Bai Minghe and the generals said: "This Ling Jingyang is a red man in the eyes of His Majesty, we have to protect our lives, don't let them stand in front and be suddenly attacked by Jiannu." ”

The generals echoed him and asked him to garrison on a hill on the east side of the Tangtong military camp, where the terrain was rugged, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it was a good defensive area.

Ling Jingyang has not yet arrived, but Yuan Zongdi, the commander of the right battalion, came to Bai Minghe's army with other generals, Bai Minghe and his subordinates stood neatly, Yuan Zongdi said: "Where do you put that Ling Jingyang?" ”

"The last general asked him to lead the troops and horses of his headquarters to garrison the east side of the Tangtong military camp, and prevent Jiannu from raiding the Tangtong military camp from the east side."

Yuan Zongdi suddenly rolled in anger and scolded: "Nonsense, hurry up and let him in front, how can a strong man admired by His Majesty hide behind and watch the play?" ”

While talking, Ling Jingyang and Li Rufeng also came to Ling Jingyang's military camp, and his soldiers took him outside the tent, just when they heard Yuan Zongdi reprimanding Bai Minghe inside, Ling Jingyang and Li Rufeng looked at each other, not knowing how to make Yuan Zongdi dissatisfied.

The two came in hard, and Yuan Zong saw Ling Jingyang and Li Rufeng embarrassed at first sight, and said lukewarmly: "Our Dashun army has always persuaded people with reason, and if you want others to recognize, you have to kill Jiannu with a knife and a shot, how do you fight Jiannu in Santun Camp, this general doesn't know, but in a stone, just call me to see, let me see if you can really defeat Jiannu?" ”

Ling Jingyang was very unhappy in his heart, he worked hard to send the information about Jiannu's entry into the customs, but was despised by Yuan Zongdi, he looked firmly, and Yuan Zongdi said: "The last general defeated Jiannu in Santun camp, it is the glory of the past, and today you can fight Jiannu together, and it is also the luck of the last general Sansheng, but the last general is at the forefront, and it is difficult to resist the raid of Jiannu." ”

"Ridiculous, I have three soldiers and horses in the right battalion and General Tang and General Bai, how can I be afraid of Jiannu?"

Bai Minghe angrily reprimanded Ling Jingyang, Ling Jingyang stubbornly continued: "Everyone here, there must be someone who fought with Jiannu before, Jiannu entered the customs this time, it must be a nest move, hundreds of thousands of border troops in the Ming Dynasty can't stop the attack of Jiannu, our tens of thousands of soldiers and horses can stop it, it's okay, can't stop, Your Majesty has other troops attacking Shanhaiguan, will be devastated, and the other soldiers and horses of our army in the pass are either far away, or scattered in various places, and they can't gather troops in a short time, so that Jiannu can kill into the Central Plains, which will cause a bloody collapse." ”

Yuan Zongdi's face changed again and again, Ling Jingyang mended the knife at the right time, the surrender of the Ming army in the pass was like a carp crossing the river, the front line was defeated, will the surrendered Ming army rebel, and will the landlords and local eunuchs in various places follow the rebellion?

The more Yuan Zongdi listened, the more frightened he became, everyone thought that the attack on Shanhaiguan was easy, but they did not expect that if the attack failed, the nascent Dashun Imperial Court would be wiped out by other forces.

He immediately ordered to strengthen the contact with Tang and Bai, build fortifications, and prevent Jiannu from suddenly attacking, and after the arrangements were made, he felt that Ling Jingyang, a young general, had a strategic vision, so he asked Ling Jingyang if he had a strategy to break the enemy?

Ling Jingyang was confident, and said to Yuan Zongdi: "Our army should withdraw its troops, Wu Sangui surrendered to Jiannu, it will be ridiculed by the world, and the morale of the Guanning army will be greatly reduced, and we don't have to fight on two fronts." ”

Yuan Zongdi said suspiciously: "Fighting on two fronts? You're so angry! ”

Ling Jingyang knew that Yuan Zongdi was a little moved, and told him about the small court of Yingtianfu, the capital was breached, and Zhu Youzhen's life and death were unknown, but the Ming Dynasty still had a set of administrative teams in Jiangnan.

He gave Yuan Zongdi an analogy, Ying Tianfu's small court is the twin brother of the Shuntianfu court, His Majesty destroyed Shuntianfu, Ying Tianfu no longer regards Jiannu as the main enemy, but is extremely hostile to Dashun, and is likely to join forces with Jiannu to eliminate Dashun and avenge Shuntianfu.

Yuan Zongdi and his generals all gasped, and before they could speak, Ling Jingyang talked about Jiannu again, Jiannu was under the banner of revenge for Chongzhen, do you guess that Beizhili, Henan, Shandong, and the Ming army that has surrendered, how many people will follow Jiannu to attack our army?

"Enough, from now on, you and your men will follow me."

Yuan Zongdi realized that Ling Jingyang was by no means a mediocre talent, how much he looked down on him just now, and how much he admired him now.

