This was a perfect ambush battle, the soldiers of the stone battalion were relieved, more than 200 soldiers of the Eight Banners were almost swept away, and more than 50 war horses were captured.

Although the battle of annihilation was obtained, the stone camp also lost the same soldiers and horses as Jiannu, Wan Liyun hacked to death a Eight Banners soldier in the battle, but was also slipped by the Eight Banners Soldier's arm, he sighed: "This Jiannu is cruel by nature, many people even if they die, they have to drag our soldiers to die together." ”

Ling Jingyang looked at the blood on his arm, thinking that his leg injury was also a little broken, so he didn't respond to Wan Liyun's emotion, and said to Li Rufeng: "Pack up the spoils, clean up the battlefield, it's going to be dark, let's kill it back, and cut off the grain and grass of Jiannu." ”

Li Rufeng took his subordinates to pack up the spoils of war, and captured a lot of armor and weapons in this battle, among which there were more than 20 of the most powerful birds, as well as sabers, spears and other weapons, Ling Jingyang ordered the officers and soldiers of the whole army to change their equipment, and the soldiers of the Dashun Army were okay, they used weapons very well, but the coats were excited one by one.

For a big knife that looks quite sharp, they hit the head and bleed, and as for the armor, whose fist is hard, whoever grabs it will be whom.

Ling Jingyang broke up the clothes again, in his troops, the number of clothes was about the same as the number of the boss Shun's army, and the Jizhen soldiers were only a minority, as for the stragglers, Ling Jingyang did not reorganize them into a single army, but let them be scattered under the various banners to enrich the combat effectiveness of each department.

Ling Jingyang also used the captured war horses, and the previous war horses to form a cavalry battalion, the cavalry battalion has a hundred cavalry, one hundred and twenty batches of war horses and pack horses, this is Ling Jingyang commando, need a dare to charge symbolic general to lead this cavalry, in his mind, Li Rufeng is the best choice.

Ling Jingyang specially ordered Li Rufeng to be transferred from the first banner to the cavalry battalion to be in charge of the flag, and the first flag infantry was merged into Dong Daqi and Lao Mantou Chief, Li Rufeng was grateful to Ling Jingyang for trusting him, he was not a qualified infantry soldier in charge of the flag, but a cavalry general who dared to rush and kill, let him lead the cavalry, that is, to give him a place to use.

The formation of the cavalry battalion, so that everyone can see that Ling Jingyang attaches great importance to the cavalry, although the rate of firearms equipment during the Ming and Qing dynasties has increased significantly, but before the large-scale equipment of automatic weapons, the cavalry is still the gendarmerie on the battlefield, with mobility and high-speed charging ability, open the enemy's military formation, charge with cavalry, cut off the enemy's rear road, need to use cavalry to detour, even in the siege of the city, cavalry can also block enemy reinforcements on the periphery.

Therefore, Ling Jingyang gave the cavalry battalion the best equipment, a three-eyed gun or a bird gun and other hot weapons, as well as three kinds of weapons: spears, sabers, bows and arrows, which was the first formed and uniformed army under Ling Jingyang's command.

He trusted Li Rufeng, an upright man, and gave him unlimited power, including the ability to promote the general right of the cavalry battalion headquarters, Ling Jingyang did this, which made other generals envious and moved, so that Li Rufeng was almost de facto recognized Li Rufeng's status as the second-in-command of the stone battalion.

Ling Jingyang needs a second-in-command to share the military pressure for him, now there is no station, and when he has a station, he will continue to plan, he has enough confidence to expand the territory, that is because he has Zhu Youzhen in his hands, this real great tomorrow, at this time he is the commander of the artillery battalion under his command, with Zhu Youzhen here, in a few years, the essence of the group of human infighting in Jiangnan will converge a lot.

After replenishing the team with soldiers and horses, Ling Jingyang began to walk back with the stone camp, their goal was several official roads near Shanhaiguan, after Shanhaiguan was occupied by Jiannu, Dolgon led a large army to kill in the pass, only these official roads can be used to transport grain and grass.

