Seeing that Li Guohan led the expeditionary army to the west and retreated into the Meridian Road one after another, Yang Lin knew that the general trend of the Qing army had gone, and it would be difficult to make a comeback in the short term, leaving the deputy general Yang Chengtong to lead the 1st Association of the headquarters, Wang Shuji's 8th Association, and Wang Zhibang's 10th Association to exterminate the Qing army in the scattered strongholds, annihilate the remnants of the Qing army such as Qing generals Nan Yikui, Zhang Tianfu, and Hou Dajie, and wait for an opportunity to capture the various prefectures and counties under Xing'an Prefecture (today's Ankang).

Yang Lin personally led the Escort Association, Jing Keqin's 6th Association, Feng Youqing's 7th Association, and Bu Ning Guo Chonglie's two cavalry associations to Luoshui Valley Pass.

When the Volunteers attacked Li Guohan's army to conquer the west, Wu Sangui wanted to retreat after receiving the news, but the generals Zhao Liangdong and Daniel Zhang strongly advised that now it was the time of the decisive battle between the two armies, and if Wang Ye retreated to Guanzhong without fighting, the Qing court would inevitably be even more suspicious.

Wu Sangui ordered his troops and horses to prepare to cross the round between Luoshui and Li Guohan, and at this time, more than 50 ships went down the river and approached the mouth of Luoshui Valley.

General Wang Fuchen commanded the navy to patrol back and forth on the river, not approaching the Qing army camp to bombard, the Luoshui River is not wide, the water flow is not turbulent, seeing the volunteer army of the navy coming over, Wu Sangui was shocked and hurriedly ordered to meet the enemy.

Guanning soldiers and horses used shore artillery, guns, bows and crossbows to shoot, the two sides fought fiercely for two hours, Wang Fuchen's naval army lost more than ten large and small ships and retreated.

Wu Sangui was preparing to command Guanning's soldiers and horses to cross Luoshui to rescue, and the deputy general Liao Qifang commanded the 4th Association of the headquarters, the 3rd Association of Long Zhiframe, and the 5th Association of Yang Bingyi arrived.

Although the Qing army controls the two roads, considering that the number of Qing troops is too large, this Fu Luo Road is almost the only way for Wu Sangui to retreat.

Fu Luodao was lost, Wu Sangui had almost no way back, just like Gao Yingxiang, the king of the late Ming Dynasty, he was blocked and defeated and captured, and finally was divided by the five horses of the Ming court.

Of course, Wu Sangui was unwilling to give up his only way out to save Li Guohan.

And to defeat the volunteers on the other side, it is not easy, not to mention anything else, using the navy to drag the soldiers and horses of Guanning for two hours, the volunteers occupy more than ten hills on the opposite bank, and control a small mountain village within a radius of two miles.

Liao Qifang controlled seven or eight hills near Luoshui, and most of them were Franc machine gun positions on the hills, and they moved back and forth on the hills, shooting at the enemy who was close to the target from a long distance.

When approaching, it is about to attack the mountain, but it is often blocked by the antlers, and the road is often put in rows of antlers, which are mostly made of wooden sticks and bamboo, and lie in the middle of the road, often in three rows, aiming at the direction of the attack, most of which are sharpened trees and bamboo tips.

The soldiers of the Volunteers condescended to hide behind the antlers, and in the face of the attacking enemy troops at close range, they fired their guns and arrows at close range, and if they dared to rush close and move away from these fortifications composed of antlers, they often killed a group of men and horses from the mountains, and it was difficult to bargain for anything.

After a day of fighting, after paying the price of hundreds of people, although a hill was captured, the other party withdrew safely, and there was no bargain at all.

The next day, the situation on the battlefield was even more severe, and after a night's rest, the volunteers dug many trenches on the mountain roads, making the attack more difficult.

In the past two days, there have been many rumors outside, and it is difficult to distinguish the true from the false for a while.

It is rumored that Li Guohan's army was surrounded, and now the two armies are in the middle of a battle.

It is rumored that the Western Army and the Volunteers fought in Ziwu Town, and the two sides fought fiercely for two days, but they did not decide the winner.

It is even rumored that Liu Tichun and He Zhenbu made a surprise attack on Waist Ridge Pass, and Li Guohan led the army to retreat from Meridian Road in order to protect the way back.

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The rumors were disturbed, and it was difficult for Wu Sangui to distinguish the truth from the false for a while, although he sent a scout to investigate, but the travel was less than fifty miles, and the war was raging, and the messengers sent were either killed, or it was difficult to collect any conclusive news in half a moment.