And he decided to go to His Majesty again to persuade His Majesty to withdraw his troops, and not to fight with Jiannu and Guanning Army here.

Yuan Zongdi asked Ling Jingyang to follow Bai Minghe to familiarize himself with the right camp, such good generals could stay by his side, Bai Minghe knew Yuan Zongdi very well, and took Ling Jingyang to the right camp to worship the docks, Ling Jingyang followed him around the right camp, and finally became familiar with the generals above the captain of the right battalion.

After the circle is over, the sky is dark, tomorrow is the 21st, Ling Jingyang doesn't know if Yuan Zongdi can persuade Li Zicheng to withdraw his troops?

Late at night, Yuan Zongdi came back from exhaustion from the Chinese army, he did not succeed in persuading Li Zicheng to retreat, Li Zicheng told him that the morale of the army was booming, and the soldiers did not agree to retreat at this time.

After Yuan Zongdi came back, he immediately rushed to the Tang Tong military camp, Tang Tong was discussing with Bai Guangen to resist the enemy, the two did not have the confidence to block the attack of the main force of Jiannu and the Guanning army, and heard that Yuan Zongdi was coming, and the two hurriedly went out of the camp to greet them.

"General soldier Tang, General soldier Bai, come less late at night, there is more disturbance, please forgive me."

Yuan Zongdi did not raise his toes because Tang Tong was a general, Bai Guangen used to be a rogue, and later surrendered to Hong Chengchou and became an official army, the Dashun army was powerful, and surrendered to the Dashun army, the two saw Yuan Zongdi so polite, and thought to themselves that Yuan Zongdi came late at night, and was so polite, could it be that he was going to raid the Guanning army tonight?

Tang Tong opened his mouth and said: "General Yuan, how dare you, I don't know if the general came late at night to raid Shanhaiguan?" ”

"No, no, no, I came to discuss with the two commanders, the main force of Jiannu and the Guanning army are coming, can our three soldiers and horses fight?"

Tang Tong and Bai Guangen shook their heads, they didn't have the strength to fight with Jiannu, but they could compete with Guan Ningjun.

Yuan Zongdi was influenced by Ling Jingyang, and had regarded Jiannu as an imaginary enemy, and asked Tang Tong if Bai Guangen could prevent the Qing army from entering the pass from a stone.

Tang Tong waved his hand and said: "Don't belittle our army, this Jiannu main force is attacking, our three armies can resist for three days, even if it is an extraordinary performance, even if it is killed in battle, it will die without regrets." ”

"Then block Jiannu for three days, buy time for Your Majesty, as long as you break through Shanhaiguan, our army can rely on Shanhaiguan, advance and retreat, and defend, even if the main force of Jiannu is coming, our army can also attack and defend with Jiannu, and at the same time order the army in the pass to come to help, so that Jiannu can't eat and go around."

When Yuan Zongdi said this, he remembered that he didn't say that His Majesty had withdrawn his troops just now, not only His Majesty, but also other generals felt that he had become like a mouse, in fact, he was bitter in his heart, if a piece of stone here was not Jiannu, it was the Guanning Army, then His Majesty was not going to fight a decisive battle with the main force of Jiannu, and did the Dashun Army prepare for a bloody battle with Jiannu first?

He came to the Tangtong military camp to take the partial division and mend the seams of the Dashun army

Tang Tong was very afraid of the Jiannu Hongyi cannon, his troops had some artillery and also had a certain field ability, but in front of the Jiannu artillery troops, the size was too small, and the firepower was not as strong as the Jiannu at all.

He and Yuan Zongdi said: "General Yuan, Jiannu's firearms are powerful, and we do not have an advantage in field battles. ”

"Jiannu is also in a hurry, it is impossible to carry thousands of pounds of artillery, but also in this short period of time to reach Shanhaiguan, we use shield soldiers in formation, bows and arrows in the back, shoot the position, Jiannu does not kill more than half of the wounded, can not penetrate our army's defense line."

Yuan Zongdi had very rich military experience, and guessed that Jiannu must have abandoned heavy weapons and advanced lightly to arrive at Shanhaiguan in such a short time.

Tang Tong and Jiannu also had battles, and many of his subordinates died under Jiannu's sword, and Yuan Zongdi patted his chest: "Then rely on General Yuan's order, and tomorrow our army will defend a piece of stone to buy time for Your Majesty to break through Shanhaiguan." ”

After Yuan Zongdi got the attitude of the two, he returned to the barracks, the barracks were brightly lit, and Bai Minghe and other generals were still waiting for him to come back in the barracks.

Before dark, Bai Minghe mobilized five elite cavalry scout troops in the army, each with twenty cavalry, to advance to the northeast direction of a stone, only two troops came back in the middle of the night, and the other three scouts were all wiped out, and the two troops who came back also suffered casualties, and the two troops added up to twenty-one people.

Yuan Zongdi did not blame Bai Minghe, and mobilized the precious cavalry to the northeast direction of a stone, although he lost most of the scouts, he also knew that there was an unknown number of enemy troops near a stone,

The retreat of the scouts reflected that the enemy army was very strong, and many soldiers were killed by bows and arrows in the dark night.

