Seeing that the situation was not good, Abatai hurriedly ordered a retreat.

Although the Eight Banners were difficult to parry against the Fire Tyrannosaurus of the Shangmo Army, their escape skills were still leveraged, after all, they were a nation on horseback and had superb riding skills.

Wu Sangui's headquarters is also mostly cavalry, and some of them are still the original Guanning iron cavalry, so it is naturally not a problem to escape. Because no matter how domineering the Flame Tyrannosaur is, its speed is limited after all, and it is difficult to pursue.

However, the infantry recruited by Huang Taiji and Wu Sangui were unlucky, they had no horses, how could two legs outrun four legs? Soon they were caught up by the Mo family's army, slashed and killed countless people, and the rest were so frightened that they hurriedly surrendered.

In the first battle of Shexian County, more than 4,000 Tartars were killed, including Wu Sangui's surrendered troops. At the same time, more than 3,000 people were captured, all of whom surrendered.

Lian Yiqiu and Hui Dengxiang led their troops back into Shexian to deal with the matter of prisoners, straighten out the defense, and prepare for another big battle with the Tartars.

In Lingchuan, Ma Jinzhong and Wei Hong also successfully repelled the 40,000 Jin soldiers led by Yue Tuo, blocking the Jin soldiers in the north of Lingchuan and unable to advance an inch.

However, Liu Liangzuo, who was stationed in Shunde Mansion, under Zhu Dadian's account, was not so lucky.

On the ninth day of the first month of March, Zierharang personally led his troops to attack Shunde Mansion, but Liu Liangzuo only held out for two days before he was forced to abandon Shunde Mansion and retreat to Dongchang due to heavy losses.

Zhu Dadian was shocked when he heard the news, and hurriedly sent Zuo Liangyu to lead 15,000 troops from Jinan to support Liu Liangzuo.

At the same time, he ordered Xu Congzhi of Dengzhou, Song Daxiang of Qingzhou, and Tao Kewang of Yanzhou to organize troops to support the northern front to resist Jin.

The battle became more tense when the Houjin army led by Dolgon entered the Shandong battlefield on March 17.

During this period, Zhu Dadian asked the Nanjing court to urgently transfer a batch of grain and grass to the north on the grounds of fighting with the Jin soldiers to defend the country, and at the same time asked Nanjing to organize a reserve army to support Shandong.

However, Xu Hongji and Ma Shiying thought that Zhu Dadian had more than 100,000 troops, and he was quite valued by Emperor Hongguang, if he sent troops and food to him again, for fear that he would support the army and stand on his own, or control the government, the two talked secretly in the middle of the night, thinking that Zhu Dadian's troops were more than 100,000, and if it was enough to resist the Jin soldiers, it was just to take the opportunity to expand his power at this moment, and he could not be easily satisfied.

Besides, Zhu Dadian is a member of the Donglin Party after all, and he was not very enthusiastic about supporting King Lifu at the beginning, so if he has different ambitions, it will be difficult to clean up.

For this reason, the two of them half-concealed this meaning in front of Hongguang, so that the emperor could pay attention to prevent Zhu Dadian from having different intentions.

Hongguang Emperor Zhu Changxun was originally resentful of the Donglin Party members who obstructed him from succeeding to the throne, and now although time has passed, he has finally successfully ascended to the throne, but this can be said to be the blessing of Li Zicheng to sit on the throne of the emperor, if Chongzhen was not killed by Li Zicheng, and he happened to come to Nanjing at this time, it is estimated that he will not have the opportunity to sit on the dragon chair in this life.

Therefore, Hongguang is actually very disgusted and even hated by the Donglin Party in his heart, and he will slowly settle old accounts with the Donglin Party, but now that he has just ascended the throne, he has not made any moves according to his instability. Although Zhu Dadian is a member of the Donglin Party, he also supported himself at the beginning, and he didn't want to embarrass him for a while.

However, Ma Shiying and Xu Hongji reminded him that he should prevent Zhu Dadian's changes, which was still in line with Hongguang's wishes, so under the silent instructions of Emperor Hongguang, the imperial court ignored Zhu Dadian's request for food and reinforcements.

