Whether the discord plan can succeed is not whether the parties are successful, the most important thing is whether the surrounding relevant people are successful, and then affect the parties, so that even if the parties are suspicious, then the discord plan will be successful for the most part.

How to separate the relationship between Wu Sangui and the Qing Dynasty court, everyone discussed for a long time, and each expressed their opinions.

According to the opinions of Qian Bangqi and others, of course, the parties concerned must be convinced by the divisive plan, and they can send envoys to lobby Wu Sangui, if they agree to submit to obedience, it is fine, if they cannot be submitted, they can be made public, and the relationship between Wu Sangui and the Qing court can be separated.

As a traverser, Yang Lin of course knew that the relationship between Wu Sangui and the Qing court was nothing more than an alliance of interests, if the interests were still there, of course the alliance would still exist, and if the interests disappeared, then the alliance would collapse.

Wu Sangui fought in the north and south for the Qing court, in order to be prosperous and wealthy with his generals, Wu Sangui and Nanming faced off in the north and south of central Sichuan for more than ten years in history, not completely because Wu Sangui was not strong, and the self-respecting part of raising Kou was also very large.

Now listening to Qian Bangxin to send an envoy to lobby Wu Sangui, Yang Lin knew that the difficulty would be successful, thought about it for a long time, and decided to come up with a plan.

When Wu Sangui was hesitating to advance and retreat from Luoshui Valley, he suddenly heard the visit of the envoy of the Ming Dynasty, and was shocked, and said to Fang Guangchen on his side: "The mud of the Ming Dynasty has been on the wall, and it has already been a walking corpse, and now it is really hateful to want to come to harm this king." ”

Fang Guangchen is the son of Fang Yizao, a scholar of the first auxiliary university of the Wanli Dynasty, and has complicated feelings for the Ming Dynasty, so he thought about it and said: "Lord, having said that, the world is unpredictable?

A few years ago, how could I have imagined that the Qing Dynasty would be able to enter the Central Plains?

Although the Ming Dynasty is still alive and well, Yang Lin I is heroic and has not been able to turn things around. ”

Wu Sangui waved his hand, shook his head and said, "Yang Lin is a hero, needless to say, but he is not as miraculous as everyone says.

On the same day, the Qing army entered Sichuan, Haoge arrogantly divided his troops and rushed forward, although the killing of Zhang Xianzhong led to the collapse of the 100,000 Western Army, but the collapse of the Great Western Army fled to the rear of the Qing army, affecting the safety of its rear road.

Haoge didn't know how powerful it was, so he continued to march forward and fought with the volunteers under the city of Shunqing.

The hills of northern Sichuan stretch endlessly, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and Shunqing City is surrounded by water on three sides and can only be reached by the north road, so the cavalry advantage of the Qing army is lost, why is it undefeated? ”

Fang Guangchen was shocked, his face was full of admiration, he had not figured out why the Qing army had been defeated for several months, and now when he heard Wu Sangui say this, he suddenly realized, and nodded yes again and again.

Wu Sangui looked very proud, and said with a smile: "After the battle of Shunqing, the Qing army was like a frightened bird, after the two armies in Lizhou, although the situation was stable on the surface, but the people in central Sichuan rebelled, and the army was completely dependent on Hanzhong for supplies. ”

Fang Guangchen nodded in agreement, but the battle of Hanzhong is incomprehensible, it stands to reason that the Qing army has already gained a firm foothold in Hanzhong for several months, but after the volunteers entered Sichuan, they were defeated again in successive battles, and lost most of Hanzhong in less than a few months?

Wu Sangui sighed and said: "Brother Fang, Yang Lin is good at using soldiers, and he is even better at training, the morale of the volunteers is strong, and the combat power is strong, not to mention the soldiers and horses of the green battalion, even if they encounter my Guanning soldiers and horses, it will be difficult to defeat the enemy."

The army of the expedition to the west relied on only the Manmeng Eight Banners, and when it was heard that the battle was fought that day, Yang Lin sent scouts to a distance of 20 miles, and the Qing army had already been lined up before it was assembled, just waiting for the enemy to attack.

