Lu Jiu was the brother of "Li Xin" before he crossed over, so Li Xin was the first to take this person for the strict military discipline. But in the eyes of horse thieves, where can this be regarded as punishment, running, can be compared to whipping, beating the baton?

As soon as it was dark, Lu Zhifan sent someone to invite Li Xin. Li Xin was slightly surprised, this Lu Dianshi has never taken a shelf, why is it still served today? Just about to send him away, the soap Li who came to invite him said: "Li Jiaoxi, please go out with the lowly, Master Dianshi is in the county office!" ”

It turned out that this was the case, Li Xin sent the soap Li first: "Okay, you go first, and I'll arrive later." ”

The soap didn't say anything more and went out.

When I came to the county office, it was already completely dark, and there were Gaoyang Army soldiers patrolling at the gate of the county office. It just so happened that Zhang Shi was on duty tonight, and Li Xin said in surprise: "Didn't you give the men and horses of your old camp a three-day holiday?" How about the night patrol today? ”

"The classic history has issued a military order again, and everyone's holidays have been canceled and converted into military salaries, and it is too late for the brothers to be happy!"

After entering the county office, Lu Zhifan had been waiting for a long time in the side room in the backyard of the government office, and the reason why he chose the county government as the place to talk was because of his considerations. It has been moved from the administrative center to the county treasury, and it is no more noisy than the people in the barracks, and it is an extremely quiet place for conversation. However, just now he dismissed the idea of having a long talk with Li Xin, and the person sent to Suning County, Hejian Prefecture to inquire about the news came back, and there was no news of the crossing of the Tiger General Army.

Suning is the only place to enter Hejian Mansion from Gaoyang, if Hu Dawei really crossed Gaoyang to Hejian Mansion, Suning could not have no news, then the battle process described by Li Xin is very interesting.

Li Xin pushed the door in, "Master Dianshi has any instructions to call Li Xin at night?" ”

"Preparing for cavalry training?"

Lu Zhifan got straight to the point, and only mentioned that Li Xin organized horse thieves to build cavalry.

"I still want to ask Master Dianshi for a few horses."

Lu Zhifan has always refused his request, but after listening to Li Xin's words, he hesitated for a long time before saying:

"There are a lot of horses in Gaoyang City, but they are all horses that pull goods, and they can't go to the battlefield. You report the number first, and you can only ask someone to go to other counties to purchase! ”

Hearing Lu Zhifan's answer, Li Xin's heart was half cold, if it was feasible to go to other counties to purchase half a month ago, now that the Tartar army is heading south, seeing that the transportation is about to be cut off, it will not work at all to go out to purchase. I only heard Lu Zhifan say again:

"You can train as an infantry first, and you can go up in a critical moment."

Li Xin was a little frustrated, so he asked why Lu Zhifan called him overnight.

"I think you already know that this official has canceled the vacation of the old camp, and I just got the news today, there are signs that the Tartars are moving south, and the combat readiness of Gaoyang City has been raised by a level."

In order to avoid unnecessary manpower and material resources, the government office could deploy the combat readiness level of Gaoyang City's city defense on that day according to the information of the day. There are special, upper, middle, and lower four, before the Aobai attack, Gaoyang City once mentioned the special combat readiness, and then found that the Aobai Department was only a team of more than 1,000 people, so it was downgraded to the top level. Now that it has been improved, it is to restore the special level of combat readiness, which means that at this moment, all the military forces and paramilitary forces in Gaoyang City have been mobilized.

Out of Gaoyang County, Li Xin suddenly had a sense of loss of control, since returning to Gaoyang City, he always felt that something was wrong, as if many things had been out of control. Just like this upgrade to combat readiness, all the sergeants transferred him as a teacher in charge of daily training did not know anything. and that Zhou Jin, who is like a fart on weekdays, he follows wherever he goes, but today he didn't show up all day. What went wrong?

However, these fears were soon replaced by another, even bigger piece of bad news. The next day, as soon as it was dawn, soldiers from the old battalion stumbled and ran to report the news.

"Big, it's a big deal, the black pressure outside the city is all Tartar"

"Aobai is attacking the city?"

Li Xin subconsciously thought that it was Ao Bai who launched another siege, and the sergeant waved his hand again and again.

"No, not only Aobai, but many more people from the north......"

came so quickly, Li Xin exclaimed, could it be that Dolgon had arrived? In just two days, the Tartar soldiers reached Gaoyang City.

"What are you afraid of, are the mines outside the city buried in vain? If the Tartars dared to attack the city, they sent them to Hades. ”

Ever since witnessing the scene of the Tartars driving the people to clear the mines, the decision-makers in Goyang City have engaged in an extremely heated debate about whether to lay mines outside the city again. In the end, Sun Chengzong made the final decision, the mines should be buried and buried, do you expect the Tartars to be kind? Therefore, the mountain-shaped shape of the city wall was buried with mines in a few days, and there was an unexpected episode in which a man who planted mines was seriously injured because he made a mistake and stepped on a mine.

The fact is as Li Xin expected, when Li Xin climbed the enemy tower in the north city, the Tartar soldiers rushed over in unison, and the momentum was unprecedented, and even the soldiers of the old camp of the Gaoyang Army beat drums in their hearts.

