The left guard of Datong was abandoned by the defenders, and was soon captured by the stone camp, Ling Jingyang further stimulated the defenders of Datong City, and ordered the cavalry battalion, Zhang Luo Auxiliary Division, Murong Tu Division, Niu Guangtian Department and other soldiers and horses to ambush Lin Erle on the way to Datong City Road.

Lin Erle thought that he would arrive in Datong City and become one of the reinforcements of Datong City, and would be praised by Jiang Xuan and Mu Lan, but he was ambushed by the Shiying army outside Datong City.

Although he was ambushed and suffered heavy losses, Lin Erle did not retreat, he expected that the defenders in Datong City could come to reinforce, at least he would not watch him be wiped out by the Dashun army, but he waited left and right, the defenders in Datong City did not come out, and his subordinates fought less and less, Murong Tu and Niu Guangtian, two old generals of Datong Mansion, surrendered while fighting, many Datong rebels saw that they could not fight, either fled or threw away their weapons and surrendered, and finally Lin Erle finally couldn't stand it, and retreated to Hunyuan City with his own soldiers.

Lin Erle is like a lost dog, on the way to retreat, there are constantly soldiers left behind, and when he retreats to Xia Mizhuang in the south of Datong City, he really can't run, and he takes only more than 100 soldiers to rest in the village, just arrived at the gate of the village, and saw a group of well-equipped Dashun cavalry waiting in formation.

Li Rufeng rode on a horse, looking at Lin Erle and other remnants of the defeated generals, with a look of disdain, he used to be a hot-blooded border army, after surrendering to the Dashun army, he fought for the Dashun army, and when he arrived at Datong Mansion, the Ming army went here to refresh the lower limit, and there was almost no backbone, he looked down on these soft bones, and he was very domineering and Lin Erle roared.

"You wait for the three domestic slaves, why don't you surrender quickly?"

Lin Erle looked at the more than 200 cavalry in front of him, he had no chance of winning this little soldier and horse, and he had no chance to withdraw, so he gritted his teeth and ordered the whole army to surrender, his subordinates did not want to fight for a long time, after receiving the surrender order, the weapon was thrown faster than a rabbit, and Lin Erle also handed the waist knife to Li Rufeng.

Li Rufeng put the waist knife on his waist and said to him: "Let's go, take you to see my general." ”

At this time, Ling Jingyang took his direct troops, artillery battalions, and three soldiers and horses of the Leng Ru Iron Department to ambush the left guard of Datong, just waiting for the rebels in the city to go out of the city to fight, but the rebels in the city were like blind and deaf, sitting back and watching the friendly troops being annihilated and ignored.

The behavior of the rebels in the city made Ling Jingyang very conflicted, disappointed that the rebels were defending Datong City, he had no chance to destroy the rebels' living forces, and he was happy that the rebels were so cold-blooded and ruthless, and it was time to establish an effective communication channel with the rebels' internal forces, and they couldn't blindly fight and rush.

When he saw that the rebels in the city were not moving, he resolutely ordered a retreat.

According to the pre-war plan, the troops and horses assembled in Weiyuanwei, at this time the Weiyuan Acropolis was harmonious, Wang Mu led a group of officials to divide the people of Weiyuanwei into five teams, to provide complete logistics services for the army, some of the people who were driven over, unwilling to leave Datong Mansion, were ordered to be expelled by Wang Mu.

Wang Mu was also very smart, giving these people ten days of dry food, but expelled them to Shaanxi next door, so that these people had to settle in Shaanxi, and when Ling Jingyang arrived in Weiyuanwei, the other troops arrived earlier than him, and Lin Erle and other prisoners were waiting for his order, whether to kill or release.

On the way back, Li Rufeng knew that Lin Erle was a middle-level general of the rebel army and the chief general of the rebel army, so he took Lin Erle to the courtyard where Ling Jingyang lived.

"Like the wind, who is this man?"

"This person is the chief general of Hunyuan City to support the rebels in Datong City, and a group of rabble under his command also wants to go to Datong City to mix up some military achievements."

Lin Erle nodded hurriedly, after he annexed the left guards and horses of Datong, there were more than 2,000 people in the whole army, so he thought that leading these soldiers and horses to Datong City could strengthen the defensive force, and he could also get the appreciation of the Manchurians and Jiang Xuan.

Who knew that he was ambushed by the Dashun army under the nose of Datong City, and the people in the city were full of people and Jiang Xuan who could not be saved when they saw death, Lin Erle was heartbroken, and after seeing Ling Jingyang, he knelt on the ground.

"General, the small one has eyes and no beads, he worked hard for the Jiang family, he was ambushed by your army, and he couldn't save him when he saw death in the city, and the small one was willing to be the general's pawn, and I only wanted the general to break through Datong City, so that I could kill the people in the city and the Jiang Xuan brothers."

Ling Jingyang suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and said to Lin Erle: "Do you hate the Manchurians in the city and the Jiang family so much? ”

"The traitors in the city will be punished, and I ask the general to give me the opportunity to avenge my subordinates."

The more Lin Erle said the more angry the crowd was, the more Ling Jingyang felt that this person could become a double agent, and Li Rufeng nodded, and Li Rufeng went to the city to rest in a funny way.

There were only two people left in the room, and Ling Jingyang asked him what his name was, and where he served as a guard before?

