The second dragon raised its head in February, which was also the early spring of the eighteenth year of Chongzhen.

The spring cold is steep, on the endless loess high slope, not even a tree can be seen on the unobstructed bald ridge, there are steep valleys and high slopes everywhere, people can talk and hear clearly, but if you want to meet and shake hands, you have to first coil down dozens of twists and turns of the sheep intestine path, and then climb up dozens of twists and turns of the trail up, this can meet!

Of course, this is also an extreme situation, but it is also true that northern Shaanxi has many mountains and few waters, few plains and more valleys.

At this time of the year, despite the cold and lack of water, the peasants and people would still be in the fields, and there was not much to do, but they were busy in the fields, and they felt that their livelihood for the year had been settled, and if they stayed at home, no one knew what the future was waiting for.

In the past few decades, the annual achievements are getting worse and worse year by year, seven out of ten families have fled, died, or don't know where to go, those who stayed are gritting their teeth and holding on, the most bitter poor people either rebelled and left, or went into exile, and those who stayed were still rich farmers with a bit of family background, and they were also very diligent, and they stayed in this barren land in northern Shaanxi, and all they asked for was that the harvest of one acre of land could exceed 100 catties, and they could collect the seeds and grain, and then collect some rations, which was blessed by the gods and Buddhas!

However, this wish was in vain, not that the year had deteriorated, but that it was a sudden disaster.

In fact, Chongzhen's seventeenth year was stronger than before, and at the end of the year, there were a few light snows and light rains, which I didn't dare to think about before.

Of course, these simple peasants would not know that the Xiaoice River period, which began in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, was coming to an end, and in another ten years, it would be a good year with good wind and rain.

But who knows?

Since more than ten years ago, the men in northern Shaanxi could not tolerate such days. If the court doesn't give money, it's just that. I also want to urge the salary, the Tartars in Liaodong are making a lot of trouble, why can't the people in northern Shaanxi even eat a mouthful of food?

First, the officials forced the people to rebel, and then the rebels killed people and set fires, and the whole village was involved. This has always been the way of thieves, forcing those good people to kill people and set fires, and then the good peasants become wolves, and there is no going back. Don't be a down-to-earth farmer with his face to the loess and his back to the sky.

In the past ten years, hundreds of thousands of elites in northern Shaanxi have followed, and the thieves who are divided into one share after another by the government are about to have hundreds of shares.

The most famous, of course, are King Li Chuang and the Eight Kings!

Now the Eight Kings have crashed into Sichuan and don't come out, and they have become the emperor of the soil in that country of abundance, living a comfortable and enjoyable life. King Li Chuang founded a country in Xi'an last year, and he also came to northern Shaanxi, summoned his father, and told everyone that they were going to live a good life.

But the good days didn't come. A major battle that lasted for dozens of days and killed a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood was fought in northern Shaanxi.

After October of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the British prince Azig of the eastern captives walked around the grassland, fished for enough gold and war horses in Ordos, and then marched west with an army of 100,000. Straight to northern Shaanxi.

Azig's subordinates are the main force of the two white flags, plus the elite cavalry drawn from each of the eight banners, plus more than 10,000 Mongolian soldiers, Wu Sangui's Guan Ning soldiers, Hong Chengchou's troops, and Tang Tong and Jiang Xiang and other Ming Dynasty generals' pro-army, adding up to more than 100,000 people. In addition to the Eight Banners of Manchuria and the Eight Banners of the Han Army, the combat power of the Mongolian army is not weak, it is mainly based on the troops of old allies such as Horqin Mongolia, rather than those robber troops on the steppe who join in the fun.

At the very least, it is not much weaker than ordinary infantry armor and vest.

Needless to say, Wu Sangui's Guan Ning soldiers were originally the best-treated and strongest combat forces in the Ming Dynasty. It is not long before the new surrender of Shun, but the Qing court basically gave sufficient food and salary, and allowed soldiers to loot and other measures to improve morale were implemented, and Wu Sangui was awarded the title of king, and his morale was also very high, so his combat effectiveness not only did not decline, but also greatly improved.

Even Jiang Xiang and other subordinates are the original nine-sided commanders, with sufficient combat experience, good equipment, and the quality of the soldiers is also very good. In the past, the generals were unwilling to fight because they were unwilling to fight, and each had his own selfish intentions, but now he has voted for a new master, but he is bent on making meritorious contributions, so his combat effectiveness is not weak.

More than 100,000 tigers and wolves marched westward, and there were soldiers and horses with red flags in the Taiyuan area to guard the vast area centered on Taiyuan.

Everyone understands that after winning this battle, Li Zicheng has nothing to worry about.

In October, the army moved, circled the steppe, and was scolded by Dolgon, Azig entered the Shanxi-Shaanxi border in early November, and the vanguard of the Dashun army began to engage the Qing army.

On the third day of the first day of November, thousands of troops of the Shun army Zhang Youzeng fought with Han Dai, the vanguard of the Qing army.

On the 10th day of the first month, after determining that Duoduo would not attack Tongguan in the short term, Li Zicheng led the main force to the north, to the front line of Yulin and Yan'an, and the army converged with Gao Yigong and Li Guo and other troops stationed here, and the main force of the army reached more than 200,000 people, plus auxiliary troops and people, the number exceeded 500,000.

