Li Xin climbed the enemy tower at the west gate of Gaoyang, and saw a black line from west to east getting closer and closer.

"Stop them from approaching Gao Yang immediately!"

Sect Zhou Jin stood beside Lu Zhifan with a worried look, and he went to the city tower one step ahead of Li Xin. Zhou Jin had proposed to resign because of the rash order of the people to send troops to be annihilated, but Gao Yang was the time to employ people, and the county order abandoned the official and fled, Lu Zhifan resolutely disagreed, Sun Chengzong also advocated that he should be guilty of meritorious service, Li Xin analyzed from a professional point of view, no matter who was on duty at the West Gate that night, he would order to go out of the city in that situation, and the combat effectiveness of the Tartar cavalry was obvious to all.

Everyone was paving steps for Zhou Jin to stay in the position of the Gaoyang Sect and the Minzhuang Prison Army, and after Zhou Jin resigned several times, he agreed to stay in office for the time being, and then plead guilty to the imperial court after the Gaoyang War was over. However, Li Xin's initiative did not get Zhou Jin's response, on the contrary, his attitude towards Li Xin was worse than before. Li Xin's words about organizing the refugees to approach Gaoyang City immediately drew his rebuke: "Nonsense! How can there be a reason for the people to be driven away when they are homeless! This is civil affairs, please do not overstep your responsibilities in teaching! ”

Li Xin patiently explained: "The teachings are clear, we have found the refugees, and the Tartars outside the city must have also discovered them, whether the city can feed these many people, not to mention, once the city is opened, I am afraid that the Tartars will take advantage of the chaos to enter." And the most important point, in case the Tartars drive the refugees to hit the minefield......"

The voice did not fall, and the color of the two people suddenly changed. Lu Zhifan was only worried about the safety of refugees, but he didn't expect Li Xin to think so deeply. If you think about it, there is indeed such a possibility......

A few people discussed countermeasures, and the refugee team was closer to Gaoyang City. The situation on the other side can also be seen more clearly, but the real situation still makes Li Xin tremble, and there are a lot of cavalry falling behind the refugee team, and what is even more eye-catching is the three-headed yellow dragon flag raised high.

"Tartar, Tartar ......"

Lu Zhifan also saw the Tartar cavalry behind the refugee team, but he didn't expect it to be the worst situation, Lu Zhifan only felt that he was stepping into the air like a foot next to the abyss, and a sense of powerlessness filled his whole body. Looking at Zhou Jin again, his face was already as pale as dirt, and he was obviously out of order.

"Li Jiaoxi, but, can there be a countermeasure?"

The two men spoke in unison. Li Xin grinned, what could he do? The Qing army has not moved in the past few days, and he already has a bad premonition, and he must be holding back his thoughts to worship this product. The answer was revealed at this moment, and it turned out that in the future, Ao Bai could become a powerful minister and a powerful general who controlled the Qing Dynasty.

Li Xin was silent, Lu Zhifan spread his hands, and Zhou Jin said anxiously: "Are you just watching my Ming people being driven into a minefield?" ”

What else can I do, go out of the city and drive the people back? This is simply unrealistic. There is only one way to do this, and we can try it again. Li Xin gathered all the people in the city together, and ordered them to shout in unison to the refugees outside the city, and let the refugees run to both sides, the west gate has been blocked and cannot be opened, and they can enter the city at the north gate or the south gate.

Hundreds of people shouted in unison, and the voices were loud and deep, but it is difficult to say how many refugees could hear them, and how many of them could do so. Thousands of refugees were driven by the Qing army like cattle, and if they walked a little slower, they were killed by a flurry of arrows. People are afraid that they will lose their lives if they go slowly, so they rush forward without their lives, and no one dares to lag behind, because backwardness is equivalent to death.

But the people didn't know that rushing to the front was equivalent to death, and the death was even more miserable. The strong men who rushed to the first place could already see the people standing at the head of Gaoyang City, and they shouted at themselves again, but they were too nervous to hear what was being shouted in the city, maybe they were shouting to themselves to run faster, so they could let themselves in. He quickened his pace, but unexpectedly, a burst of air knocked him to the ground, followed by a deafening explosion and a sharp pain in his legs. He was blindfolded, unable to figure out what was happening, and looked down, but was horrified to find that his legs had been broken at the knees, and which part of the broken part was missing, leaving only the white leg bones on the outside, which was particularly infiltrating.

Starting from that strong man, explosions came one after another, and more and more people were blown up in a blur of flesh and blood. What is even more tragic is that the people still think that the city is firing at them, and the sound of cursing and screaming is endless. The crowd began to retreat, and the Tartar cavalry drew arrows and bows, and the arrows rained into the crowd, and a group of people fell. The people of the Ming Dynasty hit the embankment like a tide and rolled back in the direction of Gaoyang City.

The brutal facts soon proved that shouting was ineffective, no one could hear it, and even if it did, who could run? In an instant, the city has become the Shura hell on earth, Li Xin couldn't bear to look at it anymore, turned his head, how vicious the Tartars were, they used innocent people as their stepping stones to attack the city. In the war era, human life was as cheap as ants, and I had only seen it from books before, but now I saw it with my own eyes, and I personally felt that this almost unbearable pressure made Li Xinru in his throat.

