Ling Jingyang was determined to return to the Dashun army, but Ling Jingyang asked the generals not to leak out, lest they be destroyed by the Ming army before they returned to the Dashun army.

Everyone also knew that the Dashun army and the imperial court were not real allies, but were forced by the Qing army to have no choice, so they were forced to unite.

This kind of alliance is the alliance of the Ming court and the Dashun court, and it does not mean that the following forces can arbitrarily surrender to the other party.

Ling Jingyang asked Wang Mu to travel secretly, and Wang Mu set off overnight with more than 20 soldiers.

Because there was a distance to pass from Taiyuan Mansion, Ling Jingyang didn't understand Jiang Jiu's attitude, and the group didn't dare to take the road after Lingshi County, and they went out day and night along the way.

Finally arrived in Yan'an Mansion, in Yan'an Mansion, Liu Fangliang was angry about not attacking Datong Mansion with the Ming army last time, this time Wang Mu came on behalf of Ling Jingyang, he thought that Ling Jingyang would attack Datong Mansion again.

But Wang Mu told him that Ling Jingyang did not invite him to attack Datong Mansion, but asked to return to the Dashun Army with his troops, Liu Fangliang was Ling Jingyang's superior before, but he was not familiar with him, but Li Guo and Ling Jingyang were friends.

At this time, I agreed to Ling Jingyang's return to Dashun, isn't this a slap in the face to Your Majesty and Li Guona?

He did not respond to Wang Mu.

"Lord Wang, the governor of Lingdu is the governor of the five armies of the imperial court, if he comes to my Dashun, this is an earthquake in your Ming officialdom?"

Wang Mu said softly: "Lingdu Governor's heart is towards the bright moon, but the bright moon shines on the ditch. ”

Liu Fangliang didn't dare to agree, but Wang Mu's words expressed that Ling Jingyang really wanted to come back, he asked Wang Mu to stay in Yan'an Mansion for a few days, and he personally went to Xi'an Mansion to ask His Majesty.

"General Liu, Jiannu is about to attack, and the general is invited to take command, and the villain will go to Xi'an Mansion to meet your nobles."

"Okay, there you go."

Liu Fangliang asked his subordinates to escort Wang Mu to Yan'an Mansion, and in Shaanxi, Wang Mu did not have to be afraid of being attacked by Jiang Xuan, so he quickly stepped up his horse all the way and arrived at Xi'an Mansion and waited for Li Zicheng to summon him.

Li Zicheng had long known that Wang Mu was ordered to come, he deliberately snubbed Wang Mu, Wang Mu was anxious, the Qing army was very likely to launch an attack tomorrow, he didn't want to waste time, and stayed in Xi'an City. and the local officials of the Great Shun Army expressed his willingness to kneel to meet the Emperor of the Great Shun Army,

Li Zicheng didn't see him because he said to Liu Fangliang that he would meet your nobleman, which made the Dashun court dissatisfied, although some ministers thought that the Qing army's attack was imminent, and the envoy of Lingjingyang should not be snubbed.

Li Zicheng thought that even if the Qing army launched an attack and wanted to attack Ling Jingyang, it would have to cross Taiyuan Mansion, and even if Jiang Jiu of Taiyuan Mansion was made of mud, it would take some time for the Qing army to quickly occupy Taiyuan Mansion.

He never thought that the main direction of the Qing army's attack this time was the Dashun army, and the Chongzhen court was just a group of rabble.

Li Zicheng wasted five days in Xi'an, and by the morning of the day he summoned Wang Mu, the Qing army finally began to attack.

Zilharang led an army to attack Yan'an from Datong Province, and Bolo led his army south to Taiyuan Province.

Bolo thought that the Ming army of Taiyuan Mansion was a third-rate army of the Ming army, and the soldiers attacked Ningwu Pass and Yanmen Pass in two ways, but they really fought, the Ming army in these two places was not enough in the field, but the defense of the city was very good.

Bolo was furious, and he ordered the Tang Tong army, which had surrendered to the Qing army, to attack the Ming army, Tang Tong

In the past, it was the Ming army, and he knew the characteristics of the Ming army very well, and he suggested that Boluo concentrate his forces to attack Ningwu Pass, as long as he broke through a pass, the army could enter Taiyuan Mansion.

