On the 5th day of the first month of December, Shang Kexi and Ban Zhifu led the surviving remnants to break through all the way to avoid all kinds of encirclement and interception, and after the news of rushing back to Jiangzhou City was reported to Andong City, Mao Wenlong quickly ordered all the troops in Dongjiang Town to defend the city and wait for the enemy to attack.

In this era, especially in this season, when the water turns into ice, all the side that takes the initiative to attack, especially the one that takes the initiative to attack the fortification, is the side that suffers heavy casualties.

Even the Ming army of Dongjiang Town, which had a lot of artillery, still suffered serious casualties after leaving the fort of the fort in the city and fort they were holding onto, and stormed Zhenjiang Fort several times in the wind and snow.

Although Zhenjiang Fort was crumbling several times, and the city wall around the east gate was almost in ruins, the army of Jianyu Zhenglan Banner who held Zhenjiang Fort was fighting to the death.

Under such circumstances, especially when the entire strategic intention has been basically achieved, turning defense into attack is an inevitable choice for the general forces of Dongjiang Town from Mao Wenlong down.

Li Xin seized Fuzhou City, and the high-level Jianyu who remained in Shenyang may be indifferent, because Fuzhou City is not a city that concerns the overall situation.

Chen Jisheng, Kong Youde and others landed at the mouth of the Douman River, and Liu Xingzuo and others seized Jingcheng and Odori City, which are also not key measures to shake the will of the high-level of the Jin State in the future.

Even Mao Wenlong's capture of Zhenjiang Fort may not make Dai Shan, who stayed in Shenyang, make up his mind to ask Huang Taiji to return to his division.

But the capture of Hetuara was different.

In that year, Mao Wenlong led the crowd to go deep behind the enemy, went north by boat along the Yalu River, and then abandoned the boat in the upper reaches of the Yalu River and went ashore, and when he attacked the rear of Jianlu, he once burned the granary of Jianlu in the area of Salhu, which can be regarded as a miraculous achievement.

However, at that time, there were heavy troops stationed in the area of Hetuala, and Mao Wenlong's department did not dare to take risks.

And this time, Shang Kexi did it.

After receiving the battle report from Dongjiang Town jointly sent by Mao Wenlong and Chu Xianxian, Emperor Chongzhen was overjoyed, and the cabinet and military aircraft department on duty were even more jubilant.

Shang Kexi's department not only led the army to burn the former capital of Jianyu, the so-called land of Longxing, but also captured Fei Yangguo, the youngest son of the previous slave chieftain, and then successfully returned to Dongjiang Xindi, what does this mean, this shows that the destiny of heaven is in my Daming!

The officials in Beijing who had already been at home and the officials in the places where Dongjiang Town passed through the good news once again took the lead in setting off a wave of singing praises of virtue.

All kinds of songs of merit and virtue were sent to the cabinet hall through the general envoy one after another, sent to the celebrant supervisor, and finally sent to the imperial study of the Qianqing Palace of Emperor Chongzhen.

Unlike the triumphant report of Dongjiang Town, Li Xin has not moved since the last time he reported the good news of the capture of Fuzhou City, and it was only recently that he transferred to the hands of the governor of Denglai to report the latest battle situation of the Lushun Town Guard.

After Dordor's death in a careless ambush, Dorgon was furious and led the army of the White Banner to the south, and after joining forces with the White Banner army, he joined forces to attack the city of Fuzhou, hoping to avenge his half-brother.

However, Fuzhou City, which had been prepared for a long time, was not something that Dolgon could capture if he wanted to.

After several failed attacks, Dolgon's pain of losing his brother gradually subsided, and his emotions became calmer.

After some calculations with a normal mind and level, Dolgon soon left an army with a white flag to besiege the city, and then led his army back to the area of Yongning Fort and Wuli Fort north of Fuzhou City, and started the idea of encircling the point to send reinforcements.

However, as the climate on the Liaodong Peninsula became colder and colder, whether it was Jinzhou City, Qingniwa Fort, which belonged to Lushun Town, or Hongzui Fort and Wanghai Fort garrisoned by the Ming Army on the left side of Dongjiang Town, there was not a single soldier to reinforce Fuzhou City.

At the same time, the white-flaged army outside Fuzhou City, which was responsible for the siege, could not hold on, and finally abandoned Fuzhou City and withdrew from the siege in early December.

It was also at this time that Li Xin, Zhang Kedu and others sent people to defend Fuzhou City again for the second time.

What is very different from the situation in Liaodong that has turned from offensive to defensive, during the same period, the northwest has been in a continuous offensive.

A large number of Ming troops gathered in the naturalization city in the previous period, in addition to the Shanxi town general soldier Wang Guoliang was ordered to lead the infantry to stay in the naturalization city, the minister of military aircraft Pingyang Bo Li Banghua personally led Zhao Shujiao, Zu Dashou, Cao Wenzhao and Erke Chuhuer, Hadan Batel cavalry, a total of more than 24,000 cavalry, divided into three columns, and drove westward.

