He and the old steamed bun nodded, and the old steamed bun immediately opened the city gate, and Li Rufeng talked about Wanliyun with other generals, and he was also a comrade-in-arms who once fought side by side.

Ling Jingyang has always been obsessed with Wanliyun leaving, in his heart Wanliyun is a wise and brave general, unlike Zhou Yuan, who is only good at long-sleeved, and other generals, who can only fight and rush, and the most lacking role in the army.

Wan Liyun saw that the city gate was open, and he was not afraid of an ambush in the city, so he entered Changge City with his subordinates, and after arriving in the city, Ling Jingyang took a group of generals to meet him, and the generals heard that Wan Liyun was a comrade-in-arms before, and their hostility towards him was reduced, and Li Rufeng and Lao Mantou stepped forward to greet him.

He and Li Rufeng, the old steamed bun clasped their fists and said: "Li Rufeng, the old steamed bun, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

Li Rufeng was also uncomfortable with his departure that year, and deliberately resisted him.

"I thought you were dead, but you're still alive."

Wan Liyun also knew that Li Ru was angry, and he was not angry, Ling Jingyang came to him and said to him: "Don't pestle, come to the city to rest." ”

Ling Jingyang pulled Wan Liyun to the position where he received Chen Yidao yesterday, and everyone roasted the whole sheep again, and when the whole sheep was roasted, Wan Liyun and Ling Jingyang talked about his battle along the way.

In that year, he led his troops to leave and returned to the Dashun army, but the Dashun army was defeated by the Qing army in Shanxi, and he was forced to retreat to the south with the remnants of the defeated army, but the entire north of the Yangtze River was almost occupied by the Qing army, and the southward passage was cut off.

Wan Liyun was unwilling to surrender to the Qing army, and led his subordinates to fight in various parts of Henan, and the troops also changed from the Dashun army to the rogue army, but fortunately, he did not rob the house, but raided the logistics of the Qing army, and robbed the Qing army to maintain the army's survival.

Five days ago, he received a letter from Heiyang, saying that a large army of the Ming army was in Changgecheng, and invited the Liukou in Kaifeng Prefecture to launch a surprise attack on the Ming army.

Many rogues followed the black sheep to attack Changgecheng, Wanliyun did not follow the attack on Changgecheng, but after the other rogues went to Changgecheng, they also led troops to Changgecheng, and when the Ming army could not withstand it, they raided the liukou and the black sheep in the back.

In the end, the Ming army in the city withstood the attack of the Liukou, defeated the main force of the Liukou, and the army of the black sheep was also defeated, he saw the famous sentence you go to life, and decided to go back with the troops the next day, but the night the black sheep took the Fuso warriors to snipe the Ming army outside the city, and he finally knew that the Ming army in the city was the army of the commander of Ling Jingyang.

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He thought about it again and again, and finally decided to return to Ling Jingyang's command, in order to give Ling Jingyang a name, he led people to ambush the black sheep in the woods, and killed the black sheep and other remnants.

His words made everyone's favor soar towards him, and Ling Jingyang was also pleased that this old comrade-in-arms did not do the dirty thing of selling the lord to seek glory, he and Wan Liyun said that if there was a shortage of food, he could give some grain and grass, so that Wan Liyun's troops could spend the winter.

Wan Liyun waved his hand and said to him: "I sneaked up on the Qing army in various parts of Henan, and there is enough food and grass." ”

Because his troops were not large, only more than 1,000 people, this time he brought more than 1,000 young people, and there were hundreds of people left behind in the eastern part of Kaifeng Province.

But he fought in Henan and had little threat to the Qing army, and he didn't want to fight alone, and wanted to return to the Dashun army, but the Dashun army was far away in Shaanxi, and it was almost impossible for such a tattered army to go to Shaanxi.

He was also reluctant to defect to Ming

The army, as for the Great Western Army, is even more of a sworn enemy, and it is not in his choice at all.

Fortunately, Ling Jingyang led his troops to Kaifeng Mansion, and after seeing Ling Jingyang's military flag on the wall of Changge City, he decided to join Ling Jingyang with his troops.

Although he came with his troops to defect, he was also very quiet, he decided to give up his independence, and when he was eating roast whole sheep, he announced with Ling Jingyang and other generals that his army would be commanded by Ling Jingyang in the future.

In fact, Ling Jingyang was also afraid that he would imitate Chen Yidao, not only did he not have consciousness, but also maintained independence in the army, seeing that Wan Liyun was so sensible, Ling Jingyang immediately announced the appointment of him as the former military governor, and the soldiers and horses of the department and Gao Ding's department were merged into one army, and Gao Ding continued to serve as the vanguard of the front army.

Gao Ding was originally a former army general, although Wan Liyun's subordinates were all included in the front army, and there was another former military governor above him, and he was very unhappy on the surface.

But I was very excited in my heart, everyone knew that Wan Liyun, the former military governor, was a false officer, and Ling Du Du turned Wan Liyun's troops into the front army, and completed the reconstruction of the front army almost overnight.

He stood up, deliberately blackened his face and said to Wan Liyun: "The last general, Gao Ding, meet Wandu Governor." ”

Wan Liyun also pretended to be arrogant and played with him.

"General Gao, it's polite."

The two of you say a word, Ling Jingyang wants to laugh a little, but the face of the thing still has to be done, he introduced the military Chinese officer and military general and Wan Liyun, most of the generals feel that Wan Liyun can come back, and he is so sensible, it is indeed a big thing, only He Zhen Hanliu is not stopped.

He followed Ling Jingyang from Shanxi to Henan, always maintained his independence, and tried to sit on an equal footing with Ling Jingyang, he silently gnawed on the leg of mutton without saying a word.