But soon the morale of the soldiers and civilians at the head of Gaoyang City rose again, and the Tartars rushed into the minefield, even if the momentum was overwhelming, they could not stand the wild bombardment of the mines, and everyone did not know that they would step on this kind of explosive ground if they took a few more steps. In the face of the fear of the unknown, the tartar began to roll back like a sea on the beach.

At the rear of the Tartar army formation, the generals embraced a young general in cloth armor like a moon, with a beard like steel needles under a jaw similar to a Mongolian ** cake face, and the roots spread out in all directions. A pair of slender eyes narrowed, as if thinking about an extremely difficult problem.

He didn't see an intriguing smile on the lips of a white-skinned general standing behind him, but it quickly vanished.

The young general immediately said to the people beside him: "The Nanren have a clever mind, this weapon is very powerful, comparable to the Hongyi cannon, our banner people should do their best to get it, and we can't fall behind." Then he added a sentence as if carelessly, and said to a young man behind him with a pleasant face:

"The combat power of the Han Army Banner still needs to be improved, you can't retreat with a charge, Duoduo turn around, you are diligent and supervised."

"Come on, that's the end of today, if it continues, it will only increase the casualties of the Han army flag, and this battle can be regarded as having a preliminary understanding of the Gaoyang defenders. Even brave martial arts such as Ao Bai Zhang Jing were blocked under the city, how could we achieve it overnight. ”

This young general is none other than Prince Rui Dolgon, the leader of the Left Route Army, he has heard of the tricks in Gaoyang City, and when he sees it today, there are really some doorways, and it seems that he will have to pay a price if he wants to take this small county town. If he didn't have these tricks, he dared to pack a ticket, and he would definitely break the city within two days.

Dolgon this time was a light advance, only with 10,000 people, the main army of 30,000 people rushed to the river to meet with the right army Yue Tuo, ready to encircle and annihilate Lu Xiangsheng, as for the famous Liaodong Sun Chengzong He wants to meet in person, if he can catch alive it would be great. But looking at the current situation, he obviously underestimated the person who played tricks in the city, at the beginning, the Nanan people said that this person was good, he only regarded it as a boast, but now it seems that what he said is true, it is necessary to readjust the strategy plan for Gao Yang.

While thinking about it, Dolgon stepped into the big tent of the Chinese army specially prepared for him, and was served by the clothed minions, took off the cloth armor, and ordered someone to grind it, reached out and picked up a wolf hair on the case, which was full of ink, and put a pen on the spread out paper, and stamped the seal with him.

After writing, he ordered someone to summon Duoduo.

"Fifteenth brother, you have great strength, shoot this letter to Brother Wei into that Gaoyang City!"

Duoduo couldn't help but glance at the content on the paper and couldn't help but say, "Why does the fourteenth brother bother to do this, how can the southerners believe it?" ”

"Brother just wants the southerners to know that this person is going to be the king!

As soon as Duoduo came out of the big tent, there was a clothed servant who said: "Obey the king and ask to see!" ”

Dorgon straightened his clothes, which were nothing more than a tidying up of the folds in the lining of the cloth armor, and the man was full of hatless hats and only a pigtail the size of a rat's tail dragged behind his head. As a young generation of powerful people in the Eight Banners, he is a rare admirer of Han culture. Therefore, I also have great respect for the capable Han people, and I don't turn civil and military, as long as I have a skill, I want to use it. At this point, there are some shadows of Brother Huang Taiji.

By the time the seeker had entered the tent, Dorgon was already standing in the middle of the tent and making a gesture to meet him. Seeing this, the King of Gongshun was immediately grateful, and the master got up to greet the minion What a grace it was, and hurriedly walked a few steps and hit a thousand on one leg, "The slave Kong Youde has seen His Royal Highness King Rui!" ”

Dolgon helped Kong Youde up and asked word by word: "What do you think of today's battle under the city, what does King Gongshun think?" ”

Kong Youde was a general of Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, and Sun Yuanhua was an expert in Western artillery in the Ming court, so when Kong Youde surrendered to the Manchu Dynasty, he was quickly reused because of his good artillery.

"Back to Your Highness, it's the first time I've seen a southerner using firearms today, if you can get one to see, it shouldn't be difficult to imitate!"

Kong Youde always had a feeling of walking on thin ice in front of this pleasant young prince, and he didn't dare to lie, so he had to tell the truth. A look of disappointment flashed in Dorgon's eyes, but then he said, "It's not a problem to get one, maybe this king can even invite the person who made this thing!" ”

At night, the head of Gaoyang City was illuminated by torches like day, and during the day, the people who were blown up by mines turned on their backs, which greatly encouraged the confidence of the soldiers and civilians to defend the city. However, the clan of Dian Shi Lu was not happy in any way, standing on top of the enemy tower in the northern city, looking worriedly at the Tartar military camp that was faintly visible in the darkness.

Suddenly, there was a sound of breaking the sky, Lu Zhifan subconsciously lowered his head, and a feather arrow shot past, nailing it to the window lattice behind him. This made the sergeants around him nervous for a while, and they persuaded him to go downstairs. Lu Zhifan naturally couldn't go downstairs to hide because of this, which would not only hurt the morale of the defenders, but also make himself fall into a timid handle.

"Master Dianshi, there is a letter on the arrow!"