Wang Jiyong led the army to set off that night, Xi'an to Tongguan less than 300 miles, five days he rushed to Tongguan City.

Cheng Xiaolian did not attack the city, and the camp tents outside were not reduced, and he made a fire to cook as usual every day, anyway, the dry firewood was obtained from the mountains and forests, and the brothers who ate in a pot could not spend much effort to light a pot of fire, and that pot was just boiling hot water for the brothers in the army to drink, and the autumn was getting heavier and heavier, and Cheng Xiaolian was afraid that the army would fall ill under the city of Xi'an.

Tu Hai was at the head of the city, his face was very ugly, and the deputy general next to him was a little puzzled: "Dashuai, you see that they want to besiege us to death, but they don't know that we have enough food and grass, let alone a month, it is useless to besiege it for another three months, and our army support will arrive soon, and then it will be when they die." ”

Tu Hai sighed: "Since this Ming army arrived under Xi'an City, it has not attacked Xi'an City once, if they are a rabble, afraid of the high walls of Xi'an City, it is indeed a good thing for us, but I am afraid that they have other conspiracies." ”

The deputy general scratched his head: "I don't understand more and more what the marshal said, is there a river around our Xi'an City, can they still dig the river embankment and flood our Xi'an City?" If the water attack can't be done, let alone the fire attack, let's just stand still and let them burn, and the burning for three days and three nights can't burn down this Xi'an City, in this case, what else do we have to worry about? ”

At this time, a soldier rushed over: "Qiyu Dashuai, Tongguan flying pigeon to pass the book, urgent report!" ”

Tu Hai's face changed: "It's bad, we have fallen for their empty city plan." ”

The deputy general hurriedly took the emergency report, stretched out his hand and opened it to take a look: "Dashuai, a day ago, Wang Jiyong led the army to appear under Tongguan City, and Tongguan City was in a hurry!" ”

Tu Hai laughed miserably: "Tongguan is called Tianxia Xiongguan, but it is only relative to the army attacking from the east, they appear from the west, Tongguan is no different from the ordinary city, no wonder the Tongguan guards are about to send this urgent military information." ”

"General, let's go out of the city, it says that there are at least 8,000 people in the army, and these tents under the city are fake!"

Tu Hai waved his hand: "Don't speak, let General Ben think about it." Of course, Tuhai knew that there were not many defenders outside the city, but what he considered was that since the general outside the city dared to send someone to attack Tongguan, then he must be ready to deal with it.

"Immediately send the imperial court an 800-mile fast horse to expedite, inform the imperial court to immediately send troops and horses to support Tongguan, and order Baturu to lead 2,000 soldiers and horses out of the city to inspect the enemy's situation. If he does not return, the gates will not be closed. ”

Baturu was the guard of the West City Gate at that time, and now Tuhai let him go, and also had the intention of making him guilty and meritorious, although Tuhai had already said that Baturu was innocent, but the soldiers guarding the West City had not been able to raise their heads among their comrades in the army, because they did not simply let go of people that night, but also helped those people kill their brothers, so there was a gap between them.

Although it is a robe in the army, but you killed one of my brothers who ate in a pot, and we still belong to the same camp, is it possible that you still expect to have a good face against you?

Tu Hai's move is to relieve the siege of the soldiers in Xicheng, and he will easily investigate the situation outside the city, even if it is a fight, Tu Hai is sure to accept them back.

At the moment when the gate of Xi'an opened, the surrounding Jinyi guards immediately reported the news to Cheng Xiaolian, and Cheng Xiaolian immediately called Meng Ke and Huangfu Tong when he heard this: "Tuhai has experienced a hundred battles, this time it is not necessarily a desperate bet, he will definitely find out the situation clearly, and then fight with us, your task is to let them bring back the fake situation, what we have to do is to lure their main army out of the city." ”

Jia Xu next to him sighed: "Your Highness, if Tuhai really tries his best, I'm afraid we won't be able to resist it." ”

"If you can't parry, you have to fight, this is our best opportunity, the Manchu Qing will never let us cut off their connection with Tuhai, so Wang Jiyong may not be able to beat the Tongguan, so we can't completely pin our hopes on him."

After seeing the army in the city come out, the sweeping army immediately lined up in front of the camp, and Tu Hai looked at the city, there were only five thousand people, and he gritted his teeth violently: "This little soldier and horse want to stop me?" I think you're overconfident. ”

There were originally 8,000 soldiers and horses in Tuhai City, and after the battle that night, there were still 7,000 soldiers and horses.

"Summons Baturu to try to attack."

Immediately above the city, three drums sounded, Baturu had long been suffocated, that night he was confused and deceived by the military order, and as a result, he did the killing of his comrades in the army, although Tuhai did not hold him accountable afterwards, but he and his soldiers were in the army and their comrades were seriously unable to raise their heads, and today he must use the blood of the enemy to wash away the shame on his body.

The soldiers behind him almost shared his own idea, that only blood could lay rest those brothers who had been killed by mistake, and that they could gain a foothold in the army.

So 2,000 people came murderously towards the Northern Army, the Northern Army is no longer the army that fights guerrillas with people in Burma, they are used to seeing blood and they don't take this murderous spirit in their eyes at all, jokes, no one has blood on their hands, who are you running here to scare.

Cheng Xiaolian looked at the menacing appearance of the place, and smiled bitterly: "It's worthy of Tuhai, he is still testing at this time, as long as we show defeat, he will attack with all his strength without scruples." ”

Jia Xu was stunned for a moment: "Then should we pretend to be defeated." ”

"Pretending to be defeated and retreating from the army formation will not be chaotic, but we can't deceive Tuhai's eyes, if we really mess up the military formation, then we will really collapse the army by pretending to be defeated and retreating, and we will have to be eaten by them at all."

"But although these two thousand people are menacing, they may not be our opponents. What if we beat them up too hard and Tuhai can't come out of the city? ”

Cheng Xiaolian laughed: "Tell Meng Ke to attack with all his might, I just want Tuhai and those Manchu soldiers under him to know that the Ming army is not vegetarian!" ”

Artillery and bows and arrows immediately began to intertwine on the way of Baturu's army, and the most powerful cavalry in the Manchu Qing was the cavalry, but most of the cavalry was transferred to attack Wu Sangui, so these foot soldiers could only run and charge on their legs, which can be said to be miserable. If they had killed these people thirty years ago, why would they have fallen to this point?