The sound of the golden iron striking suddenly sounded rapidly, followed by the endless whining of horns.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! ”

The time to come is always coming, but I didn't expect the Tartars to arrive at the city of Jinzhou when it was dark. The forts planned to be repaired outside the city only account for 20% of the original number, and only 50% or 60% of them have been repaired. And most of them are in the north of Jinzhou City, but they are of little help to the Tartars from the south.

Defending Jinzhou, the Three Guards have already done no less than five or six rehearsals of exercises, this time the Tartars really came, the state of mind of the soldiers of the Three Guards has long been accustomed to it, according to the previous plan set in place, all kinds of fire oil rolling wood and other defensive equipment are also ready to stop, just waiting for the Tartars to attack the city.

Li Xin looked at the army of Tartars, the setting sun sprinkled a golden and heavy light on his body, and from a distance, it looked like a rusty bronze statue that had stood for an unknown number of years. It's just that he is wondering, could the Tartars attack the city overnight? At this rate, by the time the Tartar army arrives at the city, it will probably be dark.

Smear and besiege the city, but very few armies will do this, even if they are completely sure, they will not risk losing their troops and attacking the city, right? But Li Xin obviously miscalculated, the Tartar army marched quickly, and reached the city of Jinzhou before the sun completely set below the ground. What surprised Li Xin even more was that these hurried Tartar armies actually moved out of countless ladders like a trick, and at a glance, they couldn't find out how many there were.

"The Tartars are attacking the city, the Tartars are attacking the city, get ready for the oil!"

Li Xin suddenly found that when attacking the city in the dark sky, the enemy could not see the situation in the city clearly, and his own side could not see how many men and horses the Qing army had, and even how to arrange the troops could not see clearly. As the so-called one gain and one loss, the two sides were pulled to a tie again, and the difficulty of either side was greatly increased, but after all, no one had the advantage, and in the end the fight could only be a loss for both sides.

As soon as he thought of this, in addition to worry, Li Xin was keenly aware of the anxiety in the heart of the Qing army commander. Such an impatient siege, regardless of success or failure, I am afraid that it will ......

Boom Boom!

This is the sound of Hongyi cannons, the Qing army actually brought the Hongyi cannons at the fastest speed, and a cannonball happened to hit the city wall of Jinzhou. Li Xin suddenly felt a tremble under his feet, and the rubble was splashed chaotically, but the threat of this cannon to the Jinzhou city wall only stopped there, and then although the Qing army's Hongyi cannon was faster than one cannon, the Jinzhou city wall was unharmed.

However, the Hongyi cannon is only the beginning of the Tartar siege, with the rumbling cannon, the sound of the siege under the city suddenly flourished, the ladders have set up the Jinzhou city wall, the ladder on the city wall flashed and trembled, obviously the Qing soldiers had begun to climb up the ladder.

For this way of climbing the city by a simple ladder, the response method is extremely simple, some soldiers of the three guards have raised the long poles that have been prepared long ago to resist the ladder carrying the city wall, and then work together to push the ladder in the direction of the outside of the city, until the entire ladder is pushed down outside the city wall.

As the ladder fell, Li Xin seemed to hear the screams of the Tartar soldiers falling to the ground. The ladder was pushed down outside the city wall of Jinzhou one by one, but he was not half excited, because he understood that this was the beginning of the battle, Jinzhou was the focus of the Tartars' troops, and it was located in the key points, no matter from which point of view, they were bound to win.

Of course, Li Xin also explained for another reason that only two of the powerful people in the Qing army who are now leading the troops pose the greatest threat to Jinzhou, one is Dolgon, and the other is Daishan. In contrast, Dolgon was anxious to go to the throne for more, and although for some unknown reason, he reached some kind of compromise with the Empress and Concubine Zhuang supported by the Two Yellow Banners, but his most urgent need was to seize the throne. And if Dai Shan loses Jinzhou, let alone return to Beijing with the power of a great victory to mediate the struggle for the throne, I am afraid that what awaits him after returning will have to wait for him to listen to the sin.

Therefore, no matter from which angle and direction, Dai Shan must try his best to win Jinzhou.

The battle in the city was in full swing, and although the battle between the two sides was vigorous and powerful, it did not appear as tragic as imagined. Li Xin looked at it for a while, then turned around and went down the city step by step. Master Guo, who had been following Li Xin's side, took a few steps and followed.

"General, general, this siege has just begun, why did you leave?"

Li Xintou snorted coldly without replying: "Tonight's siege has ended, and it is difficult for the Tartars to advance an inch tonight." ”

"This, this, the Tartars even use cannons, and the villain looks at the hanging! Hey, the general and other villains, the villains have something, they have something to say! ”

Li Xin stopped abruptly, and Master Guo, who was chasing closely all the way, couldn't stop and almost hit Li Xin. Master Guo hurriedly apologized: "The general atonements, villain, villain ......"

