Before she could react, Ling Jingyang stood up, took her hand, and asked her to sit down and eat together.

While eating, he told Ling Jingyang that the pig's trotters were really delicious, and the soup was delicious, the old steamed bun poured the pig's trotter soup on the noodles, and he was sweating profusely, Wen Yuanyang didn't dare to move the chopsticks, Ling Jingyang looked at her with some annoyance, and Wen Yuanyang was ashamed to mention the chopsticks and eat with the three old men.

The four of them ate a table of meals cleanly, Ling Jingyang burped, and Dong Daqi led dozens of personal soldiers around the city.

At this time, there was a sudden sound of rapid drums outside the city, and it was the cavalry battalion that had spotted the enemy outside the city, and the enemy army was raiding the city.

This afternoon, on duty on the city wall, Wang Bao's troops were on duty, and Wang Bao hurriedly ordered his subordinates to enter a state of readiness for battle, and practiced the artillery battalion for a morning, just when they climbed the city wall and aimed at the enemy troops outside the city with their firearms.

Ling Jingyang led his subordinates to the west gate, and looked outside the city, there was a remnant of hundreds of defeated soldiers running towards Tianchengwei, this army was poorly equipped, many soldiers carried a stick or a firewood knife, and a small number of soldiers rushed here with their bare hands.

This army does not want to attack Tianchengwei, but wants to break through from Tianchengwei to the east, and Ling Jingyang's troops are large in number and have the strength to eat this army.

Ling Jingyang did not easily let the soldiers go out of the city to fight, but looked at the army outside the city again, and always felt that this army did not look like an enemy army, most of the territory in Shanxi was occupied by rebels, and the army that broke through to the east at this time was likely to be the remnants of Datong Mansion.

Ling Jingyang and Wang Bao said: "Will you be able to speak the banner of the Dashun Army?" ”

Wang Bao was a soldier surrendered by the Ming army, shook his head and said that he wouldn't, and told Ling Jingyang that even if the city was a Dashun army, he would not take a second look at the flag at this time.

Ling Jingyang had no choice but to give up, watching the army continue to run to the east, and after a while, the cavalry battalion was beating drums on the other side, and Ling Jingyang saw that behind this team, there was a pursuer following closely behind.

He suddenly discovered that the pursuers were not the Ming army of Datong Mansion, but more like a more well-equipped Dashun army.

This made Ling Jingyang confused, how did the Dashun army pursue the Dashun army, Wan Liyun also led his subordinates down to the city wall, looking at the chase battle under the city, he was also surprised, and Ling Jingyang said: "These troops outside the city, don't you know that we have captured Tianchengwei?" ”

As soon as the words fell, the army that was pursuing the Dashun army in front suddenly stopped and shouted with Ling Jingyang and others on the city wall, the Dashun rebels in front of him, killed General Zhang, and asked the brothers in the city to pursue the rebels together.

Ling Jingyang and Wan Liyun suddenly understood that the two armies under the city were both Dashun troops, but the Dashun army in front had surrendered to Jiang Hao and became a rebel, and the army that was being pursued was the Dashun army that was unwilling to surrender to Jiang Jiu, Ling Jingyang looked at the number of rebels, only a few hundred.

With the strength of the stone battalion, it can be beaten, but Ling Jingyang did not order to attack the rebels, but set his eyes into the distance, he did not believe that such a coincidence, there would be a rebel army of the Dashun army running from under the city, and the Dashun army was chasing behind, and perhaps there was a Shanxi Ming army waiting for an opportunity to move behind.

Zhang Luofu looked at the Dashun army running around in the city, and asked Ling Jingyang for instructions, he led the troops to stop the rebels, Ling Jingyang was unmoved, and Zhang Luofu said: "You and Leng Rutie continue to rest, no one is allowed to go out of the city without my order." ”

The generals were dumbfounded, and Wan Liyun and Ling Jingyang said: "Captain Lingdu, are you worried that these Dashun troops are bait, and there are ambushes outside the city?" ”

Ling Jingyang agreed with what Wan Liyun said, and said to the other generals: "Although the cavalry battalion has not yet transmitted the latest military information, it is very likely that the so-called Dashun army is a rebel pretend, and the purpose is to lure our army out of the city. ”

There is some truth in his analysis, but he still can't convince the public, Ling Jingyang coldly watched the two Dashun troops chasing under the city, and suddenly with Huang Daozhong, Wang Chengen ordered his two soldiers and horses to use bows and arrows without arrows to shoot at the Dashun army running in front, and let the firecrackers shoot the Dashun army chasing behind.

This move is very vicious, Huang Daozhong led hundreds of soldiers, shooting into the distance with bows and arrows, Fang Xiaoyan with a firecracker, fired at the Dashun army under the city, as the bow and arrows and firecrackers flew to the target, a surprising scene appeared.

The two chasing Dashun armies suddenly stopped, a little overwhelmed, and the next second, the two armies suddenly gathered together and stormed the south gate, and at the same time, the drums sounded in the west of the city, and the cavalry battalion was facing a large number of rebels in the west of the city.

Ling Jingyang ordered all units to face the battle, and with the combat strength of the stone battalion, the enemy army did not have more than five times the strength of the army, and it was impossible to gnaw at Tianchengwei.

Wan Liyun and other generals respected Ling Jingyang, and hurriedly led his subordinates to garrison the city wall, waiting for the rebels to attack.

This rebel army is the army brought by Yang Zhenwei, he did not go to Gao Shanwei to join Jiang Xuan, but took the main force to attack Tianchengwei, and asked Jiang Xuan to lead the troops to cooperate with the siege.

