The rout of the battalion is amazingly destructive in the barracks, but once it enters the field battlefield, it will become a fish on the chopping block. Therefore, before he could make contact with the armored warriors led by Aobai, he completely collapsed.

There are nearly 10,000 armored soldiers in the battalion, but Dolgon is not there, only Haoge can command them, and now Haoge's life and death are unknown, even if Aobai has a thousand abilities, the armored infantry that can be commanded is limited to more than 1,000 of his subordinates. Just these more than 1,000 subordinates suffered heavy losses in the big explosion, and with the hasty preparations, it was not easy to make up the number of 500. But after all, the armor soldiers of Ao Bai are the rare elite of the Eight Banners, even if the number is less than 1,000, they still have incomparable deterrent power.

It's just that the Eight Banners Han Army understands the combat effectiveness of the Aobai armor soldiers, but the Gaoyang Army doesn't understand that the so-called newborn calves are not afraid of tigers. As a result, the unlucky Ao Bai armor soldiers were forced to suffer a close-range volley of guns from the Gaoyang Army that sneaked from the rear.

This made Ao Bai angry, because it was too big and in a hasty response, many of the original structures were disrupted, and the command was not as flexible as before, and there were no scouts in the rear of the military formation. In the chaos, he was actually touched by the Nanren army and didn't even notice it.

The armor soldiers led by Ao Bai are each with a bow and a knife, which can be hand-to-hand combat near and feather arrows at a distance.

The basic principle is that the longer the horizontal row is composed, the larger the contact area during the battle, so as to maximize the utilization rate of the soldiers, rather than wasting it behind the large depth of the array.

At this time, Ao Bai placed a battle formation of shallow depth and large horizontal columns.

After the order was given, all the armor soldiers turned behind them, drew their arrows and bent their bows, and it was a volley, a whoosh sound that broke through the air, and the power was not weaker than the volley of Gaoyang's muskets.

For the first time since the Battle of Goyang, the two sides began the strange situation of muskets and bows and arrows being fired, and neither of them took the initiative to charge. The reason why Ao Bai tended to be conservative and did not choose to charge was because the enemy situation was unclear and he did not dare to attack rashly, and tonight was full of dangers, and if he collided with a large force of Gaoyang Army, the consequences would be unimaginable. During this period, Ao Bai tried to send scouts to find out the size of the Gaoyang army against him, but unfortunately after several rounds of musket fire, the thick smoke of gunpowder filled the entire battlefield, and it was impossible to conduct effective reconnaissance.

After a few rounds of mutual fire, the frequency of the Gaoyang muskets in the smoke became less and less, and the gunshots became more and more uneven, and this detail clearly fell into Aobayer's ears. According to common sense, whoever can calm down at this moment will achieve the final victory.

However, Aobai's usual self-confidence was fully revealed at this time, and he immediately and resolutely ordered the soldiers to draw their swords and charge.

At this most critical moment, the sound of the horse's hooves knocking on the ground came quickly, and when he heard the sound, he immediately determined that it was coming from his flank.

There is a great possibility that this cavalry is not a friend or foe, almost all the horses in the army are frightened, and almost all of them can fight are infantry, so this group of men and horses is very likely to be horse thieves led by Li Xin. As a result, the advantage accumulated by Ao Bai through more than a dozen rounds of salvos was almost wiped out in an instant, and he was faced with the dangerous situation of being attacked from both sides of the infantry and cavalry, and even the entire army was annihilated.

Aobai's instinct was right, and the cavalry attacking from his flank and rear was none other than the horse thieves led by Li Xin.

The horse thieves did not have the ability to ride and shoot, so they could only rely on the iron scale armor of each person, ready to directly attack the Tartar army formation. Under the light of the fire, Li Xin could faintly distinguish that the depth of the Tartar army formation was very shallow, and when it could rush through, it could disrupt the Tartar army formation, and if the opposite Gaoyang army could cooperate perfectly, it would definitely be able to defeat the enemy with one blow if it charged at this time.

