After speaking, Fang Xiaoyan and Li Rufeng made a look, the two of them left the basement with their subordinates, closed the basement door, and threw Old Man Ding in this basement.

Old man Ding roared in the basement, no one paid attention to him, but he couldn't let go of the silver and women, he was reluctant to die, hoping that the Qing army could come over and take him away from the basement, but no matter how he shouted, no one paid attention to him.

There is only a bowl of water and half a steamed bun every day to keep him hungry, and Bayala's head gradually stinks, and the stench makes the old man want to die.

Fang Xiaoyan and Li Rufeng's soldiers divided into two ways, Fang Xiaoyan led the troops to rush to the Laiyi Bowl Inn, Li Rufeng took the cavalry and rushed to the Xu Chengyi Dish Inn overnight, and brought all the Qing troops from the two inns back to Yuci City.

At dawn the next day, a subordinate of the Special Bureau, who was good at whimsy, suddenly said to Fang Xiaoyan: "Mr. Qian, the little one thinks that this Qing army is carefully made in a dish and comes to a bowl of inns with names such as, will the Qing army in other places take similar names?" ”

Fang Xiaoyan thought about it, it was really possible, and asked what the name of this subordinate was, and the subordinate replied to him that his name was Ke Dong.

"Ke Dong, you take people to go around the city again, there is an inn with a similar name, and all the people in it are sent to the basement."

Because of the lack of manpower, Li Rufeng deliberately ordered half of the cavalry corps officers and soldiers to temporarily return to Fang Xiaoyan for dispatch, and he returned to the barracks, with dozens of henchmen, and buried Wang Hong ceremoniously, and other officials in the city rushed to mourn, but Li Rufeng politely refused.

He silently buried Wang Hong in a feng shui treasure outside the city, hoping that Wang Hong could live in peace.

After doing this, Li Rufeng took the cavalry corps to the Chongzhen Dynasty to govern and suppress the enemy, as long as it was similar to a plate of dishes, a bowl of inn and wine shop, all the people in it rushed to Yuci City, even if they accidentally injured the innocent, they would also exterminate the Qing army.

In a few days, more than 500 people were driven to the basement of Yuci City, some of Fang Xiaoyan's subordinates were good at using torture, and after some torture, they successfully captured more than 20 Qing army fine works, and other innocent people who were not fine works after screening, everyone was compensated with five taels of silver and a stone of brown rice, and for a while many people wanted to go to that terrifying basement to be tortured, anyway, they were not Qing army fine works, and they might be able to get silver and food.

After the Qing army was captured, they all drooped their heads, Fang Xiaoyan asked what to say, Fang Xiaoyan got two useful information from them, one is that the Qing army's troops in Beizhili are indeed empty, only 10,000 Eight Banner soldiers are scattered and stationed in various places, and the other intelligence is that the Qing army has recruited a large number of surrendered troops in Shandong and other places, and has been supplemented by surrendered troops, and the number of Qing troops is like a snowball, growing rapidly, and there is more definite news that the Qing army is about to launch a westward expedition, and the target is Shaanxi and Sichuan.

Fang Xiaoyan imprinted all the information in his mind, rode a fast horse and went to Taiyuan City, the Qing army was left to Li Rufeng, Li Rufeng was also very happy, all the Qing army worked with Old Man Ding, spent their days in the basement, still regarded each person as a bowl of water every day, half a steamed bun, and asked people to lock the neck of the fine work with iron cables, and then sealed the basement door with stones, and trapped these fine works alive.

I don't know how long it took, as the cavalry legion set off for Yanmen Pass, this in the basement of the Iron Fist Legion barracks was gradually forgotten, and the people inside let out a ghostly roar inside, but no one responded to them, until the voice became weaker and weaker day by day, and then as if no one had been here, and the people inside were reduced to a pile of bones.

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Yuci City was in a state of fire and fire, but Ling Jingyang encountered resistance in Taiyuan City, he came to Taiyuan City with Jiang Xuan's handwritten letter, and the defenders of Taiyuan City did not welcome the Iron Fist Army because it was also a Ming army, but it was like a great enemy, and the defenders on the city wall were holding bows and arrows and firearms in their hands.

As early as two days ago, Jiang Hao got a report from the subordinates stationed at the intermediate post of Taiyuan City and Yuci City, saying that Ling Jingyang led thousands of troops to Taiyuan City, which made Jiang Huang anxious, and his main force left the team to go to Yanmen Pass and Ningwu Pass in the north of Taiyuan Mansion to garrison, Taiyuan City only had more than 4,000 soldiers and horses, if Ling Jingyang raided Taiyuan City, he could only lead the troops to retreat to Yanmen Pass.

When Ling Jingyang's soldiers came to the city, Jiang Hao had already ordered all the departments in the city to fight, but Ling Jingyang did not show a siege posture, but asked Shi Tie to go to the city to shout, saying that the five armies were the governor of Ling Jingyang, and there was military affairs to discuss with the governor of Shanxi

, also asked the governor of Shanxi to open the door and welcome the governor of the five armies into the city.

