The spring is rainy, the cattle hair silk of Lili Lala does not stop, and the sun can not be seen for several days, at noon, a team of Dashun troops wearing clothes and hats appear outside the north gate of Chongyang.

They are all veterans of the battle formation, and without Yuan Zongdi's order, they can set up a defensive formation under the command of Jiang Zuo, and then sit down to rest silently, eat some dry food to recover their strength, and are ready to attack Chongyang County at any time.

The strange thing is that there is no sound on the Chongyang city wall, there is no golden drum horn, no voice shouting, only the motionless red flag on the city wall, and the faintly visible rows of soldiers, indicating that there are Ming troops stationed here.

Yuan Zongdi frowned slightly, urging the mount to move forward, he didn't like this feeling, the Ming army was too quiet, which meant that they had already prepared and were waiting for him.

Twenty or thirty soldiers followed, came to the place of three arrows away from the city, Yuan Zongdi turned his horse's head, from the east gate to the west gate, looked at the three city walls horizontally, carefully looked at this small county town, and then turned back to the north gate, urging the horse to walk in the direction of the city gate.

The soldiers hurriedly caught up to dissuade them, and then approached the city wall It would be dangerous, within the land of three arrows, although ordinary bows and arrows could not be shot, but if there were people in the city who were good at shooting, they could also hurt Yuan Zongdi with a strong bow and a crossbow with a sudden cold arrow.

"I'd like to take a closer look." Yuan Zongdi waved his hand and insisted on walking forward, his eyes never leaving the Moon City outside the two city gates. He has always been quiet and doesn't like to talk, but it is difficult to change his mind as soon as the words come out, and the soldiers have no choice but to take off their shields and hold them in their hands, protecting Yuan Zongdi in the middle.

Yuan Zongdi got closer and closer, carefully looked at the city defense of the Ming army, and even went around to the side of the moon city to look at it for a long time, the soldiers were very nervous, this place was too close to the city gate, even if the Ming army could not shoot Yuan Zongdi's strong bow, they might send a cavalry to suddenly kill from the city gate.

Yuan Zongdi looked at the Moon City, and then looked at the Ming army on the city wall, his eyes inadvertently met with the Ming generals on the city tower, the two looked at each other silently for a moment, and Yuan Zongdi suddenly opened his mouth and shouted.

"Who is the general in the city, can you leave a name?"

"The Gongyi battalion is guarded, Wang Kefan." The voice of the Ming general came from the city tower.

Yuan Zongdi nodded, turned around and hit his horse and returned to his army: "Let's go, Chongyang is gone, find a ferry to cross the Junshui River." ”

With his order, the Dashun army got up and marched, the rear team became the forward, the Chinese army accompanied the baggage, Yuan Zongdi personally returned to the palace, and waited until the old camp was far away and could not see the shadow, and then took the rear guard troops to prepare to leave.

At this time, the gate of Chongyang City suddenly opened.

Yuan Zongdi hurriedly ordered a formation and prepared to meet the battle. The Dashun army walked around the city, did not dare to attack Chongyang, lost a chip in momentum, the Ming army went out of the city at this time to chase and kill, although it was a little impatient in grasping the timing, the threat to the Dashun army was not small at all.

Unexpectedly, what came out of the city gate was not the Ming army, but a group of young men pushing chicken carts. When they came to a place five or six hundred paces in front of the city, they tilted the cart, dumped a pile of bulging sacks, and ran back with the chicken cart as fast as they could.

"General Yuan is a guest from afar, Wang Garrison will give fifty stones of grain, please smile ......and accept it," those young men shouted when they left, making Yuan Zongdi even more confused.

He took his own soldiers forward to check, and the sack turned out to be really grain, roughly estimated, it was almost fifty stones.

Fifty stone of grain is not much, it is only the food of thousands of Dashun troops for three days, which is less than one hundred taels of silver, but for Yuan Zongdi, who is just short of food, it is no less than sending charcoal in the snow.

Urging the horse to come to the city, Yuan Zongdi hugged his fist to the city tower: "No merit, why did Wang Garrison give me military rations?" ”

"Cross the border as soon as possible, don't hurt the people of Chongyang." On the city tower, Wang Kefan also hugged his fists from afar.

Yuan Zong was stunned for the first time, and then nodded: "Okay!" I promise you......"

The Dashun army walked away with the food, Xu Bingzhong's hanging heart finally let go, sighed a long breath, and asked Wang Kefan: "These rogues and thieves are difficult to change, and the virtuous nephew gave him military rations, will they raise tigers?" ”

"Mountains and rivers meet, just make a good fate." Wang Kefan responded lightly, did not explain much, and said to the generals: "Yuan Zongdi is in a hurry to get out, seeing that our army is in a tight position, he will naturally not attack the city, but the chasing soldiers of the Tartars are behind, it is possible to beat us easily, we must be prepared for the worst!" ”

All the generals shouted together, and Wang Kefan asked again: "The two moon cities at the north gate are directly facing the Tartar soldiers, and they need to be guarded by people who dare to die, who dares to go?" ”

The two moon cities are outside the city wall, if the Qing army attacks the city on a large scale, it is likely to fall into a heavy siege, unable to retreat, much more dangerous than the city, the generals glanced at each other, Zhou Guodong and Wang Sheng took the lead in standing up, asking for orders to guard the city of Yue.

