Li Xin was in a hurry, and he also knew that he couldn't be in a hurry, after a night of fighting, almost everyone in the Three Guards Army was injured, and he couldn't support it as soon as he arrived in Changping. Under such circumstances, it was almost impossible to force the army to march, and Li Xin immediately ordered the front-line horizontal team that had participated in the battle last night to rest on the spot in Changping. As a reserve, the second line of horizontal troops, as well as the artillery battalion and Lu Jiu's cavalry battalion followed him into Xuanfu, but bad news followed, and Heisenberg, the artillery battalion officer, became more ill after a night of fatigue, and it was no longer possible to support the high-intensity march.

At a loss, Li Xin suddenly thought of Kong Youde, although this product has no morality and no character, but there are still two hits on the cannon, so he came to Kong Youde, who was pretending to be dizzy, and kicked him screaming and jumping up from the ground.

"Could it be that Brother Kong also wants to stay?"

Kong Youde did have the idea of staying and then waiting for an opportunity to escape, but after thinking about it, now that the subordinates he relied on for survival had been scattered, escaping alone, and if he was not caught by the officials and soldiers, he might encounter thieves and bandits, and he might die even worse at that time.

"General Li said something, but please command!"

Li Xin looked at Kong Youde and really didn't know whether to sympathize with him or dislike him. This thing has never been with him, and he has also cooperated for a short time when he was in Gaoyang, and he knows his ability to handle cannons. Now Heisenberg could not go with the army, and it seemed that he had to be used to make up for it first.

Even if this cargo can't command artillery like Heisenberg and be as mobile and flexible as Heisenberg, it would be good to be able to command where to fight. In fact, the Manchu Tartars were able to value him at the beginning and made him a prince, which was nothing more than a fancy to his ability to manufacture and use firearms.

Kong Youde naturally has no reason to refuse, he has now lowered the standard to the minimum, and he has taken life as the benchmark.

However, handing over such an important artillery battalion to a thief to command was opposed by almost everyone in the Three Guards from top to bottom.

Out of Juyong Pass is Yanqing Prefecture, but everywhere you pass, the castles have been abandoned into ruins, and in some places even the fire has not subsided, apparently it has just been burned for a short time. Everywhere you look, these places were bustling when you passed by the day before, but today they are like ghost towns.

After passing through Yanqing Prefecture, the Three Guards did not continue to the north but turned south to Huailaiwei, but they did not expect that the places Huailaiwei passed along the way were almost the same as Yanqing Prefecture, except for the ruins and broken walls, which were dead people. Li Xin even had a trace of suspicion, from the time Hong Chengchou entered Juyong Pass, the Mongolian Tatars broke through the pass and entered Xuanfu, his first target should be Xuanfu Town, even if Xuanfu Town was taken overnight, this half a day and a night of hard work wanted to stir up a few guards outside Juyong Pass into this appearance, presumably they should also be lacking in skills.

Fortunately, the rangers finally rescued a living mouth in the ruins, it was a guard soldier of Huailaiwei, and after a cursory examination, there were no fatal injuries, and it should have been simply fainted. A soldier planned to feed him a few mouthfuls of water, but who would have thought that after the water reached his mouth, all of them choked out, but this choking woke him up.

After listening to him cry and tell the whole story of the catastrophe, Li Xin was confused again.

According to him, it was indeed a group of Mongolian Tatar cavalry who attacked Huailaiwei at night, and this group of people came and went like the wind, killing people when they saw them, and robbing things when they saw them.

"Where is the Huailai guard?"

Li Xin was heartbroken when he heard this, if Huai Laiwei Dan could carry out some effective resistance, he would definitely come to Huai Laiwei more than that.

The soldier cried: "The commander was killed by an arrow from a Tartar as soon as the battle began!" We're in a mess just now, and no one cares about fighting, so they just run for their lives! ”

"Where did the Tartar go?"

Li Xin was anxious to know the whereabouts of the Tartar, but the soldier shook his head blankly, "I fainted later, and when I woke up, I was already here, and the villain really didn't know where the Tartar went!" ”

Seeing that he really couldn't ask anything, Li Xin had no choice but to give up, and now there were only two roads in front of him, the first was to continue to the southwest, passing through Meiyusuo, and leading to Ulzhou. This is also the way for the infantry battalion and auxiliary battalion of the Three Guards to go north. The second way is to try your luck in Baoan Prefecture and Xuanfu Town, after all, it is the core area of Xuanfu, and there is a high possibility that the Tartars will be there.

Just when the dilemma was chosen, it happened that a group of Ming troops who had retreated from the defeat of the security guards brought back a news that Xuanfu Town had been looted last night, and it was set on fire by the Tartars early this morning.

Xuanfu and Huailai are far apart, if this news is accurate, it proves that the Mongolian Tartars have more than one group of people, that is to say, the Tartars who swept the front line of Yanqing Huailai and those who captured Xuanfu Town are not all the way, or they are divided into two groups of people in addition to becoming stronger.

