11-16 horses at Tongguan

The accent of the person who shouted was very strange, not the Central Plains accent, nor the Shaanxi accent, but similar to the broken Chinese of the Xinjiang Uyghurs who grilled mutton skewers in the city, Liu Ziguang listened to Coke, is this a war, how is it like collecting debts, don't let us down, the Xixia humanities crepe still dragged the words.

No one in Tongguan City answered the questions of the Xixia people, the whole city was in full array, the atmosphere was tense from top to bottom, the officers ordered one after another, the soldiers hid behind the battlements and did not dare to show their heads, the Xixia people saw that no one in the city replied, so they scolded: "The barbarian has no words...... the words are not true" The words are not finished, a feather arrow pierced the throat of the person, the body of the Xixia people shook and did not fall, someone next to him grabbed the corpse and retreated, the Xixia cavalry retreated fifty steps back like a tide, and then stopped.

Liu Ziguang turned his head to look, Wu Sangui's face turned pale, and he withdrew his hard bow and said, "Open the gun!" The city was suddenly filled with gunsmoke, all kinds of artillery guns were fired together, the sound was deafening, the fiery projectiles smashed into the military formation of the Western Xia people, and suddenly fell down, and the Xia soldiers shouted that the horses neighed and retreated, but the formation was not chaotic.

When the Tanguts retreated beyond the firing range, the officers ordered a ceasefire, and the smoke of gunpowder on the city dissipated for a while, and the soldiers were busy loading gunpowder and shells, waiting for the enemy to attack again.

There is a big gap between the city fire artillery of the Western Army and the Red Shirt Army, it is still a solid shell of black powder, and the fire gun is also a generation behind, it is a front-loading flint, the range and power are limited, and the Xixia people retreat to two miles away, so they can't help them, at most they use artillery to raise the elevation angle to harass them.

Liu Ziguang was a little strange, the Western Xia people said that they would take silver as agreed, and Wu Sangui shot him in time, no matter how you look at it, it looks like killing people, but the current situation of the great enemy can only be put in the stomach first.

The Tangut people came with 10,000 cavalry, more than 20,000 foot soldiers, the force was not strong, and now they withdrew to a safe distance and began to unload the things on the ox cart.

Liu Ziguang has seen this thing, just like a large howitzer, it can throw huge stones and incendiary objects into the city in a parabola, the more gunners shoot, the greater the weight and distance, some four hundred, five hundred people as gunners' return cannons can even project hundreds of pounds of stones up to thousands of steps away, this thing definitely belongs to the big killer series, compared to the power of artillery is not inferior, look at the posture of the Xixia people seems to have prepared a lot of back cannons, if they let them assemble to bombard Tongguan, it is enough for the people in the city to drink a pot.

No, we must rush out of the city to destroy these weapons before the assembly of the return cannon is completed, otherwise the blind passive defense can only suffer, now there are tens of thousands of horses in the city, and there are strong reinforcements in the rear, far from the difficult situation under the city of Liguo that day, and the counterattack can be done out of the city.

Liu Ziguang knew that Wu Sangui was the main general of the city guard, so he went over and said: "Uncle, now is the best time to go out of the city to counterattack, and it will be too late when their return cannon is loaded." ”

Wu Sangui said: "The superintendent has an order, and those who go out of the city without authorization will be killed, and we will not dare to disobey the military order." ”

Liu Ziguang said: "This way of playing is not a way, you must know that the best defense is offense, I think the Western Xia army is just like this, much worse than the Manchu chain of horses, uncle, you lend me 3,000 cavalry, I will definitely be able to burn their return artillery to the ground." ”

Wu Sangui's eyes lit up, but immediately dimmed, and said: "Big brother, it's not that the younger brother doesn't help, Yuan Inspector has strict military laws, and it is difficult to escape death when he goes out of the city to fight regardless of victory or defeat, so we can only and must defend Tongguan to the death." ”

Liu Ziguang said: "What is the truth of this, is the Western Army afraid of being beaten?" You are afraid of me, but you are not afraid, I will go to Inspector Yuan to reason. ”

Found Yuan Chonghuan on the arrow tower and said his truth, Yuan Inspector's face suddenly looked ugly, and said: "The general didn't know when he first arrived, the Western Xia people were treacherous, and they would definitely be ambushed when they went out of the city, how to deal with the barbarian governor has his own measure, when the city of Xuzhou was seriously injured and the emperor Taiji defeated the Qing army of 500,000, it was from the governor's handwriting, on defending the city... The general is slightly inferior. ”

Liu Ziguang touched a big nail, walked down the arrow tower stupidly, and then looked into the distance, the chassis of the Xixia people's return cannon was supported, those huge cannonballs like wine jars were not ordinary stones at a glance, but a large killing weapon with added materials, at a glance, there were at least fifty return guns of different sizes in the assembly, and Tongguan City would definitely experience a catastrophe later.

Outside the city is endless wilderness, even the trees on the mountain have been cut down, saying that the Xixia people are hiding ambushes is pure nonsense, a total of more than 10,000 cavalry, I really don't know what Yuan Chonghuan is worried about, Liu Ziguang found Wu Sangui again and said: "Uncle Chang, I won't borrow your soldiers anymore, you open the door for me, I will bring three hundred pro-troops out to kill." ”

Wu Sangui's face was embarrassed: "This ......"

