Half a day later, several more Fusang dens were pulled out, and dozens of Fusang spies were dragged out by Mei Shaozuo and his troops, and all of them were pressed to the ground and their heads were cut off.

Ling Jingyang then discussed with Jiang Hao how to help Yanmen Pass, and Jiang Hao told him that his main force was not only stationed at Yanmen Pass, but also had a force stationed at Ningwu Pass, and these two mountain passes were two strategic points that were crucial to prevent the Qing army from Datong Mansion to Taiyuan Mansion in the south.

Ling Jingyang asked him how many soldiers and horses were stationed in the two places, Jiang Hao replied to him, Jiang Rang led 12,000 troops to garrison Yanmen Pass, and another general, Gao Ding, led 9,000 soldiers to garrison Ningwu Pass.

With these two troops, the two places can be connected, the Qing army attacked Yanmen Pass, Ningwu Pass sent troops to support, the Qing army attacked Ningwu Pass, Yanmen Pass cut off the Qing army's rear route.

If the Qing army dares to drive straight in, the Ming army in the two places can close the door and fight the dogs, put the Qing army into Taiyuan Mansion, and cut off the logistics supply line of the Qing army.

Ling Jingyang always thought that as long as he held Yanmen Pass, he could block the Qing army from going south, but this Ningwu Pass, before he led the troops to attack Taiyuan City, thinking that Ningwu Pass was not important, now think about it, in the face of the Qing army attacking from the north, Ningwu Pass and Yanmen Pass can be each other's horns.

But the Qing army only went from east to west, so it only relied on Yanmen Pass for defense, he and Jiang Jiu said: "Isn't the Qing army attacking Yan'an Mansion? ”

"Well, the Qing army's attack on Yan'an Mansion is very strong, but they shouldn't know that Gao Jie is anyway, we have troops to raid Henan, as long as we drag the Qing army in Datong Mansion and win the opportunity for Li Zicheng to garrison Tongguan, the Qing army's offensive momentum will be contained, and we can also take this opportunity to attack the city in Henan."

Neither of them thought that the Qing army's two fists were attacking Shanxi, and the defense force of the capital was not strong, so as long as they were united and rushed into the city, it would greatly shock the confidence of the Manchu high-level to continue to stay in the pass.

It's a pity that the strategic vision of the two is not enough, and so on Xiaoyan came from Yuci City, it has been many days later, in Taiyuan City, Ling Jingyang and Jiang Huang reached an agreement, the two take Taiyuan Mansion as the boundary line, the north of Taiyuan Mansion is Jiang Huang's territory, and the south to Zezhou is Ling Jingyang's territory.

After the capture of Henan, with Kaifeng Mansion as the boundary line, the north of Kaifeng Mansion belongs to Jiang Xuan, and the south of Kaifeng Mansion returns to Ling Jingyang, as for Gao Jie, this gives him Henan Mansion in the west of Henan, Nanyang Mansion, Ruzhou and other places, but the premise of all this is that the Qing army in Datong Mansion Azig must be defeated, and if this Qing army is not defeated, the entire Central Plains strategy will not be realized.

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Jiang Huang also let go, not to defend Taiyuan City, but to lead the soldiers in the city to fight, north to Yanmen Pass, Ling Jingyang led the Iron Fist Army north to Ningwu Pass, the two armies discussed that half a month later, Jiang Huang attacked Datong City, Ling Jingyang blocked the Qing army reinforcements, so that Azig could not echo the head and tail of the army.

After resting in Taiyuan City for three days, Ling Jingyang led the Iron Fist Legion, and thousands of people marched towards Ningwu Pass, Jiang Hao also specially sent five thousand stones of grain and grass to Ling Jingyang, which really made Ling Jingyang very grateful, when Ling Jingyang led the army to arrive at Ningwu Pass, Fang Xiaoyan finally came and reported to him the results of the special battle in Yuci City, and the other troops and horses successfully extinguished the Qing army in Yuci City, and heard important information.

