After speaking, he raised his head and waited for his head to be cut off by the Qing army, Duoduo did not kill him, but wanted to persuade the Hongguang Imperial Court to surrender the military department Shangshu, which could better disintegrate the resistance of the Hongguang Imperial Court.

Shi Kefa would rather die, and Duoduo had no choice, so he ordered the counselor Sasu to escort Shi Kefa to Baoding Mansion.

Sasha arrived in Huaiqing Province from Ruzhou with Shi Kefa and hundreds of captives, and decided to get supplies in Jiyuan City, Huaiqing Province, before heading to Baoding Province.

Sasha was the leader of the Qing army, and he also wanted to force Shi Kefa to surrender and achieve the goal of meritorious service, so he killed the prisoner and forced Shi Kefa to surrender.

Shi Kefa would rather die than surrender, Sasha felt bored, and after resting at the bottom of the mountain for half a day, he took the troops and continued to Baoding Mansion, this army was not fast, Ling Jingyang felt that they were walking, but even if the Qing army was walking, the Iron Fist Legion was not capable of destroying this army.

Ling Jingyang watched the Qing army take Shi Kefa away, but he couldn't do anything, only saw the corpses of the Ming prisoners of war lying in a pool of blood, Ling Jingyang was so angry in his heart.

This time when he came to Henan, he did not bring back the two troops of Lao Mantou and Wang Tiedao, and fought an encounter with the Qing army, which did not change the situation of the war, but lost hundreds of soldiers.

Ling Jingyang suddenly remembered Zhou Yuan and asked Mei Shaozuo, where is Zhou Yuan?

Mei Shaozuo quietly told Ling Jingyang that Mei Shaozuo was still lurking in a small village outside Qinyang City, and he didn't know if he was still alive?

This made Ling Jingyang have a flash of inspiration, the Qing army won the victory in the Henan battlefield, and the next step was either to attack Huguang or attack the Dashun army to the west.

As for the presence of the Qing army in Datong Prefecture in Shanxi, the Qing army does not need to worry about it at all, and can go all out to attack Huguang and Shaanxi, and Henan will become the rear of the Qing army, and it will also be the base for the Qing army's supply front.

He can lead the troops to cut off the grain route of the Qing army here, and he can also harass the rear of the Qing army, and he decided to lead the troops to raid Qinyang City tonight, which may have a miraculous effect.

The troops have rested for an afternoon, their physical strength has been restored a lot, the whole army still has five days of grain and grass, after the raid on Qinyang City tonight, there are still two days to be active in Henan, but on the third day must be withdrawn, otherwise the grain and grass will not be enough to support the return to Lingshi County.

He asked Fang Xiaoyan if he had grain and grass, Fang Xiaoyan shrugged his shoulders, he had some grain and grass in the mountain stream, but it was not enough for the army to eat for a day, hearing this, Ling Jingyang immediately led the troops to advance overnight.

Jiyuan City is not far from Qinyang City, only forty kilometers, Ling Jingyang ordered the whole army to advance lightly, only bring weapons and food, and throw away all the rest.

After making some preparations, he set off after dark, ran thirty kilometers in one night, and at dawn the next day, he led his troops to lurk in a valley outside Qinyang City.

After the city of Qinyang was broken by the Qing army, it was reduced to a ruin, and it took time and manpower to rebuild the city, and the Qing army abandoned the city of Qinyang, not only abandoned, but also allowed the corpses of the Ming army to rot in the city.

In doing so, the Qing army was not afraid of causing the plague, and tried to lure the Shanxi Ming army to recover Qinyang City, so that the Shanxi Ming army would be infected with the plague here, causing non-combat losses to the Ming army.

There was only one living person outside Qinyang City, and that was Zhou Yuan, who lurked in the villages outside the city for several days, crawling out to drink the water in the ditch when he was thirsty, and picking up the leftovers eaten by the Qing army when he was hungry.

