Li Zicheng hurried and finally led his army to Xi'an before Azig arrived.

There are many civil and military officials and soldiers of the Great Shun Dynasty in Xi'an City, and they must not be easily abandoned.

Even if he wants to retreat, he will definitely take these relatives with him.

Li Zicheng decided to immediately retreat from Xi'an and move to Henan via Lantian and Shangluo.

Because the time was too hurried, he did not have time to send people to inform Gao Yigong and Li Guo of this important decision in northern Shaanxi. However, Li Zicheng believed that with the strength of Li Guo and Gao Yigong, he would definitely be able to successfully lead the army to transfer.

Li Zicheng was born as a rogue, and he was very experienced in marching with his family. His experience was to organize the family members into a separate old battalion, and the soldiers could not easily meet the old battalion. So that the combat effectiveness of the army will not be affected. Instead, the soldiers will fight bravely to protect their families and shed their last drop of blood.

In order to meet the needs of the march and transfer, the soldiers were all married to big-footed women, and there was no problem at all in walking long distances.

Although some generals became corrupt after the establishment of the Dashun regime and married a few concubines, they were all Tianzu girls. Besides, in this big transfer, Li Zicheng only allowed them to bring their wives, and they were not allowed to bring any concubines.

What made Li Zicheng feel relieved was that the brothers of the old eighth team did not have any dissatisfaction because of this, even Liu Zongmin did not openly oppose him this time.

Faced with a difficult situation, the old brothers twisted into a rope again.

Li Zicheng has faced a situation that is even worse than today's, but he has survived.

At the beginning, Tongguan was defeated by Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, and the beaten old camp was separated, and there were only a dozen people around him, and everyone thought that he was not good, but he just held back his strength and rose up after lurking in the mountains of Shangluo for a period of time.

He Li Zicheng never believed in fate. My life is up to me!

The situation is much better now than it was then. Although he gave up Shaanxi, he gave up on his own initiative, and most of the soldiers and horses were saved. Now there are nearly 100,000 troops in Li Zicheng's hands, not counting the more than 100,000 soldiers and horses stationed in northern Shaanxi by Li Guo and Gao Yigong, and the 80,000 troops of Bai Wang in Huguang Sifu.

Counting all these soldiers and horses, Li Zicheng still has nearly 300,000 people in his hands, and he has every chance to make a comeback in the future and have an upright showdown with the Qing army.

What he has to do now is to retain as much viability as possible and make a strategic shift.

Shaanxi, we will come back again!

Glancing back at Xi'an City, Li Zicheng secretly swore.

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"General, let's surrender! This Tongguan can't be held no matter what! ”

At the head of Tongguan City, Wang Guichuan, a personal soldier, knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Wushan Boma Shiyao, who stayed in Tongguan, and said: "Your Majesty has returned to Xi'an, and will definitely not come back, how can we resist the Tartar army with only more than 7,000 people." ”

The current situation is even more severe than two days ago, the battlements on the wall of Tongguan have almost been blown up, and the soldiers have to brave the locusts to defend the city, and the number of casualties is increasing.

Although the city wall has not been blasted open for the time being, it is only a matter of time.

Continue to defend it, Ma Shiyao and the more than 7,000 Shun troops have to follow Tongguan to be buried.

But if he wants to betray Li Zicheng and surrender to Tartar like this, he is really a little difficult to accept.

Seeing that Ma Shiyao began to hesitate, Wang Guichuan gritted his teeth and said, "It's really not good, we can surrender first and survive first." When the time comes, just find a chance to escape. ”

Ma Shiyao's eyes lit up when he heard this.

That's a good idea!

As the saying goes, soldiers do not get tired of deceit, and there have been many cases of deception and rebellion in history.

Not to mention, the eight kings Zhang Xianzhong is a good player.

He has repeatedly accepted the court's recruitment, but every time it doesn't take long for him to raise the anti-flag again, which is very appropriate to describe as ruthless.

If the Eight Kings can do this, why can't he Ma Shiyao?

Survive, survive to have a chance of revenge. If you become a corpse, how can you take revenge?

Ma Shiyao swallowed a mouthful of spit and finally made up his mind.

"Okay, let's surrender!"

Ma Shiyao had already decided, so he no longer hesitated, and immediately sent Wang Guichuan down to the city through the horse road to inform the defenders to open the city gate. These Shunjun are all descendants of Ma Shiyao, and they follow them without hesitation.

To be honest, they would have wanted to surrender for a long time, and if it weren't for their own generals who have been holding on, the city gate would have been opened a long time ago.

But it's not too late.

Duoduo couldn't attack Tong Pass for a long time, and his heart was very irritable.

At this moment, he suddenly saw the gate of Tongguan open, and his mouth grew in surprise.

"Congratulations to the prince, congratulations to the prince, the defenders are afraid of the prince's tiger power, and they surrendered!"

Seeing this, Kong Youde immediately seized the opportunity to boast: "This is really a great joy, the army does not have to be damaged in the siege of the city anymore." ”

"Yes."

Duoduo snorted, and his heart was very happy.

Manchuria was sparsely populated, and every person in the Eight Banners Army was precious, and one died one less.

It is naturally a good thing to be able to take Tongguan without blood.

Geng Zhongming was not to be outdone when he saw Kong Youde patting his ass, and he smiled and leaned in front of Duoduo and said: "The slave thinks that God is blessing the prince, otherwise why is the prince invincible all the way to the west?" ”

Duoduo laughed and said, "What King Huaishun said is a bit interesting, come, follow this king into the city!" ”

"Slow down!"

Kong Youde hurriedly said: "Although the prince is blessed with Qitian, but the slaves are afraid that there is fraud in this, they might as well order all the defenders in the city to go out of the city and surrender!" ”

This suggestion was immediately adopted by Duoduo.

The Han people are scheming, and the situation of fraudulent surrender is common. This time they suddenly surrendered, and it was indeed necessary to be guarded.

"Well, do as the king says."

As long as all the defenders in the city go out of the city and surrender, they will definitely not be able to play any tricks. If they tried to make a move, the army under the command of Dodor could slaughter them at once.

Duoduo sent someone to tell Ma Shiyao about the conditions of surrender, and Ma Shiyao gritted his teeth and finally agreed.

There is no way, people are under the eaves and have to bow their heads.

What he had to do now was to save the lives of these 7,000 brothers.

Staying in Qingshan is not worrying about running out of firewood, sooner or later there will be a chance to escape and join the king.

In order to show the sincerity of surrender, Ma Shiyao ordered his soldiers to throw away all their weapons and go out of the city to surrender with their bare hands.

Seeing more than 7,000 Shun troops walking out of Tongguan City one after another, Duoduo was extremely excited.

"Okay, well, this king has made great achievements, and the regent will definitely praise him more."

This time, he and Azig led their troops separately, which may not have the intention of Dolgon's examination.

Although Duoduo and Azig are brothers, they also want to compete for the best.

Take Tongguan, and then take Xi'an in one go, Duoduo will completely overwhelm Azig in this western expedition and become the first general of the Qing Dynasty who deserves his name!

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