Ling Jingyang suddenly had a feeling that Li Rufeng and Fang Xiaoyan, the brothers who were born and died, would one day leave him, and he would also leave this world.

He comforted Li Rufeng and said: "Rufeng, let's look ahead, defeat Jiannu, and eliminate the Fusang people, so that Wang Hong will not die in vain." ”

Li Rufeng held back his sadness, cheered up his spirits and asked Ling Jingyang to fight.

"Governor, this time to attack Datong Mansion, do my cavalry corps have a mission?"

"Continue to scout, and when the two armies are fighting, wait for the opportunity to surprise the enemy's commander."

Li Rufeng nodded again and again, but suddenly said: "My lord, it's not that I have an opinion on the strategy of going north, it's just that our army attacked Datong Mansion and only relied on the Iron Fist Legion and the Cavalry Legion, which seems to be too few troops." ”

Ling Jingyang unexpectedly said to him: "This is the only field army we can use." ”

"Can't you bring in the Reserve Corps? Let Zhang Luofu tens of thousands of soldiers and horses nest in the rear, this is not.."

"What's not?"

Li Rufeng bit his lip, but still said: "There are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses who don't come to support the battle of Datong Mansion, isn't this a tyrannical thing?" ”

Ling Jingyang told him that the Ming army attacked Datong Mansion, and after the Qing army attacking Tongguan got the news, they would immediately go north to Shanxi and open up the north-west passage in Shanxi.

If the reserve corps is allowed to go north, the Qing army can go north from the south of Shanxi to support Datong Mansion, so that the various units of the Ming army are very likely to be surrounded and annihilated by the Qing army.

"Isn't there a Gao Jie department stationed in Zezhou, with his soldiers and horses, he should be able to block the Qing army from going north?"

Ling Jingyang thinks that Gao Jie does not surrender to the Qing army, it is already very disciplined, as for the hard confrontation with the Qing army, the only consequence is that Huang Degong ended up similar, the main general wanted to fight to the death, but the general wanted to surrender, and finally the main general died in battle, the surrender of his subordinates, the rout of the rout, and the entire army was annihilated by the Qing army.

But he couldn't say this to Li Rufeng, but said from a different angle: "After Gao Jie was defeated by Li Zicheng in the Central Plains, he retreated all the way, and His Majesty ordered all the troops to work on the king, can Gao Jie respond?"

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Li Rufeng stopped talking, Gao Jie's loyalty was not as strong as when he had just surrendered to the imperial court, but he and Ling Jingyang said that the cavalry corps would do their best to ensure the completion of the task, and Ling Jingyang asked him to deliberately promote some low-level officers to prepare for the future overseer.

Li Rufeng nodded, in this battle, he will vigorously promote some capable generals, the two were chatting, Gao Ding led his subordinates to ask for a meeting outside the barracks, and Ling Jingyang asked his soldiers to invite HD.

Gao Ding came to Ling Jingyang's military camp and sent some cotton clothes to Ling Jingyang, Ling Jingyang looked at these cotton clothes, and sighed that time is really fast, it is about to enter winter in the blink of an eye, winter is coming, and all forces will basically not attack in winter.

This is a rare opportunity to recuperate, but it is certain that the Qing army will launch a large-scale attack before the onset of winter, and do its best to weaken the enemy's living forces.

"General Gao, thank you for sending the cotton clothes."

Gao Ding is also in pain, cotton clothes are a luxury, he gave Ling Jingyang 500 cotton clothes and cotton armor in one go, the main purpose is to ask Ling Jingyang to drag the Qing army with him, Jiang Hao asked his subordinates to send him a secret report last night.

The secret report shows that Jiang Hao and the defenders of Yanmen Pass are about to go out of the pass and launch an attack on Datong Mansion, so that Gao Ding and Ling Jingyang will go north to Shuozhou, Datong Mansion, as long as the Qing army comes to help, they will use Shuozhou as their base camp, harass in the back, and drag down the pace of the Qing army's reinforcement.