The Qing army thought that the cavalry was invincible in the world on the plains, and they did not consider that the morale of the volunteers had plummeted just a few months ago, and they did not consider that the volunteers had already completed the formation with the help of the terrain, and Tunqita was even more arrogant, and took the lead in attacking before the heavy infantry arrived.

Cavalry combat, nothing more than heavy cavalry frontal assault, or send light cavalry to outflank the two wings, on the battlefield, the volunteer army with the help of geographical advantages, with the so-called phalanx to resist the enemy, although the Tartar cavalry is strong, but it is difficult to outflank and defeat the other side from both wings, so the outcome of the battlefield can be imagined"

Fang Guangchen looked surprised, looked at Wu Sangui, who was talking boastfully, and asked, "The prince explained like this, I will understand."

The prince's plan is far above Yang Lin, and now that he has sent an envoy here, we must make good use of it. ”

Wu Sangui shook his head and sighed: "I can't wait for hindsight, if you want to talk about stratagem, this Yang Lin is far above us."

But so what? What a character Zhuge Liang was still trapped in Xichuan back then, even if Yang Lin was a hero, it would be even more difficult to turn the tide. ”

Due to the spread of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the world regards Zhuge Liang as a celestial, and now when Wu Sangui said this, everyone nodded yes.

Even so, according to the intentions of Fang Guangchen and others, it would not hurt to meet the envoy of the other party, but Wu Sangui thought that the Qing court was quite defensive against him now, and the general trend of the Ming Dynasty had gone, and now openly meeting the envoy of the other party would only increase his troubles.

In this case, Wu Sangui thought that he had handled it seamlessly, but that was only the beginning of the pain.

First of all, it was rumored in the army that Wu Sangui and the Qing army would ally that day, but it was just a borrowed army, and after the fact, the legitimacy of the Manchu regime was recognized, and the two sides divided the river and ruled, but after defeating Li Zicheng, the Manchu Qing Dynasty occupied the magpie's nest and occupied the Central Plains. (This is probably Wu Sangui's original intention, and Wu Sangui made a condition for borrowing troops from Dolgon that day)

Wu Sangui was already dissatisfied with the treachery of the Manchus and blatantly violated the covenant, and had been looking for opportunities to contact the Ming forces against the Manchus.

Secondly, the two armies had already secretly fornicated and discussed geographical division, but it was only because of the leakage of the news that Li Guohan and other Manchu and Mongolian generals would find out, so Wu Sangui pretended to expel him.

Then came the news that Wu Sangui proposed that Guanzhong and Hanzhong belong to the Wu army, but Yang Lin insisted that Wu Sangui could only control Guanzhong and Hanzhong should be returned to the Volunteer Army.

In the Guanning soldiers and horses, there are many people who are forced to submit to the Manchu Qing Dynasty due to the situation but are quite sympathetic to the Ming Dynasty, although the number is not large, but there are still a small number of people who hope that the Ming Dynasty will be restored and that the Han family will be restored.

Among the Manchurian, Mongolian and Han Eight Banners, there was also no shortage of hostile to Wu Sangui, believing that he was half-hearted with the Qing court, and sooner or later would rebel against the Qing Dynasty and submit to the Ming Dynasty.

Just as the Nazi propaganda minister Goebel said, a lie is told a thousand times and it becomes the truth.

These people originally had different ideas, but now, of course, they are just looking for various mental evidence to prove themselves.

There are many rumors, Yang Zhan was killed in Sichuan on the same day, in fact, Wu Sangui had already gotten the news, in order to support the volunteers to quell the rebellion, Wu Sangui deliberately refused to enter the army on the grounds that the soldiers and horses in Liaodong were tired from afar, and the volunteers were unable to fight even the enemy, so as to let the other party pass the most dangerous moment.

In the following months, the Volunteers were reluctant to fight with the Liaodong soldiers, and concentrated their forces on attacking the Western Army, which was dominated by the Manchurian, Mongolian and Han Eight Banners.

Rumors spread in the army, and in the end, even Li Guohan, Zhun Ta, Haningge and others were suspicious, and they were more or less revealed in their words.

