Chapter 119: The Battle of Tongguan is over

Liu Fangliang's face was tired, and he rode a war horse to the back of the brigade to prevent the Qing army from having a surprise attack.

The Battle of Tongguan has been going on for more than ten days.

After the arrival of the Qing army's Hongyi cannon, the camp was left behind, Liu Fangliang looked around, although he couldn't really see it in the dark, but he could still see clearly the craters, and the large pieces of decadent city walls, all of which were traces left by the Hongyi cannon.

At the beginning, Li Zicheng also sent people to work hard to repair it, and under the bombardment of Hongyi cannons, he did not stop repairing the city wall.

However, this situation of being passively beaten made the morale of the camp decline rapidly.

This patching plan had to be stopped.

Even if there are soldiers under the order, they may not be able to carry it out.

As a last resort, Li Zicheng had the order to fight at night.

In fact, fighting at night has always been a taboo for soldiers, and you can't get the advantage of the Qing army during the day, but you can't fight at night? Li Zicheng will not be unwise to such a point. He also had to do this, in order to maintain the morale of the army.

After all, under the passive beating, there is no counterattack, and the speed of morale decline will only be faster, not slower.

Therefore, regardless of whether you win or not, you must fight back.

Be sure to fight back.

As long as the counterattack can the morale of the army be condensed, and even after repeated defeats, the night battles of the Qing army are bigger and more conservative. At the beginning, the night battle with the Qing army was an attack against an attack, and Duoduo wanted to swallow all the enemy troops attacking at night.

But in the night battle, the organizational ability is not good, and it is even more difficult to annihilate them all.

However, with repeated night battles, Duoduo instead defended and only repelled the incident.

Such a situation is not strange for Li Zicheng to be placed under other generals, but it is a little strange when it is placed on Duoduo.

The young man of Dordor became famous as the son of Nurhachi. Although he can fight, he will fight. But the style of this young magnate is also very obvious, that is, arrogance. Of course, Duoduo also has the capital of arrogance. Whether it was the battle of a stone, or the battle of Huaiqing, the counterattack that smashed the camp, or even Azig sent troops first, but arrived before Azig came later, all of them illustrate Duoduo's character.

Whoever has the ability will never make conservative decisions, and some will only attack, attack, attack, and attack.

Li Zicheng also slowly figured out the essence of the Qing army's small country and widows, although the Qing army is a first-class elite, but the number of the Qing army itself is only more than 200,000, and these more than 200,000 elites are difficult to replenish. These 200,000 people, if confined to one battlefield in eastern Liaodong, will naturally be enough.

But scattered all over the world.

Far from enough.

And the most indispensable thing in Li Zicheng's hands is the people who dare to fight and dare to rush, after all, the place where Li Zicheng is located is nothing else, it is Qin Land, and Qin Land has never been

There is no shortage of elite soldiers.

That's why Li Zicheng dared to grit his teeth and fight with Duoduo.

It's just that I can't fight it now.

Liu Fangliang had just entered Tongguan, and Zhang Nai immediately invited Liu Fangliang over and said, "General Liu, Your Majesty is invited." ”

Liu Fangliang saw that Zhang Nai's face was wrong, and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Zhang Nai said: "When the general goes, he will know." ”

Liu Fangliang followed Zhang Nai into the Tongguan Military Garrison Mansion, which was Li Zicheng's station.

When Liu Fangliang arrived, he only felt an invisible pressure in the air, and he saw that almost all the senior generals had arrived. Liu Fangliang suddenly felt bad, and whispered to Yuan Zongdi on the side, "What happened?" ”

Yuan Zongdi said in a low voice: "There is news from the north. ”

Liu Fangliang suddenly felt that something was wrong, and said, "What news?" ”

"Azig is here, and he is storming Gao Yigong, and Gao Yigong has sent people for help." Yuan Zongdi said.

Liu Fangliang suddenly felt bad.

Now that the battle of Tongguan is urgent, Gao Yigong will not know? He knew that Tongguan was now unable to withdraw a single soldier, so what did Gao Yigong mean by sending someone for help? can only show one thing, that is, Gao Yigong really can't hold on.

Otherwise, it wouldn't be so.

If Azig breaks through Yan'an and enters the Guanzhong Plain, then the main force of the camp in Tongguan will fall into a situation of flanking from the front and back, and there will be no way to fight this battle.

