At the same time, in March, there was also a fierce battle in the area of Tongguan, Shaanxi, this battle was a big battle between the second town army of Dazhong and Li Zicheng's Dashun army, "Dashun Emperor" Li Zicheng was angry that Xiao Tianjian did not recognize his identity and status, and in a rage he brazenly sent more than 20,000 troops, under the leadership of Liu Zongmin and Li Shuangxi, the general of Dashun, tried to seize Tongguan, and then opened up the road, from Tongguan to Henan, taking advantage of Xiao Tianjian's large army is gathering troops to the Northern Expedition, To carry out a so-called conquest of Xiao Tianjian's Great China, in fact, to put it bluntly, Li Zicheng wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to curry favor and snatch Henan's territory from Xiao Tianjian to expand his strength.

But their actions were a little slower, the second town of Henan left part of the soldiers and horses to take over Tongguan one step in advance, and in Tongguan was in strict formation, Liu Zongmin and Li Shuangxi led the troops to arrive at Tongguan, they were immediately attacked head-on, although Liu Zongmin and Li Shuangxi's troops have the advantage of troops, but the combat power is completely comparable to the regular Dazhong army.

Liu Bao's general Fan Sheng led the troops out of Tongguan to meet the Dashun army, the two armies fought fiercely in the Tongguan area for several days, Liu Zongmin and Li Shuangxi lost the army and fled, 20,000 Dashun troops in thousands of the army under the front, more than 1,000 dead and wounded, thousands of people were captured, Liu Zongmin and Li Shuangxi under the command of the Dashun army collapsed as a whole, each took the road and fled, and fled back to Xi'an.

There is also the Ming Shaanxi general soldier Gao Jie, after the Xi'an Mansion was broken out, fled north to Dunzhou (now Fu County), Gao Jie to this time, the remnants of the official army under his command are less than 2,000 people, and the poor clanging of Dunzhou, neither food nor salary, the army is scattered, it can be said that it is the end of the road, now the official control of the Ming Dynasty in Shaanxi has only left the west of Gansu, but there is an extremely withered population, can not let Gao Jie gain a foothold, and the south is Li Zicheng's Dashun army control area, To the east and north, it was already controlled by the Great Chinese Army, and Gao Jie had no way to escape to other provinces, and was trapped in the area of Yanzhou all day long.

Gao Jie's identity is known to the world, he was originally a subordinate of Li Zicheng, but this guy was greedy and actually hooked up with Li Zicheng's concubine Xing, and later after the incident, he simply abducted Xing's family and betrayed Li Zicheng, surrendered to the official army, and was included in the command of the chief soldier He Renlong.

After Gao Jie returned to the imperial court, he recruited a lot of soldiers under Li Zicheng's command, and then led the troops to fight against Li Zicheng everywhere, Li Zicheng who fought several times fled in the wilderness, and was almost caught and killed by Gao Jie, and Gao Jie was gradually promoted by the imperial court because of his merits, especially when He Renlong led his troops into Huguang, Gao Jie failed to walk with He Renlong, and as a result, He Renlong was defeated and captured, surrendered to the Xingtian Army, Gao Jie was immediately promoted to the chief military officer, and continued to follow Fu Zonglong and Wang Qiaonian in Shaanxi to encircle and suppress Li Zicheng's department.

It can be said that Gao Jie has been an enemy of Li Zicheng for so many years, coupled with the fact that he cuckolded Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng can be said to hate him to the core, and he can't wait to eat his flesh raw and drink his blood to avenge the deep hatred between Gao Jie and him.

Now Li Zicheng is revived, Gao Jie is defeated and fled to Dunzhou, it can be said that he has fallen into the end of the road, at this time, Gao Jie came to a person in the military camp in Dunzhou, asked to see Gao Jie, Gao Jie immediately cried and laughed, it turned out that the person who came to find him was his old friend, it was He Renlong's nephew He Fang.

He Fang was not polite to Gao Jie, and directly analyzed his current situation to Gao Jie, telling Gao Jie that he had reached a dead end, and his uncle He Ren Long Nian did not want to see Gao Jie end up with a place to die without a place to be buried in the end, so he sent him to see Gao Jie and said that he could give him a way to live.

Gao Jie didn't have to think about it to know that He Fang was lobbying him to surrender for the Great Chinese Army, so after thinking about it, he thought that now the world is so big that there is no place for him, if he wants to live, surrendering Li Zicheng will definitely be sent to death, continue to resist, whether it is Li Zicheng or the Great Chinese Army, they have the strength to eat him in one bite, so he can only take refuge in the Great Chinese Army now, so the two of them don't have much nonsense, Gao Jie agreed to He Fang, surrender to the Great Chinese Dynasty, and from now on change to serve Xiao Tianjian.

