The envoy also wanted to go to Lu'an Prefecture to see where the battlefield was, but was intimidated by Li Chengdong, the army defeated the Chongzhen puppet dynasty army in Lu'an Prefecture, and there were still Chongzhen puppet dynasty troops rushing to reinforce, at this time to Lu'an Prefecture, he did not dare to guarantee the safety of the envoy and others.

The Qing army envoy still didn't believe it, and took his subordinates to walk around the Gao Jie military camp, and found that there were many fewer soldiers in Gao Jie's army, and Gao Jie also let some soldiers sloppy in the military camp, looking at the Qing army envoy with blank eyes, Li Chengdong sent a thousand taels of silver to the Qing army envoy according to Gao Jie's instructions, and the Qing army envoy squinted his eyes and left tacitly.

In the end, the envoy believed what Li Chengdong said, rode back to Pingyang Mansion, and reported to Ao Bai that Gao Jie's troops had entered Zezhou, not passively avoiding the war, but after fighting with the puppet dynasty, they suffered heavy losses and were forced to withdraw to Zezhou to recuperate.

Ao Bai also put his mind at ease, with the troops to continue to storm Tongguan, Tongguan's Dashun army resolutely resisted, one after another to repel the Qing army attack, Ao Bai in the siege, suddenly found that the Hongyi cannon was not as good as before.

In the past, the Dashun army was stationed in the city, the Hongyi cannons were lined up, and they bombarded inside, and they bombarded for several days and nights, even if they did not knock down the city wall, the Dashun army in the city almost fell into collapse, at this time, the general attack was issued, the green battalion soldiers were in front, and the Eight Banners soldiers were in the rear to supervise the battle, and the Qing army attacked the city with this tactic, and was almost invincible.

But this time, the Dashun army defended in Tongguan, the city wall of Tongguan was also very strong, Hongyi artillery bombarded for several days, and finally knocked down a small section of the city wall, Ao Bai thought that he could capture Tongguan in one fell swoop, and issued a general attack order.

The green battalion soldiers roared and rushed to the gap, and after rushing into the gap, the Dashun army inside, under the leadership of the general, launched a counterattack, and the green battalion soldiers rushed with their heads in their hands.

Ao Bai did not believe in evil, and ordered the Eight Banners to be dispatched, the Eight Banners were strong in foot combat, and under the watchful eye of Aobai, thousands of Eight Banners launched an attack, rushed into the city from the gap, and collapsed the Dashun army that came to block it in one fell swoop.

was about to capture this section of the city wall, but was flocked by more Dashun troops, blocking the Eight Banners from expanding the area with flesh and blood, the Eight Banners were very uncomfortable, they had outstanding foot combat ability, but the Dashun Army was fighting with the willpower of not killing this time, and the attack of the Eight Banners was also repulsed, and Ao Bai had to order a retreat, so that the Hongyi cannon

Keep banging.

After the Qing army shelled the city, the city Dashun army immediately rushed up to repair the damaged city wall, Ao Bai in Tongguan attack was very unsmooth, at this time he did not know that the Ming army was about to go south to Henan, but another general in the army proposed to return to Henan strategy.

This general is Wu Sangui, he led the Qing army into the pass at Shanhaiguan, after defeating the Dashun army, tens of thousands of Guan Ning troops charged for the Qing army, conquered the city, led the troops to attack Datong Mansion a month ago, defeated the Dashun army of Datong Mansion, and was ordered by Dolgon to be transferred back to Baoding Mansion to garrison.

Later, Aobai's attack on Tongguan was unfavorable, and Dolgon transferred him and the Guanning army to Pingyang Mansion and returned to Aobai's dispatch, which was also a very powerful force in the army.

His opinion made Ao Bai think for a while, the army besieged Tongguan, the force could not be used, there was really no need to keep all the troops in Tongguan, but after breaking through Tongguan, the Qing army could quickly enter Shaanxi and occupy all parts of Shaanxi with a huge force, and a large number of troops were needed at that time.

