After Liu Zongmin returned to the mansion, he immediately asked his subordinates to pack up their things, although he didn't know if Taiyuan could still hold it, but there was no harm in preparing in advance. Now he is not like when he was a thief, he can leave, he now has a lot of belongings.

Before it was finished, an officer came to report: "Master Hou, Li Yan's army has entered the city." ”

"Didn't the troops coming down from the city let them stop near the city gate" Liu Zongmin listened to the explosion, it seemed that it was much closer to here, and immediately asked.

The officer replied, "I can't stop it." With firearms, crossbow arrows, and countless flowering bullets, the brethren were unable to stop the enemy's attack. ”

"What about our tiger squat cannons, what about our firearms, and our bows and crossbows," Liu Zongmin asked in a series of shouts. He basically has these things, although the quality is a little worse, but in the close-range street fighting, he will not have the strength to fight back.

The officer replied with a sad face: "It is all lost outside the city and on the head of the city, and the brothers only have swords and spears, and there is really nothing they can do." ”

At this time, Ma Chongxi also came over and said nervously: "The general outpost, the north city wall has also been lost." The soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and they couldn't defend it any longer. ”

Liu Zongmin did not hesitate, and immediately ordered: "Notify all departments and evacuate immediately." Then he added: "Retreat south"

"Okay, it's time to retreat south immediately." Ma Chongxi fully agreed, and immediately went to inform the troops, and at the same time he retreated from the south first.

Liu Zongmin immediately instructed his soldiers: "Inform the inner house, don't want anything, just get into the carriage and leave." ”

"Oh, got it." The soldiers said yes and immediately ran inside.

"Wait" Liu Zongmin stopped the soldiers again, adding: "Tell them that if anyone dares to rub in, I, Liu Zongmin, will not take them away." However, the woman I Liu Zongmin used has no reason to leave it to others."

"My subordinates know." The soldiers agreed again and ran to the back house.

After receiving Liu Zongmin's order, several women, including Chen Yuanyuan, immediately took only the most important and lightest things, got into the carriage and waited to evacuate. They have all heard that Liu Zongmin killed his wife and children in order to break out of the encirclement. They are concubines and dolls, where can they be more important than their sons. If you dare to delay for a while, you may die, and naturally you don't dare to delay in the slightest.

At this time, it was the people who were cheaper in the back house, and the soldiers who helped pack up their things. They won't be polite, and it's convenient to mess around with some good things.

Hearing the explosion of the flowering bomb getting closer, Liu Zongmin didn't dare to delay any longer, and immediately ran towards the south gate with his own soldiers and a few carriages. Fortunately, Li Yan had few people and did not encircle Taiyuan City, and there were still many troops in the south, which was quite safe.

At this time, the troops in the south had been waiting for a long time, and if it weren't for Liu Zongmin's highest status in the ranks, those generals would have left with their troops first. Everyone finally waited for Liu Zongmin's team, and immediately let the troops go south. The generals knew that this time was extremely dangerous, so they all rode horses and cavalry to follow Liu Zongmin's side, while the infantry was handed over to his subordinates to be used as the tail of the gecko at any time.

After Li Yan was wiped out of the remnants of the enemy in the city, he entered Taiyuan City under the escort of the guards. However, at this time, Taiyuan City was already in a mess, and a guy was robbed before the Shun army retreated, and when Liu Zongmin left, he also left a part of his loyal and brave subordinates to resist desperately to buy time for them to retreat south. Therefore, after this street fighting, there are no longer a few destroyed houses in Taiyuan City.

The Jin Palaces in Taiyuan also caught fire in June when they killed the Jin Dynasty, and the fire burned for more than a month, and the magnificent Jin Palaces were reduced to ashes. Therefore, Liu Zongmin found another place to live, but it also happened to save some face for Li Zicheng. Otherwise, Li Zicheng, the emperor, lived in the Qin Palace, and Liu Zongmin lived in the Jin Palace, wouldn't it make people have a lot of ideas

Li Yan asked Qian Er to pursue Liu Zongmin with a fast army, let Chen Yongfu garrison Taiyuan, and Zhou He divided his troops to sweep the surrounding states and counties, take over the states and counties where the Shun army withdrew, and immediately organize the Yellow River defense line. Now the Yellow River is still frozen, and it is necessary to prevent Li Zicheng's large army from stepping on the ice.

The day after he entered Taiyuan City, he received news that Li Zicheng had taken 50,000 elite soldiers north to deal with Li Mou, who was threatening Yulin. At this time, there were less than 30,000 troops stationed in Xi'an City.

At this time, Li Yan's heart blossomed. It was really a mistake, Li Mou's self-assertion this time still had an unexpected effect. Li Zicheng actually took the main force to the north, which was a great opportunity for him to break through Tongguan and march into Guanzhong.

So he immediately sent a pigeon letter to Li Mou, so that Li Mu could continue to threaten Yulin and contain Li Zicheng who was going north. However, Li Mou's troops were limited and they were separated by the Yellow River, so he also sent instructions to Datong to deliver as much food and ammunition as possible to Li Mou's troops, so that Li Mu would not have to worry about logistics. At the same time, they were asked to prepare ferries and build pontoon bridges to prepare for possible future emergencies to retreat.

Li Yan calculated the departure time of Li Zicheng to determine the time for him to launch an attack in the direction of Tongguan. Tongguan is much more important than Yulin, and Li Zicheng will definitely come to the rescue of Tongguan first after knowing that Tongguan has been attacked on a large scale. So he gave an order to Zhao Datong in the direction of Tongguan and set the time of the attack on the twelfth day of the first month.

At this time, Li Zicheng had already marched six or seven hundred miles, and if he got the news and rushed back, he must be sleepy and tired. If you can have a big battle with Li Zicheng's main force at this time, you will definitely be able to deal a heavy blow to Li Zicheng.

After arranging the affairs of Shanxi, Li Yan immediately set off and rushed to Tongguan. This time, he followed Chen Yongfu to attack Taiyuan, just to let the soldiers know that he also shared weal and woe with the soldiers, and did not celebrate the New Year at home, but went out with them. But for such an important battle as Tongguan, he still had to personally supervise the battle.

But Li Yan is a little wishful thinking in the end. Li Zicheng has long learned from Li Yan's example and established a carrier pigeon transmission system, and the speed of transmitting news is not slow at all. As soon as Li Zicheng led his troops to Baishui County, he knew that Li Yan had conquered Taiyuan City, so he stopped going north and settled in Baishui County.

He was waiting for further news. Judging from the news obtained at this time, it seems that Liu Zongmin and others can no longer hold the southern part of Shanxi, and Li Yan's troops have been chasing behind, so that they have no chance to reorganize their troops. If Liu Zongmin withdrew from the Yu Gate, he would just take his troops over and block Li Yan's pursuers.

At the same time, he was also waiting for news from the direction of Tongguan. They had already received information that Li Yan was strengthening the military in the direction of Tongguan, and at this time, it was very likely that a war would also start in Tongguan. But he wasn't sure whether Li Yan would have a full-scale showdown with him as long as Shanxi. It is not far from Baishui to rescue Tongguan. To be continued.

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