However, Hong Chengchou didn't plan to fight with He Luohui at all, avoiding his edge, fighting if he could, running if he couldn't, and taking a bite when he had the opportunity, but the Eight Banners in the forest couldn't let go of his hands and feet, and scolded He Luohui angrily, scolding the eighteenth generation of the ancestors of the Ming army.

If Hong Chengchou learned that he had been scolded for the eighteenth generation of his ancestors, he could only smile helplessly. To tell the truth, this method of fighting is really real, but it is really not elegant, and Hong Chengchou after collecting many remnants of the Ming army along the way, he also deliberately asked the soldiers not to play the banner of the governor of the four sides, and not to publicize his name everywhere.

After all, Hong Chengchou is a person who is used to fighting big battles, and he really can't afford to lose this person with such tricks. But in the barren mountains and mountains outside the gate, no one could know, so he also let go of his hands and feet, and used this Dafa of the enemy advancing and retreating, and the enemy retreating and I entering.

And what made Hong Chengchou feel a little blushing was that the other party's main general, He Luohui, was an unknown person who had almost never heard of him, but he was chased by this person with almost no way to escape, and even defeated in his hands.

But Hong Chengchou is Hong Chengchou after all, what he has now is to patiently accompany He Luohui to play, and sooner or later in the dense forest of western Liaoning, this He Luohui will be dragged half to death. But his situation is not much better, the army lacks food and clothing, fortunately, there are many wild mushrooms and wild vegetables in the northern forests, and there are not a few wild beasts and river fish, and there are no food to eat, so he has to eat on the spot to satisfy his hunger, but in the end he is hungry and full.

On this day, after getting rid of the army of He Luohui who was trailing, he rested on the spot on a river beach, Hong Chengchou ordered to count the men and horses, but there were only two thousand hanging zeros, and then he saw that everywhere he could see, all of them were ragged, with vegetables on their faces, and the military uniforms on their bodies had long been dilapidated, and they could not see the original color and style.

Such a group of men and horses have been stubbornly fighting the Tartars in the dense forest for more than a month, but in Hong Chengchou's opinion, it seems that several years have passed, and where is there still half a point of the majesty of the Heavenly Empire's army in this way now, it is like enough to chase the thieves he chased at the beginning.

Hong Chengchou couldn't help but smile bitterly, but sighed in his heart, I don't know how long this kind of wandering days will last? It is better to die in the dense forest of western Liaoning, and you can still enjoy the Taimiao and the glory after death.

"Ministry, there's movement in the Tartars!"

The soldier stepped on the void and slipped on the shallow river, causing a splash, which also made Hong Chengchou, who was in deep thought, suddenly wake up. Like this, it's not a way to always advance and retreat. It's better to find an opportunity to dig a big pit for those Tartars, and then kick the guy named He Luohui into it from behind.

Hong Chengchou, who had made up his mind, seemed to see hope, and suddenly he was full of pride.

"Let's go, continue west!"

Just when Hong Chengchou and He Luo would deal with He Luo in the dense forest of western Liaoning, Jinzhou City was already in full swing, and Liu Yuliang, a dignified cabinet scholar and former first assistant, had become the supervisor of the construction site.

Liu Yuliang was surprised to find that the three guards in the city were making a kind of thing called cement, which he had heard of when he was in Gaoyang, but he never knew that this strange stone was actually made of mud, which was roughly the same as yellow mud, but the hardness of the condensed was far more than that of yellow mud.

In a gap in the north of the city, the auxiliaries had already built two layers of shelves with arm-thick logs, which were more than three palms high, and the gaps that fit the city walls were densely nailed with wooden planks. The cement that had been stirred in the pool was mixed with fragments of masonry and rubble, and barrels were poured into wooden nail molds by the auxiliaries.

Liu Yuliang squatted curiously on the cement pool, picked up a wooden stick and stirred it in the pool, and found that this kind of thing was much thinner than yellow mud.

It happened that an older old auxiliary soldier next to him was adding water to the pool and asked, "This brother, can this thing really condense harder than a stone?" ”

Liu Yuliang didn't wear an official uniform, not even a robe, but only wore a short fight, and the outfit was the same as that of the officers and auxiliaries, so the old auxiliary soldiers didn't recognize Liu Yuliang, seeing that the old man spoke kindly and politely, the work in his hands didn't stop for a moment, but he said: "This thing was invented by the general, called cement, don't look at it now, it's harder than a stone after it is condensed!" Do you know Gao Yang? At the beginning, it was able to drag the hundreds of thousands of Tartar troops, relying on this cement! Now our general wants to defend Jinzhou, and this cement will come in handy again, so we will consume all the tartars under the city! ”

The exaggeration of what the old auxiliary soldier said seemed to be like the real thing, but this kind of almost blindly optimistic love successfully infected Liu Yuliang.

"Good! Well said! Kill all those damn Tartars under the city of Jinzhou! ”

As soon as Liu Yuliang finished speaking, a guard came to report.

"Elder Ge! There is urgent military affairs, the general is invited! ”

Liu Yuliang just nodded to indicate that he knew, but who knew that the old auxiliary soldier who was talking to him just now dropped the water scoop in his hand to the ground in shock, and knelt on the ground in fright.

