At the same time that the Turge army entered Ningwu Pass, Lu Zhifan, who led his troops north to ambush within the border wall, was also ready to fight with the main force of Li Xin's Three Guards at any time. To be honest, he was still a little nervous, although Li Xin was born as a horse thief, but after all, he had a good reputation, even if he was famous, he still had some ability, which had already been verified when he was in Gaoyang City. If it weren't for Li Xin, Gaoyang City would have fallen into the hands of Dolgon, and Sun Chengzong's family in the city and himself would have been martyred long ago.

But it is precisely because of the appearance of Li Xin that the damned one did not die, just like the clan of Ta Lu, who has now become a traitor by mistake, only a year apart, his identity is like a cloud, and he can't say hatred or regret in his heart. A year ago, I never expected that Lu Zhifan, who had always been a courtesy of kings and ministers, would also become a traitor one day.

The past is unbearable, and the past is gone. Lu Zhifan pulled his thoughts back from an inexplicable loss, since the moral tower that has been built since the enlightenment has long since fallen apart, why bother with the past, it is better to grasp the opportunity in front of him, Li Xin is Dolgon's henchman, if he can get rid of it, or even capture it alive, then his position in Dolgon's mind will inevitably go straight to the net, and fame and fortune are just around the corner?

The valley he chose was the only way to pass after Xinpingbao entered the customs, a long and narrow valley, which was a good place for sneak attacks and ambushes, as if it was tailor-made for the Talu domain. However, after waiting for three days in a row, there was no movement, and even Lu Zhifan, who had always prided himself on being calm, was a little irritable.

Immediately sent out a ranger, spreading a distance of fifty miles, even if Li Xin did not go to Xinping Fort and planned to enter the customs through other passes, he would still be able to know the exact news. Sure enough, the hard work paid off, and the rangers found an unidentified horse team twenty miles north of Wayaokou.

Lu Zhifan was keenly aware that this must be Li Xin's handwriting, and there would be a big move next, so he sent the cavalry of the Mongolian Eight Banners to ambush nearby, and the next morning there was a horse team passing by, and the Mongolian Eight Banners swarmed up and surrounded it, and the other party obviously refused to give in lightly, and under desperate resistance, he was outnumbered and finally captured.

These people were obviously the scouting horses and rangers who were in charge of reconnaissance before the army arrived, and even if Lu Zhifan ordered someone to interrogate the prisoners, he must get the news out of their mouths, and the torture continued until the night when the lights were held, and finally some people couldn't stand up to confess.

Lu Zhifan, who got the news, was overjoyed, and Li Xin really led his troops south, but there was another more shocking piece of news that made him both excited and suspicious.

From the mouth of the renegade cavalryman, he learned that Li Xin's main force of the Three Guards had no ammunition, and as we all know, the Three Guards were good at muskets, and the muskets without ammunition were not as good as burning sticks, and the Three Guards without muskets were tigers with minions, and they couldn't even beat a dog.

However, Lu Zhifan immediately corrected this idea, didn't this metaphor compare himself to a soil dog?

The immediate task now is to determine whether this news is true or not. After careful consideration, Lu Zhifan decided to change the plan he had previously made, and the army went forward, and at the same time sent a vanguard to test whether the news that the Three Guards had run out of ammunition was true.

The Tanma rangers scattered northward, and soon locked down Li Xin's position, and their current situation seemed to be very bad, and they were actually entangled by Baiyintu's men and horses. These are really two episodes of God's end, but after learning the details, Lu Zhifan still has some doubts.

Bai Yintu's trailing pursuers didn't seem to dare to fight a decisive battle with Li Xin's army, but they just watched from a distance, as if they were afraid, so whether the news they had received from the captives before was true or not also put a big question mark in Lu Zhifan's heart.

Moreover, Lu Zhifan had another worry in his heart, but this worry was not from Li Xin of the Three Guards, but from the friendly army. If he leads his division to attack, I am afraid that this credit will eventually be forcibly seized by Bai Yintu as the pro-army of the Emperor of the Two Yellow Banners, and in the end it may be to make a wedding dress for others.

Previously, when he was in Liaodong, Lu Zhifan was almost beheaded by Huang Taiji's cronies, a guy named Sony who belonged to Zhenghuangqi. Therefore, he has a very poor sense of these arrogant and domineering nobles of the two yellow flags, and the Dolgon camp that belongs to the two white flags, is even more subconsciously-for-tat.

Therefore, because of this, Lu Zhifan's original active offensive heart has cooled down again, and the internal struggle of the Qing court is complicated, and the sword is no worse than the Ming Dynasty, and in this complex political environment, it is definitely safer to do less than to do more.