Bolo asked him what if the defenders of Yanmen Pass came to support Ningwu Pass?

Tang Tong smiled, isn't this Ming army coming to support, isn't it equivalent to giving up Yanmen Pass?

He could lead his troops to ambush the Ming reinforcements on the way, and Bolo felt that Tang Tong had some reason, so he withdrew his troops to besiege Yanmen Pass and ambushed them on the road through which Yanmen Pass and Ningwu Pass must pass.

"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"

He led the main force to storm Ningwu Pass, the defenders of Ningwu Pass resisted several fierce attacks of the Qing army under the leadership of Gao Ding, Gao Ding's troops were not much, and they could not support for a long time, he hoped that Jiang Huang could reinforce, but Jiang Huang did not reinforce Ningwu Pass, he led 30,000 main forces to rush to the aid of Yanmen Pass, because Yanmen Pass was garrisoned by his brother Jiang Rang, and the defenders of Yanmen Pass had more than 5,000 people, and there was no room for loss.

There are 4,000 soldiers in Ningwuguan Gaoding, and Jiang Hao thought that after rescuing Yanmen Pass, he would go to support Ningwuguan.

Jiang Hao led the troops to Yanmen Pass, but found that it was not besieged by the Qing army, and thought that the Qing army should concentrate all its efforts to attack Ningwu Pass.

He led his troops to Ningwu Pass, but Jiang Rang asked him not to go to Ningwu Pass.

"Big brother, why don't you go to reinforce Ning Wuguan?"

"The Qing army gave up besieging our Yanmen Pass, then it must be besieging Ningwu Pass, and there are Qing army ambushes on the way to Ningwu Pass, so we should withdraw to Taiyuan City as soon as possible and ask Your Majesty to send troops."

Jiang Rang's meaning was very clear, giving up the retreat of the whole army at Ningwuguan, and at the same time letting the imperial court soldiers and horses enter the battlefield, they could not be in front, and the imperial court was watching the play in the back.

Jiang Hao was a little reluctant to go to Gaoding, this is a rare general under his command, but if he goes to reinforce Ningwuguan, he will fall into the ambush circle of the Qing army, and finally Jiang Hao still led the troops to withdraw to Taiyuan City.

After the reinforcements withdrew, Gao Ding could no longer withstand the siege of the Qing army, and after the ninth day of the siege, he led the remaining more than 2,000 soldiers in the pass to break through to the south, and the Qing army pursued fiercely behind.

Gao Ding was chased and killed by the Qing army and lost more than 1,000 soldiers and horses, and the pursuit of Gao Ding was none other than Tang Tong, Tang Tong led more than 10,000 people to follow Gao Ding, and he had to annihilate the Ming army.

The number of Ming troops is getting smaller and smaller, either killed in battle or surrendered, Gao Ding thought that he was going to be killed by the Qing army, or killed by the green battalion soldiers, and he was angry in his heart.

Retreating to a ravine forty kilometers away from Fenzhou Mansion, the remnants of the army were caught up by the Qing army's forward, and Gao Ding was left with more than 400 remnants of the defeated generals, and the Qing army was a group of physically energetic infantry cavalry.

The Qing army launched an attack with a cruel smile, Gao Ding swore not to surrender, and slashed at the Qing soldiers with a big knife.

At the critical moment, Ling Jingyang led the army to arrive, and thousands of Ming troops drowned the Qing army, and the Qing army held out for a while, did not resist the Ming army, and was forced to retreat westward.

After Gao Ding was rescued, he was very grateful to Ling Jingyang, and he hated Jiang Jiu in his heart for not having reinforcements, allowing him to lose most of his subordinates, and also lost the military town of Ningwuguan.

He decided to change his banner, took the remaining soldiers, and asked to become Ling Jingyang's subordinates.

Ling Jingyang did not have many generals under him, he welcomed Gao Ding very much, replenished Gao Ding's grain and grass, Gao Ding led his subordinates to go back, and gathered hundreds of subordinates, more than 500 people in the whole army.

Ling Jingyang named him the general of the forward battalion, Gao Ding happily took office, he asked Ling Jingyang who was the commander of the forward battalion?