On the third day, he finally got the conclusive news that Liu Tichun congratulated the rare waist ridge pass, and Li Guohan retreated on all fronts, and now led the Manchurian, Mongolian and Han Eight Banners to withdraw from the Meridian Road.

Wu Sangui sighed: "The old man has been fighting for the country for several days, and he originally hoped that the situation could be reversed, but who would have expected that this Li Guohan did not have the courage to put his death at all, and the whole army retreated into the Meridian Road after the attack on the Waist Ridge Pass, which is really hateful." ”

Staff member Fang Guangchen nodded and said with a smile: "Li Guohan is greedy for life and afraid of death and will retire early, and it is no longer reasonable for our army to be stationed in Hanzhong."

Wang Ye can lead the army back to Guanzhong, to ensure that Guanzhong is not lost, Zhuge Liang was resourceful that day and could not seek Guanzhong, although Yang Lin is also a wise and brave man, but it is even more difficult to capture Guanzhong. ”

Everyone knew that the war in Hanzhong was basically over, and they begged to withdraw their troops.

At this moment, the porter came to report, and the messenger of the volunteers asked to see him.

A few months ago, the envoy of the Volunteer Army asked to see him, but Wu Sangui did not see him in order to avoid suspicion, who knew that the other party had made rumors out of nothing, and spread the collusion between the two armies to the army, which spread the word that there were noses and eyes, which made the generals of the Manchurian, Mongolian and Han Eight Banners suspicious of Wu Sangui, and made the soldiers and horses of Guanning panic.

Now that the two armies are fighting each other, they can't imagine that the other party will send an envoy again, Wu Sangui didn't want to see it, but he was dissuaded by his friend Fang Guangchen, since the other party can make trouble without rumors, then why not meet openly and honestly, asphalt the relationship between the two sides.

Wu Sangui had no choice but to open the city gate to meet the Ming envoy --- Long Qianwang.

Wu Sangui originally wanted to asphalt the relationship between the two sides and clarify whether everyone loved to have a secret meeting, who knew that this time the envoy actually came in straight to the point with his waist straight, and said with a shallow salute: "Wu Sangui, this envoy was ordered by the governor of my family, and this time I came to point out the situation to you, a traitor, otherwise Haoge, Luo Luohun, Nikan, Duzhi, Aobai, Wang Zuntan, Zhang Desheng, Liu Jinzhong and others are your tomorrow." ”

Long Qianwang held the heart of death, although his words were short, but he spoke sonorously and powerfully.

After all, Wu Sangui was born as a military general, how could he have been so angry: "Where did the madman dare to be arrogant in front of this king, although the volunteer army is powerful, my Guanning soldiers and horses are not vegetarians, this king is here, if you want to fight Yang Lin and lead your troops to come over, we will fight openly, mother-in-law, mother-in-law, like a girl, what are you sending a madman to do?" ”

Long Qianwang's body straightened up, and he said unmoved: "Before the envoy traveled, my family repeatedly told the envoy, saying that you Wu Sangui is quite pitiful, and let the envoy come to lobby you."

If the envoy's advice can be listened to, you Wu Sangui can leave a name in history.

If you don't listen to it, this is or the words of your Wu Sangui coffin, you Wu Sangui will always bear the notoriety of being a second minister, and you will be scolded by my Han sons and daughters. ”

In the past two years, I have heard a lot of the name of traitors in the open and in secret, Wu Sangui suppressed the anger in his heart, and said with a smile: "Oh, this king also advises you to wait, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang are such heroes and heroes, and in the end they were trapped by the Great Wei, the last one didn't die of illness in the White Emperor City, and the other didn't die of illness in Wuzhangyuan?"

You go and tell Yang Lin, if you are willing to surrender to my Daqing, my Daqing can not blame the past, and it is not impossible to seal him a prince when the time comes. ”

Long Qianwang laughed and said, "It seems that you, Wu Sangui, are really pitiful, shameful, pathetic, and lamentable."

On that day, Cao Wei lived in the north, Wei, Shu and Wu were all strong, and although Cao Cao was a big one, he was still a son and daughter of our Han family.

On the other hand, your so-called emperor is just a descendant of the Later Jin and Miao, originally a barbarian, after the traitorous ministers entered the Central Plains, they burned, killed and looted, and did all kinds of evil, how did they start the dream of unification for thousands of years?

