Li Xin hissed and shouted the password, but the roaring and the sound of the horse's hooves had become a pot of porridge, and it was difficult for him to determine how many people had heard his password. In the noise and confusion, the minzhuang fired a second salvo, and the sound of fire became uneven, and Li Xin estimated that at least half of the muskets were not fired successfully. This fully exposes the disadvantage of the short training time of the people.

After the second salvo, the smoke completely blocked Li Xin's vision, and he was not sure how many Tartars had been hit by the two volleys, and how many people were left to rush forward now. There was already obvious confusion in the Minzhuang ranks, and they couldn't see how many people had been killed, how many people were still charged, and the only thing that was certain was that the horses' hooves were still knocking on the ground. This fear of the unknown hit the psychological defense line of the people little by little, and the morale was on the verge of collapse after two salvos.

Zhang Shi fell into an inexplicable excitement, he took the musket handed by the third column, clamped the fire rope with trembling hands, raised the gun and pulled the bracket fiercely, and a sparse explosion sounded beside him.

"Kill the Tartars!"

Zhang Shi threw the musket back, but saw that the second column had not even cleaned the barrel, and just when he didn't know what to do, Li Xin's shout came through the chaos: "Everyone throw away the musket, draw their knives and rush with me!" So he threw away his musket and drew the sword from his waist.

"Fuck, fight with the Tartars!"

The people woke up like a dream, threw away the muskets in their hands, drew their swords and rushed forward with Li Xin.

Zhou Dahu, who rushed to the front, was the first to meet the Tartar, the speed of the horse was very fast, and the tip of the Yanling knife raised in front of him instantly sank into the horse's belly, and then the whole person was knocked out. Li Xin was not far from Zhou Dahu's side, and witnessed the scene of him being knocked away, and two more war horses crashed into the Minzhuang team one after another. But immediately after the imaginary large-scale short-range collision did not happen, Li Xin rushed out of the gunsmoke, raised his eyes and looked into the distance, only to find that the Tartar light cavalry was scattered in all directions.

Is the first battle against the Tartars over like this? Was he defeated, or was he victorious? Li Xin only felt that his body was weak, and Yan Lingdao hurriedly fell to the ground, so that he didn't fall down. It wasn't until many days later that he understood why the Tartars had broken apart!

The smoke of gunpowder outside the west gate of Gaoyang City gradually dissipated, and Li Xin was sure that the Tartars would not return, so he led the people to clean up the battlefield. swept it down, which made Li Xin very depressed, and he had to kill two Tartars and one wounded, and five war horse corpses. In any case, this battle was considered a success in repelling the onslaught of the Tartar cavalry, and Li Xin shouted to the crowd: "Take the prisoners and return to the city victoriously!" ”

The people only woke up at this moment, and the Tartars retreated! We won!

Until Li Xin led the people to retreat to the city, the people of the northern city were still crowded at the gate of the city in a chaotic manner. Li Xin secretly thought that it seemed necessary to conduct several drills to deal with enemy attacks, otherwise every time they would be crowded together in a chaotic manner, and they would be caught off guard by the Tartars, and Gaoyang City would have to change hands. Fortunately, there was a slope outside the north gate, and the Tartars did not notice the commotion here.

The news of the Tartar attack on the city soon shook the whole city, Sun Chengzong took his family's servants Zhuang Ding to the city, and the Dian Shi Lu domain also gathered all the soap subordinates of the county government to prepare for a battle to the death. Who knew that after everyone went to the city full of sorrow, they found that the battle had ended, and the Tartars who attacked the city had retreated.

"Cabinet Department, this Li Xin has a bit of courage, and you always have a discerning eye!"

Lu Zhifan was not exempt from vulgarity, and he also made a sycophant in the face of Sun Chengzong. To be honest, when he first heard that the Tartars were attacking the city, he didn't expect Li Xin's Minzhuang, who had just gathered for a few days, to go out of the city to fight, as long as he could defend the city wall without losing, it would be a victory. Who knew that Li Xin actually took the initiative to go out of the city, not only drove away the Tartars but also made a small gain, this guy can always surprise him.

Sun Chengzong stroked his long hair under his chin, different from Lu Zhifan's joy, he obviously wanted to go deeper. The Tartars are all cavalry, and there are not many of them, they should be a type of ranger scouts, usually the Tartars will only have a ranger to explore the way before a major attack, which is a bit of a mountain rain to come. Although the Tartar rangers are not many in number, they are all elites in a hundred battles, and Li Xin's ability to drive them away with the strength of the army for a few days shows that on the one hand, it has extraordinary courage and ability, and on the other hand, there should be a lot of luck. He fought with the Tartars outside the fortress for more than ten years, and had a very clear understanding of the combat effectiveness of its cavalry. If you face the enemy head-on, even the Ming border army often has hundreds of people chased by dozens of Tartar soldiers. And Li Xin's people were able to maintain the formation in the face of the impact without collapsing, which is really commendable.

"Li Xin came to see the old man."

Lu Zhifan was about to go down to the city, and Sun Chengzong said: "Slow, the dead and wounded people have been counted, and the people must be appeased." ”

The people don't understand military affairs, they don't know how to judge the current situation, they only know that the Tartars are coming, and they have killed many people, and the panic is probably difficult to stop, and the appearance of the fugitives is only a matter of time. Fortunately, Li Xin took the people of the newly formed army to drive away the Tartars in a battle, and the people's hearts were not at the extreme for a while. After thinking about it, Li Xin was led to the city by his servants.