But Li Xin was surprised to find that those Eight Banner Armor soldiers who were originally rushing forward suddenly drew an arc, and then turned sharply and headed towards the barracks.

"Thirteenth brother, shall we chase or not?"

Amid the frantic sound of horses' hooves, Lu Jiu roared beside Li Xin.

"If you see it, you will accept it, the other party will be worshipped, and if we are not careful, we may be bitten by him, and then we will suffer."

All the horse thieves gathered their horses, and at this time, the Gaoyang army in the smoke of gunpowder also charged, and when they rushed out of the smoke, they found that there was a team of cavalry full of iron armor in front of them, and they were all stunned suddenly. The person at the head saw Li Xin, who was in the lead, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Is it teaching? I'm a stone! ”

This Gaoyang Army is the old battalion of the Gaoyang Army led by Zhang Shishi.

"Stone, why are you here?"

Zhang Shi was overjoyed when he saw that it was Li Xin, and the frustration of almost the complete defeat of the army just now was swept away.

"It's Sun Gebu, his old man noticed that the Tartar military camp was changing, and secretly ordered the stone to come to answer the teaching."

"Now, the history and the teachings are all watching the battle at the head of Gaoyang City, and your grievances should also be swept away, go back to the city with us!"

On the side, Lu Jiu scolded: "The old man of the classic history is a confused official, and my thirteenth brother will have to let the weeping and sad face and the sinister county order look at his head sooner or later." He said to Li Xin again: "Brother Thirteen, let's go to Taihang Mountain to fall into the grass, where the imperial court army is beyond the reach of the whip, how happy our brothers are to be happy and enmity!" ”

Zhang Shishi was speechless, just begging Li Xin to return to Gaoyang.

Li Xin waved his hand, signaled everyone to be quiet, and said to Zhang Shi: "Shishi, you go back to the city and tell the cabinet, Li Xin will never give up Gaoyang, but Li Xin's role outside the city is far greater than in the city." ”

Zhang Shi didn't seem surprised by Li Xin's decision, but arched his hand and said: "When Sun Gebu came, he explained that if you refuse to return to the school, our brothers will follow you." After that, he turned around and pointed to the hundreds of Gaoyang soldiers, "When we came, we had already made plans not to return to the city, these brothers' relatives have cleaned up the Tartar scourge, and now they have nothing to worry about, just follow the teaching to kill the Tartars!" ”

Zhang Shi twisted his head and shouted again: "You say, now that the teaching is here, what should we do?" ”

"Kill the Tartars with the teaching!"

"Kill the Tartars with the teaching!"

Li Xin sighed, since he came to the last days of the Ming Dynasty, the only Ming bureaucrat he saw was Sun Chengzong, who believed in himself and reused himself. It's a pity that he is not the emperor, and a retired cabinet minister can do this, which can be regarded as benevolent and righteous. In addition, this Sun Chengzong is really scheming, and he even calculated that he would not return to Gaoyang, Chongzhen abandoned such a pillar because of the struggle for power, and Da Ming Yan will not die!

At the same time, the lights are swaying at the head of Gaoyang City. Dian Shi Lu Zhifan looked at the fire in the distance with excitement, although he couldn't see the specific situation clearly because the Qing army camp was stationed on the anticline, but he could also imagine the tragedy in the meantime. Standing beside Lu Dianshi was the Sect Priest Zhou Jin, in addition to excitement and joy, his eyes were full of confusion.

"How did the Tartar barracks become so eroded overnight? What's going on? ”

"According to the judgment of the young general, the chaos in the Tartar camp must be related to that Li Xin!"

The person who spoke was Zheng Xiyao, the general of the Fifth Military Battalion, at this time he was wearing a bright iron armor, extremely majestic, and he could vaguely see the demeanor of some of the Beijing Battalion generals. Now Zheng Xiyao was entrusted to lead the soldiers of the whole city to conduct defensive operations, and the Tartars did not take advantage of the previous offensive and defensive battles, and even suffered a small loss, and Gaoyang City stood still. As a result, the Dian Shi Lu clan relied on him even more.

