302 Battle of the Central Plains (34)
What Wu Sangui didn't expect was that on the third day when Wu Sangui led the army to set off, Ao Bai also led all the Eight Banners soldiers to withdraw from Hanzhong, leaving Sun Kewang's miscellaneous army to stay in Hanzhong. He can put the blame on Wu Sangui, saying that he led the troops to evacuate without authorization, and he had no choice but to follow, Wu Sangui I was shrewd, and he didn't expect that he had already been calculated by Aobai invisibly.
Sure enough, there is Wu Sangui in front, Aobai did not encounter resistance along the way, after getting out of the Baoxie Valley, along the pace of Wu Sangui all the way to the north, Hanzhong because the Qing army evacuated the whole line, the troops were weak, the army had no fighting spirit, the whole line was defeated, on the third day after the withdrawal of Aobai, all the military horses were soldiers under the south Zhengcheng, at this time they knew that Aobai and Wu Sangui had withdrawn successively, and had to clear the remnants of the enemy first.
He Luohui's soldiers and horses are also regarded as eyeless, He Luohui left Shang Kexi to attract the Ming army, after he led the army across the swamp, through Shouzhang, Chaocheng into the boundary of the Daimyo's Mansion, although the Daimyo's Mansion has been captured by Jiao Lian, but Jiao Lian's hands are only 5,000 people, it is difficult to defeat He Luohui's more than 30,000 troops, so he had to watch him leave, He Luohui immediately crossed Guangping to Shunde, which can be regarded as an escape, and then rushed day and night, went straight to Zhending, and at the same time reported the battle situation to the imperial court.
When Cao Bianjiao and Yuan Shu caught up, He Luohui had already run away, Cao Bianjiao was angry, but also attacked Guangping, Guangping prefect did not dare to resist, surrendered the city, and then Cao Bianjiao led the army to continue north, attacking Shunde, Qing Shunde guard Liu Bolu, Jin Zhenchu, Shunde prefect Li Shengzhi and other corners of the stubborn resistance, to Beijing "cry blood for help, four reports at a moment, in danger."
At this moment, Dolgon in Beijing suddenly aged ten years old, Hong Chengchou was defeated, half of the 50,000 army was lost in Jinan, Bahana led the remnants of the army to retreat to Dezhou, surrounded by the Ming army, but he could not do anything, because Jiang Huang of Datong was reversed, there were only 60,000 soldiers and horses inside and outside the capital, if he sent troops out at this time, what should the capital do, He Luo would lead the army to the rescue, the division was unfavorable, did not rescue Luck Dehun, almost planted himself in, fortunately he was smart, and ran back with more than 30,000 fresh troops, At the same time, Dolgon also ordered his elder brother Zierharang to go to Baoding to supervise the war, and he must block the Ming army from going north, Tianjin has been lost, if the two towns of Zhenbao are lost again, Beijing will be the meat of the Ming army's mouth at that time, they finally broke into the pass, and they don't want to return to their hometown.
However, the blow to Dolgon did not stop there, first received the last note from Meng Qiaofang in Shaanxi, Shaanxi has exhausted the source of troops, the people's minds have changed, but the rebel army has risen one after another, Tongguan has been lost, he is unable to defend Xi'an, can only evacuate temporarily, when Dolgon received this note, it was still ten days later, because Shanxi has been lost, this note is still sent from the Mongolian border bypass, to be able to reach the hands of Dolgon, it is already very rare, Shaanxi is not guaranteed, then tens of thousands of people in Hanzhong are in danger.
Shandong is lost, Shaanxi is lost, Shanxi is lost, Dolgon doesn't know if Hebei can hold it, he doesn't have much confidence anymore, how many soldiers and horses he still has in his hands before, but only 150,000, and half of them are green battalions that he doesn't dare to trust, and in Beijing City, the green battalion soldiers account for 20,000, Azig still has 20,000 horses in his hands, and he is confronting the traitor Jiang Xuan, and he originally wanted to pacify this repeated villain, but after successive defeats, he didn't dare to act rashly, The more than 30,000 people that Jierharang brought back from He Luo on the front line of Zhenbao, plus the original thousands of people, are almost only 40,000, and there are also 30,000 elite Manchu and Eight Banners guarding Shenyang's hometown, and they dare not easily transfer.
