Not to mention the chaos in Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, Li Zicheng is actually in a very difficult situation, insiders are kept in the dark, but outsiders are clearly visible.

Although it had swept through most of northern China and occupied Beijing, which was more politically significant than anything else, this expansion came too suddenly, and the vast sphere of influence of the Dashun regime was still an intertwined problem.

Compared with the Qi army, which had been under the Confucian clan for several years, the Dashun army lacked both recognition and respect for traditional Confucian scholars and doctors, as well as an existing administrative team, and Li Zicheng could only control a very limited area in practice.

Moreover, what is needed to establish a new dynasty, the army to conquer the world is one of them, and the other is the bureaucracy that assists the ruler in taking charge of the territory.

Li Zicheng didn't know this truth, and beat the former Ming officials, gentry, and Xun Qi to death with a stick, and there was no leadership team under him that could handle government affairs, which made the entire Dashun in a state of confusion.

Wang Zheng understood this truth, so he screened and used Jiangnan officials, gave their relatives and gentry their own benefits, let them use them for their own use, supported King Lu, and established the Nanjing court.

Wang Zheng used both hard and soft means to eliminate the enemy, and gradually won the support of the remnants of the bureaucrats, landlords, and relatives in the world, and had already occupied the name of Chinese orthodoxy one step ahead of Dashun.

It can be said that the Qi army can withstand a defeat, and even have time to recuperate, and it will not be impossible to fight in the future.

But there was not enough time left for Li Zicheng and his group, they needed to take over more and more territory, but they did not have a complete logistical output, so they could only squeeze out all the resources available on the territory.

On the other hand, the generals of Dashun also needed to consider how to deal with the remnants of the Former Ming in the north and the Manchu Qing who were eyeing each other.

After losing the support of the people, Wang Zheng issued a paper in the name of the generalissimo of Fengtian on the initiative of civil and military, which directly pushed the nascent Dashun regime to the forefront.

The current Li Zicheng, after easily achieving various victories, somewhat committed the old mistake of Emperor Chongzhen's stubbornness, regardless of the dissuasion of Niu Jinxing and others, even if the others did not go, he would personally lead the Dashun army to the east.

Li Zicheng didn't know that Dolgon had actually quietly detoured into Beizhili, and the number of troops was not less than that of Dashun in Beizhili.

In anger, Li Zicheng ignored the Qing army, thought that he was stopped outside the pass, and led 100,000 Dashun troops to Shanhaiguan in the starry night, arriving on August 7, and formed a confrontation with Wu Sangui's Guanning army on the west bank of the Shihe River.

However, at this time, the torture and looting in Beijing were still in full swing, and many Dashun soldiers did not have any sense of crisis, thinking that the Eastern Expedition to Shanhaiguan was worried about their lives and were unwilling to go out.

At present, the Dashun soldiers are all carrying heavy treasures, more or less coercing a few ladies in the capital, for them, the unfamiliar Beijing city is far inferior to their hometown Shaanxi.

Many people's only thoughts are to return to Shaanxi, buy land for themselves, build a big house, and settle down in their hometown.

Therefore, almost all of the people brought out by Li Zicheng this time are descendants who have followed him for many years, although they claim to be 100,000 troops, but the actual number is around 60,000.

In fact, the number of troops that could be mobilized under the name of the Dashun regime was not more than 500,000, but the troops mobilized by Li Zicheng's northern expedition across the river were insufficient, and there were too many troops stationed in various places along the way, resulting in the dilemma of less than 100,000 people now marching east to Shanhaiguan.

Wu Sangui held 30,000 elite soldiers in Guanning to confront Li Zicheng, and the former Mingshan Customs General Commander led 10,000 soldiers and horses and 30,000 villagers to guard the gate.

If you calculate it in this way, Wu Sangui's soldiers and horses are more than the Dashun army of the Eastern Expedition, but the Xiangyong is unbearable in a battle, and it is not as good as the old battalion soldiers who followed Li Zicheng to the east and west.

