After the envoys of the two armies communicated with each other, the Shun army and the Qing army each gave up a distance of 200 steps. Only Jin King Li Laiheng and Rui King Dorgon rode out alone and met in the center of the battlefield.
Li Laiheng rode a red horse, and Dorgon rode a green horse. Neither of them wore armor, swords, muskets, bows and arrows and other weapons. They held the reins and walked forward slowly, standing about ten paces apart in the middle.
Dorgon is a tall, thin and cunning man. He looks to be about thirty years old. He is slightly older than Li Laiheng, but he can still be considered younger. He wears a black mink-trimmed mandarin and holds a hand in one hand.
Dongzhu, with his expressionless face, gives people an elusive feeling.
In Dorgon's eyes, Li Laiheng was a young man from the Qing Dynasty. According to the intelligence of the Qing army, the King of Jin in the bandit army was in his twenties. However, after seeing him in person, Dorgon felt that Li Laiheng's appearance was better than his.
He looks younger.
Dorgon knew Chinese, and although his accent sounded strange to Li Laiheng, it was not a problem for the two of them to communicate, so there was no need for an interpreter.
The huge army behind the two people was all focused on the center of the battlefield. Zhang Pizhu held Ma Shan tightly, and was ready to immediately use his troops to cover up and rescue Li Laiheng if the tense changed. On the Qing army side
, Wu Sangui got off the horse and stood in the shadow of a big tree, his face was gloomy and he didn't know what he was thinking.
Dorgon first asked: "What is your surname?"
His tone was very strange, but Li Laiheng could understand it.
Li Laiheng replied: "Chinese national surname."
Dorgon laughed and said: "Isn't the country's surname Zhu?"
Li Laiheng's tone did not change and he continued: "Emperor Zhu killed the bandits and lost his country. Today in the Central Plains, he is succeeded by Li."
Dorgon asked again: "I have never heard of anyone killing Emperor Zhu. My country has heard that bandits brought trouble to the Ming Dynasty, so Emperor Zhu borrowed our country's troops to enter the pass and suppress the bandits. Emperor Zhu considered himself a bandit."
He was killed, so we only heard of bandits, but not of captives."
Li Laiheng replied: "You are bald on the forehead and have no hair, and you have a golden rat tail hanging from the back of your head, so you are called a thief."
After Dorgon was silent for a while, he asked again: "You are the Li family, are you King Li Jin on the Baigou River?"
Li Laiheng smiled and said, "Why do you know King Li Jin?"
Dorgon also laughed and said, "Your reputation is known far and wide, which is enough for me to know."
Li Laiheng said with a smile: "I also know you. Are you the Nine Kings, the son of the great concubine Abahai who died?"
After Dorgon's cheeks twitched, he said: "You and Ming are enemies, and I have hatred with Ming. There is no quarrel between our two countries. It's just that there was a slight misunderstanding between Huolu recently. Our country accidentally killed our ancestor. I heard that
You are the son of a moth, and your loyalty and righteousness are no less than those of Shu and Liu Feng. However, this matter is ultimately a misunderstanding. Why not coexist and prosper together and support each other?"
After Li Laiheng said "Hey", he asked: "Why don't you go back as soon as possible, otherwise the government will be controlled by others, and the name of the Assistant King will not be worthy of it!"
Dorgon immediately said: "I will not return early, but I am worried that the three cities of Yansui have not yet been conquered. I will return to Yanjing after I descend."
Li Laiheng immediately said: "There are still 20,000 warriors in the three cities of Yansui, and I have also sent 20,000 troops to help. Can you attack overnight? If you cannot attack overnight, I am afraid that your authority will be lost, and your life is imminent. Yan
How does the importance of Sui compare with the power of Yanjing?"
Dorgon was unmoved and said: "Our country is currently in Qin with an army of 80,000 people, and we can defeat Yan Sui overnight. You threw yourself at the foot of the wild boar ridge with 20,000 people, and threw your meat at the tiger.
There is no way back."
After Li Laiheng laughed for a while, he looked into Dorgon's eyes and said: "Your army has 80,000 troops, including no fewer than 30,000 to 40,000 troops from Guan Ning. If I combine 20,000 troops with Yansui's 20,000 defenders, we will not attack the key point."
Ning, we only attack the Manchu soldiers under the supervision of the nine kings. Using the old methods of Dangshan, Baigou River and Shenzhou, we should be able to kill nearly 10,000 Manchu soldiers. Even though the nine kings have captured Guanzhong, what will they do after returning to Yan?"
Dorgon stopped discussing this topic with Li Laiheng, and instead walked up to Li Laiheng, took out a gift, and said: "Saqima is made of rock sugar, butter and white flour. Manchus often eat it. You can have a taste of it."
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Li Laiheng accepted Saqi's horse, took out a food box from the saddle bag and handed it to Dorgon: "This is a stone bun made of fine white flour. The Qin people put the flour on hot pebbles and grilled it."
, it tastes very delicious, and it also means more children and more blessings. The Nine Kings are thirty years old and have no heirs. I will repay the gift with this gift. Please do as you please."
