Chapter 121: Goodbye
(Recently, the temperature has plummeted, and I accidentally caught a cold and had a fever.) After work, I couldn't stand it, so I went to the hospital to hang up the water, and I forced myself to finish writing two chapters, and I owe one more today to make up for it tomorrow, sorry! )
Huang Ergongzi looked at the fireballs rising not far away in amazement, he had never seen such a battle, the sound sounded like firecrackers during the festival, but it was dozens or hundreds of times louder than the firecrackers on weekdays. For Li Xin, the explosion is all too familiar, and it is exactly the sound produced after the explosion of the mine he created.
Not only Li Xin is familiar with it, but hundreds of brothers from Lu Jiu and below are all very familiar with it, when the Jingshi fought against the Tartars, they had heard this kind of explosion countless times, but it sounded so unreal at this moment, just because none of the people who knew how to make this kind of mine should be in Changping, but the truth was always unexpected.
Before the fence was breached, Li Xin's soldiers suffered almost no casualties. But after the repeated retreat, the morale was low to the bottom, and the enemy ** attacked, it was difficult to calmly meet the enemy before, and a large number of casualties inevitably appeared. In just the blink of an eye, more than a dozen brothers were splashed with blood on the spot, but the angry spitting fire in Lu Jiu's eyes was useless, once the morale was gone, all that was waiting for them was defeat, no matter how desperate they tried, it would be useless.
It wasn't until the sound of explosions sounded again that they were given hope for life, and this kind of explosion was completely different from the sound made by the Ming army's artillery when it was fired, and the difference could be distinguished very lightly.
In any case, they understood that reinforcements had arrived.
The shape suddenly reversed again, and the violent and shocking sound of the explosion completely disrupted the offensive rhythm of the black-clothed enemy, to their ears, this must be the artillery of the Ming army, and even the cannons were brought, and the scale of this Ming army would definitely not be small. The black-clothed enemy, who had firmly occupied the initiative on the battlefield, scattered and retreated like a frightened bird. The main force of the Ming army is coming in an instant, and it would be a fool not to hurry up and flee for your life.
"The Ming army is coming, run!"
"Whoever dares to run, Lao Tzu slaughtered whom! The thief is in front of him, take his head, and the reward is 10,000 taels! ”
It is said that there must be brave men under the heavy reward, and in this situation of defeat, even if you take the head of the bounty, you may not have the life to receive the bounty, and the life you leave is the most important.
A rabble of rabble, frightened by the sound of firearms exploding, scattered in all directions.
Of course, the reason is that what they are afraid of is not simple artillery, in their subconscious, the Ming army that can be equipped with artillery must be the elite of the Beijing Division, and even the most elite Shenji Battalion in the Beijing camp. And the big car shop yard is a dead gourd terrain, there is only one exit, once it is blocked by the Ming army on the official road, it will really become a praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finches behind. So. The men in black scrambled to be the first to flee for their lives, for fear that they would lose their lives if they ran slowly.
Li Xin held the Yanling knife in his hand and looked at the absurd scene in front of him, and secretly laughed at himself, these battle-hardened brothers were almost destroyed in the hands of a group of rabble-based outlaws, and it was not allowed to make people laugh when they spread out.
After all, it is still the cavalry who are not good at foot combat, and the soldiers who were born as horse thieves pay attention to horse kung fu, long-distance running, raiding and harassment are their forte. The two armies face each other, and the battle will be fought by a group of rabble.
Li Xin began to miss Zhang Shi, I don't know what happened to this Gaoyang man now, whether he survived the tragedy of Gaoyang City. Did all the 300 strong musketeers he trained survive the trip?
Li Xin did not order the pursuit, but watched the black-clothed enemies flee one after another, and he could no longer tolerate any more casualties among his subordinates. From the following movements, he could judge that these scattered enemies did not encounter a large-scale interception by the Ming army, and quickly retreated after a skirmish. Li Xin smiled bitterly, it seems that the reinforcements are also bluffing, fortunately, this group of enemies is not a well-trained army, otherwise once they resist the pressure and continue to attack forcibly, I am afraid that there will be a few hundred and ten brothers who will be alive to see the sun tomorrow!
Soon, a scout horse scout galloped over, and the rider was indeed dressed in bright red Ming army armor. Lu Jiu suddenly burst into tears, if he hadn't walked in front of the ghost gate, he had never thought that this fiery Daming armor would be so exciting.
"But the men and horses of General Li, the commander of the three guards?"
The scout Le Ma shouted, and someone immediately responded: "It's our General Li!" ”
"We are the new guards of the Shanxi Xingdu Division, and we have passed by since then!"
"The brothers came too soon, if it was half an hour later, you would have to collect the corpses!"
After the soldiers escaped, they even joked.
Who knew that the scout Zhengse said: "Our experience is that the adults are chasing General Li!" ”
Everyone was taken aback, what kind of experience did adults recognize Brother Thirteen, but Brother Thirteen had only been in Beijing for a few days, how could he know those bastard civil officials? After the first battle of Gaoyang and the battle with the Beijing Division, the civil officials were good at nothing but playing ghosts behind their backs and fighting and framing. So in the eyes of these military men, civil officials are equated with turtle king bastards.