The only one who could go out of the city with Wu Sangui to fight in the field was the 30,000 Guanning soldiers, who had not been paid for a long time, and the army's instability was at a great disadvantage, but not long ago, the Qi army sent a large number of military salaries and materials to the Guanning army by sea, and now it can be regarded as a soldier with enough food.

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On the west bank of the Shihe River, on the east side is the Guanning Army in black armor and wearing a scary mask on their faces, and on the west side is the Dashun Army with all light armor and the word "Dashun" engraved on their chests.

The Dashun army couldn't see the edge at a glance, and the back of the military formation actually carried a lot of women and gold and silver, in comparison, the Guan Ning army was very rare, but it was not lost in momentum, almost all of them were elite cavalry armed with tiger head swords.

"Crunch ......"

The wind was howling, and the two armies of Wu Shun faced each other, but it was so silent that even the sound of the wind could be heard, and suddenly, a sour sound attracted many people.

The prisoner cart was pushed out in the Dashun army formation, and Wu Sangui, who was riding on the horse, saw it, and his teeth were clenched at that time, and Xia Guoxiang, the deputy general next to him, also frowned and muttered when he saw it:

"Old General......

Wu Sangui scolded in a low voice: "Shameful thief! ”

Wu Xiang on the prisoner car looked weathered, wearing a white prison uniform, stained with blood, his hair was scattered, and even his face was blue and purple.

In the Dashun army, a familiar general rode out of the ranks, and it was Tang Tong, only to hear him shout:

"Wu Sangui, Chuang Wang Renyi, return your father, the Ming Dynasty is gone, you can't be a loyal minister, but you can still be a filial son, it's not too late to descend to my Dashun!"

"Fart!" Wu Sangui came out of the queue with a long knife in his hand, and scolded angrily:

"Tang Tong, do you know that the King of Lu is already in Nanjing to supervise the country, and the King of Qi led hundreds of thousands of troops to the north, and the whole place is already an invincible scene, why not descend early!?"

Hearing this, Tang Tong was stunned and muttered:

"King Lu is in charge of the country, the Qi army is on the Northern Expedition, why don't I know?"

After Wu Sangui said this, even there was some discussion in the Dashun army, Tang Tong really didn't know about the Nanjing Imperial Court, and suddenly he couldn't react when he heard it, and he didn't know how to answer.

At this time, Wu Xiang, who was tied up in the prison car, suddenly opened his mouth and laughed:

"The Dashun thieves are torturing the civil and military forces in Beijing, and they are already panicking, son, you don't have to be a father anymore! Thieves, if you want to kill, you can kill, if you want to chop, I Wu Xiang has nothing to say! ”

"My son is a filial son, and he is a loyal minister—"

Wu Xiang, who was originally groveling to Dashun in Beijing, suddenly became a martyr at this time and had a tough attitude, which was something Li Zicheng had never expected, but he quickly reacted, and even shouted loudly:

"Come on, shut up this old immortal's mouth!"

As soon as the words fell, a sturdy Dashun soldier climbed into the prisoner cart and stuffed a piece of burlap into Wu Xiang's mouth.

"Daddy......"

When Wu Sangui saw his father like this, he was even more angry.

Although he has written a farewell letter, the love between father and son is greater than the sky, when he was a child, Wu Sangui also admired his father very much, and it was not so easy to let go, and he shouted with bared teeth:

"Array, array! Thieves must not be allowed to capture Shanhaiguan! ”

Wu Sangui and Tang Tong rode back to their main position, and nearly 150,000 troops from both sides moved back and forth on both sides of the west bank of the Shihe River.

Li Zicheng's confident surrender ended in such a hurry, and what followed was the full-scale outbreak of the Shanhaiguan Battle and the Beijing Offensive and Defensive War.

Dolgon, Li Zicheng, Wang Zheng, and Wu Sangui, who played an important role in them, were involved in these two battles almost at the same time.

The tripartite battle, the situation in the world is complicated, and it is not yet known who will kill the deer.