First of all, Wan Liyun summoned Gao Ding and Chen Yidao in the name of the former military governor, and read out Ling Jingyang's military order in front of the two people, and forcibly merged the two armies into one army, Gao Ding was the chief soldier, and Chen Yidao was the deputy chief soldier.

Gao Ding and Chen Yidao were baffled by this military order brought by Wan Liyun, and the two were still in shock, Wang Mu came to the army with a group of capitals, saying that he wanted to compile the names and places of origin of the officers and soldiers in the army.

The officials of the Governor's Mansion were busy in the forward army, reminding Gao Ding and Chen Yidao all the time, and Wang Mu tacitly announced that from now on, all soldiers and horses are not allowed to drink the blood of soldiers, and soldiers must not be harsh, and food and salary will be paid according to the capitation.

Gao Ding and Chen Yidao were stupid, they finally heard a trace of taste, Gao Ding broke out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly summoned his generals, Chen Yidao also gathered his subordinates, and after everyone discussed, they decided to disband the soldiers recruited in Xuzhou City.

Then the two of them met Ling Jingyang together, Ling Jingyang sat in the room, Gao Ding, and Chen Yidao came in, and the two knelt down for Ling Jingyang.

Gao Ding was the first to speak: "Governor, the last general does not know the reason, and the recruiting army has been disbanded. ”

Chen Yidao also realized that he was already an official army, no longer a free and loose rebel army, he was more active than Gao Ding, and said to Ling Jingyang: "Governor, most of the general's subordinates are drills, and the last general is willing to let his subordinates go to other armies to practice to strengthen our army's soldiers and horses." ”

This is a naked renunciation of military power, Gao Ding was dumbfounded, and said to Ling Jingyang: "The last general is also willing to follow General Chen." ”

Seeing that the purpose of the beating was achieved, Ling Jingyang's cold face finally had a trace of warmth, and said to the two of them: "You wait to disband the soldiers and horses of the headquarters, it is a self-cutting arm, from now on, dare to recruit troops privately, no wonder the governor of Bendu is not polite." ”

In order to allow the two to cooperate sincerely, Ling Jingyang did not withdraw the military order to merge the two armies into one army, but ordered the forward army to be merged into the Iron Fist Legion, Gao Ding was the deputy chief soldier of the Iron Fist Legion, Chen Yidao was the general, and Shi Tie served as the general soldier.

Gao Ding and Chen Yidao were also convinced by such personnel arrangements, and Ling Jingyang ordered the disbanded army to be merged into Li Rufeng and Zhang Shun, and Ling Jingyang spent two full days to rearrange the army.

Li Rufeng's department is still the rear army, Zhang Shun's department is the left wing, the directly subordinate troops are the right wing, the Iron Fist Army, the artillery battalion and the people are the central army, and they set off on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, tens of thousands of troops left Xuzhou City, and rushed to Runing Mansion with great momentum along the way.

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In the border area between Runing Mansion and Kaifeng Mansion, the Special Bureau has long figured out the topography here, and Fang Xiaoyan has almost transferred all the special elites to Runing Mansion this time.

Xiping City, which borders Runing Mansion and Kaifeng Mansion, is the closest county seat between Runing Mansion and Kaifeng Prefecture.

Xiping City was ravaged by war, it has long been a ruin, after He Zhen arrived in Kaifeng, he still led his troops to settle in Xiping City, Xiping City to the south is Shangcai City, Fang Xiaoyan let He Zhen rest in Xiping City, he and Xu Yun disguised themselves as husband and wife, and entered the boundary of Shangcai County to collect intelligence.

I thought that Shangcai City was also a ruin, but when I arrived in Shangcai City, I found that it was full of people, and people came and went inside and outside the city.

There were also clearly armored sergeants stationed on the city wall, which made Fang Xiaoyan really frightened, but fortunately He Zhen was not allowed to enter Shangcai City recklessly.

Fang Xiaoyan got closer, thinking that Shangcai City was garrisoned by the Great Western Army, and the worst was also garrisoned by the Righteous Army, and when he got closer, he was surprised to find that the people of Shangcai City actually had money rat tails, and this huge change made him extremely shocked in his heart.

Shangcai County is a county in the south of Henan, and the Qing army in the entire Henan region has long been withdrawn, so why is it that the Qing army is suddenly stationed here?

Fang Xiaoyan hurriedly went back, and as soon as he walked out of more than a mile, there was a sound of horses' hooves, accompanied by a roar, which made Fang Xiaofan and Xu Yun stop, Fang Xiaoyan and Xu Yun did not resist, and the two stood still on the side of the road.

After a while, three cavalrymen came, each dressed as a Qing army, and a Qing soldier who looked very obscene, pointed his spear to Fang Xiaoyan, and said, "Why haven't you shaved your hair?" ”

Another Qing soldier suddenly saw Xu Yun, although Xu Yun's face was smeared with some yellow mud, but it was still out of the water hibiscus, the Qing soldier was like a hungry wolf seeing a lamb, and immediately had a bad idea, trying to occupy Xu Yun, he actually pulled out his waist knife and slashed at Fang Xiaoyan.