Under the city, the massacre is going on, and perhaps half of the people are killed by the mines they planted one by one, but this is not an either/or choice, you can easily make a choice, and then there is always a correct answer waiting in front of you.

"Master Dianshi, it's better for Li Xin to take the old camp out of the city, and if you can save one, it's one!"

Lu Zhifan's inner contradictions are tormented, and if he goes out of the city to rescue the refugees, he is likely to be dragged into the chaos, and before he can engage the Tartars, he will have to be shocked by the people and mess up the formation, even if he can contact the Tartars in a complete formation, how sure is he to win in the field? But if you don't pay attention to it, how can you bear to see the tragedy happen one after another?

"Can Li Jiaoxi be sure that he will retreat?"

Lu Zhifan didn't ask about winning, he only asked Li Xin if he could keep the whole people strong, hoping that he would try to maintain restraint and not destroy the people who had worked so hard to bring out in a battle, these are the elites that Gaoyang relied on to defend the city! How could Li Xin not understand?

By the time Li Xin led the old camp of Minzhuang out of the city to line up, there were already ordinary people and refugees who broke through the mine array and arrived under the city wall, and Minzhuang shouted in unison, letting the surviving people run to both sides of the horizontal line. This time they finally heard clearly, and began to gather on both sides.

The old camp of Minzhuang lined up three horizontal columns in front of the city gate, and three small iron cannons were placed on top of the wooden artillery carriage and pushed to the front of the horizontal column, and the black hole hole cannon mouth pointed straight ahead. Zhang Shi held the musket in his hand, his eyes were spewing out nothing but anger or anger, and the Tartar's evil deeds awakened the memories that he had suppressed in his heart and had been unwilling to face, and he only hated that he could not immediately rush up and fight with the Tartar to the death. But instead of charging into battle, the Tartar cavalry fired a few rounds of sword rain at the remnants of the refugee population and slowly retreated.

So far, more than 1,000 people have been driven by the Tartars to clear mines for them with a rain of arrows, and only 23 out of 10 can reach the city of Gaoyang, and half of them are injured. In just half an hour, from the Lu Zhi Domain to the ordinary people, the self-confidence generated by the mine array in the past few days completely collapsed.

The sun was setting in the west, the battlefield was painted blood-red, the pale yellow earth was bleak, the dead corpses loomed among the dead branches and grass, and the scavenging wild birds hovered in the sky, singing dumbly. Li Xin led people to bury hundreds of corpses hastily, because he was worried about the Tartar sneak attack, and those who were too far away from Gaoyang City had to be temporarily put in place, attracting a lot of wild dogs and wild birds.

At the moment when he was about to retreat into the city, Li Xin glanced back at the battlefield that had just been cleared. For the first time, he felt that his strength was insignificant, how powerless it was to resist the Tartars with an overall advantage in a corner, how ignorant and fearless the confidence that burst when he had just crossed, and how helpless they were helpless once the opponent's army arrived, how to deal with the siege with all his might?

Ao Bai held a letter in his hand, which was written by Dolgon, the "ordered general" of Prince Rui and Huang Taiji. The letter said that all kinds of strategies and tactics involved were expected for him, but it mentioned a person he had never heard of, which made him puzzled. But soon he shifted his mind to the defense of Gaoyang City, Gaoyang's defense was indeed tight and thorough, with a strong defensive attack power, after the first Han army banner siege test, he knew that his people were not suitable for a strong attack.

This is not the first time to cross the border wall into the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing army has always pursued an important pass to forcibly break through, and the small city can be beaten if it can be beaten, and it is impossible to retreat if it can't grab the surrounding area. However, Prince Rui's entry into the fortress this time was obviously contrary to the strategy implemented before, except for the Southern Dynasty Jingshi almost every city must be conquered, and every gram of a city will destroy its city and capture its people, so not only the Han army banner has suffered a lot of losses, but even the Eight Banners armor soldiers also have a lot of casualties.

In addition, the more and more human and animal captives gathered, the more troops they invested in logistics and security, and the fewer and fewer troops they faced when dealing with the main force of the Ming army. He complained about this, and even more disagreed with the instructions in his letter urging him to capture Gaoyang at any cost.

The Eight Banners armor soldiers are the elite of the Great Qing Pillar Stone, how can they be used in a war of attrition? Even the use of the Han military flag cannot be blindly attacked and attacked. Therefore, after he failed to defeat Gao Yang, the strategy he adopted was just to constantly harass him, and he took a bite when he had the opportunity. This afternoon's expulsion of the people of the southerners to clear the mines has already made them eat the bitter fruits of their own planting, and it is sure to deal a heavy blow to the confidence of the southerners in defending the city. But this is not enough, he still has to fall into the well, so that these southerners completely break the idea of defending the city.

"Come on, Akzia can get out of bed, let him take people to burn the timber in the west of the city, and destroy as much as he can with the unfinished city wall. The sky is full of stars tonight, and there will be no more heavy rain, so don't come back to see me if he can't burn it! ”