Gao Jie surrendered to Xiao Tianjian has no worries, he knows very well that there is no room for maneuver between Xiao Tianjian and Li Zicheng, one day in the future, Xiao Tianjian and Li Zicheng will definitely have a winner and a life and death, and Xiao Tianjian's strength in the Middle and North Korea is far more than Li Zicheng's several times, and he, like Xiao Tianjian, is Li Zicheng's enemy, but Xiao Tianjian later became one and continued to do rebellion, and he betrayed Li Zicheng to serve the Ming court, there is no old grudge between the two, He Gaojie has not been a head-on enemy with the Xingtian Army for so many years, so he doesn't have to worry about surrendering Xiao Tianjian to a tragic end, and Xiao Tianjian will not kill him at the worst, he will not be a general in the future, and go to buy a piece of land to be his rich man.

So Gao Jie was thrown into the arms of the Great China Dynasty in March, his department accepted the reorganization in Juzhou on the spot, and eliminated the soldiers and ruffians and old and weak people in the army, Gao Jie was awarded the post of battalion general of the Great China Defense Army, and He Fang stayed in Gao Jie's army, serving as the deputy battalion general, in short, Xiao Tianjian made it clear that he wanted to be the enemy of Li Zicheng to the end, collect Gao Jie, reuse Gao Jie, all for Li Zicheng to see, deliberately make Li Zicheng angry, although this is a bit not authentic, However, there is nothing despicable or despicable in the struggle for the world, it is only said that as long as you can strike at the enemy, you can do anything.

Afterwards, after Li Zicheng learned that Gao Jie had taken refuge in Xiao Tianjian and was reused by Xiao Tianjian, he was really angry that he was angry and thunderous, claiming that he wanted to send troops to Yanzhou, and once again divided a high level with the Xingtian army, it can almost be said that he fell into a semi-crazy state, although Li Zicheng lost his mind a little bit in blood, but his subordinates still maintained a certain degree of clarity, they had just been defeated in Tongguan, and now their morale was low.

And Liu Zongmin and Li Shuangxi, who were defeated back in Xi'an Mansion, and other generals, mentioned the Xingtian Army one by one, they were a little chilling, they thought that their Dashun Army was already very powerful in the past two years, and they were also equipped with a lot of firearms, they thought that they could now confront the Xingtian Army head-on, but what Liu Zongmin and Li Shuangxi didn't expect was that they really looked too highly at the strength of their Dashun Army.

In the battle of Tongguan, the two armies just lined up, and before they could attack, they were beaten by the big Chinese army with various cannons, and immediately their formation was thrown into chaos, they were not without artillery, but the cannons they brought were either too light and too small to hit each other at all, or they were too heavy and too stupid to operate, and they did not have the idea of concentrating on the use of artillery, and the cannons did not have time to launch a counterattack, so they were hit by the volley of the cannons of the Xingtian Army, and the formation began to be chaotic.

And those generals of the Xingtian Army took advantage of the opportunity of the chaos of the Dashun army, like a wall to push towards them, and then put the column dozens of steps away, and began to fire at the Dashun army in rows, Liu Zongmin and Li Shuangxi were simply unable to parry, the Dashun army began to rout in an instant, although Li Shuangxi led the cavalry to carry out a counterattack, but still failed to break through the defense line of the Dazhong army, and a large number of cavalry were killed and wounded in front of the Xingtian army array.

Seeing the slaughter of the Dashun army like being slaughtered by chickens and sheep, many generals of the Dashun army could not bear it and began to collapse, Liu Zongmin finally gathered the soldiers and horses, but the Dazhong army was killed again, so a few days down, the Dashun army can be said to have been defeated repeatedly, their firearms can not confront the Dazhong army at all, and the result of the shooting can only be that their firecrackers were shot by the firecrackers of the Dazhong army at a very fast speed, so that in the end, the entire Dashun army under the command of Liu Zongmin and Li Shuangxi completely lost their fighting spirit, was killed by the Dazhong army led by Fan Sheng, and fled back to Xi'an Mansion.

Therefore, these Dashun generals who fled back to Xi'an Mansion said that the strength of the Dazhong Army was miraculous, and when they mentioned fighting with the Dazhong Army one by one, they were scared that they were a little out of their minds, and this fear quickly spread everywhere in the Dashun Army, so that the entire Li Zicheng's generals were afraid and unwilling to fight with the Dazhong Army anymore.

When they heard that Li Zicheng was going to send troops to attack Juzhou again, these civil and military generals immediately persuaded one after another, saying that now that their foothold is not stable, and there is a shortage of food and straw, it is not easy to fight with the Dazhong Army now.

Song Xiance even put forward a suggestion, now the Dazhong Army is under the leadership of Xiao Tianjian under the Northern Expedition to the Ming Jingshi, at this time they can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, while stepping up the passage through the northwest of Shaanxi, on the other hand, look at the situation of the Dazhong Army's Northern Expedition, because this time the Dazhong Army Northern Expedition, the Ming Dynasty is no longer their main goal, and their main goal is to fight a general battle with the Jiannu Army in the area of the Beijing Division.

Once the Dazhong Army is defeated in this decisive battle, their Dashun Army will take advantage of the expansion of this period of time, and they can take advantage of the weakness of the Dazhong Dynasty to move eastward to seize the territory they control.

