Dong Daqi came to the captives, and more than 100 soldiers carried Ming Huanghuang big swords, and asked these captives if they were willing to return to the Dashun army?

More than 100 big knives flashed in the air, more than 1,000 green battalion soldiers suddenly lowered their heads, and some people even knelt on the ground, eager to join the Dashun army now, these days they were forced to build houses for the common people, and they had to rest on the city wall, almost not tired to death, and I don't know if they will be killed by the Dashun army after doing coolies.

This made Dong Daqi a little painful, he wanted to blast away some of the captives to go outside the city, but the captives all surrendered, Dong Daqi had to ask Wang Mu for help, Wang Mu was thinking hard, how to exaggerate the horror of the Qing soldiers, to mobilize the people to fully support the Dashun army?

Dong Daqi came with his own soldiers and talked to Wang Mu about the captives, Wang Mu suddenly had an inspiration, and said to Dong Daqi: "You lead the captives to the city tonight to drum up, just say that there are Qing troops in the city, and let the Qing army go to the city to create chaos, so that the people hate the Qing soldiers." ”

"My lord, this is not good, the brothers in the whole city are stationed on the city wall, you let me pretend to be a Qing soldier to create chaos, isn't this a slap in the face of the soldiers?"

Wang Mu couldn't care so much, he went to ask Ling Jingyang for instructions, and after Ling Jingyang agreed, let Dong Daqi do the same.

Dong Daqi had no choice but to bring his own soldiers to the captives, selected more than 20 fierce-looking captives, and the others were all divided among the lieutenants, and more than 20 captives were taken to the barracks by Dong Daqi and let them wear the uniforms of the green battalion soldiers and the Eight Banners, and the captives were frightened, thinking that Dong Daqi was going to kill them, and knelt on the ground one by one and prayed for their lives.

"It's all for Lao Tzu to listen to, follow Lao Tzu to the city tonight to create chaos, take off your clothes after completing the task, and return to the barracks, Lao Tzu promises that none of you will die."

Under Dong Daqi's threat, these prisoners hesitated to change into Qing army clothes, and after eating dinner in the barracks, they waited for dark to follow Dong Daqi to the east of the city.

At the same time, Wang Mu once again visited Ling Jingyang, and said that Ling Jingyang was very hesitant, this plan is very risky, successful, it will win the hearts of the people, but if it causes chaos in the city, it will not only easily cause casualties, but also lure the Qing army to wait for the opportunity to attack the city, it is too risky, he did not agree to this plan.

Wan Liyun said to him on the side: "General Ling, if we create chaos in the city, maybe it will attract the Qing army to attack the city, so it is better to do this, create chaos that can be quelled, and let most of the soldiers of the various departments wait on the city wall tonight, and wait for the Qing army to come and send them to death, not only can we win over the people, but also kill and injure the Qing army." ”

Ling Jingyang shook his head, thinking that the strength of the Qing army was obvious to all, if it was a large-scale siege, the stone battalion troops could not hold the city, but Wan Liyun said that the Qing army would not attack the city on a large scale, and the defenders of the night siege could not see the enemy clearly, but the attacking side would be more disadvantaged, and with the strength of the stone battalion, it could be defended.

Ling Jingyang thought for a while, agreed to this plan, and repeatedly asked Wang Mu not to do anything to harm the people, Wang Mu nodded hurriedly, Ling Jingyang asked the old steamed bun to go and talk to a few other lieutenants, and all the soldiers and horses tried their best to cooperate with Dong Daqi's action tonight.

The old steamed bun hurriedly went to convey the military order, and after the lieutenants of each department got the military order, they ordered one-third of the soldiers and horses to rest in the barracks tonight, and the other soldiers were stationed on the city wall, no matter what happened in the city, the soldiers on the city wall were only responsible for external operations.

Before dark, Dong Daqi came to the east of the city with his own soldiers, marked the houses in the east of the city that were uninhabited and there were no other houses nearby, and waited for the evening to set fires, and soon, the sky darkened, Dong Daqi and dozens of prisoners said: "All cheer up, go to the east of the city to set fire, there is a house with wooden stakes in front of the east gate of the city, set fire, no houses without wooden stakes are not allowed to set fire, follow me to the south of the city to grab things after arson, and finally withdraw to the barracks, during this period no one is allowed to hurt people, and no sound is allowed." ”

More than 20 captives nodded, slipped out of the barracks under the leadership of Dong Daqi, and the group came to the east of the city, the sentinels in the east of the city had already returned to the barracks to rest under the guidance of thousands of clouds, and the sentries on the city wall did not see this group of people.

Set.

Dong Daqi gave an order, more than 20 captive soldiers quickly lit torches, thrown to the house where no one lived, the house made of wood was burned in large quantities, many people were frightened by everyone and shouted, Dong Daqi continued to run to the west of the city with the captives, shouting while running, to the west of the city, everyone hit the shield with weapons, making a screeching sound, the people in the west of the city were also frightened and shouted, after Dong Daqi completed the task, he ordered the prisoners to take off their clothes and throw them into the fire, and then pretend to be indifferent and return to the barracks, change into the military uniform of the Dashun army.