The soldiers and horses are so large, and the morale of the invading army is of course very high.

In addition to Bai Wang and 70,000 elite soldiers in Xiangyang, only Ma Shiyao and 7,000 elite soldiers in Tongguan have not arrived, and there are two or three hundred thousand miscellaneous troops, which has nothing to do with the overall situation.

If the veterans in a stone were there, Li Zicheng's confidence would naturally be even stronger.

Hundreds of thousands of troops were full of pits and valleys, backed by Yan'an and Yulin, forming an extremely strong defensive line. Between the cities, there are dozens of stockades and more than 100 fire road piers, or the border military project left by the Ming Dynasty, and now the army is enriched, constituting an extremely solid line of defense, and the Qing army is not allowed to enter at all.

In real history, in December, the Qing army Duoduo Department was defeated by the Shun army in a row when it got artillery support, Li Zicheng was defeated in successive battles, Azig in order to grab merit, left Jiang Xiang to besiege Yan'an, and led the main force straight down to Xi'an, Li Zicheng quickly abandoned Tongguan after hearing the alarm, retreated from Guanzhong with 200,000 soldiers and horses, and then bypassed Henan through Hanzhong and entered Hubei.

Gao Yigong and Li Guo's 200,000 men made a detour and went through a long and arduous journey to Hubei to join the remnants of the Shun army.

However, at that time, Li Zicheng had been dead for a long time, although the army had more than 200,000 soldiers and horses, as well as Gao Yigong and Li Guo, Hao Shaoqi and other generals, but the group of snakes had no leader, Liu Zongmin and Tian Jianxiu were dead, Niu Jinxing surrendered, Song Xiance returned to the mountains and forests, of course, they are not dead, and they can't control the overall situation, the Shun army has no backbone, and has since become a supporting role in history.

Now Li Zicheng is bringing all the main forces together, Azig is a solid defense line in front of him, and he wants to keep the hundreds of thousands of troops behind him and go straight to Xi'an, which is obviously self-defeating, so after the forward battle tried to find out that the main force of the Shun army was all there, Azig paused again, sent an envoy back to Beijing, and asked Duo Qiugon to order Duoduo to attack Tongguan, involving the main force of the Shun army, and messing up the morale of its army.

In military science, Azig was right. In advance, when the opponent's hundreds of thousands of troops were ready to stop, they collided hard, and their own damage would not be less.

The Qing army fought a war, which seemed to be majestic, but it rarely had a dull battle and a tough battle.

It has always been a lot of tricks. Hit Shenyang, deceive to open the city gate, hit Liaoyang, deceive to open the city gate. In the first battle of Guangning, the battlefield of the traitors was bought, and the battle of Dalinghe was raided before the reinforcements of the Ming army arrived......

The commander of the Qing army, from Nurhachi to the time of the hard fight, to the time of the emperor Taiji as the commander, this big boss pays attention to the small price to obtain a higher victory, like Dolgon and others in Jinzhou city under the loss of soldiers, Huang Taiji is also angry, the prince of the people is dismissed, demoted to the county king to show punishment.

Accustomed to smart battles, the Qing army seems to be strong, but it will not crash headlong into the enemy's powerful military formation, fighting blood with blood, and exchanging flesh for flesh.

But as soon as the book passed, it was a stinking scolding that cut his head and covered his face.

After the Battle of Texas, the Qing army suffered so much damage that it made Dolgon's heart hurt. He was not in good health, he may have gastrointestinal diseases, and he may have suffered from problems in his waist and legs for many years, according to the historical records of later generations, he often fell ill when he was about thirty, and his political enemies such as Hauge often cursed that he would not live long.

Originally, it was just a curse, after all, Dolgon was very young, and except for a few people in the Qing clan, his body was healthy and strong, and it would not be a problem to live to be forty or fifty years old. But after receiving the battle report from Texas and knowing that Abatai was killed in battle, Dolgon also vomited blood several times.

If you want to say that he and Abatai have any brotherhood, of course it is not at all, these brothers, except for the older ones, Huang Taiji and Dai Shan and others, were born to be brought up by each Fujin themselves, and when they see each other, they give in and salute, and the feelings between brothers are really not as good as outsiders.

The reason why Dolgon vomited blood was because the losses of the soldiers on the road in Shandong were too great!

is not only a loss of prestige, but also a real loss of all the way that can be used to attack and defend and balance the entire south of Beijing!

In a sense, although Haoge was defeated and retreated, the loss of generals, but the strategic position of Henan is far less important than Shandong, Dezhou and Linqing are lost, the Ming army can go along the Yellow River to Bao Haoge's dumplings, can join the division to fight Duoduo, and can take the risk to fight Beijing directly!

Under such a big loss, Azig not only could not make actual achievements, but also talked about the conditions there, and then thought that he wandered on the grassland for many days, wasting warplanes, and offended his allies, Dolgon was eager to fly to northern Shaanxi and cut this untalented brother with his own knife.

His response was to sternly instruct Azig and warn the other party that if he did not win against Li Zicheng, it would affect his rich future!

As for whether Azig will not be able to defeat the Shun army, this matter is by no means under Dorgon's consideration! (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point () to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. )