Early the next morning.

The imaginary bloody siege did not break out.

Instead, the Southern Army built guard towers and ramparts.

Hearing this news, Zhu Gaochi and the others looked very bad.

As a result, the Nine Gates of Beiping were surrounded like iron buckets, which was obviously to prevent the Yan army in Beiping City from breaking through.

Li Jinglong set up such a tight encirclement network to completely trap them in this Beiping City!

But Yan Jun could only be anxious at the moment, and did not take any action.

What they lack most now is time, so they would rather the enemy continue to delay the siege, which will be more beneficial to them.

At the same time, Beiping Xishan.

Ping'an led an army of 50,000 to pass through this place, but learned from the scouts that they had encountered the Yan army scouts.

Hearing this news, Ping An suddenly became interested, is this Xishan an important stronghold of Zhu Di, the king of Yan?

However, at present, the main task of Ping An is to continue to move forward, conquer the transportation artery of Tongzhou, Caoyun, and warehousing, so he did not stop, but ordered Sun Cheng to lead 5,000 light cavalry to Xishan to check, if there are really hidden Yan army elite soldiers, they will be slaughtered directly.

Sun Chengnai is a tiger general, born in the army and can fight well, Ping An believes that he will not let himself down.

And when the scouts of the two armies met, Su Yang soon learned the news.

Xu Xiang reported the matter to him with a solemn face, and persuaded Su Yang to evacuate immediately.

If Xishan attracted the attention of the southern army, then their five thousand soldiers and horses alone would not be able to stop the imperial army at all.

"Childe, let's withdraw!"

"These ordinary people and workers in Xishan, the imperial army should not move lightly."

"If there is really a large army to kill, what will happen to your safety, son?"

Su Yang shook his head with a smile when he heard this, and still rejected his proposal.

If he Su Yang wanted to leave, he would have followed Da Chubby to Beiping before.

"Don't worry, Xishan is just a small place, and it won't attract the attention of those generals of the Southern Army."

"Now they want to take Beiping City as soon as possible, and then set up an encirclement to capture Zhu Di, the king of Yan!"

"General Xu Xiang, disperse all the scouts and reconnoiter the movements of this southern army!"

Seeing that Su Yang refused again, Xu Xiang could only sigh and honestly go to carry out the order.

However, before he could go far, the head of the dark guard, Jia Yi, hurried over.

"Childe, the situation is not good!"

"The secret guard detected that there were 5,000 light horsemen, heading straight for the West Mountain!"

As soon as these words came out, Su Yang was dumbfounded, he didn't expect the slap in the face to come so quickly!

But this is obviously wrong, it's good that you don't go to Beiping, why do you pay attention to a small Xishan?

"General Xu Xiang, can the scouts find out who the commander of this southern army is?"

"It is said that the flag of the Southern Army has the word 'Ping' written on it!"

Flat?

Peaceful!

Peace to the generals!

It turned out to be him, then it's understandable!

Su Yang's face changed slightly, and then he shook his head with a wry smile.

This peace is the adopted son of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and the son of Jining Wei's command.

Previously, Ping An inherited his father's position, and later served as the commander of Miyun repeatedly, and the right army was the governor of affairs, but he did not show his talent much.

Until the outbreak of the Battle of Jingyan, Ping An followed Li Jinglong to the north as a general to quell the chaos, and repeatedly defeated Zhu Di in the Battle of Jingyan, killing several of his generals, and almost killed Zhu Di, the king of Yan, directly in the battle twice, and was hated by Zhu Di.

In other words, this Ping An is an out-and-out famous general, and he is also a ruthless man who almost changed the history of the Ming Dynasty!

Damn it, how did you provoke this ruthless person?

Su Yang was a little distressed.

With a safe and cautious temperament, he found that there were Yan army scouts in Xishan, so he sent a light cavalry to investigate.

But Su Yang and the others are in trouble now!

Let's not talk about whether we can beat it or not, even if we really slaughter these 5,000 light horsemen, Ping An is bound to make a comeback and directly lead the army to kill the West Mountain!

Then it won't just be as simple as 5,000 light riders!

