The field battle by the river was won, Li Xin led the three guards to pursue the victory, and chased them to the city of Xinzhou, where 20,000 thieves collapsed in less than two hours. There were only 1,000 defenders left in the city, and under several rounds of artillery bombardment, they also completely collapsed and lost their fighting spirit, and several leaders decided to open the city gate and surrender to the Ming army on the condition that their lives were spared.

As a result, the Three Guards completely controlled Xinzhou City, and the auxiliary troops led by Guo Binghuan before dark and the Ming army rout picked up on the way also drove into the city. Li Xin learned a shocking news from the mouths of several leaders guarding Xinzhou City.

The so-called King Chuang is not Li Zicheng, but Liu Guoneng, who is known as the bed. In Li Xin's impression, Liu Guoneng was in the twelfth year of Chongzhen, that is, around March of this year, to accept the imperial court's recruitment, but why is there such a big stir now, and he has even begun to claim the throne, and put forward the slogan of entering the capital and eliminating the Ming Dynasty.

And in history, Liu Guoneng's ability does not seem to be as good as Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others, how did he successfully counterattack and shake the government and the opposition when the old brother was beaten? Li Xin was very curious, and several leaders couldn't tell why, but there was one point worth mentioning. In the winter of last year, when Liu Guoneng was chased and beaten by Zuo Liangyu and fled all over the world, his team was joined by two people.

"One of them is surnamed Kong, and everyone calls him Kong Wangye, but few people know his real name, as if he was a prince in the Manchu Tartars...... A few years ago, I made a few large firearms, which were used by the generals, and made several great achievements, so that we could use them in the king. ”

The other leader nodded approvingly, "Yes, yes, it's a lot easier to fight with this thing." It's just that it's a lot worse than General Wu, and General Wu has a black-armored iron cavalry under him, and he has more wins and fewer defeats against the official army! ”

"Where is there more victories and fewer defeats, it should be that I haven't tasted a defeat, not a few days ago, I beat the first-class officials of the imperial court all over the place!"

"Yes, yes, yes, I haven't tasted defeat, it's very powerful! The general just didn't meet him this time, or ......"

The other leader kicked him so hard that the idiot noticed the gaffe and shut up.

"A general surnamed Wu? What is the name, where is the people? ”

"Listening to the accent, it should be Liaodong, called...... What's it called? ”

"Wu Shan!"

"That's right, it's called Wu Shan, he is very arrogant on weekdays, our brothers are all the number one people in King Chuang, and he doesn't even look at us!"

These two people drew two big question marks in Li Xinxin, and the one surnamed Kong seemed to be the obedient king of the Manchu Tartars, and he could manipulate the artillery, so he didn't run away, but why did this product become a thief?

As for that Wu Shan, Li Xin dared to be 100% sure that this must be a pseudonym, surnamed Wu with a Liaodong accent, what a strong hint, he first thought of the famous traitor, Wu Sangui, who was angry at the crown. But this young man has a good ambition, and his family is a big family in Liaoxi, how can he be a thief? It's completely unreliable! Maybe it's his old Wu family's nephew, or it's an impostor at all, and it's unknown.

The Three Guards had a rare rest since the expedition, everyone slept soundly and sweetly, but Li Xin did not sleep all night, he received a military report from the ranger scouts in the early hours of the morning, and the thieves in the direction of Daizhou had divided their troops to the south, and it was seen that the road had been cut off after the attack on Xinzhou. At the same time, another group of thieves set off from Taiyuan and came straight to Xinzhou.

The two armies of thieves arrived, Li Xin was secretly frightened, although he had prepared that the thieves would return to Xinzhou, but he still didn't expect them to come so quickly. So much. In fact, as long as the thieves move, the Three Guards can wait for an opportunity to break them down in the movement. It's just that although the plan is relatively ideal, there are many difficulties and dangers in its implementation, after all, more than 2,000 people and nearly 100,000 people are maneuvering, and if one is accidentally entangled and surrounded, it may be impossible to recover.

And after learning the news that there was no Yang Sichang and Zuo Liangyu to send troops, Li Xin felt chills, he understood that before the reinforcements from the imperial court arrived again, neither of these two people would risk sending troops for their own 2,000 people.

Despite the conclusion that they would not send troops, Li Xin sent messengers asking for help, hoping that Zuo Liangyu and Yang Sichang would be able to send troops to cooperate with his military operations.

The matter was urgent, and Li Xin immediately notified the officers of the soldiers and auxiliaries to hold a meeting to discuss the transfer, and the battalion officers of the soldiers were accustomed to obeying orders, so they naturally said that they would obey the orders of the general soldiers. The person in charge of the auxiliary army, Master Guo and Niu Dan, thought that they could fight against the city, and it was a pity that the city that had been defeated with great difficulty would be given up like this.

Li Xin found that Niu Dan had been a member of the council for a few months, and he actually dared to express his opinions in front of his own general soldiers, and it seemed that he had made a lot of progress, but at this time he didn't have time to pay attention to such idle matters, so he summoned everyone not to discuss whether they should be transferred, but to give them an account of the transfer task.