After the idea of grabbing merit cooled down, Lu Zhifan became more rational, instead of making wedding dresses for others, it was better to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, firstly, to test Li Xin's strength by the chasing troops of Baiyintu, and secondly, regardless of whether the news of Li Xin's ammunition exhaustion was true, it was impossible to defeat the Mobei Mongol coalition army under Baiyintu's department without paying a considerable price. When the two tigers fight each other and one of them will be injured, it will be the day when the Talu domain will be sold.

Moreover, Lu Zhifan was quite sure that the tiger that was slightly seriously injured and might eventually flee was Bai Yintu's subordinate, so he ordered the army to withdraw to the side wall, only to wait and see, and did not intend to intervene in it, of course, he didn't want to startle the snake so early.

However, the reality soon poured cold water on Lu Zhifan, and Li Xin's side of the Three Guards was cautious, never showing an attack posture lightly, and seemed to be quite afraid of Bai Yintu's pursuers. Although the two sides have tried each other, but until the last resort, Baiyintu's pursuers and even consecutive battles must be avoided as much as possible.

Lu Zhifan originally fought with the idea of making a wall mountain view, but the other party delayed the fight, how could he not be in a hurry? After thinking about it, he decided to push both sides, but how to push it needed to be carefully considered.

One night, Lu Zhifan sent a Han army banner cavalry with only a few hundred men and plunged headlong into the darkness. Their target is Baiyintu's pursuers, yes, Baiyintu's pursuers. Lu Zhifan was very interested in the various firearms that Li Xin made when he was defending the city in Gaoyang, especially the firearms with low production cost, extremely simple use, and very wide use. After some research, he found that since this flowering mine could be thrown by infantry, it could also be thrown by cavalry.

Therefore, when he was in Liaodong, he invited Dolgon to train hundreds of cavalry who specialize in throwing flower mines, and before the battle contact, he threw hundreds of flower mines, and the effect after the explosion was absolutely super shocking. Before sending out the troops, he also brought this secret training team, which is just right now coming in handy.

Of course, although his target was Baiyintu's chasing battalion, he didn't really want to fight with it, but used firearms to confuse them, making them think that Li Xin was the first to attack, as long as he was properly guided and provoked the anger of this force, the decisive battle between the two sides might not be stopped.

Less than 600 cavalry galloped at a uniform speed like a ghost in the night, the speed was not fast but it was better because the sound was small, and it would not cause a large vibration, so as to avoid being detected early by the scouts on both sides, and the other reason was that the riders could not see the road clearly in the dark, and the cavalry could easily hurt the horse's leg if the cavalry marched too fast.

The ghostly cavalry was eventually spotted by the scouts of the pursuing soldiers, but instead of coming out of the camp to meet them, they made a defensive posture in the camp. This Han army banner cavalry disguised as the Ming army was still apprehensive at first, but when they saw that the legendary brave and abnormal Mobei Mongolian army was as timid as a mouse, they were disappointed and their courage increased a lot, and they began to accelerate at a distance of less than 100 steps from the opponent's camp.

At the same time, a rain of arrows was shot out of the camp one after another, which had long been expected, and the soldiers of the Han army were all equipped with iron helmets and cuirasses. Even if one or two arrows are missed, it is difficult to be fatal, and the cavalry are rough and thick-skinned, so they don't care about it.

The Han cavalry accelerated so fast that they were less than ten paces away from the camp before they even gave the camp a chance to fire a third salvo. Their skill was evident at this point, and hundreds of horses suddenly turned, and then the riders unhooked their saddles and threw their arms out. Each saddle was equipped with two large flowering mines, and when the second one was successfully thrown into the opposing camp, the cavalrymen did not hesitate for a moment to turn their horses' heads again and retreat wildly along the route from which they came.

In the midst of the lightning and fire, the explosions came and went, and perhaps one or two flowering thunderbolts happened to be thrown on the grass in the camp, and finally caused a raging fire, which was clearly visible ten miles away, but no matter what, this sudden attack was still very successful, and it was remarkable.

Lu Zhifan was very satisfied, and just waited for the news of the war between the two sides to come. Who knew that after dawn, the scout came to report: "...... After the fire, somehow, all, all fled...... Now there's not even one left......"

In addition to being shocked, Lu Zhifan couldn't even listen to the words of the scout's mouth intermittently. How can it be? Even if the soldiers of Mobei Mongolia were frightened, they would not be so easily frightened and fled, right? Could it be that Li Xin also took the opportunity to attack him last night? If that's the case, you're really stealing chickens and rice!

"Probe, report!"

Lu Zhifan was incredulous, believing that the scout must have missed something, and that he had to get reliable information before he could plan what to do next. Soon, the scout's return completely shattered his expectations, and now only Li Xin's Three Guards were left on the battlefield, and there was not even a shadow left of Baiyintu's friendly army.