The body that has been suppressed for nearly a year has finally been released heartily at this moment, the weather in April is still very cold, but lying on the wide dragon bed that Zhang Xianzhong has walked on, Wang Lanping sweats like rain, the strong and powerful body swings with wild primitive power, and the two snow-white and soft jade bodies are constantly changing postures behind him, one will close his eyes and frown and gasp, and the other will lose his voice and scream, it is really difficult to tell whether it is excitement or pain.

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At dawn, he opened his eyes faintly, only to feel that his whole body was sore, and his neck was more like he was tied by something, so that he couldn't breathe, looking left and right, but he smiled, Xianglan and Xiangling were sleeping left and right, one arm of both of them was hooked at their neck, for fear that they would leave suddenly, they hugged so tightly, the expression of the fallen asleep was quiet, and the breath of Qi Ruolanxiang was evenly sprinkled in their ears.

This situation aroused his interest to stand up, and regardless of it, he turned over and pushed Xiangling, who was still half-asleep and half-awake, and then pressed it......

**

Sword Gate Pass

It only took ten days for Ai Nengqi and Bai Wenxuan's soldiers and horses to arrive here from Chengdu and open a defensive formation along the Sword Pavilion City.

The person who rebuilt the defense system of Jianmen Pass was Ai Nengqi, he knew where the weakness of this pass was, but he didn't want to fight, they were all brothers who had bled together in Sichuan, so they could die one less and die one less.

And what Ai Nengqi didn't know was that in this Xiongli, there was a person who arrived earlier than him, and this was every three times, and he was Wu Sangui.

In the hall, there are not many people, and those who can participate in this kind of confidential incident are their cronies, and the generals of the two sides are seated in the hall, and there is no tea and dance music.

Wu Sangui said: "General Sun, Ainengqi's 60,000 troops are coming to the city, and I, Wu, only brought a handwritten letter from the three entourages and Hong Jingluo, who is the enemy and who is the friend, can't you see clearly?" ”

Sun Kewang has been hesitating, the focus of the battle between the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties is in Jianmen Pass, even if he has three heads and six arms, it is impossible to protect himself in this situation, he must find a way out, and he should be a good choice, his two brothers with different surnames will be reused immediately after the Ming, but he feels unwilling, the Han King has entered Sichuan until now, he has not fought with the Ming army once, and he is a little too worthless to surrender without a fight, even if he passes, I am afraid that there will not necessarily be a good end.

If you descend to the Qing Dynasty, in the end, it is a foreign race, the Han land should be returned to the Han people, why did the Manchus run to the land of the Han people to be the masters, think about the money rat tail behind the head and feel extremely disgusting, but after thinking about it, Wu Sangui in front of him, Hong Chengchou in Hanzhong, and Fan Wenchen in front of him are all Han people, but they can mix up in the Manchu court, and at this point, the Manchu people are more generous than the Ming court.

Weighing the pros and cons several times, he has rejected Wu Sangui twice in the past few months, and has never been able to make a decision, and now, it has come to the moment when the coffin does not fall, and he can't be allowed not to make up his mind, but at this time, he still can't be sure which side his heart yearns for, maybe he doesn't want to touch anywhere, the best way out is to follow Zhang Xianzhong on behalf of him, Lao Tzu is the eldest son (righteous son) of Emperor Daxi, he is gone, and the one who succeeds the emperor should be me, of course, he dares to think about it but is afraid that it will never be realized.

Sun Kewang walked out of the hall, came to the head of the city, towards the bottom of the mountain that could not see the edge of the Ming army lineup, where the soldiers were still their own brothers a few months ago, in a blink of an eye, the enemy and I have different paths, in the war, as if there is no eternal brother, are just struggling to survive, the only difference is to see who lives better, longer, listen to the battle flag hunting on the head of the city, to be honest, he is not afraid of death, not afraid of dying on the battlefield, but he is afraid of failure, as a commander of more than 100,000 people, he knows a truth, the winner is the prince and the loser Kou, Once he is defeated, the glory he has earned over the years will be wiped out in an instant, and he will become a thief who will never turn over.

Wu Sangui followed, glanced outside the city, and said with a smile: "See, Jianmen Pass Wang Lanping is bound to win, General Sun is a hero, do you want to accept this kind of covenant under the city?" ”

Sun Kewang glanced at him and snorted, "Isn't it your idea to beat my Sword Gate?" ”

Wu Sangui smiled up, "That's right, but it's also wrong."

"Oh?"

Wu Sangui said: "Hong Jingluo wants to pass the Jianmen Pass, but he values the general's talent more, since the trial door of the Qing Dynasty, he has encountered the city pass that can stop the Eight Banners before and after the strong army for a year, and he is ashamed to say that Wu is not capable of capturing this pass, but General Sun's prestige has long been famous all over the world, and the Book of Changes has a cloud: 'The moon is full and the moon is lost', the general does not take advantage of this peak of life to have a good future, it is not good to miss the opportunity" In order to persuade him to surrender, Wu Sangui did not hesitate to depreciate his value, and he said the truth, and he didn't know when he was going to fight. Surrender is also a kind of conquest, and both are victors.

