Chapter 57: Reversal

The battle under the city of Luoyang is over.

The Empress Dowager in Beijing got the news.

Shunzhi's face was pale, he didn't seem to have any blood at all, and there was no strength in his words, he looked at the queen mother with blank eyes. It seems that he wants to get a little support from the Queen Mother's side. said: "How did it become like this? ”

The Empress Dowager looked at Shunzhi and secretly shook her head in her heart, thinking that the two men in her life, whether it was Huang Taiji and Dolgon, which one was much stronger than Shunzhi.

Even in the face of such bad news, he will never panic like Shunzhi. But Shunzhi is her biological flesh and blood no matter what.

The Empress Dowager said: "What's the panic, things are not without a turnaround, in this battle, the Southern Dynasty also lost a lot, otherwise he would directly besiege the city, and now as long as he finds a way to save the situation, he can still save the Qing Dynasty." ”

Emperor Shunzhi seemed to grasp the life-saving straw and said, "What should Eniang do? ”

The Empress Dowager pondered for a while and said, "Send an order to Hong Chengchou and ask him to go to Luoyang immediately." also named Wu Sangui as the king of Qin, and let him lead the northwest people. Support Luoyang. ”

Hong Chengchou didn't care about it for the time being, although Hong Chengchou's decision to flood Hongze Lake and Zhang Xuan was not successful, but after sitting down like this, there was no way out.

The Queen Mother will find a way to appease her, and there will be no problem if she thinks about it.

But Wu Sangui is a big problem.

The Empress Dowager understands very well that if she hands over the northwest to Wu Sangui, she will not be able to get it back in the future.

It's just that now, every hope has to work very hard, and the pros and cons of a moment are not important compared to victory.

Even if you know that there is poison in front of you, you can only drink to quench your thirst.

Shunzhi had no opinion and immediately agreed.

Seeing Shunzhi like this, the Queen Mother thought of Dolgon for a while, and secretly said in her heart: "If Brother Dolgon was here, the war would never have turned out to be what it is today." ”

"It's just that God doesn't bless me in the Qing Dynasty, so King Xian died early." The Empress Dowager secretly said in her heart: "There are some things that really need to be prepared, and we must find a way out for the Qing Dynasty." ”

"But where is this retreat?" The Empress Dowager has tens of thousands of troops in the capital, this is the last strength of the Qing army, and she has no intention of sending it to the front line at all, but she is just thinking hard, where is the retreat of the Qing court?

Liaodong? Or Mongolia?

It's just that soon, he doesn't have to think about it.

Because the advance of the war will make a choice for the Qing court.

The Qing army sent an order to the messenger and went straight to the northwest.

I came to Cheng County.

Chengxian is a small county in the northwest, just west of Hanzhong, looking at Chencang Road in the northeast. You can hit Xi'an directly.

Wu Sangui was stationed here, but although he was stationed here, he had already controlled the two prefectures of Gongchang and Lintao in his hands, and these two mansions and the nearby guards were probably the boundaries of Gansu in later generations.

It's just that Wu Sangui controlled these territories so easily, not because of how strong his ability was, it could only be said that the Qing army's control in these places was quite weak.

The local people were also very loyal to the Qing court.

Therefore, Wu Sangui's tens of thousands of soldiers and horses pressed over, and under the combination of soft and hard, the soldiers below did not have a few reasons to die for Dongyu.

He sat and watched the changes in the war, but he didn't want to hear about Prince Zheng's defeat under Luoyang City. He asked carefully about the situation, and couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.

In this way, in the midst of hard encounters, they were crushed. One thing has been proved to the world, that is, the strength of Dongyu is already under Great Xia.

Wu Sangui also has to think carefully about how to go next.

You must know that the envoys of the Xia army have changed. But it is still in Wu Sangui's army, and it is needless to say that there is no need to talk about expectations.

And these news came on the front foot, and the queen mother's big money came on the back foot.

For a while, Wu Sangui also gasped.

The Empress Dowager clearly wanted to exchange the northwest for Wu Sangui and send troops to rescue. With such a handiwork, Wu Sangui's heart couldn't help but move.

On the one hand, he moved for the empress dowager's generosity, and on the other hand, he knew very well that he was valuable only if he was there, and if he didn't have Dongyu, would the Southern Dynasty still treat him like this?

Finally, although Wu Sangui does not have a long-term vision, he always doesn't want to be underserved. And he also knew that Xia Jun was difficult to deal with, but he felt that Eight Banners was even more difficult to deal with.

