The night was getting darker, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and not a trace of moonlight was revealed, as if the moon couldn't bear to look at that cruel picture.

The sound of shelling was incessant, and from time to time there was a bright light in the night, and the sound of shelling and the color of the shells. It was like lightning and thunder, deafening, flashing and dazzling.

After a few hours, the Qing army finally couldn't support it and began to rout, after all, Liu Xia's artillery was not in vain, although it was still in a primitive state, but it could be said that it was very advanced compared to the red-coated cannon.

This was a war of hot weapons against cold weapons, muskets and artillery went to the battlefield together, and the Qing army was shot and slaughtered one-sidedly. Many muskets were scrapped due to the use of continuous cuts, and the barrel was softened. However, this did not make the soldiers stop the slaughter of the Qing army.

The addition of Liu Xia and the participation of the old army of the Tiger Brigade made the Qing army obviously unable to support itself under multiple rounds of artillery and musket bombardment. Eventually, Dorgon roared, picked up his whip and whipped his seated horse, and went away in anger.

And Na Duoduo also followed, leading the Eight Banners Alliance with less than 10,000 troops, and left in a hurry. This time, the Qing army lost more than six or seven thousand people, but the losses of the Pingbei army were even greater. The 8,000 soldiers and horses of the Storm Bear Brigade are less than half at the moment, and there are only more than 3,000 people left, so it is not an exaggeration to say that the entire army has been wiped out.

As for Feng Xiangwei, it is slightly better, 5,000 soldiers and horses, there are more than 3,000 people left at the moment, and most of them are scarred, some of them are seriously injured, and they can't be saved at all with the current level of medical care, not to mention that it is summer at this time, which is the period of high incidence of viruses and bacteria. Many soldiers will die from the spread of germs.

There is also the Long Xiangwei led by the Niu Dynasty, although he went relatively late, but due to the limitation of combat effectiveness, the casualties were also heavy, and the 5,000 soldiers and horses were less than 3,000, and there were only more than 2,000 people left. Not even half of it is gone, which makes Niu Chao very sad.

As for the Tiger Brigade, it did not suffer much damage. But these have already made Liu Xia very demoralized and suffered heavy losses.

After Duoduo and Dolgon led the soldiers and horses to leave, they galloped for hundreds of miles and stopped camping, and waited until the early morning of the second day, when the sky was dark, they set off and returned to Beijing, Dolgon hurriedly deployed several lines of defense to prevent Liu Xia from leading the musketeers and artillery to attack, this battle, but also made Dolgon really realize the power of muskets, the power of artillery.

To this end, Dorgon hurriedly gathered a large number of craftsmen to build muskets, hoping to regain the disadvantage of Liu Xia's weapons. But where will these craftsmen make something that Liu Xia has developed and matured after a few years? And also in the absence of samples. However, Dorgon did not give up, and continued to urge and even threaten the craftsman with his life. This is a later story, so I won't mention it for now.

It is said that after Liu Xia defeated Dolgon, he did not hurriedly track down, but also scattered a large number of scouts to monitor and track. Dolgon's defeat meant that a large amount of land in Hebei would belong to Liu Xia. In the vast land of Hebei and Shandong, the Qing army's control power was only Jinan Mansion in Shandong. Once the nail in Jinan Mansion is removed, Liu Xia can block Dolgon in Beijing without worry, and he will not be able to get out.

On the second day, Liu Xia registered all the soldiers who died in the battle, and after the identification, he immediately ordered the roster to be sent to Luoyang and handed it over to Wang En, so that he could deal with the aftermath.

At the same time, in order to prevent the corpses from decomposing and causing plague infection on hot days, Liu Xia immediately ordered the bones of these soldiers to be cremated, put them in a special urn, and transported them back to the War Spirit Mausoleum outside Luoyang City for burial. They will enjoy the worship of the people for generations.

During the same period, Ma Bao in the south successfully defeated Sun Kewang from Sichuan and recaptured Guizhou, Sun Kewang did not dare to go back directly, so he ran to Yunnan with thousands of remnants of the defeated generals, Yunnan was under the control of Li Dingguo at this moment, both of them were generals in Sichuan, and Li Dingguo naturally would not exclude it.

Sun Kewang actually rescued Li Dingguo, he knew in his heart that now Li Dingguo will govern Yunnan in an orderly manner, which will definitely make Zhang Xianzhong happy and admired, and he not only lost Guizhou, but also lost all the soldiers and horses, if he returned to Sichuan at this moment, according to Zhang Xianzhong's temperament, it is very likely to lose his head.