For this reason, he rejected Wu Sangui's correct suggestion, and also believed that Wu Sangui had no strategic vision, and he dared to say this, not arrogantly, but in Shandong, east of Henan, another Qing army was stationed.

This Qing army is the army led by Duoduo, they defeated the Dashun military regime in Shandong and other places, appointed Qing court officials to govern Shandong, and surrendered a large number of Ming troops, Duoduo reported good news to Dolgon half a month ago, and its troops in Shandong were more than 300,000.

Dolgon ordered Duoduo to have elite troops in Shandong, eliminate the old and weak soldiers, and form an elite green battalion troops, Duoduo vigorously reorganized the army in Shandong, and after some operation, he had a new main force in Shandong, with 20,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners and 60,000 soldiers of the Green Battalion in the field army.

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Other armies with average combat effectiveness were mixed with the Eight Banners and stationed in various prefectures and counties in Shandong, and Wu Sangui exhaled when he heard Dolgon say that there was still a main force in Shandong.

He and Ao Bai made a suggestion, the original intention was to expand the army, the Guanning army under his command in several battles, the loss was also very large, he asked Ao Bai to replenish the Guanning army with soldiers and horses, Ao Bai was not stingy, to Wu Sangui the right to recruit troops.

After having the right to recruit soldiers, Wu Sangui took the Guanning army to nearby prefectures and counties to collect stragglers, and actually got thousands of soldiers and horses

, replenish all the soldiers lost by the Guanning army in several battles.

These newly added soldiers, whether it is combat effectiveness or loyalty, are not comparable to the old Guanning army, after Wu Sangui expanded the army, has not had time to practice, Ao Bai ordered the Guanning army to take on the important task of attacking Tongguan, and other soldiers and horses continue to surround Tongguan.

Wu Sangui was forced to have no choice, so he had to order the Guanning army to attack Tongguan, the Tongguan Dashun army resolutely resisted, the Guanning army hit the head and broke the blood, the newly recruited soldiers and horses suffered heavy casualties, the old Guanning army also lost more than 1,000 people, Wu Sangui was in pain, but Ao Bai did not panic, he thought that the Tongguan Dashun army was also about to reach the limit, so he ordered the Qing army to continue to storm Tongguan.

Tongguan guard will be the general Liu Zongmin of the camp in the Dashun army, Li Guo, the general of the rear battalion system, the middle and rear battalions led by the two, and the two most powerful battalions of the Dashun army, after being besieged by the Qing army for a month, Liu Zongmin saw that the casualties of the troops were too large, and the Qing army did not have the intention of retreating, so he discussed with Li Gu to break through.

Li Guo did not approve of breaking through now, the Dashun army lost a large number of main infantry troops in the Shanhaiguan Campaign, and although it replenished a lot of soldiers and horses after withdrawing to Shaanxi, the old troops were less than half, and the combat effectiveness and execution were not as good as before, and the slightest carelessness in the breakthrough campaign would be surrounded and annihilated by the Qing army.

Liu Zongmin's middle battalion has a large number of elite cavalry, and he can use cavalry as the vanguard to break through the encirclement of the Qing army, and the whole army retreats west to Xi'an City.

"General Liu, we hold on here, the group of people in the Chongzhen Dynasty will not sit idly by, hold on for a few more days, maybe the battle situation will change?"

He didn't say that it was okay, as soon as he talked about the Chongzhen court, Liu Zongmin was furious, and said indignantly: "Why did Your Majesty let the Chongzhen court be resurrected, and it was still big under our noses, this is me, I would have pulled the army over and flattened it a long time ago." ”

"General Liu, if we destroy the small court of the Ming Dynasty again, won't we make a wedding dress for the Qing army, or insist on it."

In order to encourage Liu Zongmin's confidence in sticking to Tongguan, he also talked about the Qing army's red-coated cannons.

"This Hongyi cannon is actually like that, and all the soldiers are used to it, don't you say?"