Chapter 120: A Strategic Turn in Camp

Li Zicheng left Tongguan with his front foot, and the Qing army chased after him with his hind foot.

Li Ziwei wanted to join Gao Yigong in Xi'an and go south, but it was too late to come, so he could only retreat on the same day, and ordered Tian Jianxiu to break off. All the grain and grass in Xi'an were burned and not left for the Qing army.

It's just that after Li Zicheng left, Tian Jianxiu couldn't bear it.

There is a shortage of grain and grass in the camp, and a lot of grain and grass are forcibly requisitioned from the people, and there is a shortage of local food in Guanzhong. The remaining grain and grass is almost life-saving food for the people, and Tian Jianxiu ordered that these grains and grasses be dispersed to the people.

It's just that Tian Jianxiu didn't know that his kindness had done a big wrong thing.

After the Qing army entered Xi'an, they immediately used swords to collect grain, and the people who were originally hungry people may still be able to survive, but because they had food in their hands, they were guilty of it and were killed by the Qing army, and it was with these bloody grains that the Qing army had the strength to continue to pursue Li Zicheng.

Tongguan is lost, and the influence is greater. It was not how much Li Zicheng was killed in the war, but politically dismantled the Dashun regime.

After the loss of Tongguan, the Ming Dynasty ministers from all over the country voted for the Qing court one after another.

Dong Xueli is one of the representatives.

In fact, Dong Xueli did not surrender before the Battle of Tongguan, but surrendered in the Battle of Huaiqing, if there was no surrender before Dong Xueli's battle, the Battle of Huaiqing would not have ended so quickly, and Duoduo would not have advanced to Tongguan City so quickly.

Dong Xueli wrote a letter to recruit generals from all over the place

There were a few Ming generals who disagreed, like a cow becoming a tiger. The rest are like Bai Guangen, Zuo Xun and others. But the general trend is difficult to change, even Niu Chenghu had to surrender to the Qing court under the coercion of Chen Zhilong. If you compare the list of generals who came out of the customs with Sun Chuanting.

You will find that most of these people are the old department of Sun Chuanting, that is, the last pillar of the Ming Dynasty. Qin Jun.

However, they turned into the pillars on which the Qing monarch depended, and later generations called the Ganshan Green Battalion, and they performed well in many battles in later generations.

In the face of the surrender of the generals under his command, after Li Zicheng withdrew to Henan, he counted the men and horses, and there were only 130,000 left, and the Dashun army was one million, which has become history.

However, compared with Li Zicheng's situation, what is even more sad is Gao Yigong.

When Li Zicheng retreated in a hurry, Gao Yigong was still guarding the city of Yan'an and was surrounded by the Azig regiments, and when he knew that Xi'an was captured by the official army, and the Ming army surrendered to the Qing court along the border, he became an absolute minority.

In a desperate situation, Gao Yigong showed his true character as a hero.

With tens of thousands of horses and horses, he withdrew to the west, and joined the party and the Su Division, not only to fight against the Qing army, but also to fight with the subordinates in various places, and even to fight with Mongolia outside the Guan, and conduct a war from Yan'an to the west to Ningxia.

In Ningxia, there was also a big battle with Azig, and the two sides fought fiercely and were evenly matched, as a result, the Qing army borrowed troops to trap prisoners, the so-called traps were the Mongols in the Hetao area, and launched an attack behind Gao Yigong, and Gao Yigong had to retreat.

Marched to Gansu, attacked Hanzhong, entered Sichuan, and finally entered Hubei from Yunyang, passing through the place, stretching for thousands of miles, more than 100 battles of all sizes, and when it arrived in Huguang, it was already the following year.

And at that time, Li Zicheng had become history.

At this time, Li Zicheng was in the inner countryside of Henan, reorganizing the people and horses, and discussing with everyone, what should I do next?

Giving up the entire northwest, Li Zicheng, the emperor, has already died in name only.

He had only 130,000 men under his command.

Most of them are Li Zicheng's die-hard elites, but they can also be believed.

If a few years ago, 130,000 horses would be enough to shake the world. But now, 130,000 horses are not first-class strength at all, and the Qing army is needless to say, the Qing army is full, Han, and Mongolian eight banners, there are more than 200,000.

And in addition to these, there are also a large number of surrendered troops, not to mention anything else, just the surrender of the Ming army in the northwest, if you organize it, there are absolutely no problem with two or three hundred thousand, plus the surrender army of other local palaces, the Mongolian tribes they control.

Not to mention, close to a million people, definitely a lot.

