However, the situation did not go as expected, and the battle of Runing involved the interests of all parties.

This creates the possibility of too many variables.

And Wu Zheng underestimated Sun Kewang's insidiousness, the madness of Azig's dying fight, Emperor Yongli's greed for the throne, and the cunning of Wu Sangui and others who took advantage of the fire to rob.

After that, the progress of the Battle of Runing was completely out of Wu Zheng's prediction, and rushed away in an extremely uncontrollable direction.

Actually, Li Dingguo deceived Wu Zheng, at least he didn't tell the truth.

In fact, the 50,000 horses he said would reach the battlefield in just three days were still in the vicinity of Changsha and Yuezhou, and were trying to force their march north.

Of course, in terms of distance, it may be possible to arrive, but the march of 50,000 troops, coupled with the constraints of the weather, roads, and transportation conditions at that time, it is almost impossible to rush to Runing Province to participate in the battle in three days.

In other words, at this time, only the 30,000 horses under Bai Wenxuan and Ma Weixing can be used as the main offensive force.

It stands to reason that 30,000 horses is a lot, and even if Sun Kewang joins forces with Azig to take the initiative to attack, it is not very difficult for the 30,000 Western Army to resist, delay for three or five days, and wait for the rear army to arrive before launching a counterattack.

But, the question is, who is Sun Kewang?

He is the former commander of the Great Western Army, the righteous brother of Li Dingguo, and the former boss of most of the generals of the Great Western Army.

Even if Li Dingguo was determined to want the head of this traitor who surrendered to the Qing court, I am afraid that many generals would not be able to do it, not to mention, Li Dingguo himself did not want to kill Sun Kewang.

People are not sages, and there is always something to talk about, even if they are in the camp of opposing enemies and friends.

In this way, the difficulty of this battle rises indefinitely, to the point of no return.

Wu Zheng's mistake was that as long as he stayed in Anqing, Luzhou, or Fengyang Mansion for five more days, no? Even if it's for three days? When the war starts, Wu Zheng will find out? In fact, Azig and his strikers have already arrived in Ruyang? In other words, it was not Sun Kewang who really commanded this big war? It's Azig.

And it was not only Sun Kewang's Zhengbaiqi Han Army who participated in the war with the Azig Division? There are also Wu Sangui, Tikhamu and other departments who came from the west.

But that's not the most important thing? After the war began, these armies showed their figures in a clear place, and they could not hide from people.

The most important thing is that the Qing court and Han army that have taken the initiative to break away from Wu Sangui are under the command of Li Guohan? His 8,000 men and horses have not been detected by Changlin Wei? It suddenly appeared on the battlefield of Runing and caused great destruction.

To sum up, if Wu Zheng can quickly respond to the situation and directly order the troops who are hoarded on the borders of Fengyang, Luzhou, and Anqing to participate in the war, he will be able to preserve the vital strength of the Great Western Army to the greatest extent.

Pity? Wu Zheng had already gone north at this time, and most of his energy? On Yanzhou Dolbo.

This is not only a private transaction with Zilharang, but also a strategic goal set by Wu Zheng.

What was the military force of the Qing court? In addition to the Eight Banners in Beijing, the three largest parts? They are the Southwest Wu Sangui and other departments, the Azig department, and the Dolbo department? These three forces? Running from east to west, it formed the most important barrier for the Qing court to deal with the Northern Expedition.

If Wu Zheng wants to break through this line of defense with a few outnumbered people, he must first defeat these three forces, or one of them.

Azigeshe relinquished Fengyang Mansion and Jiang Quanyi took control of Xuzhou, so the door to march from south to north was opened.

But Yanzhou Dolbo's army was still in front of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and Wu Zheng had to solve Dolbo first.

Leaving Huaining Wu Zheng ordered the team to speed up the north, in fact, it not only echoed the gamble of Li Hao and Mao Xiang, but he decided to go to Xuzhou before returning to Hangzhou, and before formally signing a treaty with the Qing court, he was busy solving the problem of Yanzhou blocking the way.

This caused Wu Zheng to stay away from Fengyang and Luzhou, which were closest to the Runing battlefield, and when Wu Zheng heard about the drastic changes in the Runing battlefield, he had no time to react quickly.

……。

Due to the "rebellion" of 20,000 new troops led by Shen Zhiyuan, Yanzhou was in chaos.

Shen Zhiyuan's new army has another 10,000 troops stationed in Ningyang, and the main reason why he did not bring this army to "rebel" together is that this army has been planted too many people by Dolbo, and Shen Zhiyuan can no longer easily mobilize this army.

However, Dolbo was only able to install middle- and upper-rank officers, and the junior officers and soldiers were beyond Dolbo's control in a short period of time.

After the news of Shen Zhiyuan's "rebellion" spread, there were several chaos in this army, but fortunately, the scale was not large, and after being forcefully suppressed, Dolbo transferred this army south to Jining Prefecture.

The intention is nothing more than that the Xuzhou army and the Ziyang army can be sandwiched between the north and the south to monitor every move of this army.

However, a civil unrest broke out in Xuzhou, and then it was fiercely attacked by Jiang Quanyi's troops, and Dolbo had to order the army to retreat north to Yutai in the northwest of Pei County.

In this way, from Ziyang to Jining Prefecture and Yutai, the narrow area is crowded with up to 60,000 horses, and the friction and filth that arise from this are inevitable.

Dolbo had the intention to transfer one of his troops to the east to defend Shen Zhiyuan and Lu Zhiyu in the east, but he didn't dare, who dared to guarantee that the transferred army would not defect as soon as they saw Shen Zhiyuan?

He didn't dare to transfer the army that withdrew from Xuzhou to the east, because Dolbo also didn't dare, after the army retreated from Xuzhou to the east, he was bound to transfer the 10,000 new troops under Shen Zhiyuan's command to defend Xuzhou Jiang Quanyi's troops to the north, the same reason, Shen Zhiyuan has returned to the Ming, who can guarantee that this army will not defect and vote for Jiang Quanyi?

Dolbo made a decision after a lot of deliberation and consultation with his sister Dongor.

That is his lineage in Ziyang City, no, to be precise, it should be his eastward lineage left by Amadolgon, the loyalty of this banner army is extremely high, it is absolutely impossible to cast Ming, and it is naturally the most appropriate to use it to defend against Shen Zhiyuan and Lu's domain to attack westward.

But this also has drawbacks, the number of this flag army is not large, the three banners add up to more than 10,000 people, and there are 20,000 new troops under Shen Zhiyuan in the east, plus Wu Songwei in the Lu Zhiyu, Dolbo has to transfer most of the flag army to deal with the threat from the east.

In this way, Ziyang City was empty, leaving only 3,000 men and horses to garrison.

Of course, at this time, Ziyang was under the cover of the withdrawn army from the direction of Xuzhou, the 10,000 new army and the flag army sent from the east, and it was also very safe.

This is also the reason why Tungor agrees with Dolbo to call out the winner of Ziyang Eastward.

But both Dolbo and Togo ignored the most important point, that is, the fortress is always breached from the inside, and they actually forgot such a famous saying that has been spread all over the world, and the two of them are indeed careless.

But it's no wonder that these two sisters and brothers are only in their teens, how can they be compared to the people around them, tigers and wolves?