Major General Mei's provocation aroused Ling Jingyang's desire to duel, he really wanted to duel with this Major General Mei, to compare whose knife was faster and whose strength was more ruthless.

Zhou Yuan whispered in Ling Jingyang's ear: "Dudu, our army is about to win tonight, why do you want to risk being attacked by the enemy?" ”

This made Ling Jingyang wake up, and Mei Shaozuo nodded, Mei Shaozuo understood, led twenty personal soldiers, took a step forward with a three-eyed gun, and looked at Major General Mei and the ninja, Major General Mei looked at the dark and swarthy mouth of the Ming army, and decided to fight with the Ming army.

The two of them rushed towards Ling Jingyang, and threw out a dart in an attempt to assassinate Ling Jingyang at close range, and Ling Jingyang picked up a shield at the moment when Major General Mei activated it to prevent him from being shot by a dart.

The ninja dart is fast, but the fire gun is faster, the dart just threw out his hand, and the twenty-shot three-eyed gun emitted green smoke, boom boom, Major General Mei and the ninja were beaten into a hornet's nest and died thoroughly.

After eliminating the forces of the Fusang people, Ling Jingyang returned to the military camp and recalled Zhang Shun, Li Rufeng, and Shi Tie, three generals who were in the field, overnight to discuss support for Henan.

In the evening of the next day, the three generals arrived at Lingshi City, and Ling Jingyang summoned all the generals above the general in the army to hold a military meeting in the camp of the Chinese army.

At the meeting, Ling Jingyang told everyone that the Qing army had once again gone south to Henan, had defeated the Huang Degong troops of the Hongguang Imperial Court, and was approaching Runing Mansion.

At this time, Runing Mansion has Zhang Luo's auxiliary department, Zuo Menggeng's department, and the remnants of Huang Degong's army, which should be able to withstand the attack of the Qing army, and the generals will not go north to the Qing army, but Ling Jingyang conveyed his military order to the generals at the venue, and half a month later, that is, in mid-June, the whole army set off to support the Henan battlefield.

Ling Jingyang's troops nominally returned to the Ming army, but many people no longer regard themselves as imperial court troops, I heard that Ling Jingyang wanted to say that the Ming army in Henan region, Li Rufeng resolutely opposed him, thinking that the Qing army was fighting in Henan, it was better to wait for the Qing army to be exhausted, and then lead the troops to attack, wouldn't it be possible to achieve better results?

Most of his subordinates agreed with Li Rufeng, Ling Jingyang shook his head, and said to him: "Li Rufeng, if we don't go to Henan at this time, we won't have a chance in the future, you know?" ”

Li Rufeng was speechless, and Ling Jingyang said again: "Our army went to Henan for another purpose, that is, to bring back the two troops of Lao Mantou and Wang Tiedao. ”

These two troops insisted on in Huaiqing Mansion, during which they did not get Ling Jingyang, and there was a grain of rice and a tael of silver from the imperial court, and they persevered, and they also had correspondence with them during the Ling Jingyang period, encouraging Wang Tiedao and the old steamed buns to take root in Huaiqing Mansion.

The two were extremely loyal to Ling Jingyang, and Lao Mantou asked more than once to lead the troops and withdraw from Huaiqing Mansion to Pingyang Mansion and Ling Jingyang to join the division, Wang Tiedao did not insist on returning to Pingyang Mansion, but also said that he would not defect to other forces.

At this time, all kinds of soldiers and horses in Henan were fighting, and if they didn't bring these two troops back, they would not be seen in the future.

Li Rufeng told Ling Jingyang that there were less than 4,000 soldiers and horses in the army, and the weather was about to start summer, and it was necessary to start harvesting grain, grass and farming.

Of course, Ling Jingyang knows that food is very important, but military struggle is also important, without grain and grass, there will be no soldiers and horses, he fell into contradictions, Wang Mu reported to him the day before yesterday, this year's grain harvest was bumper

However, the local manpower is insufficient, and troops must be mobilized to help the local harvest of grain and grass, and it is even more necessary to guard against other forces to grab grain.

