Two legs compete with the Tatar cavalry on four legs to compete with speed, which is like a turtle and a rabbit. Fortunately, the turtle sets out first and depends on who reaches the finish line first.

After trotting all the way, Yulin Acropolis was in sight, and the end was approaching.

The escorted Beijing soldiers finally had to shout horns, because the carriage was too heavy to drag the cannons, and some people had to push them up, which greatly slowed down the speed of the journey.

"It's good that the bridge on the moat is still there, hurry up."

Song Shu knew that he was anxious now. He secretly blamed himself in his heart, why didn't he listen to that kid again? He rushed to the road overnight last night? Now, he had to pick up his life and play tricks. He only realized that he was anxious when the Tatars chased him... Fortunately, it was timely!

Chen Xi sat in the carriage and kept looking back from the window of the carriage. It was reported that the Tatar cavalry had chased him, but it seemed that the Tatars were not that fast, and there were still 10 or 20 miles away.

After seeing the East City Gate of Yulin Guard and even the three big words "Zhenwu Gate" on the city gate were clearly visible, the officers and soldiers were already glad that they had escaped from death.

But before he reached the city gate, the arrows on the top of the city were served first, making a group of bad soldiers dare not step forward.

"Go up and spread the news, just say we are from the Beijing Camp and escort the imperial envoy and artillery to arrive."

Song Shu rode on the horse and raised his head to shout at the city tower. At this time, he wished he could fly over the city wall and enter the city, but unfortunately things went against his wishes, and the defenders in the city did not buy it.

Although you are wearing the military uniforms of the Ming Dynasty, the Tatars have disguised themselves as Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers to open the pass more than once or twice. Even if I don’t open the city gate, no one will blame me, otherwise who will lose the city?

Song Shu was very angry and scolded loudly... Have you ever seen the Tatars who were pushing cannons all the way?

The school on duty on the city wall was a little hesitant, and he poked out his hair and said that he would send someone to report immediately. As for whether the superiors would let him go, he didn't know.

Song Shu was very angry when he heard this, and made up his mind to arrest the guys on the city after entering the city and torture them. What kind of thing does I look like a Tatar?

"Open the city gate, the Beijing camp is here to send cannons, open the city gate!"

After about a quarter of an hour, there was still no movement on the top of the city. There was dust and smoke approaching in the sky in the distance. The officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp in front of the city gate were a little panicked and started to clamor.

At this time, the defenders on the top of the city replied in a strong Guanzhong accent: "There is an order from above. The thief army is coming. The city gate is in great importance and must not be opened without permission!"

When the news came, Song Shu couldn't help but come forward to negotiate again, but the people on the city were just thinking about the truth. The Tatars were about to come and the city gate said that they could not open anything.

"Your uncle, I have worked hard to deliver cannons to him. It's okay if I don't come out to greet him, but I don't even open the city gate."

The cowardly soldiers in the Beijing camp were furious and said in a slight manner.

Chen Xi saw that he had not opened the city gate for a long time, and got off the carriage. After asking about the situation, he was furious: "I still have the intention to argue with them? The Tatars are coming... I'll talk about it!"

"You go and it's useless!"

Song Shu thought so in his heart, but he still watched Chen Xi step forward with a try.

Chen Xi stood under the city and shouted, "I am the imperial envoy, and I have the emperor's order. You can open the city gate quickly."

No one responded in words on the top of the city, so he shot two arrows at Chen Xi directly, but he did not intend to kill Chen Xi. Both arrows were far away and shot on the ground two or three meters away in front of Shen Xi.

Song Shu raised his head and cursed, "You city guards don't want to live anymore!"

Chen Xi glared at Song Shu fiercely. If you weren't for your group of people holding back, you would have entered Yulin Guard last night, so why would it be like this?

Song Shu looked at Chen Xi and said, "Mr. Shen, please give me an idea."

Chen Xi thought to himself: "I remembered that I came here now, what have you been doing? In Datong Town, it's like escaping from death and not having a good memory. No one can save us now."

"What can I do? Leave the east of the city quickly. Let's go around the south of the city and go west to try whether we can enter the city through another city gate!"

