If a salvo of muskets does not form a continuous rain of bullets, the lethality is extremely limited, and the shock caused by a mere salvo to the enemy in sound and heart is actually far greater than the actual lethality. The same was true of Li Xin's salvo this time, and besides, the distance between the two sides was fifty paces away, and only a few of the hundreds of Akzia cavalry fell at this distance.

Li Xin looked at the Tartar cavalry on the other side of the river with concern, according to the original plan, he brought the old battalion of the Gaoyang Army to this only to do the work, and the eyes of the Tartars should be attracted by Zheng Xiyao's five military camps. Even if the preparations were so thorough in advance, the strategy was still seen through by the Tartars, and it seemed that he had underestimated the goods. There are only two paths in front of him now. First, give up the goods to preserve the strength and flee back to Gaoyang with people. Second, fight to the death to protect the goods and these Tartars, and if you don't succeed, you will be benevolent.

As various ideas flashed through Li Xin's brain, the 600 Gaoyang Army brought by Li Xin began the second round of salvo. Akzia's cavalry was clearly enraged, and with a few shouts, they formed a formation ready to storm across the river.

Seeing the actions of the Tartar cavalry, Li Xin's heart suddenly shrank, although the Tartar cavalry was not many in number, but the cavalry was originally the natural nemesis of the infantry, and they were all elites who had experienced a hundred battles, and they were not at all comparable to the Gaoyang Army, which had just become an army from the people. At the same time, Li Xin felt that there was still a sharp sword hanging above his head, that is, on the east bank of the Pigpen River, a cavalry galloping behind the mountain bag where they were.

If these people were also Tartars, then none of the 600 people he brought out this time, as well as the militiamen and soldiers who escorted the goods, would have lived to see the sun the next day.

The only thing Li Xin could rely on now was the Pigpen River, which was twenty paces wide and knee-deep, and the woods on the slopes of the mountain. Soon the Tartars began to move, and the cavalry that had been gathered together were divided into two teams, and the first team of war horses rushed to the river one after another, raising their hands to shoot arrows. The second team went around the bottom of the valley by the river, turned around again at the top of the slope, and made a gesture to rush down.

Akzia's command was extremely skillful, and it was not at all like the previous two failed attempts. Seeing the Tartars behave like this, Li Xin's pupils contracted sharply, and he understood that the Tartar cavalry was divided into two teams, one team was holding a bow by the river to shoot in turn as a cover, and the other team went around the top of the slope, not to retreat, but to prepare for a forced charge, and a section of downhill could bring enough speed to the war horses to attack the Gaoyang army on the other side of the river.

"Push the cannon forward, and as soon as the Tartars cross the river, they will bombard the damn!"

Before Li Xin came, he asked for an iron cannon like Lu Zhifan. This is a good thing, a sharp weapon to defend the city, as a classic history of the overall situation of the city, Lu Zhifan is naturally reluctant to give it, in case there is a Tartar who takes advantage of this to sneak attack, there is one less cannon in the city, and there is one less chance to hold on.

The 600 Gaoyang Army is really in a life-and-death situation at this moment, and his life hangs by a thread. Zhang Shi ran down from the mountain bag, didn't care about wiping the sweat off his face, and asked Li Xin nervously: "The cavalry on the hillside behind has gone around to our left flank, how to deal with it?" ”

Li Xin's mountain bag is stored in the river valley, and on the left side of the mountain bag is a high ground outside the river valley on the east bank of the Pigpen River. As long as you occupy there, the entire battlefield will be in full view, which is equivalent to grasping the initiative on the battlefield!

It's really a bad house that happened to rain overnight, and the shape seems to be so bad that it can't be worse.

"Be careful, today's success or failure is in this battle!"

At this time, Li Xin had already made up his mind to fight to the death! Run away? It's not that you can't run, but who has ever seen an infantry outrun a cavalry? Out of this small river valley, there is a flat river outside, not to mention hundreds of routs, it is a scale of thousands, and it is not enough for the Tartars to chase and kill! Do you hate that your blood is going to be sprinkled in vain in this nameless valley?

As soon as he finished speaking, there was the neighing and scolding of horses. Everyone followed the reputation, and it turned out that the unidentified cavalry had reached the commanding heights of the entire battlefield.

Li Xin looked closely, surrounded by smoke and dust, there was a red-clothed knight in armor of the Ming official army, and a scarlet battle flag was written with a big tiger character. Suddenly, his eyes moistened. Li Xin never thought that his blood would boil with excitement because of a red battle flag. He finally understood that he was not fighting alone.

In his previous life, Li Xin, who was a senior lover of Ming history and military history, was familiar with some famous generals and ministers of this era, and the surname Tiger was not common as a Chinese surname, and he was qualified to write his surname on the battle flag, at least at the level of a general soldier.

Could it be him? Seeing Yin Hong's tiger battle flag, a person's name jumped out of Li Xin's head, and Zhang Shi next to Li Xin waited to see clearly that it was the Ming army coming behind him, and he was so excited that he almost burst into tears, and walked around the line of life and death, how can he teach people to be indifferent?

"Teach and see, the Tartar has escaped!"

Soon the sharp-eyed sergeant found that the Tartars, who were in charge of archery on the other side of the river, began to retreat towards the mouth of the valley far from the riverbank, and at the top of the hillside, the cavalry that had been preparing to charge also slowly retreated. Obviously, these Tatar cavalry did not intend to fight hard.