"The First Evolution"

Zhang Shun saw that Ling Jingyang was indecisive, and suggested to him that a small force could be mobilized to Henan to withdraw the troops when the Qing army and the Ming army were fighting.

That's a good idea, but who's going to go?

Zhang Shun, Shi Tie, and Li Rufeng all asked to go to Henan, but they were all rejected by Ling Jingyang one by one, and he decided to personally lead the team to Henan.

Before going to Henan, Ling Jingyang specially came to Qinzhou to meet with He Zhen here, He Zhen heard that the Qing army was going south, and the main direction of attack was Henan and Nanzhili, so there was no pressure at all.

He was different from Ling Jingyang, thinking that the Qing army was going south to grab money, food, women, and land, otherwise how could so many recruited green battalion soldiers be able to feed?

The Qing army will go back after robbing, and think that he and Ling Jingyang's soldiers and horses are not enough to attack the Qing army, and there are still Qing troops in Datong Mansion to guard it, don't look at this way the Qing army did not attack, the Qing army of Datong Mansion went south to attack Taiyuan Mansion, Ling Jingyang, Jiang Xuan, He Zhen The three soldiers and horses may not be able to withstand it.

He even suggested that Ling Jingyang might as well attack the Dashun Army at this time, maybe he would be able to grab more plates, Ling Jingyang had a clear attitude and raised objections, attacking the Dashun Army at this time, didn't it make the Qing army laugh and be generous?

Neither of the two could convince anyone, but they couldn't make a split, so the two came to Taiyuan Mansion with their own soldiers to visit Jiang Hao in Taiyuan City.

Jiang Hao has a chic life in Taiyuan Mansion, Taiyuan Mansion is not like Fenzhou and Qinzhou, it is a large and rich house, this half a year, Jiang Biao is committed to restoring the livelihood of Taiyuan Mansion, many displaced people, and the rebels have come to Taiyuan Mansion.

With the power of Taiyuan Mansion, Jiang Hao can feed tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and he can continue to recruit displaced people and reclaim land for him.

Because of the sufficient population, Jiang Huang's army reached more than 60,000 people, but he did not dare to underestimate Ling Jingyang and He Zhen, these two small overlords in Shanxi, there are not many soldiers and horses, but they are the division of a hundred battles.

And his 60,000 soldiers and horses had to be stationed in various parts of Taiyuan Prefecture, especially Yanmen Pass, Ningwu Pass, and the eastern prefectures and counties of Taiyuan Prefecture, which was to prevent the Qing army from suddenly entering Shanxi from Baoding Mansion, and the soldiers and horses under his command were almost scattered.

He could lead less than 10,000 soldiers, after the Qing army went south, he wanted to lead the whole army into Baoding Mansion and attack the capital from Baoding Mansion, this operation was supported by Zhu Youzhen.

Although he and Zhu Youzhen fell out, but the face was passable, after all, the Qing army was very strong and needed to unite against the Qing army.

With the support of Zhu Youzhen, Jiang Hao sent elite scouts to Baoding Mansion, and the scouts lost contact as soon as they entered Baoding Mansion, and Jierharang garrisoned 30,000 troops in Baoding Mansion, and these 30,000 soldiers and horses were also the backbone of the entire defense of Beizhili.

Jierharang walked around Baoding Mansion every day with a knife, and Jiang Jiu's scouts were eliminated when they entered Baoding Mansion, Jiang Huang still didn't believe that the Qing army had such a strong defense?

He led Jiang Xuan to lead 2,000 elite soldiers from Taigukou into Fuping County, Baoding Prefecture, where he fought a surprise attack of the Qing army.