Although the current battle situation is unfavorable, it should be able to do it if you stick to Luoyang City.

After Wu Sangui made up his mind, he sent the envoy of the Xia army out of the camp respectfully, although the army went to Fengxiang and joined forces with Li Guoying in Guanzhong.

The last essence of the Northwest Green Camp, part of it stayed in Guanzhong, and the other part went out of Tongguan, step by step, towards Luoyang City. And at this moment, Hong Chengchou also came to the Luoyang Basin.

It seems that all the troops lost by the Qing army have recovered.

In such a situation, Zhang Xuan is also a little anxious.

Immediately convene the Minister to discuss the matter.

In the Qianqing Palace, the ministers of civil and military affairs have arrived. But it was Zhang Zhen who spoke first.

Zhang Zhen said: "Your Majesty, the minister has something to say. ”

Zhang Xuan said: "Big brother, please speak." ”

Zhang Zhen said: "Tang Wang played well, but it was too dangerous. ”

"Originally, this Northern Expedition was mainly launched in two directions, but now the situation is that Tang Wang has become a lone army all the way."

"Between the Jianghuai River, the Qianli Plain is full of Zeguo, and now the flood has not receded, and it is impossible to echo the Tang King on the east road."

"But the Dongyu gathered a large army and attacked the Tang King all the way."

"Tang Wang has more than 300,000 soldiers and horses all the way, most of them are the elite of Great Xia, once there is a loss, Xiangyang will be in an emergency."

"I think I can do something else."

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Xuan had already heard Yuan Shizhong's voice outside the strings, and said, "What considerations? ”

Zhang Zhen said: "Withdraw the troops." ”

"So far this year, we have recovered several prefectures in Yangzhou, Jiangbei, and Sichuan Province. And Wu Sangui occupies the northwest, and he will definitely not be of the same heart and mind as the eastern captives. ”

"The people of the world are transferring their labors, is it time to take a break?"

Although Hong Chengchou blew up the embankment of Hongze Lake, Zhang Xuan had to retreat. But the boundaries south of Hongze Lake have also lost control.

Although Jiangbei is a **, Huai'an and south of Fengyang are already under the control of the Xia army, and these places have been abandoned by the Qing army.

And Sichuan, not to mention.

Sichuan is in hand, salt, horses, all have it, even if there are not many for a while. But also a great addition.

From this point of view, this Northern Expedition has already achieved considerable results, at least, pushing the two sides of the battle line northward for hundreds of miles, especially in the Henan area, which can almost be bounded by the Yellow River.

Do you want to fight a decisive battle under Luoyang City?

Although Zhang Zhen has always been in logistics affairs, he is the head of the civil officials of Great Xia after all, and the one who knows best about the background of Great Xia is not Zhang Xuan, but Zhang Qian.

Because of this, Zhang Zhen said such things at this time.

Because, he felt that no matter whether he won or lost, it would be very difficult to fight.

If you win, you have to take advantage of the victory to pursue. Requires a lot of money. Not to mention defeat, if you want to regroup, you also need a lot of money and food.

But he thought he had prepared enough money and food for the imperial court.

But as soon as it was fought, it was found. No matter how much food is prepared in advance, it is always insufficient.

Especially when the list of the dead under Luoyang City was sent, Zhang Zhen was a little big at that time, not because there were children of the Zhang family who died in battle, but because there were too many of them.

The amount of the pension is too large, but it cannot be saved in any way.

Zhang Xuan listened to it and knew that what Zhang Zhen said was not unreasonable.

As long as we are playing steadily now, the dawn of victory has emerged, and all that remains is to win by one point or ten points.

In Zhang Qian's view, winning one point is one point, and after a little bit of accumulation, there is always the possibility of winning ten points. But Zhang Xuan didn't want to wait any longer.

He was silent for a while, and said: "Donglu is cruel by nature, and what he does is simply leading beasts to eat people, just like the great water in Yangzhou, there are millions of people who die at the hands of Donglu. Every time I think about it, the people of several provinces under the command of Donglu are like knives, but I don't know how they survived. ”

"Take a step back today, the dying struggle of the eastern captives will be one point deeper, and the people of the north will suffer from the conquest one point more."

"The affairs of the world, between Xia and Qing, there will always be a break, the long pain is better than the short pain, and the people will suffer for a year."

As soon as Zhang Xuan said this, Zhang Zhen had nothing to say. Adhering to benevolence and righteousness, occupying the moral high ground, it seems that opposing Zhang Xuan is unkind and unjust.