I saw a bright red Ming army battle flag fluttering in the smoke and dust, it was actually the cavalry of the Ming army, and as the sound of horses' hooves gradually approached, everyone could clearly see that the person who took the lead was Lu Jiu.

After a while, Lu Jiu's war horse came to Li Xin's approach, only to see him arch his hand and say: "Lu Jiu came back to return to the thirteenth brother!" ”

"How's it going?"

"When the thieves are led to Yanmen at this moment, they can always win a respite for the brigade for an hour or two."

Li Xin high-fived and said: "Beautiful, for these two hours, presumably the people should also pass through Beiloukou safely!" After that, he turned around and said to Tian Fuzhen on the side: "Lord Tian, can you make the people move a little faster?" ”

Tian Fuzhen's head shook like a rattle, he had just returned from the ranks of the people, knowing their condition, there should be no problem with people in the prime of life, but many of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, especially women with small feet, how can they be faster? At this speed, one by one is still miserable!

"The people can't take it anymore! ...... faster."

What he wanted to say was that no matter how fast he was, he didn't know how many people would die on the road, but after the words came to his lips twice, he still didn't open his mouth.

"It's not that I, Li Xinqiang, are difficult, once the thieves catch up, the number of casualties is not the number now! Lord Tian, think of a way, overcome difficulties, and let the people go faster, it's really not possible, all property and baggage will be thrown away! ”

Tian Fuzhen was embarrassed, it was not easy for the people to abandon their homes and travel lightly, and now they had to let them lose the only remaining belongings around them, this, isn't this difficult for the strong? What's more, the Three Guards are not vegetarians, so do they have to embarrass the people?

Huang Sheng walked around, and when he returned to Li Xin's side, he happened to hear the conversation between him and Tian Fuzhen, and immediately stepped forward and hugged his fists:

"Dashuai, it's better for Huang Sheng to persuade him in this matter, and the old face of the Huang family for many years can still be sold again!"

Li Xin looked at Huang Sheng with gratitude, this person is a straight man, and he is Huang Yu's eldest brother, who ruined his family and wealth for his own strategic ideas, and even made property guarantees for the people of the city, which ensured that everyone withdrew from Daizhou in one day. Now his so-called selling face is probably the same way.

But if not, what better way could he do it? Li Xin solemnly shook Huang Sheng.

"That's it, thanks to Brother Huang!"

Huang Sheng smiled, revealing a mouthful of white and neat teeth.

"The handsome man is serious, look at it!"

In just a moment, Huang Sheng's effect had an immediate effect, and the people abandoned the heavy objects they were carrying, and their travel speed was really much faster. Even so, Li Xin still didn't dare to take it lightly, the entire Three Guards Army and the common people had already distanced themselves, falling far behind, and the auxiliary soldiers in charge of the baggage were separated from it.

Out of Huyukou and out of dozens of miles, Tian Fuzhen suddenly said: "In front of you is Ruyuekou, handsome, the people might as well go out of the side wall, first go to Yingzhou, and then go to Hunyuan Prefecture, I don't know if it's possible?" ”

Li Xin had carefully studied the maps of Datong Mansion and Taiyuan Mansion before, and after pondering for a moment, he still shook his head.

"A partial division of thieves occupies the Pingxing Pass, and they must go to the first line of Mayi, Yingzhou, and launch a surprise attack from outside the border wall, so they can easily succeed. If the people go out of Ruyuekou, in case Yingzhou is already in the hands of thieves at this time, wouldn't they send sheep into the tiger's mouth? ”

Tian Fuzhen's eyes were gloomy for a while, what Li Xin said made sense, and the current shape was only the fortress and the fortress controlled by the Three Guards were relatively safe. After the attack broke through Beiloukou, Li Xin transferred people from Yang Hewei to personally garrison this place, because this is related to the back road of the Three Guards, so he attaches great importance to it. The best choice for the people is to go here, but at the risk of being pursued by thieves.

"Alas, that's the only way, I hope the thieves don't dwell on it!"

But the thieves still disappointed him, except for Ru Yuekou, not long after, the thieves' cavalry vanguard had already faintly appeared in the field of vision of the Three Guards. Fortunately, it was almost dusk at this time, and they did not rashly attack, but followed from a distance.

This is not to say that the Three Guards are afraid of the enemy and have no certainty of victory, but once the battle starts, the front that the three thousand people of the Three Guards can form is limited after all, and if any of the thieves pass through from outside the battle line, it will be the people who will suffer.

Therefore, Li Xin's idea is that if you can not engage in battle, you should not fight with the thieves lightly, so it is also a good thing, once he arrives in Beiloukou, he will have no scruples, and he will let go of the battle.

As the night deepened, although Li Xin's nerves became more and more tense, a hanging heart settled slightly. At that time, people suffered from night blindness due to malnutrition, and it was extremely difficult to attack at night without enough torches to illuminate.

