cannons, and saw the cannonballs falling into the Tartar army formation, and immediately cried with joy, but shouted wildly: "Ge Lao, we are saved, it is our Ming Hongyi cannon!" ”

This fat man is Xiong Kaiyuan, Liu Yuliang said in his heart, do you know how heavy and big the Hongyi cannon is? How is it possible to move here to fight in the field? However, it is true that the reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty are coming.

Liu Yuliang He had seen such a tragic battle, and he was almost numb from being frightened, and he saw that the Tartar was only a dozen steps away from him several times, but in the end, he was pushed back by the Ming army, and he began to deeply regret Li Daqian's words.

Looking at Li Daqian covered in blood, several times in front of the Tartar soldiers, I couldn't help but sigh greatly, he is really a rare brave general, if he has the opportunity to return to Beijing this time, he will definitely ask for credit for him in front of the emperor and go out of the town. Then he looked at Li Daqian's eyes, which were completely different from the arrogance of disdainful martial artists before.

"General Li, do you know the origin of the reinforcements?"

These two rounds of shelling slowed down the offensive of the Tartars, and they did Li Daqian a great favor, I really didn't expect the battle situation to turn so sharply, but I don't know where the reinforcements came from and who they belonged to? When Li Daqian came, he made a lot of preparations, and knew very well that there was no Ming official army on the front line of the Gaoyang River, and as for the people and villages, what he knew was only limited to Gaoyang, where Gaoyang was surrounded by Dolgon's army at the moment, there should be no extra troops to go out of the city to rescue him. What's more, this battle is extremely sudden, unless there is some preparation in advance, and the case arrives in time.

What's even more strange to Li Daqian is that this support soldier can actually operate artillery, so it is obviously impossible to be a people's strong. He had been in the Shenji Battalion, and operating the cannon was far from being as simple as outsiders imagined, thinking that it was just that the muzzle of the cannon was aimed at the front, and the fire rope was lit. At the very least, it takes a high degree of proficiency and a lot of actual combat experience to achieve the accuracy of one of the two rounds of four shots just now. Immediately after the third round of shelling began, another buckshot hit the left flank of the Tartars. This confirmed Li Daqian's guess that if one hit was a coincidence, then two shots could never be a coincidence.

"Back to my lord, I don't know!"

Just when Liu Yuliang and Li Daqian were struggling with where the reinforcements came from, Li Xin was also looking for the best time to attack, and now he was competing with who was more patient, as long as the Tartar moved quickly, he was given the best opportunity.

Another general on Li Xin's side, the general soldier Wang Pu's face suddenly changed, and a big flag loomed in the surrounded Ming army formation, he didn't care about it before, but there were a few times when the fire suddenly flashed, and a few big characters were clearly reflected. "Inspector Military Liu"

The specifications of the flag, as well as the content of a few big characters, made Wang Pu suddenly stunned.

"Brother Li, there is likely to be a cabinet minister in this Ming army!"

I heard that there may be a cabinet minister in the military array, and Li Xin was also stunned, when did the imperial court send a cabinet minister? In his mind, he thought of Jiexiu's bloody letter again, is there really any connection between them? Then he felt incredulous, what reason did the emperor have to send a minister? If you have sent a minister, why only have the former guard?

"Marshal, this, is this minister really in the military formation?"

"Brother Li forgot that Ben Shuai was the chief soldier of the Beijing camp before? Look at the flag, this Ming army should be led by the generals of the five military battalions, and that banner is the regulation of the cabinet ministers' feudal territory, and the cabinet minister surnamed Liu, there is only one person in the cabinet now, that is Liu Yuliang, the first assistant of the current cabinet! ”

"This, it can't be, right?"

When Chao Shoufu took a thousand people to the south, he was trapped in a small land by the Tartars, and if there was no group of people like him, it would only be sooner or later that he would be destroyed, and it would be too unbelievable. Wang Pu said: "The emperor is also sick and goes to the doctor, who doesn't know what kind of character Liu Yuliang is?" Let him lead the troops? Hum! ”

Li Xin didn't know much about Liu Yuliang and his person, and he only knew his name in the history books in his previous life, but he didn't know anything about his deeds. But he still understands the meaning of this inspector military, Xuanda Governor Lu Xiangsheng is the governor of the world, and now he has sent an inspector of the military, it seems that the emperor has gradually lost his trust and patience in Lu Xiangsheng.

Suddenly, the Tartars suddenly changed formation, but after hearing the sound of killing, Li Xin raised his eyebrows, could it be that the army is coming again?