A few days ago, the Tang Tong troops stationed in Pingyang Mansion in Shanxi Province were attacked by the Qing army from the direction of Luoyang, and the Tang Tong troops were defeated and were forced to abandon Pingyang Mansion and retreat to Tongguan.

After the Qing army captured Pingyang Mansion, it did not go north to attack Taiyuan Mansion, but chose to go south to attack Tongguan and throw the black cauldron that attacked Chongzhen's court to Gao Jie.

The Dashun army stationed in Tongguan is Liu Zongmin's middle battalion troops, Li Hou's battalion troops, the two soldiers and horses fought bloody battles with the Qing army in Tongguan for several days, regardless of victory or defeat, it happened that at this time, Azig led the troops to attack Datong Mansion from Xuanfu Town, Wu Sangui and other green battalion soldiers also attacked Datong Mansion from Beizhili, and Datong Mansion was in danger under the attack of the Qing army.

Li Zicheng had a decent relationship with Ling Jingyang, and Yuan Zongdi, the general of the right battalion system stationed on the side of Taiyuan Mansion, passed information to him, so that Ling Jingyang would not face the battle like a blind man.

Ling Jingyang looked at the map on the table, and when he was nearby, Leng Rutie, Murong Tu, Zhang Luofu, Niu Guangtian, the four commanders and deputy generals, as well as Wang Mu, Mi Shengguang and other civil officials also attended the meeting.

He said to the generals present: "Have you seen that the Qing army has always been attacking the Dashun army, as if our army has nothing to do with them in Taiyuan Mansion? ”

Everyone didn't care about these at first, thinking that the Qing army regarded the Dashun army as the main enemy and sneered at their small court, but now it seems that the Qing army definitely has a conspiracy.

Ling Jingyang squinted his eyes, his mind was spinning rapidly, what kind of crooked idea was this high-level Manchu Qing Dynasty fighting, obviously there was an absolute advantage, but it was still a conspiracy and a conspiracy, and everyone was talking to each other, but they still didn't figure out why the Qing army only fought the Dashun army and not Taiyuan Mansion.

It was Wang Mu, who had been in the officialdom all the year round, thinking about it, his mind became cheerful, and he said to Ling Jingyang: "Ling Dudu, there are masters in this Jiannu." ”

Ling Jingyang turned around and said to him, "Lord Wang, how do you say this?" ”

Wang Mu stood up, shook with everyone, and then talked eloquently: "Everyone, this Qing army is strong, but it is also iron-clad, as the saying goes, two fists are hard to beat four hands, the Qing army annihilated us, just like Li Zicheng broke through the capital, and the world was rumored that he killed His Majesty, which also led to his defeat at Shanhaiguan, almost most of the imperial army that had surrendered were reversed. ”

Speaking of this, Wang Mu looked around at the people around him, some of the faces of the people were confused, some suddenly brightened, and Ling Jingyang encouraged him to continue.

He continued: "The Qing army's attack on Taiyuan Mansion will inevitably attack Your Majesty, so in this way, people with lofty ideals in the world, especially those forces who still trust our court, will turn all the spearheads of His Majesty who killed Li Zicheng to the Qing army, even if it is the small court of Yingtianfu, under this pressure, they will not continue to fight with the Qing army." ”

Leng Rutie listened with relish, but suddenly remembered that at this time, it was the Hongguang Imperial Court army of Yingtianfu attacking Taiyuan Mansion, and the forward army had broken into Lu'an Prefecture, and the north of Lu'an Prefecture was Qinzhou, and across Qinzhou, it was Taiyuan Mansion.

This should be the heart of the monarchs and ministers of Tianfu, everyone knows it, Leng Rutie deliberately asked Ling Jingyang, who is the general of the Hongguang army this time, how can he be so confused?

Coincidentally, Li Rufeng rushed back from the front line at this time, he advanced 20 kilometers south of Lu'an Prefecture, and once again encountered Hu Maozhen's troops.