The scout said that they were all engaged with bows and arrows, there was no hand-to-hand combat at all, and there was no sound of firecrackers, Yuan Zongdi did not hesitate at all, and once again ordered all departments to dispatch elite cavalry, and then go to the northeast direction of a stone, even if the cavalry died, you must know how many enemies there are?

Bai Minghe wanted to go into battle himself and lead the cavalry to fight the enemy. "General, who leads the team?"

"Do you want to go and meet Jiannu and Guan Ningjun for a while?"

Bai Minghe did not deny it, he nodded, and asked for him to lead the cavalry to investigate the enemy's situation, Yuan Zongdi thought it through, Bai Minghe was the second-in-command of the right battalion, and he also had rich military experience, so it was most suitable for him to go.

When the words came to his lips, he suddenly remembered Ling Jingyang, he defeated Jiannu in Santun Camp, and he could also run long distances to the Chinese army, although he admired Ling Jingyang's strategy, but he always believed that excellent generals must grow in the war.

"You stay in the barracks and let Ling Jingyang and his people take a look."

Yuan Zongdi asked Ling Jingyang to go, Bai Minghe was a little disappointed, Yuan Zongdi gave him fifty war horses from the horse shop in order to replenish Ling Jingyang's troops, and asked Ling Jingyang to rush back tomorrow morning to report the information to him.

Ling Jingyang hadn't slept yet, after he returned to the barracks, he took Li Rufeng, Dong Daqi and other generals to get acquainted with the five hundred recruits, and when he returned to the tent, he was already tired and out of breath, and he just lay down, wanting to sleep beautifully.

Suddenly, I heard Fang Xiaoyan, who was on guard tonight, shouting at the throat: "Who is coming?" ”

In the next second, a loud slap resounded throughout the night, Fang Xiaoyan covered his cheeks, and he was speechless when he was slapped by Bai Minghe.

Bai Minghe was also angry, originally he led the troops to investigate the enemy's situation, but Yuan Zongdi asked Ling Jingyang to go, and he was angry in his heart, and Yuan Zongdi asked him to convey the military order.

He was very reluctant to come to the Ling Jingyang military camp, his anger had not yet subsided, and he was yelled at by a small whistle, as if he had just extinguished his anger, poured a plate of hot oil, exploded in an instant, and gave Fang Xiaoyan a slap in the face.

After Fang Xiaoyan was beaten, he watched pitifully as Bai Minghe brought a group of wolf-like and tiger-like soldiers, and it was the first time for the soldiers to see the sentry roaring at Bai Minghe, if Bai Minghe hadn't held back, the soldiers would have gone up to stew Fang Xiaoyan.

Bai Minghe's personal soldier Bai Er was arrogant and Fang Xiaoyan said, "Let you listen to the flag and come to see General Bai." ”

Ling Jingyang quickly put on his armor when he heard Fang Xiaoyan's broken gong voice, and quickly put on his armor in the all-iron wind and cold as iron in the tent next to him, and Ling Jingyang led a group of subordinates to the gate of the barracks.

Bai Minghe wiped the saliva on his face, it was Fang Xiaoyan's angry roar that sprayed on his face, and the smell was indestructible.

Ling Jingyang squeezed out a smile and said to Bai Minghe: "The last general's subordinates don't know that General Bai is coming, and the last general will remove him now, and please don't be like a child." ”

Only then did Bai Minghe see Fang Xiaoyan, who was slapped by him, that is, a doll, so forget it, and said to Ling Jingyang: "The little doll is not sensible, but it is also dutiful, I will come tonight to convey General Yuan's military order." ”

Ling Jingyang and his subordinates immediately stood up straight, waiting for Bai Minghe to convey Yuan Zongdi's military order.

"Your cavalry is advancing in the northeast direction of a stone, and you must rush back tomorrow morning, you must know how many enemies there are, is it Jiannu or Guanning Army?"

Bai Minghe asked his subordinates to bring fifty war horses from the darkness and gave them to Ling Jingyang as a mount for the mission.

Others didn't know whether a piece of stone was Jiannu or the Guanning army, but Ling Jingyang knew that the main force of the Qing army was assembled to the north of a stone, but he couldn't tell Bai Minghe in person that it was Jiannu.

Bai Minghe thought that Ling Jingyang didn't reply to him, thinking that Ling Jingyang was intimidated, and said with some contempt: "Don't dare? ”

"No, the last general will go to prepare, and General Xie will send these war horses."

After Bai Minghe conveyed the military order, he took his subordinates back, and Ling Jingyang hurriedly woke up in the middle of his sleep, and his riding skills were good to go on a mission with him.

This time, he only brought twenty people, the generals only brought Li Rufeng and Leng Rutie, and the other soldiers stayed in the barracks, waiting for him to come back.

Twenty people, one man and two horses galloped in the dark night, and after advancing ten kilometers to the northeast of the barracks, Ling Jingyang and Li Rufeng said: "You guys are here to answer, and Leng Rutie and I will go to have a look." ”