After the battle, Ling Jingyang rushed to Fenxi County with troops and prisoners, and many people were willing to follow him to Fenxi County.

Zhang Shun gathered his scattered subordinates on the battlefield, as well as thousands of people, thought about it, and led his troops to keep up with Ling Jingyang's pace and walked towards Fenxi County.

On the way back to Fenxi County, Ling Jingyang hoped that Zhang Shun could keep up, if nothing else, Zhang Shun's kung fu perfectly replaced Yue Ling and Fang Xiaoyan to become his new captain of the Qin soldiers.

As for whether he can integrate into the Iron Fist Legion, Ling Jingyang is not worried at all, the Ming Army and the Dashun Army in the Iron Fist Legion are three or three open, and forty percent of the troops are young and strong.

After Zhang Shun followed, Ling Jingyang deliberately rode a horse to Zhang Shun's team, Zhang Shun was surprised that Ling Jingyang arrived, and Ling Jingyang greeted him.

"Headquarters Zhang, it's really my blessing that you can come."

"Ling Jingyang, I should call you the governor of Lingdu now, I will go to Fenxi County with you, after repelling the rebels, I will pay you back the favor I owe you, and I will still leave at that time."

Zhang Shun didn't want to become a Ming army, Ling Jingyang didn't force him, and said to him: "Zhang Shun, you also fought with Jiannu, right?" ”

Zhang Shun suddenly remembered in his mind that he and his subordinate Bei Qingjun chased the past, from Shanghai Guan to Beizhili, Shanxi, Shaanxi, almost no victory, he and Ling Jingyang said: "Yes, this Jiannu is really fierce, my Dashun army is not strong and not strong, it is indeed invincible." ”

"Then you still have to go, there are many generals and soldiers like you in my army, who used to be the Dashun army, don't they all follow me to fight Jiannu?"

While speaking, Li Rufeng rode over on horseback, and after Ji'an arrived at Lingjingyang, he also saw Zhang Shun, but he didn't say anything, but reported to Li Jingjing Yang that Mei Shifeng's department was only ten miles away from Fenxi County, and it would not take an hour and a half for the rebels to arrive at Fenxi County.

Ling Jingyang is still an hour away from Fenxi County, and the whole army can enter Fenxi County before the rebels, but in this way, many people will be abandoned, and Ling Jingyang wants to give up the impulse of Fenxi County at this moment.

Zhang Shun saw that Ling Jingyang gave up the idea again, and said to Ling Jingyang: "Governor Lingdu, I Zhang Shun owes you a personal favor, and I will return it to you, I will lead the troops to garrison Fenxi County, and you will lead a large army to be intentional in the periphery, and find the opportunity to deal a fatal blow to the rebels." ”

Ling Jingyang and Li Rufeng were a little surprised, and even Shi Tie, who rushed over, admired Zhang Shun's righteousness.

Zhang Shun and his subordinates roared: "Erlang, go to Fenxi with me." ”

Roaring roar, hundreds of soldiers of the Shun Army let out an earth-shattering roar and followed Zhang Shun to the west county seat.

Shi Tie and Ling Jingyang spoke with laughter: "Dudu, this brother only has hundreds of people, can he hold Fenxi County?" ”

Ling Jingyang shook his head and said to him: "Maybe we can hold it for one or two days, but the time is still the same, we can't hold the line, we have to find a good way to break the enemy in these few days." ”

In order to be able to organize the team, Ling Jingyang was not in a hurry to go to Fenxi County, but integrated the team on the spot, and after defeating Lin Erle, he captured more than 1,000 rebel soldiers, some of whom killed the people, all of them were beheaded, and the remaining rebel soldiers were willing to join the Iron Fist Legion to stay, and those who were unwilling were to roll the calves.

Most of the rebel soldiers stayed, this cold winter Layue will not be frozen to death in the field for half a day, or follow Ling Jingyang back to Fenxi County to have a way to live, Ling Jingyang was also surprised that these people, obviously followed Zhang Shun, why did they abandon the Dashun army after being defeated in the first battle?

