At present, the forces of the entire Liaodong, North China, and Northwest China are intertwined, and they really affect the whole body.

First, let's take a look at the situation in Liaodong:

The Manchus in Liaodong had 20,000 Qing troops led by Hauge, but they were unable to attack, so they could only ensure that their territory was not violated.

At the forefront of the Ming army, there were nearly 40,000 Guanning iron cavalry of Wu Sangui in Ningyuan City, and more than 13,000 Runing troops in Zhenyuan City. The relationship between the two armies can be described as extremely bad, under each other's vigilance, not to mention attacking while the Manchu Qing were empty in Liaodong, they were all guarding against the other party stabbing themselves in the back. Behind them, Shanhaiguan was garrisoned by more than 10,000 Ming troops led by Gao Di, which could be regarded as the supervision and control of the Guanning Iron Cavalry and the Runing Army.

And among them, Wu Sangui's attitude is quite ambiguous. While placing his family in the capital as a hostage, he exchanged letters with the captured Zu Dashou. It is completely a speculative attitude, and it is only for the maximum benefit of his Guanning Iron Horse.

The main force of the Qing army completely entered the Beizhili area. However, their range of activities was also in the east and south of the capital, and they did not move to the west, so they happened to act separately with Li Zicheng's Shun army.

At this time, I heard that the Qing army had entered the pass, and the Mongolian tribes on the steppe also gathered the herdsman army to follow the pass, so they wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to pick up some cheaper. Coupled with the Ming troops who surrendered to the Qing army, Huang Taiji's men and horses were further strengthened to more than 135,000. The next goal of the Qing army was to conquer Dezhou and enter Shandong from Dezhou.

The Ming Dynasty had nearly 200,000 men and horses near the city of Beijing. But the only ones with combat effectiveness were the 50,000 troops in Tongzhou and the 8,000 men and horses led by Tang Tong, the general soldier of Miyun. Some of the other Ming armies were involved in the defense of nearby counties and counties.

However, in the city of Beijing, there were only 20,000 Ming troops. However, among them, only the warriors and the second battalion of Wuwei have a total of 8,000 people with strong combat effectiveness, and they are also the real core of the imperial forest army of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, in the Fengtai camp outside the west of Beijing. There are 17,000 men and horses of the Chu army brought back by Liu Yuanbin from Huguang, and 11,000 men and horses of the Ruzhou army left by Yu Zilian back then. When they are in danger of Beijing City, they can enter the city at any time and join the defense of Beijing City.

From this, it can be seen that the Ming army no longer has mobile troops near the city of Beijing, and they can only defend conservatively in each city, and they cannot even rescue each other, let alone draw troops to fight a decisive battle with the enemy.

And Li Zicheng's Shunjun also has its own heart disease.

To the south of the Shun army, there are the Runing Army and the Black Cloud Army. Although so far, the Runing Army and the Black Cloud Army have complied with the agreement. Fought against the Shun army before crossing the Yellow River. But everyone is an old man, and they all know that the most unreliable thing in Lu Dao is also the agreement, in case Wu Shigong tears up the agreement and enters Shanxi to fight, Li Zicheng's Shun army will still have no way. After all, the Yellow River is now frozen. The obstruction of the road will no longer exist.

And to the east of the Shun army, there was the Qing army. There is also a Ming army guarding the capital. The Shun army will definitely not step into this quagmire at this time.

To the west and southwest of the Shun army, there was Sun Chuanting's Qin army, and they were also eyeing the Shun army.

Therefore, now Li Zicheng's Shunjun is a little undecided. They were about to attack in one direction again, and when they were afraid of attacking, they would be flanked from behind by the other two officers and soldiers. So it's hard to make any choice. But at this time, Sun Chuanting's Qin army's initiative to attack solved this problem for the Shun army.

And after Sun Chuanting's Qin army was defeated in Henan, he immediately returned to Shaanxi to lick his wounds. And before. In order to grasp every amount of power that can be used in the hands of the imperial court, it successively added the titles of Sun Chuanting, Hou Xun and Yu Zilian to the military department, and changed the name to Supervisor, who was jointly responsible for the soldiers and horses of Shaanxi, Henan, Sichuan, Shanxi, Huguang, Guizhou, Jiangnan and Jiangbei, and was responsible for the unified command and suppression of the peasant army. Of course, with three superintendents in command, it would be hellish to be able to achieve unified command!

Among them, Yu Zilian's Black Cloud Army has the least troops, and the attitude of the imperial court is better than nothing, and Yu Zilian does not obey the orders of the imperial court to the letter.

And Hou Sui, nominally he commanded the largest number of troops, with Wu Shigong's Runing army and Zuo Liangyu's Chu army, and the number of men and horses was almost close to 400,000. But in reality, he couldn't control these two forces at all, so Hou Sui couldn't play any role at all.

So in such a situation, the only hope for the imperial court is Sun Chuanting's Qin army.

After Sun Chuanting's fiasco in Henan, as soon as he returned to Shaanxi, he worked hard to expand his army in Tuntian. He not only collected all the Ming troops in the northwest vicinity, but also issued amnesty decrees and official titles to the landlord forces who were also thieves and bandits, and incorporated them into the official army. In just three months, the Qin army was expanded to 100,000 people thanks to Sun Chuanting's efforts. Of course, there is no need to mention the level of combat effectiveness of such troops.

Moreover, in three months, the supply of food and wages through Tuntian must be a pipe dream, so Sun Chuanting not only requisitioned from the people, but also asked the gentry to donate money, which made the entire area near Xi'an boiling and resentful.

However, at this time, Sun Chuanting also has a clear mind. He believes that if the Qin army can really win, it will naturally be a blessing from heaven; However, everyone also knows that the hope of winning by this kind of luck is very slim.

But if the Qin army does not move in Shaanxi, whether the Shun army wants to attack the Beijing division or go south, it will inevitably have worries; If the Shun army planned to take Shaanxi first, Sun Chuanting would be able to stick to Shaanxi without leaving his rear base, which would be much more advantageous than going deep into Shanxi alone.

But Sun Chuanting also found that he couldn't withstand the pressure.

On the one hand, because Li Zicheng was the emperor, the imperial court must punish this kind of rebellious behavior, so Li Zicheng could not acquiesce to the claim of king and hegemony in Taiyuan; On the other hand, the local officials and gentry in Shaanxi could no longer endure such a heavy supply of food. In order not to increase the burden of their own homeland, and also with the mentality of beggar-thy-neighbor, they also unanimously asked Sun Chuanting to leave Shaanxi as soon as possible.

Therefore, the envoys of the imperial court urging Sun Chuanting to leave Shaanxi came one after another. After reaching the end of the day, Sun Chuanting could only pause and sigh: "I know that the battle may not be successful, but I am lucky to have a good luck." How can a husband deal with a prison officer again! ”

In this way, with little hope, Sun Chuanting led his army of 100,000 and swore to set out on the eighth day of the first month of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen. (To be continued......)