But he also has ambitions, just like what Chen Sheng said, the prince will have a kind of Xiangning?

He wants to break out of the world and become a prince and general in the mouth of future generations, instead of condescending to others and looking up to others, for this reason he refused to Ling Jingyang to be kind enough to stay, and Ling Jingyang said that everyone has their own ambitions, he decided to leave, and please fulfill.

Ling Jingyang is also a little reluctant, Wan Liyun is a good staff officer, if he can be used by him, he will be the chief of staff of the army in the future, and he will also become one of the three giants of Shiying, he and Wan Liyun said: "The twisted melon is not sweet, if you want to leave, I can't pull you hard, but before leaving, you have to help me lay down Datong City." ”

Wan Liyun also knew that the capture of Datong City would fundamentally reverse the unfavorable situation of the war, and it would also set off a local counteroffensive, for him, this was a good opportunity to expand the army, and he was willing to give advice to Ling Jingyang and seize Datong City.

He and Ling Jingyang suggested that if you want to break through Datong City, you must annihilate the wings near Datong City, that is, the acropolis of Datong City, which is the four acropolises of Datong Left Guard, Datong Right Guard, Weiyuan Guard, and Pingyuwei, and the whole army can break through these four Acropolis, attract the Qing army of Datong City to go out of the city for field battles, and ambush the Qing army on the way.

"Wan Liyun, how is the defense of the four guards?"

"General Ling, as you said, the main force of the Qing army in Datong Mansion has gone to Yanmen Pass, and the rest are old, weak, sick and disabled, if we can't clean up these remnants, is there any point in us raiding Datong Mansion?"

Ling Jingyang touched his chin and nodded, what Wan Liyun said was not wrong, the distance between the four guards is not far, and they need to break through quickly, but even if the four acropolis are weak, they are guarded by troops, and it is impossible to break them with a light stab.

"General Ling, we only need to break through two or three Acropolis, the other Acropolis will either surrender or go out, the closed Acropolis can be ignored, the Acropolis that is broken by our army can attract the Qing army to attack, as long as we defeat the Qing army once or twice, the Qing army will not dare to continue the attack, and then the adults can gallop around Datong City to their heart's content."

Wan Liyun's analysis was very reasonable, Ling Jingyang kept nodding his head, and said to him: "Wan Liyun, are you willing to lead the troops to break through a city in this battle?" ”

"You have to let Zhang Luofu help this, my little soldiers and horses are a group of croppers, don't talk about attacking the city, even if it is a field battle, it is not an ordinary Ming army opponent, let Zhang Luofu and my soldiers and horses attack the farthest away from Datong City, you lead the direct troops to attack Weiyuanwei, the artillery battalion and Leng Rutie attack the right guard of Datong, the left guard of Datong closest to Datong City temporarily gave up, but Niu Guangtian and Murong Tu, they are the old generals of Datong Mansion, our army can capture the Acropolis is the best, and if it cannot be broken, let them come forward, and maybe they can also persuade their former comrades to surrender.

Ling Jingyang suddenly thought of the cavalry battalion: "What about the cavalry battalion, continue to wander the scouts?" ”

"The cavalry battalion has to be diligent, not only to prevent the Qing army from Datong Mansion from coming back from Yanmen Pass, but also to prevent the Qing army from coming to support from Beizhili."

Wanliyun still has good tactics, Ling Jingyang looked at the map, Datong Mansion and Beizhili border, Shiying sent troops to Datong City, Dolgon naturally will not let Shiying raid Datong City, with Dolgon's eloquence, 100% will be transferred from the capital to support the elite of the Beijing army, Ling Jingyang has not yet grasped the battle with the main force of the Qing army's Eight Banners.

Wan Liyun obviously also thought of Ling Jingyang, and said to him: "Only a quick battle, before the Qing army reinforcements, pull out Datong City." ”

In this era when there is only horsepower and manpower to transmit information, the Qing army gets the news that it will take more than ten days to transfer troops, Ling Jingyang added: "We must also do a good job in the closed-door deployment of the Qing army in Datong City, if they defend Datong City, our army will take away all the people and materials near Datong City as quickly as possible, so that Datong Mansion will become a bare state capital, forcing the Qing army to lose its supply capacity here." ”

After the two agreed on the same opinion, Ling Jingyang conveyed the purpose of the attack of the soldiers and horses, three days later, the whole army went to Datong City to kill, Zhang Luofu and Wan Liyun two soldiers and horses set off in advance, because they attacked the farthest distance of the Pingyu Guard, Leng Rutie and the artillery battalion attacked the right guard of Datong, and the other troops and Ling Jingyang attacked Weiyuanwei, the cavalry battalion still continued to wander, Li Rufeng led the troops to the south of Datong Mansion, and Wang Hong led the troops to the east of Datong Mansion, respectively beware of the Qing army from Taiyuan Mansion and Beizhili to reinforce.

Ling Jingyang gave each soldier and horse ten days of dry food, as long as he broke through one place, he immediately went to support the nearest friendly army, and ten days later the whole army gathered in Weiyuanwei.

The soldiers and horses left Guangling City, the people in the city watched the Dashun army leave numbly, Wang Mu took the officials in the city who were willing to go with him, these people are the lowest officials, with their help, Wang Mu can do a good job of making the decree consistent, Ling Jingyang trusted him, and ordered the four major families to obey him, and Wang Mu went to Weiyuanwei with his baggage.