Ling Jingyang was in a super good mood today, he got Chen Yidao and Wan Liyun in Changge City, and completed the formal unification, he suddenly remembered that Chen Yidao led his troops to Xuzhou City,

"Ladies and gentlemen, the day after tomorrow is the New Year, starting from today, all troops and horses will arrange sentry inside and outside the city, go to Xuzhou City tomorrow, and celebrate the New Year in Xuzhou City."

After eating the roasted whole sheep, Ling Jingyang ordered the meeting to be dismissed, he left Wan Liyun, the two old friends reunited, naturally there is a lot to say, Wan Liyun also regretted leaving Ling Jingyang, if he has been following Ling Jingyang, maybe it is not this former military governor who has no real power, but a local real power figure.

Ling Jingyang didn't blame Wan Liyun for leaving that year, and said to him with some emotion: "It's good that you can come back." ”

Wan Liyun also sighed that there were many partings in troubled times, he was also a little sad, and confided in Ling Jingyang, he fought with Jiannu in Henan, and always adhered to Ling Jingyang's thinking, did not sneak attack the official army, and did not clash with the Ming army in the north and south of the Yangtze River.

"Oh, tell me, what is the combat strength of the Ming army in Jiangnan?"

Ling Jingyang didn't know much about the Ming army in Jiangnan, only knew that Zheng Chenggong, Huang Degong and other Ming troops in Jiangnan went on a northern expedition, and at the beginning they won many victories, but in the end they were defeated by the Qing army.

Speaking of the Jiangnan Ming Army, Wan Liyun also looked pity, and said to Ling Jingyang: "You don't know how much infighting the Jiangnan Ming Army has, and most of them are a group of rabble. ”

The Ming army in Jiangnan was said to be a rabble by Wan Liyun, Ling Jingyang did not agree, in his impression, Zheng Chenggong's army was the elite of the elite, how could it be a group of rabble?

Wan Liyun also realized that he was in a big tone, and continued:

"It's not that I said that they have no ambitions, but the strength of the soldiers and horses of the various departments is not comparable to the Qing army, and there are some elite troops that can compete with the Qing army, but most of them are miscellaneous soldiers carrying tattered weapons, and they can go north to the Central Plains and Shandong, which is the limit, and the main force of the Qing army is back to help, and it is natural to defeat the Ming army."

This is true, the Ming Army in Jiangnan belongs to the third-rate troops in the Ming Army sequence, Ling Jingyang is very curious, how did the Northern Expeditionary Army fail and infighting?

Wan Liyun answered him simply and clearly, the Ming army in Jiangnan did not have a unified command, and fought separately, including the army of King Lu, the army of Hongguang, and the army of Longwu in Fujian, all of which were fighting separately, and the righteous army that followed the Northern Expedition of the Ming Army became cannon fodder.

The main force of the Qing army returned from Shanxi to aid Beizhili and Shandong, and the Northern Expeditionary Army was defeated like a mountain, and there was no unified command, and was broken by the Qing army one by one, and the most powerful Zheng Chenggong troops were also forced to withdraw from the sea occasionally.

In the whole Jiangbei, there is only Shanxi, Shaanxi has an anti-Qing army, and the north is directly subordinate, and Shandong has almost no organized resistance to the Qing army.

This is also Wan Liyun wants to return to the Dashun army, his rogue force has almost no threat to the Qing army, if the Qing army had not withdrawn to Beizhili and Shandong, this point of soldiers and horses would have been surrounded and suppressed by the Qing army.

After listening to Wan Liyun's words, Ling Jingyang suddenly squinted his eyes, which made Wan Liyun's heart a little furious, he didn't deceive Ling Jingyang, how could he listen to Jing Jingyang's expression.

Ling Jingyang didn't look at him, but remembered that the various forces of the Ming army in Jiangnan had already become a pot of porridge, right?

He wants to go south to Huguang as soon as possible, but when he goes south to Huguang, he needs more people to support, he and Wan Liyun said: "Wan Liyun, I let you be a former military governor, isn't it a little wronged?" ”

"How dare I, I can change the friendship of a former military governor, or the friendship of fighting side by side in the year of the governor, and replace it with someone else, so that I feel too much to be a guerrilla."

"Wan Liyun, don't see me like this, this time you can come back, I will also tell you the real destination of our army, although it is in Henan now, but in the future, it will not gain a foothold in Henan, but to go to Huguang, develop forces in Huguang, and then the whole army will go west to Sichuan, find a base in Sichuan, recuperate, and after the training is completed, go out of Sichuan to fight for the world."

Wan Liyun touched his chin and said: "A team of more than 10,000 people, so much trouble to go to Huguang, and then to Sichuan, dare to ask if the governor has a backer in Sichuan?" ”

Since he believed that Wan Liyun returned, he did not treat him as an outsider, and Wan Liyun said: "Sichuan Inspector Wang Yingxiong is my staff member Zhou Yuan's teacher, and he has been in contact with Inspector Wang not long ago, and Inspector Wang also agreed to give our army a piece of territory to resist the threat of the Dashun Army and the Great Western Army. ”

After Wan Liyun listened, he fell into deep thought, he had heard of Wang Yingxiong's name, but he didn't know this Wang Inspector, but he faintly felt that Ling Jingyang led the army to Sichuan, it was better to stay in Huguang.

"I thought that the army should be stationed in Huguang, not to send people to Sichuan for the sake of stability."

Ling Jingyang's mind is full of finding a place where he can recuperate, which can be used to restore military strength and accumulate strength, but what Wan Liyun said today seems to have some truth.

"Wanliyun, Huguang is a place of four wars, not only to face the Qing army, but also the Jiangnan Ming army, the Dashun army, the threat of the Great Western Army, there is a real mixed area, garrisoning troops in Huguang, wouldn't it be a truce."