Wang Kefan shook his head: "As long as Yuecheng is guarded by a team of soldiers, you are all sentinels and can't go." ”

Moon Castle is not a real castle, but a man-made solid earth and stone platform, with steps to climb the castle at the back, and a female wall at the top as a cover, which serves as a fortress to defend the city gate. The scale of these Moon Cities in Chongyang is not large, and they can only accommodate a team of soldiers from the Gongyi Battalion at most, that is, more than forty people.

To defend Moon City, you need a team officer.

"I'll go!" Shi Ah Da stepped forward.

He is a rough and honest temper, dangerous or something, never thinks too much, rushes ahead in every battle, and is injured again and again. Isn't it just Shouyue City, since the fourth young master spoke, he immediately stood up, otherwise no one answered, and the fourth young master would have no face......

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The light rain did not stop for two days, and Bolhui's Qing army arrived in Chongyang.

The horns whimpered, the flags waved, and the Qing army lined up in front of the city. The green battalion is on the left, the Eight Banners are on the right, Bol Hui led the Bayala Battalion in the center, the foot archers shot the feet, the horse archers roamed around, the rattan soldiers, the sword and axe soldiers, and the pikemen were arranged layer by layer, and there was a team of Han Army Eight Banners behind the formation with mules and horses to drag out two cannons.

Chongyang City is still quiet.

Bol Hui snorted, urging the iron horse under his crotch to walk forward, and fifty white-armored soldiers followed closely, escorting him around the Chongyang City Wall.

After carefully turning around, it took more than half an hour, and Bolhui finally returned to the north gate and called Ma Jinzhong, the Han general of the green camp.

Ma Jinzhong, born in the peasant rebel army in northern Shaanxi, nicknamed "mixed 100,000", Chongzhen surrendered to Zuo Liangyu in 14 years, with more than 10,000 horses, after Li Zicheng entered Huguang, Ma Jinzhong was ordered to block, a big defeat and heavy losses, has not kept up with Zuo Liangyu's large army, Zuihou simply surrendered to the Qing army.

"Who is the Ming general in the city, do you know?"

Bo Erhui's tone was very arrogant, he didn't like the Han people, especially the Han generals who surrendered, such as Ma Jinzhong in front of him. This kind of person is a military general, but he is all soft bones, and he surrenders to the enemy in order to survive, and he is not even as good as a small sparrow. (Sparrows are fierce, and they often don't eat or drink after being caught, and generally can't survive.) ）

Since joining the army, Bolhui has never lost a battle, but he once imagined that if one day he fell into a siege and was cornered, he would rather die on the battlefield than surrender...... Of course, this is only hypothetical, and Bolhui is 100% convinced that this kind of thing will never really happen.

"If you go back to Lord Zhangjing, he is He Tengjiao's subordinate, named Wang Kefan, and he seems to be a guard." Ma Jinzhong and Jin Shenghuan have a good relationship and know Wang Kefan's name.

"You go and shout, make him surrender, and let him be a third-class Lazhangjing." I don't like it, Bo Erhui does not reject recruiting the Han people, using them to replace the Manchus to fight and bleed, after seeing the Chongyang city defense, he concluded that this Wang Kefan is worth recruiting.

"Yes!"

Ma Jinzhong bowed and retreated, his body bent into a large prawn, his cheeks were higher than his head, and the back of his head was respectful, but he secretly scolded in his heart: "Thief, your mother, sooner or later it will fall into the hands of grandpa, and you will be cut with a knife......

Surrender!

Ma Jinzhong surrendered by fraud, he did not keep up with Zuo Liangyu's army, so he had to surrender to the Qing army, but he had always had the intention of anyway, but he was busy pursuing Yuan Zongdi these days, and he was always with Bo Erhui's army, and he couldn't find a suitable opportunity.

After these days, Ma Jinzhong has a better understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Qing army, and according to his estimates, if he fights with Bo Erhui, the other party only needs to use those fifty white-armored soldiers, and he can kill his most elite five hundred personal soldiers.

The Tartar soldiers are too fierce, they can really be ten with one!

Therefore, he became more and more cautious, and was extremely respectful to Borhui, and usually behaved faithfully and hard-working, like an obedient hound, hoping to gain his trust. Sooner or later, there will be a chance, and when the day comes when he can act alone, the girl will leave, and he will be called gray and white......

What made him strange was that Bo Erhui was usually arrogant and his eyes were above the top, but he valued Wang Kefan so much that he actually promised him a third-class Lazhangjing. The third-class Lazhangjing, similar to the guerrilla generals in the Ming army, was two levels higher than the garrison.

The civil and military officials of the Manchu Qing Dynasty who surrendered to the Han were generally treated at the same level, they were originally prefects, and they were still prefects after surrendering, and they were originally generals, and they were also generals after surrendering.

Of course, there are a few exceptions, such as Niu Jinxing is the prime minister of the Dashun Dynasty (his official title is Dashun Zuo Pingzhang State Affairs), and he should be given a scholar after surrendering, but his reputation among the Han gentry is too bad, and the position of scholar is too high, so he simply hung up and did not give any officials, but as compensation, he gave his son Niu Yan a level promotion, from Xiangyang Mansion Yin of the Dashun Dynasty to the Huangzhou Governor of the Manchu Dynasty.

A prime minister only changed one level, but Wang Kefan was promoted by two levels, what is this weishenme?

Ma Jinzhong urged the horse to step forward and carefully looked at the Chongyang city defense.