My family sees that although you have done a lot of evil, but in essence you are still different from Shang Kexi, Geng Jingmao, Kong Youde and others, you are a thief in order to avenge Sizong, his feelings are pitiful, and his sin is unforgivable, so that Ben joined the army and sent the envoy to the camp to give you the last chance? ”

Wu Sangui said with a smile: "Long Xiucai, what gives this king the last chance, this king has his back to the mountain, if the battle is unfavorable, he can withdraw to Guanzhong, what gives this king the last chance."

Long Xiucai, I see that you have also studied private school for two days, although Yang Lin is powerful, is he more powerful than Zhuge Liang of the Three Kingdoms?

In this group of mountains, Zhuge Liang didn't kill it that day, and Yang Lin wanted to kill it, which was more difficult than climbing to the sky. ”

Long Qianwang said with a smile: "Oh, my lord asked the envoy to come and tell you and others that Shi Jingjiao sacrificed the sixteen states of Yanyun to the Khitan, thus becoming a sinner in the history of my Han nation."

And you Wu Sangui is a famous general of the generation, but it is actually very sad, although Shi Jingjiao betrayed the country, he still became an emperor.

You Wu Sangui dedicated the provinces of Beizhili, Shanxi, and Shaanxi to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and now you are just an eagle dog in the hands of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

My lord let me tell you that the only hope you have to win the trust of the Han nation now is to kill the Tartars, and lead the army into the customs with my lords, so as to drive forward for my lords, and jointly expel the Tartars and restore China.

If you are obsessed with it again, in the future, you will cry and make a fuss to return to my Han nation, and we will not agree to your return as a traitor.

If you are obsessed with it again, then our volunteers will inevitably behead all your Wu Sangui men, and all the women will be used as camp prostitutes.

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Where is this persuasion, it is clearly a scolding, before Long Qianwang finished speaking, Wu Sangui had already pulled out the treasure knife and used the blade against Long Qianwang's throat, due to the excessive force, blood flowed down the blade and said: "You, you dare to insult this king like this, when you want this king to go into battle to kill the enemy, Yang Lin still doesn't know that he is still wearing crotch pants?"

That day, Sizong, Emperor Hongguang, and today's Yongli Emperor all paid tribute to this king, that Yang Lin, what is it, just a villain, dared to insult this king like this.

Don't think that you are a messenger, this king will not dare to kill you, and if you dare to speak disrespectfully, look at the hard sword of this king, or your head is hard."

Long Qianwang laughed miserably: "Yes, Sizong is not thin on you Wu Sangui, not only summoned Your Excellency in the Yingwu Palace, gave you the Shangfang Sword, and awarded you the Marquis of Pingxi, but think about it, how can you repay the first emperor?"

Sizong unfortunately died tragically, the three sons were exiled to the people, when you entered Beijing, you did not take them in, and watched the three sons of the first emperor being slaughtered by the Manchus.

Think about it, this is how you repay the first emperor, in front of this army, do you still have the face to mention the first emperor? ”

Wu Sangui was shocked, the treasure knife in his hand fell to the ground in response, and after a long time, he said to everyone: "Drag down this king, dig off the bridge of the nose, dig out the bridge of the nose." ”

Staff member Fang Guangchen was shocked: "Lord Wang, the two countries will not fight each other.

Yang Lin sent such a madman to talk nonsense, there was to lobby everyone, obviously to provoke the prince and distract the prince. ”

Wu Sangui pushed Fang Guangchen and said, "Ting Xian, Yang Lin's little strategy, how can this king not know?"

You also know that there is a shortage of everything else in the Ming Dynasty, and there is no shortage of pedantic people like this, and these talents hope to become famous and become the leaders of Shilin one by one, and be admired by future generations.

If this king doesn't let these madmen pay the price, this Yang Lin will probably send these madmen to humiliate this king twice in three days, so how can this king lead his troops to fight? ”

Ignoring everyone's persuasion and Long Qianwang's loud scolding, several Wu soldiers rushed up and dug out our Long Xiucai's nose with three strikes and five divisions.

Seeing that Long Qianwang's nose was bleeding, Wu Sangui was very proud, and asked someone to bring a big mirror, pointed to the mirror and said: "Long Xiucai, this king is not thin on you, look at your honor, good, good, very good."

And this Long Qianwang seemed to have the determination to die, he didn't want to go at all, sat on the steps, and scolded the eighteenth generation of Wu Sangui's ancestors, Wu Sangui became angry, lifted the bloody scimitar, and made Long Xiucai's left ear and then his right ear cut off.

Seeing this monster with no nose and no ears, everyone laughed, and at this time, Long Xiucai wrapped the injured part in a white cloth with tears in his eyes, and scolded all the way back to the barracks.