"King Chuang, what shall we do now?"

After listening to the brief report of Liu Fangliang's guards with a crying voice, Liu Zongmin asked Li Zicheng in a low voice with a gloomy face.

Li Zicheng didn't move, he stared blankly at the motionless corpse of Liu Fangliang on the ground, and didn't answer.

His face was purple and his forehead was bruised, and his whole body was trembling slightly, and it could be seen that although he was trying to keep calm, he was actually forcibly suppressing the anger and regret churning in his heart in extreme pain.

Thinking that a few hours ago, Li Zicheng happened to go to Liu Zongmin's place to investigate the progress of the sweep, and the two were on the bank of the sparkling Longmen River, personally investigating the situation, in order to seek the next move, but suddenly saw that a messenger sent by Liu Fangliang hurriedly crossed the river to report urgently.

After hearing the news that the envoy said that more than 3,000 of Liu Fangliang's subordinates had been attacked and that the entire army had been wiped out, their eyes widened.

Okay, Tang Jun really hid his back hand, and Liu Fangliang's subordinates finally succeeded in their tricks.

And then, hearing the envoy's continued report, Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin frowned even more.

This Liu Fangliang, in order to be anxious for revenge, is urgently leading tens of thousands of soldiers to pursue the Tang army that has retreated from the valley. This piece of information made Li Zicheng, who had been fighting for many years, almost intuitively feel the danger. He immediately thought that Liu Fangliang's battle was going to be unpredictable.

Li Zicheng did not hesitate any longer, and immediately worked with Liu Zongmin to personally count tens of thousands of elites, and immediately waved his army across the river, intending to go to the emergency rescue of Liu Fangliang's department.

Unexpectedly, not long after tens of thousands of soldiers crossed the river, before they could drive far in the direction of the battlefield, they saw Liu Fangliang, who had fought a big defeat, and was brought back by a group of guards.

Such a big defeat was a head-on blow to the rogue army, which had high morale and was invincible all the way, and it was even more devastating to the morale and morale of the officers and men of the whole army.

What a hate!

There were 50,000 elites, most of whom were soldiers and horses from the old battalion who had been fighting for many years from Shaanxi, but in the end, only more than 5,000 people escaped with their lives, and the rest were either killed or captured, all of which were lost in that wilderness. Such a huge loss can be said to be far beyond the Battle of Shanhaiguan, and it is the biggest battle loss and the greatest shame of defeat since the founding of Dashun.

Liu Fangliang, this guy, lost his army and lost his generals, greatly damaged the prestige of the country, and he is really innocent!

It's just that now he has paid with his life for his stupidity and rashness, can he punish him again?

No.

Because in the final analysis, although he has great achievements, he has been martyred for the country, but he still does not lose his duty to fight, and he will blame him again, and then vent more and greater anger to this death, even if he whips his corpse and destroys his bones, in fact, it is meaningless, but it will damage his image as a king.

The most important thing for me now is to learn enough lessons from Liu Fangliang's death and the tragic defeat of the destruction of 50,000 elites, and not make the same mistakes in the next battle with the Tang Army, and finally be able to destroy all the soldiers and horses of the fourth town of the Tang Army, which is the most important thing.

The wind is hunting, the cloak is angrily rolling, Li Zicheng's heart is remorseful, how can he express it.

After being silent for a long time, Li Zichengcai finally spoke slowly: "Spread my will, Liu Fangliang died for the country's loyalty, even if he neglected the guilt of losing the army, the death of a person is great, so I will not investigate it deeply." And his body was collected and buried in good life, and transported back to Shaanxi for a grand burial. to show grief. His wife, sons, and daughters were also given generous bereavements to comfort their loyalty. As for the remnants of his subordinates, they were no longer held accountable, and Ling Er and the others all returned to the base camp of Longmen Fort and listened to the call of Hou again. ”

"Order!"

After arranging Liu Fangliang and his subordinates, Li Zicheng turned around and said to Liu Zongmin with a complicated face: "Ruhou, now that Liu Fangliang is dead and the army is defeated, such a tragic lesson is really profound. Now it seems that our army can no longer act as before. ”

"Well, but please make it clear to the king."

Li Zicheng looked up to the sky and sighed, and said: "The defeat of our army lies in the division of troops, and I, the commander, have a great responsibility." Now that I think about it, the Tang army that entered the dog has a favorable geographical position, and it can attack our army at any time, how can it retreat so easily and admit defeat. After the division of our army, its power was weakened, which encouraged the arrogance of the soldiers, so it was very easy to encounter ambush attacks. Liu Fangliang's defeat is also ......"