Relying on perseverance to survive, after the Qing army withdrew, Zhou Yuan came to Qinyang City, the corpses in the city were piled up, and Zhou Yuan saw a corpse in the city.

Imagine how tragic the battle in the city was, Wang Tiedao fought to the death and did not surrender after the city was broken.

One person killed more than a dozen Qing soldiers, and was finally beaten to death by the Qing army with a bird's gun, and thousands of Ming troops in the city were almost killed by the Qing army.

Zhou Yuan couldn't bear to see the corpses decompose, but he didn't have the ability to bury the corpses alone, so he had to light a fire in the city and burn most of the corpses.

At this time, he was still burying the body in the city, and Ling Jingyang was lurking outside the city, this time he still had to wait until after dark to enter the city, but before dark, dozens of cavalry rushed into the city.

Ling Jingyang's eyes widened, watching this group of cavalry enter the city, and he followed with his troops, wanting to destroy this group of cavalry.

After entering the city, it was a scorched earth, and the group of cavalry also found someone behind them and wanted to rush out, but they were held up by the soldiers of the Iron Fist Legion with spears, and the cavalry was not allowed to rush out.

Ling Jingyang came to everyone and said to a cavalryman with a big knife on his back: "Brother Mantou, is it you?" ”

The man on the horse, the tiger's body was shocked, and he rode a horse to Ling Jingyang, and under the light of the fire, he saw Ling Jingyang's appearance, and shouted in surprise: "Ling Dudu, is it you?" ”

Ling Jingyang's eyes were full of tears.

"Brother Mantou, I'm late."

The old steamed bun suddenly cried, and thousands of Ming and Qing troops in Qinyang City fought until the last moment, and the whole army died in the city.

As the only commander in the city, he watched from outside the city, and he cried and said to Ling Jingyang: "Fortunately, you didn't come, and you will be killed by Wu Sangui's thief when you come." ”

Suddenly, there was a fire in the city, and everyone ran to the place where the fire was, it turned out to be Zhou Yuan, who was still burning his body, and after seeing Ling Jingyang's arrival, he was tired and couldn't feel the existence of his arms.

"Governor Lingdu, the little ones are afraid that the corpses will rot and cause a plague, so they bury the corpses and burn the corpses in the city these days."

Ling Jingyang hurriedly ordered the soldiers to help bury the corpse, and everyone worked hard all night, and finally buried all the corpses in the city, and the old steamed bun also found Wang Tiedao's body in the city.

Wang Tiedao was beaten into a sieve by the Qing army, and after the old steamed bun buried Wang Tiedao, he immediately asked to return to the team, although Ling Jingyang was not able to bring back the Huaiqing Mansion troops, but also got the old steamed bun and Fang Xiaoyan to return.

He and the old steamed bun, Fang Xiaoyan said: "I can't go back at this time, I must give the Qing army some color in Henan Mansion." ”

But there are only Gao Jie's troops left in Henan, and they are still besieged by the Qing army in Ruzhou, and Ling Jingyang's soldiers and horses have no ability to affect the battle situation.

Lao Mantou and Ling Jingyang suggested that they could rescue the prisoners, and maybe they could get some prisoners to replenish the army.

This opinion was opposed by Zhou Yuan, Zhou Yuan was in Qinyang City these days, seeing how the Qing army broke through Qinyang City, not only the soldiers were strong, but the number of the Qing army was still several times that of the Ming army, no matter where it was, the Ming army had no advantage in strength.

Ling Jingyangran was interested in asking Zhou Yuan, what strategy should he take?

Zhou Yuan was a daimyo official before, and he was also quite discerning, and he suggested that Ling Jingyang withdraw to Lingshi County first.

Then he got in touch with the Dashun army and asked the Dashun army to send troops to Henan, with the strength of the Dashun army, the supply line of the Qing army in Henan could be cut off, so that the Qing army would lose supplies.

Not only that, Zhou Yuan is also very forward-looking

, he asked Ling Jingyang to contact the Great Western Army.