Ling Jingyang reorganized the team in the west of the city, Zhang Shun had taken the lead in rushing into Fenxi County, there was no soldier in the city, there was not a single people, only an empty county town, Zhang Shun ordered his subordinates to defend the city, he believed that Ling Jingyang would not let Fenxi County be broken by another group of Ming troops and indifferent,

Zhang Shun's troops are too small, Fenxi County is not big, but after all, it is a city, Zhang Shun and more than 400 subordinates, can they hold on for a day without confidence?

He looked far away on the city wall, and a unit hanging the dragon flag came to Fenxi County, this army was clearly armored, and there were drummers on both sides beating war drums, which was very majestic.

Zhang Shun laughed at the flashy Ming army, attacking and attacking, and the whole bunch of drummers was also funny, he and his subordinates said: "The Ming army has no artillery, only needs to resist the city gate, and condescendingly engage in hand-to-hand combat on the city wall." ”

Some of his subordinates were dissatisfied with Zhang Shun's garrison of Ling Jingyang, but at this time he was already in Fenxi County, and at this time he would only die faster if he broke through the siege.

Hundreds of soldiers of the Dashun army attacked Yongjie thousands of Ming troops, and the strikers of Mei Shifeng's department thought that the Lin Erle Department would meet outside the city, and waited for them to come to the barracks, but only saw an abandoned barracks, and some corpses were lying on the ground, and the gate of Fenxi County was closed, and it was the Lin Erle Department that was defeated.

The Ming army did not dare to attack the city, but waited for the arrival of Mei Shifeng's main force under the city, and found some siege weapons that were not destroyed in the barracks, Zhang Shun entered the city in a hurry, and did not have time to return the siege equipment, Ling Jingyang led the troops to pursue Lin Erle, and did not completely destroy the red and orange weapons.

Mei Shifeng's forward department was supported by part of the official duties, and began to repair the barracks, and when Mei Shifeng led the main force to arrive at the city, the forward troops had already prepared 7788, waiting for Mei Shifeng to order the siege of the city.

Zhang Shun shouted loudly on the city wall and under the city of Fenxi: "Dog, come if you have a kind?" ”

After Mei Shifeng followed Zhang Luofu to betray Ling Jingyang, he was reused by Zhu Youzhen, to a certain extent, he was Zhang Luofu's successor, and Zhu Youzhen also intended to promote him to be the second-in-command in the army, so as to divide Zhang Luofu's military power.

Mei Shifeng remembered that not long ago, His Majesty ordered him to lead his army south to Zezhou to prevent Ling Jingyang's two troops in Henan from attacking, but the result was that the two armies did not go north to support Ling Jingyang, but continued to garrison in Henan and Huaiqing Mansion.

In the end, he learned that it was the soldiers and horses of the Hongguang Imperial Court stationed in Nanyang Mansion who went north, and the soldiers and horses of Henan Mansion and Huaiqing Mansion were attacked by the north and south.

On the contrary, Wang Tiedao withdrew his troops from Henan Mansion to Huaiqing Mansion, and was united with the old steamed bun soldiers, and after Henan Mansion had no garrison, he quickly moved in with the Gao Jie Department in Ruzhou, and was eyebrow-raising with the Ming army of Nanyang Mansion.

Mei Shifeng didn't know that the commander of the Hongguang court in Nanyang Mansion was Shi Kefa, and he was also a high-level Enshi, after Gao Jie's Northern Expedition, the Hongguang court fought infighting, cut off Gao Jie's supplies, and forced Gao Jie to surrender to Ling Jingyang.

Shi Kefa was very guilty, and after leading Hongguang soldiers and horses to Nanyang Mansion this time, he immediately sent 5,000 infantry to Gao Jie, as well as dozens of truckloads of grain, grass and troops

After Gao Jie got supplies, he once again defected to Shi Kefa's sect and became the chief soldier of Ruzhou and the squire of the military department of the Hongguang Imperial Court.

