After Aobai lost the first battle, he sent detectives to investigate the situation around Gaoyang City overnight, and after the Quartet detectives returned, he really found some doorways for the Gaoyang defenders. It turned out that the strange wall of the northern city was covered with wooden planks and filled with bricks and stones, and only the east and north sides were completed, and countless timbers were piled up outside the west city, and there were half-built shelves. Analyzing this, Ao Bai couldn't help but smile, it seemed that his arrival had disturbed them to repair the wall.

Then he summoned Akzia.

"You take someone and go to the neighborhood to collect some fire oil, and then burn the wood in the west of Nanren City!"

Finally, I would like to add a word.

"Don't come back if you can't burn it clean!"

Akzia took advantage of the night to take two hundred light horsemen straight to the west of the city, and sure enough, he saw that the wood outside the west city was piled up, and one person burned the wood to the sky. Who knew that the southerners in Gaoyang City didn't know whether they were alive or dead, and they actually rushed out hundreds of people to rush straight at him. Akzia sneered, the same trick was useless, and he deliberately made everyone block the horse's ear before coming. He pressed the wound in his lower abdomen, still aching, then drew his saber and rushed forward with a shout. Facing the southerners, who were already lined up in three rows, Akzia and his men rushed to a distance of about fifty paces from him, then turned sharply and rushed to the left, and everyone drew their backs and mounted their bows and arrows to wind up a volley, followed by a second round.

Some of the three columns began to fall to the ground with arrows one after another, and at the same time muskets were fired, but the horses of the Akzia were too fast, and few people were shot. One hundred and ten light horsemen swept through like a storm, and quickly drew an arc on the right flank of the three columns, so the third round of cavalry bows fired a volley into the column at a very close distance, and after the salvo was completed, the horses accelerated to the rear of the column and began the fourth and fifth rounds.

In the face of Akzia's rapid blow, the stratagons were disorganized with only one musket volley, and when the cavalry drew their sabers and charged head-on, they could no longer maintain their formation, completely collapsed, and fled in all directions.

In the city, a pair of eyes were full of disbelief, but in the blink of an eye, how could Minzhuang, who had achieved two brilliant achievements, be defeated? It wasn't until Soap's voice urged him several times that he was awakened from his shock.

"Teaching, teaching?"

Seeing that the priest had an anxious response, the soap Li asked: "Do you want to open the city to meet the people?" ”

This person is the teacher Zhou Jin, when Akzia set the fire, he happened to be patrolling in Xicheng, the fire rose to the sky, and the wood worth tens of thousands of taels had to be burned clean, and the situation was urgent, so he ordered the newly recruited people stationed in Xicheng to go out of the city to attack the enemy and then put out the fire. In Zhou Jin's opinion, the number of Tartars is small, and their own side has the advantage of numbers and geographical advantages, even if it is difficult to win with the power of victory during the day, it should be more than enough to drive them away. Who knew that the blink of an eye would make the family collapse and collapse, and it would fall apart.

Zhou Jin was shocked and angry, but his heart was clear, if the city gate was opened to receive the routed troops into the city, the Tartar cavalry would probably take advantage of the situation to chase and kill into the city. He once asked the fleeing Anzhou County Cheng in detail, and the Anzhou County was lost in this way. Therefore, the Tartars must not be allowed a second chance. So he categorically vetoed the mention of soap li.

"Do not open the city, but shout to the city, and let the people go to the other gates. Also, immediately go to report to Lu Dianshi to know that the Tartars came to Xicheng to set fire to the wood......"

When Li Xin, Lu Zhifan, and Sun Chengzong came to the West City Gate, the fire was already red through half the sky, and the people living in the city gate did not know why, so they gathered in the courtyard, lying on the crack of the door, looking for the cause of the accident in horror.

When Lu Zhifan learned that Zhou Jin sent Minzhuang out of the city and was defeated in an instant and suffered heavy losses, his heart ached, this is his lifeline, how much effort has it taken to practice this Minzhuang in the past few days, Zhou Jin said that he would not get it, what will he do to guard Gaoyang in the future? repeatedly asked Zhou Jin why he acted so recklessly. Li Xin stopped Lu Zhifan, who rolled up his arms and sleeves and was about to rush up, "Lord Dianshi is calm, the matter has come to this point, I still want to think about how to deal with it, the wood has been burned, and the Tartars are still eyeing the city." ”

Zhou Jin was speechless, while Sun Chengzong looked at the Tartar cavalry looming in the firelight and seemed thoughtful. Only the fire crackled and exploded, and now even Li Xin has no choice, the wood was burned, and he was defeated in a battle out of the city just now, and the morale of the people fell to the bottom, and the night was thick and the enemy situation was unknown, and it was absolutely impossible to go out of the city to fight the fire. Now all they can do is wait for dawn and wait for the opportunity to move. But by the time dawn came, the timber worth tens of thousands of taels of silver under the city had already been burned clean.

Everyone was silent for a long time, and Sun Chengzong suddenly said: "If the wood is burned, you can buy it again, but if you die, you can't come back to life, let him burn it, and arrange for someone to take the people outside the city back to the city, and go back to sleep if it's okay." His words set the tone for what to do tonight.

The lesser of two evils, only this is the best policy so far, and only Sun Chengzong has such a decision among the trade-offs present. After all, Sun Chengzong was old, and Li Xin and Lu Zhifan persuaded him to leave the city and escorted him home. Li Xin stared at the fire that was getting stronger and stronger, and his feelings also fell to the bottom, this fiasco made him completely see the true strength of the Qing army, whether it was the soldiers or the tactical quality compared to the Tartars, the gap was not a little bit. It seems that in the future, it is necessary to avoid frontal field battles with the Tartars as much as possible. At the same time, he also knew how lucky it was to defeat the Tartar Ranger for the first time.

