Chapter 70: The Heroic Thief

But I heard a member of the general say loudly: "Why should the father-in-law worry about ......?"

But seeing that this officer is about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, dressed in chain iron armor, with sword eyebrows, although he was besieged by tens of thousands of Qing troops, he did not see the slightest timidity, and his eyes were calm and calm.

"Oh, my son is a father!"

The ironclad general visually measured the number of Qing troops, and said in a deep voice: "There should be tens of thousands of Tartar horse infantry troops, and it is not a problem to defend this city for seven or eight days......

Gao Qiqian's eyes were full of anticipation, and he asked eagerly: "What about seven or eight days later?" ”

"I'm waiting for the imperial court reinforcements to lift the siege!"

Gao Qiqian almost jumped up and scolded his mother, it is better to count on the reinforcements of the imperial court than to count on a fart, he is the reinforcements, he doesn't know how much foundation the imperial court has? Surrounded in this city for seven or eight days, the torture was not human, and when the time came, he could not run if he wanted to.

"No, no, no, this is absolutely not good, if you want to recruit again, our family doesn't want seven or eight days, we want to be able to get out now......"

Iron Armor will answer without hesitation.

"That's the only way to break through now! But ......"

"But what?"

Iron Armor will approach Gao Qiqian and whisper a few words in his ear, as if to advise something, but Gao Qiqian's head shook like a drum. In the end, the ironclad general couldn't resist Gao Qiqian and had to sigh, "Father-in-law, if you want to break through the siege, take advantage of it now, at this time, the Tartars have not completed the formation, our army is unexpected, and the four gates are out of battle at the same time, and the Tartars will inevitably be difficult to take care of, so maybe you can break out of the encirclement in a big way?" ”

"So what's the wait? Hurry up and gather the men and horses, and the four gates will be defeated! ”

Gao Qiqian's sharp voice echoed in Lixian County, and the iron armor general promised to escort Gao Qi to sneak down to the city.

Turg led the army to successfully surround Lixian, seeing the formation of the encirclement, only three days later to break the city, how do you know that Lixian suddenly opened the city gates on all sides, and the Guanning iron cavalry rushed out like a torrent, rushing in all directions. What kind of play routine is this? Turg had never seen the Ming army have such a chaotic way of fighting, so attacking from all sides, the already small forces were more scattered, and the information he got was that Gao Qiqian brought 10,000 Guanning iron cavalry with him, and about 10,000 recruits, which was far less than the Qing army in terms of numbers, and then separated on all sides, which was equivalent to giving the Qing armor soldiers the opportunity to break through each of them.

Seeing that the cavalry torrent was coming, Turg sneered and ordered a counterattack, ordering the banner to change in Turg's army, and the Qing army to change formations, and entangled with the Guanning army that rushed out of Lixian County, and a tragic battle began.

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In Gaoyang City, Liu Yuliang sneezed fiercely, and suddenly settled down due to the continuous travel, and his body suddenly felt unwell, and he actually suffered from wind cold. But he didn't dare to slack off for a moment, and insisted on coming to the county government every day to discuss with Sun Chengzong.

Sun Chengzong received the holy decree and the military affairs of the three provinces as the governor, so he opened the county government as a temporary office, and Lu Zhifan and other original cadres fully cooperated with him. Sun Chengzong did not interfere in the defense of the city, and still left the overall situation to Lu Zhifan, who was only responsible for the formulation of strategic plans.

The atmosphere in the government office hall today was not harmonious, and the edict Zhou Jin proposed that the horse thieves and cavalry in Li Xin's hands should be recalled, and their storage was not legal, and they should take this opportunity to confiscate Li Xin's military power. As a traditional literati, he has always been extremely wary of martial arts interference.

"Li Xin, as a person who treats crimes, instigated a mutiny, turned out of Gaoyang, and almost brought irreparable losses to Gaoyang City.

Zhou Jin talked eloquently, there was actually a hidden worry in his heart that he had not explicitly stated, and he believed that everyone also tacitly understood it. A warrior without any restraint leads troops in troubled times, and if he wins all battles, then it is easy to raise tigers and become a warlord of a feudal town that the Ming Dynasty cannot tolerate.

Lu Zhifan remained silent about this, and Lei Juemin, the county commander, raised his hands in support. As a rising star in the Gaoyang Army, Sun Ji gradually showed his military talent in the Gaoyang Defensive War, and his status and weight gradually rose in Gaoyang's military and political affairs. However, he was opposed.

"Sun Ji doesn't agree with the idea of the county commander and the teaching lord, now is the time of the event, how can he cut off his arm? Isn't that the relatives hurting the enemies fast? Even if Li Xin will become a warlord in the future, it will be a matter of the future, and now the Ming Dynasty is in chaos like this, with thieves raging inside, and Tartars criminalizing the border outside, and it will be ...... in the future."

Lu Zhifan coughed at the right time, and Sun Ji immediately realized that he was almost speechless, since he threw his pen from Rong, the whole person has become much more impulsive than before, which may be related to the fatigue of fighting for days, and the impetuousness and restlessness that have accumulated. He glanced at Lu Zhifan gratefully, and continued: "He is only a few hundred horse thieves in the hands of Li Xin, and when the world is peaceful, if he dares to rebel in the future, he will lead the troops to suppress it, why worry so much?" ”

Zhou Jin sneered a few times and retorted: "Which of Cao Cao and Liu Yu's disciples was a thief from the beginning?" Which one is not the remnant of the tiger raised by the imperial court, and was eventually devoured by the tiger? Any sprout must be stifled before it arises. Why should the Tartars be afraid? Gaoyang is a small city, and Dolgon's tens of thousands of troops can't be captured for a long time? Can he swallow this thousands of miles of Daming rivers and mountains? Honkai his wolftooth canine! ”

For the teachings in this county, Sun Ji always felt that this person was too extreme and narrow-minded, he didn't know how to be flexible in many things, and he couldn't distinguish the current situation, and he was often self-righteous.

