In the autumn of the nineteenth year of Chongzhen, in the months before and after, the northern land became a mess.

Zheng Zhilong's Qilu is not peaceful, and the entire northern coast is not peaceful. From Denglai to Jinmen, from Jinmen to Guanwai, the long coastline is full of beacon smoke.

Although the Manchus had deployed a lot of troops, they were still overwhelmed by the emergency documents that flew like snowflakes. Because the defensive troops they arranged couldn't stop Zheng Zhilong at all.

With such a long defensiveness, what can the Manchus do if they arrange soldiers and horses? Sprinkle the same with sesame salt, it's useless at all.

In Yanjing City, in the palace of Prince Rui, the atmosphere is heavy. Waiting for people up and down, inside and out, no one dared to speak loudly. It's just because Dorgon's face is as cold as the cold winter moon.

"Prince Li disappointed me so much......"

Zheng Zhilong led people to defeat Jinzhou, and when he first saw the news, Dolgon only thought he was watching a joke, which was really absurd. It's Jinzhou!

"The prince is angry......"

Man Dahai was embarrassed, Prince Li was his father. After the smallpox outside the Guanwai erupted, the Empress Jierharang also came to Yanjing City with the Queen Mother and the Little Emperor, and the Prince of Lili stayed in Shengjing on behalf of the Emperor and dominated the situation outside the Guan. And the person who was sent by Daishan to garrison Jinzhou was not another person, it was his eldest nephew, the eldest son of the eldest brother Yue Tuo, Aixin Jueluo Luo Luohun, but compared to the ability of his half-brother, Luo Luohun's kid is much more unsuccessful. In the eighth year of Chongde, because of drunkenness and arguing, Min Huigong and Concubine Yuan (Huang Taiji's original wife) were cut off because of their drunkenness.

Even if Dolgon wanted to win over Luo Luohun, win over Yue Tuo's lineage, and find an excuse to restore him, it wouldn't be long.

Now, because he only cares about hunting and having fun outside the city, when Zheng Zhilong led the army to attack, the Jinzhou garrison was not only unguarded, but also leaderless, and the city was easily taken. Man Dahai really didn't know what to say.

"Anger? How can this king calm his anger? Zheng Zhilong is rampant like this, how can I calm my anger? ”

Dolgon's face turned hideous. If he could, he would really prefer to give up all the land of Denglai to Zheng Zhilong, in exchange for his temporary stop.

In the previous years, the Manchu Tartars, who had never seen the threat of the sea, now really deeply experienced the bitter taste of having no defense at sea.

If the power at sea is not good, it will be controlled by others on land, and it will be beaten everywhere, and it is clear that it has ten percent of its strength but it cannot even exert one percent.

It's not a question of who is stronger or weaker at all, it's a matter of you using your little thumb to fend off someone else's fist.

The bloody reality has engraved the word 'coastal defense' into the bones of the Tatar leadership.

"I haven't been blessed by God this time." Dorgon looked up to the sky and sighed.

Now is a critical moment, but Zheng Zhilong is not as "absent" as the previous two encounters, not only is he not absent, but he seems to be trying his best to find fault and relieve Li Zicheng's pressure.

And what's even more terrifying is that once this Zheng Zhilong has an attack, the Manchu Qing Dynasty is really stumbling, and it is difficult to parry.

The belief in building a strong navy was so urgent in Dorgon's heart today.

But although Dorgon's anxiety upset him, fortunately, the Manchu tide was still able to withstand it. is much stronger than Li Zicheng, who is far away from the sea and inland.

The latter was attacked by many enemies on many sides, and he was also stirred up, but he didn't have such a solid foundation.

Li Zicheng's current situation is called the real crisis.

The enemy on his back and abdomen forced him to deal with it in two ways. But he only divided his troops to return to help Su, and Duoduo led most of the Eight Banners of the Qing army on the South Road to kill Heluo. Jingxiang's Ming army also attacked fiercely at this time, while surrounding the main force of the Bai Wang army in Xiangyang, the army crossed the Han River and entered the Nanyang Basin to ......, and it was also a loss that Zhang Xianzhong had already ceased war with him, otherwise Li Zicheng would have opened up five relatively independent battlefields.