After Zhu Youzhen's news of Nadu, he was furious and scolded the guards in the palace, and even scolded Gao Jie at both ends of the rat's head.

He ordered Mei Shifeng to eliminate Ling Jingyang within ten days, and even if he couldn't eliminate it, he would expel Ling Jingyang from Pingyang Mansion, and it was under this condition that Mei Shifeng hastily led his troops to Fenxi County.

He looked at Gao Jie on the city wall, and was very sad in his heart, why did he have to fight a civil war again, he asked his generals to persuade him to surrender, as long as the city gate was opened and surrendered, the soldiers and civilians in the city could leave on their own.

There was silence in the city, Zhang Shun was a little tempted at this moment, if he could leave, wouldn't he not have to be besieged?

But Zhang Shun finally refused Mei Shifeng's two conditions, and Mei Shifeng roared angrily.

"The two armies are facing each other, and he who abandons the city and leaves."

Seeing that the city refused to surrender, Mei Shifeng began to order all departments to prepare for the siege, and the first wave of siege troops of the rebels was ready in the afternoon, Mei Shifeng did not hesitate to order the siege, and the siege troops began to attack, attacking the city wall with bows and arrows, ladders, battering rams and other weapons.

The city wall of Fenxi County is not strong, and the epiphysis still can't withstand the rebels' onslaught, Zhang Shun and his subordinates fought to the death and did not retreat, killing and killing on the city wall, almost exhausting their strength, but they still failed to resist the rebels' attack, the gate was knocked open by the rebels, and a group of rebels killed the city.

Zhang Shun looked up to the sky and roared, determined to live and die with the city, and once again killed the rebels, and at this moment, Ling Jingyang's reinforcements finally arrived.

Ling Jingyang reorganized the troops in the west of the city, absorbing hundreds of surrendered soldiers and young strong, the whole army had 3,000 soldiers, he divided the soldiers into three teams, he led the Chinese army, Li Rufeng led the left army, Shi Tie led the friendly army, and the three armies chaired Pan Kai, and refused to be alone in the fierce attack on the rebels after the rebels launched an attack, and implemented the decapitation tactic.

Mei Shifeng thought that the city gate had been breached, and Fenxi County had been captured, but who would have thought that Ling Jingyang was outside the city, it was late, and the rebels were beaten by the 3,000 Iron Fist Legion and could not find the north, Mei Shifeng lost control of the army in the chaos, and the troops who rushed into the city continued to rush inside, and the troops outside the city were defeated like a mountain.

Mei Shifeng pulled out his long knife and shouted with his subordinates: "Fight." ”

He took his own soldiers and the soldiers of the Iron Fist Legion to fight together, and even repelled the attack of hundreds of soldiers of the Iron Fist Legion, Ling Jingyang saw Mei Shifeng's small army launch a counterattack, and he personally went into battle once, with more than ten personal soldiers, and more than a hundred Iron Fist Legion soldiers, and killed in the direction of Mei Shifeng.

The two armies quickly killed together, Ling Jingyang's long knife was invincible, and every time he returned, he could take the life of a rebel, Mei Shifeng was also a brave man, and he could kill an enemy soldier every time he made a knife.

In the end, the two killed together, Mei Shifeng of Ling Jingyang, Mei Shifeng also saw Ling Jingyang, and the two army masters will start a life-and-death duel.

Ling Jingyang and Mei Shifeng attacked at the same time, both wanting to take the lead, and the two used long knives to slash dozens of times, but they were not able to distinguish between the superior and inferior, but instead hacked to death a few soldiers who were fighting nearby.

Mei Shifeng blocked the attack of the Chinese army led by Ling Jingyang, but the other troops went to the Iron Fist Legion to rush the generals left and right, and Zhang Shun and his subordinates, who were in despair in the city, also burst out of the desire to survive, and frantically rushed to the rebels who poured into the city.