The Central Plains is now in a strange situation, with four forces competing with each other.

In terms of Houjin, it occupied a large area of land that originally belonged to the Ming Dynasty, such as Liaodong, Jingshi, Beizhili, Taiyuan, Shanxi and Hebei Zhending, Shunde, and Hejian.

On the other hand, when marching towards Henan, it was met with stubborn resistance from the Mojia army led by Mo Li, and it was difficult to make progress.

Li Zicheng's Dashun army was entrenched in the area of Xi'an and Lanzhou, and the easternmost was Pingyang Mansion, where Hao Shaoqi led his troops to garrison, and there were occasional battles with Jin soldiers.

On behalf of the Southern Ming regime, Zhu Dadian's Lu army was a little disappointed in the face of the Jin soldiers' advance, and since the defeat in Shunde Mansion, the Lu army was defeated against the Jin soldiers.

In March and April, it was the rainy season, and the advantages of the Mojia arms could not be brought into full play, and they were once forced to abandon Shexian and Cizhou and retreat to Zhangde.

Due to the ceasefire agreement reached with Li Zicheng's Dashun army, Zhou Yuji and Ma Shouying also ceaseed fire in Baoning, Ma Shouying's troops retreated to Hanzhong, and Zhou Yuji and Du Geng also led their troops north to Henan to resist the southern invasion of Jin soldiers.

The Mo Jiajun can still basically maintain a draw with the Jin soldiers, and if it is a draw, Zhu Dadian's performance on the Eastern Front will be much worse. Because the combat effectiveness of the soldiers was too far apart, and Nanjing did not send additional reinforcements and food in time, Zhu Dadian was defeated again and again in Shandong.

In mid-April of the first year of Hongguang, because of the heavy losses of his subordinates, Zhu Dadian, Liu Liangzuo, Zuo Liangyu, Xu Congzhi and others abandoned Jinan, Dengzhou, and Laizhou, and retreated to Xuzhou.

An Zhenhai, the commander of the Dengzhou Naval Division, saw that Xu Congzhi and others were retreating, and Dengzhou was not guaranteed, so he had no choice but to lead all the members of the Naval Division to retreat south to Songjiang.

Zhu Dadian's army was defeated and retreated to Xuzhou, and Nanjing was extremely shocked. Hongguang even secretly regretted that he did not send additional reinforcements to Zhu Dadian at the beginning, which caused the Jin army to go all the way south, and if it continues like this, Nanjing will be in danger!

But at this time, Hongguang's regret is useless, because it is not a question of whether he is willing to send reinforcements now, but he is no longer able to send reinforcements.

It turned out that after Wang Ziyong, Zhang Xianzhong and others fled to Anhui and Zhejiang, they took advantage of the gap between the Mojia army and the northward march to recruit troops and horses, and successively captured most of the prefectures and counties in Anhui and Zhejiang, and even some prefectures and counties in Fujian.

For this reason, Hongguang had to send Ma Shiying to lead the army to suppress the thieves and extinguish the thieves of Wang Ziyong and Zhang Xianzhong.

As soon as Ma Shiying left, he took most of Nanjing's troops with him, so that Nanjing could not mobilize troops to support Zhu Dadian's resistance to Jin. The situation is becoming precarious.

Datong.

Lu Xiangsheng felt very aggrieved. He never expected that after he went north from Taiyuan to Datong, Li Zicheng's gang would actually resurrect, and it developed so rapidly, with hundreds of thousands of troops in just half a year, and he also entered the Beijing Division, * killed the Daxing Emperor and destroyed the Ming Empire.

Lu Xiangsheng didn't expect that Huang Taiji would bypass and attack Ningyuan at this moment, Li Zichengxing was also in a hurry, and he was defeated in a hurry, and it was less than a month after entering the Beijing Division, he was actually driven out by Huang Taiji and Wu Sangui, and retreated to the northwest.

The world is changing too fast!

When Lu Xiangsheng was depressed, he learned that the Jin soldiers had been killed from Beijing to Shanxi under the leadership of Dolgon and Zilharang, and hurriedly found the deputy general Chen Qiyu to discuss countermeasures......