Chapter 359: Reunion (3)
Wu Sangui's department robbed countless in Henan, each full of bowls, after receiving the military order, he was very unwilling to take 30,000 green battalion soldiers to aid Meiriha, and when he came to Qinyang City, he didn't see Meiriha.
When he came to the Meiriha military camp, he knew that Meiriha actually went to eliminate the Ming army reinforcements, Wu Sangui expressed disdain for Meiriha's behavior, but they were all Qing army combat troops, Wu Sangui still ordered the generals to lead more than 5,000 people to support Meiriha, and he led the main force to besiege Qinyang City.
Not only besieged Qinyang City, Wu Sangui also ordered troops to seize other prefectures and counties in Huaiqing Prefecture, and he wanted to turn the entire Huaiqing Mansion into a base for the Qing army to advance, and thousands of Qing army soldiers were scattered to various prefectures and counties.
Only Qinyang City has a Ming army in Huaiqing Mansion, and all other places are borderless, and the Qing army easily entered the city and garrisoned troops in the city.
The Qing army had an absolute advantage in Huaiqing Mansion, and Ling Jingyang also fought a decisive battle with Mei Riha in Hengwangling, and Ling Jingyang dared to fight a decisive battle with Mei Riha because of Mei Shifeng's support.
Mei Shifeng was a loyal and patriotic general, seeing that Ling Jingyang was attacked by the Qing army, he couldn't let the Qing army wreak havoc under his nose like this, and came to the Iron Fist Army in person.
Ask and Ling Jingyang to join forces to attack the Qing army, Ling Jingyang with the strength of an army, not Mei Riha's opponent, but Mei Shifeng has more than 20,000 people, fully capable of eating the Qing army.
He and Mei Shifeng said: "Okay, good, I didn't see the wrong person, I led the Qing army to Hengwangling and surrounded and annihilated the Qing army here." ”
The two took the troops to move separately, Ling Jingyang passed in front of the Qing army with the Iron Fist Legion, and then quickly retreated to Hengwangling, retreating all the way and throwing down armor and weapons all the way, Mei Riha thought that the Ming army was scattered, and led the troops to attack.
He wanted to avenge the generals who died in the battle, and last night he saw the corpses of Niu Lu and other two hundred Eight Banner soldiers, and he was furious and vowed to destroy the reinforcements of the Ming army.
Seeing the Ming army disperse today, it was just right to let out a bad breath, lead the troops to pursue the Ming army, and attack Hengwangling.
The Qing army entered Hengwangling, was besieged by the Ming army, Mei Riha was not afraid of the Ming army siege, he led the troops to seize the commanding heights, and there were the strongest infantry eight banner soldiers, in the face of the Ming army's attacks again and again, the Ming army can be beaten to the ground.
Mei Shifeng hated that iron could not become steel, and more than 20,000 troops were stunned to gnaw at less than 2,000 Qing troops, he felt shameless, and personally led the troops to charge, but was stopped by Ling Jingyang with the troops, Ling Jingyang and he suggested that they wait until it was dark to attack with fire.
At this time, a scout rushed back to report to him that more than 5,000 Qing army reinforcements were on the way to arrive, and when it was dark to attack with fire, the Qing army reinforcements had already arrived.
It is necessary to capture the mountain within an hour, Ling Jingyang looked at the Qing army on the mountain, the desire to fight was very strong, and he was not besieged and discouraged, but became more and more courageous.
It was obviously unwise to attack hard, and he and Mei Shifeng suggested that they give up besieging the Qing army and ambush the Qing army reinforcements halfway.
Mei Shifeng thought about it, if he couldn't attack the Qing army, he would annihilate the Qing army reinforcements, which was also a very good choice, so Mei Shifeng quietly took more than 10,000 troops and retreated to the south side of Hengwangling, ambushing the Qing army on the road that the Qing army must pass.
In order to prevent the Qing army from descending the mountain to support, Ling Jingyang suggested that Mei Shifeng mobilize 2,000 soldiers to ambush along the way, and do everything possible to consume the Qing army's vital strength.
