The smoke of the Xining Acropolis rose into the sky, and countless Heshute Mongol soldiers walked through the streets and alleys of the city, carrying large bags and small bags of belongings. Most of the locals in Xining have been reduced to corpses on the ground, and there are even screams of women in some houses.

Gushi Khan and the Manchu Qing Dynasty made a charter, and this time they marched into Su, which was to play the banner of the Qing army. He deceived Li Zicheng into not knowing his plan with the Manchus, and after the army was assembled at Qinghai Lake, he first sent people into Xining in the name of buying and selling, and then attacked yesterday night, and the inside and outside should be combined, and this fortified city was taken down in one fell swoop.

According to the habits of the Mongols, this scene in front of them must be experienced. The Heshute people living on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau are as poor as a singleton who depends on their lives, easily entering Xining, but isn't it like a pack of hungry wolves who pounce into the flock of sheep and loot everything they can find.

Gushi Khan still loved the Heshute people very much, but the Han people in Xining were no longer on his protection list. Except for craftsmen and doctors, others were not on his radar.

Although this Xining city has suffered a catastrophe when the Shun army captured it, and many gentry and wealthy merchants in the city have suffered, but even so, in the eyes of the poor and Shuote people, it is also a piece of fat and oily big fat.

After all, for them, a pot is precious.

At this time, Gushi Khan stood at the head of Xining City, Ming Hongwu 19 years, Zhu Yuanzhang made people rebuild Xining Acropolis on the basis of Yuan Xining Zhou City - cut half of the ancient city of Xining to build Xining Acropolis, the city circumference is nine miles, the base of the city wall is five zhang six feet wide, three zhang four feet high, the city wall is equipped with a number of enemy towers, and the door is opened on all sides.

Since the construction of the new Xining City, it has been the strongest city on the Tibetan Plateau. Relying on the 'rich' Huangshui Valley, it seems to occupy the essence of Qinghai.

In the past few years, Gushi Khan has dreamed of getting here.

He didn't think about seizing Gansu and going to Guanzhong, Gushi Khan didn't have the ambition of his descendants, he just wanted to keep the land of Qinghai-Tibet.

Xining City, as the eastern gate of the plateau, as the core of the Huangshui Valley, and as the necessary place for the "Tangbo Ancient Road", will not only become a big cornucopia, but also become a barrier for the Heshute Khanate on the east side.

He had no ambition to enter the Han region, but he also hoped that the forces of the Han region would not interfere too much with the Heshute Khanate. Even if it was the Manchu Qing. Therefore, it would be perfect to send a tribe to settle here and firmly guard the gate of the Huangshui Valley.

And if Xining City is not in his hands, the east gate of the Qinghai-Tibet land has never been grasped in his hands, which is strange if he can rest assured!

Gushi Khan held the horsewhip in his hand, and the screams and cries that came from around him were ignored by him, and he did not hear them.

Xiningwei didn't have any preparations at all, Li Zicheng had already transferred all the troops here to Guanzhong, and there were only a few people left at the head of the city at night, and there were no basic tools to defend the city such as hitting poles, rolling stones, and yaksha beats on the city. If it is attacked, it will not be effortless.

Once the Heshuo special army took Xining, the defense of Nasu was wide open, and the army of Gushi Khan could go all the way to Lanzhou City along the Huangshui. Divide the whole of Susu in two.

Li Zicheng's envoy (governor) was Lin Rirui, a former Ming official, who was shocked when he heard the news and hurriedly went to find Xin Sizhong. The latter is Li Shun's main general in Susu. Earlier, he was the deputy of the party Shousu, before Li Zicheng retreated from Guanzhong, and when he was nervous, he once transferred the party Shousu and Xin Sizhong to Guanzhong, but later saw that the situation in western Jin and the Central Plains had stabilized, so he asked Xin Sizhong to lead 10,000 troops back to Su.

The latter never thought that Heshute Mongolia would give birth to a moth, and when he heard the news, he was not shocked, but first furious.

After all, as a peasant army general, Xin Sizhong had never seen the Heshute Khanate in his eyes, although he never thought of meeting Gushi Khan's sword soldiers, although he had heard of Gushi Khan's name, but he didn't put Gushi Khan in his eyes at all.