And how many soldiers and horses the Ming army has, Cao Bianjiao is not clear, Dolgon is even more difficult to calculate, in short, there are a lot, the regular army of the Ming Dynasty has nearly 300,000 people, the value of the attached green battalion soldiers, rebel army, etc., then I don't know the specific number, absolutely no less than 500,000, 500,000 troops, if all of them pounce over, the momentum is flourishing, Dolgon does not know if it can be held.
On August 27, Yuan Shu, the governor of Hubei and Henan of the Ming army, led an army of 50,000 to besiege Shunde Mansion, after two days of fierce fighting, the artillery blasted open the city wall, and annihilated more than 3,000 defenders, on August 28, the Ming army successively recovered Tangshan, Julu, Neiqiu and other counties under the rule of Defu. On the first day of the first month of September, the Ming army crossed the Luhe River, and in three days, it divided its troops to capture Lincheng, Zanhuang, Gaoyi, Baixiang and other counties. At the same time, Cao Bianjiao personally led 200,000 troops to capture Cangzhou, opened up the connection with Tianjin, and then took the river to the west, and the protector commander Dunbai led the army to resist 2,000, and the people of the river raised troops to respond, and the city was broken in half a day, and the river was lost.
The drums in the city of Hejian sounded, the firecrackers sounded, and the common people were celebrating the victory of the Ming army, these soldiers did not disturb the people, and none of the hundreds of thousands of people made them afraid, only let them admire. Li Dingguo personally escorted Fan Wencheng into the Hejian Mansion. Fan Wencheng rode on the war horse, there were singing and dancing figures everywhere, and he was also in tears, I don't know whether he was happy or sad!
"See the general, the last general has already brought the Manchu envoy Fan Wencheng, please judge the general!" As he spoke, Fan Wencheng behind him was pushed over by a swaying man.
After Fan Wencheng walked into the mansion, he also wiped the tears on his face, and his eyes fell on Cao Bianjiao in the middle of the crowd.
"Hahaha, what a Manchu No. 1 Hanchen, I have been admiring it for a long time, I didn't expect to meet so soon, I thought I would have a chance when the soldiers came to Beijing."
"The general's words are serious, the small one is the minister of the defeated army, and he has come to ask for peace, and he also asks the general to agree." Fan Wencheng also bowed respectfully, and said, neither humble nor arrogant, but also a little generous.
"Fan Wencheng, you are a person who has forgotten your ancestors, your glory and wealth have been exchanged for the blood of countless Han people, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has killed tens of millions of my people for many years, and today, if you want me to let you go, those heavenly heroic spirits will not agree, and the Yin spirits of my first emperor wandering on Wanshou Mountain will not agree!"
"General, Fan was twenty years old to serve the Manchu Qing Dynasty, counting in the Manchu court for 30 years, after three generations of masters, how many joys and sorrows have been seen, if the Ming Dynasty did not have the general to turn the tide, I am afraid that it has already perished, the Manchus believe that they can conquer the world by force, but after a series of fiascos, they are also sober, everyone knows the cruelty and ruthlessness of killing on the battlefield, how many innocent Manchus and Han died on the battlefield, it can be said that there are countless people, the people of the Ming Dynasty suffered, and the people of the Qing Dynasty are the same, what are we killing each other so for? It's not a pity that Fan died, even if the general cut me with a thousand knives, I didn't complain. It's just that Fan Mou has a sentence and asks the general to think twice, and the two sides of the Ming and Qing dynasties sit down and have a good talk, even if the Qing Dynasty retreats outside the customs, Fan has no opinion. I just hope that there will be no more wars, and the general will no longer want to watch his subordinates die on the battlefield, the last people who suffer are the common people, Fan is willing to use his blood in exchange for peace between the Manchus and the Han Dynasty! ”