Sun Kewang said: "General Wu, do you want to hear what the people in this world say about you?" ”

Wu Sangui smiled disdainfully, and said casually: "Good birds choose trees to perch, what is the difference between descending to Han or Manchu?" It's just a hundred steps and fifty steps, as for what the people say about Wu, do you think I will care? General Sun, you and I are both people who lead troops, and we should understand this truth."

Sun Kewang smiled indifferently, "The general thinks through and doesn't ask for a name behind him, but why should I follow in your footsteps, as long as I open my mouth, I won't lose the position of marquis if I go to the Ming court, what can Hong Chengchou and his Manchu master give me?" ”

Hearing this, Wu Sangui smiled happily, and if there were conditions, he could talk, and he arched his hand and said: "General Sun, Hong Jingluo has already explained in the letter that as long as the general returns, I, the King of Pingxi, will work with him to promote you to the Qing court as the commander of Hanzhong and the military affairs of Hanzhong and Ganshan."

Sun Kewang couldn't help but be tempted for a while, enough to make a bloody investment, of course, you should also pay the capital, Lao Tzu stopped the Manchurians in Jianmen Pass for more than a year, how can I also beat you to be afraid, I want to surrender, I don't have a lot of money, and I can't look down on it.

Sun Kewang said: "Has Hong Jingluo done the Lord Regent?" ”

Wu Sangui said: "General, don't look at the Manchurians sitting in Beijing, but ninety percent of the people who are really fighting on the battlefield are Han people, and if they want Longting to sit safely, they must win us over, so although the general can rest assured, I, Wu Sangui, dare to vouch for my head."

This is also the truth, without the assistance of the Han people, it is impossible to conquer hundreds of millions of Han people with only 200,000 people in Manmengna, and it is also ashamed to say, why did such a result occur, there is no way, there will never be a shortage of traitors in this land, you don't surrender, some people descend, some people descend earlier, some people descend more thoroughly, some people even lose their shame, and Han to Han will always be a magic weapon for foreign races to conquer China.

Sun Kewang was shaken, although he hated the entry of aliens into the Central Plains, but at this moment, what good choice could he have.

Wu Sangui observed his words, and hurriedly cheered: "General Sun, look down there, the battle flag is floating with the names chosen by Ai Nengqi and Bai Wen, even if you return to the Ming Dynasty now, you will always have to be subservient to these two people, think about it, you are both Zhang Xianzhong's righteous son, but speaking of which, you are the eldest brother, are you really willing to succumb to the two righteous brothers?" ”

This sentence was deeply engraved into Sun Kewang's heart, and he suddenly felt that the "Ai" and "white" banners outside the gate were particularly dazzling, and he couldn't wait to shoot them down with arrows.

Wu Sangui said again: "General Sun, as long as you are willing to surrender, your subordinates are still under your command, and the Jianmen Pass is still guarded by you, Wu is not talented, and he is willing to fight side by side with the general, without the Jianmen Pass, I want to see how many days Wang Lanping can be stable in Chengdu."

Sun Kewang was about to speak, but saw a person running away from the city, "Report, general, pass down Ainengqi and send someone to call Guan, please ask the general to go out of the pass to answer"

Sun Kewang hadn't answered yet, Wu Sangui preemptively arched his hand and said: "General Sun, when you continue to suffer from it, if you go out to meet him, do you think Hong Jingluo will believe you again?" Make up your mind, Wu is thinking about your future for the sake of the general."

Sun Kewang gritted his teeth, pressed the city stomp with one hand, scratched the city bricks with his fingernails, and made a 'zizi' sound, he was weighing, comparing, and it took a long time before his face sank, and his fist slammed on the wall.

Waving his hand at his messenger, signaling not to reply to the letter, just chilling them, then Sun Kewang turned his head to Wu Sangui and said: "According to the general's wishes, when it gets dark, I will surrender from the lower mountain, and I also ask the general to tell Hong Chengchou to keep his promise, I only have one request, Qing Hong Jingluo will take Hanzhong City as the place of our army, I and my generals will never be separated, and we will not go to Beijing to face the king."

Wu Sangui said: "Congratulations to the general for finally figuring it out, but you don't have to go out of the customs, you are here to sit in town, Wu will go down the mountain and make a detour from behind the mountain, you and I will attack from both sides, and destroy these tens of thousands of Ming troops first."

Sun Kewang smiled, helplessly said: "It's too late, this pass is Ai Nengqi to add repairs, he knows everything about the grass and trees in the pass, every brick and stone, the reason why Wang Lanping is not to send someone to persuade him to surrender, is to force me to surrender with the pressure of the army, Sichuan he is invincible, if I don't surrender before dark, Ai Nengqi will definitely forcibly take the pass, the defenders in this pass and the soldiers and horses under the mountain are brothers, and they can't hold it at all, if there are rescuers in Chengdu to help, you and I can't get out."

