Volume 1 Chapter 27: Rush to the Rescue

Shanhaiguan

Wu Sangui and his generals sat together, each with a serious expression on their faces, not long ago, the capital was attacked by Li Zicheng, and His Majesty's life and death were unknown.

The news came, the Shanhaiguan soldiers were like thunderbolts, every soldier felt uncomfortable, these years to the court orders are to listen to the tune and not to listen to the announcement, but after all, it is still the Ming Dynasty army, the court has not treated them badly over the years, hearing that the capital fell, Wu Sangui at first wanted to surrender Li Zicheng, and led people to Fengrun, suddenly heard that the Dashun army tortured military salaries in the capital, and his own home was also raided.

This move of the Dashun army made Wu Sangui frightened and frightened, and hurriedly led the troops to withdraw to Shanhaiguan, and conspired with the Shanhaiguan general Gao first, and decided to refuse to surrender Dashun, and the two armies defeated Tang Tong, and Tang Tong was forced to lose.

Since he chose to be the enemy of the Dashun army, Wu Sangui was forced to be reluctant, or a traitor, after all, he abandoned the Ming Dynasty, surrendered to the Qing army, and let his henchmen ride fast horses and rush to the outside of the pass, and ask Dolgon to surrender.

After Dolgon heard the news, he gathered the elite of the Eight Banners and galloped to the aid of Shanhaiguan, the Qing army and Wu Sangui colluded together, Li Zicheng and his Dashun court knew nothing, and still came step by step in the capital at their own pace.

It was not until the general of the Tang Tong Department came in person and told that there was a change in Shanhaiguan and that the Tang Tong Department was defeated and fled, that Li Zicheng had to order Wu Sangui and other rebels to be recruited in person, and all the troops near the capital immediately rushed to Shanhaiguan.

In the early stage, there were only a few troops rushing to Shanhaiguan, Bai Minghe sat in this unit and belonged to the vanguard force, thousands of people rushed from the capital to Shanhaiguan, arrived in Jizhou, suddenly heavy rain fell in the sky, and the troops stopped to rest.

Ling Jingyang and others originally wanted to go back to the headquarters to report, but they were forcibly stopped by Bai Minghe, because his army lacked cavalry, and dozens of Ling Jingyang were cavalry, so Bai Minghe promoted Ling Jingyang to be the head of the department in the name of General Zuo Guoyi of the right battalion, Li Rufeng enjoyed the salary of the general of the department, and Dong Daqi and Lao Mantou were the head of the sentry, so that this "elite" cavalry stayed in the army.

Ling Jingyang really had no choice, he finally realized the taste of crushing people to death at the level of the official university, Li Rufeng was beautiful, although he was not promoted, but he enjoyed the salary of the general army of the department.

Lao Slowtou and Dong Daqi were old in qualifications, but they never got promoted, and the other was a pro-soldier who followed Zhang Shun and had no real power.

The two also tacitly expressed their willingness to act with the right battalion, and the old steamed bun was even more blindly shouting, the right battalion is also our Dashun army, charging into battle in the right battalion and killing the enemy in the middle battalion is the same.

The subordinates were so uncompetitive, Ling Jingyang was silent, so he had to rush to Shanhaiguan with his subordinates, and when he was resting, he suddenly got a military order, General Bai needed an elite cavalry to go to Yongping Mansion to find out if there was Wu Sangui's army there.

Bai Minghe ordered Ling Jingyang's cavalry squad to complete it, after all, Ling Jingyang and others had just been crowned officials, and they had to do something to convince the public, and ordered them to send back information within four days.

After Ling Jingyang received the information, he scolded Lao Mantou and others for having no brains, and they were bought by the right battalion with a sentry.

Lao Mantou and Dong Daqi were ashamed, and they couldn't wait to find a hole to get into, but Zhu Youzhen still looked at them coldly and didn't say a word.