Then the Mongol Tartars who kidnapped the county lord and most of the auxiliary soldiers may not be the one in Xuanfu Town, and it is very likely that it is the one that is currently coming south from Yanqing Huai. It is clear that they attacked and plundered the auxiliaries on their way south. Thinking of this, Li Xin became excited, now that he knew the basic route of this group of Tartars, they carried the supplies of the auxiliary battalion and escorted thousands of auxiliary soldiers, and the speed of the march was definitely not fast.

In this way, the Three Guards only had to follow this route straight south, and seven or eight times out of ten they could catch this Mongol Tartar.

However, Li Xin's hopes were soon dashed, and they marched into the territory of Ulju without a trace of the Mongol Tartars or the auxiliaries on their way. The fact that the fortress in Ulju was unharmed proves that the Mongol Tatars did not continue southward. During this period, when he met a woodcutter in the mountains, he pointed and pointed that he saw a group of fierce gods on horseback escorting a group of red-clothed people to the west.

According to Guò woodcutter's description, it resembles the auxiliary battalion of the Three Guards.

To the west of here is Huai'anwei, but on the way they found something ominous. That is, the supplies of the auxiliaries were abandoned in the middle of the road, and there was not much slag left in the burned. All that remained were some carts that had not been burned, and some corpses that had been charred. This made the feelings of the entire Three Guards nervous, and Li Xin's heart became more and more intense. Fortunately, the number of corpses was small, only a few dozen, but it was impossible to identify them.

Getting this news was not the end of their rush, when the Three Guards dragged their tired bodies westward to the east city of Shunshengchuan in the south of Huai'anwei, they found that this fortress was still in the hands of the Ming army.

Despite the disbelief, Li Xin had to admit that they had lost the clue to the Tartars. This also made him very annoyed, Xuanfu was just a palm-sized place, and he couldn't even find a Tartar man.

Obviously, there are clues in front of you, but as the clues are traced all the way, you either find that you are in the air, or there is a great possibility that you have taken the wrong path. He suddenly felt as if there was an invisible thread leading the nose of the Three Guards to keep advancing, and this might be the goal of the other end of the thread.

Thinking of this, Li Xin was suddenly shocked, and he suddenly realized that further west of Huai'anwei was the place where the Three Guards Army relied on to start, Zhenyuwei!

Could it be that after the Mongolian Tartars robbed the Xuanfu, they still had to rob the three guards of the Datong Mansion? This possibility is not impossible, the three guards, namely Zhenyuwei, Yanghewei, and Gaoshanwei, were operated by Li Xin for a winter, hoarding a large amount of goods and materials, these things can attract the attention of the Tartars the most. But another question arose, since the Tartars were in urgent need of supplies, why were they willing to burn the materials they had taken from the auxiliary soldiers of the Three Guards?

Is it possible to continue to go west back to Sanwei? At this moment, Li Xin's thinking was also messy, and just when he was thinking nonsense, Kong Youde came.

"Being led by the nose is not General Li's style!"

In the face of Kong Youde's ridicule, Li Xin had to admit that it was the first time he had been led by the nose since he led the troops.

"Hey! In fact, it's no wonder that the general, the so-called concern is chaotic, if Kong also has a flower-like county lord's daughter-in-law who was taken away by the Tartars, it will also be chaotic, understandable, understandable! ”

Li Xin didn't have the leisure to tease Kong Youde, and was about to open his mouth to kick him out, but who knew that the third sentence of this product would get to the point.

"How did the Tartars come and how to get out, we might as well go to the root of the side wall and guard it, they can't go out without a dozen openings on this side wall......"

It's really a word to wake up the dreamer, instead of being led by the nose and running in vain, it is better to wait for work, and you can also take the opportunity to rest and recuperate the soldiers who have been overdrawn.

With a way to deal with it, Li Xin was very good, so he praised Kong Youde.

"Well, I finally said a human thing!"

……

In a certain valley, there are countless bandits, like thieves, and bearded men with braided hair. A clearing was crowded with the most captives of the wolf, interspersed with groans of pain and impatient cursing.

A lean man in his forties sat weakly on the ground, surrounded by several soldiers.

"Lord Zhenfu, this, when is this the head!"

The lean man who was called the pacification just wanted to reprimand, but sighed: "Anyway, if we find an opportunity, we will scatter and escape, and if we can escape one more, we will escape one more." ”

He held it on his lips, but in fact, he was desperate in his heart, not desperate for the current situation, but desperate for himself, as a Ming courtier, how could he suffer the humiliation of this captive, if it wasn't for the Xinle County Lord here, if he didn't want to stay and protect her, I'm afraid he would have committed suicide and martyrdom.

Looking at the county lord who seemed to have no heart and lungs, she was still very optimistic.

"The general will definitely lead his army to save us!"