Wu Sangui thought about it, it seems that there is some truth, according to this, it is impossible to go back to Hong Chengchou to discuss, then change the plan, even if you fail to keep the Jianmen Pass, but the 170,000 soldiers and horses and grain and grass in the pass are also a great merit.

Immediately, Wu Sangui said, "Okay, please prepare now, my people will meet you at the bottom of the mountain, and leave the matter to Wu to do."

At the moment, Sun Kewang secretly summoned his confidants and generals, and some people disagreed, but the general trend is that if you don't agree, you will die, anyway, as long as everyone is firmly in a group, where is the master.

A few hours later, a total of more than ten strongholds on the Jianmen Gate closed the order, abandoned the position, and the whole army assembled on the north side of the Great Sword Mountain, maybe many people don't understand what happened, but they just wondered, isn't the north side of the Great Sword Mountain full of people?

There were few flags still fluttering in the wind on the abandoned positions, but the people were long gone.

For a time, the various sheep intestine trails down the mountain were full of groups of western troops, like streams slowly flowing down from the mountains, climbing the entire mountain.

More than 100,000 people moved, the movement was big, noisy, scolding, pushing, many people were dissatisfied, the order was chaotic to the extreme, and when it was almost dark, it was only seventy or eighty thousand people who went out, and at this moment, the strangeness of the closure was discovered by Ai Nengqi.

Suddenly, the horn of Guannan was in the sky, the cannon sounded, Ai Nengqi directly launched an offensive, the sword gate was nothing in his eyes, when he repaired here, the drawings were all in his mind, the bright and dark roads, the small roads and mountain roads, the cave entrances, the hidden entrances, etc., were all in his heart.

The army had just started the war, and all the way was like a no-man's land, and the whole army was rushing and shouting: "Brothers of the Western Army, your own people do not fight your own people, the king of Han has an order, and those who surrender will not die"

The defenders of the Western Army who remained behind the break in the pass began to fight back, and the cannons on the wall of the pass also began to bombard the array of the Ming army.

Fierce battle to the second half of the night, Jianmen Pass belonged to Ai Nengqi, Bai Wenxuan, did not have time to escape the Western army of more than 40,000 people, all surrendered, Sun Kewang led 11, 20,000 people into ten roads, quickly retreated towards Hanzhong, Wu Sangui really did not lose his words, Guanning army across the north side of Dajian Mountain, set up a formation to break the rear.

After Ai Nengqi captured the pass, he didn't plan to pursue, everyone understands that what the King of Han wants most is the Jianmen Pass, as for Sun Kewang, it's better to surrender, if you surrender to Ming, wouldn't you be a head higher than us as the eldest brother.

When the good news came to Chengdu, Wang Lanping was overjoyed, and immediately ordered people to bring wine, meat and silver to reward, and ordered Ainengqi to step up the renovation of the pass in order to prepare for a sneak attack by the Qing army, and also ordered that the Chengdu garrison should leave tens of thousands of people to clear the remnants of the Western Army, and the rest of the soldiers and horses should be reorganized.

Backed by Sichuan, the country of abundance, Wang Lanping has the credit to have a decisive battle with that Hong Chengchou in Hanzhong, according to the military report now, Hanzhong City and its surroundings, there are 70,000 soldiers of the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, and about 200,000 of the Han Eight Banners and the new Sun Kewang Department in the past, plus some unheard, the total strength is about 300,000, and the strength of his side is also 250,000, and they are all selected soldiers who survived the rest of the war. The difference of 50,000 troops had little impact on the situation of the war.

On the first day of the first month of May, Wang Lanping started from Chengdu, and the whole army was divided into five routes, and one route was led by Zhao Zhishang, the military camp, out of Jianmen Pass; One route was led by Zhang Bingzhen, the Zhenyuan camp, out of Longxi; One route was led out of Longnan by Wang Zhiren of Weiyuan Battalion; One route was led by Pingyuan Battalion Yang Wencong out of Bazhong; Wang Lanping led the rest of the battalions to pass through Yangping Pass, and the five-way army surrounded Hanzhong.

He also ordered Ma Xianglin, the new governor of Sichuan, to be the envoy of the army's grain and grass, and urgently transferred the grain of all provinces to the front-line Chengguan for reserves.

History is so coincidental, just into Sichuan, it was the end of a hot summer, I didn't think that it was close to summer when I went out of Sichuan, nearly a million troops and people gathered in the Hanzhong Plain, far away in Gansu, Shanxi, Henan Qing army also urgently gathered in Hanzhong, Dolgon just received the good news that Sun Kewang led more than 100,000 people to surrender, just a few days later, he had to send heavy troops to reinforce Hong Chengchou, Hanzhong can not be lost, since ancient times, the Han people have taken Hanzhong as the Central Plains, here is the rise of Chinese civilization, is the source of the blood of the Han people, He could not fall into the hands of the Han Chinese.

For a time, the land of Hanzhong was surging, and the biggest major war since the Qing army entered the customs was about to break out, which no one expected, and no one knew the result, anyway, they had to fight. (To be continued.) )