Among them, there was the Qing army defending the emptiness in Beizhili, and Ling Jingyang heard it

Later, it was a pity that he had to pat his thigh, because the army was about to arrive at Ningwu Pass, and there was no strength left to continue to advance westward.

Gao Ding, the guard general of Ningwu Pass, and his generals, got the news that the imperial court soldiers and horses came to support Ningwu Pass, and they were very happy, and they were still ten kilometers away from Ningwu Pass in Ling Jingyang, so they led their own soldiers to welcome the arrival of Ling Jingyang.

Ling Jingyang was in a very depressed mood at this time, such a good opportunity was wasted like this, but Shi Tie, who was the forward, rushed back and reported to him that the general of Ningwu Guan was coming here with his subordinates, and he was also beating gongs and drums, which should welcome the arrival of their Iron Fist Legion.

Gao Ding had long heard of Ling Jingyang's name, and received Jiang Jingyang's secret order to fully cooperate with Ling Jingyang to attack the Qing army in Datong Mansion.

Seeing that Ling Jingyang brought thousands of soldiers and civilians, Gao Ding was a little disappointed, why did he just order soldiers and horses, the Qing army had tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Datong Mansion, a few days ago he sent a scout to Datong Mansion to report back to him, and a Qing army attacking Yan'an Mansion withdrew from the attacking troops to Datong Mansion.

That is, this Qing army, which made Gao Ding very uncomfortable, the commander of the Qing army was Wang Chengyun, Jiang Jiu's sworn enemy, he suddenly withdrew, did he want to attack Taiyuan Mansion?

If the Qing army wants to attack Taiyuan Mansion, it can only attack from Yanmen Pass and Ningwu Pass, Yanmen Pass has more than 10,000 elite soldiers led by Jiang Rang to garrison, and Ningwu Pass has only 9,000 soldiers and horses, most of these 9,000 soldiers and horses are still old, young, sick and disabled, and the real elite troops are also his own soldiers and horses, only more than 2,000 people, in the face of Wang Chengyun's tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, he has no confidence to stick to Ningwu Pass.

But he still welcomed the arrival of Ling Jingyang, Ling Jingyang was the governor of the five armies of the imperial court, and the same level as Governor Jiang, he ordered his subordinates to welcome Ling Jingyang and his party, Ling Jingyang was also surprised that the Ningwu Pass guards would be so enthusiastic.

Gao Ding stepped forward to introduce himself, he was Gao Ding, a staff general under Jiang Xuan, and told Ling Jingyang that he and Ling Jingyang's general Niu Guangtian were close friends, Ling Jingyang's eyes lit up, and he suddenly remembered who Gao Ding was.

In history, Jiang Jiu failed anyway and was killed by the rebel generals, but other subordinates still insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty, including Niu Guangtian and Gao Ding, who resisted until more than ten years later, before being defeated by the Qing army's concentrated superior forces.

"General Gao, what a passion."

"Governor, please join me in the barracks to rest."

"Don't be polite, expelling Jiannu is a matter within the responsibility of our soldiers, you take me to Ningwu Pass, don't let the Qing army raid Ningwu Pass when you go out."

Gao Ding seemed to wait for this sentence, waited for a long time, and Ling Jingyang complained: "Ling Dudu, a few days ago, a Qing army withdrew from Yan'an Mansion and was resting in Datong City. ”

"Which unit of the Qing army withdrew to Datong Mansion?"

"It is the former Xuanfu Town Commander Wang Chengyun, this person is at both ends, surrendered Li Zicheng, and surrendered to the Qing army, and the governor of my family is the enemy of life and death, the last general has let the fast horse sneak into Datong Mansion, and tomorrow there will be Wang Chengyun's troops and horses, equipment and other information sent back."