No matter how thick Li Zicheng's family background is, he can't sustain such a fight. The territory in southwest Henan was lost in the blink of an eye, and Jin Shenghuan, the general of the left army, led his troops to display Ruzhou, and the Qing army that entered Heluo was face to face.

However, there was not the slightest collision between the two sides.

In August, the city of Luoyang was completely destroyed by the Manchus with Hongyi cannons, and Liu Fangliang was forced to retreat to Tongguan. The Qing army, which occupied Heluo, did not immediately attack the vital Tongguan, but crossed the Yellow River from Mengjin and entered southern Jin.

At this time, Datong also announced its loss.

The food in the city is exhausted, and it is almost a place of cannibalism. Azig sent people to cry out that they would relieve the siege and allow the people to flee in search of food. Although Luo Hu knew that something was wrong, he knew that if he didn't open the city gate and let the people leave, the already restless military spirit in the city would be even more riotous, and the people in the city would definitely not close their eyes and wait for death when they saw that there was no way to live. In desperation, he could only open the city gate and let the people leave. As a result, when the defenders of the city saw this scene, they also rushed to flee, and Luo Hu could not prohibit it, and Datong fell.

Luo Hu led the remnants of the defeated army to flee to Hongtao Mountain outside the city, and then fled to Luliang Mountain.

The northern Jin Dynasty can be said to have been completely taken by the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

But Taiyuan City is still stable. Li Shunjun stuck Taiyuan City, which would have sheltered most of the Taiyuan Basin, as well as the Linfen Basin and the Jiezhou (Yuncheng) Basin further south.

Jin Zhongnan is still a treasure in the hands of Li Zicheng.

The salt pond in Jiezhou is Li Zicheng's money bag. Li Zicheng grasped it in his hands, implemented official buying, and earned millions of guan / stone a year. The exchange of salt for money and grain in the hands of the people can be said to be the largest source of income for the Li Shun regime in the past two years.

Seeing that the original 'three-year covenant' had come to an end, the finances of the Dashun Dynasty were about to be more relaxed, but at this time, the situation changed suddenly, and Li Zicheng was eager to vomit blood in his heart.

But when Duoduo marched into Jinnan, wasn't it for money? The salt pond in southern Jinnan is far inland, unlike the Changlu salt farm, which is all on the seaside, and is swept by Zheng Zhilong every year, month by month.

That year's output was not to mention 600,000 quintals, and it was difficult to guarantee a discount.

However, the Manchu Qing printed salt quotations whenever the financial situation was tight, and the latter did not know how many times the value had depreciated in the past two years. This taking down the salt pond in Jinnan is equivalent to revitalizing the salt introduction. It was of great significance to the Manchus.

Li Zicheng could not tolerate the loss of Jinnan, and immediately asked Liu Zongmin to personally lead troops to recapture Jinnan.

As a result, Liu Zongmin led the soldiers and horses from Pujin into Jinnan, Azig led the Eight Banners to join the Mongol soldiers and horses in Monan, and the Manchu, Mongolian and Han coalition forces of 100,000 people killed Yulin from the Mongolian steppe.

The latter is an important border town, so it is naturally impossible to be garrisoned without Li Shun's troops, but there are not enough 5,000 soldiers. There is still insufficient to defend Yulin City, let alone cover the surrounding side walls.

Yulin City is a fortified city in the world, although there are not many soldiers, it is not easy for the Qing army to take down. Azig then ordered Kong Youde to lead the Han army to besiege Yulin City, and he led the main forces of Manchu and Mongolia to attack Yansui (An) through Mizhi. In Mizhi, the Qing army was fiercely resisted by Liu Tichun's troops stationed there, and the Qing army besieged the city for nearly ten days.

Liu Tichun's insistence gave Li Zicheng a chance to breathe, he hurriedly ordered to recover Liu Zongmin's army, and then asked Zhao Guangyuan and other troops to rush to the aid of Mizhi, Azig left Wu Keshan to continue to besiege Mizhi, and he led the main force to cross Mizhi and engage the reinforcements of the Shun army.

Zhao Guangyuan and other troops seem to have a lot of banners, but there are not many soldiers. According to the battle of the mountain array, Azig first invited the cavalry to fight, and the other attacked with Tan Tai's detour flank, the Shun army lost the first battle, and had to retreat to Yansui, and the Qing army pursued it in a big way.