"The reason why Gaoyang City has been able to defend it to this day is that Li Xin has contributed a lot. First, the city walls he presided over played a crucial role. Second, Li Xin's series of attacks on the Qing army outside the city restrained their attack on Gaoyang City and greatly alleviated the pressure on Gaoyang City. Now that he is escorting Liu Ge Lao into Gaoyang, I wonder how many times he will risk the danger to deal with the Tartars? ”

In fact, he still has something inconvenient to say, the scourge of the Ming Dynasty is no longer outside the outside but in the heart, and the thieves who ravaged Henan and Shaanxi are the biggest saboteurs and the biggest enemies of the Ming Dynasty. This time the Tartars entered the Koukou and invisibly helped those who were about to perish.

With the deterioration of the war, sooner or later, the emperor will send Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting's Shaanxi army into Beijing to defend the Gongwei, and when the time comes, no one will be able to restrain Zhang Li's disciples, and the world will be turned upside down! Although Li Xin's generation is unruly, he has a bit of a sense of concern for the country and the people in his bones, and he is always thousands of times stronger than those thieves who only know how to burn, kill and loot. When the world is rotten on that day, I can't say that I have to rely on Li Xin's generation to turn the tide!

Sun Ji suddenly woke up, whether these thoughts were too unrealistic, how could the Ming Dynasty get to that step, he quickly expelled these distracting thoughts from his mind. At this moment, he lost his mind and didn't even hear what Zhou Jin said, only saw his mouth open and close in a trance, but not a word of what he said entered his ears.

The two of them quarreled, Lu Zhifan chose to be silent, the two did not help each other, as long as he could hold Gao Yang, other things could be ranked behind. Sun Chengzong also didn't say a word, his face was calm, and his eyelids drooped as if he was asleep. Liu Yuliang couldn't stand it anymore, coughed dryly, and was ready to come forward to stop the dispute. In fact, he has a good impression of Li Xin, after a few days of getting along, from the initial contempt to experience this episode of entering the city, there have gradually been some changes, and they get along well during the period, but it is a pity that he has yin with him, and the two will become enemies sooner or later, so they must be eliminated before this potential enemy can not set off the wind.

But how to get rid of it, but you have to pay attention to the technique, then Zhou Jin is a piece of wood, cut into a wooden stick and inserted into an iron spear head, it is a good iron gun. But the iron spear himself has no brains, and the methods he comes up with are extremely stupid, if he really surrenders Li Xin's military power, it is absolutely inevitable that the morale of the soldiers and civilians in Gaoyang City will be dealt a blow, which is not what he is happy to see.

In the past few days, Liu Yuliang has observed and understood from the side, and he found that this Li Xin is simply a lucky general, as long as he participates in almost every battle, he believes in fortune, in his opinion, Li Xin is with luck. Therefore, he still has a better way, that is, to transfer him away from the battlefield, away from the battlefield, there will be no battle to fight, and there will be no merit if there is no war to fight, this is not equivalent to cutting off his road to promotion, if he can't get promoted, what strength does he have to fight with himself?

"What Jie Zhi said is reasonable, we can't chill the hearts of the soldiers, and we can't let the people poke our backbones and say that we cross the river and tear down the bridge. Go to the city and inquire, who doesn't say that Li Xin is good? Whoever wants to abolish Li Xin is to push himself down on the opposite side of the people. ”

Liu Yuliang is the first assistant of the cabinet, and he also has the errand of supervising military intelligence, his hat is buttoned big, and what he said is reasonable, Zhou Jin finally stopped knowing. In fact, he knew Li Xin's reputation among the people, but it was this good reputation that made him more fearful, if this person was a greedy and money-hungry person, he would not be afraid.

Sun Ji saw that Zhou Jin was not moving, and it was not good to speak more, so he was silent. Liu Yuliang subdued Sun Erren with a word, brushed the goatee under his chin with satisfaction, and thought about where to branch Li Xin, but he heard the sound of footsteps outside the government office.

"Report! The big thing is not good, Lixian County was captured by the Tartar army, the Guanning army was defeated, and the Gao Jian army was nowhere to be found! ”

Everyone in the hall was stunned, and Sun Chengzong, who was originally pretending to sleep, suddenly opened his eyes, and he didn't calculate that the Qing army's pretended withdrawal was actually to confuse Gao Qiqian in Lixian County, and their real goal turned out to be to kill Gao Qiqian. I didn't expect this high diving to be such a waste, and it would be defeated in a battle. When this thought popped up in his mind, Sun Chengzong suddenly felt like falling into an ice cave, once the elite of the high potential was lost, the battlefield shape could be reversed in an instant.

The two flanks of the Tartar army were out of control, and the right wing army of Dudu in the south of Zhendingfu could finally move south to attack Lu Xiangsheng without any scruples, and Dolgon's left flank army could return to Gaoyang in an instant......