It is not clear at the moment whether the Tatar cavalry targets Yulin Guards or their cannon-carrying team. If they were them, it would be more dangerous. But if this group of Tatars targeted Yulin Guards or were robbed along the way, they would not necessarily die. Under the city wall, there were more than 300 ordinary Beijing soldiers, and most of the Tatars would not come to seek war on their own initiative.

After all, the Tatar cavalry composed of tribes also had to live their own lives. Their purpose of coming to the Ming Dynasty was to plunder and let their wives and children survive the cold winter. In the eyes of the Tatars, it was extremely unwise to kill one thousand enemies and hurt three hundred of them. Compared with the Ming Dynasty, it would be a quest for death.

So, under the crowd of soldiers above the city, they transported artillery like wreckage dogs to the south of the city. Unfortunately, when they arrived in the south of the city, they still had the same reply: the city gate was not open.

"Master Shen, why not like this, we will use artillery to blast the city gate and blow the city gate open!" Song Shu was already furious at this time.

Chen Xi looked at Song Shu and said, "You are really not afraid of being killed by the whole family!"

Do you think your family has too many people when you bombard your city gate?

"This is the Folang machine cannon, not for siege!" Chen Xi didn't have time to talk nonsense to Song Shu, although he himself had the idea of ​​slamming the cannon at the city gate.

If I can't open the city gate, I'll knock the top of the city. Can you just need to bury you with me?

A faint sound of horse hooves could be heard in the distance. I don’t know whether it was the messenger or the Tatars who came to kill him. At this moment, a group of people were already in a hurry and started to go on the road again... If you can’t enter the south gate of the city, you can go west of the city. If you can’t enter the west gate, it will be futile to go north and you can only find a place to hide in the west for the time being.

The reason is that if the Tatars targeted the Yulin Guard, with the number of thousands of cavalry, they could only line up in the east of the city to wait for the arrival of subsequent troops, and going westwards might not be able to avoid being discovered by the enemy.

Chen Xi looked away. The northern Shaanxi area was extremely desolate. Fortunately, there were many plants and trees in the west of Yulin Weicheng. Song Shu said with a little surprise on his face: "Let's hide in the woods!"

"Hide on the woods and go up the mountain!"

Chenxi pointed to a hill two miles away.

The hill is about one hundred meters high, facing the city is a very long gentle slope, and you can push artillery up the mountain. The only regret is that in autumn and winter, the leaves of the trees and leaves on the mountain have already withered, bare and unblocked.

"Sir, it's too conspicuous. We're just asking for trouble when we go up." Song Shu has already started to regard himself as a subordinate. It's not that he admires Chen Xi very much, but because he thought that if this job is done, he can't come out and he needs Chen Xi to bear the main responsibility.

Chen Xidao: "Listen to me!"

Yu Niang came over and said, "Mr. Shen, if you go up the hillside and are surrounded by surroundings, I'm afraid we will..."

"I'm still surrounded? Thousands of Tatar cavalry came over, and we have one count, who can escape?"

A sentence made Yu Niang speechless. A group of garrisons carrying artillery in Beijing, when they met the Tatar cavalry, it was simply incomprehensible... Anyway, it was a death, and there were artillery transported, which might be possible to fight, but Lord Shen seemed to have no mention of artillery at all.

Chen Xi did not forget it, but he found that if he wanted to exert the power of artillery, he had to occupy favorable terrain. Looking at the terrain around Yulinwei, only the hill in the west of the city could become the place to block the enemy.

As for whether to surround the city or not, so what if water and food are cut off? They don’t plan to fight a protracted war. Could the Tatars be prepared to siege the city for a long time and fight for assistance?

"Going the mountain... Lord Shen has an order to go up the mountain!"

Song Shu thought that the bastards under him would be in a state of trouble, but he didn't expect that the "Master Shen" would be very effective at this moment, because these bad soldiers also discovered that the Deputy Qianhu Song, who was "the same as them", was useless. Last time in Datong Mansion, it was Lord Shen who saved our lives. Unfortunately, we didn't understand his intentions and insisted on resting last night. As a result, the last thirty miles became the gates of hell.

