This group of ragged people, with yellow faces and thin muscles, but the eyes revealed a murderous aura, He Zhen is also a soldier, it can be seen that this group of people are soldiers who have seen blood, he clasped his fists with both hands, and said to everyone: "I am He Zhen, the commander of the five armies of the Ming Dynasty, and I am ordered by His Majesty to go to Huguang to restore the king's land, and I also ask you to make it convenient for us to cross." ”

A fierce-looking man with a big cheek came out of the crowd, his eyes showed a fierce light, and He Zhen said, "Which Your Majesty?" ”

Chen Yidao hated his own people beating his own people the most, he saw that this group of people did not shave their hair, they didn't think it was the Qing army, and the weapons in their hands were tattered, but they could still be seen to be Ming standard weapons, he was very proud and said: "Of course it's Lord Chongzhen, Your Majesty Chongzhen." ”

Dahan's eyes were a little colorful, but he said: "In these years, there are more people selling dog meat on sheep's heads, how do you know who you are, come, disarm Lao Tzu." ”

Thousands of people carried spears, swords and shields approached, scaring He Zhen enough, although he had hundreds of subordinates, he could be besieged by so many people, even if he didn't use swords and guns, he could force them to death.

At this time, there was a sound of beating the shield outside the pass, it was Li Rufeng who led the troops outside the pass to forcibly enter the pass to reinforce He Zhen, He Zhen and the Han shouted: "Brothers, Jiannu enters the pass, we don't want to kill each other anymore, outside the pass is Li Rufeng, the chief soldier of the rear army of the five armies of the Ming Dynasty, we went south to Huguang, it was to recruit troops and buy horses, and raise millions of troops to go north to the Central Plains to attack Jiannu." ”

Li Rufeng in order to rescue He Zhen, but personally led the charge, more than 1,000 Ming soldiers rushed to the mountain pass with weapons, the Han ordered half of the people to go to the outside of the pass to defend, he led the remaining thousands of people to besiege He Zhen.

Seeing that the battle was inevitable, He Zhen looked up to the sky and sighed.

"Heaven is dead."

He and Chen Yidao, as well as the generals, said: "Don't fight, these brothers stick here, I think it is also my Ming loyalty, after I die, you will surrender to them, if you dare to surrender to the Qing army, you will rebel against Lao Tzu." ”

After speaking, pull out the match to wipe it off the neck, Chen Yidao and the others pressed her hands to prevent him from killing himself, He Zhen's various behaviors made Dahan feel that this group of people did not look like the scum who surrendered to the Qing army, he and his subordinates ordered, stop the attack, garrison the mountain pass, don't let the Ming army outside the pass enter the pass, and don't let the Ming army in the pass go out of the mountain.

Li Rufeng rushed to the pass, and suddenly saw the dense archers on the city wall, at least more than 1,000 people were defending with bows and arrows, Li Rufeng was in the iron, and he couldn't rush over, he and the people in the pass shouted: "The pass is my Ming striker He Zhen's general soldier, don't hurt his life." ”

Dahan asked his subordinates to continue to surround He Zhen and others, came to the city wall, saw Li Rufeng, and shouted: "I am Wang Guangshu, the lord of Daqi Village, and the lords of the village are here to fight against the Qing Dynasty, you say that you are the general of Chongzhen, but there is a holy decree?" ”

Li Rufeng heard that they were also anti-Qing soldiers, and his hostility was greatly reduced, so he ordered his subordinates to put down their bows and arrows.

Wang Guangshu said again: "I am waiting for Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the Ministry of Promotion, to be the leader of the alliance, dare to ask who is the governor of your family?" ”

Zhang Jinyan?