Hundreds of thousands of Western troops have been nesting in the land of Bashu, containing a large number of Ming troops, resulting in the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses on both sides not playing a little role, which is really a waste in his opinion.

How could Ling Jingyang not know that in the end, it was the remnants of the Great Western Army and the remnants of the Great Shun Army who insisted on fighting, he and Zhou Yuan cast a praising gaze, and they also realized Zhou Yuan's ability for the first time.

It is really overkill to let him set up an intelligence department, and at this time, Fang Xiaoyan returns, and Zhou Yuan should appear in the position of the decision-making level.

Ling Jingyang humbly accepted Zhou Yuan's suggestion, and immediately ordered the withdrawal of troops, and when withdrawing troops, he ordered the troops to bring back to Shanxi as long as they saw stragglers along the way, even beggars, so as to replenish Shanxi's population and labor force.

After Ling Jingyang retreated, Gao Jie's soldiers and horses were left in the entire Henan, and the Qing army vanguard who attacked Gao Jie was his former generals Gao Jinku and Li Chengdong.

The two each led 5,000 soldiers and horses, surrounded Gao Jie in Kongtong Mountain, after Gao Jie received Shi Kefa's assistance, the army was once restored to its peak, there were more than 30,000 soldiers and horses, but like other Ming troops, most of them were new soldiers.

In the battle with the Qing army, he was also defeated and won less, and was forced to retreat to Ruzhou, and was besieged by the Qing army for half a month in Kongtong Mountain, and almost half of the troops were defeated by the Qing army, leaving only more than 4,000 people, and the other troops were either killed in battle or surrendered.

Gao Jie was besieged by the former generals, his heart was infinitely sad, the general Li Benshen persuaded him to go down the mountain and surrender, Gao Jie was a little moved, at this time Mrs. Gao Jie came to Gao Jie with the child, and said to him: "Husband, you don't want to learn from the three surnamed slaves Lu Fengxian." ”

Mrs. has a lot of weight in Gao Jie's heart, for Mrs. He once betrayed Li Zicheng, surrendered to the Ming army, and turned against his brothers who had risen together, Gao Jie stared at this lady, for a long time, and said.

"Madam, if I don't descend, you and your young son won't be able to live?"

"If you don't live, you won't live, and the slave family doesn't want to see her husband and be scolded by later generations pointing at the backbone."

Gao Jie was full of arrogance by his wife's words, carrying a spear, and his wife also polished his armor for him.

Looking at the Xueliang armor, Gao Jie decided to fight with the Qing army, he put on the armor, gathered the army, and the generals and soldiers, he will lead the whole army to break through to the north, and the soldiers are not willing to go, you can stay and head to the Qing army, and if you are willing to go with him Gao Jie, you will fight with him to get out of the encirclement.

More than 4,000 soldiers stood quietly in the open space, no mischief, no one surrendered to the Qing army, under the leadership of Gao Jie, the Ming army joined forces to the north, the Qing army found that the Ming army broke through, and immediately mobilized heavy troops to besiege.

The Qing army in Shanbei responsible for blocking the Ming army was Li Chengdong's troops, Li Chengdong was Gao Jie's henchman, facing the old master, Li Chengdong couldn't bear it, but behind was three thousand eight banner soldiers, Li Chengdong led the troops to meet him, trying to drive Gao Jie back.

Gao Jie watched his subordinates kill, and he was even more furious, and shouted: "Kill." ”

Kill - kill

The soldiers of the Ming army burst out with earth-shattering courage and crushed Li Chengdong's troops in one go, and the 3,000 Eight Banner soldiers behind Li Chengdong's department saw that the green battalion soldiers were defeated, and suddenly launched a fierce attack, and attacked Gao Jie's troops in a surprise attack.

The soldiers of the Ming army who rushed to the front were hit on the head by the Eight Banners, and the corpses were scattered on the ground like fallen leaves, and the Ming troops could not withstand the attack of the Eight Banners, and were divided and surrounded by the Eight Banners and the reinforcements of the Qing army, and were eliminated one by one.