Obviously, neither army was capable of eating the opponent, and Hu Maozhen retreated to Yuxia Pass, the southernmost point of Lu'an Prefecture, where he waited for the arrival of the main force led by Gao Jie.

Hu Maozhen couldn't escape the city, and it was pointless for the cavalry corps to continue to wander here, Li Rufeng withdrew to Qinzhou with his troops, and came back to send the latest information to Ling Jingyang.

At this time, he was on his way to the conference room, and Ling Jingyang asked everyone to sit down and continue to discuss how to resist the Qing army, whether to focus on defense, or to take the lead in attacking and annihilating the enemy's army, dampening its spirit, and making it dare not continue to go deep into Taiyuan Mansion.

Most of the generals tend to be defensive, after all, many of the soldiers are still new recruits, have no battlefield experience, and are in a hurry to go to the battlefield, and it is very likely that they will be defeated by the enemy with one blow.

Instead, it is much better to use defense to improve the combat skills of soldiers and let soldiers see blood in defensive battles than to pull troops into the field and bleed hard with enemy troops.

Only Leng Rutie did not agree, he and Zhang Luofu said: "Commander Zhang, our army has a lot of recruits, and we must pull them out to practice, hide in the city and play defensive warfare with the enemy, this army will be deeply imprinted with defensive traces in the future, and its field ability will be degraded, how can it compete with the Qing army?" ”

He insisted on pulling the troops out to fight against the Hongguang army, and he also mentioned to Zhang Luofu that the strength of the Hongguang army was just like that, and there were many veterans among the soldiers and horses in various departments, and they were fully capable of training with the Hongguang army.

Zhang Luofu is against being cold as iron.

"Commander Leng, do you just watch those recruits sacrifice senselessly on the battlefield, bleeding to death?"

"That's better than being slaughtered by the Qing army in the future."

Ling Jingyang let them quarrel enough this time, he also wanted to see the general's combat ideas and specialties, the two of them quarreled red-faced, if it wasn't for Ling Jingyang here, he would have fought a lot, but fortunately, Li Rufeng came to the venue at this time, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw Zhang Luofu and Leng Rutie greeting each other.

After Li Rufeng came in, Ling Jingyang made a gesture to make everyone quiet, and Zhang Luofu and Leng Rutie also closed their mouths at the same time, waiting for Ling Jingyang's lecture.

Ling Jingyang and Li Rufeng nodded, and said with concern: "Rufeng, the front line has worked hard. ”

"Governor, this is the duty of the last general, the last general asked Wang Hong to send information before, the Hongguang army is indeed here to attack our army, and its vanguard is Gao Jie's general Hu Maozhen, this person and Gao Jie were also generals of the Dashun army before, or the right-hand general of King Chuang."

Li Rufeng does not call Li Zicheng His Majesty, but calls him King Chuang, to show his attitude towards the Dashun army, Ling Jingyang doesn't care about this, he knows Gao Jie, he followed Li Zicheng to fight in the south and north in his early years, quite capable, and then hooked up with Li Zicheng's wife and became an adulterer, afraid of being killed by Li Zicheng, surrendered to the court with his troops, fought in the south and north for the court, and finally died of arrogance.

He was also the only general of the Hongguang Dynasty who sent troops to the Northern Expedition, and after entering Henan, he marched all the way to the mountains and recovered a lot of lost land, but because of carelessness and arrogance, he died at the hands of Xu Dingguo, which directly led to the military strength of the small court of Yingtianfu being subverted by the Qing army, and the land recovered in Henan was reoccupied by the Qing army.

At this time, it turned out that he led the troops to attack Taiyuan Mansion, Ling Jingyang laughed dumbly, Li Rufeng told him again, the forward troops led by Hu Maozhen, in Licheng and the cavalry corps, Jiang Xuan's army conducted a battle, both sides lost hundreds of people, and then retreated.