Because this Gushi Khan didn't even dare to provoke the original Ming Dynasty, how could Xin Sizhong look up to him?

He is very aware of the strength of the local army, there has been no war for many years, not to mention that all of them are unbearable, and the battalion soldiers in the province are only thousands, otherwise when he followed He Jin and Dang Shousu to march into the northwest, how could he be bloodless along the way, like a parade?

Xin Sizhong immediately ordered his troops and horses to kill Xining.

It was at the mouth of the Yellow River that the Heshuo army that came along the Huangshui River met at the mouth of the Yellow River, and the vanguard of the Heshuo army had already crossed at that time.

Li Shunjun is still very combative, and the soldiers are also quite capable of fighting, Xin Sizhong immediately launched an attack on him when he saw it. The two sides fought head-on, and the Heshute army was undoubtedly defeated.

They were few in number, with only more than 1,000 soldiers and horses crossing the river, and even less firearms.

Xin Sizhong's banner was victorious, and the morale of the soldiers soared. If he had not divided his troops to cross the river from the lower reaches of the Yellow River, intending to flank the Heshute army on both sides and defeat Gushi Khan, it would have been a different situation, and Li Zicheng's history would have changed, and China's history could have also been changed.

Xin Sizhong's distribution not only dispersed the already limited forces in his hands, but also underestimated the people Gushi Khan, so that he lost his troops and lost his generals, and only four or five thousand remnants of the army were defeated and returned to Lanzhou.

The cavalry of the Heshute Department besieged the city of Lanzhou, and carried the banner of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to appease the place. Not only did it shake Su, but their horse army first seized Lintao Mansion to the southeast, shaking Guanzhong, and the influence was greater.

It didn't take long for the entire Dashun Dynasty to know that the Mongols in the northwest had surrendered the Manchu Tartars, and they had already attacked Li Zicheng from behind.

By June, the news had reached Jinling.

Jinling City is rejoicing again. Zheng Zhilong looked straight and wanted to laugh, he really wanted to laugh.

"Elder Zhou Ge, I don't understand. This Li Zicheng is unlucky, the Manchu Tartars have made a lot of money, and they are doing fart in the Jinling Dynasty again? What kind of psychology do they have when they look like pies falling from the sky? ”

Zhou Yanru's face was solemn, "The emperor and the great country were defeated in the hands of the Li thief, and the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty hated the Li thief to the bone, and Your Majesty was the same." Today, seeing that the Li thief was frustrated and suffered from the enemy in his back and abdomen, the general trend was not good, so he was naturally happy. ”

Then he looked at Zheng Zhilong's mocking face, and sighed and said, "Quanguo Gongxiu is going to flatten everyone." The old man knows why you are laughing, and there are many heroes in the court, and many people can see the good and the bad. However, the most difficult thing to distinguish in this world is the word "public and private". If you are a human being, you will have seven emotions and six desires, and you will have anger and disgust. ”

He is also an old fox who has been swimming in the sea for a long time, how can he not know the current situation, the best thing is to confront each other, and the Jinling court is a good fisherman.

If one side destroys the other, then no matter which side succeeds, the spearhead of the war will inevitably be directed at the south.

"Elder Zhou Ge admits that some people don't distinguish between public and private? But I don't know if it's some people who are 'good at speaking and not speaking for personal gain'! ”

Zheng Zhilong: This is not to miss any opportunity to harm people.

"Why is the prince so harsh?" You're already going overseas to call yourself a lonely person, isn't it good to be generous? You can't go back to the Central Plains? Zhou Yanru did not understand the contradictions and insistence between Zheng Zhilong and the gentry of Jiangnan, and even the gentry of the world.

It doesn't make sense at all. Why are the two sides still holding on?

"It's not that I, Zheng Zhilong, am harsh and harsh, but that some people overshadow justice with selfish interests, but they still have the face of a moral gentleman. I just don't know if the sages knew it, and whether they would be angry and die a second time. Zheng Zhilong is very disgusted with the interest groups led by the Donglin Party, but he also does not deny that in the growth process of the "Donglin Party", those who laid the 'political foundation' for the Donglin Party. For example, Yang Lian.