Speaking of this, Li Zicheng choked up, and continued: "Speaking of which, it's still that I, the emperor, didn't do a good job, and damaged this old brother who followed us to raise troops in Shaanxi. ”

"King Chuang, we are all rolling over from the pile of dead people, life and death are fateful, don't be too sad." Liu Zongmin said in a low voice.

Li Zicheng raised his head and sighed, and said: "Zong Min, it seems that now we only have one place to join forces, and we will not do the stupid thing of dividing the troops." With the general trend of 200,000 soldiers and horses, it is appropriate to carefully sweep the various military fort villages south of the entire Xuanfu North Road, and not give the Tang army a chance to take advantage of it. In the end, with such a cautious attitude, our army was able to reach Jintang City safely. At that time, we will join forces with the Qing army to attack the city......"

Failing to listen to Li Zicheng's story, Liu Zongmin subconsciously frowned.

In fact, in his heart, he had actually guessed that Li Zicheng would act like this next, but after thinking about it, he couldn't help but say his true opinion.

"King Chuang, if you march so cautiously, of course, you can ensure the safety of our army, but the territory of Xuanfu North Road is vast, if our army is united, the action must be quite slow, and if it is swept down like this, I am afraid that it will take several times more than the soldiers, in this way, isn't it a great loss of efficiency?"

Li Zicheng smiled bitterly, he shook his head, and sighed: "Zong Min, you are so worried, how can I not know." It's just that I did this, but in fact, it was also a helpless move. Now the morale of our army has fallen, the morale of the army has been frustrated, and Encore has suffered another major setback. If we can let all the soldiers slowly recover their morale and rebuild their fighting spirit in such a joint operation, it will be worth the extra time. After all, now we are fighting on the territory of the Tang Army, and it is better to be careful in everything. ”

Liu Zongmin nodded, agreeing with Li Zicheng's point of view, but asked again: "King Chuang, it's a good thing to act so safely." It's just that our army has just lost 50,000 soldiers and horses, and we have lost a lot of troops, but do we want to transfer more soldiers and horses from Beijing and other places to help in the war? ”

Li Zicheng pondered for a moment, and then replied, "No." Jingshi and Beizhili and other places are extremely important places, and Enke does not leave any key points to guard. And wait for me to give Niu Jinxing an order, so that he will quickly select 50,000 elite soldiers from Shanxi and others within a month, so that Zehou Tian Jianxiu, who is stationed in Taiyuan, Shanxi, will come back to Xuanfu North Road to make up for the loss of our army. I hope that they will be able to join forces with our army and attack Jintang City together. ”

Li Zicheng's arrangements were set, and the whole army began to reassemble in one place, with a total of more than 200,000 soldiers and horses. However, in order to be safe, the whole army has carefully responded and marched together, and there must be no more situations such as the division of troops out of touch.

Therefore, the current army of rogues, this fort swept over one place, but the speed is really much slower, such a combat arrangement, although so that the Tang army has no chance to sneak attack and ambush, but everything has advantages and disadvantages, but in turn gives the Tang army enough time to breathe and recuperate.

Li Zicheng and the others would not have thought that while they were still carefully sweeping and clearing both sides of the Longmen River, the main forces of the Tang army, together with the 3,000 Mongolian cavalry, basically all retreated to Jintang City, and on the south side of the entire Xuanfu North Road, only the sentry cavalry of the Tang army was left to secretly monitor the progress of the Liukou.

After a short rest of two days, the main force of the Tang Army left only the elite A battalion under the personal command of the town mayor Duan Shidi and stationed in Jintang City. And Liu Wenxiu's B Battalion and Zu Dashou's C Battalion, as well as all the cavalry and firecrackers, a total of more than 20,000 people, with Liu Wenxiu as the main general and Zu Dashou as the deputy general, all quietly went north and rushed to the northern gateway of Xuanfu North Road, Dushikou, ready to be here to give the Qing army that came to march to a head-on attack.

The more than 20,000 soldiers and horses of the Tang army, after four days of traveling day and night, successfully arrived at Dushikou on the Xuanfu North Road, and immediately sent sentry cavalry to go deep into the Mongolian steppe to explore the progress of the Qing army.

About two days later, the sentinel cavalry reported that the Qing army had a total of 150,000 soldiers and horses, and that Wu Sangui's soldiers and horses were in the vanguard, all the way through the Mongolian tribes such as Horqin, Karaqin, Naiman, and Dongtumut, and drove towards Dushikou.

Hearing this report, Liu Wenxiu suddenly smelled the fighter plane, and he hurriedly asked: "Have you ever found out how far away is the forward of Wu Sangui's department from his own army?" ”

The sentry cavalry arched his hand and said: "General, the Qing army has traveled all the way here, and has never encountered a battle, so it is quite lax, and its soldiers and horses are far from the front vanguard of Wu Sangui. ”

Hearing this, Liu Wenxiu sighed, his eyes flashed, and his face was full of joy.