Li Dingguo naturally agreed to Sun Kewang's request for help, and after arranging things in Yunnan, Li Dingguo led his army to Guizhou.

Similarly, due to the wars in Guizhou and Yunnan, Wu Sangui simply had no ability to transfer troops from other places to Xiangyang and Yingshan, and from time to time sent troops to counterattack.

He was naturally angry that Zhang Xianzhong sent two generals to attack his Guizhou and Yunnan, and swore heavily in front of all the soldiers that he would definitely make Zhang Xianzhong look good.

A few days later, Ma Bao and Li Dingguo finally faced each other, Li Dingguo is a peerless general, in fact, Ma Bao can deal with it? Soon Ma Bao was defeated and retreated, and Li Dingguo came to Yunnan every time he captured a place, he opened a warehouse to release grain to stabilize the people, so the people of Guizhou heard that Li Dingguo's army was coming, and they did not go to Ma Bao to inform, but surrendered to Li Dingguo's arms.

After several days of fighting, Ma Bao was defeated, and the war even burned to Wu Sangui's old Chaohu Guangcheng announced the political envoy, which made Wu Sangui shocked. So regardless of the war in the north, a large number of soldiers and horses were drawn from Xiangyang and Yingshan to Guizhou, and he personally took command, of course, when he left, he naturally ordered the soldiers to guard Xiangyang and Yingshan well, not to lose.

At the time of the Southern War, the Southern Ming Dynasty in Nanzhili had never moved, and it was still singing and dancing, as if the world was peaceful. And the two daughters of Li Xiangjun and Dong Xiaowan, who were lost on the bank of the Qinhuai River, no matter how the old bustard sent people to find them, there was no clue at all, as if they had disappeared out of thin air in the world.

Nanming now tightly controls the southern part of Jiangsu and the whole territory of Zhejiang on the map, as well as a small part of eastern Anhui, although Fujian in Nanming is nominally obeying the emperor's orders at this moment, but in fact it is self-contained, neither listening to the tune nor listening to the announcement. The man in power in Fujian is Zheng Zhilong.

Those who are familiar with history know that Zheng Zhilong is the father of Zheng Chenggong, a famous figure in Chinese history, who is not only the admiral of Fujian Navy, but also a famous pirate from all over the world. Extraordinary strength and superior force.

After Wu Sangui left Yingshan and took away some of the soldiers and horses in Xiangyang, Chen Liu of Xinyang secretly dispatched troops to eat Wu Sangui's territory south of the Yangtze River, which was also Liu Xia's order to distance Wu Sangui from the Yangtze River.

Wu Sangui thought that his defense was tight and the arrangements were fine, and even if the enemy attacked, he could rely on the city to defend, but in fact, things were getting farther and farther away from his thoughts. Within a few days, Chen Liu relied on a series of strategies to induce the defenders of Xiangyang City to lose their vigilance, and then borrowed a few soldiers from Luoyang to climb the city at night, so he successfully entered the city and opened the city of Xiangyang City, so the soldiers and horses in ambush outside swarmed up, and Xiangyang City was taken from then on.

After taking the other cities of Xiangyang City, it was easier to take, and the soldiers and horses were like bamboos in Xiangyang Mansion and other places, and soon Yingshan was also breached, and after these two military towns were broken, it also meant that Wu Sangui's power south of the Yangtze River basically collapsed.

However, the Kuiwolf Legion also paid a heavy price, with many casualties.

When Wu Sangui got the news, he was so angry that he vomited blood, but what made him happy was that the Pingbei Army currently had no naval army, so it could not cross the Yangtze River.

When Liu Xia defeated Dolgon, he returned to Luoyang, so he personally interrogated those rebel generals, convicted them all, killed those who should be killed, and closed those who should be passed, vacated a large number of positions, and soon arranged them.

In Shanxi, Wang Shi attacked from the south of Jin, and Yu Mingjun attacked from the north of Jin, and soon the two besieged Taiyuan Mansion, the seat of Shanxi, and a large number of Jin merchants gathered in Taiyuan Mansion at this time, especially the eight major collaborators who made Liu Xiacheng hate, in fact, there were many Jin merchants who collaborated with the enemy, but these eight are typical representatives.

Of course, for the sake of their own survival, these Jin merchants and officials also united, contributing money, grain, and troops, so that the defense of Taiyuan Mansion was not leaky, like an iron bucket, so that Wang Shishi and Yu Mingjun were blocked outside the city.