"The saint is the body of ten thousand gold, and you must not be in danger!"

"Please think twice......

As soon as the emperor said that he was going to go to the city to watch the battle, it was like a drop of cold water dripping into a pot of boiling oil, and the pot was boiling all at once, and the ministers spoke out to stop it.

But the minister's words of dissuasion were heard in Zhu Youzhen's ears, and they were like flies buzzing in his ears, what were these courtiers thinking in their hearts, and he still didn't know? All of them are guys who only want their own well-being, don't look at them all day long to talk about loyalty, if one day the Ming Dynasty dies, they can kneel on the ground and serve others as their fathers in a blink of an eye.

Alas! Zhu Youzhen sighed secretly, why are his courtiers so virtuous, if half of them can be as loyal to the monarch as Li Xin, why is the world of the Ming Dynasty not peaceful, and why can't it be prosperous?

As he thought about it, the more angry he became, he fought with the minister, insisting on going to the city to watch the battle and cheer!

The ministers blocked in every way, Zhu Youzhen stood up and glanced at the ministers under Danqi, counting them one by one, how many of them were really worried about my safety, and how many of them were afraid that they would lose their lives?

"If you don't go, I'll go!"

After that, the sleeves of the robe waved, and he went out of the hall, until the emperor's figure disappeared outside the door, and the ministers suddenly realized, although they didn't want to go, but the emperor had already taken the first step, if they didn't accompany them, how could it be the way of the courtiers?

Even if the ministers are shameless, they still have to have this face.

Therefore, the emperor personally rode the imperial horse to Desheng Gate under the support of the imperial horse supervisor Wu Xiangwei sergeant, and the ministers did not have time to take the sedan chair, and followed closely behind with court clothes and trotted, tired and out of breath.

When Zhu Youzhen strode into the city, Fang Zhenghua, the governor of Beijing, had already received the news and hurried from Xicheng. Today's thieves are mainly attacking Fuchengmen, so there is only a faint sound of shouting and killing on the Desheng Gate, but there is no battle array.

Zhu Youzhen looked surprised, and asked again and again:

"Where's my reinforcements?"

"Long live the three guards of Li Xin, but the reinforcements?"

"Is there anyone else?"

As soon as he talked about this, Zhu Youzhen was full of anger, it stands to reason that there are police in Beijing, and the fastest reaction should be the Xuanfu closest to Beijing, but Hong Chengchou, the governor of Xuanda, used the Mongolian Tatars as an excuse to prevaricate. He sent 10,000 soldiers over after repeated urging, but he didn't know that he only watched the excitement and didn't move the real thing.

"Long live back, Li Xin's Three Guards do not carry Deshengmen, they are fighting with thieves outside the city in Andingmen!"

Zhu Youzhen is a pity, if he gets this good fortune in Deshengmen, it will be difficult to win. But then I also understood that the fortune of the Heavenly Dao could not be controlled by just the color head. Looking east, I saw a large area of white smoke, and there seemed to be the faint sound of cannons.

"Let's go, go to Andingmen!"

The ministers had just climbed the city wall like dogs tired, but when they saw that the emperor had already gotten up and headed east, they complained again and again, and had to force their spirits to follow. As soon as he arrived at Andingmen, a strong atmosphere of war came to the surface, which made Zhu Youzhen's whole body feel for a while.

The smell of sulfur and gunpowder smoke between his mouth and nose, the fire gun of bamboo tube popping beans, and the rumbling cannon strongly stimulated Zhu Youzhen, who had never seen a war with his own eyes, in terms of smell and hearing.

Looking at the city, in addition to the layers of white gunsmoke, it is still gunsmoke, and even the ruins and broken walls of the closed compartment outside the city gate are hidden in it, and the clouds and mist are shrouded. All the sound of guns and cannons, shouts of killing, came from the smoke of gunpowder. There is too much difference between this situation and Zhu Youzhen's previous understanding of the two armies against the enemy.

And Zhu Youzhen's understanding of the war is all from the book and the mouths of the courtiers, and the two armies are just hand-to-hand combat between the two sides of Chongzhen, swords, guns, bows and arrows, and flesh and blood. Fighting in the smoke like a cloud like now, I can't figure out what the situation is.

Zhu Youzhen stared at the layers of gunpowder smoke outside the city, trying to observe the battle situation inside, but the visibility was too poor to see anything clearly. It was as if fifteen buckets had been set up in my heart, and I got up and down. There are 100,000 thieves, and he knows how many people there are in the Three Guards, and he will never be more than two-thirds of them if they can come to the city of Jingshi. At a glance, I just saw Fang Zhenghua, the commander of the Beijing camp beside me.

"The battle situation under the city, can Admiral Fang have a judgment?"

Fang Zhenghua, like Zhu Youzhen, doesn't know much about this kind of dispatch, and the fire gun god machine battalion has not been used, and there are many types of fire guns, but the effect is only limited to being used as a long-range strike firepower before the battle array contacts, and after receiving the enemy later, the fire gun is not as good as burning the fire stick.

But listening to the sound, in the thick smoke of gunpowder, the fire bolt sounded again and again like popping beans, which made him think clearly. But when the emperor opened his mouth to ask, he could not say that he did not know. I had no choice but to say vaguely: "General Li created his own formation, and he should be invincible!" ”

When Zhu Youzhen heard that this fighting in the smoke was Li Xin's own method, he immediately calmed down in his heart and said with a smile: "So, when this smoke of gunpowder dissipates, when Li Xin wins?" ”

"It's nature, it's nature!

