Hearing Niu Jinxing's analysis of the situation, Li Zicheng's anger gradually extinguished, and his eyes suddenly flashed again.

If it is really as Niu Jinxing said, after the defeat at Shanhaiguan, he will turn to attack the fourth town of the Tang Army on the Xuanfu North Road and completely wipe out this army and horses, then Li Xiao's forces in Saibei will be completely eradicated, and from now on, he can really have no worries, and he can go south with all his strength to concentrate on sweeping away the remnants of Ming.

And if the Central Plains is unified and the world is established, how can Li Xiao, who is in a corner of Shandong, still have the ability to compete with himself again.

It should be said that joining forces with the Qing army to attack the Xuanfu North Road together is a very good move.

At present, Dashun has a total of nearly 500,000 mobile troops, and even if more than 200,000 are assigned to attack the Xuanfu North Road, there are still more than 200,000 soldiers and horses stationed in Beijing and Beizhili, and the number of its soldiers is more than enough to deal with Li Xiao in Shandong.

You must know that the Tang army in Shandong now has the unruly Hongguang puppet regime in the south, and the Manchu Qing and Dashun in the north, and its troops are very limited because they are distributed throughout the country and overseas provinces, and they are simply unable to attack the Beijing Division.

If you want to come to the fourth town of the Tang Army, the total number of troops is less than 30,000, if you send more than 200,000 soldiers and horses to suppress, coupled with the cooperation of the Qing army, the north and south sides of the attack, take the Xuanfu North Road, pull out the old nest of the fourth town of the Tang army, Jintangcheng, and then wipe out the entire fourth town of the Tang army, it is not a difficult matter.

Thinking of this, Li Zicheng's face unconsciously flashed a happy smile.

"Wow, Niu Big-eyed, you have some truth in this. This Shanhaiguan can't be taken, if you can take the entire Xuanfu North Road, it will be a good thing. Okay, this matter is settled, you go and contact the Qing army, and start preparing to attack Xuanfu North Road as soon as possible. When Li Zicheng said this, he gritted his teeth and looked ruthless: "As for the commander of this expedition, I will personally serve as the commander, grandma's, I want to have a fucking royal expedition!" ”

Li Zicheng made the final decision, and the rest of the things were naturally Niu Jinxing to be busy contacting.

After communicating with the Qing court by sending envoys to each other, the two sides agreed that after a month, the two sides would gather heavy troops to the north and south of the Xuanfu North Road, and then attack the Tang army together, striving to completely wipe out the soldiers and horses of the fourth town of the Tang army within a few months.

After nearly a month of vigorous troops and careful preparations, Li Zicheng began to officially send troops to attack Xuanfu North Road.

He arranged for Li Guo to stay behind as the Beijing division and be responsible for the defense of the capital and Beizhili, while he himself ordered 250,000 elite soldiers and horses, and Liu Zongmin and Liu Fangliang were appointed as deputy generals.

This strong army set out from the capital, and then attacked Longmen Fort, the southern gateway of Xuanfu North Road.

At the same time, in order to be ashamed and to better carve up the land on the North Road of Xuanfu with the Liukou, the Qing army also mobilized troops and horses to fight.

Dolgon ordered that the soldiers and horses of Wu Sangui's troops stationed in Guangning were also within the scope of this requisition, and a total of more than 10,000 barbarian warriors were temporarily collected from various Jurchen tribes and the Mongol tribes attached to Manchuria, and a total of 150,000 troops were distributed, which was an astonishing scale.

After the whole army was assembled in Guangning, he ordered Wu Sangui's troops and horses to be the vanguard, and immediately marched westward, bypassing the Mongolian tribes such as Karaqin, Naiman, and Dongtumut, and concentrating troops to attack Dushikou, the northern gateway of Xuanfu North Road.

The news of the joint attack on Xuanfu North Road by Liukou and Qing Lu was quickly reported to Li Xiao in Jinan, Shandong Province, by the secret agents of the Tang Army Security Department in the capital.

Li Xiao received the news, but he sneered in his heart.

These rogues and Tartars really don't give up when they don't get to the Yellow River, they are suffocating in the land of Shanhaiguan, so they want to find a place on Xuanfu North Road. Hmph, it's beautiful to think about.

Thinking about the soldiers and horses of the Fourth Town of our Tang Army, it is also an elite division that has been fighting for a long time, and relying on Jintangcheng, a fortified city that has been in operation for nearly ten years, even if the rest of Xuanfu North Road is lost, but they want to capture Jintang City in a short period of time and eliminate the elite army of the Fourth Town, it is simply a fool's dream!

However, you should not take it lightly.

