Seven days was enough time for a good rider to send what was happening at the head of Shanhaiguan City to the army of Prince Rui Dolgon, who led the huge army of the Qing Dynasty along the banks of the Yellow River and reaped the fruits along the river.

More than 200,000 troops at the time of entering the customs, after the Shanhaiguan attack, the breakthrough of the Zunhua line, the loss of more than 60,000 or 70,000 people, but after a year the number of its army not only did not weaken, but now it has grown to more than 300,000, surrendered to the Qing Dynasty iron cavalry, with Dolgon led the team to clear the north bank of the Yellow River when the Ming land, day by day.

Sun Chuanting was the only army on the north bank of the Yellow River in the Ming Dynasty, when the Beijing division was in danger, there was Li Zicheng of the Dashun Dynasty by the side of the thief, and it was not easy for the court to argue about Luan's move south, so he finally did not dare to use the only straw to guard the Beijing division.

After the cabinet of ministers in Beijing and His Majesty the Emperor decided to move south, they were even more unwilling to let Sun Chuanting's only hope of a Ming Dynasty translation fall into the siege of the Jurchens.

Even the Imperial City has been willing to be discarded, and the land on the north bank that has been almost poisoned may as well be given to the other party.

After breaking the ancestral teachings of Emperor Chongzhen, he thought that his horizons had finally opened, and it was not necessarily a good choice to give up some unnecessary burdens compared to the needless sacrifice of his strength.

At the beginning, the Beijing division was hung alone as a banner on the shaky north, allowing the peasant army and the Qing barbarians to struggle in the middle and did not dare to give up, but finally ended up in a dilemma, the north had to resist the attacks of the Qing Jurchen barbarians, and the south had the resurgence of the anti-thief Li Zicheng and others to plunder, which continued to bury the heritage accumulated by the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years.

Although a large area of land in the north has been lost, it has also given the Qing people the great burden of refugees who have been suffering from natural disasters in the north for many years, reducing the burden of the Ming Dynasty's government, and the Dashun rebels on the south bank of the Yellow River have also become a barrier between the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty from their own heart, so that the Chongzhen Dynasty can take the opportunity to recuperate, use the rich resources of the south of the Yangtze River to rebuild a strong army, and then return to their homeland.

Therefore, Sun Chuanting originally guarded against more than 100,000 Ming troops on the south bank of the Yellow River, and then stayed on the north bank of the Yellow River to give the Qing people a chance to eradicate them.

By the time Dolgon led a large army to attack the Forbidden Imperial City in Beijing, and then turned to the south to fight in the north, Sun Chuanting's troops had already quietly abandoned their original territory and entered the ground of Shandong, making Dolgon's department easily take the huge territory on the north bank of the Yellow River.

When the speeding horses that had galloped thousands of miles caught up with the footsteps of Dolgon's army, Dolgon's headquarters was in the territory of Quang Binh Province in the territory of Li Zicheng Dashun on the south bank of the Yellow River.

"What? There is a surprise attack by the Ming army in Dongjiang Town in the rear? How can it be? ”

When the urgent secret report was sent to Dolgon, the Prince of Rui, Dolgon seemed to have heard a big joke, the Ming people did not defend with the great capital division, but instead invested their forces in the rear of Houjin, in a vain attempt to prevent their own return to the portal, not to mention whether this plan was reasonable, just from the platoon, they gained much less than they lost.

"Hehe, there are so many Ming talents! How dare you make such a bold plan! ”

After experiencing the initial surprise, although the Ming army blocked the way back, but Dolgon did not panic at eleven o'clock, this way south, the Ming Dynasty army they feathered arrows in addition to the original guard of the border pass and other Liaodong Ming army still has some combat effectiveness, the rest of the Ming Dynasty garrison in Dolgon all the way, is really very weak, can not stop the footsteps of the Qing Dynasty iron cavalry in the slightest.

However, Dorgon was also in a bad mood, and he gathered a large army to go south, mainly to divert the attention of other banner lords and nobles in the kingdom from his regency power, and at the same time pinned his hopes on capturing the Ming Dynasty's material people to buy people's hearts and strengthen his position.

Now, although they have seized a lot of them, and they have basically achieved their goal, but the arrival of this secret letter has also made at least half of their ultimate goal come to naught.

If the major banner lords and aristocratic leaders heard the news that the back road was besieged, they would definitely have other ideas, and Dolgon was more worried that the Ming army in Dongjiang Town suddenly blocked his way home, presumably for the Qing Dynasty, which had weak internal air defense, and if there was some bad news in the country, it would definitely cause a riot in the kingdom army from top to bottom.

For this southern invasion, he pulled out most of the tribal warriors under the command of the Eight Banners of the kingdom, but the remaining warriors in the kingdom defended their home and country but were a little empty, and the tribal warriors who came to worry about the danger of their home and tribe would inevitably shake their hearts.

"Pass the order, send Ao Bai to lead 10,000 soldiers with yellow flags and 50,000 Han troops to continue westward, and most of the rest will follow me back to Daming Shunyi Mansion!"

After some deliberation in his mind, Dorgon had a plan in mind and began to dispatch troops.

When he came, the team was basically empty, and the looted materials and goods were hoarded by Dolgon and the nobles of the Eight Banners in the Imperial City of the Jingshi of the Great Ming Shuntianfu, and now they have returned, but the camel team they have has swelled again, almost two or three times more than when they came, and the whole army looks bloated and slow, slowing down the rhythm of the entire army.

In view of the fact that their army has been retreating, coupled with the reluctance to get a lot of wealth and materials in hand, although there is a lot of commotion in the army, but on the whole it is still in a calm state, and the situation is still under the control of Dolgon and others.

However, the good times did not last long, and when another urgent secret letter was delivered to Dolgon's army, which was still a few days away from Suncheon, Dorgon's still calm mood finally waved, and his worst fears still happened.

The Dongjiang Zhen soldiers invaded the territory of the Qing Dynasty in two ways, and advanced all the way to Liaoyang and Qingxi, the two gateways to defend Shengjing, which made the heart of Prince Rui Dolgon, who had some premonitions, gradually feel heavy.

He never thought that the Ming army in Dongjiang Town would have such a strong strength, but it had always been showing weakness to the enemy, quietly hiding, until his own army went south and the country was empty.

(End of chapter)