Tian Fuzhen, who had been silent, suddenly spoke: "The lower officials think that Xinzhou is the gateway to Taiyuan, and the thieves are bound to win, but they can leave a group of people to guard Xinzhou and drag the army of thieves, so that the general can let go!" ”

As soon as these words came out, Li Xin shook his head again and again, he hadn't thought about this plan before, it was a perfect plan for Xinzhou to drag down the thieves, but the people who stayed behind died for life, or it was not an exaggeration to simply call it an outcast, so he didn't think about it anymore, who knew that Tian Fuzhen actually mentioned it.

"Is the general worried that no one will be willing to take up the duty of defending the city? Tian is not willing to defend Xinzhou on behalf of the general and help the general! ”

"If you stay, you will die for life, don't joke about Lord Tian!"

Tian Fuzhen's statement surprised Li Xin, he stared at Tian Fuzhen's firm eyes, trying to find out the reason why he was bent on death, but he didn't find a trace. Tian Fuzhen said very seriously: "The general also said, in addition to nine deaths, isn't there a lifetime?" To tell the truth, Xia Guan is so selfish, he doesn't want to be so muddy and nightmarish but he will be alive, if he can die vigorously, he will leave a name in history when he is young, and he will also smile Jiuquan, and hope that the general will be fulfilled! ”

This literati, who has always been arrogant, took a few steps back, and as soon as he fell to the ground, he couldn't afford to hold it for a long time, and he had the posture that Li Xin would not get up if he didn't agree!

Li Xin was shocked by the pain in his heart, and would rather realize his ideals in a way that was almost like begging for death, sighed to himself, hurriedly stepped forward, helped Tian Fuzhen with both hands, and sighed: "Why is Lord Tian ...... like this?"

Suddenly, Guo Binghuan and Master Guo also said that he would stay in Xinzhou and defend the city with Tian Fuzhen, and he would not leave!

"Guo is old, he can't walk, he can't keep up with the speed of the general's march, so he stays in Xinzhou and waits for the general to come back, is the general going to come back?" In the end, Master Guo couldn't help but ask, he really couldn't walk, after the rapid march from North Loukou to Xinzhou, Master Guo's donkey didn't break his leg when he went over the mountain, and he lost almost half his life after the second half of the road without a means of transportation, so he would rather stay and defend the city with Tian Fuzhen.

Li Xin never imagined that he could meet people who sacrificed their lives for righteousness in this life, and his bad impression of scholars was swept away because of Tian Fuzhen's actions, looking at the world, he saw those scholars who went to the pinnacle of their careers through the imperial examination, Yang Sichang, Liu Yuliang, and Zhang Sizhi These people are all people who are not careful, and only seek their own selfishness, and it is probably not an exaggeration to say that they are villains, even Sun Chengzong is also a very deep city, and his impression is not as clear as in the book of his previous life. What's more, there are despicable villains like Xiong Kaiyuan, in short, in Li Xin's eyes, the scholars of this era are all self-centered, yang and yin, unscrupulous means to achieve the goal, and often self-proclaimed with the moral high ground.

Gao Shiming, the prison guard, pushed the door in, with a sleepy look on his face, and let out a long sigh.

"General Li, why do you have to call our family so late?"

"How can the senior superintendent army be so relaxed? The army of thieves is thirty miles away? ”

"What? Rogue? Thirty miles away? ”

Gao Shiming jumped three feet high, like a monkey, and said angrily: "Why don't you call our family up early." Li, General Li, how is this good, let's go, is it guarding? ”

Li Xin briefly informed his plan, after learning that Tian Fuzhen and Master Guo planned to stay to contain the army of thieves, Gao Shiming looked at the two of them like a monster, how could there be such a stupid person in the world who was not afraid of death?

Tian Fuzhen only asked Li Xin for 2,000 auxiliary soldiers, as well as hundreds of remnants of the Ming army brought from Wutai Mountain. For this reason, Heisenberg also specially left him four six-pounder guns, and there were a lot of gunpowder and lead ingots in the city treasury, so he did not have to worry about running out of ammunition.

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The Three Guards went out of the city after the third watch, and went straight to the Congmeng Mountain more than ten miles west of the city, Gao Shiming rode on a horse and asked Li Xin in a low voice, "General Li gave our family a secret, where are we going?" ”

Li Xin looked at the front of the black hole and replied with three words with an expressionless face: "Taiyuan City!" ”

Hearing that they were going to fight Taiyuan City, Gao Shiming couldn't believe his ears, the Three Guards were able to defeat Xinzhou City with a lot of luck, and it was not a hard attack on it, Taiyuan City was high and deep, with their two thousand soldiers and two thousand auxiliaries, they dared to attack the first town on the nine sides, isn't it a fool's dream!

Stunned, Li Xin followed the team and walked out for a distance, leaving Gao Shiming behind.

"Hey! General Li waits for our family, waits for our family, we can discuss whether to go to Taiyuan......"

Gao Shiming felt that he was a prisoner of the army, like Gao Qi sneaking as the director who could control the Guan Ning army, although the Guan Ning army that he later let him do was wiped out in the first battle of Lixian, but he was also majestic. Fang Zhenghua is even more amazing, directly commanding the Beijing camp, and has made great contributions in the defense of the Beijing Division! It's good for him to be the overseer of the 2,000 dead soldiers, not to mention, and he is chased around by thieves, and when he returns to the palace and says it, where will his face go?

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