Chapter 100: Historical Variables



At the boundary of Xia County, Shanxi, Li Zicheng led more than 70,000 remnants of the army to retreat here.

Li Zicheng started from Shanhaiguan, lost all four battles, lost nearly one million troops, almost all the elite soldiers under his command who had experienced a hundred battles were killed, even his two powerful generals Gao Yigong, Luo Rucai also died in battle, and his six generals, only Li Guo and Liu Zongmin were still around.

Like the end of the hero, Li Zicheng's lips are chapped at the moment, his hair is loose, and the dragon robe on his body is covered with dirt and dust, which is extremely embarrassing.

"Your Majesty, drink some water." Niu Jinxing held a water bag and presented it to Li Zicheng.

"Or are you faithful." Li Zicheng patted Niu Jinxing's shoulder with satisfaction, and took the water bag to drink.

Niu Jinxing looked flattered, the drama on the surface was very good, but in fact, he was full of bitterness at this time, he followed Li Zicheng for five years, and he was a plan, and he was before and after the saddle, and finally won Li Zicheng's trust and became Li Zicheng's confidant.

Fortunately, Li Zicheng still has the base camp of Shaanxi, where there are the last hundreds of thousands of troops in Dashun, relying on the blocking of Tongguan and the Yellow River moat, it is not a problem to keep Shaanxi, and he will be safe after entering Tongguan.

Niu Jinxing didn't dare to offer any more plans to let Li Zicheng compete with the Qing soldiers, the Qing soldiers were simply too powerful, invincible, and they fought four times, making the entire Dashun army desperate.

"Report ---"

"Your Majesty, Qing Bing and Wu Sangui are chasing after you again, and they are only twenty miles away from here." A scout hurried to report.

"What! Chased after it again so soon, damn Tartar, damn Wu Sangui! Li Zicheng gritted his teeth, he hated Wu Sangui very much, and he was very clear about the Qing soldiers, and suddenly he scolded for a while.

After scolding, Li Zicheng began to worry about his life again, and hurriedly climbed on the back of the horse again.

"Quick, run! Go back to Tongguan. Li Zicheng urged.

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Li Zicheng with a group of remnants of the defeated general fled in the direction of Tongguan again, as long as he arrived at Tongguan, he was safe, with the steepness of Tongguan, the Qing soldiers and Wu Sangui could not fight in, his Dashun will not be destroyed, he Li Zicheng is still the emperor.

Li Zicheng roared angrily in his heart, but he didn't have any idea of counterattacking back, hundreds of thousands of elite losses were lost, this hero had long been beaten by Wu Sangui and the Qing soldiers without ambition, thinking of the fierceness of the Manchurians on the battlefield, Li Zicheng had a deep fear in his heart, and only thought about sticking to the base camp in Shaanxi.

Li Zicheng rebelled for more than ten years, not the first time he was beaten so embarrassed, but it was the worst time, and it was also the most discouraged one, when the Great Shun Dynasty was at its peak, he was beaten all the way to Shanxi, that was his last hundreds of thousands of elite troops, and it was defeated, and the Qing soldiers together with Wu Sangui were less than 200,000, which was too miserable, worse than any time, and the Manchurian Eight Banners Qing soldiers could not be defeated at all.

Behind the "rumbling -----" came the sound of the hooves and neighing of the war horses, and it was the Guanning army full of eight banners catching up.

"Quick, quick------" Li Zicheng slapped the horse's buttocks desperately, eager to put a few more legs on the horse, so as to avoid the pursuit of the Qing soldiers and Wu Sangui, but unlike the cavalry of the Qing soldiers and the Guanning army, most of the remnants of Li Zicheng's soldiers were infantry troops, and it was inevitable to be caught up.

The Qing soldiers and the Guan Ning army chased closer and closer, Li Zicheng could already faintly see the figure of the Qing soldiers on the horse, Li Zicheng was full of fear, and shouted: "Who will stop the Qing soldiers and Wu Sangui for me, and I will crown him king." ”

Li Zicheng doesn't care how many kings he has at the moment, as long as he can save his life and return to Shaanxi, however, this is almost a lifeless task, who dares to take the order.