So in the previous scene, the two so-called Dashun armies were pretended to be rebels, the purpose was to deceive Tianchengwei Dashun's army to go out of the city to fight, causing the defenders in the city to be empty, and he and Jiang Xuan broke through the city with minimal losses.

It's a pity that his ghost trick was seen through by Ling Jingyang at a glance, and he only used hundreds of archers and firecrackers to carry out a tentative attack, which completely exposed the two ambush soldiers, and in the end he could only launch a strong attack.

Yang Zhenwei led the troops to attack the south gate, Jiang Xuan led the troops to the north gate, and the two armies attacked from the north and south, wanting to break through the city in one fell swoop and eliminate the Dashun army.

The rebels are menacing, and the stone camp is not vegetarian, although the army under Ling Jingyang is pieced together, but when there is no mixed operation, each unit can exert its due combat effectiveness, and at the south gate is Wanliyun and Wangbao two garrisons, and the north gate is garrisoned by the artillery battalion and Huang Daozhong.

Ling Jingyang's direct troops roamed around in the city to support, although the number of rebels was large, but not the same as the Qing army, with a powerful siege weapon Hongyi cannon, insisted on using human lives to attack the city, the defenders defended with ease, rushed up a batch, was beaten down a batch, and the rebels had to retreat.

Yang Zhenwei and Jiang Xuan saw that the siege had no effect, so they withdrew with their troops, Jiang Xuan was very dissatisfied with Yang Zhenwu's first cut and then played, but Jiang Xuan's younger brother was also the supreme general of the Admiral Sanwei, and Yang Zhenwu came to support him in battle, not to dominate the Tianchengwei military.

Yang Zhenwu was also very annoyed, how could the Chengwei Dashun Army be so cunning this day, unlike the Dashun Army in other parts of Shanxi, which was floated over by Jiang Zongbing's small tricks, and after a period of slaughter, it was basically chopped clean, and the rest was just some stragglers, and it couldn't become a climate.

He and Jiang Xuan expressed guilt, Jiang Xuan did not appreciate it, Yang Zhenwu stuffed the command of 5,000 reinforcements to Jiang Xuan together, Jiang Xuan looked better at this time, and did not humiliate Yang Zhenwu too much, promoted Yang Zhenwu to his deputy general, Yang Zhenwu also Jiang Xuan also talked about the tasks given to them by Jiang Xuan.

It is best to be able to break through Tianchengwei, and if it is not broken, it will defend Gaoshan and Yanghewei, block the Dashun army in the northeast of Shanxi, and prevent the Dashun army of Xuanfu Town and the Dashun army of Taiyuan Prefecture from attacking Datong Mansion.

Ling Jingyang did not let Jiang Jiu's goal be achieved, and after repelling the rebel attack, he ordered all infantry troops to continue to rest, and the cavalry battalion took a step forward to go to Gaoshan Wei and Yang Hewei.

After these days of fighting in the cavalry battalion, the whole army is in a state of sleepiness and lack of horses, Ling Jingyang from the logistics baggage battalion to each soldier of the cavalry battalion issued ten taels of silver, as compensation for these days of fighting, some of the cavalry battalion officers and men are replenished from the Guanning army, they have family members in the logistics baggage battalion, and the families of the war dead will have a pension of one or two silver every month.

Ling Jingyang also announced in public that as long as the stone camp is only one day, the pension will always be there, which is also the first transformation of the stone camp between the army and the civil administration, and the military department of the stone camp has begun to take shape.

After the soldiers of the cavalry battalion got ten taels of silver, their spirit recovered a lot, and Ling Jingyang could see from their performance that this army still had no faith, or faith was silver, but if you want to cultivate an army with faith, it will take a lot of time and political talents, and with the strength of the stone battalion, it will not have these conditions for the time being.

Only with rich material rewards such as silver can the soldiers be stimulated to fight and compete with the Qing army for talents.

The cavalry battalion, led by Li Rufeng and Wang Hong, went away from Gaoshan Wei, Yang and Wei respectively.

Ling Jingyang gave them the task of finding out the number of garrisons, numbers, weapons and equipment and other information in the two regions, Li Rufeng thought that Ling Jingyang was going to pull out these two guards, and said to him: "Captain Lingdu, you don't want to storm these two cities, right?" ”

"How come, they can't attack Tianchengwei, and our men and horses can't break Gaoshan Wei and Yanghewei, you go there and go around, don't clash with the rebels, and wait for the soldiers of the rear battalion to withdraw, I estimate that we can attack it."

"What, what, back camp?"

Li Rufeng didn't understand for a while, wasn't the rear camp in Xuanfu Town? Why do you want to go to Tianchengwei again?

Ling Jingyang looked at Li Rufeng, this hot-blooded man, his head is always a little dumber than others: "The rear camp is stationed in Xuanfu Town, it is a sharp knife hanging above Jiannu's head, Jiannu will not let the rear camp be stationed in Xuanfu Town, and will definitely mobilize a large army to storm Xuanfu Town, how long do you think the rear camp can last under the full firepower of the Qing army?" ”

Li Rufeng suddenly realized, he used to be the commander of the cavalry post of the rear battalion, and he still knew the strength of the rear battalion, in the face of the Qing army without heavy artillery, he could hold on until the ammunition was exhausted, but the Qing army brought heavy weapons such as Hongyi cannons to attack the city, and the rear battalion could not support it for long.

He said to Ling Jingyang: "Even if the rear camp is withdrawn, it will be a defeat of the remnants, and it will be difficult for us to gnaw down Gao Shan Wei and Yang Hewei with them?" ”

"The rear camp will not be stupid enough to be disabled by the Qing army and then retreat, we just need to be ready to meet the rear camp, so that after the brothers in the rear camp withdraw, they can get rest as soon as possible, and then break through Gaoshan Wei and Yang Hewei in one fell swoop."