History often changes because of some details, and although it has now been changed beyond recognition, some news from Jizhou still surprised the Ming army.

Lu Xiangtong and Lu Xiangjin, who went deep into Hebei to contact Yao Dongzhao, gave Zhu Ping'an a lot of surprises when they passed on the news through two militia soldiers who escaped from danger. The Manchu court actually had internal strife at this time, and the dying struggle of the Han army to demote officials and generals actually made the existing Manchu and Han disputes break out again, not only the new emperor Bo Guoer, the important minister Sony, and Suke Saha died, but even the generals of the Han army who originally surrendered were killed a lot, which made the already weak Qing army's combat strength worse, and even increased the suspicion within the Qing army.

Just when the Qing army was hesitating on the front line of Jizhou because of grain and grass and civil strife, the Mongolian cavalry and the Korean and Ming allied forces that swarmed south from the northwest grassland quietly approached the line of Baimachuan and Kuancheng, firmly locking the route of the Qing army's northward advance. The soldiers and horses of Zhang Yaoxian, Wu Dingguo, and Pei Donglai, the three guards of the Shandong Army, plus the reinforcements from the Shandong guards, and the reinforcements led by Tong Wenhuan all gathered on the east-west front of Kaiping, Luanzhou, and Changli, and slowly surrounded the Qing army from the south.

Yao Dongzhao's militia began to launch a fierce attack on the Lulong area, trying to cut off Dolgon's route to Shanhaiguan. However, Dolgon's henchman Bai Yintu, who was stationed in Lulong, fought to the death, resisting desperately, and sent messengers to Dolgon, asking the army to move closer to Lulong as soon as possible.

On the fifth day of the eighth month, Ta Zhan, the second son of the Manchu Qing Dynasty founding general Yangguli, sent his subordinate general Ashan to reinforce the militia group's entanglement with Lu Long and kept the only passage to Shanhaiguan.

Zhu Ping'an led 30,000 Chinese troops, and left the Beijing division early and slowly marched towards Shanhaiguan. On the third day of the eighth month. Zhu Ping'an easily obtained Yang Tinglin's letter of victory on the march. On the 30th of July, the Ming army captured Xi'an, Azig burned himself to death, tens of thousands of Qing army Eight Banners almost suffered casualties, the Manchu clan nobles died as many as more than 100 people, and the Qing army north of the Yellow River except for Dolgon. Basically, all of them have been wiped out, and Yang Tinglin is reorganizing the place, sending soldiers and horses to chase down the remnants of the Qing army.

And Li Dingguo's Liaodong army successfully conquered Ningyuan, completely annihilated the remnants of He Luohui's defeated generals, the army advanced to the southwest, and in five days, Lianke Xiaotuanshan Fort, Jinchuan Camp Fort, Gaotai Fort, Yong'an Fort and other forts, the forward Tong Jingyan's soldiers and horses retreated directly to Tiechang Fort, only a stone's throw away from Shanhaiguan.

Under the answer of Ahsan. Dolgon finally came to Shanhaiguan as he wished, but after entering the city, he found that the originally scheduled route had been blocked by the Ming army and the allied forces. The Mongol and Korean allied forces roamed the grasslands northwest of Shanhaiguan, and once the Qing army wanted to enter the grasslands through these passes, it was bound to be desperately blocked by them. Li Dingguo's army pressed from the north, and in the blink of an eye, it could reach the city of Shanhaiguan. And Zhu Ping'an's soldiers and horses were also outflanking Dolgon in an orderly manner. There were also countless civilian armies, attacking in all directions, and the various strongholds of the Qing army outside the Shanhaiguan were crumbling under their attacks.

The situation of the Qing army today. It's really caught in the predicament of being ambushed on all sides.

Today's Shanhaiguan is no longer what it was back then. In the past, the Ming army built the Yicheng and Dongxiluo cities, including the castles on the periphery. It's already in tatters. So far, there are still countless traces of the fierce battle between the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the Dashun army, and the city wall is even more porous, just like the current Qing Dynasty, stormy and stormy.

The road out of the customs has been completely blocked, and Dolgon's plan to flee north is useless. The vast steppe to the north was originally full of routes to withdraw troops, but the cavalry of the Mongols, Koreans, and even Cao Bianjiao were ambushed in them. Waiting to deliver a fatal blow to the Qing army at any time. The Qing army, which was poor, lacking in morale and had no food and grass supply, had little chance of escaping.

On August 12, when Dolgon was facing a dilemma and had nothing to do, Zhu Ping'an's Shandong army came to Shanhaiguan City, and was stationed at the Phoenix Slope, where Li Zicheng had settled.

It's close to the end of summer, in the morning and evening. The weather in Liaodong has already cooled slightly. These days, it has been even more rainy and rainy, and even the air is filled with a thick sense of humidity, and after Zhu Ping'an's army arrived at Shanhaiguan, the wind and rain stopped, but the fog was quietly drilled out, enveloping the entire Shanhaiguan.

With the Phoenix Slope as the commanding height, the Ming army set up a camp that stretched for more than ten miles, and more than 30,000 auxiliary soldiers were busy and set up a camp in the rain, but they were caught off guard by this fog.

"Has Dorgon already entered the city?" Zhu Ping'an frowned, his hands were also covered with damp sweat, this weather is really not conducive to the immediate attack of the army, once the enemy situation is unknown, once the attack is launched, huge casualties are absolutely unavoidable, although the Qing army is already a turtle in the urn, but they may not be trapped in a desperate situation.