After all, the Liukou and the Qing army, with a total of 400,000 troops, went to jointly attack the soldiers and horses of the fourth town without reinforcements, even if they responded flexibly and held on to the city, although they could hold on for a long time, if their own side could not help for a long time, Jintang City, which had been besieged for a long time, was afraid that it would be unpredictable. Probably the final result, even if it can be held, the soldiers and horses of the fourth town will also suffer heavy losses.

Is this a price that you can afford?

In other words, such a situation is actually a test of one's own strategic decision, whether to map south or north first.

Li Xiao thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to act according to the original plan, first solve the Hongguang puppet regime, and then send troops to Beizhili, with the plan of encircling Wei to save Zhao, and forcing the Liukou to retreat.

After all, if the land in the south of the Yangtze River is occupied by the Hongguang puppet regime for a long time, it will be a great disadvantage to oneself, not to mention that when he has been trained in two towns, he should no longer give the Hongguang puppet regime time to stabilize the situation and breathe.

In this case, it is appropriate to fight in the south this time, and it is necessary to fight quickly. And the entire strategic goal will be changed accordingly.

Li Xiao's original plan was to not only take the entire Jiangnan, but also chase the Hongguang regime all the way like the Qing army destroyed the Nanming in real history, and continue to attack until it is completely wiped out, leaving no future troubles.

But now, considering that the pressure on the fourth town of Xuanfu North Road is too great, this strategic goal can only be implemented step by step, and the primary goal is to first take the Jiangnan region, and then slowly try to Hongguang The remnants of the puppet regime.

Thinking of this, Li Xiao couldn't help but sigh, the current situation in the country is so delicate, he can only act as safely as possible, which is the right thing to do.

Therefore, during this period of time, the soldiers and horses of the fourth town of the Tang Army had to bear great pressure alone and deal with the joint attack of the two armies of Qingshun alone, which could be regarded as making necessary dedication and sacrifice for the national war situation.

Li Xiao thought about it and quickly replied to Duan Shifeige, the mayor of the fourth town of the Tang Army, telling him many precautions and related ways to use troops.

Three days later, Duan Shihu, the mayor of the fourth town of the Tang Army, immediately began to arrange the letter after receiving Li Xiao's letter.

At the end of the seventh lunar month of the first year of Chongxing, in the scorching summer season, Li Zicheng personally commanded the army, all the way through Yanqing Zuowei, Huailaiwei and other places, and finally came to Longmen Fort, the southern gateway of Xuanfu North Road.

Seeing the empty abandoned fortress in front of him, Li Zicheng couldn't help frowning.

Along the way, he always thought that the Tang army was very likely to use the many forts on the north road of Xuanfu to hold on to the forts and snipe their own 250,000 troops along the way, but he didn't expect that they would retreat resolutely and completely, and lose all the Longmen Fort, the southern gateway of Xuanfu, to themselves.

And along the way, I can see that the Tang army has withdrawn all the people along the way, and the immature sorghum in the fields has also been cut off, and there is a complete clearing of the wall. The Tang Army's resolute and determined retreat was really beyond his expectations.

Li Zicheng secretly thought in his heart, if the Tang army had really cleared the entire Xuanfu North Road and the people had all been transferred to Jintang City, then would he be able to drive straight into Jintang City and attack Jintang City by himself?

It's just that this approach is too risky.

After all, the area of Xuanfu North Road is quite extensive, and there are many fortresses, if you blindly forge ahead, in case the Tang army quietly sets up an ambush in which fortress and catches you off guard, it will be bad.

Li Zicheng thought about it for a long time, and finally decided that for the sake of safety, when the Tang army had withdrawn, he still had to send a large army to investigate separately, so as not to have the Tang army to ambush the troops, and then, the whole army searched and advanced, and finally came in together to the outside of Jintang City, and rejoined the Qing army to attack the city together.

Thinking about it, Li Zicheng immediately began to give orders.

He ordered that the whole army be divided into three divisions, led by himself and Liu Zongmin and Liu Fangliang, and the three soldiers and horses were horns of each other, searching and advancing together, and finally converged under Jintang City.

These three routes of soldiers and horses, he commanded more than 100,000 soldiers and horses of the Chinese army with the largest number of people, Liu Zongmin commanded 70,000 soldiers and horses of the left army, and Liu Fangliang commanded 70,000 soldiers and horses of the right army. The dispatch of the troops and horses of the three routes was established, and they immediately began to act separately.

Among them, the line of action of Li Zicheng's central army was to garrison the area of Longmen Fort, sweep the entire Nanhe area, and sweep the nearby Xiaobaimen Fort, Longmen Pass Fort, Sanchakou Fort and other places, after the sweep and search was completed, the whole army went north and attacked Jintang City directly.

