In May, the Qing Army's Middle Route Army broke through the Zhenyuan Pass and entered Ningxia Prefecture, and soon after, the Qing Army on the West Road, under the leadership of Sony, first shook a shot in Ganzhou, and then broke the border wall from Liangzhou Prefecture to enter the pass.

More than 80,000 Qing troops on both sides of the road, crisscrossing the Yongliang land, the officials of various states and counties gathered the people to defend the city, and implemented the policy of clearing the wilderness.

In the case of the Wei army's breaking through the defense line of the Great Wall, it concentrated its forces to block the Qing army that entered the pass, but because there were more infantry and less cavalry, and the Qing army did not engage with the large Wei army, the effect was not obvious.

At the end of May, a number of county towns in Gansu were captured by the Qing army, the people suffered heavy casualties, the influential Hui leaders in Gansu launched a Hui war, and were defeated by Aobai in Liangzhou, tens of thousands of righteous troops suffered heavy losses, the leader Mi Layin was killed in battle, and Ding Guodong led thousands of remnants into Ganzhou to take refuge in Wei Jianghu Dawei.

The Tartar cavalry plundered in Gansu, countless urgent beacons rose into the sky, and the cavalry who reported the news galloped on the official road, bringing together the military situation that happened in various places to Xi'an.

This time, the Qing army entered the Kou, and the goal was to bleed the Western Wei State, create panic and exile, and it was best to create a Li Zicheng in the territory of the Western Wei Dynasty.

The Tartars burned and looted in Yongliang, causing the people of Yongliang to flee to the pass.

Although the land of Gansu is barren and sparsely populated, there are still tens of thousands of people who pass through the stretching Longshan and enter Sili from Xiaoguan.

On Xiao Guan, Li Yan and several officials stood on the city wall, saw the refugees who helped the old and the young crowded the official road, turned his head and said to the few officials standing behind him: "In the cool land, the people are fierce, and there have often been local heroes and strong, inciting the people to fight against the feudal government and refuse the feudal government to clear the land. The influence of these heroes among the people of Yongliang is not small, and you should pay attention when you resettle refugees, disrupt these refugees, move them to various places for resettlement, and do not let them gather together. ”

"Yes, Cabinet!" Several civil officials bowed down.

Li Yan turned his head again and said to a Xuanyi guard beside him: "Wang Zhanglu, tens of thousands of refugees are gathered together, and if there is a slight problem, it is easy to have big problems. Now is a special period, Guanzhong must not make trouble, monitor the refugees, and prevent people with ill intentions from inciting the refugees. ”

The surname Wang said with a sympathetic smile: "Don't worry, the king has already explained, and Xuanyiwei will let disobedient people suddenly disappear." ”

Li Yan frowned slightly when he heard this, but Xuanyiwei was directly loyal to the King of Wei, equivalent to the Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty, they were independent of the imperial court judicial system, and they could directly take people without going through the government, without being controlled by the cabinet, and Li Yan couldn't say anything.

For Xuan Yiwei, this kind of rule-breaking and unrestrained spy agency, Li Yan actually dislikes it.

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Xi'an, in the lobby of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, there is a huge sand table in the middle, on which are the mountains and rivers in the northwest, and the cities and rivers.

According to the content of the military newspaper, the two soldiers used two small flags, blue and black, on the sand table to mark the distribution of the Wei army and the Qing army.

At this time, around the sand table, there was a group of Wei army generals, as well as several military officials who participated in the discussion.

After a few days in northern Shaanxi, Gao Yihuan had already secretly returned to Xi'an to command the entire campaign.

At this time, an official of the military department was pointing to the sand table and said: "On May 20, Ao Bai went south from Ningxia Mansion and entered Pingliang Mansion, intending to break into Sili from the land of Jingyuan, but was blocked by Xu Dudu. ”

The essence of Guanzhong is in the Weihe Plain, and it is also a place where the Wei army must be defended to the death.