And this experience is not easy for adults to use firearms. It was the soldiers who survived the catastrophe that finally accumulated virtue and left him with affection, and did not scold the turtle king bastard.
Li Xin remembered that Huang Ergongzi, who suddenly appeared in the courtyard and was about to save him from fire and water, went to look for him at this time, but where was there still half a shadow? After looking in the crowd for a while and finally finding nothing, he shook his head and sighed secretly, thinking that the little brother Huang took advantage of his inattention and left through the tunnel.
Li Xin had a strong premonition that they would meet again from now on, and that those who had been hiding in the shadows and had been trying to harm him would also meet again. At the moment when Li Xin was full of doubts, he suddenly heard a familiar voice chanting the Dharma number.
"Amitabha, don't come to the donor?"
Li Xin said, it turned out to be this product! Didn't the great monk Mo experience the experience of the Division? The person who recited the Dharma number was the great monk Jiexiu, who lost too much blood when saving Lu Xiangsheng, so he was left in Julu, so he didn't catch up with the first battle of the Jingshi.
Under the light of the fire, the great monk's already fat figure seemed to be fat again, and he was still wearing the shabby and sloppy monk's robe, and the Qiankun bag was still on his shoulders.
When will this cargo arrive in the capital? And how did you get here? And what about Lu Xiangsheng and Hu Dawei? Seeing Monk Jiexiu, Li Xin's mind popped up one question after another.
However, Lu Jiu on the side was quick to ask all the questions he wanted to ask for Li Xin. Unexpectedly, the monk smiled and answered.
"The sea is wide and the fish can jump, and the sky is high and the birds can fly. The donor Jiaolong entered the sea, and the time for the little monk to stretch out his hand has come! ”
As he spoke, he geared up, and the dangerous scene just now was also in his eyes, so many people died, and he didn't seem to care.
"The great monk Hugh is talking nonsense, the general is here to guard the border for the country, and the emperor is so kind, how can the general's loyalty and righteousness be negative? Don't speak falsely and harm others and yourself! ”
The voice is also very familiar, it is Li Xin's personal soldier in the past! Now that he has changed into a green robe and official uniform, he has been judged like two people compared to the stunned young man who was like a second-year teenager a few months ago.
After the Ming Dynasty, the provincial system was abolished, and the Zhongshu Province was changed to the Department of Political Envoys, and at the same time, the three divisions of the Inspectorate and the Command Department were divided into three parallel divisions. Among them, the political envoy is in charge of the civil affairs of a province, and the judicial department of a province is in charge of the judicial affairs of a province, and the commander of the embassy department, also known as the command department, is in charge of the military affairs of a province. The three divisions are not subordinate to each other, and they are all directly responsible to the imperial court. One of the important provincial capitals will also be supplemented by the establishment of a capital command envoy.
Datong Mansion under the jurisdiction of Shanxi Xingdu Division is a strategic place, and at the same time as a supplement to Shanxi Metropolitan Division. The Command Envoy Division is subordinate to three divisions, including the Experience Division, the Judgment Division, and the Prison Division. All local military affairs must be discussed by the three divisions. This experience department is in charge of official correspondence, and its chief official experience is that of a civilian official of the sixth grade.
He once dared to be appointed by the emperor as a civil official of the sixth grade, and even surpassed the seventh level, which can be said to be a supreme honor. He turned over and dismounted, came to Li Xin, and gave a deep salute, his attitude was more humble than before, but he was already very strange in Li Xin's eyes.
"I dared to come late!"
Li Xin hurriedly held Zeng Dang with both hands: "Lord Zeng came at the right time, so my hundred and ten brothers did not die in vain!" ”
The reason why Zeng dared to rush overnight was to chase Li Xin, and some people told him that he was rampant along the way, and if he wanted to arrive at Datong Mansion safely, it was best for more people to travel together, so he set off one night earlier after hearing that Li Xin left Beijing overnight, in order to be safer with Li Xin, but he didn't expect to save his life first.
At the same time, he was extremely interested in the mines developed by Li Xin, which had been built in Jinghai, but the Beijing division had not been used up in the first battle, so he brought them all on the road this time.
Unexpectedly, when the bandits besieged the big car shop, the scale was a huge number of thousands of people, but there were not many people who dared to fight, so they threw mines with wrestlers, and caused a huge noise after the explosion of the mine to scare the strong men. The trick of bluffing, he had already made a perfect fire in Jinghai, and he had experienced a battle with the Tartars, how could he be compared to those strongmen who had never had experience in large-scale combat?
Therefore, under the shocking effect of the frequent explosions of mines, Zeng Dare succeeded in creating a false impression that a large number of Ming troops were present, and when the strongmen retreated, he only ordered the soldiers to shoot a few rounds of long arrows, and at the same time dodged the official road and let them leave.
This bluff and intimidation war was freely controlled, Li Xin nodded secretly, although Zeng dared to be a civilian official, but he had this extraordinary combat talent, and it seemed a bit overkill to send him to be a manager of official documents.
I only heard Jiexiu hehehe, a strange laugh: "Lord Zeng's words are wrong, and General Li is not the only one who enters the sea?" Tsung-sama doesn't ...... too."