Liu Zongmin's left army crossed the Nanhe River, went straight to the Eagle Osprey Fort, and then went north along the left bank of the Longmen River, and then took the Red Castle and Zhenning Fort, where after meeting with Liu Fangliang's department, the whole army detoured back to the northeast of Jintang City, cutting off the retreat of the fourth town of the Tang army.

Liu Fangliang's right army, after crossing the Nanhe River, the whole army went north along the right bank of the Longmenchuan River, directly took Dishui Cliff Fort, Ningyuan Fort, and Xiangtian Fort, and then crossed the Longmen River to the west, joined Liu Zongmin's troops, and then the whole army entered Jintang City.

Then, after the whole army arrived at Jintang City, it besieged but did not attack, and waited until the Qing army swept away the Tang army north of Xuanfu North Road, and then besieged the city with the Qing army. Then, after being well prepared, he launched an all-out attack, striving to take Jintang City in one fell swoop and completely eliminate the soldiers and horses of the fourth town of the Tang Army.

Next, the three armies attacked separately, as Li Zicheng expected, the Tang army had already fled, the army marched to various military forts, found nothing, the people were almost extinct, only a clean and neat sorghum pole was left in the field, sweeping all the way over, not even a shadow of the Tang army was seen. Only sometimes, occasionally I saw a few scattered Tang army sentry horses from a distance, but by the time the Liukou cavalry wanted to pursue, they had already disappeared as soon as they ran.

This is the case with Li Zicheng's Chinese army, and Liu Zongmin's left army and Liu Fangliang's right army are also in much the same situation.

Seeing that Tang Jun was so afraid of himself, hiding like a timid rabbit and not daring to see people, Liukou suddenly became arrogant, and his original caution was gradually replaced by impetuousness and lightness.

As a result, their vigilance began to decline rapidly, their rogue nature began to be revealed, and soldiers began to break away from the main formation and act on their own, and the strength of the three armies began to gradually disperse, and the discipline and organization became more and more relaxed.

Everyone thought happily that they originally thought that the expedition to the Xuanfu North Road and the extermination of those fierce and capable Tang troops would be an extremely difficult and heavy sacrifice battle, but they didn't expect that the current march would be easier than tourism.

Therefore, the entire Liukou army, as it became more and more scattered, also despised the Tang army.

It's just that what they don't know is that when they swept around and marched triumphantly and without scruples, and their forces were becoming more and more scattered, the Tang army had already begun to quietly show its sharp fangs.

Five days later, Liu Fangliang's right army, after taking Dishui Cliff Fort and Ningyuan Fort all the way, one of the troops, about 3,000 people, marched to the right again, and went to sweep a small Baihu Fort, Changzhong Fort.

This place is close to the remaining veins of Tangshan, and the terrain begins to undulate, not as flat as the place that has passed before, and it stands to reason that it is appropriate to march in such a hilly and undulating territory, and send a sentry to move forward. It's just that since the division of troops in Longmen Fort, Liu Fangliang's right army has not been able to find half of the Tang army for several days, at most he has seen a few Tang army sentry horses from a distance, and their vigilance has long been greatly reduced, and the mentality of arrogance and underestimation of the enemy has spread everywhere. Therefore, this 3,000-strong army led by a commander did not send sentinels to investigate in advance, but marched with the whole army without any scruples, and marched straight towards Changzhong Fort.

What they never expected was that in a nameless valley in front of them, the general soldiers and horses of the Tang Army's B Battalion A, under the personal leadership of Liu Wenxiu, the deputy mayor of the fourth town, had quietly arranged a pocket array, waiting for them to arch in like a group of ignorant and fearless stupid pigs.

More than 3,000 rogue soldiers walked into the pocket formation of the Tang army without realizing it on a hot afternoon.

After the more than 3,000 people had all walked through the valley, Liu Wenxiu, the deputy mayor of the Tang Army, who had been hiding in the grass, smiled coldly and gave the order for an all-out attack.

The two ends of the valley were quickly and firmly blocked by a large number of Tang army spearmen, and the pockets were tightened, and on the mountainsides on both sides, a thousand firearms were fired almost simultaneously, and a total of more than 800 guns were fired.

The flames were dazzling, the embers were flying, huge clouds of white smoke were rising, and more than 800 small lead bullets, like birds of death, flew towards the enemy with a shout of joy. In the first round of volleys, more than 300 rogue soldiers were killed.

A series of screams rang out from the valley, and the remaining rogues were instantly swayed, and as they scurried around like headless flies, the second volley began.

More than 200 rogues were put down in an instant, and the remaining rogues quickly collapsed.