Ling Jingyang and his generals on the road made a plan that before arriving at Shanhaiguan, they would not disperse the forces of the stone battalion, concentrate together, and make every effort to raid one of the official roads.

On the way, Wan Liyun asked Ling Jingyang to adopt the tactics of striking eastward, Ling Jingyang knew that he was still thinking about Shanhaiguan, and said to him: "How can you attack the east and the west?" ”

"Isn't Captain Ling a newly formed cavalry battalion? You can let the cavalry battalion raid the grain road, and lead the Jiannu in the pass to support the grain team, you lead half of the soldiers to capture Luocheng, and I will take some people to attack Yicheng, is this good? ”

Ling Jingyang thinks that this plan is very beautiful, but it is very difficult to realize, first of all, is there any grain and grass on the grain road? Even if there is, Li Rufeng led the cavalry battalion to raid and burn some of the grain and grass, will the Jiannu in the Guannai come to support?

"Captain Lingdu, this Jiannu is also a human, our army is wandering outside the pass, they don't come out to take a look, aren't they afraid that Dolgon will come back and cut off their heads?"

Wan Liyun's grasp of human nature is very strong, so strong that Ling Jingyang admires it, but also has some fears, this person is like a top psychological master, first-class in figuring out people's minds, before Ling Jingyang talked to him, he deliberately thought about the words in his mind for a while, and said: "Dead horses should be live horse doctors, let the cavalry battalion rush first, see what reaction Jiannu has in the pass, it is best to lure Jiannu out, if you don't come out, we will withdraw immediately." ”

Wan Liyun thought that Ling Jingyang had no intention of attacking Shanhaiguan, and hurriedly said: "Li Zhangqi's cavalry is very critical, after they raid the grain and grass, if Jiannu comes to the rescue in the pass, the cavalry battalion will go all the way to the north, but don't run too far, our army immediately raided Luocheng and Yicheng, these two cities are the outer cities of Shanhaiguan, and Jiannu will come back to support, at that time, the cavalry battalion must also follow and kill back, only in this way will Jiannu think that our army is strong, and after our army breaks through the two cities, it can be retreated and defended." ”

Although Ling Jingyang was moved by Wanliyun's plan to raid Shanhaiguan, he was a little confused now, didn't he want to raid Shanhaiguan? How can the auxiliary city be defeated, and it can be retreated and defended?

Wan Liyun smiled knowingly, and said softly to Ling Jingyang: "Let's be such a little person, the success of the raid on Luocheng and Yicheng is a victory, after we succeed, we will quickly retreat, and wait for tomorrow to continue to launch a surprise attack, so that Jiannu will be shocked three times a day, and I will be forced to transfer back troops from the front line to garrison Shanhaiguan." ”

Li Rufeng trusted the cavalry battalion to hold the flag, and was very dissatisfied with Wan Liyun's ridiculous plan: "Our army only has a small number of cavalry, most of them walk on two legs, if they are caught up by the Jiannu cavalry, won't the whole army be wiped out?" ”

Wan Liyun did not answer Li Rufeng, and Ling Jingyang was not led by his nose, but ordered with Li Rufeng to lead the cavalry to raid the Jiannu grain road, disperse the Jiannu sentinels on the grain road, and burn the grain and grass with fire, and withdraw immediately after completing the task.

Li Rufeng left quickly with the cavalry battalion, Ling Jingyang asked the other soldiers to continue to advance towards Shanhaiguan, and the whole army advanced in the dark night.

There are still ten miles away from Shanhaiguan, and Jiannu sentries began to appear on the road, these sentries are all riding horses, running on the official road, Ling Jingyang touched his chin, and Wan Liyun said: "These sentries must be destroyed." ”

"No, let's just wait here, and there will be Jiannu grain and grass coming over later."

Wan Liyun's statement made Ling Jingyang think that he was a military novice, how could he know that Jiannu would deliver grain and grass at night?

He said to Ling Jingyang: "Captain Ling, it's March now, and the ice and snow haven't melted yet?" ”