Fang Xiaoyan followed

When the Qing soldiers drew their swords, he dodged to one side, threw out a dagger from his cuff, and pierced it deeply into the forehead of the Qing soldiers, and the other two Qing soldiers drew their guns and stabbed them.

Fang Xiaoyan is definitely not an opponent with one enemy and two enemies, but fortunately, Xu Yun supported him in times of crisis, she took out a short gun from her baggage, this short gun was found by Fang Xiaoyan in the armory, and it can be fired without ignition.

Xu Yun pulled the trigger, and a shot hit a Qing soldier in the face, the Qing soldier was in pain, covered his head and wailed, the remaining Qing soldier was shocked, and looked at his companion, but Fang Xiaoyan returned the horse pistol, and a sharper dagger was thrown out, hitting the throat of the Qing soldier.

Almost instantly, the three Qing soldiers were killed, although Fang Xiaoyan and Xu Yun killed the three of them, they were also trembling, if they cooperated a little rusty, the two of them would die under the Qing saber today.

Fang Xiaoyan and Xu Yun threw the three corpses to the side of the road, rode the Qing army's war horse, and ran to Xiping City without looking back.

And he rushed to the Hezhen military camp, Shangcai County and Xiping City are not far away, he knows that the Qing army is in Shangcai County, and soon the Qing army will also know that the Ming army is stationed in Xiping City.

Wang Qiu got the military order, turned the horse's head and rushed to the army, Fang Xiaoyan asked Xu Yun to go back with him, but Xu Yun wanted to follow him, Fang Xiaoyan couldn't resist her, and took her back to Xiping City.

At this time, Xiping City was silent, After He Zhen led the army into Xiping City, he did not make a big fanfare, but ordered the troops to remain silent in Xiping City, only a few scouts outside the city were active.

On the way back to Xiping City, Fang Xiaoyan was stopped by the scouts of He Zhenbu, Fang Xiaoyan identified himself to him, and came all the way to the city.

He Zhen and his subordinates will drink in a private room in a restaurant in the city, and their subordinates report to He Zhen that Fang Xiaoyan came to the restaurant, and He Zhen hurriedly asked his subordinates to take the wine and food away, and then let Fang Xiaoyan come in.

Fang Xiaoyan smelled strong liquor as soon as he entered the door, but he didn't say anything, but told He Zhen that he saw the Qing army in Shangcai County.

Hearing the information sent back by Fang Xiaoyan, He Zhen was shocked and asked, "Ah, what did you say?" Shangcai County, there is. Is there a Qing army? ”

"Well, the entire county is full of Qing troops, and the people in the city almost shave their hair, it seems that the Qing army has been here for some days."

He Zhen thought that he would clash with the Great Western Army in Runing Mansion, but it was the Qing army that came in the end, he asked Fang Xiaoyan how many soldiers and horses the Qing army had, Fang Xiaoyan shook his head, he was on the way back to Xiping City, let a special bureau soldier shave his hair, and wait for the opportunity to blend into the city, and the earliest tomorrow afternoon will be able to transmit the information of the Qing army in the city back.

"General He, your soldiers and horses are still in a state of battle, when I came just now, your soldiers and horses were either chatting and fart, or eating, drinking and having fun, and there were not many scouts outside the city, if the Qing army raided and surrounded Xiping City, your soldiers and horses would be surrounded and annihilated by the Qing army."

If the Qing army launched a surprise attack, it could surround Xiping City overnight, He Zhen immediately asked his generals to lead two hundred soldiers to garrison outside the city, Fang Xiaoyan is not a military general, and only has the right to suggest military deployment, He Zhen has made a defensive posture, there is no need for him to continue to point here, so he said goodbye to He Zhen.

He Zhen asked him where he was going, Fang Xiaoyan said military secrets, and He Zhen waved to him boringly.

Fang Xiaoyan took Xu Yun and three soldiers from the Special Bureau who were good at assassination, and went to Shangcai County again, where he wanted to obtain first-hand information and respond to his colleagues who had infiltrated Shangcai County in a timely manner.

The soldiers of the Special Bureau who were arranged by him to be mixed into Shangcai County, lived up to expectations, followed a group of people into the city after shaving their hair, walked around the city, basically saw the Qing army barracks, troop allocation, etc., after collecting intelligence, he decided to leave Shangcai City, but when he went out of the city, he was stopped by a green battalion soldier.

The green battalion soldier looked at the special forces soldier and raised his hand with a knife, the head of the special forces soldier fell to the ground, and the general manager was very proud and said to his subordinates: "After this person entered the city, he walked around the city, I don't think he is a good person, slaughtered him, do you say right?" ”

A group of green battalion soldiers stammered with the officials, and they all patted their ass, saying that they would always kill well, this person looked like the Ming army's meticulous work, if he let the fine go out of the city, wouldn't it put the master in danger.