At this critical moment, Lord Shen said we will go wherever we go.

A group of people fled to the west of the city in a hurry. At this time, the sound of horse hooves sounded loudly in the sky to the east, and the hustle and bustle was so loud that it was only five or six miles away.

The Tatars did not seem to have expected that the people carrying artillery were not in the city, but went west to the city. Their goal was to chase the Ming Dynasty artillery team.

After the Tatars defeated the Beijing camp team that transported food in the Hequ area, they chased them all the way to Datong Prefecture before they learned from the prisoners that there was such a team of artillery transporters.

Under such circumstances, the main Tatars returned northward to attack the flanks of Liu Daxia, and at the same time they divided the troops to Yulin Guard to intercept the artillery, preparing to seize artillery... They knew from the Urianha people that the Flang cannon was powerful and thought that they would not allow the artillery to enter the city.

The speed of the Tatars' pursuit slowed down, giving these "straitors" the opportunity to escape. On the road, a cannon chariot was broken, and some soldiers wanted to carry it. Chen Xi shouted in the carriage: "When is it, it's important to go up the mountain."

"But sir, if this cannon falls into the hands of the Tatars..."

Before Song Shu could finish his words, Chen Xi scolded him back: "You stupid donkey, you transport the shells away. They only have artillery fire."

When Yu Niang, who was riding a horse from behind, heard this, even though she knew the situation was critical, she still shook her head and smiled bitterly... It was rare to see Chen Xi curse people, and she cursed so simply and directly.

However, Chen Xi was clear in logic when cursing people, which shows that Chen Xi was not confused.

Even if one of the ten cannons is lost, there are nine more. The ones running fast in front are the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp. They are responsible for escorting tasks, and they don’t care about any carriages or anything. It’s important to go up the mountain first. But after going up the mountain, they found a problem. There is no cover on the mountain. If the cannons cannot be transported up the mountain, they are destined to sit and wait for death on the mountain.

Song Shu was regretful at this time and thought to himself: "How about I run away. Being a deserter is better than losing my life."

Just as the deputy Qianhu, who led the troops, was about to ride a horse, the Tatar cavalry had already bypassed the south of the city and came to check the movements in the west. If they still did not find any trace of artillery when they arrived in the west of the city, they would naturally withdraw their troops. After all, the siege equipment was behind, and no matter how many cavalry faced the city, they would have no solution.

At this time, Song Shu finally realized that the target of these Tatars was not the Yulin Guard, but the teams that transported artillery, and no matter where they escaped, they would be chased and killed. Even if they escaped, they would be "death".

"Mr. Shen, why don't we leave the artillery and shells behind, the Tatars shouldn't make things difficult for us!" Song Shu went to Chen Xi again and said that it was recommended to pull the hindrance.

"What do you mean is to let us surrender to the barbarians?" Chen Xi said angrily.

"It's not surrender, it's just evacuation. The Tatars always have to transport the cannons away and have no time to chase us..."

Chen Xi looked back at the direction of the way. At this time, the horse's hooves were rumbling, and the Tatars were about to come to kill at any time. It was a pity that Song Shu still had the problem of running away.

"Speak less nonsense, hurry up and send the cannons up the mountain!" Chen Xi gave the final order.

Zhang Laowu and others also felt that the Tatars might have been chasing them before they could go up the mountain. He pulled out his sword and shouted: "Sir, why don't you fight with these bastards."

Chen Xi couldn't help but think that Zhang Laowu was in Quanzhou City. At that time, Zhang Laowu was purely a coward, but now he is a responsible bloody soldier.

"Find a few people and dig a hole."

Chen Xi jumped out of the carriage and directed him as if he were determined, "Just dig in this path up the mountain and find a bundle of shells to bury them!"

Zhang Laowu looked puzzled and asked, "Sir, what are you doing?"

"As long as you order!"

Chenxi could only try his best to cause trouble for the Tatars and slow down the speed of their cavalry's pursuit.

In fact, Chen Xi’s idea is very simple, that is, to make simple landmines, and the left and right shells are ready-made, and you only need to delay the Tatars’ sprint speed.
Chapter completed!