After returning to the barracks, Dong Daqi repeatedly ordered that no leaks were allowed, there were leakers, the five horses were divided, the captives nodded, Dong Daqi saw that they were sincerely frightened, and took them to have supper, after eating supper, the captive soldiers became Dong Daqi's personal soldiers, and they could be regarded as Dong Daqi's henchmen.

At this time, the uninhabited houses in the city were on fire, Wang Mu led the local troops to put out the fire frantically, because Dong Daqi only set fire to some uninhabited houses in the east of the city, and the fire was quickly extinguished.

Wang Mu has such an illusion, is this the numb people of the Ming Dynasty?

In a trance, Ling Jingyang walked out of the barracks with the troops directly under him, as well as the soldiers and horses of other departments who stayed in the barracks, and everyone forgot to extinguish the fire, and extinguished the fire after dividing it by two.

After dawn, the frightened people sat on the ground, crying bitterly, Ling Jingyang looked at Wang Mu, Wang Mu was a little embarrassed, it was all his bad idea, causing panic in the city.

Fortunately, there were no casualties, Bolo heard the crying in the city at night, thinking that someone was rebelling and wanted to open the city gate to surrender, so he ordered a surprise attack, and the soldiers of the Dashun army stationed on the city wall had already prepared, and the Qing army was fiercely attacked head-on and repelled the Qing army.

The Qing army lost hundreds of people in the siege and was forced to retreat, and Bolo even thought that this was a deliberate chaos created by the Dashun army, luring him to attack the city wall, in order to consume the Qing army's strength.

Bolo was a little angry, and ordered all the troops and horses to attack after dawn, in an attack, he didn't know that at this time, most of the people in Datong City supported the Dashun army from the bottom of their hearts, Wang Mu spread among the people that there was a fine work last night, trying to open the city and let the Qing army enter the city, but fortunately, he was repelled by the soldiers of the Dashun army, and the fine work could not open the door, so he set fire to the city, and announced with the people of the city that after the Qing army broke the city, no one was left alive.

The people in the city saw that the Dashun army helped to extinguish the fire and defend the city, and thought that the Qing army was really hateful, and many people enthusiastically joined the army and guarded their homes with the Dashun army.

The fourth siege of the Qing army soon began, this time the Qing army had no reservations, almost all of them pressed up, and Bolo was also confident that even if he exchanged one with the Dashun army, he could consume the Dashun army to death.

Bolo thought that he could strike with all his strength, even if he couldn't break through Datong City, he would be able to severely damage the Dashun army.

But this time the siege of the city, but was beaten into an army, the defensive strength on the city wall seems to have been greatly improved, the Dashun army also dared to use bows and arrows and firecrackers to confront the Qing army, especially the firecracker battalion led by Fang Xiaoyan, with three to four firearms, to keep the firepower uninterrupted, as long as the firecrackers hit, if they don't die, they have to withdraw from the battle, where he can't see, the people of Datong City risk death to provide all the assistance that can be provided to the Dashun army, help carry the wounded, transport weapons to the city wall, and some young people and the Dashun army together, on the city wall to the Qing army to beat.

Bolo watched the troops being repulsed, and Jiang Xuan, who was stationed in the rear, also asked the generals to rush back and report to him, the reinforcements of the Dashun army were gathering, as if to launch a strong attack, and asked Bolo to lead the troops to support, Bolo scolded Jiang Xuan's generals, and gave him 4,000 soldiers and horses who could not reach the reinforcements of the Dashun army.

General Jiang Xuan reported to him that the Dashun army had new reinforcements, the number of which was several times that of Jiang's general soldiers, Bolo was shocked, he hurriedly led half of the army to support Jiang Xuan, and just arrived at the battlefield, he saw that the Dashun army had already put on an offensive posture, and dozens of cannons were lined up in front of the Dashun army's defense line.

At this time, Li Daowei was very confident, because he was supported by Tian Jianxiu, the general of the Zhongying Quan, and the deputy mighty general Dang Shousu, Tian Jianxiu, like Liu Zongmin, was a senior general of the middle battalion of the Dashun Army, and Dang Shousu was a deputy mighty general before, and after he withdrew to Shaanxi, he was promoted to a general by Li Zicheng because of his military exploits.

The two led 20,000 troops to support the Shanxi battlefield, which was Li Zicheng's determination to open up a new battlefield, and it was also the prelude to the strategic counteroffensive of the Dashun army.

Finally in a military camp twenty-five miles east of Datong City, and Li Daowei and other generals converged, Li Daowei was very surprised that Dang Shousu came to support, and introduced Ling Jingyang's generals to him, Dang Shousu knew Ling Jingyang's name, this kid was in Shanhaiguan and His Majesty to give advice, at that time I thought he was deliberately showing, now it seems that Ling Jingyang is quite strategic.

