After Wu Dading was scolded by the emperor, he was so frightened that he knelt down and begged His Majesty to spare his life, Zhu Youzhen took a deep breath and said to the ministers: "Come with me to meet the Great Western Army." ”

Wang Chengen, Li Jiantai, Wu Dading, Mei Shifeng, Ximen Zhu and others were frightened, and they all thought that His Majesty was angry with them and deliberately said this.

Wang Chengen knelt in front of him and said kindly: "Long live Lord, the old slave went to meet the Great Western Army for a while, and the Great Western Army rushed to Yicheng and stepped on the old slave's corpse. ”

Zhu Youzhen asked Wang Chengen to get out of the way, and said to the others: "The Great Western Army went out of Sichuan to resist the Qing Dynasty and fought in most of the land of China, this is my blessing, wait for the bath and change clothes, and go with me tomorrow to meet the Great Western Army." ”

Seeing that Zhu Youzhen had made up his mind, everyone also went home to bathe and change clothes, and two officials were afraid of being killed by the Great Western Army, so they went out of the city overnight and disappeared. That night, Zhu Youzhen summoned Wu Dading, Mei Shifeng, Lin Erle and other generals, and ordered them to lead 10,000 soldiers and horses to cover the ministers.

After the three generals got the holy decree, they immediately returned to the barracks to start preparing for war, Mei Shifeng led the troops to the southwest of Yicheng in the middle of the night to ambush, and after dawn the next day, Zhu Youzhen took his ministers, as well as hundreds of brocade guards in Xichang led by Bai Dun to meet the Great Western Army.

After Li Dingguo entered Pingyang Mansion, he did not see the Qing army, and the general of the Huben battalion reported to him, and yesterday he saw the Ming army's squire Lang Wu Dading, and the Ming army said that the Qing army went to Shaanxi, and the Huben battalion really went to Shaanxi for a while and felt that he was being tricked, so he withdrew with his troops.

Li Dingguo, the chief soldier of the Tiger Battalion, was also very angry, he was still evolving and maturing, and he didn't think of the political significance of entering Pingyang Mansion at first, he only thought about defeating the Qing army and renewing his life for the Chongzhen Imperial Court.

He led the troops to continue to advance to Yicheng, and Sun Kewang, who escorted him with supplies, did not come to send him grain and grass, and did not know that he went to Yicheng, and when Li Dingguo's army was only a day's journey from Yicheng, Sun Kewang knew the news, and it was too late for Li Dingguo to withdraw at this time.

Li Dingguo was still twenty miles away from Yicheng, and suddenly saw a flag waving in front of him, and a group of people were watching them on the hillside.

Li Dingguo is similar to the generals of the Dashun Army, he looks down on Da Ming at all, he came to the front of Zhu Youzhen with the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, and said: "I am Li Dingguo of the Great Western Army, dare to ask who you are?"

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Seeing that he was so rude, Wang Chenen opened his mouth and said, "Emperor Chongzhen of the Great Ming Dynasty is here, why don't you kneel?" ”

In front of the Great Western Army, it turned out to be Emperor Chongzhen, which surprised Li Dingguo, he came to Yicheng to expel the Qing army, but he did not come to bow down to the Ming Emperor.

He said to Wang Chengen: "Aren't you besieged by Jiannu? ”

Zhu Youzhen asked Wang Chengen to retreat, and he and Li Dingguo said: "Jiannu has been withdrawn, and I will replace the soldiers and civilians of Yicheng Xie Daxi Army." ”

Li Dingguo saw Zhu Youzhen for the first time, and was a little interested in Zhu Youzhen, and said: "You are the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty?"

"Yes, I am the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, I have sent you grain, grass, and military salaries, and I only ask you to continue to chase and kill Jiannu."

Li Dingguo had the Qing army in his mind, and when he saw that Zhu Youzhen said that the Qing army had withdrawn, he had no interest in entering Yicheng and brought back all the grain, grass and silver that Zhu Youzhen gave him.