Li Rufeng said: "Mr. Lingbu, you can rest assured, there should be no Wu Sangui's people in Jizhen, even if there are people, I estimate that they are the remnants of our Dashun's defeated generals, let's set off now, take a turn around Jizhen, and if someone comes forward to take a look, it's our people, let's rush back, it's not our people, we have to rush back." ”

Ling Jingyang only knew the geographical terms and locations of the Ming Dynasty in words, and he didn't know where they were, so he and Li Rufeng said: "Are you familiar with Jizhen? ”

Li Rufeng was very proud to tell him that when he was still a border army of the Ming Dynasty, he had changed the guard of Jizhou, and he was relatively familiar with Jizhen.

Zhu Youzhen knows Jizhen very well, it is one of the important towns on the nine borders of the Ming Dynasty, Qi Jiguang has commanded troops here for many years, and built Jizhen into a military town that attacked Mongolia in the north and Jiannu in the east.

Now the general soldier of Jizhen is Tang Tong, Zhu Youzhen trusts him so much, but in the end he still led his troops to surrender to Li Zicheng, disappointing Zhu Youzhen and the Ming Dynasty.

And this time, Zhu Youzhen, as a big soldier, went to support the traitors who had betrayed him, and his mood can be imagined, Wang Chengen and Zhu Youzhen are different.

He was worried that the soldiers of Jizhen would know His Majesty, so before everyone left, he came to Ling Jingyang's side and quietly told him that some generals in Jizhen knew His Majesty and went to Jizhen recklessly, first, they might be attacked by the rebels, and second, there might be soldiers from Jizhen who saw His Majesty and captured His Majesty and dedicated it to Li Zicheng.

Ling Jingyang frowned, what Wang Chengen said made some sense, but he didn't believe that they were a group of cavalrymen who came and went like the wind, and after running around Jizhen, someone could recognize Zhu Youzhen with Fan Yangli.

"Wang En, let me tell you, Jizhou has long been rumored, Tang Tong's people may have been defeated or driven away by Wu Sangui a long time ago, and now Jizhen is an abandoned military camp, we just need to take a look and withdraw immediately."

Wang Chengen saw that Ling Jingyang looked confident, so he had to stuff a few steamed buns in his pocket before leaving, and the others also brought supplies and stepped on the war horse to Jizhen.

The heavy rain was still pouring and raining, and the cavalry squad walked the muddy path, from Jizhou to Santun Camp, because of the war, they did not meet a single living person, the roadside was overgrown with weeds, and the armor and weapons were discarded everywhere.

was about to arrive at the Santun camp, Ling Jingyang suddenly thought of what Li Rufeng said, if Tang Tong was defeated, the Santun camp would be a military camp, and it was very likely that there would be stragglers hiding in it, so he ordered to stop advancing.

Li Rufeng was puzzled and asked: "General Manager, the front is the Santun camp, let's spend the night in the Santun camp tonight, first, we can raise enough energy, and second, we can resist the sneak attack of Wu Sangui's soldiers and horses in the Santun camp." ”

"We can't resist this little bit, when we meet Wu Sangui's people, turn the horse's head and retreat, if the Tang general army is defeated, this Santun camp is a good place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is impossible to abandon it easily, maybe there are people in the Santun camp."

Li Rufeng shook his head.

"There are people in the Santun camp, and they are also our Dashun soldiers, when they see us coming, they will definitely come out of the camp to greet us, I said Ling Jingyang, did you become the head of the department, and began to spare your life?"

After the old steamed bun was promoted to the head of the whistle, he was very happy, but he was ordered by the right battalion to go to Yongping Mansion, which is a life of nine deaths, and he felt that he was very happy with Ling Jingyang, and heard Li Rufeng mocking Ling Jingyang, and hurriedly said: "Li Rufeng, the general manager is good for everyone, don't be yin and yang here, you look so big in vain, why are you the same as the girls." ”

After Dong Daqi was promoted to the head of the sentry, there were also a few soldiers under his hands, and they also supported the old steamed buns, which made Li Rufeng very faceless, but Li Rufeng was as his name suggested, he was a very chic man, and he did not make a fuss with everyone because he was contradicted by everyone for a few words. Instead, he asked Ling Jingyang to fight, and he led the soldiers and horses of his headquarters to Santun Camp to have a look.