The moon was dark and the wind was high, and the cold wind was howling, Xue Lao Er soon came to a place less than fifty steps away from the Shunjun checkpoint, and Zhou Shixian led the convoy to follow, with a distance of less than four hundred steps in between.

In the middle of March, it was still cold at first and cold, and the night in the capital was still cold, and most of the more than 30 Shunjun soldiers in the checkpoint were gathered around the fire plate after the rejection of the horse to keep warm, and everyone shrank into a ball, only seven or eight lazy soldiers were leaning on the edge of the rejection horse to guard the card.

It is said that it is a checkpoint, but in fact, it is the middle of the newly dug trench and earth wall, and a road is opened, and a heavy horse is placed on the road, and a fence is erected on both sides.

Three torches are placed on each side of the level, and the flames swaying in the wind emit an orange-yellow glow on the scrawny, weather-beaten soldiers. The emaciated faces flickered and darkened, and there were even soldiers dozing off the side of the horses.

After all, after the destruction of the capital, the Ming Dynasty was dead, the general trend of the world had been decided, and it was not their turn to enter the city to plunder, so these soldiers naturally relaxed their vigilance.

Moreover, now that the descendants of the Shun army have all entered the city to make a fortune, they are bullied on weekdays, and they don't have to work a lot, but now they have to stay outside and be frozen, how can they not be angry in their hearts?

Although it is said that the treatment of the Shun army is much better than that of the Ming army, and the military salary is also paid on time, the treatment between the descendant troops and the cannon fodder troops is still very different, and the weapons and equipment are also very different.

In fact, this is the most important reason why Zhou Shixian is confident that he can successfully break through - at this time, Li Zicheng does not have enough time, let alone enough money and food to rectify these newly incorporated Ming troops.

And everything he spent two months to prepare, these elite soldiers and horses carefully selected, in such a well-equipped situation, are definitely no worse than these so-called Shun troops.

Seeing dozens of horses galloping from not far away, and the cavalry in front of them were still carrying more than a dozen torches, the Shunjun soldier guarding the card did not take it seriously, while waking up the other two Shun soldiers who were dozing off beside him, and lazily stepped forward.

By the time Xue Lao Er approached with his soldiers and horses, the soldiers of the Shun army who had just woken up had already begun to prepare to move away from the horses. They didn't have any vigilance at all, they just thought it was a normal dispatch of troops and horses.

After all, they were still Ming soldiers a month ago, and they would not believe that there would be Ming troops in the capital who had the courage to do so, and they would come to rush the card at this time!

"Password!" The Shunjun soldier who stepped forward looked at Xue Lao Er, raised his hand and asked.

However, Xue Lao Er did not stop, he was only twenty steps away from rejecting the horse at this time, and the galloping war horse could rush in the blink of an eye, only to see his legs clamped hard, and the horse under his crotch neighed, and accelerated when he landed.

After all, where does he know what the password is, as long as Zhou Shixian quietly solves this Shun army, and at the same time can't alarm the enemy troops in the Shun army camps on both sides.

The soldier of the Shun army did not hear the command, and when he looked up, he saw that a man, a horse and a gun had already rushed in front of him, and before he could react and dodge, a spear had already pierced like a poisonous snake spitting out a letter, and instantly pierced his throat, and a stream of blood splashed out along the head of the spear.

This is Zhou Shixian's number one master selected in the capital Jinyiwei, who was originally a night guard in Gansu Town, who has been boiling up a good martial arts since he was a child, and by chance, he became a Jinyiwei.

But because of the situation and the decline of Jinyiwei, there was no chance to get ahead until he was taken by Zhou Shixian.

With such a fierce general, killing a Shunjun sentry is as simple as pinching an ant to death.

The hooves of more than 100 war horses under the command of Xue Lao Er have been wrapped in cotton cloth, and the movement of galloping on the plains and fields is very small, and before these Shun troops can react to someone sneak attack and call for reinforcements, they have already arrived in front of them.

At the same time, the other Shun troops on the side of the checkpoint did not have any time to react, and a rain of arrows had already "whizzed" from their horses.

At a distance of less than twenty paces, they were riding bows and shooting, and the light armor on these Shun soldiers alone could not block the attack of arrows, and the seven or eight Shun soldiers before and after the rejection of the horses all fell, and none of them were spared.

Not only that, but the other twenty or so soldiers of the Shun army who were warming themselves by the fire plate had also been accurately hit by another rain of arrows, and more than a dozen people fell down with a wail, and the fire plate in the middle was even hit by the corpse of the fallen soldier, and sparks splashed in the darkness.

Xue Lao Er reacted quickly, the spear that stabbed the neck of the Shun soldier had already been withdrawn by him, and the Shun soldier was instinctively covering the bloody neck with both hands at this time, his face was hideous, and his expression was painful, but he couldn't make a sound in his mouth, and soon fell to the ground with a "bang".

The spear in Xue Lao's second hand stabbed out again, but this time he was targeting the two rejecting horses.

I saw that his crotch was forced again, with the support of the horse's back, and he picked it hard, and the horse in front of him, which had been half removed by the Shun army, instantly fell to the side and made way for the passage.

At the same time, there were also three cavalrymen who concocted the same method, and they worked together to pick the rejection horses on the other side to the side, and the dozen or so cavalrymen behind Xue Lao Er saw this and immediately rushed into the outpost.

In the face of such a strange army, there are still seven soldiers of the Shun army who are still in it, and at this time they have exploded their nests, and under the crisis, the nature of the Ming court border army that is panicked and only cares about fleeing for their lives has been exposed, and the seven people have been frightened, and they turned around and wanted to escape.

However, how could two legs run more than four legs, more than a dozen Ming cavalry galloped up, the spears in their hands suddenly stabbed out, and the seven Shun soldiers were killed from behind before they could run a few steps.

Seeing the last two Shun soldiers who were pierced through their bodies from the back by spears falling, Xue Lao Er immediately sent more than 20 cavalry to explore the way, and at the same time immediately sent people back to report the military situation of the checkpoint to Zhou Shixian, while he himself remained vigilant in the checkpoint.

Zhou Shixian received the military information sent by Xue Lao Er in the dark, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and even the Wang Dynasty and others around him, and the entire convoy were also relieved at the same time.

This is the first battle of the army out of the city, and it must be won, and it can only be won. Otherwise, wouldn't his efforts in the past two months become a joke, and he can't even deal with these 30 or so Shun troops, so what can he talk about destroying the Qing Dynasty and saving the country?

Moreover, this also has a great impact on the morale of the whole army, after all, the Ming army has been defeated so many times, and this battle is the beginning of rebuilding the confidence of the army.

"Order, the whole army set off, Xue Changfu led the troops to continue to act as the vanguard of the holy car, Zhang Hong led the troops to reconnoiter the left and right flanks, and the rest of the men and horses followed, no one should make a noise for no reason, and those who violated the order were killed!"

"Whoa!" The generals listened, and then answered.

Under the cover of the night, in the whirring cold wind, the convoy slowly drove through the checkpoint, and did not alarm the surrounding Shun army, Zhou Shixian turned his horse's head, and then headed towards the holy car of Emperor Chongzhen.