Zhu Youzhen saw the Great Western Army walking back, and suddenly remembered that Mei Shifeng had sent him information this morning, the Qing army retreated to Taiyuan Mansion, and Zhu Youzhen wanted the Great Western Army to enter Taiyuan Mansion and fight with Ling Jingyang, the Qing Army, and the Dashun Army.

So he said to Li Dingguo: "General Li, Jiannu has gone to Taiyuan Mansion, can General Li continue to hunt down Jiannu?" ”

Li Dingguo and the Qing army were on the bar, and if he had to destroy Wu Sangui and Nikan, he immediately decided to lead the troops to Taiyuan Mansion, and Zhu Youzhen gave him 10,000 stone grain and grass, as well as 5,000 taels of silver as military salary, and these grains and grass and silver Li Guo distributed them to the soldiers to encourage morale.

The officers and men of the Great Western Army were rewarded, and they burst out with a stronger desire to fight, eager to rush to the Qing army, and have a showdown with the Qing army, Li Dingguo led the troops to advance towards Taiyuan Mansion.

Behind him was Sun Kewang, who was struggling to catch up, Sun Kewang was very politically minded, and after coming to the border of Pingyang Mansion and Henan Mansion, he did not make a big fanfare, but let a small number of scouts enter Pingyang Mansion and carry out scout missions in Pingyang Mansion.

The scout quickly reported to him the information that Li Dingguo led the army to Taiyuan Mansion, and Sun Kewang immediately rushed to Taiyuan Mansion with hundreds of elite cavalry.

At this time, in Taiyuan Mansion, Wu Sangui and Nikan were two

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led the troops to retreat to Jingle County, where they saw the traces of the Ming army, and Wu Sangui thought it was the Ming army. The troops were ordered to continue to advance, and the soldiers and horses of the various units did not pay attention to these main forces of the Ming army.

In Jingle County, the Ming army was led by Fang Xiaoyan The soldiers of the Special Bureau, they wandered around Pingyang Province and found that the Qing army went north to Taiyuan Province, so they continued to obtain intelligence near the Qing army, and the Qing army's number, size, morale, equipment, grain and grass and other information were sent to Ningwu Pass.

Fang Xiaoyan didn't play, he and Wang Qiu in the Special Bureau gave a good reception to the Qing army officials captured in Taiyuan City, and beat these Qing officials to completely lose their defense, Fang Xiaoyan asked them anything, and they said anything.

These people are not of high rank and do not know important information, so Ling Jingyang asked them to send a letter back to their families and let them ransom them with silver.

Li Guo waited for Gao Yigong the day before yesterday, and after Gao Yigong returned to Shaanxi, he asked His Majesty to increase the troops in the rear camp, Li Zicheng did not have many veterans, but there were many recruits, so he just let these recruits go to Ningwuguan to temper,

Gao Yi led 6,000 recruits to support Ning Wuguan, Li Guo looked at the 6,000 recruits, and his heart was very excited, which made Ling Jingyang very excited. I have to pull Gao Yigong and listen to Jingyang to drink together.

Ling Jingyang told him that the Qing army was coming to Ningwu Pass, and it was time to prepare for war, and Li Guo just wanted to train with battle to let this group of recruits grow up as soon as possible.

Duoduo in Shuo County also knew that Wu Sangui and Nikan came to Shuo County, he was strong and strong, but they were all Eight Banner soldiers, and it was too wasteful to attack Ningwu Pass.

The general asked him to use the red-clothed cannon to send bones to the Ming army, which was in line with Duoduo's appetite, he ordered the troops to attack Ningwu Pass, and the Qing army came to Ningwu Pass again, Duoduo ordered to bombard with red-clothed cannons, trying to cause casualties to the Ming army, Ling Jingyang also had artillery, but he regarded artillery as a secret weapon, which could kill the Qing army at a critical moment.

On the south side of Ningwu Pass, Wu Sangui and Nikan also arrived at Ningwu Pass, and the two did not know that Li Dingguo was still behind, but they only knew that there was not much grain and grass in the army, and they had to go to Shuoxian County to join Duoduo.

Ke Ningwu Pass is between Shuo County and Jingle County, if you want to go to Shuo County, you must either break through Ningwu Pass, or take a detour, Nikan chose to break Ningwu Pass.

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