Hetuala, perched on a hill, is like a bonfire in the dark, faint but long.

At night, the cold wind rises in the mountains, and the stars shine in the sky.

10,000 people set up camp at the foot of the mountain for a short rest.

From Sarhu to the city of Hetuala, the Jurchens continued to send cavalry to attack and roam along the way, attacking the flanks of the new army many times, and the original one-day journey was stretched by half compared to the previous speed.

In the evening, the new army came to the city.

Tang Xidong anticipated the resistance brought by the Jurchens along the way, but he still underestimated the tenacity of the other party.

Constantly attacking and procrastinating, the strange thing is that the number of Jurchen cavalry infested is not too much, otherwise, 10,000 people are alone, maybe Tang Xidong has long been directly surrounded by the other party in many places outside Hetuala.

When you don't get to the top, you never know what will be on the other side of the mountain.

Having not arrived at Hetuala, Tang Xidong had imagined many times what kind of city it was, but all his conjectures were shattered like foam the moment he stood at the foot of the mountain and looked up.

Tang Xidong's heart was cold, and then he died.

He knew that with 10,000 new troops, no matter how sharp the firearms in his hands were, he would not be able to break through the city in front of him.

The city stands on a hill, surrounded by water on three sides, the cliff is steep, although there is a big road, it is steep to the south.

Tang Xidong was not sure that Hetuara would be captured in one fell swoop.

This is a city that can win without a fight, and everything is determined by its geographical location.

Even if the more than 100,000 Ming troops of the Wanli Dynasty did not lose Salhu, they were helpless against the city in front of them.

The 10,000 new troops were exhausted by the long march, and at night at the foot of the mountain, after preparing for the offensive, they set up camp for rest.

Tang Xidong didn't know that at this moment, the troops of Hetuara City were weak, and the people were panicked, because Mang Gurtai came out with the blue flag under his command.

At this time, it is actually the best time to attack, but obviously Tang Xidong is not an immortal, nor is he a fortune teller, he can pinch and calculate, he chose to fight again tomorrow.

And this night.

Yue Tuo took the red flag and 10,000 people to the north to Hetuara to rescue, and farther away, Mang Gurtai left Shuotuo and came all the way with the blue flag.

At night, Tang Xi Dongjiu stood in front of the big tent and looked up to see a city on the hill.

As the Later Jin became stronger and stronger under Nurhachi's southern and northern wars, the original five-mile city could not support the Jurchens to live, so it expanded the city again to ten miles away.

The inner city was inhabited by the Jurchen nobles, and in addition to the Jurchen tribes, there were also the Mongol tribes who were the first to annex the Later Jin and a large number of enslaved Han slaves.

Because the city is built on the mountain, the city walls are not very high.

Such a city would be difficult to conquer without a 100,000-strong new army.

Tang Xidong began to think about when to collect his troops.

It will be necessary to hold on for at least two days to relieve Zhang Xiahai of the pressure brought by the Jurchen army.

Hundreds of kilometers away, Tielingwei.

After assigning the city defense, Zhang Xiahai was finally able to get a short rest.

A large number of scouts were sent from outside the city in the direction of Shengjing.

Judging by the time, if Sheng Jing reinforces the army as soon as possible, he will definitely be able to reach it at any time tonight.

Therefore, the 40,000 new army tensed their minds and waited for the Jurchen army to come to the city.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty was full of wind and rain, and blood raged around Beijing and Henan, Shaanxi, Huguang, Sichuan, and Nanjing.

Da Ming had actually set up an encirclement and was enveloping the Jurchen army led by Huang Taiji step by step.

After Chongzhen gave up the coercion of the rebels to decide the victory, the plan in his heart could not be more obvious, that is, to hit Huang Taiji hard.

For the Ming Dynasty, Huang Taiji, who fled with losses in Shanxi, was a great opportunity to catch them all.

The first assistant Zhou Yanru sat in the middle of the 100,000 Ming army, and the Liaodong border army was also dispatched back to support, Cao Wenzhao went north, and Wu Xiang, the general soldier of Liaodong, also led the army back to help.

All border passes have received the holy order to guard the passes, and it seems that Chongzhen really wants to solve Huang Taiji, the tiger with broken legs, once and for all.

At this time, Li Zicheng had already led hundreds of thousands of rebel troops to the north from Huguang and marched towards the boundary of Nanjing.

His uncle died.

died at the hands of the Ming army, as the new king of Lichuang, Li Zicheng needs to take corresponding actions to win people's hearts and avenge his uncle.

This time, Li Zicheng's eyes fell on the ancestral tomb of the Ming Zhu family - Fengyang.

And when Chongzhen was bent on covering Huang Taiji in the trap he had set up.

The Ming army's attack on the rebels suddenly began to deteriorate in a short period of time.

First of all, Li Zicheng escaped the siege of Lu Xiangsheng and began to transfer.

After Lu Xiangsheng led his troops north to King Qinwang with Cao Wenzhao, half of the elite soldiers were lost, although he had the intention to pursue, he was worried that he would be surrounded by the rebels.

In Henan, the Ming Dynasty has completely no way to rebel against the army, the entire territory of Henan is full of raging anti-army, as a large population of the political secretary, Henan in the rebel army after the capture of the whole territory, the people in the territory completely reduced to the homeless, most of the people were forced to become a rebel soldier for the rebel army, dragging their families and mouths, displaced.

In Sichuan, Zhang Xianzhong, who was originally beaten by the Sichuan army and the white pole army to hide everywhere, also began to go out of the mountains to exert his might, constantly attacking the city and plundering the land, and suddenly it seemed that the whole Sichuan had no Ming army strength that could fight with it, and the most fundamental reason was that the white pole army went north to Qinwang, and the general of the Sichuan army, Deng Xi, suddenly jumped out of the city and died.

In the seven years since entering Chongzhen, the Sichuan army has continued to attack and oppose the army inside and outside Sichuan, from Sichuan to Henan, and from Henan back to Sichuan.

There were many casualties in the long-term battle, and there were many meritorious and bitter people, but there was no food and salary distributed by the government.

So finally, after a long backlog, the Sichuan army mutinied and bombed the battalion.

Deng Xi was forced by his lieutenant generals on the left and right, because of the chaos in the city at that time, the original Sichuan soldiers began to burn and loot everywhere, and Deng Xi had no choice but to jump at the head of the city.

He didn't want to die, martial arts, jumping a city wall can still save his life, but unfortunately in the panic did not distinguish the situation under the city, as one of the famous brave generals in the history of the Ming Dynasty, Deng Xi, this jump just jumped into the burning fire under the city, and was burned alive.

Indeed dead nests.

After Deng Xi's death, the Sichuan army was completely ownerless.

Zhang Xianzhong took advantage of this to go out of the mountains to attack everywhere, and after a southern expedition to the north, he actually gathered a lot of the main forces of the Sichuan army for his use, in fact, it is understandable that he Zhang Xianzhong was a deserter from the Ming border pass.

As a result, Sichuan was captured by the rebels, and Tusi, who had been suppressed and failed to rebel many years ago, also began to support Zhang Xianzhong's campaign in Sichuan, and in just one month, Sichuan completely fell.

It seems that in the entire seven years of Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty encircled and suppressed the rebels twice, and both achieved great victories that could be seen and touched, but they passed by the complete encirclement and suppression of the rebels twice.

It seems that God is warning that the demise of the Ming Dynasty is destined to be difficult to escape