It happened that Jierharang led 3,000 Eight Banners to prepare for war in Fuping, after Jiang Xuan's troops entered Fuping County, it was like sending the Eight Banners for drills, Jierharang gave an order, and the three thousand Eight Banners killed the Ming army fiercely, and Jiang Xuan led two thousand elite Ming troops and Eight Banners to fight.

In the first confrontation, the two armies had their own victories and defeats, at least the Ming army did not obviously fall into the disadvantage, Jiang Xuan asked his generals to rush back to Yanmen Pass, and asked Gao Ding stationed at Yanmen Pass for reinforcements.

But the reinforcements have not yet arrived, the second attack of the Qing army is more violent, the soldiers of the Ming army tried their best to fight with the Qing army, but unfortunately the hard power is not as good as the Qing army, Jiang Xuan watched as he was scattered by the Eight Banners, and then his life was harvested, and he was forced to go with hatred.

After killing and retreating the Ming army, Jierharang shook his neck, and wanted to give the Ming army a ruthless attack, so that they did not dare to advance eastward, so he ordered the whole army to pursue the Ming army and chase them all the way to Wutai County, Taiyuan Prefecture, and after looting here, they withdrew to Baoding Mansion with the spoils of war.

Jiang Xuan was defeated by the Qing army, Jiang Xuan no longer had the idea and courage to go north, the two thousand elite soldiers were the strongest troops, so he was defeated by a partial division of the Qing army, and he began to uphold the conservative idea of nesting in Taiyuan Mansion.

After Ling Jingyang and He Zhen came to Taiyuan City, they talked to him about whether to go south to reinforce Henan or reinforce the Dashun army, but Jiang Hao refused, he and the two said: "Our army has many new soldiers and insufficient training, so we should wait for the autumn when the soldiers are strong and strong, and then go to support the Henan battlefield, or attack the Dashun army." ”

Ling Jingyang wanted to scold Jiang Jiu for being short-sighted, and said to him: "Governor Jiang, don't support the Henan battlefield at this time, and wait for the Qing army to go south to conquer the city, and the strength will increase again. ”

Jiang Hao unceremoniously bumped into Ling Jingyang.

"Could it be that if you go now, you can defeat the Qing army?"

He Zhen also helped Jiang Xuan, thinking that the strength of their three soldiers and horses was weak, and they had a hard fight with the Qing army, isn't it just an egg smashing a stone?

"If you don't go, I'll go."

Ling Jingyang threw down this sentence fiercely, and rushed back to Lingshi County with his own soldiers, Jiang Hao and He Zhen looked at each other, they didn't expect Ling Jingyang to be so excited.

After the two conspired, they finally decided to stand still and wait for who could win between the Qing army and the Ming army.

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At this time, on the battlefield of Henan, the Ming army faced the attack of Duoduo, Wu Sangui and other fierce generals, and was almost overwhelmed, and the Qing army had a clear goal, that is, to do everything possible to eliminate the living force of the Ming army.

Zuo Mengeng and Zhang Luofu did not break out in the war, the strength of the two armies is very complete, but in the face of the fierce offensive of the Qing army, Zuo Mengeng's troops fought a decisive battle with the Qing army in Wadian, only held out for three days, and the left was defeated by the Qing army, during which Zhang Luofu led troops to reinforcements.

But was ambushed by Duoduo with elite troops, Zhang Luofu's vanguard was annihilated, Zhang Luofu was also emotionally created to make people, not long ago he was fighting with Zuo Mengeng for Runing Mansion, at this time he led troops to reinforce Zuo Menggeng, Zuo Menggeng saw that Zhang Luo's auxiliary troops were defeated by the Qing army, and immediately ordered a breakthrough, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses spread their feet and retreated to the Huguang area.

Duoduo ordered Hong Chengchou to lead the army to pursue, Hong Chengchou was different from Duoduo and Wu Sangui, he fought while pulling in, collected and surrendered a lot of Ming troops, and after Zuo Mengeng withdrew to Huguang, there were thousands of remnants left.