Wu Sangui was worried, if the rumors were allowed to spread, it might affect the morale of the army.

Especially in early January of the 2nd year of Yongli (1648 AD), the detailed work continued to report, Li Gande, Yuan Taowu, and the rebellion of Dading gradually calmed down, Sichuan became stable again, and the main force of the volunteers was gathering in Hanzhong, looking at the situation, the volunteers were ready to solve the war in Hanzhong in one fell swoop.

Wu Sangui was worried and wanted to withdraw from the army, but his subordinates Fang Guangchen, an important adviser, and Yang Kun, a general under him, openly opposed it, believing that Guanning's soldiers and horses were originally suspicious of the imperial court, and they had not experienced a war in Hanzhong for several months since entering Hanzhong, and if they easily abandoned the strategic place in Hanzhong, they would arouse the suspicion of the imperial court. (Refer to the historical Liu Wenxiu's expedition to Sichuan, the battle of Baoning).

According to the opinions of Fang Guangchen, Yang Kun and others, if you want to retreat, it is best to retreat from the Western Army first, and then the Guanning soldiers and horses will naturally retreat.

The Guanning soldiers and horses under Li Guohan have been attacking the city and pulling out the village in the past two months, and more than ten cottages have been captured in the past two months, and now the morale of the army has already recovered.

Prince Su Haoge failed to conquer Sichuan and was imprisoned to death by Dolgon, and a few months ago, Li Guohan and others were fined one after another, and everyone was apprehensive and unwilling to take the initiative to withdraw from the army.

In this way, in the middle of the first month of the second year of Yongli (1648 AD), the Lantern Festival lanterns passed for two days, and it was rare to have a few days of leisure in this war-torn era.

Although the military staff had reminded him that the local tyrants were recruited that year, Yang Lin led his troops to launch an attack on the Chinese New Year's Eve.

Li Guohan, the general of the expedition to the west, also took precautions and ordered the generals to strengthen their vigilance, but there were complaints in the army, and everyone thought that the generals were too cautious.

On this day, Li Guohan sat high and took the lead seat, Manchuria is the acting blue banner of the capital, Manchuria is the acting of the red flag, Haningge, Mongolia is the blue flag of Gushan, Ezhen Ma Lashi and others to accompany, everyone has talked and laughed, suddenly the army came to report, the Yangxian volunteers came out of the camp, and several camps in front of Lianke are now rushing to the meridian town.

After recapturing Luoshui Valley, the Qing army's strength was adjusted, and the Guanning soldiers and horses controlled the meridian road at the forefront, while the Zhengxi army controlled the meridian road.

Li Guohan was shocked, and hurriedly ordered the three armies to gather to meet the enemy, and on the other hand, he sent an envoy to Wu Sangui's array, begging for reinforcements.

The envoy had just left less than an hour ago, and news came from the rear, Liu Tichun of the He Zhen Department fell from the sky, approaching the waist ridge pass, the two sides were fighting fiercely, and the guard Gao Minzhan could not resist the special emergency.

Now that Fu Luo Dao is controlled by the Guanning soldiers and horses, it can be said that the Meridian Road is the most reassuring way for the Western Army to retreat.

Hearing the news, everyone was worried, and many people repeatedly persuaded Li Guohan to give up meeting the enemy and return to the waist ridge pass.

When Li Guohan was hesitating, he sent an envoy to Wu Sangui's army to report that this morning the volunteers were going down the Han River and approached the mouth of the Luoshui Valley, and now the two sides were fighting in full swing.

Wu was overwhelmed and implored Li Guohan to lead his troops to come with reinforcements.

The generals were in an uproar, and the Manchurian Zhenghong Banner Acting Gushan Ezhen Haningge bluntly said that this was Wu Sangui's plan, so that the Western Army could throw itself into the net, and the other party could conspire with the Volunteers to annihilate the Western Army, so Wu Sangui would retreat back to Guanzhong and dominate one side.

At this time, news came from the front that the Volunteers had pulled out two camps in a row, and the Western Army was even more panicked, and the army had no heart to fight to the death.