Before setting out on the expedition, Huang Taiji would not have thought of it anyway.

His 80,000 Jurchen cavalry that roamed the world did not even capture a single Shanxi border pass, so there were only 32,000 cavalry left.

The reversal was too sudden.

Let Huang Taiji start to wonder if he did something wrong, or what happened in the past period.

Da Ming suddenly turned from a dead trunk into a towering tree.

Maybe not Daming, but Shanxi.

Because there is that person.

Tang Creek East.

This name suddenly became a nightmare for the Jurchens.

Two wars, each one was broken.

buried a Belle Lord, and also buried tens of thousands of Jurchen men.

After escaping from the Yanmen Pass, which had been reduced to ruins, Huang Taiji gathered his cavalry and suddenly became dazed.

Where do we go from here?

Back to Liaodong?

Huang Taiji shook his head, and after the unsuccessful expedition, he buried the coalition army formed by nearly 50,000 Jurchen men and the Mongols, and the Han Eight Banners were all wiped out.

Huang Taiji can't go back, so if he goes back like this, the whole country will doubt his leadership ability, everyone will be resentful, and his throne will not be guaranteed.

So, avoid the army led by Tang Xidong and continue to go south?

As soon as this idea came out, Huang Taiji didn't dare to think about it anymore.

The 80,000 army is not the opponent of the other party, and now there are only 30,000 left, and if you go, you may really never be able to return to Liaodong.

Then, you can only go east, and then go to the Daming Jingshi, show off your might, and after looting food and property, you will go out of the customs again, which can be regarded as an explanation.

The decision was made in Huang Taiji's heart, and he did not consult with the Dolgon, Deg, Zilharang and others around him.

Because he doesn't want to hear questions.

Huang Taiji chose to go east and re-take the Ming Jingshi.

At this time, Tang Xidong was still waiting for the 50,000 troops on the way north.

In a big battle, the 20,000 new troops at Yanmen Pass were wiped out, 50,000 reinforcements were added, and 13,000 were killed and wounded.

He also needed reinforcements.

At the same time, it is necessary to let the new army after the big war take a break.

So, Tang Xidong gave Huang Taiji enough time to distance himself.

Following.

At noon, the 50,000-strong army finally arrived at Yanmen Pass, and at this time, the scouts had already transmitted back the military information that the Jurchens had turned around and headed to the Jingshi territory.

It was too late, and Tang Xidong had already taken the Jurchen cavalry that had entered the realm of the Jingshi and was powerless.

He couldn't lead his troops to pursue, because there was a Beijing division, and he was the governor of Shanxi in Tangxi and Mingming, and he was still a thief in the dark.

Tang Xidong couldn't guess whether Chongzhen was willing or not, and he led his troops to pursue Houjin, probably because he was unwilling.

Chongzhen would rather let Houjin plunder the north and return to Liaodong than Tang Xidong to lead troops to leave Huang Taiji within the border of the Ming Dynasty.

However, Tang Xidong was unwilling.

If you can't hit it head-on, then hit it behind your back.

Tang Xidong set his sights on the north, which was the world where the new army could be used.

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End of August.

The military report of the Battle of Yanmen Pass was transmitted four times.

The world knows it.

Relying on a border pass and the new army in Shanxi, the 80,000 Jurchens brought into the pass by Huang Taiji lost 50,000.

This is since the Battle of Salhu in the Wanli year.

The victory that the Ming Dynasty has never achieved can be described as a shocking victory.

The great victory of the new army made the entire Ming Dynasty fall into a crazy complacency of national supremacy again.

The revival of the Ming Dynasty, the hustle and bustle of the exterminating Jurchen is boiling again in the north and south of the river, boiling in every corner of the Ming Dynasty.

Countless scholars and squires shouted and asked for their lives.

What life please? Naturally, it will not be to join the army to go north to resist Jin, but to ask Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty to send a large number of Ming troops to encircle and suppress Houjin, and take advantage of this victory in the battle to completely wipe out Houjin in the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

The petition seems to have turned into a kind of procession, which took place in various cities of the Ming Dynasty.

But no one knew the complexity of Emperor Chongzhen's heart at this time.

Unlike the Shanxi New Army, which killed 50,000 enemies in the first battle, Huang Taiji at this time had already approached the boundary of the Jingshi region step by step.

Kill towards the capital.

Chongzhen mobilized the border army to constantly block the road of Houjin's advance.

But what comes back every day is defeat and dispersion, defeat and dispersion.