Lin Erle told Ling Jingyang his name, he had served as a guard in Lingqiu City before, Ling Jingyang took a deep breath, and then said, "Lin Erle, would you like to go to Datong City?" ”

Lin Erle was stunned, of course he was willing to enter Datong City and kill the miscellaneous people in the city who could not be saved, but Ling Jingyang's attitude didn't seem to mean this?

"You go to Datong City, as a spy of our army, waiting for an opportunity to open the city gate, or deliberately induce the Qing army in the city to go out of the city to fight, in short, try to destroy the correct decision of the Qing army generals in the city, do you have this ability?"

Lin Erle was very stunned, and when he heard Ling Jingyang say this, he was even more stunned, how could he have the ability to become a spy, and Ling Jingyang shook his head, saying that he didn't have that ability.

Ling Jingyang could see that Lin Erle was stunned, and said to him: "I'll give you 10,000 taels of silver, and in the future, I will take the world and pay homage to the generals, which is much better than those in the city who don't save them when they see death, right?" ”

Lin Erle suddenly opened up a little at this time, the family is quite powerful in the local area, he is now captured by the Dashun army, and he is counted as half of the Dashun army, but the family can't take refuge in one force, and needs to take refuge separately.

He thought about it, it is better to let the family take refuge in the Dashun army, he returned to the Qing army once, and the neighbors bet at both ends, whether it is Dashun or the Qing Dynasty to win the world in the future, the Lin family has a place.

"General, I promise you that I will go back, but after I go back, how can I contact you?"

"You just mix well in Datong City, the better you mix, the more you have the ability, and when you come back to me in the future, you will go further, here is a thousand taels of silver, you take it to honor the people in the city, lest they accuse you of defeat outside the city and deliberately snub you."

Ling Jingyang then asked Wang Mu to send a thousand taels of silver, Lin Erle's eyes lit up when he saw it, but he did not lose his mind, Shanxi and Shaanxi will soon be the area of contention between the Dashun army and the Qing army, and it is also the main battlefield of both sides, he asked Ling Jingyang to take his family with him when he turned to war.

Ling Jingyang asked him, "Where is your family?" ”

"In Baodezhou, Taiyuan Prefecture, if the general goes to support Taiyuan Mansion, please take my Lin family away, so as not to suffer from the war and kill innocent people."

"Okay, I'll take your family away, you go back later tonight, gather more remnants of the defeated soldiers on the way, and I will also let you rescue some of your subordinates, so that you don't go to Datong City to have a bare pole."

Lin Erle was grateful, and suddenly thought that he didn't know Ling Jingyang's name: "General, haven't asked your name yet?" ”

"Ling Jingyang, the left mighty general of the rear camp of the Dashun army, see you on the battlefield in the future, the red black stone of our military flag, you will know that it is my soldiers and horses when you see it, you take the troops to hide a little farther."

"Order."

Ling Jingyang asked him to prepare, and then called Dong Daqi and Lao Mantou, and asked the two to cooperate with Lin Erle to "fight their way out of the encirclement" tonight.

The two rubbed their hands, this is to play enough, it is not like acting, it was seen by Lin Erle's subordinates, and when they returned to Datong City, they could not help but spread falsehoods, and the Qing generals in the city would suspect Lin Erle, so the two sat down and muttered, but nothing came out.

In the end, the old steamed bun stuffed a dagger into Lin Erle's arms, telling him that people could be killed in the middle of the night, and someone would stop him in front of him, but it was all for drama, and both sides should not do black hands, and then tied his hands and threw him into the captive pile.

These captives watched Lin Erle being thrown in with his hands tied, and hurriedly gave him a place, after the old steamed bun waited for the soldiers of the Dashun Army to leave, Lin Erle quietly signaled to his subordinates to his chest, and his subordinates saw his eyes and took out a dagger on his chest with his mouth.

Many captives quietly separated the rope with daggers, and Lin Erle was also cut the rope, he and his subordinates said: "Tonight, the Dashun army will bury all the captives alive, and those who want to live will rush out with him, if they don't want to live, just stare here and be buried alive, right?" ”

These big-headed soldiers were afraid of being buried alive and were willing to rush out with him, Lin Erle turned his face dark, and said to his subordinates: "In the middle of the night tonight, let's go out and go to Datong City to find an explanation, why don't you save you when you die?" ”

This sentence made the subordinates even more angry, yes, they were kind enough to support Datong City, they were attacked outside the city, more than 10,000 friendly troops in Datong City, watching them be defeated by the Dashun army, how to swallow this evil breath, they all surrounded Lin Erle, and the prisoners rioted very angrily, and waited until midnight to hold a riot, kill back to Datong City, and ask the generals of Datong City to give an explanation.

Outside the door, Dong Daqi and Lao Mantou led more than 100 soldiers, they had already greeted the soldiers and horses of the other stone camps, and let Lin Erle and others break through tonight, Dong Daqi looked at the moon and said to Lao Mantou: "Brother Mantou, let's go from Shaanxi to Shanxi, and then to the capital and Shanhaiguan, but this way, let's go back to Shanxi, and I don't know how long we will fight in the future?" ”

"What's there, if we can't beat it, let's run, and when we can beat it, we will fight back, don't say what you said, let's play something like tonight, don't let these captives see that we are acting on the spot."

The two of them and more than 100 officers and soldiers of the directly subordinate troops ordered: "Cut people with the back of a knife tonight, try not to kill or injure, and let the prisoner who runs at the front, let him pass all the way." ”

In the middle of the night, Lin Erle led more than 500 captives to quietly pry open the door, and then rushed to the city gate with his waist bent.