Lu Xiangsheng returned to Shandong to recuperate, and Yin Shigang and Zhao Guangluan did not follow Zhu Ping'an to Liaodong, but stayed in Beijing to prepare for Emperor Longwu's imperial drive into Beijing. Now that the world is not peaceful, it is difficult to guarantee that some people will not make some small moves, and the Jingshi still needs to have people who can be trusted and can control the scene.

Now Zhu Ping'an's cabinet and the important ministers of the Military Aircraft Department are only Zhang Huangyan left, hearing Zhu Ping'an's question, Zhang Huangyan hurriedly replied: "Your Highness, rest assured, the ministers have repeatedly confirmed, Dolgon and Duoduo brothers have entered Shanhaiguan!" ”

Although Li Dingguo's army had done its best to squeeze towards Shanhaiguan, Zhu Ping'an was still not very satisfied. Not surprisingly, the Battle of Shanhaiguan will become the last big battle between the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Dolgon's military talent is undoubted, Zhu Ping'an doesn't want to be bitten by him at this last moment, and even he took this opportunity to escape, then there will be endless troubles in the future!

Seeing that the camp had begun to take shape, Zhu Ping'an immediately ordered Zhang Huangyan to convey the military order to the three guards of the new army, and be sure to be on guard to prevent the Qing army from sneaking attack.

"Your Highness, it's better to ......!" After Zhang Huang heard this, he immediately raised his head, but when he saw Zhu Ping'an planning to add two more sentences, the two looked at each other for a moment, and immediately laughed, but said in unison: "Entangle Dolgon, wait for the rest of the army to join forces!" ”

At present, the army has just arrived at Shanhaiguan, and it is inevitable that the sudden attack will be underprepared, and Zhu Ping'an and Zhang Huangyan mean that they will immediately launch an attack on the city tomorrow, at least to hold off the main force of the Qing army of Dolgon until Li Dingguo and Cao Bianjiao and the allied forces of various departments are encircled.

After nightfall, the lights of the Ming army gradually rose, and the light of the fire was reflected in the thick fog, and there was no end in sight, just like the Milky Way in the sky. The camp of the Ming army, which had been noisy for a day, gradually quieted down, and the soldiers who had worked hard for a day gradually fell asleep. Only the squads that constantly patrolled between the camps made the occasional call for orders.

The officers at all levels who took the new army and the first guard came back from Zhu Ping'an's Chinese army camp, and let the subordinates disperse to rest early and prepare for tomorrow's siege battle. Zhang Yaoxian couldn't sleep anyway.

Following Zhu Ping'an all the way from Fengyang to Shanhaiguan, Zhang Yaoxian can be said to be one of the few surviving veterans of the high-wall guards in the army. He deeply knows that he has been the chief officer of the first guard of the new army for so many years, and it is not the bravery, resourcefulness, and courage that roast him, but the prudence that far surpasses ordinary people.

The first guard of the new army is the old foundation of Fengyang's high wall guard, so many years, there are not a few old brothers left who came out of Fengyang, and the soldiers have changed one after another, including students who teach martial arts, and more are honest and simple military families, or children of peasant families. His Royal Highness King Rui was sympathetic to the soldiers, and let them have the opportunity to become the generals who led the troops, especially for the officers and soldiers of the first guard, and had feelings that other troops could not match.

In the past, the "First Guard and Three Treasures", Zhang Jizu, Xiao Yuanteng, and Wu Ziniu, have now become generals who command a side of soldiers and horses, or senior officers of the Military Intelligence Department. Then a large number of young handsome people in the martial arts hall continued to stand out, so that Zhang Yaoxian couldn't accept the old anymore.

Although he was constantly thinking about his wife and young son in Shandong, and he also had a retreat in his heart, this was the last battle related to the rise and fall of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhang Yaoxian had to participate in it no matter what.

In today's military discussion, Zhang Yaoxian didn't care about the two old guys of the second guard Pei Donglai and the third guard Wu Dingguo, and just grabbed the opportunity to take the lead. The first guard must be the first to attack the Shanhaiguan in any case.

After returning to the camp, a feeling of excitement that had been gone for a long time wandered among the limbs and bones of Zhang Yaoxian's body, so that he couldn't sleep for a long time, so he simply put on light armor and rushed to the camp on the front line with a few guards to check the preparations for the siege.

In fact, there is no need for Zhang Yao to work hard first. The officers under his command are basically all from the lecture hall, and since the school, the essence of the "Soldier's Drill Code" has been engraved in everyone's mind and heart, and it has become a stubborn habit to the marrow.

The artillery units of the Ming army have all been in place, and Green's deputy, Kuang Yunkai, an excellent student of the Wutang Artillery Section, has already arranged all the artillery, gunners and ammunition under his command. The musketeers of the three thousand-man squad under the command of the First Guard were even more ready to go, and the soldiers all fell asleep with their muskets in their arms. The field hospital under King Mafu has long been ready to go, and countless medicinal materials and equipment, including some Chinese and Western doctors who are proficient in bandaging, diagnosis and treatment, and handwriting, have all been put in place, and all of them have been placed in the front-line combat units.

Looking at this, Zhang Yaoxian was extremely relieved, but the sound he suddenly heard in his ears made his heart pound again. (To be continued......)