Zhou Yanru shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"Don't talk about it. This time, I raised troops in Zhoushan, but I didn't want to lead troops to send my son to Beijing, I wanted to send troops to Denglai. ”

Zhou Yanru's face returned to solemnity, he came to meet Zheng Zhilong this time, not to reward him with the Gongdanshu, but to ask him what he was going to do with leading tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to the north.

At the same time, news also came from Fujian Province, and Zheng Zhilong brought a large number of soldiers from Dayuan to gather in Quanzhou.

This made Jinling Junchen a little uneasy.

"I'm just going to pull Lee into my own hands. Otherwise, the Tartars destroyed Li Shun, and the army went south, and the imperial court soldiers and horses could still resist it? Frankly said the plan in his heart, Zheng Zhilong didn't care at all about the discolored face of the attaché who followed Zhou Yanru.

Otherwise, he was really afraid that Li Zicheng would be defeated by this wave of Tartars' offensive.

Because there is evidence that Datong will not be able to hold it. The food in the city has been eaten. Luo Hu, Zhang Tianlin, and Ke Tianxiang are awesome, and they are helpless if they have no food.

But they did their best. How long has this battle been fought?

The main forces of Azig and Wu Sangui's armies have always been trapped under the city of Datong, and that time is comparable to the original siege of Jinzhou.

And once this Datong City is taken down, the Tartars will completely control the northern part of Jin.

If a large army is sent from Mongolia to Yulin, the situation of King Li Chuang seems to have returned to the old way in history. No, it is worse than Li Zicheng in history, at least Gu Shi Khan in history did not have half a sense of existence when he was communicating in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

"Now although Zuo Shuai has died of illness, the 36th battalion army is still there, and the imperial court has trained a million troops in the past two years, and there are both handsome talents such as Hong Jiuheng in the court, as well as generals such as Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong. The Tartars are raising troops to the south, so how can they not resist? ”

The time is different, and the confidence is different.

Although Emperor Chongzhen spent seventy-seven eighty-eight on the silver in his hand, Nanming really formed a large army. Although this army has not fought yet, just looking at it, it is really strong. What's more important is that Zuo Liangyu is hanging, and the thirty-six battalions he left behind have been secretly co-opted by Emperor Chongzhen.

But Zheng Zhilong still dismissed.

Zuo Liangyu's army was a hodgepodge, a force with weak combat effectiveness, and in history, he led the army down the river to the east, and even Huang Degong's army couldn't beat it. There are only a few people in the latter.

Zhoushan and his party, Zhou Yanru came quickly and returned quickly.

When he returned to Jinling, he immediately met Emperor Chongzhen and brought Zheng Zhilong's words together.

"Hahaha, this Zheng Zhilong." Emperor Chongzhen couldn't say the words of reprimand, Zheng Zhilong was 'kind'. However, Zheng Zhilong's contempt for the Southern Ming Army made him extremely dissatisfied.

The army of land and water under his command is already strong, how can he not resist the enemy? He even thought about going on the defensive.

"Gong Quanguo is too arrogant."

"Li Zicheng ......, his rise is also vigorous, and his death is also sudden. In the battle of Shanhaiguan, the strength could not defeat the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the luck was dispersed. If it's just relying on the location to survive. And my Ming Dynasty is still regarded as Zhengshuo by the people of the world, and I dare not forget the old shame since I left Beijing and went down. In the past two years, I have worked hard to manage and finally have today's temperament. "Zuo Liangyu died in the prime of life, this is the true ancestral blessing.

"Now the Tartars are in a hurry to attack and annihilate the Li thieves, and when the army moves later, and the battle is in a hurry, it will be trapped in the northwest. This is a great opportunity for the remnants of our ancestors to go north, recover the Central Plains, and rejuvenate the Ming Dynasty. ”

Is it 'taking advantage of the void'? Zheng Zhilong can have so much fun in Liaodong, why can't he Chongzhen?

Zhu Youzhen was very confident at this moment.