Zhou Yuji died in the battle of Xifengkou, although it is regrettable, but his death has extraordinary significance, he only with a small number of troops to face tens of thousands of Jiannu army, not only held Xifengkou, but also killed and injured many soldiers of the Jiannu army, the most important thing is that he delayed Abatai and Haoge's right Jiannu army for several days, forcing Abatai and Haoge to find another way out of the customs, he won this precious few days, but he gave the Han nation the heaviest gift.

The reason why Xiao Tianjian later gave Zhou Yuji such a high courtesy was actually because of this reason, when Yan Chongxi's Left Route Army arrived at Shanhaiguan and joined the Shanhaiguan Ming Army under Wu Xiang's command to defend Shanhaiguan, the Middle Route Army led by Li Xin, Diao Zheng and Luo Li also took advantage of the days they had won to travel all the way from Hejian Mansion and rushed to the area of Yongping Mansion first according to Xiao Tianjian's instructions.

Along the way, they gave up the tactics of attacking the city and pulling out the ground some time ago, but along the avenue, all the way fast, gave up the attack on the state capital and county along the way, as long as the Ming defenders did not try to intercept them, they did not provoke those Ming troops in the states and counties along the way, almost in the form of an armed march, completed the march of more than 1,000 miles.

The Ming army along the way basically did not dare to intercept the large Chinese army that appeared in their territory, and the Ming army in some places simply saw them appear, and immediately came to a large dispersal, either as stragglers and scattered to the countryside as bandits, or directly opened the city to surrender.

Li Xin knew that Xiao Tianjian's mood was urgent at this time, so he didn't have time to connect these territories, and directly ordered those officials and soldiers who surrendered to continue to stay in office, so that they stayed in place, maintained local tranquility, and waited for the officials and soldiers of the Dazhong Dynasty who came to take over, and they were not allowed to enter the city to rest along the way. However, the whole army did not complain because of such a rapid march, but under the encouragement of the generals, they sang all the way forward.

Li Xin, Xiao Tianjian's most trusted chief of staff, was well aware of Xiao Tianjian's thoughts, and he kept explaining to the generals the significance of their rush to Shanhaiguan this time, and told the generals that they must make it clear to the soldiers below that the ultimate purpose of their trip.

So soon the generals in the army knew that this time they went north, seemingly to overthrow the Ming Dynasty, but in fact to save the nation in danger, the real ultimate enemy of their trip to the north was not the defeated generals of the Ming Dynasty, but to deal with those beasts who were inferior to the Jiannu Tartars.

This point can be said to be very clear in the army, and it undoubtedly plays a certain role in encouraging the officers and soldiers of Dazhong, because Li Xin often said to some soldiers and generals through Xiao Tianjian's words: "Our saints often talk about it, in fact, how many Ming officers and soldiers we kill are not a good thing, after all, Daming is also the same as us, they are all Han people, to put it bluntly, brothers of the family fight, and now the Jiannu outside the gate is the number one enemy of our Han people!" Killing the Tartars, that is the real ability, cutting off the head of the Jiannu Tartars, that is the real glory!

What is the credit for the overthrow of the Ming Dynasty? At most, it is just the founding hero, but if Jiannu is allowed to break through the pass, then all the glory will be in vain, so that if Jiannu is wreaked havoc in the pass again, then don't say any credit, we are all national sinners! What is the difference between it and today's Ming court?

We are now the Great Chinese Defense Army, and we are soldiers, and we can't be captured outside the country, so what face will we have to go back to see Jiangdong's fathers in the future? ”

Li Xin didn't make it up, because over the years, Xiao Tianjian would talk about Jiannu from time to time, no matter how he led the troops to fight against the Ming court, but he didn't forget that they were ultimately going to be on a par with Jiannu, not only Li Xin knew, all those heavy generals who had been in close contact with Xiao Tianjian for a long time had heard Xiao Tianjian say it, so Li Xin said this, it was definitely not nonsense, including Luo Li, Diao Zheng and others, all followed Li Xin, and from time to time they would use Xiao Tianjian's words, to motivate your generals.

So this time, when they began to give up the attack on one state and one county along the way, and began to march towards Yongping Mansion, there were not many people in the army who did not understand, or had any complaints, but the generals in the army were all gearing up, full of energy, and wanted to slaughter a few Jiannu Tartars, and in the future, they would show off their merits to their descendants, and if they could defeat the Jiannu army this time, then they could be called national heroes! So along the way, although the soldiers and generals were tired enough, their morale was very high.