Li Xin suddenly felt that his head was cold, and when he raised his hand to touch it, there was a large trace of water, and then his face was cold, and he was suddenly ecstatic in his heart.

"It's raining!"

I don't know who shouted, and the heavy rain poured down in an instant, pouring Li Xin, Lu Zhifan, Zhou Jin and the people who defended the city into a transparent drip. But everyone let the rain pour down, and their bodies were wet and cold, but a fire rose in their hearts, and the heat was hot.

Lu Zhifan's eyes were blurred, he raised his hand to wipe his face, threw out a handful of tears and rain, and his excited voice trembled: "Providence, this is Providence!" The sky will not die, I am Gaoyang! God help me! "No wonder Lu Zhifan is so excited, the ancients paid attention to the induction of heaven and man, and now it has long passed the solar term of light snow, and God has not snowed for a long time, but at this juncture it has unusually poured heavy rain, how can you teach people not to think that God is helping Gao Yang and helping Daming!

Looking outside the city again, it was still blazing before, but now it is pitch black, and there is not even a trace of spark in sight.

In the dark depths of the city, Akzia's eyes were full of unwillingness and annoyance in the torrential rain, and his abdomen was aching faintly, he habitually covered his abdomen, trying to relieve it, but after all, it was winter, the rain was cold to the bone, and the wound was more painful than ever under the stimulation.

When he returned to the barracks, Akzia had already become a chicken in the soup, and he hated to tell Ao Bai about the situation, how to set fire, how to defeat the people of the south, and how the people of the south were helpless, but a heavy rain actually reversed the victory that originally belonged to him!

The victory in the field battle was originally expected by Aobai, how could the hastily organized Minzhuang be the opponent of the elite of the Manchurian Eight Banners who were killed from the sea of blood in the corpse mountain? Burning the wood is not a problem, but what I didn't expect was that God actually pulled the southerners at a critical moment. looked at Akzia, who was a few years younger than him, and looked hateful. Xindao, if it weren't for the face of Brother Baiyintu, maybe I shouldn't have been in troubled waters for you, a kid. Bai Yintu had the grace to save his life and support him, so he gathered thousands of rangers scattered south of Zhuozhou in a few days.

Of course, Akzia's request was only the introduction of this matter, and it was Sun Chengzong in Gaoyang City who really attracted worship, and if this person could be captured, the Great Khan would definitely be happy. Huang Taiji had already been proclaimed emperor at this time, but many people still liked to call Huang Taiji the Great Khan in private.

"Don't be upset, God helped the southerners for a while, but he can't help them for a lifetime, and the weather will be fine in the future, and he will continue to burn them down." Then he said with a concerned face: "Hurry up and change into dry clothes to save yourself from catching a cold!" ”

For three days in a row, Ao Bai only harassed and carried out a tentative attack on Gaoyang City, and the two sides seemed to have become stalemate. In private, he was not idle, and sent the Han army banner to loot property, population, and livestock within a radius of dozens of miles from Gaoyang County. But the news brought by the return of several raiding teams to the camp made him short of breath. The villages where the Han army flag passed seemed to have been looted first, with few people and no livestock to see even half of their hair.

All kinds of signs came together, and Ao Bai understood that the southerners were strong and clear, and they did it absolutely. He sneered again and again, the Emperor of the Southerners really has no eyes, and there is such a giant idle at home with mold and rot. The net used in the court is those who are obsessed with power and scheming, and are bent on selfishness. It's a pity that Gaoyang Projectile Town, how can you resist the torrent of the Qing Dynasty, Sun Chengzong, Sun Chengzong, even if you have excellent strategic planning, it's a pity that it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and you are doomed to failure!

The scout came to report: "The southerners are out of the city, there are people and soldiers." ”

"Oh?"

Ao Bai is interested, are they doing death? He led his men down to the top of the slope and looked west of the city. Sure enough, a group of people began to sort out the wood that had been burned three days ago, and outside the people lined up three rows of horizontal lines typical of the people of Gaoyang City. In his opinion, this kind of horizontal formation was almost useless in front of the Eight Banners cavalry, not to mention the lack of mobility, and the depth was very small, so it was neither capable of dealing with cavalry nor withstanding cavalry charges. Wouldn't the southerners think that they could resist the Eight Banners cavalry with this kind of horizontal formation? This is not like Sun Chengzong's style!

After observing for a while, Ao Bai found that these people had started construction after finishing the wood, and there was really no one around.

"Akzia, take someone to rush."

The voice landed but no one answered, and Ao Bai remembered that Akzi'an had suffered from the wind and cold in the rain that day.

"Akzia is sick in bed, Ortai is willing to fight on his behalf!"

Ortai rushed out of the camp with a hundred and ten cavalry, Akzia is a fool, even God can't do it for him, those southerners have now become his meal, and the credit is at his fingertips. Thinking of this, Ortai clamped the belly of the horse with all his might, and when the cavalry and horse team rushed to a distance of two hundred paces from the horizontal team, they found that the southerners had already raised their guns and aimed ahead, as if they were waiting for them to enter the palace early in the morning. Ortai smiled contemptuously, and didn't give you southerners a chance to fire, and with a whistle, the cavalry and horses drew a long arc to the right flank of the horizontal team.