"Childe, we ......"

Xu Xiang spoke again, and Jia Yi also looked at Su Yang, both of whom were waiting for Su Yang's order.

Su Yang touched his chin and pondered for a long time, and finally sighed.

"Herald, prepare for battle!"

"Bring that firecracker with you, after all, you will have to go through the baptism of blood!"

Hearing this, Xu Xiang opened his mouth to say something, but he still didn't speak.

There are only 5,000 soldiers in Xishan, and they are all infantry, counting the 3,000-man firecrackers, there are only 8,000 people in total.

Although it seems that the strength of the opponent is outnumbered, the opponent is 5,000 light cavalry!

Infantry vs. cavalry, there is a disadvantage in itself, if it is really a fight, it is really difficult to say who will win and who will lose!

He didn't know where Su Yang's confidence came from, could it be that the firecracker who had never been on the battlefield?

However, Su Yang's attitude was resolute, and Xu Xiang could only obey orders.

Xu Xiang went to the battle, and Su Yang was not idle, he came to the front of the fire soldiers.

Because of the strong support of the Yan Wangfu, not only did he loot the firearms of the entire Beiping Mansion in one go, but also sent hundreds of firearms craftsmen, so Su Yang directly expanded the firearms to 3,000 people.

The firearms they now use are carefully selected and recast from hundreds of firearms craftsmen's furnaces, at least to ensure that there is no risk of exploding.

Su Yang had communicated with these firearms craftsmen before, and learned from them that the reason why firearms were easy to blow up was because the iron-smelting technology was too backward and there were too many impurities in the iron material, so there was such a hidden danger as exploding.

For example, those cannons, if they were all made of brass, they would definitely not blow up.

However, copper ore is already scarce, and once discovered, it will be immediately nationalized by the imperial court, and how can it be used to cast artillery when mining copper ore to cast copper coins, which is inevitably too expensive.

Su Yang couldn't solve the problem of iron-smelting technology in a short period of time, so he could only let the firearms craftsmen recast all those inferior firearms in the furnace to produce high-quality firearms that could be used by soldiers with confidence.

In addition, it is to set up high-priced rewards to encourage firearms craftsmen to develop and create on their own to overcome technical difficulties.

Looking at the slightly immature three thousand firecrackers in front of him, Su Yang showed a warm smile on his face.

"As you may have heard, war is coming!"

As soon as these words came out, the three thousand firearms soldiers instantly rioted, and most of them showed panic on their faces.

After all, most of them are newcomers, they haven't even been on the battlefield, and only a few of them are selected from the army, but they haven't fought for many years!

The reason is very simple, the treatment of the firecrackers is the best in the entire Xishan military camp, not only do they have meat to eat, but they can also learn knowledge, so the Xishan soldiers are eager to enter the firecracker camp.

But the problem is that the recruitment conditions of the fire gun camp are very strict, especially the rule that the age must not exceed thirty, which stuckmost people.

In other words, the Fire Gun Battalion is now a group of new recruits, and they have not yet experienced the beating on the battlefield!

Su Yang didn't feel the slightest surprise when he saw their panic.

"Raise soldiers for a thousand days, use soldiers for a while!"

"Good son, you should be from Rong for the common people, gallop on the battlefield, and break the enemy's millions of troops! ”

"Now that there are enemy troops killing me in Xishan, are you willing to follow my son and raise the gun in your hand to defend your homeland?"

As soon as Su Yang's voice fell, the scene was silent.

But then a slightly immature voice sounded.

"Childe, I'll go!"

The person who spoke out was none other than Wang Ergou, the hard-trained firecracker!

After he took the lead, the three thousand firecrackers also spoke one after another, leaving behind the fear in their hearts.

They eat well and dress well in Xishan, and Gongzi has been teaching them to read and write, this kindness is greater than the sky!

Now that Xishan is in trouble, and Gongzi is in trouble, they naturally can't ignore it.

If you don't want to repay your kindness, what's the difference between it and a brute?

Su Yang smiled sincerely when he heard this.

"Good!"

"Bring all the guys!"

"Let's give the Southern Army a big surprise!"