"The villain doesn't know that it's the old man, and the old man doesn't care about the villain......"

Seeing this old auxiliary soldier's behavior, Liu Yuliang couldn't help laughing.

"Get up, don't blame those who don't know!" After saying that, he personally leaned down to help the old auxiliary soldier up, raised his hand to dust off his body, and said earnestly: "You are all good, if I am such a soldier who dares to die, why should this Dongyu be undefeated, and why should the thief be worried?" ”

The old auxiliary soldier was flattered and excited, and he didn't know what to say, so he knelt down and kowtowed to Liu Yuliang again. Liu Yuliang stopped him and patted him on the shoulder.

"Work hard, Jinzhou will depend on you!"

The old auxiliary soldier nodded repeatedly, watching Liu Yuliang's slightly gaunt back, and gradually moving away with the guard.

Li Xin sat in the main hall of the governor's yamen, and Sun Ji and Liu Yuliang finally flowed down, and only sent scouts to Shanhaiguan to deliver Sun Ji and Liu Yuliang's handwritten letters.

Liu Yuliang is not that he doesn't want to go back to Shanhaiguan, but the road is far away and dangerous and unknown, if he only goes on the road, it may be better to be in Jinzhou City, after all, this Li Xin has been rumored to be a lucky general by the officialdom of Beijing, as long as he is there, no matter how dangerous the situation, he can eventually turn evil into good fortune.

"General Li, General Li, I don't know what urgent military affairs are?"

Li Xin's eyebrows were tightly locked, and he said with a stern face: "Liu Xiang, I just got the news that Hong Chengchou fought with the Qing soldiers near Xiaotuanshan Fort a few days ago, and it seems that he suffered a lot of losses, and then he was able to get out thanks to the arrival of a Ming army, and now I am afraid that he has fallen into a predicament!" ”

Liu Yuliang heard that Hong Chengchou was injured, but he was not as dignified as Li Xin, and he was a little gloating in his heart.

"The army of Hongbutang can fight well, it can't be a rumor, right?"

"The Ranger Scout has seen it with his own eyes, and there will be no fake!"

Liu Yuliang has never had a good impression of Hong Chengchou, and when he remembered his proud appearance on the road, he was greatly relieved.

"Defeat is defeat, what do we do? If they fight, Jinzhou City will be peaceful for a few more days! ”

Sun Ji interjected from the side: "Liu Xiangmo said angrily, the reason why Jinzhou is so calm at the moment is because Hong Chengchou led the remnants of the army that have been collected all the way to contain it outside, otherwise the Tartar named He Luohui has already come to Jinzhou City!" If Hong Chengchou is defeated, Jinzhou will be the next target! ”

Liu Yuliang suddenly realized another question and asked, "How many people will He Luo bring?" ”

Sun Ji replied: "More than 10,000! It's all Eight Banners armor soldiers! ”

"Oh no! The Tartars already have plans to return south! Liu Yuliang was shocked, almost exclaiming.

More than 10,000 elites of the Eight Banners are already vanguards, and if they only want to exterminate Hong Chengchou's remnants of three or four thousand or less, wouldn't it be a knife to kill chickens, and the only explanation is that this Tartar army is to clear the way for Dai Shan's southward return.

Liu Yuliang then said: "But at the moment, there is a shortage of manpower in Jinzhou City, and even the rest city wall has already used soldiers, let alone the city to support them!" At this point, he digressed again.

"The food in the city is also a tricky problem, since it has been judged that the Tartars will return to the division to attack the city, it is necessary to make complete preparations, the old man counted it a few days ago, and the shape is not optimistic, so I am afraid that it will not last for a month! You have to think of something else! ”

Li Xin also sighed, the original houses in Jinzhou City were looted by the Tartar army, and the Three Guards Army was already an empty city when they came, and almost all the people were escorted to Liaodong. Even if they wanted to, it would be impossible for them to raise food on the spot, and now half of this food was brought by Bekoer. But the situation on the grassland, Li Xin also understands that it is not easy to support the Three Guards until now, and once the war starts, they will not be able to help.

"Fortunately, Lu Jiu is coming back, according to his military report, he also looted a lot of food and gunpowder in Liaoyang this time, if he can successfully bring it back, I believe it will be enough to defend the city!"

Liu Yuliang's eyes lit up when he heard this, "It's good to have food, it's good to have food, if you have food, and then with this strong city, with these three guards, with this number of days, the Tartars will let the horses attack!" ”

Sun Ji was very surprised, this Liu Ge Lao has always been not optimistic about defending the city, how can he be so proud today, and he rarely made a joke.

"What happy event does Liu Xiang have today? Why don't you even feel different from this spirit! ”

Liu Yuliang smiled and said nothing, but said directly to Li Xin: "Jinzhou is not manpowered, don't divide the troops out, the old man will do his best to help General Li defend the city!" The old man still has to go to the construction site to supervise the work, so he will leave! After that, he shook his hand, it was a habitual way to shake his sleeves, who would have thought that a short fight could not shake his sleeves but threw it empty, and his body stopped awkwardly, and then hurried away.

Li Xin looked at Liu Yuliang's slightly rickety back, and suddenly smiled, this old guy became a little unrecognizable.