Li Rufeng has heard of this name, it seems to be the book of the Ming Dynasty, it seems that the soldiers in this pass are also anti-Qing soldiers, he and Wang Guangshu said: "My family is the governor of Jingyang, from Shanhaiguan, to Beizhili, to Shanxi, to Henan, and Jiannu all the way to the bloody battle, dare to ask the owner of Wang Zhai has ever known?" ”

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Guangshu has been in the mountains for many years, how can he know the name of Ling Jingyang, he doesn't know, but it doesn't mean that others don't know, there are many soldiers among his subordinates who fled from the Central Plains, and they have heard of Ling Jingyang's name, and someone told him in Wang Guangshu's ear that Ling Jingyang is indeed the governor of the five armies of the Ming Dynasty, and Chongzhen Ye escaped from the capital with him.

After Wang Guangshu heard this, he let go of his guard and said to Li Rufeng: "Let me go and invite the alliance leader, and please rest outside the city." ”

The last time the Qing army pressed the border, he almost surrendered to the Qing army, if it were not for the Jiangbei Ming army, the Dashun army and the Great Western Army counterattacked, the Qing army was withdrawn to the Haoge army, and he has become a guest of the Qing army.

Although he was the leader of the alliance, he did not have much power, and the anti-Qing army was mostly scattered in the border area of Nanzhili, Henan, and Huguang.

In the afternoon of this day, someone rushed back from Muling Pass, and reported to him that there was a court army in Muling Pass, saying that it was ordered by the Holy Order to go south to Huguang to recover the royal land, Zhang Jinyan listened, and immediately felt mixed feelings, happy that he had not seen the imperial army for a long time, although there were tens of thousands of anti-Qing soldiers in this mountain, but most of them were righteous troops, and the sad thing was that the imperial army from Jiangbei to Huguang must not be able to defeat the Qing army, and was forced to go south to Huguang to fight for territory.

The rebels invited him to Muling Pass to see if it was really the imperial army?

Zhang Jinyan was afraid of death, so he didn't dare to go to Muling Pass, and even said that the orthodoxy of the imperial court was in Jiangnan, and the Shanxi Chongzhen Imperial Court, the ghost knows if it was true?

This sentence was brought back to Wang Guangshu by Wang Guangshu's subordinates, and Wang Guangshu had already refused the entry of the Ming army at Muling Pass, and also blocked He Zhen and hundreds of other Ming troops in the pass.

His subordinates asked him what to do, Wang Guangshu thought about it, and ordered He Zhen and other Ming troops to disarm, and then sent He Zhen to Jiuli Pass, where Zhang Jinyan decided life and death.

He Zhen and his subordinates were hungry in the pass for half a day, and suddenly rushed up a large group of rebel soldiers, asking them to lay down their weapons, He Zhen couldn't fight, but he was not willing to shed blood and sacrifice in vain, so he ordered his subordinates to throw down their weapons, were captured by the rebels, and then sent to Jiuli Pass.

Li Rufeng and other Ming army soldiers outside the pass finally waited for Ling Jingyang to lead the arrival of the army, Li Rufeng and Ling Jingyang reported that there were a large number of rebels in Muling Pass, and hundreds of soldiers such as He Zhen who entered Muling Pass were surrounded inside, Ling Jingyang asked Li Rufeng, who was the general of the rebel army in the pass?

Li Rufeng replied that he was a village owner named Wang Guangshu, Ling Jingyang thought for a long time, and had some impressions in his mind, but he was still vague, Li Rufeng told him again, this Wang Guangshu and others elected Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the military department, as the leader of the alliance, and raised troops to resist the Qing Dynasty here.

"Who?"

"Zhang Jinyan."

Ling Jingyang thought of this person, when he took Zhu Youzhen and Wang Chengen to escape from the palace, he broke into Zhang Jinyan's mansion in military uniform and robbed Zhang Jinyan's house.

suddenly remembered that Zhang Jinyan finally surrendered to the Qing army, but at this time he was elected as the leader of the alliance, and he was still on the side of Daming for the time being, and he asked Li Rufeng to shout and ask to meet Zhang Jinyan.

