Linhuai City, Li Shuangcai couldn't remember how many times the thieves had stormed the city wall, he smacked his chapped lips, and clenched the Yanling knife in his hand that had cut off an unknown number of lives. Now Li Shuangcai has officially joined the Three Guards Army, leading a hundred and ten brothers behind him, and under the leadership of the Marquis of Zhenyu, he has repelled the attacks of the thieves again and again.

When he first entered Linhuai City, Li Shuangcai was even desperate, as far as he knew, there were as many as 10,000 thieves, and there were only 3,000 people on his side, Linhuai was not more than 20 miles away from Fengyang Mansion, the central capital besieged by thieves, if half of the men and horses were taken out to deal with them, there were 100,000 people, 100,000 people fighting 3,000 people, no matter how it was calculated, there was no chance of winning.

However, in the Three Guards Army, the military orders are like a mountain, and once Li Xin gives the order, all the old soldiers will not be able to spin. To be honest, he was very puzzled by the situation of those ancestors of the Three Guards who were close to disregarding life and death and obeying the marquis. It is said that when a soldier eats food, if he can't eat, who can be this lowly Qiu Ba?

Li Shuangcai didn't know much about the Three Guards, and he didn't personally participate in the battle of Jinzhou City, which was extremely different in strength. In the eyes of the veterans of the Three Guards, it is difficult for 100,000 Tartars to shake the Three Guards, not to mention these rogue thieves like chickens and dogs, even if there are 200,000? As long as there is a great general, they dare to pat their chests and ensure that the water guarding the city of Linhuai will not be drained.

In the next few days, Li Shuangcai was also infected by this almost fearless mentality, no matter how the thieves' shouts of killing shook the world, those veterans of the Three Guards were still in an orderly manner, stacking the rolling wood and stones to fight the thieves in the city, and slowly pulling the bed crossbow from the warehouse with a winch.

It was from then on that a battle to subvert Li Shuangcai's consciousness began, and on the first day of the battle, the thieves rushed to the walls of Linhuai City like ants and locusts. The Linhuai garrison was only 3,000 people, scattered on the four city walls, and it seemed sparse.

However, the miracle was officially staged at this moment, and the imaginary tragic battle did not happen, because just when those thieves were about to rush to the city wall of Linhuai, the explosions one after another were deafening, and Li Shuangcai felt that the city wall under his feet was trembling. Look at the thousands of thieves under the city walls, who have fallen into chaos.

In just a moment's effort, the momentum of the thief was defeated, and after that, there was no more overwhelming posture when the city was attacked again. Until the sun set, the sky was completely dark, and no thief soldier had stepped on the wall of Linhuai in this battle.

The Three Guards used all the firearms they could use almost the entire time, some were far away, some were close, and even the firecrackers in the city were collected by the Three Guards and were set on fire and thrown into the dense crowd of thieves below. The sudden explosion of firecrackers caused a wave of chaos among the thieves, and hundreds of people died under the trampling of the dense thieves of unknown circumstances. Li Shuangcai, who watched it, smacked his tongue again and again, and it was a good thing that there were so many people.

In the next battle to defend the city, Li Shuangcai only felt that he had been dazzled, and the old soldiers of the three guards in the city changed their methods and used all kinds of incredible tricks, and beat the thieves who came to attack the city again and again. Gradually, the frightened Li Shuangcai was infected by this feeling, as if the defenders in the city were not only 3,000 people, but also the thieves outside the city were not 200,000.

Li Shuangcai soon joined the vigorous battle of defending the city, because the hundreds of people he brought did not have much actual combat experience, so at the beginning, they only served as the reserve force of the veterans of the Three Guards, and usually only did some work of moving and lifting, but as the intensity of the battle increased day by day, under the enduring scarcity, Li Xin also used Li Shuangcai on the front line.

Li Shuangcai only realized at this time that the battle could still be fought like this, and after fighting back and forth, he even had an illusion, as if this was not a tragic battle, but a game that would make people tired and sweat like rain. It's just that this game is tantamount to a nightmare for the group of thieves under the city walls, and in the days of high-intensity fighting, the corpses have been piled up under the city.

Due to the extremely frequent battles and the close proximity of the two sides, neither side could calmly dispose of these piles of corpses, although it was almost early winter, but after all, it was located in Jianghuai, and those corpses were still inevitably decomposing, and Li Shuangcai's nasal cavity was filled with a gradually pungent stench all day long.

However, Li Shuangcai didn't know that just as he was gradually enjoying this "easy" battle to defend the city, Niu Jinsong was reporting to Li Xin with anxiety that the consumption of various reserve materials, among which the largest consumption was gunpowder. The gunpowder brought by the Three Guards had been consumed, and they could only maintain a high-intensity battle for about a day.

"Didn't you find a large amount of black powder in the treasury of Linhuai?"