Dorgon took the food box, opened half of it, and suddenly laughed and said: "I heard that you have no heirs, why don't you share half of the food with you?"
Li Laiheng said coldly: "My princess is pregnant and will give birth, so there's no need."
Dorgon was stunned for a moment, not knowing how to answer. After a while, he said to Li Laiheng: "In Baoding City, I obtained a large bow commonly used by Liu Fangliang, a noble army. I will send a horse back to your army. How about it?"
Li Laiheng immediately replied: "I also obtained a waist knife used by your army Abatai at Baigou River, and I also sent a horse back to your army."
Dorgon chuckled and said, "I will use this sword to behead the thieves."
Li Laiheng also smiled and said: "I should use this big bow to kill the captive chieftain."
Both of them laughed loudly, and the laughter resounded throughout the battlefield. With the army behind them, Zhang Pili's hands were sweating, while Wu Sangui's eyelids were twitching wildly, and he had the urge to shoot Li Laiheng.
Then Li Laiheng and Dorgon both turned their horses and turned their backs to each other. Li Laiheng threw the wooden box with the Saqi horse on the ground and crushed it with a hoof of the war horse. Dorgon also threw the food box containing the white flour buns.
Abandoned on the ground, they were also trampled to pieces with the hooves of war horses.
The two waved with their backs to each other at the same time, then pulled up the reins at the same time and began to drive the horses to gallop. Then almost at the same moment, a bang of gunshots was heard from the Shun army front, and also from the Qing army front.
There was a swish of a bow.
A bullet hit the thigh of Dorgon's horse, and an arrow hit the same spot on Li Laiheng's horse. The two horses neighed in pain, and they fell off their horses almost at the same time, and then immediately stood up.
Without even bothering to dust himself off, he quickly ran back to his own position in a curved route.
Zhang Pizhu exclaimed and immediately led his elite cavalry to rescue him. The equally elite Baya Lajia soldiers from the Qing army rushed out to rescue Dorgon.
After Li Laiheng was rescued by the cavalry and returned to his own position, he cursed:
"Jun, Jun, Mr. Dogfoot! Attack from behind, shameless and dishonest!"
After Dorgon was supported by the Eight Banners guards and returned to the Qing army's position, he immediately cursed:
"Son of a thief! Without a king or a father, this king will definitely punish this thief!"
Li Laiheng said angrily: "It is a pity that I could not kill Dorgon."
Dorgon also clapped his hands and shouted in pain: "It is extremely hateful that the troubles left today will be followed."
Although they said this, when the two returned to the army, they did not immediately order a battle. Instead, the two armies faced each other in front of Wild Boar Ridge for a long period of time.
After some time passed, Dorgon first pulled out the Qing army's defense line on Yezhu Ridge, took the initiative to get out of the way, and led the army to retreat north. The next day, Li Laiheng sent cavalry to search and confirmed that the Qing army did not ambush and did not leave any carbine.
After clearing the space, he slowly led the troops through Yezhu Ridge and entered Ganquan County.
At this time, Dorgon had temporarily lifted the siege of Ningxia, Yulin, and Yan'an, and concentrated the Qing army's troops in Suide. Mizhi County belonged to Suide, and Li Laiheng was very worried about whether the Qing army would massacre them.
After destroying Mizhi County, it seems that since Dorgon wants to preserve his strength so that he can return to Beijing to eradicate Hauge and truly realize the "one authority" within the Qing army, then Dorgon should not be with Li Laiheng in Shaanxi for the time being.
Fighting to the death.
Sure enough, when Li Laiheng arrived at Yan'an City, Dorgon did not send any troops to intercept him. He only gathered troops in Sui Dezhou and made the decision that if Li Laiheng did not retreat quickly, he would concentrate his troops on Yan'an again and fight with the defenders and reinforcements of the Dashun Army.
The situation of a large-scale battle.
Li Laiheng made a decisive decision and ordered Yuan Zongdi, Wang Yongqiang, and Sun Shoufa to lead their troops to withdraw from the three cities of Yansui and station their troops in Ganquan.
Of course Yuan Zongdi was very dissatisfied with this decision. In order to defend the three cities of Yansui, the Shun army in northern Shaanxi fought extremely tenaciously even when the enemy was outnumbered.
Now that the reinforcements have arrived, not only did they not continue to fight the Qing army to the end, but they actively gave up the three cities. How can people be convinced?
However, Wang Yongqiang, Sun Shoufa and others also recognized that even if Li Laiheng led his troops to northern Shaanxi, the troops that could be used by the Shun army would not exceed 40,000, including a large number of rebels whose combat effectiveness and reliability were extremely questionable.
It is almost impossible to defeat Dorgon with a broken army.
Yuan Zongdi had already anticipated Li Laiheng's decision. He objected with grief, anger and dissatisfaction:
"Shaanxi is our hometown, and Chang'an is the Xijing of Dashun. Are we going to give in to the Tatars without a decisive battle?"
Li Laiheng thought about the city of Chang'an that was burned down by a fire, and the heaviness in his heart also reached its peak.