Chongzhen finally understood.

It's not that the combat effectiveness of Houjin has weakened, but that the new army of Shanxi is too sharp.

In the second year of Chongzhen, the fear of the siege of Houjin struck again.

Chongzhen couldn't wait.

He did not tolerate the recurrence of the enemy siege of the city.

He didn't know how the whole country was jubilant and everyone asked for their lives blindly.

At the same time, Chongzhen didn't dare to imagine that if the Houjin soldiers were allowed to besiege the capital again, then under the heavens, how disappointed and questioned the people of the Ming Dynasty would be, and how high would Tang Xidong's status be in the hearts of the people of the Ming Dynasty?

Chongzhen doesn't want to see such a thing, absolutely not.

So he began to give orders.

Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of the five provinces, selected elite soldiers to go north to resist the enemy, led by Cao Wenzhao and his son, and at the same time asked Hong Chengchou to recruit at least 20,000 Shaanxi elites into the king of Beijing.

No room for delay!

At this time, Chongzhen's pressure was unprecedented, and he couldn't take care of it too much.

Less than 30,000 Houjin cavalry, plus an Emperor Taiji, and Tang Xidong, whose name was not scattered at that time, became Emperor Chongzhen's nightmare.

But Emperor Chongzhen didn't know that this was the most critical period for encircling and suppressing the rebels.

Transferring troops to the north is a failure.

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King Gao Yingxiang died in the nameless mountain.

Li Zicheng led the king's army eastward and inherited the title of his uncle.

Cao Wenzhao and Lu Xiangsheng pursued and killed them vigorously.

The two sides began to chase after each other at the boundary between Huguang and Nanjing, and the time of the war was divided.

Zhang Xianzhong led his troops into Sichuan, and the Sichuan army fought several times, Sichuan is mountainous, which is conducive to hiding from the anti-army, although the Sichuan army is more effective than the anti-army, but it has no choice but to hide from the other party.

Both sides are equally deadlocked.

North of Henan.

Hong Chengchou led the newly formed Shaanxi Ming Army and Wang Jiayin and others to fight day by day.

It can be that the troops are insufficient, and the Ming army is newly built, and the combat effectiveness has not yet been formed, and Wang Jiayin is overwhelming.

Hong Chengchou relied on his own strategy and struggled to support and resist the rebels from re-entering Qinchuan.

Lao Huihui, Cao Cao, Luo Rucai and others plundered all over Henan, sometimes marching into Huguang, sometimes entering Nanjing, and sometimes going south to Sichuan, these people became the most headache for the Ming army.

Months of war.

There were casualties on both sides, and more than 100,000 people died on the battlefield.

The strength of the Ming army is becoming less and less, after all, the new army cannot be recruited as soon as it opens its mouth.

But the anti-army is different, where they fight, they grab people, and they grab food.

The number of people did not decrease but increased, and after countless battles, the combat effectiveness was honed, and the encirclement and suppression of the Ming army became more and more difficult.

Nevertheless.

Relying on the tactics of Cao Wenzhao and Yingying and Lu Xiangsheng, at the end of August.

The Ming army finally besieged Li Zicheng in the Qingyun Mountains south of Ruichang County, Jiujiang Prefecture, Jiangxi.

Lu Xiangsheng planned to encircle the army, besiege but not attack, in order to wait for the anti-army to run out of food, and Li Zicheng will naturally perish.

And Hong Chengchou relied on his own strategy, and after killing Wang Jiayin's small group of rebels many times, he finally had the heart to give Wang Jiayin's large army a heavy blow and kill him head-on.

Zhang Xianzhong was trapped in western Sichuan, relying on the Tusi tribe in the deep mountains, and it was difficult to survive.

At this time, it was the key to the victory of the Ming army over the opposing army.

You must know that Hong Chengchou, Qin Liangyu, and Lu Xiangsheng are not good-hearted people, and they can see clearly and distinguish between the important and the important, and this time to encircle and suppress the rebels, it is impossible to give the rebels a way out, let alone a chance to surrender.

But, right now.

Critical time.

Emperor Chongzhen's strong decree was conveyed to the three of them through Jinyiwei.

The Ming Army of the Central Plains, the Ming Army of Shaanxi, and the White Pole Army of Sichuan were again asked to go north to King Qin.

On the one hand, it is the great merit of encircling and suppressing the rebels, and on the other hand, it is the safety of the saints.

How to choose.

There seems to be no doubt.