After the Eight Banners were over, they began a brutal and inhumane short-range engagement with the Ming army on the spot, and the officers and men of both armies risked their lives to fight with the enemy, even if they died, they had to die with the enemy.

The number of Eight Banners is not much, the number of Ming soldiers is several times that of the Eight Banners, and it is still barely a draw, Ling Jingyang looked at the performance of his subordinates, and did not scold his subordinates, after all, a group of soldiers who eat brown rice all year round can compare to the Eight Banners soldiers who eat meat in the deep mountains.

When the battle between the two armies was at its fiercest, Ling Jingyang led fifty personal soldiers to attack, and these fifty people were Ling Jingyang's last personal soldiers and veterans of the rest of the battle.

Fifty-one fierce soldiers joined the battle, and beat the Eight Banners who were still fighting, the Iron Fist Legion and the Eight Banners immediately divided the winners and losers, and the Qing army Niu Lu retreated to the south with the remnants, and Ling Jingyang ordered the pursuit, even if one more Eight Banners soldiers were killed, the strength of the Qing army would be weakened a little in the future battle.

The soldiers of the Iron Fist Legion pursued the Eight Banners fiercely, and finally eliminated the last Eight Banners, this time in a skirmish, the Ming army eliminated two hundred and eight banner soldiers, and lost more than 400 people.

In the first battle in Henan, the Ming army lost nearly a quarter of its troops, and Ling Jingyang also saw that the Qing army was pouring out this time, and it was necessary to exert twelve points of energy to fight against the Qing army.

He led his troops to continue to advance to Qinyang City, Mei Riha also received information from his subordinates to support the Ming army, in order to prevent being attacked by the Ming army on both sides, he decided to defeat the Ming army reinforcements, and then continue to besiege Qinyang City.

On the morning of the next day, Mei Riha led 608 banner soldiers and 1,000 green battalion soldiers to meet the reinforcements of the Ming army, and the Ming army in the city saw that most of the Qing troops outside the city had withdrawn, thinking that this was a deliberate pretend retreat by the Qing army to lure the Ming army out of the city for field battles.

Wang Tiedao ignored it, and beat the captured green battalion soldiers to death in the city, the old steamed bun asked him why he beat the prisoners, Wang Tiedao replied to him, seeing these green battalion soldiers who surrendered to Jiannu, he became angry, and beat the green battalion soldiers three times a day, and beat the green battalion prisoners to kneel and beg for mercy, saying that they would ask what to say, but please don't continue to beat.

Wang Tiedao was just not angry, he had a very serious tendency to violence, and the old steamed bun couldn't stand it, so he said to him: "Wang Tiedao, if you continue to fight like this, you will kill people." ”

It's okay not to say it, but when I say that Wang Tiedao is even more energetic, I think that this group of green battalion soldiers is a group of scumbags without bones, and they will die when they die.

The old steamed bun is not easy to say, most of the Qing army outside the city has withdrawn, and they can't stay in the city all the time, they must do something, even if the Qing army pretends to retreat, they must have a plan to prepare to break through to Shanxi.

"Why retreat, our army has food and grass and soldiers and horses, even if Jiannu continues to attack Qinyang City, it can make Jiannu break a tooth."

Lao Mantou and Wang Tiedao used to be generals of the Dashun Army, and Lao Mantou didn't want to be in trouble with Wang Tiedao.

"I won't talk to you, I'll take someone out of the city tomorrow to see, and you will continue to guard in the city."

Wang Tiedao spoke very impulsively, but he was also kind-hearted and attached importance to the friendship of his comrades-in-arms.

"That's not good, you old bones, you are guarding in the city, I'll take someone outside to take a look."

The old steamed bun refused to accept the old man, he had to go out of the city tomorrow, Wang Tiedao also hated stubbornness, neither of them let him, until the evening, Wang Tiedao couldn't resist the old steamed bun, and reluctantly agreed to the old steamed bun to go out of the city.