Lu Zhifan sighed hesitantly: "Could it be that we arrested him wrong......

Zhou Jin's complexion had returned to its usual gloomy and cold expression.

"In extraordinary times, we should do extraordinary things. Li Xin was suspected of collaborating with the enemy, and his accusation was also for the safety of the people in the city. Later, this son took the horse thief out of Gaoyang, doesn't it prove that our guess is correct? is so unruly, how can the court be reassured? ”

These words are indeed reasonable, Lu Zhifan was silent, Li Xin led the horse thief to rebel against Gaoyang is true, unruly, and disobedient is also true. The imperial court has always used literature and military to prevent these vulgar generals from supporting their own troops, and he instigated a mutiny with a mere teaching, even if ten heads were not enough.

Lu Zhifan wanted to speak and stopped, and finally spit out after thinking for a long time.

"If it is really Li Xin who stirred up the chaos in the Tartar camp, what should we do with him?"

Zhou Jin replied expressionlessly: "When it is an extraordinary time, when you do extraordinary things, you can allow him to make meritorious service and continue to serve as the teacher of the Gaoyang Army, but this command can only be done by General Zheng!" In his opinion, not holding him accountable is already extraordinarily gracious, and now he is allowed to make meritorious contributions to his crimes, which is Longen's might!

When several heads in Gaoyang City were discussing how to deal with Li Xin, Li Xin had already made up his mind not to return to Gaoyang, he had said before that there was more room to do something outside the city, which was true, but in fact, he had other plans in his heart.

Li Xin knew that after his previous actions against Gao Yang, he had completely lost the trust of Gao Yang's civil officials, and even if he returned with a huge credit, he would still be firmly controlled and not allowed to perform. Only Lao Spicy Sun Chengzong has seen through this joint.

The fire in the Qing army's camp became more and more intense, and Li Xin did not dare to delay more, and rushed south with all the horse infantry troops for more than ten miles before stopping.

When the horse thieves grabbed the horses, according to the old custom, they were one person with two horses, or even three horses, so Li Xin ordered the horses to be divided among the soldiers of the old camp of the Gaoyang army. There were 400 Gaoyang soldiers this time, but not all of them could ride horses, and the horses were not enough for everyone to ride.

Despite the repeated pleas of the selected soldiers, Li Xin did not leave them behind, and after that, he fought to the death, if he couldn't ride a horse, how could he survive on the increasingly treacherous battlefield of Zhili?

In the end, Li Xin disappeared into the night with 600 new cavalry composed of the old battalion of the Gaoyang Army and horse thieves.

As the sky brightened, Dolgon returned to the barracks outside Gaoyang City with the Chinese army from the river, and when he saw the scene in front of him, he was stunned for a long time without speaking. When he learned that this qiē was related to Li Xin, he had the urge to vomit blood, and he was so gracious and trusted a person who was determined to be the enemy of the Qing Dynasty.

But what filled Dorgon's heart was not a strong sense of frustration, but an inexplicable euphoria, like a horse lover who meets a good horse, but this good horse is quite violent, and it will take time to subdue it. But when Ao Bai told the loss of the military camp one by one, the smile on his face gradually disappeared, and it was a trivial matter that the gunpowder was blown up, but it was by no means a trivial matter that tens of thousands of military rations were burned, which directly led to the dangerous situation of tens of thousands of troops facing food shortages.

And a large number of Manba Banners not only could not be used to siege the city, but also had to divide troops to guard those Han troops who were fluctuating after the battalion roared, and I am afraid that they would not be able to organize an offensive against Gaoyang before the arrival of reinforcements. The joy of winning the first battle of the river was not over, and it was stirred up by the mess in front of him.

Dolgon, realizing that he was about to speak, asked, "Is there worse news?" ”