At present, these generals are different from those soldiers and horses who were originally intended to be read in Nanjing City, after all, Xiao Tianjian is still unable to spare his hands at the moment, and he has no strength and time to change all the military uniforms for the whole army, and he has no strength and time to do this, and now he wants to concentrate all the limited resources and strength to deal with this big war related to the prosperity of the nation, so among all walks of life, only those soldiers and generals who have participated in the National Founding Parade have got a brand new military uniform, and many of them are still wearing shabby clothes, Even the vast majority of people don't even have a pair of decent shoes, most of them are still pedaling their own straw sandals, along the way, everyone wears out several pairs of straw shoes, along the way they can be said to march during the day, at night they try to get some grass, rub into straw rope to weave straw shoes for themselves to wear, it can be seen that although the Great China and the DPRK have been established now, but the supply of materials is still quite scarce.

Fortunately, the soldiers and generals of the Xingtian Army are accustomed to hardship, the vast majority of them are poor people, and they have suffered any crimes before becoming soldiers, and in the Dazhong Army, although the soldiers have always been strictly ranked, but the difference in treatment is not obvious, the soldiers can't wear shoes, and many officers also wear straw shoes like them, at this point, the Dazhong Army is quite fair, unlike some of the armies in the Ming Dynasty, the generals are fat, and the soldiers are poor and clanging, so the generals of the Dazhong Army are hard, But there were not many complaints to be said in this regard, so they traveled day and night in the direction of Yongping Mansion.

Along the way, the number of interceptions they received from the Ming army can be said to be only a handful, and there are not many powerful interceptions, only when they reached Bazhou and Wuqing, they encountered a relatively strong resistance from the local Ming army.

The reason why Li Xin will be strongly blocked by the Ming army in these two places is actually because these two places can be said to be the key places of the Gongwei Beijing Division, which can be regarded as the last defensive barrier in the innermost circle of the Beijing Division, so the Ming Dynasty saw that the general trend had gone, so it shrank the mobilized troops and loyal generals to the periphery of the capital, and Bazhou and Wuqing were the last important places for the Ming army to deploy.

Of course, the Ming army in the two places did not know what the Dazhong army was going to do in such a hurry to the north, and they subjectively assumed that the soldiers and horses of the Dazhong army on this road must have taken advantage of Jiannu to enter the Kou and wanted to rush to attack the Beijing division first, so the defenders of the two places chose to lead the troops to intercept the men and horses of the Dazhong army on this road.

For the Ming army in these two places to open a posture to try to stop them from going north, Li Xindu saluted first and then sent someone to inform them that the purpose of their trip was to rush to the area of Guanfang to prevent the Jiannu army from entering the pass, but how could these Ming soldiers believe his words, they did not listen to their explanations at all, and brazenly bombarded the soldiers and horses of the Dazhong army.

Since it is useless to talk more, and these people are unreasonable, then Li Xin, Diao Zheng, and Luo Li are naturally unwilling to bother with them more, so they immediately started a fight and beat them.

Although the Ming army in these two places has stationed some troops, but the strength is far inferior to the strength of Li Xin's army, not to mention the combat effectiveness, Diao Zheng's reputation needless to say, with 2,000 soldiers and horses, he defeated the 20,000 Guanning army, and the soldiers and horses under his training are needless to say.

And Luo Li's guy, now has a nickname, that is, Xiao Tianjian's first fierce dog, although it is not good, but it also fully explains Luo Li's ability, if he claims to be the second fierce general of the Dazhong Army, no one really dares to say that he is more fierce than Luo Li!

Therefore, the generals brought out by Luo Li are naturally similar to him, they all belong to the kind of people who are two poles and two stunned people, and they are more desperate to fight than to see who they are, Luo Li can live until now, and he can also be called an outlier.

So Luo Li and Diao Zheng these two guys moved, naturally they were not ambiguous, even if they gave these blind Ming troops a combination of infantry and artillery, first artillery bombardment, then infantry rushing, infantry rushing, then artillery bombardment, several assaults, pity these loyal to the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers, just like a piece of porcelain placed on the anvil, when they were smashed and smashed.

The guards of the two places are also considered to be the diehard loyalists of the Ming Dynasty, although they were defeated, they refused to surrender, and in the end Li Xin and they had to fulfill the name of their loyal ministers and send them back to the west!

The main general is dead, and the generals under him naturally have no will to resist, and they immediately scattered, and some of them surrendered to the Dazhong army, Li Xin did not delay with them, and ordered a small number of officers to be responsible for leaving and reorganizing these surrendered troops, clearing the surrounding routs, and their main force did not stop for a moment, so they crossed these places and continued to march towards Shanhaiguan, but although the war could not be called, but the Ming army in these places still delayed some of their speed, otherwise they should have been as early as when Huang Taiji led the troops to the front guard in the north of Shanhaiguan, it's time to rush to Funingwei.

In this way, on the afternoon of the ninth day of the fifth lunar month, under the command of Li Xin, Luo Li, and Diao Zheng, the Central Route Army and Luo Li's troops, a total of 30,000 horses, finally arrived at the Funing Acropolis south of Shanhaiguan.