The rebels couldn't withstand the Iron Fist Legion's left and right attacks, Mei Shifeng also felt that the troops were scattered, he wanted to lead the troops to retreat, poor Jingjing Yang disagreed, he wanted to capture Mei Shifeng, and use Mei Shifeng's life to exchange the lives of Wang Bao, Jin Dashou and other subordinates.

The Iron Fist Legion began to encircle the rebels, Mei Shifeng saw that there was no hope of breaking through, and was dragged by Ling Jingyang, and finally threw away the long knife and ordered his subordinates to surrender.

Most of his subordinates are soldiers of the reserve legion, and when they get the avatar, they don't have any discomfort, throw away their weapons and go to the ground, and become prisoners of the Iron Fist Legion, but Mei Shifeng still holds a long knife in his hand, and he has something to say to Ling Jingyang.

Ling Jingyang came to him, and before he could speak, Mei Shifeng said: "Ling Dudu, I am sorry for you, and today I apologize with death." ”

After that, he wiped his neck with a long knife, Ling Jingyang flew up, the long knife was kicked off, and Mei Shifeng rushed up with more than a dozen soldiers and captured Mei Shifeng alive.

Mei Shifeng was tied up by five flowers, knelt in front of Ling Jingyang, and said to him quietly: "Good man, you should die defending against foreign battlefields, instead of bloodshed." ”

"Governor Lingdu, there are no two masters in the world, isn't your existence just a sword hanging on your majesty's head?"

Ling Jingyang shook his head with him and said, "Mei Shifeng, you launched a mutiny to expel me, and Zhang Luofu became the first person in the whole army, are you the second-in-command?" ”

"Yes."

"Then Your Majesty will let you kill Zhang Luofu in the future, are you willing?"

Mei Shifeng nodded subconsciously, shook his head quickly in worry, and Ling Jingyang said that when he killed Zhang Luofu, he would become the number one in the whole army, and he would not be trusted to be killed by the second in command soon?

Ling Jingyang said that seemed to be the case, Mei Shifeng closed his eyes in pain, in the eyes of His Majesty, he was a clown.

"I will exchange your name for their lives in the king's castle, and you will be wronged to stay in the city for a few days."

Mei Shifeng did not speak, and let the soldiers of the Iron Fist Legion take him back to the city, and Ling Jingyang ordered the soldiers and civilians outside the city to quickly move into Fenxi County before it was completely dark, and repair the destroyed city wall overnight.

In order to boost morale, Ling Jingyang boiled a pot to cook in the city, and the fragrant food filled the stomachs of the soldiers and civilians, and nearly 10,000 soldiers and civilians were in full swing in the city.

Ling Jingyang took Li Rufeng to the Dashun army camp, Zhang Shun did not choose to leave this time, in today's battle, he saw that Ling Jingyang was very different from before, he was a standard general, and he was also a benevolent general.

After the two met, Ling Jingyang said to Zhang Shun: "Old leader, the last general will meet you." ”

This old leader, Zhang Shun's heart was warm, and the expression on his face was obviously full of enthusiasm, listening to Jingyang's body striking iron.

"Mr. Zhang, our army and the Dashun army are not at war, and I still have two generals to follow your General Li Guo?"

When Ling Jingyang said this, Zhang Shun remembered the two generals in the rear camp, one was Huang Daozhong and the other was Qin Lie, and the two seemed to have become powerful generals in the rear camp from the generals under Ling Jingyang.

He said to Ling Jingyang

"It seems that there are two people, one is Huang Daozhong and the other is Qin Lie?" ”

"Yes, it's them, they are my best comrades-in-arms, following General Li Guo to fight in the south and north, I don't regard them as traitors, they can serve General Li, so that they can cultivate the blessings in their previous lives."

