For more than ten days in a row, no troops in Tongguan were defeated since Gao Jie. Zhu Yixi was quite disappointed.
However, thinking about it, it must have been blocked by the invading army near Luxiang, so no one could reach Tongguan.
"There has been no news about the Superintendent for so long, right?" Li Jizu looked hesitant and said rather unwillingly:
"What will we do in the future?"
Zhu Yixi saw that he was getting entangled again, and she had deep suspicion that he might be a woman disguised as a man, and he was even more sentimental than women.
"What do you think I'm doing?" Li Jizu looked at him with evil intentions and said in shock.
"nothing!"
Zhu Yixi shook her head and said: "I just thought, brother Li, you are a general after all, how can you be like a woman?"
With that said, Zhu Yixi emphasized again: "The intruders will not be able to cross the Yellow River if they have no boats. If Tongguan is defended, everything will naturally be stable."
To be honest, he now has about 10,000 people, plus Li Jizu's 3,000 people, which is much better than those Gao Jie and others who were defeated.
Even if Sun Chuanting returns safe and sound, he, who has the power of military affairs, will be the target of his wooing.
Moreover, Sun Chuanting was defeated again. With Chongzhen's mean personality, he would certainly not be spared.
By then, he will naturally be able to be independent.
The closer we get to the critical moment, the less we can relax.
Therefore, Zhu Yixi and Li Jizu took turns on duty to guard Tongguan.
On this day, late at night, around the middle of the night, a burst of murderous shouts came from a distance, which shocked Li Jizu all over.
He raised his eyes and saw:
A few miles away, a tired Qin army was being chased by bandits several times their size. The two were so close that they seemed to be able to kill them in the blink of an eye.
However, among the torches in the dark night, a huge flag stood out particularly conspicuously.
That is, the banner and flag of Sun Chuanting, the commander-in-chief of the Qin army, are more than ten feet long, very obvious and powerful.
"Open the door quickly, the supervisor is right behind you."
The cavalryman who knocked on the door shouted with a northern Shaanxi accent and seemed particularly friendly.
Li Jizu was quite impulsive and wanted to open the door.
The deputy general on the side held back and said: "General, let's ask Inspector Zhu."
"That's too late."
Li Jizu hurriedly said: "Didn't you see that the supervisor is being chased? If it is later, something might happen. How can you and I shoulder the responsibility?"
"Open the door, open the door-"
The guard under the door received the order and slowly opened the city gate.
The deputy general sighed, stamped his feet helplessly, and sent someone to inform Zhu Yixi.
Soon, Zhu Yixi received the news and was shocked. Before he could insult him, he had people call in the musketeers and hurried forward.
At the city gate, under the banner of the banner, Li Guo saw the city gate slowly opening with his own eyes, and couldn't help but feel happy: "Although he didn't catch Sun Chuanting, the banner is no less good than him."
"rush--"
In an instant, hundreds of cavalry rushed in frantically. The gate of Tongguan could not be closed at all, and many defenders were killed.
When Li Jizu saw it, he immediately panicked: "How is it possible? This is a big banner, it's right!"
He never imagined that the banner symbolizing the Qin army would also be taken away.
For a time, a battle broke out in Tongguan.
However, Zhu Yixi came to Wengcheng with hundreds of musketeers.
The situation in Wengcheng is also very urgent. There are many attempts to seize the gate, but the bandit army has the upper hand.
"Damn it!" Zhu Yixi scolded the eighteenth generation of Li Jizu's ancestors in her heart, but she couldn't care about that at this time:
"Array up, reload——"
Crash--
The musketeers immediately stopped, raised their flintlock guns, and aimed at the thieves who were snatching the city gate dozens of steps away.
"Bird gun?"
When the thieves and generals fighting for Wengcheng saw the muskets, they immediately laughed and said, "What use are the muskets of your officers and soldiers?"
As he said that, he didn't even pay attention to it at all and only focused on fighting for the city gate.
"snort!"
Seeing that the inner chamber was cleaned, the musketeer loaded the projectiles, took out a thumb-sized cardboard box, which contained a round of gunpowder, and poured it into the inner chamber.
After hundreds of rehearsals, everything was ready in just tens of seconds.
"Ignite, launch—"
Zhu Yixi drew out her saber and waved it with a force like a rainbow.
“Ding dong dong!!!”
Accompanied by a sound of flint knocking, the gunpowder was ignited, a large amount of white smoke emitted, and hundreds of projectiles were fired together.
Puff, puff—
Projectiles one after another covered the entire gate of Wengcheng, attacking without distinguishing between friend and foe.
"Continue-" His view was blocked by smoke, but Zhu Yixi continued to give orders.
Under the three-round shooting method, the second round and the third round began to shoot in turns. The smoke filled the air and the smell of sulfur was extremely strong.
After a while, the smoke dissipated.
Zhu Yixi took a closer look and saw hundreds of corpses lying in a mess near Wengcheng Gate, and there were many painful wailing sounds.
"Okay!" After the first practice, it had such a good effect. Zhu Yixi was overjoyed and hurriedly led the people to move forward, preparing to pass through the barbican and retake the city gate again.
At this time, a large wave of cavalry and infantry suddenly appeared.
They were well-equipped and all wore armor, so they were probably elites, and they even carried a large banner, Sun Chuanting's large banner.
"So that's it!" Zhu Yixi suddenly realized that in the army, the banner is equivalent to the commander. Wherever the flag goes, the commander is.
Once it is cut off or captured, it is equivalent to a defeat.
This is why Li Jizu opened the door easily.
"Huh? How brave!"
When Li Guo saw the mess ahead, he became furious and said, "How dare you, an unknown young man, hurt my soldiers."
Hundreds of steps away, Zhu Yixi didn't hear what he said clearly, but the other party was coming menacingly and was quite difficult to deal with.
"Prepare--"
Not wanting to waste anything, he stared straight ahead and gave orders.
"Bird gun?" Li Guo stared at it for a while, and then his eyes were stern: "A hundred steps away, let me see what you can do!"
For a long time, in duels with officers and soldiers, muskets can only fire one shot, can only be used as wooden sticks, and can only be used for sneak attacks. The danger of exploding the barrel is always accompanied.
Therefore, when he suddenly saw bird cannons and corpses on the ground, he thought that if these bird cannons fired several shots, if they came again, they would most likely explode.
Relying on this impression, Li Guo grinned ferociously, rode his horse, and galloped forward quickly.
He felt that the long knife in his hand was heating up, and he wanted to cut this Qin army into pieces that didn't know the heights of the sky.
"Huh? Are you being daring, or are you just ignorant?"
Zhu Yixi was stunned for a moment, then reacted and sneered: "He looks like a big shot. Since you want to die, I will help you!"
"preparation--"
One hundred steps, eighty steps, sixty steps.
"emission--"
Crash--
"Cum again——"
"Third shot!!"
Three rounds of muskets and more than a thousand projectiles erupted in the passages of the entire city wall.
Dozens of cavalrymen in front, their horses neighed for a moment, and their bodies were covered with blood holes.
As for the leading horse, it was extremely fast. The horse fell down more than twenty steps ahead, and the body of its rider was thrown out. It was only ten steps away from Zhu Yixi.