Gao Yihuan looked at the sand table and asked, "Where is the Ao Bai Army now?" ”

"Return to the King!" The official pointed to the sand table and said: "After Aobai was blocked in Pingliang Mansion, the soldiers and horses entered Lanzhou Mansion westward, and they should be preparing to join forces with Sony, who broke through the customs from Liangzhou, and then look for an opportunity to enter the division." ”

The land of Gansu is vast and sparsely populated, and the people are poor, and under the Wei army's tight defense of the big city and the clear wilderness, the Qing army actually can't plunder much, and it can't deal too much damage to the Wei army.

If the Qing army wanted to hit the morale of the people of the Western Wei Dynasty, it still had to enter the division, rush into the Weihe Plain, and even attack the city of Xi'an.

This is just like when Huang Taiji entered the Kou Pass and came to Beijing, which brought a major blow to the Ming Dynasty and completely transposed the offensive and defensive momentum.

If the Qing army came to Xi'an, first of all, Guanzhong would suffer heavy losses, secondly, the prestige of the Western Wei would be severely damaged, and finally the Qing army would find that their strategy of plundering Guanzhong was successful, and they would definitely come again next year.

Therefore, Gao Yihuan's bottom line is that the Qing army cannot enter the division, and the soldiers cannot come to Xi'an to slap him in the face.

At this time, he heard the report from the Ministry of War, so he immediately looked at the generals of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies and asked, "How did the generals arrange it?" ”

Li Dingguo opened his mouth and said: "The ministers judge that after Ao Bai and Sonny join forces, it is very likely that they will find an opportunity to enter the Weihe Plain again. ”

Saying that, Li Dingguo pointed to the sand table and said: "Guanzhong is prosperous, there is the foundation of the king, the Yellow River in the east, Longshan in the west, the Qinling Mountains in the south, and the plateau in the north. Ao Bai and the Sony army are in the west of Guanzhong, and there are only two ways for them to enter Guanzhong. The first is to detour to the north of Longshan and enter the customs from Qingyang Mansion. The second passed through the Longshan Pass, attacked Xiao Pass, and entered the pass. The third is to detour to Longyou, from the south of Longshan, attack Qinzhou, enter Fengxiang, and enter Guanzhong. At the passes of these three roads, we have heavy troops stationed in them, and the Tartars are mostly horse troops, and they lack siege equipment and artillery, so they will definitely not be able to enter the city. ”

Gao Yihuan frowned slightly after hearing this, and asked: "It's all a defensive strategy, is there a way to destroy one of their men and horses, or force them out!" ”

Li Dingguo shook his head, "King, this time the Qing army's tactics have changed, not to fight with the main force of our army, that is, to take advantage of the advantages of the horse army, wandering around, our army is mostly infantry, chasing and not being able to catch up, and dare not disperse the forces too much, for fear of being eaten by the Qing army." At present, it can only be deployed along the line of Longshan, not allowing the Tartars to break into Sili, and at the same time let Zhao Dudu press south from the direction of Ningxia and Hudu Du from the direction of Ganzhou to the east, steadily and steadily, slowly squeezing the activity space of the Qing army. ”

Li Dingguo paused for saying this, and then said: "The minister thinks that there are only two possibilities for the Tartars to retreat at the moment, the first is that the Huang Dudu raided Pujin Pass and succeeded, and the Qing court let the Tartars retreat. The second possibility is the Tartars, who ran out of grain and grass, had limited plunder, and could not break through to the pass, and finally had no choice but to retreat. As for the annihilation of the Tartars, the minister thought that they would only have a chance when they tried to break through to the division again, and now that the Tartar cavalry was wandering around, our army had no fighters to capture at all. ”

Gao Yihuan's expression was a little solemn after hearing this, he originally thought that the Western Wei Army was already very powerful, but he didn't want to face the current situation, but there was not much he could do.

Now his situation is really a bit similar to Chongzhen's situation when Huang Taiji entered Kou Pass.

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