I also knew that Ling Jingyang was the left mighty general of the rear camp, and I felt a little pity in my heart, Ling Jingyang was a general who went out of the middle camp, and said to Li Daowei: "Where is Ling Jingyang?" ”

"General, Ling Jingyang led the troops to garrison Datong City, and we waited here to contain the Qing army, forcing the Qing army to leave some soldiers and horses here to guard against the surprise attack of our army, and we can't attack Datong City with all our might."

Dang Shousu instantly became very excited, and Li Daowei repeatedly confirmed, "Wait a minute, you said that Ling Jingyang is stationed in Datong City?" ”

Li Daowei nodded, not understanding that Dang Shousu had become so excited, Dang Shousu said to him: "Sensei is talking nonsense, go and support Ling Jingyang now." ”

The counteroffensive of the Dashun army in other battlefields was not smooth, especially in Henan, the counteroffensive in the north and Zhili, almost all of them were repelled by the Qing army, and they also lost a lot of soldiers and horses, and Taiyuan Mansion in Shanxi was also occupied by the Qing army, only Tang Tong, Li Guo, Liu Fangliang and other remnants of the soldiers and horses held in Pingyang Mansion in Shanxi Prefecture, Liu Yongfu and Liu Zhong did not hold on, and led the troops to withdraw to Shaanxi to recuperate.

Suddenly heard that Lingjing Sunshine restored Datong City, the party Shousu was overjoyed, under his plan, Zhulu Dashun army killed Datong City, supported Ling Jingyang, and Ling Jingyang's troops should be combined with the outside, defeated the Qing army near Datong City, and Ling Jingyang's soldiers were united, and the whole army went south with baggage to recapture the state capitals of Shanxi.

Dang Shousu led the arrival of reinforcements, forcing Jiang Xuan to be forced to ask Bo Luo for help, Bo Luo came to Jiang Xuan's military camp, saw that the Dashun army was full of generals, dozens of cannons, and Datong City and Dashun troops were stationed, it was stupid to start a war on both sides, and Jiang Xuan said: "Let the troops with weak combat effectiveness stand in front, and the others will withdraw with me." ”

After speaking, Boluo didn't look back and left, Jiang Xuan was ruthless, and ordered some troops with average combat effectiveness to be stationed here, and he led other troops to the other side to raid the Dashun army, in fact, he retreated with the troops, and ran all the way to Datong City, and joined the Boluo army.

The Qing army that stayed was at a loss, Jiang Xuan just left, when the capital ordered more than 10,000 Dashun troops to attack, the Dashun army had artillery support, the offensive momentum was very fierce, these Qing soldiers resisted for a while, hundreds of dead and wounded, began to disperse, most of the people threw down their weapons and surrendered, a little bloody, they retreated to Datong City.

After Dang Shousu defeated the Qing army, he did not rest and led a large army to support Datong City.

Jiang Xuan abandoned half of the soldiers, withdrew to Datong City, and joined the Boluo army, the two hurriedly retreated to Taiyuan Mansion with their troops, and reported to the Azig regiment in Taiyuan Mansion for warmth, the Qing army suddenly retreated, which made Ling Jingyang very puzzled. 、

Soon after, another army came outside the city, and Ling Jingyang raised his eyes to see that it was the middle camp troops, and the party guards shouted with Ling Jingyang under the city.

"Listen to Jingyang, go out of the city and out of the city, kill the enemy and kill the enemy."

Ling Jingyang did not hesitate, ordered the whole army to attack, followed the party Shousu troops to pursue the Qing army, the Qing army was like a lost dog, crazy to Taiyuan Mansion, Bo Luo took the soldiers and horses of the Eight Banners Headquarters, rushed to the front, and asked Jiang Xuan to complete the task behind the palace.

The Qing army didn't care about the life and death of his comrades, in order to live, let the green battalion soldiers go to death, Jiang Xuan was angry, he led thousands of soldiers and horses to fight to the death in the rear army, but he was constantly eaten away by the Dashun army, the green battalion soldiers fought less and less, and in the end, hundreds of people were left to follow him, and the Dashun army was still chasing after him, and he was about to be dumplings by the Dashun army, Jiang Xuan was a little discouraged, pulled out his waist knife and prepared to kill himself.

Suddenly, a familiar voice sounded, it was Lin Erle, he also followed Ling Jingyang out of the city to kill the enemy, seeing that Jiang Xuan was besieged by the Dashun army, he hurriedly rode his horse and rushed over, and said to Jiang Xuan: "General Jiang, don't commit suicide." ”

Jiang Xuan looked at Lin Erle and sneered: "Lin Erle, you scum, you sell for glory." ”

With that, he put the blade of the knife against his throat and pulled it to the side hard.