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After getting the secret report, Gao Ding specially came to discuss with Ling Jingyang how to send troops to Shuozhou?

Ling Jingyang asked him, how many days does it take for about 10,000 infantry troops to go from Ningwuguan to Shuozhou with baggage?

Gao Ding replied to him, the whole army only needs one day and one night, Ling Jingyang suddenly became confident, and Gao Ding said: "Then don't go to Shuozhou, wait for the scouts to find out that the Qing army has returned to the vicinity of Shuozhou, and our army will go to Shuozhou from here to cut off the back road of the Qing army." ”

"Lingdu Governor, what if the Qing army is stationed in Shuozhou?"

He said this very reasonably, after all, the Qing army returned to aid Datong Mansion, but also to guard against the pursuit of the Dashun army in Yan'an Prefecture, occupying Shuozhou is a very correct choice, Ling Jingyang shook his head, and Gao Ding said that the main force of the Qing army to come back to help, will not put the precious troops in Shuozhou, even if it is to resist the pursuit of the Dashun army, it will also be stationed in Datong Zuowei and other cities, if they send troops to Shuozhou at this time, the Qing army will not hesitate to attack Shuozhou.

"Why is the governor so sure that the Qing army will attack Shuozhou, where our army is stationed?"

"Our army entered Shuozhou in advance, and in the eyes of the Qing army, isn't it just forcing it to fight a decisive battle with our army? Only by pulling out Shuozhou can the Qing army avoid being flanked by the Dashun army and our army, don't you say? ”

Gao Ding didn't react, and Ling Jingyang continued to talk to him.

The Ming army entered Shuozhou in advance, which was a clear signal to the Qing army, the Ming army was prepared, and the attack on Datong City was more like a trap, and the Qing army generals were not sticks, and they would definitely fight to the end with the Ming army here, and then wave the army south to attack Taiyuan City.

"It's... Qing army generals are so kind? ”

"Everyone has entered the customs, that is, with the goal of fighting for the world, we must prevent the Qing army from fighting to the death and carrying out the beheading operation."

The more Gao Ding thought about it, the more reasonable it became, and he couldn't help but agree to Ling Jingyang's tactics, and he ordered his elite scouts to sneak into the southwest of Datong Mansion overnight, and immediately come back to report the whereabouts of the Qing army.

Ling Jingyang and Gao Ding almost sprinkled all the scouts in the army to Shuozhou, and at Yanmen Pass, Jiang Hao led 20,000 troops to Datong City, and the Qing army had more than 2,000 defenders in Datong, and the defensive force was empty.

However, Wang Chengyun led 20,000 soldiers and horses five days ago and withdrew from the front line to Datong City, not that Wang Chengyun was snubbed by the Qing army, but Dolgon, who was far away in the north and Zhili, ordered Azig to withdraw some soldiers and horses to garrison Datong Mansion and Xuanfu Town.

Dolgon did this because his scouts in Henan sent him an important piece of information, which had been attacking Gao Jie's department in the Chongzhen court, and suddenly entered Zezhou from Lu'an Prefecture, and he was very dangerous to Gao Jie and other Ming generals, so he ordered several troops and horses to withdraw, and at the same time ordered the newly formed green battalion soldiers to enter the vicinity of the capital to prevent the Ming army from smashing Huanglong.

Gao Jie's troops stationed in Zezhou also alarmed Aobai, who specially asked his subordinates to be envoys to go to the military camp of Gaojie's department in Zezhou to see, Gao Jie did not meet Aobai's subordinates, and asked Li Chengdong to meet the Qing army envoys.

Li Chengdong pretended to be an envoy to the Qing army and said that Gao Zongbing defeated the Ming army in Lu'an Prefecture at the cost of half of the army, and as for entering Zezhou, it was the close distance between Zezhou and Pingyang Mansion, which could echo the Aobai troops from afar, and if they were attacked by the puppet army, the two armies could quickly support.