Li Rufeng went to the city to shout, but suddenly saw something thrown down from the city wall, and when he got closer, it turned out to be He Zhen's helmet, Li Rufeng picked up the helmet and handed it to Ling Jingyang, Ling Jing

When Yang saw He Zhen's helmet, his blood was rolling, thinking that He Zhen had been killed by the rebels, and ordered the artillery battalion to prepare for the cannon.

The old steamed bun hurriedly ordered the soldiers of the artillery battalion to start setting up the cannon, adjusting the angle of the gun, loading ammunition, and waiting for Ling Jingyang to launch an artillery bombardment order.

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"The heroes under the city, you and other soldiers were sent by me to the alliance leader, please conclude that you and others are the court officials?"

The more Ling Jingyang thought about it, the more angry he became, Zhang Jinyan was a family slave with three surnames, wouldn't it be a joke to let him identify He Zhen?

He and Wang Guangshu shouted: "Zhang Jinyan is the secretary of the military department of Chongzhen Ye, the capital was broken by the Dashun army, Zhang Jinyan and Wei Zaode led hundreds of officials to congratulate the Dashun army, just such a person, also worthy of the leader of the Han League?" ”

Wang Guangshu finished his words, and Ling Jingyang shouted: "Zhang Shangshu is an expedient measure, we are waiting here to raise troops in order to resist Jiannu, and you are waiting to go south to Huguang, isn't it the opposite?" ”

Fortunately, Ling Jingyang went down from the southwest of the mountain, passed by Yicheng, and forced Zhu Youzhen to write a holy decree, although the holy decree did not have much prestige in these years, but it was always able to scare some people, he asked Xu Sheng to hand over the holy decree, and then rode to the city alone, holding the holy decree and Wang Guangshu said: "This is the holy decree of Your Majesty, you have to wait for those who are literate, you can come down to see things." ”

Wang Guangshu really ordered to open the city gate, and personally brought dozens of soldiers to Ling Jingyang, Ling Jingyang gave him the holy decree, Wang Guangshu opened it and saw that it was really the holy decree of Lord Chongzhen, he looked at Ling Jingyang with some hesitation, Ling Jingyang saw that his eyes were a little certain, and said: "Give me my subordinates, let's take a detour to Huguang, and the road will go to the sky." ”

"That's not good, I've already asked people to send them to Zhang Shangshu, and when Lord Shangshu replies, I'll let you go."

Ling Jingyang couldn't wait to chop this Wang Guangshu with a knife, he held back his anger and told Wang Guangshu that the army went south to Huguang to recruit troops and buy horses, and then went north to Henan to fight with the Qing army, there was no time to waste time here, if He Zhen hadn't been sent back tonight, Muling Pass would be bloodied tomorrow.

After finishing speaking, Ling Jingyang rode back to the barracks and ordered the artillery battalion to test the artillery to give a strong deterrent to the Guannai rebels.

The artillery battalion fired more than 100 shells towards Muling Pass, which made the rebels in the pass dare not raise their heads, Wang Guangshu also found that the Ming army did not shell the pass, almost all the shells were missed, this is the Ming army is giving them a warning, Wang Guangshu thought about it, and finally decided to let people send He Zhen back, but He Zhen has been sent to Jiuli Pass.

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In Jiuliguan, Zhang Jinyan sat at home, watching He Zhen and others, He Zhen and Chen Yidao and other dozens of generals were tied up on the ground by Wuhua and let He Zhen figure it out.

He said to He Zhen: "Dare to ask who you are? ”

He Zhen replied to him: "He Zhen, the chief soldier of the Ming Dynasty." ”

Zhang Jinyan oh for a moment, he thought that the Qing army had not yet come, and killing He Zhen and others at this time was tantamount to consciously surviving, even if he wanted to kill, he had to wait for the Qing army to fight, and he would be able to get the reward of the Qing army after giving He Zhen and others to the Qing army.

He pretended to say: "It's General He, I don't know that General He is not in Jiangbei to resist the Qing Dynasty, so he has to go to Huguang, is it to avoid war?" ”