"Say it matters, don't be verbose!" Li Xin waved his hand impatiently, and asked Master Guo to say what he planned.

Master Guo stood firmly, cleared his throat, and said with the rumbling cannon: "The Tartar came in a hurry, they must not have thought that we would sneak attack him, it is better to ......"

"You mean we're going to sneak up at night?"

Li Xin didn't think much of Master Guo's bold ideas, the black light was blind, the Tartar couldn't figure out the shape, and he couldn't figure out the other party's shape either, who knew if the Tartar had already dug a trap outside the city and waited for them to drill. More importantly, they will face a protracted battle, and holding Jinzhou may be delayed for months, even a year and a half.

Therefore, the life of every soldier in the city is extremely precious, and it is definitely not wise to consume the already stretched living forces in a night battle.

Surprisingly, the siege of the Tartars went on all night and did not stop until it turned white. Li Xin climbed the city wall and looked around, but saw that groups of Tartar armies were flocking to Jinzhou in groups one after another, and began to camp three miles away along the Jinzhou city wall.

"It's not good, the dog Tartars are really going to fight a protracted war, and they want to trap us to death." Cheng Mingjiu saw that the Qing army under the city was really ready to fight a protracted siege as previously discussed, although his heart fell to the ground, he couldn't get up easily anyway.

"Thanks to the foresight of the general, he has long understood the tricks of the Tartars, and the food in the city of Jinzhou is enough for us to hold out for two months!"

Master Guo is very proud, Li Xin is taking the lead in the enemy's steps, this battle is probably another big battle in the world of the Three Guards Army and even General Li's famous words!

"Master Guo, you are too optimistic, I'm afraid that the Tartars will not stop if they don't achieve their goal, and insisting on it for two months may not be a victory in the battle, but after two months, we will run out of ammunition and food!" Therefore, we must defeat the besieging army of the Tartars within two months anyway. And all the Tartars have to do is do nothing, as long as they wait calmly for two months, we will collapse without a fight, and they will win without a fight! ”

Although Cheng Mingjiu's voice was not loud, it reached Master Guo's ears, but it was tantamount to a resounding slap in the face, shattering his optimism and waking him up from naïve wishful thinking.

"This, this ......"

Master Guo opened his mouth, looked at Li Xin and then at Cheng Mingjiu, but he didn't know what to say.

"That's it, no one is allowed to act without a general!"

Li Xin led his soldiers down the city, and seeing the Tartars besieging the city, he must have been unable to fight today's battle. Cheng Mingjiu followed: "General, let's just sit like this, it's not a long-term solution, how can we come up with a way!" ”

"Let's go, go back to the main hall of the Yamen!" Li Xin's voice was a little cold, as if he was hiding his dissatisfaction.

Li Xin convened a plenary meeting of all the generals above the rank of officer in Jinzhou City, which was called brainstorming and pooling wisdom, but in fact he did not expect that such a way of big guys sitting together would be able to discuss ideas.

However, the convening of this meeting was necessary, if not for anything else, but only to appease the hearts of those who were already somewhat fluctuating. Cheng Mingjiu argued with Master Guo in front of the public, and told the dilemma of the Three Guards, once it spread, even if the veterans of the Three Guards were desperate, but in the face of this predicament, demoralization was inevitable.

Since the formation of the Three Guards, they have basically won battles, just like a sharpened dagger sword, but as the saying goes, there must be a loss if there is a gain, and the sword is easy to break if it is sharpened too sharply, and this is the situation that the Three Guards are facing at the moment. Once defeated, the Three Guards are very likely to collapse.

In the past year since Li Xin led the soldiers, he has realized an indescribable experience, all of which say that they will be brave soldiers, but in fact, this statement may not be comprehensive, in fact, what can support the morale of soldiers is not so much courage, but rather a habit, as long as they are accustomed to this victory, they will be indomitable and invincible. And this habit grows like a snowball as the number of battles won increases, and as the snowball grows bigger, this inertia grows larger and larger.

A long-lasting iron army is born, but once it encounters unprecedented resistance, the snowball that is getting bigger and bigger may stop, and finally lose the momentum it should have.

Therefore, the purpose of Li Xin's convening of this collective meeting is to delay the loss of this motivation. Because he is waiting, waiting for a suitable opportunity to appear, if this opportunity does not appear, maybe the Three Guards will be trapped in Jinzhou City, but once the opportunity appears, it will be full of life.

As for the reinforcements of the imperial court, he can't count on it, although the emperor has repeatedly brought him up, but he can't stand the crowd's mouths of gold, and he was given up by the top to fend for himself, Li Xin has long been used to this, as long as those old men don't drag their hind legs, they are already burning high incense, thank God.