That night, Lao Mantou led more than 20 cavalry from the north of the city to the north, and the group went all the way without finding the Qing army.

At noon the next day, Lao Mantou and his party marched forty kilometers north, and there were no Qing troops or reinforcements here, so they went back with their troops.

When passing by a mountain, suddenly a group of soldiers rushed out from both sides of the road, aiming with bows and arrows and firearms, the old steamed bun was not afraid of these little soldiers, and said to these little soldiers: "Dare to ask you whether you are surnamed Ming, surnamed Shun, or Qing?" ”

A teenager walked out of the crowd, looked at the old steamed bun coldly, and suddenly burst into laughter.

"Brother Mantou, it's me, little eye!"

The old steamed bun didn't recognize it at first, this unkempt young man was Fang Xiaoyan, after hearing the voice, he looked at it again, it was really Fang Xiaoyan.

"Little Eye, it's you, where did you die?"

"Well, it's me, it's me."

Fang Xiaoyan hugged Lao Mantou with thousands of people, Fang Xiaoyan told Lao Mantou that in the first battle of Xinxiang City, he broke through with the soldiers of the Special Bureau, and was separated from other troops in the dark, and after the breakthrough was successful, there were only five soldiers left alive.

He felt that he didn't have the face to go back to see Ling Jingyang

, did not return to Shanxi, but wandered in Huaiqing Mansion, Henan Mansion, this time the Qing army attacked Henan, he took five soldiers to gather the scattered stragglers, and now there are hundreds.

Today, Kaneda Er told him that there was a cavalry squad passing through here, and he was short of horses in his army, so he wanted to ambush this group of cavalry, and when he met him, he found that it was an old steamed bun, not to mention how happy he was in his heart.

The old steamed bun also told Fang Xiaoyan that the Qing army was besieging Qinyang City, and he wanted to take Fang Xiaoyan's soldiers and horses back to Qinyang City to strengthen the defense of Qinyang City.

Fang Xiaoyan rejected his kindness, but expressed his willingness to provide scout tasks for Qinyang City with the old steamed bun.

The old steamed bun saw that Fang Xiaoyan still liked to cruise outside, so he was not reluctant, but suddenly remembered that Fang Xiaoyan was looking at hundreds of people, and he was fully capable of fighting with the Qing army outside the city.

So he whispered in Fang Xiaoyan's ear: "There are more than 1,000 Qing troops outside Qinyang City, you can pretend to be reinforcements from our army, hanging outside the Qing army barracks, if the Qing army withdraws, our army will pursue, and the Qing army will not leave, then the Qing army must be deceitful, you continue to wander outside the city, I will continue to defend the city, this is good?" ”

Fang Xiaoyan was a little embarrassed, and said softly in the old mantou's ear: "Brother Mantou, it's not our instigation, most of my subordinates are stragglers, and they have long been frightened by Jiannu, if you let them go to Jiannu to hang around, nine out of ten will turn their faces with me and not recognize people." ”

The old steamed bun also had nothing to say, so he had to take the troops back to the city, and Fang Xiaoyan also took the troops to continue to wander around Huaiqing Mansion.

The two parted ways again, Lao Mantou returned to Qinyang City with his subordinates, and before entering Qinyang County, he saw a large group of Qing troops supporting Qinyang City, at least more than 30,000 Qing troops came to help, and Lao Mantou was not sure to rush into the city this time.

Seeing the Qing army besieging Qinyang City with heavy troops, Wang Tiedao in the city couldn't believe it, how could it be that overnight, the Qing army had so many reinforcements, he ordered the whole army to defend the city, and those who surrendered out of the city were beheaded to show the public.

The Qing army's reinforcements came so quickly because Duoduo realized that Huaiqing Mansion was a very important military town, and capturing it could contain the Ming army in Shanxi to support the Ming army in Henan, and it could also squeeze the Chongzhen court in a corner of Shanxi.

In order to capture Huaiqing Mansion, he ordered Wu Sangui to lead 30,000 green battalions to support the Meiriha Department of Huaiqing Mansion.