Liu Ziguang said: "Inspector Yuan only said that whoever goes out of the city will be killed, but he didn't say who opens the door and beheads whom, what are you afraid of?" Presumably, the overseer doesn't dare to move my head easily, don't worry, don't you know my ability? ”

Wu Sangui was still hesitating, and suddenly a thunderous voice next to him said kindly: "A certain is willing to lead his own army to follow Hou Ye out of the city!" "It turned out to be Wu Sangui's subordinate brave general Jin Shengheng, in fact, Jin Shengheng is Liu Ziguang's person, when he followed Zuo Liangyu to make trouble, it was Liu Ziguang who recruited him regardless of his previous suspicions, and gave him an official position to follow Wu Sangui south to Changsha to quell the chaos, it is because of Liu Ziguang's support that he climbed to today's height, this person is a bandit in the Central Plains, pay attention to righteousness first, seeing that the former benefactor came to the front line but had no military power, he could only take three hundred personal soldiers out of the city to meet the enemy, Jin Shengheng's arrogance suddenly rose, so there is such a sentence.

"General Jin is really arrogant, but don't get involved in this matter, the Xixia people are too powerful, you are all hiding in the city, Benhou can go alone." Liu Ziguang said.

"The last general's life was given by the Hou Ye, I hope the Hou Ye will give the last general a chance to repay, the eldest husband stands between heaven and earth and pays attention to a righteous word, even if he dies, what does it matter." Jin Shengheng was categorical, and Liu Ziguang couldn't help but praise: "There is a kind!" ”

Jin Shengheng's subordinates have 500 personal soldiers, all of whom are old bandits who have accumulated in the Central Plains, and they are quite good at kung fu immediately, and Liu Ziguang's 300 personal soldiers are even the best among the people, all of them are heroes and heroes, not to mention that there are 10,000 cavalry outside, what if it is 100,000? It's not that I haven't done this before, in the city of Liguo, 800 slaves against the Eight Banners chain of horses, in the city of Jinan under 3,000 tigers against 100,000 Dolgon's army, in the Wuchang River 300 people against 20,000 rebels, in Beijing City 1,000 airborne troops against 130,000 Qing troops, which time is not a heroic feat of one as ten, today these Western Xia cavalry called Huazi outside, draped in a broken barbed wire, holding a scimitar, bow and arrow, the brothers have long looked at them unpleasantly.

Liu Ziguang saw Wu Sangui's hesitant expression, and knew that he was actually against defending the city, so he patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, no matter whether you win or lose, with me on top, you just open the door." ”

Wu Sangui was silent for a moment before shouting to the city: "Open the door!" Liu Ziguang clenched his fists: "Thank you." Turning around and going down to the city, Jin Shengheng followed without saying a word, Wu Sangui sighed and said secretly: "Big brother, in fact, I want to go with you." ”

Liu Ziguang's 300 people and Jin Shengheng's 500 people had already been assembled, and as soon as the city gate opened, they poured out like a tide, like an iron stream directly into the rear of the Western Xia army.

On the arrow tower, Yuan Chonghuan had people out of the city to fight, and he was immediately furious: "Who went out of the city without permission? Do you think the Doge's ban is child's play? Someone next to him replied in a low voice: "Inspector, looking at the banner, it seems that the Marquis of Zhenwu has gone out." ”

Liu Ziguang rushed to the front first, walking in a hurry, not even wearing armor, just a red shirt, with a white rainbow knife that has accompanied him for many years around his waist, a red rabbit chasing the wind and a BMW under his crotch, and the four hooves spread out like a ball of fire rushing forward, followed by three hundred brothers who live and die, all of them are sheet metal chest armor, shrimp tail helmets, cowhide armed with cross drapes, each person has two four-company fire guns and a special saber produced by Lian Feng, and there are riding bows and carved arrows on the saddle, whether they are playing with fire guns or bows and arrows, they are all top players, Not to mention the horsemanship, many of these people were originally Mongols, Turks and other nomadic peoples, but now they have only one identity, that is, the Red Shirts.

Jin Shengheng's troops were a little worse, but they were also full of fish scale armor, waist knives, bows, arrows, and spears were readily available, and everyone leveled their spears, shouting kill in their mouths and rushing forward with the general.

The Tangut people did not expect that the Ming army would actually go out of the city to counterattack, this time they were sitting cross-legged on the horse drinking mare's milk wine and eating naan, hearing the thunderous sound of horses' hooves hitting the earth, hurriedly dropped food to meet the battle, and when they gathered in a similar formation from both flanks, the Ming army had rushed into the infantry formation, brandishing sabers and slashing the sappers who were assembling back the artillery.

Wu Sangui stood at the head of the city and watched the battlefield, Liu Ziguang's 800 people had rushed into the enemy formation at this time, and the enemy's cavalry outflanked them from both wings to cut off their retreat, a fierce battle was unfolding, only to see that the bright red banner of the general of Zhengxi over there cut into the Western Xia army formation without resistance like a sharp blade, the Western Xia army recognized that this was the enemy's command flag, and immediately gathered troops to surround it, but it could not stop the left and right rush of the banner.

Liu Ziguang, who rushed into the enemy formation, brandished the white rainbow knife and slashed left and right, as if entering a no-man's land, the infantry of the Western Xia army was extremely weak in combat effectiveness, and they dispersed as soon as they rushed, and it seemed that they were just coolie troops used to pull the cannon cable, and soon rushed to those return guns, and he remembered that he didn't bring anything to ignite the fire, but it doesn't matter, the enemy here is more, Liu Ziguang's sensitive sense of smell told him that those cannonballs like wine jars tied with hemp rope were filled with flammable fire oil, he stretched out his hand and pointed and shouted: "Grenades!" ”