Jiang Hao didn't open the door, and shouted on the city wall: "Governor Lingdu, it's been good lately, if there is any military affairs to talk about here, there is no need to mobilize the army." ”

Ling Jingyang asked Shi Tie to send Jiang Xuan's handwritten letter, Shi Tie held Jiang Xuan's handwritten letter in the air, and shouted to the defenders on the city wall: "My family governor has a letter from Deputy Chief Jiang Bing, and I also ask you brothers to open the door and bring it back to Governor Jiang." ”

Jiang Xuan heard that there was also a letter written by Jiang Xuan, and he was horrified, could it be that Jiang Xuan was harmed by Ling Jingyang in Liaozhou?

One of his subordinates patted his ass and asked to go out of the city to bring back the handwritten letter, Jiang Xuan nodded numbly, his subordinates tied it to his waist with a rope, hung it from the city wall, and then hoisted it back with the letter, seeing that the soldiers of the Iron Fist Legion such as Jingyang and others, as well as thousands of people, were stunned, can't the soldiers in the city put down a bamboo basket, put the letter inside, and then pull it up?

If you have to bring the whole living person down, and then pull the living person up, this sycophant is really high.

After Jiang Xuan's ministry brought the letter back, Jiang Xuan snatched Jiang Xuan's handwritten letter from his subordinates, opened it and saw that it was indeed Jiang Xuan's handwritten letter, Jiang Xuan told him in the letter that there were Fusang spies in the city, and asked his brother to believe in Lingdu Governor, let Ling Jingyang's soldiers and horses enter the city, and eliminate the Fusang spies in one fell swoop.

Jiang Xuan looked left and right at the letter, and finally believed that it was Jiang Xuan's handwritten letter, because Jiang Xuan used the code words they only knew in the letter, Jiang Xuan looked at the Lingjingyang army outside the city, there were more than 2,000 soldiers, he mistook the people and family members who helped transport grain and grass for the families of the army, and weighed the thousands of soldiers and horses in Taiyuan City, even if Ling Jingyang raided the city, he might not have captured Taiyuan City in one fell swoop.

He said to his generals: "Open the city gate later, be smart, and if you listen to Jingyang's surprise attack, you will beat them out for Lao Tzu." ”

The generals also clenched the weapons in their hands, while opening the door, they lined up in formation, Ling Jingyang wanted to enter the city as a horse, but was stopped by Zhu San and Yue Ling, Zhu San lowered his eyebrows and Ling Jingyang said: "Governor, you are the commander of our army, don't take risks." ”

Yue Ling also nodded on the side, asking Ling Jingyang not to rush into the city to prevent the defenders in the city from cheating, Ling Jingyang is actually not familiar with these two subordinates, and Zhu Fei is just a "victim" of his prestige in the Central Army, but their views this time are still very accurate, Ling Jingyang also muttered in his heart, if the two of them don't stop him from entering the city, not to mention whether the two of them are loyal or not, at least it is not worth cultivating in the future.

Fortunately, the two of them did think about Ling Jingyang, and Ling Jingyang also acquiesced to the status of the two in the Iron Fist Legion, and Shi Tie took the scout camp to enter the city first.

After Shi Tie entered the city, Jiang Liang's troops were holding their weapons tightly in the city, for fear that Shi Tie would ride his horse and sprint, Shi Tie came to fifty meters behind the city gate, and Jiang Liang led a group of generals to wait for his arrival here.

Jiang Jiu is the governor of Shanxi and a feudal official, Shi Tie saw him, and he didn't have a head iron, but spoke to him very politely.

"Governor Jiang, the last general of the five armies will supervise the Jingyang Pioneer Scout Battalion, Deputy Thousand Commander Shi Tie, meet the Governor, and all your lords."

Jiang Hao saw Shi Tie lowering his posture, and also stepped forward and said to him: "Go, take me to meet with the governor of your family." ”

Shi Tie led Jiang Hao and a group of people out of the city from the south gate of Taiyuan City, Ling Jingyang saw Jiang Hao and Shi Tie going out of the city together, signaled to his subordinates, stepped forward together, and greeted Jiang Jing.

The two soon came together, and after meeting, Ling Jingyang and Jiang Hao said, "Governor Jiang, how are you doing?" ”

"Thanks to you, tough."

Ling Jingyang smiled with him: "You have also seen Brother Ling's letter, there are thieves in this Taiyuan City." ”

"Well, Governor Ling is so kind, you and I will cook wine with green plums, and by the way, tell me where the thief is, and I will send troops over to destroy the thief, isn't it beautiful?"

"The green plums are already ripe, Governor Jiang, I am leading the troops to go to Yanmen Pass to support your army in the battle, just passing by Taiyuan City."

Jiang Huang suddenly heard that Ling Jingyang was going to Yanmen Pass to support the battle, his face was a little guilty, and he felt that he was too villainous, Ling Jingyang said again: "Governor Jiang, there is good news for you, do you want to hear it?" ”

Since Ling Jingyang didn't come to fight Taiyuan City, Jiang Jiu's attitude towards him went from the earth to the sky, and he was very happy.