Shiying left Guangling City and was relieved in Hunyuan City in the east, and the rebel generals such as the guard general and Lin Erle had already asked people to go to Datong City and Yanmen Pass to report the military situation.

After Jiang Xuan of Datong City got the news, he immediately discussed with Mu Lan, and Mu Lan was also shocked, these Dashun troops were really rogue battles, almost all over Shanxi to fight, he ordered all troops and horses to quickly gather in Datong City, and other Acropolis can be abandoned.

Jiang Xuan did not agree with this conservative tactic, but Mu Lan was the supreme general of Datong City, and Jiang Xuan did not dare to disobey his orders, because Ulzhou in the east of Datong Mansion was beaten into a pot of porridge, and they were all stragglers.

He was forced to issue an order from Mu Lan's army, and before Ling Jingyang set off, the garrison troops of the Acropolis near Datong City rushed to the city to strengthen the city's defenses.

After Jiang Xuan, who was fighting in Yanmen Pass, got this explosive information, he was so frightened that he hurriedly discussed with Azig, Datong Mansion was his lair, and he couldn't be sneak attacked, Azig was also a military genius, and immediately realized the importance of Datong Mansion.

For this reason, he summoned Tulai, Jiang Hao, Wang Chengyun and other generals, and decided to recruit troops to reinforce Datong City.

Jiang Hao asked him to lead the troops to reinforce Datong City, but he was glared at by Azig and was too frightened to speak, Wang Chengyun wanted to lead the troops to support Datong City, and he was able to dig the corner of Jiang Jiu's wall if he had the opportunity, but Azig didn't speak, and he didn't dare to make a sound.

Azig turned his eyes to Turai, hoping that Turai would lead troops to support, but Turai said to Azig that there was no need to transfer troops to reinforcements.

Turai said with a smile: "Mu Lan and Jiang Xuan are not fools, as long as they don't go out of Datong City, how can the Dashun army have the ability to break the city, we should ask the regent for instructions as soon as possible, and the regent will send troops from the capital to reinforce Datong Mansion, our army will continue to attack Yanmen Pass, as long as Yanmen Pass is breached, even if Datong City is attacked by the Dashun army, how useful is this Dashun army's soldiers and horses?" ”

There was some truth in what Tulai said, and Azig immediately asked his generals to ride fast horses, and hurried to the capital for 800 li, reporting to Dolgon that there were remnants of the Dashun army in Datong Province, and asking Dolgon to mobilize the Beijing army for reinforcements.

At the same time, he also asked his subordinates to rush to Datong City, and ordered Mu Lan and Jiang Xuan to defend Datong City, and they were not allowed to go out of the city to fight without absolute certainty.

After arranging the task, he suddenly thought that there was still a garrison in Hunyuan City, so he mobilized the garrison of Hunyuan City to support Datong City and strengthen the defensive strength of Datong City.

The main force of the Qing army attacking Yanmen Pass did not return to help, and the Qing army in Datong City did not fight, all of which brought a very good opportunity to Ling Jingyang.

Ling Jingyang didn't expect it to be so fast, the defenders of these three places are like grass on the wall, the main force went to Datong City, and the remaining soldiers and horses don't want to be buried, whoever comes surrenders, seeing that there are Dashun army troops under the city to attack, buy the slightest resistance, open the door to surrender, Ling Jingyang thought that he could get a lot of soldiers and horses here, but in the end he found that the rebels who surrendered in these three places were only more than 500 people, and they were all a group of old, weak, sick and disabled, Ling Jingyang forced these soldiers to retire, and each of them gave ten taels of silver to let them go home.

These soldiers are also real, after distributing the silver, they all rushed to Datong City, Jiang Xuan had no choice but to open the city gate, let these soldiers enter the city, the number of Qing troops in the city is more than 15,000 people, but Mu Lan let the Dashun army break through the three guards in the west, ignoring the Datong left guard's request for help.

Datong left guard has more troops, there are more than 600 people, the guard will be a thousand general, seeing that the other soldiers and horses have retreated to Datong City, he continues to defend here, and is only to make cannon fodder for Datong City, so before the stone camp attacked, he took the troops to Hunyuan City to retreat.

On the road and reinforced Datong City's Lin Erle troops and horses met, after the two armies met, Lin Erle had a bad heart, and actually attacked and killed Datong Left Guard Qianzong, annexed Datong Left Guard Soldiers and Horses, and then continued to rush to Datong City with troops.

The traces of the soldiers and horses of the Lin Erle Department had long been discovered by Li Rufeng, Li Rufeng asked his subordinates to quickly rush back to Weiyuanwei, and reported to Ling Jingyang that there were Qing army reinforcements, and also emphasized that the Qing army that attacked Taiyuan Mansion did not return to the division.

After Ling Jingyang got the news, Wan Liyun was the first to congratulate him, Ling Jingyang was also ecstatic, the main force of the Qing army still attacked Yanmen Pass, just let the local miscellaneous soldiers go to reinforce Datong City, he can rest assured to lead the whole army in the western cities and villages of Datong City to carry out strategic robbery, this time he was unceremonious, all the people and materials that could be seen gathered together, and forced these people to leave Shanxi.