Ling Jingyang's generosity made Zhang Shun finally give up continuing to serve the Dashun army, and instead devoted himself to Ling Jingyang's command, Ling Jingyang appointed him as the commander of the left army, and continued to command his former subordinates, not only that, but also added more than 500 soldiers to her, Zhang Shun was grateful to Ling Jingyang for trusting him.

In order to express his gratitude, he also had a gift for Ling Jingyang, and he told Ling Jingyang that there were many secret warehouses in the handover site of Shaanxi and Pingyang Mansion, and there were a lot of grain and grass in them, and Ling Jingyang could have people transport the grain and grass back if needed.

Ling Jingyang didn't think about it, and said to him: "I think it's the most suitable for you to go." ”

"Aren't you afraid to lead the troops back to Shanxi to join the Dashun army?"

Ling Jingyang smiled with him: "Don't suspect that you don't need to use people, you go and come back quickly." ”

Zhang Shun took more than 1,000 soldiers and horses, and immediately went to the border area of Shanxi and Pingyang Mansion, after Ling Jingyang left, he was scolded by Li Rufeng, saying that Ling Jingyang had no brains, and was betrayed by Zhang Luofu once, if Zhang Shun left with the troops this time, wouldn't it make people laugh off their big teeth? ”

Ling Jingyang knew that Li Rufeng had good intentions, but said to him: "If he really wants to leave, it is better to leave at this time than later, isn't it?" ”

Li Rufeng thought about it, as if it was such a reason, the two did not continue to talk about Zhang Shun'e, knowing that they led the troops to defend in the city, and once again selected soldiers among the prisoners, this time there were not many Lu Fu, only more than two hundred people, and most of the rebels broke through the Chen Palace in the dark.

Ling Jingyang looked at the former reserve legion, which had become a shameful rebel army at this time, and felt very uncomfortable, Shi Tie was conscripted among the captives, half of them were willing to continue to serve Ling Jingyang, but the other half were invincible, Ling Jingyang did not let these people go back this time, but wanted to use their and Mei Shifeng's lives to buy the lives of Wang Bao and other subordinates.

After dawn the next day, the rebels gathered in Jing'an outside the city, and these rebels did not come to attack the city, nor did they come to surrender, but prayed to Ling Jingyang to release Mei Shifeng under the city.

This made Ling Jingyang exclaim in surprise, he took Mei Shifeng to the city wall, Mei Shifeng saw the subordinates under the city, his eyes were wet.

"Governor Lingdu, they are all my own soldiers, don't shoot them."

Ling Jingyang and Mei Shifeng said: "You have such good subordinates, why should you betray? ”

"Governor Lingdu, please, give them a way to live."

Mei Shifeng watched his subordinates beg hard in the city, and his own soldiers scraped together five hundred taels of silver, and used the silver to buy Mei Shifeng's life, which was also a personal soldier.

Listen to Jingyang and the soldiers under the city shouting, let them go back to Yicheng, and tell Zhu Youzhen that they want Mei Shifeng's life in exchange for Wang Bao and others.

After the soldiers muttered for a while under the city, they went to Yicheng, Ling Jingyang looked at the distant soldiers, and the fat Mei Shifeng went back to rest, but Mei Shifeng suddenly said to him: "Ling Dudu, if Your Majesty gives up on me, please give me a life, let me fight to the death with Jiannu to the end." ”

Ling Jingyang will not kill Mei Shifeng, he wants to use Mei Shifeng to continue to fight for him, especially since Mei Shifeng has so many subordinates who died for him, Mei Shifeng is a certain general.

Mei Shifeng returned to the city, and Ling Jingyang waited for Wang Mu's return in Fenxi County.

Wang Mu and Zhou Yuan came to Qinzhou, He Zhen warmly entertained the two in the mansion, Wang Mu and He Zhen explained the meaning of Ling Jingyang, and asked the Dashun army to attack Shanxi, and the whole army went north to attack Datong Mansion.