"Come on, push the drums of war! I want to personally cheer for General Li! ”

In the complicated eyes of the ministers, Zhu Youzhen picked up the drumstick and beat the drum with a bang.

The sound of war drums penetrated through the layers of gunsmoke, the Three Guards did not have the advantage of terrain this time, they were all open outside the city, there were no rivers or mountains to cover their flanks, and when facing an enemy several times his size, Li Xin could only stretch the battle line as long as possible.

At the beginning of the battle with the enemy, Li Xin extended the battle line of the Three Guards Army to more than 1,000 paces for the first time, and 7,000 of the more than 10,000 soldiers were all thrown above the battle line, leaving only 3,000 people to form the second line phalanx.

More than 1,000 steps are converted into the metric length unit commonly used by Li Xin in later generations, which is nearly 2,000 kilometers, and more than 3 miles when converted into li. And the biggest battle line of the thieves is nothing more than that, although they claim to be 100,000 people, but in the face of the surrounding more than 40 miles of the city wall of the Beijing Division, it is impossible to surround it, so the thieves apply the method of key siege. Only the key points outside the city gates are focused on the division of troops, especially the northeast, west and west sides of the inner city.

The enemy against Li Xin was the army of 20,000 thieves located outside the Anding Gate in the north of the city.

The combat mode of the thieves is diametrically opposed to that of a well-trained army like the Three Guards, because of the lack of military discipline, they cannot maintain sufficient combat effectiveness in the mode of wide and shallow depth of the battle line, and can only increase the depth of the combat troops, so as to achieve the goal of fighting one after the other, exchanging human lives for victory.

And this is exactly what Li Xin wants, the depth of the three guards and five columns, the musket team does not pursue the continuous firepower, but strives to exert the maximum firepower in a single salvo, so as to hit the enemy's will to fight and morale.

After each salvo, the musketeers retreat and reload, while the adjacent pikemen stand in place to cover the musketeers' reloading, and when the reloads are complete, the musketeers retreat back into the battle line and the muskets continue to fire in a volley.

The thieves are all over the world with one trick, blindly filling their victories with human lives.

The thousands of projectiles thrown by each salvo of the musket struck like hailstones, and the thieves fell like leeks. Before engaging in battle, they were strongly stimulated by sight, hearing, touch, and smell. As a result, each musket shot brought the already demoralized rogues to the brink of collapse. The thieves at the forefront of the battle line will even scatter and flee, and when the thieves stabilize the army's heart and relaunch the attack, the next volley will mercilessly smash over.

The distance of dozens of paces has almost become an insurmountable gap for the thieves, and the battle line of the Three Guards retreats more than ten steps with each salvo, which invisibly widens the southern degree where the thieves can meet the enemy. Under this tug-of-war blow, which is close to torture, the thieves desperately want to contact the Three Guards, and then let go of the fight, but each time the opponent's volley is frustrated, and in the face of this endless torture, they struggle to advance in a dilemma.

The thieves made several encounters with the pikemen, and eventually distanced themselves from the long line of the Three Guards under the threat of side-fire fire.

Although it seems that he always has the initiative on the battlefield, Li Xin is not easy, and even faces great pressure. There was not only one thief outside Andingmen, but also an army of thieves who had not joined the war group outside Desheng Gate, a few miles west of the right flank of the Three Guards.

If they attacked the flanks of the Three Guards when the two armies were evenly matched, the consequences would be unimaginable. It was also because of this that Heisenberg's artillery battalion did not join the frontal battle for the first time.

They were divided into two and placed on the left and right flanks of the Three Guards, so that the thieves could inflict great damage and deterrent with their artillery in the event of a surprise attack. Then change the formation on the second front to achieve the purpose of covering the flanks.

But Li Xin and the Three Guards were lucky, and neither the thieves outside the Desheng Gate nor the Dongzhi Gate had any intention of reinforcing them. Seeing that the other party was on the verge of collapse, Li Xin immediately made a decision, the artillery battalions on the left and right flanks did not need to lie dormant, adjusted the muzzles, and bombarded the thieves in front of the battle line with scattered shells.

The addition of artillery was like the last straw that broke the camel's back, and the battle lasted only half an hour, and the thieves who attacked the Three Guards outside Anding Gate finally broke up and fled after a few blows of strong firepower.

Li Xin wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, this was the first time since the formation of the Three Guards Army that he had fought a decisive battle with the enemy in the plains. The Three Guards have always had strict requirements for military discipline, and the dogma that military discipline is the guarantee of combat effectiveness was also vividly displayed in this battle.

But there is another point that has drawn a big question mark in Li Xin's heart. According to Zhu Mei, Wu Sangui, who had surrendered to the thieves, had a cavalry of one to three thousand men or more under his command, and it was guessed that its main force should be the original Guanning iron cavalry, which was invincible.

Throughout the battle, Li Xin was waiting for it to appear, and Lu Jiu's cavalry battalion had been roaming around the three flanks of the battle line, on high alert, but at the end of the battle, this legendary iron cavalry did not appear.

Anyone with a modicum of military common sense could not afford to pass up such an opportunity with such a powerful cavalry. But why he didn't show up, this is too unreasonable.