At this time, a group of cavalry suddenly rushed out of the city

There were dozens of cavalry in the group, and they escorted a third-class light car lieutenant of the Eight Banners out of the city, and when the third-class light car captain went out of the city, he saw the corpse on the ground, threw a whip on the corpse, and said: "You defend the city, and the others will go to Xiping City with me." ”

More and more Qing troops marched from Shangcai City to Xiping City, and in the end, there were more than 10,000 Qing troops, following the third-class light car captain to attack Xiping City.

This Qing army was composed of the Eight Banners Zhenghongqi Third Class Light Car Commander Hatai Division, as well as Liu Liangzuo's troops and horses, and Dolgon withdrew most of the troops and horses to garrison Beizhili and Shandong last year.

However, the Haoge division in the Jiangnan region was not fully withdrawn, and a small part of the army was still stationed in the border area between Shandong and Henan, among which Liu Liangzuo and Hatai were stationed in Guide Province.

The Great Western Army came out of Yunyang Mansion and marched into Henan, killing the Qing army to lose its armor and abandon its armor, Dolgon decided to curb the rapid momentum of the Great Western Army, and ordered the Qing army to march west from Guide Mansion to Henan, and fought fiercely with the Great Western Army in the Henan area.

Liu Liangzuo led 60,000 soldiers of the Green Battalion, and Hatai led 9,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners to form the Western Expeditionary Army.

The Qing army arrived in Runing Province, defeated the forward troops of the Great Western Army in Runing Province, and quickly captured a large area of territory in the central and southern part of Runing Province.

The Great Western Army in Shangcai City was guarded by Wang Xiao, that is, humiliated Mei Shaozuo, and finally was defeated by the old steamed buns, he led two thousand soldiers to defend Shangcai City, and finally could not withstand the onslaught of the Qing army, more than half of the two thousand soldiers of the Great Western Army were killed, and Shangcai City was finally broken by the Qing army, Wang Xiao and hundreds of soldiers of the Great Western Army were captured.

After breaking through Shangcai County, Liu Liangzuo led his troops to advance west and attack Nanyang Mansion, where he met the strongest opponent, that is, Li Dingguo.

Li Dingguo was a fledgling, he was a blockbuster, and at this time he became more and more mature, commanding the Great Western Army and the Green Battalion soldiers in several bloody battles, the weapons and equipment of the Green Battalion soldiers, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers and the size of the army were far greater than the Great Western Army, but they could not defeat the Great Western Army, and they were ambushed by the Great Western Army several times, and lost a lot of soldiers and horses.

Liu Liangzuo was also surprised by Li Dingguo, how could this young general have such extraordinary military ability, he couldn't beat Li Dingguo, so he began to persuade him to surrender, as long as Li Dingguo surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Li Dingguo could still lead the troops, awarded a first-class military general, the governor of Henan, and rewarded 50,000 taels of gold.

This is a bloody capital, Li Dingguo sneered, beheaded Liu Liangzuo's generals who came to deliver the letter, and led the troops to continue the bloody battle with Liu Liangzuo, Liu Liangzuo's troops lost more than half of their soldiers and horses in several battles, and gradually became untenable in Nanyang Mansion.

He faintly had the idea of withdrawing to Runing Mansion, but Hatai in Runing Mansion resolutely disagreed, and he gave Liu Liangzuo an additional 5,000 troops, these Qing troops were all green battalion soldiers, supported by Hatai, and Liu Liangzuo's troops were strengthened at one time.

He once again led the troops to attack the Great Western Army, and it happened that Li Dingguo led part of the soldiers and horses such as the Xiao Cavalry Battalion to return to the inner countryside to rest and recuperate, and it was Sun Kewang who was in charge of the war in the eastern part of Nanyang Province, Sun Kewang was a wizard in internal affairs, and his military ability was not as good as Li Dingguo.

In the face of the Qing army's comeback again, he didn't care, thinking that Liu Liangzuo would come to die again, and continued to fight with the Qing army according to the previous tactics, but he never thought that there were 5,000 banner soldiers in the Qing army.

This was the first time that the Great Western Army was defeated by the Qing army in Nanyang Mansion, Sun Kewang reorganized the troops and formed a new defense line, but was chased and beaten by the Qing army, breaking through several defensive lines of the Great Western Army in one go, Sun Kewang was forced to give up resistance and led the remnants of the defeated army to retreat to the west of Nanyang Mansion.

With Sun Kewang's defeat and retreat, the entire eastern part of Nanyang Mansion was captured by the Qing army, and the battle situation in Nanyang Mansion deteriorated, forcing Li Dingguo to lead the cavalry battalion back to the battlefield.

"The Ronin Who Started from Douluo"

But Li Dingguo is a military genius, once again in the absence of an advantage in troops, defeated the Qing army that came to provoke the attack, and also beheaded Liu Liangzuo's forward general, so angry that Liu Liangzuo almost fainted, and as a last resort, he took a defensive position and engaged in a tug-of-war with the Great Western Army in Nanyang Mansion.

Neither army was able to completely oppose the enemy, but they had to harass the enemy, and when Liu Liangzuo and Li Dingguo were engaged in harassment tactics, He Zhen happened to lead his troops to Runing Mansion.

The intelligence that the Ming army suddenly entered Runing Mansion was soon discovered by the Qing army scouts.