At this time, Li Zicheng had already assembled a large army in Chang'an, and decisively gave up Jinnan, and first gave Li Guo in Taiyuan an order, telling him to start retreating, so that Yuan Zongdi of Linfen led the troops under his jurisdiction to receive the Taiyuan Shun army to withdraw from Jinxi and take Longmendu. After the defeat of Jiezhou, Liu Zhong and Liu Rukui, who retreated to the Zezhou Prefecture in the southeast of Jin, moved to Guanzhong.

Li Zicheng obviously wanted to strictly defend the Tongguan line, and then concentrate his forces to fight with the Manchu and Mongolian armies on the northern front. Although there is a rumor in Susu that because Gushi Khan's army surrounded Lanzhou, the western state capitals that had lost contact with the east had all surrendered to the Manchus. Mi Layin, Ding Guodong and other Hui generals have already led a large army to the east to reinforce Gushi Khan.

Li Zicheng didn't have time to take care of it.

For the current Dashun Dynasty, the Manchu and Mongolian coalition forces in northern Shaanxi are the most deadly threat.

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Li Shun of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was fighting, so naturally the news could not be concealed from the world. Because this is a time of war, military intelligence is crucial.

Although Emperor Chongzhen did not explicitly revive the factory guard, Luo Yangxing was obviously active.

Even if it is the news that the Tartars are gathering troops and horses in various Mongolian departments, the fault is not that the news between the Guannei and the Mongolian steppe is not smooth, as long as the news of the concentration of troops in the Mongol tribes in southern Mo is transmitted to the Guannei first, Li Zicheng is afraid that he is a big fool, so he will not strengthen the troops on the front line of Yulin.

But the Manchu Qing Dynasty took advantage of the news inside and outside the Guan, and quietly requisitioned the troops and horses of the various units in the south of the country, so that Yulin City was besieged, and the Manchu and Mongolian troops passed through the weak point of the border wall, penetrated straight in, and caught Li Zicheng off guard.

But this has come to this point, and nothing can be changed. Li Zicheng is embattled, and the situation is already extremely unfavorable for him.

But in Qilu, as a large number of Eight Banners soldiers were taken to the Central Plains, Prince Haoge, who was sitting in Qilu, couldn't wait to scold his mother. Dodor walked cleanly with the main force, and he was unlucky.

Don't look at the majesty of the Manchu Qing in the interior, but as far as Qilu is concerned, the situation is not very favorable to the Qing court. Although the Qilu Green Banner soldiers have been repeatedly expanded recently, and Fang Dayou, the governor of Qilu in the Qing Dynasty, claimed that Qilu had "100,000 soldiers", but fools know that there are not so many.

If Qilu really had so many Ertars, wouldn't some small local anti-Qing forces in the western state capitals be finished long ago?

However, according to some specious news from the Black Ice Terrace, the new commander of the Qilu Green Battalion, Zu Kefa, not only recruited a large number of landlords in the western state capitals, but also asked for some people from Yanjing. It is roughly the earlier Ming army that coated, followed and surrendered, or mixed with a small number of more capable soldiers of the Han Eight Banners. In general, the paper strength that was lost due to the defeat of Li Shutai, the Qilu Green Banner Soldiers must have recovered.

"If the Tartars move, let's move too. Don't think we're going to have to shrink up in the winter. The main force in the Tartar Pass is either guarding Yanjing City, or they are all in Guanzhong, Jinxi and the Central Plains, how many people are there in Qilu? ”

Zheng Zhilong didn't take Qilu's Green Flag soldiers in his eyes at all, and he didn't take Haoge who sat in Qingzhou in his eyes either.

Just like Emperor Chongzhen in Jinling City, he has a posture of going to do a big job.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the main force of the Tartars has fallen into Shanxi, and although the Li thief is poor, there are still a group of stubborn people under him, and the Tartars will not be able to succeed for a while. In this way, the Central Plains is empty, and the North Zhili is empty, and this is the time for me to rise up. ”

Emperor Chongzhen's face was flushed with excitement, and he seemed to have seen the scene of the Northern Expedition being successful, Shenjing recovering, and his holy drive returning to Yanjing.