He Zhen backstabbed the Dashun army in Hanzhong not long ago, and also attacked the rear camp of the Dashun army, the Dashun army attacked Shanxi, and it will definitely attack Qinzhou with heavy troops, his soldiers and horses in Qinzhou are not enough to resist the attack of the Dashun army, he needs an ally.

He said to Wang Mu: "Lord Wang, I don't know if the relationship between the Governor of Ling and General Li Guo of the Dashun Army is good? ”

Wang Mu really thought about it for a while, Ling Jingyang and many generals of the Dashun Army had a good relationship, Li Guo also came to Fenxi County not long ago to meet with Ling Jingyang, hoping that before the Dashun Army attacked Shanxi, Ling Jingyang could return to Dashun, it can be seen that Ling Jingyang has a lot of weight in the high-level of the Dashun Army.

He and He Zhen said that Ling Dudu could speak, He Zhen's eyes lit up, he really hoped to reconcile with the Dashun army, if the Dashun army continued to attack Shanxi, would he surrender to the Qing army again?

Both of them have their own goals, but it is certain that He Zhen intends to maintain a good friendship with Ling Jingyang, and He Zhen agrees to attack the Dashun army to attack Shanxi and go north to attack Datong Mansion, in fact, he is afraid that the Dashun army will attack Shanxi, and he can surrender to the Qing army again if he goes to Datong Mansion.

The two reached an agreement, and He Zhen continued to recruit troops in Qinzhou, but there was not much population in Qinzhou, and He Zhen did not recruit many soldiers, but the people of Qinzhou went to other places one after another.

Wang Mu came back from Qinzhou and brought the meaning of He Zhen to Ling Jingyang, Ling Jingyang trained the troops in Fenxi County, Zhang Shun cooperated with him to train the troops, the grain and grass in the city were still sufficient, Ling Jingyang was waiting for the reply from Yicheng, he really hoped that Zhu Youzhen could exchange Wang Bao and others for Mei Shifeng.

Zhu Youzhen was waiting for Lin Erle and Mei Shifeng to arrive in Yicheng, he thought that Mei Shifeng could break through Fenxi County and bring Ling Jingyang's head back, but in the end, Lin Erle was defeated, and he only hoped that Mei Shifeng could bring good news.

Zhu Youzhen knew from his own soldiers that Mei Shifeng was captured, and Ling Jingyang wanted to exchange Mei Shifeng's life for the lives of Wang Bao and others.

Zhu Youzhen didn't want to save Mei Shifeng's life at first, but then he thought about it, if he brought Mei Shifeng back at this time, wouldn't he be able to fat Mei Shifeng and die for him?

can also let Mei Shifeng set aside Zhang Luofu, Zhu Youzhen and Wang Chengen talked about whether to agree to Ling Jingyang's request, Wang Chengen supported Zhu Youzhen very much, but he thought that he could not only save Mei Shifeng, but also appease Lin Erle, after all, Lin Erle also had a lot of power behind him.

Zhu Youzhen is very disgusted with Lin Erle, this person assassinated dozens of children of the family in Fenzhou, and he is also a ruthless person, but if he can win over Lin Erle, can't he bury a nail?

Let Mei Shifeng overhead Zhang Luofu, and then use Lin Erle to elevate Mei Shifeng, this is the emperor's mental technique.

He asked Wang Chengen to prepare for a replacement, Zhang Luofu also knew that Lin Erle and Mei Shifeng were defeated by Ling Jingyang, both of whom were his subordinates, so he hurriedly ran to the palace and knelt down for Zhu Youzhen, praying that His Majesty could spare Lin Erle and save Mei Shifeng's life.

Zhu Youzhen was very disgusted when he saw Zhang Luofu like this, he wanted Mei Shifeng Lin Erle to know that he saved their lives, not Zhang Luofu kneeling.

He scolded Zhang Luofu for being incompetent, thousands of soldiers and horses could not break through Fenxi County, and Ling Jingyang defeated the main force, and Mei Shifeng was captured.