For a while, Liu Fangliang was in a hurry, and asked Yuan Zongdi in detail, and as the two discussed, other generals participated in the discussion one after another, and their voices were very chaotic for a while.

"Your Majesty has arrived." A shout.

Li Zicheng walked over, and the generals wanted to salute, he waved his hand and said, "Excuse me, now that everyone knows the situation, what should I do?" Who can tell. ”

As soon as Li Zicheng's voice fell, the air in the room suddenly quieted down.

No one spoke, and there was a heavy pressure in the air.

"If Li Xin is here, there will definitely be a way." For a while, Li Zicheng felt remorse in his heart, and said secretly.

Under Li Zicheng, there are never fewer generals who dare to fight and kill, but Li Xin is the only one who plans for Li Zicheng and makes decisions for Li Zicheng. Even after a complete collapse, Li Xin planned several counterattacks to stabilize the war with the Qing court outside Shaanxi.

And at this moment, no one gave Li Zicheng advice, and there was no one to consult.

In fact, the war has reached this point, and everyone knows what to do.

Remove.

The war is complicated, but in fact, it is just three options: attack, defense, and walking.

Attack, can't attack, defend, can't defend. What is it not to go?

But no one dared to say it

This word comes.

Without him, they are reluctant.

Once they abandon Xi'an and rest assured that a large area of land in Shaanxi, they will become rogues again.

They have long settled down in Xi'an, and who wants to live a life of exile again.

For a moment, Li Zicheng seemed to be dozens of years old, and said, "Withdraw." ”

"Yes." The generals agreed with a heavy heart.

It is said that the retreat is not an immediate retreat, and it must be planned.

Now the strength of the camp can be divided into three parts, the largest part, which is also the main force of the camp, is in Tongguan, the other part, led by Gao Yigong in Yan'an, and some of them are distributed in the western part of Shaanxi, which is the Gansu area of later generations. This part is the most scattered, and there are quite a few people, but it is difficult to say how many people are still loyal to Li Zicheng now.

Li Zicheng passed on one order after another. First of all, arrange the retreat of Tongguan. There is nothing else, just withdraw overnight and arrange for people to break off.

After breaking off before the hundreds of thousands of Qing troops, those who are broken off will definitely die. Li Zicheng was naturally reluctant to send his own headquarters to take risks, so he left Ma Shiyao to stay in Tongguan, and Li Zicheng appeased Ma Shiyao, so that he felt that he was invincible and could surrender.

It's not that Li Zicheng is magnanimous, but he knows that if he gets too close, maybe something will happen, so it's better to speak in advance.

Immediately, Li Zicheng wrote a letter to Gao Yigong, asking him to retreat, meet in Xi'an, and go south together, and even the defenders in Gansu and Ningxia also received orders to retreat to Xi'an.

Li Zicheng carried out a general strategic contraction and gave up Ganshan, after all, this poor place could not support Li Zicheng's army of hundreds of thousands.

It's just that this order was given at this juncture, and there was obviously some good money that was hard to give up.

Li Zicheng moved quickly, and early the next morning, the army withdrew to Xi'an.

Such a big movement, if you don't want the other side to know, it's impossible, Duoduo immediately began to attack, with Wu Sangui's department as the vanguard, storming Tongguan, a bloody battle, Ma Shiyao's headquarters is only eight thousand, even if Tongguan is dangerous, but the people who are destined to be abandoned, how much morale can they have.

After a day of bloody fighting, Ma Shiyao couldn't hold it anymore and surrendered to Wu Sangui.

However, Duoduo ordered Ma Shiyao's troops to abandon their weapons and leave the city, and then ordered Wu Sangui to be slaughtered.

In this way, Ma Shiyao's thousands of men and horses were killed in front of Tongguan City unarmed. Pillows of corpses accumulated, and rivers of blood flowed. This is exactly what the Qing army is going south about, and it is not worth writing more, the massacre of Tongguan. Duoduo easily finalized Ma Shiyao's crime and secretly communicated with Li Zicheng.

It's just that Ma Shiyao really had a secret communication with Li Zicheng, and how did Duoduo find out in one day.

This was a warning to Dordor that anyone who dared to resist the Qing army would not be pardoned even if he surrendered. and poured some dirty water on Wu Sangui.

After all, Wu Sangui has only surrendered for less than a year now, and for the Qing court, he is not his own person.

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