"Liu Zongmin, I ordered you to put on my clothes and go to lure away the Qing soldiers." Seeing that no one dared to take the order, and the Qing soldiers were chasing closer and closer, it was too late to make a decision, Li Zicheng hurriedly pointed at Liu Zongmin and said.

Liu Zongmin's face turned dark, but he still received the order: "The last general--take the order!" ”

As long as he doesn't directly block it, he won't have a chance to survive if he leads away some of the Qing soldiers.

Li Zicheng rode on a horse, took off his dragon robe and threw it to Liu Zongmin as he ran. At a fork in the road ahead, Liu Zongmin hurriedly put on Li Zicheng's dragon robe, and led the remaining 13,000 people and horses of the headquarters to break away from Li Zicheng's large army and run into a fork in the road opposite Li Zicheng on the left.

More than 100,000 Manchu soldiers and Guan Ning troops chased here, and Liu Zongmin could faintly be seen wearing Li Zicheng's dragon robe.

"Which fork in the road does King Pingxi think Li Zicheng is on?" Looking at the two forks, Duoduo, the main general of the Qing army, was not in a hurry to catch up, but stopped here and asked Wu Sangui with a smile.

"It must be the one on the right." Wu Sangui said, and he said it in one sentence.

"King Pingxi really has good eyesight, yes, this king also thinks that Li Zicheng must be running on the right, although there is a person on the left wearing Li Zicheng's dragon robe, but the figure is still different from Li Zicheng, besides, that person only brought more than 10,000 people, Li Zicheng is short-sighted, there are only the last tens of thousands of remnants left around him, and it is impossible to use most of the men and horses to lure us away."

Speaking of this, Duoduo chuckled and continued: "However, even if those more than 10,000 people are not Li Zicheng, this king does not intend to let him go. ”

"Ortura, this king orders you to lead five thousand eight banners to annihilate the remnants of the more than 10,000 Dashun soldiers." Duoduo ordered to a Manchu general beside him.

"Wow!" The five thousand and eight banner iron horsemen immediately chased after Liu Zongmin.

Ortura is a fierce general under the Manchu general Duoduo, very much Duoduo looked, even Dolgon once praised Ortura's bravery, under the leadership of Ortura, no one thought that the more than 10,000 remnants of the Dashun army were the opponent of the 5,000 Eight Banners Iron Cavalry.

After the five thousand and eight banners chased after Liu Zongmin, Duoduo looked at Wu Sangui and said, "King Pingxi, let's catch up too." ”

Wu Sangui glanced at Duoduo and gestured to the Guan Ning army in front, and the 20,000 Guan Ning army iron cavalry took the lead in chasing Li Zicheng, and Wu Sangui still stayed by Duoduo's side, not that Wu Sangui didn't want to lead the army to catch up in person, but that he couldn't help himself at all.

Since the Battle of Shanhaiguan accepted Dolgon's canonization and became the king of Pingxi of the Manchu Dynasty, Wu Sangui has followed the thief ship, and it is impossible to get out, Duoduo has been controlling him in disguise, and through him controlling the Guanning army to rush to the front, resulting in heavy losses for the Guanning army, after several battles, although there is some addition, but now there are only 20,000 people left.

An hour later, Wu Sangui and Duoduo caught up with Li Zicheng, and defeated Li Zicheng again, Li Zicheng's army of nearly 60,000 only left thousands of remnants of the horses escaped, and successfully crossed the Yellow River, and finally came to Tongguan in embarrassment, at this moment, Li Zicheng cried, shed tragic tears, for several days, chased by the Qing soldiers and Wu Sangui is simply no way into the heavens and no door, and he is safe when he comes to Tongguan.

On the other line, a variable occurred in history, the 5,000 Manchu Eight Banners Iron Cavalry chasing Liu Zongmin did not annihilate Liu Zongmin's more than 10,000 people, but was defeated by Liu Zongmin, and the 5,000 Eight Banners elite soldiers were almost wiped out, shaking the Manchu Qing Dynasty and giving Li Zicheng a hope again.

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