After Li Zicheng was furious, he calmed down and thought about it, which is also the reason, he still underestimated the strength of the generals under Xiao Tianjian, originally he thought that he would send Liu Zongmin and Li Shuangxi, two generals, to lead more than 20,000 Dashun elite soldiers, taking advantage of this opportunity, he could completely capture Tongguan, take advantage of the situation to attack Henan, seize part of Xiao Tianjian's territory, and enrich his strength, but he didn't think that Xiao Tianjian's subordinates were just a little-known general Fan Sheng, who only led a small number of large Chinese troops of less than 4,000, Liu Zongmin and Li Shuangxi were defeated, lost nearly half of the soldiers and horses, and fled back to Xi'an.

In this way, he can no longer underestimate the soldiers and horses under Xiao Tianjian's command, now he has just captured Xi'an Mansion, the foundation is still unstable, and the local forces are still repeatedly counterattacking, the landlords and gentry in many places have not yet been surrendered by him, and they have built forts to defend themselves, resisting his Dashun country, plus he is now running out of grain, and he is unable to launch a large-scale war on Xiao Tianjian's territory, now it is better to listen to Song Xiance's advice, first occupy most of Shaanxi's territory as soon as possible, and stabilize his position. Let's wait and see the results of Xiao Tianjian's Northern Expedition this time.

Song Xiance is right, if it is Xiao Tianjian's Northern Expedition, once he loses the decisive battle with the Jiannu army, then it will undoubtedly be a very serious blow to Xiao Tianjian, and he will also take advantage of Xiao Tianjian's weakest time to take the opportunity to seize Xiao Tianjian's territory again, and take advantage of his illness to kill him, and then he can justifiably claim the emperor!

So Li Zicheng finally suppressed this breath for the time being, and did not send troops to Dunzhou, but instead began to mobilize troops and horses, and began to attack the areas of Longzhou, Qingyang Mansion, and Pingliang Mansion, and mobilized troops to launch a clean-up campaign against the landlords and gentry in the area of Xi'an Mansion and Fengxiang Mansion, so as to obtain part of the grain.

In fact, before Xiao Tianjian's Northern Expedition this time, it was not a wise move to provoke Li Zicheng by issuing an edict, which was not a wise move in terms of strategy, because his Northern Expedition was imminent, and the main troops and horses under his command would basically be put into the battlefield in the north, and the number of soldiers and horses left behind in various places would be relatively limited, and the future of Great China would be relatively empty, and he chose to issue an edict at this time to provoke Li Zicheng, which would definitely anger Li Zicheng and make Li Zicheng send troops against him.

In addition to the Northern Expedition army he mobilized, he also had to fight Li Zicheng in the west, and Li Xuanzhu and Luo Rucai were still attacking Sichuan at this time.

Therefore, when he issued an edict in Nanjing City not to recognize Li Zicheng's Dashun regime, many civil servants in the court raised opposing opinions, suggesting that Xiao Tianjian should not provoke Li Zicheng for the time being.

However, during this period of time, Xiao Tianjian's self-esteem also swelled a little seriously, and became a little stubborn, so that he gave up his early strategy of taoguang and obscurity, and still brazenly issued an order not to recognize Li Zicheng's Dashun regime, so that Li Zicheng was furious, trying to send troops to attack Tongguan and send troops to Henan.

At this point, Xiao Tianjian can be said to have made a big strategic mistake, but his mistake did not cause a big disaster in the end, the reason is very simple, that is, he has a large number of brave and good soldiers and horses, plus his reputation is in full swing at this time, Tongguan guards are very obedient to cooperate with him Dazhong Dynasty and surrender him, so that Fan Sheng took the strategic pass of Tongguan.

Fan Sheng defeated the Dashun army sent by Li Zicheng at Tongguan and achieved a key victory, and Li Zicheng and his generals were frightened and did not dare to continue to gather troops to launch an attack on the territory controlled by Great China.

If this were not the case, once Liu Zongmin and Li Shuangxi led the army to control Tongguan before Fan Sheng, it would be very difficult for Fan Sheng to achieve such a great victory in the Tongguan area.

At that time, if Li Zicheng's Dashun army went out of Tongguan to attack Henan, he would be attacked by the enemy in China, and in the end it might even affect his Northern Expedition plan.

Xiao Tianjian's mistake this time can be said to be very lucky and did not cause a major disaster, but in later generations, many military scientists and historians, when studying this period of history, have discovered Xiao Tianjian's mistake in this decision, and many people have written articles specifically to discuss this incident for future generations, which has also triggered an academic discussion, which is inextricable.

But mistakes are mistakes, history is history, although Xiao Tianjian has a lot of mistakes, but there is one thing that no one can deny, Xiao Tianjian at this time, the elite soldiers and horses in his hands are undoubtedly his biggest capital, and the elite soldiers and strong generals under his command finally made up for his strategic mistakes, which is a real performance of strength, and no one can not admit this.

Afterwards, even when Xiao Tianjian carefully recalled the series of edicts issued in Nanjing City, he was shocked into a cold sweat, and in the memoirs he wrote in his later years, he also divided into chapters to review this decision.

(Today, Monday, I will first present a big chapter, and thank you for the reward of an intoxicating friend today!) ）