Just when the gap between the Houjin army and the Qiong navy was getting wider and wider, the good news finally came.

Hoofs rumbled from the west, and a large group of cavalry appeared on the other side of the plain. Xia Nan raised the binoculars and saw that the handsome flag of this cavalry had the word "Liu" written on it.

In the summer, Nanda was overjoyed, "It must be Liu Guozhu, the chief soldier of Baoding, who is here!" He led the crowd to greet him.

The cavalry of the brigade soon approached, and the first general wearing mountain armor came out of the crowd, and shouted from afar: "Is the Xia general soldier from Guangdong ahead?" ”

Xia Nanying said: "Exactly, may I ask but Chief Liu?" ”

"It's Liu."

Liu Guozhu is in his forties, and he looks honest, like a farmer. He got off the horse, walked over and grabbed Xia Nan's hand, and said enthusiastically: "General Xia is young and promising, and he can pursue Tartar Baylor with his own strength, and Liu admires him tightly." ”

Xia Nan held his hand tightly, feeling that he had thick calluses on his hands, which should have been sharpened by dancing knives and guns all year round, and it seemed that he was not a fancy general soldier who walked through the back door, and he suddenly had a good impression of this old peasant-like general soldier. He said modestly: "It's just doing the duty of a martial artist." However, Liu Zongbing personally led the troops and traveled a long way to help, and Xia was grateful. ”

"Look at what you said, killing Tartars is what we should do, what Liu hates most in his life is Tartars, burning, killing, plundering, doing all kinds of evil, as long as it falls into my hands, come and cut one by one, and cut two and a pair." Liu Guozhu said with a straight face, "Mr. Xia can give Liu this opportunity, it's too late to be grateful." Without further ado, where did the Tartar go, Liu will chase it now! ”

Xia Nan saw him rushing from Baoding, he didn't rest for a moment, he only remembered to kill the enemy, admired, pointed to the north and said, "Ran to the north, we are all infantry, we can't catch up, now it's up to General Liu!" As long as you can catch up and entangle the tartars, so that they can't run, and wait for us to come up, we'll take care of the rest. ”

"Hehe, Liu doesn't dare to say big things, and he doesn't dare to pack the ticket if he can keep the Tartars, but unless I die in battle, the Tartars don't want to get rid of us!" Liu Guozhu turned over and got on his horse, and said by the way, "By the way, Mr. Xia, let's say in advance, I don't want other rewards, but you have to think of a way for me, in order to hurry, we set off lightly, didn't bring dry food, and now we are still hungry!" ”

Xia Nan patted his chest: "It is necessary, leave the matter of grain and grass to me." Brother, you go first, I ordered someone to bring grain and grass and then arrived, and after beating the tartars, we will bury the pot and cook on the spot. ”

"Come on, I'll leave these things to you." Liu Guozhu shouted, "It's all the gentlemen who come with me!" ”

A large group of cavalry shouted, brandished their sabers and followed Liu Guozhu like a gust of wind.

After the three regiments of the Qiong Navy dealt with the surrender of the Han army, they immediately marched north and chased after the Baoding cavalry. Yang Youji left the brigade with the Guards Battalion and went to Tianjin Wei to borrow grain and grass.

At the cost of more than 2,000 Han troops and one or two hundred armor soldiers, the Houjin army successfully broke through the flank of the Qiong navy. Soon, Jinghai County appeared in the field of vision.

Gaertu reminded: "Lord Belle, this should be the county seat where the Tianjin general army is stationed, be careful that they come out and entangle." "Just a Tianjin general soldier, usually Gaertu and others are not in their eyes, but now to get rid of the pursuit of the Qiong Navy, the inconspicuous opponents on weekdays cannot be taken lightly, as long as they are entangled, the Qiong Navy will follow, it will be a big trouble.

Abatai snorted: "You were beaten by Qionghai Town, and the wind is rain." I can guarantee that the Tianjin General Army will never step out of this county. ”

Gartu was a little surprised: "Why is Lord Belle so sure?" ”

Abatai pointed to Jinghai County with his horsewhip and explained, "If they really want to be our enemy, they should intercept it with Qionghai Town, instead of acting separately, so that they can be easily defeated by each one." Now that our army has arrived here, there is no movement in the city at all, which shows that this Tianjin general soldier does not want to fight at all. Look at it, the defenders in the city will be the same as the Ming army in other places, watching us pass, and they won't dare to let a fart go. ”

Gartu was surprised and delighted: "If this is the case, we can get rid of Qionghai Town smoothly, most of them are infantry, and they can't catch up." ”

Abatai smiled: "In the final analysis, there is only one strong army like Qionghai Town, and the rest of the people are still familiar to us, all of them are cowards, and they dare not be enemies of my Dajin." ”

When the long cavalry team came to the city wall of Jinghai County, as Abatai said, the city was densely guarded, with swords and guns, as if facing a great enemy, but the city gate was closed, and there was no sign of opening the door at all.

Gartu breathed a sigh of relief, and in the face of the confidence and psychological advantages of the Ming army, he regained his confidence, raised his right hand, which was not injured, pointed to the head of the city and said: "After all, there is only one Qionghai Town, if the Ming Dynasty is such an army, sooner or later it will die, and my Dajin will replace it sooner or later." ”

Niu Lu Zhangjing, who was following beside him, also relaxed and pointed at the city.

The defenders on the city wall watched the Houjin army pass by, and their faces were full of banter and pointing, although they couldn't hear what they said from a distance, but it was not a good thing to say, and they felt extremely aggrieved in their hearts, and they couldn't wait to kill them and fight with them. However, the general soldier Wang Hong did not give the order, and everything was in vain.

Wang Hongmu saw the army passing, and thought in his heart that when the Tartars were clean and the outside of the city was safe, he would immediately go to Beijing to report to Yang Sichang, strike while the iron was hot, and finalize the matter of transferring to Huai'an.

Just when he thought that Abatai's army could pass smoothly, suddenly a large cloud of dust rolled up from the south, and thousands of cavalry chased in the direction of the Houjin army with great vigour. Wang Hong was taken aback, which team of this family dared to pursue more than 10,000 Tartars? When this cavalry approached, the word "Liu" on the banner came into view, and Wang Hong knew who it was The few thousand cavalry that could be dispatched nearby, except for himself, there was only Liu Guozhu, the chief soldier of Baoding.

"This Liu Er is stunned, just send him to death, isn't this a good thing for me?" Wang Hong said hatefully.

Abatai and the others, who thought they had escaped, found this cavalry, and they were all shocked, thinking that Qionghai Town was pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, and also ambushed a cavalry. However, when I saw the flag, I realized that it was another team.

Abatai ordered with a hideous face: "The army continues to advance, leave two Niu Lu, take the Han army and Yu Ding, and kill them!" Don't give these bright dogs a little color to see, and think that we are soft persimmons, everyone can pinch it! ”