It is evident that the thieves, though numerous, were not well prepared by the sparkling light in their ranks, and did not even have a few torches for the night march. On the other hand, the Three Guards were different from the common people, and the long dragon of winding torches could not be seen at a glance.

This is both an advantage and a disadvantage, and the long dragon with torches in sight is tantamount to telling the thieves that their total goal is to kill one by one as long as they rush in the direction of the torch.

Li Xin only hopes that the two sides will confront each other like this, and as long as tonight passes, I believe that Beiloukou has also arrived. For the first time, Li Xin felt what it was like to be constrained, he had experienced countless battles before, but none of them were because he was afraid to act rashly because he took care of the people.

At the beginning, he also led a large number of displaced people to fight together, but those displaced people were all the remaining sturdy after the Tartar sack, and they were able to withstand all kinds of extremely short conditions, but now this team of ordinary people is different, because the sturdy consumed a lot in the Daizhou defense battle, and half of the remaining group of people were old and weak, women and children.

is such a group of people, if you want to be a body, you can't run fast. If you want combat effectiveness, you can't fight if you don't have combat effectiveness. Li Xingan stared at him without a curse, there was no way at all, he could only do it.

But he suddenly found that the other party seemed to have moved, and the other party's originally sporadic fires gradually tended to concentrate, which was a very bad signal. At the same time, Zhang Shi, the commander of the grenadier battalion, also noticed the other party's abnormal movement and immediately sent a herald to ask for instructions.

Li Xin immediately ordered that all infantry battalions immediately stop advancing, spread out a formation on the spot, form a phalanx, and be ready to meet the enemy at any time!

Among the Three Guards, only Heisenberg's artillery battalion had a higher degree of freedom, and he could give orders first according to the occupation, and then ask Li Xin for instructions, because the artillery often had to enter the combat position before the infantry, and if he waited for instructions, he was afraid that the fighters would be delayed. Li Xin gave Heisenberg a high degree of freedom.

"Boys, pick up your cannons, rush to the grenadiers, and bomb those bitches, you are the well-deserved warriors of the Three Guards, hurry up and ......"

Heisenberg was an excellent artillery captain, and he, like Li Xin and Zhang Shi, noticed the movement in the army of thieves at the same time. The only difference is that Li Xin ordered the infantry battalion to be deployed on the spot to defend against the attack of thieves. And Heisenberg's order was to attack actively.

The artillery battalion received eleven newly cast twelve-pounder guns that had been delivered by the three guards the other day, and these twelve-pounder guns were very different in shape from the previous ones, and their barrels were nearly twice as long as the old twelve-pounderers.

According to Albert, this is a cannon made with the most advanced technology, and because the length of the barrel increases the accuracy and power of the artillery, more than 30 guns of various pounds have entered the gun position 20 paces in front of the grenadier barracks, loaded their ammunition, and waited for the order to fire.

A strange and shrill whistle pierced the night sky, and suddenly more than thirty cannons were fired in unison. The firelight suddenly flashed the whole night like day, and the sound of the cannon was deafening, like a galloping horse, and even the ground under his feet was trembling.

More than thirty hot solid bullets, with the sound of whistling wind, drew more than thirty extremely graceful arcs in the night sky, and smashed fiercely into the army of thieves crowded in the darkness to find that.

Nearly half of the shells deviated from the target, landed early, and rolled weakly into the crowd after several ejections on the ground, making the thieves rejoice. But the other half of the cannonballs smashed their luck to pieces, and the solid bullets that whistled like falling from the sky, and those who were directly hit immediately flew flesh and blood, and half of their bodies became flesh and blood. Driven by strong energy, the solid bullet killed the first thief after landing, and continued to catapult forward after making contact with the ground.

In an instant, a dozen solid bullets caused nearly 100 casualties to the thieves, although the number of killed and wounded was not large, but the terrifying power completely disrupted the morale of the soldiers near the landing point of the shells, and the thieves ran wildly, for fear that the solid bullets falling from the sky would fall on them, and let the officers shout in vain to restrain them.

Heisenberg calmly ordered to continue reloading, this time it was still solid, due to the distance from the thieves, the range of scattered bullets that could effectively kill the enemy was not enough. In the dark of night, the enemy's situation was unknown, and in order to take care of the safety of the artillery, he had to adopt a relatively conservative style of fighting, and at a relatively long distance, he used solid ammunition to hit the morale of the thieves.

Obviously, Heisenberg's goal was achieved, and after three volleys in a row, the fires that had been gradually concentrated in the army of thieves were actually scattered in a chaotic manner.

Li Xin did not expect that the artillery would be able to turn the tide at a critical moment, and Heisenberg did not disappoint him, leading the artillery to create one miracle after another. At this time, Heisenberg gave an order that made him jaw-dropping.

"The boys of the artillery battalion, the group of bitches in front of you are messed up, everyone moves forward ten steps and gets on the solid bullet ......"