"Li Xin meets the cabinet!"

Sun Chengzong put his hands on Li Xin, who bowed and saluted, and said with a smile: "Good, good, good, good soldier!" What about the casualties of the people? ”

"Thanks to the support of the cabinet and the history of the Emperor! Of the 600 people in the battalion, only Zhou Dahu was injured by the Tartar war horse, and the rest did not suffer any casualties! ”

Li Xin responded solemnly, the afterglow of the sunset should be on his face, the edges and corners are more distinct and hard, and when he met the shed that day, it was like two people. Sun Chengzong sighed secretly, and listened to Li Xin's pride, so he nodded with satisfaction.

"The cabinet is tolerant, I'm afraid that the Tartars will come again, the people still need to be expanded, and the progress of the city wall is far from keeping up with ......"

"Don't worry, you have to eat a bite of food, and the problems have to be solved one by one, the old man has already sent someone to Shandong to purchase firearms, Minzhuang, you go to Lu Dianshi, he will arrange it." You are limited to half a month, and the old man will be trained to train 3,000 strong men who can defend this city wall! ”

Sun Chengzong looked unhurried, stretched out his hand and gestured at the city wall, but his eyes were staring directly at Li Xin. Li Xin heard that Sun Chengzong had already made arrangements, and his heart was overjoyed. "The cabinet is far-sighted!"

Before a sycophant hit the ground, Lu Zhifan almost climbed up to the city again.

"Big, it's not good, Anzhou County was captured by the Tartars......"

Hearing this, Sun Chengzong's body shook suddenly, stepped forward and grabbed Lu Zhifan and asked sharply, "Is the news true?" ”

"Anzhou County Cheng escaped, and I learned from him that it would not be fake!"

It is no wonder that Sun Chengzong lost his temper, although Anzhou is small, it is still much larger than Gaoyang, regardless of the size of the city wall, the population in the city far exceeds Gaoyang. He never expected that the war would burn to Gaoyang County so quickly, if the Tartars came to attack the city, they were still in preparation, and they could hold it for a few days?

Lu Zhifan took advantage of the situation and said: "Now that the people outside the city are panicking, why not take this opportunity to move people into the city?" He had a deep feeling for Li Xin's words that day, and today was a great opportunity to convince Sun Chengzong. Sun Chengzong pondered for a while, let out a long breath, and seemed to have made up his mind.

"It should have been like this a long time ago, you can do it, and the old man will take care of it for you." Speaking of this, he turned to Sun Jiao, who had just rushed over, and said, "Erlang, go and collect grain according to the previously agreed amount!" Then his eyes fell on Li Xin again, "How long will it take for the city wall to be renovated?" ”

"More than a month, less than half a month!"

Li Xin did not hide it, no matter how much time did not contribute to the current situation, the Tartar was in front of him, the city wall of the north city had just been filled, and the mold of the east city was still under construction.

"There is not enough manpower, so I will mobilize the whole county, old and young, to burn cement."

Sun Chengzong nodded, "It should be so, you and Lu Dianshi discuss how to allocate manpower......

Li Xin suddenly remembered that he had captured a prisoner alive.

"There is another matter, this time I went out to fight and captured a Tartar, I don't know how to deal with it?"

"I should have killed the sacrificial flag!"

Lu Zhifan blurted out. Sun Chengzong also agreed, "Tomorrow the city wall will be built, kill him to boost morale!" The merits of the people should also be recorded one by one, and when the Tartars have retired, the old man will personally ask the court for credit for you! ”

"The old man is tired, let's do the next thing according to the agreed regulations,"

Sun Chengzong looked tired, after all, he was an old man in his seventies, and the servants slowly walked down the city with him in their arms. Li Xin looked at his old back and sighed for a while, and suddenly thought of a key person, where did the county order of this county go? Even if Sun Chengzong is a retired minister, there is no reason for the county order to shrink back in everything!

At this time, Lei Xian Ling had already sneaked out of the south gate in disguise as a people's husband, and he even gave up the gold and silver he had accumulated over the years, and only carried the fine soft with him. He had a deep foreboding that this Tartar break would be more tragic than ever. Today's attack on the city of Tartar confirms this idea even more, presumably a larger-scale battle is about to begin, if he doesn't leave, I'm afraid that he won't even have the opportunity to leave in a few days, so he doesn't want to accompany Gao Yang to be buried.

Lei Xian Ling took the reins of the horse from the servants who sneaked out of the city first, looked back at the Gaoyang City Gate hidden in the afterglow of the sun, and went away without a trace of nostalgia.

Akzia's face was blue and his teeth were clenched, and his hands were tightly clasped in the saddle, allowing the frightened horse to run wildly. If it weren't for the sound of the firearm salvo being too loud, startling the war horse, maybe he would have followed the footsteps of the Ming Dynasty's rout at this moment and fought all the way into Gaoyang City. This is not his groundless arrogance, although the volley of the firearm of the people is terrifying, but the accuracy is extremely poor, and the firing distance is too long, and he can count the loss of men and horses with one hand in two volleys. It's just that I didn't expect this joint of the horse, and now I can only wait for the war horse to recover and collect people and horses to avenge this arrow.

For half an hour, the war horse fell to the ground and foamed at the mouth. Akzia turned over from the ground and felt a faint pain in his abdomen, and took off his cloth armor underwear, but saw that his left abdomen was already swollen, and a blood hole the thickness of a little finger appeared on it.

Akzia exhaled and secretly said that he was unlucky, and was shot by the firearms of the southerners.