Ling Jingyang replied

He, the forward battalion has no general soldiers, only Gao Ding, a general, which means that Gao Ding is an army of its own.

Gao Ding was deeply moved by Ling Jingyang, as the general of the defeated army, Ling Jingyang did not annex his team, but also let him recover his strength, he swore to Ling Jingyang, in the future, he will be Ling Jingyang's person in life, and Ling Jingyang's ghost in death.

Ling Jingyang has another general, he ordered the troops to withdraw to Fenzhou Mansion, he was still waiting for Wang Mu to arrive, Wang Mu did not give him the attitude of coming to the Dashun army, he could not fight with the Qing army head-on.

After Wang Mu was summoned by Li Zicheng, he expressed with Li Zicheng that Ling Jingyang wanted to return to the Dashun army, and Li Zicheng just wanted to count him down, so he received a battle report from Liu Fangliang.

The Qing army of Datong Province attacked Yan'an Province under the leadership of Zierharang, and the Dashun army and the Qing army fought over the border.

The Qing army's firearms force was strong, and the Dashun army suffered heavy losses, and Liu Fangliang asked Li Zicheng to prepare for reinforcements or retreat.

Li Zicheng still has more than 80,000 soldiers and horses in Shaanxi, and there is a large Western Army stationed in Yunyang Mansion south of Shaanxi, and he can lead the army to fight a battle with the Qing army in Yan'an Mansion.

He ordered Tian Jianxiu to garrison the base camp and led the four main battalions of Liu Zongmin, Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi, and Tian Hu to support Liu Fangliang.

Wang Mu saw that the monarchs and ministers of the Dashun army seemed to have forgotten that he once again expressed his wish to Ling Jingyang with Li Zicheng, and Li Zicheng agreed to Ling Jingyang's return, but asked Ling Jingyang to contain the Qing army from the south of Datong Mansion.

Then let Wang Mu go back, Wang Mu and his party embarked on the road back to Lingshi County, there was no Jiang Jiu's troops on the way, and there was no Qing army, after Wang Mu returned to Lingshi County, he saw that the entire Lingshi County was preparing for war, and the people were evacuated to the mountains, Wang Mu came to the city and told Ling Jingyang what Li Zicheng meant.

Ling Jingyang has been in Fenzhou these days, and he also returned to Lingshi County today, after listening to Wang Mu's words, Ling Jingyang's mind is which offensive route the Qing army chooses?

Whether to rely only on the Qing army in Datongfu, or the Huguang Qing army to return to Henan and attack Shanxi from Henan.

If the Qing army chooses Datongfu, then there is still a battle to fight this time, but the Qing army attacked Shanxi from Henan, and the Ming army has almost no possibility of victory.

Li Zicheng asked him to contain the Qing army from the south of Datong Prefecture, which was very beneficial to the Dashun army, but in this way, he had to give up the Chongzhen court.

Ling Jingyang's troops were not enough to divide troops to support Dashun and Daming, Zhou Yuan seemed to see that Ling Jingyang was embarrassed, and said to him: "Dudu, the lower officials think that Jiannu is moving this time, and there are so many soldiers and horses in our army, whether it is to support Dashun or Daming, the other side will be eaten by the Qing army." ”

"Zhou Yuan, who do you think you should support?"

Zhou Yuan thought about it for a long time in his mind, and said quietly: "No one will support it." ”

"Oh, Zhou Yuan, do you still want me to set up my own door?"

"It's better for our army to join forces to the northeast, the Qing army of Datong Mansion will attack Taiyuan Mansion, Yan'an Mansion, Datong Mansion is empty, the governor can go straight to Huanglong, and end up the base camp of the Qing army in Shanxi, how long can the Qing army support after losing supplies?"

"From Fenzhou to Datong Mansion, this is across the entire Shanxi, how can our army have that strength?"

Ling Jingyang didn't trust the execution and combat effectiveness of the troops, but Zhou Yuan said that if he didn't give it a try, how would he know if this army had the ability to travel so long distances and still be able to train elite soldiers.

Zhou Yuan's words were very tempting, and Ling Jingyang was moved by what he said and decided to raid Datong Mansion.