Heisenberg, the battalion officer of the First Artillery Battalion, shrugged his shoulders and said: "The gunpowder in the Linhuai Mansion warehouse is incomparable with what we brought, many of them have been hardened, or they are all powder, and even some of them are damp, these gunpowder can only be counted as semi-finished products according to the standards of the Three Guards, and they must be re-granulated and dried before they can be put into use!" ”

Heisenberg Rory said a lot of things, and the core meaning of the message was that none of the gunpowder could be used. Li Xin couldn't help frowning and said, "It's also semi-finished gunpowder, so didn't you organize people to reprocess it?" If I had to do everything myself, what kind of officer and what general would you be? ”

Heisenberg made an innocent expression, shrugged his shoulders again, and said without humility or arrogance: "Your Excellency Marquis, as a soldier, the first priority is only to fight, and other trivial matters are not included in the accusation!" ”

Heisenberg has always been old-fashioned, and he is almost the only one in the Three Guards who dares to talk back to Li Xin except for Lu Jiu. But this time he was obviously a little excited, and even brought out the native voice of the Holy Roman Empire.

Niu Jinsong has always been self-aware in front of Li Xin and Heisenberg, and he is no longer the innocent and honest cow egg in Chaoyang Castle, so he stared at it wide-eyed, ignoring the bickering of the two people, and just watched the excitement. It's just that this lively person is not easy, and he is really afraid that the marquis of Zhenjun will be angered by Heisenberg and do something irrational.

Unexpectedly, after a while, Li Xin actually smiled.

"Good, good! I can't talk about you, I don't want you to do this! Cow Egg ......"

Although Niu Jinsong already had the name of the imperial gift, Li Xin had always only called him Niu Dan, and Niu Jinsong had no choice but to let it go after many fruitless protests.

"You arrange this matter, the soldiers are not enough, so choose some honest people from those prisoners to do it, and we must do our best to dry this batch of black powder granules, and we must be ready to fight a protracted war." As long as we are in Linhuai City for a day, the thieves will not dare to let go of their hands and feet to storm Fengyang Mansion! Also, is there any news from the person sent to contact Zhu Dadian, the governor of Fengyang? ”

Niu Jinsong wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead at this time, "General Hui, a total of Wubo people have been sent out, and no one has come back until now, I am afraid of ......" He felt unlucky, and he didn't say it.

According to Li Xin's plan, after he was ready to gain a firm foothold in Linhuai, he would contact Zhu Dadian, the governor of Fengyang, and the two sides would cooperate to fight a beautiful battle to defend the city with 200,000 thieves. It's just that I can't get in touch with it at the moment, which is really worrying.

After more than ten consecutive days of fierce attacks, the thieves still had difficulty advancing under Linhuai City, and their morale had fallen to the extreme. As a result, several leaders of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution decided to besiege Linhuai City after some discussion.

Linhuai City is within a radius of three miles, and if you want to surround it, and the depth of any place can block the breakthrough of the official army, you need to allocate at least 100,000 people. Several leaders of the 5th Battalion of the Revolution Zuo would definitely not send 100,000 people to target Linhuai at the same time, so they retreated to the next best thing and carried out key defenses, only heavily encircling the four gates of Linhuai City, so as to cut off the supply of materials inside and outside Linhuai City.

The person in charge of attacking Linhuai was Liu Xiyao, the king of reincarnation, who was already distressed when he saw that his subordinates were seriously killed and injured, so he naturally agreed. Just as he was racking his brains and thinking about how to capture this small city, which was only guarded by 3,000 officers and soldiers, a good news came. He Yilong actually rushed to reinforcements with the people of his headquarters. Liu Xiyao happily said again and again that He Yilong sent charcoal in the snow. Although the leaders of the three battalions despised Erhe, He Yilong had brought 20,000 fresh troops after all, and with these horses to fill them, Liu Xiyao had even decided to carry out another large-scale siege in two days.

Late that night, Li Xin was still holding a military meeting with the generals, because they also noticed that the besieging thieves had actually arrived with 20,000 reinforcements, which made everyone realize that a major battle was about to be inevitable. But at present, the gunpowder in the city has not been completely dried, and if the war starts immediately, the Three Guards are afraid that they will not be able to do it.

When a group of people were speaking, suddenly a personal soldier entered the hall and whispered a few words beside Li Xin, and it was these few whispers that actually made Li Xin ask in a lost voice: "What do you say?" Someone who looks like a thief brought a handwritten letter from Zhang Ge Lao? ”

The pro-soldier nodded heavily, took it out of his arms, and held it in front of Li Xin.

"The villain knows a few words, but he can't identify whether this is the real work of the old man, please take a look at it!"

At such a sensitive moment, the thieves could not attack Huai, and it was difficult to guarantee that they could not resort to some conspiracies, and Zhang Fangyan was probably still struggling to transfer troops at this time, and was prevaricated left and right.

After Li Xin unfolded the letter, he saw that it was indeed Zhang Fangyan's handwriting, and it was also covered with Zhang Fangyan's official and private seals, and it was extremely difficult for thieves to forge it. The same letter also attached a letter from He Tengjiao, which is also in He Tengjiao's handwriting. It's just that the same thing said in the two letters made Li Xin unbelievable, He Yilong was actually recruited!