Of course, it is impossible to put these centaurs in one direction.

And Cao Ying's current men and horses are divided into two parts, one is led by Luo Yulong in Nanjing, and the other is brought to Wuchang by Luo Rucai, plus the vassal Gao Jie, Zheng Zhilong's people and horses, adding up to nearly one million. Although Nanming has been defeated repeatedly, if it is integrated, hundreds of thousands of horses can still be taken out. But whether these centaurs can fight or not is another question.

Even Zhang Xianzhong, who is huddled in Sichuan, occupies Chengdu at the moment, divided into 48 battalions, which is still the Chinese army, and there are hundreds of thousands of garrisons in various places.

It can be that at this moment, Li Zicheng has fallen from the first-class force in the world to a force that does not affect the overall situation of the world.

Such a big defeat is not only the morale of the soldiers and soldiers, but also the morale of the senior generals.

Li Zicheng's gaze swept over everyone and said: "Why bother, when I defeated Shang Luoshan, there were only thirteen horsemen around me, and it was not possible to make a comeback, but now we have 130,000, how can we not make a comeback." At this juncture, we are asking us to make a difference, how can we be like this. ”

Under Li Zicheng's reprimand, the crowd also had a little more spirit.

Li Zicheng then asked Gu Junen and said, "Old Gu, what should we do now?" ”

Gu Junen's face was full of vicissitudes, his eyes were red, he didn't know how many days he hadn't closed his eyes, and said: "Now the plan is to go south, and the minister is ashamed, he misjudged the situation at the beginning, if we go down to the south of the Yangtze River first, where is today's misfortune." ”

Another name flashed in Li Zicheng's heart, and this name was Zhang Xuan. Immediately, there was a slight pain in my heart, and I remembered Li Xin. He screened all selfish distractions and said, "Don't talk about the previous things, just talk about the present." ”

"Go south to meet General Bai, General Bai Wangbai still has tens of thousands of horses in his hands, plus Xiangyang Mansion, which can be used for His Majesty to rest and recuperate." Gu Junen said.

"Then what about the Qing army?" Liu Zongmin said: "Qinggou is chasing very closely behind, and the troops behind the palace have already clashed with Qinggou several times. Qinggou's main force, maybe it will arrive when, I said in advance to go to the front, we can't fight a big battle in the current situation. ”

The current situation of the army can be described as undecided. If you insist on fighting, you don't have to fight, Liu Zongmin will know the result.

"I can only bow my head to Cao Cao." Gu Junen said.

Li Zicheng only felt that his blind eyes hurt again, and he was very reluctant to bow his head to Luo Rucai. But no matter how reluctant you are, you also know that form is stronger than people. People under the eaves can't help but bow their heads. Gritted his teeth and said: "Cao Cao is the big brother, what is it to bow his head to him?" ”

said so, but the unhappiness in Li Zicheng's heart is only known to him.

Gu Junen knows a little about Li Zicheng's thoughts. But he still had to bite the bullet and said: "The minister asked for an order to send an envoy to Cao Ying, and the two camps were reconciled, and only by borrowing the power of Cao Ying could they compete with Qinggou." ”

Li Zicheng said: "What do you need to prepare? ”

Li Zicheng naturally knew that in the past, he would talk in the vernacular. It's not of much use at all, but what's in the camp today?

Gu Junen shook his head and said, "I don't know. It can only be seen how Cao Cao's appetite is. ”

Li Zicheng pondered for a while and said, "I will give you full power to go here, including going to the emperor's name, including the land of the six mansions of Xiangyang." ”

That's pretty much the bargaining chips for everyone. It is also the thing that Li Zicheng can take out the most, and now it is now a matter of life and death in the camp, in history, Li Zicheng decided to attack Nanming and take the land of Nanming to survive for himself, because they knew that Nanming was a soft persimmon.

But now on the territory of Nanming, there is a Cao Ying.

They never dared to underestimate Luo Rucai.

Gu Junen said: "The minister understands. ”

For a while, the atmosphere was a little gloomy.

"Report." Zhang Nai said: "There is news from Qinggou, it is Azig, and Azig has chased after him." ”

Li Zicheng didn't care at all, he knew that the Qing army would not let him go, so he had been waiting for a long time, and said, "It's okay, sooner or later, there will be this experience." ”

"There's one more piece of news." Zhang Nai's tone was a little low.

"What's the news?" Li Zicheng asked.

"Cao Ying sent troops to De'an." Zhang Nai said.

Everyone's faces sank.

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