Gao Yangjun began to thunder with joy almost instantly.

"The Ming army is mighty! Long live the Ming Army! ”

All kinds of slogans rang out in the sky. A crisis was resolved in this way. A colonel quickly rushed out of the cavalry of the Ming army, and quickly came to the hillside where Li Xin and his Gaoyang army were ambushed, and shouted: "Please also ask your master general to come out and see you, my general is invited!" ”

The Gaoyang army is all from a strong background, although the fierce fighting is more ruthless than the other, but when they see the real official, they are immediately cowardly, and even Zhang Shishi, who shows off his martial arts on weekdays, doesn't know how to deal with it. Everyone looked at Li Xin and counted on him.

Li Xin flashed out and waved at the horseback riding colonel.

"In Xia Lixin District, it is not talented, it is the teaching of the recruitment of the Sun Pavilion Department in Gaoyang City!" Speaking of this, he raised the tone, "I don't know if your general soldier is the general soldier of Shanxi Tiger?" ”

When the little colonel heard that Li Xin was just a teacher in the army, his expression couldn't help but show a trace of contempt, but his words were still very polite.

"It's my Tiger Commander, please teach Li to move!"

Xiao Xiaoxiao's expression changed naturally couldn't escape Li Xin's eyes, and he sighed in his heart, people in this era attach great importance to their background and status, and their own teaching and learning still can't get into the eyes of others after all. It seems that this group of cavalry should be a tiger mighty, but I don't know why he got here?

The Tiger Dawei people are not as powerful as their name, lean men, with a bearded face, dark skin, and a unique pair of eyes bursting with scorching essence. Seeing him from afar, he opened his mouth and smiled: "With a few hundred people, you dare to fight against hundreds of Tartar cavalry, and those who have this courage can be counted by our Ming Dynasty with one hand!" Without waiting for Li Xin to answer, he continued to laugh and said: "As expected, it is good, you were strong in Gaoyang City at that time, right?" ”

Li Xin glanced at Hu Dawei in surprise, this person is really brave and strategic, and he can judge the identity of his group just by clues. Thinking that the people here had come to the front of the Tiger Dawei Horse, they hugged their fists and saluted.

"Under Li Xin's Gaoyang People's Army, thank you General Hu for saving his life!"

Hu Dawei didn't get off the horse, obviously he didn't plan to be with Li Xin for long, and looked the young man in front of him up and down, with undisguised appreciation in his eyes. Li Xin felt that the first time he saw the general of the Ming Dynasty, he was beaten so disgraced by the Tartars, and he was a little disgraced. But he didn't know that in Hu Dawei's eyes, he Li Xin was not only not disgraced, but also very unusual. It is equivalent to the Tartar troops, and dares to fight back head-on, and can stabilize the formation without breaking down, not to mention the people, even the border army in Liaodong may not be able to do much.

He had the idea of loving talent for a while.

Therefore, with his dignity as a general soldier, he specially called this group of strong lords to come, and had some words to tell him. Hu Dawei knocked his horse boots with the handle of the horsewhip and said: "Zhuozhou has fallen into the hands of thieves, Lu Butang has moved to Hejian, Baoding Mansion is now facing the Tartar soldiers, Gaoyang City is afraid that it will not be safe, go back and persuade the people in the city to transfer, stay in the green mountains and be afraid of no firewood!" ”

Li Xin was shocked to hear this, he never expected that the Tartar attack would be so fierce, it seems that this batch of muskets and food must be transported back to the city immediately. Hu Dawei said this, with the task given to him by Lu Xiangsheng in his heart, the horse boots knocked the horse's belly hard, the war horse sighed and ran out, and the soldiers around him also followed, and the whole team moved again like a rabbit.

"Little brother, go back and tell Elder Sun Ge, the Tartar is powerful, and it is false to avoid the truth! Take care! ”

It wasn't until Hu Dawei disappeared far away from the horizon with the people that Li Xin relieved himself, this place should not stay for a long time, and he must leave immediately! When he looked for the people who were transporting the goods, he found that they had fled completely, and only dozens of escorted armored sergeants were hiding in the woods tremblingly and did not flee with them.

These people are all local guards, said to be soldiers are actually no different from peasants, combat effectiveness has long been not the appearance of the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the reason why they did not flee with them is out of fear of military law, lost military food and ordnance, even if they go back to their own guilt is not a big deal, even if they are affected by their families is the last thing they want to see.

Li Xin also thought that these people were soldiers of the imperial court, and they were more or less loyal to their duties. The appearance of Hu Dawei and his cavalry greatly enhanced the impression of this court officer in his heart, and even these rotten guards were stained.

Who knew that these guys didn't wait for Li Xin to open his mouth, and they all knelt down, begging Li Xin to let them go. It took a lot of words to understand that these people begged Li Xin to give them a document so that they could go back and have an explanation to prove that they were not deserters.

Li Xin immediately smiled and said: "Where is there a pen and paper in the wilderness, you go back, if you need proof in the future, you can go to Gaoyang City to find me Li Xin!" ”

Dozens of guards and soldiers embarked on the journey back with great gratitude, this route from Shandong to Zhili, not to mention the encounter with the Tartar army, even bandits and bandits are not less, it is not easy to hold on to this place, so Li Xin does not intend to embarrass these people.

The next step is to escort these supplies back to Gaoyang City safely, and everyone is full of doubts about this, who can guarantee that the Tartars will not attack again halfway?