The problem facing Li Banghua was not to lead the army to cross the Yellow River south on solid ice and occupy the Hetao area, but on the contrary, the biggest problem was to find the grazing land of the Western Route Army and the Ordos Department on the vast winter desert grassland.

Because the Western Route Army of Jianyu is not destroyed, and the Ordos Department that has lived in the Hetao for hundreds of years is not destroyed or surrendered, then the recovery of the Ming army in the Hetao can hardly be said to be a real recovery.

If you withdraw your army today, he will come again tomorrow, can you still gather a large army again and again to come and repeat it?

This time, Li Banghua gathered such an elite cavalry of more than 24,000 horsemen in the Naturalization City, which can be said to be an unprecedented situation in the Ming Dynasty since Wanli.

Li Banghua, the minister of military aircraft who is aspiring to be a marquis, how could he miss the opportunity to complete his work in one battle and pacify the Hetao in one fell swoop!

Li Banghua personally led a large number of Ming cavalry all the way west, looking for the garrison of Jianlu and Ordos in the vast wilderness west of Guihua City, while the first town of the Guards led by Ma Shilong finally entered Shuozhou, which was already an empty city, after a long journey.

The main force of the second town of the Guards led by Wang Fu was stationed in Datong City nearby.

As for the 3,000 battalions of Wang Tingchen's command, which took the lead in attacking outside Juyong Pass, after Sun Chuanting, the governor of Yansui, led the Yansui cavalry to gallop back to northern Shaanxi, he was ordered to enter Shanxi from Ningwu Pass, and then also stepped on the ice on the Yellow River from the Shanxi side and pursued the thieves westward.

After Huang Taiji abandoned Mo Nan, led his army to break through to the north, and the news of the evacuation of Guihua City reached his hands, Emperor Chongzhen knew that the threat from Saibei was temporarily over.

Next, it is time to deal with the northwest of chaos again.

However, now this Emperor Chongzhen is much calmer than the one in history.

The emperor himself does not have to be repeatedly tossed by the captives and thieves, and the most fortunate thing is that the army of the Ming Dynasty does not have to be led by the nose by the captives or thieves, and they are running around again and again, exhausted.

Sun Chuanting led the cavalry of Yansui Town under his command to return to Yulin in northern Shaanxi, after all, he was just returning to the division.

And the main cavalry of the 3,000 battalions under the command of Wang Tingchen was highly moraled after the battle of Juyong Pass, and it did still have spare strength.

Although it was cold and hard, it was not difficult to use them to block and drive the thieves westward compared to the infantry who walked on two legs.

And the thieves at this time are no longer the "prosperous" situation when Wang Jiayin was king.

According to the small leaders of the thieves who have been arrested and rebelled one after another since Li Banghua, Sun Chuanting, and others sat in Shanxi and encircled and suppressed various bandits hiding in the Luya Mountain, the thieves in the Luya Mountain and Lan Mountain were not monolithic from the beginning.

The first leader of the thieves to flee into the vast mountains of northern Jin was Li Zicheng, a general.

After the defeat of the children's battalion led by Li Zicheng, they fled into the nearby mountains, and soon joined Liu Fangliang, Li Guo and others, gathered hundreds of people, and set themselves up as the general camp.

After the end of the Battle of Jingle, Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang, Lao Hui Ma Shouying, Zhang Xianzhong and others also escaped from Fenshui one after another and fled into the mountains west of Fenshui.

The defeat of Jingle City's breakthrough made Gao Yingxiang or Lao Hui return, and his reputation plummeted.

Especially the old Huihui Ma Shouying, who was reluctant to evacuate after occupying Jingle City at that time, the illusion of being scheming and unfathomable before was punctured at once.

In addition, the hardcore Huihui camp of the old Hui Hui Ma Shouying chose the wrong direction in the breakout battle, missed the opportunity, and suffered the most heavy losses.

Therefore, as soon as this group of people fled into the Qilan Mountain, which also belongs to the northern section of the Luliang Mountains, Zhang Xianzhong, nicknamed Huanghu, unceremoniously threw away the signboard of "Attached Hui Army" and took the remnants of the Attached Hui Army who fled across the river to break away from Ma Shouying's Hui Hui camp, and set up a battalion called "Xiying" to the west of Ma Shouying and others.

And Zhang Xianzhong himself also made himself a name far louder than "Yellow Tiger", calling himself the "Eight Kings of Xiying".

At the same time, Gao Yingxiang, who fled into the mountains in embarrassment, saw Zhang Xianzhong's actions, and decisively bought people's hearts by delegating power, so that the leaders under his command He Yilong, He Jin, Liu Xiyao, Lin Yangcheng and Li Zicheng and other leaders led the remnants to form a camp alone, but they were all in their own moderation.

And He Yilong, He Jin, Liu Xiyao, Lin Yangcheng and others, who got this self-reliance treatment, also quickly reciprocated the favor and jointly elected Gao Yingxiang to take over the position of Wang Jiayin, the co-leader of the "Righteous Army".