Okay, Tang King Li Xiao really expected it accurately in the letter. He expected that the Qing army would march thousands of miles away, and it would inevitably not be able to do so, so he ordered us to concentrate superior forces and annihilate its front first, which is now a completely feasible strategy.

"Hmph, Wu Sangui, you guy, you also have today!"

Liu Wenxiu thought very happily: "You shameless and immoral man, you refused to enter the defense of Beijing that day, so that the capital was lost, the Son of Heaven was martyred, and later turned his back on the country and threw himself into the Tartars, which is simply inferior to a pig and a dog." Unexpectedly, the retribution is not happy, you traitors are finally about to fall into the hands of me Liu Wenxiu! ”

So, Liu Wenxiu immediately issued a military order, arranged the deployment, and made all preparations, just waiting for Wu Sangui to come from the net.

At this time, about 20 miles away from Dushikou, Wu Sangui, who had been named the king of Pingxi by the Qing court, was leading his troops and marching all the way to Dushikou.

It was nearly noon, the weather was very hot, and Wu Sangui and his subordinates were all so hot that their faces were covered with sweat, and they were all tired.

Under the scorching heat, Wu Sangui simply lifted his helmet, and let the cool breeze brought by the horse's galloping blow the shaved blue scalp and the small braid on the back of his head, only to feel a little comfortable.

"King Pingxi, the sentinel has come to report, twenty miles ahead, it is the gateway of Xuanfu North Road." Hu Guozhu, the general of the personal entourage next to him, stretched out his finger and pointed to the faint black shadow on the horizon.

Wu Sangui sighed softly, which was an answer.

More than half a year has passed, and I finally saw the boundary of the Ming Dynasty again.

At this moment, Wu Sangui had mixed feelings in his heart.

He suddenly remembered that day, after sacrificing Ningyuan and surrendering to the Qing army, he and all his subordinates were placed in Guangning by Dolgon. Subsequently, here, together with the whole army, he shaved his hair and changed his clothes, and officially expressed his allegiance to the Qing court.

And in order to encircle a strong general like him who can fight in battle, Dolgon rewarded him as the king of Pingxi, and many of his subordinates, such as Hu Guozhu, the prime minister of Xia, also had their own rewards, and it seems that Dolgon attaches great importance to them.

It's just that although Wu Sangui has changed from Pingxi Bo in the Ming Dynasty to the King of Pingxi in the Qing Dynasty, he has been rewarded with officials and knights, but he has never been happy.

He can often feel that his current self, serving a foreign race, although he is extremely glorious and noble for a while, but such a good life is afraid that it will not last long, and it can even be said that it will soon be troubled internally and externally.

Because he knew that the current Qing court was by no means peaceful, although Dolgon in an unreasonable way, a sharp action, to solve the big trouble in his heart, but the entire Qing court, he has not yet reached the level of command, the remnants of Hauge, as well as various opposition forces in the country, and even the little emperor who grows up in the future, will become Dolgon's mortal enemy.

Then, if Dorgon, who has regarded himself as a cronie, loses power in the future, or has great twists and turns, it is difficult for him to avoid not being involved, and even in some extreme cases, he will become a sacrificial pawn to lose the car and protect the commander, which is also entirely possible.

And outside, the power of the Tang army, after supporting the crown prince Zhu Cihong as the emperor of rejuvenation, Tang King Li Xiao took advantage of the situation to become the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, and since then he has expanded wildly, and almost has the power to dominate the world.

This person is under one person, above ten thousand, and has extremely strong financial resources, vast territory, strong and powerful soldiers, and his strength is so terrifying that almost no one in the world can beat him. I'm afraid that this world will eventually be completely controlled by this person.

And at that time, the king of Pingxi, who betrayed the court and ancestors and served a foreign race, will definitely become the mortal enemy of the Tang army. In the future, if Li Xiao succeeds in unifying the country, he will definitely march north and wipe out the Qing captives, so he is afraid that his glory and future prospects in the Qing court will become a mirror flower and will not be found again.

If that day comes, Hugh will talk about his future official position, but he is afraid that his life and head will be difficult to preserve, and he may become a trophy of the Tang Army.

And now the garrison of Quang Ninh, in the face of such a situation of internal and external worries, can really only be helpless and helpless.

Perhaps, such a life can only be lived one day at a time.

Such negative emotions haunt the body and mind every day and night, so that Wu Sangui, who is stationed in Quang Ninh, borrows wine every day to drown his sorrows and drunkenness, and his heart is endlessly confused.

At this moment, thinking of this, Wu Sangui, who was unbearably hot, became more and more upset, and couldn't help but let out a long sigh again.