Ling Jingyang couldn't understand Gao Ding, and said to him: "General Gao, you have 9,000 soldiers and horses, and there are dangerous mountain passes, how can you be afraid of Wang Chengyun's green battalion besieged?" ”

"Governor Lingdu, there are more than 20,000 soldiers and horses that Wang Chengyun has withdrawn, and there will be 9,000 soldiers and horses at the end, but most of them are old and weak soldiers, and Wang Chengyun is ruthless

Storming Ningwu Pass, the last general's soldiers and horses are really not enough. ”

Ling Jingyang and Wang Chengyun's troops had a battle, thinking that Wang Chengyun's troops and horses were average and not as threatening as the Eight Banners, Ling Jingyang asked him not to be afraid of Wang Chengyun's soldiers and horses, and told him that Governor Jiang led troops to support Yanmen Pass and was about to launch an attack on Datong Mansion, and their troops were responsible for blocking the Qing army in Yan'an Mansion to return to Datong Mansion.

Gao Ding thought that he had heard it wrong, Ling Jingyang actually brought him counterattack news, and he said to Ling Jingyang: "Governor Ling, our army has more than enough soldiers and horses to defend, but if you attack Datong Mansion, don't you help Li Zicheng?" ”

"If you don't help Li Zicheng at this time, you won't need to help in the future."

Gao Ding believed that the Qing army's attack on Yan'an Mansion was a good opportunity for the Ming army, and it could wait until the Qing army and the Dashun army fought to the death, and then attack Yan'an Mansion and annihilate the Qing army and the Dashun army, and also send the Ming army's forces westward into Shaanxi, the base camp of the Dashun army.

This kind of behavior is very short-sighted, Ling Jingyang did not scold Gao Ding, but said to him: "Let's not wait until the Qing army beats the Dashun army half to death, and then it will not be of much use to go to support." ”

"The Dashun army can't be too strong, let the Qing army clean it up, I don't know, the Dashun army is like a weed, the spring breeze can't burn it out."

The two walked and chatted, and soon came to Ningwu Pass, the defenders of Ningwu Pass opened the city gate to welcome Ling Jingyang to enter, after entering the mountain pass, Ling Jingyang saw the Ming soldiers inside showing a pleased smile, as if he could completely defeat the Qing army when his soldiers and horses arrived.

Gao Ding gave Ling Jingyang and his troops to be stationed in Ningwu Guandong City, Zhu Fei took hundreds of soldiers to camp here, and thousands of people with the army, Ling Jingyang gave each of them ten days of rations, so that they all returned to Yuci City.

But the result made him cry out in surprise, many people refused to go back, and asked to stay and fight with the soldiers, Ling Jingyang thought that the people's hearts could be used, but he did not agree with letting a group of untrained people go to the battlefield, which would only give away people's heads needlessly and lose their vitality.

For this reason, he forcibly ordered Yue Ling to drive the people back, after the people were driven back, Li Rufeng also led the cavalry corps to come, Li Rufeng saw Ling Jingyang, Ling Jingyang felt that Li Rufeng was in a very bad state at first sight, but he couldn't say what was wrong.

It was Li Rufeng, who was very frustrated and said to him: "Dudu, Wang Hong is dead." ”

Wang Hong is the commander of the cavalry corps, and the second-in-command of the cavalry corps, and he is also a veteran who was born and died with him very early.

"It's our carelessness, and Fang Xiaoyan suppressed the enemy in the city, quite fruitful, and also pursued a Qing army Bayala to the outside of the city, that Bayala you also know, are the most elite troops in Jiannu, we have surrounded Bayala and forced it to surrender, but this group of Bayala actually surrendered by fraud and shot Wang Hong who went to surrender to death."

"What? What about those bayalas? ”

"Ten thousand pieces of it have been broken."

Ling Jingyang felt better, and said to Li Rufeng: "People can't be resurrected after death, and when they go back, they must go to pay tribute to Wang Hong." ”

"It's a pity, he was the last brother who followed me from Guyuan Military Town, and he died under the sneak attack of Jiannu like this, I really can't bear him."