"Governor Lingdu, don't hang people's appetites, what's the good news?"

"Gao Jie defected to our dynasty and is stationed in Zezhou, and will soon go south to Henan with our army, Jiang Zongbing wants to get a piece of the pie, and he can also wave his army to the south and have a foothold in the Central Plains."

Gao Jie once again surrendered to the Chongzhen court, which made Jiang Hao full of confidence, the Qing army in Henan was empty, he was eager to immediately wave the army south, kill into Henan, recruit displaced people, occupy the city to expand the territory.

But he also has weaknesses, his troops are divided into three parts, one part is stationed in the north of Taiyuan Mansion under the leadership of his elder brother Jiang Rang, and the other part is led by his younger brother Jiang Xuan, who is stationed in Liaozhou, and the rest is his garrison in Taiyuan City.

"Governor Jiang, Jiang Xuan has gone south to Huaiqing Mansion in Henan with my Central Army at this time, Governor Jiang doesn't know yet, right?"

"Jiang Xuan, this kid, didn't listen to my orders, he actually waved his army south, and when I came back, I had to break his legs."

Although he verbally scolded Jiang Xuan, but he was ecstatic in his heart, Jiang Xuan's south to Henan will greatly expand the living space of the Chongzhen court, and will bring more soldiers and horses and baggage, the more he thinks about it, the more excited he becomes, and the more he welcomes Ling Jingyang to enter the city to rest.

"Governor Lingdu, coming from Yuci City, all the soldiers are tired, hurry up and go into the city with me to rest."

Ling Jingyang readily agreed, but before entering the city, he whispered in Jiang Jiu's ear: "There are hundreds of thieves in the city, and they are plotting to raid the Taiyuan City Mansion, is Governor Jiang willing to annihilate the thieves?" ”

"Yes, you tell me, where are these thieves, I will chop them up."

Ling Jingyang and Yue Ling nodded, Yue Ling understood, and a pro-soldier made a look, and the pro-soldier immediately came out of the crowd, it was Mei Shaozuo, he had already decided to surrender to the Ming army, and he was going to completely break with Fusang, he and Ling Jingyang said: "Governor, please let me lead the troops to the city, and kill the thieves for the governor and Governor Jiang." ”

"Go ahead."

Ling Jingyang was very generous to Mei Shaozuo 500 iron fist soldiers, Jiang Hao was also busy letting his subordinates and Mei Shaozuo act together, Mei Shaozuo took the troops to kill the shop where Meihuadun was hiding, and at the same time Jiang Hao ordered the city gate to be closed, martial law was carried out in the city, and there were people who ran around, and there was no forgiveness.

The Ming army rushed towards Mei Zhongzuo's shop, where Mei Zhongzuo was still talking to a group of spies, and since coming to the land of China, he found himself in love with everything here.

What a leap in the land here, how beautiful the women here are, such a great mountain and river, it should belong to the Fusang Empire, instead of being torn around by the Ming and Manchu people like grabbing a piece of fat, if the Fusang Kingdom becomes the ruler of the Central Plains, he will become the upstart of the Fuso Kingdom, maybe the emperor will give him a reward for a piece of land, think about being able to own the land of the Ming people, how fascinating it is.

Suddenly, a spy ran in from outside the door and said to him: "Zhongzuo, martial law is under siege in the city, and a Ming army is coming to us. ”

Mei Zhongzuo wanted to scold this subordinate for not calling him Plum Blossom Dun, but calling him by his code name, but the Ming army suddenly killed him, which caught him off guard, and hurriedly ordered the spies and the puppet army in the courtyard to prepare for battle.

He went to the outside of the shop to meet the Ming army for a while, maybe these Ming soldiers just wanted some silver, he came to the door with a bag of silver, and saw a Ming army general who rushed to the front was a little familiar, and then looked, isn't this Mei Shaozuo?

How did Mei Shaozuo become a general of the Ming army? Mei Zhongzuo was infinitely terrified in his heart, and decisively walked to the door, and ordered the puppet army to fight, Mei Shaozuo saw Mei Zhongzuo go back, and the Ming army soldiers shouted loudly: "There are thieves inside, all the brothers rushed in to kill." ”

Five hundred iron fist soldiers and hundreds of Jiang Jiu's subordinates immediately besieged this shop, the shop looks small on the outside, but the inside has long been made into a defensive fortress by the Fusang people, although there are not many Fuso armed forces, but Mei Zhongzuo is not afraid of the Ming army.

In his opinion, the Ming army is just a group of rabble, can't beat the Dashun army, can't beat the Qing army, and can't compare to the Fusang armed forces, with hundreds of puppet troops in the courtyard, as well as the iron guns that lead the Ming army's firearms, enough to defeat the Ming army, and then kill the location of the supreme administrative leader in the city, and can also burn and plunder in the city, turning Taiyuan City into a ruin.

Mei Zhongzuo arrogantly shouted and scolded Mei Shaozuo outside the door.

"Meissan, you know that you are a dog, why don't you quickly roll in and die?"