The two acted separately, Mei Shifeng mobilized the whole army of archers, musketeers and other long-range troops to set up ambushes on both sides of the road, and Ling Jingyang led the Iron Fist Legion, and two thousand
The Ming army laid an ambush on the way down the mountain.
When the Qing reinforcements saw the banners of the Eight Banners on Hengwang Ridge, they had to support these Eight Banners and get reused in the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the future.
Adjutant General Wu Sangui led 5,000 green battalion soldiers to rush into the ambush circle, was beaten by the Ming army, suffered heavy losses, Mei Shifeng carried a big knife, led his own soldiers to rush to the front, slashed and killed the green battalion soldiers, after the green battalion soldiers were ambushed by the Ming army, they were forced to face the battle, and they were killed to retreat.
At the top of the mountain, Meriha saw that the reinforcements were ambushed, and decided to sacrifice the reinforcements, he led the troops to rush down the mountain, and as soon as he rushed down the mountain, he was ambushed on both sides of the Ming army soldiers with bows and arrows, firearms and firecrackers to shoot hundreds of soldiers.
Mei Riha finally broke through the ambush circle of the Ming army, Ling Jingyang led the soldiers of the Iron Fist Legion to come up, and after the two armies met, it was a life-and-death decisive battle.
Ling Jingyang personally went into battle, a big knife rolled in the air, cutting the heads of the Qing soldiers and rolling, Mei Riha was also a fierce general, killing the Ming army soldiers fell to the ground, the main generals of the two armies personally went into battle to kill, and the soldiers also broke out a strong desire to fight, and the number of casualties of the two armies soared, but they refused to admit defeat, and they had to divide the winner.
After fighting for a while, the number of Qing troops was not large, and Mei Shifeng's troops also rushed to support, Mei Riha saw that the Ming army did not retreat to fight to the death, and he was a little afraid in his heart, so he ordered the green battalion soldiers to stand in front and led the Eight Banners to retreat from the other side.
The poor green battalion soldiers were still in front, but they didn't know that the master had already slipped away.
When the green battalion soldiers were fighting and felt that they lacked stamina, they found that Meriha had withdrawn, and these green battalion soldiers suddenly lost their confidence in battle, and began to scatter on the battlefield, and were easily defeated by the Iron Fist Legion.
Ling Jingyang did not order to chase and kill, but led the troops to support Mei Shifeng, Mei Shifeng had many soldiers, but there were not many veterans, and he ambushed the Qing army at the beginning and occupied an absolute advantage.
However, after the two armies began hand-to-hand combat, the disadvantage of many new soldiers was gradually pushed back by the Qing army, and there were faint signs of collapse.
Seeing that he was about to be defeated by the Qing army with less, Ling Jingyang rushed to the Qing army in time, stabbed the Qing army from one side, and separated the Qing army from it.
After the Qing army was separated, there was also panic, and they wanted to converge in time, but they were blocked by Ling Jingyang and the Iron Fist Army.
Until Mei Shifeng ate the surrounded Qing army, the other part of the Qing army was unable to break through the defense line of the Iron Fist Army, and the remaining Qing army also lost confidence in fighting and hurriedly retreated to Qinyang City.
In this battle, the Ming army won a complete victory, Ling Jingyang led the troops to rush to the aid of Qinyang, but Mei Shifeng carried out Zhu Youzhen's order and continued to garrison Zezhou with his troops.
Ling Jingyang didn't have the ability to ask Mei Shifeng to go with him, so he led more than a thousand Iron Fist Legions and went deep into Huaiqing Mansion alone.
After entering Huaiqing Mansion, he did not lead his troops to Qinyang City, but took his troops to Jiyuan City, northwest of Huaiqing Mansion.
This place has been captured by the Qing army, there are more than 1,500 Qing troops in the city, and Mei Riha, who was defeated by the Ming army, also came here, but Mei Riha was not able to enter the city, because the green battalion soldiers in the city did not know him as the down-and-out leader of the Eight Banners.
Mei Riha was so angry that she vomited blood, so she had to run to Qinyang City with her troops, and when Ling Jingyang came to Jiyuan City, she saw the Qing army flag fluttering on the city wall, and immediately led her troops to bypass Jiyuan City and run to Qinyang City.
Ling Jingyang continued to hurry with the Iron Fist Army, and arrived at the outskirts of Qinyang City in the afternoon of the next day, half a day away from Qinyang City, and suddenly was in front
The commander of the Iron Fist Legion rushed back to report to Ling Jingyang, there were hundreds of Qing troops in front of him who were chasing and killing a group of Ming troops, asking Ling Jingyang, do you want to support?
Ling Jingyang thought that the Ming army that was being pursued by the Qing army in front of him might be the troops who broke through from Qinyang City with Lao Mantou and Wang Tiedao, so he did not hesitate and took the troops to support.
He led the troops to the battlefield and saw hundreds of green battalion soldiers slashing and killing the Ming army like walking dogs, how could he bear it, and rushed up with the troops to support the Ming army.
After Ling Jingyang launched a charge in the troops, he felt that most of the soldiers were unstable, these days have been fighting and traveling long distances, the strength of the Iron Fist Legion soldiers has reached a critical point, he also rushed up to fight with the soldiers, the Green Battalion soldiers were beaten by the Iron Fist Legion soldiers, and they were quickly repulsed and forced to retreat.
After Ling Jingyang drove away the green battalion soldiers, the rescued Ming army stragglers asked to join his army, and one who looked like this group of Ming army leaders came to Ling Jingyang, and as soon as he raised his head, both of them were stunned.
Governor Lingdu?
Small eyes?
The old people are reunited.
Ling Jingyang never expected that he would charge with Fang Xiaoyan here, Fang Xiaoyan was also excited to look at Ling Jingyang, and suddenly remembered something, and said to Ling Jingyang: "Governor, there is still Jiannu here, let's quickly find a place to hide." ”
Ling Jingyang asked him if he was familiar with this place?
Fang Xiaoyan patted his chest and Ling Jingyang said, "Dudu, I'm just the wild monkey here, you and me, let's go to a forest to rest." ”
Fang Xiaoyan has been wandering in Huaiqing Mansion for more than half a year, and he is very familiar with the grass and trees here, he led Ling Jingyang and the others to Jiyuan City, everyone walked for a day and a night, and they were about to get tired, and finally came here.
It is a very secluded mountain stream, which looks like a forest on the outside, but an open mountain stream on the inside.
This is also Fang Xiaoyan's secret base, there are more than 100 subordinates left who came back with him, and he asked Ling Jingyang on the way to let him return to the team.
Ling Jingyang did not hesitate, and immediately agreed with Fang Xiaoyan to return to the Iron Fist Legion,
Fang Xiaoyan was very excited when he saw Ling Jingyang, he finally came back, when Ling Jingyang was resting, he asked him if he knew the current situation in Qinyang City?
Fang Xiaoyan told Ling Jingyang that the Qing army was besieging Qinyang City with heavy troops, and there were at least tens of thousands of Qing soldiers and horses outside the city.
Ling Jingyang was also surprised that the Qing army would attach so much importance to Huaiqing Mansion, thinking that the Ming army was at a disadvantage in the Henan battlefield, so that the Qing army could mobilize heavy troops to attack a small Huaiqing Mansion.
Fang Xiaoyan told Ling Jingyang that the Special Bureau was almost wiped out, he blamed himself, Ling Jingyang told him not to feel uncomfortable, the Special Bureau was gone, and it could be rebuilt.
But at this time, we have to find a way to bring back the old steamed bun and Wang Tiedao.
"Governor, why is it that only the Iron Fist Legion is here, the Reserve Legion, and the Central Legion?"
Ling Jingyang smiled bitterly and told him that the reserve legion no longer belonged to him, but all returned to serve under His Majesty, and as for the central legion, it was also eaten by the reserve legion after it was rebuilt.
At this time, he only had one soldier and horse in the Iron Fist Legion, but in Fenzhou and Lingshi County, there were also Li Rufeng and other generals stationed there, and after Fang Xiaoyan heard about it, he jumped up angrily and scolded Zhang Luofu for being shameless and the reserve army being shameless.